Shinsuke Takasugi

Shinsuke Takasugi (高杉 晋助 Takasugi Shinsuke ) is main antagonist of Gintama anime.

Appearance.

Takasugi has short, black hair with dark-purple highlights. His left eye is bandaged, and he is usually seen wearing a purple yukata with yellow butterflies. He likes to smoke a thin pipe called kiseru (キセル). He has also been seen playing the shamisen and wearing a sedge hat. He wields a sword

Personality

He is ruthless, and does not hesitate to punish insubordination with death, as Nizou experienced first-hand when he realized that Takasugi was seriously aiming to kill him during the Benizakura chapter.

Takasugi has a burning hatred for the new world that came to be after the Amanto settled down. This hatred seems to have originated from the loss of his mentor Yoshida Shouyou, as Takasugi wants to destroy the world that took away his teacher. According to Imai Nobume, Takasugi seeks to destroy what Yoshida Shouyou left behind.

Takasugi is also treacherous, as he offered up Katsura and Gintoki's heads to the Harusame Space Pirates in exchange for their co-operation in his world-destruction plans.He is often seen with his ruthless eyes or insane smile.



History

As a child, along with Gintoki Sakata and Kotarou Katsura, he was a student of samurai named Yoshida Shouyou

In Joui wars he created organization named Kiheitai(鬼兵隊) and fought against Amanto.

Some time later he revived Kiheitai for the purpose of world destruction.