| “ | My death is merely the beginning. You will die by Master Aibe's hands! | „ |
| ~ Sky Fist Demon Kata's final words before his death. |
Sky Fist Demon Kata is one of the Three Fist Demons of the Rinjuken Akugata and a major antagonist in Juken Sentai Gekiranger. He was one of Rio's top enforcers and one of the supreme commanders of the Rinjuken, as well as the grand master of the Confrontation Beast Hawk-Fist (臨獣ホーク拳 Rinjū Hōku-ken), whose fighting style focuses on aerial martial arts and illusion attacks on the opponent's psyche with a halberd named the Gale Sword (疾風の剣 Shippū no Tsurugi) as his weapon. His source of Confrontational Qi power comes from hatred and malice.
He was portrayed by Keizo Yabe in his human form, and voiced by Rokurō Naya.
History[]
Past[]
Kata was originally one of the ten students of Brusa E, the original inventor of the Juuken style, until he and Rageku chose to follow Maku in creating the Rinjuken Akugata style and betrayed and killed their former master. Becoming known as the "Three Fist Demons", the three set up their school to teach Rinjuken Akugata and waged war against the GekiJuken martial school set up by Brusa E's remaining seven apprentices in what came to be known as the GekiRin Rebellion. At the end of the conflict, Kata and the other Fist Demons were defeated and had their souls sealed away by the seven Kensei.
Present[]
After the Rinjuken Akugata style was revived by Rio, a former student of GekiJuken, Kata revealed the location of his tomb to the young leader of the Confrontation Beast Hall and Rio went to revive him. Impressed by Rio's strong beliefs in power being absolute, Kata agreed to train him after being reborn.
As part of his training, Kata put Rio through a series of dangerous and life threatening situations in order to teach him how to generate Rinki from his own inner hatred and desires, which led to Mele worrying for Rio's life. After Rageku was resurrected, Kata gave her his blessing to train Rio after him.
During Rio's confrontation with the Gekirangers, he and Rageku make plans to celebrate their student's victory over the Gekirangers by destroying the city, only for Rio to be defeated. Back at the Confrontation Beast Hall, as Rio furiously goes to revive Maku, Kata attempts to warn Rio against reviving the Land Demon, only for Rio to not listen and revive Maku anyway. Upon his return, Maku ousted Rio as leader of the Rinjuken Akugata and made Kata and Rageku submit to him once more.
Later, as the Rinjuken were burning the Beast Origin Village, Kata confronted the Gekirangers, using his illusions to easily outmatch them. However, Jan manages to get past Kata's illusions and beat him back, causing him to become enraged and to enlarge. The giant Kata fought Herculean Giant GekiFire and Beast-Fist Giant GekiTohja Wolf and managed to overpower them, only to soon be destroyed by Beast-Fist Giant God SaiDaiOh's blade, being the first to be defeated by it.
His Confrontation Ki is later transferred to Ran by Rio during the final battle, who utilizes it to merge his style with her own, unifying the two schools again.
Personality[]
Kata is a highly calculating, wise, intelligent and professional individual. He was initially Rio's top mentor and Rio highly proritized and valued his lessons and trainings, which the Sky Overlord gave him. However, despite his intelligent, sophisticated and expertized nature, Kata is also highly ruthless, violent and cunning person, who always speaks with serious demeanor and never loses his temper with anyone. Despite being loyal to Rio, he is still not above questioning and disapproving his master's orders and decisions and always tries to put his apprentice into the correct decision in order to teach him a true mastery of strategy and combat proficiency.
However, despite his initial loyalty to Rio, Kata wasn't truly above betraying the leader of Rinjuken and was willing to follow anyone ese, who was more powerful than Rio and overthrew him. This was later proven to be true when Kata betrayed Rio joined Maku, furtherly proving that he still remained loyal to the leader of the Overlords and will always remain loyal to him. Kata was so shown to be highly calvulating and skilled strategist, able to quickly calculate the moves and decisions of his enemies and manipulate them into working for his own benefits.
Kata is also utterly and completely misanthropic, similarly to his master Maku, viewing humans as paltry and pathetic creatures, viewing them as insects. He doesn't have any respect towards Gekirangers and doesn't respect them at any point. Kata also doesn't have any true loyalty to anyone. He follows the one who is the most powerful and is always willing to betray his master.
He has no redeeming qualities whatsoever and is devoid of any respect towards Gekirangers, only viewing the multi-colored heroes as nuisance. Even in his final moments, when he was finally defeated and bested by the Gekirangers, while admitting his defeat at their hands, but he still instead of respect only taunted them, vowing that Genjuken would return and get revenge on Gekirangers for his defeat and spoiling his plans.
Powers and Abilities[]
Kata is immensely powerful, due to his status as the supreme commander of the Genjuken military forces and armies. He possesses multiple magic abilities, all of which are mostly air-based.
- Superhuman Strength: Kata is extremely powerful physically, being able to best all of Gekiranger team in a battle. However, he is still able to be overwhelmed by the superior physical force.
- Superhuman Durability: the Sky Overlord is also highly durable and is able to survive a powerful attacks from his enemies, such as Gekirangers and even Rio himself.
- Superhuman Stamina: Because he is not a human, but a demon, Kata possesses supernatural health and is able to participate in the battle far longer than ordinary humans.
- High Intelligence: Due to his immortal and advanced age, Kata is extremely intelligent and wise and possesses vast knowledge of the fighting culture military training and strategy.
- Expert Combatant: Kata is an immensely proficient combatant, able to outmatch the entire Gekiranger team without any aid.
Hawk-Fist Confrontation Techniques
- Darkness Cannon (暗黒砲 Ankoku Hō): A special Ringi allows the user to place the opponent inside his/her mind to the most horrific moment of that person's life, taking in the despair of it to overpower the person.
- Hawk-Talon Total Change (鷹爪一変 Yōsō Ippen): A similar move to the Darkness Cannon that uses the person's own hatred against him, sometimes driving that person insane.
- Black Cannon (漆黒砲 Shikkokuhō): A Ringi that allows the user to probe the target's mind for knowledge.
- Hatred Bullet (憎悪弾 Zōo Dan): Fires beam from his Gale Sword.
- Illusionary Death Prison (幻死牢 Genshirō): A Secret Ringi that allows Kata to send his opponents to an illusionary dimension, using his image to force them to fight each other and hide himself.
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