I have little reason not to, so here we go. I’m going to poke and/or rant at every single eye catch tech spec in GaoGaiGar. The vanilla King of Braves only; I’m not touching Final with its funky formatting.
Speaking of funky, let’s talk about Guy Shishioh.
Guy Shishioh. The son of benevolent mad scientist Leo Shishioh. Astronaut and only person on board a super-classified shuttle at the ripe age of eighteen. Which means Guy is a chip of the old block and is a certified, certifiable genius.
We’ll skip over the obvious and hop straight to the bottom of the list: GS Ride Class Classified. This makes sense: Guy is an experimental cyborg. His very existence is classified, so of course his power source is classified.
Height: 201 cm. Just over six and a half feet tall. That’s a foot taller than the average, and around half a foot shorter than Soldato-J.
Weight: 125 kg. 275.6 lbs. A perfectly normal, respectable weight given his height and musculature.
Nothing really outstanding here, either. The Machineheart is a nice punk rock name band, though I’m fairly certain it’s a reference.
What does stand out to me is the power supply. Hi-Density Tubeler Battery. Tubeler, in this case, being a misspelling of tubular. The tubes are here:
Yup. Guy’s hair is a bunch of batteries. Which has got to make his hair care regiment… shocking.
Equip response time of two seconds. Note, here, Equip does not mean “put on all the armor”. It means putting on the helmet, activating the scanner thing built into it, and turning on the hair batteries. The batteries give him a 30% boost to power - the listed Power Up stat - and he can gain an additional 15% up when activating emergency powers. All the stat boosts are in the amazing hair.
The actual time to put on the whole armor set is unlisted. But we’ll get more into the full armor later. For now, let’s hit the last point.
Speed: 61.5 km/h. That’s about 38 miles per hour using the imperial system. That’s as fast as a greyhound dog. Or if you prefer -
Guy is as fast as a cheetah.
Wait… Something must be wrong. The absurd giant robot show doesn’t have absurd stats for its protagonist?
Nope! There it is!
“But Iniora,” I can hear you asking. “How is a knife absurd?” Two words.
Variable. Sharpness.
The sharpness is tied to Guy’s will power. The greater Guy’s will, the sharper the Will Knife becomes.
That means Guy can cut down a door with the strength of his will alone.
