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Also known as	”Matara”, “Dara”, Guts’s former master
Type	one of the five strongest; killed ep 0051 00:39:35
Status	Dead: drained by Vegito, who grabbed his head ; he clung to life a few minutes more and died after his…
First appears	0048
Episodes cited	9 (latest: 0196)

Aliases & name spellings

• Madara — name given by himself (ep 0048 00:44:37); spelling from the ep 0049 and 0051 titles.
• “the second of the five strongest” (ep 0048 00:44:37).

Overview

The second of the five strongest in the multiverse, Guts’s former teacher, sent for Vegito on the Grand Priest’s orders. Clad in samurai-like armour, with long flowing silver hair and an emotionless mask, “More sadistic, and evil looking than Guts” (ep 0048 00:43:57–00:44:37; ep 0049 00:07:31, 00:15:04–00:15:13). He arrived as Vegito was about to absorb the chocolate-bar Gotenks and stamped the bar to pieces (ep 0048 00:43:33), beheaded Vegito in an instant, escaped being cut in half as a flock of ravens and trapped him in an “infinite nightmare” (ep 0049). Vegito broke free, beat his giant samurai apparition and drained him to death (ep 0050–0051; ep 0052 00:06:12–00:10:10); Iwan reanimated his body, which was erased (ep 0053 00:35:05–00:35:39). Since then he exists only as Vegito’s apparition (ep 0053 00:15:26; ep 0091 00:11:38–00:13:12).

Affiliations & relationships

• The Grand Priest (“Dai”): “the priests” called him (ep 0048 00:44:24–00:44:37) — “Dai did say to bring him in alive if possible” (ep 0049 00:07:23–00:07:36, 00:42:48); the Grand Priest sends the rest of the five (ep 0047 00:18:11).
• Guts: the first of the five, and once his student — “Guts was once my student” (ep 0049 00:15:04–00:15:13); Madara despises him for losing (ep 0049 00:06:55–00:07:07).
• Iwan and Mule, the last Gods of Destruction: he hands the frozen Vegito over to them (ep 0049 00:42:13–00:43:02).
• Iwan: reanimated his body as a puppet (ep 0053 00:12:41–00:12:57).

Abilities / traits

• Katana: drawn in a split second; beheads Vegito in Super Saiyan 3 (ep 0049 00:04:00–00:04:42); outclasses Vegito’s Blade of Destruction blade to blade, mixing in kicks (ep 0049 00:18:05–00:22:09).
• Ravens: cut in half, he bursts into a flock of black ravens and reappears whole (ep 0049 00:29:24–00:30:25).
• Face of Izuna (“the eyes of Izuna [?]”): a pattern in his right eye traps the target in “an infinite nightmare”; Vegito stood frozen for over an hour (ep 0049 00:30:41–00:31:11, 00:42:13–00:42:33).
• Lazy and sardonic; long-lived (“the beings of the beyond”, ep 0049 00:06:46); his “painted smirk” mask (ep 0049 00:05:27).
• Izanagi: his “legendary” katana, unscratched “in millennia” — snapped by the beast’s energy ball (ep 0050 00:26:45–00:28:19).
• Giant samurai apparition: his aura spirals into a titan in samurai wear with a sword; he sits in a crystal pentagon in its face (ep 0050 00:34:58–00:36:40). He grows a new arm from the same energy (ep 0050 00:37:18–00:37:34).
• Demon-realm black flames: his eyes bleed and black fire burns a target’s face to the skull; “These flames will burn for as long as I live… Sealed straight from the demon realm” (ep 0051 00:37:33–00:38:13).
• Claims “millions of years” of swordsmanship and taught Guts (ep 0051 00:20:19–00:20:38); unmasked for the first time in ages (ep 0051 00:18:32–00:18:55).

Variants

• Hub: Madara.
• Madara (god-killer Goku’s timeline) — beaten by god-killer Goku and fused into him (flashback, ep 0196).

Status

• Dead: drained by Vegito, who grabbed his head (ep 0051 00:39:09–00:39:35); he clung to life a few minutes more and died after his warning (ep 0052 00:06:12, 00:10:10). His body, reanimated by Iwan as a puppet, was erased with Iwan and the planet by Vegito’s Planetary Hakai (ep 0053 00:35:05–00:35:39). His energy lives on as Vegito’s apparition (ep 0053 00:15:26).
• Earlier: lost an arm (which side isn’t stated), replaced with an arm of energy, and his sword was broken (ep 0050 00:26:59, 00:31:45, 00:37:18).

History

• ep 0048 00:43:33–00:44:50: crushes the chocolate Gotenks; introduces himself to Vegito.
• ep 0049: beheads Vegito, who revives; is cut in half by Vegito’s copy and escapes as ravens; traps Vegito in the Face of Izuna; leaves him to Iwan and Mule.
• ep 0050: stops Iwan and Mule from erasing Vegito’s limbs (the Grand Priest wants him alive); his sword is broken shielding them; loses an arm; summons his giant apparition and a new arm; watches Vegito absorb the demon emperor.
• ep 0051: his titan felled by black lightning and hijacked by Vegito; unmasked; given a horn-katana by Vegito; fails; burns Vegito’s face with demon-realm flames; drained and killed.
• ep 0052 00:06:12–00:10:10: survives a little longer by drawing back his flames’ energy; warns Vegito of “the final three of the strongest” and gods beyond these realms; dies. 00:11:49–00:12:21: Iwan looks over his body.
• ep 0053 00:10:20–00:35:39: Iwan’s puppet; strikes Vegito with Guts, summons his samurai titan to shield himself (00:24:26), and is erased with the planet. Vegito: “Those two deserve to just die and atone in the afterlife” (00:36:13).
• ep 0091: as Vegito’s apparition, traps Dai with his eyes and strikes him bloody; beheaded by Dai’s cyan beam (00:11:38–00:13:12, 00:19:49–00:20:22).

Open questions

• Did he mean to kill Gotenks, or only to stop Vegito absorbing him?

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