Dog Master Galf

Dog Master Galf
Galf, as he appears in the manga.
Name in Kanji	狗法眼ガルフ
Name in Romaji	Kuhōgan Garufu
Alternate spelling(s)	none
Fighting Style	Thorn rings
Allegiance(s)	Raoh
Family	none known
Position(s)	Former underling of Ken-oh, Ruler of Medicine City
Appearances	Manga (ch. 73-75), Anime (ep. 50-51), 1986 Movie
Voice actor(s)	Tesshō Genda (TV series), Jōji Yanami (1986 movie)

Dog Master Galf (狗法眼ガルフ, Kuhōgan Garufu)

A pointy-nosed bandit lord who rules over Medicine City.

Appearance

He is a huge man with long curly hair that is balding at the top who has a pointy nose, a thin mustache, and a scar over one of his eyes.

He wears a pair of shoulderpads, a spiked collar, and a cuirass with three straps underneath a breastplate (which is absent in the anime). He also wears a pair of vambraces, a leopard print loincloth underneath his pants, and a pair of boots.

Personality

He has an obsessive fixation with dogs, and has an incredibly nasty temper because of this, as he will become enraged if his dogs are even intimidated, and harming or killing them will cause him to become extremely sadistic in response, as he tortured Mamiya by forcing an innocent man to throw spiked rings at her, and had his henchmen continue to torture her in the same way when the man missed on purpose and was killed for it.

Abilities

His weapons of choice are a pair of thorned rings that he swings around, and although he isn't seen using them properly, as Kenshiro snatches them and turns them against him before he was able to launch any attacks with them, he likely uses them as melee weapons, as well as like boomerangs given how his henchmen and Kenshiro used them.

He is also an expert at training dogs, as aside from having regular human grunts in his forces, he also has attack-dogs as his underlings.

Manga & TV Series

He values his own pet dogs more than human life, as proven when he tortured Mamiya after she killed one of his guard-dogs whilst trying retrieve medicine for the dying Rei. However, Kenshiro & Rei arrived on the scene to save Mamiya, and after Galf met his end at the hands of Kenshiro, even his beloved dog Seki abandoned him.

1986 movie

Galf makes a cameo in the 1986 movie. He leads a rally for Ken-Oh's procession and crushes the skull of one villager with his bare hand for chanting out of sync. This scene was censored from most versions of the film due to its graphic nature and only restored on the Italian VHS copy.

Trivia

• Galf's dog loving personality is based off of the "Dog Shogun" Tokugawa Tsunayoshi.

Gallery

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  Galf in the TV series

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  Galf in the 1986 movie