Club

Club
Club, as he appears in the manga.
Name in Kanji	クラブ
Name in Romaji	Kurabu
Alternate spelling(s)	Clover
Fighting Style	Tōrō Ken
Allegiance(s)	Shin
Position(s)	Retainer of KING
Appearances	Manga (ch. 4-5), Anime (ep. 3), Raoh Gaiden (ch. 31) Rei Gaiden (ch. 18)
Voice actor(s)	Kōji Totani (TV series) Takashi Ōhara (Ten no Haoh) Robert Martin Klein (TV series dub) Illich Guardiola (Ten no Haoh dub)

Club (クラブ, Kurabu)

A minion of Shin who fought using long steel claws. Determined to get revenge for Diamond's death to Kenshiro, Club practiced his brutal Tōrō Ken fighting style on captured peasant men after challenging them to one-sided death-matches in his arena in Southern Cross. In the anime, he fights caged matches against anyone who tries to escape Dorado City. Kenshiro kills him by striking the vital point Meimon (Gate of Life), which snaps his spine in half.

Appearance

He is a lean, muscular man who has long limbs, no eyebrows, a tattoo of the letter K, representing KING (changed to J, for Jack) above his namesake suit on the upper-right part of his face, and a Blond (red in the anime) Mohawk.

He wears very little clothing (although he is depicted as wearing a pair of pants in the anime) besides a harness that has spikes on the upmost straps, armored gloves with built-in claws, a pair of trunks that have studs on the front underneath a belt with two tassets attached to it, and an armored pair of boots.

Personality

Club is best described as an ultra-sadistic maniac who not only disregards the value human life, but holds no respect for it as a whole, his disrespect being so great that he will even speak ill of the dead, as he called Spade and Diamond idiots for apparently neglecting their training.

He possesses a notable tic of licking the blades of his claws.

He is also an incredibly prideful person, as he refers to his foes as insects and worms, although his pride is not big enough for him to resort to begging and even betraying his own allies when in the face of death, as Kenshiro was able to successfully interrogate him for the location of Shin.

Ten no Haoh

Club makes a brief appearance in Ten no Haoh when Reina and Ryuga go to Southern Cross to kill KING. Club attacks Ryuga with his claws, but Ryuga easily defeats him. However, as Ryuga is about to kill Club, Juza intervenes and Club realizing he is outmatched, takes this opportunity to retreat.

Recollection of Heavy Metal

Club and Diamond starred in the short story Recollection of Heavy Metal. It is revealed that the two were members of a heavy metal band and that Club's real name is Kōhei Shimatani (島谷こうへい).

Character Rating

From Hokuto no Ken: Kyūkyoku Kaisetsusho: Seikimatsu Haō Retsuden.

• Level: E
• Power: 1
• Speed: 2
• Skills: 2
• Looks: 1
• Charisma: 1

Notes

• Jack of World Heroes closely resembles Club. Similar to Club, Jack has the habit of licking the blades of his claws.
• He seems to be the inspiration for a common enemy named "Nail Mohawk" from the PS2 game, God Hand, given that these enemies bear an all around similar appearance to him, and even attack using claws like him.

Gallery

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  Club in the TV series

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  Club in Hokuto no Ken 3

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  Club in Ten no Haoh

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  Kōhei (Club) with Takashi (Diamond) in Recollections of Heavy Metal

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  Club in Hokuto no Ken: Legends ReVIVE (illustration)