Kiba Daio

The Great King of Kiba
	; King of Kiba, as he appears in the manga.
Name in Kanji	牙大王
Name in Romaji	Kiba Daiō
Alternate spelling(s)	Boss Fang; Fang; Fang Clan Chieftain; King Fang
Fighting Style	Kazan Kakuteigi
Family	Kemada, Madara, Gibara, Gojiba (sons)
Position(s)	Chief of the Kiba Clan
Appearances	Manga (ch. 30-37), Anime (ep. 24-29), DD Hokuto no Ken (ep.3)
Voice actor(s)	Takeshi Watabe (TV series, 1986 movie); Kōhei Fukuhara (Hokuto Musou, Shin Hokuto Musou); Raikō Sakamoto (DD Hokuto no Ken); Keikō Sakai (Legends ReVIVE); Simon Prescott (TV series dub); James Avery (1986 movie dub)

Kiba Daiō (牙大王, "Great Fang King", also known as "Boss Fang" or the "King of Kiba")

The leader of the Fang Clan and master of Kazan Kakuteigi (華山角抵戯, "Huashan Horn Wrestling"). He is the patriarch of the Fang Clan and known as "Father" (親父, oyaji) to his sons.

Manga & TV series

He places so much value onto his own "children" that when a group of them are killed, he laments their deaths and retaliates by murdering a group of peasants as vengeance. However, he is not above sacrificing his sons to save his own life, arguing that as long as he survives he can propagate their kind.

During his war with Mamiya and her village, he clashes with Kenshiro and Rei who had been hired as mercenaries to protect the townsfolk. He tries to make Kenshiro and Rei kill each other by taking Airi, and then Mamiya, as hostages. Kenshiro and Rei fool him into releasing the women by faking their own deaths.

Ultimately, Kiba Daioh faces off with Kenshiro and uses the Kazan Kogai Koho technique to turn his body into steel. Kenshiro counteracts the technique by striking a vital point that changes Kiba Daioh's body into mush, and demonstrates this by beating him with a iron girder. Kiba Daioh attempts to throw a hand grenade, however, as Kenshiro's attack has the added effect of stiffening the muscles, Kiba Daioh finds himself unable to release the grenade. After losing his arm to the explosion, he charges blindly into Kenshiro's Ganzan Ryōzan Ha and meets his end.

In the television series, after Kenshiro delivers the finishing blow, Kiba Daioh falls into the lava pit below.

1986 movie

In the theatrical movie, Kiba Daioh makes an extended cameo as a rival warlord who defends his territory against Raoh. He massacres part of Raoh's army in his steel body form, until he is killed by Raoh's touki blast, destroying him on the inside.

Character Rating

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

Level: C
Power: 4
Speed: 2
Skills: 3
Looks: 2
Charisma: 3

Video Games

Hokuto no Ken 3, an RPG has Kiba Daioh as a boss character whom bought Airi from Golan for unspecified reasons. He takes steel form before the fight with him begins.

Hokuto no Ken 7 the fighting game, features Kiba Daioh as an unplayable boss, whose special move, Kazan Gunrō Ken, consists of throwing a short member of the Fang clan at his opponent.

Kiba Daioh appears as a mini boss in Fist of the North Star: The Legendary Messiah for playstation. In the game's retelling of the Rei arc, he personally inspects the bodies of Rei and Kenshiro alone.

Kiba Daioh appears in both Punch Mania: Hokuto no Ken and its sequel, where he is known as King of Kiba.

Hokuto Musō has Kiba Daioh as an NPC character. In various games modes, Kiba daioh can be an enemy or even ally to the player, several dream storylines also have him and Zeed join forces. Kiba daioh is the first character to introduce the "Giant Wrestler" moveset and generic commanders may use a weaker version of his style including the ability to turn their skin into steel.

Kiba Daioh makes his playable debut in the mobile version of Shin Hokuto Muso, under the name 牙親父 (Fang Father).

Trivia

Kiba Daiō was originally nameless in the manga. The introduction of Vol. 5 of the Jump Comics edition referred to his character as "Chief of the Kiba Clan" (牙一族・族長, Kiba Ichizoku Zokuchō). The name Kiba Daiō was introduced for the character in the Hokuto no Ken television series and has been adopted in later subsequent media since. In the guidebook Kyūkyoku Kaisetsu - Seikimatsu Haō Retsuden, he is given the English title of the King of Kiba (also used in the Punch Mania arcade game). In the English version of Hokuto Musō he is instead called Boss Fang.
Kiba Daioh appears to be visually based on the pirate leader Lo San Po played by Dick Wei in the movie, Project A. This character is also blown up with a potato-masher hand grenade.