Gozuki

Gozuki was the leader of the newly formed assassination squad of the Empire, the Elite Seven, which appears in the prequel series Akame Ga Kill!: Zero.

Appearance
Gozuki was a middle-aged man with blond hair and green eyes. He had a small beard. He wore a white shirt with black pants and a red scarf.

Personality
Gozuki was a prideful and ambitious man. He was a very strict teacher and sometimes even a cruel one, as seen when he purposely separated Akame from her sister Kurome despite their protests, and made Akame kill Martha. His main reason for his actions being that he didn't want children in his group to rely too much on each other and that he wanted to make his pupils the best possible killers. He also claimed that he wouldn't forgive his adopted children if they failed their tasks. He constantly strives to make them stronger, both physically and mentally.

However, he seemed to genuinely care for them, seeing as how he regretted Cornelia's death and reprimanded Guy for his overconfidence. He even noted to himself that the entire selection and training process was harsh. His pupils in turn return these affection in varying degree's,However he is still not above using both emotional and psychological manipulation in order to insure their loyalty to the Empire and was not above using their sense of paternal love for him in order to accomplish this.

Later upon his death at the hands of Akame, Gozuki reveals that he truly and genuinely loved the Original Elite Seven members as his own children and genuinely regretted the fact that he couldn't tell them his true feeling beforehand.

History
Gozuki was responsible for the development of the members of the group, honing their skills in battle and teaching them to be competent assassins for the Empire. Eight years prior to the start of the series, he gathered an estimated 100 children in Gifnora Forest inhabited by Danger Beasts, seven of the strongest survivors of this test would become his students. He refers to his trainees as his children, and they called him "Father" in return. He also gave each of them a Shingu and later assigned them a human target to kill during their first mission. These targets were purposely selected to be difficult opponents for their respective member of the Elite Seven.

Later, he comes to the aid of Green, Guy, and Najasho who were being overwhelmed by Babara. He orders them to retreat and fights Babara by himself. It is then that Gozuki is revealed to be one of the Rakshasa Demons. During the battle with Babara, he demonstrates great skill with Murasame which he used in combination with his body manipulation. During the fight, he manages to inflict a small cut on Babara's body and explains Murasame's abilities to her. Babara then detonates her own body, but Gozuki and his pupils are unharmed.

Gozuki later orders the Elite Seven to investigate the Tombs in search of a Teigu. He agrees with Akame's suggests capturing a gravekeeper to gather more info. He also warns Green to watch over Akame to prevent her from doing anything rash. Later, he comes along with the Elite Seven when they enter the gravekeeper's tombs.

After the battle on the Tombs that only four Elite Seven members remaining make it out alive, he requested to recuperate its strength by transferring the surviving original member of the Group of Terror into Elite Seven. He also notes that Akame and Kurome will be the strongest assassins if they are working together as siblings.

Equipment and Skills
Gozuki was a very strong and formidable fighter.He was once a member of the Four Rakshasa Demons,as such it is likely that he also trained in the Imperial Fist Temple and from there devoured the special broth that gave him the special ability to freely manipulate and control his body any way he desired,so far he has been shown to extend and sharpen his finger/toe nails,hair and tongue into blades in order to pierce and cut his opponents in close to mid range combat,freely bend and alter his torso in order to avoid being cut,stabbed and shoot in his vital organs and extend his limbs in order to increase his sword reach and perform powerful and bizarre sword swings and kicks in his opponents blind-spots.

As one of the Rakshasa Demons,Gozuki was also trained the skill to immediately spot and identify spies with a single glance,as seen in when he successfully located and identified numerous spies and dispatch them successfully,despite their immense skill in acting.

As he was the one who trained the Elite Seven Gozuki is also likely immensely skilled in various other fields of combat as he alone was the one to teach and develop all seven members in their unique fighting styles.

Swordsmanship
As he was the one who trained both Najasho and Akame in the use of the sword and being the wielder of Murasame,Gozuki was immensely skilled and lethal in the usage of the sword having fully incorporated his swordsmanship with his bodies unique abilities to easily overpower and contend with dangerous opponents such as Merraid Oarburgh,who herself was forced to pull out all of her power to beat him and in the end had to resort to cunning and her advantage of him not knowing the full extend of her Wrigglers abilities to catch him by surprise and push him back,the latter of whom was genuinely surprise at the amount of effort it took to fight him,further confirming Gozuki's skills. Gozuki Гозуки
 * Teigu - Gozuki was also the Wielder for the One-Cut Killer: Murasame,a Imperial Arm that had the power to kill by simply inflicting a single scratch on its victims,Gozuki used this weapon to its fullest extend and has successfully killed multiple powerful opponents such as Babara Oarburgh and Gilberda of the Oarburgh Clan using the sword's special ability.