Azuma Genkaku

"Death itself is salvation!"

- Azuma Genkaku

Azuma Genkaku (東 弦角) aka Super Monk is the leader of the Undertakers, and a self-proclaimed "Ultra Buddhist Priest" who dresses in the garb of a Japanese monk along with prayer beads which has a skull on it. Two years before the main storyline, he was the one who killed Nagi's wife and eventually found interest in Nagi after he went on a rampage killing twenty-two of Genkaku's Undertaker soldiers. He is eventually finished off by Ganta's Ganbare Gun with the help of Nagi. He was not killed, but is still unconscious and in critical condition.

Personality
Genkaku appears to be a laid-back and irreverent individual at first glance, but this scruffy exterior hides a brutal, impulsive, excessively-violent personality and an unstable mind. Genkaku is blunt, sarcastic, and quite sadistic, revealing a psychotic grin when he is fighting or killing somebody. He believes that death is the only salvation for "anybody", even smiling before his presumed death at the hands of Ganta and Nagi.

History
In his childhood, it is said that Genkaku was part of a Buddhist Temple. During his days his buddhist senpai's picked on him and beat him up.

When he returned back to the buddist temple, the buddist there notes that Genkaku has been in another fight saying, "It seems you can only sow and reap evil, Genkaku." Genkaku remarks "I have no hate (towards his attackers). They are probably suffering. They are weak, unfortunate foolish people living in a fanatical world.". Genkaku then wonders if there is anyway to give those people salvation, asking Buddha, "Why did you decide death should be "painful" without experiencing it yourself?"

After the Great Tokyo Earthquake, Genkaku finds a man lying under a pile of rumble, pleading with Genkaku to save him. Later on, the buddist that had told Genkaku of the other people suffering comes to the Temple to see if the other buddists had survived the disaster. He then sees Genkaku sitting under a shrine of mutilated corpses, Genkaku then said "I have understood the "salvation" of the living", meaning that the only way to be saved from this world, is to be taken away from it.

Genkaku was revealed to be an Undertaker for at least three years, for he was the one to kill Nagi's wife when she refused to participate in a penalty game for winning because of default.

Scar Chain arc
Genkaku makes his debut accompanying Tamaki, who encounteres Yō in G Ward. Yō notices Genkaku and asks himself out loud if it's a monk. Genkaku replies that he's a "super-monk". Tamaki informs Yō that he can't buy his sister out of prison and Yō tries to attack Tamaki. Genkaku intervenes and hits Yō multiple times with the tip of his guitar, before commenting that he's tired. Tamaki leaves and Genkaku follows him.

After Nagi saves Minatsuki from the penalty game, Genkaku enters the room and asks Owl if he's well. He throws a bloody Yō inside and threatens Nagi, Karako and Ganta with death. Karako gets ready to fight and Genkaku notices Ganta. Ganta asks who he is and Genkaku says that it's obvious. He's a super monk that has come to pray for them, after they're dead. Ganta attacks Genkaku with his Ganta Gun, but Genkaku deflects it with his Worm Eater and hits Ganta with his guitar. At that very time, Shiro dives down from the ceiling and destroys Genkaku's guitar. Genkaku is surprised and flees.

Later, Genkaku is seen with Hibana annoying her with his poor impersonations of air guitaring. Some grunts arrive and hand him a new guitar gun and he becomes ecstatic. When Scar Chain attempts to escape, Genkaku is there waiting for them to be ambushed. He quickly kills three of them and allows the others to kill te rest. He finds the hiding Ganta and is ready to kill him when another Undertaker tells him that they must retreat.

He is then seen injecting drugs into Nagi to force him to remember his past. Nagi remembers him slaughtering multiple Undertakers out of rage and Genkaku tells him that he was hiding in a locker, both turned on and terrified. Genkaku tortures Nagi and then succeeds in breaking him. Genkaku sends a message to the surviving Scar Chain members, revealing the captive Karako and Shiro. When Ganta arrives to save them, Genkaku laughs at the weak reinforcements. He detests wasting his time on Ganta and decides to take the opportunity to release the now insane Nagi. He begins to play on his guitar as Karako attempts to plead with Nagi. Genkaku stumbles back when Nagi releases an explosion of Owl's Eyeballs. Genkaku allows him to attack and kill most of the foot soldiers and takes joy in the massacre before him. Once Nagi returns to normal, Genkaku stabs Karako in hopes to turn Nagi back into the monster he prefered. Nagi protects Karako as Ganta begins to shoot at Genkaku. He slides back into the dark and returns with the intentions to kill Ganta. When Nagi reveals that he is sane again, Genkaku detests him and proceeds to blast a hole in his stomach. He then begins to shoot all of the grunts around him, believing he is saving all of them. He misses Hibana, allowing her to escape, but kills everyone else except Nagi, Karako, Shiro, and Ganta. As Ganta begs him to stop, Genkaku flashes back to his life back when he lived at the temple. He calls his insanity enlightenment and reveals that he killed his own master. He then shows them his buddhist shrine that is decorated with the heads of fallen Scar Chain members. He calls death, salvation and attempts to kill the others, but Ganta further activates his Branch of Sin and shoots his Ganbare Gun at Genkaku. Genkaku attempts to flee, but Nagi grabs him and says he's his guide to hell.

Equipment

 * Flying V Nirvana: Genkaku wields his trademark V-shaped guitar, that can be split into two machine guns which shoot actual bullets in the manga, but some sort of compressed air-like bullets in the anime.