Katayama, Gorobei

片山ゴロベエ

A skilled samurai who has earned his living by entertaining people. Due to his combat prowess and acrobatic ability (including the capacity to pluck arrows from the air and evade other attacks), Kambei makes him his "left hand man" in defending the village. Gorobei is one of the more lighthearted characters in the anime, often making light of rather serious or dangerous situations. He admits at one point to believing that dying is losing and living is winning. Gorobei seems to have a bloodletting fetish of some sort, based on his reaction in two of the episodes.

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