Gonzo Tarukane

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Pure Evil
Full Name	Gonzo Tarukane
Alias	None
Origin	Yu Yu Hakusho
Allies	Black Book Club Sakyo Elder Toguro Younger Toguro (all formerly)
Powers / Skills	Wealth Demon summoning connections Black-market connections
Goals	Make money out of Yukina's tears. (partly succeeded until his downfall) Kill Yusuke and his friends. Win a bet. Make as much money as possible (all failed).
Moral Event Horizon	Founding Black Book Club and being responsible for all its actions. Torturing Yukina for five years.
Kill Count	Hundreds to Thousands
Worst Crimes	Organized crime Animal cruelty Psychological abuse Kidnapping Torture Mass murder Slavery
Type of Villain	Wealthy Crime Lord

Gonzo Tarukane is one of the two overarching antagonists (alongside Great King Enma) of the Yu Yu Hakusho franchise, serving as the main antagonist of the Spirit Detective Saga and a posthumous antagonist for the rest of the series.

In the Japanese version, he was voiced by Kenichi Ogata. In the English dub, he was voiced by Brad Jackson.

What Makes Him Pure Evil?

• As a founder of the Black Book Club, he is responsible for capturing, enslaving, torturing and selling lower class demons for high prices, along with making ritualistic parties called The Feast of Human Vices for the club members to torture demons.
  • One of the people shown in the flashback related to the club ritualistic parties even resembles Tarukane, implying that he also personally tortured demons just for his own sadistic enjoyment.
• The club's actions caused then-Spirit Detective Shinobu Sensui to go insane and hate all of humanity.
• He captured and tortured Yukina for years so he could make more money out of her tears, despite being already rich.
• He killed a guard who tried to rescue Yukina to teach her a lesson.
• After his torturing methods stopped working, he hired the Toguro brothers, who killed Yukina's beloved birds.
• Hoping to intimidate Younger Toguro, Tarukane challenged him to take on the beast Helen bare-handed, certain that such a feat can't be done. After the Helen's death, he shows no remorse over it, laughing at Toguro's apologies for killing her, only seeing more opportunities in Toguro's powers.
• After seeing Yusuke and his friends coming to his mansion to save Yukina, he made a bet with the other Black Book Club members who would win, Yusuke or his bodyguards, knowing fully well that he can scam them thanks to Younger Toguro's power.
• During the fight between Yusuke's friends and the Toguro brothers, he encourages Younger Toguro to kill them, and slowly and sadistically taunts Yukina by saying they will suffer the same fate as the guard that tried to save her, saying that it's her fault.
• After losing all of his money to Sakyo because of the Toguro brothers' defeat, he dishonorably tried to escape with the money he owed, and rebuild his fortune at the cost of Yukina.
• His downfall, getting beaten by Hiei and beheaded by Younger Toguro are played for satisfaction.

Trivia

• Gonzo Tarukane is one of the four Yu Yu Hakusho villains to be pure evil, alongside Rando, Elder Toguro and Chikou.
• Only the English dub version of Tarukane qualifies as pure evil, since in the manga and original Japanese version, he is just another Black Book Club member instead of its founder, making that version fail at the series Heinous standards.

External Links

• Gonzo Tarukane on the Villains Wiki
• Gonzo Tarukane on the Yu Yu Hakusho Wiki
• Gonzo Tarukane on the Hate Sink Wiki