Guilty Gear Johnny Voice Actor

Yous're about to capture THE Johnny of the Seven Seas, and "pesky" is the best y'all can come up with?! Human activity or non, I tin't let that slide!

Johnny is a recurring character in the Guilty Gear series. He is the captain of the female-only Jellyfish Pirates, a grouping of sky pirates sworn to help those less fortunate, who are known all around the globe. Johnny'due south flirty, debonair demeanor hides a man defended to the noble idea of caring for others and a mastery of the battou sword style.

Blueprint

Johnny is a tall, muscled individual of fair complexion. Johnny has bluish eyes and long blond pilus, which he usually keeps in a pony-tail, simply changed information technology to a short, slick hairstyle in the Xrd games. He is always wearing a wide-rimmed cowboy-style hat (which bears a skull insignia in XX, and a letter "J" pivot in Xrd) and a pair of dark sunglasses.

Invariably shirtless, Johnny sports a blackness outfit, sparsely adorned with gilt beads. The outfit consists of long, well-fitting pants, a large gunslinger-mode chugalug worn diagonally, and a long collared trench coat, left unbuttoned to ensure his chest remains visible. He wears brownish fingerless gloves to complete his outfit. In battle, Johnny wields a shirasaya katana of evidently undecorated wooden mounting.

Personality

Johnny is a daring, suave, and flamboyant homo who likes old-fashioned language and fools around, existence a "free spirit" who has no intention of settling down any time soon. A fleck self-absorbed, Johnny appreciates his own physical advent, frequently commenting on it to others throughout the series, and is a notorious gambler.

He is too a peerless lover of women, claiming that it is his duty to provide love for all the ladies in the world. A compulsive womanizer, Johnny has expressed interest in nearly every female character he encounters, plus Bridget whom he initially mistakes for a girl. He rarely welcomes men into his ship, although Testament seems to hang effectually sometimes.

Beneath his swash-buckling, somewhat surly persona, Johnny has a large heart. He has a chivalrous personality and a stiff sense of duty, and often goes out of his way to protect the weak. In a pledge to save the lonely, Johnny founded the Jellyfish Pirates in order to help those less fortunate than himself. He cares for his crew very deeply, oftentimes going to great lengths to protect them from harm, and reassuring them on numerous occasions that they are family to him. While he trusts them with his life, Johnny is nevertheless a shrewd, secretive individual, oftentimes keeping his intentions to himself, and has 1 ironclad dominion according to Haehyun: He doesn't rely on others unless he is truly at his wit's finish.

Story

Background

During the Crusades, at the young age of 13, Johnny's father—the only person who cared for him—was slain by a Gear. His centre already closed to others, the fear of losing those he loved made Johnny retreat into a beat of solitude even more. It was presumably during this time that Johnny acquired and mastered his skill with the sword under Hirofumi Unchou. Still, ane day Johnny came to truly understand the plight of orphans, realizing that not everyone could stand upwardly for themselves similar he did, and endeavored to get a human of compassion similar his father.

Johnny decided to go a "noble bandit", primarily stealing from the well-off to help those in demand, and founded the Jellyfish Pirates sometime prior to 2171 by adopting state of war orphans (girls only) and raising them. Amid the girls he took in was May, whisking her away from a brutal battleground. They began running their Robin Hood functioning aboard a stolen hover-carrier afterward re-named the Mayship . As the leader, Johnny became a fundamental private in the criminal underworld, wanted throughout the world, and caused a wide range of connections, including Gabriel of Zepp.

Under unknown circumstances, Johnny met Kum Haehyun; the two became keen friends, with Johnny being one of the few people who knew her real identity. In the Dark of Knives Vol.3 Drama CD, Johnny met Millia Rage and helped her find a foster dwelling for a baby boy, who unbeknownst to him was Male monarch Salteria I.

Guilty Gear

In 2180, Johnny was caught in the human action and incarcerated. He was given a long term, so his crew immediately began planning an elaborate breakout. Withal, the day before the program was to embark, April plant about a tournament that volition grant whatever wish to the winner.

Thinking they can wish for Johnny to be released, May enters the competition. During the tournament, Justice is freed. In May'due south ending, the dying Justice recognizes May as Japanese, just Johnny arrives just in time to cutting her short from revealing May's origins. Johnny explains that he considered to serve his time, but broke out by force to come looking for May. In truth, he escaped by charming his way out with the female guard. Afterwards, the crew celebrates with a party.

Guilty Gear X

In 2181, equally seen in Guilty Gear X Lightning the Argent, Johnny and his coiffure are hired by Bernard, Ky Kiske's butler, to aid during the Blackard incident that released the Hydra in London.

In the Guilty Gear 10 Drama CD, Johnny and May are shopping for dress when the shopkeeper mentions some newly discovered ruins from the Old World nearby, and the duo pays the ruins a visit. Ky turns upwardly shortly afterwards, investigating the ruins himself, and attempts to arrest Johnny. Johnny isn't smashing on fighting, merely May impulsively fights Ky. The ruins destabilize, and a Black Tech holographic disk activates, which Johnny slices in two. He and May escape with one half. April later on tells Johnny that she heard that these "tablets" were institute before and are on exhibition at the Thor Museum. However, the rumors were planted past Venom to lure the pirates out. Johnny and May nevertheless manage to escape the museum. Back aboard the Mayship, Johnny deems the deejay too dangerous to be kept, and secretly uses information technology to style pendants for everyone in the crew.

Since it is shut to his birthday, they all decide to get him something dainty in return, but May hopes instead to go Johnny something special just from her, "as a woman". Presently enough they learn that at that place is a Gear with a Due west$500,000 bounty. Johnny—in his duty to save the lone—decides to investigate, but tells his crew that he is in it for the prize. In Guilty Gear X Plus, he has 2 endings: in ane, Johnny meets Dizzy straight and takes her dwelling to the Mayship. In the other (likely non-canon (as it would imply that May met Testament, who she doesn't recognize in Guilty Gear XX ) ), he is distracted in a fight past May and comes home to discover that Dizzy had been already brought back to the Mayship equally a surprise "birthday present".

Guilty Gear XX

A few weeks later, I-No knocks Dizzy off the Mayship just before Attestation arrives unannounced. In one path, Johnny runs off to rescue Empty-headed; in his first ending, he defeats I-No, then carries Silly back to the Mayship because of slightly injured legs. In the 2nd, Testament gets to I-No first, and is reluctant to let Dizzy continue to live with the coiffure until Johnny defeats them. The other path has Johnny learn that the Japanese are being targeted, and ends with him turning his back on Ky every bit he is about to fight a group of Robo-Kys.

Onetime later, Johnny is chasing afterwards the Mail-War Administration Bureau, but there is something else on his heed: should he tell May the truth of her origins? Also sensing that Dizzy misses Testament, Johnny visits the Grove to persuade them to visit her. There the story splits. Johnny finds out more most the Japanese from either Baiken or Mito Anji, and and so raids the P.West.A.B. facility. In Path 1, he does so solitary and recognizes Crow due to his connection to Unchou; May sneaks in, and hears the truth from Crow as he flees. May meekly asks Johnny if information technology is prophylactic for her to be with the crew, merely he assures that he will protect her from anything.

In the other, Johnny helps Ky subdue Dizzy, upon which they all board the Mayship to resume the raid. The ensuing disharmonize causes the ship to crash into the P.West.A.B. building. There, Johnny and May run into Crow, who lets the secret of May's origins skid. Johnny struggles to comfort May, and she disappears in search of answers. After the coiffure's search for May, Johnny quietly hopes that May volition return domicile.

Guilty Gear Xrd

In 2187, May starts having recurrent headaches, and Johnny sets off to find Faust. Johnny finds him in a small Illyrian village, and convinces him to treat May. Johnny returns to the Mayship II to find that May has vanished, having learned from Ramlethal Valentine that her people are "a disease".

Johnny and the coiffure begin a desperate search for her. Thanks to Chipp Zanuff, they notice May, who didn't want to infect them. Around the same time, Faust arrives to give her medicine and warn them not to go near the colony. Bedman then arrives with an incapacitated Millia, Venom and Slayer, and knocks Faust out. Chipp tells Johnny to escape with the girls while he holds off their attacker; followed past his crew, Johnny reluctantly agrees and carries the unconscious Faust to the Mayship.

They later intervene in the Illyrian ambush on the Cradle almost the Black Sea. Johnny assists Leo Whitefang in his battle with Bedman, delaying him, while Faust installs the final buoy. The Cradle'due south Felion defense is destroyed, but the Caucus escapes with Justice.

In order to investigate the disturbances at the colony, Johnny arranges to rendezvous in that location with his sometime friend, Haehyun, and Faust. Upon arrival at the colony, Johnny and May accidentally encounter Leo, who must reluctantly arrest them. Haehyun intervenes and requests that Leo let them go; given the status of the Kum family, Leo agrees. Privately, Johnny calls Faust and Haehyun is able to tell the physician her preliminary investigation. Later that day, Johnny tells Haehyun he worries for her safety, but Haehyun won't abandon him because she knows he is at his wit's stop, and the two hug.

In order to movement to Ariels' location as soon as possible one time they track her down, Colin Vernon personally meets with Johnny at his garage. As they have no time left, Vernon guarantees that Johnny will have immunity, and so, Johnny presents to him the Gullinkambi Dark . In one case they obtain Ariels' coordinates in the North Atlantic, Johnny and April pilot the balloon, with Sol, Ky, Sin and Jack-O' as passengers. Upon dropping them off, Ariels damages the ship, and Johnny and April momentarily retreat, coming back when the battle is over.

Guilty Gear -Strive-

In the epilogue, Johnny is seen celebrating victory alongside the residue of the Jellyfish Pirates.

Abilities

Chief articles: /Commands, or /Gameplay

Johnny is one of the strongest and swiftest homo fighters in the series, and it is implied that he rarely, if ever, utilizes his full forcefulness when fighting. When he fights Crow'south mechanical re-create of Justice, the scientist sets his creation to optimal combat settings in lodge for it to serve as acceptable challenge, yet Johnny defeats it regardless. In -Sign-, Johnny is able to hold his own against the powerful Bedman for a short fourth dimension, albeit with assistance from Leo Whitefang.

Johnny'south weapon choice is a katana of plain wooden mounting. He is a chief of the swordmanship Phantom Hirofumi Fashion, Eat-Moon-Blade, taught to him by Hirofumi Unchou. Every bit a user of this battou sword style, Johnny possesses extremely fast reflexes and a quick manus to employ the iaido art—he tin can describe his sword, strike an opponent, and then re-place the sword in its scabbard in the blink of an heart. He is also able to movement short distances at such high speed that it looks like teleportation. His swallow-inspired technique allows him to swing his blade to displace the air around his opponents, and peradventure tear them to shreds. He uses this tactic to prevent Bedman from teleporting during their battle.

In terms of playstyle, Johnny is dominates the neutral and law-breaking game thanks to his famous Mist Finer stance, and while he cannot run, he has a character-specific dash. He also has a unique resource in course of coins, starting each circular with viii of them (they practise not regenerate unless Treasure Chase in Xrd is used, which grants him two coins). They are used during his Glitter is Gold special move, throwing ane at a time as a projectile. When a coin hits the enemy, Johnny's Mist Finer tin can level upwards to its Level 3 form; using Mist Finer returns the motion to Level ane, and must be leveled upwardly again.

Music

Liquor Bar & Drunkard - Guilty Gear X, Guilty Gear XX
Desert Grit - Guilty Gear Twenty ♯Reload Korean OST
Infrequent Routine Work - Guilty Gear Isuka
Original Bet - Guilty Gear Xrd

Quotes

Allusions

Johnny'south entirely black outfit may be a possible reference to American musician Johnny Cash, who was known as "The Man in Black", or perchance to Johnny Winter, given his long blond hair and cowboy hat. It is too possible that he was named after Queen's bassist, John Deacon.
Johnny's theme "Liquor Bar & Drunkard" shares a similar riff to Jimi Hendrix's "Foxy Lady". Coincidentally, Hendrix'south birth name was too Johnny.
His Glitter Is Gold attack is named after the opening lines of Led Zeppelin'due south "Stairway to Heaven."
Ensenga may be a take on Tachibana Ukyou'due south (from the Samurai Showdown serial) variation of Sasaki Kojirou'due south famous Tsubame Gaeshi technique, since Ukyou's version is likewise a flame-based sword-cartoon attack that is done only in midair.

Trivia

For well over a decade, Johnny'due south concluding name was believed to be Sfondi by Western fans due to the Guilty Gear X Drama CD, where the Japanese word for "family" was accidentally misheard and interpreted as his surname.
Because of his "Ensenga" special move, many players mistake Johnny every bit a fire magic user, when he is actually only slicing a liquor bottle midair.
Johnny and Axl Low both share the same English language voice player, Liam O'Brien.
Johnny has made guest appearances in the following games: Brave Frontier, Crusaders Quest, Elemental Battle, and Code Shifter.

Gallery

External links

ジョニー | キャラクター | GUILTY GEAR Xrd REV ii AC版公式サイト
GGACR/ - GGXRD-R2/Johnny at Dustloop Wiki