Gedo High School

Gedo High School students.

"Gathering the nation's worst"

Gedo High School (外道高等学校, Gedō Kōtogakkō^?) is an all-boys school from the Rival Schools series located near an industrial area at the mouth of a large estuary from the Yamato River in Aoharu City.

Gedo High School was founded in 1934 as Otokomichi High School (男遊高校, Otokomichi Kōkō^?). It used to be a good school that equally promoted excellence in both academics and martial arts, aiming to raise fine Japanese men. However, as student numbers declined, the quality of students also declined, and it was renamed to Gedo High School in 1975. Now, it has changed from an institution that made use of "classes to train the mind" in order to raise "people who do not stray from the path of humanity", making it look like a correctional facility of sorts, seeking to rehabilitate bad guys from all over the country. The number of students enrolling in Gedo High has been declining every year, alongside the industrial area that is also continuing to decline and facing danger of becoming obsolete at any time.

The school's motto is "righteousness and perseverance", and due to the school's current condition it currently has the strict objective to "graduate as many students as possible". The student population is quite unfavourable, consisting of 320 students on the first grade, 160 on the second, and 80 on the third.

Despite the school being full of delinquents who fight each other, it does not have problems with bullies troubling weaker students nor thieves, the students even being respectful with Kiri, the gentle elder running the small store in front of the school. The students also do not drink nor smoke, and the school is clean inside. The reason for those is assumed to be due to the students developing a tough man attitude and a chivalrous spirit that makes such acts being seen as below them. As birds of a feather, they also develop solidarity between themselves, but as a boys only school, girls are a touchy subject for them, being harder for them to have a girlfriend. While Gedo High students are bad at studies, they hate losing and always give their best at sports. They are specially fired up in matches against other schools, having a rivalry with Gorin High School.

Gedo High used to be more chaotic before Daigo Kazama enrolled, but he restored order to the school by gathering all gangs under his command, becoming their big boss. During Rival Schools: United by Fate, Daigo was kidnapped and the school returned to chaos, and Akira recruited two students, Edge and Gan, to help find Daigo. After Daigo was rescued, he left on a journey to improve himself, but was kidnapped again and brainwashed by Kurow in Project Justice. When Daigo returned, he ordered the gangs to attack other schools to control them, something that Edge and Gan found strange. They eventually discovered the truth and released Daigo from Kurow's control.

Members

Edge, Akira, and Gan.

Representing Gedo High School are:

• Daigo Kazama (the school's big boss)
• Eiji "Edge" Yamada
• Gan Isurugi
• Several students

Daigo's younger sister, Akira Kazama, disguised as a man and enrolled Gedo High as a transfer student in the first game when Daigo went missing, but was eventually transferred to Seijyun Girls High School as of Project Justice.

Stages

See also: Rival Riverside

Gedo H.S. Work Site

Gedo H.S. Work Site (外道高校裏工事現場, Gedo H.S. Work Site^? lit. "Construction Site Behind Gedo High School"), also known as Gedo HS Construction Site, is a stage from Rival Schools set on a gloomy construction site behind the school. Due to its state, many people believe that Gedo High is closed down.

School song

Gedo High's shoe lockers, where assaults and other incidents occur almost every day.

Gedo High School's school song. Lyrics by Ryūta Kiwame (極 竜也, Kiwame Ryūta^?).

Original

Translation

(一番) 男の進むべき 道は 暗くて険しい 外道の道なり 修羅の心で仁を貫き 羅刹の心で義を通す ここは男を学ぶ道 外道高校 ここにあり (二番) 男が歩むべき道は 遠くて険しい外道の道なり 鬼の心で正義を貫き 仏の心で悪を斬る ここは心を鍛える道 外道高校 ここにあり (エッジ替え歌) 人を信じちゃいけねぇぜ だましだまされ 外道な人生 非道な心で 人落とし 悪道な心で 人だます ここは血゛獄の 一丁目 外道高校 いいところ

(First verse) The path a man must walk Is a long and steep heterodoxy path Adhere to benevolence with an asura heart Pass righteousness with a rakshasa heart This is the path to learn being a man This is Gedo High School (Second verse). The path a man must walk Is a long and steep heterodoxy path Pursue justice with a demon heart Slay evil with a Buddha heart This is the path to forge the heart This is Gedo High School (Edge's parody)* You should never trust people A life of deceit and deception Drop people with a cruel heart Deceive people with a wicked heart This is the first block of the bloody prison Gedo High is a good place

*A verse made by Edge that is not actually part of the song. Seen in Secret File 17.

Trivia

• The designs of the three playable Gedo High characters in the first game were based on the Doronbo Gang, having a thin man (Edge), a bulky man (Gan), and a woman as their leader (Akira).