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Manfred von Karma / Gou Karuma / Manfred von Karma
狩魔豪
Age: 65
Gender: Male
Height: 177 cm
Occupation: Prosecutor
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Prosecutor of PW case 4 - Miles' mentor and keeper of a perfect record.
Personality: Karma is a ruthless prosecutor, believing only perfection can be tolerated. He'll do anything to get a guilty verdict. Sometimes arrogant but never overly cocky, Karma never looses his cool and has even the Judge pretty much whipped.

Misc Facts: The GS2 fanbook confirms that Karma has two daughters, the elder married with a child. His granddaughter has a dog named Phoenix (Ryuu in the Japanese).

Karma's character design was taken from the original design for Edgeworth.

Apparently the script writer really liked the name Karuma, and was disappointed many people ended up reading the kanji as "Karima."

Friends and Family: Karma has two daughters, one of which is Franziska, and raised Miles from the age of 9. His elder daughter has a daughter of her own.

Name Origin:
English: "Karma" being the bad Karma he's built up over the years. May also be based on Manfred von Richthofen, the infamous Red Baron who was brought down by a single bullet (thanks Johan!)

Japanese: "Karuma Gou" can mean several things depending on if you look at pronunciation or kanji meaning.

Pronunciation wise, "Karuma" is the Japanese Romanization for "Karma." "Gou" may come from the word gouka, which could be "the effect of karma" or "fires of hell."

Kanji wise, karu ma means "a demon which hunts," and gou comes from erai, which means "great" or "excellent."

All of them are pretty fitting.

Background: Manfred von Karma has been a prosecutor for forty years, and in that time maintained a perfect record of guilty verdicts. Nothing is known about his possible wife, but his daughter, Franziska, was born when he was 48.

(spoilers) [PW case 4] 15 years ago Karma argued a case against famed defense attorney Gregory Edgeworth. Though he succeeded in getting his guilty verdict, Edgeworth Sr. was able to find a fatal flaw in his logic that nearly cost him the case, ruining his "flawless" record. After the trial's conclusion the courthouse was rocked by an earthquake, which left Gregory Edgeworth, his son, Miles, and court bailiff Yanni Yogi stranded in an elevator.

Karma happened to be standing in front of that same elevator just at the moment the bailiff's gun accidentally went off. The bullet passed through the elevator's glass window and struck Karma in his right shoulder, where it lodged. When power returned to the building Karma entered the elevator, and finding Gregory (and the others) unconscious, he picked up the discarded gun and shot Gregory in the chest, killing him instantly.

Fearing that if the bullet in his shoulder was ever discovered he would be investigated and found guilty, Karma left the prosecutor's office for a six month vacation, the only vacation he's ever taken in the course of his career. He did not have the bullet removed for fear of leaving a doctor behind who might one day testify against him. When he returned he took in the young Miles Edgeworth, and raised him to be a prosecutor in his footsteps, as part of his plan to get revenge on the Edgeworth family line. The bullet remains in his shoulder to this day.