Gutai Group

The Gutai Group (具体美術協会) is a group of artists and Talent users based in Osaka, Japan. They are the main protagonists of Gutai & the House of Wolves.

Admission
The Gutai Group does not accept any new members as they consider themselves more as a "group of friends" than an actual organization. However thanks to the help of Hokusai Katsushika, they own a license to operate as a group of Talent users. While they don't have a structure, Jiro Yoshihara is often regarded as the group's leader with Saburo Murakami as the 'vice leader'.

Other than the current four, the one unofficial member of the group is the daughter of their mentor, Ōi Katsushika who acts as both their friend and someone who would help them during more difficult times.

History
The group was originally formed during their high school years, the four of them met at their school's art club eventually forming the group out of their common interest in multimedia art. Yuko joined first along with Kazuo and Saburo finally joining after much convincing.

The group then discovered their Talents and proceeded to study under their friend's father, Hokusai Katsushika. Later on, they continued to work on their art, selling their pieces to continue their activities and eventually using their money to buy a warehouse around the Yao area of the Osaka Prefecture, neighbouring the larger city of Osaka.

Beginning
Kazuo discovered a murder scene at their headquarters immediately alerting the rest of the group to come over and see. The group was taken into custody by the police and Kazuo was questioned by the police being released as he had no idea about what happened. The group then decided to visit the Katsushika family for help and information about the current events with Hokusai eventually calling upon the services of Rembrandt van Rijn.

Four days later Rembrandt arrived and the group along with Ōi went off to see the situation at their headquarters only to find that the crime scene was gone, and everything had been cleaned up. The police told them that they did not want to continue their involvement with this case so it was up to Rembrandt to discover the culprit. Using his talent the group discovers that Kyōsai Kawanabe and a gang of others were the one that committed the murders. Saburo argued that they should stop the investigation since he did not want to deal with serial killers, but after convincing from Jiro the group decided to continue their investigation with Rembrandt.

The next day, the group decided to pursuit Kyōsai eventually tracking him to an abandoned building, there Saburo and Rembrandt fought fiercely against Kyōsai, Rembrandt was suddenly knocked out by an external force prompting the rest of the group to come and confront them. They then restrained Kyōsai and interrogated him, he eventually revealed that he was ordered by Yoshitoshi Tsukioka and he was working with a criminal organization named House of Wolves. Eventually, Kyōsai committed suicide by sending one of his lions to bite his upper body off, scarring the group and Ōi.

Trivia

 * The Gutai Group is named after the . It was a multimedia radical post-war artistic group first founded by in 1954 in Osaka. The group is known for their radical expression of art using non-native media to create works which are contrarian to the the traditional art world at the time.