Gook

Gook (グック, Gukku) is a Shinigami.

Appearance
Gook's most prominent feature is his animal mask which is that of a cattle skull. He also wears a big green beaded necklace and has yellow eyes.

Character
Like Deridovely, he enjoys gambling too, although he is a poor gambler. He is also very lazy.

Plot
He appears gambling with Deridovely in the first episode and witnessed the way of Ryuk to the Human World. Thereafter, it was absent from the series, and only appeared in the Ryuk's flashbacks in which he had to Light on the Shinigami Realm.

Gook also appeared in the prologue chapter Death Note One-Shot Special. He thinks that Ryuk is in the Human World but is mistaken, as it was Midora who is in the Human World. After that he starts chatting with Ryuk on the apples that Midora brought the Human World to the Shinigami King in exchange for a Death Note, during which he says that he does not care for it.

His last official appearance in the series was in the OVA Death Note Relight 1: Visions of a God, where the Unnamed Shinigami was talking to him, Deridovely and Zellogi for the location of Ryuk.

Conception
Obata said that, as Gook appears in the first chapter, he wanted for him to look like a monster to keep it simple. Obata decided to use a cattle skull in the design as he felt that using a regular skull would be boring.