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Characters: Sengoku Basara |
Here's the list of characters of Sengoku Basara...otherwise Macekre'd as Devil Kings in the US.
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Date
Date Masamune
Young, cool but Hot Blooded leader of the Date clan from Oushuu Province. He's out mostly to conquer the land and get on a good fight while he's at it. He's also a guy who values style, therefore his army look very delinquentish and he likes spouting Engrish speeches.
His Devil Kings counterpart's name was Azure Dragon.
ARE YOU READY, GUYS!? Here's the tropes associated to Masamune, so PUT YA GUNS ON!:
- Badass
- Berserk Button
"You used someone as a shield, just so that you can finish him, along with your enemies, from behind? There are things that you should, and shouldn't do!
- Blood Knight: He's perhaps a little too ambitious at times.
- Chaotic Good: Despite wanting to rule the world, he has no evil intentions.
- Cool Horse: Not just any Cool Horse, but a memetically popular Cool Motor-Horse.
- Defiant To The End: When Nobunaga threatens to stab his eye out, Masamune tells him to go on and try it.
- Delinquents: A whole army of them in the anime.
- Dual Wielding: How about wielding six swords at once instead of just two swords, HA?
- Estrogen Brigade Bait: The fans go absolute crazy over him.
- Eyepatch Of Power: Masamune is the designated God of Eyepatches.
- Eye Scream: In the anime Nobunaga tries to gouge out his other eye during their Final Battle.
- Friendly Enemy: When they're not trying to kill each other, he and Yukimura seem to get on nicely.
- Full Name Basis: Always calls Yukimura by his full name.
- Getting Crap Past The Radar: He does his fair share of cursing. Even though it's in English.
- Gratuitous English: Masamune loves his Gratuitous English.
- Hey Its That Voice: Kazuya Nakai AKA Zoro AKA Mugen AKA Hijikata. As you probably guessed, he has a tendency to play Hot Blooded swordsmen overflowing with GAR.
- Historical Hero Upgrade: The historical Masamune was certainly much more ruthless, but...hey, this is Basara.
- He probably didn't speak English either...
- Historical Beauty Update: It's rather doubtful that the real Masamune was as maddeningly attractive as this one.
- It's time for a historical funfact! Some time ago, Date Masamune's remains were dug up and measured. He was approx 159cm tall. Not much, considering most of his fangirls are taller. But it was the average height during his time.
- Ho Yay / Foe Yay: With Yukimura. Kojuurou is also popular.
- Hot Blooded
"Guess I got a little too heated up. I gotta stay cool".
- I Can Still Fight: Does this in the anime after his soldiers are kidnapped. Despite having been shot only hours earlier, he acts like everythings okay and decides to stage a rescue attempt. Kojuurou knows he is in no condition to go anywhere and knocks him out (not without a duel first however).
- Jerk With A Heart Of Gold: He's a great guy underneath that cocky, disrespectful teenage Blood Knight persona. Honestly.
- Memetic Mutation: YA GUNS. PUT THEM ON.
- Pet The Dog: He has his moments with Itsuki in the games, and Oichi in the anime.
- Red Baron: The One-Eyed Dragon.
- Red Oni Blue Oni: Hot Blooded though he is, he is the Blue Oni to Yukimura's Red Oni.
- The Rival / Worthy Opponent: Towards Yukimura.
- Rousing Speech: They certainly inspire his troops - "LETS PARTY!"
- Rule Of Cool: He probably rules his lands with THIS set of rules.
- Shirtless Scene: Anime Episode 8. Holy Mother of Fanservice!!!!!
 ◊ *Nosebleed*
- Shock And Awe
- Stupid Sexy Flanders: Don't you deny it!
- White Haired Pretty Boy: The manga turns him into one of these.
- Wolverine Claws: He does the trope one better by wielding three Dragon Claws in each hand.
You see?
Katakura Kojuurou
Date Masamune's Battle Butler, retainer and overall right-hand man. Loyal, devoted and extremely protective of his master, and serves as a calmer counterpoint to the Hot Blooded Masamune. He is arguably just as cool though.
Tropes associated with Kojuurou:
- Badass
- Battle Butler
- Catch Phrase: "Understood. I will not interfere", in response to Masamune's Leave Him To Me.
- Demoted To Extra: Becomes an NPC in Sengoku Basara 3.
- Diagonal Cut: One of his main moves.
- Estrogen Brigade Bait
- Good Scars Evil Scars: The scar on his face. We're never told how he got it.
- Hot Men At Work: Quite frequently subject to this, due to his passion for vegetables.
- Ho Yay: Loads of it with Masamune.
- Hypercompetent Sidekick: To a degree. Kojuurou is far more level-headed and cautious than Masamune, and seems far more involved in the actual day-to-day running of his master's province.
- Improbable Weapon User: About the only aversion in the whole series; Kojuurou wields a traditional daisho, a Katana/Wakizashi pair, in the traditional samurai manner.
- My Greatest Failure: In the anime, he describes his inability to protect Masamune at Nagashino as this.
- Nice Guy: During the time he's not fighting or serving alongside Masamune, he spends his time with townfolks helping them harvest the rice fields.
- Older Sidekick: Has a good ten years on his master, yet follows him without question.
- Papa Wolf: Dare to hurt Masamune-sama or his subordinates, and Kojuurou will destroy you.
- Team Dad: He constantly worries about Masamune's antics and acts as his voice of reason.
- The Lancer
- The Quiet One
- Red Baron: The Dragon's Right Eye.
- Shock And Awe
- Toshiyuki Morikawa
- Yakuza: His alternate design was based on this, complete with tattoos.
Takeda
Sanada Yukimura
Takeda Shingen's most loyal vassal and Hot Blooded to a fault, he charges fearlessly into battle with with two spears... which he dual wields. He is also the rival of Date Masamune, whose blue colors are a distinct contrast to Yukimura's red.
Goes by the name Scorpio in Devil Kings.
Tropes associated with Yukimura:
- Badass
- Battle Butler: Yukimura lives to serve Takeda Shingen and has the ambition of a shoe. Shingen tries to educate him otherwise, noting that he will one day grow old and Yukimura will have to carry on without him.
- Bishounen
- Catch Phrase: My soul is burning with passion!
- Cute Shotaro Boy: He's a bit old to qualify as shotaro, but just look at that face!◊
- Dual Wield: With two spears! TWO SPEARS!
- Estrogen Brigade Bait: Girls love his chest revealing vest... also newest releases of official figures aren't helping him much by exposing his pelvic bones.
- Fearless Fool: Shingen beats it out of him eventually...
- Friendly Enemy: Yukimura has great respect for Masamune, and they work very well together as a team. Their developing friendship was one of the main focuses of the anime (though they quickly go back to being rivals after the last episode).
- Go Nagai Sideburns combined with Flaming Eyebrows.
- Hachimaki: Plays an important part in the anime.
- Heroic BSOD: Happens in the anime after Shingen is supposedly killed. Masamune and Kojuurou are forced to knock some sense into him with a manly Rousing Speech.
- Hey Its That Voice: Soichiro Hoshi. AKA Kira "Jesus" Yamato. Who might've been more tolerable if he was as Hot Blooded as Yukimura.
- Historical Beauty Update: Really?◊
- Ho Yay / Foe Yay: With Masamune or alternatively Sasuke.
- Hot Blooded: Hell yes.
- Idiot Hero: Which is no wonder why Shingen punches him a lot.
- Incendiary Exponent: His feet have the ability to catch fire and kick your ass.
- Keigo: Yukimura is notable for his very archaic speech pattern. He adresses everyone with respectful honorifics (such as "-dono"), refers to himself as "sessha" or "soregashi" (both third-person pronouns) and punctuates his sentences with "-de gozaru", a very old and polite version of "desu". He's extremely polite, compared to some (i.e Masamune)
- Leeroy Jenkins: Yukimura generally does not think that plans more complicated than "charge at the enemy head-on" are very honorable. His very first Bright Slap in the anime is for this sort of thinking.
- Made Of Iron: He gets punched by Takeda Shingen a lot, a man who can cause a tornado to burst forth from his axe, and gets away with minor injuries.
- Memetic Mutation: OYAKATA-SAMA! YUKIMURA! OBSERVE!
- No Indoor Voice
- Playing With Fire
- Red Baron: The Young Tiger, after his master.
- The Red Oni to Masamune's Blue.
- The Rival, Worthy Opponent: To Masamune.
- Say My Name: "OYAKATA-SAMAAAAAAA!!!!!!!!!!!"
- Screaming Warrior: Good grief, boy's got some lungs!
- In a seiyuu event where they had to switch roles for a few scenes, the seiyuu who had to voice Yukimura said they now felt sorry for Hoshi.
- Took A Level In Badass: Historicaly obvious as he leads a campaign against Tokugawa, but played in upcoming Sengoku Basara 3.
- Walking Shirtless Scene: Can't imagine why...
- Uke: In almost every situation.
Takeda Shingen
Head of the Takeda, a Hot Blooded old man whose fist sets things on fire. He is also known for his strategic genius too, being the rival of the God of War Kenshin. He has something like father-son relationship with Yukimura. Wields a huge, mean axe on fire, is too awesome for one horse so rides two instead.
He is known in Devil Kings as Red Minotaur.
Tropes associated with Shingen:
One of the Sanada Ten Braves, he is a ninja in the service of Takeda and often assists Yukimura. Sasuke is a jovial and laid back ninja, which puts him at odds with Kasuga, with whom he shares a friendly rivalry (though she doesn't look at it that way). However when the time calls, he can be deadly serious.
He is called Talon in Devil Kings.
Tropes associated with Sasuke:
- Big Brother Mentor: He occasionally has moments like this with Yukimura.
- Bridal Carry: Seems to do this a lot in the anime.
- Call On Me: In the anime, with Kasuga intent on revenge against Nobunaga, Sasuke gives her a flute and tells her to blow on it should she need help. When the time does come to use it, rather than making him appear as she had hoped, it turns into a rocket-powered glider that carries her off. Turns out he was using Kasuga as a guinea-pig to test the latest ninja gear.
- Dark Is Not Evil: His element of darkness.
- Deadpan Snarker
- Demoted To Extra: Like Kojuurou he is NPC in Sengoku Basara 3.
- Dogged Nice Guy: Despite the fact that Kasuga tries to kill him a couple of times, he still attempts to win her heart.
- Dual Wielding
- Face Palm: Whenever Yukimura does something really stupid. Which is quite often...
- Flash Step
- Fuuma Shuriken
- Get A Hold Of Yourself Man: He hauls off and slaps Kasuga when she declares her intention to go on a Roaring Rampage Of Revenge against Oda in the anime.
- I Have The High Ground: In the anime, notably, at one point he stands balanced on the very tip-top of a tall pine tree.
- Also, in the game, he perches one-legged on top of a pole for some time.
- Ninja
- Master Of Disguise: In Heroes he disguises himself as various people, including Yukimura, during Shingen's special training. Of course, Yukimura doesn't suspect a thing...
- Ninja Log
- Now Thats Using Your Teeth: In the anime, Kasuga throws a kunai at his face, which he catches in his mouth.
- Older Sidekick
- Only Sane Man: Forced to put up with Shingen and Yukimura's crazy antics. Poor guy.
- Sarutobi Sasuke
- Takehito Koyasu
- Wild Hair: Especially◊ in the third game. He looks like some sort of rock star.
Maeda
Maeda Keiji
An eccentric and happy-go-lucky man, who likes festivals, sake and chasing girls. He is the adopted nephew of Toshiie and Matsu. He also has a pet monkey named Yumekichi. An old friend of Toyotomi Hideyoshi, until he becomes Drunk On The Dark Side.
Tropes associated with Keiji:
Maeda Toshiie
A vassal of Oda Nobunaga, which is surprising considering what a nice guy he is. Uncle of Keiji and husband of Matsu. The butt of many jokes.
Known as Lark in Devil Kings.
Matsu
Toshiie's wife, usually tasked with keeping track of her renegade nephew Keiji. Has been described as "the ideal housewife", though she can still kick butt if she wants to.
Called Bramble in Devil Kings.
Uesugi
Uesugi Kenshin
Head of the Uesugi clan, Takeda Shingen's main rival. He is also a devout follower of the war-god Bishamonten. Has a very young and feminine appearance, but don't let this fool you. He's one heck of a fighter.
Known as Frost in the Devil Kings.
Tropes associated with Kenshin:
Kasuga
A kunoichi in the service of Uesugi Kenshin, as well as his potential love interest. She also has a fierce love-hate relationship with Sarutobi Sasuke. Often regarded as the games sex symbol.
Her name in Devil Kings is Venus. She did not exist in Real Life.
Tropes associated with Kasuga:
Oda
Imagine every single Evil Overlord trope that one can ever use. Good. Now turn it Up To Eleven. You've got the Sengoku Basara version of Oda Nobunaga. Uses a Sword And Sawed Off Shotgun combo in combat, along with his Badass Cape. His main goal throughout the game is pretty much to, you guessed it, Take Over The World (starting with Japan) and run everybody to the ground.
Was the titular Devil King of the Devil Kings game.
Tropes that fit with Nobunaga:
- Badass
- Card Carrying Villain
- Cue Cullen: Guess who his voice actor was in Devil Kings? One of its few redeeming qualities.
- Dramatic Thunder
- Evil Laugh
- Evil Overlord
- Eviler Than Thou: In the anime, Nobunaga sees right through Mitsuhide's scheming and backstabs him, leaving him to die in a battle against Masamune and Yukimura.
- Good Hair Evil Hair, Beard Of Evil: Has an eeevil moustache.
- Go Out With A Smile: In the anime at least.
- Hey Its That Voice: Well, if he's going to be as evil as possible, might as well be Norio Wakamoto. AAAAALL HAAAIIIIIL NOBUNAGA!!!
- Historical Villain Upgrade
- I Have Your Wife: When he kidnaps Oichi.
- Laughably Evil: It's kind of hard not to at least chuckle at how Obviously Evil Nobunaga is in this series. Even the Onimusha version isn't this over-the-top, and that one became the king of hell.
- Leitmotif: Dear God, just listen to it!
- Lightning Reveal: How he appears in the anime.
- Neck Lift
- Nothing But Skulls: Likes to sit upon a throne of skulls. He also uses them as cups.
- Obviously Evil: Does he really look like anything else?
- Ominous Latin Chanting
- The Reason You Suck Speech: Loves giving these.
- Sword And Gun: Manages this with a Sawed Off Shotgun.
- Take Over The World: Starting with Japan.
- Tin Tyrant: Wears a European full-plate worthy of Sauron, complete with...
- Unholy Matrimony: With Nouhime, whom he quickly deems worthless after her death. This also happened in the first game or Devil Kings itself.
- You Have Failed Me: In the anime, after Mitsuhide changes his plans in order to screw around with Nagamasa and Ieyasu For The Evulz, Nobunaga showers his head with sake and exclaims that the next time it will be his own blood.
- You Have Outlived Your Usefulness: To Nouhime, Oichi, Ieyasu, Nagamasa and Mitsuhide in the anime.
Nouhime
Slavishly devoted wife of Nobunaga, who in return... Well... Doesn't kill her? Uses Guns Akimbo in combat, as well as carrying a Gatling Gun, a rifle and what seems to be a rocket launcher which she summons from her kimono.
Uses butterfly motifs a lot, and thus she is called Lady Butterfly in Devil Kings
Tropes that fit with Nouhime:
Mori Ranmaru
A kid with a bow and arrow that thinks Nobunaga is totally awesome. Not much else to say.
Renamed as Hornet in Devil Kings
Tropes associated with Ranmaru:
- Child Soldiers
- Cute Shotaro Boy
- Fragile Speedster
- Hero Worshipper: Towards Nobunaga, who in return acknowledges him as a useful aide and rewards him with a single piece of candy for doing a good job. Either the candy is that good or Nobunaga is an incredible cheapskate. Which leads to the next topic...
- Horrible Judge Of Character: What the hell is his definition of 'Hero' anyway!? Calling someone like Nobunaga heroic!? Kids these days...
- His intro for SB2 is basically him wandering around a battlefield until he comes up to Nobunaga, who gives him a rather creepy glare before scoffing and riding away on his horse. His reaction? "That dude's awesome!"
- Ho Yay: Not in-game but historically, he was Nobunaga's wakashu.
- Human Shield: Mitsuhide attempts to use him as such against Kojuurou. It doesn't work because the latter acknowledges Ranmaru as Nobunaga's General and therefore an enemy, though he merely knocks him out of the way and tells him to serve another lord after leaving Mitsuhide for dead. He lives past the ending, with some Toy Shipping with Itsuki.
- Mouthy Kid
- Rain Of Arrows
- Straight Arrow: Mostly uses it as a close-range weapon.
- Shock And Awe
- Third Person Person
Akechi Mitsuhide
So Yeah, Nobunaga is running through the evil competition by himself. At least there will be the heroic Akechi Mitsuhide to stop the Evil Overlord Nobunaga, like usual, right?
Bzzt! Wrong!
Mitsuhide here is anything but heroic. He's an Emo White Haired Pretty Boy whose job is a Psycho For Hire. An Ax Crazy one at that. With an evil giggle which can evolve into any Evil Laugh, two mean scythes and lust in seeing people suffer, Mitsuhide might as well be the man to surpass Nobunaga in terms of evilness. Known as Reaper in Devil Kings, but said game demoted him into an NPC. He's playable in most Basara games, though.
Tropes associated with Mitsuhide:
- Ax Crazy
- Badass
- Blood Upgrade
- Combat Sado Masochist: Mitsuhide practically defines this trope!
- Complete Monster: He's even worse than Nobunaga!
- Does This Remind You Of Anything: "More... more... more!"
- Dual Wielding Sinister Scythe
- Emo: And so is his horse.
- Evil Tastes Good: Mitsuhide constantly uses taste-related metaphors, such as finding it "delicious" to trample on true love.
- Evil Versus Evil
- Fetish Fuel: He wears a frigging bondage gear, and his opening cinema in SB2 had him Bound And Gagged! He even kills the poor soldier who brought him his food.
- First Name Basis: He is notably the only person in the cast to refer to Nouhime by her real name, Kichou. This familiarity is linked to the fact that they were childhood friends in Real Life.
- For The Evulz
- Giggling Villain: And can break into Evil Laugh.
- Go Out With A Smile: In the anime. While begging for more. Yuck.
- In Love With Your Carnage: For Nobunaga.
"You utterly annihilated opponents who had already admitted defeat, right down to the last survivor. You mercilessly cut down women and children running away in confusion. You burnt down everything, leaving not even an insect alive. The only thing remaining is the ashes dancing in the transient wind. I, Mitsuhide, can no longer contain how intoxicated I am with you!"
- Leitmotif: Not as cool as Nobunaga's, but just as evil.
- Loves The Sound Of Screaming
- Obviously Evil: Almost as bad as Nobunaga.
- Peek A Bangs: His horse also adopts his hairstyle.
- Psycho For Hire
- Show Hayami: Take Aizen, give him about 50 doses of crack, and you've pretty much got Mitsuhide.
- Spikes Of Villainy
- The Starscream / The Dog Bites Back
- Too Kinky To Torture
- White Haired Pretty Boy
- You Have Outlived Your Usefulness: Mitsuhide is usually the one who does this to Nobunaga's allies. Even if Nobunaga doesn't neccessarily want him to.
- You Should Know This Already: Historical Mitsuhide betrays Nobunaga. He does it here too. For shit and giggles.
Azai
Azai Nagamasa
Oichi's husband and a fierce defender of justice, Azai Nagamasa wields his sword and shield with a passion. He loves Oichi but is too shy to say it outright. He was an NPC in the second Sengoku Basara, and in the Expansion Pack he became a selectable character.
His default costume resembles an old Japanese SciFi hero.
If you do not read the tropes associated with Nagamasa, you shall be labeled 'evil', and Nagamasa shall smite thee:
Oichi
Hoo boy, where do we start. Oichi is the introverted younger sister of Nobunaga, who got sent off to marry the resident justice-lover Azai Nagamasa. Debuts in Sengoku Basara 2 as an NPC, but she gained such a massive following that she is made a playable character in the Expansion Pack. She seems to think that everything bad in the world is her fault. And with a brother like Nobunaga, trust me, it always get worse. She also has dark powers which can possess her and turn her into a psychotic murderer, but she usually keeps those in check...unless she's pushed too far.
And yet, the universe seems to want her to get pushed beyond that line. Her story revolves about her getting possessed by her powers after Nagamasa's Heroic Sacrifice to save her and Nobunaga making her commit lots of atrocities she didn't want to, culminating in killing Nobunaga and all his aides, and then getting killed by a falling ceiling...with a heart-wrenching Image Song at that. *sniff* And if anything, the anime seems to be following that route too, where she gets tricked by Mitsuhide into warning Nagamasa of impending danger, only for Mitsuhide to turn back against his words...and kill Nagamasa in front of her. Right now she's described as 'dead from the inside'
Oichi would like to apologize for no reason and would like you to read the tropes associated with her:
- Americans Hate Tingle: Slightly subverted. Those who know her from the games love her, but some fandoms, especially from the West, hate her for being useless and whiny in the middle of lots of Hot Blooded Badass characters. That, and they don't take Nagamasa's death well and hate her since in order for her story to advance, Nagamasa had to die. The subversion? All those probably only watched the anime, and never played the game.
- Apologetic Attacker
- Apologises A Lot: Make that all the time.
- Beware The Nice Ones
- Break The Cutie: Would be The Chew Toy since the universe wants to break her too. But...it's played for drama!
- Dark Is Not Evil: Blame Nobunaga for drawing out her dark powers.
- Diabolus Ex Machina: Her method of dying in her story.
- Distressed Damsel: TWICE. In Nagamasa's story and in the anime.
- Ensemble Darkhorse: She holds this place in a series rife with Yaoi Fangirls for fans, as most of the male audience really likes her (as long as they don't just watch the anime), which also leads her to be the sole female character in the fighting game. Considering her seiyuu is also Mamiko Noto, well that's a good sign for darkhorse-ness...
- Extreme Doormat: She may as well be, the way everyone walks over her!
- Hime Cut
- Image Song: Nemure Hi no Hana by her seiyuu. And it's very sad too! *sniff*
- Love Hurts: Correction. Love chews you up, spits you out, and leads you to a tragic demise.
- Love Makes You Evil / Crazy: One of the reasons she turned to The Dark Side is because of her love for Nagamasa.
- Mamiko Noto
- Redemption Equals Death
- Tall Dark And Bishoujo
- Tear Jerker: Just about everything of hers reeks of this.
- The Mole: In the anime, this was the whole reason she was married to Nagamasa in the first place. However, she falls in love with him for real, and cannot carry out her duties.
- The Smurfette Principle: She's the only female fighter in the fighting game spinoff.
- The Woobie
- Third Person Person
- Together In Death
- What Have I Done: Her story ending, after she kills Nobunaga. She dies herself soon after.
- Yandere
Tokugawa
Tokugawa Ieyasu
The third of the unifiers, and probably the only sane one between the trio (because Nobunaga is like the personification of evil, Hideyoshi is...just look below). Unlike the fat turd that most fictions portray, Ieyasu here is somewhat of a Bratty Half Pint, but despite that possesses quite a lot of wisdom and virtue and love for his people. While not much of a fighter, he makes it up with his humongously powerful Gundam retainer Honda Tadakatsu.
However, Capcom decided to poke fun at his days of being the hostage of Imagawa, thus turning him into James Bondage extraordinaire, especially in Tadakatsu's story where everyone races to kidnap Ieyasu (and him getting kidnapped is a gimmick when playing as Tadakatsu in the fighting game). He's unplayable in both the first and second games, but the Expansion Pack made him playable and gave him a non- James Bondage role as Motochika's friend, but he has no story mode. It isn't until the THIRD upcoming game that he finally becomes a full-blown grown man, hopefully getting past the James Bondage image and finally showing Japan why he's the unifier of the nation.
Known as Irdene in Devil Kings
Tropes that kidnapped Ieyasu:
- Bare Your Midriff
- Bratty Half Pint: In Sengoku Basara Matsuri it is said he's 15 years old!
- Can't Catch Up: Starts out as this is the games, but manages to overcome it in Battle Heroes. And by the third game, boy, has he caught up!
- Distress Ball
- Honor Before Reason: "The Tokugawa never betrays a promise, even to the Demon King himself". It just takes the next episode in the anime to finally make him screw that.
- In The Hood: He wears one with his new design and takes it off very dramatically. Also, he does a leap of faith off a huge cliff. Let's just call it Sengoku Basara 3: Tokugawa's Creed.
- James Bondage: And how?!
- Japanese Pronouns: He likes referring to himself like an old man (using 'washi') despite his age and size. He still uses it when he grows up in 3.
- Kid With The Remote Control
- Manly Tears
- Power Fist: His new weapons in SB3 are his fists, equipped with special gloves.
- The Power Of Friendship: His main theme in Sengoku Basara 3 is "unifying the land with the power of bonds". However, he might seem a bit of a hypocrite, as along the way he cut down Mitsunari's bond with Hideyoshi and attacked Shikoku, causing strife with his friend Motochika. And if the sources are correct, he took Shingen out of the picture, causing Yukimura to hate him.
- Say My Name: "TADAKATSUUUUUUU!!!!!!"
- Stockholm Syndrome: Becomes best friends with Chousokabe Motochika, who happens to be one of his kidnappers. Then the third game suddenly subverts it when Ieyasu suddenly attacks Motochika's territority after killing Hideyoshi, ultimately straining their relationship.
- Tohru Ookawa
- Took A Level In Badass: In Basara 3, he is now grown up, has a revamp in fighting style and is one of the first characters to be revealed, which is always a good thing in the Basara universe. To emphasise this further, he successfully pulled a coup against Hideyoshi, one of his former kidnappers, and has effectively beaten the tar out of him.
- What The Hell Hero: Despite all his talk of "uniting the country with the power of bonds", he defeats his mentor Hideyoshi and then attacks Shikoku, the home of his friend and ally Motochika.
Honda Tadakatsu
One of Sengoku Basara's ridiculous yet fucking awesome presentations. Tadakatsu is a...uh... Gundam. Or just a Humongous Mecha in the middle of ancient Japan. He doesn't talk and mostly lets his massive ass-kicking capabilities do the talking. He's also pretty loyal to Ieyasu. There are, however, times where even he gains some sort of will to fight a Worthy Opponent, showcased in front of the Shimazu clan. In those cases, Ieyasu usually lets him do as he pleases.
Goes by the name Iron OX in Devil Kings
Tropes associated with Tadakatsu:
Kuroda Kanbei
Newly confirmed character for Sengoku Basara 3. A convict who used to serve Hideyoshi, but goes to the Eastern army at Sekigahara. Fights with his hands manacled plus a huge chainball attached to it.
Tropes associated with Kanbei:
Toyotomi
Toyotomi Hideyoshi
Introduced in Sengoku Basara 2, Hideyoshi is not the little monkey that other fictions portray him as. He's a frickin' gorilla-sized man, completely ruthless and will stop at nothing until Japan is conquered. However, behind his ruthless attitude, he harbors a goal to reinforce Japan and make it a strong and prospering nation, thus making him a Well Intentioned Extremist.
He used to be friends with Maeda Keiji, but eventually received a series of Humiliation Conga by Matsunaga Hisahide, which caused him to be Drunk With Power and become the ruthless guy he is today. He's assisted in his endeavors by his strategist Hanbei.
Tropes associated with Hideyoshi:
Takenaka Hanbei
Hideyoshi's right hand man. A cold, cruel genius who enjoys taking people out with his Whip Sword and dressing up as Zorro. Suffers from tuberculosis.
Tropes associated with Hanbei:
Ishida Mitsunari
New playable character in Sengoku Basara 3. A loyal subordinate of Hideyoshi. He does not take Hideyoshi's defeat well and swears revenge on Ieyasu.
Tropes associated with Mitsunari:
Ootani Yoshitsugu
Another new character in Sengoku Basara 3. Mitsunari's friend and ally, who suffers from leprosy. Because of this, he is covered in bandages and has to be transported round on a special platform. Due to said disease, he holds a grudge against all other humans because they ridiculed him for it. So far, only Mitsunari is okay with him. He can apparently float.
Tropes associated with Yoshitsugu:
Western Clans
Chousokabe Motochika
Introduced in the first Sengoku Basara but only playable in the second, Motochika is the white-haired pirate king of Shikoku. He rules his land along with his subordinates who affectionately call him "Aniki." He dispenses violence with an anchor.
Known as Arslan in Devil Kings, who somehow develops a Scottish/Irish accent (don't worry, Motochika doesn't speak that way).
Tropes associated with Motochika are:
Mouri Motonari
Originally an NPC in the first game like Motochika, Motonari is the ruthless "Child of the Sun" who sees his soldiers as merely pawns to be sacrificed in his name. This makes him the polar opposite of Motochika, who runs upon The Power Of Friendship with his men. He attacks with a giant bladed ring that he can use to set traps. Oh and he can also attack his own men, a trait only shared by Mitsuhide.
Known as Kahz in Devil Kings
Tropes associated with Motonari:
Shimazu Yoshihiro
Leader of Satsuma. A Cool Old Guy who likes nothing more than kicking back and getting drunk off his ass. He has a rivalry with Honda Tadakatsu. He is called as Zaan in Devil Kings.
Tropes associated with Yoshihiro:
Saika Magoichi
A new playable character in Sengoku Basara 3. The third leader of the Saika Ikki, a group of gun-toting mercenaries and... apparently a female. Seems to be the Spiritual Successor to Nouhime. A strong and independent woman with great pride and honour. Her motto is "all for one, and one for all".
Tropes associated with Magoichi:
Others
Itsuki
A cute young girl leading a peasant rebellion with a Hammer gifted to her from the gods.
She is known as Puff in Devil Kings and speaks with a strong southern accent. Despite being from Hokkaido. Which is in the North...
Tropes associated with Itsuki:
Zabii
A foreign missionary who makes it his goal to convert all of Japan to his Religion of LOVE! Is a big believer in love through superior firepower and boasts some impressive technology.
His name in Devil Kings is Q-ball.
Tropes associated with Zabii:
Imagawa Yoshimoto
Hojo Ujimasa
Fuuma Kotarou
A legendary Ninja and very mysterious. He works for the Hojo clan, and is very good at his job, if a little ruthless (he doesn't seem to care who he kills as long as he completes his mission). He never speaks and his face is never shown, so it's hard to tell what he's thinking.
Tropes associated with Kotarou:
Matsunaga Hisahide
Known as the "Villain of the Sengoku Era" and rightly so. A very shrewd man who will stop at nothing to get what he wants, he's responsible for most of the bad karma hanging around in Sengoku Basara 2. Seems to like kidnapping people and tying them to pillars.
Tropes associated with Hisahide:
A young swordsman who can be randomly encountered throughout the game. He is eager to prove that he is the best in the world, and as such ambushes anyone he comes across and makes them fight him. Thinks everyone else is an idiot.
Tropes associated with Musashi:
Honganji Kennyo
Tsuruhime
New character for Sengoku Basara 3, a sweet, naive young archer girl and Miko with no knowledge of the outside world. Obviously Ranmaru's Spiritual Successor. Uses a pink bow, and is implied to have hidden psychic powers.
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