Spears that can directly attack opponents through their troops. Kiwame yari gain the ability to randomly strike three times.
Bold indicates the characters' appearing in Warriors.
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In General
Tropes associated with the yari:
- Armor-Piercing Attack: Yari are the only swords to have a vertical range, meaning that they can pierce through enemy troops and damage enemies directly instead of having to destroy the troops first like all other swords.
- Chromatic Arrangement: The red, green and blue combination represented by Tonbokiri, Otegine and Nihongou, respectively.
- Difficult, but Awesome: On top of being one of the harder types of swords to get, they have a slower growth rate than tachi and can take a lot of resources to repair, making them unwieldy for starting players. However, at higher levels they can one-shot the notorious high-mobility yari right through its troops found on later maps in the game.
- Japanese Spirit: Each of the Three Great Spears represent one of the three virtues, which is appropriate as they as a group are a symbol of Japan.
- Power Trio: So far, the first three yari are grouped together as Three Great Spears of Japan.
- Rare Random Drop: One of the rarest types of blade available.
- Red Eyes, Take Warning: A trait they all share is some hint of red color in their eyes, and they're quite deadly when trained up. Tonbokiri has reddish pupils, Otegine's eyes have a red tone to them, and Nihongou's appear to turn red in his Awakening portrait.
- Spam Attack: Kiwame yari can hit 3 times in a row.
65, 66 – Tonbokiri (蜻蛉切)
Kiwame Form
Casual
Rarity: High (Basic/Toku), Special (Kiwame)
School: Muramasa (村正)
Voiced by: Tooru Sakurai (Japanese), Chris Guerrero [Hanamaru];
Xander Mobus [Katsugeki] (English)
Illustrated by: Genkaku
Live actor: Spi (Musical)
School: Muramasa (村正)
Voiced by: Tooru Sakurai (Japanese), Chris Guerrero [Hanamaru];
Xander Mobus [Katsugeki] (English)
Illustrated by: Genkaku
Live actor: Spi (Musical)
"I have presently hastened to join you. You may call me Tonbokiri. I am prepared for battle at any time."
The spear said to be wielded by the undefeated Sengoku general Honda Tadakatsu. His name comes from the legend that the spear is so sharp a dragonfly was cut in half only for landing on the blade. He's serious, but polite and considerate off the battlefield.- Animal Motifs: It's a given with his backstory that he's both named after and associated with dragonflies.
- Big Brother Instinct: Towards Sengo Muramusa, since they both come from the same clan and he does care and worry about him deeply. The musicals offer a different interpretation, however.
- Badass Boast: Has a few, keeping in theme with his legend or his untouchable owner."What's wrong? Unable to approach me?"
- Beware the Nice Ones: While he's pleasant at the citadel, he's nothing short of fierce in battle, likely from his master's influence."Shut up and get sliced in half!"
- Gentle Giant:
- Despite being very tall and muscular, he's extremely polite and docile when he isn't fighting, to the point of making an effort to not trouble the Saniwa. He also gets along with the horses, something uncommon among the larger swords. In his first appearance in Touken Ranbu - Hanamaru, he's even reading a picture book to Gokotai.
- Mihotose has him take care of a baby Tokugawa Ieyasu while still keeping good physical form. Just look at him trying to cheer the baby up while training at the same time.
- Hunk: Being the most visibly muscular of the characters and looking more handsome than pretty, he fits squarely into this trope. He gets this aspect of him played up in the musical's idol concerts.
- Hot Blooded Sideburns: They help set his appearance as older-looking than most swords. While not as hotblooded as other characters, but he's not shy about his battle prowess.
- Incest Subtext: He's not safe from Sengo's flirtations, and after all the two go through together in the musicals, their previously brotherly relationship ends up a bit... Confused.
- Insanity Immunity: Notable in that he's very level-headed despite being a blade forged by Muramasa, blades of whom are notorious for driving their owners mad and to suicide. He even lampshades it by saying that Muramasa wasn't an evil person.
- Japanese Spirit: Of the three, he represents chie or unshakable resolve; he's one of swords most devoted to the Saniwa's needs and enjoys battle for the sake of success rather than just fighting.
- Mighty Glacier: High offensive and defensive stats, but very slow. This actually works in his favor, because the tougher enemies like high-level yari are usually the ones left standing for him to strike down.
- Oblivious to Love: Played with in the musicals, as even during the big confession, the characters themselves are unsure how to define their feelings for eachother. Tonbokiri was aware that Muramasa found him attractive and deflected his flirtations with great ease, but he didn't realize that Muramasa had genuine feelings for him until their second appearance together, in which Muramasa attempts to perform a heroic sacrifice.
- One-Man Army: Mihotose no Komoriuta has Tonbo mow down 10,000 enemy soldiers by himself during the Battle of Anegawa. The dude's a beast.
- Only a Flesh Wound: Some of his injured lines have this effect.
- Sarashi: Wears the male version of this, which is clearly visible since his clothes are open.
- Ship Tease: With Sengo Muramasa in the musical continuity, especially in their Souki performance, where by then it doesn't seem quite one-sided anymore.
- Stripperiffic: In relation to the rest of the swords, his default outfit is this, even prior to Awakening; his shirt and jacket are sleeveless and open on the front and sides with just sarashi underneath. In a stark contrast, his casual clothes are very modest.
- Sorry That I'm Dying: His line if he's destroyed:"Despite being called flawless...invincible...we did not proceed...? Please forgive me, for passing away so early..."
- Sweet Tooth: This is hinted at in the game, since in his fatigue recovery line he mentions that he's a bit weak for sweets. The adaptations seem to confirm his love of sweets:
- In Katsugeki, he becomes very fond of daifuku since it was the first thing he ate after being summoned.
- In The Musical Uta Awase, an entire segment is dedicated to him having a bowl of konpeito and refusing to share with the others, only deciding to share after having a nightmare about everyone, including himself, becoming konpeito, and the dream somehow making him appreciate his teammates more by the end of it.
- Those Two Guys: Usually, if he appears in a work with Sengo Muramasa, they become almost inseparable, usually because he is the one charged with keeping Muramasa out of trouble.
- Trademark Favorite Food: At least in Katsugeki, he takes a particular liking to daifuku since it was the first thing he consumed after emerging as a Touken Danshi. His unit members take careful note of this in later scenes. This is also acknowledged in illustrations made after Katsugeki.
Tonbokiri (Warriors)
A yari crafted by Fujiwara Masazane of the Muramasa school, and he is considered one of the Three Great Spears of Japan. The blade resembles the shape of a bamboo leaf with beautiful Sanskrit characters and three-pronged sword engraved onto it. The name comes from a legend in which a dragonfly (tonbo) was sliced in half upon landing on the tip of the spear. Although he is big in stature, he has a purehearted and sincere personality.
In this game, he is the only one in the First Team that truly understands Sengo Muramasa.
- The Big Guy: Class 2. He is the second tallest character in the cast after Tomoegata and a powerful fighter, but he's a polite and kind-hearted Gentle Giant who wants nothing more than to look after his friends, protect history, and ensure the safe return of his master.
- CloudcuckoolandersMinder: To Sengo Muramasa, especially when it comes to his proclivity of taking off his clothes.
- Mr. Exposition: He exposits most of what the player needs to know about Sanada Yukimura in Chapter 5.
136, 137 – Nihongou (日本号)
Kiwame Form
Casual
- Rarity: Special (Basic/Toku), Highest (Kiwame)
Voiced by: Kenjiro Tsuda (Japanese), Chris Rager (English)
Illustrated by: Jiro Suzuki
Live actors: Yoshihiko Narimatsu (Stage Play), Hiroaki Iwanaga (Film)"I'm the best spear in Japan, Nihongou. I'm barging in. So, how many cups did you drink before I arrived?"
A spear owned by the Kuroda Clan, who won him when his previous owner lost a drinking gamenote . He's a heavy drinker who loves sake and is usually laid back, but is also very prideful.
- The Alcoholic: Like Jiroutachi, he really likes his sake and constantly has a gourd of it with him. Unlike Jiroutachi, he's more laid back about it. His constant drinking is a reference to how one of his former masters, Fukushima Masanori, lost him to the Kuroda clan in a drinking game.
- Berserk Button: Do not dismiss the Kuroda family. Hasebe never talked about them in the citadel and Nihongou considered snapping him in half for saying that because he presumed that Hasebe didn't care about them.
- Elemental Weapon: His blade is engulfed in flames when he’s Awakened after Kiwame training.
- Friend to All Children: Word of God says he gets along well with the tantous owned by the Kuroda clan.
- Goggles Do Nothing: Wears a pair of goggles on his head that don't serve much purpose other than to look cool.
- Hidden Depths: Despite his smug and boisterous attitude, he genuinely holds the Kuroda family in high regard. While he taunts Hasebe in their first recollection, in the second he seems to want Hasebe to move on from his grudges to be happier.
- Japanese Spirit: Of the three, he represents koyuu, or natural talent; he's very aware that he's a highly treasured and powerful spear.
- Kaleidoscope Eyes: His eye color actually changes depending on his portrait; his default and internal affairs portraits give him blue eyes, his action portraits give him brown eyes, and his Awakening portrait gives him red eyes. This is based on his spear's shaft having an inlaid mosaic of blue, brown, and red. In Hanamaru, they're even purple.
- Lightning Bruiser: Considerably faster than Tonbokiri and stronger than Otegine.
- Only Sane Man: In the first live-action movie, he's by far the most rational and open-minded member of an otherwise dysfunctional group. Outside of Honebami, he was also the only one who held out hope that Mikazuki wasn't betraying them when he suddenly decided to help Oda Nobunaga, whereas the others were pretty ready to kill Mikazuki because they believed he was attempting to alter history until the truth came out.
- Perma-Stubble: Adds to his rugged and manly appearance.
- Rare Random Drop: As an uncraftable sword, he was initially only available as an extremely rare drop on the boss node of the last stage of the August 2015 event. He was later added to the main game in the update which introduced level 6-4, in which he's available as a drop on the boss node, though of course still an extremely rare one.
- Smug Super: Other than being an alcoholic, he would like to remind you that he really is the best spear in Japan and is part of the imperial collection. In his recollection with Hasebe, he's even more smug about it and calls Hasebe "a lowly sword tailing on his master's coat", referencing that in the past, Nihongou's owner was the subordinate of Hasebe's owner, but in modern days, Nihongou's rank as part of the imperial collection is higher than Hasebe's as a national treasure.
- Why Did It Have to Be Snakes?: In Hanamaru, he reveals that he's afraid of tigers (even Gokotai's tiger cubs!), because his former master Fukushima Masanori had a run-in with one.
138, 139 – Otegine (御手杵)
Kiwame Form
Casual
- Rarity: High (Basic/Toku), Special (Kiwame)
Voiced by: Kenji Hamada (Japanese), Jarrod Greene (English)
Illustrated by: Minato
Live actor: Ryosei Tanaka (Musical)"One of the world's three great spears. Otegine. I can't do stuff like slicing or knocking down enemies but I won't lose if it's stabbing them!"
A spear commissioned for Yuuki Harutomo, which was designed for piercing enemies rather than slashing due to its long, heavy blade. Even then, it became more of a clan symbol during ceremonial processions. Otegine is a casual, though critical, person who doesn't think much of himself because he is the least renowned of the Three Great Spears.
- Always Someone Better: Even as he gets stronger, he feels that can't compare to the other two Great Spears.
- Blood Knight: More subtle compared to, say, Doudanuki, but he is rather excited when you send him into combat.
- Curtains Match the Window: Narrowly averted. His eyes are a warmer shade of brown than his hair, and in some cases they appear to be a dull red.
- Dumb Muscle: Otegine often claims to be good at nothing except piercing, and will use it as an excuse in his complaint if you send him to work in the field.
- Japanese Spirit: Of the three, he represents seishin or persistent willpower; he wants to improve himself despite his low confidence.
- Master of None: Though his stats are relatively balanced compared to the other yari, they never beat out Tonbokiri or Nihongou's as the highest, with the exception of his unusually high Scouting stat.
- Muscles Are Meaningless: Despite his leaner build, the Otegine spear is the one of the heaviest weapons out of the cast despite how effortlessly he wields it, hinting him to be stronger than he looks. In one Hanamaru episode it's lampshaded, and he's able to have both Nihongou and Tonbokiri stand on his shoulders.
- Nice Guy: Word of God says he's this behind his attitude and is good friends with the wakizashi. One official artwork has him even enjoying a picnic with the contrary tantou Fudou.
- Out of Focus: He receives significantly less attention in official media than his fellow spears Tonbokiri and Nihongou, the former being a main character in Katsugeki, the first of the three to star in a musical, and the only one of the three to appear in Touken Ranbu Warriors, whereas the latter was in both stage plays, a major character in the first live action movie, and received his own focus spin-off manga. For now, Otegine's only significant appearance outside of a mandatory introduction in Hanamaru was in the musical Kishou Hongi, where he co-starred alongside Tonbokiri.
- Sad Clown: Many fans find his lines entertaining when set as the secretary, since he tends to complain or respond incredulously to the Saniwa's orders. However, he's shown to have some genuine self-confidence issues as the least renowned out of the Three Great Spears and being used more for ceremonies than actual battle. He was also melted in a fire to the point of being irreparable, making him the only one of the three spears to no longer exist in the present day.
- Shaped Like Itself: His name came from his original scabbard, which was shaped like a Japanese "kine" pestle. When the Tokugawa Shogunate's Sankin-Kotai was implemented, Otegine was fitted onto an over-sized and exaggerated version of his old scabbard for ceremonial processions. He comments on it not being an enjoyable experience.
- Trauma-Induced Amnesia: He was destroyed in a firebombing raid during the Pacific War, but seems to have no recollection of it. In a removed line, he would mention having bad dreams.
- You Can't Fight Fate: His line if he's destroyed, based on his destruction in real life."I had a vague idea it'd end up like this... well, this, too, is fate, huh..."
Otegine (Musical)
Otegine as he appears in Musical Touken Ranbu. He debuted in the musical Kishou Hongi.
- The Gadfly: Seems to be fond of mutually pestering Sadachika after deciding he doesn't like him on their first meeting.
- Irony: In the main story, he's pretty adamant that he can't be an idol, despite Kotegiri's insistence. Guess what he inevitably becomes in Act II?
- No-Respect Guy: A light example. Sadachika decided he didn't like him on their first meeting and would become a thorn in his side ever since, constantly picking fights with him. Kotegiri also chose him to practice being an idol, despite his verbal reluctance and insistence that he can't be one. Every time they're seen together in a non-serious setting, he's exhausted by how hard Kotegiri works him, but he's too nice to firmly reject him.
- Odd Friendship: Somewhat reluctantly forms a friendship with Kotegiri Gou from Kishou Hongi onwards after being forced to practice being idols with him.
- Out of Focus: In two ways: Kishou Hongi is currently the only main installment in which he appears, joining Nikkari Aoe, Tomoegata Naginata, and Monoyoshi Sadamune and a few others as members of the "one main installment" group. As well, for as much as Kotegiri pushed for Otegine to become idols with him, he is absent from the Gou on Stage lineup, which instead includes Oodenta Mitsuyo and Suishinshi Masahide as non-Gou sword cast members.
- Tsundere: He develops this attitude toward Sadachika (who also develops it toward him) after they begin to like each other but are hesitant to admit it due to their previously belligerent interactions.
194 – Ōchidori Jūmonjiyari (大千鳥十文字槍)
Rarity: High
Voiced by: Yuichiro Umehara
Illustrated by: minato
Voiced by: Yuichiro Umehara
Illustrated by: minato
"I'm Ochidori Jumonjiyari. Since I was used by the greatest warrior in Japan, I can be called the greatest spear in Japan too."
A type of juumonji yari, which is a yari with plover-shaped blades protruding from each side of the main body. Referred to as the beloved spear of the greatest warrior in Japan, Sanada Saemon-no-suke Nobushige, he holds up his red scars with glory.
- Ambiguous Situation: Tomoegata Naginata implies that because there's so little variation between the juumonji spears, he might not even have been the one that was wielded by Sanada Yukimura, but that he may have attached himself to that legend anyway.
- Blood Knight: A subdued example. Even if he's injured, he's always asking the Saniwa to send him back out to battle and threatens to return to the mountains if they don't send him out in his Idle voiceover."What do you mean, peace? The only thing I'm after is the enemy stronghold."
- Hidden Depths: If his Recollection with Tomoegata Naginata and Shizukagata Naginata is anything to go by, the reason he's so obsessed with legends and stories is because he likely himself lacks a legend.
- The Nothing After Death: His Destroyed voice line implies that this."...No... There's... nothing here...!"
- The Quiet One: He talks, but his dialogue is usually brief and to the point, with the exception of his Book Description voice over.
214 – Ningen Mukotsu (人間無骨)
A spear made by Kanesada II, nicknamed "Nosada". His owner, Mori Nagayoshi, called himself Musashi-no-Kami, and was called Oni Musashi because he was as strong as a demon. He likes to write, perhaps because of Nosada's influence, or maybe it is that of Nagayoshi...?
- Blood Knight: He's especially enthusiastic in battle and talks about parading the heads of the defeated.
- Commonality Connection: In their Recollection, he bonds with Iwatooshi over being the partners/swords of legendary long sword wielders Musashibou Benkei (for Iwatooshi) and Mori Nagayoshi (or Oni Musashi Nagayoshi, as Ningen calls him).
- Dead Man Writing: He writes the Saniwa a final message as he's dying and apologizes to them for its length.
- Hidden Depths:
- Well, not quite hidden, but like his fellow Nosada swords, he has elegant hobbies like writing, which is stated to be either because of the influence of Nosada, his forger, or Mori Nagayoshi, his former owner. He also has a fondness for tea utensils.
- Despite his aggressiveness on the battlefield and obsession with cutting through bones, he can also be warm and kind, offering comforting words to Fudou Yukimitsu in their Recollection.
- The Illegible: Implied in his Recollection with Kasen Kanesada, who points out that he might have a hard time writing because of the Nosada's reputation for having bad handwriting.
- Locked Out of the Loop: His Recollection with Iwatooshi implies that he's unaware that Iwatooshi is a fictional sword and not one who was formerly owned by Musashibou Benkei. That said, it's unclear if he would treat him any different if he did know the truth.
- The Mentor: Izuminokami Kanesada refers to him as "Senpai" due to being the game's youngest Kanesada and a 12-generation Kanesada sword, taking that to mean that the Nosada's have a senior connection to him. Ningen accepts this role, and in their sparring interaction, he is shown teaching his "Kouhai" and lecturing him on his technique.
- Verbal Tic: He says "Mu" at the beginning of many of his sentences.
