History Characters / ToukenRanbuTachiPartOne

* DirtyOldMan: Implied. After some girls mistaken him for an actor and start fangirling over him, he says they can look at and touch him, which an annoyed Kotone briefly scolds him about.

** In the musical, he goes through this again when "Kage" is falsely identified as the real Ichigo Hitofuri by a sword appraiser, leading to his loss of status and identity as "Kage" becomes more and more real due to people's beliefs. As "Kage" gains Ichigo Hitofuri's colors, he also begins to lose his, with his clothes and hair eventually turning completely black and his eyes gray after being deemed a "fake". He gets better when he is finally able to prove that he is the real Ichigo Hitofuri, however, with "Kage" being banished back into Tsukumogami form.

* LazyBum: He freely admits that he never feels like doing anything. [[LampshadeHanging He says it's part of his character.]]

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* AbortedArc: Possibly for him alone. [[spoiler: In the musical ''Kishou Hongi'', Akashi is implied to be involved in (or at least aware of) the plot involving Mikazuki Munechika, as Mikazuki appears to speak to him before his team's mission begins, and he later criticizes Mikazuki for supposedly altering history before realizing what he is doing. However, not only is his involvement never explained, but the plot involving Mikazuki moves forward without him, and he is missing from the lineup of ''Michi No Oku, Hitotsu wa Chisu'', which is described as the story's turning point and features Mikazuki. The most he's gotten recently is a rather brutal sparring match with Mikazuki in ''Kotobuki Ranbu Ongyousai'', which is pretty plot irrelevant]].
* CommonalityConnection: Has a brief moment of this with Mikazuki Munechika in their fieldwork Internal Affairs dialogue; Both are lazy bums who would rather laze around than do field work, and when Mikazuki catches him slacking off, he promises not to tell on him if Akashi doesn't tell on him for slacking off as well. It is implied that they worked together to complete their tasks on time afterward.

* CharacterDevelopment: Inverted. In the first place, he didn't really have anything to overcome, so his Kiwame journey was more of an impulse than something he needed to do to achieve a significant personal growth. So, after spending six years at Edo Castle watching his former master, Tokugawa Ieyasu, struggle, he decides to assist his current master in achieving greatness, and returns home essentially the same person he was when he left.

* AlwaysSomeoneBetter: To him, Doujigiri Yasutsuna represents this since, in addition to being a member of the Tenka Goken--a group of the five greatest swords that Ookanehira longs to be a part of but isn't considered to be in--he is also the only person who can match him in terms of being the purported champion of all swords, [[GreenEyedMonster leading Ookanehira to feel inferior]].

* AdaptationalNiceGuy: He still harbors some animosity toward the Tenka Goken for not being accepted as one of them and takes pride in his status as a well-known and beloved sword, viewing it as a symbol of his superiority, but he is far more cordial with them than he is depicted to be in the original game. In fact, he actually gets angry at Tsurumaru for suggesting that they return to the citadel without [[spoiler: Mikazuki Munechika]] when there are [[TheDreaded Kebiishi]] lurking around the time period they were visiting.

* ReverseArmFold: Mikazuki occasionally stands like this to reflect that he's supposed to be an old man.

** Tsurumaru Kuninaga was forged by the son (or grandson) and disciple of Mikazuki Munechika's swordsmith, Gojo Kuninaga, but you wouldn't know it from the browser game alone due to a lack of in-game interactions between Mikazuki and Tsurumaru, and the fact that Tsurumaru's school is unlisted in his profile. The spin-offs attempt to address this by consistently depicting Mikazuki and Tsurumaru as friends, implying that the two swords are linked, but no work explicitly states the relationship between their forgers or how this connects them as swords.

* AmbiguousRelated: With the exception of Fukushima, who regards him as his younger brother despite the fact that he is the younger of the two, he has no interactions with the other Osafune's, leaving it ambiguous as to what sort of relationship they have.

* TeamMom: Sayo even lampshades how Mitsutada is the person who keeps the Date clan swords together. During a series of recollections, he acts as a parental figure to both Sayo and Taikogane.

* CreepyGood: Compared to his browser game counterpart, who is just gloomy and scares animals, this version of Oodenta is all around strange and unintentionally jump scares the other Touken Danshi with his eeriness. Having said that, he's still a nice guy, albeit extremely socially awkward.

* {{Foil}}: Set up to be one to Tsurumaru Kuninaga.
** Mikazuki Munechika has a dark color palette, mostly wearing dark blue, while Tsurumaru mostly wears white.
** They approach their mission similarly--preferring to work alone and taking on most of the emotional weight of their missions while maintaining a carefree exterior to conceal the strain they feel--Mikazuki tries to handle everything on his own to spare others the unpleasantness of the lengths he must go to protect history, while Tsurumaru forces others to face these same painful things head-on in order for them to grow and better cope with their roles as the protectors of history.
** Both of them exhibit a degree of hypocrisy in their positions. [[spoiler: Mikazuki attempts to shield others because he believes that they are not emotionally capable of bearing the responsibility, even though he advised Iwatooshi to treat Imanotsurugi like an adult when he reveals the truth about his non existence to him. Tsurumaru, on the other hand, angrily criticizes Mikazuki for treating the rebels of the Shimabara Rebellion like a statistic in an effort to preserve history, despite the fact that he not only actively led these same individuals to their deaths for the same reason but also made his teammates follow suit, with the justification that it is their duty to preserve history no matter how painful it is]].

* IdiotHero: Compared to most other team leaders in their respective introductory plays, he is very immature, lacks leadership skills, is impulsive, and inexperienced, which is exacerbated by his being a newly manifested Touken Danshi. Still, he's a good guy with the best of intentions.

* ThoseTwoGuys: A temporary example with Suishinshi Masahide in ''Gou on Stage''. Since they're the only members of the cast who aren't Gou swords, they end up being paired off by default and even sing a duet together.

Oodenta Mitsuyo as he appears in Theatre/ToukenRanbuMusical. He debuted in the play Tokyo Kokoro Oboe.

* IJustWantToBeSpecial: [[spoiler: Mikazuki is one of the Tenka Goken, which automatically constitutes being "special," especially in the ''Touken Ranbu'' universe. However, Higekiri speaking on his behalf and his own subsequent speech about just being a crescent moon that doesn't fully illuminate anything implied that part of the reason for his time travel shenanigans was his desire to make a visible impact on someone's life, which he projected onto his relationships with and sympathized with in Yasuhira and Yoritomo, who are men went down in history as not being remembered for much other than being on the losing side of a war. ''Michi no Oku'' would later seemingly retcon his motivations into being something greater than a desire to be special, although his affinity for historical "losers" has remained intact]].

* IJustWantToBeSpecial: [[spoiler: Mikazuki is one of the Tenka Goken, which automatically constitutes being "special," especially in the ''Touken Ranbu'' universe. However, Higekiri speaking on his behalf and his own subsequent speech about just being a crescent moon that doesn't fully illuminate anything implied that part of the reason for his time travel shenanigans was his desire to make a visible impact on someone's life, which he projected onto his relationships with and sympathized with in Yasuhira and Yoritomo, who are men went down in history as not being remembered for much other than being on the losing side of a war. ''Michi no Oku'' appears to have retconned his motivations into something greater than a desire to be perceived as special, however]].