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Itsuki

Voiced by: Tomoko Kawakami/Miyuki Sawashiro (Japanese), Janyse Jaud (Devil Kings)

"I'm as energetic as they come, and I ain't never losing!"

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 for some reason.

Imagawa Yoshimoto

Voiced by: Kozo Shioya (Japanese), Brian Drummond (Devil Kings), Barry Yandell (anime)

"Is my face so overwhelmingly refined?"

An influential, yet idiotic man, and a coward to boot, who lives in a flamboyant fantasy world. Essentially, everybody wants to kill him.

Known as Muri in Devil Kings.

Hojo Ujimasa

Voiced by: Tadashi Miyazawa (Japanese), Louis Chirillo (Devil Kings), Jerry Russell (anime), William Knight (Samurai Heroes)

"I can hear it! I can hear the laughter of defeat approaching!"

The old master of Odawara Castle and habitual employer of Fuuma Kotaro. Is constantly overshadowed by the others Badass characters around him. Becomes a playable character in Utage.

Known as Orwik in Devil Kings.

  • Butt Monkey: He even lampshades this in his boss opening in 3, where he states that he just wants to win once.

"What's the problem? Why am I angry? I'll tell you why! Why can't I be the one who wins?!"

  • Crack! Oh, My Back!: His bad back and its habit of giving out at the worst possible moment is a Running Gag.
  • Didn't Think This Through: One of his main flaws. When accused of kidnapping Ieyasu in SB3 and having Tadakatsu and the Tokugawa army knocking his door down, Ujimasa's response is to send Kotaro out to explain (for those of you who haven't read that far yet: Kotaro is mute). It works altogether less-than-stellar.
  • Giving Up the Ghost: When he sneezes, his spirit momentarily leaves his body, then goes back in.
  • Grumpy Old Man: Admittedly he has a hard time of it.
  • An Ice Person
  • Japanese Pronouns: 'Washi'
  • Joke Character
  • Large Ham
  • Mighty Glacier: He can however boost himself into a Lightning Bruiser.
  • Necromancer: He can summon the ghosts of his ancestors to fight. Not that they help him in the anime...
    • His 'Past Glory' Super art in Utage has him being possessed by one of his ancestor's spirit, greatly improving his moveset.
  • Nice Hat: Can wear a moxibustion hat to speed up his movements.
  • Rambling Old Man Monologue: Loves reminiscing about the days of yore to whoever happens to be there at the time.
  • Shout-Out: If he performs said move while on his 'Past Glory' mode. He ends up surfing on his spear ala Tao Pai Pai.
  • Super Mode: His Past Glory mode, which, like Masamune's Six Claws stance, give him a more powerful moveset in exchange of being unable to block.
  • Throwing Your Spear Always Works: One of his new moves in Utage has him throw his spear. He forgets to let go and ends up flying after it.
  • Took a Level in Badass: Gameplay-wise in Utage, where he can actually cause pretty bad damage.
  • Twelve Blades on a Stick: His weapon is literally a bunch of swords stuck at the end of a pole. Needless to say, he wields it with difficulty.

Fuuma Kotaro

"..."

A mysterious legendary Ninja. He usually, but not always, works for the Hojo clan. Known specifically for being 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. He's back in Sengoku Basara 3, siding with the Eastern Army since the Hojo allied with them. He even went as far as saving Tsuruhime, but it's still not clear what his purpose is.

Matsunaga Hisahide

Voiced by: Keiji Fujiwara (Japanese) Kent Williams (anime)

"It is good to have desires... no matter how you look at it, all men will die soon."

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 Heroes. Seems to like kidnapping people and tying them to pillars. Utage will mark the first time he's been playable.

  • Alas, Poor Yorick: At one point in the anime he plays around with Nobunaga's skull while monologuing. Apparently planned to make it into a sake cup.
  • Antiquated Linguistics: In the anime dub.
  • Ascended Extra: Hisahide is a fan favorite despite not being playable in his appearance. His inclusion in Utage as a playable character is met with MUCH praise.
  • Beard of Evil: Like Nobunaga, he has some evil facial hair.
  • Better to Die Than Be Killed: He'd rather blow himself up than give his enemy the pleasure of offing him.
  • But for Me It Was Tuesday: In the anime, claims to have no memory of the incident that proved Hideyoshi's Start of Darkness. Then again, he could've just been screwing with Keiji.
  • Card-Carrying Villain
  • Cool Sword: Among the various Improbable Weapon Users of this universe he uses a long, fashionable longsword.
  • The Collector of the Strange: Collects various different antiques and famous artifacts, but also collects people.
    • Taken to an extreme in Utage, where he's now collecting metaphysical objects like bonds and names, like his taking Mitsuhide's real name and turning him into Tenkai and robbing Mitsunari of his bond with Ieyasu by killing him in his story mode.
  • Combat Pragmatist: Strong opponent poses a threat? Poison them!
  • Companion Cube: His beloved teapot, named 'Hiragumo'. He even talks to it and carries pieces of it around with him after it shatters.
  • Crazy Prepared: Blows himself up when Kojuro ultimately bests him in the first season of the anime... only to turn up at the ruins of Azuchi, completely fine, in the second season, with no more than a Hand Wave as to how he survived.
  • Dramatic Pause: He speaks very sloooowly and often leaves overly long gaps in between words or even syllables.
  • Evilly Affable: He's polite, sophisticated and genteel. Shame he's such an ass...
  • Evil Laugh
  • Fashionable Asymmetry: His alternating black, white and yellow outfit.
  • Finger-Snap Lighter: The claws on his left hand serve this purpose.
  • For the Evulz: He doesn't have a whole lot to gain by ruining everybody else's life or stealing their things, as he believes nothing lasts forever. He's just doing it because it's fun and because he can.
  • Guyliner: The latest renders of him seem to sport this quite thickly.
  • Hannibal Lecture: Gives one to Yukimura in the anime (while playing with Nobunaga's skull for added effect). It doesn't quite stick, but nevertheless it helps break Yukimura's confidence.
    • As a playable character he's spewing them out left, right and centre.
  • Having a Blast
  • Historical Villain Upgrade: While the historical Hisahide was a villainous trickster, he certainly wasn't as much of a dick as he is here.
  • I Have Your Mooks: He kidnaps several Date soldiers in order to get his hands on Masamune's swords. Also, he was bored.
  • Japanese Pronouns: 'Watashi'
  • Katanas Are Just Better: Subverted: He carries one (a tachi specifically) but his real weapon is actually a straight longsword.
  • Leitmotif: In the anime he has a pretty awesome, if rather eerie, theme that follows him whenever he appears.
  • Manipulative Bastard: He's the reason Hideyoshi became Drunk with Power and killed his wife. He also saps Masamune's will to fight and almost drives Kojuro to suicide.
  • Neck Lift: One of his moves in Utage consists of lifting the struggling character by the neck one-handed before immolating them. He picks up Ieyasu this way in story mode.
  • Nietzsche Wannabe: Constantly waxes about how fleeting and transient the world is and at the end of the day everything and everyone is just a disposable object that will eventually vanish into obscurity.
  • Nonchalant Dodge: He moves extremely quickly but makes it seem like little effort.
  • Ominous Walk: The only character who can walk as well as run. Looks like he's just taking a leisurely stroll through the battlefield.
  • Playing with Fire
  • Skunk Stripe: Several, probably due to aging.
  • Stuff Blowing Up: Happens a lot when he's around, probably as a reference to the historical Hisahide's death (he's said to have blown himself up, becoming Japan's first ever bomb victim).
    • After defeating Nobunaga he blows him up at the end of his story.
  • Suicide Attack: How he dies in the anime. Also a case of Better to Die Than Be Killed. The second season reveals it was all a ruse.
    • In Utage, his death animation has him blowing himself up.
  • Wicked Cultured: He's erudite with gentlemanly manners, very knowledgeable about these priceless artefacts he collects and genuinely appreciates them aesthetically. Also seems to be a Buddhist.
  • With My Hands Tied: Specifically, he always keeps one of his arms behind his back, only using it for snapping or choking.

Miyoshi Death Squad

"Know how helpless you are and say farewell."

A trio of brothers who serve Hisahide and seem to share his ideals.

Miyamoto Musashi

Voiced by: Daisuke Namikawa (Japanese), Sean Michael Teague (anime)

"I'm the strongest ever, you moron!"

A young swordsman who can be randomly encountered throughout Sengoku Basara 2. 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.

  • Anime Hair
  • Ascended Extra: Briefly becomes playable in the Heroes expansions.
  • Batter Up: His Basara Attack, which has him not only swing what might be a tree trunk as a bat, but chucks it at the enemy.
  • Bratty Half-Pint: He's so annoying most characters can't stand it long enough to even duel him.
  • Catch Phrase: "BAKA!"
  • Cherry Tapping: His taunt, which is a spit to the ground can actually cause some damage. He even has an item that boosts its power.
  • Confusion Fu: In the anime Yukimura finds him difficult to fight since he can't predict Musashi's next move.
  • Dual-Wielding: Though he seems to have a limitless supply of weapons, which he chucks randomly at the enemy.
  • Facial Markings: Red stripes on his cheeks, rather like warpaint.
  • I Shall Taunt You
  • Japanese Pronouns: 'Ore-sama'
  • Mighty Glacier: A majority of his moves are either rather slow or have lengthy recovery time.
  • Odd Name Out: He's probably the only playable character without an element.
  • Put on a Bus: No word on his whereabouts during the events of the third game onwards.
  • Surfer Dude: He talks like one in the anime dub.
  • To Be a Master
  • Trouser Space: Activating his Basara Attack causes him to pull some sort of giant broom from the front of his pants. That thing's gotta scratch...
  • Throwing Your Sword Always Works: Yes. Yes it does.
  • Walking Shirtless Scene: All he wears are his sleeves and a Sarashi after all.
  • Walking the Earth: Travels far and wide in his search for strong opponents.
  • Wild Card: He's technically a Ronin and doesn't answer to anyone, doing things his own way.
  • Wooden Katanas Are Even Better: As with his historical counterpart, he wields a pair of these. His best weapons however are a pair of plain-looking katanas though.
  • Worf Effect: In one scene of the anime he's fighting soldiers along with Yoshihiro... and is send flying by a bunch of mooks as soon as he's distracted.
  • Worthy Opponent: The reason he goes round challenging everyone is so he can find one of these. He appears to have discovered them in the form of Naoe Kanetsugu.

Sasaki Kojiro

Introduced in Battle Heroes as NPC. The man who fought a legendary duel against Miyamoto Musashi at Ganryujima.

Honganji Kennyo

Voiced by: Shinpachi Tsuji (Japanese)

"In the end this world's all about the power of money and muscles!"

Leader of the Ikko monks, he's a huge, fat man who cares only about gold and wealth and stores lots of gold in his fortress.

Saika Magoichi

Voiced by: Sayaka Ohara (Japanese), Karen Strassman (English)

"Let the bell toll for the proud Saika Faction! Soon, you will know the superior strength we possess!"

A new playable character in SB3. The third leader of the Saika Ikki, a group of gun-toting mercenaries and... apparently female. Seems to be the Spiritual Successor to Nouhime. A strong and independent woman with great pride and honour, she has relationships with many other characters in the series.

"Oda Nobunaga, I will fill you up with lead and send you back to hell!!"

  • Bare Your Midriff and Sexy Backless Outfit
  • Blood Knight: War is the Saika's way of life, as she will never fail to remind you. However she does admit it's a harsh and undesirable one.
  • Chewing the Scenery: When facing Nobunaga... boy oh boy, Maggie's having a hell of a time screaming on how she's going to kick his ass back to Hell...
  • Cool Big Sis: To Tsuruhime.
  • The Danza: Motochika implies her former name, before she took up the title of Magoichi, was Sayaka.
  • Dope Slap: Punches Motochika on the head and tells him to get a grip during his Heroic BSOD. It's really kinda adorable.
  • Fiery Redhead: She's calmer than most, but definitely fits when she gets her Action Girl on.
  • Fingerless Gloves
  • Gender Flip: Through loophole exploitation; the three men historically known to have used the name Magoichi Saika appear as officers in her stage
  • Glass Cannon
  • Gun Fu: One of her skills involves spin-kicking her opponent upwards then shooting them full of holes while they're still airborne. And that's just one of them.
  • The Gunslinger: Type B - The Vaporizer and Type C - The Woo.
  • Hired Guns: Has worked for both the Oda and the Toyotomi in the past. Neither ended well (Toyotomi's reasons are unknown but Nobunaga personally killed the previous Magoichi).
  • Hot Amazon: At least for Keiji, who falls in love with her immediately after she delivers a flying kick to his face. Masamune also admits that her strength and attitude are major turn-ons.
  • Hyperspace Arsenal: She carries enough things that go boom in Hammerspace to equip a small infantry platoon.
  • Japanese Pronouns: Interesting example, she always uses the plural pronoun 'warera', since the Saika see themselves as one individually and collectively.
  • Lady of War: Her moves are dynamic but at the same time extremely graceful.
  • Male Gaze: The shots of her in the game opening are pure, unabashed Fan Service.
    • And when Keiji meets her, the camera zooms straight in on the first three places that catch his eye: boobs, belly, and butt. It happens again at the end of his story when he's "checking for injuries".
  • Macross Missile Massacre
  • More Dakka: She carries six pistols strapped to her thigh (which she uses all at the same time), a shotgun, a machine gun and a rocket launcher.
  • Ms. Fanservice: Not as blatant as Kasuga, but Maggie sure as hell is fanservicey.
  • Nakama: The Saika Faction.
  • Of Corsets Sexy: And she apparently keeps it on with sheer willpower.
  • Playing with Fire
  • Ship Tease: With Keiji, who is madly in love with her but, depending on which path you choose, still has far to go. Surprisingly quite a bit with Motochika too.
  • Showgirl Skirt: Makes her outfit look more feminine and elegant. And swishes dramatically in the wind.
  • The Stoic: Normally appears serious and unflappable, and speaks with an almost robotic tone. She doesn't even blink when Mitsunari puts his sword to her throat.
    • Not So Stoic: Shows obvious terror when Nobunaga comes back and has a hard time calming herself down.
  • Stuff Blowing Up
  • Sugar and Ice Personality: Has a much softer side underneath her cold exterior, which she only keeps up due to her position.
  • Throw-Away Guns: Her pistols are this. They can even cause damage if they hit enemies when she throws them.

Kobayakawa Hideaki

Voiced by: Jun Fukuyama (Japanese), Tony Oliver (English)

"Oh no, you shouldn't count on me!"

New NPC introduced in SB3. He is a young and cowardly relative of the Toyotomi, who famously betrayed Mitsunari at Sekigahara. Afraid of war, he seeks advice from the monk Tenkai and his guardian Motonari, unaware that he is little more than an intrument to their plans. Likes gourmet food and preparing hotpot.

  • Ascended Extra: Becomes a PC in Utage.
  • Animal Motifs: His helmet and the giant saucepan on his back make him resemble an atlas beetle, which are highly prized in Japan.
  • Apologises a Lot: Sometimes tries to stand up for himself, only to fall to the ground and start begging to be spared.
  • Big Eater: Prefers to eat the stress away...
  • Butt Monkey: Everyone treats him horribly. Aside from Ieyasu (who still has Tadakatsu shoot artillery cannons at him, to ensure that he betrays Mitsunari).
  • Confusion Fu/Fighting Clown: In Utage, he fights with a combination of his own clumsiness and weaponizing his eating habits.
  • Cute Shotaro Boy: Baffling as it sounds, when he's not being a gutless coward there are moments he's so cute it's painful.
  • Dirty Coward: It's hard not to sympathise with him a bit, since he's surrounded on all sides by people much stronger than he is bullying him into fighting for them, and only wants to eat his hotpot in peace. However he does himself no favors by acting self-important, and is so pathetically weak and indecisive he becomes a burden to everyone else.
  • Edible Bludgeon: Can throw vegetables as weapons.
  • Extreme Doormat: So much so that Motonari actually walks over him in one scene. In high heels no less.
  • Fragile Flower: A male example, played for comedy. He cries at the slightest provocation, but it makes him more annoying than Moe.
  • Frying Pan of Doom: Fights with the wok he uses for cooking.
  • Get Back Here Boss
  • Goddamned Boss: He's a pain in the ass to dispatch in Samurai Heroes thanks to the fact he rarely uses basic attacks, instead almost exclusively using an "attack" where he pinballs around randomly on his back. The move is loudly telegraphed but has such high priority it's almost impossible to interrupt, can't be stopped prematurely, knocks you airborne while only doing pitiful damage, and ends with one last shockwave that will just give him time to start it over again. He'll do this every time he escapes from a combo, dragging to fight with him out for way longer that it has to.
  • Heel Face Revolving Door: Pulls one of these at Sekigahara, though he's not given much of a choice since Tadakatsu is firing cannons at him.
    • Averted in the movie. He's trying to do good but his own failure to realize that Tenkai is manipulating him causes him to be a Unwitting Pawn.
  • Homoerotic Subtext: He really really looks up to Kojuro-san.
  • Horrible Judge of Character: How does he not realise Tenkai does not have his best interests at heart?!
    • He realizes it in the movie when he sees the dark hands Oichi uses rampage across Sekigahara.
  • I Am a Humanitarian: One of his Special Arts involves having a dream sequence where he imagines his enemies to be either vegetables or lobsters. After whacking them with wooden spoons, they're all gathered into a giant wok where he... Indulges himself.
  • Japanese Pronouns: 'Boku'
  • The Klutz: About 80% of his moveset consists of falling over.
  • Lethal Joke Character: Despite the above method of attack, he's a great crowd-clearer.
  • Mistaken for Badass: Thanks to Tenkai, most of the characters he meets during his story think he's some legendarily strong warrior and want to fight him.
  • Odd Friendship: With Tenkai, who Hideaki seems to genuinely consider a friend and care for.
  • Only Known by Their Nickname: Like Yoshitsugu, he's known by his court title "Kingo" to almost everyone in the Japanese version.
  • Playing with Fire
  • Screams Like a Little Girl
  • Selective Obliviousness: During his story mode it takes him so long to catch onto the situation he becomes borderline Too Dumb to Live.

Mogami Yoshiaki

Voiced by: Tetsu Shiratori (Japanese), Christopher Smith (English)

"There are none in this world that compare to me, the renowned, the feared, Mogami Yoshiaki!"

Yet another NPC introduced SB3. He is the daimyo of Ushuu and Masamune's uncle, though they dislike each other. An extremely pompous man who seems to think he's number one, fabulous and likes to get his men to look fabulous and well-cultured. Has a funky moustache and wields a rapier. Likes tea.

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