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Toyotomi Clan

Toyotomi Hideyoshi

Voiced by: Ryotaro Okiayu (Japanese), Christopher Sabat (anime)

"Nothing can escape the grasp of my hand!"

Introduced in SB2, Hideyoshi is not the little monkey other fictions portray him as. He's a frickin' gorilla-sized man [1], 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.

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 Hanbe.

Takenaka Hanbe

Voiced by: Akira Ishida (Japanese), Chris Cason (anime)

"Just one more step until the dream can be fulfilled."

Hideyoshi's right hand man. A cold, cruel genius who enjoys taking people out with his Whip Sword and looking fabulous. Suffers from tuberculosis.

Honour's all well and good, but there simply wasn't time for it tonight.

  • Determinator: Considering Hanbe's a dying man yet still manages to run the show on very little sleep and kick serious ass on the battlefield, he does pretty well for himself.
  • Evil Genius
  • Eviler Than Thou: The only person capable of making Motonari squirm.
  • Glass Cannon
  • Hair Flip: It's so pretty, who can blame him?
  • Homoerotic Subtext: He's completely selfless when it comes to Hideyoshi, would do anything to please him and great admires what he does.
  • Incurable Cough of Death: Subverted as it's actually confirmed to be tuberculosis.
  • In the Back: Likes to attack his opponents from behind, using the long range of his weapon to his advantage.
  • Japanese Pronouns: 'Boku'
  • Kick the Dog: Usually defeating people isn't enough - he'll manipulate then and make their lives a misery, just because he can.
  • Killed Off for Real: For the third game, along with Hideyoshi, although his death is only mentioned in passing. It probably won't last...
  • The Last Dance: Vows to bring Hideyoshi to the top of Japan before tuberculosis claims him. It's explained in 3 that he eventually did make him ruler, and died peacefully soon afterwards.
  • Mask Power: And it really serves no visible purpose other than to look cool.
  • Morality Pet: To Hideyoshi, who treats him with utmost respect and kindness.
  • Purple Eyes
  • Puss in Boots: Hanbe would probably be clever enough to outwit the more-brawn-than-brains Hideyoshi if he wanted to, but remains devoted to his dream. Together, they have both the brawn and the brains.
  • Real Men Wear Lipstick
  • Smug Snake: He can hold his own in a fight, but when things don't go his way his smugness is lessened somewhat.
  • The Strategist: Implied to be the cleverest of the lot, save from the fact that his illness limits his capabilities somewhat.
  • Tragic Villain
  • Whip Sword
  • White-Haired Pretty Boy: The prettiest of them so far.
  • Xanatos Speed Chess: Things aren't going according to his plan? No matter, he's got a scheme for every possible outcome.
  • Your Days Are Numbered

Nene

"Keiji, it's not like that... don't blame him."

Hideyoshi's deceased wife, who was also friends with Keiji in the past. Hideyoshi was the one who killed her.

  • Disposable Woman
  • First Love: She was Keiji's, and Hideyoshi was hers.
  • Just Friends: She and Keiji, who apparently never told her how he felt.
  • The Lost Lenore: For Keiji at least. Hideyoshi, not so much. Though the anime implies he still loves her.
  • Love Martyr
  • Posthumous Character: Appears in two separate flashbacks (one in the game, one in the anime), but is mentioned by Keiji often and has a big effect on him.
  • Ugly Guy, Hot Wife: Hideyoshi isn't much to look at, while flashbacks show Nene to be quite beautiful and delicate.

Ishida Mitsunari

Voiced by: Tomokazu Seki (Japanese), Troy Baker (English)

"Lord Hideyoshi, grant me the cruelty to make them suffer!"

Playable character in Sengoku Basara 3. A fanatically loyal subordinate of Hideyoshi, he does not take Hideyoshi's defeat well and swears revenge on Ieyasu. The fastest character in the series so far, he uses a nodachi in the style of iaidou, similar to Kenshin.

  • Anime Hair
  • Angrish: On more than one occasion, he just dissolves into snarling "I'll kill you!" over and over again. Lampshaded by Kanbe:

Mitsunari: "Run away and never return! Else, I'll squeeze a cry for mercy from your throat!"
Kanbe: "Such a pretty mouth on you."

  • Ax Crazy: In his less stable moments Mitsunari displays an almost complete disregard for human life, and may even burst into laughter when cutting down everything that moves.
  • Badass: He even entered the Pantheon for it!
  • Berserk Button: The primary one is Ieyasu (mentioning him is bad enough, let alone allying with him), with his other one being those who "disrespect" the memory of Hideyoshi (mere irreverence earns a death threat while straight-up insults will have him drop everything to butcher said culprit). Worst of all is betrayal, which is absolutely unforgivable in his eyes.
  • Bird Run: When running in his Super Mode. He holds his blade in his teeth.
  • But for Me It Was Tuesday: Masamune's entire red story in SB3 is a revenge-driven rampage against Mitsunari for defeating and humiliating him once. Mitsunari doesn't even remember who he is.
    • Turned on its head in Mitsunari's blue story, which is a revenge-driven rampage against Masamune for insulting Hideyoshi once. Masamune doesn't think that to be a very big deal.
  • Casting a Shadow
  • Coup De Grace: His Decapitation Super Art. Enemy gets grabbed, pushed to floor, gets scabbard poked in face, Mitsunari draws sword, head leaves body time. One of the most long-winded attacks in the game, but hideously damaging (overkill versus practically everything except bosses) and an undeniably awesome-looking way to finish a fight. Don't ask us how anyone you finish with his move subsequently stand up again in the following cutscenes.
  • Cruel and Unusual Death: After Hojo makes the suicidal mistake of insulting Hideyoshi and Hanbe to his face, Mitsunari threatens to sew his eyelids shut, cut him to pieces and eat his heart. Whether he goes through with this is left up to the gamer's imagination...
  • Curb Stomp Battle: In the backstory of Sengoku Basara 3, Mitsunari's encounter with Masamune during the Siege of Odawara was one of these. Mitsunari doesn't even remember having done it.
  • Cutlass Between the Teeth: He carries his sword and/or sheath in his mouth when using ziplines and his Basara Attack.
    • Attempts this against Nobunaga in the movie, successfully slicing his neck open.
  • Death Seeker: Of a kind. Says that he died along with Hideyoshi, and wishes to take revenge on Ieyasu ASAP so it can finally end.

"Go ahead, kill me, leave me to die in a pool of my own blood!"

  • Desperately Looking for a Purpose In Life: Has practically none beyond "kill Lord Hideyoshi's enemies". In the red story, he suffers a Villainous Breakdown when he realizes he had nothing but his (now-fulfilled) vengeance. In the blue one, he decides to follow in Hideyoshi's footsteps and conquer the world, all to spite those who called him an unworthy successor to Hideyoshi.
  • Et Tu, Brute?: If there's one thing he can't stand, it's betrayal. And unfortunately he experiences a lot of it.
  • Even Evil Has Standards: If he finds out about Yoshitsugu and Motonari's role in the destruction of Shikoku, he's so disgusted that he ends his campaign on the spot and offers himself up for execution.
  • Fallen Angel: Word of God describes him as such, and his alternate outfit has a pair of wings adorned on the back. It's never revealed if he was good or not before meeting Hideyoshi, or if he was always so messed up, so it's difficult to interpret.
  • First Name Ultimatum
  • Flash Step: He's so quick, he literally disappears from sight before attacking, re-appearing only after the damage is done.
    • He's even fast enough to force the camera to chase him, if you play him correctly.
  • Glass Cannon/Fragile Speedster: He's the fastest character in the series (capable of outrunning horses in his Super Mode) and has a lot of reach and attack speed, but his damage per hit is low (but he'll be doing a lot of them) and he can't take a hit.
  • Glowing Eyes of Doom/Red Eyes, Take Warning: His final skill "Reverence" turns him into a demonic being covered in darkness and with burning crimson eyes. Also, when Kanbe takes over Osaka Castle the camera zooms in on Mitsunari to show his eyes turning red.
  • Green Eyes: Normally.
  • Hair-Trigger Temper: To the point of near-psychosis. Sometimes you only have to be standing there and it pisses him off.
  • Heel Realization: In the movie, followed by a Heel Face Turn.
  • Homoerotic Subtext: Sometimes, he seems to have admired Hideyoshi just a little much. Key point, referring to him as "my everything"...
  • Iaijutsu Practitioner: And his raw attack speed beats Kenshin into the ground.
  • Ignored Epiphany: He's aware that Kanbe is quite undeterred by having a giant friggin' ball attached to him and is conspiring against him, yet he never thinks to keep an eye on Osaka Castle. Did he honestly expect him to NOT snatch it?
  • Japanese Pronouns: 'Watashi'
  • Knight Templar/Black and White Insanity: Unlike Yoshitsugu, Mitsunari genuinely believes himself to be in the right and that those around him (except Yoshitsugu) are vile sinners for having denied Hideyoshi. He also believes that since his revenge is justified it must be done honourably - see Even Evil Has Standards above.
  • Kubrick Stare: Well, his hair does get in the way. He can't really glare at you through it.
  • Laughing Mad: After finally killing Ieyasu. However he quickly realises that he has just destroyed his only reason for living and has a heart-rending mental breakdown.
    • He can also be heard laughing in the background during Magoichi's blue ending. This time without the associated breakdown.
  • Lean and Mean: He apparently barely eats anything, so it's no surprise he's so skinny. Probably able to attack quickly because he's lightweight too.
  • Leeroy Jenkins: His idea of tactics boils down to "charge in and kill as many as you can".
  • Limp and Livid: More or less his default state of existence; he often moves as if half-asleep while screaming his lungs out. His "Reverence" Super Art cranks this up even further.
  • Lunacy: Has a fair amount of symbolism involving the moon to contrast Ieyasu's sunniness, noticeably in the crescents that his slashes take the form of, and the prevalence of the moon in his castle stage. Plus the fact he's insane.
  • My Name is Ishida Mitsunari: Very much the case with his story mode. Though with a great deal more angst.
  • No Social Skills: Thus he is Brutally Honest and has No Sense of Humour.
  • The Only One Allowed to Defeat You: Is revealed to feel this way about Ieyasu. Hisahide decides that the greatest despair he can inflict on Mitsunari is to rob him of his revenge by killing Ieyasu.
  • Perpetual Frowner: He only smiles properly once, and that was in Yoshitsugu's imagination.
  • Psychotic Smirk: Sports one in the opening movie.
  • Psycho Supporter: To Hideyoshi, who is effectively God as far as Mitsunari is concerned.
  • Pure Is Not Good: During Mitsunari's short cameo in the anime season two, Kenshin describes him as disconcertingly pure.
  • The Remnant
  • The Renfield: Heavily implied to have been this before the events leading into the third game.
  • Revenge Before Reason: Revenge is all that matters - his health, his clan, his duties, his allies, nothing else is worth thinking about until he's delivered retribution.
    • Averted in the movie. Where he does give up his desire to avenge his lord.
  • Roaring Rampage of Revenge: Both his campaigns. His red one is against (surprise, surprise) Ieyasu, while his blue one is against Masamune because he insulted Hideyoshi once.
  • Say My Name: IIIEEEEYAAAASUUUU!!!
    • And "DAATEEE MAASAAAMUUUNEEEEEE!!!" in the movie...
  • Sleepyhead: Yoshitsugu sometimes warns him not to go fall asleep some-place. The second infiltration of Osaka Castle has him sleep through half of the stage before Yoshitsugu decides to wake him up by telling him an ally of Ieyasu's has arrived.
  • Sobriquet: "The Dark King" ("The Curse King" in Japanese)
  • Super Mode: His "Reverence" super art, which takes away his ability to block, dodge and do anything but attack in return for knockback and increased attack speed and damage. With his special equipment, Mitsunari can stay in this mode permanently and also run while in it, which takes his Fragile Speedster nature even further and lets him outrun horses on foot.
  • Stepping Stones in the Sky: He takes this Up to Eleven in the manga, when he slashes a group of soldiers into the air then uses them as stepping stones to reach a second-floor balcony.
  • Swooped Eyebrows
  • Tears of Blood: His story mode ending, after he kills Ieyasu. Due to the Black Blood, some fans joked that it's just his mascara running.
  • This Is Unforgivable!: If he isn't screaming "IEYASU!" or "I'll Kill You!!" at the top of his lungs, expect him to be screaming this.
  • Troubled but Cute: A meta-example. As angry, violent, ruthless and stubborn as he is, at heart he's but a very confused and misguided man who has suffered a huge loss and is now desperately trying to find his reason for existing. Some also find his honesty and awkwardness Moe.
  • Unstoppable Rage: Just try and get between him and Ieyasu. Go on. I dare you.
    • Even Yoshitsugu, probably the one person on Earth whom Mitsunari wouldn't rather kill on sight, has a moment where he's audibly dreading the man's anger:

Yoshitsugu: Oh dear. Mitsunari, I'm afraid I have some dreadful news, so you may wish to calm down for a moment and... n-n-not that you need to calm down...

    • "Reverence" is pretty much the embodiment of this trope.
  • Unwitting Pawn: Doesn't realize that Yoshitsugu is manipulating him for his goal of screwing over the entire human race. In the movie his arrival at Sekigahara with the Toyotomi forces was planned by Tenkai and Yoshitsugu to cause the battle they needed to resurrect Oda.
  • Villainous Breakdown: It can probably be said that he spends the entirety of the game in one.
  • Villainous Demotivator: Is not what you would call 'a good motivator' by any stretch of the imagination. This is a nod to his Real Life counterpart, who by all accounts wasn't a 'people person' either and insulted several of his allies into abandoning him or turning sides during Sekigahara.
  • Villainous Friendship: A mutual one with Yoshitsugu. Yoshitsugu mentions at one point that when Hideyoshi's other retainers mocked him for being The Grotesque, Mitsunari beat them to a pulp.
  • White-Haired Pretty Boy: Yet another one! Hideyoshi has a thing for these.
  • Will Not Tell a Lie: Makes it a point of pride not to lie or use deceptions of any kind. He despises people who lie as well, but is completely unaware that Yoshitsugu is a compulsive liar.

Otani Yoshitsugu

Voiced by: Fumihiko Tachiki (Japanese), Michael G. Sorich (English)

"May misery rain down upon us all!"

Another new character in SB3. Mitsunari's friend and ally, who suffers from leprosy. Because of this, he 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.

  • All of the Other Reindeer: He's ridiculed for his sickness. He doesn't take it well.
  • Armour Piercing Question: In Yoshitsugu's final blue path map, Motonari asks Yoshitsugu what his objective is. Yoshitsugu answers that it's to bring misery to all humans. Motonari asks if this includes him. Yoshitsugu replies that it is. Motonari then asks if this includes Yoshitsugu himself. Yoshitsugu replies that it is. Motonari then asks if this includes Mitsunari. Yoshitsugu gets stunned into silence and is unable to answer. He spends the entire map mulling this over, unable to find an answer.
  • Baddie Flattery: He only uses it to get his own way, particularly when it comes to bending Mitsunari or Tsuruhime to his will. However some of his comments to Motonari seem genuine.
  • Bandage Mummy: Wrapped head-to-toe in bandages due to his illness.
  • Berserk Button: Yoshitsugu is a cackling villain who resents Ieyasu and the world at large, maintains an Affably Evil front, and wants to inject misery and suffering into everything, himself included...but not Mitsunari. Never Mitsunari. And if anyone does threaten, betray, or harm Mitsunari in any way (as in Motonari's blue path), expect Yoshitsugu to well-and-truly lose it.
  • Card-Carrying Villain: He refers to his plans as "evil schemes". Come on.
  • Casting a Shadow
  • Conspicuous CG: In the movie.
  • Creepy Monotone: In the Japanese dub. Tachiki's delivery is extremely hollow and raspy and places inflections oddly or leaves them out altogether, making Yoshitsugu sound almost completely devoid of emotion except when somebody's pushed his Berserk Button.
  • The Dragon: To Mitsunari, who he takes over from when the former cannot lead his troops.
  • Even Evil Has Standards: For all his vices -- and he has quite a few -- Yoshitsugu is disgusted by Nobunaga because he has given up humanity and can no longer understand the nature of human suffering.
    • Averted in the movie. He was working with Tenkai to resurrect the Demon King and only opposed him since Mitsunari joined the fight.
  • Evil Chancellor
  • Evil Laugh: While smashing mook heads open. Especially disturbing since his illness obviously makes it difficult to laugh, resulting in a hoarse, spasmodic cackle.
  • Evil Sorcerer
  • Expy: Possibly of Shishio Makoto from Rurouni Kenshin. Not only do they look alike, they're also morally bankrupt, manipulative and scheming, and batshit crazy, so...
  • Faux Affably Evil: In the English dub. Sorich's delivery is far more emotional than his Japanese counterpart and makes Yoshitsugu sound courteous and charming, or at least like he's constantly faking being courteous and charming, underlining his manipulative and treacherous nature.
  • Functional Magic: Or whatever it is that he uses. Mitsunari mentions something about Buddhism, and since here Buddhism is magic, it makes sense.
  • Gallows Humour: Whenever the army gets into a bad situation he tends to quip about it rather than panic.
  • The Grotesque: Looks pretty scary, and is quite tragic in a sense. It also makes him immune to attacks with grabbing properties since no one wants to touch him with a 10-foot pole.
  • Historical Villain Upgrade: He had leprosy in real life, and was famously good friends with Mitsunari. The 'evil sorcerer planning eternal misery on humanity' part, not so much.
  • Improbable Weapon User: His mysterious floating blue "beads".
  • It Amused Me: He'll do whatever he can to help the war to go on as long as possible. That way more people suffer, and the more fun he has.
  • Japanese Pronouns: 'Ware'
  • Manipulative Bastard: Well, it is his goal to screw over the entire human race using anyone he can get his hands on.
  • Mind Over Matter: Seemingly only applies to his beads and what they touch, though the fans tend to give him power over all objects.
  • Misanthrope Supreme: See "screw over the entire human race".
  • Morality Pet: Mitsunari. Subverted in that he still does nothing but sow misery, even deceiving Mitsunari at several points along the way.
    • His blue route has him question Ieyasu on "bonds he wishes to protect" and he ends up by sacrificing himself to save Mitsunari.
    • Motonari's blue route has him decide to abandon his goal of screwing over the entire human race to instead inflict all the human suffering he had planned upon the only person he thinks deserves it: Motonari. Since Motonari had betrayed Mitsunari.
    • Mitsunari being in danger in the movie while facing the reborn Demon King is what makes Yoshitsugu abandon his goal and fight against the very Demon King he helped resurrect.
  • Nice Hat: His helmet has a giant butterfly on it!
  • Only Known by Their Nickname: In the Japanese version, he is called "Gyobu" by those that know him, which is a reference to his historical court title.
  • Pet the Dog: No matter how much he hates the world, or how much he ridicules the boy's straight-forward nature, he still shows a kind of strange affection for Mitsunari.
  • Poisonous Friend: He's the one who encourages Mitsunari to be so vicious and destructive, taking advantage of his fragile mental state.
  • Power Floats: Applies to both his palanquin and his beads.
  • Power Glows: His beads (and whatever they touch) glow yellow when he enchants them.
  • Redemption Equals Death: In the movie.
  • The Sociopath
  • Squishy Wizard: All his offensive special attacks are ranged and have enormous range and juggling potential. On the flip side, his movement speed, turning speed, hit points, defence and attack are amongst the lowest in the game and his special attacks all require breathing space due to charge times.
  • Status Buff: His Rahu Weakens Super Art raises his attack power for the cost of some of his health.
  • Taking the Bullet: In his second ending he gets impaled on Tadakatsu's drill after pushing Mitsunari out of the way of the attack. Ouch.
  • Tractor Beam: One of his air attacks has him deploy one of these from beneath his palanquin to suck up mooks and squash them.
  • Villainous Breakdown: If Hideaki accomplishes his betrayal in Sekigahara, Yoshitsugu, Mitsunari and Motonari if he's there go through a collective one.
  • Villainous Friendship: With Mitsunari, who is probably the only person Yoshitsugu cares about at all in most routes. He also refers to Motonari as "my friend", though if it is anything more than mere courtesies Motonari does not reciprocate.
  • Wheel-O-Feet: Can do this with his beads, turning his palanquin into a two-wheel dragster. It even outruns horses.
  1. ↑ which is funny because the real Hideyoshi was short even by the average height of the age
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