#legend of eight samurai

[jotunvali02]

Legend of the Eight Samurai 1983

Aww. What a cute Tarzan. ^^ With sexy naked thighs and huge eyes and floofy hair. But he's a total jerk. ^^

Of course, Senbei-chan's too cute to remain a jerk very long.

Yes, his name is Shinbei, but I call him Senbei cause he's a cute biscuit.🍘

"Did the princess order to kill me?" Dude. You tried to rape her, then to deliver her to shady guys for money and priviledges and now you're following her. That would be her most basic right.

But hey. Neither would I want you to be killed when I want you to be my boytoy.

Oh no! You clothed him! And you flattened his floofy hair!☹️

OMG! This long, silky, glossy hair is so beautifuuul !! 😭 So beautiful I genuinely cried and screamed!!

"Where are you going with this boytoy?" "He's my boytoy now."

😭!!! I want lion-maned Hiro to make love to me too! I want hair-gloriously-and-freely-flowing Hiro more often! He's so insanely beautiful like that! 😭💖💘

And who's the one who wears the least clothes throughout the movie? Shinbei! Who goes to battle with naked thighs, one naked arm, a short flippy skirt, the cutest, floofiest ponytail and a slutty meshed shirt?? Shinbei!💖

he wanted sluts, HE is the slut.

Quick! We're being attacked by a green screen!

No! Don't cry, baby! 😭

"We'll rebuild your castle. It'll be grander than before." "I don't want a castle! I want Shinbei's thighs!" 😭💕

And it ends with much thick floof in the wind.

[le--fruitcake]

In the meantime while I anxiously await your plentiful truths, might I ask for what cartoons you might recommend my humble self?

Ah, my vassal! I am neariy finished writing that essay, I promise. Just a while longer, I need to be sure my sources are accurate.

I will say you should watch Samurai Rabbit, despite it being almost painfully cringeworthy at times. It's surprisingly well-written, though! It's only on Netflix.

In terms of TMNT, the only one I can recommend with my whole chest is Rise of the TMNT. I like the others (mostly— 2012 is on Thin Fucking Ice with the Donnie/April thing), but Rise is the best by far! I am Extremely Biased and am going to say you should watch the Usagi crossover episodes of 2003 (S2E23-26, S3E01 [does not contain a whole lot of Usagi, but he and Leo uh. Exchange swords], S3E22-23, S4E13, and S7E13 [no speaking lines, appears as a background character only]) and 2012 (S5E15-17). The 1987 ones (S3E32/34) aren't as good, but you do get to watch Mikey slap Usagi in the face with a pizza. Fucking LMAO. All the TMNT is on Paramount Plus, but far be it from me to tell you not to hoist the colors, matey.

The Amazing World of Gumball... exists! It sure does. I really like the way they play with animation and art style, and it has some honestly amazing physical comedy, but it's very, um... 2012. I think it popularized a lot of tropes you see in more modern cartoons that make them borderline unbearable, but I found myself watching the entire thing and kind of wanting more! It's pretty good if you just want some batshit insane cartoon nonsense, but it has no story to speak of, really. The episodes are both startlingly interconnected and purely standalone. Anais is my favorite character, followed by Nicole, and honestly the men in that family are trash lmao. I think I watched it on Hulu, but it might have been HBO Max.

I like Star Wars, too, specifically Visions, Clone Wars (both 2003 and 2007), and, though I haven't finished it, Rebels. (I like the movies, too! Real shame they never made any past Episode VII. Had so much potential. Smh my head.) Visions S1E8 is my favorite thing Star Wars has ever done btw. Very Heavily Biased. All of this is on Disney Plus.

I have of course seen Avatar: The Last Airbender, and Legend of Korra, and recommend Avatar if by some miracle you haven't seen it, but tbh I don't know if I would recommend Korra. It has very interesting concepts, but the execution is um. Bad. Watching the Straights™️ frothing at the mouth over Korrasami was an Experience! "we poppin' the biggest bottles when Makorra happens tonight" is a regular part lo my vocabulary. Both are on Netflix, I think.

I like Teen Titans! I used to have the first two seasons on DVD. There are a lot of jokes I didn't get as a kid, and so rewatching it as an adult was interesting. I also didn't appreciate Cyborg enough as a kid, man has the best jokes. Robin was always my favorite, but on rewatch, I really can't say who's my favorite. I like Beast Boy's power the best, but Raven is p cool, and Starfire is wonderful, and Cyborg is funny. This is available on The Max Formerly Known as HBO.

I also watched all of the original animated Batman. Batman: The Animated Series, I think it was called? I really really liked that one, it was the perfect mix of edgy and funny, and is my favorite Batman iteration. Mark Hamill Joker also! That interpretation of Two-Face is my favorite, and made him my favorite Batman villain. I still want a silver dollar btw! I already have a $2 bill and several dollar coins, so if I get one of those and a half-dollar, I'll have one of every kind of defunct American currency. I think. I believe this is also available on The Max.

If you count anime as cartoons, Bleach and Fairy Tail are good, if you skip the filler. My Hero is... Pretty good. Mirko is of course my favorite character, and I am now only invested in the show for her sake. Crunchyroll is kinda the go-to for anime, but Hulu also has all three of these. I think Bleach might not be on Crunchyroll anymore also? Very Odd if so because it's one of the Big Ones, but I couldn't find it when I looked last.

Little Witch Academia is adorable! Lesbians abound, and features a surprising amount from actual Celtic lore. It's also quite possible the only anime featuring high school girls that doesn't make any blatant attempt to sexualize them, which is a breath of fresh air. The official anime is a Netflix original, but there apparently exists an OVA that I have not seen, and a movie, that I have, also on Netflix.

Castlevania is extremely good, but I guess it's technically an anime? It's originally in English and has some of the best lines I have ever heard come out of someone's mouth, ever, but it is heavily gorey, and S2 has some Unfortunate Rather Graphic Heterosexuality. Fortunately, one of the characters is confirmed bisexual! It is also a Netflix original.

This was a doozy to answer! I don't watch too many cartoons, per se, because I wasn't allowed watch most of them growing up. Never seen Spongebob, Powerpuff Girls, Phineas and Pherb, etc. etc. Despite that, I am a fan of animated shows over live-action shows, generally speaking, due to the liberties one can take, and the fact that you aren't limited by what you can achieve with human actors and such. The same goes for video games— I prefer heavy style to realism, though the GameCube/PS2 era games had the best of both worlds.

[cinemajunkie70]

A very happy birthday to Hiroyuki Sanada! The Twilight Samurai is a personal favorite! And special thanks to Nicole Leopoldine Staudigl for the reminder, because I missed this one!

[baddawg94]

Satomi Hakken-Den (“Legend of the Eight Samurai”) © 1984 Toei Company

Shizu (played by Yakushimaru Hiroko) & Shinbei (played by Sanada Hiroyuki)

[blackryan53]

千葉真一   Sonny Chiba

1939年1月22日 - 2021年8月19日

里見八犬伝    Legend of the Eight Samurai   1983

[eclecticpjf]

Now watching:

[itsmarjudgelove]

Armor (Gusoku) with helmet signed by Bamen Tomotsugu (18th century).

Tokugawa Ieyasu (1543-1616) winning the decisive Battle of Sekigahara in 1600 and unifying all the local warlords under his rule, Japan returned, after a century of military conflicts, to peace and stability. This entailed, however, a significant decrease in the production of arms and armor, and by the end of the seventeenth century only higher ranking Samurai, e.g., Daimyō (feudal lords), were able to afford new, custom made suits of armor.

Accordingly, only few lineages of armorers survived. The Bamen School was one of them, tracing its origins to the turbulent late sixteenth century. Legend has it that some of their masters produced excellent shaffrons (Japanese: bamen) whereupon their employer, the Honda clan, allowed them to use the term as the name for their school. Tomotsugu, the maker of this armor, was active at the turn of the eighteenth century and the last great master of the Bamen School.

The helmet bowl is made from 84 ridged iron plates and signed on the inside: Echizen no Kuni Toyohara jū Bamen Tomotsugu Saku (Made by Bamen Tomotsugu, resident of Toyohara in Echizen province).

The cuirass consists of eight vertical plates connected with ornamental rivets, an interpretation referred to as byō-toji okegawa-dō. The armor is endowed with shakudō (gold-copper alloy) crests of three whirling commas which are associated with the Okabe family, the feudal lords of Kishiwada (present day Kishiwada City in Osaka Prefecture).

One of the key features of this armor is its extremely rare color scheme of the lacings of the kusazuri (skirt). Usually, the color of the lacing changes between rows, e.g., grading from bright at the belt to dark at the bottom, this pattern then repeated on each of the skirt’s segments. Here, however, the colors change between the seven segments, starting at the right waist in white, becoming gradually darker going around the torso, i.e. red, yellowish-green, and black. To create symmetry, the neck guard (tare or suga) duplicates the red lacing of the central skirt element, whereas the shoulder guards (sode) and neck guard (shikoro) of the helmet are completely laced in white and only pick up red color accents along their bottom rows.

Not only is the workmanship of this armor and its materials of the highest quality, the suit also represents a fine specimen of late tōsei-gusoku (modern armors) from a time before medieval armor styles were revived.

[zur1s]

writing anything about vagabond is genuinely so insanely tough because, vagabond is just so intimate with its character writing. more so, just the general handling of the whole story. each and every chapter is hand crafted with a care inoue adds in every brush stroke or text bubble. its simple yet intricate, every illustration⸺changing and shifting with the washing tides of vagabond's storyline. the art style is unmatchable, the arcs, beautifully gory just as they need to be. the ripple of a lake, the slash of the blade, a rare smile amongst the lonely woods. vagabond can be small and intimate, then explosive and physical. a blade can be something to admire, to compare to the mastery of a samurai⸺then stripped to an item to kill. vagabond is so simple, the chapters in the life of a man and the fight against death. there's something so supernatural the way musashi has avoided death for years, but each and every piece to his survival falls in so right. to become invincible under the sun, a statement that twists and turns as musashi evolves. it holds weight, but by the end it's simply a wish of a much more younger man. things change, and change, then comes the spell of regret. but the morning sun comes up and the world will never wait, so comes dawn on kokura.

vagabond is filled with spiritual themes and intense writing that is new as it is antique. inoue knows how to use his art to improve every plot point and he knows how to write a story as impactful as his art. it's no wonder vagabond has been on hiatus for nearly a decade. this tale of the samurai musashi miyamoto is dear, beautiful, intimate, thoughtful, deadly, visceral, but most importantly, breathtaking.

when writing my thoughts down about a series, i look at the media and take a grasp at the things it tries to say, to communicate, maybe. i take my soul and ask it what has this done? and how badly has it ruined me? but when writing about vagabond, i simply can't begin to start about the beauty in this story and how much it has left me with. when i try to recollect the chronicles of this lone ronin from miyamoto village, i get lost in thoughts and pieces of it that i can barely connect. i lose so easily to this legend, from a long far off land, many, many moons ago. every arc, chapter, and even page, holds more things to unpack and rethink. it's so hard to understand in full the epic that is vagabond, to make sense of the winding brush strokes that inoue places⸺as messy as the life of these dear children of twenty-eight years old. when shounen mainstays like jjk or kny have a collection of themes you can pick apart and savor, vagabond has a ballad unreadable but ever so beautiful. how i want to understand it.

[littleeyesofpallas]

Oh wow a n actual gem in all this slag. It's Wanpaku Ouji no Dai Orochi Taiji, aka "The Little Prince and the Eight-Headed Dragon" the 1963 animated feature film often credited as one of the major foundations of the modern anime industry as we know it.

It was also an early animation credit for Isao Takahata who was still some 20-odd years away from founding Studio Ghibli at that point.

The inspiration behind Gendy Tartakovsky's lineless art style in Samurai Jack.

As well as the art style of Legend of Zelda: Wind Waker

And it was also a noted influence on the art of Tomm Moore, director of The Secret of Kells.

[vinora-nyghtshayde]

List of anime, a majority of them dubbed, I've watched over the years

1 .Hack//Legend of the Twilight

2 .Hack//Roots

3 .Hack//Sign

4 A centaur's life

5 A lull in the sea

6 A Whisker Away

7 Accel World

8 Ah! My Goddess

9 Akame Ga Kill

10 Amnesia

11 Android Kikaider the animation

12 Angel Sanctuary

13 Angels of Death

14 Armitage III

15 Arrietty

16 Assassination Classroom

17 Attack on Titan

18 Attack on Titan Junior High

19 B: The Beginning

20 Baccano

21 Banner of the stars

22 Basilisk

23 Bastard

24 Battle B-Daman

25 Beastars

26 Betterman

27 Beyblade

28 Beyond the Boundary

29 Big Fish & Begonia

30 Black Blood Brothers

31 Black Butler

32 Black Clover

33 Black Lagoon

34 Bleach

35 Blood Blockade Battlefront

36 Blood+

37 Blue Exorcist

38 Blue Seed

39 BNA: Brand New Animal

40 Boogiepop Phantom

41 Boruto

42 Bungo Stray Dogs

43 Cardcaptor Sakura

44 Carole & Tuesday

45 Case Closed

46 Casshern Sins

47 Castlevania

48 Castle in the Sky

49 Cells at work

50 Ceres, Celestial Legend

51 Charlotte

52 Cheer Boys

53 Chobits

54 Chrono Crusade

55 Code Geass: Lelouch of the rebellion

56 Code Geass: Akito the exiled

57 Code: Realize

58 Code: Breaker

59 Coppelion

60 Cowboy Bebop

61 Crest of the stars

62 Cyborg 009

63 D.Gray-Man

64 D.N.Angel

65 Dance with Devils

66 Deadman Wonderland

67 Death Note

68 Diabolik Lovers

69 Digimon

70 Dr. Stone

71 Dragon Ball Z

72 Dragon Ball GT

73 Dramatical Murder

74 Durarara

75 Erased

76 Ergo Proxy

77 Fooly Cooly

78 Fafner

79 Fairy Tail

80 Fire Force

81 Fist of the North Star

82 Flint the Time Detective

83 Free

84 From the new world

85 From up on Poppy Hill

86 Fruits Basket

87 Fullmetal Alchemist

88 Fullmetal Alchemist: Brotherhood

89 Fushigi Yugi

90 Gad Guard

91 Gate Keepers

92 Gate Keepers 21

93 Ghost Hunt

94 Ghost in the Shell: Stand Alone Complex

95 Ginga Densetsu Weed

96 Ginga: Nagareboshi Gin

97 Gravitation

98 Gungrave

99 Gunslinger Girl

100 Gurren Lagann

101 Haikyu

102 Hakkenden: Eight Dogs of the East

103 Hakuoki

104 Hamtaro

105 Hell Girl

106 Hellsing

107 Hellsing Ultimate

108 Hetalia

109 Hitorijime My Hero

110 Howl's Moving Castle

111 Hyperdimension Neptunia

112 IGPX Immortal Grand Prix

113 Inuyasha

114 Isekai Quartet

115 Izetta: The Last Witch

116 Japan Sinks

117 Jojo's Bizarre Adventure

118 K

119 K-On

120 Kamigami no Asobi

121 Kamisama Kiss

122 Karas

123 Karneval

124 Kekkaishi

125 Kenichi The Mightiest Disciple

126 Kiki's Delivery Service

127 Kill La Kill

128 Kiss him, not me

129 Kiznaiver

130 Knight's & Magic

131 Konosuba

132 Kuroko's Basketball

133 Kyo Kara Maoh

134 Laughing Under the Clouds

135 Last Exile

136 Little Nemo

137 Little Witch Academia

138 Love Stage

139 Lupin III

140 Medabots

141 Megaman

142 Megaman NT Warrior

143 Mekakucity Actors

144 Mirage of Blaze

145 Mirai

146 Miss Kobayashi's Dragon Maid

147 Mobile Fighter G Gundam

148 Mobile Suit Gundam: The 08th MS Team

149 Mobile Suit Gundam 00

150 Mobile Suit Gundam Seed

151 Mobile Suit Gundam Seed Destiny

152 Mobile Suit Gundam Wing

153 Monster Rancher

154 Moribito: Guardian of the Spirit

155 My Hero Academia

156 My Neighbor Totoro

157 My Love Story

158 My roommate is a cat

159 Nanbaka

160 Naruto

161 Nausicaa of the Valley of the Wind

162 Nekopara

163 No. 6

164 Noein To your other self

165 Noragami

166 Noragami Aragoto

167 Oban Star-Racers

168 One Piece

169 One-Punch Man

170 Ouran High School Host Club

171 Outlaw Star

172 Paranoia Agent

173 Peacemaker Kurogane

174 Please Teacher

175 Please Twins

176 Pom Poko

177 Ponyo

178 Porco Rosso

179 Pretear

180 Prince of Stride Alternative

181 Princess Mononoke

182 Prison School

183 Promare

184 RaXephon

185 Re:Zero

186 R.O.D the TV

187 Ronin Warriors

188 Rosario + Vampire

189 Rurouni Kenshin

190 RWBY: Ice Queendom

191 Servamp

192 Sk♾️ The Infinity

193 Sailor Moon R

194 Sailor Moon

195 Saint Seiya

196 Saint Seiya: The Lost Canvas

197 Saiyuki

198 Samurai 7

199 Samurai Champloo

200 Samurai Deeper Kyo

201 Sankarea

202 Say I Love You

203 s-CRY-ed

204 Sensitive Pornograph

205 Seraph of the End: Vampire Reign

206 Serial Experiments Lain

207 Servamp

208 Shaman King

209 Shinzo

210 Shonen Maid

211 Show By Rock

212 Silent Mobius

213 Sirius the Jaeger

214 Snow White with the Red Hair

215 Sorcerous Stabber Orphen

216 Soul Eater

217 Soul Eater Not

218 Spice and Wolf

219 Spirited Away

220 Stars Align

221 Sukisho

222 Sword Art Online

223 Tactics

224 Tales of Zestiria the X

225 Tenchi Muyo

226 Tenjou Tenge

227 The Ancient Magus's Bride

228 The Boy and the Beast

229 The Cat Returns

230 The Devil is a Part-Timer

231 The Morose Mononokean

232 The Prince of Tennis

233 The Promised Neverland

234 The Rising of the Shield Hero

235 The Royal Tutor

236 The Seven Deadly Sins

237 The Vision of Escaflowne

238 The Way of the Househusband

239 The Wind Rises

240 Tiger & Bunny

241 Tokko

242 Tokyo Ghoul

243 Toradora

244 Trigun

245 Trinity Blood

246 Tsubasa Reservoir Chronicle

247 Uta No Prince-sama

248 Vampire Hunter D

249 Vampire Hunter D Bloodlust

250 Vandread

251 Violet Evergarden

252 When Marnie Was There

253 Whisper of the Heart

254 Wise Man's Grandchild

255 Witchblade

256 Witch Hunter Robin

257 Wolf Children

258 Wolf's Rain

259 X

260 Yamada & the Seven Witches

261 Yami No Matsuei

262 Yashahime

263 Yona of the Dawn

264 Your Name

265 Your lie in April

266 Yu-Gi-Oh

267 Yu Yu Hakusho

268 Yuri!! On Ice

269 Zatch Bell

270 Zoids

[hrodvitnon]

anon brought up titanus orochi and the game okami, but to me the definitive orochi was from my childhood favorite "the little prince and the eight headed dragon". shame nobody seems to bring it up much nowadays

Had to google this because I've never heard of it but knowing now that it influenced Samurai Jack, The Legend of Zelda: The Wind Waker, and Tomm Moore's animated films (also Akira Ifukube doing the music!), I feel artistically obligated to watch The Little Prince and the Eight-Headed Dragon for myself.

[cinemajunkie70]

No wonder I love Sonny Chiba so much, his birthday is close to my Mom’s Birthday! The happiest of birthdays in the afterlife to the greatest street fighter of them all, Sonny Chiba!

[inhumancomicofficial]

天音 渡辺

天音 (Amane) 渡辺 (Watanabe)

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"You keep staring at it... You want to see it, don't you? The 'Yosai o Kiru,' the sword that split a city without even touching it. Are you sure you want to look at it? You might die just by seeing your reflection in its steel..."

Amane Watanabe, a member of the 'Eight Legendary Samurai,' is a man who ascended to demi-godhood after his deeds during the 'War of Dawn and Dusk,' becoming a legend during the siege of Ajigasawa.

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"Continui a fissarla...la vuoi vedere non è vero? La "Yosai o Kiru", la spada che divise una città senza nemmeno sfiorarla. Sei sicuro di volerla guardare? Potresti morire solamente specchiandoti nel suo acciaio..."

Amane Watanabe, Membro degli "Otto samurai leggendari", è un uomo asceso a semidio in seguito alle sue gesta durante la "Guerra dell'alba e il tramonto", diventato leggenda nell'assedio di Ajigasawa.

[blackryan53]

千葉真一   Sonny Chiba

里見八犬伝    Legend of the Eight Samurai   1983

[neko-riddles]

Japanese folktales inspiring fighting games

Yokai have been a key source of inspiration for characters in anime and manga for years. Some of the best known and popular series use Japanese folk tales and mythology as the basis of their plots. Even the most casual of anime fans have a passing knowledge of yokai – name an anime fan you know that hasn’t seen the Oscar award winning spirited away.

But it’s not just anime and manga that have dipped their toes into the world of jumping umbrellas and turtle men balancing dishes of water on their heads – kasa-obake and kappa respectively. Video games are well known for their love for Japanese folklore and the creeps.

One genre of games that have taken great inspiration from Yokai and Japanese folktales has been fighting games.

Bishamon: Darkstalkers series

It’s funny – despite the series drawing from mythology and horror creatures for its cast, the Capcom developed Darkstalkers series actually has little in ways representation of Japanese folklore and Yokai. That said, the walking set of samurai armour Bishamon makes up for this dearth in spades.

Bishamon is surrounded by floating blue flames called Hitodama (said to be the souls of the dead separated from their bodies) while the idea of a possessed set or armour is often compared with tsukumogami – tools or items that are inhabited by a spirit, or Yokai that have lived so long they’ve have since transformed into an object.

Bishamon wears his ghostly inspiration on his sleeves, with moves such as the oni kubi hineri summoning spectral hands to squeeze the opponent, while the tsurane giri conjures up a line of ghostly samurai to slice up your enemy.

Oni: Street Fighter series

Throughout Street Fighter’s history, the character Akuma (aka Gouki) has been gifted with a number of different forms and costumes the emphasise his place in the roster as the big bad, the final boss and major antagonist for main character Ryu.

The fourth mainline game in the series saw a number of revisions, each adding a handful of new characters to play with. The last update to the game, Ultra Street Fighter Four, added a new form for Akuma to cement his place as the main antagonist – Oni.

Oni have been a constant source of inspiration for a number of video game characters, often used as visual shorthand for the character’s rage, bestiality and sometimes, stupidity. In the broadest of terms, oni are known for their superhuman strength and have been associated with powers like thunder and lightning, along with their evil nature manifesting in their propensity for murder and cannibalism.

Having thrown away his humanity in the search for power, Akuma’s transformation into Oni also invokes other parts of Japanese mythology and religion. His design is evocative of beings such as Fūjin and Raijin, the Shinto gods of wind and thunder respectively.

Orochi: King of Fighters series

Another fighting game final boss and another character that draws inspiration from Japanese myths and legends. Deviating a little from the original tale told in the Nihon Shogi, Orochi is still a monstrous eight headed serpent with a penchant for evil.

Unlike his mythological counterpart, King of Fighter’s Orochi is described as the will of the planet that does anything to keep the planet safe from any perceived. As you can probably guess, the greatest threat to the planet is the deadliest animal of them all – man! Thus begins a campaign to wipe out the human race in a misguided attempt to go back to when things were better before they came along. They took er jerbs!

Orochi’s in game design doesn’t really scream ancient Japanese deity. In fact, the white trousers, bare chest with tattoo design is a little bare bones in a series renowned for stylish characters. Still, if anything I hope I’ve inspired you enough to learn more about the original story.

Hisako: Killer Instinct

Let’s take a quick detour away from the ‘Land of the Rising Sun’ to explore how Japanese folklore has been represented in the West and it’s fighting games. Rare’s Killer Instinct has drawn inspiration from many sources for its diverse cast of characters, but none wear their influence on their kimono sleeves than Hisako.

Hisako’s spooky visage is directly based on an Onryō or avenging ghost, a spectral being born from a person dying – often a woman – with hatred and resentment in their heart. These vengeful spirits go out into the world seeking to right the wrongs caused to them in live, often resulting is death and disaster wherever they roam.

Onryō in popular media often recognisable by their long, unkempt black hair and deathly pale faces – a holdover from their depiction in kabuki theatre. Hisako follows this visual shorthand, but adds a bit of visual flair with the inclusion of a beautiful red kimono and the use of a naginata as her signature weapon.

Sanpei: Blood Warrior

Meet Sanpei and there’s no other way of putting it other than he’s a kappa. Giant turtle man? Check. Little dish for water on his head? Check. Move set that takes heavy inspiration from tokusatsu legend and giant turtle monster Gamera? Check?

Sanpei made their debut in Shogun warriors where they were named Kappa (yeah, they really weren’t trying too hard with the green fella). They were swept up with a majority of the cast to join its sequel Blood Warrior, a poor man’s attempt at replicating Mortal Kombat’s success by having all the characters portrayed by digitised actors and shovelling in copious amounts of gore.

This results in a rather goofy turtle man portrayed by a poor actor in a Poundland Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles costume breathing blue flames on his enemies and darting around the screen in a rocket propelled fashion much like his big screen kaiju brother.

[eeriecode]

FGO Fanservant: Saber of the Waxing Moon

Heavy spoilers for Fate/Samurai Remnant after the cut

Traits

Voice Actress: Hibiku Yamamura

True Name: Yamato Takeru

Class: Saber

Source: Kojiki, Nihon Shoki, etc.

Region: Japan

Alignment: Neutral Good

Attribute: Earth

Additional traits: Divinity, Feminine Looking, Gender Unknown, Hominidae, Humanoid, King, Loved One, Riding, Saberface, Servant, Seven Knights Servant, Weak to Enuma Elish

Known as: Yamato Takeru no Mikoto, Hero of the Boundless Azure, The Righteous Prince

Deck: QQAAB

Passive Skills

Parameters:

Strength: A

Endurance: B

Agility: B

Mana: A+

Luck: A

NP: EX

Magic Resistance (A)

Increases own debuff resistance by 20%.

Riding (A)

Increases own Quick performance by 10%.

Active Skills

Divinity (D)

Increases own damage by 125.

Mana Burst (Water) (A) - CD: 8-6 turns

Increases own Arts performance for 3 turns (30%-50%)

Increases own NP generation rate for 3 turns (15%-25%)

Charisma of the Boundless Azure (B) - CD: 7-5 turns

Increases party's attack for 3 turns (10%-20%)

Charges party's NP gauge every turn for 3 turns (5%-15%)

Recovers party's HP every turn for 3 turns (1000-2000)

Noble Phantasms

Divine Water (C) - CD: 8-6 turns

Grants self Invincibility for 2 hits, 3 turns

Charges own NP gauge (20%-30%)

Increases own defense for 3 turns (10%-20%)

(Optional) Switches NP for 3 turns

Special Technique: Eight-Current Raging Storm (絶技(ぜつぎ)・八岐怒涛)

Rank: B

Classification: Anti-Unit (Anti-Army)

Range: 0-10

Maximum number of targets: 1-20 people

Type: Arts

Hit Count: 8

Default NP in Ascension 1-2, can be selected in Ascension 3 via "Divine Water"

Sword of Heaven: Amenomurakumo-no-Tsurugi (界剣(かいけん)・天叢雲剣)

Removes defensive buffs from one enemy.

Deals Special Damage [Earth Attribute] to one enemy (scales with Overcharge).

Charges own NP gauge by 20%.

Rank: EX

Classification: Anti-World

Range: 1-99

Maximum number of targets: 900 people

Type: Arts

Hit Count: 5

Default NP in Ascension 3, can be selected in Ascension 1-2 via "Divine Water"

Design Notes

Increases own NP Strength by 10% for 3 turns.

Grants self Ignore Invincible for 1 turn.

Deals Special Damage [Evil] to all enemies (scales with Overcharge).

This is my attempt, after ZTL's video on the subject, to theorize what Yamato Takeru could look like if they were added to FGO, mostly on the gameplay side of things. I tried to focus the profile on making them a strong SSR Saber, the kind that could easily be released as an Anniversary or event Servant, while still making them unique enough to not overshadow or be overshadowed by their competitors (mainly Dioscuri and Muramasa).

I mostly based their kit on the connection, meta-wise and in lore, between Yamato Takeru and King Arthur: between their first scene meeting Iori mirroring Saber meeting Shirou, them being a Saberface hiding their sword in an elemental sheath, and Yamato Takeru's legend being described as the Japanese equivalent of King Arthur, the similarities are many and intentional. So, I took inspiration from what the FGO devs did with Merlin and Lady Avalon, and went on their kit with the concept of "what if OG Saber was a modern Servant, and also Arts?": this is shown by their first two skills mimicking OG Saber's Charisma and Mana Burst.

As for the third skill, in FSR Divine Water is the name of the water sheath they use to conceal their sword: in this FGO version, it's reworked into a skill that enhances their defense (plus a battery, because all modern Servants have one). Part of the reason for the defensive focus is, looking at gameplay videos of Takeru acting as support in battle, I noticed that, whenever they're being attacked, they seem to have a water shield protecting them: so, I reworked it as a function of the sheath and used it as the focus of the skill. The other reason for it is that I wanted Takeru to have their own niche in FGO: between the defensive buffs on their third skill and their regen buffs on the second, I designed them as a tankier Servant suited for hard and prolonged battles, unlike someone like Muramasa who'd be more suited for heavy burst damage.

Finally, for their Noble Phantasm, I was unsure whether to use the same one they use in game (reasoning, FGO would probably use the most recognizable one), or to use the true version used in the final cutscenes. Problem is, looking at the lore, Raging Storm is explicitly stated to be weaker if used against more enemies, meaning it'd be more fitting as a ST NP; at the same time, though, FGO is heavily biased when it comes to AOE NPs, so that would be the most likely type. In the end, I decided to have my cake and eat it too, and pulled a Melusiné giving them both NPs and the ability to switch between them through the use of the Divine Water skill: lorewise, you can think of it as Takeru choosing how much power to release, with it influencing the final attack (I haven't put much thought into their Ascension designs, but you can imagine that their sword is fully unsealed only in its third Ascension, while in the others they'd have to actively unseal it via skill). In terms of effects, I took inspiration from both OG Saber (for reasons above) and Ibuki (since they both use Kusanagi), giving the true version additional ramping damage and the sealed version additional NP regen: as for the damage niches, the Earth attribute references its use to defeat Assassin's monster, while the anti-Evil damage references the use of its true form against the final bosses.