"Soldiers and such are after all disposable pawns."
Mōri Motonari is a character introduced in Sengoku BASARA, and is first playable in the following installment. He is depicted as a young, genius daimyo who only cares about winning. He will use any strategies that can lead him to victory, including those that sacrifice his soldiers, without any hesitation. To reflect this personality, his attacks in the game can also hit his own allies, though no actual damage is dealt.

Motonari also has a belief in the Sun (which he calls 日輪 Nichirin), and he tends to refer to himself as 日輪の申し子 "Child of the Sun". He has a fierce rivalry with Chousokabe Motochika of Shikoku, whose personality is the opposite of him.

He returns in Sengoku BASARA 3, allied with Ishida Mitsunari against the Tokugawa Army.

Saika Magoichi (Sayaka, as she is refered to by Chosokabe Motochika) is a character newly featured in Sengoku BASARA 3. She was the leader of the proud Saika renegades. When the Ishida and Tokugawa armies divided Japan, she joined the Tokugawa ranks as a general. Under Tokugawa's wings, she fought the Uesugi army, which included Maeda Keiji. Keiji fell in love with Magoichi, though unfortunately for him, love didn't go the other way around. It seems as though her real name is Sayaka, and that she took the name "Magoichi" some time after the real Magoichi Saika was killed.

Maeda Keiji is a character first introduced in Sengoku Basara 2. He is Maeda Toshiie's and Matsu's adopted nephew, and occasionally fights with them, but also loves his family. He has a mysterious past with Toyotomi Hideyoshi and Takenaka Hanbei which was touched on in Sengoku BASARA 2 Heroes. Keiji is what people call a happy-go-lucky man. He enjoys festivals, as well as pulling pranks at Toshiie. Despite his demeanor towards his step-family, he loves them though shows resentment at them due to their objection to his lifestyle. Accompanying him is a small monkey named Yucumichi. He receives a three stage gaiden in Sengoku Basara 2 Heroes, where he used to be friends with Toyotomi Hideyoshi, but loses him due to Hideyoshi's lust for power.

In Sengoku Basara 3, after the death of his former friend Hideyoshi, Keiji joined the ranks of the Uesugi army. He spent his time flirting with the female Saika Magoichi along the way. He is also can be unlocked as both a playable character and as an ally. Finish Date Masamune's story to unlock him as a playable character. Defeat Uesugi Kenshin using Saica Magoichi to unlock him as an ally. As an ally, he has a special ability: Damageproof, which reduce damage taken from enemies by 20%.

Kuroda Kanbei was a vassal of Toyotomi Hideyoshi. During this time however, he was secretly waiting for a chance to take the country himself. Due to the rebellion of Tokugawa Ieyasu, Hideyoshi was killed, and Ishida Mitsunari, another general under Hideyoshi's command, took it upon himself to chase and imprison Kanbei due to his motives. Kanbei, being noted as a top strategist, possessed a great mind, but was also cursed with horrendous bad luck. He seemed to cherish his dream and was determined to fufill it, thus, as the conflict dividing the Land drew closer, Kanbei broke out of his cell and tried to continue to make his dream come true. However, his motives are immediately found out by Yoshitsugu and Motonari, and he is forced to serve under them as a vassal to the Western Army, or he would be imprisoned once again. After fighting their battles for them, Kanbei flies into a fit of rage and attacks Motonari to become a free man, but with Motonari being the craftier of the two, he explains that Kanbei cannot be free until he rids himself of his shackles, telling him that Yoshitsugu holds the key on his person. With that newfound knowledge, Kanbei rushes to the battle between the Western Army and Eastern Army at Sekigahara to take back the key from Yoshitsugu, but he ends up getting caught up in the heat of the battle and ends up defeating everyone, including Yoshitsugu, Honda Tadakatsu, Ieyasu, and Mitsunari. When he is about to obtain the key, a hawk swoops down and steals it from him, forcing him to live a life of bad luck for all eternity.

Tsuruhime is a character newly featured in Sengoku BASARA 3. Seer with the power of prophecy. Raised as a miko of Kono. Doesn't know the evils of the world since she spent her whole life tucked away in Kono. Left to go protect her home and its neighboring seas that have been affected by the war.

Shimazu Yoshihiro is depicted as a small, though muscular man wielding a big sword. Yoshihiro likes to fight and even more so when his rival, Honda Tadakatsu, is in the enemy ranks.


He will join the western army in sengoku basara 3. In Fuma Kotaro's alternative story line, he joined Otomo Sorin's forces and became a Xavism. His name is then changed into Chester Shimazu

"Everyone's dying... This is also Ichi's fault..."
Oichi is a character first playable in Sengoku BASARA 2 Heroes. She is depicted as a slender woman who is very melancholic and depressed, always thinking that everything is her fault. She was at first sent by her brother, Oda Nobunaga, to marry Azai Nagamasa and spy on him. However, she genuinely fell in love with him and was torn between betraying her brother and her lover.

After witnessing her husband's death at the of hands of Nobunaga and then being forced to fight on in Nobunaga's name, she slowly started to lose her sanity. In the end, she succumbs to her own dark powers, which leads her to kill Nobunaga's retainers (Nōhime and Ranmaru) and eventually Nobunaga himself. After killing her brother in Honnō-ji, Oichi regains her sanity for a little while, then breaks down in tears at her atrocity to her family and clan. The temple collapses and she's presumed dead afterwards. She's often considered as the most tragic character of Sengoku Basara.

Oichi inexplicably returned in Sengoku Basara 3 having lost her memories after suppressing the pain of witnessing Nagamasa's death and being forced to do cruelties under Nobunaga's name in the past. Rather than bearing the Azai crest, she now uses the Oda crest. In her Red route, she joins Ieyasu - Lord Happy - because he's nice to her and wants to always be there for her, and fights for him, despite his asking her to stay behind. She chooses to kill Mitsunari - Lord Grumpy - to save him from the "hole in his heart". In her Green route, she follows a voice, leading to a battle with either Tenkai or Kobayakawa. Fighting Tenkai makes him admit that he lured Oichi to him, with the desire to ressurect Nobunaga. This transfers her to the Purple Route, where Tenkai is killed by Nobunaga, and Oichi then defeats the repeatedly ressurecting Nobunaga, capturing him, and dragging them both down to the depths of hell, claiming it to be the purpose she now lives for.

Also if you do her level as Tsuruhime, Oichi calls her Ranmaru for most of the level because both characters used a bow as a weapon.

in Sengoku Basara 2 Oichi is the only character with a unique ending sequence; her image song, "Nemure Hi no Hana", which is sung by Mamiko Noto, her own seiyuu. Her theme would return in the fallowing title Sengoku Basara 3, though as a Piano Arrangement. And due to the game being released outside of japan, as Sengoku Basara: Samurai Heroes, her theme received an official English translation: "Sleep Scarlet Flower".

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Fūma Kotarō is the legendary shinobi of Sengoku BASARA. By killing anyone who sees him, he is able to remain a legend. He tends to work as a mercenary for the highest bidder, and as such is seen working for both Hōjō Ujimasa and Matsunaga Hisahide

Kotarou tends to use fast slashes with his dual ninjatou combined with kicks. His BASARA attack finishes with him hurling his Juuji Shuriken at his enemies.