Kotarō Fūma

Kotaro Fuma (風魔 小太郎) is a ninja who is employed by the Hojo clan. A popular fable says that he assassinated Hanzō Hattori before his time.

Samurai Warriors
Kotaro is the wild card in the game as he strives to perpetuate endless chaos. He possesses various powers not seen by the other game's ninja, such as telling the future and becoming invisible at will. When his lord hears word of Ieyasu's retreat at Mikatagahara, he is ordered to assist Shingen with the pursuit. Although he does capture Ieyasu, Kotaro also kills Shingen to counteract the results. In a bid to spare their lives, Ieyasu and his men are forced to serve Kotaro. This displeases Hanzō and the ninja tries several times to liberate Ieyasu. Intrigued, Kotaro challenges his rival to a contest to see who can kill the land's most influential unifier, Hideyoshi. If Hanzō wins, Ieyasu would be freed.

After Hanzō's failure and Hideyoshi's death, the Hojo become leaders of the land. Bored with the idea of peace, Kotaro betrays his benefactors to pollute Japan with confusion. Left with nothing else to do, Kotaro decides to unify the land and heads with his army to Kyushu. Seeing a large force of Hideyoshi's former retainers there, Kotaro relishes the land's last great battle. In his ending, he rewards Ieyasu's loyalty by giving him ownership of the land and disappears.

His dream stage has him protecting the Hojo clan at Odawara Castle. Faced with the massive Toyotomi army, he also needs to fend off the Tokugawa forces. Whilst doing so, he has to stop Nene's interruptions.

Warriors Orochi
In both games in the series, Kotaro starts as a loyal servant of Orochi. He is pleased by the snake's desire to send humanity into disarray and wishes to assist him.

Kessen
Although he doesn't appear in the US release, Kotaro can be recruited in Kessen III if the Enjoy disk is inserted. Like Hanzō, he is a ninja type unit and one of the best ninja generals in the game.

Quotes

 * "Chaos is never satiated."
 * "The enemy crumbles before me."

Development
While the staff were in a meeting to decide what character could create a big impact for the Sengoku era, the idea to add an irregular trickster character came up. Kotaro was designed to fill that position and his ninja actions reflect his strange nature. His very tall stature of 6'11" (210 cm) -which is actually the same height as Keiji and Honda- accentuates the improbability of his ninja abilities. His wild dreadlocks, fire patterned pants, and unnaturally pale skin were also added to create the same effect.