Samurai Warriors (TV series)

Sengoku Musou (戦国無双) is a 2015 one cour animated TV series adaptation of Sengoku Musou 4-II. It takes place after the events of its previous animated TV special. Original characters will appear in this narrative to deviate from its base. Voice actors from the game reprise their roles for their respective characters.

The TV special creators also created the TV series. TYO Animations is producing, Yuka Yamada wrote the screenplay, and Aki Tsunaki did the animated character designs. Tezuka Production is aiding the animation department. It is scheduled to begin January 11, 2015 on TV Tokyo. Until the show ends, Nico Nico Seiga users can post their illustrations up for end card consideration.

Character image song CDs will be up for sale during its broadcast. Blu-Ray and DVD extras include a character postcard, a behind-the-scenes booklet, a Sanada Brothers radio CD recording, and a Sengoku Musou Shoot serial code for each volume. The first volume includes non credit versions of the opening and ending.

Cast

 * Takeshi Kusao - Yukimura Sanada
 * Daisuke Ono - Nobuyuki Sanada
 * Eiji Takemoto - Mitsunari Ishida
 * Masaya Takatsuka - Kanetsugu Naoe
 * Yuko Nagashima - Kunoichi
 * Makiko Ohmoto - Inahime
 * Satoshi Hino - Yoshitsugu Ōtani
 * Masaya Matsukaze - Takatora Tōdō
 * Shinichi Yamada - Sakon Shima
 * Tomokazu Sugita - Kiyomasa Katō
 * Takahiro Fujimoto - Masanori Fukushima
 * Katsuyuki Konishi - Naomasa Ii
 * Ryota Takeuchi - Kagekatsu Uesugi, Kojūrō Katakura
 * Wakana Yamazaki - Nene
 * Nobuyuki Hiyama - Masamune Date, Kotarō Fūma
 * Unsho Ishizuka - Narration, Ujiyasu Hōjō
 * Masami Suzuki - Kaihime
 * Satomi Sato - Lady Hayakawa
 * Hideo Ishikawa - Hideyoshi Toyotomi
 * Shouta Ebina - Hidetada Tokugawa
 * Akio Otsuka - Tadakatsu Honda
 * Joji Nakata - Ieyasu Tokugawa
 * Kensho Ono - Hideyori Toyotomi
 * Ryuzaburo Ohtomo - Shingen Takeda

Image Songs

 * ikusa
 * Nadeshiko Sakura
 * Performed by Wagakki Band

ikusa is the opening song. Nadeshiko Sakura is the ending theme. Both songs are available for the band's first single in 2015.

Episode Summaries
Episode 1 = Mitsunari and Ieyasu overlook the fog at Sekigahara. Both reflect on the past and the relationships they have built until the conflict, repeating many key scenes from the base game verbatim.

The narration resets the setting to the second siege of Odawara Castle. Mitsunari is entrusted by Hideyoshi to take it, and three unsuccessful months pass due to the Hōjō's iron defenses and high morale. Hideyoshi is confident in Mitsunari's success against Ieyasu's doubts. Confident in their conquest, he entrusts Ieyasu to rule Kanto after the Hōjō are defeated. Hidetada protests the decision after their audience, claiming that it will lower their family affluence.

Back at Odawara, Mitsunari gives the order for a full strike to take advantage of the Hōjō's lowered supply line. Nobuyuki disapproves, voicing his concerns for the future government. While deliberations continue amongst the war council, Yukimura mounts his steed and charges into battle by himself. He rams through the castle barricade to challenge Ujiyasu to a duel. Kaihime and Lady Hayakawa intercept; Ujiyasu interrupts the moment they are pushed back. The Toyotomi army ride to Yukimura's assistance during their duel. Kunoichi keeps the women at bay, and Nobuyuki eventually reunites with his brother. Ujiyasu is ultimately defeated by Yukimura and gives his last will to the Sanada brothers.

Hideyoshi gathers the victors for a cherry blossom banquet to celebrate his unification. Mitsunari speaks in Yukimura's favor when reporting to Hideyoshi; his lord complements his plan regardless and sympathizes with his retainer's hardship. He hopes Mitsunari and Ieyasu can work together for the land's future; realizing they are at odds, he states the same for the Sanada brothers. His illness is hinted when he drops his saucer.

The after credit extra is a contemporary parody called Sengoku Musou High School. Tadakatsu is a social studies teacher who expects his students to remember his lecture. He is interrupted each time his chalk breaks against the class blackboard, and his class is left clueless for their exam. Hideyoshi falls deathly ill. Before he perishes he pleads Ieyasu and Mitsunari to look after his son, Hideyori, for him. Toshiie inherits Hideyoshi's will and dies from illness soon afterwards. Nene leaves Osaka Castle because it pains her to remember her departed husband, entrusting her "children" with the future. Kanetsugu acts as his lord's representative at the conference to decide the clan's future, explaining that the Uesugi require time to establish their newly assigned power in Aizu. Ieyasu mentions a rumor that they're building a new castle and raises concerns of the divide that is beginning within the Toyotomi ranks. Mitsunari's foul attitude and nonpartisan decisions deepen the gap.
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The Sanada brothers are reminded of the Takeda's fall and seek to protect their family name at all costs. One day at Osaka Castle, they overhear Kiyomasa and Masanori protesting Mitsunari's order to head to Kyushu. Mitsunari remains distant to his childhood friends' outbursts and their separation from him. During their return to Ueda Castle, Nobuyuki and Ina are called to attend an audience with Ieyasu. The Tokugawa lord has gathered a discrete circle of retainers to defend the remnants of Toyotomi unity, citing the Uesugi's worrisome behavior as an act of self-motivated ambition. Osaka receives word of Ieyasu's march to arms, causing Mitsunari to believe that Ieyasu is targeting the innocent Uesugi for his own ambitions. Yukimura learns his brother has joined Ieyasu but cannot abandon his friendship with Kanetsugu and Mitsunari.

Kunoichi delivers an invite to Nobuyuki to meet his brother at a temple in Inubushi. Yukimura tries to convince Nobuyuki to join Mitsunari due to their past obligation to him. Nobuyuki remains adamant because he foresees the Toyotomi's fall. The older brother wants his sibling to be by his side for the conflict. Since neither can give up their set of ideals, they part ways as enemies.

This episode's Sengoku Musou High School segment focuses on Mitsunari trying and failing to type efficiently while wearing his gloves. Sakon teases him, and the youth pouts by slamming his palms against the keyboard. It shatters beneath him.
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