Takanobu Ryūzōji

Takanobu Ryūzōji is one of the three great daimyo who ruled a region in Kyūshū. He is the nineteenth head of the Ryūzōji clan and is famously known as "The Bear of Hizen". Historically, his cruelty and ruthlessness was compared to Yoshimoto. Their infamous reputation and the nature of their deaths being caused by two eccentrics had later generations dub Takanobu as "the Yoshimoto" for Yoshihiro.

Role in Games

Takanobu is already dead within the main narrative of the Samurai Warriors series. He only appears as a general during the series's Empires titles. The second Empires entry highlights portions of his regime and his fall during Yoshihiro's story route. He is portrayed as a cruel and arrogant leader who abuses his cohorts and retainers; his death after his defeat at Okinawate is given a lengthy cutscene within this title.

Nobunaga's Ambition often has Takanobu be the middle man of the three powers in Kyushu. His military might is not as strong as the Shimazu, and his intellectual traits are behind the Ōtomo. Recent titles in the series tend to emphasize the strengths of his powerful retainers as his crowning trait over his major rivals, particularly his "renowned four devas". Players can utilize their potentially game-breaking abilities to conquer the land with minimal difficulty. Takanobu's personal stats are often above-average in the series, but his Political traits tend to be the weakest of the lords within Kyushu.

The online adaptation of the series portrays him as a heavily muscled thug who truly has a heart of gold. Similar to the stereotypical image for a yakuza family, his four kings are dressed in brightly colored garb and have intricate tattoos on their bodies. He has a wife named Akira who wields two swords, talks rudely, and loves her husband dearly.

Voice Actors

Rikumi Moriwaki - Nobunaga no Yabou Shutsujin (Japanese)

Quotes

"This stuff is quite good. Let us enjoy the wine."

"My lord, please wait! There may be poison in the wine. It's dangerous!"

"Are you stupid? If old man Dōsetsu was mean enough to poison the wine, he could have killed me ages ago!"

~~Takanobu and Naoshige; Sengoku Musou 3: Empires

Historical Information

Gallery

100man-nin no Sengoku Musou visual
Samurai Warriors 4 concept

Nobunaga's Ambition portrait
Nobunaga no Yabou Zenkokuban portrait
Nobunaga's Ambition: Lord of Darkness portrait
Nobunaga's Ambition: Lord of Darkness PS portrait
Nobunaga no Yabou Haouden portrait
Nobunaga no Yabou Reppuuden portrait
Nobunaga no Yabou Internet portrait
Nobunaga's Ambition: Rise to Power portrait
Nobunaga no Yabou Tendou portrait
Nobunaga's Ambition: Sphere of Influence portrait
Nobunaga no Yabou Online render
Rough concept
100man-nin no Nobunaga no Yabou portrait
Kyushu no Oni portrait
Rank 11 portrait
Awakened portrait
Alternate portrait
Alternate portrait 2
Alternate portrait 3
Alternate portrait 4
100man-nin Zannen na Bushou Zukan April Fools portrait
Alternate portrait 5
Alternate portrait 6
Nobunaga no Yabou 201X portrait
Nobunaga no Yabou 20XX portrait
Nobunaga no Yabou ~Oretachi no Sengoku~ portrait
Alternate portrait
Nobunaga no Yabou Shutsujin portrait
Ryūzōji Takanofuu in Samurai Cats
Takanofuu raising a toast
Mangrove to Fushigi na Kuma-tachi collaboration portrait
Alternate portrait

Taikō Risshiden II portrait
Taikō Risshiden IV portrait
Taikō Risshiden V portrait
Guntama portrait
Five-Province Viceroy Takanobu
Sengoku Hime Ran portrait
Sengoku IXA portrait
Alternate portrait
Alternate portrait 2
Alternate portrait 3
Alternate portrait 4
Sengoku Bushouki MURAMASA Rank 1 Lovely R portrait
Rank 2 Lovely R portrait
Rank 3 Lovely R portrait
Rank 4 Lovely R portrait
Rank 1 Bewitching R portrait
Rank 2 Bewitching R portrait
Rank 3 Bewitching R portrait
Rank 4 Bewitching R portrait
Rank 1 Lovely SR portrait
Rank 2 Lovely SR portrait
Rank 3 Lovely SR portrait
Rank 4 Lovely SR portrait
Lovely MR portrait
Alternate Lovely MR portrait
Lovely URR portrait
Lovely Mini Card portrait
Limited Mini Card portrait
Alternate Lovely Mini Card portrait
Tenka Touitsu V portrait
Chou Visual! Sengoku Bushou Great Encyclopedia illustration
Sengoku Bushou Kanzen Visual Guide illustration
Tenka wo Mezase! Sengoku Kassen Panorama Great Map illustration

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Samurai Warriors
Games
Main Titles	Samurai Warriors • Samurai Warriors 2 • Samurai Warriors 3 • Samurai Warriors 4 • Samurai Warriors 5
Expansions	4-II • Empires (2) • Empires (3) • Empires (4) • Special • Spirit of Sanada • Xtreme Legends (1) • Xtreme Legends (2) • Xtreme Legends (3)
Spin-Offs	100man-nin • Chronicles • Chronicles 2nd • Chronicles 3 • Derby • Katana • Pachislot • Shoot • State of War
Characters
Samurai Warriors	Goemon Ishikawa • Hanzō Hattori • Hideyoshi Toyotomi • Ina • Keiji Maeda • Kenshin Uesugi • Kunoichi • Magoichi Saika • Masamune Date • Mitsuhide Akechi • Nō • Nobunaga Oda • Oichi • Okuni • Ranmaru Mori • Shingen Takeda • Tadakatsu Honda • Yoshimoto Imagawa • Yukimura Sanada
Samurai Warriors 2	Ginchiyo Tachibana • Gracia • Ieyasu Tokugawa • Kanetsugu Naoe • Katsuie Shibata • Kojirō Sasaki • Kotarō Fūma • Mitsunari Ishida • Motochika Chōsokabe • Musashi Miyamoto • Nagamasa Azai • Nene • Sakon Shima • Toshiie Maeda • Yoshihiro Shimazu
Samurai Warriors 3	Aya • Hanbei Takenaka • Kai • Kanbei Kuroda • Kiyomasa Katō • Masanori Fukushima • Motonari Mōri • Munenori Yagyū • Muneshige Tachibana • Naotora Ii • Takatora Tōdō • Ujiyasu Hōjō
Samurai Warriors 4	Chacha • Hidetada Tokugawa • Hisahide Matsunaga • Kagekatsu Uesugi • Katsuyori Takeda • Kojūrō Katakura • Koshōshō • Lady Hayakawa • Masayuki Sanada • Naomasa Ii • Nobuyuki Sanada • Sasuke • Takakage Kobayakawa • Toyohisa Shimazu • Yoshitsugu Ōtani
Samurai Warriors 5	Dōsan Saitō • Fujihide Mitsubuchi • Kazuuji Nakamura • Mitsuki • Motoharu Kikkawa • Motonobu Okabe • Nobuyuki Oda • Sandayū Momochi • Sena • Shikanosuke Yamanaka • Terumoto Mōri • Toshimitsu Saitō • Yasuke • Yoshiaki Ashikaga • Yoshikage Asakura • Yoshitatsu Saitō
Other Characters	Non-Playable Characters • Bodyguards • Edit Characters • Katana Protagonist • Chronicles Protagonist • Takamaru
Factions
Prominent Clans	Akechi • Azai • Chōsokabe • Date • Hōjō • Imagawa • Kuroda • Mōri • Oda • Saitō • Sanada • Shimazu • Tachibana • Takeda • Tokugawa • Toyotomi • Uesugi
Alliances	Eastern Army • Honganji Rioters • Saika Renegades • Western Army •