#takeda shingen

[lovemeonlytilthespring]

Bleh

[oh-my-otome]

Whenever I play games especially otomes I always love picking duo or 2 fave characters at once. That being said, since I never played ikesen before & now ikesen eien is almost coming out, there are 22 characters to choose from, so I'm kind of confused on which 2 pairs shall I pick -

Should I go for Saizo & Kenshin?

Mitsuhide & Rikyu?

Or Shingen & Kanbei?

These 3 seems to be of my interest so far just by looking at them. I saw the standard cards of them & wow Shingen & Kanbei really have big abs & muscles, they must be oldest ones no?

Kenshin & Saizo looks like the mysterious quiet guys whereas Rikyu & Mitsuhide looks like the sneaky, flirty and trickery type.

Yet I don't know anything about these 6 characters. Any Idea how they are like? Also if I need to look out for any noncon/dubcon can you let me know that too?

Thanks!

Hello, Precious! I’m so excited for the new IkeSen app to come out next month! I keep going back and forth between which new warlord I want to start with.

@silkkorchid (chime in, please? 🥺) just posted a gentle CW about Rikyu’s route, though, so I may start with him just to see what’s going on. I still have my eye on Saizō, though!

When I played Eien (I selected pretty boy Yoshiteru), I didn’t get very far, so I only have a shallow impression of the new guys. I’ll be going in fresh alongside the rest of you lovelies.

From the warlords you have paired up, they seem to have slightly different personalities and mindsets.

Here is Kanbei’s official description:

“His seemingly gentle smile hides a mind that's impossible to decipher by human standards. A strategist who treats warfare as a mere game of life and death, he views humans as "cute playthings" to collect.”

Shingen is also a strategist, but war isn’t a game to him. He also doesn’t like overlooking the humanity in others, trying again and again to keep the spark of life from going out in his friends, Kenshin and Kennyo.

Shingen’s flirt mode is set to perma-lock, so it would be interesting to see if Kanbei is also a ladies man.

In Shingen’s route, he does the standard otome kidnapping, so you’re a hostage for a while.

As for the ages, there is no official age for IkeSen characters, but Shingen and Kennyo are considered the oldest of them all.

Here is Saizō’s description:

“A timid, pessimistic young man by day, but a lethal specter of death by night. He spares no one on the battleground―whoever crosses blades with him is beyond the point of no return.”

Kenshin is just as deadly on the battlefield, but where he is seriously and thoroughly convinced that he cannot be killed, Saizō is apologizing for still being alive, every chance he gets.

Kenshin isn’t really quiet or mysterious. He’s quite vocal about the things he dislikes, and is almost always issuing some manner of threat (usually to Sasuke, but Shingen also gets yelled at).

He’s pretty easy to tame, despite his yandere ways. Just tell him whatever cheapo alcohol you have is “the best thing ever” and he’ll believe because you said so.

No one would ever describe Kenshin a “timid,” but he is initially suspicious of your modern disposition and he is set in his maladaptive ways until your help him overcome some of them.

Kenshin does hold you captive for about 10 tickets worth of story (it might have been longer).

I get strong Ring-like puppy vibes from Saizō, so I’m really looking forward to playing his route. I want to uncover what happened in his ninja village when he was a child.

And finally, Rikyu and his unfortunate Scatman glasses:

“A flamboyant warlord renowned for his mastery of the tea ceremony. Beneath the gaudy decor, he manipulates information gleaned from others in the tea room to bring calamity and misfortune, all with a twisted smile on his face.”

Both Rikyu and Mitsuhide are shadiness personified, but Rikyu is more chaotic, while Mitsuhide is very calculated and controlled, regardless of what it personally costs him.

As one of the three (Sasuke and Ranmaru are the other two) characters who is in love with you regardless of who you pick, Mitsuhide firmly believes that, due to the nature of his work, he cannot be allowed to have someone like you in his life.

His heart doesn’t care about all of the logic his brain is trying to spit out, though, so he can’t keep himself from yearning.

Mitsuhide falls immediately, and he falls with the speed of an Indiana Jones-sized boulder going off a cliff. He’s not afraid of self-denial, however, so he’s prepared to love you from afar to keep you safe.

Mitsuhide’s route has the fake marriage trope, because you decide to be a stool pigeon and mess up his flow.

[oh-my-otome]

IkeSen Outfits: Uesugi-Takeda Forces

Oda Forces | Independent Forces | Ashikaga Forces

Fashions in order: Battle Gear, Kimono, Celebration, Card

[oh-my-otome]

[maddoxfanx]

further developing akuno's design

[blackryan53]

千葉真一   Sonny Chiba

武田信玄   Takeda Shingen   1991

[oh-my-otome]

[the-gequassel-shiro27]

One of my favorite Male characters in Fate/Grand Order is Takeda Shingen/Takeda Harunobu (Rider). And honestly it's less because of his (awesome) design and more how they choose to represent him. Reading his lore made me appreciate him even more. I'm a huge fan of japanese history, especially the Sengoku-Jidai, so the Guda-Guda Events are always a treat for me. But last year's Full Speed Ahead! Kawanakajima 24 Hours: GUDAGUDA Super Goryoukaku - Deadlier Than M51 Event will always have a special Place in my heart. Why? Because i used my Jalter to Farm the 90++ Node, but more importantly because of Kawanakajima. The five battles of Kawanakajima between Uesugi Kenshin and Takeda Shingen were some of the most shōnen battle coded events in history. And i love that Takeda Shingen's lore compares his wish to beat Uesugi Kenshin at least once to a squabble between children. While still maintaining a beautiful seriousness.

Their dynamic with it's strange lack of romance is one of my favorites in all of fate/go.

Historically the Takeda fell into ruin after Shingen's death. But Takeda Shingen's policies served as inspiration for Tokugawa Ieyasu. While a lot of his retainers swore allegiance to Tokugawa Ieyasu. Damn i wish the research on that was available in english, because i firmly believe that Takeda Shingen was extremely important for the founding of Tokugawa Shogunate. And not just because Kai and Suruga served as a means for Tokugawa to act independently following Oda Nobunagas death.

Like the Imagawa who also appeared in said event the Takeda belong to a group i dare to call "the loosers of the Sengoku-Jidai". Considering the Takeda served as the Lords of Kai since the founding of the Ashikaga-Shogunate in 1336, while the Imagawa were serving as the lords of Suruga since 1337. With both falling into near complete irrelevance during the Sengoku-Jidai.

Here's to hope we get a playable Imagawa Yoshimoto, Asakura Yoshikage, Date Masamune, Sanada Yukimura and any Figure from the Later Hōjō.