![]() ![]() Her plot was that she wanted to take out Yoshimitsu and wield his sword for herself. Namco depicted Kunimitsu as a man in the first game, but every appearance afterwards depicted Kunimitsu as a woman in a fox mask.Īs of Tekken 2, Kunimitsu was excommunicated from the Manji Clan for stealing some of their funds. While Yoshimitsu was about stealing from the villainous Ganryu and giving to the poor, Kunimitsu was all about stealing from the heroic Michelle Chang and giving to himself…er, herself. The game also introduced Kunimitsu, Yoshimitsu’s Manji Clan underling. Speed up to modern day and we’re back to Tekken 1, where Yoshimitsu entered the King of Iron Fist tournament to mess with greedy, horny-on-main, sumo guy Ganryu and ultimately stole a bunch of his fortune so he could give it out to poor people, such as Marshall Law and his family. The legacy continued for centuries with there always being a new Yoshimitsu to wield the sword because apparently it’s part of the lore that the sword can’t be used against you if you take up the mantle. Then it was made clear that SoulCalibur 6 will be a rewrite of the earlier games, so all we’ll remember Yoshimitsu the Second for is his sweet skull mask within an oni mask look. SoulCalibur 5 lacked endings outside of its main story mode campaign, so Yoshimitsu was pretty much left to the wayside. Not much became of Yoshimitsu the Second. He survived long enough to find a successor to kill him in battle and take both his sword and name.Įven then, the ill-fated Yoshimitsu the First was able to chop off his successor’s arm before going down for good. Due to age and lack of character importance in comparison, Yoshimitsu got mortally wounded. SoulCalibur 5 made it apparent that it’s the former as Yoshimitsu found out about the resurrection of regular series villain Cervantes and decided to nip that problem in the bud. With all these prequel games, it still wasn’t 100% clear if Yoshimitsu was a legacy concept or an immortal with zany fashion sense. Again, this is in no way reflected in his ending, where he spares the life of the final boss Algol and tells him to get over himself. His SoulCalibur 4 subplot centered around Tira – essentially Harley Quinn as Gollum with a hula hoop enthusiasm – killing one of Yoshimitsu’s guys. Yoshimitsu’s ending had zero to do with that and instead focused on him stealing more gold. Unfortunately, that mission led to disaster as one of Yoshimitsu’s top soldiers went insane from a shard of the broken sword and betrayed the rest of the clan. Kind of like if Lord of the Rings had a bunch of kooky ninjas and more stuff to destroy than a single ring. Fun fact: originally, the PS2 SoulCalibur 2was supposed to have Cloud Strife as the exclusive guest character (going with GameCube’s Link and Xbox’s Spawn), but the deal fell through and they plugged Heihachi in there.Īs of SoulCalibur 3, his clan had two main focuses: 1) find treasures and spread their wealth to the poor and 2) find and destroy all remaining shards of the Soul Edge. He would return in SoulCalibur 2, alongside another Soul/ Tekkenconnection where Heihachi Mishima would magically travel back in time in the PlayStation 2 version of the game. From there, the Manji Clan was reborn as the Manjitou with Yoshimitsu the First at its helm. He made enough of a name for himself that others sought him out to join his side. From there, he became a heroic bandit who looked out for the poor and the weak. ![]() Yoshimitsu decided that he would not allow the katana’s evil to overwhelm him and set out to conquer it. Yoshimitsu never did come across the villainous knight, but he got close enough that his own sword became possessed by traces of the Soul Edge’s evil, giving it an otherworldly glow. At some point during his adventure, he decided that maybe vengeance wasn’t the best course of action because he didn’t want to become a figurative monster like Nobunaga or a literal monster like Nightmare. Since there was news of an azure knight going around killing everything with a bigass eyeball sword, Yoshimitsu followed the bloodshed. Read the latest Den of Geek Special Edition Magazine Here! Replacing his arm with a steampunk prosthetic, Yoshimitsu went on a one-man mission to find the most badass sword ever and get his revenge. ![]() Yoshimitsu went and politely declined for the umpteenth time, but upon returning home, he found that Nobunaga’s forces had wiped out the entire clan for the “insult.” Yoshimitsu went after Nobunaga himself, but was overwhelmed by his army and got his arm chopped off in battle. Real-life Japanese leader Oda Nobunaga wanted the mysterious Manji Clan to join his side. ![]()
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