Sannan Keisuke Characteristics Gender: Male Race: Human Rasetsu Eye Color: Hazel Hair Color: Dark Brown Height: 173 cm Professional Attributes: Faction: Shinsengumi Rank: Vice-Commander Voice Actors: Japanese Tobita Nobuo English David Matranga
Sannan Keisuke is the Secretary-General of the Shinsengumi and a samurai from the Sendai domain. His character is historically based off of Yamanami Keisuke.
Appearance: Sannan Keisuke is a scholarly-looking man with big round glasses. He has dark brown, shoulder length hair that is slicked-back, leaving one lock of bangs on the left-hand side of his face. Sannan wears a casual dark green kimono shirt with a dark blue vest overtop and black open-end pants. In some versions of the Shinsengumi story "Sannan" is considered to be a nickname, with "Yamanami" given as the real pronunciation of his surname (山南), but his canonical name in Hakuouki is "Sannan".
Personality: Sannan is a soft-spoken man who doesn't like to make trouble for other people. He especially dislikes being pitied• Sannan deeply cherishes his friends and comrades and tries to help in any way he can for the sake of the Shinsengumi. He has great admiration and respect for Hijikata, even though they don't always see eye to eye.
Plot: First Season: Sannan is the first one in the anime to take Ochimizu due to an arm injury that prevented him from fighting, causing him to be depressed. As a very intelligent individual, he studies the Ochimizu and even attempts to alter the Ochimizu's characteristics so its side effects wouldn't affect him.
Second Season: Sannan's character has become extremely dark; he is now obsessed with finding blood and searching ways to improve Ochimizu. In fact, he even goes so far that he asks Chizuru for blood, due to her demon status. Sannan is intrigued and delighted to find out that Koudou has created a Rasetsu Unit that can survive in daylight. His night-time activities of searching for blood in town and the fact that the Rasetsu are wasting their lives away by using their powers causes the Rasetsu Unit to be shut down.
Nearing the end of the second season, Sannan forges an alliance with Koudou to create more Rasetsu and bring rise to the new demon breed. He is confronted by Hijitaka and Heisuke, who oppose the idea, and Chizuru, who refused to take control of the Rasetsu, not wanting to revive her clan. Sannan surprised all of them by suddenly attacking the Rasetsu instead of Hijitaka. To him, Shinsengumi orders mean more than anything else.
He used his Rasetsu powers even though he knew full well of the consequences. He mentioned to Koudou that the Rasetsu have no future and they cannot live a normal life because no matter how much the Ochimizu was improved, the shortening of one's life span and going crazy at the sight of blood cannot be cured. After killing off all the Rasetsu and having spent whatever remained of his life force, Sannan fades away alongside Heisuke who also suffered the same fate.
Hakuouki SSL: It seems that even in the 21st century, Sannan's underlining obsession with Ochimizu is still apparent and being the school nurse often gives him an excuse to use the ochimizu in order to "treat" injured students & staff like Shinpachi, despite Yamazaki's feeble attempts to stop him.
Trivia: •Sannan grew surprisingly angry at Chizuru when she made his lunch differently from everyone elses, because he didn't want her "pitying an injured man who may clumsily spill his food," but then ate the food with the others when Chizuru told him that she just did it because she cares for him.
•To the dismay of many, Sannan is never seen without his glasses.
•In Heisuke's route, Sannan turns completely evil in his lust for power via the ochimizu, In the anime, he only pretended to be evil in order to deceive the enemy. When Sannan takes the ochimizu, that is technically when he would have "died" in real life.
•Since both "Yamanami" & Sannan" are spelled the same way, there is no "wrong" way to say Keisuke's family name, In Hakuouki, they simply refer to him as the later.
•Sannan has a theme track in the anime, however it is mostly used for the Oni. #######
Shinpachi Nagakura
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Characteristics Gender Male Race Human Eye Color Blue Hair Color Reddish-Brown Height 175 cm Professional Attributes Faction Shinsengumi Rank 2nd Division Captain Voice Actors Japanese Tsuboi Tomohiro English Kalob Martinez
The team leader of the second division who hails from Edo. A person fond of women, wine and swordplay. His swordsmanship is one of the best among the Shinsengumi. His character is historically based.
Personality Shinpachi is a boisterous, cheerful young man who enjoys drinking & having a good time with his comrades, and is very good friends with Heisuke and Harada. In spite of him tending to be the loudest at parties, he never seems to have much luck with women & often blames Sano for "stealing all the women".
Appearance He wears a green bandana around his brown hair. Although he is 2nd Unit Captain, he loves to drink and womanize, even breaking curfew despite the severe consequence: seppuku. Apparently he's very vain about his physical condition and muscular build, as shown during a physical examination.
Plot Second Season He is extremely unhappy with the fact that Kondou is aspiring to become a daimyo, claiming that he only followed Kondou because he didn't care about his status in society. Ultimately he and Harada Sanosuke leave the Shinsengumi, but it's implied that they'll return. After Hijikata is injured during his fight with Kazama, Shinpachi unofficially returns.
Hakuouki SSL In SSL, Shinpachi teaches Math & Science despite his tracksuit attire, he also has a nasty habit of betting on local horse races, even when he's supposed to be in class, although he never seems to win.
Trivia, Differences & other info: •Shinpachi has theme music in the anime
•Shinpachi was born the son of a samurai, but he never agreed with the ideals of directly serving a lord who believed money could solve any problem, which in turn, led him to serving in the Shinsengumi.
