Sanada Nishi

Sanada Nishi
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Japanese Name	真田 西
Gender	Male
Voice Actors
Seiyū	Kisho Taniyama
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The Ashikabi of the West. Despite his rough appearance and coarse mannerisms, he is shown to become overly emotional and protective of his Sekirei, to the point of embarrassment. His appearance and personality are similar to that of Seo Kaoru's. Their similarities result in them getting into a comical, evenly-matched fist fight with each other, after this, they gain respect for each other. This leads later to an alliance between him, Seo and Minato during the 4th match of the Third Stage. His casual, happy-go-lucky nature is reflected in him mostly being seen riding his motorcycle throughout Teito, together with three of his six Sekirei, when apart from the Ashikabi he has aligned himself with.

Appearance

Sanada is a lean, yet muscular, black-haired and black eyed man of average height with a gruff, wild look about him. He wears a black leather jacket, dark trousers with a white skull-adorned belt and a pair of dark leather gloves. Usually he is seen with goggles wrapped around his neck, and often appears after riding into a given situation on his predominantly black motorcycle.

Personality

Sanada's personality is very much like Seo's, as both are usually easy-going, but have hot tempers, and can quickly turn hostile and violent. Like Minato, he seems to show a great deal of care for his Sekirei and is willing to fight by their side and protect them, as seen when he became enraged at Seo's blatant advances towards Kuzuri and Kujika. He is one of two Ashikabi out of the four most powerful to truly care for his Sekirei, along with Minato. He also seems to have a weak spot for beautiful and strong widows, and strong-willed women in general, especially Miya, claiming to be in love with her, although Miya is merely perplexed at these claims.

Despite seemingly being the most impulsive and least intelligent of the four Ashikabi "rulers", he is surprisingly crafty. This is demonstrated when he asked Mikogami about the "hidden ball trick", he was actually hinting at a surprise when he revealed that he had winged six Sekirei, not three. The devious nature of this trick is defended by Sanada as him simply hiding in plain sight so to speak, with three winged Sekirei clearly not being enough for an Ashikabi to emerge as one of the four most powerful "players." His relationship with his three "uncontrollable" Sekirei, Chiyo, Yuna, and Hatae, is shown to be tumultuous, although Sanada loves them, he is deathly afraid of calling upon them to battle due to their intense sadism and cruelty, even apologizing to his opponents should they have to face those three Sekirei.

Sekirei

• Kuzuri (#93)
• Kujika (#92)
• Shijime (#106)
• Chiyo (#14)
• Yūna (#17)
• Hatae (#20)

History

Nothing is known about Sanada's past, apart from his winging of six Sekirei, and his rise to becoming one of the most powerful Ashikabi in the Sekirei Plan.

Synopsis

Sanada appears first when he gets ordered to participate in the first match of stage 3 while he was riding his motorcycle through the city. In the actual match he makes his entrance by hiting Seo from behind on the head with an iron pipe, thinking he had assaulted Kuzuri. He then hugs his Sekirei and displays a rather odd attachment to them calling them his 'lovelies.' Hikari and Hibiki, angered by his attack on Seo strike at Sanada with lightning which he, unlike than his Sekirei, can't dodge. Sanada, unfazed by this attack complains to them why they don't wear tiger striped bikinis (most probably a reference to Lum from Urusey Yatsura) claiming they weren't able to read the atmosphere/room. After he had introduced himself Seo reappears, grabbing the breasts of his two Sekirei which pisses Sanada off further resulting in a comical fist fight with Seo, commenting Seo's personality would be a strange version of his own. Their fight was ongoing until Mikogami acquired the Jinki. Exhausted and lying on the ground he talks with Seo about the Jinki and when he was about to shake hands with him, Hikari strikes them both with lightning, asking why 'idiots and trash' always make friends with each other.

Before the match, Sanada pays a visit to Minato at Izumo Inn, hitting on Miya and riling up Tsukiumi in the process. Seo later arrives, telling Minato that he brought Sanada over to propose an alliance between the three of them during the fourth match. All three men officially agree to cooperate. By the end of the chaos of the battle aboard the Minaka, Sanada claims one Jinki and remains in contention.

During the Fourth Stage on Kamikura Island, Sanada is matched up against Hayato Mikogami, and engages him with an ambush from three of his six Sekirei-Yuna, Hatae, and Chiyo, leading to Momo, Mitsuki, Juusa, and Taki being terminated. Akitsu is later winged by Hayato and defeats the trio, using her Norito which Sanada survives alongside his Lovelies, Hayato, Himeko, and Mutsu. Sanada wanders around the island searching for Kuzuri, Shijime, and Kujika until he encounters the invading soldiers, who easily subdue him and plan to use him as a hostage. He is freed but later incapacitated.

After the plan ends, Sanada is present for the celebration at Izumo Inn, where he gets into another fight with Seo after getting drunk and messing up a celebratory toast. In the epilogue he helps during the battle at Kamikura, and spends a good deal of his time fleeing from Yuna, Hatae, and Chiyo.

Anime and Manga differences

• In the second season of Sekirei, Sanada appears and crosses paths early with Yukari and Shiina. Yukari, viewing him as a jerk, takes out her rage on him while his three Sekirei look on. Later, in episode 11, when Minato, Tsukiumi, Musubi, and Kazehana are attacked by a group of Sekirei and their Ashkabi, Sanada shows up and starts a massive fight with the other Sekirei and Ashikabi, allowing Minato and his Sekirei to enter MBI/Teito Tower.

Quotes

Do you know what the "Hidden ball trick" is? - To Mikogami Hayato

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