Sengoku Basara: End of Judgement

Sengoku Basara: End of Judgement
Sengoku Basara: End of Judgement key visual
戦国BASARA Judge End
(Sengoku Basara Judge End)
GenreAction
Anime television series
Directed byTakashi Sano
Produced byToshio Nakatani
Ai Morikawa
Atsushi Kirimoto
Kōhei Itō
Written byNatsuko Takahashi
Music byMasahiro Tokuda
StudioTelecom Animation Film
Licensed by
Original networkNippon TV
Original run July 6, 2014 – September 27, 2014
Episodes12[1] (List of episodes)

Sengoku Basara: End of Judgement (Japanese: 戦国BASARA Judge End, Hepburn: Sengoku Basara Judge End) is an anime television series based on the Sengoku Basara games originally created by CAPCOM. It began airing on July 6, 2014 on NTV[2] and tells its own version of the story from the video game Sengoku Basara: Samurai Heroes.

Unlike the previous anime adaptations (Sengoku Basara: Samurai Kings), this series is produced by Nippon Television, VAP and Telecom Animation Film and directed by Takashi Sano, with Natsuko Takahashi handling series composition, Michinori Chiba designing the characters and Masahiro Tokuda composing the music.[3]

Development

On the January 19, 2014 Sengoku Basara 4 Basara Matsuri 2014 event at the Nippon Seinenkan Great Hall, that a new television anime project for its Sengoku Basara franchise is in the works which later called "Sengoku Basara: Judge End".[4][5][6][7]

Plot

This series begins with Tokugawa Ieyasu betraying and killing Toyotomi Hideyoshi. Several groups start forming alliances in preparation of the upcoming Battle of Sekigahara.

Music

The opening theme song is "Thunderclap" by Fear, and Loathing in Las Vegas and the ending song is "Hokkyokusei ~Polaris~ (北極星～ポラリス～)" by Chiaki Ishikawa.

Characters

Although all characters[8] are credited with their family name first, they will be placed last in this section for better reference.

Date Clan

Masamune Date (伊達政宗, Date Masamune)
Kojūrō Katakura (片倉小十郎, Katakura Kojūrō)

Takeda Clan

Yukimura Sanada (真田幸村, Sanada Yukimura)
Sasuke Sarutobi (猿飛佐助, Sarutobi Sasuke)
Shingen Takeda (武田信玄, Takeda Shingen)

Tokugawa Clan

Ieyasu Tokugawa (徳川家康, Tokugawa Ieyasu)
Tadakatsu Honda (本多忠勝, Honda Tadakatsu)
Tadatsugu Sakai (酒井忠次, Sakai Tadatsugu)

Toyotomi Clan

Mitsunari Ishida (石田三成, Ishida Mitsunari)
Yoshitsugu Ōtani (大谷吉継, Ōtani Yoshitsugu)
Hideyoshi Toyotomi (豊臣秀吉, Toyotomi Hideyoshi)
Hanbei Takenaka (竹中半兵衛, Takenaka Hanbei)

Uesugi Clan

Kenshin Uesugi (上杉謙信, Uesugi Kenshin)
Kasuga (かすが)

Maeda Clan

Keiji Maeda (前田慶次, Maeda Keiji)
Matsu (まつ, Maeda Matsu)

Kobayakawa Clan

Hideaki Kobayakawa (小早川秀秋, Kobayakawa Hideaki)
Tenkai (天海, Tenkai)

Hōjō Clan

Ujimasa Hōjō (北条氏政, Hōjō Ujimasa)
Kotarō Fūma (風魔小太郎, Fūma Kotarō)

Ōtomo Clan

Sorin Otomo (大友宗麟, Ōtomo Sōrin)
Muneshige Tachibana (立花宗茂, Tachibana Muneshige)

Other Clans

Motochika Chōsokabe (長宗我部元親, Chōsokabe Motochika)
Kazumasa Isono (磯野員昌, Isono Kazumasa)
Kanbei Kuroda (黒田官兵衛, Kuroda Kanbei)
Motonari Mōri (毛利元就, Mōri Motonari)
Oichi (お市, Oichi)
Magoichi Saika (雑賀孫市, Saika Magoichi)
Yoshihiro Shimazu (島津義弘, Shimazu Yoshihiro)
Tsuruhime (鶴姫, Tsuruhime)

Episode list

# Title Airdate
1"Rift"
"Ketsubetsu" (決別)		July 5, 2014 (2014-07-05)
2"Chaos"
"Ranse" (乱世)		July 12, 2014 (2014-07-12)
3"Alliances"
"Doumei" (同盟)		July 19, 2014 (2014-07-19)
4"Astray"
"Meisou" (迷走)		July 27, 2014 (2014-07-27)
5"Defeat"
"Haiboku" (敗北)		August 2, 2014 (2014-08-02)
6"Declarations"
"Sengen" (宣言)		August 9, 2014 (2014-08-09)
7"Darkness"
"Ankoku" (闇黒)		August 16, 2014 (2014-08-16)
8"Promise"
"Yakusoku" (約束)		August 23, 2014 (2014-08-23)
9"Sekigahara"
"Sekigahara" (関ヶ原)		September 6, 2014 (2014-09-06)
10"Life-and-Death"
"Shitou" (死闘)		September 13, 2014 (2014-09-13)
11"Verdict"
"Shinpan" (審判)		September 20, 2014 (2014-09-20)
12"Guide"
"Shirube" (標)		September 27, 2014 (2014-09-27)

See also

References

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