![]() His most defining characteristics in accounts of the Sengoku period - both historical and fictional - appear to be his unwavering loyalty and his unusual beauty. Ranmaru spent most of his life as an attendant to legendary Japanese feudal lord Nobunaga Oda, who plays a prominent role in both the Samurai Warriors and Warriors Orochi series. So how did this come about? The Ranmaru Mori in historical records and fiction based on those historical records is male, so why the genderbend? Was Ranmaru Mori a trans woman? Was he an example of otokonoko culture? Was it just a stylistic choice by Omega Force? Fanart by Metalinu ( Pixiv) And in both the Japanese and English incarnations of most of the games in which he appears, he is voiced by a woman - Tara Platt in the case of the English dub, and Naomi Shindo in the original Japanese. He has a face that looks rather feminine (albeit stern), giving the impression he is wearing makeup. He has a distinctly feminine character model that is dressed in a similar fashion to other female members of the cast. The reason why so many people over the course of the last decade or so have been rather confused by Ranmaru’s gender identity is quite simply because, in the Warriors games at least, he’s designed to unabashedly present as feminine. Ranmaru Mori is a guy, and thus technically ineligible for Waifu Wednesday, but encountering him for the first time in Warriors Orochi presented me with some interesting questions and also prompted me to look into his history. So… well, what better time than the present to get stuck in and see what we can find out?įirst up, let’s get something important out of the way, because, well… oh, I’ll just say it. ![]() And, as such, I had also never encountered the numerous… discussions over this particular character that appear to crop up pretty much each and every time a new Warriors game featuring the Samurai crew shows its face. Having never encountered Samurai Warriors and its cast, I had consequently never stumbled across Ranmaru Mori before. Prior to firing up Warriors Orochi for the ongoing Warriors Wednesday video series, my sole contact with Omega Force’s formidable franchise was various incarnations of Dynasty Warriors. ![]()
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