![]() These women can be differentiated from the defensive female fighters known as onna bugeisha. Tomoe stands out as one of Japan's extraordinarily rare woman warriors who engaged in offensive battle, known as onna musha. ![]() So without further ado, allow me to introduce to you the one and only Tomoe Gozen, a 12th century warrior woman who slashed her way to samurai stardom, leaving severed heads and several manga series in her wake. It's my hope that this series will fill in some of those gender gaps and show you why the badassery of Japan's womenfolk deserves to be recognized too! On top of that, individual biographies are one of my favorite ways to imagine and learn more deeply about Japanese history as it was lived–almost like my very own low-tech RPG. Japanese history, like most national histories, tends to be a bit of a sausage fest–an emperor here, a samurai there, and some Buddhist monks thrown in for good measure. After they captured Cyclead and removed the mind control device Neo Descal had planted on him, Cyclead rejoined Blaird and Aqual and the Three Shoguns were reunited, now on the side of Sazer-X.įollowing the final battle against Neo Descal, the Three Shoguns were each chosen to guard a different Cosmo Capsule and left for space after bidding farewell to Sazer-X.First in a series chronicling-you guessed it-female badassery in Japan. Cyclead's sudden turn frightened Aqual and eventually led her to leave and join Blaird in helping Sazer-X. As Cyclead was the Shogun they were descended from and the only one they needed to keep alive, Neo Descal and Barreda brainwashed him to be more aggressive and easy for them to manipulate. Sazer-X destroyed the flagship, but the shoguns were saved by Garade and Grouza, who needed them alive to prevent any alterations to the timeline.Īfter King Neo Descal and Barreda arrive from the future, they feigned a pledge of loyalty to Aqual and Cyclead in order to manipulate them into keeping Sazer-X busy while they worked on their planet. ![]() When they were defeated again, they attempted to flee in their flagship Balgareon. In the new timeline, the Three Shoguns competed with After the reveal of Barder as robot, the Shoguns began to doubt their mission, but decided to stay on Earth to finish things with Sazer-X. Sazer-X sent a team of their members back in time to 2005 to stop the Three Shoguns from taking over Earth. When Neo Descal's conquest threatened the universe, a resistance called "Sazer-X" was formed. The descendants of Blaird and the other Shoguns would go on to reform Descal into Descal and begin a campaign to conquer other planets besides Earth. During this time, Blaird would reconnect with Thundera, the fourth Shogun, and the two would fall in love and have children. In the original timeline, the Three Shoguns gathered all of the Cosmo Capsules and used them to take over Earth. They fought alongside each other and served Barder loyally. Barder directed them to collect the Cosmo Capsules. Under the order of Captain Barder, the Three Shoguns traveled at Earth with the rest of Descal to conquer the planet and reclaim the ancient homeworld of their ancestors. Unbeknownst to the Three, a fourth Shogun, Thundera, resided underground on Earth and was descended from the Descal ancestors who stayed behind on the planet instead of fleeing into space. The Three Shoguns were each descended from the ancestors of the Descal who inhabited Earth originally. ![]() They are trio of element-themed space pirates working for the Space Pirate Fleet Descal and later Neo Descal. The Three Shoguns are the secondary antagonists of Chousei Kantai Sazer-X.
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