Nobunaga Oda (Sengoku BASARA)

"Worship me. Die for your crime of defying the King of One Hundred Demons, and repent in the afterlife. There are none before me, and will be none after me. I am the Devil King of the Sixth Heaven, Oda Nobunaga!"

- Nobunaga Oda, in the Sengoku Basara anime

Nobunaga Oda is one of the big villains of the Sengoku BASARA series, serving as the main villain of the first series, but continues to make his presence known throughout the series, despite other figures like Hideyoshi Toyotomi, Mitsunari Ishida and Hisahide Matsunaga taking their places in the installment series.

He wields a broadsword and a shotgun in battle, but his cape is capable of executing cruel attacks. He's a ruthless warlord who will stop at nothing in conquering first Japan, and then the world. Whenever he sees it fit, he will betray any ally on sight and kill them without remorse. He held no regards on his supposed subordinates as well, he used his sister Oichi to rope Nagamasa Azai into doing his bidding as his supposed 'ally'. He sees lowly on his wife Nouhime, proclaiming her weak when she died protecting him in the first game. He is indifferent with his aide Mori Ranmaru and only sees him as a tool for battle, keeping him in line by rewarding him with candies. He doesn't even care about the atrocities and sadism committed by Akechi Mitsuhide, and usually is capable and will do much more ruthless acts than him. Hideyoshi Toyotomi, while a villain on his own, is utterly disgusted at Nobunaga and is usually depicted as a rival rather than an ally like it was in the history.

By the third game, he is officially killed by Mitsuhide. However, Mitsuhide, disguised as the monk Tenkai, sought to revive him by using the amnesiac Oichi as a medium to revive him. However, when revived, Nobunaga turns out to not recognize him at all, killed him and swore to unleash the force of Hell to take over the world. It is up to the player to stop him at this point. Although Saica Magoichi has a personal grudge against him for killing her master/predecessor.

This incarnation of Nobunaga is voiced by Wakamoto Norio, a seiyuu famous for voicing villains in various anime.