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| “ | You breathed your first breath because me. And you breathe now because I allow it. | „ |
| ~ Daichi to Akemi when she refused to take part of his plan to wipe out Clan Ito and become the new shogun. |
Lord Daichi Tokunobu is a major antagonist in the first season of the Netflix animated series Blue Eye Samurai. He is the father of Akemi and the leader of the Tokunobu clan, who works with Abijah Fowler to kill the Shogun, wipe out the Ito Clan, and take over Japan.
He is voiced by Patrick Gallagher, who also voiced Khotun Khan in Ghost of Tsushima.
History[]
Backstory[]
Daichi was born in poverty, with his father being a farmer. He eventually rose into power through battles and with deals he made. At some point in his life, Daichi was able to become a lord and made the Tokunobu Clan reach a higher status than ever before. He married to a woman and had a daughter named Akemi and a son named Tomoe. Before the events of the story, his wife died from unknown causes.
Daichi would later decide to try to have his daughter marry so he would be able to profit from it, making several attempts to do so, with one of them being Lord Saito, an elderly man who had lost his wife in childbirth and needed a new bride, for a chance of receiving some of Saito's fortune.
Blue Eye Samurai[]
When told by Seki that Akemi didn't agree with his plans have her married, Daichi ordered for Akemi to be brought to him. In the Tokubobu castle in Kyoto, Daichi told his daughter that she is unable to see that she is giving her "proper options" through her plans to have her married.
Akemi would then express her disgust to marry to Lord Saito, with Daichi telling her that Saito earns 100,000 koku. She then asks if that is his price for her, which sends Daichi in a rage, before telling her that if he doesn't get her married to someone Akemi will end up in a brothel.
Akemi is able to calm herself down and convince her father to have her married to a swordsman named Taigen, whom Akemi had a crush towards, and although he was initially due to his poor backround, he decides to allow it since Taigen's rise to power reminded him of his own, as well as the fact that he would get a significant amount of money from Taigen due to him being the top swordsman in the Shindo Dojo.
A few days later, however, Daichi met with the shogun's emissary Master Chiba, who told Daichi that the wife of the shogun's second son had died, and since they didn't like the daughter of one of the other lords Miyabe and prefered Akemi instead in spite of their issues with having an alliance by marriage with the Tokunobu clan, Daichi decided to have Akemi married to the shogun's son.
After the meeting with the emissary was over, Akemi tried to convince her father not to marry her off to the shogun's son, whom she believed would abuse her, and instead stay with her and Taigen. Daichi tells her that he regrets thinking about having her married to Taigen, who had now been humiliated after his fight with Mizu, and refused to change his mind, saying that his decision would bring the Tokunobu clan to the shogun's chambers, and that he was "the hero" of the "story" they are in and not Akemi.
This leaves Akemi crying on her knees, with Daichi calling her a stupid girl for not seeing the opportunity he was giving her, before telling her that Master Chiba would return in five days to bring Akemi to Edo and then leaving. However, Akemi would decide to leave to find Taigen before Chiba's return and without her father noticing.
Despite her using a body double to fool her father, when Daichi went to see her and give her pictures of sex poses she should use with the shogun's son after they get married, he realizes that he was talking to Akemi's double and that Akemi had left the castle, Daichi orders his soldiers to find her.
After his soldiers found Akemi and brought her back to him, they went to meet with the shogun and his family in Edo, where they would watch a play about a demon meant to represent Mizu and her past. Several days later, Daichi is shown looking at the gifts given to Akemi for her wedding, telling Akemi to smile and asking her if there was anything she would want that wasn't in Edo.
Akemi answers this by saying that she wanted to not marry a man she didn't know, which annoyed Daichi, but he decided to dismiss it and asks Akemi when in her life she didn't get what she wanted, which she replied by telling that it was in the moment she blackened her teeth as the shogun's son prefered his wives to. Daichi then tells her to trust him before leaving. He is later seen when the shogun announces to the other lords of Japan that Akemi would get married to his second son.
After finding out from her friend Ise about Fowler's plan to launch a coup against the shogun, Akemi would bring her to her father so Ise could tell him about it. Daichi would then ask if anyone else knew about the coup, which she told him they didn't. Daichi then kills Ise by throwing her out of a window, before having his soldiers bring Akemi to a room where he locks her up.
Daichi reveals his plan to work with Fowler to kill the shogun and his family, with Akemi being the sole survivor of the Ito clan and would allow him to become ruler of Japan by having Akemi declare him the shogun, before killing Fowler both to get all power to himself and out of prejudice against him being european.
When Akemi refused to help him in his plan, Daichi threatens her. Seki would then appear and rescue Akemi, before she locks her father in the room she kept her in. Daichi would order his soldiers to get Seki and Akemi, although they were all killed by Mizu. He is later seen grinning when Fowler's army arrives in Edo, saying that the shogun had no idea of what was coming.
After Mizu accidentaly sets the shogun's castle on fire, Daichi is seen looking at the fire through the window, which quickly gets into his room. Despite this, however, he was able to survive the fire, although severely injured and now under the care of Akemi, who is strongly hinted to plan to use this so she can have revenge against her father.
Personality[]
Daichi is a greedy man who sees his daughter as a way to get to a higher status, not caring about her consent when he decides to have her marry someone else. He does not tolerate her daughter talking back to him about his decisions, believing Akemi is not thinking well on her options of marriage.
In spite of, or because of his sexist beliefs, he is far more tolerant of his toddler son Tomoe throwing and messing with the things around him, saying that Tomoe will make a great lord as he does what he wants. While he initially is shown to not be above reason, as he hears his daughter's suggestion to marry someone closer to their home instead of far away, when Akemi's pretendent, Taigen, loses in a duel with Mizu and thus gets publically humiliated, he instead decides to have Akemi married to the Shogun's second son, not caring about the man's seemingly abusive nature.
He also sees himself as the hero of the Tokunobu clan, as he raised it from nothing to the shogun's chambers. His greed and hunger for power seems to stem from how he used to live in poverty, with his father having been a farmer. While Daichi can be calm, he is shown to be quick to anger and ruthlessness, the latter is especially shown by how he faked kindness and understanding towards Ise, only for him to coldly murder her by throwing her off a balcony.
Daichi's opportunism is shown the most since then, as its revealed that he has allied himself with Abijah Fowler, working for him so Akemi would be the sole surviving member of the Ito Clan, and after that, make him the Shogun. He is also shown to be racist towards Europeans, as he admits to Akemi that he is planning on killing Fowler because he refused to share power with someone like him.
It's shown that he has little regard for his daughter (and to a certain extent his son by mention) other than people he can use for his own ambitions. He feels he owns Akemi, saying that since he was the reason why she was born, and that she only continues to live because he allows it. When Seki betrays him to save Akemi, Daichi asks why he would give up the highest chance of power he would ever get in his life for a daughter.
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