Heishiro Mitsurugi

Heishiro Mitsurugi is a character from the Soulcalibur series.
== Charactah Account ==
Heishiro seeks a way to defeat the Tanegashima rifle, and believes the legendary sword Soul Edge to be the blade that can do it. He eventually beats the rifle without the need of Soul Edge, but throughout Soulcalibur, SCII, and SCIII, he's still searching for it for the sole purpose of fighting Nightmare. In IV he realizes that there are no more worthy challengers for him, and seeks to fight otherworldly opponents instead. He found a Worthy Opponent in Algol in IV, but due to Soul Edge and Soul Calibur vanishing into a vortex, their battle was cut short as Algol vanished with them. And so Mitsurugi went home to Japan, where over the years he hung up his sword as the era changed - not literally, though, as he loses his Shishi-Oh to Setsuka sometime between IV and V. Now a farmer, when he heard that Soul Edge had returned, he sold all of his land for an opportunity to fight Algol again.
== Appearance ==
=== Comics ===
* Soulcalibur IV
=== Manga ===
* Soulcalibur
=== Video Games ===
* Namco x Capcom
* Outcast Odyssey
* Pro Baseball Famista
* Soul Edge
* Soulcalibur
* Soulcalibur II
* Soulcalibur III
* Soulcalibur IV
* Soulcalibur Legends
* Soulcalibur Mobile
* Soulcalibur V
* Soulcalibur VI
* Soulcalibur: Broken Destiny
* Soulcalibur: Lost Swords
* Soulcalibur: Unbreakable Soul
== Trivia ==
* Mitsurugi is based on real-life swordsman Miyamoto Musashi.
* Mitsurugi is the only character to have an official playable appearance in every Soulcalibur game to date.
* In both the Tekken and the Soul series, Yoshimitsu borrows some of Mitsurugi's moves as well as Mitsurugi borrowing one of Yoshimitsu's moves from Tekken. It can also be noted that although Yoshimitsu is supposedly a ninja, he portrays a military samurai, just like Mitsurugi portrays a ronin samurai. On another note, in Tekken 2, Yoshimitsu's tachi closely resembles the one that Mitsurugi uses in Soul Edge. Also, if Mitsurugi loses in Soul Edge, his losing animation is him sitting down Indian style and banging the hilt of his sword on his knee, Yoshimitsu does this same exact thing in Tekken 2 if he loses when time is up.
* Mitsurugi's facial build greatly resembles that of Kazuya Mishima from the Tekken series.
* Yuri Lowell of the Tales series has Mitsurugi's costume as an alternate outfit.
* Mitsurugi, along with Taki, is a playable character in Namco x Capcom.
* Samuel Rodrigues from Metal Gear Rising: Revengeance shares some similarities and moves with Mitsurugi.
* Mitsurugi's joke weapon is always a wooden katana (bokken). It is possibly another reference to the fact that Mitsurugi is based off of Miyamoto Musashi, as Miyamoto was famous for always using bokken in all of his duels.
* Despite his appearance in every game, he has yet to encounter Soul Edge in the series canonical story. However, his story for Soulcalibur V confirms that he did encounter Soul Calibur in his fight with Algol.
* His proud and reckless attitude made him similar to Paul Phoenix from the Tekken universe. Ironically, both of them are frustrated for not being able to reach their objectives.
* His fighting style change from Tenpu-Kosai-Ryu-Kai (Kai for improved) in Soulcalibur IV to Shin-Tenpu-Kosai-Ryu in Soulcalibur V. This likely means he has mastered the "true" version of his style.
* With the exception of Soulcalibur II and Soulcalibur IV (in which, his arena and theme are shared with other characters), Mitsurugi's theme musics had always shared some traits. These traits are heard in Soul Edgeat at 0:50, in Soulcalibur at 0:40, in Soulcalibur III at 1:47 and in Soulcalibur V, 0:41.
* Misturugi's primary weapon have been changed throughout the Soul series. His first weapon was Korefuji in Soul Edge, then Shishi-Oh from Soulcalibur to Soulcalibur IV, and finally to Muichimonji in Soulcalibur V.
* Mitsurugi is voiced by Toshiyuki Morikawa (only in the arcade version of Soul Edge and return in Soulcalibur as the main seiyuu onwards), who also voiced Hwoarang from T3 to T4 (the latter is in gameplay only) and formerly Wataru Takagi (only in the PS1 version of Soul Edge), who did voice acting for Lei Wulong from T2 only and was also Hwang’s seiyuu (also in PS1 version of Soul Edge to Soulcalibur).
== Gallery ==
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== External Links ==
* Mitsurugi at Soulcalibur Wiki
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