Shitan

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**Shitan** (紫檀) is one of the protagonists of *Fena: Pirate Princess*. He is one of the Seven Samurai who assists and joins Fena Houtman on her quest.

## Appearance

Shitan is a handsome tall man with straight shoulder-length dark-purple hair (originally magenta) that covers the left side of his face, purple eyes and eyebrows (originally brown) and an almost-androgynous look that may make him popular with women.

He also wears a purple haori which he puts on his shoulders like a cape or a blanket.

### Original Design

Prior to and upon meeting Fena Houtman along with his six samurai ninja comrades, Shitan had a light purple blanket he wore, as well as a purple haori that had a floral design with a brown scarf wrapped around his neck and black pants, and is barefoot like the other samurai ninjas in his group present alongside with him at the time.

Soon after joining Fena as part of her crew with his other six samurai ninja companions, he now sports a black ninja outfit consisting of dark indigo leather arming garments on his chest, sode shoulder armor, kote arm guards, a leather archery glove on his right hand, dark purple-black pants that reaches down to his ankles with a purple-black bow tied around the waistline and purple leg guards, and black boots.

His samurai helmet is colored black and is adorned with one long horn on one side of the helmet (although the other horn on the other side may be removed for an unknown reason), and a black men-yoroi (menpo) facial armor with a blackened mustache piece, hiding the wearer's face whilst wearing the helmet.

His weapons, as an archer, consist of a bow and a set of arrows stored in a quiver. In his final design, he also uses a short ninja sword as an additional weapon.

### Final Design

While not much had changed from his initial design in contrast to his appearance in the announcement besides his magenta hair now being purple, he no longer has leather arming garments for his armor, instead having a dark purple ninja top that has a vine imprinted on it with long sleeves and his black inshirt now covering the stomach area. The bow tied around his waistline was now colored red instead of a purple-black color with the rest of his comrades (excluding Karin) wearing the same red waistline bow, his leg guards were now colored a darker purple, his pants now colored black, and his boots stayed intact from his original design.

His casual apparel was changed as well, with his long-sleeved haori now colored indigo instead of purple, with a vine imprint trailing all the way down to the flower imprint on the bottom of his haori, intact along with a purple buttoned inshirt worn underneath his haori, now dons a purple-grey ribbon wrapped around his waistline, while his ankle-length pants is now grey instead of black. He also wore flip flop zori sandals on his bare feet, the same going with his fellow comrade Yukimaru Sanada while Makaba and Tsubaki uses similar kinds of sandals for their footwear, although the latter wears white tabi socks with his sandals for his casual wear.

## Personality

Shitan is hinted to be aloof, yet easygoing guy with a strong feeling for his friends. Shitan also shows loyalty and devotion to his companions as he joins Fena Houtman's crew with his comrades.

Shitan is an extremely by-the-books man in his own right, having initially decided to abandon Fena and his friends before ultimately being persuaded to commit treason and join in her rescue, showing himself to be more loyal to his friends than to his sense of nationalism as a descendant of the Japanese expedition that searched for the Sword of Kusanagi.

It is stated in his voice actor interview on the official Japanese website that his humanity would be expressed by being strong and attractive due to his androgynous-esque appearance.

## Abilities

Since Shitan is the archer of the group, he is presumed to be an elite warrior when it comes to his expertise on his archery skills with his bow and arrows.

He is an experienced womanizer and master of seduction, being skilled at reading sexual tension and dynamics between other people with an extreme degree of accuracy.

## Relationships

### Fena Houtman

In the Japanese trailer, Shitan at one point teaches Fena with archery, assisting her on shooting a target.

## Etymology

* The name **Shitan** means "Rosewood" (紫檀), which is fragrant close-grained tropical timber with a distinctive fragrance, used particularly for making furniture and musical instruments..

## Trivia

* It is speculated from the voice actor interview from the anime's official Japanese website that Shitan would have a brother as he was said to have his eyes and words. It was later confirmed that Kei is his brother in Episode 5.