Yukimaru Sanada

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* Robb Moreira
* Jackson Greenspan (Young)

**Yukimaru Sanada** (真田 雪丸は, *Yukimaru Sanada*?) is one of the protagonists of *Fena: Pirate Princess*. He is the leader of the Seven Samurai who assists and joins Fena Houtman on her quest.

## Appearance

Yukimaru is a tall and handsome man with long black hair that is tied up in a ponytail by a small grey ribbon with messy hair strands that are seen on both sides of his head and deep black eyes.

As a child, he had grey-brown eyes and shaggy brown hair, wearing a white shirt with long sleeves up to his elbows, along with a red bow by the neck, a purple vest and brown shoes, wielding a samurai sword. After the attack on the ship where he was wounded by Abel Bluefield and rescued by Kei with his samurai compatriots, he had lost his shoes rendering him barefoot.

### Original Design

Prior to and upon meeting Fena Houtman along with his six samurai ninja comrades, he wore a black haori with a red scarf wrapped around his neck and dark grey pants tied with a light grey bow around the waistline as his casual wear, 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 leather arming garments on her chest, sode shoulder armor, kote arm guards, dark black pants with a black bow tied around the waistline and red leg guards, and black boots.

His samurai helmet is colored red and adorned with two antlers, a Sanada clan rokumonsen emblem and a men-yoroi (menpo) facial armor, hiding the wearer's face whilst wearing the helmet.

His weapons consist of two samurai swords.

### Final Design

While not much has changed from his initial design in contrast to his appearance in the announcement aside from his deep black eyes which may be tinted blue, his arming garments are now colored red along with his inshirt being grey and his black shorts tied with a red waistline bow that his other comrades (excluding Karin) wear, while his leg guards, boots, ninja outfit and sode shoulder armor remain intact.

His casual apparel was changed as well, with his long-sleeved haori now colored red, his grey bow around the waistline now colored tan, and his ankle-length pants were now being black instead of grey. He also wore flip flop zori sandals on his bare feet, the same going with his fellow comrade Shitan while Makaba and Tsubaki wear similar types of sandals, although the latter wears white tabi socks with his sandals for his casual wear.

## Personality

Yukimaru is an introverted and stoic individual who is extremely protective towards Fena Houtman, having known her since childhood. He also demonstrates leadership towards his fellow samurai ninja comrades whenever they're together, even during combat.

His ears flush whenever he is embarrassed or when he is teased about his apparent feelings for Fena. While he feels his protection of her is paramount, he has no fear of dying.

## Abilities

As a samurai and the leader of the Seven Samurai, Yukimaru has shown strength and skills in the announcement trailer as he is seen slashing two enemies with his sword swiftly in battle, and later shown to be slashing multiple enemies with his samurai swords as well as agility in the new trailers.

## Etymology

* The name **Yukimaru** means "snow" (雪) (**yuki**) and "round, circle, pills, purity, suffix for ship names, complete" (丸) (**maru**).
* Yukimaru's surname **Sanada** means "real, genuine" (真) (**sana**) and "field, rice paddy" (田) (**ta**/**da**).

## Trivia

* Since the Sanada clan emblem is adorned on his red samurai helmet, it is possible that his surname might be **Sanada**.
	+ It is possible that he could be a different interpretation of Sanada Yukimura, a descendant, since the samurai helmet is identically similar and considering that the anime's story takes place a century after Sanada Yukimura's real-life death. It is later revealed that his name was *Yukimaru*, having the last letters of his name now being an allusion to **Yukimura** and also leading to mispronounciation on his character.
		- It is later revealed from his voice actor interview on the official Japanese site of the anime that his full name is indeed *Yukimaru Sanada.*