Tokugawa Ieyasu

About
Tokugawa Ieyasu is the leader of the Tokugawa House. He is the largest and strongest of all known Tanukis, a particular class of Youkai. As a Youkai, he has an extremely long life span, and has long been patiently strenghtening his power in the hopes of one day conquering JAPAN.

Though most Youkai have retreated to the North of JAPAN under the reign of the Youkai King Dokuganryuu Masamune, Ieyasu refused to do the same and instead stayed behind. With the help of his fellow racoon dogs, he eventually defeated the Tokugawa family, and even imprisoned the legendary warrior princess Tokugawa Sen.

He then declared the territory to be a safe haven for racoon dogs and forced all the humans now under his rule to dress up as racoon dogs. Then he slowly started to increase his power, and started negociating alliances with the neighboring regions of Takeda and Imagawa.

He eventually ended up at war with Oda, either because Rance declared war on him or when Takeda and Oda end up at war even if he's already been vassaled. If vassaled, he will also declare war on Oda after the Demon Army appears (Xavier will never kill him).

Though on first playthrough he is defeated by Rance during the attack on Tokugawa and is killed by masamune, on second games it is possible to recruit him as a general by exploiting his love of tempura.

His canonical status is unknown, as he is stated to be aliive on the Rance World Notes but ever since the destruction of his House, he has disappeared from the face of the world.

Trivia

 * See Tokugawa Ieyasu for historical reference.


 * In the manga he was killed by Rance


 * His favourite food is Tempura, to the point where he's willing to abandon his house to Oda and work under Rance to get more of it.