Hitotsubashi Nobu Nobu

Hitotsubashi Nobu Nobu
Information
Japanese Name:	一橋喜々 徳川喜々
Romanized Name:	Hitotsubashi Nobu Nobu Tokugawa Nobu Nobu
Official English Name:	Nobu Nobu Hitotsubashi Nobu Nobu Tokugawa
Physical Features
Race:	Human
Gender:	Male
Status:	Alive
Professional Status
Affiliation(s):	Hitotsubashi Nobu Nobu Faction Bakufu Tendoshu
Occupation(s):	15th Shogun
First Appearances
Chapter:	Lesson 468

Hitotsubashi Nobu Nobu is the 15th shogun and the head of the Hitotsubashi faction.

Background

Nobu Nobu is part of the Hitotsubashi faction that opposed the Tokugawa faction that was in control of the government until the 14th shogun, Tokugawa Shige Shige, was assassinated. When the Tendoshuu step in to establish the Hitotsubashi faction as the new leaders of the government, Nobu Nobu becomes the 15th shogun.

Personality

Nobu Nobu is very egotistical and tends to think of himself as pertaining to an elitist group separate from common people. He believes he is a great shogun whose position overshadows all others. His megalomania is reflected in his desire for others to obey him.

Nobu Nobu is also a sadist as shown when he had two cabaret girls slain for his enjoyment because they did not meet his beauty expectations.

Relationships

Friends & Allies

• Tendoshu: Like Tokugawa Sada Sada, he delivered all of the country's freedom into their hands and used this to appease to them. Unfortunately, the Tendoshu see Nobu Nobu as nothing more than a puppet they can use to control the government.
• Ikeda Asaemon: Was originally the 17th Ikeda Yaemon that served as the head executioner for the shogunate. She later stepped down from that position and became enemies with the Hitotsubashi faction.
• Sasaki Isaburo: Isaburo became the new police chief after Nobu Nobu dismantled the Shinsengumi and sentenced to beheading Katakuriko and Kondo. Nobu Nobu replaced Katakuriko with Isaburo as the new director of Edo's police force.
• Imai Nobume:She became the current Edo police deputy commander and the assistant of Isaburo after the Shinsengumi was disintegrated.

Enemies

• Sakata Gintoki: For having usurped the shogun's throne, Nobu Nobu order Shige Shige and threatened Otae to cut her with a sword, Gintoki furiously punched Nobu Nobu after stopped Hijikata's attempt to harm Nobu Nobu. Gintoki nurtures a sense of revenge on Nobu Nobu because he feels guilty about see Kondo surrendering to Nobume to be beheaded. This fault may be related to the fact of Gintoki have been forced to decapitate Shouyo to save the life of Katsura and Takasugi in the past.
• Kondo Isao: Nobu Nobu, after usurping the Edo's trone, ordered the beheading of Kondo.

• Tokugawa Shige Shige: Nobu Nobu plotted a coup to usurp the shogunate, culminating in Shige Shige's death.
• Takasugi Shinsuke: Originally seen as an ally however, he allied with Tendoshu and been using him, Kiheitai and Harusame to kill Shige Shige all along
• Kamui: He's responsible of Nobu Nobu's insanity after being humiliated by him, when Nobu Nobu though being shogun, but not yet as the throne was Shige Shige's.
• Matsudaira Katakuriko: Like Kondo, Katakuriko was also sentenced to beheading by Nobu Nobu.
• Otae:Nobu Nobu sadistically threatened to cut off the Otae neck with a sword after her rant against him.
• Hijikata Toushirou: Hijikata lost his job for his rival Sasaki in order of Nobu Nobu. In addition the former vice-commander of the Shinsengumi tried to punch him when he threatened Otae with a sword, but Gintoki prevented him taking the punch instead.
• Kozenigata Heiji: After Shige Shige's death, Kozenigata quits Bakufu because he knows that Nobu Nobu is a tyrant, but still served his job as freelance detective on his own service now.
• Haji - Kozenigata's sidekick, she supports him at all the time, including when he quits Bakufu.
• Katsura Kotarou - One of Gintoki's ally since Joui war. When Nobu Nobu threaten everyone under his tyranical rule whereas Tae, Heiji, Haji, and Gintoki (also Hijikata) dare opposed him, Katsura helps most of the people who grew tired of Nobu Nobu tyranny, to escape by using a smoke bomb, sacrificing his life in order to see Kondo again.

Trivia

• His name is based on Tokugawa Yoshinobu 徳川慶喜, the 15th and last shogun. Who went under the name Hitotsubashi Yoshinobu 一橋慶喜 as the 14th shogun's gardian.

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