Isaburo Sasaki

Isaburo Sasaki
Information
Japanese Name:	佐々木異三郎
Romanized Name:	Sasaki Isaburo
Official English Name:	Isaburo Sasaki
Date of Birth:	10 Oct/Libra
Titles:	Triple Threat, Sabu-chan
Physical Features
Status:	Alive
Professional Status
Affiliation(s):	Shinsengumi, Mimawarigumi
Occupation(s):	Mimawarigumi Commander
Strong Point(s):	Right Hand with sword and Left Hand with gun.
First Appearances
Episode:	Episode 244
Voice Actors
Japanese VA:	Morikawa Toshiyuki

Once we clear out the rubble from this land, we get to see how fish act out of water. I can't wait to see.

Isaburo Sasaki

Sasaki Isaburo (佐々木異三郎) is the commander of Mimawarigumi. He is the main antagonist of Baragaki Arc

Appearance

He is a tall person and wears a white version of the Shinsengumi uniform but he also wears a long trench coat. He wears a monocle. His dead-looking eyes are very similar with Gintoki's.

Background

Sasaki Isaburo born into the elite samurai family Sasaki as the main heir. He is also the half brother to Sasaki Tetsunosuke.

As a newly establishled organisation, they have accomplised a lot more than the Shinsegtumi and the police. Even the Bakufu relies heavily on Sasaki Isaburo and the Mimawarigumi .

Personality

Sasaki Isaburo is a very calm and serious person. He considers 'elite' people, like himself and all members of the Mimawarigumi, to be far better than other people, and regularly insults people whom he considers to not be 'elite'. Isaburo is ruthless and heartless, and will not hesitate to kill anybody in his path.

Isaburo also has an obsession with texting, and his personality changes immensely when sending texts. In his texts, he goes by Sabu-chan and repeatedly sends pointless texts to his recipient (or victim, if you will), and makes use of very childish "texting grammar" and emoticons. He claims to have very few friends and often asks people to share their phone number, and even gives them a phone for free when they claim not to have one, or when they break the last one he gave them.

Strength & Abilities

Being born in the elite samurai Sasaki family, he was trained as the main heir.

He is known as the "Triple threat" master of three weapons: the swords, gun and the pen.

His fighting style in Mimawarigumi arc was that he shoot's the enemy with his gun and if the enemy dodges the gunshot he would use that opening to slash them with his sword. He is skilled in combat, able to stand his ground against, and even initially overpower Hijikata Toushirou with his fighting techniques.

Relationship

Family

• Sasaki Tetsunosuke: His half brother, he sees him as the Sasaki family failure. Isaburo wouldn't hesitate to kill Tetsunosuke if the situation calls it.

Friends & Allies

• Imai Nobume: His vice commander, Isaburo trusts Nobume abilities as a assassin and as his most loyal member of the Mimawarigumi. He seem to know very well also about Nobume's love for donuts as he seem to use it as a reward to her for good work.

Enemies

• Sakata Gintoki: Formerly Isaburo views Gintoki as his favourite email buddy. After the events in Baragaki arc, Isaburo knows that Gintoki is the infamous Joushishi veteran, Shiroyasha. He couldn't understand how he emotionally moved the Shogun to resign his position, helped the Shinsengumi to find a reason to take up their swords and his influence on Nobume. He got upset when Gin threw away his phone, eventually he gave a new one to him. Make things worst later, Sasaki himself allied with Nobu Nobu after Shige Shige's death.
• Hijikata Toushirou: Isaburo claims he is a big fan of him and Shinsengumi. This all might be nothing more than sarcasm however, as Isaburo wasn't even slightly hesitant to kill Hijikata.
• Takasugi Shinsuke: Currently not much is known between the two but there is no hostility between them and they seem to plot together once before Nobu Nobu took over after Shige Shige's death. According to Nobume, Isaburo intends to see through Takasugi's lie.
• Katsura Kotarou: Formerly wanted criminal by Shinsengumi mostly after Shige Shige's death and Shinsengumi's defunction when their leaders, Kondo and Matsudaira are about to be executed. Sasaki seems underestimate Katsura's skills on bombing and disguise when he and other Mimawaramigumi, and Nobu Nobu threaten their own people under their tyranny.

Story

Baragaki Arc

His first appearance was in the Baragaki arc, he sent his brother Sasaki Tetsunosuke to infiltrate the Shinsengumi. After appearing to arrest Gintoki he used him to discover the whereabouts of the Check It Out gang using Tetsunosuke as the lure. Sasaki eventually squares off against Hijikata realizing it is a distraction to save Tetsunosuke and has Nobume advance to kill off the rebels. After initially overpowering Hijikata, Sasaki gets a call from Gintoki saying he finished his end of the deal and is going to do things his way. Despite having a helicopter and main advance squad proceed to attack the rebels, Sasaki is eventually forced to halt his advance with persuasion from Kondo, Yamazaki and Hijikata. At the end of the arc, he is seen talking to Takasugi about fishing in dirty water while fishing up Nobume from the rubbles with a donut.

Courtesan of a Nation Arc

His second appearance was when Yorozuya and Tsukuyo entered the Shogun castle and the Mimawarigumi guarding the Shogun castle. There, Gintoki once again encountered Isaburo. When Kagura and Shinpachi asked about Suruzan's involvement with Sada Sada, Isaburo answered that Sada Sada had used Suruzan merely as a tool to assassinate high ranked people who opposed his power. Isaburo was stabbed by a Naraku member before he managed to finish the story entirely. Soon after Mimawarigumi was relieved from guarding duty in castle.

Later on, Sasaski recovered from his injure (though still injured) together with the Mimawarigumi infiltrate the castle

Isaburo and other Mimawarigumi arrives the scene

and engage Gintoki and the others in their rampage. As soon as he sees Gintoki's injured condition, he realised the poision in him also and thinks that Gintoki is useless right now. Sasaki then fired off his gun againts Gintoki as at first would though to be a bullet but was actually a cure for the poison. He then together with the Mimawarigumi holds off the Naraku soldiers as Gintoki proceed together med Tsukuyo and Nobume to catch up to Sada Sada.

Trivia

• His character is based on the leader of the real Mimawarigumi, Sasaki Tadasaburo 佐々木只三郎.
• He shares the same birthday with fellow Gintama character Sakata Gintoki 坂田 銀時