RIKICHI
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The intense, deeply traumatized Kanna Village farmer who volunteers to help Kirara recruit the samurai. Rikichi is driven by a burning, self-destructive rage against the Nobuseri bandits, who kidnapped his beloved wife, Sanae, years prior. His agonizing struggle to protect his home, mixed with his desperate, raw guilt, grounds the grand mecha conflict of Samurai 7 in a deeply painful, personal reality.
RIKICHI THROUGH THE ARCHIVE //
KANNA & NOBUSERI BANDITS //
Open page →Rikichi volunteers for the recruitment journey with a level of anger the others do not initially share. His wife Sanae was taken by the Nobuseri, so every argument about whether the village should resist is already personal to him.
Why it matters
Rikichi keeps the giant machines from making the conflict abstract. Every Nobuseri ship represents something that has already entered his home once.
