Oda Nobunaga is famous for conquering and helping to unify Japan during the Sengoku period. Oda Nobunaga, along with Toyotomi Hideyoshi and Tokugawa Ieyasu, shaped the history of Japan. This has resulted in various works, such as movies, doramas, animes, and games. In this article, we will recommend 10 works so you can travel back in time and learn all about the history of Oda Nobunaga.
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Nobunaga Concerto
Speaking of time travel, Nobunaga Concerto is a manga series by Ayumi Ishii that tells the story of Saburō, a student who ends up traveling back in time to the Sengoku Period and replaces the famous Oda Nobunaga. This manga has been adapted into an anime and a great dorama. In fact, I wrote an article discussing this work, you can read it by clicking here.
Sengoku Basara
Sengoku Basara is a game similar to Dynasty Warriors released for PS2/Wii/PSP. It also spawned an anime with 2 seasons. The difference in this story is that the protagonist is Date Masamune, and Oda Nobunaga is portrayed as a wicked villain who calls himself “The Sixth Heavenly Demon.” The anime and the game are quite fictional and fantastical, but they are popular among young people. Speaking of games about the Sengoku period that became anime, there is also Koei’s Sengoku Musou.
Oda Nobuna no Yabou
Again speaking of time travel, this anime tells the story of Sagara Yoshiharu, who ends up going back in time to the Sengoku period, but various historical figures from that time are girls, including Oda Nobunaga. Those typical animes transform characters into moe moe, to create a harem and fan service. Despite that, the story received great reviews and comes recommended. Speaking of female versions, another anime with female versions of Nobunaga is Sengoku Otome: Momoiro Paradox.
Onna Nobunaga
It seems that people like to change the protagonist’s gender. In this 2-episode dorama, we tell the story of a female Oda Nobunaga. Oda Nobuhide never had a second son, but a daughter, who is still being raised as his heir and successor.
GO: Hime-tachi no Sengoku
A manga and dorama of 47 episodes that tells the story of Oichi’s daughter, Oda Nobunaga’s sister.
Sengoku – PC Game
Sengoku is a real-time strategy video game developed and published by Paradox Interactive. It takes place in the year 1467, when the civil war between the clans of Japan began.
Movies about Oda Nobunaga
Oda Nobunaga has inspired 2 movies of the same name, one from 1998 based on the novel by Ango Sakaguchi, which tells the story of the 16th-century Japanese warlord Oda Nobunaga in his youth. And another from 1992, but I don’t know many details.
Sengoku Jieitai 1549 – A film based on a manga of the same name, released in 2005, where Oda Nobunaga is killed by time travelers.
You can also see other works such as books, novels, games, animes, and mangas inspired by Oda Nobunaga by clicking this link in English.
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