Nioh 2 - Characters
The main cast of Nioh 2: the half-yokai protagonist and his merchant partner, the yokai hunter who ties the story to the first game, and the Sengoku figures whose real history the campaign follows, from the warlords of the Oda rise to the yokai that orchestrate it.
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· updated 2026-09-15
| Name | Description | Role | Faction | Abilities | Source |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Hide | The player character, a half-yokai shiftling raised among humans and feared for the horns and instincts that mark him as part yokai. | Protagonist | Free yokai hunter | Yokai Shift Burst Counter Soul Core casting All melee, ranged, ninjutsu and onmyo skill trees | Player character, customisable at character creation |
| Tokichiro | A cheerful, ambitious merchant who becomes Hide's closest friend and partner in the campaign's early missions. | Partner and Deuteragonist | Hide's companion | Trading and political instinct Sword combat Raises the campaign's human alliances | Story character, present from the opening missions |
| Mumyo | A yokai hunter who crosses paths with Hide and Tokichiro and becomes one of the campaign's recurring allies. | Ally | Yokai hunters | Yokai hunting techniques Sword combat Knowledge of yokai weaknesses | Story ally, joins across the campaign |
| Kashin Koji | The campaign's central antagonist, a powerful yokai sorcerer manipulating the Sengoku wars from behind the scenes. | Antagonist | Yokai | Yokai sorcery Manipulation of human warlords Summoning and corruption | Story antagonist, central to the campaign's final arc |
| Oda Nobunaga | The historical unifier, portrayed in Nioh 2 as a commander who accepts yokai and humans fighting side by side. | Ally | Oda clan | Command of the Oda armies Sword combat Political ruthlessness | Story character, central to the campaign's middle acts |
| Saito Dosan | The lord of Mino known as the Viper, and Tokichiro's father-in-law. | Supporting | Saito clan of Mino | Political manoeuvring Command of Mino Sword combat | Story character in the Mino arc |
| Maeda Toshiie | One of the Oda's most recognisable retainers and a recurring face among the human allies Hide fights beside. | Supporting | Oda clan | Spear combat Frontline command Oda loyalist networks | Story character in the Oda campaign arc |
| Imagawa Yoshimoto | The lord of Suruga and the campaign's first great warlord obstacle, fought at Okehazama where the Oda ambush historically ended his march on the capital. | Antagonist / Boss | Imagawa clan | Command of the Imagawa host Yokai-empowered combat Heavy two-handed strikes | Boss encounter in the Okehazama arc |
| Shibata Katsuie | One of Nobunaga's most feared retainers, remembered for the charge at Nagashino and for turning against his lord later in life. | Antagonist / Boss | Oda clan | Heavy armour and spear work Charging assaults Yokai-corrupted strength | Boss encounter in the Oda civil war arc |
| Akechi Mitsuhide | The general whose betrayal at Honnoji ends Nobunaga's rule and reshapes the campaign's final act. | Supporting / Antagonist | Akechi clan | Sword combat Political calculation Command of the Akechi forces | Story character in the Honnoji arc |
| Matsunaga Hisahide | The notorious betrayer of the Sengoku period, a collector of tea utensils and a man who changed sides as often as it profited him. | Antagonist / Boss | Matsunaga clan | Explosive traps Yokai sorcery Political double-dealing | Boss encounter in the Matsunaga arc |
| Saito Yoshitatsu | Dosan's son, who historically turned on his father to take Mino. | Antagonist / Boss | Saito clan of Mino | Sword combat Yokai transformation Command of Mino's forces | Boss encounter closing the Mino arc |
| Hattori Hanzo | The legendary ninja, shown in Nioh 2 in his younger years as a Tokugawa retainer and a specialist in infiltration and yokai hunting. | Ally | Tokugawa clan | Ninjutsu Infiltration Kusarigama and dual blade combat | Story ally and mission giver in the Tokugawa arc |
| Tokugawa Ieyasu | The patient lord who outlasts Nobunaga and Hideyoshi and ends the Sengoku period. | Supporting | Tokugawa clan | Political endurance Command of the Tokugawa alliance Patronage of yokai hunters | Story character in the campaign's final act |
| Otakemaru | The great yokai at the bottom of the campaign's mythology, a figure tied to the origin of the shiftling bloodline and to Kashin Koji's schemes. | Final Boss | Yokai | Multi-phase yokai combat Elemental area attacks Shiftling-tier power | Final boss of the base campaign |
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