Name Sagara Sanosuke
Voice Actor Yuji Ueda
Nickname Chicken head, Rooster head, Zanza, Kenkaya, Atoriatama, Sano
Hair Color Brown
Eye Color Brown
Height 179 cm
Birth Stuff Februay 1860
Zodiac Sign Pisces
Age about 8-10 when he witnessed Souzu Sagara's death, 18 during the Rurouni Kenshin series
Weapon Zabatou, Bare hands/legs
Weapon Technique None
Special Moves Futae no Kiwami, Sanjuu no Kiwami
Personality Although Sanosuke wears a character of "evil" on his back, he isn't. On the contrary, he belives in peoples rights and doesn't like to see other people get bullied around. Sano gets on peoples nerves sometimes, especialy Kaoru's. He acts like Yahiko in some ways. For example, he wants to be strong so that he wont ever lose someone he loves and honors. This is why he risks his life for Megumi and chose to risk his life to learn the Futae no kiwami from Anji (One of the members of the Ten Swords). Because of what happened to Sagara Souzou he really hates the goverment and tried to blow up one of the goverment buildings.
Backround History As a young boy he was part of the Sekihoutai and totaly idolized the keader who was called Sagara Souzou. This iswhy he adopted Souzou's last name "Sagara." After the Sekihoutai was destroyed Sano became a "Kenkaya," a person who gets payed fighting others. While traveling around Japan, buying fights, he meets up with Kenshin who he asks for a fight previously (and was declined). The the two brothers mentuned in Kaoru's history hire Sano to fight Kenshin. Before their fight, Sano goes out and does some reasurch on Kenshin. Sano finds out that he was a part of the Ishinshishi, which angers him. Kenshin and Sano fight. Sano looses to Kenshin. Sano realizes that Kenshin isn't like the Ishinshishi that killed Captain Sagara and gains respect for Kenshin.
Watsuki's View "If you're a fan of the Shinsengumi, you guessed it at a glance. The model for Sanosuke is the captain of the tenth unit of the Shinsengumi, Harada Sanosuke. He was known as one of the five most handsome men of the Shinsengumi (although, according to my bible, Burning Sword, (a novel by Shiba Ryoutarou) he was sort of fat . . .) and a spear-wielder of great strength. He loved to fight, was present at every battlefield where the destiny of the Shinsengumi was decided, and had a rough, stormy temper. But, perhaps because of his humble origins, he had his softer side. He thought a great deal of his unit and took care of those beneath him. Judging his likes and dislikes, he seems like the older brother type from a boy's magazine. He is said to have died on the battlefield of the Ueno War, but there's even a legend about him, telling how he survived to become a bandit chief. Looking from the eyes of the people of the time, he must have been a very romantic figure. Of course, I liked him too, and put him in RuroKen as Sanosuke. I'm extremely happy Sano has become so popular, but recently he's also become the Most Likely Character to Have His Name Misspelled. I've seen all kinds of different kanji for "Sanosuke." I even saw "Sasuke," and wanted to say, "Hey, hey, he's not a ninja!" but by now I've kind of given up. When I did the design, as you know, I didn't have a certain popular character in mind. Maybe it's because of the hair, but everyone keeps saying so (I love the manga, but . . .) My model for Sano was the main character, Lamp, from "Arabian Lamp Lamp." During my assistant days, I was doodling in my sketch book and drew my own Japanese-style Lamp. I changed it around a little, and it became the real Sano. (I got the artist's permission, just in case.)"