BIO:

Haohmaru is the original protagonist of the Samurai Shodown series and rival of Genjuro. He uses the traditional katana in battles, and always carries a canteen of sake with him. His "mentor" is none other than Nicotine. Haohmaru is based on a real samurai, Miyamoto Musashi, who lived from 1584 to 1645.

Haohmaru is a lone samurai who travels to perfect his skills. Back when he was much younger, he challenged Jubei and got defeated badly. Since then, he left his village to challenge strong opponents to refine his skills. During his travels, he met Nicotine and became one of his students. When Amakusa appeared back into the world, Haohmaru set out to kill Amakusa as he was a strong opponent. He killed Amakusa with help from Nakoruru, Hanzo, Galford, Charlotte and Ukyo.

The same year, he ran into Shizumaru who's village was destroyed by the demon Zankuro. He took care of Shizumaru and helped him find Zankuro. A year later, he was attacked by a demon possessed man during his sleep. Haohmaru easily kills the attacker and tells Nicotine about the attack. Nicotine warns Haohmaru that he must not get involved with the demons. But Haohmaru ignores the warning and sets out to kill the source of the attack. During his travel, he was attacked by Mizuki but was saved by Amakusa. With help from Nakoruru, he was able to defeat Mizuki and seal off Makai.

  A year later, he is the target of demons once again. Haohmaru's body is half of what is needed to restore power to the "Dark god" of Makai. Shiki is the other half. In the end, Haohmaru with help from Nakoruru and Rimururu kills Yuga and free's Shiki's soul from Yuga's hands. But shortly after, Yuga revives herself and captures both Haohmaru and Shiki. Haohmaru became Yuga's slave and guarded the entrance to Yuga's cave. He was freed from Yuga's hands when the two Asura's defeated Yuga. He settled into Nicotine's temple and adopted Shiki and Asura's daughter. Mikoto is also Haohmaru's niece.

       
 

ORIGIN: Samurai Shodown

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Updated: November 30th, 2012
Haohmaru is quite the badass portrayal of Mayamoto Mushashi, making him an instant classic fighting game character and solid hero for his series. He shares an obvious likeness to Ryu in a few ways, most notably how his moves are performed, which in itself is another interesting aspect about his design. However, his moveset was fleshed out quite a bit over the years and he's definitely a fun character to use in nearly every game he appeared in (like Ryu!) As a design, Haohmaru has also been fleshed out over the years. His hair seemed to have gotten longer and crazier with each sequel. And no doubt Haohmaru was the inspiration of Mitsurugi's 2nd player outfit in Soul Calibur 2. In closing, Haohmaru is a badass samurai and he knows it.
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