Yashamaru Kurama

Yashamaru Kurama is one of the main protagonists in the Samurai Shodown video game series, originally appearing in Samurai Shodown (2019).

History
Yashamaru is a young, fallen samurai who while stalks the shadows as the phantom thief "Karasu Tengu." Brandishing an heirloom nagamaki, he can fights using the ancestral tengu powers he has inherited.

Personality
He loathes villains who exploit the weak for financial gain. Because his father was executed on false charges in the past, Yashamaru has developed a deep and unparalleled hatred for the Tokugawa Shogunate.

Trivia

 * His surname, Kurama, is derived from a mountain in Japan where Sōjōbō, king of the tengu, was said to live. According to legend, it is where Sōjōbō taught swordsmanship to the folk hero Ushiwakamaru, more famously known as Minamoto no Yoshitsune.
 * Yashamaru shares his given name with one of the Kouga Clan ninjas in the novel The Kouga Ninja Scrolls. Yasha are a race of benevolent demons in Japanese Buddhism, and are counterparts to the malevolent rasetsu.
 * While his criminal alias, Karasu Tengu, literally meaning "Crow Tengu," is derived from a breed of tengu that takes on the appearance of a crow.