The Story Behind Six Samurai: Shien | Yu-Gi-Oh! Lore

As promised, the lore series is back. A combination of injury and procrastination delayed it a little, so I apologize.
The story of Tenkabito Shien and the first generation of Six Samurai, the Legendary Six Samurai, is a tale full of love, irony, betrayal, and all kinds of twists and turns. There are many other cards involved in the universe of the Six Samurai, but we'll focus on the story's main characters: Shien, Kagemusha of the Blue Flame, and a few of the Legendary Six Samurai.
As always, I hope you enjoy the video, and feel free to suggest other cards that have interesting lore. (Or even other franchises/anime/games with lore that you'd be interested in.)
The information is gathered from card descriptions, effects, artwork and canonical statements from official material such as Yu-Gi-Oh! Master Guide. Due to the story not being fully out there, a little speculation and deduction is needed to piece it all together and fill in the blanks.
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[@gsenjou9182]

In case no one's aware, the whole betrayal story is based off of the real life events where Nobunaga kills and wipes out the clan of Azai Nagamasa, the husband of his sister, Oichi.

[@caranostalgico9249]

That explains a lot, tbh.

[@talhakarsloglu4278]

But Azai betrayed him first.

[@talhakarsloglu4278]

timothy thao Well it is a betrayal of Azai nonetheless not Oda Nobunaga.

[@talhakarsloglu4278]

timothy thao In this lore Shi en is the betraying one.

[@masternate2993]

I had no idea oichi was nobunagas sister

[@GorgeousGirlGenius]

Its pretty amazing really, the fact that they picked up a card thats about a decade old or so, then retrain them to become one of the most important figures of an archetype's plot. A+

[@damiengalvan9545]

I mean, Shien is a pretty good old card.

[@bocodamondo]

you should make one about the girl who keeps touching god's stuff and ends up being darklord

[@ssj458goku]

I second this, I wanna know why she couldn't keep her hands off.

[@thevarietypacksnaxx405]

This one sounds like it would make an awesome story

[@chiwarriehartley6595]

Who is that?

[@mikecoxlong7072]

@@chiwarriehartley6595 the forbidden spell cards....."forbidden lance" "forbidden chalice"......and so one, it is related to the solemn cards "Solemn judgement"

[@chiwarriehartley6595]

@@mikecoxlong7072 Oh yeah, she became a dark lord?

[@Tsunamisoundstudio]

Bro they really should focus on the lore of the cards in the anime. That story could be it's own movie lol.

[@lunasam9]

instead for some reason konami decided that making zexal arc v and vrains into a more sci fi kind of thing somehow would be a better design. I'm all for the history of these such monsters and archetypes getting some illustration into their own kind of anime, even if it's not about dueling! Like... you would be sad to see the story of the Forbidden (quickplays) series... and even question God

[@s_ame1135]

I would watch a yugioh anime series about each lores for each episode.

[@princesscrystal6410]

@@s_ame1135 and have filer episodes be Ojamas fucking around

[@randomprofile5853]

@@lunasam9 Konami doesn't decide the plot of the anime Studio Gallop/Bridge does that, Supreme King Arc in GX was kind of like that showing monster cards in their own world.

[@lunasam9]

@RandomChanceZ yeah what? but we're talking about more the monsters growing into stronger and built up versions presented by later generations wasn't quite about the mc development but there did take quite a bit of time for yuma to build up

[@TheSanty07]

The Synchro Shi En that we all know has an effect that destroys one of his fellow Six Sams to protect himself from death. HMMMMMMMM

[@Da_Shark]

TRUTH

[@Sume56]

Almost all of the Six Samurai have that effect.

[@fibakelani3325]

@@Sume56 But only the generations after the legendary gen! Perhaps that's "how they were trained". Would also explain the effect of the secret gen, which protect from beyond the grave (training from the spirit maybe?)

[@pinnacull]

@@Sume56 that's completely wrong bro. read the cards again.

[@Sume56]

@@pinnacull Not at all. I meant "The Six Samurai" and I can name them: Zanji, Yariza, Yaichi, Nisashi, Kamon and Irou. Maybe you should expand your knowledge.

[@zaydsnaynay6736]

Most plot twisting story ever. That was the best most mysterious story ever

[@Jyukenmaster95]

Gunsblazing: "But where have we seen this red hair?" Me: "Oh my god, he's an Uzumaki"

[@imjustasubscriber]

Aww I'm sad you missed a detail, Mizuho and Shien are related. She has the same birthmark on her forehead as seen in asceticism

[@DarthNepster]

That can certainly explain why Mizuho's son, Kagemusha, can pass off for Shien's body double.

[@Shrouded_in_Mystery]

It can also mean that due to certain events, mizuho left shien for shinai, which must have angered shien, and resulted in his betrayal

[@davidwinfree165]

@@Shrouded_in_Mystery related not together like mizuho is shiens sister or somthing

[@Shrouded_in_Mystery]

@@davidwinfree165 Oh sorry, I read it wrong the first time. Thanks for correcting me

[@solidzack]

@@Shrouded_in_Mystery ALABAMA 100

[@zeuspersuader9777]

Listening to these card lores feels like watching an Anime, Dont stop making these kind of videos man also if you can, do a Darklords lore if possible

[@Raetron]

attack on titan piano theme

[@matrixster6238]

You have 69 likes now, congrats

[@ccc2839]

World chalice btw

[@ibrahimjuwara9441]

Raetron i thought i was the only one who noticed

[@hillgram]

yeah darklord lore

[@SomeGoodBroth]

This should be a gah damn anime

[@dracoblizzard7944]

Vendreads should have an anime

[@SomeGoodBroth]

@@dracoblizzard7944 fr the story is really tragic

[@granddoppelganger7138]

You would cry when gusto's story comes up

[@Max_Power_]

And it's called Yugioh

[@flaminak7894]

Max Power A story about the actual duel monsters smart one😐

[@dankuthegreatone2348]

These lores get interesting by the second. I was wondering what the lore behind the card *evenly matched* was. Thankfully, i found out with this vid

[@ghostflame9211]

Bruh that ending gave me goosebumps up and down my spine. Was not expecting that

[@wonderthigh]

well considering Shien's color scheme is primarily purple, Kagemusha of the Blue Flame can better refer to Shinai, his father, because he's mostly blue and his armor is surrounded by blue flames in Spirit of the Six Samurai

[@longlivemetaldude]

This. Shien even after death kept the purple flame. Yet Shinai is blue flame.

[@marcorubio4628]

wonderthigh and Tenkabito Shien has a blue flame. Till he turns purple

[@TheSidorak12]

since a kagemusha is essentially a stand in for someone, hes "standing in" for his father to get revenge, it could well be the classic, two people couldve been the ruler of the land but the evil one betrayed his friend to get there and kept his son as a puppet

[@hsqjx5294]

if you check the original japanese card title, Kagemusha of the Blue Flame is "紫炎の影武者", and Great Shogun Shien is "大将軍 紫炎", where "紫炎" literaly means "purple flame", or pronounced shien. I would say its just a mistranslation considering Kagemusha is way earlier than the six samurai series, and the proper translation would be "Kagemusha of Shien"

[@spearsage]

What if it's the other way around? What if Shinai was Shien's brother, and he's just jealous that his brother was the one who ended up getting the chick (Mizuho). Unfortunately Mizuho chose to become a nun after Shinai's death, at Shien's expense. Here is probably why Shien finally embraced his tyrant side. On the flip side, Shien might also kill Shinai to gain the right to become ruler when the rightful heir is probably Shinai. Meanwhile, Kagemusha is probably Shien's youngest step brother. There were a lot of case where step brother had to act as kagemusha to proof that they will not oppose the rightful heir. Most likely not the case, but it's certainly one way to interpret the story.

[@Tit0Matic]

Mind blown by Kagemusha being Shinai's son. It makes sense. Also, it's not just the hair. If you look at the skin on Shinai's arms, it's almost exactly the same as Kagemusha in his Blue Flame art. I also don't think Shien's Scheme is the reason for Shinai's death but more likely Legendary Shi En's second effect. This makes it way more direct and personal

[@Mckandy69]

Wow yeah Plus legendary Shi En is Dark Attribute which makes it make even more sense.

[@faith4099]

This was the best story ever. This could actually be a movie...

[@Comedianlac]

It’s called THE WOMAN KING…..

[@bocodamondo]

its funny thinking how a 400 attack monster could kill a 2500 attack one in battle

[@raijuko]

He had more fighting spirit, obviously.

[@siruno6024]

you activated my special effect

[@annataz7s436]

Also 2500 ATK

[@lynnusuk2092]

He became the shadow in the end of the story based on the card arts to kill shien, which explains why they’re evenly match

[@jksanrio]

I had always thought there kagemusha was the betrayer because of his resemblance to Akechi Mitsuhide. Now I will never see my 6 samurai deck the same way again.

[@noodletornado309]

you could be right, this guy doesnt know what hes talking about, just theorizing

[@berserkerciaran]

I mean, Tenkabito Shien looks like most, if not all, pop culture representations of Nobunaga... (also, Nitwit Outwit might be a reference to the battle at Okehazama)

[@blindtreeman8052]

@@noodletornado309 Even more is how he basically took over after he killed shien. Pretty much parallel to what actually happened

[@spearsage]

It's same different story. There is a story that says mitsuhide betrayed nobu because he couldn't stand nobu's tyranny anymore. Shien's betrayal of killing Shinai is an adaptation to Nobunaga killing Nagamasa Azai, his own brother in law. Which means, mizuho was Shien's sister. The similarity stops at how Shien met his demise. The reason and the real culprit behind the rebellion are not known. Seeing how kagemusha ended up replacing shien, I feel like toyotomi hideyoshi is a more fitting base for kagemusha than mitsuhide. Hideyoshi also started as mere servant for Nobunaga after all. But well, kagemusha wears the same necklace that mizuho and shinai wore. As he looks younger than Shien, he might be Shinai's little brother, or maybe Shinai's son with Mizuho.

[@chaotixthefox]

@@noodletornado309 guns has a basis for his speculation. Given weight by the fact that Kagemusha was backed by Shien's personal friends. Strictly speaking it was a betrayal either way, but we're debating the motives.

[@brianetie86]

My boi is back with the story of the Six Samuraggio!!!

[@YTDan]

This was very spicy! Enjoyed the entire thing!

[@faith4099]

Ikr

[@RisingMooon]

Its always honestly amazing to see how emotional these yugioh card backstories can make me. you really wouldnt expect such amazing lore behind these cards but its great every time. glad to finally see another one and hoping for more :D

[@Evanescenz]

This video is the best lore so far. I really enjoyed the story as well as your narration.

[@dragonmaster391]

I love the sponsor! Hoping that development is going good for you. I know it can be stressful and tiring at points, but the journey of development ends with a great reward! I'm looking forward to its release. Either way I hope you're doing well.

[@fatadi100]

I WANT MORE. Was so psyched to see there was another one out after such a long time. Keep doing this mate!

[@BassAndTrebleBR]

This was fantastic, Guns. Thank you so much for this video. That ending gave me chills.

[@ryderfromgrovestreet7143]

Yooooooooooooo. Hold the fekin fone. Baggio, you have no clue how much I missed you. :(

[@gunsblazing]

my guy

[@TenkabitoShien]

Let's smoke some together

[@justadudewithadog4615]

Didnt know Ryder n-word was into Yu-gi-oh

[@ryderfromgrovestreet7143]

@@justadudewithadog4615 I guess you new in these parts.

[@wat007]

Dude it's been so long! I'm glad to see this series is back :D

[@wat007]

That Pokemon music in the background tho 👀👀👀👀👀

[@AngeloGene]

Oh, wow. You're here! Joined your stream some days ago. 👍😁

[@queblaque]

This is my new favorite channel. I always knew there was lore behind the cards, but this is the first time I've seen it shown in any type of detail. Keep it up

[@RenegadeRacoon]

Man this series is amazing, great job all the way. Fantastic tone, pace and rate used for the narrative, nice editing and music, and of course your research and assumptions on point. Thanks for sharing your wonderful job with us

[@sherlockinvestigatesjapan8302]

The six Samurai is my favourite deck, it is very interesting how this story reflects the world and times of the Sengoku Period in Japan. Many of the events in this story are certainly based on the real events of Samurai history.

[@House_Of_Champs]

Thank you so much for this video. The Six Samurai are my favorite

[@txgamer47]

Best one yet, don't play any more but seeing the lore behind these cards is fascinating. Keep them coming please!

[@joselopez-yo7rk]

Amazing man please keep this series going this last one was absolutely mind blowing lol. Thanks.

[@joeyosoko2423]

im not gona lie this is so god damn cool, a weak vanilla monster from when the game began acting as a pinnacle story point in one of the more popular archetypes in the game, thats sick

[@juanemilianogomez1994]

I love the six samurais arquetipe, all the story behind the cards are awesome, and the relation between the characters are great! The people who made this deserve a good pay...

[@LEGION_TCG]

Damn that was a really good video. I'm a big fan of six samurai and to actually get an in depth video about the lore really does hit hard

[@fabianpereyra1993]

Your editing on these videos is on point. You are most definitely talented in the art of story-telling.

[@mr.t7992]

6:25 Maybe it originally was the blue Flame and it was made purple by the red Blood of his enemys Love these kind of vids Keep going!

[@andrewconsidine6681]

Mind blown. I'm going to listen to this when I go to sleep 👺 like a bed time story 🧚‍♂️🧚‍♀️🧙‍♂️

[@mlct08]

The best yu gi oh storyteller from youtube. Congrats pal you just nailed it with all the different cards lores.

[@wq5081]

your lore videos always gives me goosebumps. keep doing what you do best gunz ;)

[@Mindskarred]

This was great, never thought the Cards had that kind of lore. Never even noticed the similarities between the supports like grandmaster and the actual legendary Samurai. Really nice.

[@fadhil9945]

This was so enjoyable, i have always been interested in understanding the stories of some cards and i really appreciate what you are doing .. thank you 🙏🏻❤️❤️

[@iamstilez9787]

You never fail to amazing me with your back stories for the cards. They should honestly do spinoffs of these stories with the anime somehow, I think it would be cool! The Gagagigo story was my favorite, because the deep deep back story it had, even appearing in other stories, but this one is right up there now, nice work!

[@premejon8300]

Subbed after watching this and Grepher. Many people don’t know bout the Vanilla OG, or the fact that Phantom Darkness made dark versions of all the cool kids cards from back then. This serves as a great channel for both new and old players. Keep up the great work!

[@Dannyo7o7]

Hell yeah I've been waiting on this one!

[@bigbone_99]

Yugioh card lore is unironically the deepest lore

[@joelyamzon7086]

I don't know how you come up creating the fragmented stories into a lore but man, you're great!

[@JestaX_52]

This is the main Deck I run in any format and you made me appreciate and enjoy playing these cards even more. Thank you 🙏

[@sharonssita2422]

Hatsume is also the daughter of Shinai. In her card art she wears the same heir-loom! I also noticed Fuma and Rihan are nearly identical. This puzzle may be unfinished!

[@Renvil_]

BOOTERS VID AGAIN THO! It's just as ammusing to hear you tell these stories using your own words and spins, Guns! Also gotta say i miss hearing that voice of yours! I hope evertything is going well with the project and that yout wrist is better ;P Keep up the great work, and I look forward to hearing from you again! ~ Your humble baggio, Ren

[@gunsblazing]

the hand's good brother, thanks

[@irishcromwell2507]

Love the video, the Six Samurai are my favorite and this lore just made me love them even more, thank you 😁

[@WeejerWeejer]

Please do not stop making this, some of the best content KZbin has ever seen

[@victorHugo-gy8uq]

Yu-Gi-Oh needs an anime from these lores... Very very interesting.

[@-_-thisnameiscreativeasfuc4734]

MY BOI! Edit: Now that I watched the whole video this was AMAZING!

[@wyatthodge1146]

do more of these please it’s amazing how you have figured all this out and it’s awesome because I could never figure that out

[@YwFScro]

A video about my favorite archetype. A crazy background story with a lot of plot twist, I love it! makes me like the Six Samourai, even more, thank you for your work!

[@Eddiemunson36]

This is why I love Yugioh lore story its just feel like you watching a movie by listening to the whole story of the card

[@kwanholloway4112]

That's the exact feeling that I get as well lol

[@TheVonWeasel]

How is it that I'm always sobbing after each one of these? So beautiful and so tragic. Thanks for making these my baggio

[@FlautistaGhost]

Nice to see you again Guns! Thanks for the video, yugioh story have some great pieces and this is one of them, hoping to see more in the future!

[@enriquevera3156]

Gunz...I've been watching your videos since the beginning.(before you showed your face) watching you get better in this platform at the same time bringing nostalgia from Yu-Gi-Oh! ....priceless. Keep it up baggio!!

[@johnnyaguilar1985]

My boi posted a video?? Must be running low on chicken nugget funds.

[@gunsblazing]

coppa has me starving nah im kidding

[@Aqli-fa]

it´s so cool this should be an anime! world legacy would be cool to see aswell or the zefra lore

[@heroeus8173]

I say YES konami book the six smaurai anime, yugioh 7 seems to suck

[@Aqli-fa]

@@heroeus8173 yes it´s so sad i was sooo hyped for ygo sevens 😭

[@dawnnight7985]

Bro you published this on my bday and ive been WAITING FOR THIS!! THANK YOU!!

[@jeffrymanzanades596]

wow.. i cant imagine that these cards have stories now i can feel that some of my childhood memories have something to cherish. well done. will definitely subscribe .

[@parulchauhan6106]

After watching this I'm never going to synchro summon Shien, I will wait to unleash the xyz Shadow of the six samurai-Shien

[@BigDreko34]

Parul Chauhan but that card is shittier than the synchro monster lmao

[@benij8130]

You shouldnt summon this FILTH anyway!

[@ezzy0308]

@@BigDreko34 its really good with the link out. Allows you spam bushido counters so its really helpful to have 1 xyz shadow of the six samurai shien.

[@lobopumpchainsavage]

@@ezzy0308 yeah true but damn this story crazy i wondered y he was so ominous looking this card had everybody fooled including the players now thats story telling

[@niladrighosh3269]

U can summon shien i love crushing shien with cosmo brain

[@CixoweCix]

Blaze on my guy, blaze on🔥🔥🔥

[@djnando7293]

Wow awesome video! 👏👏👏 I figured something like this happened but with the new cards it makes so much sense

[@fakescorpion112]

My favorite lore from you so far, looking forward to seeing more!

[@EreaserNL]

Kagemusha could've just worn the necklace of Shinai, who he avenged, to honor him. Either way great insight into the Six Sams. Does anyone know if there's more lore to the Secret Six Sam?

[@samuraigorilla2311]

there was some lore between the six sam archetype and the ninja archetype

[@franciscobaza8679]

@@samuraigorilla2311 what? Could you tell me more?

[@douchevick309]

@@franciscobaza8679 i only know that the Ninjas tried to assassinate Shien in a couple of cards' artwork, not really surprising, ninjas are commonly depicted as assassins often hired by politicians and Shien was a big political figure, so he probably had a lot of enemies both in and out of the Six Samurai

[@lobopumpchainsavage]

Yeah this seem to take place after this so im guessing we might get another shien card

[@zaydsnaynay6736]

I missed you posting gunsblazing where have you been bro

[@marcosmith3108]

Was on Duel Links today hustling 6 Samurai cards. To come across this is mind blowing AF!!! This is an amazing story with incredible twists and it makes perfect sense with the card pictures and the card effects. 🥰🥰🥰💚💚💚🔥🔥🔥👍👍👍Keep it up

[@RyuGunpla]

The Six Samurai are my favorite archetype, I already imagined a little the lore behind but your video was amazing. Thanks

[@Yuto_Ygopro]

Amazing plot twist never expected someone make an anime out of this

[@makotsunami5669]

Feeling them SNK and FFVII ost my baggio 😭👌🏼

[@azgorge8288]

A story like this makes me wanna play the archetype. Great video and a even greater story. Even tho you're not streaming duel links content you still make me feel like I didn't waste 15 min of my life thumbs up and keep it we still love you

[@gabrielisaac3473]

Oh my god you are a genius. Thank you so much for doing a story like this it really clears my conscience. When I use to run the deck I always wondered what was the back story.

[@datboi265]

I miss your streams bruh.

[@rogankane6901]

"Peace Through Power." Me: *Struggling to hide my inner Nod*

[@PVPIJVY]

I found your channel and I love it!!!! Especially the lore videos!! Keep em coming, you just got a new sub❤️❤️

[@DealerCBD]

Yes!!! Recommending this to all my friends. Great job. Keep it up man!!!

[@asmir5444]

Wassup my baggio

[@MrAwesome907]

I never clicked off of duel links so fast lol

[@TenkabitoShien]

You still play that game?

[@MrAwesome907]

@@TenkabitoShien yeah for the friend duels

[@tidalfront2360]

@@TenkabitoShien what do you mean? There's a lot of ppl who play the game

[@TenkabitoShien]

@@tidalfront2360 maybe so but there is also allot and i mean allot of people who quit the game

[@knucklepuck7263]

@@TenkabitoShien why?

[@Yugo_Reyes]

My favorite card set, The Six Samurai. Enjoyed this video a lot man, thank you for this. First video ever Found and Watched, like. Keep on going! Hope there is a part 2 for the Secret Six Samurais. =)

[@chad2687]

this is one of the best yugioh vids that Ive ever seen, cool shit man! Nicely edited aswell

[@lenvoor1633]

Well guess what deck That I'm going to play in Duel Links lol

[@lenvoor1633]

@@GoblinSlayer_GS 😂

[@solidzack]

So Tenkabito just kills his own henchmen so he can special summon 2 other monsters? This boy really doesn't CARE!

[@shiningrelic7763]

Nice to have you back gunz, I think the 'Empowered warriors' would have interesting lore to make a video about. Keep up the awesome work.

[@MANNY100123]

So good! Love these videos, Man! Nice of you to post another one!

[@stebanpereira9140]

The true question still stands: Did Tenkabito even care?

[@portagasdace21117]

Nope. Look at his card effect. If shien gets attacked, you can destroy another face up six samurai monster instead. He needed to somehow survive at all costs. The next Gen six samurai followed that Motto because of Shien.

[@lucasflores8095]

Dude, that was an excellent story, the video was amazing!

[@t0m4sa.c46]

Dude, the history and the video is amazing! Keep bringing us more content like this. Also remember that’s there is a new six sams link that was just released.

[@SirNilooo]

Wow!!! This was an awesome story! You have yourself a new subscriber my friend!

[@rionoftheburningabyss570]

I love your videos and the music in the background makes them even better

[@chrisdeezzy2589]

As a six Sam player since zanji and irou days, this has been one of the best videos I’ve ever watched! Thank you so much for this, truly..

[@austinkuhn3363]

Love these lore videos. Keep up the great work

[@CorndogCrusader94]

Between the interesting back story and the outro music being from FF7 you have definitely earned my subscription. I hope you continue to produce this amazing content and I look forward to the other stories :) God bless!

[@lukamustafic1280]

Well done, I actually had fun with my favourite archetype trought this story.

[@dmcdante8845]

Wow!!! I knew I've seen that name some where! Kagamusha. Who would've thought that would come full circle indeed. Haha. I love all of these lores and stories that you put them together. I hope you'll be able to do more. Really makes me want to keep dueling and wanting to see how most of these cards have stories.

[@troyworman6622]

Absolutely love Six Sams and love every second of this and I can't wait to play your game and to see more content on here of any kind.

[@ethanfuego9648]

Definitely need more of these bro, they're so good