Toshizou Hijikata

Toshizou Hijikata is the vice-commander of the Shinsengumi and leader of his own group. Even after decades of imprisonment, he remains energetic, optimistic, ambitious, and decisive, pursuing gold as part of a plan to seize Hokkaido and establish his own country. Civil in ordinary interactions but ruthless in battle, he readily orders the killing of opponents and values soldiers willing to die fighting.