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Takamaru is the protagonist of the 1986 Famicom game ''The Mysterious Murasame Castle''. In said game, he is an apprentice samuraiwho must protect Edo Japan and four neighboring castle towns from an evil alien menace, residing in the titular Murasame Castle. Armed with only a katana and his wit, he sets off to rescue the people from the extraterrestrial's influence. The game worked similarly to ''[[The Legend of Zelda]]'', based on the same engine, and had several power-ups for Takamaru to use, including sandals that let him walk on water, fireballs, throwing knives and windmill swords. While recognized as a Nintendo hero, Takamaru and his game became rather obscure, never making it to any other countries besides Japan, and not receiving any attention up until the [[Nintendo GameCube]] era, where the Famicom disk was a treasure in ''Pikmin 2''. Takamaru later was given more attention in recent years, with ''Samurai Warriors 3'' for the [[Wii]] having Takamaru as a guest character and retelling the story with a realistic tone, and ''Captain Rainbow'' featuring the samurai as a forgotten Nintendo star alongside [[Birdo]], [[Little Mac]] and [[Devil]], as examples. In this game, Takamaru was given a larger personality. Besides being a noble, humble samurai, Takamaru became rather nervous around women. He later received his own mini-game in the [[Wii U]] game ''Nintendo Land'', and ''The Mysterious Murasame Castle'' was finally re-released to Europe and North America on the 3DS E-shop in 2014.