2024-01-15, 13:46 | Link #4 |
AS Oji-kun
Join Date: Nov 2006
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Just thought I'd mention that, if the NHK taiga drama Yae no Sakura is accurate, Aizu had its own weapons developers. The titular character and historical personage Niijima Yae improves long guns and maybe also cannon. (It's been a while since I watched it.)
Not a bad start. It avoided the supernatural and has a cast of adults. (Amazon had a license to stream certain NHK shows like Yae no Sakura and the first season of the live-action Moribito. It's since dropped them all. Season three of Moribito is worth a look. Adolescent Chagum tries to build alliances with neighboring kingdoms to defend against a attack on New Yogo by the Karsh Empire to its south.)
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2024-01-28, 12:56 | Link #5 |
AS Oji-kun
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Wow this episode was brutal, but I bet the underlying story has a lot of truth to it. There were a lot of guys after 1868 who knew how to use a sword and little else. After years of war some of them likely became murderous villains.
The arrival of the cavalry was a bit much.
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2024-02-11, 11:43 | Link #7 |
AS Oji-kun
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This still seems like such a strange choice for Crunchy's first venture into self-production. Leaving aside the problems with coherence in the story (this week is better on that front), the historical period is unusual with lots of references to the Boshin War and Meiji Restoration. Who is this show intended for? People who have watched Rurouni Kenshin? Is it being telecast in Japan? It seems unlikely to draw a large audience in the West, as the scarcity of comments in this thread demonstrates.
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