And time to rest my eyes from subtitles.
Still going strong. I'm actually starting to care about Matahachi's storyline, which rather surprises me. He's worthless and pathetic, but at least he knows it, and is generally well intentioned. Akemi, at least, seems well suited towards handling him(in a purely platonic manner so far...I think she sees him as something of a cross between a hopeless elder brother and a bedraggled puppy that can't keep out of trouble and always begs for scraps from the wrong people, while he thinks she's a girl with a crush on the big strong man-namely, him. It should be fun) And, quite frankly, their mother's could rival each other for wretchedness.
Initially I was liking Oko better here than in Vagabond, but she's actually an infinitely more horrid person, though her scenes with Gion Toji are interesting.
Kojiro's storyline has eased up ome, largely because Oshina has left the canva(hopefully only temporarily, as her story is far from complete) Oshina leaving is leaving more room for Koto to grow a bit, which is nice. I pretty much dismissed her completely at first, but she's growing, but she's still pretty helpless...Otsu's upbringing was pretty much the same, but I can't see Koto enduring anything that Otsu has, or even lasting 5 minutes without Kojiro. Which is ofdd for me, as Koto is played by Nakama Yukie, who played Yankumi in Gokusen...
Very much enjoying the surrogate father/son relationship with Musashi and Jotaro. Though...Musashi seriously needs to keep in mind that he's dealing with a kid with even worse abandonment issues than he has, not to mention being knocked around at least as much as a kid. I mean, if he's going to give a speech to the kid that goes "when I was your age, my father beat me...blah blah....learned something important...blah blah...makes you stronger...blah blah..." he REALLY needs to include "I don't plan to ever hit or beat you" fairly early in there. And then going "wait for me here" then taking off for a few days...NOT the thing to do with abandonment issues boy(though the sheer guilt on his face when he got back to the temple and went "oh...yeah..." and actually letting the kid hug him wins him back a FEW points...) And I love how, as soon as Musashi tells him about Otsu, Jotaro decides the two are soulmates and circles and examines every woman they come across andthen tells them his master already has a woman named Otsu so she should give up...it's just too cute(esp. when he does it to Otsu, before he knows who she is.
Musashi and Otsu also FINALLY meet and get to talk...very good scenes, though, despite his needing a good whack upside the head(ok, so he needs that regularly here AND in Vagabond...though less so here...)
Last time my "watch in groups of 7 eps" thing was kinda hard, but it's actually a good thing, here. A break is definately needed after episode 14. Some harsh, if important, things there. So it's back to Orphen: Revenge for a disc...maybe two, probably just one. And again, Lycoris=Nails. On. Chalkboard.
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