Wild Takayoshi theory
So I’ve watched BES probably 5 times in the last year. Today I’m watching the final episode after starting the series again in the last week.
Something about Takayoshi always stood out to me and I think it finally clicked today. I may be TOTALLY off base but here goes…
No other Japanese character in the show looks like him. His nose is very different from any other Japanese man. His voice is different as well. I know we don’t hear him talk much but I always found something about his voice which made me wonder why it hits so different.
If you look at Takayoshi, his rendering looks much more like a “westerner.” His facial features are much more similar to a caucasian man then they are to an east-Asian man. I hope this isn‘t racially insensitive as I know that within any ethnic group there is diversity. Obviously they could have just tried to make him stand out a bit more because he may play a bigger role on the show.
Since there is a theory that Mizu may be of the Shogun‘s family (either his wife had relations or was raped by one of the 4 white men, or my suspicion which is her mother was white and father is either the Shogun or other royal family member), I wonder if her and Takayoshi share a parent.
It may be a wild theory but I swear that no other Japanese character on the show looks like him. if you google his character, some of the shots of him look like a “white guy” .
What do you think? Any chance this is why he is treated as an outcast, and not because of his stammer? maybe the stammer is going to be a key clue as stammers are mainly genetic.