This is my aviary that I made - it used to be 20 Vultures until I had the idea to make it into an aviary with all sorts of birds and flying things. Thought it looked nice and I would give free tours on w42 so I wanted to record it for posterity.

This moment is insane

To be honest I think about Musashi's imaginary slices *a lot*: author's intent, community thoughts, my own thoughts. I still don't understand exactly why Yujiro is only one unaffected by it either.

I always thought of Musashi's imaginary slices to be his *clear intent and opportunity to kill you* be so visceral that they manifest as the action happening 100% in your senses in your brain. If he had a sword, the moment would have been 100% the same except for the actual physical cut.

I feel it takes 0.1 seconds to affect the opponent *mentally* because while Musashi's intent and the manifestation of the imaginary slash happen instantly - pain takes 0.1 seconds to register to the brain. So all the reactions we see in the series are people reacting 0.1 seconds after the imaginary slice. This is how I've always interpreted it for me.

So Doppo blocking this is MINDBLOWING. First of BLOCKING A *MUSASHI SWORD STRIKE* - absolutely insane only Yujiro did this. Also what does it even mean that it didn't affect Yujiro?

* Was Doppo just so locked in 100% fighting Musashi, that he registered Musashi's killing intent and coming technique immediately - and instantly, instinctively blocked it?

* What does deflecting the imaginary slice actually mean? Did Doppo's battle instinct and reaction just nullify the imaginary technique? Did Musashi also interpret that Doppo would Blocko his strike and register it immediately and also see it as *deflected*

* How did Doppo react to the strike? No one else in series is shown to be able to see it coming - only the effect of being cut. Is Doppo such a battle maniac he sees immediately the battle intent of someone?

* Only Doppo or Yujiro nullified an Imaginary Slice, by two different methods. Did it not affect Yujiro or did he simply nullify the pain after it hit him. I always took it as meaning Yujiro is so strong and smart he felt the intent, rationalized it, and thus it nullified it (not the real thing, but he could have done it 100% the same if he had a sword)

* He still gets imaginary cut after this. I took it as Doppo after the MAX Difficulty sword block vs Musashi - simply was not able to see the 2nd imaginary slice (Mr. Togukawa, a second slash has hit the Doppo) so it affected him because he never could react to it because he didn't see it coming. After this Doppo simply could not 100% after that.

I don't know this for me is one of the craziest things in series.

What do you call watches where the hands are thematic elements that move?

I really like these type of watches - the Mickey hand ones are a good example - they have parts that move that are thematic to the watch - like moving hands that have like little things on them or the back part of the watch changes like the sky or sun or animals moving.

But I never know what to search for when I'm looking for them