it would be better if shin does the tactics and strategies by himself instead of having ten do them for him. it would make him more like how ouki was (who shins literally described as being his compass)
ten could’ve still been worked into the story but instead of doing all the tactics she would just be one of shins generals like how ouki had roku o mi and ryuu koku.
sleeping gas is a type of poison i looked it up!
i know hara said kyoukais stuff is based on yoga or tai chi but what about houken? is the bushin path seeker stuff purely an invention or are there real path seekers? if so how well documented are they
when you stack up the accomplishments that are recorded it should be either ousen or ouhon as the mc as
they took most of the states
ousen is credited with conquering zhao and chu
ouhon with wei qi and yan
why would he choose shin who didn’t conquer anything and who actually failed to conquer chu
dude don’t you realize you’re equal with him strategically?
me personally it is wei i wanna see gohoumeis inventions one last time
i was reading this other chinese manga called blades of the guardians and i got reminded of something
shins irl counterparts family went onto be one of the most notable families in chinese history
they’re the li family from longxi who founded the tang dynasty which is called the golden age of chinese history
his line also gave birth to other great generals like li guang who went onto be called the flying general in the western han dynasty
i say all this to ask if hara said anything concerning this and that if we could see it after the unification wars are finished
it’s at the start of every volume and i don’t know what it’s meant to be
looks cool though
at first i thought it was the same person but the years don’t add up bcs soujiro would’ve been a kid still during bakumatsu but they also look too similar ?
there was also that one scene right before soujiro was defeated idk if it was anime only but it was soujiro then it would cut to okita
are they brothers?
shouldve far surpassed him by this point it’s been like 7-9 years
how does gaimou have the same great generals weight like renpa has while also not believing in the same romanticization and “luster” that ouki believed in?
used to be scouting like it was the nba draft now he just don’t give a shit anymore😭
it obviously isn’t nagumo but maybe a relative ? i feel like it’s a little late for it to matter but who knows maybe it’ll be revealed at the very end on some jjk shit
neither hisui nor her city are mentioned again
this is the first time i’ve ever read a filler manga chapter it was not bad but it was quite useless.
i’ve been rereading the earlier arcs (i’m at the end of sanyou now) and i’ve gotta say the tactics used to be very good.
everything from genpous smoke screen, ousens fortress , how ribokus information manipulation was portrayed , and even the little interactions between characters felt like they had more life than what we usually see
i mean when was the last time you saw an abstract tactic like that smoke screen genpou used in kingdom? i wanna say it’s been since the arc kanki died? or what about the fortresses from ousen that renpa compared to hakuki?
hara just doesn’t put as much thought into how he writes anymore. he needs to take a break for a few weeks and get back into his prime. this is the arc where the main antagonist riboku finally dies and it seems like nobody feels anything.
honestly rereading sanyou arc i’m seeing how much love and care hara used to put into this story but that’s a talk for another day.
there are two ways i interpret this scene it is either A a critique of instinctual type generals who often use the lives of their soldiers as bridges to take the enemy commanders head, showing that their lives were truly just thrown away by a mad man with nothing to show for it.
the second way i interpret it would be that it’s foreshadowing for how a chu general(probably shouheikun or kou en) will defeat shin , being that shin will have a bunch of moments as an instinctual general, overcoming odds and enemy plans just to end up being routed by kou en and his sun bin tactic having to return to qin in shambles
could moubu have beaten houken here? i think it depends on if you consider him to be great general tier atp.
ouki was capable of leading the front line and fighting enemy generals just like how your usual duke hyou instinctual brand generals could BUT he was also a tactical genius who was able to manipulate fuuki and make him sing to his tune, there are instinctual generals who would be capable of this like kei sha but oukis tactics have this refinement that i just don’t feel when i watched kei sha work, it’s something similar with renpa as well, i wish hara wrote more generals that were ambiguous between whether or not they’re instinctual or strategic now days its too clean cut.
i know sei already had a child by her but i’m pretty sure the child is too far down the line of succession to matter and shin doesn’t seem like a picky guy, i think it’s a fun thought
honestly we didn’t need the author possessing a comical amount of cp to know he was a pedophile
the manga is enough
kenshin is 28 while karou is 17
aoshi is 26 and misao is 16
etc etc
i still like the manga though but its kinda weird in of itself