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I'd like to say that I figured that way back in like episode 3 or something. Predictable.

Nevertheless, I liked the Jin and Mugen parts.

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octopedingenue

Yeah, nobody was surprised by that one. I don't really care all that much, since I'm not watching the series for the sunflower samurai plot at all. I am interested in what they're going to do with it in terms of the 'great revelation', though; this series has a lot of fun playing with cliches.

The stuff with the Christians was veerrryyy intriguing (and I liked Yuri's character design; she was pretty). We haven't seen the last of it, since the sunflower samurai appears to be a Christian and since one of the series' main themes is exploring the oppression of minorities. Eeeenteresting.

I am going to be making so many screencaps from the Jin and Mugen parts. And the Momo parts. Momo jumping on Mugen's face! Momo jumping onto Jin and squeaking "Jin"! And I liked the part near the end where Mugen started to attack, but Jin held him back and Mugen let him. Whereas ten episodes ago Mugen would've cut Jin's face off for touching him. Baby steps, baby steps, tiny subtle characterization touches...

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rashaka.livejournal.com

I liked the part near the end where Mugen started to attack, but Jin held him back and Mugen let him.

That's what I meant when I said I liked the Mugen and Jin parts. I liked EXACTLY that shot. He didn't even fight Jin a little bit, he just stopped. Probably because he knew he shouldn't be interfering, but even so, before Mugen would never have let the fact that he knew Jin was right stop him from overreacting.

And also the cute thing with the squirrel...

I thought about making a longer post talking about how they're started to be more comfortable around each other.

I find the Christian thing more intriguing for its historical significance than its plot possibilities... the setting of this series in a soon-to-be-rapidly-Westernizing period of Japan's history has always been one of the features that draws me back, even when I was only watching it because there was nothing else to watch (i.e. the first ten episodes or so).

I'm still very ambivalent about this show. There's a lot of stuff I like, but there's a lot of stuff I don't like or have been disappointed by. And there's other stuff that I like or dislike, but not for the reasons everyone else seems to. It's not a series I am inclined to gush about. But it is something I'm invested in enough that I want to see how it ends, and it is something I'll be reading a lot of fanfic for. Many of my problems with this show are the kind that fanfic and fandom can make up for where the show didn't satisfy.