@@lanagomes2063 I hope he's okay. And honestly, this show has been like a battle for your own war against the struggles that life puts you in. But I hope it's okay.
@@average-art3222He is not in the physical world anymore. I think he is ok, the other day i dreamed about him in a beach and I believe that place i dreamed is kind a heaven. So yeah, i feel he is better than ever. I miss him everyday. Thank you for your words ❤️🩹
From what I know. For a samurai to lose their topknot (chonmage) means losing their honour, they're unworthy to be called a samurai anymore. So when Teigen's topknot got cut off, it was a humiliation and his friends left him because they didn't want to associate with him anymore.
The bend comes from the soft inner core and hard outer shell they showed during the forging scenes in the last episode. When the sword is cooled, the inner core shrinks quicker, drawing the blade up into the curve.
The tempering, and bending of the blade is the moment of truth - The swordsmith really doesn't know the severity of the degree the blade will take for certain. Of course, experience helps, still, it's up to the metal, heat, and water, but mostly the skill of the maker to craft the final weapon.
I think Mizu learned from her lesson and made sure she wouldn't be stuck on the edge of another cliff, like how Taigen trapped her when she was little. So she probably scouted out the cliff to make sure she had another escape point.
One of the things I love about this show is how you could pause it at virtually any point and be left with a screenshot that's good enough to print and mount on your wall. It's just that gorgous at virtually any moment.
I love the little clues each episode provides, typically at the beginning of each episode, that ends up coiling back to the overall theme and motif of each episode. That beach scene, with the crashing waves. Just gorgeous. I've pulled so many background images for my PC from this series.
I found your channel from your Avatar reactions and though its a bit cliche to say, you're quickly becoming one of my favorite reactors! You're so animated and bubbly and your emotions being on display so much is super endearing.
What shocked me about this episode is, I expected the four to be around for a few episodes. Nope, she took them out in a matter of a few minutes. It shows just how bad ass she is.
Mizu is a badass for sure. But I also like how violence is often quick and deadly. Its not a long drawn out sequence. It comes down to the cut. Delivered in the moment. When facing the fangs - Mizu drew out the encounter by forcing individual fights... to her advantage. And even then, it was down to the moment. When a fight takes longer than a few seconds... it is truly something unique with rapidly increasing stakes.
Also, while dispatched quickly, the Fangs still felt like a threat. The first strike the first fang did, almost cut her open, twice. It was really a last second dodge... Guys are no joke. It also paints how freaking good Taigen is when he focus himself. Dude is a freaking menace.
Probably the best animation/story I've seen since Arcane. Interesting characters and motivations, as well as the cultural dynamic. Took me a few episodes to get sold, but I got sold ; ).
Yes, I think they paid a lot of attention to detail in this series. Everything seems well done. Loved your inserts over the sensitive spots, that made me smile.
I've been a fan of your channel for a while, and I'm always impressed by your growth and creativity. Your dedication to improving your content really shines through
The blue eyes aspect gives me Memoirs of a Geisha vibes. This show has been a pleasant surprise. Netflix animation kills it again. So happy you're reacting to it. It's twice as fun. Watching the season, then your reactions. LFG
Hey girl, well I just finished this season, and let me tell ya it doesn't disappoint!!! You will love it. Now I can't wait till next season 🫤. I love old Samurai movies, an this one holds it's on in this genre. Can't wait to take this journey with ya again!!! Lv ya mean it ❤️😎
Eye, skin, hair color all basically comes down to whose genetics are stronger. Most common beings brown and blue. I come from a family where my parents come from 10 to 12 siblings and I got a rare eye color Hazel the only people in my family besides me to have it is my dad & both of my grandfathers. Beings Hazel people have always asked me if I'm wearing contacts because my eyes have looked Grey, green, honey brown, even amethyst usually based on my clothing bringing out that color more.
And, technically speaking, blue eyes are a mutation, the turn off the iris's ability to produce melanin. It is also recessive therefore for the blue eye samurai to have blue eyes, she would have to have it passed down from both parents, now they don't both have to have blue eyes themselves, but both have to have had them in their family history. But then this is a fictional story so that might not be the case with her.
@TheRubberDuck77 Yes, that is true but don't forget genetics can get strange what you said is true but alsow the most common for example you can get a situation that causes the blue eye allele to copy twice from one parent and any number of things to happen
As per the idea of impurities, I had a materials science professor who lived by the credo that no compound or chemical had flaws, they just had features we were still figuring out how to utilize.
Oh and you are right about the pony tail, or more properly a topknot, it was a very big status symbol, and Mitzu cutting it off is really a fate worse than death in some peoples eyes back then.
funny thing about honor. A while back I read "Bushido" by Inazo Nitobe and one thing that stuck with me, maybe someone from Japan can confirm this, is that Japanese does not exactly have a word for what we call honor. The closest approximation would be a good name. People, especially young men, would be encouraged to live their home and not return until they make a name for themselves. We kind of paired this idea with our sense of honor, and in many aspects it is alike. But it's also different.
The thing on his head is a "Come Back Soon" sign to be read when he bows to the customers. It says "Take Care" in the upper right corner and says "NOODLE" in the center.
I didn’t notice until my rewatch that he was wearing the sign from the Noodle shop (you see him bump his head on it as he’s leaving in episode 1). 😂 I legit thought it was just some interesting period headgear 🤣
An to your question about the sword, yes when you quench the red Hot metal an with the angel that the forger made it, it turns up when it is hardens!!!! FYI 😎
Peaches don’t surprise me as much because they are fairly common in media and have been for a long time, the hotdogs were a surprise. It makes sense since nudity in Japan is very different. They have separated sexuality and nudity. There is nothing sexual about taking your clothes off, running down a pier, and jumping in fringed waters naked with a bunch of other people. Most public bathhouses in Japan were not segregated by gender. And with paper walls you learned at a very young age what the human body looked like and also how to be blind to things you may see.
Unfortunately in that time, women didn’t think of being too modern to accept the status quo. However this series has women who absolutely challenged that concept.
I think honor (or pride) can be a fickle thing and for some people, usually men but not exclusively, losing it can supersede everything else to the point of stupidity. Logic, reason, and even love get eclipsed by the need to retain it. Even scoundrels and thieves have some semblance of honor, code, or respect. It can be a virtue but like any virtue if done to excess it become a vice. Sometimes honor does need to be restored but in its pursuit other virtues should not be lost, ignored, or forgotten.
Historically, cultures upholding these notions of things like honor, respect, greatness, etc are anything but. They’re excuses disguised as some higher ideal. Zuko was a good example of someone genuinely trying to pursue that ideal while everyone else around just used it to take advantage of him.
@@TukaihaHithlec Absolutely, things like Bushido code or chivalry come from "higher ideas" but were used by those in power to control populations all while justifying bad actions. Keeping the status quo and what not.
The four fangs were so badass that I thought that they might be season villains chasing Mizu the entire way...then she completely ices most of them like they were nothing. Badass. And yeah, spending time with Geisha was considered normal. Wives were for having children, mistresses and Geisha and concubines were who Samurai were supposed to share their hearts with.
Great reaction, loved it! Been following you since you started reacting to The Expanse, thank you for reacting to this show, it's one hell of a journey but so worth it! Biggest surprise for me in 2023.
@@funnylilgalreactsi think what makes it a bit confusing is the world of avatar being adjacent to ours and not ours specifically. if you make the comparisons though, the fire nation is definitely japan coded 🥰
After watching this show I challenged myself to watch 30 Japanese movies set in the samurai time period. I HIGHLY recommend checking out some. It is a very rich genre with a surprising amount of diversity in stories (horror, historical, drama, romance, comedy). This show gets quite a bit of that. Kurosawa is of course the best, but check out some others as he’s not the only great Japanese filmmaker
Fun fact about blue eyes. They are a genetic mutation from baseline humans. And people with blue eyes have slighter better night vision, on account of the blue color being able to reflect more light than brown.
Xander did an awesome and hilarious job with the editing and insert of hot dogs! And you will not find full frontal in anime. If there is, it will always be censored. This show and shows like Avatar: TLA and Legend of Korra and some other Netflix and Amazon animated shows are not really anime, per se. They are strongly influenced by anime but they are not Japanese productions. I didn't thnk these guys would be around all that long. Once they started to get sliced up, I figured they'd be dealt with. They didn't eve give a speech like Kurn did in Firefly's "The Train Job". Now there I was totally dumbstruck when he got take out.
This is such an amazing show, and it just keeps getting better and better with each episode. I only wish the season was longer so we could have had more to watch.
This show is nothing like Arcane, BUT it's an animated series that came out of nowhere that is absolutely excellent. In that sense, it's just like Arcane
When you watch episode 3, there’s a scene where Fowler (the Irish guy) swings his sword. It’s a very short clip but just a great example of animation choreography. Pay attention to the harp (hint-hint).
FLG: "... and Ringo is already great at making shoup... I mean, making SOUP..." ME: *now picturing Ringo music video* "Shoup, shoup ba-doop, shoup ba-doop, shoup ba-doup ba-doup ba-doup..."
@@Matuse I loved episode 5 too but I spent that entire episode wondering if the flashbacks were really flashbacks or just like an alternate "what if". So when it turned out to be real, it was episode 7 and I didn't want to go back.
Yes that I how a Katana is made having beings a fan of the History Channel I love rewatching shows about weapons and ancient history that is how that particular sword is made.
I got blue eyes from my grandparents, both my brothers have brown eyes and my parents too. It's not common, but not that uncommon either, it's a recessive gene from what I understand.
This is sort of a left over comment that I didn't get around to making on the first video, but you can't use any kind of modern moral standard regarding sex and relationships when you're dealing with feudal Japan. For example, they didn't have the concept of sexual orientation. People just liked whatever they liked, and literally nobody cared or thought it odd. Further, whatever you did sexually, didn't carry over into areas of life outside sex. So, if somebody was into freaky shit, but then was a respectable lord at other times, people viewed those things as completely different and disconnected from each other. People didn't kneel before their lord thinking, "I heard this dude got up to some weird shit at the whorehouse." They simply didn't care, because sex is sex and its an entirely separate realm. Prostitution was considered normal, and despite what the show suggests, was often preferred by women as a career, offering a much better life than working on a farm. Many prostitutes were considered celebrities and they commanded a great deal of respect from all social classes. Higher end prostitutes in Japan would have been like Inara from the show, "Firefly." If Akemi had walked in on Taigen partying with friends and hookers in the first episode, she literally would not have cared or been bothered in the least. The show presented things the way it did because it knows how modern, western eyes will look at the situation, and the writers are trying to trick us into disliking his character for a bit. It's also worth noting that the traditional, patriarchal structure of Japan did not extend into the area of sexual activity. Women were considered equals in the area of sex, and were able to pursue their interests and desires freely, so long as it didn't leak into the non-sexual world and bring shame to their family or clan. Women would also often procure additional partners to spice up the bedroom with their husband, or simply to give him someone else to bother if they were busy. Some of these arrangements would last for an evening, while others might become long-term or even permanent. The characters in the show...or at least the culture they represent...were far happier, more creative, more fulfilled, better adjusted and significantly freakier than literally anyone alive today, so judging them or their behavior with our flawed, puritanical and frankly miserable moralistic superiority is both nonsensical and preposterous.
I am so happy this show was renewed for a second season!
Absolutely worth it
You gotta love when quality is recognized
I still randomly blurt out “ah peaches” 😂
@@logblack116 I do too
Omg thank you for this comment!!! This news made my day ❤❤
The peaches, hot dogs, and cats! 😂😂😂
Well done Xander!
And the ketchup
I agree, tho when she said soooo many peens, I would have done that wone gif with the girl (Lindsay Ellis) and all the hot dogs been thrown at her lol
@@TheRubberDuck77 "that girl" is none other than Lindsay Ellis.
@@Finkeren Thank you for letting me know, I looked her up and she seems sooo cool in so many other ways =)
@@TheRubberDuck77 she is pretty cool.
Mizu means water, Ringo means apple
Not even ATLA yet we still see Momo a lot.
Ringo says "My whole life has been battle." I think this heavily suggests that he was born with his deformity.
In a later episode we do get confirmation (from Ringo) on the situation; you’ll see!
It reminds my brother a lot. I cried like a baby when he said that. My brother had physical disabilities.
@@lanagomes2063 I hope he's okay. And honestly, this show has been like a battle for your own war against the struggles that life puts you in. But I hope it's okay.
@@average-art3222He is not in the physical world anymore. I think he is ok, the other day i dreamed about him in a beach and I believe that place i dreamed is kind a heaven. So yeah, i feel he is better than ever. I miss him everyday. Thank you for your words ❤️🩹
From what I know. For a samurai to lose their topknot (chonmage) means losing their honour, they're unworthy to be called a samurai anymore.
So when Teigen's topknot got cut off, it was a humiliation and his friends left him because they didn't want to associate with him anymore.
Exactly!
I feel like this show came out of nowhere but was such a thrilling suprise. Hope you enjoy the ride.
Also those editing choices where amazing
Xander is the GOAT. I was cackling
Seriously! I literally snorted my coffee out my nose laughing from the "pulsing plate of hot dogs".
The bend comes from the soft inner core and hard outer shell they showed during the forging scenes in the last episode. When the sword is cooled, the inner core shrinks quicker, drawing the blade up into the curve.
The tempering, and bending of the blade is the moment of truth - The swordsmith really doesn't know the severity of the degree the blade will take for certain. Of course, experience helps, still, it's up to the metal, heat, and water, but mostly the skill of the maker to craft the final weapon.
I think Mizu learned from her lesson and made sure she wouldn't be stuck on the edge of another cliff, like how Taigen trapped her when she was little. So she probably scouted out the cliff to make sure she had another escape point.
Oooh nice call back!
That makes a lot of sense.
One of the things I love about this show is how you could pause it at virtually any point and be left with a screenshot that's good enough to print and mount on your wall. It's just that gorgous at virtually any moment.
They need to create an art book or something. I'd buy that so quick
I feel like mounting the festival rush into the water on your wall is not a good idea XD
I love the little clues each episode provides, typically at the beginning of each episode, that ends up coiling back to the overall theme and motif of each episode.
That beach scene, with the crashing waves. Just gorgeous. I've pulled so many background images for my PC from this series.
Heard of this show in passing, didn’t give it a second thought. Watched your reaction to episode 1 then binged everything in one night.
I wish I hadn't binged this show, I need mooooooore!
Ringo is so ... Useful
😉
I just adore him so much 😩
Thank you for introducing me to this show. I couldn't stop watching it. I'm excited to be on this journey with you.
I found your channel from your Avatar reactions and though its a bit cliche to say, you're quickly becoming one of my favorite reactors! You're so animated and bubbly and your emotions being on display so much is super endearing.
I have to thank you for making me aware of this show. It is great!
Also love Xander's editing choices in this episode.
What shocked me about this episode is, I expected the four to be around for a few episodes. Nope, she took them out in a matter of a few minutes. It shows just how bad ass she is.
Literally the same. I thought they were in for the long-haul and she just disposed of them like the trash they are.
Mizu is a badass for sure. But I also like how violence is often quick and deadly. Its not a long drawn out sequence. It comes down to the cut. Delivered in the moment. When facing the fangs - Mizu drew out the encounter by forcing individual fights... to her advantage. And even then, it was down to the moment.
When a fight takes longer than a few seconds... it is truly something unique with rapidly increasing stakes.
Also, while dispatched quickly, the Fangs still felt like a threat. The first strike the first fang did, almost cut her open, twice. It was really a last second dodge... Guys are no joke.
It also paints how freaking good Taigen is when he focus himself. Dude is a freaking menace.
And the great thing about it is that it wasn’t easy for her. She struggled and suffered. I think real consequences lack in a lot of shows nowadays.
Probably the best animation/story I've seen since Arcane. Interesting characters and motivations, as well as the cultural dynamic. Took me a few episodes to get sold, but I got sold ; ).
Yes, I think they paid a lot of attention to detail in this series. Everything seems well done. Loved your inserts over the sensitive spots, that made me smile.
The hotdogs were hillarious, S class editing 🤣
I've been a fan of your channel for a while, and I'm always impressed by your growth and creativity. Your dedication to improving your content really shines through
The blue eyes aspect gives me Memoirs of a Geisha vibes. This show has been a pleasant surprise. Netflix animation kills it again. So happy you're reacting to it. It's twice as fun. Watching the season, then your reactions. LFG
Such an underrated show, long live good writing.
Love that you are enjoying the show. Great reaction!
Hey girl, well I just finished this season, and let me tell ya it doesn't disappoint!!! You will love it. Now I can't wait till next season 🫤. I love old Samurai movies, an this one holds it's on in this genre. Can't wait to take this journey with ya again!!! Lv ya mean it ❤️😎
Shout out to Xander for consistently being an amazing editor. Total GOAT
i love miss brenda song (akemi)aka london tipton from the suite life of zack and cody
I love nature, music, great art, animation, great story telling and action, so this ticks all of those boxes.
Looking forward to season 2 ❤️🙏🏿
I have a lot of love and admiration for Japanese culture, their food and their mindset.
This whole video is basically "I love Ringo so much" and I'm totally here for it! 😂
Eye, skin, hair color all basically comes down to whose genetics are stronger. Most common beings brown and blue. I come from a family where my parents come from 10 to 12 siblings and I got a rare eye color Hazel the only people in my family besides me to have it is my dad & both of my grandfathers. Beings Hazel people have always asked me if I'm wearing contacts because my eyes have looked Grey, green, honey brown, even amethyst usually based on my clothing bringing out that color more.
And, technically speaking, blue eyes are a mutation, the turn off the iris's ability to produce melanin. It is also recessive therefore for the blue eye samurai to have blue eyes, she would have to have it passed down from both parents, now they don't both have to have blue eyes themselves, but both have to have had them in their family history. But then this is a fictional story so that might not be the case with her.
@TheRubberDuck77 Yes, that is true but don't forget genetics can get strange what you said is true but alsow the most common for example you can get a situation that causes the blue eye allele to copy twice from one parent and any number of things to happen
As per the idea of impurities, I had a materials science professor who lived by the credo that no compound or chemical had flaws, they just had features we were still figuring out how to utilize.
Oh and you are right about the pony tail, or more properly a topknot, it was a very big status symbol, and Mitzu cutting it off is really a fate worse than death in some peoples eyes back then.
YES!!! I was wondering when the next reaction for this series would come out!
fun fact: In Japan number 4 is associated with Death. Kind of like our number 13. So Four fangs and Four whight devils make a lot of sense.
Awesome reaction of my favorite episode of Blue Eye Samurai!!!!😊😊😊😊
funny thing about honor. A while back I read "Bushido" by Inazo Nitobe and one thing that stuck with me, maybe someone from Japan can confirm this, is that Japanese does not exactly have a word for what we call honor. The closest approximation would be a good name. People, especially young men, would be encouraged to live their home and not return until they make a name for themselves.
We kind of paired this idea with our sense of honor, and in many aspects it is alike. But it's also different.
The thing on his head is a "Come Back Soon" sign to be read when he bows to the customers. It says "Take Care" in the upper right corner and says "NOODLE" in the center.
I didn’t notice until my rewatch that he was wearing the sign from the Noodle shop (you see him bump his head on it as he’s leaving in episode 1). 😂 I legit thought it was just some interesting period headgear 🤣
Thank you! I wondered why he was wearing a piece of wood.
An to your question about the sword, yes when you quench the red Hot metal an with the angel that the forger made it, it turns up when it is hardens!!!! FYI 😎
Ok, Xander won the internet today!
I couldn’t stop laughing 😂
Peaches don’t surprise me as much because they are fairly common in media and have been for a long time, the hotdogs were a surprise. It makes sense since nudity in Japan is very different. They have separated sexuality and nudity. There is nothing sexual about taking your clothes off, running down a pier, and jumping in fringed waters naked with a bunch of other people. Most public bathhouses in Japan were not segregated by gender. And with paper walls you learned at a very young age what the human body looked like and also how to be blind to things you may see.
I was upset about all the trees being sliced as well.
Unfortunately in that time, women didn’t think of being too modern to accept the status quo. However this series has women who absolutely challenged that concept.
I think honor (or pride) can be a fickle thing and for some people, usually men but not exclusively, losing it can supersede everything else to the point of stupidity. Logic, reason, and even love get eclipsed by the need to retain it. Even scoundrels and thieves have some semblance of honor, code, or respect. It can be a virtue but like any virtue if done to excess it become a vice. Sometimes honor does need to be restored but in its pursuit other virtues should not be lost, ignored, or forgotten.
Historically, cultures upholding these notions of things like honor, respect, greatness, etc are anything but. They’re excuses disguised as some higher ideal. Zuko was a good example of someone genuinely trying to pursue that ideal while everyone else around just used it to take advantage of him.
*insert Zuko quote*
(I´m tired and can´t do one myself, sorry.)
@@TukaihaHithlec Absolutely, things like Bushido code or chivalry come from "higher ideas" but were used by those in power to control populations all while justifying bad actions. Keeping the status quo and what not.
I agree this is the most 🌭 I've seen in an animated series 😆
The four fangs were so badass that I thought that they might be season villains chasing Mizu the entire way...then she completely ices most of them like they were nothing. Badass.
And yeah, spending time with Geisha was considered normal. Wives were for having children, mistresses and Geisha and concubines were who Samurai were supposed to share their hearts with.
I totally thought they were going to be in pursuit the whole season. Mizu doesn’t mess around
The blue eyes was inspired by the writers child being mixed raced Asian with blue eyes
Great reaction, loved it! Been following you since you started reacting to The Expanse, thank you for reacting to this show, it's one hell of a journey but so worth it! Biggest surprise for me in 2023.
Can't believe you didn't make the connection to zuko and iroh cutting off their ponytails, it's almost worse than death during those days
They weren’t samurai 🤷♀️
@@funnylilgalreactsi think what makes it a bit confusing is the world of avatar being adjacent to ours and not ours specifically. if you make the comparisons though, the fire nation is definitely japan coded 🥰
@@funnylilgalreacts I know but the symbol of the hair is still important to them..
After watching this show I challenged myself to watch 30 Japanese movies set in the samurai time period. I HIGHLY recommend checking out some. It is a very rich genre with a surprising amount of diversity in stories (horror, historical, drama, romance, comedy). This show gets quite a bit of that. Kurosawa is of course the best, but check out some others as he’s not the only great Japanese filmmaker
Fun fact about blue eyes. They are a genetic mutation from baseline humans. And people with blue eyes have slighter better night vision, on account of the blue color being able to reflect more light than brown.
Ringo's our sunshine boy.
So excited to go through this with you.
The scene when she comes out of the cold sea water.....brrrrr! Her glare can slay a god!
Xander did an awesome and hilarious job with the editing and insert of hot dogs! And you will not find full frontal in anime. If there is, it will always be censored. This show and shows like Avatar: TLA and Legend of Korra and some other Netflix and Amazon animated shows are not really anime, per se. They are strongly influenced by anime but they are not Japanese productions. I didn't thnk these guys would be around all that long. Once they started to get sliced up, I figured they'd be dealt with. They didn't eve give a speech like Kurn did in Firefly's "The Train Job". Now there I was totally dumbstruck when he got take out.
Not only do these trees not deserve this, it’s not physically possible 😃
The peaches to cover the peaches XD
I would love having Ringo as an apprentice, it would never be boring. Lol
He’s too pure for this world
@@funnylilgalreacts Yeah, I love him too.
Side note you look so pretty with your hair up like that and I’m in love with that hoodie 🙌🏼
i love your reactions you’re so insightful!
This is such an amazing show, and it just keeps getting better and better with each episode. I only wish the season was longer so we could have had more to watch.
yup. Thats actually a really good rendition of quenching a katana =)
lol Xander putting in work today. this was fun
Yes, that is when the katana gets its bend. Part of the blade would be covered in clay, so different parts cool at different rates, causing the bend.
The animation is 3-D motion graphics, and the textures are hand drawn. I want a video game with this level of animation, maybe in the next 5 years.
The hotdogs. 😂
the editing 😭😭😭
This show is nothing like Arcane, BUT it's an animated series that came out of nowhere that is absolutely excellent.
In that sense, it's just like Arcane
Great editing! Lol
When you watch episode 3, there’s a scene where Fowler (the Irish guy) swings his sword. It’s a very short clip but just a great example of animation choreography. Pay attention to the harp (hint-hint).
I was worried you quit reacting to this one. It’s sooooo good, love your reaction too!
Netflix is a stickler for their copyrights. I just have to give it time to clear.
@@funnylilgalreactsahhh, gotcha
new FLG drinking game: take a shot every time she says “I love Ringo!” 🥃
My poor liver
The hotdogs 😂😂
FLG: "... and Ringo is already great at making shoup... I mean, making SOUP..."
ME: *now picturing Ringo music video* "Shoup, shoup ba-doop, shoup ba-doop, shoup ba-doup ba-doup ba-doup..."
😂
Your review of episode 8 in your Kimono would be glorious :)
Every show needs more Ringo 🥰
That shot of Mizu and Chiagi facing each other? At sunset just like the color of the blade. Not the right season but really cool.
Quick note from the intro: 4 white men in Japan and the Four Fangs might be because of the trope "Four is Death" for Eastern Media
Xander! Master Editor!!!
I'm up to episode 4 now, and it's been super impressive.
Episode 4 is my favorite of the season
@@samfisher6606 Certainly...useful.
@@Matuse I don't mean for that. I mean for the way it switches perspectives.
@@samfisher6606 I actually preferred the skips in Ep5, but the plot of Ep4 is...haunting.
@@Matuse I loved episode 5 too but I spent that entire episode wondering if the flashbacks were really flashbacks or just like an alternate "what if". So when it turned out to be real, it was episode 7 and I didn't want to go back.
I love your reaction!
I am just waiting for the moment when Ringo gets to say “Flying Man!”
Yes that I how a Katana is made having beings a fan of the History Channel I love rewatching shows about weapons and ancient history that is how that particular sword is made.
I got blue eyes from my grandparents, both my brothers have brown eyes and my parents too. It's not common, but not that uncommon either, it's a recessive gene from what I understand.
THE PEACHES LMAO
Oh fun! Didn't notice you were watching this before. It's a unique show, took a lot of directions I didn't expect. Hope you enjoy! :)
The animation is made in Paris, like Arcane.
13:54 Thanks Zander for the peaches.
If I misspelled your name I apologize.
Best reaction channel on TH-cam!!!!
Kevin Zigerion fought really hard to draw all of the naughty bits in this episode.
*laughing my ass off* so many hotdogs!!!
I like the scene where they show the blade skim by her neck, insinuating that if she were a man her Adam's apple would have been sliced.
keep'em coming!
Motorcycle, right. You wanted Ramon.
Nudity in anime isn't common. This show does seem to do it when necessary to set a gritty tone or serve a purpose.
Ok…So you may be reaching with some of these theories lol. But I love it! The logic actually makes sense. So you keep throwing 🎯!!
To me to his a bit of a feel of a Akira Kurosawa movie particularly in the pacing, and the animation is georgous
Woo
This is sort of a left over comment that I didn't get around to making on the first video, but you can't use any kind of modern moral standard regarding sex and relationships when you're dealing with feudal Japan. For example, they didn't have the concept of sexual orientation. People just liked whatever they liked, and literally nobody cared or thought it odd. Further, whatever you did sexually, didn't carry over into areas of life outside sex. So, if somebody was into freaky shit, but then was a respectable lord at other times, people viewed those things as completely different and disconnected from each other. People didn't kneel before their lord thinking, "I heard this dude got up to some weird shit at the whorehouse." They simply didn't care, because sex is sex and its an entirely separate realm.
Prostitution was considered normal, and despite what the show suggests, was often preferred by women as a career, offering a much better life than working on a farm. Many prostitutes were considered celebrities and they commanded a great deal of respect from all social classes. Higher end prostitutes in Japan would have been like Inara from the show, "Firefly." If Akemi had walked in on Taigen partying with friends and hookers in the first episode, she literally would not have cared or been bothered in the least. The show presented things the way it did because it knows how modern, western eyes will look at the situation, and the writers are trying to trick us into disliking his character for a bit.
It's also worth noting that the traditional, patriarchal structure of Japan did not extend into the area of sexual activity. Women were considered equals in the area of sex, and were able to pursue their interests and desires freely, so long as it didn't leak into the non-sexual world and bring shame to their family or clan. Women would also often procure additional partners to spice up the bedroom with their husband, or simply to give him someone else to bother if they were busy. Some of these arrangements would last for an evening, while others might become long-term or even permanent.
The characters in the show...or at least the culture they represent...were far happier, more creative, more fulfilled, better adjusted and significantly freakier than literally anyone alive today, so judging them or their behavior with our flawed, puritanical and frankly miserable moralistic superiority is both nonsensical and preposterous.
your editor is a G 😂
He was definitely thinking outside the box 😂😂