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Each episode is just better than the last and they are all good.
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It is good as fuck. It makes me want to play Like a Dragon: Ishin hardcore.
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Yeah the show is fantastic
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Hell fucking yeah. And the gore effects are crazy good.
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Fuji's facial acting is also just perfect. Elevates any scene.
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Just finished episode 2 shes starting to take off now
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i'm waiting for it to end first lmao
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Kojima approves.

https://twitter.com/HIDEO_KOJIMA_EN/status/1765247639241818585
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Don't have Disney+
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blackrider76 posted...
Kojima approves.

https://twitter.com/HIDEO_KOJIMA_EN/status/1765247639241818585
That might be the longest review I've seen from Kojima.
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Caught up just now

Lives up to the hype.
It's probably more of the same Tokugawa are the protagonists and making the Toyotomi and Ishida that bad guys even though it's the former that usurped power, broke a peace treaty, and burned the last child heir of the Toyotomi to death in order to secure their grip on power.

Hard pass.
And the guy playing Ieyasu has the Sanada name, but Yukimura isn't even one of the characters.... wow.
Read the book years ago. I'm alright without watching another show about it.
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Despite having read the book, I don't have the fascination with television or Japan that many others do, so I have absolutely no reason to watch it.
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Definitely need to watch this. Tagged.
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LordFarquad1312 posted...
Don't have Disney+
It's on Hulu as well.
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Shame its only a mini series.
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Killmonger posted...
Shame its only a mini series.
I disagree. A show knowing the story it wants to tell and using a reasonable number of episodes to do it is great. Extending past your creative vision is how things get sloppy.
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I love this series so much. It's VERY well done. You can tell that the entire staff, crew, and cast poured their heart and soul into the project.
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streamofthesky posted...
It's probably more of the same Tokugawa are the protagonists and making the Toyotomi and Ishida that bad guys even though it's the former that usurped power, broke a peace treaty, and burned the last child heir of the Toyotomi to death in order to secure their grip on power.

Hard pass.
And the guy playing Ieyasu has the Sanada name, but Yukimura isn't even one of the characters.... wow.

It's literal historical fiction, dude
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It is likely going to be considered one of the best shows that has been on tv like the original adaption mini series which is a legend in it's own right and why they made a second take on the beloved book.

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I'm not really into shounen/live action shounen
Then you don't know the abject thrill of Toranaga yelling "Believe it!"
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It's great. The sake scene last episode was fun.
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Compsognathus posted...
Then you don't know the abject thrill of Toranaga yelling "Believe it!"
... the guy from the last samurai?
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Give me a comparison. It's quality is on par to what other shows?
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GuerillaGorilla posted...
Give me a comparison. It's quality is on par to what other shows?

I don't know what to compare it to. It truly is one of the best shows on TV right now. Maybe the best.
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GuerillaGorilla posted...
Give me a comparison. It's quality is on par to what other shows?

Not quite Breaking Bad caliber, but certainly GOT caliber. Easily the best recreation/reimaging of an older property in probably ever.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bxVhRWBGOZ0
PballDepot posted...
Not quite Breaking Bad caliber, but certainly GOT caliber. Easily the best recreation/reimaging of an older property in probably ever.

If you compare it to GoT, it's only fair to compare it to maybe the first 4 or 5 seasons. So far there is no drop off in quality, even as it feels like we're coming close to the end.
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Xenogears15 posted...
If you compare it to GoT, it's only fair to compare it to maybe the first 4 or 5 seasons. So far there is no drop off in quality, even as it feels like we're coming close to the end.

Right this is just a mini-series so it's tough to compare, but yeah early GOT is what I was alluding to.
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Its excellent I have to see the original show and read the book now.
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I didn't like the actor who played Blackthorne for the longest but he grew on me by ep 3. Quirked up white boy isekai
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streamofthesky posted...
It's probably more of the same Tokugawa are the protagonists and making the Toyotomi and Ishida that bad guys even though it's the former that usurped power, broke a peace treaty, and burned the last child heir of the Toyotomi to death in order to secure their grip on power.

Hard pass.
And the guy playing Ieyasu has the Sanada name, but Yukimura isn't even one of the characters.... wow.

Yet, all that stuff Ieyasu did pales in comparison to Toyotomi ordering the invasion of Korea. So I have no problem with any media depicting Toyotomi as the bad guy.
CirillaRiannon posted...
Yet, all that stuff Ieyasu did pales in comparison to Toyotomi ordering the invasion of Korea. So I have no problem with any media depicting Toyotomi as the bad guy.
Hideyoshi Toyotomi was dead before Ieyasu even tried to usurp power. Ieyasu pretty much copy/pasted most of Hideyoshi's government policies anyway, probably the only reason he never invaded anywhere else was a) he was too busy crushing internal dissent and b) b/c it had already been tried and failed (pretty spectacularly... how does an island empire have such a useless navy, anyway?).
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I didn't like the actor who played Blackthorne for the longest but he grew on me by ep 3. Quirked up white boy isekai

Technically, he isekai'd himself. But yeah.

I honestly didn't like his character much when I read the novel until he learned what personal responsibility meant in feudal Japan. He learned it in the previous episode the same way he did in the book. Very glad they kept the stuff with the gardener in the show.
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DuranOfForcena posted...
watching episode 2 right now

i don't really have any problem with the actor who plays John Blackthorne, but at the same time, whenever he's on screen i can't help but think "mommy, can we have Tom Hardy?" "no, we have Tom Hardy at home" *Tom hardy at home:*

Nestor Carbonell is awesome though

this comments hilarious because I was watching the first episode last night, and I literally thought the same thing. This dude is just a Tom Hardy knock off.
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this comments hilarious because I was watching the first episode last night, and I literally thought the same thing. This dude is just a Tom Hardy knock off.

I'm sorry, what? A Tom Hardy knock off? In what way?
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I'm happy that people are starting to recognize Hiroyuki Sanada.
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DuranOfForcena posted...
he just looks a lot like him, but not quite

I don't see the resemblance.
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DuranOfForcena posted...
he just looks a lot like him, but not quite
I mean, he also does excessively crazy accent thing here which is Hardy's whole shtick
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Rob_Cesternino posted...
I'm happy that people are starting to recognize Hiroyuki Sanada.

To be fair, he's only ever really been typecast by Hollywood as a samurai. Which is still a badass role to be typecast as, but yes, it's great to see that the dude is getting the recognition he deserves.

If you haven't already, watch the behond the scenes stuff of this show. I didn't realize how deeply involved Sanada was in the entire shebang until I watched it. As I said before, it's really obvious how the show is a labor of love for everyone involved.
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Xenogears15 posted...
I'm sorry, what? A Tom Hardy knock off? In what way?
They have extremely similar facial structures the first time I saw the dudes face even with his disheveled hair and beard. I immediately thought, Tom Hardy, and then his like false, gruff, gravelly voice that hes using for the characters very similar to the Hardys style of character voicing.
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