10 Second Anime - Fuuun Ishin Dai Shogun - Episode 8

Fuuun Ishin Dai Shogun - Episode 8

A colorful stranger steals Keiichiro's Tokugawa seal. He tries to win it back, but ends up losing Kiriko to foreigners. He and the stranger rescue her from Dejima island.

Heh.

If you think Kiriko hasn't been getting naked enough since the first episode, then this episode is just for you. And even if you think her amount of fanservice has been fine, this episode is still just for you.

Those nasty foreigners. Just selling whatever they got to whomever has money. I mean, who does that?

Interesting that the rock-paper-scissors game uses a gun instead of scissors. I guess it shoots right through paper.

Poor Hyakusuke. He got his Newtonian telescope destroyed and lost his awesome peeping location thanks to those horny foreigners.

Even though this is supposed to be an alternative history, it looks like we'll get our Meiji Restoration anyway, even if Keiichiro becomes the new shogun. Part of dismantling the shogunate under the emperor was opening Japan up for free trade.

So, uh, are all Japanese just terrible at rock-paper-scissors, or just the ones with wavering feelings in this episode? Kiriko wasn't the only one losing her shirt, so to speak.

On a side note, I want to thank this episode for finally revealing how Kiriko's underwear works. Sorry. All those straps going everywhere were really distracting... I mean, I couldn't figure it out from a structural perspective... I'll shut up about imagining elaborate panties now...

I thought Kiriko was supposed to be a very skilled ninja. How could she let herself get stuffed into a burlap coffee sack? And worse, how could she not escape being tied up? Shouldn't her special training have covered that? Maybe her wavering feelings are affecting her battle skills too.

Geh.

For an episode about how foreign arms dealers are very involved in the insurgency between the shoguns and Shigeyoshi, we spent a lot of time worrying about Kiriko taking off her clothes in a strip game of rock-paper-scissors.

That Dutchman Verbeck has good taste, and a good eye, although he's anachronistically reloading his camera film too quickly.

Also, he and Glover have been in Japan too long. How else could they learn shibari rope bondage so well that not even an Iga ninja could escape it?

Can we get back to the capable version Kiriko? She's been too much the damsel in distress, or left caught in a net, in the last few battles.

Hmm.

We never got a name for the colorful stranger, but I'm sure he'll make an appearance in the final battle with his big ship.

If Keiichiro was really going to fight those guys, instead of doing the rock-paper-scissors, what would he have used? His sledge hammer was cut in half last episode. I don't see him walking around with two half hammers strapped to his back.

It looks like we got some resolve from Keiichiro now to assume the title of Shogun, at least in opposition to Shigeyoshi's xenophobic policies. I'm sure there will be many other shoguns lined up on opposite sides in the final showdown.