At long last the battle between Kanna Village and the Nobuseri is on. Although they are still very scared, the villagers do an admirable job of defending their village, thanks to the training they received from the samurai. In the opening salvo, they manage to take out one of the flying fortresses with [...]
It’s finally time to get some defenses built, and Kanbei decides that they should try and turn Kanna Village into Kanna Castle. While most of the Samurai direct/train villagers, Katsushiro is set on patrol duty (you know, what they make all weak characters do). While there, he finds one of the FF2000 units [...]
The group decides to split up into 3 teams on the way to Kanna village. Kanbei takes the safe road, and the only danger is the sickly sweet discussions about love between Katsushiro and the tag team of Komachi and Kikuchiyo. “Team K” meets zero resistance, although Kanbei is forced to listen to [...]
The rest of the Nobuseri are waiting to ambush our band of samurai as they exit the tunnels of the Shikimoribito. As expected, Honoka tipped off the Nobuseri because they are holding her sister hostage. Surprisingly enough, the Nobuseri are constructed of some kind of very soft metal; perhaps their armor is made [...]
The gang escapes Ukyo’s group, but not before Ukyo wounds Katsushiro with a crossbow bolt. Katsushiro takes it like a man, and finally Kanbei recognizes him as the fifth samurai in the group. Although the Shikimoribito seem neutral, and even vaguely helpful, they still do business with the Nobuseri. Apparently cells from [...]
We finally get to meet the final of the seven samurai, Shichiroji; ironically he is Kanbei’s old right hand man. In one of the battles during the war, Shichiroji had his left arm seriously injured. I guess something fell on him and knocked him out, and when he awoke, he found that he [...]
After some shoddy statistical heuristics with a small sample set, Katsushiro notes that they have been successful in convincing samurai 1/7th of the time. Coincidentally, the 14th samurai they ask is the pleasant wood-chopping samurai, Heihachi. He’s got some kind of cool ghost keychain thingey on his sword, but because of his technical [...]
Kanbei agrees to help out Kirara and her village, and so the search for 6 more samurai kicks into high gear. Apparently, Kanbei does not really consider Kikuchiyo (too dumb) or Okamoto Katsushiro (too inexperienced, and not skillful enough) to be true samurai yet, and after seeing some of the action in these two [...]
Kikuchiyo gets his head repaired and agrees to help out the peasants after they feed him. Idealistic Katsushiro joins up as well, although he is a bit upset that he gets rice while the peasants eat some kind of dirty water stuff. Unfortunately numba wan samurai Kanbei is feeling angsty since he believes [...]
Wowowowow. I know this is Gonzo stuff, but someone forgot to write in the stupidity. From what I have seen so far, this is not just pretty like usual Gonzo material; the art so far is just absolutely gorgeous. I know it’s heretical, but the only word I could think of to [...]
