#real ones will know what scene I'm referencing in the half-second glimpse

[birdmenmanga]

me when the alienation from peers hits

[oh-my-otome]

Have you read all the epilogues for the Ikesen event? I'm definitely buying leyasu's story I just read your post about it and now I cant wait! Which other ones would you recommend?

Hello, Precious! 

Ieyasu’s is cute, with a little bit of smut at the beginning. He’s billed as a tsun, even though he’s a kuudere/yandere mix, and you get to see more of his yandere side in this epilogue. 

His is a different type than Kenshin’s– Ieyasu’s is closer to Okita. Yasu is a fluffy type of yandere, slightly obsessed with shows of affection and proof of devotion:

If you’re like me, and have a super-ultra-mega weak spot for suitors who pamper you within an inch of your life, you’re not going to like Hideyoshi’s epilogue:

Did you get annoyed with him constantly saying that you’re “like a little sister” in the event? Then you’re in luck, because he continues saying it! 

You even try to choke the siscon out of him:

Rather than showcasing his pampering nature, this epilogue follows the event’s plot of making Hideyoshi the Inuchiyo of IkeSen.

He kisses the tip of your nose (’half as a joke’), and you fall asleep as he carries you on his back, before depositing you in your futon.

You mumble in your sleep that if he keeps being so sweet, you’re going to fall in love with him (girl, get in line!) and he rubs your cheek, then leaves.

Mitsunari’s epilogue is mostly you trying to convince yourself of this:

Mitsunari asks to examine your ankle, even though he caught you in his arms, so you couldn’t have injured yourself:

where did glasses go in the third panel?

You walk hand-in-hand back to your room and the story cuts to a month later, when the war is over. You’re hardly in this epilogue, actually.

Masamune and Mitsuhide are in Mitsunari’s room, watching him as he sits there staring at one page, neither reading nor eating. Mitsuhide says that “spring has finally come for our late bloomer,” meaning that Mitsunari’s fallen in love. Masamune doesn’t get it, and thinks Mitsunari has an upset stomach.

Mitsunari says that he has a “sensation of a certain touch I just can’t forget,” referencing your lips bumping his, the month before, so he lied when he said that he didn’t think your lips touched his.

Finally, you go to see Mitsunari in the library, where he’s trying to take his mind off of his thoughts, by doing math.

He never lets on that he might be falling in love with you, and you don’t ask what he means by saying “my head’s suddenly crowded with all these strange thoughts.” 

He says that he can work hard because you’re there with him, and the story ends.

Nobunaga’s epilogue starts with him asking you if you feel comfortable in his room, now that you’re alone:

As always, Nobunaga is at your service:

He keeps you busy until you fall asleep. You wake up hours later, in his arms, and it really is nighttime. 

The two of you cuddle up and he sings for you, and tells you why that verse is his favorite.

A few days later, Sasuke sneaks into your room, all sleep-deprived because he’s been tossing and turning at night, wondering about the mocking bird poem.

You tell him that everyone replied just as the poem says, but leave off the part that Nobunaga had told you earlier (that in the past he would have killed it, but not now), wanting to keep that to yourself.

Hideyoshi’s is the shortest story, for the same price as the other’s.

There is no resolution to the event, you don’t get any closer to him, and he doesn’t come to see you any differently than he did before. 

As the reader, we got a better glimpse into how he feels about Chatelaine from the Shot Thru the Heart event, which was free, than this epilogue which costs $3.00 USD.

If you can’t get it, you’re not missing anything.

Mitsunari’s is the second shortest, and for some of it, Chatelaine isn’t even there, and the first 11 pages are a repeat of the last half of the Premium ending.

Mitsunari is adorable, but his cluelessness can become tiring when it’s dragged on for too long.

We’re never told why he lied to Chatelaine, so it just looks out of place. Was he embarrassed? Was he trying to be considerate? 

Instead of having Chatelaine become aware of Mitsunari’s burgeoning feelings, were told it through Mitsuhide, so we as the reader know, but as the avatar we don’t.

At the end, when Chatelaine comes back into the story, she and Mitsunari say a few words to each other before it just ends.

Save your coins unless you just have to have it. It’s a slice-of-life that jumps around with time, location, and character, with no real development.

Again, the Shot Thru the Heart scenes for Mitsunari gave us much more than this, for free.

Nobunaga’s and Ieyasu’s packs the biggest punch. 

Ieyasu’s epilogue is the longest, and provides a nice conclusion to the gossiping maid who was saying that Ieyasu was a cheapskate.

I thought it was nice to have the reader being the one to encourage the love interest for a change, rather than always being the meek one who needs to have others cheer them on.

Nobunaga hits it out of the park, as usual. 

You want to be loved up and then tucked into your partner’s warm embrace as he tells you how much he loves you? Nobunaga does it. 

If you can only get one epilogue, and you’re looking for both smut and fluff, you can’t go wrong with Nobu or Ieyasu.