#shigurui death frenzy

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Chapter 4: "The Sticky Bean"

Shigurui by Takayuki Yamaguchi

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Sure, Jan

What cracks me up about this scene from Shigurui Death Frenzy is all the fandom speculation about how Fujki has latent homosexual feelings for Irako, and yet here is Irako taking out his anger on some statues by imagining them to be the two men who caused him pain … and look at how he handles his anger at Fujiki?!

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Anime of the day: Disability Pride Month Pull List

For Pride month I compiled a list of LGBT+ anime. Using that inspiration, I decided to compile a list of anime featuring disabilities. Here are some of the anime in this category. Is this all of them? No. Is this a large list? Yes, yes it is. 

Fullmetal Alchemist 

Bleach

 Guilty Crown 

Code Geass

 A Silent Voice 

Fairy Tail 

The Garden Of Sinners 

Yuki Yuna Is A Hero 

Violet Evergarden 

Ranking of Kings 

Josee, the Tiger and the Fish 

Gangsta 

Taisho Otome Fairy Tale 

Shigurui: Death Frenzy 

Breakers 

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Shigurui (Death Frenzy) by Takayuki Yamaguchi - Analysis, Ending Explanation and Review

So I found Shigurui recommended on a blog and finished reading it.

PROS : The fight scenes were very good and strategic, and I appreciate the no - holds - barred, brutally honest approach to the living conditions, politics, exploitation and violence that happened in past times (and still does tbh). The ending is a very very good climax of the story's central themes. I also liked that the characters and their actions were mostly very realistic.

CONS : In between the aforementioned excellent scenes are many. many boring diversions to other, insignificant characters, pointless flavour dramatics and details. I'm talking a 60 - 40 or 65 - 35 ratio of slop to brilliance. The plot swings between meh and AWESOME, with no in between.

Overall, whether I would suggest this manga to you depends on your willingness to skim a big big bunch of slow - ass moments for a lesser percentage of great ones (and there are a total of 84 chapters). It's the kind of story that doesn't begin to truly shine until you reach the end, imo. I personally finished it because the anticipation buildup worked on a bored sucker like me. It was the final chapters that gripped me to write the following analysis. HUGE SPOILERS AHEAD.

Speaking of the ending and of Seigen, Fujiki explicitly says in that final arc that Seigen 'was pride itself' and 'was disgusted at being ordered to kill'. Throughout the story we're shown multiple instances of people at all positions in the samurai / feudal hierarchy resolving to humiliate and harm others, or putting themselves in great peril / abjection, because they are ordered to by a superior they respect or fear. The Kogan school does many cruel things like the 'beautification', inventing murder culprits and enacting career - destroying punishment on Seigen, all to maintain their supremacy. Fujiki apathetically slices off the fingers of one who asked for a friendly duel, only because he guilelessly stated the fact of Seigen's victory over Iwamoto Kogan. Of course, these things were sanctioned by the moral code of that time, but then our faithful samurai are often on their receiving end - the futawa to prove absolute obedience, loyalty to your senile master even when he slices your gums open, gratitute to Kogan who gave them the chance to become samurai and rise in society even though it involved incredibly dangerous training. I don't entirely fault the Kogan disciples for this attachment though, seeing as they were struggling in life before their sensei took them in.

On the other hand is Seigen, who embodies individualism and self - determination. He doesn't subscribe to dehumanising merit, fealty before mercy or lauded servitude over concrete personal gain and independence. He wants to be his own master. He's not self - sacrificing, he does kill or endanger lives when he thinks it advantageous to his plans - see him killing his acupressure teacher who disapproved of martial kosshi jutsu, his former martial arts instructor, and - if I'm not wrong - his mother, to either end her misery and his heartbreak over it, avoid shame by association, or as a symbolic sloughing of his burden. He also tries out risky sword techniques on and involves Iku in his revenge plans. It's possible that he was the one who tied Fujiki's armour too tight so he could then rescue and one - up him. But he does this all to rise to a life of security, pleasure and respect from his horrible condition as a prostitute's child. He doesn't play by the feudal system's extortionary and unnatural ideal of bushido and lord - worship. He uses the system to his own ends or rejects it. At the same time, he has a rather humane side - rages at his mother's deprivation, empathises with and looks after a scorned beggar, refuses to allow the Todouza member to demean himself while exalting him, asserts the innate equality of humans across social classes, feels camaraderie with his fellow disciples assuming they shared his views. He does care for Iku, too, and can at the very least recognise Mie's agony at being imperiously pinned down to mate for the sake of the clan.

In the final battle, Fujiki does not waver while rending Seigen's body in two. He reminisces about his past with him, but his thirst for vengeance does not falter. It is only when he is ordered to rip off the head of this rival that he quakes. Like he says, Seigen was pride personified, someone who hated being a tool of others. Fujiki despised Seigen but also genuinely admired him as a swordsman and a paragon of unfettered insight, selfhood and freedom. He also knew that until that point Seigen had the favour of even the Shogun's brother. To see how quickly the aristocrats changed their tune upon his defeat, calling him a presumptuous blind man unfit for the sacred battle grounds, and urging this disrespect to his corpse as both a Samurai rite and a test of deference, breaks Fujiki's worldview. He does it anyway after hesitating a while, probably to restore the Kogan clan's standing in the Shogunate.

He is shell - shocked and looks to Mie for comfort but she has already killed herself. Why ? Because earlier, Mie had latched onto Seigen for being the only one to stand up for her personhood against his lord's orders. She considered him one of the few who were humans and not puppets. After Seigen's 'betrayal' of the clan, she looks to Fujiki as another dude who commits to retribution and restoration against all odds - seemingly a person with agency. But when she sees him, her source of optimism, becoming the ultimate quiescent pawn in desecrating Seigen, she loses all hope in a dignified, self - sovereign life in this cruel society of puppets and puppeteers. To renew the clan would require such acts routinely conducted in unfeeling thraldom and self - preservation. Mie, someone who yearned to break free of such dog - like conduct, could never stomach this.

Some other interesting things I noticed - one, if I'm not misremembering, then Seigen's revenge killings of the Kogan disciples only gave Mie joy for his revival. On the night Seigen was to arrive in person, logically to kill his final wrongdoer, Mie was euphoric. She never expected that he'd kill her dad. Does that mean she believed Fujiki to be the target, and was totally fine with it ? That makes sense considering she likely scorned him for remaining Kogan's lackey even during her coercion and Seigen's despair. Which means that her later acceptance of him was either forgiveness due to his earnestness or pragmatism in order to avenge her father.

But I'm still confused at why Seigen left a cure for Fujiki's coma. It was such a huge risk to his career and his life and he ultimately paid for it.

It's also noteworthy that the instant before Seigen's death has a dream - like vision of him almost embracing Fujiki. That's not at all out of the blue lol, these two could've been friends and at points wished to understand the other but they took opposing paths and were limited by their own biases. Seigen never came to know that Fujiki fawned over violent Kogan not purely due to calculating or dumb complaisance, but due to a family - like bond. Fujiki never considered Seigen's perspective or his pain until the end.

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hi mara!! i hope im asking this OK. i’ve been reading through your posts and i noticed you like a lot of vintage/early 2000s anime, so I was wondering if you watch newer stuff at all? i’m curious to hear your preferences!

hi anonymous; i feel like i:m mostly only ever posting about new anime on my twitter -- although even on here i advertise the 2019 boogiepop series; but lately i caught up on under ninja (really like this, reminds me of a sleepier kokkoku x a sleepier akiba maid war), i watched all of the 100 zombie something show (forget the name of it but it went on hiatus and never resumed, was alright, hated the first episode though); finished blue eye samurai a few days ago (before the hospital trip, i think? really loved it, though i:m not sure if it really counts as anime -- but this one was a sleeper good show for me because of how generic it looked/sounded, but it was sort-of like death frenzy/shigurui crossed with kill bill, but using a disney/pixar plot structure); mentioned akiba maid war, that one is a favorite, probably one of the most satisfying conclusions of anything i:ve watched; i was posting about mahou shoujo magical destroyers pretty often, and i liked it, but it:s also not a good show what-so-ever and i:d never recommend anyone watch it (but the OP/ED is great; the problem it has is it:s sort-of like "insane ambition but zero capability to actualize it"; you can watch the first 2 episodes, then skip to the last 2/3 episodes and miss nothing, and it:d probably be a better experience for it); really liked wonder egg priority; watched a few episodes of the anxiety band show but dropped it, entirely just due to how often i:d see posts about it; really like all of the new baki seasons; liked the cyberpunk anime a-bunch; dropped summertime rendering but liked what i watched, just bored; dropped spy family, liked it but dropped it cause i was bored; dropped chainsaw man, liked it but was bored; lycoris, watched, liked, dropped, bored; heavenly delusion, watched, liked, dropped, bored; etc, etc;

been wanting to watch the new rurouni kenshin series but sort-of maybe more interested in just re-watching the old one for nostalgia; generally how i find stuff to watch is every few weeks i look at /a/ and if i see a thread where some anonymous sounds really passionate about some show, i:ll watch it, cause i like reading about someone elses passion and feeling some of their excitement second-hand (maid war, boy:s abyss, magical destroyers, wonder egg, & kenshin omega/ashura were this for me -- the airing/releasing threads for these shows just were so much fun) -- or like infinite ryvius, a person i followed on twitter just was gushing about it and it made me so interested;

out of everything listed akiba maid war is the only one i:d press people to watch because i think it:s really special but got overlooked by the anxiety band show (admittedly i think akiba maid war "is best experienced" watching on a week-to-week release basis because it:s sort-of episodic in the center, but the high points are just so high);

anyways take care, anonymous; got this card while farming in RO and liked the art

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Gennosuke Fujiki

Anime: Shigurui

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Has anyone watched/read Shigurui: Death Frenzy?

So I finished watching the show today (only 12 episodes). I came for the purported homoerotic rivalry, and stayed for the eyeball-eating, nipple-ripping, mouth-slicing, and general tons and tons of violence/gore (I’ve only listed the some of the more unusual body parts that have been brutalized--obv you get your usual dismemberings and such). J/k, but while it is the most gruesome anime/manga I have ever seen (which includes Berserk and the Battle Royale manga), I like it for its 

Anyway, I’m currently reading the manga, and provided I don’t physically pass away before the end of the week, I should finish it (80 chapters), and it will be the only manga I have read in full. I already know how it “ends” unfortunately (piss on me for looking in YT comments and accidentally reading spoilers), but I suppose the journey is most of the fun anyway, right?

Anyway, this is definitely a recommended watch for those of you who want an actually realistic depiction of Samurai (which takes place during the Edo period), an intriguing personal plotline, and don’t mind lots of physical and sexual gruesomeness.

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Shigurui: Death Frenzy

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Anime of the day: Shigurui: Death Frenzy

Alt Title: Shigurui

Released: 2007

Here, at the beginning of the Edo period, begins a battle. One-armed Fujiki and the blind Irako will fight each other in this battle for dominance. Both are disciples of the greatest swordsman, Iwamoto. Each are determined to prove themselves to be the successor of Iwamoto's dojo.

This anime was a strangely interesting one to watch. I was especially entertained by the comment section under each episode. Because this anime requires the viewer to pay attention and know some historical background, it can be easy to miss little details that impact the story's flow. However, some of the comments were savage. Someone was like “man this anime is lame and hard to follow,” and a person replied back “maybe you should stick to more simple minded anime like Naruto.” I giggled so much. I mean Naruto has depth to it. But also, do you realize how much people talk to me about Naruto. Like when someone knows I watch anime the first thing they do is channel the “Mine” birds from Finding Nemo and “Naruto, Naruto, Naruto.” And it’s not even like depth in Naruto. Plus MHA is starting to get “Mine”ed like Naruto and it’s such a bummer. I love anime, and talking about anime, but I don’t like talking about the same anime everyday. Nor do I want to talk about the same handful of anime on Netflix everyday. This pandemic anime boom is nice, but like get out from behind the mainstream and easy to reach.  As a person who watched way, way, way too much anime, I know how much trash anime is out there, but anime dumpster diving is so much more satisfying when you find a gem. Or you could just find an anime review person like me and ask them questions.

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“To learn without noticing the presence of demons”