#tair.txt

[ishikirimarustsuka]

(this rant concerns tkrb but can also be applied to the wider anime scene)

as a weeb who likes knowing everything about the historical Real Things the anime is based on, you know what i find infuriating? the absolute lack of information available in english.

it makes a lot of sense, considering everything is based on japanese historical stuff, and it's a really niche topic anyway. but!! seriously?? most of the wiki pages about swords (that appear in tkrb!!!) are exclusively in japanese. even if the english page is available, it's missing so much info here and there that's available in any jp sources!! it's such a shame!!!!!!

tkrb is a very successful franchise with a huge global fanbase, so why is the vast majority of info about the historical prototypes still only available in japanese? how has nobody ever translated these articles??

i understand that translating entire wiki pages is a bit insane but to have virtually no semi-official sources on those stuff in english at all??? it's insane. im fortunate enough to be able to read japanese so i can get all the weeb info i want. but what about everyone else who cant? how am i supposed to gush about the irl facts about the swords my fav charas are based on to ppl who dont speak japanese?

i just spent the last 6 hours reading a fuck lot about historical/irl facts related to tkrb, and i simply! cannot! imagine! being equally obsessed, and having an equally huge amount of love for the franchise/characters, but not being able to access all these niche weeb info (that should be available on wiki pages) just because i dont speak the language

[ishikirimarustsuka]

Very niche merch idea but I think tkrb should consider making some kendo merch. It would simply make so much sense for there to be tkrb-themed tsuba!! A whole collection of them!!!

There are existing display/charm tsuba merch based on "historically famous swords and their tsuba" (ngl doubt but I digress), but it's not really tkrb-related, nor are they actual usable tsuba

At the same time there ARE anime-inspired tsuba+tsubadome (yes hush the kendostar plastic ones that break hush). Like yea sure demon slayer was huge and involved sword fighting but it wasn't about swords per se

But you know which franchise IS about swords? TKRB. You know which franchise should start making themed tsuba fr? TKRB. If they made a whole collection I'd go broke but I'd buy all of them and use a different one in each keiko

[ishikirimarustsuka]

Had a dream last night where I became a saniwa who appeared at an existing honmaru. I walked around and realized that I didn't recognize anyone and the atmosphere was really dark and eerie. Asked around. Apparently I was the second saniwa at that honmaru, and all the touken danshi that I would've recognized had alr been destroyed during the last saniwa's run. Then some touken danshi went up to me and was like, we survived because we are the forgotten, but we were also the leftovers and never get chosen. No use tending to a garden riddled with buds of failure. You should leave

Idek what I did in the rest of the dream but I woke up feeling terrible about the previous questionable saniwa lmao