The Great Fire of 1657 | Blue Eye Samurai Ep 8 Reaction

[@YaBoyRoshi]

Patiently awaiting season 2!

[@PrinceScotticus]

Facts this show is hard

[@dishonorabledimensions1683]

Same man. This show was so good

[@OhyeahMrKrabz]

The show was well so it should happen

[@dungeonmaster16]

speaking of feudal japan related, the fx series shogun is coming up. imagine the tone like vikings if heard/seen the show.

[@TojiFushigur0]

No way.. This show fell off hard after episode 6.. Netflix couldn't hold it... I'd rather watch shitty Yu Yu Hakusho live action than this crap Try Avatar next for this level of writing lmao

[@YGXP.]

"wait, so you're not a cute femboy twink" -Taigen next season

[@peggedyourdad9560]

"I can't believe I fell in love with a chick!"

[@aliyahjimoh4233]

@@peggedyourdad9560 Mulan all over again

[@dariogaelreyes7534]

Honestly I'm glad Mizu didn't kill Fowler. Not only does it show some character growth because shes no longer arrogant enough to go to London by herself, but also he's way too interesting a character to die this early

[@27lmoney]

Me too I’m glad Fowler is still alive. Otherwise everything would’ve died with him and Mizu would’ve never knew the truth.

[@dungeonmaster16]

consideringf the voice of fowler is also one of the producers of the show then yeah. keep in him so the show gets funding in case netflix goes @#$! you on them.

[@bubsyfinnigan4462]

Kenneth Branagh is also a phenomenal VA, so it's great that we'll be hearing more of his crazy ass anecdotes next season.

[@niklaswedin3594]

I think she should have killed Fowler because he already gave her the names and city where they are. It shouldnt be that hard to ask around for those names. They are probably well known. However the language barrier could be a problem😅

[@dwnkaomwn3953]

​@@niklaswedin3594 Although, I agree that Fowler is better off dead than alive, Mizu wouldn't know where to look for those guys, even if she got to London and not anyone would tell her where they were in that city. Mizu would be a foreigner in a foreign land and some folks aren't too friendly to foreigners and like you said, the difference in language would get in the way.

[@astrea4020]

The Great Fire of Meirekis death toll is estimated to be anywhere from 30,000 to 100,000 and 60% of the city was destroyed. Mizu really did (though unintentionally) give everything, even the lives of thousands of innocents to get her revenge. I think she felt a lot of shame for the catastrophe and especially when she didn’t even end up killing Fowler, which is why she didn’t go back for Ringo. Her jumping on a boat to London asap made sense. I think she feels she now has to finish her mission no matter what it takes, lest the sacrifice be for nothing.

[@finfitz]

Plot twist she causes the great fire of London too🤯

[@astr0868]

@@finfitzthe fact that that occured in 1666 makes me think you right, which is annoying lol

[@beyondviolet]

@@astr0868 well, the fire inside her burns out of control… or something

[@tink6225]

@@astr0868lmaooo

[@nyxel2591]

@@astr0868 I discussed this with my fam after watching the show too, I think it's an interesting theory haha

[@DanGamingFan2406]

According to history, the fire of 1657 added at least 100,000 to Mizu's kill count. Also, I like that Mizu let Fowler live, not only because he's to interesting a character to be killed off so quick but also it shows a level of restraint I don't think early Mizu would have had. She knows better now then to look for Skeffinton and Routley by herself. Also can't wait to meet them because if Fowler calling they're worse then him... Ooh boy.

[@watershipup7101]

It's gonna be ab interesting season.

[@dariogaelreyes7534]

lmao I know you stole that comment. because I wrote it

[@Fireheart__]

@@dariogaelreyes7534in 4K man 💀

[@MoneyGist]

Ringo didn't want to be a samurai or a cook. He just wanted to be great at something.

[@jos-josradvanji6203]

he already is,he's a great friend!

[@ConnerKent08]

interesting enough there was a Great Fire of London in 1666, nine years later. Could be a hint for season 2.

[@ubadman1]

Mizu is gonna be a menace in that one too

[@Killer-ih1bz]

blue eye arsonist

[@alexo_pog]

i love the idea of a great fire again but i think 9 years is too much time, im confused what that would mean for ringo and taigen if we spend that much time in 1600s London

[@Metamine0]

⁠maybe the last of the 4 white men? Her fight with the final one could be the cause of the London fire

[@KeeshiexAsh]

As cool as it would be, it’s too long of a time jump and having 2 fires in a row is kinda lazy. At least too me

[@Chanksss]

Fowler was a menace and stood on business till the end. Man is a great villain.

[@EddieDexterStewart]

"You have a lookout...that hasn't been looking out?!? WHAT HAVE YOU BEEN DOING?!?" 😂😂😂😂😂

[@Fireheart__]

Bro was on his lunch break and let a whole dynasty slip through

[@maddoxio]

@@Fireheart__ Generational fumble

[@Zephirite.]

18:31 OH! We saw a flashback in an earlier episode with Baby Mizu surrounded by fire, and men arguing over who should kill her. I bet those were her four potential fathers. And Fowler was one of them, and he SAW her get spared! So he said "So you're the one...?" She's the one that LIVED.

[@sonofjack6286]

19:55 Doesn't matter what influence Lady Itoh has, her sons don't exactly need to listen to her advice anymore. One son is now Shogun, the other is, for now, the heir to the throne. If they want an army of rifles, they can make one.

[@justindixon1586]

Imagine she says no and one of them just slams a pistol on the table like whatchu gonna do. Akemi just smiling like a little shadow ruler

[@sonofjack6286]

@justindixon1586 I imagine the one to do that would be Takayoshi, while he also says something badass, with his stutter gone. Then the shot cuts to his brother and Akemi. The former looking shocked that his brother has the courage to stand up to their mom, Akemi's busy thinking of what to name their first kid.

[@justindixon1586]

@@sonofjack6286 that be perfect and Akemi is just indirectly throwing her schlong on the table so itoh knows she ain’t shit now

[@ijlayugan4149]

8:45 Oh my god you got a point for that observation. I didn't realize that either.

[@MP-ru9rx]

Literally Sheera is a whole reason I watch these reactions. Lady should be a script consultant.

[@XBittersweet_TragedyX]

RIGHT!? The realization hit me so hard 💀

[@sonofjack6286]

I never realized that either.

[@tink6225]

sheera is an oracle

[@ZeroBlow]

"BLUE EYED SHOOTER" bruh next season Mizu better be wearing a blue Shiesty

[@justindixon1586]

Fowler like “what have I done… im soulless as fuck but what have I done😬”

[@Zephirite.]

21:40 Actually, "sell you out" may have meant the first fire--when she faked her death to kid Mizu. She was not expecting Mizu to find her again. Fowler likely had no way of knowing about the marriage to Mikio, but the 'death' of a mixed kid in a village? Easier. That begs the question...who hired the maid to keep Mizu hidden? The same person who killed a man who tried to stab baby Mizu? Was it Fowler? Either way, I think the ambiguity of the betrayal is too good to take this as confirmation. But maybe it is! Constant questions...

[@sojtus8681]

I mean considering half of her face was burned, I don´t think she did sell her out back then. I mean what would be the point of faking her death to Mizu, if she sold her out to die? She could have just left. Plus I don´t think she was addicted to opium at the time. It´s more likely that she really did just survive the fire, got too afraid to continue to look after Mizu and just left. Her opium addiction would kinda make sense as a result of using it to dull the pain of burns all over her body.

[@Tabnito]

"man, that shit clear; I ain't even gotta look over there!" "oh damn." -look out

[@Kyoril]

I *LOVED* this show. Not since Arcane have I been this emotionally invested in a TV series. But this 8 episodes per season format of Netflix blows. I blew through Blue Eyed Samurai in one day. And just finished the new Live action Avatar the Last Airbender in one day. So happy I have ya'lls reactions to keep these shows alive for me long after they are watched and nearly forgotten. Thank you.

[@Kira1Lawliet]

There's a convincing theory going around that NONE of the white men are Mizu's father, and that the twist is that Mizu was born of a white WOMAN and a Japanese MAN. I personally think this is gonna turn out to be true. Also, REALLY curious why they never showed Mizu killing Violet. Hopefully we see more of him in S2.

[@FiresCollide]

Oh, damn. That's actually a pretty genius theory.

[@Fangtorn]

Yeah, I buy it. When Fowler learns she's a woman he calls her "Little Miss" like a nickname and says "so you're the one..." as if she's different to all the other bastards the white men fathered. I think Mizu's mother was the daughter of one of the four white men, hence why she could be as tall as Skeffington or have eyes like Routely, and why someone was paying to take care of her instead of being offed like Fowler's bastards. Then something changed, the daughter was killed, and those men were sent to kill baby Mizu.

[@energyvanquish]

Yeah knowing that there was another called violet and them not showing anything and how he was handled is probably going to lead to some juicy plot points. Or they completely leave it be and forget it.

[@kaifuyu1]

I was thinking the same thing

[@tink6225]

there's interesting

[@doppleganger9602]

I can hardly imagine an episode of anything more tailor-made for this group's sense of humor. Just samurai after samurai getting blown the fuck away with blickys XD

[@hectorbarquero1690]

9:13 bumbacl-- nani ?!

[@woo3524]

its going to be fascinating to see mizu go to london and be seen as japanese for the first time, experiencing a whole new level of racism. i cant wait for season 2

[@liver-r]

To be fair Mizu has no idea how to use a gun so of course she would utilize it in any way possible, even if as a club lol

[@patrickwinter428]

Could also be that that gun was one of the guns that was already been fired by Fowler. Those guns could only shoot one bullet at a time and has to be reloaded after every shot fired and reloading those guns inconveniently takes quite a bit of time. Simply said is that she used it as a club cause that gun had no bullet.

[@patrickwinter428]

Also another thing I wanted to point out is that I'm very sure Mizu knows how to fire a gun and the reason is because she was very knowledgeable and knew about guns when she confronted Hachi in the first episode. At the very least she would know that pulling the trigger is what fires a gun cause she went straight for Hachi's fingers in that scene. So, yeah, she definitely knew how to actually use a gun.

[@liver-r]

@@patrickwinter428 Yeah I agree. I'm sure she knows about guns and to some extent on how to use them but probably never has because to her its a western invention that shouldn't exist. She recognizes its destructive force which is probably why she grabbed it in the first place but ends up using it more like a sword/club out of instinct. At the end of the day, I give kutos to the art direction for including a subtle character moment like that

[@wozing]

Well, there's also the matter of her not possessing any bullets, gunpowder, or a stamper.

[@mjw1111]

She did not make the melted ore into a sword. She left it for swordfather.

[@vibechecker3168]

Probably one of the craziest things about Fowler is that he was right. Japan couldn’t stay isolated forever. The shogun had cut Japan off from the outside world, and it had stayed like that for centuries. All the while the Europeans developed worse and worse guns. getting more powerful until one day the US of A pulled up with a bunch of gunboats and broke Japan wide open.

[@dishonorabledimensions1683]

It also a double edged sword to open the borders, cause yeah you bring in more advanced tech, but you can also bring in new diseases and new more addictive drugs.

[@vibechecker3168]

@@dishonorabledimensions1683 Sorry for the rant but for a perfect example look at what happened to China. They still believed they were a tier 1 power and tried to trade from a position of strength to the European powers and Britain basically manufactured an opioid epidemic in order to buy tea. Then when they tried to kill all the foreigners in China during the boxer rebellion they received an international jumping. Amongst those powers was Japan, who quickly adapted to the new world and modernised.

[@leapark4281]

But Japan was isolated because of people like fowler

[@vetabeta9890]

and then it become an economic juggernaut surpassing all of the europeans economies after ww2

[@vetabeta9890]

japan was isolated in part because they didn’t want to be colonized. he was the problem.

[@thedarkknight2221]

Princess Akemi really reminds me of Sansa Stark. A young, naive, and seemingly fragile woman, but over time you see her become smarter, wiser, and more politically savvy. I can’t wait to see where her character goes in season 2.

[@AoAstar]

honestly i think akemi was written better, but good comparison (i only watched the tv series)

[@admiralpepper6933]

without the character r*pe development

[@Schunn]

Funny enough, the Japanese should have a decent familiarity with guns even in this time period. Guns were first brought to Japan in the 1500s, during the Warring States Period and were heavily used by the samurai. After peace was established and the country was closed off to foreigners, guns were no longer in high demand, though it’s still a bit strange that the Shogun’s army wouldn’t have some of their own stockpiled from previous wars. More likely than not it’s artistic license on the writer’s part.

[@matthewjobin6665]

Yeah, I’m an interview or some other kind of media piece, the creators talked about how they went to great lengths to make sure the show was as historically accurate as possible, but made an exception for the shogun’s army not having weapons. I think it works well. Gives us a super intense and suspenseful finale, as well as showing how weak Japan had become under the shogunate’s isolationist policies. They hadn’t kept up with the rest of the world thanks to the shogunate, and fowler being the incredible villain he is, knows exactly what to do.

[@mrdropkicker1]

Nobunaga being a major westaboo was one of the big reasons he basically took over Japan in like 20 years… while all the other Daimyo were scoffing at the idea of western influence, the dude was busy grabbing up guns, training his army how to use them, forming firing lines and incorporating them into his strategy

[@Schunn]

Fair point, though I think it would’ve been cool to see some of the inferior firearms be used.

[@vetabeta9890]

@@matthewjobin6665the issue is the shogunate wasn’t weak in 1657. in the 1500s and most of thr 1600s japan was mainly on par with european military technology. in the early 1600s they had literally made their OWN galleon in 40 days, the date maru.

[@vetabeta9890]

@@jachyra9but this entire comment is ignorant of the history itself, the arquebus and other european rifles in the 1600s WERE used by japan. in fact the same guns you see in this very episode you can see in japanese art depicting famous battles. japanese guns weren’t “inferior” until around the 1700s when european advances outpaced them.

[@liladdy42590]

I wonder if we find out how Mizu killed the first foreigner in season 2, while she’s on a road trip with maybe-daddy no. 2.

[@CheesySalmon]

14:01 Lupa got me dying

[@growlmane]

Just logged out of work. Best way to start the Friday night.

[@Quitchy]

I think "until the money ran out" is in reference to the first time the maid abandons Mizu. I took it to mean she was paid to look after her. Never considered it from your perspective. Given that Fowler "heard" though I'd say it's just his interpretation of events, rather than reliable.

[@sonofjack6286]

I have a personal theory on Mizu's heritage. Skeffington and Routely both each have a feature of Mizu's. My theory is that she is their granddaughter. What's more, given Fowler seems to know of her, she was definitely something at least one of them was proud of.

[@eduardobernardino1599]

"well, that was fire, no pun intended" lmaooo 😂

[@lizardkirby1196]

5:15 Lol !! You called it , lupa 😂 ! Rush recklessly to the front gate was crazy and dumb ! But it's still works somehow! Lol 6:33 - 7:02 LMAO !!! best part of this video..🤣! 9:40 Them people with them bows and arrows , other got guns..( this was clearly one sided..) 10:09 lol (12:35 matrix reference anyone ? Or is it's just me..?) 12:55 smart. 15:01 epic image . This season was spectacular and amazing! And y'all's reaction was fire ! And i can't wait for season 2 to come out..!

[@SF-ow9ym]

16:51 "I raised you to- oh no"

[@27lmoney]

I know that Fowler is manipulative and a liar on a lot of things but I feel like all the stuff he said about Skeffington is actually true.

[@Okkotsu86275]

A fantastic finale to Season One and I’m fairly positive season two will be even better. Can’t wait for it. This anime is like Samurai Champloo and Samurai Jack.

[@truflavas25]

Not the lookout that hasn’t looked out 😭😭😭

[@playfulcloud]

This series was a hidden gem, didn't think it would be this amazing, can't wait for Season 2!!!

[@Zephirite.]

As lovely as Mizu shooting Fowler would've been, she a) has never fired a gun before and may not know how, b) is in close-quarters and wouldn't have time, and c) He's wearing an iron chestplate, so there's not much left to aim for.

[@Wells233]

Shoutout you guys for consistently pushing out the content. Always makes my day better watching you guys

[@goat1408]

1657 was a wild year....I remember it well...

[@DoubleBlack2.0]

8:56 I didn’t put this together, either!! Smart girl!!

[@dddragon686]

Why is Lupa so funny? 😂 The look out really was slacking

[@rescune4021]

8:48 she’s so nonchalant about this it’s almost like to her it was obvious what a genius

[@vetabeta9890]

2:12 no it’s edo castle aka tokyo 😭

[@durhamdavesbg]

Yep, the site of the historical one is now the east gardens of the imperial palace, although there are almost no buildings there now.

[@anakinuzamakihatake5366]

Fowler is right mizu literally burnt an entire city down for revenge

[@FeliciaWilliams1908]

Y’all got me about to sign up for the Patreon. Great reaction!

[@ScenicNsanity]

"a sword vs a gun you lose" meanwhile here I am running around with a katana in Cyberpunk 2077 😂

[@k1988smith]

I wasn't overly happy with Fowler not being murdered but I'm waiting for season 2!

[@Uhcip]

They did have firefighters. It was just a city prone to really bad fires.

[@MoneyGist]

Btw, you guys should consider reacting to Heroes (at least the 1st season). You get to see the voice actor for Ringo (Masi Oka) in his element.

[@ChibiKawaii3]

The first season was so good

[@MoneyGist]

@@ChibiKawaii3 It was!

[@lucasducros5166]

I actually have a theory about Mizu's parentage. What if Mizu's white half doesn't come from a man but a woman? What if "he" turns out to be "she"? Since we know the woman who died when Mizu was young, was actually her maid and not her mom. What do you guys think about this possible twist in the script?

[@anakinuzamakihatake5366]

The women who died in the fire was mizus mom the women mizu was raised by and faked her death was the maid

[@dungeonmaster16]

there is alot of theories going on about mizu parents especially with fowler words. little miss and you got his eyes. 1. the way he says it is like she is important or noble like. nobility likely no but for sure she came from a rich family. 2. big note on you got HIS eyes. cause he isnt talking about her eye color, he is talking about the actual shape of her eyes. meaning this may reveal her father JAPANESE. so this brings up either her father married a white woman or her father is like her, half japanese. there is records of japanese citizens visiting england around that time too so this is possible. "but the show takes place aorund 1650s" true but the earliest known historical records of europeans visiting japan is around 1570s. dedicated trade didnt happen until early 1600s, 1620s is when tensions rose and ban europeans from trading with japan besides rare handful. so chances are mizu father is japanese be full or half blood. either born in japan or born and raised in england (depends on if they do the whole his father was an early japanese merchant to england and settled), he was merchant and business partner with fowler and the others, one being maybe mizu biological mother.

[@gomitax92]

The second samurai got guns they just abused the shit out of them

[@JahChillah]

I was so into everything that just happened I am so fucking hype

[@EddieDexterStewart]

"Well, that was fire." Get out, Roshi. Gon nah. 😂😂😂

[@Zephirite.]

Mizu has an interesting connection with fire and the phoenix. Her fathers "tried to burn her alive as a baby."(19:25) Mizu's 'mother' faked her death in a house fire. Mizu believed she caused it, and rose from the ashes, ready for vengeance. This is supposedly the great fire of 1657, the result of that blind vengeance. ...and now, Mizu's headed for London. And guess what happened in London in 1666?

[@phoeberia2734]

Watching you guys is always such a pleasure XD

[@chance757]

“blue eyed shooter” iktr roshi 🫡

[@bluewolf6323]

I like in this whole thing how Taigen and Akemi were set up. For all his boasting, he did learn some things and im glad he's keeping Mizu's secret. My wonder is if the Roshi crew noticed that Taigen knew Mizu was a girl before the wrestling situation.

[@trueomen5017]

Wait, when did Taigen learned she is a girl?

[@sophiaaldous3199]

Not to be that nerd, but to be that nerd, the Japanese had been using guns since the 1500s. I think the creators of Blue Eye Samurai are presenting Fowler’s guns as better quality than what the Japanese would have. Anyway, pardon that nitpick, I’ve really been enjoying your reactions!

[@deondrepolk4502]

That whole must be made out of paper mache cause the city burned done because some threw a candle 😂

[@endginuity8391]

Rush recklessly always works It does, just ask Subaru and mash

[@ChibiKawaii3]

I hope she at least took fowlers arms or hands...fingers or SOMETHING.

[@milk7038]

Blue eye shooter im dead

[@Videogamelover58]

Amazing show

[@paulwilson2628]

Yaboyroshi, I recommend you the return of the Great Pretender with a movie!! 🎉

[@ashzv7660]

Did they line every house in the city with gasoline for it to spread that quickly? also why did fowler decide to play and hide and seek when he could've just ran back to his men with the blickies. (and the part where akemi and seki were able to hold the door closed somehow with dozens of men pushing it from the other side, only for taigen to walk through it 10 seconds later) mid ahh ending 🥱

[@MsAdbright]

This is why every castle needs a draw bridge

[@MsNadz808]

Y'all!!! Where is the Tee that says, YEEEAAAAAAAAAA????

[@EddieDexterStewart]

Y'all making me laugh too hard at this!!!! 😂😂😂😂😂😂

[@samanthaa.6055]

I said the same thing about the lookout hahaha

[@aptx-ew8gq]

I was hesitant at first, but Fowler's eyes is green than blue so i dont think he is related to mizu

[@Gnorkadork]

The maid sold her out when she was a kid, not necessarily as an adult! Fowler doesn't know about her husband or her as an adult or whatever otherwise he would not have been surprised to discover Mizu was a woman! The maid raised baby Mizu until the money ran out and then sold her out for one last boost of income and faked her own death in a fire (probably caused by the people she sold Mizu out to) when Mizu was a kid. After that, Mizu had to raise herself (until she found sword father) and I think that is probably where Fowler's information on "the kid" ended. That's probably what Fowler is referring to because I think nobody knows about the second time she was ratted out because everyone involved was killed, otherwise, it would have gotten out that Mizu is a woman and Fowler would have definitely made the connection sooner. I am 100% certain that him telling Mizu about the maid's betrayal refers back to the beginning of the episode where little Mizu says that her pursuers "found" her and swore revenge for her mother/maid, I mean why else open this specific episode with that when the mother/maid is only ever mentioned in it here at the end? I think the big reveal is not just that Mizu has an actual mother who did not betray her but also that the person who raised her and whose supposed murder first put her on the path of revenge never truly cared for her to begin with and that her only few nice memories with her were "bought" from the start. The worst part is that knowing that maid's personality we know it probably wasn't a lump sum they were living off of (she would have probably run away with that money) but that there probably was someone who cared to keep Mizu safe and hidden who at some point had to stop paying her (probably because they died?) and once the money stopped coming the maid who had raised her from a baby who was fucking pretending to be her mother just ratted her out and left her for dead. It just widens the gap between sword father and maid mother. Neither were blood, both were family, but one raised her to achieve her goals while the other imposed their goals on her to use her. Damn.

[@SwordTune]

Japan had guns at this point, but did not mass produce them.

[@thedarkknight2221]

Let’s be honest, the real person to blame for a fire that massive and deadly are the people who designed and built this city to be a giants tinderbox!

[@jasonmarbach]

Now we just need y’all to do Hazbin Hotel 😬

[@cazer969]

Would love to see a Hazbin Hotel reaction.

[@EddieDexterStewart]

Hakemi about to do her daddy like a Tyler Perry movie!

[@ashagord2751]

Yo! What show and episode does Lupa say "Shoot him!" I need to know!!

[@jokamio5832]

Would be awesome to see you guys react to Ragna Crimson ive really been enjoying it , Def in my Top 3 anime this season , a hell of alot more Hands than bucchigiri at least.

[@vetabeta9890]

4:05 japan had reverse engineered and mass production european guns over a decade before this, it was very common for samurai and peasant warriors (ashigaru ) to have guns😭 the show acting as if they didn’t is my only gripe

[@vetabeta9890]

@@jachyra9 the fictional thing abt the show are the characters and plot. the SETTING is real, the shogunate is real, hell even the great fire of 1657 was a real event. no one is saying it's a documentary imbecile, we're saying it's inaccurate to imply the japanese were being mowed down by weapons they had utilized for over a 100 years, the tokugawa shogunate that the story takes place in literally won it's two major battles WITH the same guns fowler is using.

[@vetabeta9890]

@@jachyra9 the setting is real, and strived to be historically accurate as mentioned, by the creators. your argument has shifted several times, first the show wasnt a documentary and now it's 'fantasy' like I said the PLOT, which you are describing in your poorly written message is fictional, the setting isn't. the 'samurai running with swords and spears at ADVANCED MIGHTY EUROPEANS' trope didnt happen. Europeans arrived in Japan and within a year their guns were reverse engineered and mass produced. that is all they added

[@vetabeta9890]

@a9 ashigaru were low rank peasant warriors/conscripts supplementing samurai ranks. they were not samurai, samurai were a social class as much as a classification of warriors. your argument also ignores the fact that ashigaru did not get the monthly stipend samurai recieved, ashigaru were disarmed after unfiication, while samurai were not, and ashigaru were mainly restricted to spear, bow or gun formations in battle, while samurai were mounted archers. along with this ashigaru would not recieve any privileges as afforded to the samurai class, especially in the edo period where actual fighting was scarce, they were peasants, and often times just farmers who needed to get back to tend their farms ASAP. "The samurai were always a well-trained fighting force, but once large numbers of ashigaru mercenaries entered the fray, warfare intensified. The ashigaru were now semi-professional, and somewhat competent in a variety of weapons." " They were conscripts, peasants who owed fealty to samurai or the Daimyo and were liable for service pretty much as European cerfs were. Their name means.light feet. They were given drilling, a spear, musket or sword, perhaps a little bamboo armour, their master’s livery, perhaps a banner, and fed into the wars. A very few of them were recognized as men of talent and made it all the way to the top, like Toyotomi Hideyoshi."

[@vetabeta9890]

@@jachyra9 i see you're deliberately walking around the point because your enragement over ppl correcting a historical inaccuracy in a 'HISTORICAL fantasy' led you to misspeak and dig yourself in a hole. what happened to ashigaru were samurai? or did the fact that was just..blatantly wrong lead you to drop that. point is no one is saying the show is bad, i said literally it was my only issue with the show. we are saying it's just...strange, that they remove japan having reverse engineered european style guns 100 years prior, (and having been introduced to gunpowder before the europeans.) to prop up an idea that traditional old samurai run at riflemen and get mowed down ! the west is superior !...if that was the case they could of easily put this in the boshin war, still within the edo period, still with a tokugawa shogun, still with white men in japan, and it'd fit, as there WERE traditionalist samurai charging gunmen then, and by 1868 Japan was indeed behind the west in gunpowder/military tech. But in 1657, it was not.

[@kaiagw8096]

Blue eye shoota 😂😂

[@omarbrown7306]

Bout be an whole assassin creed now lol

[@folkengames]

I didn't love this ending, but I do look forward to S2!

[@DoubleBlack2.0]

Thanks for reacting to this series!! I had so much fun watching these. For your next series, I would LOVE to see you all react to Hazbin Hotel!! Pretty please? ❤

[@ThreatLVLMdnt]

PLLEEEASSSEEE tell me y’all will watch The Brothers Sun!?

[@nobodyimportentl0l301]

Did y’all hear abt great pretender coming back ⁉️

[@ShantalhaitianPrincess]

11:28 DAMN THAT REALLY DID HAPPEN ALL THESE ANIME FACES LOOKING WHITE AND THEIR OBSESSION WITH EUROPE LOL

[@nathanbishop211]

Could you please watch top boy, it’s similar to snowfall but like it’s about Uk gang culture 🙏

[@per4277]

Yes 🙌 😊

[@TimoRathbun]

Are you guys gonna watch the live action avatar or is copyright to big a problem right now?

[@the28who]

They are, its on their schedule

[@RayGunga13]

fire

[@geardog24]

If Mizu does find her father I hope he’s a somewhat decent person, or at least redeems himself in her eyes.

[@rawdahelrefaei]

Guys can we gonna get an avatar live action reaction series please???

[@HarpyLady]

2:16

[@co9776]

avatar the last airbender live action came out

[@hosanecham7043]

When are they going to watch danmachi/is it wrong to pick up girls in a dungeon 😢

[@comepletely]

God is good

[@damaniqphillip2756]

Sweet

[@mondayrobot]

yay

[@hashigato1378]

fathers dead shes acting like he isnt

[@bhupinder28]

What has he been doing!? lol lookouts gotta die