Toranaga Reveals His Plan How He Will Defeat Ishido Before He Kills Kashigi Shogun Episode 10 Fi

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[@nerdjocky8006]

All along we thought Toranaga was Ned Stark when he was really Tywin Lannister. Brilliant

[@gillespaling7039]

More like Dorian Martell

[@stevem2323]

Not really Tywin, he wasn't as brutal as him.

[@chargerscharlie1]

@@stevem2323 He had one of his most trusted advisors and oldest friends commit seppuku to sell his plan, he sacrificed Mariko to manipulate Ochiba even though her son is probably good as dead, and he used his owns son's death to further his own desires....seems pretty damn brutal to me lol

[@stevem2323]

@@chargerscharlie1 When you put it like that sure, but not as Tywin, killing children, babies, women and children and people slaughtered at the wedding. Those people wanted to sacrifice for him and it's kind of complicated in Japanese culture, sense od duty for their lord etc.

[@yhwh5568]

​@@stevem2323 he was beheading every Christian in Ajiro until he found the culprit responsible for burning Anjin's ship. He did. He burned Anjin's ship.

[@TonyTylerDraws]

It wasn’t even Blackthorne’s story. This was Toranaga’s story the whole time. And he planned every move.

[@tomsin1417]

except the earth wave

[@LeongGunners]

That's why the title of the series is Shogun and not Anjin 🤭

[@empchampion40k]

Blackthorne's just the character through whose eyes we see the story. In the end, he's just another piece on the chessboard- an unexpected piece, but a piece Toranaga knows how to use to his benefit.

[@KurasakiBleachigo1]

The series really downplayed his part from the Book

[@winstonlumen]

@@LeongGunners :DD

[@Lightingwarrior]

To quote Sun Tzu in the art of war "Every battle is won before it is ever fought" and he would be proud of Toranaga, who has played this like a master, he was already several steps ahead of everyone and won the battle before it ever began. He knew he could never defeat the combined might of Ishida, the heir and other armies of the Regents by himself, so he sent Mariko to divide them, and reveal to everyone Ishida's dishonourable nature and forcing him to give up his hostages and turning allies against him, leaving him alone with no allies to aid him at Sekigahara

[@thekid8832]

Am I the only one who got vilain vibes from Toranaga in this scene? He lays down his own plan to a man he's about to kill. He's basically toying with the Anjin and the "He's only alive because he amuses me and keeps my enemies distracted" really freaked me out. Plus he let his son and his two most loyal vassals die for this.

[@victorpradha9946]

That's not entirely true. Toranaga needs the Anjin to keep the Portuguese neutral in Japan's affairs. So long as they fear Blackthorne can expose their trade route and blow open their exclusivity, they will implore Toranaga to geld the Anjin. The burning of the ship is the act of gelding. It brokers peace with the Portuguese. Without the Anjin, the Portuguese have no need to parlay with Toranaga. With the Anjin, they are forced to the table with Toranaga. Moreover, Anjin will provide a naval force or at least the threat of one. This makes the other Regents respect (even if over-estimating) Toranaga's prowess and military might. Anjin is both an ace in the hole and a straw man at the same time. Thus, Anjin holds great value.

[@Pro_Butcher_Amateur_Human]

Well, he's based on Tokagawa Ieyasu. Since there won't be a season 2, I'll say how that story ends. The sequel to the show is the 200 years of the Tokagawa Shogunate. So yeah, you could see him as the villain. He definitely seized power from the rightful Shogun, the heir commited seppuku. That said, he also retired after 2 years and handed the Shogunate to his son, so that there would be no civil war over the succession. It was as much as family legacy in a Tywin Lannister way as personal lust for power.

[@thekid8832]

@@victorpradha9946 In other words the Anjin is just there to keep his enemies distracted. As long as the portugese are distracted by the Anjin they don't care about him. Plus the portugese being distracted means that their 2 puppets in council of regents are also distracted

[@frankvandorp2059]

But he also does it because he lives in an age of constant civil war and he wants to create a Japan that is at peace. He ultimately wants to end all the killing that is going on, but he is going to extreme lengths to get there. You can see him as a villain, but you can just as easily see him as a hero.

[@jamesbrown5262]

Not to mention he is killing and brutalizing villagers over a ship he secretly burned.

[@DeptalJexus]

Toranaga: "Yes, I always want to be the shogun. And yes, I'm the real bad guy. But hey, *THE END JUSTIFIES ITS MEAN*"

[@CrniWuk]

Then, who's the "good" guy here?

[@DeptalJexus]

@@CrniWuk I believe there's no good guy here. Just who has the justified mean to conduct all the misdeed.

[@capo328]

Whoever wins. Blackthorn says it early in the series.

[@Unregistered.Hypercam.2.]

@@DeptalJexus the council of regents are the good guys since they always knew toranaga was up to no good and just wanted power for himself , they were defending the peace of the realm.

[@bboystyleoflove]

@@Unregistered.Hypercam.2. didnt the real person give hundreds year of peace after all this?

[@dzbarah9840]

A man dream is another man nightmare. The dream of John Blackthorn to come back from that forsaken land of violence became what toranaga wanted for his dream and army to be complete. Toranaga opens his heart of violence and power to yabushige, thanking him for his service and giving him purpose. In the end a mad dog like him has the luck to truly understand someone deeply other than himself, to feel in control for one last time and grasp the movements of the wind. Now he has found death on the spot where the currents spared him.

[@Jaguarsclaw]

Beautifully said.

[@GustavoCardoso95]

@@Jaguarsclawit really was

[@krimzon7622]

Toranaga: Now, Ishido. Your line is, "Did you plan this too, Toranaga?!" Ishido: Did you plan this too...! O_O Toranaga: What do you think? I planned every little detail.

[@BigBoss-gb4cx]

He will use Hamon is S2 and get his stand in S3

[@adamurbacka3161]

Toranaga's armor at 1:21 is so beautiful. The costumes in this show were something else

[@TonyTylerDraws]

He had a dream about wearing armor he’d never needed to use

[@Dfathurr]

Somehow it is quite similar to armor that used by Tokugawa Ieyasu

[@max78966]

@@Dfathurr because Shogun series was a depiction with twist in the story of tokugawa

[@Rudero3]

I love how Yabushige got the truth right with his guess, and Toranaga doesn't even need to confirm it, his "why tell a dead man the future?" is confirmation enough. I think Yabushige read that correctly too. Also, of all the characters in the show, I think Yabushige had the most charisma lol. Like, just as much as Blackthorne, if not more.

[@arnoldmuvadi2364]

The show had a lot of intrigue. Yabushige was just comedy through and through...lol

[@Rudero3]

@@arnoldmuvadi2364 And he was also one of the most human characters. He wasn't driven by ambition, just survival. He wasn't broken like Mariko or Fuji, or....or Buntaro actually. He wasn't driven by ambition like Anjin and Toranaga, who are basically the same. Look at Toranaga's bonehead son, bound by the romanticism of their warrior culture, despite all the generals and actual veterans being really tight lipped about how bad war actually is. Or Omi, who appeared to just be a normal soldier dealing with a crummy job. Yabushige was a bro there to not get killed, that was his goal. He failed but at least he died with his honor intact AND with remorse. Though that man was a true grunt master, a grunt artist, if you will.

[@bobbarker9556]

Like any tyrant Toronaga was willing to sacrifice everyone around him for power. Turns out Ishido was right to think Toronaga wanted to be shogun and have power over all the regents and the heir

[@loyaltyisroyalty5616]

*When you say tyrant, what you really mean is “the great unifier”*

[@killbill5486]

If you actually knew history you'd know that Japan enjoyed decades of peace because of this "tyrant".

[@akhilravi1234567]

@@killbill5486 *centuries of peace

[@ShenaniganSync]

@@killbill5486that doesn’t mean he can’t be a personally bad person lol, the system is just gamed to endorse brutal acts

[@monkeyseemonkeydo1794]

He was a dictator. Dictators are arguably tyrants because if you oppose them they will behave like a tyrant. There was peace only because nobody was left to oppose him. That’s just how the culture was in japan.

[@garrycahilig7007]

Toronaga then explained how he will build the Osaka Continenal

[@BlaneNostalgia]

nice 1

[@asdowo111]

History is written by the victor and the victor will always be the good guy. After the battle of Sekigahara, Torunaga attacks the castle of the heir and kills Ochiba and her son.

[@nont18411]

And also killed the heir’s 7 year old son

[@BigBoss-gb4cx]

Wtf really?

[@Dfathurr]

​@@BigBoss-gb4cxit wasn't implied in books. But since the real life counterpart did the exact thing, then we assume that it will be done

[@ihaveaquestiontothegodwhy1669]

I need to make a correction here. Lady Ochiba waited for 15 years after Sekigahara before she started her own rebellion against tokugawa due to her own beliefs under Ishida, but the rebellion was stopped and ultimately, tokugawa ordered that They will be executed for their Crimes of staging another coup. And that was the very last of those said rebellions.

[@phanquan9470]

He really said “ it’s shogun time “

[@InnaSpace777]

Toranaga is like Aizen from the anime Bleach. It was all apart of his plan. Nobody realized until the very end. He even explained that he studies the wind . Meaning he is constantly observing, watching, waiting, analyzing, all the sh*t thats happening in proximity. Psychopath yes. But he still had some decency in him. It shows how he brought peace over the next few centuries. Great show

[@alexsurber3424]

Ironically his biggest criticism of both Yabushige & John Blackthorne was that they were both short sighted, Yabushige thought before he died that perhaps his grand goal was to become Shogun but Toranaga's vision went even beyond that, he dreamed of a unified Japan enjoying a new era of peace & prosperity with his city Edo being at its center. Yabushige saw to the horizon but Toranaga was seeing & envisioning beyond the horizon.

[@InnaSpace777]

@alexsurber3424 nice analysis. He definitely saw further than that horizon. If someone like yabushige had some how become sho gun, turmoil and chaos would continue.

[@stevem2323]

Making lasting peace is worth it.

[@alexsurber3424]

@@InnaSpace777 Something i just realized recently, but i kinda understand now why he kept John Blackthorne around, although in many ways he viewed both John & Yabushige as both being equally short sighted John was different in at least one way, John's belief in what victory could do to achieve one's dreams & visions, even if he went about achieving it poorly, but from Toranaga's point of view he was still at his core right & arguably saw something that even he didn't see despite being the master of trickery who could outwit his opponents. So when Toranaga finally did achieve victory he kept John around even though he perceived him as a hopeless fool made to be his servant through force & manipulation through the web of lies he created, but this was only possible through Toranaga's newly gained power, & his newly gained power was only obtained through the realization he arrived at because of him. John i would say was walking irony in his eyes hence why he says he keeps him around because it makes him laugh & also something of a good luck charm i suppose, kind of like Elon Musk's Dogecoin, something he created purely as a joke to make fun of crypto currencies with no real goal in mind for it to become successful, but getting a kick out of it if it did happen to become successful because of a joke he made making fun of the very behavior the coin was designed to mock.

[@mikecapozzi2597]

Yes, if it brought on two and a half centuries of peace and prosperity, then the ends did indeed justify the means. Toranaga made all the right decisions. Remember, these were not the times for good men, but for men of power. Heavy weighs the crown.

[@TricksterPoi]

Agreed. Many of this people don't just understand, since Toranaga knew and live during the Sengoku Jidai which was basically close to living in hell to an ordinary person. Sacrifices maybe high, but at the end he made his dream a reality.

[@TunjungUtomo]

Exceptional writing. Nobody was truly a villain or hero in this show, it was a show about power play, a 4D chess if you will. Where every player has their own motives and schemes. Only, it was Toranaga who laid the best plan and executed it like a truly brilliant Grand Master

[@Subu-Chan]

i believe Toranaga is not a bad guy at all. He was very right about heir's authority wont pass to the council and eventually he was going to be replaced. He thinked a little boy cant rule a country which came from years of civil war, and really possible for that to be happen again. So he decided to be one who takes to power. We seen İshido and he is not a good man either. Toranaga saved a whole country by sacrificing some people that ok with these actions.

[@drg8687]

I realized in this scene, we had been rooting for the villain the whole time.

[@palmerlp]

They pulled it off, just like the book. It isn’t until the final chapter that we finally see what Toranaga was all along. And Yabushige, who spent every waking moment just trying to come down on the side that won’t kill him, realizes he never had a chance. It’s perfect.

[@aleksandarvil5718]

*"Why tell a dead man the future?"* 😮😮😮

[@voidw4lker]

That's what Yabushige said to his nephew right at the beginning about Toranaga.

[@byranwitherspoon5369]

@@voidw4lkeryup… he let him know right then he knew about his treachery from the start…

[@GustavoCardoso95]

Its funny that Toranaga does the exat oposite, he is ONLY telling him the truth bcs he is about to die… and that speaks to both their characters. Toranaga understood the importance of keeping his true motives hidden from everyone else. This show is amazingly written

[@TricksterPoi]

That line means Yabushige's nephew was a stitch.

[@ArtemisiaUwU]

I love the use of poems in this show reveals the person. Mariko is always lauded as this master of words and is apt as being a interpreter. Ans her poem she started, Ochiba ended. When she asks the Heir how he would continue it, his words reveal his child innocence - full of hope and possibiliry talking about flowers and fruits. Bur ochiba finishes it with the wind comparing toranaga to it and later when hes talking with Yabu about rhe wind ir makes sense that her secret alliance wit him is just simply that poem completeing marikos worda and thus her purpose (Added) I believe season 2 will include how Ishido becomes Toranaga's captive at one point and is let go but that part of history is still a bit confusing for me

[@Nimno74]

The full circle. "Why tell a dead man the future?". It goes all the way back to the beginning when he had uttered those words.

[@nikogaming21]

“Why tell the deadman the future” he realized he’s been checked mate since the beginning lol.

[@Pana-Raven]

I was expecting Toranaga to say “Keikaku dori…” with a smirk in the end.

[@GustavoCardoso95]

In real life Ishido is much more of an honourable guy. People fought for him because they liked him

[@Thepourdeuxchanson]

They fought for him because they thought he had the Heir's mother under his control.

[@AndresFargoMusic]

It's Toranagin time he said

[@elliotreivax]

that was my favourite part of the show especially when he said its Toranagin time before cutting off yabushitge's head

[@phanquan9470]

@@elliotreivaxnah I’m pretty sure he said “ it’s shogun time “ then cut off yabushige head

[@terranman4702]

And the he shoguned all over the headless body

[@elxaime]

This was a "Luke, I'm NOT your father" moment.

[@MrJohn49g]

Lord Toranaga, The Tywin Lannister of Japan.

[@ravafernanda355]

5 year later toranaga serving under high table, build a hotel at osaka and have a children name akira

[@dagabbagool2600]

1:52 subtle powergasm

[@burhanuddinsakarwala5033]

This proves quite well that Toranaga's subjects were pawns, despite casualties of people close to him, he still managed to have the upper hand at the end. Really makes you think about the room he left open for errors and uncontrollable circumstances. That being said, he lost many of those who were close to him due to their own stupidity and lack of faith in him. Mariko's death, dare I say, appears less tragic when you consider that she did nothing wrong and still chose to immolate herself, because near the end of her life, her choice still makes zero sense.

[@Mr.Paticles]

Oda Nobunaga, Toyotomi Hediyoshi and Tokogawa Ieyasu were the Three Great Pillars of a Unified Japan. Ishida Mitsunari's dream to control Japan true Hideyoshi's Heir may have been calculated in Hideyoshi's plans. He gave Ieyasu an exemption not to contribute in his war against Goguryeo, a huge advantage in political and military perspectives, as he was not forced to waste resource in a doomed enterprise.

[@Iamtheleagueofshadows66]

Everything it’s so perfect like everything

[@owen1607]

I can’t believe this is all they gave us for Sekigahara… :(

[@elyrius8536]

There are 2 new seasons confirmed, so we'll probably see the battle

[@jeff5534]

The show isn’t about Sekigahara, it’s about Toranaga’s plans and the impact those have on the people around him, in his plans Sekigahara is a foregone conclusion so he gives it as much attention as he does any of his other plots

[@killbill5486]

So many ignorant comments here that don't know anything about the history of this era.

[@Guney1886]

That is often the case for most historic/period series as most people have little to no knowledge of the actual history.

[@Nosferatuラララララ]

“Tyrant”, “villain”, Ieyasu must be rolling in his damn grave lmao

[@Guney1886]

@@Nosferatuラララララ if they read about Tokugawa Ieyasu's story they'd never mention those words. Dude was so loved by many during that period as he wasn't a tyrant like the other Daimyo

[@VmsRms]

Can you explain?

[@Nosferatuラララララ]

@@VmsRms Yoshii Toranaga is based off of real life Shogun Tokugawa Ieyasu, people keep writing off Toranaga as some villain or evil tyrant yet in reality, the Tokugawa shogunate brought relative peace and growth to Japan for over 200 years. Furthermore, people seem to have this perspective over Toranaga as if he is supposed to be some saint who has no stain on his morality when in reality he just did what he had to do to win. Wars are not won by honor, not most of the time.

[@RaRaHkOhMarasty]

What’s the song in the end every time ?

[@indoex]

In conclusion Toranaga is a narcissistic guy. And will make use of everyone to achieve his goals. But props to him for being patients and able to conceal his emotions. Or does he have emotions? Maybe he is a psychopath. Those traits are needed to be Toranaga.

[@tarn1135]

No not really. You need to learn to control your emotions, something lords not to mention everyone else in Japan would’ve had to have mastered, plus if you know beyond a shadow of a doubt that you’re right and you’re the only one who can save Japan (or you country) you’ll risk everything and sacrifice everything to do so. It doesn’t make him a psychopath, it makes him a smart, calculating, patient and beyond that caring. Caring to sacrifice your friends and family to get rid of the rot and corruption to actually help the people of your country.

[@byranwitherspoon5369]

Narcissistic people love LOVE to voice what they do etc… Toranaga doesn’t do that he is patient and very controlled… you can say he is cunning but not narcissistic

[@byranwitherspoon5369]

@@tarn1135great observation

[@glenroyce779]

@@tarn1135 sounds like a psychopath to me....pls research my statement...

[@AnotherSpaceCowBoy]

He brings long term peace to a warring Japan. Nothing wrong with that. Ishido is assassinating opponents in case you've already forgotten this "detail".

[@dirtyduck10]

Dude is Tywin

[@johnson7156]

He literally is lol. His historic counter part later annihilated the successors entire bloodline and become the new shogun.

[@Guney1886]

@@johnson7156 True but lets be honest, the Toyotomi clan were never going acquire the Shogunate as they were low born. It was either Tokugawa or Ishida that were going to get the power and it turned out to be Tokugawa as he played his cards right as he always did throughout his life. Dude must've had godmode on when you look at all the scenarios that he somehow survived.

[@danclassic7065]

@@Guney1886 I think Toyotomi's hope was to make the title irrelevant. The position was vacant from 1588 to 1602, and my guess is he planned to keep it that way for long enough that no one would care about it anymore. Eventually, Japanese clans would come to accept the position of Chancellor (which a low-born like him could and *did* hold) as the de-facto ruler of Japan.

[@danclassic7065]

@@johnson7156 Yeah, but the Toyotomi clan was being unreasonably difficult after the establishment of the Tokugawa shogunate. Tokugawa Ieyasu tried to get Hideyoshi's heir (Toyotomi Hideyori) to acknowledge him as shogun, but his regent-mother refused to allow it. And then when the boy became an adult, he himself refused to unambiguously acknowledge the Tokugawa shogunate. The Emperor himself granted that title to Ieyasu and his clan. At that point, you've got to admit you've lost the battle for supremacy and accept the peace offering. But he didn't. Instead, he started recruiting an army. At that point, you're asking for it. No one wanted a return to the bad old days of civil war.

[@johnson7156]

@@danclassic7065 I don’t think they are being unreasonable, more like desperation. Unlike other highborn, their lowborn origin make them having nothing to fall back on to and will soon fall into irrelevance if he decide to agree with Tokugawa.

[@ken.s6497]

I love his seppuku style.

[@danielfilippov7354]

Everything he said was what tokugawa said. His character is pure fiction. He's modeled after tokugawa to show how tokugawa was historically or something. Check his clover flower banner, the same as tokugawa's. Toranaga is tokugawa.

[@davidcoleman2796]

Wow . Great ending

[@mariohw8562]

So what are we Some sort of Osaka corner stone -yabushige probably

[@Iamtheleagueofshadows66]

My body and my mind were blown by looking at there armor and there own armies

Ishido was absolutely right. He understood Toranaga's ambition, but Ishido had way of a smaller mind, as he thought Toranaga would take over by fighting. What a manipulative and selfish man, ready to kill all of his closest people, even his son, to become Shogun. I hate Toranaga since the very beginning.

[@s3p4kner]

That a TV show can weave depth of character like this into a few episodes is a rare treat these days. Disney or Netflix couldn't have made it. Sometimes the price of peace is very high, Toranaga brought 200 years of peace and an end to a century of civil war so he paid a very high price indeed. If he hadn't acted the wars would have continued, more death and suffering, more chaos and when the Americans come 200 years later to forcibly end Japanese isolation they'd have found a nation on the brink. In his mind, the only way to stop the violence was to take control. It worked. There's a lot of comparison to Tywin Lannister because guys that win often have to do some really nasty actions. I'm NOT a proponent of the ends justify the means, but in Toranaga's case he played the game of thrones and won, and the benefit for the country was centuries of peace. The question is, did he really care or was all this for himself? Do those goals have to be exclusive? There's a saying: Strong men bring Good times, Good times bring Weak men, Weak men bring Hard times, Hard times bring Strong men. Toranaga was strong, the 200 years of peace and isolation brought good times but also weakness, the American intervention brought a correction and the rise of the Japanese empire, defeat of Russia and China and the horror of WW2 Pacific conflict. Then there was peace again and now are faced with a neighbour that would turn Japan into a vassal if it could. Arguably that phrase was as true for Japan 300 years ago as it is for all of us today and sometimes we have to ask ourselves what we're prepared to sacrifice for the peace and prosperity of others? Gang violence, Tyrannical Govts, Global Corps that see their customers as consumer slaves, some might even argue we all need Strong Men right now?

[@GNappers]

All that build up to a battle we don’t see. Rome anyone?

[@MrHellsing76]

Imagine if Ragnar lothbruk and Toranaga met and made an alliance lol

[@uzunaalin]

Toranaga can put to shame darth sidious.

[@blackmamba-kg9sz]

Toranaga did not seek out becoming Shogun. It was merely his Karma.,

[@Iamtheleagueofshadows66]

The FACE OF 😈👿

[@bammac69]

There are no Good Guys among the main players. The only Good Guys who stayed true to their principles and oaths in this were used and only existed to be used. The only heroes in this story lived tragic unhappy lives until their deaths in service to the Wisest and Craftiest Villain. Everyone extolls virtues they know to be a sham when held against the cold, hard reality. They follow their paths with blinders on because ugly order is preferable to them than ugly chaos and they’ve experienced both already in the generation they came from. They keep up the pretense of civility and honor because the alternative is unremitting ugliness.

[@devinarthur6559]

2:46 2:48

[@CrniWuk]

Like as if Toronaga had the Dath Note or something.

[@Tiku-]

Toranaga is based off Tokugawa Ieyasu, he came from a period of a century of constant war so when he seized the Shogun title is when Edo period began-the most peaceful era of feudal Japan in history-that lasted for more than 200+ years all the way till Meiji era, which is the era where the movie ‘The Last Samurai’ take place. Emerging from the chaos of the Sengoku period, the Edo period was characterized by economic growth, strict social order, isolationist foreign policies, a stable population, overall peace, and popular enjoyment of arts and culture, colloquially referred to as Ōedo. The harsh isolationist policies also mostly stemmed from the fact that the Portuguese tried screwing them over, so they grew weary of foreigners specifically Europeans. Interesting stuff.

[@jamesbrown5262]

Kind of lame, she had intense hatred for Toranaga and at the end just decided to help him.

[@stefanm9265]

She didn't help him .... She just wouldn't let her child lead Ishidos army. He was a young child ,she didn't do that to help Toranaga .

[@FLMKane]

Ochiba hated Toranaga out of fear. Toranaga knew that the child could be illegitimate

[@EGENKIEROfficial]

1:44 plz explain

[@raphandant]

“He will have no banner” means he won’t have an army to fight with

[@Kangugi]

so the ending is different from the original one huh?

[@matthewfortgang7282]

All the actors were incredibly talented and well cast. But the women stole the series if you ask me.

[@Lenzkrafters]

PLOT TWIST: Toronaga = Brandon Stark from GoT He knew all this time he was going to take power. Played the game of Thrones.

[@ChrisSmith-kw4gn]

Did toranaga plant ishido in the earth?

[@youraveragepasser-by7367]

Not shown in the episode sadly

[@philliesfan3414]

In the series it doesn’t show or say anything about that but yes, after the battle he captures ishido and hurries him up to his neck

[@czos9239]

And after randos sawed his neck, he died very old

[@srai5333]

after this Toranaga went sicko mode and changed japan to what it is today a unified nation.

[@megamonster1234]

@@srai5333 The Commodore Perry comes along and f*cks it all up. lol

[@Hamzypure]

Awful sequence

[@MrLekung]

No fight war scene wasted my 10 weeks

[@johnvandenberghe6621]

So , Toranaga is a Democrat using Democrat coniving tactics using the idea that the end Justifies the means to aspire "Ultimate" Power to rule over all others....Yep ....DEMOCRAT...........LOL....

[@stephenbachmann1171]

Trump supporters are retarded.

[@s3p4kner]

Maybe Emperor Palpatine, bring an end to the war "and we will have peace"? I need to read the book, but did the guy do this for himself, his country or both? Are these aims exclusive? The result was an end to civil war and 200 years of peace and prosperity until the Americans showed up. With guns. Probably screaming USA USA ... I mean do I need to go on lol? Love that Toranaga isn't a 2D villain but a person with a lot of motivations. It's tough to imagine the turmoil of civil war but for some loosing a son and a couple of trusted 'friends' to end it all, might just be worth it. Oh and you get to be absolute ruler [sort of] as a bonus! Sold!

[@opinionatedpossum1945]

What a strange thing to say. You sound lost.