Episode 6 – Turkey!-Time to Strike-

Can I give this episode 6 stars? Even 7? This episode examines all the possible boxes I dreamed of, and more: weird, temporary bowling, to hey, that’s not how-physysics-work, and incredibly desperate because one of the girls was able to accept that they learned they could kill people. Perfect. Delicious. It’s exactly what I want.

This episode is very clear about girls – Sayuri, especially, who struggle to deal with different norms of the Sengoku era. At first, this shows their focus on Sumomo, who will become the bride of a political marriage after she has her first period. But, of course, as you may already know, political (or at least strategic) marriage was far from being different in the 15th century. So, of course, Sumomo knows nothing – in fact, the fact that everyone seems to think that Mai and the future girl seem to worry about is unusual here.

At the same time, you may not yet know how menstruating people handle the period before modern hygiene products. Related to the 15th century, it is worth noting that they usually get pregnant more often than in the 21st century. However, this does not mean that they spend so much time in this state that they have never or barely experienced their own period. During that time, they usually use rags or temporary rags as mats. I admit, I don’t know what specializes, but I have a hard time understanding them on some search engines.

This brings us to Suguri, as well as some very obvious queer colors. I said this here before that This summer has been a strange season for animebroadly speaking. And an episode of this week turkey! If there is no further affirmation, do nothing. The details of this line about Suguri’s gender identity are still somewhat blurred. Do they (I will use them/their pronouns for them until it is clearer that their preferences reflect how Suguri itself uses gender-neutral “watashi” to call themselves) see themselves as what we are talking about is cross-server, trans, non-binary, non-binary or something? Does Suguri care about the gender identity of the label at all? All of this, between Suguri and Mai’s Sayuri, some secret love resonance is happening. More specifically, as the series believes, Sayuri is obsessed with Mai and she keeps thinking. We also think Suguri is set up as another potential love interest. So, you know, eye emoji.

This brings us into our enormous completion. Shower. We’re all waiting for something (or at least I have). Although this era goes beyond that, its violence is often a key part of what we define the Sengoku era. It’s hard to learn this. That is, you are more likely to kill another person out of necessity or self-protection.

In hindsight, last week’s plot was a great one. Last week was the first time we saw any real, potentially life-threatening girl. Of course, it all solved, but it implanted the idea that they weren’t exactly bubbles and that if they wanted to survive, they would have to do things they didn’t necessarily want to do. This week, the idea fell to extremes in the form of Sayuri, where Suguri ended the life of a robber – Suguri is not a particularly unusual situation. Meanwhile, for Sakuri, this is traumatic on multiple levels. Not only is she listening to the end of a man’s life, but she also has to reconcile with the way her environment needs, and is likely to do so again. In other words, she was painfully accepting that she might have to kill herself, or at least turn a blind eye to other people’s killings. Either way, this is a big deal for her and she has to bear the rest of the pressure in her situation.

I think everything that drives everyone is Sayuri begging Suguri that despite pleading himself, the life of bandits is still a kind of life and it is wrong to take life away. Meanwhile, Suguri clearly told Sayuri that this is the only way to protect everyone. Sayuri doesn’t want to accept this, but she doesn’t want anyone to be hurt either. Sayuri slowly decomposes, then quickly decomposes. She admits that she is the future and that in the future, people will not just kill each other. She ran in tears, reflecting the weight of life.

I think this is such a chord for me, especially because Sayuri is working with more people to study history, even if the purpose of them not to do so is to make it a scholarly career: the weight of historical life. For us, in the 21st century, with the power of the aftermath, it is easy for people to live in the distant past (even walking to the earth before our grandparents) and it is something abstract. Worst of all, it’s not that important to be sure their deaths are because life became harder then, right? However, none of this is at all. Life is far more than the nude elements we often deprive the age of history, which is far more than the pain of our time and place we often remember. People play games, have hobbies, have friends – yes, even in Sengoku in Japan. Even the 15th century life is still a kind of life. This has as much life as the 21st century. Just because they live in the 21st century when they don’t remember it – we have to piece together like pieces of puzzles filled with pieces, which doesn’t mean their lives don’t matter. When tragedies happen, the times they live in don’t make these tragedies even more tragic – despite a threshold, after a certain threshold, the death toll stops, which means something. But Sayuri’s life, the lives of friends, and the lives of those who protect her can be dangerous. In tears, she was forced to make a difficult decision to give up her morality in the name of self-protection, and she realized she was in a situation of murder or being killed. The white flowers she had been watching lingered every few seconds and were soon stained with blood.

Sayuri is no longer the same person she was at the beginning of the episode, and she said a lot more or less. Moments like this are exactly the kind of thing I want from this series when we see a man’s just beheaded head hitting the ground. In a single episode, Sayuri goes from fading into the background to one of the biggest focal points on the show. To end this with a more relaxed tone, this is a meme that I can’t resist at the end of the episode.

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Türkiye! – Time of strike – Currently flowing
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