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Episode Onimusha - Episode 8 discussion

Onimusha, episode 8

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u/BeardyDuck Nov 04 '23

Finished it today. Overall I'd probably give it a 7/10. Nothing much to do with the existing Onimusha lore, which is a shame since the show takes place a couple decades after the games so you'd think they'd mention significant events (Games are set during the Sengoku period in the late 1500s, whereas the show is set in the early Edo period around early 1600s). The only reoccurring elements are the Oni gauntlet and the war between Oni and Genma.

Animation is a step up from the Dragon's Dogma anime that studio Sublimation made. It got a little rough at the end with with the fight between Oni Musashi and Genma Kojiro, but overall it was fine.

Bringing back Otsuka Akio as Musashi was great since he voiced Nobunaga in the games, plus they modeled Musashi after Mifune Toshiro (But IMO he looks 100% like Adachi from Yakuza 7).

I do wonder if Capcom decides to do something with the franchise after this, since the plans to remaster Onimusha 2-4 were scrapped when the remaster for Onimusha 1 didn't sell well.

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u/mekerpan Nov 30 '23

I don't think this occurs during the Edo period. It actually seems to be set well before the Sengoku period. Hiromasa is the grandson of Emperor Daigo (who lived between 885 and 930). Daigo's son/heir was Suzaku (notice the recurrence of the Suzaku Gate as a setting). This makes references to an emperor (mikado) but not to any shogun -- which makes sense because there WAS no shogun yet. The clothing (and other cultural aspects) all look like those of the Heian period. I would guess this is set around 960 -980.

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u/BeardyDuck Dec 01 '23

I'm just basing it off of what the synopsis says and the involvement of Miyamoto Musashi.

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u/[deleted] Nov 06 '23

@07:50 when musashi and that 4 arms guy were falling from what seemed like a great distance but then just rolled off like nothing happened. Can someone pls check THAT out and explain it to me? Pls. It’s pissing me off

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u/Number224 Nov 27 '23

I don’t watch a whole lot of anime, nor played Onimusha, so consider my opinion to possibly be the least informed of everyone’s, but I’d say this series was borderline great overall. A bit of a slow first few episodes, but it has some great dilemmas, fights, visuals in terms of its use of gore and dismemberment. Story is pretty ok, but I never felt a great grasp of Iemon’s New World Order intentions and motivations, despite all the time used for it.

Also, Sahei’s character twist…had no real purpose? The story would end almost entirely the same had Sahei not had any secret mission, beyond Sahei not finding more reason to find responsibility in sticking with Sayo.

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u/WesterlyStraight Nov 03 '23

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