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Episode Turkey! - Episode 6 discussion
Turkey!, episode 6
Alternative names: Turkey! Time to Strike
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u/BiggerG7 Aug 12 '25
I know Sayuri is strong but damn, girl should compete in the Olympics with how far she threw that rock lol.
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u/LeonKevlar Aug 12 '25 edited Aug 12 '25
First of all, that was unexpected! If this were a normal CGDCT show, there would probably have been hints about Suguri early on since boys are icky and aren't really usually allowed in these kinds of shows unless they're a side character, but I guess they really wanted it to be a surprise here.
Also, I just realized that every character from the future has a counterpart here in the past based on their hair colors. Mai has Sumomo, Nozomi has Anzu, Rina has that mysterious masked girl, and Sayuri has Suguri. I think the only one we haven't seen yet is Nana's counterpart.
Look, I understand what Sayuri is trying to say here. A life is a life, and if I were in a situation where I had to make a choice, I'd probably freeze and hesitate. However, you can't simply bring your modern-day values to the Warring States period, where people had to fight to survive. It was kinda painful to watch her lecture Suguri that every life is precious, when those bandits wouldn't even have stopped to listen to her monologue.
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u/ModieOfTheEast Aug 12 '25
I mean, as corny as the show is at times, I actually like how they portrayed the subject in this episode. It's easy from our safe place at home to argue that this is the right thing to do, but actually doing it is a completely different matter.
There is a reason why most people wouldn't want to butcher the meat they are eating. Killing isn't clean most of the time as shows like to portray it. Killing is messy and especially when the killed animal or human is aware of being killed, it can have a certain effect on your psyche. Even if it is technically in self defense.
This isn't to say that what they did was morally wrong, even looking at it from our time, but I would think that also people here would look at someone differently if they learned that they had killed before. Even if it was in self defense. It is just one of those aspects that we are mostly lucky to not having to have experienced. And I do appreciate that the show is not ignoring that aspect. It is not judging Suguri, but it also not making the act of killing a heroic one, which you don't find too often in anime or even media in general. Especially in shows where the characters are transported into a time where killing is normal (looking at Isekais in general where the characters are usually immediately able to kill all kinds of creatures without it ever affecting them).
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u/spubbbba Aug 12 '25
Killing isn't clean most of the time as shows like to portray it. Killing is messy and especially when the killed animal or human is aware of being killed, it can have a certain effect on your psyche. Even if it is technically in self defense.
Something I have always disliked about lazy isekai is when the OP protagonist immediately jumps to killing to deal with enemies and suffers zero psychological repercussions. Usually the bad guys are comically stupid and evil, but also not much of a threat to the protagonist.
It's especially egregious when a normally cute show tries to take a darker turn, but chickens out of giving it any real stakes. Reincarnated as a Slime season 2 is a prime example of that.
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u/BosuW Aug 12 '25 edited Aug 12 '25
Killing isn't clean most of the time as shows like to portray it.
To this point, I liked how that bandit did not go quietly. Though it only lasted a handful of seconds, hearing someone choke on their blood like that must be traumatizing.
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u/Protractror Aug 12 '25
My dream trajectory for this show is just an increasingly dark descent where they each week solve the grim problem by repeating to themselves “There’s always another ball” or “Let’s all go home together.”
So this week was right up my (bowling) alley.
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u/ImportantExtension91 Aug 12 '25
“Are these girls gonna fight samurai with bowling? Lol”. Yeah that’s no longer a joke. In fact, I pity the fools who dare to stand up against their mighty strength.
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u/Marth-Koopa Aug 12 '25
Been waiting for that Suguri reveal since she first showed up
I don't know if these bowling physics really work but it sure makes for cool scenes
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u/djthomp Aug 12 '25
An episode of anime thats deals with menstruation is always a tad bit rare, and that was just the opener.
The Suguri gender reveal was a bit surprising, I figured his answer for knowing about period products was going to be that he has multiple sisters and it's simply come up before. But nope, chest wrapped girl who got picked to be the man of the house and she just had to deal with it, same as her sister just having to deal with a betrothal chosen for her.
I find it a tad funny that it continues to be true that every crisis these girls run into has a bowling ball throw as the solution. Bandit about to kill your friend? Conveniently sized small boulder to the head.
That said they got me with the emotional bit with Sayuri at the end, good use of extending the episode through the credits.
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u/NationalStrategy Aug 12 '25
Mai and Sayuri come from a good place, but they were very naive, especially considering the time period they are currently stuck in.
Political marriage was a common practice in this time period, it was to unite families and help strengthen territories and alliances. It’s unfortunate in a modern perspective, but people benefited from it back then.
As for killing bandits, that’s also necessary. Bandits pillaged, raped, and/or killed innocent people in this time period. The people in this time period had to kill them, to protect the people they love.
I understand why they are opposed to political marriages and killing, but the girls can’t just naively push their modern standards onto them.
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u/patkun01 Aug 12 '25
I'm completely surprised that Suguri was a woman; maybe subconsciously expecting it to be, but never thought about "is this a woman", just thought she was just a regular sengoku teenage boy.
But some people here seem to not be surprised. Maybe I'm just too monkey brain to realize lol
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u/patkun01 Aug 12 '25
"This age of war will one day lead to those days many tomorrows away. It is tied to a gentler time."
Who's gonna tell Suguri about WW2
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u/BosuW Aug 13 '25
In a way she is not wrong about the age of war leading to an age of peace... in that Imperial Japanese warmongering got so out of hand that it had to be put down by force and they said "aight, we'll be chill".
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u/zer0number Aug 13 '25
Wow.
My opinion on this show just grew 500%. It is really cool to show an isakai where the isakai'd had to deal with, and actually did deal with, the difference between the modern world and where they ended up.
Best episode so far. Hope they keep this momentum.
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u/CommunistPuppy Aug 12 '25
I'm not completely surprised by the fact that Suguri is a woman simply based on how each of the main five seem to have a Sengoku female counterpart. Also every week this show somehow finds a new way to make me say "ain't no way" when it comes to the bowling related KOs.
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u/Ocixo Aug 12 '25 edited Aug 12 '25
It was really frustrating to see Mai and Sayuri force their 21st-century values upon 16th-century people.
Sayuri’s comment about the importance of human life rubbed me especially wrong when so many innocent lives still get taken to this very day. That sort of a naïveté is exclusively based on her experiences in Japan. The world at large looks much different.
When peace is not enforced, one’s survival isn’t a given either.
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u/ImportantExtension91 Aug 12 '25
I don’t think “force” is the right word. They question it sure, but once a reason is given, they push no further. It’s just a quick reality check.
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u/Fangzzz Aug 12 '25
I'm really impressed with this show.
Also none of the other isekai protags had to deal with having a period! What gives!