![]() The Saneda brothers, Yukimura & Noboyuki, now find themselves fighting on the side of shogun Hideyoshi at the siege of Odawara castle (1590), the last holdout of the Hojo clan & the last battle in Hideyoshi's campaign to unite Japan. The series starts pretty much where the OVA left off. ![]() (this review assumes you've seen the OVA/know a bit about the period being depicted) surprisingly enjoyable retelling of the final years of the period which combined an engaging tale of the dying days of the samurai era with lots of big men hitting each other with big weapons. Samurai Warriors is hardly a contender for being one of the better works of fiction to come out of this tradition, but it turned out to be a With it's long list of factions, battles, & heroic individuals the period has been a rich vein for story tellers that has been tapped often, some might say to exhaustion, over the years. ![]() The Warring States period is probably the first taste many of us outside of Japan have of Japanese history, & not just because of the Total War games. TL DR: A dumb but fun dramatization of a period of history that pretty much writes itself. ![]()
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