I love Fuji-sama so dang much! She is the actual cutest. I love anytime she's just there or in the background just reacting to shit without saying anything 😂 that and anytime Yabu grunts. But Fuji is sacred. Only the best for Fuji.❤
This is the episode where I fell in love with Fuji Sama. Brilliantly portrayed by Moeka Hoshi. Just watch her in the background in scenes where she doesn't have any lines. Moeka's acting choices are superb.
Fujiko is one of my favorite characters in the whole story.I think she's only 21 years old, she has just lost her husband and son, she's been refused permission to join them in death, which is what she really wants, and she's thrust into this appalling (to her) situation. But she's samurai, does her duty, and she's got a dragon-like ferocity which doesn't really come across on screen.
In my head I was thinking "she must be protected at all costs", until she took the gun and aimed it at Omi. Maybe she's not the one that needs protection 😂.
for perspective, Omi still saw John as the barbarian he pissed on instead of a hatamoto. Whereas Fuji is the favorite granddaughter of Hiromatsu. So technically, she outranks him.
1 koku is equal to 1 years rice for 1 person. So his salary is the equivalent of food for 240 people for a year. It isn't the tactics, English guns were better than the Spanish and Portuguese. Spanish used heavier guns that shot larger rounds but had shorter range. They were slower to reload as well. The English used lighter guns, that could easily be aimed, and shot further, and were faster to reload because they were lighter.
This series is set too early for John to have taught things we might've been familiar with, like sharpshooting, due to the general inaccuracy of the matchlocks of the period. Skirmishers / sharpshooters would come around with the rifle proper, circa 1800s Smashing waves of men at each other is bloody and shit, but his idea to leverage cannon fire is a good 'un.
