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maxanor · 1 month

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SHŌGUN (2024–) Chapter Five: Broken to the Fist

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soapdispensersalesman · 1 year

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yocalio · 2 months

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"To show your true heart is to risk your life."

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bloomsbury · 12 days

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drawing them isn't enough i have to commit seppuku

#resim mesim #illustration #fanart #artists on tumblr #toda mariko #mariko #john blackthorne #shogun #shogun fx #shōgun #john x mariko #mariko x blackthorne #mariko x john

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art-killed-the-superstar · 5 months

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pov you are usagi and u returned to ur home village to pay respects to ur father's grave and ur presence almost ends a marriage

#usagi yojimbo #kenichi #mariko #jotaro #homecoming is so funny to me because all usagi does is show up and kenichi wants to kill him #i dont blame him tho #usagi stop coming home you're making mariko's anxiety flare up

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finitevariety · 12 days

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Blackthorne's 'consider living for meee 🥺' gambit is sooo good because the obvious rejoinder (consider how little your feelings matter in the face of all Mariko has endured) is one he is already WELL aware of. It's so obvious that the only reason he's trying this fucking where's-my-hug style gambit is because there's literally no other option available to him--beyond, that is, accepting her plan.

And in the end what's a truer expression of love than that moment, holding the blade above her, waiting?

He doesn't understand the choice she's making--in fact, he hates it. After all, his whole life in this country has been in essence a second life. He was rebirthed starving and scurvetic and fucking stinking, covered in guts as he emerged from the pit! Life takes you to the edge and back again but so long as you are at its table there are always dice to be rolled. Death is, therefore, defeat, and off the table entirely. It is never a choice.

Blackthorne feels that as he experiences the world, so he defines it. If he ceases, the world ends also. It's not a selfish feeling: it comes very naturally to very many of us. What's the point in thinking about the world without us in it? We can no longer influence it, nor reap its rewards. He will probably always feel this, and for him it's true.

For Mariko, though, death is the reason she was kept alive. Her life has meaning to her, of course. Yet that subjective meaning--her experiential life--is subordinate to and distinct from her life's purpose. She has always stood where she was supposed to stand, left the room when it was time, known what to say--and she knows, as clearly as the trees know when to drop their blossom, that her death is always an option. Death confers a meaning onto her life that extends beyond her subjective experience and into the world. If she ceases to be, the world will react to it--and from her death, if she uses it correctly, a thousand ripples will emanate. She has gone through her whole life feeling this, and for her it's true.

Blackthorne talks in this episode about the simple words he has picked up in his time here. These pale in comparison to what he has learned about translation, which is: some things can never be communicated in a way you will understand. That does not mean they are untrue. It does not even mean your own, opposite truth is rendered false!

Sometimes all you can do when you love someone is make their incomprehensible choice easier for them to bear.

#shōgun #shogun #mariko #lady mariko #mariko x blackthorne #in summary: endless screaming #field notes #haarping on

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doom777 · 2 months

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Anna Sawai

#anna sawai #mariko #toda mariko #fx shogun #shogun #shōgun

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untilsfe · 1 year

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Turtles seeing baby/kid photos of Usagi

Good lord, that's so cute!!!

I adore every time Sakai draw Usagi as a Kid. The reaction of the guys tho. It would be priceless.

Let's see what I can do [Machiavellian laughter]

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A couple of months later:

Usagi: I still don't understand why you asked me for this photos again, Donatello-san

Donnie: It is for cientific purposes, of course.

[Leo is going through a hard time as a leader, and his brothers make him a collage for motivation]

Leo, crying: I love you guys!

Mikey: We know!

Raph: Don’t mention it

Donnie: Seriously, don't ever mention it

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Pfff, I enjoyed doing this so much! You have no idea. Also I'm really thankful to get to practice drawing the rest of the boys. I missed my fav boy Raphie a lot!

And should I say, I'm really proud of the photos, I mean, I don't know how I did it, but I'm glad my hands did it

I'll leave you the images here In case you want to see them with better quality. There's even one I didn't get to use because... Out of place, you know?

But hey! Katsuichi looks great, mhm! Love to that old man!! I need to draw him more.

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>First the baby photos, he is a couple of months old here:

>Kid photos because I couldn't resist.

We all have had to put up with a bad haircut once.

>And finally the photos with master and friends. In the spring festival with Mariko when they where 5. And the other two when they were 10

That's all for now. See ya later folks!! ᕕ( ᐛ )ᕗ

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dgct2 · 9 days

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MAJOR SPOILERS FOR CRIMSON SKY

When Blackthorne stepped up to be her second as she was about to commit seppuku (suicide) in Shōgun‘s pivotal Episode 9, that was the “moment she realizes that what they share is much deeper than what she had anticipated,” Sawai tells TV Insider. “That’s the gesture that changes everything.”

Seconding her seppuku means striking the fatal blow. Mariko would first stab herself in the gut, and then Blackthorne would decapitate her as the tradition mandates. That he was ready to do this for Mariko was the ultimate symbol of Blackthorne’s evolution from the beginning of the series to now. It’s the highest sign of respect that he can give, as it prioritizes her cultural customs and loyalty over his own desires for her to keep living. And he begged her to keep living.

“He’s taking her over his own religion and beliefs,” Sawai explains of the powerful moment. “A couple scenes before that he’s asking her to keep living for him. And so I think that it just shows that he really, really cares, and that is the most romantic thing that you could ever do for someone that you love.”

They slept together once more after the thwarted seppuku. The energy between them in that moment was a defiant refusal to deny their feelings any longer, initiated by a yearning Blackthorne. But even if Buntaro had died, Sawai doesn’t see a world where Mariko and Blackthorne would have ended up together forever. “I don’t think it was realistic for that to happen,” she admits.

Mariko was never in denial about her love for Blackthorne, even if she hid it deep within herself. “Circumstances are not going to let her be with him, and so you can’t keep chasing something that you’re not going to be,” Sawai says. “It’s not healthy to keep wanting to chase it, but it’s undeniable what they share. That connection is truly just their own thing. It’s very, very intimate.”

Mariko never believed they would end up together, but Sawai reveals that her translator definitely “holds onto” their connection as a comfort in tough times. She doesn’t let her guard down again, however, until circumstances push her to let go of all restraint.

Mariko’s seppuku was stopped at the last moment by Lord Ishido (Takehiro Hira), but he sent a group of assassins to kill her later that night. When she, Blackthorne, Lord Yabushige (Tadanobu Asano), and other women were cornered and outnumbered, Blackthorne desperately tried to protect them from canon fire in a shed, whereas Mariko accepted death. “Anjin-sama, let it come,” she told her lover with tears in her eyes. You could see every ounce of love Mariko had for Blackthorne in this brief, tender moment before the blast killed her. Sawai played that scene as Mariko’s one chance to let all of her love for Blackthorne pour out.

“I remember just looking at Cosmo/Blackthorne and feeling like this is her goodbye. She’s not going to be able to come up to him and hold his hand and say this stuff,” Sawai shares. “It was wishful also to just accept your fate because that’s something that Blackthorne couldn’t do. He’s trying to control everything, and she’s just someone who’s like, we live and we die. We control nothing beyond that. She’s just looking at him like, I’m going to go, but thank you. And I hope you understand.”

#shōgun #shogun fx #shogun #shogunedit #mariko #akechi mariko #lady mariko #anna sawai #john blackthorne #cosmo jarvis #mariko x blackthorne #blackthorne x mariko #john x mariko #my gifs #crimson sky #these scenes are really dark so my colouring is off #spoiler alert #interview

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xspooky · 4 days

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"if I could use words / like scattering flowers and falling leaves / what a bonfire my poems would make"

"what a bonfire she made"

any shogun watchers out there???

#mariko #lady mariko #shogun #crimson sky #mariko shogun #shogun hulu #john blackthorne #shogun 2024 #fanart #artist #art #shogun 1x10 #bro the finale was beautiful #and her outfit in ep 9 bc she was like. the crimson sky. and her fit was red. PEAK

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meikuree · 4 days

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it’s insane to me that mariko and ochiba no kata/ruri are explicitly said by the creators and the characters themselves to have grown up very close, ‘like sisters’, and it’s implied they were closer than ochiba was to her actual blood sister (which was normal in terms of family dynamics and given their circumstances, I know, but still). their relationship might just be the most Homoerotic thing in the show, by pure accident, because it’s so intense and Fated that even the absence of any hint of romantic/sexual feeling ironically just magnifies how much their bond is too big to be captured by any conventional framework or labels. and I like this invention of their backstory from the original novel, it’s given ochiba lots more interiority and it’s a grounded and subtle means of saying More about them without having to spell it out. I really appreciate that their history is staged as an Entirely Platonic and Sisterly dynamic but one that had a deep formative influence on both of them, that lasted through all their years apart, right through to the tragic culmination of them as rivals.

the scene where Mariko walks into a room full of men baying for the blood of her lord/her by extension and is instead 100% focused on ochiba no kata, the only other woman in the room, whom she trusts to recognise the challenge she’s trying to pose, sent chills through me. their bond is the hidden fulcrum of the political machinations the show dwells on, more so than any number of the show’s political marriages or more conventional and visible means of politicking the many men in Shogun have, and the creators have touched on that in a similar register.

#shogun #shogun spoilers #toda mariko #ochiba no kata #mariko #shōgun #my meta #fellas is it gay to grow up like a sworn sister to another woman.#lady ochiba #shogun 2024

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maxanor · 1 month

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ANNA SAWAI as MARIKO in SHŌGUN (2024–) Chapter Four: The Eightfold Fence

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h01vd4l · 4 days

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#anna sawai #shogun #mariko

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yocalio · 3 months

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SHŌGUN Toda Mariko x John Blackthorne

#shōgun #shogunedit #shogun #creations #fx shogun #mariko x blackthorne #shogun fx #cosmo jarvis #anna sawai #toda mariko #mariko #john blackthrone #anjin-san #i think these two will have a great chemistry i loved their relationship in the book ;_;#shōgunedit

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distantsonata · 11 days

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togetherwithmistakes · 12 days

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Shogun ep 9 has me reeling with all the implications but one that struck me that I haven’t seen anyone talk about is that now John is stranded without a translator. I know he has some basic Japanese but he still seems lost in most meaningful conversations and now that Mariko has sacrificed herself, he has lost both his love and his way of communicating.

His only alternative is the Portuguese catholic priests and I imagine he would rather not be at their mercy…. I’m just curious how he’s going to survive in this world without her :( did Mariko confess to Alvito her feelings for John and will his friendship and admiration for her enable him to help John out?

Also if anyone has any ideas about the meaning of John drawing the line in the sand during Mariko’s confession scene… was he drawing a cross to pray to? Was he doing it as an act of defiance against the facade of structure and rules they are trapped in?? Im lost on that one…

#shogun #shogun fx #john blackthorne #toda mariko #mariko #john x mariko #mariko x blackthorne #mariko x john

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