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TV Series Review: Undercover Geisha

Five out of five for great story, acting, and amazing stage performances. Now this is a series I wish had lasted more episodes!

Undercover Geisha (“Yozakura Osome”) is the Tokugawa-era story of the artist, performer, and sometimes spy Osome, who lost her family in a fire when she was young and is still looking for her surviving brother.

Along the way she uncovers more of her family history, gains a few enemies, and some interesting allies. Including a down-on-his-luck ronin, a merchant who may be more than he seems, and a “roofer” who’s definitely more than he seems. (Otoji does work as a roofer. In the daytime. Check out his outfit change in the first ep, so cool, superspies eat your heart out....)

The characters are great, the various cases and shenanigans intriguing, but if you have an interest in either fine points of Japanese history or live stage performances, this is a particular gem. Every episode shows acting, dance, acrobatics, juggling, and the like; much of the show revolves around the theater Osome teaches and performs at, with the actors and stagehands dragging in all kinds of drama and trouble. The head of the acting troupe’s ongoing relationship with a married cop, for example, deserves all the sympathetic facepalms it gets.

There are also interesting bits like, travel was heavily restricted in this era, but if you had an official letter of revenge you could legally head anywhere and claim you were looking for the guy you needed to kill. Or the Edo custom of “stones of the lost” - with so many fires and people in the city, people might get separated, especially children. So neighborhood areas had a stone where you could post up the equivalent of “missing” posters, in hopes someone, somewhere, might know where your family was.

Also watch for the ep where Osome gets drunk because Family and Problems, and constructs a Jenga-esque tower on the table out of sake cups, chopsticks, and anything else available. Then starts carefully pulling it apart....

Trivia note: The actress playing Osome, Mayumi Wakamura, is the same as the actress who played the geisha Tsutakichi in Gokenin Zankurō. Both excellent but different characters, good acting there.

All told it was a very upbeat series in comparison to some jidaigeki, with less gore and relatively few people dying. Would definitely feel okay putting this as PG-13.

You can find the whole series on the Samurai vs. Ninja YouTube channel.

Undercover Geisha (2003) ep 1.

I used to think adult Shawna was more than a bit unhinged but nope, she's an extremely well adjusted member of society for somebody who spent 2 of 19 months stranded in the woods hallucinating chats with the corpse of her deceased bff while semi starving and then, after consuming a piece of it by herself, proceeded to eat the rest with her teammates because said bff somehow agreed and frankly after the forest maneuvered it to yummy smoked meat it would've been a waste of resources.

But honestly, who wasn't hot for the queen on Duck Dodgers?? Talk about gay awakenings amiright?

omfg yes I drew her soooooo much it's kinda ridiculous. I had an entire notebook that I just filled with drawings of her in various poses and outfits. I even made an oc that was one of her servants to ship with her cause I was also obsessed with Egyptian history as a kid so I adapted that knowledge since the set up of their culture was clearly inspired. I'll have to find those drawings sometime cause seriously I had it bad sjfndn I mean COME ON

they made her ridiculously hot for literally no reason AND she was badass cause she regularly kicked ass and her voice was attractive too. closeted bi teenage me didn't stand a chance

i feel so angry when i get an um actually prompt right but the contestants dont

Tough.

nothing can break the bond between a friend who loves spoilers and a friend who just watched an amazing show and needs to tell someone the entire plot from start to finish

One of my biggest nitpicks in fiction concerns the feeding of babies. Mothers dying during/shortly after childbirth or the baby being separated form the mother shortly after birth is pretty common in fiction. It is/was also common enough in real life, which is why I think a lot of writers/readers don't think too hard about this. however. Historically, the only reason the vast majority of babies survived being separated from their mother was because there was at least one other woman around to breastfeed them. Before modern formula, yes, people did use other substitutes, but they were rarely, if ever, nutritionally sufficient.

Newborns can't eat adult food. They can't really survive on animal milk. If your story takes place in a world before/without formula, a baby separated from its mother is going to either be nursed by someone else, or starve.

It doesn't have to be a huge plot point, but idk at least don't explicitly describe the situation as excluding the possibility of a wetnurse. "The father or the great grandmother or the neighbor man or the older sibling took and raised the baby completely alone in a cave for a year." Nope. That baby is dead I'm sorry. "The baby was kidnapped shortly after birth by a wizard and hidden away in a secret tower" um quick question was the wizard lactating? "The mother refused to see or touch her child after birth so the baby was left to the care of the ailing grandfather" the grandfather who made the necessary arrangements with women in the neighborhood, right? right? OR THAT GREAT OFFENDER "A newborn baby was left on the doorstep and they brought it in and took care of it no issues" What Are You Going to Feed That Baby. Hello?

Like. It's not impossible, but arrangements are going to have to be made. There are some logistics.

Vincent Price guest stars on The Muppet Show (1977)

I did not expect Dad-Alastor but I CHERISH it!

Dont care if he’s being obviously manipulative, I think he meant it a little bit! Deep down in his cold dead heart.🖤

had never heard of "mlp infection aus" until this month and ngl i still dont know what they are but. it made me want to draw some of them getting taken over by their cutie marks or something......

i am unironically obsessed with adam west batman not only trying to be a good dad to robin, but actually succeeding. also love robin's insane energy levels and his ability to go from seething bloodlust to manic glee in record time. i think any superman worth his S would fit right into the family ^_^

the problem w modern sci fi is there's no camp. would you ever see a man dressed like this in 2024 star trek? no

a woman dressed like this?

what about these guys?

what about this crime?

meanwhile modern trek just looks like this

WHERE is the cunt! the camp! the garish colors!