Put Your Guns Up!

Sengoku Basara 2 is currently airing so I thought I’d drop a quick review on episode 2!

Alright so Katakura got himself surrounded by Hanbei on the previous episode, this episode picked up from where it left off –  Katakura got himself captured by Hanbei *gay*. With Katakura captured, Date’s army is without a tactical commander which puts Oshu in a bad spot. Nambu, Tsugaru and Soma, surrounding conquered lands of Date’s reign has launched a three-pronged attack on Oshu forcing Date to divide his army evenly on three fronts to defend. Date being a force to be trifled with seems to be holding off the resistance however Hanbei leads Ashina’s army from Aizu in hopes of turning the battle in dis-favor to Date in this surprise attack. Date’s men informs him of a force coming from Aizu. Leaving him no choice, Date decides to round up his men and meet with Hanbei halfway in Suriagehara. Mean while, Keiji meets with Kenshin only to discover that Toshiie will be leading an attack on Echigo, Kenshin’s home territory. After, Yukimura groups Takeda’s best men and depart to aid an army in Satsuma.

The episode ends with Hanbei explaining his current plans on taking over feudal Japan with Toyotomi. Hanbei explains that Date will soon be overrun by the now 4 pronged attack while Maeda’s army is travelling towards Echigo. After Date’s fall, the 4 pronged army will then ambush Maeda’s army from the rear. During this commotion, Hanbei will travel to Aki. Lastly, he plans on putting the finishing touches on the alliance with Mori and hopes to team up with them to overtake Shikoku surrounded by the Seto Sea where the Demon of the South Seas resides, Chosokabe Motochika. In anticipation of fall of Shikoku, Toyotomi advises to Hanbei to then move on to Satsuma unknowingly where Yukimura will be headed.

In regards to the ending preview, it looks like the battle will be full blown as the showdown between Toshiie and Kenshin ensues in Tetorigawa. A small clip shows Keiji interfering with the battle and physically fending off Toshiie.

Thoughts about this episode and the next

So we all love Date’s engrish, its simply THE BEST ever! His bad a$$-ness won’t be rubbing off anytime soon, and I doubt the One Eyed Dragon of Oshu will succumb to a 4 pronged attack. He was only losing the upperhand when Hanbei was at the scene, it was later shown Date went complete ape sh!t on Hanbei and caused him to retreat. If Date stays that way Oshu will remain his. That would put a hole in Hanbei’s plans. depending on how much action there is, knowing Date, he might just lead a force to Toyotomi’s door and punch down Hanbei to get Katakura back.

If there was 2 things I hated about this episode it would be: Katakura getting captured by Hanbei’s cheap a$$ trick and of course there was noticeably no Yukimura and Oyakata-sama antics D: – I was really looking forward to that.

Anyway, lets hope things really heat up, today’s episode was genuinely pretty epic. If you haven’t seen it already you better see it now. Today’s spotlight is a load full Date’s antics and kick a$$ fighting! (Sorry I forgot to mention Hanbei too but I don’t like him ^^” )

Get serious!!~

-Kai

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