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Episode Yasuke - Episode 6 discussion
Yasuke, episode 6
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u/no-ist Jun 04 '21
From the final product, it seems incredibly obvious this show was hindered by budget/timeline. I think there was an overwhelming amount of ambition here that got bottlenecked.
With the amount of story elements floating around this needed at the bare minimum 12. But I think closer to 18-22 would’ve been enough to truly go through the arcs they were setting up.
My unpopular opinion here is that I actually don’t mind mechs and magic in an “old world” setting, but they needed time to flesh those things out. They obviously never gave us the “why” when presenting us with concepts that are contrary to what we know. Magic is typically passable and I think it adds great extra element to a story that can otherwise feel stale. Usually magic needs no explanation, but I think they needed time to explain why on earth would the majority of soldiers wield katanas in a time where there is large scale projectile magic and giant mechs that have huge laser guns. Why hasn’t society progressed? They decided they needed time to solve that. This show almost completely ignores the “gun in act 1” rule.
It honestly feels like Saki was crammed into the story and then eventually took over as the main through line. I think I agree with a lot of other people that the flashbacks had a lot more compelling plot and overall storytelling. I think it would’ve been much more interesting to walk through Yasuke’s new life and gradually piecing together his past while he’s both picking up the pieces and dealing with ghosts from his past all leading up to him finally a climax Mitsuhide, the man who was always holding him back and never accepted him for what he truly was.
I actually have a speculation about this. It feels like the Saki story was just something that Netflix forced in for demographics. An orphaned white-passing(she’s Japanese I know) child of prophecy with chosen one powers that they didn’t earn? Fits the description of a lot more anime and opens up a large new demo, is what I’m thinking. It doesn’t even make sense, the daimyo has almost no background and shallow motivation, and absolutely 0 connection and no conflict with yasuke other than Saki. It feels like they ripped out a plot from an entirely different anime and saddled Yassan with it to make it more accessible. I wonder what the original plot/pitch was. Oh and Don’t even get me started on wtf happened between episodes 4-5 and just episode 5 overall.
Additional positives to outweigh my negativity: I feel like the fights started out really great and sort of became more and more ridiculous. The animation was very nice for the most part. Soundtrack/score was also great and creative, but felt obtrusive at times.
All that to say, i feel like there was wasted potential here. Too few episodes, not enough time to commit to the massive world building this anime needed to truly feel like a grand adventure. I think ambition got the better of this crew. I truly hope they get another shot at this and have the chance to creative something that feels cohesive, moving while still keeping the excitement they managed to generate in the good moments.