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waterlinkedgirl · 2 months ago

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Musical Touken Ranbu: Michinooku ~ Hitotsu Hachisu (Michinooku ~ A Single Lotus)

Here we go! Only a few days after the archive release and toumyu's ninth anniversary (congratulations!)

Michioku, or Michihasu, is a myu I have many conflicting feelings about, both positive and negative. However, I do believe that with the right amount of care in the next Mika-related story myu, the negative can still be cleared. Plus, I'm glad about a lot of things being re-established. The writer does need to step up her game a little on the plot-writing side of things, as well as the understanding-and-respecting-past-myu side of things, but as long as she does, this can still be given a proper place within what was already established.

Keep in mind that these are only the subtitle files, timed and tled to the DMM senshuuraku and the bluray respectively. The archive version will have a talk at the start, so the starting times of the subs will have to be delayed accordingly.

You can find the subtitles and my TL notes document here!

#touken ranbu #toumyu #water's translations #michioku #michihasu #how do I put this #seeing as myu's director Kayano has said in an interview right before Michioku that Kogi and Mika have a special bond #different from other swords-- and then they try to speedrun *Tsuru* and Mika having a what feels like it was intended to be #even greater relationship using a song called Kage Futatsu where KOGI'S signature song from Utaawase was Futatsu no Kage???#I SINCERELY want to believe it's incompetence rather than the writer deliberately pulling the rug from under Kogi's feet #bc the alternative is just cruel #I don't particularly mind the relationship Mika and Tsuru have in this play but I feel that not for a moment Kogi and kara respectively #were considered in the writing #anyway my final verdict is that this myu is what too many people think tsuwa is: the divorce myu (between Mika and Tsuru this time)#in all cases I hope myu can bring Shirakawa Yuki in again like with Datemyu just to offload myu's already deathly busy writer (she's done #5 myus in a month before which is just insane) because I feel this just isn't sustainable with the amount of carefulness a long-running #franchise like myu demands and the *writing* quality (not the production quality AT ALL Michioku's is great) is suffering for it.#like sure Michioku is loaded with references but they're references that either don't serve *Michioku's own* plot or their treatment shows #a lack of understanding of the work it's referencing-- for example Kashuu calling upon atsu's “This is how the shinsengumi fights!” actuall #goes completely contrary to the lesson he's supposed to have learned from atsuibun: that swords aren't disposable and that he has duties as #both soldier (captain in atsu) and as COMRADE and he makes the (already highlighted in Michioku!) dumb decision of butting in without #thinking-- and with that framed against manba's breaking trauma as well! He's supposed to have learned to stay rational and consider both #duties yet here he is ---BECAUSE of the reference--- completely leaning on the pre-atsu-development side of the scale #as if Ishi's words went one ear in one ear out. And yes the scene by itself could've worked as a subversion to show Kashuu makes the #'irrational' decision against what Ishi taught him to consider precisely because he cares for the people he's protecting but there is NO #groundwork laid at all for that in the rest of Michioku! This is what I mean with the carelessness of the references and the lack of #consideration for what prior myus were trying to SAY and ACHIEVE which is insane because she was the lyricist for those #it's more a collage of feelings provided through a set of characters calling back to the scripts of prior myu rather than #a story that evokes feelings bc the humans in it walk forward and act upon-- interact with-- the scenery on the road as left by prior human

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