#bc its clearly not just sword saint he’s afraid of

[dr-pipis]

chapter 57 thoughts

i’ve been having so many thoughts all day but assuming that all of the information hiruhiko gave was true, the fact that samura genuinely believes that all of the swordbearers including himself deserve to die- presumably for the amount of blood on their hands and their actions during the seitei war- is scaryyy.

it’s one thing when the main antagonists contest chihiro’s understanding of the war, as their perspective is harder to take as reliable- but with samura? he fought on the side that chihiro understood to be “good”, and its clear that the guilt he feels over whatever he and the others did was terrible enough that he thinks they all need to die.

this development is agonizing ofc but it’s soooo interesting from a storytelling perspective. i was never sure if kagurabachi would fully commit to portraying the seitei war as a deeply complex and nuanced conflict rather than just “good guys vs bad guys”, bc its just not very typical of shonen- but i’m so excited.

this opens so much more development for the cast, as well. how will samura react to the fact that chihiro is a swordbearer now? how is hakuri going to deal with the fact that he inadvertently caused this, even though he had no way of knowing? what will shiba think? what about the rest of the kamunabi?

OR i could be entirely wrong and this is a bait and switch😭we’ll see, i literally cannot wait until next sunday