#genichi sojo

[toesucker416]

wait a damn minute

This page. This fucking page. It's from Chapter 8 and it's been taunting us for ages. And when we saw the Magatsumi, when we saw the fucking Magatsumi, we thought, this is it. This is where Sojo's flashback comes from.

Because it has to be, right? Look at the contrast, the field of flowers stained with blood, this is visual language, this is storytelling. So Sojo watched these people get anihilated by the Magatsumi/Shinuchi, that must mean he's from the other side of the Seitei War, right? RIGHT?!

Sojo is not from Shokoku. And yet, in a life defined by senseless slaughter and unethical experimentation, his darkest memory is still seeing the Shinuchi in use. Seeing people slaughtered by it, people who must've been important to him.

I'm starting to understand why the Sword Saint is kept under so much restriction.

[hiyukikagari]

i am still losing my mind thinking about the seitei war lore drop.

@seventyeight-moose clocked earlier that the timeline of events we got this chapter is likely abridged from a more propagandistic version of the story, and i’m inclined to agree. it seems all too morally convenient that japan’s enemy was an invading force from a magic island, where its inhabitants were intrinsically magical, resilient, and malicious. i’m willing to believe there was an invasion, but less so that it happened unprovoked. i can’t help but wonder if there was some inspiration drawn from japan’s colonial history with the ainu people.

with that in mind, it is FASCINATING that their downfall, the datenseki which created the enchanted blades, came from their own island. is this the origin of sorcery in japan? maybe not from the war itself, but sometime prior? what was kunishige doing to the datenseki that made it bypass the shokoku immunity? how did they retrieve the datenseki in the first place? why is it native only to that island?

hopefully we get some answers sooner rather than later, but who can think about all that when iori is breaking our hearts!!!

i’m kinda glad she passed out when she did because that girl needs to decompress. can you imagine having a blind spot in your memory for 3/4 of your life, conscious of something in your own mind denying you that memory, and then it’s THAT?

hokazono’s paneling really shines around iori this chapter. in particular, the callbacks to both times iori cast judgment towards chihiro (a killer for better or worse), juxtaposed with the dawning realization that she’d be walking in the shadow of her father’s body count for the rest of her life.

it really drives home how all of this, the seitei war, enchanted blades, hishaku, etc. ripples through the lives of the people around them. people like char, or tenri, fuck even sojo suffered because of their proximity to the datenseki and enchanted blades. nobody comes out unscathed, which makes me want so SO desperately to see iori beat those odds somehow.

but of course, that probably won’t happen, and she’ll end up face to face with seiichi and one way or another will change her life irrevocably for a second time.

i miss hakuri. i think he’d be a nice presence for iori right now.

[sasha042]

Chihiro Rokuhira.

[mahgck]

In order to defeat the hishaku and retrieve the enchanted blades you must first find your dads seven parasocial exes

[samuraseiichi]

i know everyone in kgrb likes men but this was funnier in my head

[bokidoumi]

kagurabachi food keychains :o)

[ennaakat]

My wide collection of Kagurabachi text post memes i made in the last 12 hours to prevent myself from having a mental breakdown

[dotted-clouds]

read kagurabachi because it's honestly so good and silly

[genichisojo]

Kagurabachi

[cranbytes]

my beautiful wife and that other guy

[orangejuuuice]

Sojo X Cloud Gouger

[sasha042]

Eye for an eye.

A life for a life

I'll see you in Hell on the other side

[st4zia]

Sojo being normal

[samuraseiichi]

birthday sojo for my friend

[ati-nevershut]

If I had a nickel for every piece of media I was currently consuming in which the "normal guy" protagonist went ham on an antagonist in order to get very personal revenge tied to their family... I would have at least four nickels.

[ennaakat]

A second text post meme compilation has hit the Kagurabachi