#slbp event

[daeva-agas]

Hi Daeva, since voltage announced the titles of the next two events.. do you have previews on them please?

I can't tell what "Dark Moon Rises" is, the title is too vague. I'm going to assume it might be these two (and if I'm wrong I'm sorry):

And this is the sushi battle:

[maladaptivedaydreamsx]

Mistook the ending of this event by a day and ended up missing or entirely... this has now happened with several events across games in a row and I'm guest convinced I'm destined to miss out on them all for good. Rip in pieces, sanity

[daydream-of-fiction]

Oh my! Looks like our cutie pie, Mitsu, has a fiery expression!

God I hope we get more events with him. I love him!

[samurailoveballadhistory]

These stories are references to various Japanese folklore, though for the life of me I cannot figure out what Kojuro's was.

Nobunaga: Bamboo Cap Jizō

The story tells of an elderly poor couple, who lived in a mountain making bamboo caps. On a winter, near the New Year, the old man took his caps to sell so he can buy food. Some version says it's winter provisions, some says New Year celebratory items. On his way, he sees a row of Jizo statues (Buddha statues usually placed on roadsides) covered in snow. Feeling sorry for them, the old man cleaned off the snow and put all his caps on the statues. He didn't have enough caps for them, and gave the last Jizo his own cap (some version I saw said it was his scarf).

With no more caps to sell, he just went home. Later that night, the couple heard bumping noises outside and opened the door. They saw a pile of food in front of the door, and in the distance they could see little figures in bamboo caps leaving.

Mitsuhide: Momotarō

I think this is the most famous one of them all, and has been referenced in so many other media (anime, games, etc).

Momotarō was a boy who was born of a peach to an old couple. When he was grown, he heard of oni (ogres) terrorising the people and decided to set out to defeat them. His parents didn't like the idea, but eventually relented. The father gave him kibidango (kibi is an unknown grain, usually translated as millet) to eat on his journey.

On the way, Momotarō met a monkey, a dog, and a pheasant who wanted to join him in his journey in exchange for the kibidango. The group then travelled to Onigashima, successfully vanquished all the oni, and returned with all the treasure they found there.

By the way, the common version says that the wife found a giant peach, and Momotarō was inside when she cut it open. However, supposedly the "original"/older version of the story says that what she found was a divine peach. She and her husband ate the peach, became young again, and was able to conceive Momotarō through normal means.

Yukimura: Urashimatarō

Urashimatarō was a fisherman. One day, he found some kids tormenting a turtle and rescued the poor animal, setting the turtle free into the sea. Later, the turtle came back to him, and took Urashimatarō to the underwater Dragon King's palace (Ryūgujō).

There he was welcomed with a banquet and entertainment by the princess named Otohime. After some time, Urashima missed home and wanted to return. The people of the dragon palace tried to tell him not to, but he insisted, so in the end the princess let him go. Before leaving, she gave him a box (tamatebako) and told him never to open in.

When he reached land, Urashima found that hundreds of years has passed. The place is no longer recognisable, and his family and friends had long died. Distraught, he opened the box and he immediately grew older, as old as the hundreds years of age that has passed.

Some version says he just vanished into thin air after.

Saizo: Flower-growing old man

An elderly couple had a dog whom they loved dearly. One day, the dog began digging a hole in the field. The old man dug in the same spot where the dog was digging and found gold. His neighbour got jealous and borrowed the dog in hopes to find gold as well. However, he only got trash and rocks. In rage he killed the dog.

The dog's owner sadly buried his dog and planted a tree to keep the dog's grave safe from the weather. The old man eventually cut it down to make a pounding mortar, but to his surprise, gold would miraculously appear whenever he pounded rice in it. The greedy neighbour borrowed the mortar, and the old man kindly did. Like before, only trash and other gross stuff came out. The neighbour then burned the mortar.

The old man then asked if he could at least have the ashes for keepsake, and the neighbour let him. Then, wind blew the ashes towards a flowering tree, and suddenly flowers started blooming despite it being out of season. The old man scattered the ashes everywhere, making flowers bloom. Then the feudal lord heard about it, and requested the old man to make flowers grow on his favourite tree. The old man threw the ashes on the tree and flowers immediately started blooming.

The lord was happy, and showered the old man with gifts. The neighbour, still greedy, claimed that he could do the same. He started throwing ashes in front of the lord, but the ashes blew away and stung the lord in the eyes. The lord got angry by this and sent the greedy neighbour to prison.

Masamune: Crane Daughter

The more famous variation of this is probably the "Crane Wife" one, but there's actually a version where it's a "daughter".

One day an old man rescued a crane from a trap. Later, a beautiful young woman showed up at his house, seeking shelter. The old man and his wife then took in the girl as their daughter.

To repay their kindness, the daughter told the old couple that she would weave fabric for them to sell, but warned them to never peek into the room when she does so. The fabric the girl wove were exquisite, and they fetched such high price that the old couple quickly became quite well off.

However, whenever the girl finished weaving, she always looked so weak and exhausted. Worrying for their daughter, the old couple looked into the weaving room, and saw a crane pulling out its own feathers to weave.

After finishing the bolt, the daughter confessed to being the crane the old man rescued, but now that they've seen her true form, she could not stay. She turned back into a crane and flew away.

The crane wife story is exactly the same, except the rescuer is a young man who married the crane woman.

[yonezawacastle]

Something I love immensely about Kojuro is this: whether in Masa's stories or his own, he often seems very eager for his lord to produce a child so he can have a hand in raising it.

And I just think that's terribly sweet. Being tasked as a guardian for Masamune at such a young age can't have been easy. And yet still he says: give me another.

[dompubliczn]

are they trying to tell me that inuchiyo would BREAK UP with the LOVE OF HIS LIFE????? that sweet little puppy who waited like half of his life for his beloved darling???? the very same that says stuff like "please don't ever let me find out what it's like to see you with anyone else, let me be the only one to ever have you" and "you're my heart. if i ever lost you, i wouldn't be able to live. and i only live at all for needing you"???? THIS inuchiyo????? nuh uh. what tf is wrong with this event. are devs okay??? should we like.... check on them....

[cryptid-kitsune]

[homoeroticbloodoath]

[shiroichou]

Battle event 'Midnight Pool Party' Team Green chibi talk 1

[annicaax]

saizooo💕💕🌸

[daeva-agas]

Ahh, the green hair looks nice... I have to farm hard for it.

[rs-camroll]

||samurai love ballad party||

Yasumasa •°•

Oof he kiss people all the time it seems 😩🌝🙏🌹

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[missneko-otaku]

AHHHHH- THE LINES!! TOO CUTE BOTH OF THEM !!! (w´ω｀w)<3

ALSO, now I regret not getting Mitsuhide hubby and the others too hahaha *crying painfully inside*｡･ﾟﾟ･(థ Д థ。)･ﾟﾟ･｡ *regretting it so MUCH..*

[samurailoveballadhistory]

The context in SLBP is different, but the whole plot is hilarious when compared to the history.

The Oda in real life knows damn well who Kobayakawa Takakage is. He was the contact person from the Mouri side when the Oda and the Mouri were still friends. Even if maybe it was never made known to the Oda that Takakage is one of Motonari's sons, the Oda side still knows he's someone representing the Mouri clan.

If somehow the Oda side doesn't know Takakage's full name due to the courtesies of the time period (the polite way to address someone by using their surnames or titles or aliases), they should still know that "Kobayakawa" is associated with Mouri.

Takakage and Hideyoshi frequently exchange letters. In fact, transcripts (and/or the actual artefacts) of Hideyoshi's letters addressed to Takakage exist, and you can read them in the Japanese national archives. The responses from Takakage sadly has been lost.

Also, maybe this is a new writer who were never briefed about the other routes, because MC being amazed at this is very strange:

How many times have we seen Hideyoshi just casually clowning around in front of and to Nobunaga's face and nobody cares? Toshiie and old man Shibata were also kind of casual with Nobunaga, even if they won't shove him around like Kageharu does with Takakage.

[yonezawacastle]

Honestly, though, I do wonder how MC and Masamune would have handled an unplanned, premarital pregnancy given his position and the Date clan's seeming tendency towards fractiousness. Would they have simply aborted the pregnancy, or gone forward with it?

[soul-of-the-sanada]