A Scene from Katanagatari Episode 3

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My apologies Jason, I started writing this post before I read your Katanagatari 2 post and realized you’re covering this series in-depth :P.

The first two episodes of Katanagatari certainly grabbed my interest. Nisio Isin set up a straight forward premise and a couple of developing characters and relationships. What I really loved is how much room he gave for his story and how much history he seemed to have developed around the deviant blades. The dialogues might have been noticeably long for an anime, but I’ve always been a Tarantino fan so good dialogues are almost always something I look for.

The length of the episodes has also been pretty good. The series doesn’t rely on cliffhangers and instead tries to encapsulate the entirety of a sword’s story in a single episode. That’s really quite the feat. They introduce, make you care, and kill off a character in one episode. Sure our two heroes remain the same, but the swordsman of the month never seems to be a completely stock character. Nisio uses characters that seem like they should be a fleshed out stereotype, but for some reason they never quite are. In episode 2 the leader of a country refused to leave his land. The pride and stubbornness wasn’t entirely new, but try as hard as I might I can’t quite pin a group of characters on him.

With Meisai Tsuruga too Nisio created a character that was just interesting. She was the reformed villain who took care of the abused women. She did it by giving them the confidence of power. I was reminded of Lady Eboshi (from princess Mononoke), but Meisai didn’t quite display the hard headed stubbornness. She was wise and paradoxical, but she also understood herself. Jumping ahead to my favorite part (and the reason for writing this post): What were you thinking right here:

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This was amazing! I watched this scene and just about did a back flip. There was absolutely no remorse from Shichika. I had caught wiffs of it before, but this was the point at which I realized one of the things this episode was trying to say. Shichika isn’t the one killing these people, Togame is (and she realized it for the first time too I think). Shichika compares himself to a sword many times, specifically Togame’s sword. He shows no remorse because he is simply a tool being wielded by the one holding the strings. I applaud the brilliance of Nisio because it’s such a common phenomenon rarely used in these circumstances. How many times have I said something like “Well it’s not my fault if this fails because it was so and so’s idea”? I’ve completely lost count. It’s putting the responsibility onto someone else and justifying your actions as being without fault. You have no choice in the matter. It’s more than just people too. For instance we often try to blame people getting shot as the proliferation of guns. This spawned the interesting witticism “Guns don’t kill people, people do,” and the somewhat more extreme witticism “Guns don’t kill people, I do” which is printed on a T-Shirt my step father owns :P. The point being that a gun might purchase cheap pharm be a tool of murder, but a tool is useless without the tool wielder. They cannot kill without the person willing to pull their trigger. The truth of the matter is folks, that it isn’t that hard to kill someone if you really want to do it. Maybe some of you have meditated on this, but human beings are really fragile and making an enemy willing to go to any length to ruin your life (with no fear for their own) is about the stupidest thing you could ever do (DON’T MAKE ENEMIES). Guns and swords get a bad rap because they were designed with no other intention and I am getting way buy acomplia off topic. Why am I preaching!?!

Back to this great scene. Togame seems to realize that Shichika is just a tool for killing. His mild nature and pretty exterior might have thrown her off, but you shouldn’t be fooling around with nuclear bombs. Perhaps she also realized for the first time how selfish her dream is. To collect the swords she’s effectively destroying the situation of a thousand shrine maidens and killing the one person able to protect them. In one instant a wall forms between Togame and Shichika as she suddenly wants to distance herself from the reality of the situation. My guess is that she’ll do the same thing as him, by shoving the responsibility for actually killing Mesai onto him. This is equivalent to shooting someone (who dies) but putting it on the gun for misfiring: or saying “I wouldn’t have done it if I hadn’t had the gun”. It’s different though because in this case she is probably imagining Shichika with free will (something very hard to do with an actual gun). She’s resolute and willing to do anything for her task, and she may think she’s ready to carry the whole thing herself, but she will begin to resent Shichika I think. At least that’s how I would write it (as I do believe that’s how people react). Nisio was able to say all of this in one scene and a few words. I find that ironic coming from the person known for his incredibly long dialogues. (Was that correct way to use irony? I’m not really sure…)

Other than that I don’t really have much else to point out. You all watched the episode and saw the brilliant development of the plot and the characters. I, on the other hand, thought this scene was so good that it couldn’t go unmentioned as I’m sure the implications will resurface again. The snowball at the top of the hill has begun to roll.

Ok one snarky comment: Anyone else notice how convenient rain is in anime? I don’t know why, but I either start laughing really hard online drugstore or get mildly angry whenever something bad happens and it immediately starts to rain.

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