Best Taiga since Gunshi Kanbei. Nagashino was really well adapted. Next plotline will be the Tsukiyama incident and introduction of Hidetadaâs mother Oai. I like that everything runs smoothly and I like the characters.
Watched episode 18: They did a good job with Mikatagahara. Abe Hiroshi was excellent as Shingen (he was also great in Yoshitsune as Taira no Tomomori) and I like Maeda Gordon as Shingenâs son Katsuyori.
The characters around Ieyasu are growing on me as well. Matsumoto also grows more and more into his role.
Now Arimura Kasumiâs plotlines will come to an end soon since Senaâs and Ieyasuâs marriage will start falling apart starting from next episode. Really interested how they will depict Sena and her son Nobuyasu during the Tsukiyama incident.
A new big casting announcement will likely also come soon. The new important characters will be: Yuki Hideyasu Hidetada Acha no Tsubone Kuroda Kanbei Sanada Masayuki Ishida Mitsunari Chacha
Hidetada, Mitsunari and Chacha will be the most important new cast members in part 2 thus I am really curious who they cast.
This will likely happen however her and Yooha would be completely underwhelming as a couple in the show then. Just pair the spares most likely in the last episode.
Apparently in the novel: Spoiler warning she is into Yooha right from the start and ends up with him. Yooha also becomes king. Her âfeelingsâ for Kang San in the show are thus completely unneccessary. Would have been more interesting to introduce her as Yoohaâs new fiancee once he becomes a player at court and develop stuff then. Or let Yooha end up temporarily single before a marriage is arranged in the future which we donât see (he gets the throne but not the FL).
As for Yooha and Ban Ya I am annoyed with them right now. I suspect that it will end with Yooha being king and Dan Oh + Kang as well as Shi Yeol + Heung Jo being canon and living their lives. They might push Ban Ya to Yooha but right now I don't care much about either of them.
Will anyone explain me about this drama, what's this all about, action/romance or what?
If you don't mind 'spoilers' I will summarize:
Basic plotline: Daimyo Ieyasu of province Mikawa is often in the frontline during the Warring Staates period (Sengoku Jidai). Had an awful childhood (dead father, became a hostage several times) and later on has many obstacles in his quest for power (Takeda Shingen, Oda Nobunaga, Toyotomi Hideyoshi, Ishida Mitsunari and Azai Chacha).
He participates in many battles: Okehazama, Anegawa, Mikatagahara, Nagashino, Sekigahara and Siege of Osaka (Osaka likely won't be shown) on this show.
He is a bigamist so if you want a monogamous daimyo Ieyasu is far from it. Several concubines will be added throughout the show. Arimura Kasumi's character Sena is his legal wife and in this portrayal Ieyasu's and Sena's relationship is not bad in the beginning but will crumble more and more and end in disaster like always (google Tsukiyama incident).
As for the important children: Nobuyasu - Ieyasu's oldest son with Sena (Arimura). Main kid in part 1 of the series. Yuki Hideyasu - cast not announced yet, Ieyasu's son with Sena's maid Oman. Becomes a warrior. Hidetada - cast not announced yet, Ieyasu's son with concubine Oai (Hirose Alice). Main child of part 2 of the series. Becomes the second Shogun of the Tokugawa Shogunate, thus the child of a concubine wins. Kame - Ieyasu's daughter with Sena (Arimura), becomes important before the Battle of Nagashino.
He also has important and famous retainers like Honda Tadakatsu or Ii Naomasa who have fans.
Ieyasu's end aim: becoming the most famous and most important Shogun Japan ever had founding a shogunate that lasted 200 years.
Itâs good his character didnât flop. It wouldâve been less exciting if they made the 3rd ml to be just a…
I think that he is precisely the comedy character so that you underestimate his fighting skills. This rift regarding his double life also makes his interactions with Hong Ju more interesting.
After episode 13 I have to say that they are really improving this Taiga, itâs quite enjoyable, the really interesting plotlines will come soon, even the wardrobe is improving right now. Next to Kanbei, Kirin and Seiten one of the good ones in the recent years.
Already annoyed that they brought a second damsel in distress female into this. đ We all know where that going…
You mean that Ban Ya character? Yeah it's obvious that she will think of herself as Kang San's 'lover' but he will think nothing special of her but she will still be in the way of the main ship.
There are only two outcomes: If she is evil she will end up alone.
If she is redeemed she will end up with one of the other two heroes.
Lol sageuks only have two types of kings: it is either the benevolent but encumbered by evil ministers one or,…
Itâs always either the puppet king or the tyrant king to make it easy for the main characters. In the first case the evil ministers or evil Queen Mother etc. have to go and in the latter case the tyrant will end up dead. Itâs rarely in between.
Obviously the FL will surely end up with the prince because they met as children (people were chasing him, he…
Either the prince is Kang San and they will end up together which since she knew the prince is more likely now. Or the prince will be Yooha he will offer marriage but she will still choose Kang San.
1) true ML will be ryeoun's character kang san> he is the gruff martial artist guy who wants to protect his family;…
Totally agree.
Ryeonâs Kang San character is the Hak like character (Akatsuki no Yona) or Tamahome (Fushigi Yuugi).
Kang Hoon is the childhood friend who like childhood friends most often do is too late and he will end up with someone else.
The 3ML lead scholar Jung Gun Joo is pretty surely the prince since they are keeping him way too hidden and due to the scene you mentioned. I think the choice the FL has to make in the end is to either marry him once he is one the throne or end up with the main male lead Kang San.
I really liked the show. The ending was fine to me since the FL got the opportunity to breath in the end once everything was done. The main villain Yeon Jin was a terrible person throughout. She was even given several chances to end this by Dong Eun and also her husband by facing her crimes but she refused every single time. She deserved hitting rock bottom. I am also glad that Yeon Jin's daughter stayed with the father who raised her.
RIP Sena and Nobuyasu đ°đđ.
Sena's death scene was similar to Sena's death in Samurai Warriors 5 I think.
Episode 26 will mark the beginning of a soft reboot of the Taiga and the beginning of Ieyasu's constant quest for power.
Next plotline will be the Tsukiyama incident and introduction of Hidetadaâs mother Oai.
I like that everything runs smoothly and I like the characters.
They did a good job with Mikatagahara. Abe Hiroshi was excellent as Shingen (he was also great in Yoshitsune as Taira no Tomomori) and I like Maeda Gordon as Shingenâs son Katsuyori.
The characters around Ieyasu are growing on me as well. Matsumoto also grows more and more into his role.
Now Arimura Kasumiâs plotlines will come to an end soon since Senaâs and Ieyasuâs marriage will start falling apart starting from next episode. Really interested how they will depict Sena and her son Nobuyasu during the Tsukiyama incident.
A new big casting announcement will likely also come soon.
The new important characters will be:
Yuki Hideyasu
Hidetada
Acha no Tsubone
Kuroda Kanbei
Sanada Masayuki
Ishida Mitsunari
Chacha
Hidetada, Mitsunari and Chacha will be the most important new cast members in part 2 thus I am really curious who they cast.
Apparently in the novel:
Spoiler warning
she is into Yooha right from the start and ends up with him. Yooha also becomes king. Her âfeelingsâ for Kang San in the show are thus completely unneccessary. Would have been more interesting to introduce her as Yoohaâs new fiancee once he becomes a player at court and develop stuff then. Or let Yooha end up temporarily single before a marriage is arranged in the future which we donât see (he gets the throne but not the FL).
Basic plotline: Daimyo Ieyasu of province Mikawa is often in the frontline during the Warring Staates period (Sengoku Jidai). Had an awful childhood (dead father, became a hostage several times) and later on has many obstacles in his quest for power (Takeda Shingen, Oda Nobunaga, Toyotomi Hideyoshi, Ishida Mitsunari and Azai Chacha).
He participates in many battles:
Okehazama, Anegawa, Mikatagahara, Nagashino, Sekigahara and Siege of Osaka (Osaka likely won't be shown) on this show.
He is a bigamist so if you want a monogamous daimyo Ieyasu is far from it. Several concubines will be added throughout the show.
Arimura Kasumi's character Sena is his legal wife and in this portrayal Ieyasu's and Sena's relationship is not bad in the beginning but will crumble more and more and end in disaster like always (google Tsukiyama incident).
As for the important children:
Nobuyasu - Ieyasu's oldest son with Sena (Arimura). Main kid in part 1 of the series.
Yuki Hideyasu - cast not announced yet, Ieyasu's son with Sena's maid Oman. Becomes a warrior.
Hidetada - cast not announced yet, Ieyasu's son with concubine Oai (Hirose Alice). Main child of part 2 of the series. Becomes the second Shogun of the Tokugawa Shogunate, thus the child of a concubine wins.
Kame - Ieyasu's daughter with Sena (Arimura), becomes important before the Battle of Nagashino.
He also has important and famous retainers like Honda Tadakatsu or Ii Naomasa who have fans.
Ieyasu's end aim: becoming the most famous and most important Shogun Japan ever had founding a shogunate that lasted 200 years.
There are only two outcomes:
If she is evil she will end up alone.
If she is redeemed she will end up with one of the other two heroes.
Ryeonâs Kang San character is the Hak like character (Akatsuki no Yona) or Tamahome (Fushigi Yuugi).
Kang Hoon is the childhood friend who like childhood friends most often do is too late and he will end up with someone else.
The 3ML lead scholar Jung Gun Joo is pretty surely the prince since they are keeping him way too hidden and due to the scene you mentioned. I think the choice the FL has to make in the end is to either marry him once he is one the throne or end up with the main male lead Kang San.
The main villain Yeon Jin was a terrible person throughout. She was even given several chances to end this by Dong Eun and also her husband by facing her crimes but she refused every single time. She deserved hitting rock bottom.
I am also glad that Yeon Jin's daughter stayed with the father who raised her.