Oh, THERE’S Tadashii! Well, mystery solved, I guess! And he was even kind enough to retrieve Genchu’s sword. Nice guy. The sound effect’s a little ominous, though.
If you’re in the Central Ohio area this weekend, you should check out Matsuricon!
Matsuricon is kind of like NN4B’s home convention – we’ve been there every year since it started in 2006! We’ll be hosting panels, selling exclusive convention swag, and signing stuff. Matsuricon is also your best opportunity to get a coveted NN4B custom sketch card by Alex!
Swing by our panels or table and say hi!
Panel schedule (Subject to change)
The scenery is so beautiful! Well… except for that corpse. Way to spoil the view, dead Ryoushi!
Ryoushi is just sleeping with his eyes open
A difficult trick to master! He slept through so many highschool lectures.
He’s pining for the fjords . . . oh wait, they appear to be in a fjord.
Pining for the fjords? What kind of talk is that?? This demon of sorrow has cease to be! It’s passed on! Joined the choir invisible! This is an ex-demon of sorrow
All right, all right, I can replace him with this slug.
“Does it swordfight?”
“No”
“Well then it’s not much of a replacement, is it?”
Dead Ryoushi is just so inconsiderate, isn’t he?
More or less so than living Ryoushi?
Naw, just different. He’s a lot more “passive” aggressive for one thing.
Tadashi: “TADA!”
Genchu: “SHI-!”
EGON!
You know a villain’s a badass if he shows up with his own soundtrack.
you think Tadashii likes dubstep or techno house music?
Tadashi is most definitely into Wagner.
I’m gonna just leave this here…
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=epnKO1NEzto
Damn I loves me some Wagner. Nice link!
Thanks. I thought it a bit more appropriate than that clichéd old war-horse “The Ride of the Valkyries”.
I think Yori’s super into dubstep. WUB WUB. Ken’s into metal, Cho’s into jazz, and Ina’s into pop. Wait, is that too cliche?
Yeah, I picture Ken being more into classic music such as Gagaku or Bugaku, much like his contrasting love for Kabuki plays, although he likely would tend towards the more tragic songs and dance.
Yori’s into power ballads.
I’m now imagining “DOOM” being the first horn blast of Inception’s main theme.
That’s more like HRROOOONNNGK.
I agree with That Guy With The Glasses, kind of a BWOWM!
Does DOOM constitute as a soundtrack? It’s more like a timpani roll or some such. Not exactly the Imperial March!
Genchu: Jokes on you Tadashii!!! I’m going die of hypothermia in less 10 mi-!
Maybe Tadashii will embrace him in a warm manly hug and prevent such tragedy!
Nnfb anime highschool tv show would be a hit!!
That is the sound effect of hope! Genchu will live.
How…counter intuitive.
Tadashi likes to keep people on their toes that way.
Tadashii: “You ruined my tea time.”
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I’m sorry I can’t come to Matsuricon. Central Ohio is a little out of the way for this Californian.
Genchu: Like a good neighbor, State Farm is there! (Ryoushi magically reanimates and they’re all transported to the Bahamas)
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We’ll be pretty disappointed if you’re not there, but the show must go on!
Outside the dawn is breaking,
on the stage that holds our final destiny?
Yeah, Ohio is just too Hfar away from here.
Who is Tadashi again?
One of the original four Demons of Sorrow, who values his oath of loyalty to his daimyo above all else. Yorikiro was off training with him when Genchu tried to assassinate Hirotomo to save the Daisuke clan (shortly before the current flashback). He may very well be the next Demon that will attack Yori. See the Characters page under the “About” tab at the top of the screen for more. (The portraits are alphabetical; he’s near the bottom just after Suzuka. Get some names under those, Joe & Alex!)
So why doesnt he have some stupid costume then?
If you’re enough of a bad-ass you don’t need a stupid costume.
Ken, Cho, the Wu-Tang monk bros, Yori when he’s not pathetic, Yori’s dad, all good examples.
It’s the wanna-be types that go with the silly costumes. I guess they figure that’s the first step in convincing themselves that they’re, “really a bad-ass fighter.”
You know, the whole thing where their life-coach has them get up in front of a mirror each morning and repeat aloud, “Only a real bad-ass (samurai, ninja, pirate, cupcake, etc) could look this bad. Who’s bad? That right, I’M bad!”
Hey, man, when you’re a celebrity, you have an IMAGE to preserve.
The Demons of Sorrow don’t have stupid costumes, that’s their casual wear! Going to the market? Gotta put on my blood red armor! Going to the gym? Need to don my green eye patch.
You’re right! I’m gonna bug Joe about names.
Luckily for Genchu, Tadashii seems like the honorable type: he’s not gonna finish off a half-dead opponent, even if it’s someone he’s been ordered to kill, he’ll give him his sword back and give him a chance to live and recover so that they can have a proper duel later.