OH, Tadashii! Such a flowery way to say “I won’t tell anyone you ain’t dead if ya git outta here and don’t come back!” And, sure, Genchu’s still bleeding and wet and will probably die of hypothermia, but maybe he can walk it off! Just a flesh wound.
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Just finish off Steve Buscemi. If you don’t, he’ll return and blackmail you.
Also, *its
ugh, a typo! I’m blaming Joe for that one. Its your fault, Joe! I mean it’s!
…aaaand plottwist.
We’re MASTER storytellers!
“And with this act of honor I have added a comfy layer of plot armor. Feels good.”
“Wait, don’t honorable ‘villain’ samurai tend to die tragic deaths during the penultimate arch?”
“Maybe, but I’ve still bought myself a few hundred pages of life until then. Later bitches.”
He can always ask for similar treatment later on.
“Er, guys, can you conveniently miss this final strike? I swear I’m turning into… er… a bicycle mechanic?”
“And moving to Portland!”
Oh wow, coming from the future makes this comment seem…
Oh wow, a future I haven’t seen yet! Please, don’t tell! 😉
In fact, this was the very page I was up to when I last paused reading the comic, probs a couple of years back?
!!!
He out!
You can write the comic now. JOE’S FIRED!
Yay! So, when do I get my first paycheck? …What do you mean “indefinite unpaid internship?”
It’ll look great on your resume! You’ll get exposure!
Genchu: “Ummm… that mercy extend to a warm fire? Yes? Maybe? … Aw dammit.”
“Maybe a blankie?”
Since Genchu did NOT just die of a heart attack, he’ll totally be fine. No worries.
He’s got flashback armor! I mean, you know, if this IS a flashback…
Flashback armor makes you invincible in the future!
Ah ha! But the real twist is that this is a flashforward!
!?!?!? Does flashforward armor make you invincible in the past then too?
Nope. Flashforward armor is actually half as weak as regular armor.
They needed extra material to make all that flashback armor invulnerable so they borrowed it from the future figuring future people don’t need it as much. Unfortunately this means that nine times out of ten whenever there’s a flashforward everything’s gone to shit. An obvious error in hindsight.
Aw crap. No wonder I got this flashforward armor so cheap… Ricardo, you bastard!!!
If only armories would take the future into consideration when smelting flashback armor! What lives are we leaving for OUR CHILDREN??
I’m not sure why, but now I’m beginning to think that Tadashii is secretly a necromancer…
A poet necromancer. ^_^
So would that be a necroet or a poecromancer?
Poetmancer, clearly.
Haikumancer sounds even better, but no matter how I look at Tadashii’s words, I can’t fit them into the requirements to qualify as haiku. I’m only sure that “enough” is the cutting word…
I blame the translation to English.
You are a brilliant haikumancer, sir. I’ll go edit that into the script now.
Genchu is ths Black knight. Tis but a scratch!
All my limbs are still attached? Yeah, I’m fine.
Joe? Alex? Does this mean Fujio will get Tadashi’s sword to go with his hat now??
Tadashi’s sword? I think Tadashi will be holding on to that for a while yet.
but he’s walking away from it….
Oh, that’s Genchu’s sword! The one that Ryoushi knocked out of Genchu’s hand. Tadashi must have found it and fake-stabbed Genchu with it.
He’s met Tadashi and he’s still alive
He’s doin’ fishing and he’s still alive
He’s sellin’ weapons and he’s still alive
There’s a war on and he’s still aliveThey’ll go pub crawling while he’s still alive
The world will end and he’ll be still alive
STILL ALIVE!
Is this a Portal reference? Tell me it is!
No, Portal is a reference to Genchu.
Didn’t you know that Lex and Matrix work for Aperture Science?
Aperture Science: “We do what we must, because we can.”
This is a triumph
I’m making a note here:
Huge success
It’s hard to overstate my satisfaction
Wataro-Daisuki
You fought to save the clan
For the good of all of them
Except the ones you behead
But there’s no sense crying over every sword fight
You just keep on swinging with all o your might
And the killing gets done
‘Till the clan falls to the son
For Wataros who are still alive!
I can hear Glados in my head!
I can always hear GLaDOS in my head.
She does seem to have that effect on people.
You monster. 😎
Still want to see good guy ninja. Hattori Hanzu or some such please?
Well, the ninja clan is essentially allied with the Senshin clan now. Does that not yet make them good enough?
No. Cause they will probably betray them if paid enough by an opposing daimyo. These are more the hollywood ninja badguys.
Unfortunately, if you’re looking for a Rikimaru or a Jubei Yagyu to appear with righteousness in his heart and a blade forged of justice, you’ll probably be disappointed. Yori, Masuhiro, and Genchu are our quintessential do-gooders. The ninja clan characters may get some heroic moments in the future, if that’s any appeasement!
Sooner or later, a good guy ninja will appear! Believe it!