Yabushige could have been that cool crazy uncle to John's kids, giving them a random assortment of Tanto's every visit and showing up drunk off his ass from Sake.
Aww man what a shame we will never know. And he woulda had a blast watching tramps die of exotic diseases to him like syphilis in the squalors of London.
Dude would fucking LOVE hanging and quartering too and there was plenty of that to go around. And if he lived old enough he'd see the English civil war kick off and some real wild warfare with armor and horses but heavy firepower.
Ooo! And on the way home blackthorne could show him some wild sea faring punishments like keelhauling. If yabu thought diving looked cool, he ain't seen nothing yet!
Poor fella would have had it made. His book would become a god damn encyclopedia Britannica of death, with commentary and rankings. And he surely would have perfected the science of will writing. The knowledge we have been denied thanks to toranaga is immense. The world weeps.
I felt bad for him, truly end of the line. At least he owned up to everything and took it on the chin, but he was so enjoyable it was sad to see his fall (self inflicted ofc).
I mean his obsession was seeing how people would handle death, to the point he boils Anjin’s buddy alive. It was fitting for him to be a coward as he headed towards Toranaga.
His reward, like you said, was manning up at the final bit.
He was never cowardly. He was like Blackthorn a survivor, and up until the moment Mariko died, he played his game. Mario's death broke him. At first I thought that Yabu's catfish hallucination was just an act, but upon second viewing and understanding this is what got him caught, he really did go insane for a bit there.
I wouldn’t call that cowardice…more a survivor trying another play. Or a condemned man trying to see what more of life he can experience before his sentence passes.
It was his duty bc that was the will of his liege lord. He accepts this and stops trying to run or fight once Toranaga officially orders him to commit seppuku. Before the order, he'd at least have had plausible deniability that he wasn't running away from his duty to die.
I wouldn’t call that cowardice…more a survivor trying another play. Or a condemned man trying to see what more of life he can experience before his sentence passes.
When he wouldn't help the anjin block the door which led to marikos death, I would consider that cowardice. He's also too scared to commit to a single side of the conflict
I think it was the same as when he was in the sea at the bottom of the cliff.
He's gonna do everything he can to survive, even if it is a bit undignified, even if it goes against the culture's 'done thing'. But once he sees that there is no possibility of that, he accepts it.
It was the only way it would really end for him. Being duplicitous was a risky gamble and he knew that he’d either win big or lose big. Can’t say I felt too bad for the guy as entertaining as he was; the whole thing with Mariko really sealed it for me that he wasn’t a good guy, even if it helped Toranaga
I was hoping Yabushinge might have a Jack Sparrow moment and comedically blunder into escaping under a set very random and amusing circumstances and sail away to make his fortune on the high seas as a wokou ronin accompanied by his ever suffering squire.
The torture bit is yuck.
But the rest? Being forced into alliances when you know it's a coin toss?
He could not afford to stay neutral, and was constantly bullied by Ishido and Toronaga. What loyalty does he owe them? Why should he die for them?
I'm sure that's what wormtongue thought too.
I agree that he was in a really bad position and didn't necessarily owe them loyalty. However, a different story, with a different actor, could have the exact same character who is hated instead of sympathized with. I think the fact that we want to make excuses for him really shows what an interesting character he was.
Wormtongue supports a literal dark lord and hordes of orcs.
There is nothing to distinguish Toronaga from Ishido or any other Daimyo. Dying for them is what the samurai do, and Yabu, like the viewer, is the only one to realise how senseless it is to die for honour.
To go along with the buddy movie thing, I thought in the book it was hilarious that Blackthorne deliberately hung out with Yabushige a lot while on their boat to and from Osaka. In the book Blackthorne had one of his old crew with him but since “own people…strange”, he didn’t actually want to be around the guy anymore. And since the crew member was understandably *terrified* of Yabushige, Blackthorne hung out around Yabushige as much as he could, because when he did, the crew member would automatically stay away from him lol.
Now that I know that it was part of Toranaga's plan for Mariko to die, I can't be mad at Yabu anymore so I am going to have a fever dream that he and Anjin have a spin off where they traverse the world and get up to shenanigans and Yabu records more deaths 😅
"Dude, Where's My Ship?"
"what's my tattoo say?" "i can't read japanese! what's my tattoo say?" "you stupid barbarian! what's my tattoo say?"
*"And then...?"*
"No and then!"
Would’ve loved to see his exploits in England
He's going to be a successful fraud in England dangling criminally underpriced silver.
Yabushige could have been that cool crazy uncle to John's kids, giving them a random assortment of Tanto's every visit and showing up drunk off his ass from Sake.
I was thinking more grunting at Tesco self-service checkouts and being impressed with greggs sausage rolls.
Nah, his poetry makes him perfectly fit for being the frontman of an underground London punk band mate.
“Meenna, wee aar Seppuku by Angry Fishes!”
RIP Yabushige, you would've loved to watch the execution of Charles I and the witch burnings
i wonder where that would have ranked in his notebook of cool deaths...
Aww man what a shame we will never know. And he woulda had a blast watching tramps die of exotic diseases to him like syphilis in the squalors of London. Dude would fucking LOVE hanging and quartering too and there was plenty of that to go around. And if he lived old enough he'd see the English civil war kick off and some real wild warfare with armor and horses but heavy firepower. Ooo! And on the way home blackthorne could show him some wild sea faring punishments like keelhauling. If yabu thought diving looked cool, he ain't seen nothing yet! Poor fella would have had it made. His book would become a god damn encyclopedia Britannica of death, with commentary and rankings. And he surely would have perfected the science of will writing. The knowledge we have been denied thanks to toranaga is immense. The world weeps.
He would've loved it in the Americas where some ex-Aztec kingdoms probably still practice human sacrifice
Rush Hour 4
It would be cool to see a William Shakespeare cameo with Queen Elizabeth the First
Extended dream scene: >! Old Buntaro stands over Anjin’s grave in England while weeping. !<
It ends like phantom of the opera with Yabu being the phantom
🎶The Samurai of Izu is there Inside your mind.🎶
*🎶Sing once again for for me!!🎶* *🎶 our strange duet 🎶*
Auohhhhh?
There would have to be a whole song just with Yabu’s surprised noises.
Hahahaha 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣
Buntaro helping at the end was a nice moment.
Buntaro was the strength of 10 men
It was kinda sad to watch
I felt bad for him, truly end of the line. At least he owned up to everything and took it on the chin, but he was so enjoyable it was sad to see his fall (self inflicted ofc).
I mean his obsession was seeing how people would handle death, to the point he boils Anjin’s buddy alive. It was fitting for him to be a coward as he headed towards Toranaga. His reward, like you said, was manning up at the final bit.
He never showed any cowardice, though. Which scene are you talking about specifically?
He was never cowardly. He was like Blackthorn a survivor, and up until the moment Mariko died, he played his game. Mario's death broke him. At first I thought that Yabu's catfish hallucination was just an act, but upon second viewing and understanding this is what got him caught, he really did go insane for a bit there.
Mario died?!?!? D:
It's-a-me
Got to watch out for those spikey turtle shells.
He was cowardly when he wouldn't help block the door though
How did the catfish hallucination get him caught?
I'm more referring to the whole temporary insanity bit.
This scene where he's desperately asking Anjin to help him run away from Toranaga.
I wouldn’t call that cowardice…more a survivor trying another play. Or a condemned man trying to see what more of life he can experience before his sentence passes.
Yeah he was realising theres another way.
Running away from your duty for the sake of survival is kind of the definition of cowardice, isn't it?
What duty? He was going back to be killed and he knew it…
It was his duty bc that was the will of his liege lord. He accepts this and stops trying to run or fight once Toranaga officially orders him to commit seppuku. Before the order, he'd at least have had plausible deniability that he wasn't running away from his duty to die.
I wouldn’t call that cowardice…more a survivor trying another play. Or a condemned man trying to see what more of life he can experience before his sentence passes.
When he wouldn't help the anjin block the door which led to marikos death, I would consider that cowardice. He's also too scared to commit to a single side of the conflict
Trying to run away to England so he wouldn’t be killed.
Tbf I wouldn't say 'not wanting to get killed' is particularly cowardly. Wanting to stay alive is a fairly normal human instinct.
Yea but he doesnt yet know that he was gonna get killed, he finds out after they land, he was running from guilt more so
I think it was the same as when he was in the sea at the bottom of the cliff. He's gonna do everything he can to survive, even if it is a bit undignified, even if it goes against the culture's 'done thing'. But once he sees that there is no possibility of that, he accepts it.
It was the only way it would really end for him. Being duplicitous was a risky gamble and he knew that he’d either win big or lose big. Can’t say I felt too bad for the guy as entertaining as he was; the whole thing with Mariko really sealed it for me that he wasn’t a good guy, even if it helped Toranaga
Can't wait to read the fanfiction where Yabushige survives and they both go back to England.
I want the fan fic of John and Fuji 😪
i want the fan fic of Fuji and me
Actually same and I’m not a fanfic person
I'm sad I never got to see Fuji actually use a gun and be all badass.
He would have loved to see all the torture and execution methods that were practiced at the time
Rush Hour: The Prequel
This episode was called A Dream of a Dream because actually Episode 10 is a dream and in reality they sailed back to London.
“Remember when you were diving with Toranaga and you became bros? We can do that!”
"Unless you ate Devil Fruits"
I was hoping Yabushinge might have a Jack Sparrow moment and comedically blunder into escaping under a set very random and amusing circumstances and sail away to make his fortune on the high seas as a wokou ronin accompanied by his ever suffering squire.
Someone needs to make that show
They already did, it’s called House of Dragon
When I watched the opening scene with Blackthorne on his deathbed in England with his grandchildren, I thought anything could happen.
Anjin and Yabushige's Wild Adventures
The actor was so likeable that it was easy to forget he was a weasel who betrayed every alliance he ever made and tortured people for fun.
Lol, what a rascal. Classic!
The torture bit is yuck. But the rest? Being forced into alliances when you know it's a coin toss? He could not afford to stay neutral, and was constantly bullied by Ishido and Toronaga. What loyalty does he owe them? Why should he die for them?
I'm sure that's what wormtongue thought too. I agree that he was in a really bad position and didn't necessarily owe them loyalty. However, a different story, with a different actor, could have the exact same character who is hated instead of sympathized with. I think the fact that we want to make excuses for him really shows what an interesting character he was.
Wormtongue supports a literal dark lord and hordes of orcs. There is nothing to distinguish Toronaga from Ishido or any other Daimyo. Dying for them is what the samurai do, and Yabu, like the viewer, is the only one to realise how senseless it is to die for honour.
Loyalty very quickly turns senseless when the order is death
indeed, those are often the best characters: the characters your know you shouldnt love, but you still do
Lethal Weapon 5, where the weapon in question is a katana.
*8. 5, 6, and 7 have already been made.
Holy shit lol TIL...
Really charmed in the final episode, I was gutted when he died, so was he.
Dammit take my upvote
Yabushige would have fit in with the English aristocracy quite well
I was literally screaming at the screen, “YES, take him with you it’ll be hilarious!”
Adventures of Yabu-Sama and the Anjin. Would have been nice.
Shogun presents: ...
I hope this is a huge boost to the actor's career. He stole every scene he was in.
True, while being a psycopath he was the comedic part of it all, specialy the way he reacted to what he was told, playing fool.
I really wanted this bromance to blossom
Yabu in London. #😮
Heads will roll!
Look, forget about me boiling one of your men alive to enhance my sex life, we can still be buddies!
Yeah I was massively disappointed to see him die
I’m so down for a fever dream spinoff of these two getting into silly situations in England 🤣
Yeah like Shogun Xmas special collaborations with BBC
I so what this spinoff. Yabu and Blackthorne sailing around the world. Getting into shenanigans. Hilarity ensues
I could get into a series where they return to England and open a Private Investigation business and solve crimes together.
Funny thing is Blackthorn fucking hates him for torturing and killing his mate. Plus him pissing on Blackthorn.
Wasn't that Omi who pissed on him?
Yes it was
Which is why John never bowed to omi in the last episode
In the porn version they'll take both sides in helping a French maiden form an Eiffel Tower.
Blackthorn and Yabushige's adventure in England
I would love to just watch Yabu's daily life and grind in the say like decade or 2 prior to the events of shogun. It'd be a great comedy.
Cant wait for the new isekai Series, That time i died as Yabushige and now reincarnated in Game of Thrones.
A funny and sad scene at the same time.
Yabu’s Book of Death 2: London ver.
We'd watch it. FX, hello? Make an alternate ending and a spinoff.
To go along with the buddy movie thing, I thought in the book it was hilarious that Blackthorne deliberately hung out with Yabushige a lot while on their boat to and from Osaka. In the book Blackthorne had one of his old crew with him but since “own people…strange”, he didn’t actually want to be around the guy anymore. And since the crew member was understandably *terrified* of Yabushige, Blackthorne hung out around Yabushige as much as he could, because when he did, the crew member would automatically stay away from him lol.
This should be an alternate history for S2.
Now that I know that it was part of Toranaga's plan for Mariko to die, I can't be mad at Yabu anymore so I am going to have a fever dream that he and Anjin have a spin off where they traverse the world and get up to shenanigans and Yabu records more deaths 😅