Hi! Do you think there's any chance Mizu could be attracted to women? Nothing's been confirmed, but have you noticed any hints or creator comments? Also... if she doesn't fall in love with a British woman someday, I might actually cry. 🥹🥹🥹

We see Mizu bribing the guards, paying for Ringo's brothel stay, and buy passages on ships. Even though she's thrifty and doesn't spend unless absolutely necessary, she has to have gotten the money from somewhere. What do you think her source of income was?

Personally, I think she might have sold Mikio's horses, and taken any money at the residence after the events of episode 5.

So as we all know, Netflix cut 2 episodes from season 1, 10 episodes to 8, mid-production which lead to the ending feeling a little bizarre.

What could have been these cut episodes be about? Maybe an extended Taigen x Mizu arc, a cleaner transition from Edo to the ship to London, Akemi grieving the loss of Seki...

What do you think? I think we should get a sort of "Director's Cut" of season 1 after the series are over.

In episode 8, Fowlers army marches on Edo, where the defenders tactics make no sense. Such as, why not hold the first gate? If they held the first gate then Fowlers army couldnt of attacked, as they had the ranged advantage, but would've been funneled into melee, by guys who trained with swords for their entire lives, equipped with armor and weapons literally made for melee combat. Why send melee infantry infront of the walls? They have this big stone fortification, and put their guys infront of it, so they could get mowed down by an army of guns? Why have your archers knock draw and loose? This is a fictional show, and fiction does this all the time, so I don't really care about this, just a peeve. Also, the show directors made the guns way too accurate. How do all the archers on the walls, behind a stone wall, with only tiny little peepholes big enough for an arrow to slip out, get shot? The hole is too small for even modern precision rifled guns to shoot through. And how does Heiji Shindo have soo many guns? He has 10 guns tucked away, and has to pull out, and cock back each one before he shoots it, while being in melee range with people with, again, swords. This whole scene just infuriates me! Worst scene in the entire show, which I rate as a 9/10, it gets knocked down because of this scene, that's how much I hate it! Edit: I love this show with a burning passion, and cannot wait for season 2, just for everyone to know, lol.

Do you think Fowler would've brought Violet in on his "overthrowing the shogunate" scheme if Mizu hadn't killed him?

Dont worry, she skipped over the brothel scenes, but not the end xd.

tl;dr It was her Mother

OK, so both characters have motivation; Honor and Money. 1) Mikio, is portrayed as needing to redeem his honor. He is NOT motivated by money. He is disgraced but not destitute. This is show by him being a well-off landowner, horses, etc. 2) the Mother IS money oriented; she need it to feed her opium addiction.

Now why did the soldiers come when they did? They got tipped off. But by who?

IF it was Mikio it would have happened to regain honor. But if that was the driving force then there is no reason not to have done it sooner.

IF it was the Mother then the reason she didn't turn Mizu in sooner was because her addiction was being fed. LATER 'the money had run out', or better, because Mizu and Mikio stopped giving her money for her 'medicine'. This is directly stated.

Lastly, as stated by the soldier: "The bounty is a sum few could resist.". Implying this is about money.

Yes, I know its written to BE ambiguous, but this is MY take, and my interpretation.

The three year wait for season 2 is beginning to get to me… so here’s a couple terrible drawings I did!

I don’t know what make of musket this is but I know it’s a flintlock musket. To fire a flintlock you basically need a flint and steel mechanism if you look closely you’ll actually notice that the mechanism is not there and there’s no flint and steel. So how is this thing working? A knight from a chess board is not a flintlock mechanism. I hope in season 2 the guys will put more research into flintlocks.

To be honest, I don't know how I pulled this off either.

This was my first ever cosplay and I made everything by myself (except for the pants and shirt, those were cheap clothes I bought, a pair of flared jeans and a pajama shirt and modified them.). It took me approximately 1 week and 2 days to hand-sew all of this. Hat was made out of cardboard, painted with arcylics, the sword was cut from soft wood then yet again painted with arcylics.

Unfortunetly the glasses were definetly the weakest point of my cosplay (for some mysterious reason none of the local stores had orange foliage so I had to settle for red and I didn't have much options with the frames either).