The duel begins.

I really liked that scene. It gave a really cool sense of speed...and it reminded me of anime for some reason.... Maybe the speed blurred background.
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kitakaze wrote:

I really liked that scene. It gave a really cool sense of speed...and it reminded me of anime for some reason.... Maybe the speed blurred background.

Heh, everyone seems to have liked that scene... The snow blowing past as he ran alongside that temple walkway... Great movement.

Yoshioka Denshichiro is beaten.

Musashi faces up to Yoshino.

Introspection.

I wonder if Musashi cracking Denshichiro on the head like that sounded like a baseball hitting a bat?
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Probably similar, except the head has a skull and a baseball does not. Maybe like with a sound like

kitakaze wrote:

I wonder if Musashi cracking Denshichiro on the head like that sounded like a baseball hitting a bat?

I doubt it.

He doesn't have to swing that wooden katana very hard to achieve the result he wants...

And a person's head doesn't have the same elastomeric qualities of a baseball.

Oko tries to recruit Koto.

*hisses at Oko*

Toji schemes.

Toji's endgame.

Toji finds Kojiro uncooperative.