#kochouki

[daeva-agas]

I'm telling ya, this is how Toshiie is like with Hideyoshi in a lot of stories. Pretty sure they're like this in SLBP too. Except in SLBP it's Hideyoshi who was there before Inuchiyo.

Like the ages align too. Hideyoshi is only 2 or 3 years younger than Nobunaga, Toshiie even younger. The MC here is more or less Nobu's age.

I know, I know, notorious trash shipper. I have skewed perspective. Still, yanno.

I am just going to laugh this to the grave. Somebody actually created a Nobu otome and made a Hideyoshi in disguise as the MC.

[vee-neranda]

[eevaleev]

[odaclan]

Moriyama Castle siege, Kochouki anime compared to real life

This was a very little-known incident. The only accessible account that I have for this is in the Shinchoukouki. This was a climactic moment in the anime so I hope this helps anyone who wanted to find the background to this story.

What’s interesting is that, in the account Nobukatsu didn’t only besiege the main castle. He also went on a rampage and torched the villages. Since this was cut out from the anime, I’m going to assume it was removed so as to present Nobukatsu sympathetically. This is something that would have made a lot of people upset.

(Shinchoukouki text taken from the Google Book preview of the official English translation)

Nobunaga was unhappy about it, but he still apparently agreed that the uncle’s household deserved to be punished.

Reminder: Kazusa no Suke is Nobunaga, Kanjuro is Nobukatsu.

Nobunaga was in fact present when Nobukatsu besieged Moriyama. I went to check the Japanese text, and the term “surrounding” was rendered as “cage”. So Nobunaga wasn’t there to protect Moriyama from his brother.

I mentioned it briefly in my Kurando post, but the uncle, Nobutsugu, has long fled the premises after causing Hidetaka’s death. So the castle was only defended by senior vassals. The siege wasn’t described in detail in the Shinchoukouki. 

Afterwards, Nobunaga installed another one of his brothers as the new lord. Which brother was it is a bit confusing, but it was commonly believed to have been Hidetoshi. As a trivia, the text specifically mentioned he shared the same mother as Nobuhiro (this person in the anime):

[petrarose]

I can't believe that some people honestly thinks that Nobunaga's wife is a women

[daeva-agas]

This is really not helping the niggling “the MC is actually Hideyoshi” quack theory that had been bothering me this whole time. Like, it’s probably because Hideyoshi’s story is a convenient explanation that people seems to accept, and Kochouki doesn’t actually have a Hideyoshi, so hijacking the story is actually pretty clever of them. IT’S JUST MAKING ME NERVOUS, THAT’S WHAT.

I dunno if it’s all from one singular source, like Ehon Taikouki, or if it’s a line of narrative cobbled together from multiple Hideyoshi books, but the popular story of Hideyoshi’s employment with the Oda was something like... pretty much how the MC got settled with Nobu in this game. 

Hideyoshi waited for Nobunaga in some road in Owari, jumps out while Nobunaga was riding past, and begged to be hired. Similar-ish cover story too. Ran away from home, had a weird conviction that Nobunaga is a good master to serve and insisted on wanting to be his vassal. Once he got accepted, he gained Nobunaga’s further interest by being a very good stable hand and the horses he handled looked visibly better-cared. It kind of got lumped with the “please hire me” incident in this game, but ye gads, same difference. 

Also according to the app’s teasers, the MC later got into some sort of friendly rivalry with Inuchiyo once he shows up. Well, why do you think Hideyoshi and Toshiie are friends in a lot of Sengoku stories? 

The thing about MC living in a world ruled by the Imagawa is also something of a peripheral similarity. Some versions of the Hideyoshi story had him serve under an Imagawa vassal clan called the Matsushita. Due to conflict in the household, Hideyoshi eventually was fired or just ran away from that house and took up being a wandering peddler.

This accent thing is a famous story associated with Hideyoshi and his wife. I think I mention this story pretty often in my blog but... They usually use the typical formal samurai language, but one time they got into a heated row, and they revert to local Owari dialect and everyone around noticed it. 

I mean the MC is a girl, so of course there’s differences here and there, but wow. The closest thing to Fem!Hideyoshi as an actual otome MC and with Nobubu as the love interest. And it’s not a prank/joke! 

[eevaleev]

Blu-ray vol. 1, 2, 3

[daeva-agas]

SMOL TANOOK

So I think this was an original addition not from the animu. Instead of saying "Oh yeah this was in xx episode" MC just said Takechiyo looks like her brother.

Nobubu and tan00k's non-existent childhood friendship is one of the tropes that I'm not entirely upset about LOL... Makes me roll my eyes a bit sometimes, but depends on how you write it, it's kinda cute sometimes