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Message: <blockquote data-quote="jian" data-source="post: 9861261" data-attributes="member: 78087">I don't think it's obviously a fantasy piece, so far - the closest thing is the thunderbolt iron, and well, thunderbolt iron is a real thing, and probably much better iron than you could get in Japan in those days.Blue Eye Samurai isn't clear about the exact date but it implies it's soon after the onset of the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sakoku" target="_blank">sakoku </a>(closed country) edict in the Edo period, so probably about 1640, or about 3-4 decades after Usagi. The initial blurb says Japan was closed to all foreigners, which would have been quite a surprise to all the Chinese and Korean traders moving goods through Nagasaki at that point. The sakoku only really applied to Westerners, but then that's all that BES cares about, it's very much written from a white American viewpoint. This is disappointing because one of the writers (Amber Noizumi) is half-Japanese.The first niggles that annoyed me were:1) You don't carry a flintlock pistol like that muzzle down, the bullet (and probably the powder) will fall out, even if you wadded it. It's not a Glock*. Also, where are you carrying it inside your kimono jacket, have you invented the shoulder holster? TBF he never fires it, maybe it wasn't loaded at all, it's just for show.*I noticed the Glock thing in the plot summary for Hijack, by the way, and was horrified at the idea that someone might still be buying into the Glock myth from Die Hard 2, but it turns out not.2) It's very unlikely that a sword school, however prestigious, would have a mon (the circular emblem on their kimono and gate) in this period, since mon were very much for daimyo families at this point. It's certainly true that later - 18th century onwards - other organisations and businesses adopted mon because of the general weakening of the feudal order, but it's pretty unlikely at this period.Also, all the mixed messages about brothels are kind of gross and put me off.I think the Usagi series pitch became the 2022 teen <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Samurai_Rabbit:_The_Usagi_Chronicles" target="_blank">Usagi</a> science fantasy series I mentioned, which is fine.</blockquote>

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