I can't really do voice chat.. but I can listen in and text respond if that will be ok?

CNN "debates"

people shouting at each other and not listening

you'd have loved samurai politics then. there were actual feuds over "but I'm a better poet than he is!"

I could do with a little less death. And writing poetry in one's own blood.

it's like equal parts metal and problematique? and night~

Nope

That'd have been nice yes. But no, I just accidently ended up specializing in japanese history when getting a bachelors in history.

accidently because... I wanted to do england, but like I really didn't like the prof who did those classes so I ended up with east asia (and mostly japan) to avoid her 😅

Miyamoto Musashi..?

He was likely a person but his deeds seem pretty greatly exaggerated in lore.

Haven't read the book. But I've checked a couple other books that were fictitious accounts of samurai.. and tbh often they're less accurate than like the Koei version. Like James Clavell's Shogun..? basicccallllyyyy Garbage.

Ryoma ga Yuku is .. slightly better? but it's also very.. _haha how quirky and weird can we make this guy_

sadly I'm more sympathetic to Kojiro. 😛