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Also recently released as a series on Hulu. Pretty faithful to the book from what I've seen so far.

• kaesar14 3y ago
  I’ve felt like it’s deviated quite a bit, but it’s well made nonetheless
  • cm2012 3y ago
    The new show has been made more accurate to the time period, they had historical experts come in. Plus the guy who plays Toranaga is an amateur historian of the time period and helped a lot.
    • mangamadaiyan 3y ago
      Sanada Hiroyuki? That's just brilliant! I knew he was fairly well-accomplished (singer, martial artist, theatre, and film), but had no idea that he was an amateur historian too.
    • Karrot_Kream 3y ago
      Yeah and it shows. The original book was pretty fast and loose with Japanese history but the show seems to have translated the Warring States period customs a lot better.
    • kaesar14 3y ago
      That's all well and good but I'd have preferred they keep some of the story points from the book like the emphasis on Blackthorn learning Japanese, and the theming overall of the book being how Blackthorn perceives the Japanese vs what it is now where it's more of how the Japanese perceive Blackthorn. Still a good show.