Just like an aromatic history
Just like a dramatic textbook
This is no good, I just can't dance these days
Will you do it or will you be done in? Only destiny can tell
I'll oppose it, I'll sing of it, and I'll run
I don't care about the damage done
I'm just having fun
Fulfillment, ideals, reality
I'll go and take them by the hand Quickly and vigorously
Say Plan A, you got no doubts, it's sunny all about
You had my back, so here's our runway
Say Plan A, you got no doubts, you're alive
They'll laugh, it'll be sad, but you'll be all good
Plan A
Running away is victory
Plan A
Run away to victory
(The Elusive Samurai)
(Final Episode)
The future of your survival as I see it...
is not absolute.
If you neglect the efforts to live, of course you will die.
However...
The experience you will gain from war is immeasurable.
Please be safe...
Lord Tokiyuki.
Get the women and children away first!
If we can escape to the defensive fence,
(Hoshina Territory (North) - Hoshina Army) we can hold off the enemy hordes there!
(Provincial Official Army -) we can hold off the enemy hordes there!
(Hoshina Territory (South))
We're turning back!
We'll hold off the enemy behind us as one!
Hey, everyone!
The foolish Hoshina retainers are turning back!
This is the official's order!
Kill all the men!
Split the women, children, and treasures even!
(Nanbokucho's Game of Tag, Army of Cutthroat Demons of Provincial Official's Adjutant)
(Looks Like This)
According to Shizuku, this Yonemaru Wada
is the one leading the army.
(A Few Moments Before) is the one leading the army.
(Within Hoshina Retainer's Camp)
If we can take him out, (Within Hoshina Retainer's Camp)
the official's army will be weakened.
Take him out?
It's the opposite, Kojiro.
We'll use him first to weaken the army.
Hey, you people will follow me from behind now!
Go climb the mountains!
Huh?
We're not going after Hoshina retainers with all of us?
Idiots! If we go through the mountains, we can go around them!
We could kill them all in a pincer attack!
If you're not coming, I'll kill you all!
Hoo-ah!
This retreat is a battle on level ground.
The Hoshina retainers, unable to use strategies
such as ambush and outnumbered, is genuinely at a disadvantage.
If this is the case, we want to disperse the number of enemies somehow.
So we'll use that thing he's good at.
Don't fall behind Lord Yonemaru!
Keep climbing!
What?
Lord Yonemaru, this is...
Hey...
Lord Yonemaru, your orders!
Lord Yonemaru!
Hey...
Who am I?
Who are you, prick?
I see...
You remembered what he looked like yesterday and disguised as him.
The messenger's retainers are something else.
I get it now...
The Suwa Sect of Kawanakajima is the cream of the crop, eh!
What do you think, Messenger?
We're strong when we're prepared to die,
but we're also strong when prepared to live!
Still...
It'll be difficult to withdraw for life.
Once the women and children have fled to safety,
we too must flee, overcoming the enemy.
By the way, where's the lively boy?
I leave him to make his own judgment.
I'm sure he'll be of help to you all.
Gotta hit them once and flee.
I'm not fit to fight adults in a proper battle right now.
I use my small size to escape to higher ground,
and look for allies who need help.
I strike an effective blow and retreat to higher ground again!
As I repeated the process, I could see it.
The overall shape of the battlefield, where to take action now.
I need the Hoshina retainers' help.
I'm going to need four or five men.
Hey, old man! Come with me!
I'm talking to you, the one with saturated lines for a face!
The one with saturated lines for a face?
You can't just reset your face now! I'm confused here!
You should come with me too, the wholly square old man!
Wholly square?
That's not me, then.
Stop getting rounder now! I can't compare you to anything!
What about me? Compare me to something!
Who cares? You must be some kind of monster!
Anyway, come!
There are enemies moving along the riverbanks
and targeting the women and children in the back.
(Official Army, Hoshina Army, Women, Children) We'll stick together and cut into their flanks!
Let us through!
That's more like it, bald guy!
I'm not bald! Take a closer look!
The back of my head is growing but I have it shaved!
Man, you guys are a pain in the butt!
It's my fault for not remembering the names of my allies.
Next time, I'll go greet each one of them at dinner.
Fubuki!
What are you doing here?
You should be up far!
Fubuki!
Fubuki, hang in there!
You okay? Hey!
I'm so hungry... I have no energy.
Look at this big plonker!
Man, we're exhausting most of our fuels here for your brains!
Here, have some more yeast buns!
All right, I'm fully recharged!
Then go back to your post.
I'm begging you.
Your strategies are crucial to the Elusive Warriors.
Anyone can come up with one if they learn how to do it.
Running around the battlefield, fighting with devotion,
willingly mingling with and caring for his allies.
Such a general can be the key.
Kojiro.
You are the excellent adjutant general to the Elusive Warriors.
Getting praised by the embodiment of talent...
doesn't make me happy at all.
The square-and-round guy,
and the almost-bald-but-actually- barely-having-cut-hair guy!
Hey!
You're ruining my split-up strategy...
You better make up for it with death.
So you're one of the Suwa Grand Shrine's kids?
A flea's head is nothing to brag about.
Shut up, fatso.
I'm going to disperse your stinky fat into the Chikumagawa River!
Time to battle!
The maximum speed of a native Japanese horse is about 40 kilometers per hour.
It is almost the same as the maximum speed of a professional boxer's punch
In other words...
All it takes is to get on a horse, hold up a sword and charge,
and a ridiculously large blade with the speed of a jab comes flying.
You... can't be serious...
Well!
What happened?
You talk big, but you're just as small as your body, eh!
With his arm strength...
and his weight...
and relative velocity...
I can't face him head-on!
Kojiro! Enough!
You don't stand a chance in a cavalry battle head-on!
Get out of here or you'll die!
It'll be over if I'm out of here, old men.
He's the only cavalryman in the place.
Infantry is at a complete disadvantage to cavalry in speed and strength.
That's why he put down the two cavalrymen first.
If I fall down as well,
the fatso will start his murder spree!
You're getting weaker every time we cross.
You won't have the muscle strength left to block the next blow.
Hey!
Kojiro!
Forget about me!
Take care of the remaining enemies, quick!
By the way, how do you guys know my name?
Oh...
The messenger had been calling your name a lot yesterday.
Kojiro!
Nice going, Kojiro! Don't die, okay?
Look at him! That's my retainer, Kojiro!
The one working hard there is my friend, Kojiro!
Man, I'm embarrassed...
But...
Kojiro!
To not put my lord to shame...
I must...
at least strike him once!
No way!
How could he dodge me in such a position?
Damn it...
How insolent of you!
You'll pay high for this scar!
A general who leads an army is really a different breed.
Him being so noisy...
is also probably what makes him a majestic general.
I guess I should learn from him...
This is bad...
I'm losing strength...
Hey, kid.
Don't get tired just yet.
I can't let you die in peace now.
I'll cut your arms one by one...
You let your guard down and stopped your horse!
There's no one else to help you now!
Do it, Kojiro!
Take credit for this!
Oh no...
This is fun!
Fighting with everyone is so much fun!
I'm Kojiro of the Elusive Warriors!
I'll have your head and authority!
(Official Main Army) No! What are you dawdling for?
(Official Main Army) There's mist here, I can barely see!
The enemy rear guard is struggling.
They're seesawing.
Well, eventually we will be able to crush them by sheer numbers.
Although, at this rate, the women and children would run away.
What?
After them, Ichikawa!
I will choose the women and put them in my paradise!
But if we go there, you won't have protection...
If the enemy's gone now, I won't need protection!
Don't you know the art of war, country samurai?
Are you afraid of dying, huh?
If you are a warrior, you must fight and put your life on the line!
Good grief...
Lord Hoshina!
All the women and children have fled to safety!
All right! Ring the bell for all troops to retreat!
The rear guard will remain and attract the enemy!
Messenger!
You're done here. Run away!
I can't do that, Sir Hoshina.
I am responsible for warning you to run away.
I've come this far...
I can't be the only one not experiencing the fear of being chased...
Messenger... You care so much about us...
That'd be a waste!
Retreat!
We're retreating!
Hey, that's the sign of retreat! Come on!
Okay!
Hoshina's army has started retreating!
Slash their backs!
They're shooting backward while meandering?
Horses and arrows are in the way and we can't move forward easily.
That kid...
Victory is just ahead of us...
Come on, I don't wanna die from being critically shot randomly here...
When you start thinking about the rewards after a winning battle,
your enemies won't risk their lives to get ahead.
Furthermore, at the tail end of the most dangerous withdrawal...
The warrior assigned to rear guard...
All clear, Messenger.
Messenger!
is about to earn the utmost trust from his allies.
In the meantime, I will settle the battle myself with this sword!
Oh no!
They're after the official!
They'll question me later and have my head!
My lord! Enemies from your right!
What?
The incompetent Ichikawa is shouting something.
He's still afraid after going this far?
The moment my army left the official,
they're hiding in the morning mist,
suppressing their marching army's sound!
Did they plan all this?
Don't you go back, cowards!
Those who don't obey my command...
My lord! Are you okay?
He cut it!
He cut my hair!
He was trying to kill me!
Me, the emperor's anointed provincial official!
Killing him is a bad idea.
An incompetent enemy general is only useful if you let him live.
Lord official!
We see shadow of a large number of flags across the river!
Our troops aren't there at all!
It's another enemy troop after me!
Calm down!
I don't hear any soldiers moving.
Maybe they're just a disguise.
Idiots! They could be coming at me anytime!
Quick, call back Yonemaru's troops!
Sound the drums to signal a retreat!
That damned official!
Setaro!
Send our soldiers to the front to replace Yonemaru's!
Yes, Sir!
(Hoshina Territory (South), River,) Once you get Hoshina
(Mountains, Hoshina Territory (North) off the other side of the fence,
(Official Territory) build a fence here, too,
(Official Territory) to establish the territory we've taken!
An easy win in a hard-fought battle was ruined by this guy!
The official is a hindrance to us!
The enemy is retreating!
Fubuki's strategy worked!
As soon as they find out the flags we put up are a disguise, they'll be right back.
Now's the chance to run to the other side of the fence.
Got it!
Young Master!
Kojiro!
You're pretty late.
Huh?
I'm sure you got the credit.
Fubuki!
He's amazing. He took out that Yonemaru.
Attaboy!
Where's his head?
I left it intact.
I've learned a lot from him.
Besides, if I brought you his head,
you couldn't give me my bounty, anyway.
Not after losing half of your territory.
Shut up, don't speak the truth.
Still
I've never felt so good about losing a battle in my life.
Sir Hoshina, I'm glad you're okay!
Messenger!
That's our Lord Hoshina!
I may have lost my territory,
but I feel like I've won.
Seeing their smiles is what you get...
for running away and surviving, huh.
The Hoshina clan, a small feudal lord in northern Shinano,
was driven out of his territory and moved to the south.
Though the lord changed many times in the course of time...
Heya!
He skillfully overcame each crisis,
and became a masterful survivor that lasted until the Meiji era.
And above all,
for Tokiyuki, he will be an important force in the impending great upheaval.
Please send this message to Lord Myojin.
The Hoshina retainers have been given life by the messenger and his retainers.
With this new life...
Whether we lose or escape, we will use it with care,
and we will be of great help to Lord Myojin
Okay.
Messenger.
Stop by our territory.
I can't offer much hospitality, but I'd like to thank you.
We're having a fest!
Hey, boy.
You should accept his gratitude.
I want to go home quickly and tell them I'm safe.
I'm sure everyone is worried about us.
You can stay if you like.
We two are more than enough to protect him.
I've got my souvenir too.
Tch, get a load of these goody-two-shoes.
Thanks, Kojiro, Fubuki, Genba.
Nah, I don't really need to eat...
Okay.
Your efforts were also astonishing.
You'll pay a big price for this one...
I fell asleep...
Father?
The war is over.
Lord Tokiyuki will return soon.
I'm glad he's okay!
Let's celebrate their return.
Nice! We should cook lots of delicious food!
We must get ready before they return.
Let's cook some meat to recharge their energy!
Please make sure you keep the meat in shape and bring it here.
Let's get ourselves more allies like this!
We persuade them to fight to live instead of to die, and make them our allies!
What? Is there an enemy? What's wrong with you?
I can see a rainbow...
Well, yes.
Hey, don't spray it my way!
Let's go and do the Kamakura DANCE Until the sun comes up in the morning
Times will change again and again But they're all loveable and great
Step, tap, dance to the rhythm
Kamakura style!
Jomon, Yayoi, Kofun, Asuka, Nara, Heian
This is KA-MA-KU-RA
From Nanbokucho to Reiwa
Kamakura style!
Let's make an iihako (1185)
Let's make an iikuni (1192)
You know all the theories? What a genius!
Kamakura was full of emotions
Keep on going, like a wild horse, until you reach Nanbokucho
Doing our best, Kamakura, represent
Playing some dog-shooting competition in the field
Robes, garments, we'll wear them on a date
Kamakura style!
Japanese poems, essays, I enjoy them all
In praise of shrines and Buddhist temples
It doesn't matter what period of history we're in
We just can't stop having fun!
Well now!
Let's go and do the Kamakura DANCE Until the sun comes up in the morning
Times will change again and again But they're all loveable and great
Go the way, while you're bored and listless
Play those Japanese instruments and fly away
Link this culture to the far future
Go do the Kamakura DANCE Let's raise some hell!
When you hear that humming
Step, tap, dance to the rhythm
Step up, and grow up
Kamakura style!
Coming forth!