Board Thread:Anime/@comment-24356739-20170701075622/@comment-28858912-20170702204939

People are definitely overthinking things a bit in terms of the two anime. Katsugeki and Hanamaru are two different anime about two different citadels and two different saniwa (one is a hikikomori, the other is active in battle). As seen in the game's PvP, there are multiple saniwa who run their citadels in different ways with swords coming in at different orders (not all saniwa chose the same one starter, after all). Also, in Hanamaru, Izumi was smithed in the same episode that Hori was a recent addition to the citadel and Tonbokiri arrived much later in the series, so there is already a continuity error if the two anime were in the same citadel.

Although, seeing how Izumi is acting in general and around Horikawa in the first episode, I have this strange feeling that this may not be the first Horikawa in Katsugeki's citadel. And maybe Izumi has been fighting for this saniwa for a while because, in the game, he's usually kinda energetic, wild, and emotional with how he acts.

...Also, as a side note, I'm going to assume that Hori already had pierced ears before Izumi gave him the stud earrings?