Talk:Mutsunokami Yoshiyuki/@comment-31.33.217.53-20150218000348

The idiot wears classical zorii instead of shoes like the idiot Ryôma.

The poor bastard often got his ass handed down by his elder sister, Sakamoto O-tome, who was a better Bugeisha than him, having understanding of the "Bugei Jûhappan" and being manly and all. Even in the Toukiden Mitama of Koei, she has far better stats than him ! XD Maybe that's why he didn't used his katana verry often, because he knew the Tennen Rishin-ryû and the Jigen-ryû were stronger than his low-life Kendô. If Ryôma had lived, he would have done just like Ito Hirobumi and Okubo Toshimichi, with their Hattô-rei and Dampatsu-rei. Then, Mutsu-no-kami Yoshiyuki would have been abandoned. New world ? Dude, what you would have seen is a storage room, maybe rust on your blade.

When Ryôma met Katsu Kaishu for the first time, altough he came to kill him, they didn't even fought as martial artists. Ryôma was a faillure as a samurai, he passed to much time studying a merchant way, and didn't have an once of the proper samurai mentality as described in Hagakure. Being a visionnaire and a free mind is all good and well, but the man had no pride as a Mono-no-Fu, he was far more merchant than bushi. Ultimately, those guys bringed ruin to the Japanese Empire because they rejected the Kobu-Gatai and destroyed the samurai caste. They didn't ended the feudal mentality, they just distorted it and guarded only it's worst aspects, not the good ones.

Among the five, Nosada and Kotetsu are the best (since they are smiths rated Saijô Owazamono by Yamada Asaemon). Then, Kashu and Yamanbagiri. And the last and the least, Yoshiyuki. Altough in the FF series it is often a verry powerfull katana, it's reputation come from the popularity of Ryôma. He is the japanese version of Che Guevara.

And don't forget the corrupt Meiji Oligarchy.