Board Thread:Anime/@comment-24356739-20170701075622/@comment-2602:306:CFDB:F970:2830:1CC1:ABE9:2EF7-20170702132910

Totally agree with the death flags for Kane-san. He's Horikawa's Kamina.

Also love the theory about this being a "prequel" of sorts to Hanamaru but I don't think it's possible simply because the saniwa of Hanamaru - although never shown - has a totally different personality from the saniwa in Katsugeki.

Who knows though, maybe the saniwa also dies by the end.

I would love some plot twist where it turns out that the saniwa was wrong or that the swords' mission is not as it appears. We have no idea what the saniwa's era, 2205 or whatever, is like, and no idea whether the other side has a point about wanting to change it. Did Japan take over the world? Did foreign powers take over Japan? Or, maybe the focus on Japan is misleading, maybe this same struggle is going on throughout the world now that the power of time travel is discovered.

Or, ultimate mindfuck: maybe history already has been edited, and our protagonists are unknowingly protecting the revision. Perhaps it's actually suspicious that Kane-san seems to deflect some of Horikawa's questions about the exact reasons for the attempted changes...

We also have no idea how much the swords' activity is fucking with history as it is; I like the detail where Kane saves the kid though he shouldn't, then says if it's a problem he'll come back and fix it - I feel like that's foreshadowing for the future where it turns out the swords' actions fuck up the timeline.

I may be overreaching with this, but I'm hoping that ufotable has learned from their pretty but insufferably boring Tales adaptation, and will stop playing safe and do some crazy cool twists for Touken Ranbu.