Tenkaichi - Nihon Saikyou Bugeisha Ketteisen - Vol. 8 Ch. 30 - The End Of The Fifth Match

[Al_Azif]

No body no death

 

[ARoyalidiot]

I actually cheered when I saw the ending

 

[quaicai12]

quite a surprise that Kojiro would be out of the matches since you know. the epic battle in ganryu island between Musashi and Kojiro thingy. now let's see how the matches will play out after this because it will be weird as hell if author will just skip history entirely.

 

[Kurovah]

This is probably going to be a "won the battle lost the war" situation for hanzo. But He did a good job regardless

 

[Stevethebarbarian]

oh hum? Do you know where to see the polls?

To be clear, the “vote” is between the writer, the artist, and the editor, not anyone else.

 

[L33tSkeels]

HANZO BROS LET'S FUCKING GOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO

 

[JeezyHungry]

Uh, Kojiro lost but he just fell right? He could still be alive.
Didnt expect that win from Hanzo though.

 

[LoliShinobu]

Yeah, no proof that he died.

 

[Brackass]

quite a surprise that Kojiro would be out of the matches since you know. the epic battle in ganryu island between Musashi and Kojiro thingy. now let's see how the matches will play out after this because it will be weird as hell if author will just skip history entirely.

Page 4 of chapter 1 states "This is not history as we know it." I have no citation for my next statement, but: I'm pretty sure I remember something somewhere stating that the premise of this manga is that it's totally free from historical truth and totally free to have genuinely unexpected tournament results, so there's very little plot armor? Something along those lines.

Oh yeah, this isn't exactly what I was referencing (I think it might've been volume end notes or something somewhere), but page 4 of chapter 7 explicitly emphasizes that Tokugawa, the guy who pretty much succeeded Nobunaga IRL and began the Edo Period, is already out of this tournament, so the timeline is already super deviated from the IRL timeline.

So it's perfectly possible in this timeline for Kojiro to die before fighting Musashi. What we've seen so far of Kojiro in the story pretty much fully explains why he eventually went after Musashi in the "main" timeline, so in this timeline he still acts on that sort of "fated" connection, but maybe he dies before ever fighting Musashi.

Although given how off-screen his "death" was in this chapter, he probably isn't dead anyway.

 

[Brackass]

Anyway tl;dr this ain't Vagabond. Vagabond has a big background suspense about the fight that we know will eventually happen (except it won't because Vagabond is abandoned lol), whereas this story has a big suspense about the fact that we have no idea what will happen.

I wonder if even Musashi has plot armor or not; his feats are certainly less impressive than some of the shit we've seen from other fighters already, since he's a very young inexperienced Musashi, so by the themes of the story it would be totally rational for Musashi to die. Then again, rereading chapter 7, he "awakened" pretty hard in his fight, tho he'd still be in over his head against some of the established experienced top tiers in the tournament. Page 58 shows that he'll fight Fuma Kotaro next (narratively not insanely top tier i think, tho she did beat a strong old guy in an upset), and then the winner of Yagyu Munenori (insanely high tier afaik) vs Nagamitsu Hino (ludicrously high tier), so at least he has Fuma as a stepping stone to try to get up to speed before the insane-tier opponent?

Very interested in who wins the next fight between an unimportant-looking guy with the nickname "One Hit Kill" and Yasuke the African samurai. Guessing and hoping Yasuke wins (rather than him jobbing to "One Hit Kill" just to establish his One Hit Kill status), but then who wins in the later fight between Yasuke and this ninja who just beat Kojiro?

 

[gearedone]

finaly, the mangaka REALLY wanted us to go "he will die" but what a tweest that damn thing
still, unless hanzo can pull a sekiro and make ninja prothesis, he is shit outta luck for the rest of the fights

 

[Sheetswork]

Nah bruh I wanted Kojiro to win!!!

 

[Levankua]

Samuraicels seething at ninjachads

 

[DontFearTheReaper]

LETS FUCKING GOOO

 

[AmaSuna]

This fight is so hype to me. Even though I'm on Hanzo, I'm quite sad that Kojiro lose.

I also wonder how the next stage of fight will be. Like, they lose arm/leg/whatever I don't remember, it will be definitely be difficult for them.

 

[MrGrem]

there's typo at last page with "TAKIGAWA" instead of Tokugawa...

Still we win hanzo bros

 

[Bloodseed]

oh hum? Do you know where to see the polls?

Not the polls but the process was mentioned in Chapter 12 on how author decide who will be the winner

 

[Garbage_Toros]

Woooooow. Kojiro got plot armored out of getting killed by Hanzo’s plan AND gets to live with no permanent injuries.
Hanzo had to cripple himself to get a victory that doesn’t even matter since he’s missing a hand and now probably loses any matchup we’ve seen so far.
Unless Hanzo gets a ninja prosthetic or something, this is some BLATANT favoritism.

 

[JagiMain200]

KOJICOINS STOCK AT AN ALL TIME LOW

 

[ISometimesReadManga]

Cool to see Hanzo winning, but tbh him mimicking Musashi's voice was kinda weird. Not only did he somehow make an accurate enough impression to fool Kojiro, but also wouldn't Kojiro notice that the voice is much closer to him than the actual Musashi?