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Started watching Shogun

I like Fuji. Everyone else makes me mad. Even John Blackthorne because he shouts too much. And he’s a pirate. 🤭 Okay, so he’s more likable as the show goes on, but only a little.
Mariko…maybe. She’s funny at times. She gave Kiku a less honest translation of what John said to her. That made me laugh.

John: Tell her prostitutes from my homeland are never as inquisitive or nicely put together. *blush*

Mariko: He prefers women from his homeland. 😑

John: Tell her I don’t have the words to express how grateful I am. *blush*

Mariko: He said thanks. 😒


Other times, I get it. She has a very tragic backstory, and she’s made herself cold-hearted in many ways.

Fuji, though. I thought she was just a character with terrible things constantly happening to her. But when she got more scenes and showed her personality, I just find her so quirky and funny. She promised to guard John’s guns, and threatened people who tried to take them even though she was crying before about having to serve John. Her crying in another scene, begging John to let them get rid of the stinky rotting pheasant. 😂😔
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We read the book in jr high in the mid 80's for English class, one part seriously upset half of my classmates and the teacher, a first year, was fired over it, it involved gay sex between the narrator and his master. Mind You, this was iowa in 1984, a state that even 40 years later is still stuck religiously and culturally in the 1800's.
@NativePortlander1970 I get it. Maybe high school, but jr high is pretty immature. They shouldn’t be reading any type of sex in books. Gay or straight. Anything with suicide in it either. Romeo and Juliet, for example.

If it wasn’t something described in detail, though, he shouldn’t have been fired. If all it did was mention sex between the characters, that’s not something to be fired over. So far, the show isn’t very graphic. It’s only implied sex, which I appreciate the lack of constant bare skin. The violence gets graphic though. The man being boiled alive…I hated that.
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