The Elusive Samurai Season 2 Episode 7 Review: Comedy Outweighs Stakes
The review argues the season has lost the comedy-stakes balance that carried season 1, and that over halfway through, the story needs to start securing victories.
Reporting from 1 source: Anime News Network.
Anime News Network's review of The Elusive Samurai Season 2 episode 7 gives it a community score of 3.8. The episode introduces Tokiyuki's scheming uncle Yasuie Hojo. The reviewer argues the season has lost the balance between comedy and stakes that defined season 1, and that the recent multi-episode battle ended with little consequence.
The cold open belongs entirely to Yasuie Hojo, Tokiyuki's uncle, a schemer whose giant forehead carries changing hiragana characters that broadcast his thoughts. The score leans into a jaunty folk-adjacent tune the reviewer compares to the Soggy Bottom Boys, and the episode plays as pure hijinks.
The reviewer's patience is running thin. Season 1 balanced its wackiest instincts against bloody, real stakes, and that balance is gone: the multi-episode battle that just ended concluded with a shrug. Genba does get a fight against a new band of Tengu shinobi, which the reviewer welcomes, but the overall read is a season spinning its wheels over halfway through.
Yasuie is the sticking point. The reviewer grants that the historical figure was influential and crafty, but finds the snot-spewing caricature one goofy bridge too far for a cast already full of deadly but unserious clowns.
Synthesized by Yomimono from the 1 cited source below, including Japanese-language reporting where cited, then editorially reviewed before publishing.
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- Anime News Network The Elusive Samurai Season 2 Episode 7