{"id":498,"date":"2006-05-16T23:46:31","date_gmt":"2006-05-16T13:46:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/batrock.net\/anime\/?p=498"},"modified":"2006-05-16T23:58:07","modified_gmt":"2006-05-16T13:58:07","slug":"utawarerumono-episode-6","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/batrock.net\/anime\/?p=498","title":{"rendered":"Utawarerumono &#8211; episode 6"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;The Assembled Powers&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><center><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/batrock.net\/animeimages\/uwm06-01.JPG\" alt width=\"600\" height=\"338\" hspace=\"2\" vspace=\"2\" border=\"1\"><\/center><\/p>\n<p>In his book <i>Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass, an American Slave<\/i>, Douglass describes a slaveholder who dealt pre-emptive beatings to his slaves in order to keep them obedient.<br \/>\nThis has always sounded stupid to me, and this is precisely what Emperor Inkara is: an idiot. Normally in anime, when you see both sides of a conflict in their planning stages, you can get some sort of positive spin on the enemy. Not so here.<\/p>\n<p>Oh, and you really can tell that <i>Utawarerumono<\/i> is based on an H game, can&#8217;t you?<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p>Eruruu discovers a man climbing the walls of the Hakuoro Alliance&#8217;s newly captured fortress. The man, Shikinaro, claims to be a wandering salesman, but all is not as it seems!<br \/>\nThen Hakuoro and company take on a gate that happens to be guarded by Benawi and Kurou.<\/p>\n<p>So, what do we learn from this episode? Aphrodisiacs can be peddled across the way, and they make girls blush and so on &#8230; and Hakuoro probably bought some in his video game incarnation.<br \/>\nWe also learn are that Benawi&#8217;s code of honour is so Byzantine in its structure that he appears to think that looking sullen makes him an interesting character. Let me assure you right here and now that he is <i>not<\/i>, and that the conclusion to this episode was nothing short of, well, lame.<\/p>\n<p>The fight preparation animation was good, as was the suggestion that Oboru has the power to jump over giant gates &#8211; thus rendering them useless.<br \/>\nOther gleanings are in relation to Hakuoro himself: simply put, he sucks at fighting. Hakuoro relies too heavily on the &#8220;sunrise deus ex machina&#8221;, the one that claims that at sunrise, any battle will turn in favour of the underdog. If Benawi was an actual soldier who cared about insurgents, rather than simply a rightfully treasonous fellow, Hakuoro would be dead 17 times by now. Being able to kill a fat man who doesn&#8217;t know how to govern is hardly an accomplishment.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;m afraid that <I>Utawarerumono<\/i> is getting silly at this point. Eruruu&#8217;s pointless jealousy does nothing to help. <\/p>\n<p><center><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/batrock.net\/animeimages\/uwm06-02.JPG\" alt width=\"300\" height=\"170\" hspace=\"2\" vspace=\"2\" border=\"1\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/batrock.net\/animeimages\/uwm06-03.JPG\" alt width=\"300\" height=\"170\" hspace=\"2\" vspace=\"2\" border=\"1\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/batrock.net\/animeimages\/uwm06-04.JPG\" alt width=\"300\" height=\"170\" hspace=\"2\" vspace=\"2\" border=\"1\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/batrock.net\/animeimages\/uwm06-05.JPG\" alt width=\"300\" height=\"170\" hspace=\"2\" vspace=\"2\" border=\"1\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/batrock.net\/animeimages\/uwm06-06.JPG\" alt width=\"300\" height=\"170\" hspace=\"2\" vspace=\"2\" border=\"1\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/batrock.net\/animeimages\/uwm06-07.JPG\" alt width=\"300\" height=\"170\" hspace=\"2\" vspace=\"2\" border=\"1\"><\/center><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;The Assembled Powers&#8221; In his book Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass, an American Slave, Douglass describes a slaveholder who dealt pre-emptive beatings to his slaves in order to keep them obedient. This has always sounded stupid to me, and this is precisely what Emperor Inkara is: an idiot. Normally in anime, when you [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[140],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-498","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-utawarerumono"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/batrock.net\/anime\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/498","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/batrock.net\/anime\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/batrock.net\/anime\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/batrock.net\/anime\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/batrock.net\/anime\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=498"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/batrock.net\/anime\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/498\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/batrock.net\/anime\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=498"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/batrock.net\/anime\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=498"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/batrock.net\/anime\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=498"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}