FX shÅ gun came to a close last night, revealing how Mariko’s (Anna Sawai) actions in Episode 9 actually set up Toranaga (Hiroyuki Sanada) for the ultimate victory. Ishido’s (Takehiro Hira) brutal missteps in handling Mariko’s actions in the penultimate episode made the heir’s mother, Lady Ochiba (Fumi Nikaido), realize that perhaps she had made a mistake by becoming engaged to him. bloodthirsty, low-born bureaucrat… Maybe I should form an alliance with anyone else?
**Spoilers for shÅ gun Episode 10 “The Dream of a Dream,” now available on Hulu**
If then shÅ gun ends with Toranaga explaining to the doomed Yabushige (Tadanobu Asano) and the audience what the immediate future holds for him and his followers. Lady Ochiba has sent him a secret message promising to abandon Ishido at the crucial moment when Toranaga will meet the other regents on the battlefield. Without the support of the heir’s mother (and the heir’s standard), Ishido’s forces will err legally. That is, the other regents will be able to quickly side with Toranaga, destroying Ishido and turning Toranaga ShÅ into a weapon. (James Clavell’s book also specifies that Ochiba will marry Toranaga instead of Ishido, cementing them as a power couple.)
Yabushige then commits seppuku as punishment for betraying Toranaga and Mariko in episode 9, leaving Toranaga to rule Japan from his stronghold in Edo, the future Tokyo. Blackthorne (Cosmo Jarvis) accepts life under Toranaga’s rule, even becoming friends with Mariko’s husband Buntaro (Shinnosuke Abe), and Fuji (Moeka Hoshi) leaves Blackthorne’s service as a consort, not to join her husband. and son dead, but to become a nun.
Okay, but what happens next? There will be a shÅ gun Season 2? Are there more episodes of shÅ gun still to come?
Good, shÅ gun It was intended to be a limited series, but Jugo Mobile recently asked the show’s co-creators, Justin Marks and Rachel Kondo, if the show’s runaway success had opened the door to more…
There will be a shÅ gun Season 2? What the creators delighted in a possible shÅ gun-verse, sequels, spin-offs…
Although it has been understood that shÅ gun It was only intended to be a one-off limited series, when Jugo Mobile spoke to series co-creators Justin Marks and Rachel Kondo about continuing the story, Marks coyly said, “We’ll respond very carefully, you know, just for a variety of reasons.” .”
“Are there other stories to tell about the characters who survived this show? Yes. Are there other stories to tell about how to get things done? She wondered aloud.
For what it’s worth, James Clavell wrote other books set at different times in Asian history that could be adapted, but Jugo Mobile specifically asked if they would want to continue. shÅ gunThe story of. After all, we don’t see exactly how Toranaga becomes ShÅgun and the book shows two future political marriages that would be fascinating to explore: Toranaga and Ochiba and, uh… Blackthorne and the courtesan Kiku (Yuka Kouri)!!!
“The question is, are they [these stories] something better than the book? What was said? And we don’t know,” Marks said. “And I like to say, ‘I don’t know,’ because it opens a lot of doors for improvement.”
One thing that both Marks and Kondo admitted was that when they were filming shÅ gunThey had “a whole fantasy” of what a potential “shÅ gun-verse” would look like “where you can open doors to the sides.”
“Honestly, I would love to see that this isn’t a pitch for a real show, it’s just our fantasy, fanfiction of the show,” Marks warned. Yabushige Chronicles seems?”
“I mean, Yabushige is going to London, you know?” Rachel Kondo said.
“Oh my god. Can you imagine? Really cool,” Marks said of the fanfiction idea. “Like seeing him and Ikawa Jikkyu in the book, as his rival, as the guy who was like their Mozart/Salieri relationship. I love every time you mention [Ikawa Jikkyu’s] name, [Yabushige] “It would make me very angry.”
“It’s like, I don’t know. So that’s all fun fanfiction stuff… but if there was ever something to be done, it would have to be better than what was done. And I don’t know if we know anything that’s better. So, yeah, I have to leave it at that.”
So while there are no plans to continue the story of shÅ gunThere have been fantasies of taking the series and its characters in other directions.
