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| The year is 1853, the year
the Black ships appeared. |
Sakamato Ryoma and Katsura
Kogoro meet in a match in Edo |
Katsura is the lead student
of his dojo |
And Sakamoto, a rather amiable
type, is the lead of his. |
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| Gradually Sakamoto begins
to take life more seriously |
In a fun spar with Mutsu,
the family whose fighting without swords technique is the focus
of this entire series |
Mutsu and Sakamoto spar,
which leads Sakamoto to drop the sword. |
An early view of Hijikata,
who they stumble into |
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| Later, Sakamoto meets Okita
Souji and Hijikata again, on the run. Not in Edo, but in Kyoto |
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Saigo tries to help a troubled
Sakamoto. |
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| In the next arc, we follow
Sakamoto as he first tries to negotiate the Satsuma-Choshu alliance. |
We see him amidst Saigo
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Sakamoto sails away for
a time with Oryo and Mutsu |
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At a later point, he ends
up visiting the Choshu, who are fighting a series of battles against
the Bakumatsu |
Takasugi Shinsaku |
Katsura Kogoro again |
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Takasugi asks Sakamoto to
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| The Choshu win, thus changing
the events. |
And then we fast forward
to Kyoto, where Sakamoto has returned and receives a visit from
Itou Kashitarou, who at this point has just left the SHinsengumi |
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Sakamoto is assassinated,
precipitating a series of events where the bereft Mutsu tries
to take on the Shinsengumi. |
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| Kondou Isami. |
Eventually it is revealed
though who is resopnsible. |
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