when i started this show i thought it was going to be a pile of garbage, and i almost quit on it midway through episode two until i started to realize that i was recognizing some of the names.

once it got to the Ikedaya incident, i was pretty happy (and somewhat impressed) that this series was going to try to tell a good bit of the actual history behind the Shinsengumi. i'd written the theme and actually using the Shinsengumi names off as just another gimmick, but with episodes 3 and 4, it looks like they're going to try to keep a little bit true to history.

well, except for the whole bit about regenerating wounds, mysterious zombie soldiers and super-powered bad guys... then again, the fact that there's a bishounen show with heavy doses of violence AND heavy doses of history is pretty fucking awesome.

this show is pretty fucking win, actually. anybody spot or catch any names they recognized? Pretty sure Hajime Saito is the guy from Kenshin. and, unless I'm wrong, there's an Okita somewhere in the Kenshin OVAs as well, right? I only recall Hiijikata from some of the war museums that I visited in...

... wait a second... if i dropped that, would it be... like, a spoiler? can you spoil a show like this just by recounting history???