Short Synopsis: Genji has done it now: he’s gotten the princess pregnant.
Episode Rating: 8/10 (Excellent)
Now THIS is Noitamina! This show has really been consistently excellent so far, and it doesn’t look like it’s going to get worse any time soon. The only part that’s still left for it to screw up is the ending, which has a lot of potential to end up rushed or unfinished. But until then, I’m really going to enjoy the rest of this series.
And so, it had to happen some time: Genji has gotten someone pregnant. To be precise, he has given birth to the future king, it seems. Because Lady Fujitsubo refused to make public that the two of them had sex, she decided to pretend that the baby came from Mikado, the king, even if Genji was the real father.
I still can’t quite get inside Genji’s head, though. On one hand, the guy seems so genuine, he seems to care so much about the women he sleeps with, and yet at the same time he seemed so upset when he learned that Fujitsubo had a baby from someone other than himself.
Ah, if only this was being subbed by someone…
It’s pretty straight forward. I do think I caught that she never wants to see him again, go figure. You did notice that she told him to stay on the other side of the Torii gate. (red sawhorse looking thing at the shrine) There were some of his conquests shown while Fujitsbo was PG. Heck! He even got with his wife! What a concept! He had been married to her since he was 12-13. So, if he was with anyone and had a child you’d think it was his wife.
‘There were some of his conquests shown while Fujitsbo was PG. Heck! He even got with his wife! What a concept! He had been married to her since he was 12-13.’
Meh, at least it’s not as sick as Mouryou no Hako’s last revelation, so that’s a plus if i ever saw one. And i really applaud Noitamina for doing the impossible, the original text was harder to get through than the Ramayana for me. It seemed as if people in there wrote haikus to each other in almost every conversation.