Heh, after actually watching the previous episode with subtitles, and with the help of a few commenters (especially minhngoc and wrex) I finally understood what happened back there. The whole chase was put in scene, and the Barsa and Chaggumu we saw tumbling down the cliff were actually fake bodies, created by Torogai-shi. Barsa, Chaggumu and Tanda, meanwhile headed on foot to the west, and they passed that big rock. Barsa continues to surprise me with her plans.
While watching the episode, I kept wondering how the heck the story would continue next. I mean, everyone thinks that Chaggumu is dead, Barsa is smart enough not to screw up somehow, and we still have twenty episodes left for this anime. But after I looked up what Shuga tried to say at the end of the episode, I understood. He was looking at the machine that made the prediction of the upcoming drought. I’m not yet sure how, but after Chaggumu’s death it should return to a more peaceful prediction. Shuga, however, notices that it still indicates that a drought is going to happen. When the warriors are going to find out about this, they’ll probably figure out that Barsa went west, and they start chasing her again.
This does provide quite a challenge for Barsa: how to hide Chaggumu, while everyone can see the guy’s still alive. She’s going to have to come up with an impossible hiding place. Also, what was Torogai-shi up to? It seems that she did head north, after fooling the two warriors, but to what purpose, what does she carry in that bag of hers?
Most of the episode was quiet, though, when it focused on Barsa and Tanda, who can finally have it easy again. Chaggumu acts kindof cute when he tries to figure out how to spend the rest of his life, and then it seems that Barsa’s actually planning to reunite him with his mother (I might have misunderstood that part).]]>
Seirei no Moribito – 07
Awesome!! Thanks for the update. This series is interesting. With twenty episodes remaining, is this series also going to just end like Balumatsu? Or are there plans for a second series??
I would like to see more of the TandaXBarsa interaction, I believe the novels had hinted at TandaXBarsa through Chagum’s eyes.
I liked the Blue Hand guy too – I wonder if we’ll get to see more of him. Too bad, we dont get to see how Barsa manages to buy the horse off him – she’s left everyone quite suprised on how she actually got it done. I would like to see what she had said ^_^
Thanks for blogging this series again ^_^
From what I know, Seirei no Moribito is based on the first book of a rather large series of novels. A second season would therefore be quite plausible, but nothing has been announced yet.
Yeah, you misunderstood the last part. She told him that she promised his mother she’d take care of her all her life.
But you were right about what Shuga noticed.
As for the anime series, I heard that it’s based on the first two novels. I’m reading the first novel now, and the first few episodes basically followed the novel but the last few were original developments.