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We’re so close to the end. This week brought all the major players together on one rooftop. Here’s the recap of Guidepost. Scurrying Rats We pick up right where things were left last week, with Wong narrowly avoiding capture on the streets of Hong Kong by the Yellow Head lieutenant after hearing their plans to spring a trap on Ryo and Ren. Joy saves him and is filled in on the impending doom facing the pair in Kowloon. Inside the Walled City, Don Niu stares down the two men he calls rats, cornering them inside a hallway of his gang’s headquarters and ready to put an end to their interference in his machinations. Ryo and Ren have to think fast in the face of this ogre-shaped man. Not wanting to repeat the futility of attacking Don...

Setbacks and overcoming self doubt were the themes of this episode, Entangled. Here’s the recap. A Master at Evening the Odds Picking up from last week’s cliffhanger ending, Xiuying stands before a despondent Don Niu, blocking his path to the barely conscious Ryo laying on the ground behind her. As he calls on his goons to attack the woman before him, she calmly raises a single arm to invite their foolish onslaught. His men charge her, finding themselves taken down with ease by Master Lishao Tao and their leader must now step up to take on this new opponent. Watching from above is Yellow Head second-in-command, Yuan, who moves to capture Yuanda Zhu so the gang can make their escape before Xiuying inflicts major damage to her...

Welcome to my Shenmue anime Analysis, this time for EP11 Entangled, this Analysis will have SPOILERS of the anime and the games. The episode begins exactly where the previous episode ended, with Ryo on the ground, Xiuying ready to fight Dou Niu. Dou Niu say "Who the hell are you? I don't give a damn if she is a woman. Get rid of anybody who stay in my way" his goons agree, Xiuying make the position to fight and we see that Ryo is in a lot of pain. Dou Niu's goons try to attack Xiuying but Xiuying bests them easily, in the room Yuan see what is happening and ask for thee goons to bring Yuanda Zhu with them. The goons tried to grab Yuanda Zhu but Yuanda Zhu bests them with his cane, with a knife Yuan cut a part of Yuanda Zhu's cane...

Welcome to my Shenmue anime Analysis, this time for EP10 Comeback, this Analysis will have SPOILERS of the anime and the games. The episode begins in Shenhua's house with Yunshen Yuan getting ready to leave the house. Yunshen Yuan is Shenhua's adopt father. Shenhua start a conversation with him, she say good morning and noticed that he is up quite early, she ask if he is off to the stone quarry and he respond yeah. Shenhua say that she will make the breakfast right away but Yunshen say there is no need, for Shenhua to listen closely, that his next job is a very important one he must see through, that he won't be returning for some time, Shenhua say okay, that she will bring his food when it's ready then. Yunshen Yuan leave the...

This week in Comeback, we scrounged through the seediest parts of Hong Kong looking for Yuanda Zhu and encountered some real brutish characters. Here’s the recap. Destiny Approaches The episode opens in Bailu Village just before the break of dawn, focusing on a new character we haven’t seen before. The older man packing his bag is Shenhua’s father. She offers him breakfast but he declines, stating the need to get off to his work early. He is about to undertake his most important project yet as a stonemason and lets her know he won’t be back for many days. She sees him off in the yard and admires the first full blossom on the special tree in front of her house. At the same time, Ryo Hazuki stands outside the gated Man Mo Temple...