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The Elusive Samurai: Three Gruff Generals Cover the Heroine's Love Song, and Japan Can't Cope
Aniplex released a full cover single for The Elusive Samurai Season 2, sung not by the heroine but by three of the show's gruffest adult characters — Suwa Shinto's Three Great Generals — taking on the cutesy love song “If You Want Some Romance.” Across 497 comments, the top comment (1,519 likes) is someone half-jokingly claiming credit (or blame) for directing the vocals, and most of the thread is united in disbelief that a network greenlit three war generals belting out lyrics written for a teen idol — before more than a few admit the singing is actually good. By the end, fans have stopped being surprised and started requesting a sequel with the show's other side characters.
497 comments8/9/26, 12:40 AM
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The Elusive Samurai Season 2 Episode 1: Live-Action Takauji Scene Splits Fans
On July 17, The Elusive Samurai (逃げ上手の若君) opened its second season, and the Japanese reaction video covering the premiere drew 38 comments — and the top comment, 21 likes, wasn't even about the episode's biggest talking point. That honor went to the anime's choice to cut to live-action footage twice in a single episode: once for an opening narrator, once for Ashikaga Takauji himself. The comment section split down the middle over it. Some viewers called the live-action inserts an obvious way to cut animation costs, pointing to a spike in still frames as proof; others argued the effect was doing exactly what it should — marking Takauji as something that doesn't belong in the same reality as everyone else. Once that argument cooled off, the thread turned warm fast: fans got emotional over a manga-faithful flashback of Tokiyuki's brother sharing his own sashimi, cracked jokes about a new character's uncanny resemblance to the manga's own author, and traded regional trivia about why the story's setting is packed with sushi restaurants. Underneath the jokes, a couple of commenters admitted they're already a little nervous — not about anything that happened on screen, but about whether the show's broadcast slot can be trusted to see the story all the way through.
38 comments8/2/26, 11:20 PM
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The Elusive Samurai Season 2 Ending Theme: Hinatazaka46 Collab Wins Over Fans
The ending theme for The Elusive Samurai Season 2 — "Romantic ga Hoshii Nara" by Bocchi Boromaru featuring Nao Kosaka, Yoko Shogenji and Kaho Fujishima of Hinatazaka46 — has pulled in a crowd that does not normally turn up for anime songs. Across 578 comments on the music video, the most-liked one (211 likes) is from exactly that crowd: "I don't know anything about anime at all, but… is this song riding some kind of divine wind right now?" What makes the thread worth reading is that two fandoms are standing in the same room. Anime viewers arrive from the show and are startled to find it sitting at number one on the hype chart; idol fans arrive for the three members and spend the thread taking each voice apart — Kosaka's as pure healing, Shogenji's as the one that gets addictive, Fujishima's as cute with a core of steel — and marvel at how three completely different tones lock together. Several point out that the lyrics are colour-coded so you always know whose part you're hearing, and one flags the timestamp where the MV goes sightseeing in Kamakura and works in Elusive Samurai references. Underneath it all is a quiet campaign to make this the breakout hit of the year, complete with comparisons to last year's AiScReam, people who already have the live crowd chant worked out, and one commenter who simply gives up and admits what they actually feel.
578 comments7/29/26, 8:25 AM

The Elusive Samurai

The Elusive Samurai: Three Gruff Generals Cover the Heroine's Love Song, and Japan Can't Cope

The Elusive Samurai Season 2 Episode 1: Live-Action Takauji Scene Splits Fans

The Elusive Samurai Season 2 Ending Theme: Hinatazaka46 Collab Wins Over Fans