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After losing his parents, Shugen ended up with that clan that executes people. They did save him once—when he mistook some criminals for his parents’ killers, confronted them, and got beaten badly. That’s when the clan stepped in and took him in. But instead of teaching him how to live like a normal human being, how to cope, how to survive his grief… they filled him with inhuman, rigid, “righteous” rules.

They didn’t help him heal. They turned him into something else.

He was just a normal boy—the son of a simple merchant, living an ordinary life. But the clan trained him to execute people, to suppress his emotions, to devote himself completely to loyalty and duty. That life was never meant for him. Execution was never the right path for someone like Shugen.

And then Jikka joins the same clan.

That’s the cruelest part.

Jikka—his parents’ killer—becomes someone he has to respect, someone above him. The very clan Shugen trusted, believed in, and dedicated his life to… was also sheltering the man who destroyed his entire world. The man who didn’t just rob a shop, but took everything from him.

It’s so painfully ironic.

Shugen remained clueless the entire time. Until the very end of his life, he never knew the truth. He never got justice. He never avenged his parents.

He just… died.

Alone.

He deserved so much better.

He deserved to live, to understand, to grow. He could have had real character development—he could have found meaning beyond all that suffering. But that chance was stolen from him.

I cried so much when I saw the panel where he died. Even now, just remembering it makes my eyes fill with tears again. I can feel them falling as I write this.

It’s so unfair.

He deserved better.

He was the most precious person.

//Apologies for taking so long to respond, I don’t really stay logged into this blog as my focus is currently on my Shugen and Fuchi blogs, but-

It did break my heart when Shu died, a part of me wished that it was fake and that Shu got his little happy ending with his friends, but it was not meant to be

I feel like a lot of Shugen’s upbringing in the clan was a product of the times they lived in combined with Shu’s need for revenge or justice- whatever one wishes to call it. I think they knew, or at least Eizen knew that if something was not done to direct Shugen’s emotions that the boy would get himself killed (like him hunting those he suspected to have killed his parents). In those times therapy wasn’t really a thing either so I suppose they made do with what they knew best. Idk.

With Jikka, no one knew of his past transgressions- I’m sure if they did that he would have not been accepted as a Yamada Asaemon.

Jikka is not my favorite ever, though I think it would be fun to continue to explore his complicated and strained relationship with Shugen.

I think near the end he did have a smidge of redemption, but I think it would have been interesting to see how things played out if he did survive- not only because I loooove me som Shu, but because I’m genuinely curious to see if he would still turn his back on his friends, even after all that.

But I’m also not an expert XD It’s just my ramblings as a silly role player!

He’s so beautiful, so cute, so handsome—it should honestly be illegal for someone like him to exist 😭✨ Everything about him feels absolutely perfect 💕

//See, someone gets me!! I adore Shugen and Fuchi soooo much! I wish they had more merch available globally so I can have a shrine!!! It’s so hard to get merch! They are both so handsome in their own way and I am obsessed!

He…wasn’t sure what to say??

What were these two on about? What did “Shugen gazing” mean? Was this little grey thing watching him? The words it spoke were flattering and confounding all the same.

Im glad there’s so many ppl who actually like Shugen and can appreciate the nuances of his character without just dumbing him down as a “baby killer” (like chobe and the other criminals didnt do the same henious shit just not explicitly stated in the story), but he had to go bro😭😭

I have such a deep love hate relationship with his character.

His ideals were just not… sustainable for everyone involved (even to his fellow Asaemons). Even if he half-assed his hit on Fuchi— I feel like Fuchi would have still been killed (even if he didn’t save Gantetsu)— i feel like Shu would have still had him go through his punishment if he reached the mainland.

I love how much he cares for his fellow Asaemons but I never rlly understood WHY he would forsake them for the Shoguns’s approval. Like he approved of your mass murder against an entire yakuza family and gave you some clothes and a sword, but is that all it takes for you to just up and attempt genocide on both criminals AND your own colleagues??? When I read the manga I rlly thought he was going to save them😭😭

His character had so much potential too but it all felt flat by the end of the manga. I wonder how things would have been if Eizen survived, would he question his beliefs if he did? would he be open to widening his beliefs if he saw his own father figure team up with Criminals? So many questions snd yet so little answers… I need justice for my boy💔 he did all that—im not justifying it but i appreciate him sm anyway

boi got killed 2x — rushed writing and his untimely demise by the end of the manga 😭❤️💔

//I’ve been too tired to write a proper response but also I don’t have much to add because you’re so right, home dog. 😭😭

I think it would be absolutely hilarious XD

This man would see a car and assume it’s some sort of black magic at first- that poor man would be out of his depth. Lights? Phones? What are those? Still, he is a man of discipline, he would pull himself together quickly and try to navigate this new world, though he might need a guiding hand. (He would def end up in jail)

In many ways, he is similar to Sagiri. If he had experienced what the first group went through—what Sagiri, Shion, Tenza, Fuchi, and Senta experienced on the island—he might have changed just like Sagiri did. If Shugen had been placed in charge of Gabimaru instead of Sagiri, I think he could have become the kind of person Sagiri is now. Maybe Shugen and Gabimaru would have even become friends, and that bond might have softened his rigid way of thinking.

He is also similar to Gabimaru. If he had someone like Yui in his life, perhaps he wouldn’t have suppressed his emotions so much.

Shugen never even had the time to understand or process what really happened to the first group—what they went through and what was actually happening on the island. On top of that, the shinobi lied to him, telling him that the dead Yamada members were killed by criminals. In reality, most of them were killed by the Tensen and the dangers of the island. If he had known the truth, he might have acted differently than he did in the original story.

Even the killings he carried out were part of his duty. His way of thinking—“Such unpleasantness could not be avoided. Your execution alone would not stop your wicked ways from being carried on by your relations. The blame in such cases lies not only with the corrupt soul of a single man but also with the environment that produced him”—is not completely wrong. In that era, executing even a criminal’s children was not uncommon, and the lives of those children were often terrible. In a harsh way, he may have believed he was saving them from that suffering.

Importantly, he did not act out of personal gain or cruelty. He carried out those actions because it was his duty and because those were the orders given by the shogun.

Regarding the incident with Fuchi, Shugen did not completely kill him—he could have, but he didn’t. Fuchi might have survived if he had treated his own wounds instead of Gantetsusai’s. However, Fuchi chose to help Gantetsusai and ultimately sacrificed himself. He believed that his survival, after siding with criminals, could bring harm to the clan. He thought that his actions might cause the clan to fall out of the shogun’s favor, making their lives even more miserable. That is the reason Fuchi died—it was essentially a sacrifice.

In a way, this is the same reason behind Shugen’s actions. Both of them want to protect the clan. Fuchi was also one of the people who influenced Shugen the most, shaping his deep love and loyalty toward the clan.

But many people don’t consider any of this and hate Shugen so much. That’s what makes it so sad.

I really want justice for Shugen.

//This ^^^

Though I feel he would have been much harder to get though to than Sagiri, Shu is a man very dedicated to his duties, even putting them before his own personal feelings- like with the Fuchi incident. He even admits that one must uphold orders even if it goes against his own desires. He didn’t want to hurt his lil bestie, he did it because it was his duty, because in his eyes Fuchi had turned traitor.

I believe a part of him had hoped Fuchi lived, he could have easily killed him like he had the other creatures on the island, could have decapitated him with one slice, but he didn’t.

I don’t believe Shu is a bad person, I never got the hate for him either- and that’s with Fuchi being my favorite character, hell Fuchi wasn’t even mad at Shugen because he knew his friend only did was he believed was right- what would be good for their clan.

It makes me really want to RP an alternate ending where Fuchi and Shu get to go home but those who survived have to go through a trial/face punishment.

Also I could just be me but I do think Fuchi and Shugen had the closest bond when it comes to their connections with everyone else. Bro didn’t say he just enjoyed their time together, he said he loved it 😌 i can’t help but wish they could have held hands instead.

//I love him sm, he’s very complex, you can tell that a lot of love when into making him. I know someone mentioned a light novel that has more about him but I’ve been unable to find it in English as of yet 😭 we need more of him. I really want to see more of his dynamic with Fuchi and the other Yamada Asaemon