Ao no Miburo: Serizawa Ansatsu-hen • Blue Miburo Season 2 - Episode 3 discussion

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That injury Serizawa has looks pretty gnarly.

Couldn't quite tell if he was severely burned, or maybe some sorta residual poison from the battle of the bridges in season 1?
Either way that sort of injury looks bad, wonder if he'll be able to overcome it somehow, or if he plans to try and go out guns a blazing?
Wanting to buy a cannon and all.

Idk about other newcomers, but Shimada Kai and Yamazaki are historical characters too.

I wonder what's going on with Serizawa's body that looks pretty bad and painful. Fun recruitment ep

zura janai katsura da 🗿, the goat is here

- [They aren’t having much luck recruiting people, huh…](https://i.imgur.com/QMmhTy1.png)

- [Oh yay, they have a bunch now!](https://i.imgur.com/Y1XVQJ2.png) I guess now the question is how many of these people they’ll accept into the Miburo.

- [Pfffffffffffffff](https://i.imgur.com/TFIhqhx.png) [](#laughter)

- [Oh I forgot about that guy being one of them.](https://i.imgur.com/QC9lzcD.png) [](#mindmelt)

- [Everyone?!](https://i.imgur.com/xyfpMmz.png) [](#spilledtea)

- [Oof…](https://i.imgur.com/knw0i3M.png) [](#toradorasalute)

- [Shimmering sky!](https://i.imgur.com/RDw9Eao.png)

- [Ah, neat, this show’s version of ~~Zura~~ Katsura!](https://i.imgur.com/gtSHlHH.png) [](#neat)

- [That is indeed a good question.](https://i.imgur.com/duZoWhP.png) [](#bigthink)

- [Uh…](https://i.imgur.com/Vx4IFht.png) [](#hahahawhat)

- [Serizawa was already injured before that confrontation…?](https://i.imgur.com/XNvQh1n.png) [](#sakurathink)

- [And now he’s just wildly attacking the grass…](https://i.imgur.com/TLZOpcx.png) [](#hardthink)

Zura has appeared.

Welcome back to Kyoto, Miburo! But who is that little kid voiced by Misaki Kuno who seems to be living with Serizawa?

Time for the Miburo recruitment drive! You ever have that moment when you're waiting for people to show up to something, there's initially no one there, and then suddenly there's a large influx of people? Well, that happens to the Miburo here. And spot the significant characters among the throng of people coming to get recruited!

We've got Furukoji Kenran (Tasuku Hatanaka?), the fiery and talented swordfighter! Kai Shimada, a former Bloody Risshidan member (which considering he was a member and ran off is a huge red flag, but I digress...), the Ozaki brothers who Hijikata whips into shape...and more! In fact the Miburo aren't even going to be all that discerning here, because ultimately this is basically a means of making sure samurai are employed and directed properly so they don't end up becoming terrorists like the Risshidan.

Poor Shinpachi really thought he was going to finally get to do something that's not ominous TsudaKen dialogue and he gets upstaged by Kondo.

Furukoji thought the Miburo would be a cakewalk and just an opportunity for him to fool around, but the Miburo keep you busy! Early morning training, plain meals for breakfast, daily patrols...the works! This is what it means to be a member of the Miburo.

Is Nio still probably one of the weakest Miburo members? Yeah, but he's still trying to get stronger and more skilled with the sword anyway, and his resolve actually inspires Furukoji to go back to basics and renew his love of the sword himself. So even if he won't be with the Miburo now, he's definitely a maybe after he retrains himself!

Hijikata's squad runs into none other than Katsura Kogoro from Choshu, voiced by Mitsuki Saiga! Why is a man from Choshu, where there's currently a war going on, in Kyoto? Either way, Nio's got a good read on him (and a shameless plug to his granny's cafe) while Katsura does of the Miburo as a whole. And I love how the waitress said the seat "reserved" when she was clearly just waiting to give it to the hot samurai.

What the heck is Serizawa doing!? I mean, even if that merchant WAS funding radicals, can they really just raid and rob him too? Is that what the Miburo should really be doing?

And it's not like confronting Serizawa is going to go well, guy is obsessed with the "big picture" of making the Miburo the strongest for the sake of the many outside the few, which goes against everything the Miburo were formed against. And if Soji wasn't there, Hijikata might have straight up gotten run through by Serizawa. And what even is that wound on Serizawa's chest?

You know it's bad for Serizawa when Niimi can seemingly read the room and is willing to fully jump ship to the Miburo...while poor Taro has to watch Serizawa struggling with that wound and slicing through everything in front of him as he slowly loses himself.

Their ragtag bunch is now turning into some Bandits of Water Margin group. In the end it's always the divergence in philosophies that tear them apart.