![]() ![]() There is a bit of magic going on for the viewers who enjoy a fantasy element, but never enough to derail the sense of danger posed to Yoshiharu and his new friends, living a frequently violent life. What does that leave us with? The representation of historical events is compelling and visually impressive, and there are some exciting twists and turns along the way, particularly when a couple of the main characters are apparently killed off partway through the season. So you need to switch off the part of your brain that is trying to make some kind of logical sense of this series. The question is posed several times as to whether Yoshiharu is changing the course of history, and while he stresses about it quite a lot, in the end it seems like an odd concern, considering everyone is a different gender when he arrives so he is obviously not interacting with his own history. Later in the series it is revealed that one of the main characters is hiding the fact that she is female, so she can become a ruler, so there is some attempt at a commentary on gender politics, which could have worked if it weren’t for the fact that nearly all the powerful figures Yoshiharu meets are female anyway, making a nonsense of the gender concealment story. Instead I was left wondering what the point was of the history gender flips, other than to basically create a very unusual kind of harem anime set in the past. I suspect this series would mean a lot more to somebody who had played the game that Yoshiharu refers to, or has a deeper knowledge of Japanese history than I do. Virtually all the main characters are female, and have real-life male equivalents from history. So the other main lead character, for example, is the very female Oda Nobuna (her partially exposed bra leaves us in no doubt), who is supposed to be a famous male daimyo (a sort of feudal lord) from Japanese history. ![]() Almost everyone Yoshiharu meets has flipped genders, from what he knows of history. A bigger problem is the differences Yoshiharu immediately begins to spot. I didn’t mind that so much, because some kind of a technobabble explanation would have added little to the series, and the other possibility is of course that Yoshiharu is imagining or dreaming it all, perhaps in a coma or something, and that would have detracted from the main thrust of the drama, so sometimes it is actually better not to spell everything out. He has such a detailed knowledge about history, thanks to the game, that it can’t just be a coincidence that Yoshiharu happens to be the one person transported into the past, but we are just left to guess about that. The series opens with Yoshiharu already in the past, and there is no explanation offered about why that happened. One day he suddenly finds himself in the past, interacting with events with which he is familiar from his game ( Nobunaga’s Ambition, which is apparently a real game). Yoshiharu is an ordinary teenager who is a big fan of a video game set in Japan’s history. The idea behind The Ambition of Oda Nobuna is a little odd.
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