• Dr_Box@lemmy.world
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    24 days ago

    Yeah I was wrong. He’s based off of Jules Brunet who was a french officer that trained the Tokugawa samurai in the use of modern weaponry of the time. He sided with the resistance against the emperor of Japan until he was evacuated by a french warship later on when the resistance was defeated. He wasnt a samurai by any means but he was a real guy

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      24 days ago

      It’s also not pitched as being based on a true story. I take less issue with him becoming a samurai than surviving the last real samurai, lol.