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The final event of the New Year\u2019s tournament is about to take place, coming off a short break for everyone to take a moment’s rest. Some of \u201cThe Fallen\u201d are licking their wounds and wrapping their cuts, but the time for rest isn\u2019t long; it\u2019s time for the grand finale between Buildings 4 and 13, a rematch from the previous year, and what is<\/i> this event? Opening a giant sake bottle. How fittingly ceremonial. And since Jyugo is the main character, he\u2019s up to bat for his team, alongside Hajime, thanks to his opponent, Building 4 guard Yozakura, insisting on a fair match, and possible revenge from the previous year. Yamato can\u2019t fill in for him, since the Warden is staring daggers down at him, only not for the reasons he\u2019s thinking of. As usual, she’s staring lovingly at his body, proving once again that dramatic irony is the best irony. But wait! There\u2019s an interesting plot development abound, as Yozakura has quite the thing for the Warden, and is fuming over her always fawning over Hajime, so now we have ourselves a true fight brewing. And alongside Yozakura is inmate number 634, a large and blind man named Musashi, and a man who Jyugo knows from another prison, years ago.<\/p>\n The fight is on, between inmates and guards, but winning doesn\u2019t seem to be on the minds of Musashi and Yozakura. That isn\u2019t going to stop Hajime from pulling out some guns on his fellow guard, though, from a nearby treasure chest with other fake weapons inside. (Yes, literally.) And they\u2019re just loaded with rubber bullets, which, while non-fatal, will still hurt like hell. As for Jyugo, he\u2019s trying to fend off Musashi, who\u2019s held quite the grudge over him throughout the last several years. He\u2019s not doing a good job, ending up on the receiving end of some vicious head blows with blood flowing down his face. Musashi wants Jyugo\u2019s shackles, and says that he\u2019ll do anything to take them, but Jyugo insists that they can\u2019t be unlocked. One certain man can, and apparently Musashi knows said man, and this infuriates Jyugo and sends him on a hard offensive, only to end up getting blown back by Musashi literally throwing a blast of fire at him. Didn\u2019t know Musashi was a firebender, but apparently he is. Jyugo doesn\u2019t seem to be that fazed by it, though, because his drive to find the man that can undo his shackles motivates him more than anything, and he lunges out of the debris and rubble atop him. But what stands is something quite different from what we\u2019re used to. Something happened to Jyugo\u2019s body, long ago, and it\u2019s now been awakened and has started to take form. This fight\u2019s not over, it\u2019s only just begun.<\/p>\n Holy cow, things took a hard left turn into serious territory, and I am all for it. We\u2019re getting a bit more development of the overall plot, revolving around Jyugo and those shackles of his, and that brief shot of his altered state of being only adds to the mystery surrounding his past. As for the whole episode, it\u2019s all about the final event of the tournament, and all about the fighting, so on that front, it more than delivered, thanks to the addition of plot development later on. Other than that, I don\u2019t really have much to say, mostly for outside reasons that have been consuming my mind over the past couple of days. It\u2019s been a rough week, but in times of stress and glooming outlook, it\u2019s always a good time to sit back, relax, and just take in some simple\u00a0entertainment to take your mind off of things in the world. That\u2019s what I\u2019ll be doing a lot, in the coming months, because I certainly need all the simple and mindless entertainment I can get my hands – and my mind – on.<\/p>\n Nanbaka is available on Crunchyroll as a weekly simulcast, every Tuesday at 3:30pm EST, and on FunimationNow as an English simulcast dub, every Saturday at 10:30pm EST.<\/i><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Normally, this is where I would kick off the weekly Nanbaka recap with something witty and possibly funny, to serve as an easy \n [...]<\/a>","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":529,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"rop_custom_images_group":[],"rop_custom_messages_group":[],"rop_publish_now":"initial","rop_publish_now_accounts":[],"rop_publish_now_history":[],"rop_publish_now_status":"pending","yasr_overall_rating":0,"yasr_post_is_review":"","yasr_auto_insert_disabled":"","yasr_review_type":"","_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[4],"tags":[5,29,60,92,62],"class_list":["post-528","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-animation","tag-animation","tag-anime","tag-crunchyroll","tag-fall-2016","tag-nanbaka"],"yasr_visitor_votes":{"stars_attributes":{"read_only":false,"span_bottom":false},"number_of_votes":0,"sum_votes":0},"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p8GYHU-8w","jetpack-related-posts":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.surrealresolution.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/11\/Screen-Shot-2016-11-10-at-9.06.38-PM.jpg?fit=1916%2C1074&ssl=1","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.surrealresolution.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/528","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.surrealresolution.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.surrealresolution.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.surrealresolution.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.surrealresolution.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=528"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.surrealresolution.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/528\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":535,"href":"https:\/\/www.surrealresolution.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/528\/revisions\/535"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.surrealresolution.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/529"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.surrealresolution.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=528"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.surrealresolution.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=528"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.surrealresolution.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=528"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}![\"PLAY](\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.surrealresolution.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/11\/Screen-Shot-2016-11-10-at-9.12.25-PM.jpg?resize=747%2C417&ssl=1\")
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