Gifuu Doudou!!: Kanetsugu to Keiji

Ending song

The time is the end of the Sengoku period.

This is Uesugi Kagekatsu's territory,

Dewa Province, Yonezawa, Doumori area

the Dewa Province, Yonezawa, Doumori Area.

This day is the celebration honoring the new mansion of Ohnosawa Tarobei.

Now, everyone drink! Eat! Enjoy the night to the fullest.

Yeah!

We're not going to hold back, then!

Anything that's reached its zenith will eventually decline, huh...

Well, then...

I'd like to borrow an axe.

Tarobei, nice work saving up for this new place.

Well done.

What a splendid mansion.

It's nothing.

Well, the thing I'm most proud of would have to be the alcove.

What was that?

Er... What are you going to do with that axe?

Well, I thought I'd perform a lucky charm

in honor of your new place.

I-It can't be...

N-No! It can't be! It can't be! I-It can't be!

Oh, no!

Ma-Maeda-sama...

This man...

is the man who was known as a legendary samurai,

as well as a legitimate eccentric.

Maeda Keiji

Maeda Keiji.

It's true that you are a very well-known eccentric.

No one ever knows what you might do!

But this is too much!

I just had it built! It's brand new!

That's exactly why.

Huh? What are you saying?

Don't you get it?

Th-That's... Naoe-sama.

And the other samurai who just made an appearance

Naoe Kanetsugu

is Naoe Kanetsugu.

Part of the Uesugi family, he is the governor

of 300,000 koku of the Yonezawa fiefdom,

and Keiji's best friend.

Everyone, listen well!

Everything in this world

that's reached its zenith will eventually decline.

Once you're satisfied and conceited,

your luck takes a turn for the worst

and eventually leads to your destruction.

It's too bad about that pillar.

But because of that wound,

this house will not get any grander.

Tarobei,

take a long hard look at that wound and engrave it into your heart.

That is what Keiji-dono is trying to say.

What the hell?

He stole my line.

M-Maeda-sama...

Kokuzouin Hyottokosai.

It's been a very long time since you gave yourself

that name for the fun of it.

Yeah.

I've been enjoying everything nature has to offer here in Doumori.

And I look forward to visiting you with sake in one hand.

Which makes the sake even better.

Say,

wasn't the first time we drank together in Kyoto?

Indeed. That was the summer of 1588.

After the end of the Shibata clan,

and the province of Echigo had finally been united after battle,

of which Hideyoshi was informed

as he proceeded to the capital.

But it was also the year

that started the life-or-death battle involving the survivors of Uesugi.

Shall we talk about our tales for a while?

Indeed. To our heart's content over some sake.

The character "gi" (righteousness), combines "oneself" with "sheep."

"Sheep" is the same as "beauty."

Therefore, "gi" means "to make yourself beautiful."

I repeat.

"Gi" truly means "For one to live beautifully."

Two eccentrics enter battle.

Dazzling Sengoku Period Story: Kanetsugu and Keiji.

Gifuu Doudou!!

Kanetsugu and Keiji

Uesugi Kagekatsu's Manor

Wh-What?!

Uwanariuchi?!

Indeed... I am ashamed of myself.

So...

Are you asking me to mediate this fight?

No, that is not what we're asking...

However, depending on the situation, he will die.

What?!

Therefore, I thought he may not be able to fulfill

his duties in Kyoto, so I brought him here.

Exactly what's going on? Tell me everything.

W-Well...

On this day, the 24th of July...

Uwanariuchi

Uwanariuchi is a fight among women

when a husband remarries another woman

within a month his divorce.

The first wife gathers helpers

and then barges into the

second wife's kitchen, wielding wooden swords.

But of course, the second wife isn't going to take this lying down,

so she gathers helpers, and they wield wooden swords of their own

for an all-out brawl.

However, a third party is normally called

to get in the middle of this

and pays the first wife a suitable amount of money

to try to get her to leave.

Then there shouldn't be an issue.

But you see... the helper they got was bad.

Indeed! Why did it have to be that man?!

Wait. Uwanariuchi is supposed to be conducted by women.

A man is participating?

Well... This person isn't someone