The problem with writing alternate history is that you have to figure out where things go, as china has discovered in Kunoichi Bettegumi Igarashi Satsuki series. To understand this volume, it helps that you know of the Namamugi Incident, in which a British citizen refused to move off the road when the Satsuma daimyo’s party […]
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