The Shōgun’s army captures Sakura, and of course Maeve decides to help her sister-from-another-mister-programmer save her surrogate daughter. That turns out not to be the case – the Shōgun has Robot Brain Juice leaking out of his ears like Bernard does, so he’s not conscious, just broken – but the end result is a samurai story with no nuance whatsoever. Instead, Lee says that the ninjas aren’t supposed to be in this storyline at all, and neither is the Shōgun apparently, the ruler has awakened like Westworld’s hosts. It’s so generic that it seems like it has to be the most basic adventure Shōgun World has to offer but, apparently, it isn’t. Maeve (Thandie Newton) absolutely rocking that kimono. Knowing that they have incurred his wrath, Akane, Musashi, and the rest decide to leave under the cover of darkness. Akane tries declining politely at first, then tries declining impolitely, which is to say killing the Shōgun’s envoys. Instead, it delves into a very traditional samurai entertainment plot: Akane has a beautiful young geisha named Sakura ( Lost in Space’s Kiki Sukezane) under her purview, and the Shōgun sends his men to claim her. Unfortunately, Westworld doesn’t explore this potentially fascinating encounter, really, other than Maeve giving Akane some knowing looks and both Akane and Maeve being similarly badass. An embarrassed Lee points out that he has a lot of stories to write, guys of course he had to “plagiarize” his own work a bit. Hell, Musashi even scoots Akane out of the way of the falling safe, just as Hector did. Maeve’s realisation that she is, essentially, encountering herself in Akane is some (more) top-notch acting by Thandie Newton, as Hector finds a fellow super-handsome outlaw in Musashi, and Armistice meets her Japanese counterpart ( The Wolverine’s Tao Okamoto) with a dragon tattoo instead of a snake. If that doesn’t sound familiar, it becomes pretty clear once the traditional Japanese shamisen breaks into the Rolling Stones’ “Paint It Black,” as Mushashi and Akane reenact the same theft storyline that Hector and Maeve performed hundreds of times in Westworld. He and his gang are off to visit a nearby geisha house, run by a madam named Akane (played by Pacific Rim‘s Rinko Kikuchi), and to steal its safe. “Akane No Mai” starts out terrifically as Maeve, Hector, Lee, and the gang have been captured by a ronin with the terribly generic but I guess appropriately-for-a-theme-park-called-Shōgun-World name of Musashi (played by veteran Hiroyuki Sanada) and his cohorts. Here you’ll find first looks to complete hands-on experiences with the latest tech on the market.
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