[DeepL Translation - needs review] Volume 1 Introduction: The time is Sengoku (Warring States Period). The time was the Warring States period, and there was a group of pirates who made their name known in the turbulent times. The Murakami pirates. Takeyoshi Murakami, the head of the Murakami Pirates, was a strong and powerful man with his roots in the islands of the Seto Inland Sea. His daughter, Kyo, inherited his bravery and roughness. She was an ugly woman who spent her days working as a ...
I liked the historical plot, I liked the titular character (and the others as well), so it should be an easy win, right? Wrong.
The pacing is hell.
For the first half, anything that happens is interrupted for the author to give some sources as for why it happened and why it probably happened that way. Picture this: two characters, A and B, are talking. A says “hey, B”. The author immediately interrupts to give some background on A, including some notes from the diary of character C, and then g