Happy Birthday Motonari!

Revisiting Motonari’s Route/Rant

I know this is late but better late than never?

Let’s just get on with it.

Ok so after reading Motonari’s route in English, I felt that I needed to revisit my opinion on his route after getting a better understanding on some text lines.

First let’s start with something I got wrong.

Initially, I felt confused as to why Motonari felt the need to capture MC in the beginning and later have her sold off the auction. Like why do the auction if your men already have possession of her? After restarting the route, I felt that they were only including this in order to really drive the point of “possession” and “ capture” ala KBTBB style. However, It was here that they clarified that Motonari was initially going to play the “savior” role to get MC and the Oda army to trust him. However, plan was ruined when he couldn’t stand MC babbling about how Nobunaga was great and he was going to bring peace to Japan.

So yes, I got this part wrong, but to be fair it was fairly obvious that he was Motonari when he showed in his regular outfit at the auction smiling. How did MC think it was not suspicious that he showed up as she was about to be sold in to slavery to “save” her?

Second, I need to give MC credit on how initially she had some sense of reason and was actually smart in being close to Motonari to discover his plans and possible thwart them. Keep your friends close, but your enemies closer right? Did she ever have a chance of being successful? No, but we already know from other MLs route that she can’t succeed in that era by herself. At least she initially tried to escape from his grasp when he was asleep or by calling out Keiji when she was trapped with Kicho.

Unfortunately, things take a nosedive from here. MC’s good sense had her convinced that Motonari was this poor child that was wronged by the world and just needed someone to believe and be loyal to him. Don’t get me wrong, his backstory was sad and definitely gives insight as to how he ended up as a misanthropic asshole. However, I believe that true love cannot come out of pity. MC really believed in both his endings that unconditionally loving him will cure him of his past traumas.

In addition, I can’t believe she managed to overlook his actions to find the guy attractive in the first place. I mean this guy made so many crude comments at her like asking her “if she wanted to ride his horse”, offering her as a plaything to Kicho (this part was so bad that I believe the writers had to backtrack in his POV to make it so that he didn’t really mean his comment), and constantly calling her his property and slave. I guess this MC is a masochistic cause she ended up liking all the condescending statements about her with minimalsigns that the guy actually liked her.

Speaking of his POV, I believe that knowing what he was thinking actually made his character even worse. We all know that LIs tend to have a wrong impression on who MC is in the beginning of their routes, but this guy straight up thought that she was a slut because so many people in the Nobunaga clan liked her. Every other thought expressed was him trying to get closer to his goal of having the world burn.

I could really rant about so many other things in his route, but I won’t because frankly I’m tired and I don’t want to delay this post anymore. If you follow me, you know that my opinion changed very little from my first impression. I think this was the first time that I hated having to read a LI’s route and I delayed so much in completing both endings. The only time I was happy was when I was rereading common route, and I could just tap at my screen to skip through everything.

I guess to end on a good note, we finally got his character over with and we only have Ranmaru, Kanetsugu, Kichou, and Yoshimoto routes left. (Yoshi just recently got announced yaaay!)