Things have turned very dark for the Heike. Yoshinaka has unleashed hooligans who bully the poor residents of the capital.
Everyone, including long-time ally Lord Ogata, betray the Heike, further disillusioning Kiyotsune. The hardship drives Kiyotsune over the edge, making him commit suicide.
Biwa meets her mother, who had abandoned her, and decides to forgive anyway. She then journeys to the west, where the Kamakura Genji shall soon arrive. How many more character deaths does this mean?
Episode 10 Speculations
No one had foreseen Kiyotsune, the art, and music-loving softie, to die for no reason. He was such a precious baby, and now his best friend is dead too.
Every Koremori fan, however, is rejoicing now that Yoshinaka is dead for good. It serves him right for traumatizing Koremori to his bones.
In the end, Biwa promises to play the biwa and sing of Heike’s glory and downfall, which we see in the opening when she’s older and grayer.
Episode 10 Release Date
Episode 10 of the Heike Monogatari anime has been released on Wednesday, Nov 17, 2021. The episode title or preview has not been shown.
This anime runs on a weekly schedule. New episode releases are seven days apart.
I. Is Heike Monogatari on Break This Week?
Episode ten of Heike Monogatari will be released as per schedule. No delay has been announced.
Episode 9 Recap
The mysterious three girls who had helped Biwa from Genji soldiers last time turned out to be aspiring shirabiyoshi. They increasingly became fond of Biwa, mentioning how they had seen a retired shirabiyoshi with similar eyes.
Yoshinaka’s men roam around the capital, looting homes, causing discontent among the people and Go-Shirakawa.
Much to Tokuko’s dismay, Go-Shirakawa has installed Emperor Takakura’s son with Lady Shokuko as the emperor. Lord Ogata, previously Shigemori’s ally, was tasked with attacking the Heike by Go-Shirakawa.
Learning of this, Kiyotsune is deeply saddened that principles of loyalty, trust, and righteousness were nothing now. As Sukemori points out, perhaps the Heike never possessed them in the first place.
Such disillusionment, in the end, drives Kiyotsune to suicide, and Biwa watches it happen with her eye. She goes in search of her mother with her new companions and finally meets her.
At first, she was angry that her mother had abandoned her, but in the end, she forgives. Since she can’t change anything, she decides to set her prayers to the tune of her Biwa.
Yoshinaka wants Go-Shirakawa to declare him shogun and is rumored to want to kill Yoritomo. So he sends his younger brother Yoshitsune to kill Yoshinaka, making him die in an inner power struggle.
Biwa decides to go westward, and that is precisely where the Kamakura Genji are headed. After their battle with the Genji, Sukemori flees.
Yoshitsune’s army surprise attacks the Heike from behind. As all-important officials flee, Atsumori realizes he left his flute behind. As he takes it back to camp, a Genji soldier catches him.
At first, the soldier has no qualms about killing a 16-year-old but comes to empathize with him as he realizes they’re both putting their lives on the line for some fragile glory. He kills Atsumori anyway, though.
As one seagull joins another, Biwa watches it all happen, and she vows to bear witness to their story.
About The Heike Story
The Heike Story is an original anime by Studio Science SARU which follows the story of a musician girl Biwa, who has the power to see ghosts and the future. She befriends the heir of the powerful Taira clan and prophesies the clan’s eventual downfall.
The story is adapted from Hideo Furukawa’s novel Heiki Monogatari, a retelling of the 12th century Genpei War between the Taira and the Minamoto clan for the control of Japan.
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