The notion of “Bushido” as he defined it simply didn’t exist in Japan before that, and Nitobe’s conception of it was at least as much Christian as Japanese, having been created to appeal to Westerners in the first place by way of equating honorable samurai with virtuous, chivalrous kni...
The Anti-Hero. On the outside, the anti-hero doesn't look like a hero at all. They're often morally flawed to the point of sometimes looking like a villain, and yet they have a virtuous, generous, even soft-hearted side they keep hidden from the world, only revealing occasionally. Be...
and is used to solve the final conflict onlyafterthe hero has already effectively “proven their worth” by standing up to the villain in the first place. So it’s as if the soft magic solution is an earned gift rather than adeus ex machina(though, again...
Even after she reveals herself as a thief, he thinks of her as the virtuous governess Maria. Fujiko takes advantage of his naivete, kissing him naked on the rooftop and calling him “Boyfriend-san” (though this is doubtless partly because continuity demands the two be dating by the start ...