When it comes to action scenes I can be pretty forgiving as long as it least looks cool but this was garbage. I got to about episode 3 and I saw the ambush scene and for fuck's sake I rolled my eyes so hard. The silly amount of fire arrows was one thing which by the way are physically impossible to happen I don't know why Hollywood etc. insist on using them in every situation.
Then the greatest sin came along where they turned Mariko into a fucking girl boss and she started impossibly dancing around with a Naginata in a kimono for fuck's sake. Do you know how impractical those Kimonos are? It's about the same as wearing a full on dress and the feminists declare "She can do anything a man can do bigots!" no, just fucking no.
I thought I'd watch it because I've got a cold but that just pissed me off. If you want a watch something decent watch the original Shogun series. It's old, but even with the age it's still a hell of a lot more believable than this utter crap. One of the reasons this girl boss shit gets so jarring by the way is you often see the sacred women cutting down or beating up guys much bigger than them then the next fight scenes they inevitably have the men facing off against each other in a much more realistic way.
I hate normies, I hate them.
Fire Arrows Work (Shadiversity)
And I think like an alchemists crucible there could easily be secrets lost to modern cosplay youtubers.
lol yes I watched some of that, it was really interesting seeing the historical stuff on it.
Shadiversity is great they just take like 10x longer to say something than they need to.
The issue is that fire can't move as fast as the arrow so the flame goes out right away. The flame has to be restarted at the target, so hot coals or red hot metal should work fine, or something alchemical like substances that mix on target (two vials that break on target to combine ingredients).
I've seen fire arrows used in person, (They have a viking festival in Yorvic, and they used to have a boat burning with a effigy of a dead king before health a safety put an end to it), and there is some written and artistic evidence of them, but they were very specialised (and expensive) arrow tips. You're right though that the flame would go it if the bow is fully drawn and loosed at full speed, so I can only see their use being in ceremonial (boat burnings for instance) or sieges of wooden fortifications where the goal is to set fire to things, not kill targets and you cant use the full tension of the bow and keep the flame alive.
I like shadiversity, but I struggle with his stuff occasionally. Hes a very eager amateur, and gets a lot wrong, not as much as he gets right, but theres obvious gaps in his knowledge.