Abarenbo Shogun

E1

The Star of Edo

Roughhousing daimyo Tokugawa Yoshimune of Kishu reluctantly becomes the Shogun so that he may bring prosperity to everyone in the country. On his procession to Edo Palace, he runs into his old friend Tatsugoro, and a little girl begging for a pardon for her father on death row. Yoshimune decides to sneak out of Edo Palace and do a little detective work.

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E2

The Remarkable Charlatan

Ogyu Shosen is called a quack doctor, but Yoshimune thinks he should be made surgeon-general.

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E3

The First Fireman Banner

Hatamoto firemen are causing a nuisance and thieving in town, so fiery Tatsugoro and his gang of construction workers aim to take them down.

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E4

Mother From Long Past

A hatamoto's spoiled brat daughter is in the habit of thieving and blaming it on commoners. Meanwhile, Yoshimune becomes preternaturally obsessed with a den-den taiko (a type of child's toy).

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E5

Spring in the O'oku

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E6

The Splendid Potato Samurai

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E7

The Man of River Styx

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E8

The Befouled Truncheon

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E9

The Chivalrous Thief

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E10

The Blossoming Meyasubako

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E11

The Finest Kiyari Song

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E12

The Amazing Kishu Woman

Yoshimune's old friend from Kishu, a female lumberjack, comes to Edo to engage in lumber trade, but gets in trouble.

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E13

The Perilous Souvenir Gift

Yoshimune's old friends from Kishu, Sakichi and Onatsu of the lumber store, are leaving town, so Yoshimune comes to bring them a present. He ends up getting in the way of a drug bust and is mistaken for a drug dealer.

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E14

The Golden Crow Charms

Fireman Genzo wins the lottery, but is then reported to the police for having a forged ticket.

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E15

The Quack Who Calls Forth Spring

Even though he has been made surgeon-general, nobody trusts Ogawa Shosen or Yoshimune's city hospital. Yoshimune decides to get himself admitted as Shin-san to investigate from within.

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E16

Showdown at Beautiful Yoshiwara

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E17

Love and the Guardian Deity

Satsuma domain bully a store that is in their debt by trying to steal the storekeeper's girlfriend, and by framing them for theft. Only a man of stone can save Tamba-ya from destruction!

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E18

The Beat of a Taiko Drum in Edo

Yoshimune really wants to attend a festival in Edo, but he has important business to attend to in the palace. Jii says he can go out as long as he is back by 4 PM. This doesn't seem likely, since Yoshimune gets involved in a big fistfight and village drama.

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E19

A Ballad of a Fireman

Tatsugoro's family is indebted to a samurai family, so Tatsugoro gives the samurai family his very best fireman to adopt, since the samurai have no heir of their own. The other samurai do not like him.

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E20

Iris and Sympathy

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E21

Fireman's Standard was Watching

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E22

Friendships Support the World

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E23

Rage of the Fishmonger

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E24

The Dreadful Shichi-ri Messengers

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E25

Heavens! Great Trouble in Edo

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E26

The Drunken Man Who was Promoted

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E27

The Woman Who Challenged the Yagyu Family

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E28

A Flower Blooms in the Dark

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E29

The Goofiest Pickpocket in Edo

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E30

The Misjudged Betrayer

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E31

The Woman Who Disappeared from the Hunting Ground

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E32

The Best Announcement of the Winner in Japan

Ryuko and Isonokaze were sumo wrestlers for a clan who tried to make them throw a match. Ryuko hides out at the fire house and meets Shin-san, who is very excitable and really, really wants to wrestle him. Eventually Shin-san learns of the wrestling drama that is unfolding...

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E33

A Daimyo's Famed Shiruko Restaurant

A certain han ruled by a child lord is having money trouble, so one of the han's samurai starts a sweet bean soup restaurant to try and raise funds. The samurai has some trouble getting customers...

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E34

The Women Who Dance in a Tempest

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E35

The Bride with an Explosive

A land reclamation project is taking place largely with Shogunate funds, carried out by contract with 2 companies (which are marrying their kids together as the ultimate symbol of the contract). One of the companies invents a bomb with a long fuse, to blow up a mountainous area in the reclamation zone. The other company decides to assassinate the first company, and steals the bomb...

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E36

The Deceiving Mole Under a Woman's Eye

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E37

Feel Her Heart

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E38

The Woman Who Challenged Her Master

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E39

A Sweet Snare from RyuKyu

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E40

Go! The Prodogy of the Commoners

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E41

Hara-Kiri! The Drunkard Magistrate

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E42

A Hot Man and a Brazen Hussy

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E43

The Shogun's Secret Ninja

Female ninja Osono's dad Seiemon comes to town. He is now a cotton-farming country samurai. Needs dried sardines for fertilizer. The hatamoto of sardineland is driving the fishermens' prices down so all the farmers secretly sell to Seiemon. The merchant tries to assassinate Seiemon and fails, since Seiemon is a ninja. Seiemon stays at the firehouse and plans to secretly assassinate the criminals, then kill himself, because he's depressed.

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E44

Fresh Blood on the Bestowed Sword

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E45

The Counterfeit Coins and the Candy Man

A man makes little pretty sugar candies for kids and tells funny stories. He used to be a counterfeiter because of his great manual dexterity, but vowed to turn his life around. Shin-san becomes interested in candy just when the guy's old friends force him to counterfeit again...

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E46

A Grand New Year's Gift

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E47

The Female Doctor with a Fist

Edo is invigorated by an unusually aggressive and outspoken female doctor, Oshino, who physically beats her patients if they do not obey her.

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E48

Hell in the Heavenly Bath

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E49

The Pen is Mightier Than The Sword

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E50

The Great Packed Lunch of a Woman

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E51

The Bride of the Fish Market

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E52

The Downfall of Ooka Echizen No Kami

A bad gang leader kidnaps Tadasuke's wife (who never appeared before or since), as she went to the shrine to pray for a baby. Tadasuke decides that justice outweighs his bride and prepares to prosecute the gang leader anyway, so Shin-san lets the prisoner go secretly to try and follow him to Tadasuke's bride...

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E53

The Best Dry Sake for Mother and Son

Clannish Edoite sake sellers turn against a travelling Osakan female sake seller to force her out of the market; only her long-lost son, an Edoite sake seller, can save her.

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E54

The Female Doctor Who Loves Money

Oshino, the female doctor with a fist, is in charge of a temple that gives free medical service to orphans, but it is reputed that she is stealing all the money instead.

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E55

This Small Incident Occured Ten Years Ago

Shoheiko, the official Shogunate college, has an admissions scandal where the bureaucrats turn out to have been accepting bribes for admissions. Yoshimune suggests opening it to commoners and calls up some obscure scholars; the vicious bureaucrats attack and kill one. Shin-san absolutely loses his mind, but Tatsugoro is there to give him a helping hand.

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E56

The Man Who Died in the Light Snowfalls in Spring

Ryuko's friend is killed by a rice wholesaler. Shin-san investigates this and discovers a whole sordid rice-based drama, including collective punishment, famine, and assassination.

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E57

Eliminations of Black Sheep

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E58

The Best Cherry Blossom Dance in Edo

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E59

The Firemen's Standard is the Firemen's Heart and Soul

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E60

Only the Sun Knew

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E61

The Perished Love in a Spring Storm

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E62

A Single Flower in the Dark

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E63

The Fallen Flower in the Game of Chance

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E64

Holding a Fire Standard for a Spear

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E65

The Troublesome Tea Urn Trip

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E66

Daruma Smiled on Joshu Road

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E67

Commissioner Ooka Committs Hara-Kiri!

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E68

A Bogus Complaint

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E69

Very Proud of the Celebrated Sword

An unbalanced ronin wants to become the sword teacher to a daimyo, so he can get enough money to buy back his really sexy sword from the pawn shop. However, a competitor attacks him, crippling the ronin's hand. Shin-san is really mad about this, even though the ronin attacked him earlier.

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E70

A Loach Pot Rather Than A Domain

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E71

The Best Godfather in Japan

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E72

Revenge Colored with Safflowers

A pregnant safflower farmer's husband is run over by the local lord's horse. She's lured to the daikan's office to get compensated but is raped and turned into the lord's concubine instead. She schemes to have herself murdered so Ooka Echizen will enter the manor and discover these great crimes.

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E73

A Man Passionate About the Snow on Mount Fuji

A kind but untalented kitchen-supervisor samurai is assigned to accompany his domain's gift to the Shogun: big blocks of ice. Shin-san, tramping around Shinjuku, accidentally discovers this delivery and starts accompanying it too, and discovers a rival domain is trying to kill the ice to humiliate the first domain.

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E74

Kick the Edo Illness Out!

A mysterious illness (beriberi) becomes common and Yoshimune calls his doctor to find out what the cause is. His doctor says only his own special blend of medicine (very expensive) can cure it. Oshino, the female doctor with a fist, however, believes the solution is more simple (and involves punching people).

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E75

Gorozaemon Kano's Disappearance

Kano Gorozaemon, who is practically Yoshimune's adoptive father, goes out into Edo to get a surprise present for the Shogun, and is kidnapped by a nutter who wants to frame him for murder to steal his job.

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E76

Suspicion Begets Idle Fears

A lord lets 3 master ghost actresses into his house as maids, somehow doesn't connect this with supernatural happenings in his house.

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E77

The Bride That Came From Kishu

Kikue, the daughter of a potter, comes to Edo and meets her old friend Shin-san, who she recognizes as the Shogun. She came to marry Kano Gorozaemon, who proposed to her when she was eight (??!) but Kano backed out.

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E78

A Man Hunting the Whole Country

The Ogobanshu (kind of like a guild of hatamotos) want to hunt, but in setting the borders of the hunting area they recklessly steal the corner of a VERY sensitive farmer's farm.

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E79

Peerless! The Taste of Momma

Matsumae domain officials and the store Ebisu-ya are conspiring to give predatory loans to alcohol shops. Lady merchant Omasa from Osaka wants to get a better deal, and her son unfortunately took the debt from his main sake supplier, so now she needs to get money to save both their skins.

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E80

The Direct Retainers of the Shogun Run Wild

Hatamotos, a domain, a runaway killer samurai from the domain, the firemen, and jii for some reason, all end up in a gigantic free for all fight.

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E81

Heroes in the Darkness

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E82

Angelic Neighborhood Bully

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E83

Thief Targeting the Nation

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E84

O-sai Flies!

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E85

Mount Fuji Saw The Wild Spear

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E86

The Shogun Permitted a Thief

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E87

Bullet Aiming At 8 Million Koku

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E88

Burn! Even If You Must Die

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E89

Embarrased To Recieve Flowers in Congratulation

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E90

Beast Battle! Master Tatsugoro

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E91

Duel! In the Stormy Castle

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E92

Cheers! Quack Doctor

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E93

The Will of the Raging Samurai

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E94

The Lanterns of Early Spring and Noon Emerge

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E95

I Saw a Rainbow in the Sea of Flames

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E96

Get the Vermin Out of the Castle!

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E97

I Don't Need a Mother!

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E98

The Girl From the Wolf Village

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E99

A Dohyori of Fire!

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E100

The Fake Shogun

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E101

The Eight Million Koku Porter

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E102

The Collector Who Collected the Villain's Head

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E103

Catastrophe! We Shouldn't Have Gotten Out of the Way!

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E104

Japan's Most Wanted Bride

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E105

Stop! Uncontrolled Official Carriage

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E106

What is a Shogun?

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E107

Watch Out! A Female Spy

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E108

The Man Who Gives Orders to the Shogun!

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E109

Snacks Delight on a Sunny Day

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E110

Youth of Edo, Stand Up!

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E111

Love Blossoms in Ubasuteyama!

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E112

The Proud and Naive Samurai

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E113

The Man Who Didn't Stop

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E114

I Saw the Real One! The Hayabusa Brat

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E115

Beware of the Quick Bucks

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E116

The Man Who Died and Flourished

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E117

Courage in the Face of Injustice

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E118

Thief Training

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E119

The Fox Woman Cries, the Banner of Empathy

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E120

The Princess Take - Tears from a Wedding Procession

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E121

The Flourishing of the Female Bushido

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E122

The Sad Song of the South

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E123

The New Boss! - Osai, of the Fire Extinguisher

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E124

The One Who Stood Out After Being at Risk of Drowning

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E125

Floating Lanterns That Mark a New Beginning in a Man's Life

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E126

Love Sold for 20,000 Ryu

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E127

The Trap in the Wolf Village

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E128

Melancholy Ninja Love

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E129

Dad, You Used to Be Someone

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E130

My Childhood Friend is an Oku Woman

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E131

There was a Bullet in the Clam Chowder!

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E132

Run! The Shogun's Horse!

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E133

Listen! The Chronicles of the Old Man and the Young Master

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E134

A Silly Dance in an Oily Hell

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E135

Duel on the Steam of Hell

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E136

The Woman Who Bet on the Mountain of Fire

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E137

Edo's Female Chief

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E138

Hakone's Melancholic Drizzle

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E139

The One Who Flirted Was to Blame

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E140

The Wild Spear Everyone Fears

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E141

The Bandit Harusame's Mother

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E142

Munenryu Shintoism and Confucianism According to the Hayashi Clan

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E143

I Am the Most Unpleasant Person in the World

Shin-san accidentally gets involved with two low-class thieving morons, to Tatsugoro's horror. Tatsugoro finally manages to get rid of them, and one of them is promptly killed by evil ninjas for having seen something he should not have. Yoshimune learns they were raising a bunch of orphans in an awful shack with their scammed money, and decides he must avenge the dead criminal.

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E144

One Life For One Isshou of Shochu

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E145

The Silent Man's Divorce Letter

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E146

Ah! Justice Has Tears!

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E147

Megumi Clan's Love Bridge

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E148

Japan's Number One Little Thief

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E149

Tops Spinning Beneath a False Union

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E150

The White Waves That Shame the Flowers

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E151

Sado, the Shining Yellow

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E152

The Shogun, the Horse Thief, and the Brat

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E153

When a Man Sparks

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E154

The Love That Blooms Inside a Coffin

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E155

I Don't Want to Be the Shogun's Bride

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E156

Jongara with a Munen-Ryu Kid

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E157

The Cursed Box of 1000 Ryos

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E158

Hell's Bells Ring at 6.00 p.m

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E159

Rest in Peace, Onaka - The Flowing Lanterns

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E160

The Flowers That Fall Without Waiting for Spring

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E161

The One Who Smiled in the End

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E162

The Blooming Ginseng Flower That the Firefighter's Matoi Made Flourish

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E163

The Cowardly Samurai Who Made a Demon Woman Cry

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E164

Break the Chains of the Heart With Human Kindness

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E165

Whose Ungrateful Son is it

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E166

Promise of the Bell the Girl With Bangs and a Sword

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E167

The Decisive Duel of the Lantern Samurai

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E168

Legitimate Marital Fight

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E169

Clear Sky - The Hungry Lancer

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E170

The Duel! Blood in the Fuefuki River of Koshu

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E171

Burning Tears of the Traitor

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E172

The Flower in the Shadow That Made a Man Bloom

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E173

Waves of the Seto Maiden

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E174

Onomichi - Sunset of Revenge

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E175

The Million Kokus Dependent

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E176

The Bond of Hatred Between Father and Daughter

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E177

The Morning When Demons Wept

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E178

The Bet For the Dance Fan in the Sumo Ring

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E179

The Samurai Tanuki Performs a Great Feat

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E180

The Man Who Steals While Preaching

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E181

Oath of Brothers

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E182

The One Who Eats From the Table and the One Who Doesn't

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E183

The Night Flower That Blooms Once

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E184

The Man Who Danced in the Shadows

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E185

The Man Who Danced in the Shadows

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E186

The Love Story of a Man and His Taiko Drum

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E187

Sorry, Shogun! The Change of a Monk

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E188

Call of the Storm! The Bride From Megumi

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E189

The Heart of a Mother That Made Demons Cry

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E190

The Number One Rain Man in Japan

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E191

Cold Wind of Yoshiwara, Tears of a Woman

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E192

Laughter and Tears, The Dramatic Life of the People of Kawachi

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E193

The First Snow is the Make-Up of the Dead of a Sad Woman

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E194

The Poor and Nameless Grass

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E195

The Fragrance of the Sea, Tastes Like Mama

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E196

Why Sadness in Sharing an Umbrella?

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E197

A Remora That is More Frightening Than a Pufferfish

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E198

Sadness. Fallen Flowers of Those Who Stay

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E199

The Villain Who Laughed Last

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E200

Laughter and Tears, Three Girls From Edo

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E201

The Greatest Achievement of a Drunken Jitte

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E202

The Tale of the Fame of the Fool Kanpachi

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E203

The Flower That Disappeared in an Avalanche

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E204

Farewell Flower, Night Gust

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E205

Spring Has Come Again! Spouses' Kanzashi

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E206

You're a Child. Don't Cry, Torokichi!

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E207

The Farewell of the 808 Towns

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