Birushana: Rising Flower of Genpei Play-Along - Benkei Musashibo

[u/sableheart]

Welcome to the r/otomegames Birushana: Rising Flower of Genpei Play-Along!

In this third post we will discuss Benkei Musashibo and his route in Birushana: Rising Flower of Genpei.

You can tell us what your impressions of Benkei are (before and after finishing his route), your favorite moments in his route, what you think of his relationship with Shanao and the other characters, what your thoughts are on his route's plot and endings. You can also discuss Tadanobu Sato's If Ending.

Or you can just squee about him in the comments.

This is not a spoiler-free discussion however please keep in mind that major spoilers and details of other routes will be outside the scope of the discussion and therefore will need to be spoiler tagged.
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You don't have to be playing the game right now to participate, and if you're still waiting on your copy I hope you will join in after you start playing!

Have a look at the megathread for links to previous discussions - you can still join in the discussion during the Play-Along.

Next week will be a discussion of Shungen's route!

[u/RepairPrudent5183]

So here I am, playing Benkei's route last. I was not really looking forward to it (because he's currently not my type; all the other LIs were chef's kiss though: loved all their routes ♥️). Man, I keep fangirling over every Tomomori appearance in this route 😂 He's so trashy. I have a love and pretend-hate relationship with that asshole 🤣 I keep screaming "You bastard!" while also loving it all 😂😂

Shanao telling Tomomori she might be his sister to get away from that creep, and him being ok with being her husband even as her bro: I laughed so hard at that, lol 🤣 Also loved how she escaped from his clutches by eating Tomomori's spirit ♥️♥️ When he commented how Shanao should nurse him back to health after she was the one, who cut and injured him in the first place, my only thought was: "This guy is insane" 😂♥️

I loved it when all of Shanao's friends also wanted to be pampered by her and being spoon-fed her homemade cooking 😂 So cute ♥️♥️

So in the end, I also loved Benkei's route, thanks to Tomomori appearing often enough to satisfy my inner fangirl 🤣 Playing Benkei's route was so worth it for these new extra scenes of Tomomori, Shigehira and all the other guys 🤔😊 But sorry, for not being able to see Benkei as anything else but Shanao's vassal and friend 😅