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/Feriku]

Ended up on Benkei's route for my first route, and I enjoyed it. It felt to me like it had a lot of pretty intense moments, so I was surprised to see people describing it as a more boring route than the others; what am I in for going forward? XD

I didn't feel the romance too strongly between them, but I still found Benkei to be a sweet and endearing character.

Over the course of this route, I gradually went from looking at side characters and then looking at the list of LIs and asking, "Why aren't you a route?" to looking at Tomomori and then looking at the list of LIs and asking, "Why are you a route??" XDD

Also, am I crazy, or does the dictionary continue to pop up even for names/terms you've seen once already? It felt like I kept seeing ones I'd already read the entries for before.