Nobunaga's spot looks like some demonic nest-- As "Dousuru Ieyasu" offers us some delicacies again.

Episode 2 of Dousuru Ieyasu was out past Sunday, and here we got more extensive flashbacks from Iey-Moyoyasu's traumatic childhood! --With a twist!
So, basically, little Takechiyo (here portrayed by Kawaguchi Waku) was intercepted by the Odas as he was being offered as a hostage to the Imagawas.
In the drama, the kidnapping was the work of Nobunaga's crew with the "consent" of Toda Munemitsu-- This is how the homies of Nobunaga look:
When asking where he was, Takechiyo got his answer from Nobu, this was Owari: Nobu looks like some Demon lord from those Chinese BL dramas... Not that I complain!

The infamous "cute white rabbit that I'm going to eat" scene that drove us fangirls crazy:
To be honest, we all love Okada Nobunaga by now, but they should have picked a younger actor for this Nobu! He was a youngster here, but he looks even older than his adult counterpart!

So, Hirotada refuses to cut his alliance with the Imagawas and Nobuhide (portrayed by Fujioka Hiroshi) decides to kill Takechiyo, but Nobu has other plans: --This boy is "his toy!" (and we fangirls turned into rotten goo)

Thus starts a series of abuses to poor Takechiyo, called a white rabbit and being beaten by Nobu regularly-- But--! This was to awaken Takechiyo's "spirit"! "Takechiyo is not a rabbit! He's a tiger--!" Nobu easily defeats him again-- --but he smiles knowingly "That's it, that's right."

This is just the beginning, I look forward to see what's going to happen with the "Nobuyasu Incident" (spotted Gotoku in the cast, too!) and ultimately Honnoji-- Also Nagashino would be entertaining, also if by now we realized that NHK is never big when it comes to battles in an epic scale... Well, we'll see!

On a generic, fujoshi-free note, really loved the martiality of Nobunaga's soldier in this scene: Can't help but thinking that this perfect war machine is composed by the same exact misfits he collected as a youngster!

The drama uses the image of a wolf for Nobu-- And his soldiers act like a perfect pack of wolves! They look kinda disappointed when Nobu opts to not attack Okada castle--!