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Shogun

About to watch S01E03 · Tomorrow Is Tomorrow

Spoiler-free to End of S01E02 "Servants of Two Masters"

100% spoiler-free up to the final frame of S01E02. Continuity pack (season knowledge + staged narrative + relationship web). Nothing from S01E03 or later.

Months since last watch

14m

Long gap (passport-weighted): foundational who/where listed first.

Standard

John Blackthorne (Anjin) in Toranaga's Japan; succession war vs Ishido; Mariko translator and duty.

You are resuming mid-Season 1. Hard cutoff: S01E02 (Servants of Two Masters). Nothing from S01E03 or later.

Season 1 - early path (through E1). Board is set; season-end outcomes are not assumed.

You are still early in Season 1. Prior seasons (if any) are fully in force; this season's finale geometry is not.

Blackthorne becomes Toranaga's instrument.

Mariko's duty and sacrifice arc completes.

Focus on who wants what, who is allied, and which institutions are pressuring the cast.

Season 1 path through S01E02: E1 "Anjin" → E2 "Servants of Two Masters".

Cutoff discipline: every fact above ends at S01E02. Do not import anything from S01E03 ("Tomorrow Is Tomorrow") or later.

Key events (pre-cutoff)

01Season 1 through E1: early markers only.
02S1E01: Context beat: Blackthorne becomes Toranaga's instrument.
03S1E01: Context beat: Mariko's duty and sacrifice arc completes.
04S01E01: Anjin
05S01E02: Servants of Two Masters

Character status cards

Snapshots as of graph ordinal ≤ 2 (S01E02).

Lord Toranaga

alive

Regent contender

Loc. Kanto / Osaka politics

Motivation: Advance personal and factional stakes
Emotional state: Hardened by recent events
Last known: Long game toward shogunate

Allies

Toda Mariko, John Blackthorne

Threats

Ishido Kazunari, Ochiba-no-kata

John Blackthorne

Anjin

alive

Anjin

Loc. Japan

Motivation: Advance personal and factional stakes
Emotional state: Hardened by recent events
Last known: Toranaga instrument; hatamoto path

Allies

Toda Mariko, Lord Toranaga, Fuji

Threats

Ishido Kazunari

Toda Mariko

alive

Translator / noble

Loc. Duty path

Motivation: Advance personal and factional stakes
Emotional state: Hardened by recent events
Last known: Christian duty; sacrifice arc

Allies

John Blackthorne, Lord Toranaga

Threats

Ishido Kazunari

alive

Regent rival

Loc. Osaka

Motivation: Advance personal and factional stakes
Emotional state: Hardened by recent events
Last known: Hostages; opposition

Allies

Ochiba-no-kata

Threats

Lord Toranaga

Fuji

alive

Widow

Loc. Household

Motivation: Advance personal and factional stakes
Emotional state: Hardened by recent events
Last known: Blackthorne household

Allies

John Blackthorne

Rodrigues

alive

Pilot pilot

Loc. Sea

Motivation: Advance personal and factional stakes
Emotional state: Hardened by recent events
Last known: Portuguese navigator foil

Allies

John Blackthorne

Hiromatsu

alive

General

Loc. Toranaga house

Motivation: Advance personal and factional stakes
Emotional state: Hardened by recent events
Last known: Loyalty test

Allies

Lord Toranaga

Yabushige

alive

Schemer

Loc. Vassal

Motivation: Advance personal and factional stakes
Emotional state: Hardened by recent events
Last known: Self-interest flips

Threats

Lord Toranaga, John Blackthorne

Ochiba-no-kata

alive

Mother of heir

Loc. Osaka

Motivation: Advance personal and factional stakes
Emotional state: Hardened by recent events
Last known: Political force

Allies

Ishido Kazunari

Threats

Lord Toranaga

Buntaro

alive

Samurai

Loc. Mariko's husband

Motivation: Advance personal and factional stakes
Emotional state: Hardened by recent events
Last known: Honor and jealousy

Threats

John Blackthorne

Continuity web

Relationship map

Ink diagram of who is bound, opposed, or entangled as of the cutoff (End of S01E02 "Servants of Two Masters"). Click a name to pin. Edge labels appear on focus.

10 figures21/21 ties shownhub: Lord (8)

Hover or click any figure to open their tie dossier. Hostile and tense ties carry direction marks. Secret ties are dashed.

Open threads

Story continues from cutoff

high

All facts above end at S01E02. S01E03 is not included.

Who cares: you

Path to now

S1 through E1

Progress marker E1

Season 1 - early path (through E1). Board is set; season-end outcomes are not assumed.

S1 through E2

Current season path

Last episode watched: Servants of Two Masters. Next: Tomorrow Is Tomorrow.

World state

Status quo at season end is the baseline for the next stretch.
Treat later-season institutional collapses as unknown until you pass them.

Constrained desk chat

Temporal RAG over this pack only. No model calls. No post-cutoff index rows exist.

Desk · Cutoff desk open. I only know this show through End of S01E02 "Servants of Two Masters". Ask about characters, threads, or events before that line. I will refuse anything later.

Spoiler-free to End of S01E02 "Servants of Two Masters"

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