Number 8

Yusaku Maeyamada, a 40-year-old office worker who adheres to an old-fashioned way of working in the Reiwa era. His daily life, reflecting on the teachings of the great managers of his predecessors, is disrupted by an unknown virus pandemic.

The Aburanokoji incident. It was the final internal conflict within the Shinsengumi, and the largest conflict in the history of Japanese swordsmanship. In the turmoil-filled closing days of the Tokugawa Shogunate, a mere seven swordsmen had to take on the Shinsengumi in Kyoto in order to collect the bodies of their assassinated footmen, and it was there on that one gruesome, bloody night that the feelings of the swordsmen intersect...

Based on real historical figure called Honda Tadakatsu, the strongest military commander during the Japanese civil war/Sengoku period who served Tokugawa Ieyasu from the start of his career to become the unifying Shogun of Japan.