I'll be blunt and honest, I'm not the world's biggest Hotohori fan. The only other cel I have of him is when he's being pestered by a bandit. But that doesn't mean that I don't absolutely worship and adore this opening cel of him! Quite the contrary, never before have I seen such a perfect pose of graceful sword-dancing for our long haired bishy emporer. I thought that since I got the beautiful opening Tamahome that dances around Hotohori in this scene, I just had to get the other half to go along with him. Even though the sequence numbers differ, I feel like both of these cels capture the best moments of this entire scene ( 
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