The weirdest thing about the show is that it's full of famous historical figures but they changed all of their names for some reason. Feels like watching a show about American history where the first American president is named Jeffery Bathington for no reason or something.

The other weirdest thing about the show is that most of the dialogue is in Japanese, but they don't credit the writer who wrote all the dialogue as a writer. I had to dig around in interviews to find out who actually wrote most of the words in the show. Not great!

it's based on the book by James Clavell, which does the same thing