I just start translating and then I don't stop. I have no idea why that is.

And yeah, Rurouni Kenshin does a much better job explaining that while some samurai profited from the restoration, others lost their privileges, some of their income and their job security. It seriously seems to me as if the author just watched The Last Samurai and decided that this was what samurai really were all about.

deepad is made of win.