Gorgeous! I mean both visually, and ludically, the single-button single-stroke combat works way better than I’d have expected.
I wonder if there’s a way to give feedback about the near misses? Oni No Kensei killed me three times before I got him, and I wanted somehow to see how far off my timing actually was. But I can’t picture a way of doing that that would maintain the tasteful sparsity of the current layout, so maybe no…