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| Welp, Shiki's abilities came at the right place at the right time from this arc tbh. It's just kinda sad to see how Kyoto ended up after all this mess. On a lighter note, we got the cast back in the academy classrooms again so it feels like the old days. I almost forgot how amusing some of the character chemistry is in the show. |
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| While it doesn't justify Tsubakiri's actions, I actually liked the backstory here. Tragic that this happened to Manaka simply because he felt sympathy, even tho I still disagree with his last words directed at Tsubakiri. The repercussions of this incident were pretty ironic and it's a classic example of a vicious cycle. Oh welp, Tsubakiri is officially dead. And lol, there are caring girls and there is Kuina  |
FMmatronSep 19, 9:53 AM
One Piece episode 914 & 915 & 1027 were a mistake and 957 brought the salvation - FMmatron |
| All I could think during that flashback, which came too little too late to really be effective, was it was your own damn fault your wife and child died for attacking the oni in the first place. I get it's meant to be preventative to save normal humans, but the show hasn't done a good enough job showing oni wantonly attacking them without being provoked first to justify it. Landed like a wet fart, but I'll give the show credit for actually confirming the dude was dead. More importantly, Kiriyama is officially the luckiest character in this, by far. My god... |
| So basically you mean to tell me needlessly slaughtering people because of what they are and not who they are just breeds more hate and violence!? Color me surprised. Not sure how much I care about Tsubakiri and Manaka’s sob story. Everyone’s got one. In the end, the oni won but at what cost? Violence only begets more violence. The vicious cycle continues. Also, where’s my waifu who does literally everything for me and bones 3 times a day? I want a Sazanami! Kiriyama’s got the dream set up lol. |
| Authentic. |
| Both the attempt at eliciting last-minute sympathy for Tsubaraki and "Sazanami kind of scares me" had me dead. It's a little concerning how ready Byobugaura was to volunteer herself into homelessness "for the greater good". |
| Kuina's schedule, my respects, is excellent material for doujinshi with various interesting tags. The episode is good, and this story arc finally concluded. As for the trash's backstory, yes, I feel sorry for his colleague's family, but he wasn't particularly smart either, since absolutely all the victims were his fault, and then young oni, who went berserk, who was driven to this state by the murder of his family. Let's just say Mei's family didn't bother anyone, and none of the three were aggressive, but the trash and his chupa-chups lover attacked them, and the final dialogue about the wife made me laugh. Better to be fatherless than with a bastard and murderous father, so nothing was lost. |
ShiroAlexSep 19, 10:59 AM
| Tsubakiri backstory like that’s gonna make me feel sad for him lmaoo, fuck him. He had a kid himself and still abused and treated oni children and families like that. Even if she’s not human, that little girl he was abusing clearly looked like a child. Killed her family in front of her and tormented her, got what he deserved. Rest in piss, hopefully his kid will be better. |
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| We finally got a glimpse of the Momotarou's side, and why they hate Oni so much, this time showing Tsubakiri's backstory, and honestly, I'm surprised, it was really solid. Obviously it doesn't excuse the cruelty of Tsubakiri, but you can now understand why he was so cold towards Oni, they basically took his parents, and more importantly, his dear friend, that showed him why it's good to be alive. And his friend died exactly because he felt sorry for the Oni kid, just to later the kid go into berserk mode, and kill a bunch of people, including his friend's family. Yomogi was able to survive, because Mudano just decided to spare her, since he could just easily break the box she made, but ok, Mudano had other priorities, fair enough, but this decision is going to bring them problems in the future for sure. Yomogi also revealed that Tsubakiri actually had a family of his own now, that was the most surprising honestly. I guess it's better for Shiki to not know he left a kid orphan. I found the "Tsubakiri, dead at 31" interesting, are they going to do it for other characters? Also, the doctor guy is alive! Not much of a surprise honestly, since I always suspected he didn't really die, but now we got that confirmation, and how he did it: by using his power on himself. That scene where Shiki, Mudano and the doctor guy watch the sunrise was a pretty shot! It seems they are not going on a "school trip" (which we all now isn't going to end well), but we still got a bit more of interactions between the characters, getting to know them better. Kuina is totally obsessed over Rokuro, I would be afraid too. The word Kuina says (when talking of what she will do with him) that is censored is supposed to be what? Also, they are making the green haired guy such a pervert, that I just really don't like him. He had so much potential as a character, but they ruined that. Even before going back to school, in that scene where they show the characters that "had a bad time", for him they only showed a box of tissues and his glasses, and well, at first, with the tissues, I thought he was having his alone time, which would be kinda weird to show in between all that, but then they showed his glasses so I though "ohh, he's actually crying" (I mean, why would he take his glasses off to pleasure himself, right?). Well, I was wrong, he really was pleasuring himself, as later revealed when he said he couldn't have "alone time", since he got paired up with the teacher (btw, this comment didn't make sense, since he would be paired with someone, that was already confirmed, he wouldn't have alone time either way). Like, the anime was doing a "oh, they are having an hard time" moment, but the green haired guy was having an amazing time it seems. Surprisingly, Ikari is becoming a more interesting character than what I was expecting. And Jin is having that character thingy where they feel depressed because their rival is stronger than them, I suppose. I'm guessing the next arc is going to show more of the characters, and probably give more time to Jin to stand out due to that too. Also, Shiki and Jin sharing a room might be the beginning of their Naruto-Sasuke relationship (that was almost BL at times honestly). I hope they nail that kind of relationship though. But things are not going to be smooth to Shiki any time soon it seems... I wonder if Mei will reappear in the story later on. Anyways, I'm still unsure about the decision of making Shiki this powered up so early on in the series... We're only 11 episodes in, and Shiki was already able to kill one Momotarou alone... Yeah, there might be some stronger ones, but Tsubakiri was never shown to be "the weakest" commander or anything, only that he started in the investigation team... I don't know if there's any manga reader than can answer it, but how many volumes have been adapted already? Since I'm pretty sure we only adapted a few, and the series has already around 25 volumes, so I really think this power scalling is going to hurt the series in the long run. Anyways, this episode finally showed us more of the Momotarou's perspective. I especially liked how Shiki realized that killing Tsubakiri didn't really bring Mei's parents back, which is a reflection to his own situation, since he wants revenge on his father's death, but will killing Samidare bring his father back? In a way, he already realized that answer by himself, and that was actually a really interesting way to resolve this issue. The ending theme being "What is Justice" is fitting for this conclusion of the arc too. I suppose we're still getting at least 1 more episode with this set of opening/ending, although we are already moving on into another arc. I don't know if I'm ready for the new set, considering this one was pretty fire! WHAT IS JUSTICE? |
| Yeah, sad flashback's are never enough when characters have been utter vicious, smug a**holes for several episodes. Good riddance. |
| "Perhaps there is a universal, absolute truth. Perhaps it justifies every question. But that's beyond the reach of these small hands." Mamoru Oshii There is a cult of ignorance (...) nurtured by the false notion that democracy means that “my ignorance is just as good as your knowledge.” Isaac Asimov |
| I can't comprehend how they're trying to make the Momotaro sympathetic, even in the backstory they gave these guys were going around killing families of Oni. They were already actively committing genocide before anything bad happened to them personally. |
| Thank God Tsubakiri is dead, I thought they would just let him be, I would get so mad if that happened Seeing Mei's smile was so worth it |
  Imouto suki Tsundere-Chuuni-Imoutos save me...   |
| If there was ever a fricking sobstory that I neither needed nor gave two shits about, it was this one for that piece of shit lol |
| Idc about the backstory of the evil momotaro though the one thing I was curious about - the death of gravity guy and it wasn't even clear. A rampaging oni killed him just like that? Also they won't go into rampage like that if the momotaro aren't hunting them like pigs. Idc how many of them dies they brought it to themselves. So far they haven't shown onis killing innocent people deliberately |
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