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| This episode is really interesting imo, because it take a deep dive into Izumo's past and the relationship she shared with her mother. It seems her mother was a gentle woman who loves her daughter. Their family is kinda complicated but Izumo's mother seems like the ideal mother to have. The episode also tells history about their shrine maiden lineage too. Just a very important episode to the overall lore of the series. Izumo's complicated personality and family is very fascinating to see from her perspective. |
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| Izumo just can't seem to catch a break, poor thing. I can't help but feel sorry for her. Takara calls upon Fox God Mike, Izumo's familiar, to discuss the historical backdrop involving the Kamiki family and the Inari Taisha Shrine. Stemming from generations of shrine maidens, Tamamo, the mother of Izumo and Tsukumo, assumes the role of family leader burdened with controlling the fox demon, Nine Tails. Despite Izumo's formidable divine abilities as a shrine maiden, she lacks support in her personal life, spending her days amidst the lively presence of her mother and younger sister. However, tranquility shatters with the emergence of the Inari Light Foundation, signaling a descent into turmoil for their once serene existence. It's really no surprise that Izumo finds it hard to trust anyone. She had to grow up faster than most, without any reliable adults to lean on. And then there's Tamamo... Any man who turns his back on his own kids isn't worth a second thought. But despite it all, her child still stands by her, showing true love and care. How could she not see that? It's almost funny how she takes her frustration out on the kids because the man she loves won't step up. Talk about missing the point. Then there's Poor Izumo, haunted by memories of a childhood filled with neglect from her father and loneliness as a misunderstood child. Even her own mother let her down. She's been wearing a mask, hiding her pain, enduring a life that's nothing short of miserable, all while waiting for her turn to be a lab experiment. No wonder she's become so distant. I just wish we could see her smile more in this series. And that ugly fuck of a scientist... he just pisses me off. I'm holding out hope that someone, maybe Rin or someone else, finally puts him in his place. This episode really hit hard, probably the most emotional one yet. All I can hope for now is that Rin and the gang find a way to take down that ugly fuck once and for all. |
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| Holy shiiiiit. Izumo being the way she is makes so much sense now. Her childhood being fucked up is an understatement. At first I thought that that woman from Illuminati is putting up a front, but she turned out to be a nice person. Her begging for her life and then being killed just like that was so tragic. But that short Illuminati guy looks so goofy and punchable, I can't really take him seriously lmao. I hate him with every ounce of my being already. I hope he dies a painful death. One of the best episodes in all of Blue Exorcist |
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| Love it when the OP plays in the beginning. Let's me know that things are about to pop off. Considering her history with these people Shinzo really screwed up his chances of having any kind of relationship with Izumo. Can't wait till that scumbag gets what's coming to him. On another note, it's a shame that her mum is the definition of a lazy genius. Heck if anything the foxes should make a full contract with Izumo by now. |
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| What a messed up childhood Izumo had, no wonder she became so closed off and reluctant to build relationships. Seeing her mom become that way, and what happened to the Illuminati lady was sad, fuck that scientist. Characters like him, across all forms of media, are so easy to hate and I always wish for the worst to happen to them. phantomfandom said: Skippable episode. Yea, because fuck characterization am I right. π€¦ |
| People on MAL refuse to actually enjoy watching anime. Your taste in anime isn't a personality trait. MAL is literally just anime Twitter as its own website lol. |
| grand chungus gedouin is such an insufferable fat lard obese chomo. |
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| Okay, jeez, that was some dark past! No wonder why she seems to be the most reluctant when it comes to trusting someone. That murder intent during submission at the end of the episode was telling, the grudge is real and for good reason! Man, Rin and the group better fudge up this research lab when they arrive here. Last episode’s, “It’s all your fault!”, directed from Izumo to her mother makes a lot sense from her POV now. It’s not my place to say whether it was bad parenting or not but from what we could gather, the current Kamiki generation were not blessed with the best parents. I saw illegitimate children being mentioned in the subtitles during the younger sister’s school scene and I guess I was right to fear for the worst. |
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Reply to phantomfandom
Skippable episode.
| @phantomfandom LOL |
| I want that f'ing annoying guy to stop stealing air, for yesterday. |
| No tomo malas decisiones, solo me gusta apoyar causas perdidas. Disfruté Mayoiga, Ou-sama Game, Evil or Live, Mirai Nikki, Big Order, Arifureta, Ex-Arm, Tesla Note, Shuumatsu no Harem y Platinum End nope les falle con esa, lo siento pero todos tenemos nuestros límites. Así de jodido es mi gusto en anime, ¡Y estoy pinche orgulloso de ello!  |
Reply to Stark700
This episode is really interesting imo, because it take a deep dive into Izumo's past and the relationship she shared with her mother. It seems her mother was a gentle woman who loves her daughter. Their family is kinda complicated but Izumo's mother seems like the ideal mother to have.
The episode also tells history about their shrine maiden lineage too. Just a very important episode to the overall lore of the series. Izumo's complicated personality and family is very fascinating to see from her perspective.
The episode also tells history about their shrine maiden lineage too. Just a very important episode to the overall lore of the series. Izumo's complicated personality and family is very fascinating to see from her perspective.
| @Stark700 Not sure I agree that this is the ideal type of mother, but to each their own. She's certainly better than an abuser or a manipulator, that's for sure. |
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| What a dark episode but what is really necessary to bring backstory. I rather want to watch the main character than go with a whole episode with Izumo past. Well at least we know why she doesn't trust people. But the usually power of friendships will save her. |
Nothing ventured, nothing gained (Girls und Panzer der Film ) / from Nishizumi Miho |
| Crazy how in this series we have the typical shonen characters, and then Izumo being one of the best characters ever lol |
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| Well this episode was a bit hard to watch, partly cause the author made sure to give that scientist the ugliest character design possible, but it's probably my favorite episode from this season so far. Poor Izumo. Felt really bad for the scientist that tried to help her and her sister as well. |
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| Cliche bad anime parenting is cliche bad anime parenting. An anime parent telling their child "it's all your fault" for something that very obviously isn't their fault is so cliche at this point that it's basically become parody. I also don't think we needed to have it spelled out that these events would make Izumo never trust anyone again, as it was pretty damn self-evident without her monologue about it. Also, that lead scientist's design is incredibly distracting and completely out-of-place with everyone else in this series. They should have just changed his design in adaptation rather than presumably maintaining it from the source material: an adaptation can make changes, you know, and it would have been easy to tweak his design to not look so ridiculous and out-of-place. |
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| Geez what an episode. It was all show don't tell information dump, and her family is just ... FUBAR. The asshole of a father who refused to see her mother. Her mother who was pretty much deranged after that. And the illuminati who just swooped in to pick up the pieces and use her mother as human experimentation stock, and to use her (or her younger sister) as a substitute once the mother is used up. Ewww. I am so angry beyond belief ... I hope the fat guy gets smashed to shards, SLOWLY so he suffers as much as her mother suffered. Now I wish Izumo had more than slapped him. This was as disturbing or worse than Made in Abyss, that's saying a lot. Ewwww. |
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| I'm ambivalent; this was really well done but at the same time I just found it really unsatisfying to see so much suffering without any justice. I guess that's the world for you, but to have a whole episode rife with undue pain kind of takes the wind out of your sails. |
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| Those scenes animated and with voices just hit different than the manga pages. Very nicely done. |
| disappointing season.... |
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| omg this backstory of izumo is so dark and deep !!! that ugly bastard so fucking jerk !! |
| Finally, an interesting episode |
If you are going to disagree with me, don't bother talking to me. I will seriously hurt you! |
| The Kamiki flashback, especially Izumo's, is moving, unveiling the roots of her character and adding depth to the story! |
| …”ideal mother to have” Wut? Anyways, this was a hard episode to watch. Terrible that Izumo and her sister didn’t get the childhood they deserved, even before the Illuminati stepped in. |
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Reply to phantomfandom
Skippable episode.
| @phantomfandom Some important information but for sure took too long and not even finished yet. |
| OMG! the OST used in this episode was supreme! Sawano slaps!!! 5/5. |
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| Ah yes, Izumo's backstory is definitely hardcore.... |
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| It's too cruel for you Izumo |
| this episode turned out shockingly disturbing, normally this show is cute shounen with evil monsters. Izumo's past is plain terrible, just terrible! crazy scientists often appear in anime, but I think that was unnecessary evil and disturbing. when he still injected the stuff in the female scientist and she was moving her body uncontrollable, I think a piece of me died at that moment. even quickly introduced characters don't deserve to die that way. I hope that part of the anime will have a satisfying conclusion, this episode was just traumatic I would say. |
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| Izumo´s childhood and her vow of be alone!!!! kekeke |
| OK seriously, that scientist ruins every scene he's in, I just can't take these villains seriously when they're this cartoonishly evil. I'm sorry Izumo had a hard life, but I was completely checked out by the end, I was too distracted by how terribly written and designed that character is. |
| With parents like these, no one needs enemies. I don't like Izumo, but this ep made my heart sad... π |
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| Well we knew what was gonna happen but it was still sad to see what they did to Izumo's mother. |
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| Seems like Izumo's cursed or something. And her family can't catch a break. Hopefully she becomes a character that can stand on her own after all this instead of filling up time with her tsundere-ing. |
| Sometimes I walk into an episode expecting it to be heavy.... Wasn't expecting that heavy though. |
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