天下制覇

That only wastes your bullets and makes him crazier.

Impressions:

Well, another one of those somewhat bipolar episodes. The first half was pretty decent, but the second half was a series of talking heads that dragged on and on and on. I swear, by the length of his death speech, the principle belongs in opera. I could have also done without the litany of reasons and conditions attached to Koga handing over their secrets to Miharu.For characters that we’ll probably never see again, they sure liked to yammer on at length. That scene at the end where Kumohira yelled like a spoiled little girl at Miharu that he’d never forgive him and Miharu covered his ears was also one of the most immature and lame things that I’ve ever seen. Grow up, you two.

Miharu going All-Nature again was nice and all, but he didn’t actually do much of anything. Kumohira tried sitting on him, but that had a bit less of an effect than Kouichi stabbing him way back when. Somehow though, just when the All-Nature had almost taken over, Kumohira went all misogynstic on her and gave her a nice slap. Misogyny overpowers omnipotent ninja spirits. Good to know.

Of course, the star of the show was Kouichi, who returned to life (not like anybody actually thought he was dead) and for at least a short period, was significantly crazier for it. Sure, getting shot once probably pissed him off, but then he took a half dozen more bullets when he walked in on the evil swashbuckler before taking everybody in the room down. As for what exactly is going on there, that hasn’t been explained yet, but some kind of limited immortality (or mutant healing factor, bub!) is I’m pretty sure the culprit. It still raises the question as to why Kumohira is the ‘teacher’ in their little relationship. One of the two seems to be nigh invulnerable and is actually an accomplished assassin with no qualms about killing others. The other can… dispel other peoples’ techniques. Come on, Kumohira. Even Raimei is outperforming you lately.

Unfortunately, next week looks like we’re back to the angst and Miharu/Yoite BL. Nothing like Miharu taking a big whiff of Yoite‘s scarf to get you pumped up for… you know… never mind. Maybe someone will ‘kill’ Kouichi again and he’ll go even crazier.

Preview:

Yoite’s hurt and Miharu’s saaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaad.