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Somehow… it lacks the same punch.

Impressions:

Aw, an episode where nobody dies. There wasn’t even any action at all really, unless you count Yomi cutting some demon snake in half. Instead, it was a very long, and seemingly unfinished flashback about Kagura and Yomi’s past together. Assumably the guy from the first episode will also get an episode like this to explain his history with her, but I’ve already sort of forgotten what exactly was up with him anyway. It wasn’t really as interesting as the first couple episodes, even though we’re now basically just counting the days until Yomi goes crazy and betrays her former team mates. I hadn’t realized that she/her family were summoners though. I thought the whole "summon a giant angry lion/demon critter" was an evil power that she picked up somewhere.

Mostly it was just an episode about Yomi and her father taking in Kagura after her own parents were killed by some evil critter and how Yomi slowly brought Kagura out of her depression, thanks in part to the Dreamcast Dreambox. Power Stone is pretty good for mental healing. That’s really about all that happened in the episode. Yomi became a surrogate mother/sister to Kagura and introduced her to the fun world of demon slaying with all the others. The Wakamoto twins are even creepier when they’re leering behind an underdeveloped teenage girl.

Still no clue where exactly this show is going exactly, but I’d expect at least another flashback episode or two before we return to the present. Ah well. Knowing who goes crazy and who’s still a goody goody in the future takes a little bit of fun out of things.