天下制覇

Man, you were doing so well for almost two whole months.

Impressions:

I have to admit that as the action started winding down and Enjin started ranting and raving about how much this world sucks blah blah blah humans and youkai blah blah blah will remake the world, I got up to get a brownie sundae, and when I came back, Enjin had his arms elbow deep in the city’s magic shrine thingy which caused one of the pillars to start growing branches and flowers, and there were tentacles sprouting everywhere. I have the feeling that I missed something while my attention was elsewhere, though I really don’t feel any powerful need to go back to figure out what exactly I missed. On the other hand, it was a damn delicious brownie sundae.

I was very happy with Hime all through this episode. She didn’t think twice about trying to kill Enjin, even though he was in Gin’s body. It wasn’t until Akina got involved and told her that Gin was still hanging on in there somewhere that she even hesitated, and at that point, Enjin was pretty much sick of playing around. I was also thrilled that Kyosuke was pretty much the only one who was actually able to land a hit on Enjin aside from Yae, who was all but forbid from interfering by Yuuhi. Sure, he coldcocked Enjin from behind… twice… once with a giant stone lantern, but Kotoha was using an anti aircraft gun and Hime upgraded her spear into some kind of laser weapon, so a hunk of stone is really a step down in comparison. I’m a bit confused as to why Akina didn’t help Ao and Kotoha try to take down Shinozuka. Fine, he thinks that his friend and Hime’s crush is still alive and so he doesn’t want to fight Enjin… but what’s his excuse for not wanting to fight Shinozuka? Laziness? I’m not sure he’d even be able to hit with his slow attacks anyway, but he could at least try to be useful instead of just getting in the way.

Preview:

Touka and more background on the city.