「イバラミチ。」 (Ibaramichi.) "Thorny Path." It does feel a little strange to find ourselves back at Yozakura Quartet’s “downtime”.
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Not a bad episode to calm everything down after a pretty good amount of action and revelations the past few episodes. Of course not everything was calmed and relaxing in this one. Akina really got pissed with those elders and was ready to really do something stupid. Not that I really blame him since those […]
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Shinozuka accompanies Kana and Mina on a Seven Pillars Tour, using the opportunity to apologize to everyone he fought. Hime asks Akina if anything’s changed now that he knows she’s a youkai, but he doesn’t have a chance to answer. He and Hime are called before the elders; Akina is reluctant to go beause of […]
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Shinozuka accompanies Kana and Mina on a Seven Pillars Tour, using the opportunity to apologize to everyone he fought. Hime asks Akina if anything’s changed now that he knows she’s a youkai, but he doesn’t have a chance to answer. He and Hime are called before the elders; Akina is reluctant to go beause of […]
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Summary: Enjin wants the key to get into the room that Hime went in for the ceremony. Even though Ao frees herself with the power of static, Enjin is able to take the key from Hime and force Akina to use it. Everyone knows that if Enjin can reach the bottom room, he’ll screw [...]
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[ Episode 8: It's time ] Enjin. Former magician. Even with so much happening, I thought this was the weakest episode so far. I mean even with the Nana-gou blossoming, you never feel a real sense of impending doom. As the weird mushy roots grow and take root of the town, instead of [...]
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As Yozakura Quartet has largely avoided being too action-oriented so far, preferring instead to focus on the relationships, thoughts and feelings of the main characters, I was a little wary of just how well the series could pull off an episode that was entirely centred around the main plot line and with a much larger action quota to boot. Thankfully, I didn't have to worry too much - While
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