A fairly strong welcome back to the series. The first half of the episode was pretty much just shameless recap, though they didn’t recycle any animation, so it wasn’t all that bad. The second half was where it shined. Constant jumping around from person to person as they fought their opponents, and rather well animated to boot. I’m pretty sure that most of the masked Kenbu people were just puppets controlled by one of the others, so it looks like there’s about four or five new people with similar powers out to fuck over our demon hunters for this season. At least so far.
Hopefully some light will be shed on two characters we were teased with for the entire first season. The teachers Inugami and Maria both clearly know what’s up (maybe less so with Maria. It isn’t clear, but she does seem to have a part.) Since the name of the series Tokyo Majin Gakuen can be translated roughly Tokyo Spirit Academy or Tokyo Demon Academy it would be interesting to know if the school and its teachers play into the story more than we now know. Inugami did send them to Dr. Iwayama when Misato collapsed, so he at least seems to be on the good side. An ‘inugami’ in Japanese folklore is not necessarily a good thing, though.
This always happens—I wait too long after watching something and forget everything when I finally get down to blogging it. I thought I ought to finish this up before the second season starts shortly, which I will be following subbed, not raw (I learnt my lesson already ^^;;). Anyway, I do remember a lot of action and bloodshed; the entire episode was simply mayhem…but in a very good way! The action is the main thing that makes this show great, while the plot is ok, though not intricate enough and the characters aren’t developed enough. I also like to think of this episode as the last of the season, since I have no idea what the f**k happened to episode 14.
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