The return of Karasu wa Aruji o Erabanai is unquestionably a bit like welcoming again an outdated good friend. With a 20 episode run, this collection was going to have a bizarre launch schedule anyway, however it’s a disgrace it needed to take a 3 week hiatus. Nonetheless, it picked an excellent time to do it. The primary “half” of the collection was much more than half, however it positively had a transparent conclusion. We’re in new territory right here story-wise (in each sense). Though fortunately that is not the case for the OP and ED – I really like them each and I am glad they’re sticking round.
The brand new space is bodily Taruhi, Yukiya’s house village, and the northern area. We choose up the place we left off, with an odd ape-like creature that does some actually nasty issues. In the meantime, again in Taruhi, Yukiya is again to his outdated routine – pretending to be a sloth who can’t do a lot. The novels (and manga) discover this in additional element, however Yukiya has rigorously created a fictional persona for house. That is elementary to understanding who he’s – each that this persona is a lie, and that he has chosen to stay this fashion. It strikes me now that Nazukihiko noticed one thing of a kindred spirit in Yukiya, as they each intentionally venture a public face that could be very totally different from their true faces.
Sleeping in and lacking the plum harvest is completely suited to the character, however it’s additionally fairly regular for a 14-year-old boy. I feel Yukiya enjoys that factor of his efficiency – he can take it simple and slack off – however it’s all to make issues simpler for his household, particularly his older brother, the inheritor. He’s fooled nearly everybody in Taruhi, together with his father. His youthful brother idolizes and likes him, so he doesn’t actually care. However Yukima and Yukiya’s mom appear to see proper by way of it.
The unusual phenomenon instructed quickly disrupts the idyllic lifetime of Yukiya in Taruhi. Whereas flying (too late) to reap, Yukiya spots one other yatagarasu seemingly sinking, and the creature—foaming on the mouth—assaults him mid-flight. Ultimately, Yukiya crashes and stays behind to guard an outdated man whereas the others head for shelter. He’s rescued by a stranger on a raven “horse.” Besides this is not a stranger in any respect, although he introduces himself as “Sumimaru,” the Crown Prince’s assistant.
Wakamiya’s goal in being within the North is to research tales a couple of unusual drug that’s stated to be offered within the Ravine, a sort of ecstasy inducer that finally weakens the addict a lot that he finally loses the flexibility to return to human kind. He particularly asks for Yukiya’s assist, and Yukiya, not surprisingly, tries to refuse. He has rigorously cultivated the fiction that he was utterly ineffective to the Crown Prince within the Heart and so they had been completely happy to go away him behind, and his father appears all too prepared to imagine it. However why is that this man who has labored with the boy for a 12 months so desirous to enlist his assist? As soon as once more, Mom and Ani-ue see the reality of it.
The drug, which the Prince calls “Sagecap” (senningai), appears to be the MacGuffin for this arc. However there’s a new character (we noticed her briefly on the finish of the primary cour) who appears vital. Koume (Miyamoto Yume) is proven with a person who could also be her father – later revealed to be the only survivor of a village attacked by the Chilly Open Monster. Who she is and why she issues isn’t instantly clear, however she doesn’t look like a lot older than Yukiya (I’m simply throwing that in there).
Structurally, this looks as if fairly a change from the primary arc, which was basically a mash-up of two arcs from the novels set on the similar time. At first look, it looks as if a extra conventional battle/resolution-driven storyline, however with Yatagarasu, I’m inclined to imagine that the important nature of the collection will quickly assert itself. As soon as Yukiya and Wakamiya are reunited, issues do certainly really feel much more acquainted. It jogs my memory how a lot I’ve come to like these characters and the dynamic between them. I’m eagerly trying ahead to watching them remedy mysteries and struggle monsters for some time.
