For me, there’s little question that Youko is the scariest character on this sequence. Akira is so unemotional that he’s given what he does for a dwelling, which is actually extra intellectually unnerving. However he’s so disarmingly unthreatening that he doesn’t scare you until you actually give it some thought. Youko, however, is a pure, calculating torture queen. She has an extremely imply streak and she or he’s hooked on indulging it. As she places it, “I can’t assist it, I’ve nothing to do.” It’s precisely what I stated a superb two months in the past: “Possibly essentially the most harmful factor in Osaka is a bored Youko.”
After I give it some thought, the fable is sort of what would occur if king of the hill and The Coen Brothers had a love little one. And this episode maybe embodied that greater than every other. It performed out neatly on two fronts, with Akira and Kuro’s mountain journey reaching its climax whereas Youko lastly received the kill with Kawai-kun. The crowning glory was the bartender offering Howard Cosell-esque shade commentary And play-by-play as Youko entered the ring in opposition to the “Muhammad Ali of Bar Buffalo”.
Akira decides to reap the venom from the captured mamushi to show Kuma-san a lesson. And I discovered that consuming viper meat will get you a woody (at the least on this present). Akira may be very centered on ensuring the bear learns to concern people, and it’s important to surprise who he has in thoughts to do the favor for – people, or the bear (I think the latter). After all, he’s utterly unfazed by the thought of dealing with the bear, at the same time as Kuro struggles to suppress his concern. “We’ll train him a lesson in six seconds,” Akira says reassuringly.
In the meantime, Kawai is devising a technique with the bartender, which the latter realizes is totally irrelevant to what’s about to occur. Grasp might have warned Kawai right here – he actually is aware of what Youko is. The truth that he didn’t is attention-grabbing – he clearly has a humorousness. He additionally betrays Kawai by placing as a lot vodka in his “girl killer” as in Youko’s. From there it rapidly strikes on to tequila, with predictable outcomes (I discover tequila kicks your ass like no different drink of comparable power). I’ve to protest, nonetheless, {that a} lemon with tequila photographs is simply plain unsuitable. It needs to be a lime – no exceptions (lemon margaritas are a unique story).
Twenty photographs later and Kawai is sufficiently sedated to fulfill Youko – it’s a TKO. I’m wondering if anybody, not to mention an individual who weighs about 115 kilos, will be as seemingly unaffected by booze as Youko. Both means, she’s received Kawai so drunk that his well being is in actual hazard, which doesn’t appear to decrease her pleasure one bit. It’s attention-grabbing to invest – did this work? at nicely? Would Youko have had extra enjoyable if she had ended the struggle earlier, with Kawai nonetheless coherent sufficient to go house along with her? And does she ever truly sleep with any of her victims (or anybody else, for that matter)?
Akira vs. the bear is sort of as large a mismatch, although Kuro will get an enormous fright from the confrontation earlier than Akira places a cease to it. Afterwards, he is utterly calm, solely irritated that he could not get Kuro’s dagger and frightened that he is injured the bear too badly. What have Akira and Kuro discovered from this confrontation? Is Akira in any means respectful to Kuro for surviving these three days? Kuro’s adoration of Akira has turn into even stronger. If he did not take no for a solution earlier than, it is laborious to see how he feels any in another way now.
