© Nishio Isin/Kodansha/Anipu
That is a type of episodes that’s extra about characters than the development of the story. Your entire episode consists of two conversations, one within the afterlife and one at Hachikuji’s shrine. The general level is to discover a bit of extra about Shinobu, her twin nature, and the way she views Suicide Grasp.
It is a bit of arduous to grasp, however Acerola and Shinobu are the identical particular person and never on the identical time. The human Acerola ‘died’ when she grew to become a vampire, who threw away her humanity and have become an oddity. Nonetheless, their recollections as much as that second are similar. So whereas Acerola has been to Heaven and Shinobu has been to Earth, they each know Suicide Grasp equally properly, and each are sure that she is to not blame.
As we noticed within the final arc, Suicide Grasp would somewhat die than eat poor high quality meals. And each the fairy story heroine and the vampire agree that Suicide Grasp would by no means eat indiscriminately, as within the case Araragi and Gaen examine. In addition they each appear to suppose they’re accountable for Suicide Grasp’s present state that after tasting their blood, no different can be palatable, however there’s a doable flaw on this logic. Whereas Suicide Grasp is certainly smaller than we have ever seen her earlier than, she would definitely be utterly passed by now after 600 years of repeated hunger deaths if that had been the case.
What number of of Shinobu’s (and Acerola’s) ideas on this matter stem from ego somewhat than logic, which stems from their perception that they’re simply so rattling particular. Positive, it would not appear probably that Suicide Grasp is feeding on schoolgirls, however that does not imply she’s presently ravenous due to Shinobu/Acerola. I simply marvel what number of connections revamped the course of this episode are actual and never imagined.
That mentioned, issues appear to point that one other vampire on the town is attempting to pin issues on Suicide Grasp. There’s nonetheless a code to be damaged and we even have the looming deadline of Kagenui’s arrival within the metropolis, after which no vampire (besides Shinobu) shall be protected.
All of it makes for an excellent setup for the ultimate act of this story, even when it does little to progress it. I am trying ahead to seeing how issues will end up, and the way unsuitable my makes an attempt to resolve this thriller are.
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