Wakamiya could also be coming into stunning bastard territory.
Whereas a few of you’re actually uninterested in me repeating it by now, Karasu wa Aruji o Erabanai is absolutely nice. It is nice as a result of it would not simply do one factor effectively, it does many issues – and exceptionally so. It is clear that Abe Chisato’s writing is spectacular: the mysteries make sense, the revelations do not occur too shortly or too slowly, the characters are three-dimensional and interesting. And Pierrot solely does Pierrot issues right here. They know how you can adapt, interval – however this type of historic fantasy simply appears to be their absolute favourite (see: Yona, Akatsuki no). And with out an enormous funds, Kyougoku Yoshiaki and the design group ship a gorgeous last product (identical to with Yona).
It is all form of an ideal storm. After which it actually seals the deal if you really feel like casting Miyu Irino – merely among the best seiyuu of any era – on this anti-type function. Miyu would not seem in anime as a lot lately (I feel that is largely by selection), however he clearly chooses rigorously when he does. Nazukihiko is a power of nature – Kin’u certainly, he’s as if from one other world. What saved working by way of my thoughts whereas watching this thrilling and transferring episode is “what a charmer he’s”. His bluntness is off the charts – a couple of occasions I simply burst out laughing.
After all, no matter Wakamiya is is horrifying sensible. He orchestrated all of this like Seiji Ozawa, and this was the climactic passage of the primary half. He has gathered his three remaining suitors to interrupt them down one after the other – to disclose their secrets and techniques, to show their natures for all to see. He begins with Shiratama, and in some methods the evisceration is the simplest, as a result of her sins are already largely on the desk. What I sense in Wakamiya’s grilling of Shiratama is a touch of sympathy, because the youngest candidate and somebody who has clearly been manipulated in each manner doable (particularly by Cha-n-Hana). He makes use of harsh phrases – he would not appear to know any completely different – and calls her lack of initiative ‘laziness’. However he does it to power Shiratama to lastly rise up for himself.
If the prince got here to this assembly with the actual intention of selecting a consort (which I feel he clearly did not), Shiratama would have been the simplest selection in some ways. He has good relations with the North and a Northerner as his closest advisor, and so they appear fairly wholesome as a gaggle (by Yamauchi requirements). That he did what he did makes me consider that Nazukihiko put Shiratama first – giving her an opportunity to be completely happy as a substitute of condemning her to a lifetime of distress on the age of 14. path ahead way more difficult.
After which there have been two. Masuho no Suseki bought the brief finish of the stick when it comes to plot, however she emerged as my favourite. There have been no apparent shockers along with her, and in reality there was virtually no exposition of her western clan. Is {that a} sequel to one thing later? Who is aware of. And certainly, particularly contemplating the revelations later within the episode, it’s, for no unknown purpose, considerably complicated that Wakamiya did not select her. Her whims are primarily geared toward satisfaction. And she or he’s clearly had sufficient. Masuho makes use of her platform to argue Hamayuu’s case, and never totally convincingly. Wamakaiya’s rebuttal that he cannot do something for Hamayuu if she is not there to plead her personal case is smart, however it’s as a lot in Masuho’s favor as anybody else’s.
I feel Masuho, because the prince suggests, would make a superb empress. I additionally suppose she would not need the job, however nonetheless – perhaps he would have chosen her in spite of everything. Understanding he did not go to Nazukihiko pushes her away, makes it simpler for her to refuse him so she would not have the disgrace of him refusing her. I really feel like one other shoe drops with Masuho no Susuki and her clan – that slate is simply too clean at this level. However now that she’s out of the working, that seemingly clears the stage for Asebi, which is actually the path the plot has steered greater than every other.
For some time I questioned if this might all finish in such a easy manner. That will have been uncommon Yatagarasu However I ought to have trusted my instincts. I have been questioning for some time now whether or not Asebi is perhaps as worthlessly naive as she appears. And we bought our reply: a convincing “no”. Is she in love with Wakamiya? Unequivocal – and he or she’s the one candidate who’s. She’s additionally the one one he shares a historical past with (which he remembers, in fact). However Asebi’s story is way more than that.
Severely, this present simply has the juiciest twists – what a journey. They usually make sense and are all the time foreshadowed (although by no means clearly). What’s simple right here is that Asebi straight induced the deaths of two folks: Samomo and Kasuke. Who’s Kasuke? The oriental servant summoned them to the Cherry Blossom Palace in opposition to all protocols to ship details about her mom that he refused to place in writing as a result of it was so harmful. He was the raven that was killed by Takimoto (Kazumi was certainly the injured person who Sumio discovered – and that by his personal doing).
Kasuke was additionally the raven Asebi apparently despatched to rape her older sister Futaba – forcing her to provide you with the disfiguring sickness excuse and withdraw from the derby. And what actually stands out right here is Asebi’s indifferent response to Wakamiya’s revelations. It could clearly by no means happen to her that she had executed something flawed; a lady in her place has to do every part in her energy to get what she needs. In spite of everything, it is just her proper. She’s a lot, a lot scarier than Shiratama – mainly a toddler who lashes out with an virtually comical lack of subtlety. Asebi is chilly as ice and seemingly devoid of any regret or perhaps a sense of disgrace at being caught.
It also needs to be famous that Nazukihiko is extraordinarily sensible and educated, or most probably each, and coated all of this up. However now that every one of that’s on the desk, the place does he go subsequent? Karasu wa Aruji o Erabanai has clearly shocked me greater than as soon as, however it’s arduous to consider a state of affairs the place Wakamiya may marry Asebi now. However even now that this match has imploded, as solely he can implode it, he nonetheless has to decide on a associate in some unspecified time in the future. Is that Hamayuu coming again into the image, the South that was chosen in opposition to the grain? Futaba, the oriental princess who ought to have been on the ceremony? Or another person whose entry into the story hasn’t even occurred but? As with every part about this collection, it is fascinating to consider and must be thrilling to seek out out.
