For all different issues Karasu wa Aruji o Erabanai does nicely, it has an odd impact on me. I’d virtually describe it as “cleaning” – I really feel refreshed and invigorated after watching an episode. There’s such a purity and timelessness to the story right here. It is one thing anime can do extraordinarily nicely, however do extraordinarily uncommon. There may be Seirei no Moribito, Dororoperhaps Akatsuki no Yona (and Pierrot after all) and never all that a lot else actually. I grew up loving fantasy excessive and in any other case, lengthy earlier than I ever knew anime even existed. When one comes alongside that captures the most effective of fantasy, it’s totally uplifting.
So yeah, Yatagarasu is fairly superior. However what’s actually exceptional is that it would not skip a beat. Not to mention a 7/8 week hiatus that may journey up the momentum of most sequence, it wants a radical change on this arc in addition. For an awesome sequence to morph stylistically into one thing virtually unrecognizable and nonetheless be superior is a real unicorn achievement. However that is what Karasu wa Aruji no Erabanai has completed. It’s way more of a standard battle decision story, however no much less compelling for that. And that’s in all probability as a result of the characters are incredible and the writing by no means stops being exceptionally intelligent.
What’s Wakamiya doing, capturing a bow (one thing we’ve by no means seen him do earlier than, I believe) in an enormous night time lit by ghost fireplace? That reply comes later. For now, we return to Koume and Yukiya, whose relationship appears to be creating in the way in which his mom hoped. He takes her to her previous home within the Decrease Metropolis (suppose Decrease Ougi) to choose up her garments and belongings. She enjoys the journey and doubtless the corporate, although there’s loads of petty bickering concerned. However issues get extra sophisticated after they arrive at her previous home, each emotionally and virtually.
You possibly can by no means make sure (particularly not Yukiya) when Koume is telling the reality. She lets out bits of fact in dribs and drabs, however even then Yukiya is unquestionably proper to carry again. Her story concerning the nicely and its drying up might be true, a minimum of partially. Her misery at discovering no hint of her father in the home? Once more, believable – although considerably at odds together with her phrases about him later. The 2 thugs who present as much as kidnap her are proof sufficient that Jihei had blended with unhealthy individuals, and Koume would not appear in any respect stunned. Yukiya steps ahead to defend her, and he can definitely maintain his personal in a struggle. However there are extra preventing males ready outdoors, and he is only a teenage boy.
Ultimately, Koume is pressured to play the “Prince” card. She warns the boys that in the event that they harm Yukiya, they will need to reply to the brand new Golden Raven. And this deters them, however not their aggression. Their chief tells Yukiya to cross on a message from “Tobi of the Underground” – “I am contacting you. And after I discover you, you may want a great excuse to interrupt our settlement.” Koume curses her father for his poor way of life decisions, Yukiya chides her for saying such issues and common selfishness. The very fact is, Koume’s assumptions about Yukiya are fairly flawed – however that is not a dialog he can have together with her at this level. And that was all in about seven minutes of the episode.
Yukiya is aware of that even on go away, he has a accountability to Nazukihiko. And he leaves Koume with Yamauchi’s guards and goes to the Dawn Palace to implicate him, however is fooled by Sumio into pondering that Hamayu is the prince. She is filling in, she says, whereas her fiancé is busy with issues essential to the nation. When Yukiya relays the message, she is aware of an awesome deal about its context (she is, in spite of everything, basically a spy). Past the Ravine is the Underground—the place the place determined males go when all different avenues are blocked. What’s with the “settlement” within the message? A peace treaty, Hamayu says—a nonaggression pact between the primary lord of the Underground, “King Saku,” and Nazukihiko’s grandfather.
Hamayu promptly sends the boy to the place she is aware of Wakamiya is. As soon as once more, we see proof that the 2 have met earlier than—a faint however highly effective reminiscence from Yukiya’s youth that triggers this path in his thoughts. Wakamiya nonetheless shoots these arrows—actually, he does it loads. He heals tears, he tells Yukiya—tears within the barrier between Yamauchi and the surface world. Tears {that a} yatagarasu passes via, and that will by no means return. That requires additional investigation, however for now the primary level is that these tears weren’t sufficiently big to let the monkeys in, because the Prince suspected.
It would not take lengthy for Tobi to ship a message to Wakamiya as soon as information of the Yukiya assembly reaches him. Wakamiya guarantees to go to the Underground himself to fulfill Tobi, reasoning that it’s extremely probably that his curiosity in Koume suggests an Underground connection to the monkey enterprise. Completely nobody else is in favor of this – definitely not Sumio and Yukiya, nor Nazuka and Rokon (he is only a tsundere) who arrive to dissuade him from the concept. Nazuka asserts himself right here – he’ll not let the Golden Raven take this gamble, As an alternative, he says, he’ll ship Yukiya. And never heartlessly, he and Rokon will apparently accompany the boy – giving us the tantalizing prospect of one other new set of character dynamics to discover.
