After essentially the most lighthearted storyline within the sequence up to now with Kuro and the journey to the forest, The fable will get darkish actually quick. The extent of randomness on this present bothers me a bit bit – everybody appears linked to everybody else. However I suppose in this sort of underworld setting, perhaps that is not as unrealistic as you would possibly suppose. I imply, that is a reasonably small world I might think about – quite a lot of these individuals in all probability know quite a lot of the gamers. Though the overlap between Tokyo and Osaka does stretch the purpose a bit, that’s actually true.
There is not any query who the brand new massive dangerous is. It is Utsubo Rei (Fuji Shinshuu). First off, Fuji is one other welcome boost to an amazing forged. He isn’t what you’d name a family identify as a seiyuu (he does quite a lot of non-anime work), however his roles in Pluto And Title and Kitte Kure reveal how good he’s. Utsubo is an actual piece of labor. He presents himself as a neighborhood activist who stands up for the safety of youngsters, whereas in actual fact he’s engaged in childcare on a societal stage. For Utsubo, “monster mother and father” (usually referred to as tiger moms within the West) are a godsend. The extra overprotected and sheltered youngsters are, the extra weak they’re to his exploitation afterward.
I do not know the way reasonable that’s, but it surely’s an interesting and chilling concept. Utsubo selects youngsters he thinks present promise (they should be wealthy) and performs an extended sport, attacking them once they’re adults. He works with a small group (4 is his most popular quantity, like The Beatles). One among them is Saba Hinako (Anzai Chika), a younger lady in a wheelchair. One other is Suzuki Hiroshi (Koyasu Takehito, who strikes me as a uncommon miscast for The fable), seemingly the muscle. And the brand new recruit is Isaki Tsutomu (Kanemitsu Yoshihiro).
Isaki was apparently recruited primarily as a result of he was with Maguro. Utsubo has heard rumors that “Fable” has ties to the Maguro group and apparently sees this as a possible complication. Isaki’s first task is to collect some data from his previous gang, however when he tries to take action with Kuro in an off-the-cuff setting, Kuro instantly smells a rat and freezes him. However this isn’t the one Akira connection. He sees Hinako within the park and acknowledges her as the motive force of certainly one of his victims – from a job he had accomplished 4 years earlier. Which, as I stated, strains the credibility considerably.
That is already fairly sophisticated. Utsubo is utilizing Hinako as a intercourse slave and presumably drugging her as effectively. Not solely that, there’s one other coincidence, as a result of his subsequent goal is none aside from Kainuma-san (who’s 23 and has been on Utsubo’s radar for 13 years). I’m guessing Kainuma comes from cash, and as soon as Utsubo begins digging on him, they’ll undoubtedly don’t have any downside discovering helpful data. Kainuma is absolute trash and I received’t really feel sorry for him, however issues might get ugly in a short time. And messy, which is an issue for Akira…
As for Akira, he clearly has a delicate spot for the damsel-in-distress trope, and simply as clearly (he tells Youko to do some digging) he already sees Hinako as a major candidate. I don’t suppose you’d decide anybody in a head-to-head with Akira (or Fable), however Utsubo is clearly not one to take flippantly. He’s an amazing villain another way than Kojima was, although no much less abjectly evil. Fuji is already nice within the function – his efficiency offers Utsubo instantaneous gravitas, and units up the tantalizing prospects of a reasonably intense showdown for this subsequent (closing?) arc.
