A backstory episode! There was a lot more information presented than I though ever would, and I am pleasantly surprised. From what I can gather, kemonozume is a technique of the kifuuken in which you cut off your arms, attach the arms of a shoujinki, and gain its power. However, I am confused about the transforming into a shoujinki part. Does this always happen? If I never find out I won’t be too bothered by it.
I loved Harumi! She was genuine and noble. I don’t think Yuka is really up to her standards though. Harumi was genuinely amiable and generous.
The Triumvirate seemed like it was the “good ol’ days” of Kifuuken. Now everything at the dojo is so dark and despairing. The happy days have been long gone. Now it seems more of an underground kind of thing.
I can’t believe the whole arm chopping off process. Jin became so enraged and disturbed that I wasn’t too sure as to what had really pushed over the edge. Did he love Harumi secretly? He couldn’t have gone that crazy over not fighting Juzo! Now, I surmise that Juzo cut of Hazumi’s arms to save the school/town/area from Jin? He has to kill the one he loves dearly to save everything around him. That’s deep. This is the opposite though of what Toshihiko does, as he runs away with Yuka instead of trying to protect the dojo.
I figured out a lot of family trees now. Rie has no relation to anyone; Toshihiko and Kazuma (who definitely has to be the baby) are half brothers. If Kazuma is this baby, then he is half shoujinki, and can probably transform! He is killing his own kind and somehow keeping it a secret from everyone else. Maybe he discovered his past, is shamed by it, and so destroys everything like him? Or maybe he’s just one of those people who always has some type of vendetta and hates Toshihiko. But maybe he hates Toshihiko for being normal. And Toshihiko doesn’t know his secret. This going to become so crazy.
Yuka has the same last name as Harumi, Kamitsuki. It is mentioned that Harumi was previously, or still technically, married to another man, who happens to be a shoujinki. So, Harumi could have had another daughter. Plus, they like the same rose cream. That can’t be a coincidence. If Yuka is her daughter, than she and Kazuma are half sister and half brother. She is full shoujinki, yet Kazuma is only half. I wonder if this makes any difference somehow. Maybe Kazuma can suppress it better?
Was it Harumi who killed Juzo? Possibly he envisioned that it was Harumi and it was someone else. Maybe Yuka? Now my hypothesis is incorrect if this is true. I hope there is more information to be had.
Final Score: 8/10
Interesting episode, about Harumi being noble and genuine, ok she is, I liked her too, but she abandoned Yuka….Or maybe her Flesh Eater husband wouldn’t allow her to take Yuka? Who knows? If Flesh Eaters can change into human form maybe they can make themselves look like someone else? Could explain how Juzo saw Harumi before being killed, or maybe it was a hallucination and we hopefully find out whodunnit later.
As for Jin, I think he did have feelings for Harumi, whether they were deep enough that he would have married her I somehow doubt, I think the rage/desire to beat Juzo overrode any serious feelings for Harumi. I think that Juzo giving up the sword to settle was just another thing that added to his determination to use the Kemonozume. He would have done it anyway without a woman entering the equation. But he still looked pissed/disgusted at the idea of a flash eater as a wife and pregnant no less…