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The major arc of Yatagarasu did a masterful job of making ready us for the second. The shock of Asebi’s betrayal has made us doubt Koume at practically about each and each flip, causing us to query her motives, her statements, and, lastly whether or no longer or no longer she the truth is knows bigger than she’s telling. This week’s episode brings all of these to a head with the loss of life of her father, Jihei, and his model of the truth about what took map in Taruhi.
Perhaps the most surprising share of that is the truth that no longer much less than one of the crucial wereapes can talk. Before this episode, the prevailing impression became that they had been substantially much less wise than the yatagarasu, and very likely largely nonverbal. But when Jihei discovers a monkey at the backside of a smartly and is of the same opinion to serve him (below the erroneous impression that he’s a god), the lie is build to that observation: the monkey converses intelligently and fluently. That’s how he’s in a position to fool the erstwhile water merchant, craftily turning him into a drug peddler and assassin. Or no longer it’s conceivable that this monkey, who additionally looks to know lots about kin’u and yatagarasu historical previous, is solely the elder of his clan, and as a result of this truth substantially older than the others. Or no longer it’s additionally value brooding about that the monkeys were playing dull to downplay the risk they signify, or simply to acquire nearer to Natsukihiko and varied ravens in vitality.
We additionally are given purpose to doubt Jihei’s model of events. He claims in his letter that his spouse walked out on him, with the attendant implication that he unquestionably no longer saw her again. Koume below no cases in any respect did however the tip that a girl with two moles below her left stare became selling sagecap no longer much less than opens the possibility that Jihei had contact alongside with her and didn’t characterize his daughter. Turned into it deliberate, or did she level to up when he showed indicators of prosperity? Turned into she working with the weremonkeys all alongside without Jihei’s recordsdata? It looks to be like as if we are in a position to also discover subsequent week, but whatever the answer is, it’s a ways not the truth is at risk of be upright for the yatagarasu in traditional.
It unquestionably seems like we’re collected missing some crucial recordsdata—and no longer about the sagecap map or even the raven-eating monkeys. The revelation that our world exists previous the boundaries of Yamauchi has opened the door to a variety of chances, no longer the least of which is that the monkeys are in contact with both aspect. The yatagarasu can also simply be apt as unaware because the opposite folks, one thing implied by the kin’u.s.a.conversation with Yukiya about how yatagarasu modeled themselves on other folks and strengthened by the truth that Jihei assumed that there became a god in the backside of his newly bought smartly. Wells in numerous world mythologies, at the side of Shinto, operate passages to the land of the unnecessary, and the presence of the monkeys there seems like a sexy upright motive of the yatagarasu to continue to deem it. After all, the monkeys dangle despatched bigger than one raven to their afterlife. Does that create them more credulous than other folks? I will also squawk they’re likely on the identical stage and the larger question is what the monkeys know versus deem—and the map in which that has formed the methodology they act.
Or no longer it’s coming all of the model down to the wire now. Koume has discovered her mom, who is worse than her father. Yukiya is busy rethinking his assumptions. Natsukihiko can also simply be about to learn that there’s a ways more to being a golden raven than merely main his other folks. When the feathers decide, who will reside standing?
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