Hibiki 15

New instrument in the opening means new recurring oni, I've figured.

Ugh...I didn't need that close-up shot of Asumu's appendix. Ah, so Jiro or Zanki, and what I assume is his apprentice are oni. And their weapons are literally electric guitars!

Zanki seems to be off his game, however. And his leg seems to have twisted. But hey, he still killed the Makamou with sick guitaring!

Hmm, the tea-master's daughter seems to have a crush on Zanki's apprentice, though he seems nervous about it. Zanki plans on retiring? Hmm.

And, ah! We find out only certain instruments can affect certain Makamou. Interesting.

Oh cool another new Oni, Sabaki. I figure it's one of the ones we never see unsuit. He's fighting a giant bull-porcupine. Cheap cgi or not, I love the giant makamou.

Decade episode 19:

I think that this was the best arc so far. It was pretty well paced, and the characters were interesting. However, what bothered me about the episode in particular was Kaito. I feel like that whole speech was out of character for him. Yes, I know it was a joke, but I don't want jokes at the expense of a characters...characterization, if that makes any sense. He went from just being himself to "Okay, now I'm going to stop being a jerk, and I'm going to help this kid." Narutaki makes me laugh, since I imagine him as Matrix every time he talks. :lol The crab battle was epic as well.

I took a bit of an OOO break yesterday and just started episode 19 a few minutes ago. As I am too impatient to wait until the end of the series: do we ever get an explanation for Doctor Maki's creepy doll?

Yes you do. And it's just as creepy as he is.

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Good. I'd hate for it to just be there without background. To be honest though, that thing is more unnerving to me than the scary puppet from W.

No he gets an explination. For the doll, and why he feels everything should end while it's still beautiful.

The Doll never gets a full explanation though, does it? I mean Maki's actions and reasoning's are only ever implied and never fully laid out. At least from what I remember.

No, it gets a full explination. I'll spoil it so it doesn't ruin it for Thess.

Maki's sister was a real peace of work. Emotionally abusive, the whole bit. Well, before her wedding day and the day she set to abandon him, he took a candleabra to her bedroom. With her in it. Burning the doll she gave him in the process and turning it into that creepy thing he carries now. Ever since then he decided that his sister lived to long, to the point she became ugly. So he decided that everything should end while it's still beautiful and that's what he strived for. To end the world before it became ugly.

I wonder why I never ended up comprehending that when I watched the show.