[Androzani84]

Instead of explaining it, I’ll just post this screen cap I posted when I watched the episode.



And as for Armed Hibiki being a radical departure from everything beforehand in every way? I think that’s kind of the point. For hundreds of years, the Oni in Kantō have basically had a strict status quo for dealing with Makamou (a set of parents plant the egg somewhere out in the wilds, the Oni find them, kill the parents and then wipe out the monster as it hatches) but the Makamou’s bosses have changed the rules, by creating Makamou that are born fully grown to directly attack people and having their only oversight coming from the Super Douji and Hime, who have a lot more intelligence that the normal version and the clones who were previously providing oversight (though not by much). You could say “but they already beat one of the new breed once”, but to quote from Toy Story 3 “they got lucky once.” There’s no guarantee they can go on beating a new threat with old methods. It’s kind of a theme in shows with a heavy Japanese influence and a legacy theme that the heroes do better against the bad guys when they try something new or previously thought impossible instead of relying on the ancestors’ methods forever.

And now, for the next time lyrics.

And I told you to be patient
And I told you to be fine
And I told you to be balanced
And I told you to be kind
And in the morning I'll be with you
But it will be a different kind
And I'll be holding all the tickets
And you'll be owning all the fines
- Bon Iver, Skinny Love