[Matrixbeast]

Shunpei tends to be one of the few things about Wizard that was universally hated, both by haters and fans of the show. I'm surprised

Anyway, Hibiki Volume 17.
Ibuki going on a shopping trip! How fun! Eeyup.
So Asumu is working to help Akira keep up in school, which looks to lead to a misunderstanding between him and Hitomi that Asumu has a love interest.
So, I have to say this now. Thank you, whoever wrote this episode, to have Akira approach Hitomi less than 5 minutes later (Well, not in universe, but still the same day), and have her quickly clarify the situation. I am so sick of the drama bomb that stems from a misunderstanding, and I want to cheer to the heavens that this didn't go down. Also, Asumu getting hit in the head with a basketball. That'll teach him for having a good day!
Things aren't all hunky dory, though. Due to the crisis at hand, Akira has to leave school early once again, needing to retrieve Ibuki's trumpet due to his situation.

Anyway, Ibuki's shopping trip with [Elder Tachibana/Hibiki's handler] takes a dive when he spots a pair of Douji and Hime, who are being super conspicuous and it's hard not to notice them. However, it's a major issue since they're actually mucking around in a city, rather than woods or a shoreline, a first for the monsters. After using some disc animals that can go invisible (That seems like a useful ability that should probably be used more often...), they track them down at some kind of warehouse. After Hibiki's handler distracts a couple of truckers, Ibuki somewhat handles the situation, able to take down the parents, but then the Makamou appears, or, rather...Part of it (I think tongue, but maybe just a tentacle, since they have a tendency to just...Have tentacles). Using it's own sub-tentacles (Since that's a thing now), it keeps Ibuki at bay, and reveals that it has a powerful acid inside it, melting and eating the disc animals. Yikes. Also, because he was out shopping, he didn't have his trumpet on him. Zoinks.

This episode was pretty good, setting up a couple things as well as solidifying others. At the beginning we see Hibiki training with a new Ongekibou, one that can apparently channel fire into an energy blade. It's pretty neat, but it blows up in his face. Midori apparently was hard at work, as she had multiple different kinds for Hibiki to train with, though it seems there have been multiple failures. I'm curious to see where this leads. We also see that Todoroki is now officially becoming the a registered Oni, signing that he's accepting all of Zanki's old tools, as well as going for a physical to make it completely official. I guess it makes enough sense to write him out of this particular plot, since the guy is very formal and nice.

Asumu's side of the story was rather light this episode. It's good to see he still has his new found resolve, as he takes steps to help Akira rather than passively wait. A light shined down and they didn't have a lame melodramatic subplot about Hitomi thinking Akira and Asumu being together by having the confusion quickly cleared away. So yay~

Wow, these monsters, though. I have no idea what the hell. The man has a hilariously fake mustache and crawls everywhere, while the woman is dressed like a gothic loli, but they have swapped voices.

They're so conspicuous that Ibuki noticed them in the middle of a large crowd and immediately went "There be monsters right there. Let's go" without a second thought.
The fighting was rather nice, as Ibuki needed to handle things without his trumpet. It was pretty cool, as he instead channeled wind into his attacks, reflecting attacks as well as being able to instantly slash through objects without effort. I also think Ibuki had the first Rider Kick in Hibiki. Nice~

Something they also brought up was that they were aware that the monsters were receiving power ups through someone else's experimentation, mainly bringing up the berserk, noting that there haven't been any real strange happenings lately since then. I'm curious how they figured out it was a 3rd party granting the monsters strength.