[FreshToku]

I'm trying my best to not think too far outside the context of this episode while watching it, but all during Jin's death scene, I kept thinking about the fact that we've seen this very character die and then inexplicably come back already, so that kinda took a bit of steam out of it for me. A shame because it was really well done. When was the last time the show even brought up the fact that Jin and Horobi and technically child and parent? Not since Jin's first transformation, I'm pretty sure...

My prediction for the next episode is that Aruto, realising he's only continuing this terrible cycle of malice after killing Jin, is going to fight Horobi but actually plans on letting Horobi kill him in order to break this cycle. Of course, I expect something or someone to interrupt!

EDIT: I suddenly want to elaborate that feeling bugging me during Jin's scene is not because I believe he will come back. I don't actually know if he will since we're so close to the end of the show and he's probably served every purpose he could. It's just that having the knowledge that he's came back once before makes it harder for me to take that whole scene as sincerely as I'd want to.