Kita ze Inbou! - キタぜ陰謀!

[ Episode 16: Everlasting Love ]

This episode turned out what I thought it would be: a calm after the storm. We’re given a lot of character development here as well. Yuji is obviously feeling the effects of all the stuff that has happened to him and has stepped up to make himself much more stronger. Of course he needs a little something extra and thus ends up asking for the Blutsauger. I’m looking forward to see just how good he gets with that in the future. There’s also a lot of attention given to Yoshida. We’re shown that she’s given a Hougu by Pheles and that if she ever uses it to summon Pheles than her Power of Existence will be fed into it and she will die. Well, I don’t see her dying anytime soon even if she uses that. She’s too important of a character right now even if she isn’t direct involved on the battlefront.

The new OP and ED from the wonderful songstress KOTOKO, while not her best ever, were pretty good. I’d have to say I prefer the ED this time around though. The animation they used for both sequences were great and I particularly liked how they showed Yuji fighting at quite a high level with his newly acquired Blutsauger. The ED animation looked amazing with the bright colours as well. Next episode seems to diverge from the main story to focus on Satou and Tanaka. Eh…we’ll see how that episode goes but at this point with all the revelations and mysteries on the table I’d prefer more main plot than anything else.