At the time I’m writing this, my mind is scrambled eggs. Let’s ignore the fact that what I just said might not be grammatically correct. After all, if my mind is scrambled eggs, do you think I have the time to go and check and make sure that every single sentence is grammatically correct? Besides, I believe that I still leave some errors in here from time to time, and as they say, to err is to be human. But that’s enough of the pre-show talk. Time to raise the curtain on this review!
The episode begins with somebody writing about a spirit (I KNOW THIS SPECIFIC KIND OF THING HAS A SPECIFIC NAME DUE TO THE EPISODE, BUT I FORGOT THE NAME) named Ashiya Enzo…before suddenly bursting into flames, and presumably dying. YAY, WE GOT EXACTLY WHAT WAS ADVERTISED IN THE TITLE OF THE EPISODE! YAYYYY!
*ahem*
Sorry, I feel like in some of my social media presences, I’ve been way too adult recently…well, at least, recently relative to when I wrote this. So, I’m going to channel my more child-like self into the writeups I do, at least for the current presidential term in the US and perhaps even past that. Which means a lot more jokes coming from the comedian of the blog!
Please buckle up, it’s going to be a long four years, and humor is how I get through troubled times like these.
However, once Takao catches wind of this off-screen, she decides “yes, this is something that I need to investigate!”, and goes to visit the latest people who visited the grave of this spirit. Of course, there’s some parallels between this person and their assistant and Takao and Takanashi that were interesting to see play out, and I genuinely hope we get to see them interact more.
This is also where we learn that the person that is more similar to Takao is getting oxygen therapy and is taking medicine, though it doesn’t seem to be helping. And what does Takao decide is the REASONABLE thing to do? Go investigate the grave, of course! Because that’s the first thing you should do when something weird happens! Just go investigate the source!
Getting into the resting spot, however, isn’t easy. While there is a face-off with a living relative of the spirit, it appears that there’s going to be more to this case than meets the eye, especially with what’s happening to the person that they’re visiting that’s most similar to Takao after they return from investigating the grave. After all, with some developments in the mystery department for this episode, even though we have some smaller answers for things brought up in the episode, we haven’t had Takao do her whole “mind palace” thing, so I can’t say with absolute certainty that the case is solved.
Overall, this was more so the prologue to a case than a case itself…which, to be fair, Episode One felt that exact same way, so this isn’t exactly something that faults the episode as a whole. Mysteries need time to be properly set up so that everything about them makes sense. While some may dislike that this episode was just setup, I think taking this much time to set everything up was necessary, especially if someone was watching this episode not knowing the specific parts of Japanese culture that are brought up in it, be it they’re an international viewer that doesn’t know the culture or just someone in Japan who hasn’t heard of that specific part of the culture until now.
However, as this episode is mainly setup, I don’t think it’s fair to judge the mystery yet. After all, I suspect the big mystery is “why are people bursting into fire after entering this tomb?”, and we haven’t gotten any answers in that regard yet. I’ll wait until the next episode to judge. Don’t let all my setup talk drive you away from watching this episode, though. It’s good in its own right, even if it’s mainly just setup.
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