Panic erupts as people begin exhibiting the symptoms. She confronts the mob, flanked by a Bushi and her Uncle, and tells them the Kotetsujyo had no hand in what’s happening. Or carrier pigeon. Which is why Ayame comes to the rescue. So, what’s he do? So, not story breaking, if somewhat convenient for Ikoma. Kurusu leaves him in the hull and begins working on something outside. After all, Biba was the one who created the white blood, more or less, so that he would have more on his train isn’t that hard to accept. For his part, Biba seems honestly relieved, even proud, as he acknowledges that Ikoma has found a coward. Follow. As he thinks on these things, we see a group of civilians threatening the still imprisoned Kotetsujyo crew, as well as a Kongokaku train firing on the fused colony form of Mumei, trying to stop her, but only succeeding in spreading more Kabane through the city. Mumei, still surrounded by the red butterflies, can only watch, still seeing Ikoma as a blue butterfly, also surrounded, and losing the battle. What world building it did do was limited solely to what they needed of the plot, and it’s really hard to break that. Try not to confirm or deny any theories, encourage people to read the source material instead. Uryuu has shown on several occasions that he’s not totally evil; I am having a hard time with him not batting an eye at helping destroy a city full of non-combatants. It’s about as close as Kurusu can come to calling him a friend, really, and in many ways, it’s way more significant than that. The shogun has a bushi bring him a knife he found in Biba’s stash. From the perspective of Ikoma and friends, I suppose it doesn’t matter. Which is what the giant cloth net was for. Ikoma rivets his steam gun to the stump of his right arm. If nothing else, it is plenty obvious Studio Wit aimed very high with Koutetsujou. Ikoma awoke from a dream where his sister morphed into Mumei and tried to stab him to death. Lost in the fused colony, she first senses him, then sees him coming towards her as a blue butterfly. He’s willing to kill himself to do it. It had plenty of flaws, just not totally story breaking ones. Sitting on the shogun’s throne, he remembers taking horse-back rides with his father. It was a small knife in a sheath, and the shogun had given it to his son as a present years ago. He began sowing seeds of psychological doubt to weaken his enemy’s resolve. He just seems completely under Biba’s spell. With Mumei leading the way, clearing Kabane with her trademark ease, she and Kurusu head across the city. Enter your email address to subscribe and receive notifications of new posts by email! Right away, we see that Kongokaku has seen better days. Uryuu, one of the Hunters who showed disgust at prisoner mistreatment in the last episode, calls him off and says to leave the car’s cleanup to them. This just pisses Ikoma off, and he comes at Biba with a fury. His hunters have infiltrated the city and have begun injecting random people with the Kabane virus. Some may even say I got overly critical of it. Once we learn he’s also a Kabaneri, it makes complete sense his scientists would bring it to him as the situation in Kongokaku got worse than they expected, faster than they expected. ( Log Out /  I concern myself more with themes, subtext, characterization, and general plot movement than I do with whether or not something is “good” or “bad”. How many she’s killed. I hope they can get free of Biba soon; I want to see them off on their own adventures, humans against Kabane. Biba’s Hayajiro, the Kokujou, steams towards Kongoukaku. In Kongoukaku, Mumei has taken the form of a four legged beast with ethereal wings. Her story is that she and her whole crew captured Biba to bring him to judgement for what happened at Iwato. That’s quite a contrast to the evil blob of insanity that is Biba, the plague on humanity! From Biba? Showing just how much despair has claimed her heart, Kajika dares him to do it. She corrects him, saying her name is Hozomi, and holds him as he dies. I hate to admit it, but Biba’s plan is diabolically simple and effective. Weak though she is, she tries to reach out to him. Early years. Well, Uryuu may not approve of mistreating prisoners, and he may have saved Kajika’s life (seriously, he gets a lot of points for that in my book! I am not, and will never claim to be, a professional reviewer. Biba stabs him through the heart cage. Biba then shows up with his men, and he reveals that in typical villain fashion he had seen this coming. Kajika, Kibito, and others from the Koutetsujou deal with the aftermath of Takumi’s decision at the end of the last episode. The council roundly refuses, and the sister of the boy he ordered killed a few episodes back straight up slaps him the face. I’m not really much of a critic, so much as I am a watcher who occasionally has an opinion from the viewpoint of a writer. ( Log Out /  Amazon. […], Quick Summary In Otome Yokai Zakuro episode 5, “Sticky Trap,” there’s a spirit who’s luring soldiers to their deaths, and the Ministry of Spirit Affairs is assigned to find it. Biba’s father’s paranoia almost killed Biba. His expression kind of says it all. In the main rail yard of Kongokaku, a large number of Busi are doing the best to hold back the seemingly endless numbers of Kabane flooding in.