黄泉のツガイ

I dont really understand what the village plan for yuru was. Its not like they were training him about these powers, or who right & left were(and if they wanted him for their own purposes, you'd think he'd be getting brainwashed at least to be super loyal to the village and its plans). Hell for a village so connected and know about daemons, the fact that basically no one can see them also seems weird. The village seemed to be just wholly and utterly unprepared for any sort of attack beyond the barrier to protect them, which is very weird for a group that supposedly wants to use yuru and asa for their own gain.

They don't reveal the secret because what if Yuru doesn't want to resurrect? Perfect brainwashing does not exist, at least not without a daemon. But if Yuru dies suddenly and is offered a chance to return to his family, he would take it. The only way to see daemons is to make a contract with a pair, and with a village isolated like that, there aren't many to go around. Fake Asa and her half were the only other daemon in the village. The fact that they are so dirty poor, that too is why they want the power of the twins, then they will be the most powerful people in the world.

It's very unlikely that is the case with how that event is being treated. Pretty sure the people back then knew about the context well enough to ruled out that reason. The much more likely cause is something happened with seal. My theory is seal just isn't there for some reason or another. Maybe the Seal user from more than 400 years ago is actually still alive, or maybe there was a secret special twins that was born outside of the village, and that seal twin already died and reclaimed power before the village seal twin died. Like, surely Arakawa has to playbwith the concept of what if there is or was more than one pair of twins.

I'm not sure Yuru's pov does that great a job either. What with his father telling him not to tell anyone else about the bandits and his family running away from the place. I think most of the good will for the place is the neutral pov viewers come in with, and the assumption that the backwater hicks with no tech getting invaded by helicopters, special forces, and crazy girls with supernatural powers just look like the good guys by comparison because in most stories, they would be.

They have never shown us that they were all in on the plotting... Other than the 'important people', we have only been shown outside village assassins and the small group at the end of this episode discussing Yuru and Asa's powers. The threads for this show are filled to the brim with source readers defending/attacking the factions based on information that hasn't been given, and downvoting people for having theories/opinions that are 'incorrect'. Kinda ruins the whole experience for anime-onlys like myself. Crazy that we should have to avoid what is supposed to be a spoiler-free discussions because source readers can't keep their curse of knowledge bias in check.

The village's entire shtick is they they want to claim the power of the twins (by killing them and making it look like it wasnt them) and take over Japan. You can't really be here defending that kind of behaviour. Every 'average' villager is in on it. Some might be more ignorant about daemons than others but most know that if they kill the twins and have them claim their power, they can take over the country. Every one of the assassins were 'average' villagers at one point too

They had outsider boxers because they were villagers sent away from the village down to mountain to 'work'. Villagers literally live and operate outside in the modern world, Tadera and Hana being an obvious example. The assassins who killed Asa even mentioned seeing her in her cage once back when they use to live in the village. You might need to go do a rewatch or comprehend these details a bit better cause theres no way you forgot such an important plot point?? The Kagemori's believe that the twins power are too dangerous to be used and preferred the twin cycle end so obviously not everyones trying to take over the world.

I'm solidly on team fuck em. Not just because they're all in on the plot to kill and then, provided he didn't perma-die, control Yuru. And given that Shaman, a dude who seems to know more about the supernatural than the average villager, said he thought the whole Break and Seal thing was just an old wives tale... That means the entire adult population of the village aside from the twins' parents and Dera's dad were completely on board with killing two kids on the off chance that maybe the possibility they'd come back to life with cool superpowers was actually true. So yeah, they're all solidly in the 'find out' phase of a multi-generational FAFO situation deserve whatever they get.

honestly one of the best things about this show is that every detail is almost explained. I love that the show takes its time to show that there is a logic and reasoning happening, not with just their characters, but also the world building Hell everything to do with explaining modern tech to Left and Right and their interpretations of things like AC (wind god). So much attention to detail and i live for it

I don't think the pacing itself is too slow because things are happening and the plot is moving, but the explanation of the world has been dramatically slow for the bulk of the season. There's still the gigantic gaping hole of why this supposed demon-clan village is frozen in time and the bulk of the citizens hold virtually no information of the outside world or demon awareness. It's genuinely dumb to be Higashi Village and not have your people trained around the existence of guns or that there is a huge ever present threat of the Kagemori's trying to get into the village. They didn't even have a mechanism for inspecting outsiders to clear them of a potential threat like the Kagemori's do with Whisper and Embrace.

A great episode full of new plot development to end this cour. So Asuma is reporting to his uncle who is working with Sword Mustang but Asuma does not seem very interested in actually cooperating with him. I was surprised to see Asuma sharing information with Jin, my read was that they are not cooperating with each other based on previous episodes but things seem to be more complicated. It's pretty much confirmed after this episode that the gate was made using Katana-guy's daemons, and he can also use them to pull a Sticky Fingers and hide inside another person's body. Higashi village just can't catch a break huh, they're still mourning the previous attack and another one seems to be taking place already.

It's kinda crazy how the people from this village just get randomly murdered all the time Like...wow...and was there ever any reason? Clearly the politics are beyond these civilians, even if they are also shady, I guess. But they rightfully fear for their lives. So Asuma is reporting to his uncle who is working with Sword Mustang but Asuma does not seem very interested in actually cooperating with him. I was surprised to see Asuma sharing information with Jin, my read was that they are not cooperating with each other based on previous episodes but things seem to be more complicated. Asuma seems to have his own agenda. And he clearly was disinterested in killing his brother (though maybe that was a lie). So for now, in the Kagemori family, the uncle is one party, Asuma is one party and then there is the main branch. So three factions. I think Asuma probably has selfish reasons for doing what he does, but he doesn't want to be in the same position his uncle is in. Especially because his uncle lacks access to Daemons, which is obviously quite important.

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There is one thing. Asuma's uncle is called "Shingo-sama" by the receptionist, so his family name is likely Shingo. He also said that Asuma's mother was useless, which makes it seemed like he was the brother of Asuma's mother than of his father. Perhaps Asuma was a child born from a political marriage between Kagemori family and Shingo family. His mother was supposed to be the mole but for some reason she could not do the job (hence his uncle called his mother useless), and now Asuma is the mole of Shingo family inside Kagemori family.

Yeah I’ve been holding off on judging the village just cause we didn’t have full info. But now that we have concrete evidence of them talking about acquiring seal (meaning Yuru has to die) and sending 5 “bandits”, and the fact they too couldn’t see daemons, I can now safely say the adults in that village are collectively twisted. Even the shaman was sus. This time when they all died i didn’t care lol

Yes, this is what I said. They rightfully fear for their lives. Remember that the show started with a modern military in a helicopter murdering villagers. So obviously it’s absolutely rational that they want to have break or seal. Twice already random people came to their village and just started murdering. And I also said that they were a bit shady. Like, I don’t know, if you want to reply to a comment, please read it. I totally agree that the villagers aren’t innocent - which is why I didn’t say they were innocent. Still, this far above their level, I mean, they don’t even know about or see daemons

Exactly. The villagers could very well have been indoctrinated to believe that Yuru and Asa being killed is a small sacrifice to protect the village from the evils outside, or something along those lines. Besides, I still don't think the small group that the shaman chose to speak to proves that every adult in the village knows. Even if they know, we don't know what their reasoning is, we only know the reasoning that the Kagemori clan gave Yuru.

It just seems like the isolation weakened them. The granny seems to be the ringleader of the Higashi's, but she also, as far as we know, doesn't have a clue about the outside world or at most a very limited understanding. That whole setup on the mountain and lack of access to daemons, seems like it's a strategy born out of desperation and a lack of resources and not some kind of genius 4D chess move. The strategy seems to be Step 1: go full Amish Step 2: gain the power of seal and break Step 3: ... Step 4: world domination