Seriously, I’ve seen a lot of dead bodies on Ayatsuri Sakon already, but the director in this one must have been the bloodiest so far. Okay, perhaps along with the beheading of the first episode. But that’s what you get when you stab a person with an Egyptian sword and hang her upside down.

Anyway, the actors:

Yuuki Mari. She’s the director of a museum with lots of Egyptian artefacts. She got killed at the beginning of the episode. It seems that she made a lot of enemies when she was still alive, which could give anyone a motive. An exciting murder. The current arc promises to be great. :)

Isshiki Seiji. He’s the assistant director. At one time, he was Yuuki Mari’s boss, but that changed when she became director of the museum. He likes to annoy and scare others, though despite his confidence, he makes a lot of errors. Sakon, of course, discovers these errors (for example, him confusing the Egyptian Sphinx with the Greek one, the Egyptian is just a huge stone statue, the Greek was the one who had a nice dinner whenever his victims couldn’t solve his riddles). The murder was committed at 8:00. At 8:45, he got phoned because Yuuki didn’t show up. To get from his house to the museum, you need one hour and 30 minutes, but he was the only one, except for Yuuki herself, who holds the key to the room in which she was killed. That means that either he did it, went somewhere apart from his house, received the call on his cell phone and planned to arrive 90 minutes after he was phoned, or someone found a creative way to lock the door.

Takahashi Yoshie was Yuuki’s former secretary, and she now still works in that same spot. Rumours are floating around that Yuuki took away her boyfriend, though they’re just rumours made up by people, scared to become the major suspect.

Kisaragi is the manager of the museum. He had a lot of arguments with Yuuki, as she had a nasty tendency to remove all valuable objects which didn’t get any attention from the display. Kisaragi also used to be a teacher of Sakon. When Sakon was young, he used to get bullied often. In a way, that’s logical as he’s a boy who’s carrying around puppets. You’d wonder why he changed from being a teacher to being the manager of a museum.

Hamada is one of the few staff members who managed to escape Yuuki’s enthusiastic firing policy. He may have lost a few good friends because of this.

Tadokoro is the security Chief. He got injured when Yuuki tried to move a heavy artefact in a rather aggressive way. Still, he says that he’s still loyal to her, as she agreed to cover all expenses of the accident.

One thing I dislike about Ayatsuri Sakon is the silhouette of the murderer which is shown before the arcs start. If I recall correctly, the first three arcs didn’t have this, but both arc four and arc five had this. It’s too bad, as they sortof ruin the fun a bit. I’ll try to ignore them for now. So far, I’m loving this arc. I’m really interested in how it’ll continue.

The episode starts out surprisingly light, when compared with the previous one. It features Karada and Shoko shopping for the things they need. Shoko needs a new pair of glasses, and both of them need new clothes, as their sizes aren’t the same to wear each other’s clothes without any problems. Especially Shoko was so CUTE in this. ^_^

Karada may have wished to become an adult, at heart, she’s still a child. She does have to cope with responsibility, and she must learn to do things on her own. It proves to be harder than she thought, and so, Shoko has to help her in this. Both of them have huge difficulties in playing their parts. Still, Karada isn’t as hopeless as in the previous episode. It seems that she managed to stuff her feelings inside of her, and she actually makes food for Shoko.

While the previous episode was focused on Karada, this episode focuses on Shoko. The result is a totally different episode than the previous one. It’s still full of emotions, but totally different ones. Shoko may have been an adult, she still is bothered by the fact that she changed. Especially when she runs into Hiro, and he doesn’t recognize her. In the end, she lies that she’s Shoko’s little sister.

Because of this, the climax of the show was exceptionally good. Shoko gets a bit sick of Hiro who doesn’t recognize her, so she runs away. In the end, she confesses to him, and brings him back to her apartment, in which she reveals that Karada has grown up. How Karada will react to this, we’ll see in the next episode.

We also get a bit of background information, regarding what happened to Shoko, Hiro and Karada before this anime started. Karada actually isn’t Hiro’s real sister. That, or they didn’t live together at a certain time. When their parents died, Hiro was asked to come over to America, where Karada was living, in order to take care of her. Because of this, Hiro spent all his free time with Karada, and ignored Shoko. She, eventually left the town, only to come back a number of years later. It’s interesting, as it shows why Hiro was so devoted to his sister. He never knew her, and he probably didn’t want her to have any more lonely memories. If the two were siblings who already lived together during the death of their parents, I can imagine that things would have gotten resolved in a totally different way, seeing as how the two already knew each other, so that they knew what would be best for the other.

Even though during the episodes, not a lot of things happen, I’m loving this series. I like the way that this series really takes its time in telling its story. Not to mention the cuteness of Shoko. (^_^)

Okay, this story just keeps getting more and more interesting. And remember that we’re only at episode 3 of 13, which means that there’s still a lot that has to happen. This was another episode with difficult dialogue, so I didn’t pick up everything. Especially the plans of the magic people are still a mystery to me, though by the looks of it, they plan to actually use Sasami and the others for their goals.

We start the episode with Sasami’s father revealing that he actually does come from the magic world, or that he can at least use magic. He definitely wants to save Sasami and the others, and comes up with a plan. We then switch to Sasami and the others, along with Itoki and the others. There’s its demonstrated what the power of the members of the mahou shoujo club combined can actually manage. Quite an explosion follows.

Misao, also, is changing. More than anyone else. For one of the first times, she actually has people who care for her, and give her attention. She’s also been progressing more than any other because of this. This issue definitely will get worse as the anime progresses. Last episode also showed that she’s growing way from Sasami more and more. Her broken ring, which breaks during this episode, is only more proof of this.

Sasami’s father’s plan: Washuu and Daimon go and rescue the girls, while he himself goe to check up on Amitabu. I’m not sure what his link is in this, didn’t manage to pick that one up. Meanwhile, it’s become evening, and Sasami hears Amitabu’s harp again, so she heads out. Ryouki meanwhile acts as bait, while Washuu and Daimon sneak into the dormitories. They wake up the four remaining girls, and urge them to leave the magical world, not stating their reasons. Misao refuses in the beginning, seeing as everyone has been treating her so kindly. In the end, Washuu pushes her to go anyway.

We then switch to Sasami’s father, who arrives at a huge tree. In this tree, a second Amitabu has been captured in thorns. That means that there are two of them, one who’s been dancing with Sasami and who met Sasami’s father at the beach, and the one who’s been caught in thorns. Just what is the meaning of this. Has it already been revealed, or is it supposed to be a mystery? (*kicks lack of Japanese*)

Sasami, meanwhile, runs into the other Amitabu, playing on his harp again. The meeting started very cute, but took a surprising twist when Amitabu learned of Sasami’s father. (Apparently, he’s named Ginji). He suddenly turns serious, grabs her and flies off.

After this, Washuu really came in her element, when she guided Tsukasa, Anri, Misao and Makoto back to the entrance of the human world. She looked almost freaky in her desires to keep the girls safe. She meets up with Ginji, who discovers that Sasami’s gone. The latter then goes to look for her and sees Amitabu fly through the sky with Sasami in his arms. Sasami, however, isn’t scared at all. She’s after all, still in love with him, and actually falls asleep in his arms.

I think that in the past, Ginji and Amitabu had some kind of history, in which they were close friends. Ginji then did something along the lines of abandoning Amitabu. That’s what made him so happy when he saw him again, though I think that Amitabu still has a grudge against him. But what does this have to do with the bridge from the magical world to the human world? And what role do the demons have in this picture?

I absolutely loved the following scene. Washuu and the others have to jump off a considerably high cliff in order to flee to the human world. Washuu tries to act all brave, though when she attempts to catch the jumping Tsukasa, she most probably made some miscalculations. Whent hey almost reached the gate, the other witches arrive. Ginji, meanwhile, caught up with Amitabu, who confirms even more that he was left alone. But for some reason, this Amitabu speaks in third person.

Washuu, meanwile, uses a strange grenade which creates another link to the human world. Ginji, Amitabu and Sasami arrive as well. The head witch tries to stop them, though for some reason, she doesn’t want to go against either Ginji or Amitabu. Washuu, Daimon, Ginji and the girls then head to the human world, and Sasami says goodbye to Amitabu, who flies off afterwards.

We end the episode at some kind of witch council. It’s surrounded by white trees, and a strange voice sounds. He keeps calling certain persons traitors. He also says something completely inaudible.

An intermezzo. Both Light and L are preparing some plans, but no real conflicts happened. Light’s father happens to be the inspector of police, in charge of the search for Kira. I’ve got a few problems with this. I mean, isn’t it too much of a coincidence that out of all the millions of people who live in Kanto, his father is the one who is one more important people who are after him?

In any case, Light uses this convenience to his advantage when he makes clear to L that he’s got contact with the police. He figures that by doing this, the police and L will end up cooperating less and less because of doubts from the police’s side. They then probably investigate on L’s identity as well, after which Light snatches his life away. Still, I have a feeling that it won’t go this easily. L, meanwhile, has found out that Kira is most likely a student of some sort, due to the fact that the times all happened at times when normal students have a bit of free time. If you combine this with the fact that Kira has some kind of connection to the police, then I think his next step is to look for sons or daughters of police officers. It’s probably what the shady guy who’s been following Light at during the second half of the episode is up to.

Ryuk also makes a very interesting deal with Light. There are two major differences between shinigamis and humans who use the Death Note. The first is that whenever a shinigami writes a person’s name in the Death note, the remaining life-span of that person gets added to the life span of the shinigami. That means that you can’t kill a shinigami, unless they’re really lazy (I loved the parts in which Ryuk states the obvious(^^)). It makes you wonder, though. Why do shinigami exist? What’s their purpose? Do they just live to scribble names in their Death Note every ten years or something?

The second difference is that whenever a shinigami sees a person, the name of this person, along with his lifespan appear on top of this person. Well then, Ryuk is willing to trade his eyes, which make Light do his job more accurately, for the half of his remaining life-span. We all know that Light is going to say yes, but what’s up with the cliff-hanger at the end of the episode? Also, this brings up an interesting question. Something that also came in Night Head Genesis on the table: will these estimated life-spans be 100% accurate, outside of the Death Note? What if Light looks at himself in the mirror? Doesn’t that mean that he’ll know exactly when he’ll die? That’s indeed great for a strategic element.