I don’t want to go back to the Kuhouins!

Omg, intense episode. I can already tell that the next one is going to be even better. There’s going to be some action. Last episode, Murasaki went to hang out with Tamaki for the day her constant time with Tamaki is resulting in her saying odder and odder things it’s quite funny.

In this episode the group celebrates Shichi-Go-San. I’ll be honest, I didn’t know what that was before the episode offered a brief explanation. I am sure glad that they did because I was as clueless as Murasaki. To save time, I’ll just go ahead and say that Shichi-Go-San is a celebration for 3, 5, and 7 year olds (Shichi-Go-San = Seven-Five-Three). To be more specific it is for girls aged 3 or 7 and boys aged 3 or 5. You can read up more about it here. I read it and it was all very interesting.

Summary:

Agents from the Kuhouins are keeping an eye on the Samidare apartment, changing cars every so often in order not to raise Yayoi’s suspicion. While his people are out doing field work, Renjou and Kazuko sit comfortably in their estate having a small breakfast; their main topic of discussion is about Murasaki. Since she has been found it’s only natural to talk about her. The only problem is that the way Renjou is talking is making him sound s bit like Souju. He comments on how her time in Tokyo could be beneficial to her, but Kazuko finds that ridiculous; a Sanctuary girl has no need for that type of knowledge. She’s right, but Renjou’s attitude seems to give a hint that he is opposing the Inner Sanctuary now too.

Shinkurou and Murasaki’s breakfast isn’t near as sophisticated as the Kuhouin’s. Murasaki just gropes in a bag of bread, commenting on how great it is, Shinkurou claims that it is too sweet. Yamie and Tamaki then offer up their comments on the bread; Yamie agrees with Shinkurou, and Tamaki agrees with Murasaki. The fact that they are in Shinkurou’s room and eating his food again irritates him a bit, but the issue is put aside when Yamie chips her tooth and calls it a bad premonition and when the TV announces that Shichi-Go-San is on the 15th. They then all agree that since Murasaki is seven she needs to experience this once in a life time opportunity. They, however, will get the chance to visit a shrine where a relatively popular murder of a detective Bogey happened.

Shinkurou, goes up to the school and stops in to see Ginko; she almost has the information on the Kuhouins and needs a bit more time. That aside, Shinkurou decides to ask her what she did for her Shichi-Go-San. She gets a little confused and uncomfortable at the question though.

At home, Yamie and Tamaki prepare Murasaki for her Shichi-Go-San. They get out one of her nice kimonos and put some makeup on her. Surprisingly, Yamie doesn’t goth the little girl up which makes Tamaki and Murasaki happy. Now that Shinkurou is home he needs to get permission to take Murasaki out of the apartment so he goes to plea with Yayoi across the street. She calls up Benika who is in the middle of holding a gun to a tied up man’s head and gets the approval under one circumstance: they can’t go to Hanazono shrine like they wanted, instead they have to go to some small shrine that’s in front of a train station. After that is all cleared up, Murasaki and the others come out to head off to the shrine only to find out the saddening change of plans.

They arrive at the shrine, but on their walk down the sidewalk they happen to pass by a Kuhouin agent. Their location is known again. The small shrine turns out to be even more of a disappointed than they thought, but Murasaki is happy to go take pictures and offer up prayer; Tamaki and Yamie see that the shrine gives luck in gambling so they offer up a big greedy prayer. Shinkurou offers to buy her a charm since her fortune was bad so she picks the pretty pink one. It says safe-driving, but she doesn’t know that. After their visit to the shrine they head to a restaurant to get drinks.

Back at the Kuhouin estate, things are all business. Renjou goes to visit his father and is questioned on whether he still has feelings for Souju. He denies that any such emotions exist, but it is fairly obvious that he loves her. They decide that they need to get Murasaki back into the Sanctuary so that their affairs will not be leaked out. One of Renjou’s sons, Ryuuji, then comes in and basically tells his father off for being weak and says how he will get Murasaki back for his father.

The night is now coming to a close and the group must part ways. Tamaki and Yamie want to go try out their newly improved gambling skills and Shinkurou wants to get back to put Murasaki to bed. On the way back, Murasaki asks Shinkurou is he likes women with big breasts. (This is where we see just how much Tamaki has been teaching the girl.) She claims that her mother had large breats so she will probably grow up to have them too. She finds being a child troubling because she wants to grow up so that she can be a suitable partner and please Shinkurou; he just tells her she’s fine how she is. She is happy to hear that and is happy to later hear that Shinkurou is happy having her there.

The next day at school, Shinkurou gets a text from Ginko whil he is talking to Yuuno again so he goes to see her and finds out a bit of information on the Kuhouins that he didn’t really want to know. Apparently, in the Kuhouin family tree, there is no Murasaki. She doesn’t exist and there are no records of there even being a girl child to Renjou. This comes as a shock to him and he knows Murasaki isn’t capable of lying at her age so the two of them determine that she probably doesn’t even know how her family views her.

Shinkurou is depressed and majorly confused so he heads home to see Murasaki but is stopped outside the apartment by two Kuhouin agents. They attack him while he’s off guard, and he’s only saved because Yayoi chases them off. She calls up Benika and Shinkurou runs in to tell Murasaki the bad news that they have been found and can no longer stay in the Samidare apartment.

Thoughts:

I think that this episode probably had the funniest situation that I have seen in any anime. I’m not talking about a funny joke, but Benika’s casual attitude while holding a gun to a man’s head. She just calmly talks on the phone about the Shichi-Go-San without wavering then kindly asks the man if he has children as if their current situation isn’t even a reality. Like the whole thing is just a normal happening between to people. I laughed so hard when it showed her with the gun in one hand and the phone in the other. That cinematography was genius, probably the best the show has had.

I must say that when Murasaki started talking about large breasts and pleasing Shinkurou, I was tempted to pause the show and go search for doujins, but I decided to look for them afterward. (I didn’t find much of anything. And yes, I know, I’m horrible.)

I’m kind of curious as to what will happen. The preview to the next episode gives the impression that it will be all action, but I am not wondering about what will happen in the next episode. I am curious as to whether or not Shinkurou will have to relocate with Murasaki cause if they do they probably won’t be able to just move to another part of Tokyo, they’d have to go to another city. Oh well, guess we’ll find out.