Rats — Nurarihyon 04

I really like the bg play­ing dur­ing this scene <3

Rikuo is start­ing to take more action but it’s more that he’s forced to rather than him actu­ally tak­ing the ini­ti­at­ive to be act­ive. I really hope that he pushes him­self to become stronger instead of the story push­ing him to get stronger.  But see­ing as Rikuo was will­ing to just give up any­thing (the right to be the 3^rd heir) in order to just maybe save the girls shows that the naive Rikuo still has a lot to learn before he starts to become phys­ic­ally stronger. 

Yura actu­ally redeemed her­self some­what this epis­ode by try­ing to pro­tect Kana and being strong in front of the rat faces. But I’m still not too crazy about her  I also was reminded of Rukia from Bleach~ don’t know exactly why though.

The epis­ode had some ran­dom scenes of a dif­fer­ent art style. Since it was the first time they did this it seemed quite odd. But it was really nice just com­pletely out of place. I hope the future epis­odes con­tinue to do that but without mak­ing it seem too weird.