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Last week, based on all the information we gathered, it was possible to identify the man behind the vampire attacks in the city: Kiseki Souwa. The focus of this episode is to piece together this deduction piece by piece, while adding the Suicide Master’s account to fill in any potential gaps.
What we’re left with is a vampiric pile of failure. Just as Shinobu wants to put on airs in front of Suicide Master, so too does Suicide Master want to put on airs in front of Shinobu. Because it’s a matter of pride, it overturns the Immortal Vampire’s other proud decision to feed only on the best of humans – so she chooses to feed on the first easy target she sees: Miracles.
What followed was a series of bad luck. The Suicide Master was mummified due to food poisoning (possibly due to the emotionally toxic state of the women’s basketball team). Meanwhile, Strange Stone becomes a vampire, but not a minion of Suicide Master, and buries the older vampire in a shallow grave. With her newfound powers, she goes around taking revenge on others in the club by sucking their blood and mummifying them.
At the same time, she also made the mistake of investigating her vampirism as a criminal investigation rather than a paranormal one – trying to confuse what was going on by leaving false clues here and there, hoping to blame everything on suicide. master. However, little things like a god as a friend and a vampire living in your shadow can change the way an investigation plays out – not to mention being able to quickly travel to heaven or hell.
The problem facing Araragi now is a simple fact: Gaien and the police are protecting all current members of the club. Therefore, if Kuki wants to continue his revenge, the only unguarded target is a graduating student like Kanbaru who has retired from the basketball team. And, thanks to Araragi’s intervention, the girls were gathered in one place.
So the episode ends on a comic note, with Araragi inviting himself to a girls’ slumber party, only to find himself infamous for all the wrong reasons. As silly as the conversation that followed was, the danger was still there. Vampires are on the loose – and who better to stop them than a man with plenty of personal experience in the matter?
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Random thoughts:
• Why did Miracle turn blonde after becoming a vampire? Araragi’s hair still hasn’t changed…
• Araragi is known as Hanekawa’s friend, Senjougahara’s boyfriend, Satage’s childhood friend (she might argue that point), and Kanbara’s “master”. Moreover, he is also the only delinquent student to graduate from their school.
• At this point, I always forget that Araragi had supernatural issues during his senior year of high school that caused him to miss a lot of school and be considered a delinquent.
• I love that Suicide Master and Shinobu do all these things in the name of pride, but then throw it out the window when it’s just the two of them.
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