MAO 11 Overview
SPOILER Abstract/Synopsis
In Kyoto, Kamon will get a report from his Shikigami (Beniko) of a state of affairs the place an aristocrat’s sick daughter turned properly after a go to from a religious healer. As Kuchinawa, Kamon makes use of his magic to achieve acceptance and entrance to the aristocrat’s mansion. There he learns that the healer got here from the Goko Clan. Nonetheless, when the person’s daughter Miyako reveals up, Kamon discovers she’s really useless, although nobody sees her as such.
Elsewhere, a girl in excessive poverty residing in a shack mourns her very sick son. Shigeru. A passing Shikigami named Mizuchi provides to assist for a worth. In the meantime, Nanoka, in very trendy clothes, reveals as much as Mao’s clinic. Mao is anxious that the one that despatched an murderer after him gained’t cease attempting. Shigeru’s mom and little sister present up on the clinic, begging for assist.
The mom passes out because the daughter takes Mao again to their shack. Shigeru’s mom opens a shell, inflicting a water phantasm to lure Nanoka and Otoya. The mom takes Mao’s kodoku pot and races off. When the phantasm falls, Otoya makes use of magic to path the mom. In the meantime, Mao arrives on the shack to find Shigeru has been useless for some time. Instantly, Mizuchi assaults, destroying the shack.
As they battle, Mizuchi makes use of the cursed Taima spear used to battle Byouki 900 years earlier. He lands a deadly wound on Mao. Mizuchi plans to take Mao to Kyoto. Nonetheless, Nanoka’s arrival disrupts Mizuchi, permitting Mao to ship him packing. As Mao dies, he provides Nanoka and Otoya ultimate directions. A few of Nanoka’s blood drips to Mao, therapeutic him. Nanoka passes out, so Mao carries her again. After she wakes, Mao contemplates the state of affairs with whomever it’s from Kyoto that’s after him.
Ideas/Overview
Man, I didn’t know Takahashi-sensei had it in her to write down such a darkish sequence. But MAO 11 continues to indicate that darkness, even when there are moments of levity to maintain issues from going off the sting.
Street to Kyoto
One factor that’s clear from MAO 11 is that whomever this individual is who’s concentrating on Mao is predicated in Kyoto. The episode gave us flashbacks to remind us of some earlier particulars mentioning Kyoto, which I appreciated as I’d forgotten them. 😅 I don’t suppose it’s an excessive amount of of a stretch to consider that Kamon’s arrival and investigations in Kyoto are associated to Mao’s incidents. And it appears fairly clear that whomever is after Mao is one more of the Goko Clan Onmyoji apprentices.
Though I attempt to keep away from the OP/ED segments of an anime episode as a consequence of their spoiler components, I’ve seen some whereas listening to the OP/ED theme songs. (The OP tune has an attention-grabbing begin/finish, however nothing else to spur me to purchase it.) I’d seen a personality whom I’d presumed was a sorceress of some type. However within the put up credit score scene of the episode, there’s an implication that this character might in actual fact be a man. And this may occasionally in actual fact be the man who’s after Mao. However it is going to be attention-grabbing to see.
That apart, this episode was darkish. For a begin, the wealthy man who’s daughter is a strolling corpse. Yikes. I really feel so badly for that household as they’ve been fooled by a huckster. That sorcerer girly-guy is a nasty piece of labor if in actual fact they’re behind this occasion.
Then there’s the lady in poverty determined to avoid wasting her youngster. I’m with Mao on them. Nanoka’s response comes from a easy, “They did unhealthy and that’s that.” And definitely I can perceive this. However I can perceive the desperation of a mom in poverty determined to avoid wasting her youngster at any worth. The mom has paid the worth as not solely is her son useless, however her shack of a house is destroyed. Alas, we’ll by no means know what turned of the mom and her surviving daughter. 😭
Closing Ideas and Conclusion
Let me wrap up my evaluate with some ultimate ideas.
- I believe we see the seeds of a Mao x Nanoka relationship beginning on this episode. Not sudden.
- Whereas I reward Viz for utilizing phrases like Shikigami, Onmyoji, Taizanfukun, Youkai, Ayakashi, and so on., I despise them for rejecting utilizing Japanese honorifics. Significantly Viz, can’t you do something proper? (And I be aware their manga is simply as silly on this entrance, so I gained’t be reviewing it.)
Ultimately, MAO 11 continues to shock me with how good the story is. Issues get darkish and tragic, however to not the purpose of miserable me. I’m really wanting ahead to extra!
