A cliffhanger in the last episode sure made us wait what shall become of Mumei. In this episode 6, Gathering Light, we start where we left off, and find some way to kill the big black shadow, with the usual action--plus we'll hear more of what made Mumei tick. Spoilers, then, intentional or otherwise.
It all started with another flashback. It seems her past wasn't too different from Ikoma, after all. She's got pretty much the same backstory, with the added drama that she must remain strong or be thrown away. It does make the two even closer on one side, but does seem a bit recycled, at least for now.
The despair in this scene was blatantly obvious, and only quelled by Ikoma calming Mumei by answering her questions with his own thoughts: equally hating himself for getting them in this situation, but a little more hopeful. The questions asked by Mumei and Ikoma's responses were very philosophical (although, once again, a little overused). Really, the connection between these characters could just go up from here on.
However, here, I have no idea why did Ikoma have flashbacks of Mumei's life while he was fighting. That said, the show seems to give us a new mystery: who was the man that saved her?
Anyway, the fight scenes were nothing too flashy apart from Ikoma tearing up a horde.
Yes, the usual pep talk that made people realize their mistakes. It seems Mumei quickly snapped out of the state she's been in only for just the past episode, by apologizing to the kid that lost his dog.
Intetresting, the people has gone from liking kabaneri to not to liking them again, in just about three episodes. Perhaps that was indeed what truly happened.
Kurusu is back, and now he could slash kabane like nothing. Finally, they could all work together defending the train from the kabane bursting away from the shadow, which was quite an interesting (albeit quite gruesome) twist.
But, as the last few episodes has become, Mumei still took the spotlight by being the one to pierce the big thing's heart. Apart from that, it still manage to make it a tense moment, when Takumi needed to judge the right time to fire their new cannon so she could leap in.
One fault, though: she said, "wait until it closes in," NOT "when it's above us." Oh, one more thing: where did the cannon come from?
Actually, not too many things happened in this episode, though one thing to know is that now we know what happened in Mumei's past. But even the last part was nothing of note, just keeping the train from derailing.
So, while they did use some overused plot, somehow Kabaneri still manages to captivate... now, with them out of the infested station, what shall happen next week (or, in 5 days)?
So who was it that was in the middle of the black shadow that Mumei shot?
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