A strong background story with plenty of events; Tokyo Esp episode 4 Impression

This week episode brings many surprises and WTF moment with a tender closing for the ending part. The episode answered the question that I have from the last episode for example; the reason why Azuma always said Rinka as his heroine. The episode even added more background story involving Azuma past and his relation to Minami; the chick with the double Katanas in the first episode. I considered Tokyo Esp as as simple as its get. It does not portray its characters as mysterious and complicated like other series do. The characters' background was explained one by one with each passing episode and this episode was no exception.

Pew Pew Pew Pew

Following the kidnapping scene involving Murasaki last week, Rinka and Azuma ended up fighting mafia henchmen. While Rinka's wound still not healed due to her fighting with the Phantom thief in the last week episode, she still proved a better fighter for the Mafia. I don't know if using esper magic was considered cheating or not but every time the mafia attack, their weapons always went through her body so she could easily pound them one by one. When they finally reach Murasaki; the Mafia Kingpin broke the wall completely nude (vomit). He was stronger to both Azuma and Rinka since no weapon had any effect to his body until Pengy, the penguin, became angry,  absorbed and ate the glowing fish that entered his body. When Rinka realized that the mafia boss felt pain from her bitting, she asked Azuma to teleport Murasaki away and gave the boss a double skull cracking kick down to the ground.

She was totaly captivated with his beautiful eyes  XD

Talking about the WTF moment was the Phantom thief decision to join Rinka's gang. It turn out that she had a crush to Rinka's father. I mean after all the pain she had given to Rinka and the fight they had gone through, they turned into friend that simple. She even live together along with Rinka's family in the bartender house because their home was completely burned by Merayama.

That Silhouette o_0 is that you Kid Goku??

Okay if you don't like spoiler; I thought you could stop here. Azuma Kyotaro had a foster sister and she was Minami; the katana wielding chick that teleport all the time during the first episode. In Azuma past, a man; after killed his last friend, almost killed Azuma until Minami shot him down. Minami's father, whose identity remained a mystery, took him as a son. In regard to Azuma's role, I don't know about what happen to him during the first episode because he was not seen or appear in person. However, I know that he will play a major rule in making the connection between the character especially for Rinka and Minami.

Tsundere line detected

The episode even explained the reason for Azuma calling Rinka as his heroine. Few months before they obtained  the Esp magic, Rinka saved Azuma from bullies. Even knowing that Azuma was a complete stranger to her, she step in and saved him from them. That event left a deep impression for him and then turned him into a person who wanted to save other.  Ironically, both Azuma and Rinka influenced each other although in different cases. Azuma wanted to help other because of his past and Rinka saved him as a complete stranger while Rinka wanted to help other because Azuma kept pestering her to do so.

Its good to have more people but whose gonna pay for the food? The manager T-T

Murasaki's esper ability was more like a clairvoyant with her seeing a vision of the object that she touched in the past. The first time it activated was when she tried to ate a bacon. She could see the image of a pig being split into two and she was completely frightened with her first experience of Esp magic. Then, after deciding about leaving the house that raised her, her father gave her a ring that belong to her deceased mother. Afterward, we could see the sweet moments of her infant times when her mother was still alive.

There are so many thing worth noting from this episode. The fight between Rinka and the mafia, the revelation of Minami and her relation to Azuma, the bonding between the characters, and even Murasaki's sweet moment with her deceased mother. Thats a lot to say for only one episode and once again I felt very satisfied with Tokyo Esp no nonsensical behavior in treating its audiences
In short, the episode gave a good closure, decent characters background stories, an honest and simple characters' development, and off course the last part of the anime which introduced the villain Esp leader as the professor made me eager to see the next episode.