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The last episode of the Full Dive RPG at least for the first season was on air few days ago. Now we would saw the climax battle between Hiroshi versus the very person (NPC) that he admired in the game..Tesla. Just before the fight started, Tesla revealed that he had another trump card on his hand. His skill lighting extreme had even a faster upgrade called Lighting extreme Despair and it was way faster than the original. Without talking much he instantly used his ultimate skill to kill Hiro as fast he could. After seeing how fast Tesla's ultimate skill, Hiro knew that it was the end of his console until at the last moment Alicia took the blow. Alicia was stabbed through her abdomen and instantly fell down and dying. Before her last breath, she revealed that her brother talked to her that Hiro was not really responsible for everything that happened. It was true that Hiro killed Martin accidentally; but it was due to the scheme of Queens Govern's that made the entire Ted town's people scared to even mention about leaving the town. Alicia dead and Hiro asked Reona if she could be resurrected later. Yet, due to the amount of the game's realism, it was not possible for any NPC to be revived.

Alicia you're not Aeris..your sudden dead would not make ppl bawling all of sudden lol

Tesla said that Alicia's dead was in vain and he prepared another Lighting Extreme Despair move to Hiro. The protagonist who was extremely pissed to Tesla right now, shouted that the guard captain was even made him pissed more than the reality itself. Just as Tesla flashed and tried to kill Hiro in one move, he missed. It shocked Tesla and made him thinking that it was just a coincidence. Another Lighting Extreme and another missed opportunity shocked Tesla completely as he knew it was not a mere coincidence. Hiro managed to see his movement and changed the sword trajectory. Hiro remembered the thing that he learnt from Kamui during the time when he read the game walk-through. The secret was the player stat in-game could be heightened with a strong emotion and a will to survive. The humanity conviction to not give up against hurdles and troubles would make them unleashed their true potential which was similar to the time when he saved the little girl during the Goblin chase. And now Hiro was very ready to make Tesla pay for his wrong doing.

To have the "FORCE" to be with you for all this time

The next thing happened, Hiro started the initiative to fight and he moved way so fast that it shocked Tesla by miles. The very amateur who could not even beat Palu in a one and one training match now could fight on par with the Captain of the mercenary guards. He could evade Tesla's attack and made him unable to fight back with a various sword slashes that he made. As Hiro cornered Tesla, he disarmed him and about to perform the finishing blow..only to fail because the sword was broken since it could not pulverize Tesla's gold armor. Tesla felt so relieved that he instantly boasting about heaven preferred him to win in their duel. As Hiro was thinking that he already dead, a vision of Martin came to him. For a brief moment he met Martin below the Kenura tree. Hiro explained that he lost the duel and was dead all along only for Martin explaining to him that it was not over yet. He promised Hiro that he would aid Hiro on his battle. Soon after, Hiro opened his eyes and he just could not believe about what he saw. The broken sword in his hand was fixed with a green light that worked as the blade's tip (which might represent Martin's spirit)

Hiro just got his Achilles heel activated

Hiro; who thought that he was on the winning side at this moment, said that this time he would win for sure. He fully charged the blade to Tesla and both of them run to each other and clashed. The next thing we knew, Hiro was laying on his bed; full of disappointment...he lost the fated duel and his console had broken. The Queen Govern gave him a nudge in the knee while he was about to clash with Tesla which made him lost balance and Tesla didn't waste the opportunity to stab his avatar to dead. Reona gave her support and she planned to let Hiro used her console to continue the game after he found out that there was a way to restart the last game(After re-reading the Walk-through once again). Knowing that he could re-enter the game to fight Tesla again, Hiro started training in real life. He prepared to maximized his stamina and durability by started running again. It made some of his friends and his sister wondered why he changed after playing the game. The episode closed with Reona lending him her console and he prepared to re-enter the most realistic and shittiest video games known as Kiwame Quest.

This is not a GUNDAM opening. I repeat..This is not a GUNDAM opening...Kimiyooo ...Hashireee

Episode Review

It was a long summary I believe lol but since it was the last episode of Full Dive RPG for this season, I saw lot of intense moment in it. Yes it was not over and the ending was hanging with Hiro re-enter the game. We could not see the continuity for some time before the next season comes up. Apart from the less detailed NPC and the bit of lower quality drawing, I could say that at least the main character from this anime grew as an individual. He changed after playing the game. He made amend with Martin; he fixed his broken relationship with his sister, he stopped running away and helped the little girl even though she was just an NPC. By the end of the season, he even became bolder and stronger and finally he learnt to kick some ass in the game albeit he lost because of an NPC cheating. Not to mention that his conviction won Reona's heart and she got totally smitten to him (not a total loss dude u won a girl's heart lol). The bit of down sides from this anime was how little the supporting character importance. For example was Kaede. I didn't think she was developed enough expect that she happened to be the main character's sister. Despite the fact that she was appeared mostly on the opening scene, her involvement in the anime was kinda limited (I believe she might had a better screen time on the second season). Other main character like Alicia did change over the time but the way she suddenly protected Hiro out of the blue as if she got a sudden change in heart; was quite unrealistic. Especially because she was more or less acted hostile toward him on daily basis. The journey is was far from over and I didn't know when it will start once again but let it rest for a while. I hope the next season they will come up with better idea and the anime will be more interesting and full with stronger side characters' development.

The penultimate (kinda) of Full Dive RPG started with continuing the event of the last episode of a peeping goblin. It head was instantly chopped off by Mizarisa who happen to be there. In exact word, she was about to peep on Hiro when she noticed a goblin did it first lol. Mizarisa poked Hiro's thigh with his sword leading to him shocked and afraid yet she instantly said that she would be willing to give some "enjoyment" as well. Not long after someone broke the toilet's door revealing to be Alicia. The two girls were about to start fighting again but Hiro took the initiative to leave them. As he left, Reona flew closer to him. Just as they about to search for Tesla, Hiro suddenly felt cramp in his stomach.It seems that his nervousness got to him. As he remembered, his stomach pain was related to his past embarrassment when he wet his pant on the track field. Off course he hesitated to tell it to Reona because he knew that she would make fun off it (and she did xD). While he got angry to Reona's made fun of his trauma, his cramp suddenly gone and he got better.

I foresaw this coming..but only for the joke..the serious part was not :D

As they headed to the North gate, they saw the mercenary guards were preparing to intercept the goblins. Hiro thought that there were too many of them and just as his guess, the goblins were routing the mercenary guards. Fortunately, the human had strong lineup of fighters too with Tesla in charge as well as Alicia and Mizarisa skills, they managed to slay the goblins.At first Hiro thought that he would survive this event easily as Tesla would help him survive this ordeal..yet he didn't know about the turn of event that was about to happen next. Suddenly Cathy came to them informing that a nefarious one eye goblin have invaded the Queen Govern's estate. Without wasting any time, Tesla asked all of the mercenaries to head to the estate immediately. 

That very moment when you know

You were inside a trolling video game

The one eyed goblin was a red skin and way bigger goblin than his other brethren. And it did slay most of the guards proving it'd strength to be on different level. Tesla explained that few years ago he was the one who took the ogre's left eye and left the fight due to the Ogre strengths. He immediatelly asked the guards to bring a cage in while he would keep the goblin busy. As Tesla fought the red goblin, Mizarisa and Alicia finally put their differences and tried to help Tesla. Miza attacked first but the goblin just kicked her so hard that her body flew, crashed to the wall and it left her unconscious. Then, Alicia tried to attack the beast too with her fruit knife and both the three of them got a flashing movement fight which Hiro could not even see. Meanwhile, the cage that Tesla ordered came and inside the cage, there were three younger looking goblins with sullen eyes. As the red one-eyed goblin saw them, suddenly he hesitated and Tesla took the opportunity to slash the goblin chest and finally made it fall to the ground.Tesla suddenly got an evil smirked on him telling Hiro that after finishing this goblin, they would left from the city and went past of the city's wall

Damn that was a solid villain face you got there

Hiro initially thought that Kamui was just exaggerating with his statement that he only had 0,1 persen of survival rate until he realized that Kamui was not the type of person who like sugarcoating his own words. As Tesla was about to finish the red goblin, Hiro shouted to him..telling him to stop. He then asked Tesla if the goblins had been on the dungeon for a longer time. He mentioned that he heard similar sound to the goblins while he was taken as a prisoner for accidentally killing martin and he remembered when Ginji mentioned about the prisoner's wailing sound during the last episode. He deducted that they had been taken prisoner for a long time and the only person who was capable to do this feat was none other than Tesla himself. Suddenly Tesla congratulated Hiro telling him that he was smarter than he thought. Too make it more shocking, he instantly chopped off the goblin's head and told them about the reality. 

You played for ten years and never found this route exist xD

The Red goblin was the father of the three goblins inside the cage and their presence made him unable to concentrate because he was worried to them. As they trembled with horror knowing of their captain's sadistic nature, the Queen Govern herself came to scene and moved closer to Tesla...revealing that she knew all along about Tesla's keeping the Goblin's children. The shocking revelation was that both of them were plotting to make the goblins as tools to keep the Ted citizen away from getting out of the city. The goblins were actually intelligent creatures who could communicate with each other and they would not attack a human if they were not provoked. Both of them used the fact that they would turn into a dangerous entity if provoked to kept people came in and out of Ted town. It made them capable to govern the city and maintain their status as the city ruler. After that, the queen kissed Tesla and solidifying the fact that they were the real villain of the game. It was left with a big cliffhanger but Hiro knew that thing would get serious soon as the captain planned to kill anyone who knew their secret. The real problem that he would face was never the goblin to begin with..it was Tesla a.k.a the city's guard captain and he was very hazardous for any players; making Kamui's word about the 0,1 percentage of survival true. 

One scene and he turned into a beast .Leaving all of his good sides

Episode review

This was a great episode for me because finally the turning point of the game happened. For quite some time, I never expected that Tesla was the big bad of this anime season. Just like a magician, the writer of the anime tried to show us his kind side a lot making an illusion that he was a very dependable and moral person. They also made us to see him a lot and know about his bright character so that we drop our guard and thinking there were no way that he would turn out to be a villain; then Wham! out of the sudden he turned heel. Finally a plot twist that I could not foresaw expect by watching it thoroughly and it got very interesting by the end of the game because..it sounds impossible to win. Tesla was already a powerful knight on his own and he got plenty of experiences. Meanwhile, Hiro was just a newcomer on this game and he barely survived his first encounter with a goblin. The bar was raised too high for him and there were truly 0,1 chance for Hiro to win his next fight. I watched this episode a bit too late yet it still managed to surprise me and made me eager to watch the last episode (for this season) as fast as I can.

The episode title is a new ally which means that there will be more party on Hiro Journey. Hello folks it was another episode of Full Dive RPG also known as Kiwame Quest the shittiest Role Playing Games that ever graced the earth. The episode was started with the flash back of Reona hugging Hiro from behind; saying that she would marry whoever won the Kiwame Quest. Hiro was wondering why would she wanted another man to win the game beside Kamui and the episode gave the answer. Once upon a time, Reona who also played as a newbie idolized Kamui as someone who had lots of knowledge to the game mechanic as well as someone who somehow managed to get used to the game's difficulty. As she wanted to talk directly to him, his response totally break her mental as the first thing that he saw from Reona was her enormous boobs. And he didn't say it on positive term either. He mentioned that Reona's breast was too gigantic and pass the limit which discouraged her and made her swore that she would marry another strong player in Kiwame as a revenge for his vulgar comment (or rejection to be exact).

Reason of rejection...Because of having a pair of big boobs xD

Hiro after hearing Reona's reason for wanting to marry him was became discouraged due to the fact that Reona never had a thing for him. She was actually only want to marry anyone who finished the game due to the embarrassment that she got after meeting Kamui. Tesla came close to the tower where Hiro was looking over the city and he asked whether Hiro wanted to venture out of the city. As Hiro asked him to join, he mentioned if he managed to overcome the crisis, he might be reconsider going out of the town. Hiro thought that Tesla's words seems like a dead flag so he intend to read the walk-through once more when he got back to the real life. After logging out of the game, Hiro was shocked that his little sister Kaede was standing near to him. He instantly blurted out that she might be plotting to take him out which Kaede instantly rejected his accusation; saying that she only worried about him. Kaede was getting worried after Hiro said thing like wanting to finish the game thoroughly and asked her politely to forgive him should he screamed while playing. After Kaede left, he opened the walk-through and input his new title which proved that he managed to survive the mercenary training. We don't get what was the solution of the next event but it seems that Hiro felt a bit sad after seeing it and there was no other way than to follow the instruction.

To be honest, I don't know about her importance to the anime..only to short the time

The day of the goblin attack came in Kiwame quest and Hiro was lining up with the other soldiers. Tesla announced that there would be two other fighters to join the mercenary and those two were actually Mizarisa and his childhood friend; Alicia. Off course Hiro felt terrified with both of them joining the party but Reona actually teased him about the possibility that Hiro party might turned into a harem. The captain guard; Tesla asked all of the mercenaries to patrol the city due to the rise of criminal in town which made Hiro suprised because he thought that today's event was about Goblin attack. Tesla asked Hiro to check the eastern district along with Mizarisa and Alicia and off course he reasoned to him about the posibility of Alicia tried to kill him in the patrol. Tesla said that actually, it was a great chance for Hiro to clear the misunderstanding with Alicia if they worked in the same party although Hiro totally against it.

Mirror oo Mirror where are thou

During their patrol, Mizarisa told Hiro that she still hold a grudge over Alicia kicking her during their previous encounter and she asked him to be careful (though she herself was a certain danger to Hiro's life too). Just when they walked, a woman screamed as a purse snatcher just stole her purse and ran away from the scene; making an escape. As the thief passed Alicia, using a flashing skill of her fruit knife slash, she decapitated him and cut the thief's hand. Hiro was more or less felt threatened with her presence due to how scary she could be with those small knifes of her. The thief beg for his life telling the party that someone encouraged all of the town's hooligans to start doing criminal works due to the mercenary guards was kept busy with the next Goblin invasion. After brief interrogation, they got the info that the boss of the thugs was taking captives at the casino.

When your sweet childhood friend turned even cooler than you will ever be

They went to the casino together and saw some rugged men and their bald leader taking hostages with them. Mizarisa asked Hiro to free the captive while she and Alicia took care of the bandit. Just as Hiro starting to free the captives, he noticed Ginji also being taken as a prisoner. It was kind of weird because he told him that they would sell him off. Hiro thought what kind of captor gonna sell an old drunken man over as he hold no value..not even as a slave. Just as the Bald thug was getting kicked out, he mentioned that this was not part of the deal to ...Ginji. Suddenly, Ginji grabbed Hiro's neck from behind and used him as a hostage revealing him as the mastermind behind the criminal rise in the city. As Hiro could not get an understanding with Ginji, he elbowed his guts; broke free from his hold and prepared to face him one one one. Ginji then planned to use his weapon which was revealed as another brass knuckle like the one he used before. Just as Hiro and Ginji was about to exchange blow, Alicia step in and gave a punching blow to Ginji vital organ; rendered him unconscious in an instant. Hiro was shocked that a battle between player was stopped suddenly by an NPC which was kind of rare to be happen in an MMORPG. After finishing the rise of the criminal case and sent Ginji to jail, suddenly the town's bell rang; indicated that the goblin event started soon. Suddenly Hiro felt a sudden pain in the stomach and he needed to use the toilet right now. The episode was ended with Hiro saw a goblin was peeking at him just after taking a toilet break and he shrieked in horror that the goblin turned into a peeping tom.

She was the most happiest person ever in this broken video games lol

Episode Review

Kudos to the writer that they managed to make a funny line in the beginning of the episode. When Reona mentioned Kamui words that her breast was past the limit, she said that her breast was not a credit card Lol. that was a funny line and I laughed hard due to how smart was they made that line hahaha. Some joke did get overused though like Alicia kept watching Hiro with killing intent or how Hiro thought that Ginji was about to use a magical weapon (with a revelation that it was just another brass knuckle). This episode felt a bit longer than the usual one this happened because there were more events to cover at one episode like Reona reason to marry anyone who finish the game; Hiro talking with Tesla, Hiro short conversation with Kaede; etc. The anime also portrayed Reona as the annoying fairy support who likes to say things that annoyed Hiro the most. Maybe the banter between Hiro and Reona was the main backbone of the anime comedic pattern that's why it was used a lot ( like how Reona saying stuff like the purse with the thief's hand still attached on it felt like a premium upgrade; which Hiro instantly disagreed with her blurted out words). Time is short and I don't know if Full Dive will be going to be a 12 long episode or maybe more but if it was going to be a 12 long episode, then we would expect a very short and hanging ending soon.

Finally the end of Joran started with this episode and lets start with the summary first. Sawa went to meet Jin on the destined place that he mentioned before. Just before she went further, Elena approached her and tried to reasoning with her. Sawa said that she should take rest due to her giving birth but Elena dissagred. She didn't want Sawa to meet with Jin and fought him to dead because after all that Jin did, he still saved Asahi life and made sure that Elena could get away from Yoshinobu's grasp. Sawa argued that she wanted a free world in which little Asahi and Elena newborn baby could live in peace that why she hardened her resolve to finish his duel with Jin and overthrow the regime. As Sawa walked, she noticed that the town was already burned due to the anti governments riots. What made it different was, she didn't went to the place that Jin mentioned before. Instead, she went to Yoshinobu's castle and planned to kill him instead .As she arrived at Yoshinobu's palace, the castle guards pointing their weapon to her instantly. Just before they captured her, suddenly a whirlwind appeared and a crow masked creatures that impaled Tsukishiro just descending from the sky and took Sawa with him away from the palace's gate.

Jin let Sawa hurt him;knowing that it was his redemption

The crow changeling, who was revealed to be Jin all along, threw Sawa to the nearby shore. Jin Kusuhara took the blue pill before and turned himself into the half changeling with black crows as his main companion. He said that he had to took the pill in order to annihilate the one who threatened Sawa's life A.K.A the emperor himself. Sawa hated the interruption because she intended to kill Yoshinobu using her own hand. With Jin planned to exterminate the emperor and took Sawa out from her vengeance path, they prepared to duel for the last time. Jin turned into the black crows changeling while Sawa like usual asked the white crow and turned her into her battle form maiden. The battle didn't take long and Jin didn't seem to fight Sawa's aggression. Even when he managed to throw her, he gave her sword back and didn't even tried to evade her attack. Before the blade tip tore his body, Sawa stop her attack and wondering why he didn't even tried to repel. In fact, he just took Sawa's Katana and let it sliced his chest revealing his blue blood. At the final moment of their fight, Jin revealed that he planned to save Sawa's life and let her continue to live together with Asahi while he would be the one passing judgement to Yoshinobu. He also added that she loved her mother and from the day he saw little Sawa passing out due to his killing, he pledged to raise her and protect her as if she was his own daughter. He left Sawa afterward and head directly to Yoshinobu's castle.

Sleep tight Sawa..everything is going to be okay now

Jin decimated the platoons of the castle guard and got inside the room of Yoshinobu. While we expected to finally saw the man, it was disappointing that he was already a very frail old man..who might not even fight back. Even if he was begging for his life, Jin passed the judgement for all of his sin and killed the leader himself. As the castle was about to collapse due to the rioters below set the flame off, Jin didn't try to leave the scene and let himself got burned along with the castle remain. Sawa look helplessly as she could not try to stop Jin from going alone. As she was walking home, Rinko silently got closer to Sawa; stabbed her from back and left a deadly wound on her back. Sawa could not reacted and Rinko left the scene right away like any mysterious assailant. Using an inch of her strength left, she went back to the bookstore and met Asahi for the last time. Asahi was very happy that Sawa came back to the store yet she never knew that Sawa was already dying. In her last moment, Sawa listened to Asahi's talking about what she would do tomorrow. Bit by bit Sawa strength left her and she finally resting beside Asahi; who still didn't realize that her sister was finally got her eternal rest.

Why did she reminded me of Yukiko Amagi lol ..she had a look of Sawa with a Hime cut

Episode Review

Joran finally ended with a bittersweet ending that I predicted. I am not really surprised with the series direction as Sawa was finally passed away in her little sister side. The anime was not really original in my mind as I saw a similar premise from a J-drama who follow a story of a young lady struggle with her life. She was a promising teacher with a beauty as her plus but she got a very misfortune life which made her life turned more and more miserable. While Joran still look not that discouraging due to Sawa being able to stand and fight against her destiny, the premise of having a bad day and misfortune was quite similar with said drama. From the start of the series, she was already losing her family; she was trained by her family killer. She suffered despair after losing her brother again and when she thought that she finally found happiness, it was taken away abruptly from her. She lost the most important person in her life (Asahi) and while the show tried to redeem it with making her dead as a fake, it was short lived. Even the way Sawa's dead reminded me of the dead of Gai Yuki from Jetman as in the last episode, he was stabbed by a purse snatcher and he went to his friend's weeding holding on to his remaining life (very similar to Sawa's condition before meeting Asahi for her last time). Joran was not an original anime in all essence and the fighting part was not very spectacular either. Yet in the end, when I saw Asahi grew up to be the person who look exactly like Sawa and she also inherited her ability; I felt warm inside. I am glad that by the end of the story, Asahi finally can live in peace along with Elena's daughter. Who knows she might be the next protagonist of another princess of Snow and Blood :)

Time for the penultimate episode for Joran. With the finale got closer, I was wondering how the director gonna conserve the time limitation to made a satisfying ending. Enough with the speculation; lets start with the new episode summaries. After exposing the real identity of Jin, Sawa didn't instantly try to stab him because from the memo left by Tsukishiro, it was revealed that Yoshinobu himself was the one who ordered Jin to decimate the village of Karasumori. Sawa wondered about his motive because at the same time, Jin acted differently from what government agents should be. The fact that he didn't deliver Sawa to them was one of the obvious fact that he deviated from them. As they talked, suddenly an intruder alarm sound started to ring and Jin instantly told Sawa to leave the place or else she would be captured and her blood would be taken daily to make a weapon. Jin told her to meet him again at Shinabozu pond during midnight. As she flew from the building, several elite agent tried to capture her alive until the "deceased" Nue executioner saved her from their chase with her bow-gun. 

He was her family killer but also a protector in shadow ..in short it is complicated xD

Sawa was surprised that Elena was still alive and she told her that her survival was thanks to Jin covering to her escape. It had became clear that Jin was a real antihero and not a villain. He decided to betray Yoshinobu after knowing how vile his boss is. First, he saved Sawa back when he was about to be killed by Kotodama. Second, he hide both Sawa and Elena from the government's reach. And last, he always work in shadow while playing a double agent. One time he would be a government agent while in another, he would be plotting a scheme to hide some information from the big bad. As Sawa and Elena evaded the government special forces, They were cornered by Rinko; the new Nue agent that we just saw from the last two episode. The interesting part was Sawa could take care of Rinko in one on one battle; which means that her fighting power was way superior despite of how gruesome Rinko's skill is. As Rinko stormed Sawa with a blade, she simply side stepped on the incoming blade and broke it using her finger and each time she broke it, she sustained a damage. Sawa kept hurting Riko until blood poured from her eyes and just when Rinko unleashed all her blades, Sawa could evade all of them and gave one big falcon punch that drove her body flying hard. Sawa didn't finish her off though and let her alive that Elena even said how different Sawa was nowadays.

Career shattering punch!!

Sawa and Elena got back to the bookstore and Elena told that Jin made the bookstore as a secret place so they would be save from the time being. Elena last mission that Jin gave from the previous episode was actually to save Sawa back to the place so she already finished her last job. In their conversation, Elena told that the Dragon vein or Rumkyakuu was about to dry out leading to the power outage at some point. It also means that the Tokugawa regime was about to end with more and more rioting happened in Tokyo. In order to make them stay above the rioters, the Tokugawa used the military to suppress the rioters and they even made a curfew hour in when they would consider any person who break the curfew as a rioter. Elena told Sawa that she should not bother to take revenge on Jin again after all the revelation and she did say that as long as the person that matter the most for her was alive, taking revenge was not really needed. One of the biggest surprise was..just after Elenad saying that, Asahi opened the door and welcoming her home. She was still alive because Jin secretly fakes her dead just like how Sawa was deemed "dead" before. Just as Elena was about to leave them celebrating the reunion, she felt pain in her stomach. It seemed that her baby was about to born at that moment. As clumsy as Sawa dealing with helping pregnancy, along with Asahi's help, she managed to help Elena gave birth to a healthy baby girl. After giving birth, Elena was resting due to exhaustion with her baby in hand

From bitter rival into a friend. Sawa and Elena had put away their difference now

The last part of this episode was more or less the conversation between Sawa and Asahi. The little girl asked Sawa if she could help her teaching about a work that mother used to teach their daughter is. Sawa then opened a drawer and gave Asahi some book about school work. She intended to send Asahi to school so that she might had a better future. She also gave the little girl the diary that Sawa mother gave to little Sawa. The diary that had a speck of blue blood was never used before and it was like a treasured possession for Sawa and now it belong to her little siste; Asahi. She asked Asahi to take turn writing on the diary and filled the empty book with their memory starting from tomorrow. After Asahi fall asleep, Sawa was sharpening her Katana and all of sudden, a sudden brief of memory between her and Asahi just resurfaced on the Katana's blade..She dropped her Katana and cried one more times ..maybe she was reminded with the fact as she could not run away from her fate and sooner or later, she had to go to end everything. It was ended with Sawa leaving the bookstore and heading for her final battle.

Sawa was very relieved to see Asahi again

Episode review

It was another good episode with Asahi revealed to be alive. It seemed that Jin knew all along bout Tsukishiro's plan so he made a body double for Asahi and made an illusion as if the little girl was dead. Yet at one point, once more time we saw Sawa cried from her bottom heart. Did she cry because she knew she would not survive her last mission? It was another set up for the next tragedy to come? About Sawa went on one on one with Rinko, I never expected that Sawa's skill was way above Rinko especially after seeing what she was capable to do during the previous two episode. I am a bit sad that it was about to end soon. While I like most of the previous episodes, I admit that I am not a very big fan of Joran in general and I thought the battle could have been handled better. In addition, I still thought that so many thing had not cleared yet. For example, the female changeling that appeared in the first episode was never mentioned again as if she was just there for nothing. Also, I don't think I can get a very through ending with just one episode left unless they made the last episode like two hours special. Ok with the end game grew closer, I hope they could squeeze the last part so well so that we could get the most satisfying ending within a limited time slot.

Flashback to the early episode of Full Dive RPG we were given the trouble that Hiroshi had to overcome during his first three day of the mercenary training. We saw the two newcomer turned out to be a jerk and started treating Hiro like his delinquent friends. When Hiro was sulking due to the trouble he got in his training days, Sharon told him to go to the new consultation office. It was particularly a new event spot which new guard who got problem could talk and consult their problem to the psychiatrist like officer. Alas, it ended with a disappointment because it didn't really solve Hiro problem. In fact, he got scolded because the officer believed that Hiro didn't think it through before joining the mercenary guards and he joined it without any knowledge of fighting. After finishing the consultation, Cathy came to them and told Hiro that in difficult situation usually she went praying to make it better. Just after that Sharon told Hiro to go to the church to pray with Sharon's believe that it might be a praying event time.

ehe ///-/// uwu

In the church, the Nun spoke that she saw a dark cloud and she prepared to do the cleansing ritual which only consist of her splashing a bucket of water. The nun said that the baptism was complete and everything would be alright then until in the next morning, Amon just gave Hiro another beating instantly ;D. Granada and Palu came and asking for some extortion money which He replied that he didn't have any money. Palu; the smaller guy with a slanting-Brock like eyes challenged him to a duel due to his disobedience. Hiro thought that Palu was a weaker opponent but he was mistaken because he was actually a very fast fighter and he kept on hitting him using his fast hand technique. It ended up with Palu bullying Hiro and kept beating him using his wooden sword. As Cathy could no longer withstand how they treated Hiro, she bring Amon with her; hoping that the captain would stop Palu. Too bad, the captain would not even noticed and asked the other trainee to continue training. As the other left, The two bullies instantly picked on Cathy saying that if she considered Hiro as her friend, she would get the same treatment that Hiro got. Cathy, who was frightened  to the bullies' words told them that Hiro was not his friend.

Holy water Crash attack!!

As Hiro was in a very low morale due to what had just happened, Sharon finally agreed to help him just for this occasion. Hiro didn't think that Sharon meant what she said; after all, she was never give him any adequate help even as she worked as his support. Still, Sharon convinced him that now she would use her holy power to create miracle. At the next day, there was a bit of commotion due to Granada losing his boots. He was angry because he lost the and to make it worse, one of the guards found it in thrown to the sewage in front of the guard's room. Another day, he lost his sword and someone hide it away from him. As the search party (including Hiro) tried to find his sword, they could not find it until Granada gave up searching it. As he went to the Toilet, he freaked out and screamed aloud because his missing sword was put in the middle of the toilet. The enraged Granda instantly hold Hiro and accused him as the person who hide his boot and sword to spite him. Off course Hiro reject the accusation and thankfully the other persons in the room defend him due to the fact that Hiro helped them finding Granada's Boots and sword. 

After watching Vivy's eyes I got to watch his eyes xDxD

Suddenly there was a woman screamed nearby. As the other found the source of the scream as the old nurse lady who had just lost her panties. They were very shocked that her panties was in Granada's training bag. As the lady accused him about to do dirty thing with her panties, Granada talked back saying why would he wanted an old and ugly woman's panties. His reaction only invited more hate from the other guards who already dislike his cocky demeanor. They all started saying nasty thing to Granada and to make it worse, even Palu started to avoid him too; which makes him weeping alone in total defeat. On the next day, Amon told the guards that Granada had left the guards for personal reason. Just after that, Tesla entered the scene with a letter in his hand. The letter said that Amon was the person responsible for the disappearance of Granada's boot and sword. The reason was the jealousy due to him losing in the training session with Granada. Tesla asked the other trainees whether Amon really suited as their instructor. As Amon trembled with anger, Cathy suddenly spoke up about how bad Amon worked as instructor because he let bullying happen on his watch. She burst in tear on how she had treat Hiro unjustly and it made the other trainee regretted that they also acted cold to Hiro before. As Amon tried to defend himself, Tesla told him how nobody in the training guards tried to defend him and it would means that he was unfit to lead anyone. The captain release Amon for time being and the other trainee could continue their training until another superior took care of the training.

Forgot about Reona, Misachan or Kaede...Im the cutest :D even my heart was different colored

In the night Sharon was laughing telling Hiro how successful her prank went on. She was the mastermind behind all of the event that happened on that day. She stole Granada's sword and boots, she framed him taking the nurse panties, and she even made a fake letter to Tesla which in the letter told that Amon was the mastermind behind everything. The funny thing was despite of her wrongdoing, Hiro was the person who got the title as Diabolic, spiteful best friend killer: Amicide wicked as the devil? which Hiro didn't like at all because it means he was a devious person who would do even manipulation to get what he wants lol

She was the best girl hands down :D

Episode Review

This week episode was kinda out of prediction. I thought that Hiro would be able to solve his matter individually yet it ended with Sharon creating mischievous plots to get Hiro's enemy out of the picture. It was kinda bad for Hiro's development that he got out of the problem via luck and some devious scheme. The scene when Palu and Granada threatened Cathy also made me quite angry to Hiro's passiveness to show at least a bit of bravery. Cathy was the only person who tried to defend Hiro from the bullying and he didn't even try to protect her or had any words to fight back. What made me shocked was how Granada got totally defeated due to peer pressure..I thought he was stronger than that yet he was instantly went into a mental breakdown state and left the mercenary guard out of bullying @-@.  Amon also had the similar taste of defeat as everyone in the mercenary guards thought that he was not suited to train the newcomers due to his jerkish nature. It was an ok episode but I kinda feel disenchanted with how the event close..it was not as good as what I thought it would be and here Hiro survived the ordeal only because of Sharon's help and a bit of luck in his side. Alas, with Hiro finally managed to survive the five days of hell training, he was saved from ruining his console and get a new title as well. 

We were getting closer to the ultimate episode of Joran and I did expect things going to escalate so quickly from now on. Yet, the episode started with flashback instead and it didn't continue like what we expected from the last episode ending. The episode began with the flashback from the time just after Tsuki was killed by the unknown changeling. As Jin got the notes from the person who inspected Tsuki remains,  he read the notes. The next time we knew, Jin was giving some money to the boy who acted as the regular book seller who like to visit Sawa's bookstore. Jin told the boy to give the money for his mother and he should forget everything he saw and leave the place immediately (meanwhile Jin was burning the remain of the notes). The person who saw Jin let the boy left told him that he should have killed the boy so there were no witnesses. However, in an instant Jin killed the person with a knife and told him that he knew too much and must be assassinated. Back to the present, Jin was waiting for someone while mumbling that in the end people will betray you either if it was a friend or a foe...Then someone opened the door; then the scene closed with Sawa Karasumori glaring with a hateful expression

He was not really a bad person actually. fate just like to play with him

Once again, we were going back to the past. A scene started inside a laboratory where Iori (Jin real name) was locked inside a cage and he was treated as a test subject. He was talking with the person who got locked above his cage about whether they should try to run away. The person who got imprisoned above him gave up his life and commit a suicide using a sharp piece of glass and Iori could see blood just pouring from the cage above; making him very frightened with the view. However, Iori had a strong will of survive; so after taking the glass of shard, he waited for any persons who take care of the lab object and killed them all using that glass. He ran away until he got cornered by the laboratory men until a man dressed in old monk attire complete with a straw hat (which made his face remain hidden) descended and show the guard a symbol in his hand. After he showed them the Nue's symbol, the guards left them alone. Immediately, Iori stole that mysterious man's sword and tried to attack him only for the man to retaliate and disarmed him. 

You can only choose one path serve to you

Iori was taken to the Shogun's mansion and in there, he first met with Yoshinobu Tokugawa. Kotodama introduced him to the shogun and he also explained that Iori had strong resistance against poison along with his strong will to survive and peak condition.  The shogun poured a whiskey down to the floor and Iori got a test to prove his loyalty by licking the wine till it was clean. After Iori finished licking the wine, he was given a new name; Jin Kusuhara. The new name representing the Shogun hope for the new member of the Nue to eradicate the shogun enemy. Jin asked about the man name yet he said that he had no name. Still, the mysterious man introduced himself as Kotodama and he told Iori that he was chosen by the Shogun to serve the Tokugawa. After that Kotodama trained Jin privately and shaped him into a sadistic executioner who worked in shadow to annihilate the Shogun enemy

Well Jin Kusuhara had similar fate to that of Leon Magnus

At one moment, Janome betrayed the government and became a fugitive after burning the laboratory. As he would be a constant threat in the future, Yoshinobu gave him a secret mission to protect the Karasumori clan. So, Jin worked in the shadow to make sure that the clan could live in their secret village while dispatching many assailants. At one point, when he was trying to defend himself against a wolf attack, a lady came and use the same Karasumori technique that similar to Sawa and transformed herself. She told Jin to stay calm and not hurting the wolf because the animal only trying to protect its baby wolves. Jin sheathed his katana back and right after, the lady tend to his injury. She introduced herself as Towa Karasumori and she befriended Jin (although their relationship was more like a hidden one). During the time, Jin would continue protecting the village while at times he also gave some presents such as flower or pinwheel to Towa.

Is this the girl that he mentioned before..did she look like someone

While looking at the villagers, Kotodama appeared behind Jin and told him about a new message from the shogun. The leader wanted Jin to eliminate the villagers because they were consent with peaceful life and they would not helping the government despite of having special power. He also added that Janome already started to make his move and he got closer to the village; so the best option (according to Yoshinobu) was to raze the village to the ground and kill all of the inhabitant. Kotodama also added that any defiance will be punished with dead so like it or not, Jin had no other choice but to comply. While preparing for his next move, Towa came and bring him some foods. She also thanked him for always protecting them as well as mentioning that she would love to have another son (referring to Jin). After Towa leaved, Jin ate the rice-ball as tears start flowing down to his cheek.

The episode answered the Karasumori clan's murderer..Janome have nothing to do with it (not that he was a saint either)

During the night, Jin started his move by first poisoning the nearby birds so that they would not alert the clans. Then, he started killing the older villagers one by one. In Towa house, Towa heard the sound of the white crow as if it wanted to tell her something. Towa was curious but before she could check her daughter asked her about the onigiri that she prepared. She told her daughter that it was the dinner for the guardian spirit of the village (Jin). Someone knocked the house and Towa opened the door only to be shocked that it was Jin who knocked the house. Towa saw the crying man and thought that he was just sad so she tried to comfort him by hugging. Suddenly, Jin stabbed her and he continued to start killing the family members one by one including the husband and Towa elder son. Just as he was about to kill the daughter, he remembered Towa's word that every parents just wanted his/her offspring to be safe and he stopped. The little girl was scared but she could not identify her family murderer at that time because he was wearing a mask that covering his mouth. he took the girl away and he told Kotodama that he wanted to train her as Nue executioner. Kotodama said that was not necessary and he planned to kill her at that moment only for Jin to slash him from the back and killed him instead. Later on, the little girl buried all of the villagers and Jin came closer to the girl telling her that he would help her achieving her revenge. That little girl was Sawa Karasumori.

Jin decided to screw fate an be a chaotic anti hero instead

Episode review

This episode was more or less Jin's complete character story arc. It was a good one and for once I feel sad for the character. He was more or less felt attraction to the villagers and to Sawa's mother to be exact. Out of sudden he was tasked to kill all of them while knowing that they were peace loving.This episode was great as I am now sympathized with Jin despite all of his cruelty. He was never given any chance since the moment he was captured and when he finally found the place where he was truly loved, he was immediately had to burn it to the ground. The time when he crying while eating the rice ball was heart wrenching because for once he had to kill the very person that he loved and treated him as a human. It's so ironic and sad. I felt  how conflicted it was in Jin position. Meanwhile Sawa was hot on killing him without knowing that Jin really wanted her to be alive. While he was a true killer of Sawa's family, he was merely a pawn for a more sinister being. The moment when he finally decided to kill Kotodama, was the very moment when he wanted to take the matter on his own hand and screwing destiny. After seeing this episode, I really can't hate the man and only felt bitter on what going happen to him in the near future. It was a great episode nonetheless.