Suicide and depression; Jouran, Princes of snow and blood episode 8 impression

The last episode of Joran was ended with a big cliffhanger of the upcoming battle between Sawa and Tsukishiro. And now here we are with the conclusion of the said battle. There was not much I can say because the first part dealing mostly with hack and slash between the two blue blood sub-human. The fight itself was intense with Sawa now going into a full killing mode and it seems that Tsuki was strong enough to repel her attack. On one occasion, Tsuki even made Sawa lose her blade and hold her in the ground until she managed to kick her off. After exchanging a deadly blow, finally Sawa beat Tsuki and left a slash mark on her right shoulder. Tsuki plead her to finish her yet, even though Sawa hated Tsukishiro for her killing spree, she still unable to give the final blow (maybe due to Asahi's influence). Just when I think it was over, a sudden arrival of an unknown crow-like changeling that descend from the air; startled me. It dropped fast and stabbed a mortal wound to Tsukishiro. She instantly dead from the stab and as she laid in a frozen state, Sawa also lost her consciousness. 

A sudden enemy just stabbed Mr Lesb...I mean ms Tsukishiro

Story of Joran keep getting darker by day..as Jin Kusuhara found Sawa body, he rushed to send her to a desolate hut and treat her wound. What I mean with darker was about Sawa current mental state. As for now, she already lost every hope that she had. She already lost her parents, her beloved brother; not only once but twice, her possible suitor (Oikawa sensei), but now she even truly lost her sister Asahi. Fate was not kind for her, it is as if she was resurrected from dead only to see her closest family members died a horrible dead a.k.a murdered just after she finally found her inner peace. Right now, Sawa was in a very sad state, and she already considering about ending her life and if earlier she would be fine if Asahi poisoned her, this time around she would take the initiative.

is this the bone of the previous temple caretaker? So Rinko was a government agent all along? 

Just when Jin went outside to buy supplies and food rations, Sawa walked to the ocean alone. The guilt and the sadness that she felt was overwhelming that she let herself drowning; hoping to end it all. Jin who has just arrived, noticed that Nana (the white crow) greeted and told him about Sawa. Instantly, he rushed and saved Sawa from getting suffocated. Afterward, he nursed her back in the hut. Sawa told him that she didn't any longer has no will to live and asked him to kill her right now. Jin told her to live and revealed his real name as Iori Makabe. He told her that despite his background as an orphan; who had to fight for survive in his early life, he also mentioned that he too lose someone that he hold dear. He told her that even if he might not know the hardship that she encounter, he know the pain of losing someone dear. Sawa was hoping that she should have not save Asahi life if she would know about the pain of losing her and Jin just told her that it was already done and they would never return. Sawa lost it and cried on his chest releasing all of her inner emotion all at once until she slept due to exhaustion. Just before the episode ended, Jin met with Elena, yes the same Elena who was supposed to die during the earlier episode. My guess was right that Elena didn't get killed and her existence was kept hidden by making other people disguised as her corpse. The two of them exchanging a bit of conversation and Jin told her that the time for their final mission has come.

The girl had experienced a lot of depressing situation lately

Episode review

As usual, the episode feel rushed during the action part of the anime especially during the duel between Sawa and Tsukishiro. I thought that it will take about half of the episode yet here, it only took around five minutes before Tsukishiro was defeated. And after that, the episode slowed it pace and took a longer route with a heavy emphasis on drama and emotion between Sawa and Jin. I think it was a grim and heavy episode revolve around on sadness and hopelessness. once again I could see Sawa emotion poured heavily on this episode. she cried, she was sad, and no matter what Jin said, she had lost her will to continue living. For four running episodes, the anime wrecked her emotion and showed us how human she was. Her power as a blue blood member of Karasumori clan could not conceal her suppressed emotions as a lonely person any more. In the other hand, Jin's past and his character deeper revelation didn't really get revealed more deeply. Only his real name, his past of living alone, and the silhouette of his love one that we can get from this episode. And about Elena being alive, hmm I am actually not surprised with that haha. I already guessed that we didn't see the corpse's real face so her murder was most likely a trick to erase her past as an assassin. I am excited because the next episode as it might be a one big surprising episode and I hope they can conclude the anime spectacularly with 4 more episodes left