Spot on 🎯 best story telling I’ve seen in anime in a long time

she’s also the innocent child, raised by an opium-addict, then orphaned to be taken in by Swordfather, whom she accepted yes as a surrogate parent but also as a kind of agent to foster her vengeance Innocence sacrificed to her vendetta

i literally thought she was the ronin at first, then the bride then realized she was all three 😭

So sad, but gives us such conviction to the Mizu character

Congratulations for your part in this wonderful series! If you partake in the sequel, can you avoid the continuity mistakes between episodes (presumably done by separate teams)? e.g. at the end of ep6 she has only one shard of her sword, but all of it in ep7.

Also, she is wounded on her left side in ep1, but only her wound in ep2 seems worth a patch to her clothes.

amazing, thanks for the great work and the insight!

he saw the murderous side of her, it's not quite what he wanted in a wife like alot of guys lol

​@@ccam7802It wasn't even murderous at the point since it came later on. It was just that she was a much better swordsman than he was.

this is the most accurate comment

I kind of agree with your take, that he was genuinely afraid, but I'm not sure, I'd call it "deep". The "turns out the psycho killer instinct was inside her all along"-angle is not really either new nor particularly complex.

The commenter said "deeper than his wife is better with a sword"; theDaoistBean added context to it@@Finkeren

Yes, thank you @So_Oneal, it is refreshing to see someone actually read and understand the whole comment. To all those who need further clarification, the deeper comment was directed to the women doing the video who focused on the hurt pride of the husband and seemed to miss that there was more to his reaction, a reaction that was echoed and reinforced verbally by Akemi's observation at the end. As for the husband's reaction being deep, I don't think it was at all, it was instinctual, he felt the darkness and it scared him, like reacting to a loud or vicious bark and he ran. And I don't think this was some revelation that there is a 'demon' inside her, that has been obvious from the first episode, this episode just made it clear to those not fully paying attention, and it sets up a turning point where Mizu will need to deal with this darkness and decide if she wants to continue this way or change. As for new...there is nothing new that hasn't been explored in thousands of years of storytelling, it's just how we piece all these bits together that makes something unique.

Absolutely not. It was his pride.

I don't think it was the darkness per se, because if anything it was still.tied to her sword mastery. Which he didn't know about and even after a minute he went full throttle against her without a care. And later on he did come back and try to talk to her after she killed several people. I think he was fine until she defeated him and his honor and pride was damaged (whichcalready was a sore subject for him anyway). I think he was fine teaching her non womanly skills as long as he was teaching her or better than she was. Like with the horse or the dagger throw but something very much tied to his Ronin status was sensitive

To be honest it’s way deeper than that

To be honest it’s way deeper than that

Yeah, I know. But it's still funny to say.

​@@FinkerenIt was very much his pride.

​@@Finkerenhe was afraid from what he saw. It was not ordinary for a woman to be that skilled at fighting. He believed his love was an onryo. So no its not about fragile masculinity