No politics here, just talking Anime, for we are going over episode 20 of Blue Seed tonight, the episode titled “I’m Home! Izumo! The Prologue of Hope!!” Which means we now down to the final six episodes!
PLANTED SEEDS
Blue Seed
Episode 20
“I’m Home!
Izumo! The Prologue of Hope!!”
Original Air Date:
February 15, 1995
English Air Date:
January 8, 2000
Today we’re
finishing off disc 3 of Blue Seed box-set put out by ADV back in 2005
with episode 20 of the series, titled “I’m Home! Izumo! The
Prologue of Hope!!” and giant roots are popping up all over Japan.
The Government is on Mr. Kunikida’s ass about putting a stop to it
because people are starting to ask questions about it and the
Aragami, but he does have a theory that Murakumo and Kaede are taking
the now ‘teenager’ looking Susano-O around Japan to certain
shrines to absorb its power, and the most important one must be in
Izumo where everything began for Momiji… and that is where the
focus of this episode remains on, Momiji returning home, six months
after being attacked by Orochi and implanted with a mitama.
To show how much
Momiji has changed, she is very reluctant to just go home and
reconnect with her mother, grandmother and best friend, who notices
that Momiji is just bottling everything up and works through out the
episode to get Momiji to just open up about the monster attack and
being the Kushinada, basically being an outlet Momiji has been
needing for quite a while now. Beyond this, Momiji is getting visions
of the past, the possible future and now has the ability to
communicate telepathically with Kusanagi, thanks to them getting
their mitama form the Orochi, (Eight in One, So We Are One) which
gives Momiji the confidence she will be able to survive anything
because she is ‘never alone’
As far as Kusanagi
goes, he’s pursuing Kaede, Murakumo and Susano-O and has a nearly
fatal encounter at the start, only surviving because Kaede ordera
Muramuko to back off at the last instant, and the episodes climax
sees Kusanagi again confronting them. Even though he stands no
chance, Kusanagi is pretty damn determined to take out Susano-O.
Also involved in
this story is obviously Kunikida, who along with Takeuchi, is looking
for the shrine that Murakumo and Kaede need for their plan, and learn
from Momiji’s grandmother that the roots that are popping up all
over the place is apart of a ritual to create more mitama and
potentially a country full of aramgi, basically the army they need
to take over the world.
So as we prepare for
the final episodes of the series, this episode gives me a ‘calm
before the storm vibe’, with little action and character
development for Momiji who is able to just be her old self for a bit.
On that note, next
week due to the return of Arrow, Supergirl, The Flash & Legends
of Tomorrow, we’ll just be going over episode 21, “Goodbye? No
Way! Separation with Tears?!” next Friday as we start off the final
disc on the box set titled ‘Nightfall’ and possibly go over
episode 22 next Saturday. When Arrow (which airs on Wednesdays) goes
on hiatus, Talking Anime will act as the replacement segment.
