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  1. GORYGIRL1996
    September 5, 2019 @ 3:10 pm

    HONESTLY, I PERSONALLY THINK THIS EP IS A BETTER IMPROVEMENT THEN LAST WEEKS, AND ALSO I LOVE HOW NEZUMI STOPPED KITARO FROM SHOOTING THE VAMP, HE LOOKED TO ME LIKE HE SAID: "NOPE, LET ME WATCH HIM BURN FOR BETRAYING ME!" LOL JUST SAYING. BTW I LOVED RATMANS FACE WHEN HIS JAW DROPPED TO AN ALL TIME LOW AT THE START I DIED LAUGHING (NO PUN INTENDED) AT THAT PART. 😀 ALSO I KNEW HE WAS MOST LIKELY SCRWING RATMAN OVER NOT TRYING TO BRAG, JUST SAYING, ALSO AS SOON AS HE DROPPED THE YEN COIN IN THE GLASS I KNEW HE WAS SCREWED! XD! GREAT EPISODE. 😀 ALSO, SOMEWHAT RANDOM SIDENOTE, LOL, I SUCK AT MENTALLY FIGURING OUT YEN IN TERMS OF US DOLLARS LOL! XD. ALSO, HOW WAS THE HYPNOTIC GUITAR THING NOT EFFECTING RATMAN, AT FIRST, I THOUGHT THAT HE HAD EARPLUGS IN BUT NOPE LOL. P.S I THOUGHT THE SAME THING ABOUT THE LIGHTNING POWER, I THOUGHT "DANG IT DUDE, USE YOUR LIGHTNING POWER!" I WAS GETTING NERVOUS…BUT THEN I THOUGHT, NO IT MITE KILL THEM.

  2. YumikoStarlight
    September 5, 2019 @ 3:16 pm

    Ooooh boy. I haven’t seen Kitaro in a while and I missed so much, but I’m glad I could actually catch up again. Work and my thesis is keeping me super busy.

    Alright. So on to the episode commentary. As I’m sure other people already said, internal electricity can be pretty harmful to humans, so I understand why Kitaro wouldn’t use it when surrounded by humans who are purely under mind control spell and don’t know what they’re doing. I think that was pretty self-explanatory, given Kitaro’s character. I think he can still vary its power, but I’m not sure if he can vary it so much it’d not cause solid damage to a human.

    Now in this episode, other than Rat Man’s thing for Johnny, I was a lot more interested in how the episode clearly showed the clash of Kitaro and Rat Man’s personalities, because both are right and both are wrong. Rather than seeing it as a black or white argument, I see it as a grey one – Rat Man is right, what Kitaro is doing COULD be potentially a source of income as honest work he does. At least for a small fee, if nothing else. But he’s also wrong in the sense that Kitaro does this out of the kindness of his heart, and of course, we all love Kitaro for it. On the other hand, because of Kitaro’s constant rejection of any sort of reward, they need to live by just scraping by barely and generally starve most of the time. Kitaro had also resorted to eating… not the most conventional stuff and only gets the cheapest of human foods if he even gets it, and he’s okay with that. But Rat Man isn’t, and he strives for better than ‘just enough’. So in a sense, I can see Rat Man’s struggle here too, especially in this case where he went out of the way to find the case and notify Kitaro about it but was left with a fishbone and nothing else to eat as a reward. It’s more a clash of personalities and values than anything else. Who’s side you’re on in this argument is up to each individual, but I can agree with why Shigeru Mizuki said he added Rat Man in and why he’s his favourite character as well – being completely like Kitaro is noble and nice, but also extremely naive in the way society is. If you do things without demanding a reward, you’ll get used by others and you won’t be able to get by. Whether you like it or not, you’ll need to market your skills to survive. That’s why Rat Man is put in, and although he goes to a completely different extreme, being an absolute scammer, with only money on his mind, that’s the point why he exists in the first place. Kitaro is the pure image of a noble guy who has difficulty surviving. Rat Man is a nasty image of a dick who does whatever he has to to survive, be it scamming or betraying his friend. But in that sense, I see him as much more realistic than Kitaro. Not many people would be capable of dying to stand by their friend’s side. In theory, maybe. But realistically, it’s only a few who would not let survival instinct override it. But one only realizes this once they’re actually put in that sort of situation.

    That’s why especially it was nice to see for Rat Man reaching a compromise with Kitaro in the end and settle for that ‘cheap bowl of Ramen’ he refused at the start. They may have their differences. But more often than not, they can work them out, at least to the point it never fully damages their friendship, which is what’s important in the end (and even though Kitaro is more often than not way too good for Rat Man =P)

    Him being totally nasty aside, there was a completely different scene in this episode that I could appreciate very much. I really appreciated the scene when Kitaro was about to kill Rat Man under Johnny’s control, and yet Rat Man turned to Johnny and told him to do it himself instead of using his best friend to do it. Despite their differences, he and Kitaro ARE friends. And you can see it partially here. Kitaro realizing that he had in fact killed off Rat Man would’ve been devastating for him just as it would’ve been if any of his other friends died, as unbelievable as that may seem from the 2018 series. And I feel like the point of that scene was to show that Rat Man understood that. Especially since Johnny’s MO was to only ever control others and never dirty his own hands. I could also understand why he stopped Kitaro from giving Johnny a swift death with finger gun. Let him die a slow and painful one. Though I’m not really a proponent of being vengeful, I can see where he at least was coming from after being betrayed in this way. He threw Johnny’s actions right back in his face – he tried to get rid of him when he no longer needed him, and Rat Man returned the favour.

  3. Grumpyzard
    September 5, 2019 @ 3:33 pm

    Seeing as Johnny dies in the rental manga version, there is no doubt he dies in here as well.

    Vampire La Seine is next and so far he has appeared in the first series along with the manga.

    Medama-Oyaji can only use Reverse Mochi Murder when he has been mixed up inside mochi.

    First of all it’s called Internal Electricity and second, it’s completely in character for Kitaro to not harm innocent folks who are under someone else’s control, as he also refused to harm his friends when they were mind controlled by Backbeard, despite them attacking him, because Kitaro knows it’s not their fault. While yes, the Dorotabō was also innocent as it was just trying to protect its home, it was about to kill a human and wasn’t under anyone’s control, hence why Kitaro fought back. Also that "Yokai who took over Kitaro’s body" is named Kasha and that was him in Kitaro’s body using the Internal Electricity on Kitaro in Neko Musume’s body, I have no idea why you even you used this for your argument…. So no, there are no ‘inconsistencies’ and Toei didn’t forget about one of Kitaro’s main abilities, they are in fact staying true to Kitaro’s character and what makes him so admirable and loveable. Anyway, those boys would still get hurt by it and not just get knocked out, that would put Kitaro in a bad light with their families.