{"id":645,"date":"2006-08-16T23:46:30","date_gmt":"2006-08-16T13:46:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/batrock.net\/anime\/?p=645"},"modified":"2006-08-16T23:51:10","modified_gmt":"2006-08-16T13:51:10","slug":"kiba-episode-20-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/batrock.net\/anime\/?p=645","title":{"rendered":"Kiba – episode 20"},"content":{"rendered":"

“Reunion”<\/p>\n

or<\/i><\/p>\n

“Noa versus the Squid Faces! Old friend or new foe?”<\/p>\n

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How many times can one character die? As many times as narrative dictates, apparently. A vaguely interesting story of the value of religion among beasts, and an incredibly obvious hint of what is to come for Roia, are contained within this not exactly tour de force<\/i> of an episode of Kiba<\/i>.<\/p>\n

Spoilers<\/b><\/p>\n

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The beasts decide to sacrifice Roia so that they may revive their god, Tasker. Roia won’t hear any of that, and has “subtle” memories of her mother.
\nAll the while Hugh is on the lookout for Zed, and Noa’s on the lookout for Kis.<\/p>\n

The first signal of cleverness in this episode is that Neotopia have “prison shards”: easily trackable shards that they implant in prisoners. It makes the whole exercise much easier for reclaiming criminals but, at the same time, it makes one wonder how Kis managed to find his way to Tempura before he was found.<\/p>\n

The second is the structure of Task: to an outsider, it looks like its king is a beast, but the true governing body is made up of humans who have installed a series of rituals to keep the beasts in check. With the promise that, if they sacrifice enough shard casters, their god Tasker will be resurrected, the beasts are going to be obedient in hopes of seeing that day. The one problem with being a human living in Task is that you must wear a stupid mask at all times, but surely that’s only a mild discomfort to suffer for the sake of ruling over a nation of hideous morons.<\/p>\n

The big “revelation” of the episode is that Noa has a key spirit, Sachura. It’s not really a revelation, because we’ve had this hinted at since he killed everyone everywhere he went back in the day. Like Miki under the influence of Dumas’ spirit, Noa couldn’t control the power. All of that changes with the mystical intervention of Neotopia, who have mind control vegetables at their disposal. They can control Noa and, consequently, he can control Sachura.
\nWith this shock and the implication of Noa’s sheepishness, we then get Kis’ second death!
\nStabbed! Right there in Task! If he comes back from the dead again, after having only been kept alive so that he could be killed, I am not going to be happy. It must be tough to exist as a character that has to die twice to indicate a change in Noa’s character. Poor Kis. Poor entire nomad tribe except for Sagiri.<\/p>\n

The other small thing of the episode is the revelation that Roia comes from Task. It’ll be just like that time when Peter Parker grew two extra pairs of arms: she’ll get over it.<\/p>\n

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