Utawarerumono 22 - The unfitting weirdness continues.
Before I get started on another review, I have to confess: I postphoned this way too long. Even that long, that I don’t remember it quite what was going on in this episode. After watching some pictures of it, it comes back once again, but even so, the summary isn’t going to be that good. But well, you guys are used with my weird Utawarerumono posts hopefully^^.
Anyway, the episode. Just when I thought it couldn’t get any weirder, Utawarerumono goes on with the confusing not-fitting-this-anime theories. We know that the annoying laughing badguy #2 gets defeated, and by what? Of course, the true form of Hakuoro. Yes. And who wouldn’t expect a monster of this size to be underneath that little mask of him? Raise your hand please.
What appears? Hakuoro comes from another time or something, and there was he a scientist and because he made an unfortunally discovery in his company (the true source of the mankind, no, not the apes, but the monsterversion) he got shot to death. And what happened after that? It remains a mystery until episode 25. Anyone with a good theory is welcome to tell me. Anyway, after that, Eruruu seems to have sold her body and soul to him to save Aruruu who felt of a tree and died. And once again, she was alive once more. Aruruu dies many times, geez. I kind of liked Eruruu the end of this episode, but well, it would have been a weird situation if you told the truth to Hakuoro. I see it already in my imagination:
‘it seems that you can transform to a beast and you have defeated single handed everyone that stood in your way because you saw Aruruu die, and after that I got a flashback and it seemed that my body and my soul belongs to you because you saved Aruruu once again when she fell of a tree and died again.’
That would be a bit weird. I didn’t like the Aruruu part, how cheesy. And what happened to Touga and Karura, it remains today as a mystery.
In the end, the Hakuoro thing was resolving, but well. This anime IS Utawarerumono and with all these weird styles, I don’t think I ever will enjoy this fully just as the time I enjoyed episode 18.
