10 Second Anime - Kyoukai no Kanata - Episode 5

Kyoukai no Kanata - Episode 5

Back to slife after a dramatic couple of episodes. Clubs, part-time jobs, eating out, summer festival, and a little youmu slaying - just another week for our spirit warriors.

Things are pretty much back to normal after the Hollow Shadow has been slain and Akihito was suppressed, but there are consequences. Mirai has to give up her youmu bounty hunting card for a month because she went after the Hollow Shadow, Hiromi has a new scarf, Akihito is a little depressed after his freak out, and Mirai has to take a part time job at the youmu appraisal office to make ends meet.

At least the Literary Club has a new member in Mirai. Gardening books sealed the deal. As we go back to slife episodes, characters personalities will get filled out, I suppose, but not so with Akihito and Hiromi. They still like glasses and little sister type girls respectively, but perhaps Mirai gives them the best combination of the two? Mitsuki pronounces them both perverts. Of course.

Mitsuki offers to take Mirai to the appraisal office, since she's working there too during the festival. Along the way, they do a little youmu slaying, and Mirai finds out the bounty is worth about 500 bucks. She's so frustrated, she has to blog about it right there. Mitsuki apparently reads it too! Ms. Nino repays them by having a big dinner.

Working at the appraiser's office isn't just sitting around waiting for crystals to come in, though. Aya runs a discreet photography side business selling, er, interesting pictures to interested parties. Megane-meido Mirai is sure to be a hit with one of their regulars, initials A. K. They all know that it's Akihito. Aya also takes nudes for her personal collection, and Ai is happy to show off hers. Nice gag showing the original cat youmu form first, but the human form surprises and annoys Mirai because she didn't expect Ai to be so, er, endowed. Needs more blogging.

In the end, they all end up at the festival, which Mitsuki has been avoiding since she was a little girl because her older sister told her that spirit warriors are always alone. But she's been obsessing about the candles at this festival for years, even setting up her own little candle display in her room. Finally she relents, and we get our festival episode with fireworks too. She makes her big brother's day by asking him to buy her a candied apple. Hiromi's such a simple creature.

Throughout the episode, we saw little bits of Sakura hunting youmu in the forest. Mirai had told Akihito in the last episode that it was Yui who was the talented spirit warrior in her family, and that Sakura had hardly any spiritual power. So, it was a bit of a mystery as to why she was able to go toe to toe with Mirai. It turns out that the pole-arm she's wielding eats youmu, which might be the source of her unexpected power. Perhaps it's a youmu too?