Firefly Wedding

I couldn't stop smiling during the hair washing scene and that is probably a problem. The man just said he would make me happy while standing over a pile of bodies and I believed him

Satoko eating rice off the ground then borrowing a fan to dance is the most unhinged problem solving I have seen in a while and I am here for all of it

Shimpei saying he'll just die if she won't be with him is manipulative and everyone treats it like a cute quirk. That's not romance that's a hostage situation with extra steps

The firefly clearing is the whole reason this show is worth watching. Two people standing in a field of light and one of them is an assassin who just told her his body is a tool for her to use. Beautiful and deeply wrong at the same time

Interesting premise and the visuals were lush but the middle of the episode dragged for me. Hearing Shinpei describe their future over and over got repetitive and I wanted more of the island streets than the bath talk

The guy on the mainland getting beaten half to death while the father just watches gave me chills. It frames the whole romance differently. Someone back home actually wants her and he is paying for it in blood

kinda wild how fast the island went from breathtaking vista to a place that laughs at her. the crowd mocking her was harder to watch than the bodies in the forest

This episode is doing something interesting with Shinpei where every kind thing he says reads as a leash. His voice actor is carrying so much menace under the sweet lines. The bit where he apologizes after her dance did not feel warm to me it felt like a gate closing

the dance on the street stunned me. one minute they are all laughing at her and then she borrows a fan and shuts everyone up. gorgeous to watch and the crowd going silent sold it

The scars on his back while she scrubs it and then his reaction to her saying she will not live to be an adult. He just shrugs like it means nothing. That is when the whole dynamic clicked for me

The firefly clearing scene is gorgeous and also the most unsettling thing I have watched all season. He puts her hand on his chest and calls himself her tool and it is somehow both a love confession and a threat

Nobody warned me the bath scene would turn into a negotiation where she basically dares him to die if she can escape. She is not a damsel. She is out here working an angle and he is falling for it

That moment when Satoko picks the rice off the ground and eats it with her bare hands. I did not expect the show to go there. Say what you want about her but she picks surviving over dignity every time

Her telling the stepsister off after that will comment was the moment satoko won me over. I was fully expecting the usual sweet sick girl routine

she proposed to her assassin to not die and he just said yes. that is the funniest cold open to a romance i have seen all year

you know that flashforward with old shinpei reading her letters ruined me before the show even started. so this is a tragedy huh

the switch from soft garden flowers to a guy covered in blood casually sharing his lunch with a tied up girl messed me up more than the massacre did

the way he goes from covered in blood to that little curious tilt of the head when she says marry me. Uchiyama is doing something unholy with this performance

that kiss after she wipes the blood off his face is such a nasty little moment. beautiful lighting and completely cursed at the same time

Nobody warned me Satoko would be scheming this hard. Girl literally flipped a failed bribe into a wedding proposal to stay breathing and I was clapping