EPISODE CONTEXT

Building directly on the series premiere's introduction of Ritsu and his rare ability to perceive the spirit world, this episode begins expanding the rules and risks of that gift in more socially complex settings. It deepens the show's central tension between the mundane and the spectral, establishing a pattern of spirit encounters woven into ordinary life. The groundwork laid here — particularly Ritsu's challenge of distinguishing the living from the dead — signals the kind of slow, episodic supernatural mysteries the rest of the season will continue to explore.