Recommendations from Iwamoto-Senpai

Kodo crying over the Doku-Otoko record in the library is the scene. A kid realizing this cursed lonely man is basically him. That flashback wrecked me and I was not ready for it

Luri pulling that poor girl up by her hair after the lipstick hits is genuinely nasty work. She had that girl thanking her while she was dying. Cold cold cold

The mirror reflection shot of that silver liquid crawling off her fingers got under my skin more than anything this season. That bathroom stall reveal is going to live in my head rent free

that hollow chest visual got me good the first time and then she just laughed and said it was never real. i got tricked by a poison hallucination same as Kodo did

I could not stop thinking about that library flashback. young Kodo crying over a dissected man he never met. thats the whole show in one scene for me

the spider lily thing. his petals are poison. they turn the whole symbol into something he has to live with. didnt see that coming at all

that hollow chest trick got me the first time not gonna lie. second time he just stares at her like hes bored. thats when you know the guy has seen way worse

I could not stop laughing when they revealed the curse was fake and the chef was just some massive dude who cooks really well. And Fudegishi spent thousands of drawings trying to capture what's inside a building that just serves mackerel stew. Poor guy can't read menus

The British witches are officially the Team Rocket of this show. They show up all dramatic with their thorn spheres and cryptic villain quotes then just vanish. Also Crystal bleeding from watermelon seeds to the face had me actually laughing out loud

Kojiro being recruited because he fires watermelon seeds like a sniper rifle is peak Taisho nonsense. Shibukibara stepping on Crystals face with his bare foot was the highlight though. That man holds grudges and I respect it

The watermelon seed sniper thing is so stupid and I love every second of it. Boy is out here launching fruit at supersonic speeds and calling it artillery. Also crystal getting roses shoved into his face wounds was very satisfying to watch

That Wine Dragon had no business looking that cool. Giant liquid serpent wrapping around a kid calling him raw material for whisky is such an insane threat. Crystal really thinks hes terrifying but the show keeps making him look dumb

So the cursed house was just a restaurant the whole time. The regulars made up the ghost stories to keep people away from their good food. That's genuinely the most relatable thing this show has ever done. Gatekeeping your favorite eatery is a real human instinct

The flashback with young Toboso squeezing into the citrus crate only for the Master to say customers want a handsome man not a child. That stung. Then Hitsugi losing his spot at twenty-five. Two brothers discarded by the same cruel boss and neither of them ever properly dealt with it.

The animation is rough no doubt about it. Some shots barely moved. But you know what I stopped caring about that halfway through because Toboso kneeling in that blood with his dead brother and Iwamoto just standing there giving him space was devastating. The words carried this whole thing.

So Hitsugi was killing people all along and carrying them around in that box. The reveal felt more tragic than shocking honestly. The moment Toboso tried to take the blame and become the Box Man himself broke something in me. Easily the series' best writing.

The Gap Man reveal through the bookshelf sliver was legit creepy. Reminded me of Ju-On. I know people complain about the stiff animation but honestly the static shots make the horror work better. The Box Man design says everything with nothing

That whole backstory with the freak show hit way harder than I expected. Hitsugi carrying that box around with the Master's remains is genuinely haunting. The cherry blossom tree scene where the Master picks Toboso over him broke me a little

The counter strategy against the geisha box man was actually brilliant and catching him with full boxes was hilarious

My favorite part was seeing Iwamoto step into that hot spring and literally make the whole bath explode into boiling flames. He looks thirty years old minimum yet they keep telling us these guys are middle schoolers. The counter trap with the 14 cadets stuffed into every secret crawlspace was top tier tactics though.