In case you were wondering: yes, I do like to save the best for last. The only series that are left for me to catch up to are Shion no Ou and Les Miserables. And I absolutely loved this episode. It was all about the match between Saori and Kaminozo, and I was really surprised at the depth that was given to Kaminozo. I love it when a series doesn’t just develop its main characters.
The guy indeed was a Shougi-master, though through he finally reached the point where his age gets in the way, and there’s also the matter of his deceased wife. It seems that he used the tournament, to confirm that he was still able to play Shougi, though after a three hour-long match he just couldn’t keep up against the still-growing Saori. And to think that Shougi-matches can take over three hours to finish. I was easily pwned within one minute by that Hamshougi.
In any case, I love this series. I don’t how the creators do it, but every single character connects much easier than with a regular series. In the next episode, we’ll get to see Ayumi versus Shion’s foster-father, which promises to become very interesting. We also see an interesting twist: a new character shows up who looks suspiciously much like the murderer. His hair is purple, though, and we see him in some kind of internet-cafe.
The only thing I didn’t actually like in this episode was that murderer-looking-like guy.
I mean, it’s quite a coincidence that guy managed to keep his appearance unchanged for 8 years. Didn’t he get bored of these suspicious caps, suspicious internet-cafes?(who uses them in these days? Being anonymous in the Internet requires a proxy, not a cafe that helps the police to track you down)
Anyway, I liked this episode. I like it when the bad-ugly-bastard characters actually turn out to be good guys misjudged by people 😀