Nabari no Ou - 04

Summary:

Koutaro shows up with his band of ninjas, and he successfully scares the Yoite fellow away. The Fuuma village cleans up after the melee that occurred in the previous episode. Rokujou's little band end up having suffered some injuries, but nothing that a bit of time won't heal. A female ninja takes Rokujou, Kouichi, and Shimizu to rest, but Shimizu drags Kouichi off leaving Rokujou to ponder about the past day's events.

A banquet is held, and at the banquet Rokujou is introduced to the rest of the Fuuma village as the bearer of the Shinran Banshou. Rokujou makes some comments, but the Fuuma ninjas misunderstand the meaning behind his little speech. Rokujou then decides to question Koutaro's true intentions and what Koutaro would do with the Shinra Banshou if he obtained it. Koutaro, to Rokujou's surprise, honestly answers that he would utilize the Shinra Banshou to defeat the Kairoushuu and to accomplish multiple things for himself (which included a village of women for himself).

We also get to see the Kairoushuu henchmen from before in some apartment. The Kira user and the blond guy with the guy are both present as they wait for a speech from their leader. The leader comes on through a live internet feed and begins to explain his plan to the Kairoushuu members.

Tobari wakes up, and Rokujou explains some profound thing about how both people need to be alive for both people to be saved. Rokujou leaves some comments about Kotarou which causes Tobari to head straight for Tobari. Everyone eventually ends up at Kotarou's room to discuss what to do. Kotarou explains that what they were going to was find the other villages and try to convince them to give up their secret art scrolls because Kotarou would need them to develop a new jutsu to safely remove the Shinra Banshou from Rokujou. He also mentions that if the other villages don't want to give up their scrolls, it was their job to steal or rob them of their scrolls. Simultaneously, the Kairoushuu's leader also explains to his henchmen the same thing.

Thoughts:

I was thoroughly bored with this episode. I didn't exactly care too much for Rokujou's character in the first place, partly because the seiyuu's voice doesn't exactly match the character in my opinion. Episode 4 also didn't reveal much new information. The only new thing that came up was probably the direction in which the series was going. So the characters are going to go from village to village and steal scrolls now? I'm not sure I want to stick with this series.