Sea Slugs! Anime Blog

Without getting blogged down in details, we’re introduced to Yamazaki Mayuri in episode 8, who had been friends with Morimoto in the past but carries a mysterious and suspicious aura with her around school. Right after she joins Shin’s class, weird things start showing up in the classroom like twisted metal bars and mannequins randoming sticking out of walls. It seems like a prankster is at work, but the student body seems to blame Mayuir since she seems to stay away from the scenes of weirdness. Thinking that it would be quite an adventure, Shin and company investigate these paranomal events by infiltrating the school late at night, and they really never get to the bottom of it except for Jun, who realizes that it was Mayuri and her seemingly unstable persona seeking out someone, and Jun’s persona performs some sort of healing ritual to calm down Mayuri’s persona. Later, we discover that Mayuri was the same girl from the Marebite who had her persona defeated by Shin in episode 3.

In an interesting fashion, episode 9 and 10 overlap each other in showing the events of the day from different viewpoints. Shin hangs out with Eiko for most of the day as she does some of her investigation work. We get to learn a bit more about Eiko and about her strange diving experience involving opera singing and feathers, which seem to pop up everywhere in these past few episodes. The two eventually make it out to the sea at the location where the submarine members disappeared in episode one, and Shin managed to experience the same visions that Eiko had during her diving experience. Meanwhile, Megumi is training Takuro to control his persona with the occasional assist from Morimoto. Back at the Kanzato household, Mayuri brings some lunch to Jun and Ryou in appreciation of what Jun did for her, and the three eventually go to a movie about a squirrel and a bear, which even brings Ryou to shed some tears. After the movie, things get interesting at Mayuri catches a glimpse of Tomo and chases after him, and Ryou follows along to see what the heck is going on. If you remember, Ryou dispatched of Tomo in an earlier episode, but Tomo seems to be alive and well as he attacks Ryou with his persona. The two duke it out, and Tomo eventually disappears into the air.

Persona continues to do a good job of feeding us with interesting backstory information. We get some more interesting insight into Eiko and find out what actually happened to Yuki (brain transplant for teh win!). But part of me is still waiting for that big break in the main plotline, and the continual bombarding of feathers isn’t doing much good to satisfy that craving for plot progress. Throw us a bone here for crying out loud!