I really liked the episode, which is helped along greatly by an intense battle between Matsuri and Tsujidou Takeshi. Seeing Aono's reaction to hearing about Matsuri from Koyori also makes me really interested in how much she loves her brother and what's going to happen from here.

I see blood!

Also...

PONYTAIL! OMG! PONYTAIL!

I see Seed mode Matsuri!

The first half was gentle deepening of the emotional bonds between Yorito and Matsuri. I was just settling in my own mind that the inaction was okay. Then we get what the end of ep4 made us expect: the hunter coming after Matsuri.

Well done Hitchcockian surprise at first that it wasn't the hunter. Then the real thing. Although I knew Matsuri had to survive (this time), I didn't see quite how. Her going outside was a surprise. Her seed mode was a surprise after it had seemed that she had no weapons left.

Her willingness to die was moving. Yorito's willingness to die was amazing. At one level, hard to understand. At another, quite natural, considering how close they had drifted on the lake. The similarity between his willingness to defend Matsuri and the hunter's to defend the loli-in-a-trashcan was good.

Yorito had better ask Matsuri who the hunter is, and why. I want to know. Did she kill his family? Did she not? Why didn't she kill the hunter? Why does he "need" her life? What will Aono ask Yorito? Probably nothing. What will Yorito tell her? Probably not yet. But I do look forward to Matsuri-Yorito becoming even deeper.

I thought the animation could have been better, generally. But Yorito's face glaring at the hunter was good.

Do you perhaps mean that she will pull a Kaede?

If it is what some people make the shock she got about Matsuri out to be, is she blood related to Yorito? Then again, perhaps she's just simply surprised or might even have known Matsuri sometime back.

It seems Takeshi isn't much unlike Yorito.

Her asking whether Yorito likes rain is an important recurring question. In the end he comes to like it a bit more--you'll know why when you see the episode.

Kyon would approve!

from the first scene we see an insight into the hunter's reasons for being the way he is ~ and i feel that its one of those instances again where hes trying to get revenge on matsuri's clan rather than herself ~ its still a mystery as to when hes carrying around the loli but something tells me that she is going to be a key one day rather than just being idle all the time ~ but i really like the father/daugther thing they have going there :3

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more matsuri and yurito relationship/bond building ~ and matsuri cleaning out the store of that weird tomato juice :heh: they decide to go take a walk outside when it was cloudy (only time possible for matsuri is when the sun is blocked out by the clouds) ~ and well it seems that matsuri likes playing pranks :heh:

and before i forget to mention...OMG!! ponytail!!!! :D

even though that some of their convosations are pointless overall it does serve the purpose of building up a bond ~ i just love the scene where they nearly fell off the boat and yorito had to grip her :3 anyone would fall for a guy who shows intent in providing security ~ and as the gaze off into the unbrella and fantasize it becomes clear that they are born to be with each other ^_^

koyori infiltrates into the household while yorito was visiting aono ~ which at first was made to look like the hunter guy...and so we have another meeting between main characters :) and its quite the sweet meeting with matsuri saving her life :heh: and my my dont they just looks cute together ^_^

but then the hunter really comes...he ruthlessly attacks matsuri with light producting darts...how it pains me to see matsuri getting hurt like that :( she gets corneres as the Takeshi shows no sign of backing off ~ she even at one point give up hope...and i say again...i hate seeing girls suffer!!! T_T
but she comes to with the help of the sky ceiling and grips Takeshi ~ she then used her powers of corrosion on his arm but she stopped while not aiming to cause any major damage...

she escapes outside and gets weakened even more...takeshi catches up and goes for the final blow but yorito takes the cut...telling matsuri that he will protect her we see a flashback by takeshi to when he was protecting the loli (not the one dead before) ~ she leaves after hearing her call and matsuri asks yorito if he likes the rain...bad vibes here as she faints :(

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meanwhile aono can feel distress...does she have some powers as well? :twitch:

overall it was an amazing ep...from the calm to the storm this is what ive been waiting for...as things go one im getting of of a feeling that things arent going to be forgiving :(

takeshi obviously has a good reason for hunting matsuri...from the first flashback we can already see that someone important to him has died and with the second flashback i can say that he saved loli tan knowing that he cannot let another soul die...and inspite seeing that in yorito's determination to save matsuri he becomes hesitant...boy things are getting interesting :D

This week completely redeemed last week's embarrassing episode :D The date in the rain was really cute, and Yorito finally took a hit for his beloved vampire/woe/whatever she is. I'm not sure what will be scarier: Aono chewing out Yorito for her presence or ignoring him.