[NoSanninWa]

Okay... I'm finally done with the Chapter Black arc and I'll start watching the next arc (whatever its called) soon. Now it's time for my end of the arc wrap-up. At least a bit of it.

Spoiler for end of Chapter Black Saga:

First I'll talk about Sensui. He was definitely one of the coolest shounen villians ever. It's not his powers and it's definitely not his 7 personalities that make him cool. Personally I thought that the 7 personality things was just a bizzare quirk which was never used in an intersting way in the show. The fake right hand thing was particularly weird especially since the fake seemed to work just like a real hand. They needed to make his MPD more real, relevant, interesting or else drop it.

What made Sensui intersting was his back story and the way he reacted to it. And his motivation. Especially his motivation. After discovering that humans were just as bad as youkai, Sensui did all this as a means of penance. Since he hurt so many youkai he wanted to make it up to them. Absolutely amazing. I've never seen such a motive before in any show. He was such a pure soul all the way to the very end.

Now a question for you, if I might. You said a while ago that this was a filler arc. How could it have been filler if Urumeshi became an S-class Youkai? Okay, his friends powered up also, so the power differential is still close enough that it doesn't matter if he is S-class or A-class. He's still tougher than them after all. But now he's a youkai! He's got youki instead of reiki. His heart no longer beats. He has to deal with the fact that there is a super youkai that controlled him briefly. Plus Koenma is on the run from the Spirit Realm. This seems much too significant for filler. Or was this the original end of the Toguro arc? If the Black Tournament arc was supposed to end this way, then the splicing was flawless!