I’m no fan of Whoopi Goldberg but Yoshiki, You in Danger Girl.
The Summer Hikaru Died Episode 2 Review
Okay, what on earth is going on with this series? Was Hikaru secretly a fruit and Lord Nonuki inherited those feelings?
I mean, it’s okay if he was, but I just didn’t expect the equivalent of a fisting scene when we’d only gotten light BL vibes in the previous episode.
I mean, these two were really in the storage room, Hikaru shirtless moaning as Yoshiki thrust his open hand deep inside the bowels of Hikaru’s chest! Just writing down what happened is making it sound like a bad fanfic and unfortunately this is kind of the stuff I like. I’m not a Fujoshi and don’t read BL often (or like, at all – I did a bit when I was a teenager years ago) but I kind of like this scene because of the deeper, weird possessive monster-host implications surrounding it.
Hikaru – or rather, Lord Nonuki inhabiting Hikaru’s body, is dangerous.
Apparently, Lord Nonuki is the impurity that haunted the restricted part of the mountain Real Hikaru went trudging into. Based on what Tanaka said, that shrunken head should have protected Hikaru – and even had the ability to purify the mountain – but didn’t.
Lord Nonuki said he had been “like a robot” in a loop up in the isolated part of the mountain before he found Hikaru’s near-lifeless body.
Hikaru called out to Lord Unuki – who the Indo family have some sort of relationship (or spiritual contract) with where he cannot touch their bloodline, and somehow his spirit was released from his body but he left it behind for Lord Nonuki to inhabit so that Yoshiki wouldn’t be lonely?
That’s what I thought at first, but now I’m not so sure.
Rie Kurebayashi warned Yoshiki that he’s in danger, and we kept getting imagery of a summer beetle or some sort of insect molting. Mix in the fruity scenes with Yoshiki and Hikaru, Hikaru’s flashback to his father Kohei telling him about the Indo family bloodline and “marrying” those you love, and then Hikaru (Lord Nonuki) thinking that “he” – Lord Unuki – won’t try to steal Yoshiki away out of loneliness because Yoshiki belongs to him is dangerous.
I mean, what is marriage but a union of two spirits – two souls into one?
Also, I’m pretty sure Asako might be in danger as well for having simple deductive skills and reasoning as an average, rural countryside teenage girl.
Hikaru had the nerve to torment and then brutally murder Matsuura in her own home and shove her own fist down her throat in order to make sure Matsuura never spoke another word about him.
Then Hikaru, knowing damn well that he is the literal danger in the mountain woods, goes with Yuuta, Yuki, Asako, and Yoshiki on Yuuta’s route home and lowkey mocks the group when they realize it was an uneventful walk – knowing it was uneventful because he was present.
Yoshiki, for whatever reason, attracts the attention of a bad youkai and Hikaru gets jealous, eats the broken-neck yokai, tells Hikaru to “only look at him”, and gaslights Asako when she puts two and two together and realizes the only reasonable explanation for Hikaru’s callous attitude toward the loud noise in the isolated, rumored to be haunted woods he was afraid of 6-months ago being a noise gun to scare animals, sounds off.
You could literally see Hikaru plotting Asako’s murder right then and there.
This show is wild, but I don’t think Lord Nonuki killed Hikaru – he even said as much when Yoshiki asked. And we learned from the fruity flashback that Lord Unuki cannot harm the Indo family – so maybe Hikaru’s “death” wasn’t supernatural in nature.
It looked like a gunshot wound (or a well-placed sword gash) that caused Hikaru to bleed out. I know Japan doesn’t have guns, but given Lord Nonuki’s nonchalant answer about a “noise gun” when he said he has no experiences, only memories – would that not mean that maybe the real Hikaru heard something like that before his death?
What human wanted Indo Hikaru’s secret ritual to fail that night?
Who would benefit from that land being developed in the mountains – aside from those three and possibly Mikasa if they used her temple sword?
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