“The One Behind the Forest Fire” is the kind of episode that a reviewer never hopes for and always dreads, because on its face it isn t vastly different from every other episode of
Yashahime: flat, poorly structured, and kind of boring. This chapter in particular, though, hides an insidious layer of
wrongness that was enough to have me howling and ranting in equal measure. Whether this total breakdown of narrative function and meaning is due to ineptitude or indifference on the part of
Yashahime s creative team, I don t know. All I know is that my seething disdain for this episode can be boiled down to a single line, spoken by Towa, from the end of the episode:
Ⓒ Rumiko Takahashi / Shogakukan, Yomiuri TV, Sunrise 2020
“The One Behind the Forest Fire”
What They Say:
Set in feudal Japan, half-demon twins Towa and Setsuna are separated from each other during a forest fire. While desperately searching for her younger sister, Towa wanders into a mysterious tunnel that sends her into present-day Japan, where she is found by Kagome Higurashi’s brother, Sota, and his family. Ten years later, the tunnel that connects the two eras had reopened, allowing Towa to be reunited with Setsuna, who is now a demon slayer working for Kohaku. But to Towa’s shock, Setsuna appears to have lost all memories of her older sister.
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