Ron Does Stuff

The first episode was great, and the second episode still got me curious, so I am really looking forward to watching the entirety of this show as it unfolds. So exciting!

This third episode starts very firmly in the present, and we get fish-out-of-water comedy out of Yuru. Him loving convenience store food? I relate, because there was a period in my youth where it was all I could afford and you best believe I grew to love those cold convenience store sandwiches. And I’m betting those weren’t as good as Japanese convenience store food!

While Yuru and Left and Right stay inside the car and marvel at modernity, Dera and Hana are planning their next steps as they eat at the rest stop, and Dera thinks he and Hana should get married, which leads to a hilarious sequence where Dera argues that disguising themselves as a family can make it easier for them to blend in a city. Apparently, Hana’s into Jason Statham!

Outside, Yuru is building rapport with Left and Right. He asks them to say the real deal between him and his sister, and while Left and Right can only share what they saw at the entrance of the village, they confirm to Yuru that his parents did leave the village with Asa. Now, Yuru thinks Asa will know where their parents are now.

With all of their rest stop business settled, the gang continues their journey. Dera tells Yuru about the Kagemori clan Asa is involved with now. The Kagemoris apparently left the same village Yuru and Asa came from — Higashi — because of “differences in opinion”, and Hana would rather they not get involved with them. Considering what they did to the village? I agree with her.

We then get a scene of a stalker that’s so much creepier because of the recent Pokémon Center stabbing in Japan. At least in this show, the stalker gets what’s coming to him, as he’s devoured by a Daemon.

The Daemon, by the way, is Jin’s, who is working for the Kagemoris since he’s the one who picked up Asa and Gabby from the mountain.

Elsewhere in Japan, Dera and Hana continue to tell Yuru everything they know about the current situation, all while eating Japanese convenience store food. Kinda want to eat Japanese food now, but the restaurant near here is so overpriced. The food is okay, but definitely not at the price point they’re selling it. BUT BACK TO THE SHOW. Right tells Yuru that the last time twins like Yuru and Asa were born was 400 years ago, and that resulted in Japan being torn apart. I’d check the history, but it’s late at night here and I’m old and easily sidetracked, so I’m focusing on the show.

Turns out that Yuru and Asa are also prophesied to gain powers, so it wasn’t a hidden Daemon that Asa was using in the village. She had the “Break” power, which can forcibly unravel anything, like the village’s barrier. Yuru doesn’t have a power yet, but Right thinks he may have the “Seal” power, which does the opposite of “Break”. It’s all sounding very Suikoden II to me!

The next morning, Yuru successfully uses a modern toilet — hilarious — and wonders at how different the world outside their village is. We’re also told they’re in Guntama prefecture, which I guess is a fictional prefecture since it doesn’t appear in Google at all. Gintama does, though.

Yuru is also very cautious about who he trusts. Even Dera and Hana aren’t safe, since Yuru now knows they were part of the deception in the village. He doesn’t trust Asa either, or thinks she’s his sister, even after Left and Right told him that their blood smells the same.

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