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Quick Summary In Somali and the Forest Spirit episode 8, “Meetings and Bonds Paid For,” Praline gave Golem and Somali her own secret map of the library so they could find their way to the Head Librarian, who was on the bottom floor. What Praline didn’t tell them was that they needed to be careful […]

Quick Summary In In/Spectre episode 7, “Preparing to Conquer the Steel Lady,” Kotoko Iwanaga felt exhausted. On the heels of Steel Lady Nanase’s first confirmed murder, Kotoko’s mission to craft a plausible falsehood about Nanase got significantly more difficult. Fortunately, Kurou Sakuragawa soon arrived with the perfect provisions: chocolate! It wasn’t long before Saki Yumihara […]

Quick Summary In Darwin’s Game episode 7, “Eighth,” Ichirou Hiiragi decided to take on two of the most powerful members of the Eighth clan — but he didn’t intend to take them on at the same time. Can he survive either encounter? Does he even intend to? Meanwhile, Rein Kashiwagi continued to search for an […]

Quick Summary In Somali and the Forest Spirit episode 7, “The Footsteps That Stalk the Witches,” Golem and Somali needed to part ways with Haitora and Uzoi. Golem and Haitora had spoken the previous night, and though Haitora knew nothing of where humans might be, he did have one very useful tidbit of information: he […]

Quick Summary In In/Spectre episode 6, “Logical Fiction,” Kotoko Iwanaga put her prodigious experience as goddess of wisdom to work on the problem: Coming up with a more satisfying yet less dangerous interpretation of the Steel Lady Nanase. Kotoko needed data, and a great source of data would be the original police reports. It just […]

Quick Summary In Darwin’s Game episode 6, “Hardness,” Kaname Sudou ran into a wall of ice as he tried to find Shuka Karino. He had to manifest a pistol to shoot it enough times to break through, and every second reduces his chances of finding Shuka alive. The cold water was starting to have an […]

Quick Summary In Somali and the Forest Spirit episode 6, “Dying Flowers Look Up at the Birds,” the harpy Uzoi prepared to take Somali’s blood — all of it — in the hopes it would save her surrogate father Haitora from whatever disease was killing him. Meanwhile, Haitora was afraid of what Uzoi was going […]