Karasu wa Aruji wo Erabanai Episode 18 Discussion

WAIT, ITS THE MODERN WORLD OUTSIDE OF YATAGARASU?!! Holy shit man these twists that this story has legitimately throw me for loops. It’s the first show in so long that can genuinely surprise me. Only two more episodes left man 😭 what’re we gonna do when this ends.

So Saku wasn’t a bad dude after all. Nice misdirection setting the underground up as some big bad place when in reality Saku and the Prince go way back. He did withhold Jinhei’s name though which was a little sus, but he came clean about the other stuff so he’s decent in my book.

I figured we would eventually get some stuff on the outside world given how claustrophobic the story felt at times and then when we saw the prince restoring the boundary, but I NEVER would’ve guessed that this actually takes place in modern day and Yamauchi is just closed off isolated from the rest of the world. Seeing that notebook with planes, card and other modern shit is blowing my mind

And the sagecap being crushed human bones is also crazy. I figured there was some connection between the two, but didn’t expect this at all. That makes things even more fucked up.. getting high on human bones probably affects the Yatagarasu so much since they’re imitating human physiology.

Yamauchi on the road to destruction, Koume’s dad dead.. wild ending and so many questions left to be answered. I can not wait until next episode but at the same time I don’t want it to come cause I don’t wanna be a week closer to this ending 😭

Bro, this was a mind blowing episode, I mean this taking place in a modern era? Humans as an unknown concept to the characters? This shit was already burning but man, today more firewood has been thrown to it! I'm not sorry for all the bois who are missing out on this.

The surprises and twists just don’t let up, this has become one of my favourites now.

We’ve only got 2 more episodes to go… I hope we get a season 2 soon

Ok so the monkeys and the sagecap are all from the same source. The monkey's eat humans and then sell the human bones for Yatagarasu meat. The human bones are then used to make sagecap. The outside world is also a world of modern humans, like modern Japan. Now the barrier between these worlds is weakening and probably going to collapse.

At the end there it seems like Jihei the water seller seems to have died?

Still only 2 more episodes? Still so much to explore. I hope we get another season.

Am I missing something? Pierrot is animating this season. They don't seem particularly busy in the near future either, except for Bleach maybe?

Can't believe they went there. I wonder how this development is going to pay off.


That's actually a good theory.

It also makes me think that Wakamiya "studying abroad" was actually to infiltrate the human society and learn from them, in order to gain some perspective and wisdom for his struggle back home.

I just hope he doesn't pull out a rocket launcher from his back pocket or something... It's a dangerous game the writers are playing here.

To think I dropped this show back on april because I didn't find the first three episodes interesting.

After reading several times on some forum that it's actually pretty great I picked it up again and although I still don't enjoy it, it has definitely become more interesting and better since there.

Looking at the release dates, it suffered quite some delays huh? But it looks like it's gonna be finished with no problems so that's good.

And this last reveal? I guess the show isn't actually historical if that's what the outside world looks like? They pulled out a Yomi no Tsugai kind of setting as a twist.