Discussion Dark Gathering

Episode 15 was good. The spirit tried to take out Keitarou's eyes. The spirit also showed a glimpse of the fate awaiting Keitarou, Yayoi and Eiko if it caught them. They ran into the tunnel and Kietarou carried Eiko while they were chased by the spirit that kept trying to kill them. As they were running, the spirit grabbed Yayoi, but Eiko thought fast and threw her a Doll which allowed Yayoi to escape. They managed to get out with Keitarou throwing Eiko and catching her, although his feet were still in range and he was drained due to the spirit Yayoi summoned, from the war. They group completely vacated the area while the Imprisoned Martyr dealt with it. The evil spirit agreed to be captured by Yayoi to live.

Right at the end, Anna appears out of Eiko and tries to kill them. Yayoi stops her and seals her and allows Eiko to decide what to do with her.

 

Episode 16 was good. On the way back from he tunnel, they stopped in at a temple and entrusted the 50 odd victim spirits to priests, leaving them with around 30 nearly evil ones and the insane graduate. Eiko is the one that came up with a plan to hide the talisman (arm).

Eiko was rather conflicted if she wanted to continue with what she was doing due to her most recent experience. So, she went for a walk to figure out what she wanted to do. Yayoi tagged along. While Keitarou was recovering he messaged Eiko to tell her to take it a bit easier, due to the ordeal at the tunnel.

Eiko's destination was Taira no Masakado's grave. One of Japan's most vengeful spirit's is housed there, and it's one of the most haunted spots in Japan. Around 900AD Masakado united the Kanto region and led people to fight against the emporer. His head was taken to Kyoto and he ended up returning. His head ended up landing in the grave sight, allegedly. After the war, the government tried to remove the grave, but the workers died so they stopped and left it alone. Eiko decided to continue with the ghost hunting. Eiko put Anna's spirit in her own made doll.

Eiko has a plan to buy a haunted house and turn it into a place for the graduates, so they're easier to manage. The house they scoped out a father and daughter occupied. They killed a bunch of people and then themselves. When a female officer was investigating, she somehow ended up pregnant and 10 days later she gave birth to a "baby with a giant head" which killed her by tearing through her abdomen. It killed both her and itself.

Looks like Ai has also returned after her brother's funeral.

 

Episode 17 was good but god damn fucked up. Entering the house, the spirit of the girl and her father were repeatedly doing the deeds they did to their victims while alive to spirits. Drugging them with water, then taking them and throwing them in a well and lighting them on fire. The daughter almost made Eiko drink the water before Yayoi interrupted her.

It was a normal family of a mother father and daughter. Seems like the mother and father had an argument and the father accidentally killed the mother. They were labelled as murderers and it was like a nightmare for them. The man in the wheelchair and other one that placed the talisman at the Castle H Site advised them to complete a ritual to bring an angel about that could help them. This included the daughter getting impregnated by the father, killing the baby and then killing other people to feed the angel. This is what impregnated the cop to try and birth itself.

As a result of this, the angel spirit infected Eiko to try and be born, but Yayoi intervened and forced it out of her. Unfortunately, Eiko was cursed so they have to kill the three angel bodies to rid her of it. They had killed two out of three of the angel spirits, with the final one being in the house. When they re-entered the house, they ended up split up, and Eiko has been pushed into the well. The angel is approaching her now.

Also, looks like Keitarou has two little sisters and a little brother.

 

Episode 18 was good. Yayoi was able to save Eiko just in time. The daughter fled back to the father and and angel, and was extremely angry. Going so far as to kick the angel. The daughter proposed to the father that he should let the angel consume him, as everything was on him, which to a degree is true given he was the adult, and killed the mother. The daughter ended up consumed by the angel.

The father then approached Eiko and Yayoi and asked for their help to finally kill him. The angel partially ate him, before they dealt with it. The father was still alive though. In the end, Yayoi had him agree to be the head of the household for the graduate spirits, with Eiko agreeing to buy the house.

Eiko and Yayoi are now off to their next graduate in the K area. She's an evil-hearted courtesan. Once they have her, they'll proceed to another S-rank location: The Old I Watergate.

The spectre of death devoured Kishimojin taking advantage of her weakness to children. This ended up creating some giant mother spirit thing to give birth to it. As expected, this mother has taken a form similar to Yayoi's mother. As I suspected, it seems she might have been pregnant when she died, and the spectre of death may be her unborn child.

 

Episode 19 was good. Keitarou also ended up coming along to the K area, specifically Hotel Banana Milk which was an old love hotel. Apparently ghosts of women haunt it, because a criminal enterprise owned it, and they would kidnap women, drug and rape them and murder them. There is a secret room where Yayoi hid the graduate by observing the ghosts figuring out how to access the secret room. In spite of that, the courtesan graduate couldn't have her room accessed by Yayoi due to the courtesan not fancying her. However, they're banking on her letting Keitarou in.

Keitarou made it to the courtesan and she took the form of Eiko to try and seduce him. It almost worked at first, but eventually he realised what was going on. The spirit almost overwhelmed Keitarou, but he managed to seal her. Keitarou even almost had his body stolen by her. At least it ended well.

 

Episode 20 was good. So spirits can take over/replace a human and get their memories so they can perfectly mimic them. Basically, no one can tell it's a spirit without the ability to see/interact with spirits, and even then, seemingly it's not 100% guaranteed they'd notice. Keitarou, Yayoi and Eiko met the "lady" who ended up being a spirit. She (or maybe the spirit) had beat them to some locations. The group came across a group of kids playing/drawing together, but they soon left for dinner except one. This kid told a story through his drawings. He didn't have a mother, but did have a father. Then the father bought home "a mother" and the abuse of the kid started. At some point he was moved to live on the balcony. The woman had an affair and the father found out and was killed. He was then turned into meatballs and given to the kid to discard. The kid being starved, ate them. The "mother" stabbed the man she had an affair with, then found the kid near the watergate and stabbed him to death too. The kid and man were also turned into meat balls. Turns out the kid that seemed to be human was a spirit with the goal of unleashing pure indiscriminate rage.

 

Episode 21 was good. So anything the kid attacks turns into meatballs, which allows him to grow stronger. Damn. He's one of the strongest S-rank spirits. Yayoi was grabbed and separated from her doll, putting her in a bad situation. Eiko and Keitarou team up and manage to free Yayoi. Thanks to their dolls, they weren't turned into meatballs. After this, Eiko was cornered and almost killed herself, but the "mother" and other male spirits trying to cut her up. Thankfully the doll was still in effect. Otogiri the courtesan was used to deal with the boy. She sucks in life force constantly which heals up her wounds and allows her to keep growing stronger. The second stage of her curse is Pestilence, which she suffered from in life. Lumps swell over the body, followed by fever and illness.

In life, her family was poor, so she sold her body for money. She was very beautiful and a man went to buy her out of that life. One of the other courtesan's got jealous so poisoned the man. Otogiri was blamed, beaten and she became ill. She stopped being able to get money due to her deuteriation. The other courtesan came clean and flaunted that she was bought by the man that was originally going to help Otogiri and that she had poisoned him. With that, Otogiri sought revenge by burning her.

 

Episode 22 was good. Otogiri was able to out heal the boy spirit, so she won. Then, she tried to take out Yayoi, Eiko and Keitarou to be free, but they got her under control. They had some sympathy for the boy and the horrific things he went through, at the same time, Yayoi will punish his actions of killing people. They discovered all of the corpses in the water so contacted the police to have it attended to. The group was taken back to the station for further questioning. At this time, the spirit hitched a ride with them.

They met Namiko the sister of Nagiko, the one who was taken over by the spirit. Seems like Nagiko wasn't great but Namiko has real talent in dealing with spirits. She knew that Nagiko had been taken over and warned the group. She also tried to get Yayoi under her wing. Multiple police officers were murdered by the spirit that hitched a ride from the water where the group was.

 

Episode 23 was good. Yayoi confirmed Ai was on the train that was attacked by that spectre of death spirit. Her god saved her though, then healed the spectre of death. Yayoi wanted to go investigate and help Ai, but Keitarou insisted on her going back to school as the golden week break was over. Yayoi was angry, but relented. When Yayoi arrived at school, Dorothy greeted her and tried to make friends. Although it's a bit of a ploy, as the real Dorothy was taken over by a spirit.

Dorothy coaxes Yayoi and her friends into investigating 7 spirits from the school. Dorothy had lured all the spirits to one location, where they devoured each other getting stronger. This manifested in the teacher that killed himself, whose spirit is hunting down the kids in a hide and seek style.

The teacher was relentlessly bullied and assaulted by students. From having rocks thrown at him, to his car bashed up, and even one of the young girls took his phone, unlocked it, and took lewd pictures of herself, which caused them to fire him obviously as she was a minor and his wife divorced him too. Fucked up.

The spirit took out the boy with the cap, Daisuke and Youko saw it. Yayoi fought the spirit for a bit, but it kept healing. Youko was trying to escape the school but just kept re-entering it. She and Yayoi ended up on the phone to each other, but turns out it was actually the spirit who attacked Youko.

 

Episode 24 was good. It seemed like Youko was going to end up like Daisuke, but Yayoi swooped in and saved her. Yayoi deduced that the clue to defeating the spirit should be in the locked room where the teacher killed himself. When Youko picked her picture off the crow, she ended it for herself, so Yayoi did the same thing. With Yayoi and Youko both out of the dream, they could save Daisuke and the others. Yayoi freed the spirit from his suffering. The Alien Doll spirit has had its growth continued and is now being called The Spirit in a Transitional period as it keeps getting stronger with no end in sight.

The aftermath of the incident is the kids all waking up and having the feeling that they were trapped in a bad dream. Crowns continue to freak them out, and they will live with the trauma for the rest of their lives. Yayoi confronted Dorothy, but is playing the part that she herself is a spirit that has overtaken the real Yayoi. Seems like she has tricked Dorothy, so will gather intel on both her, and her allies behind the Spectre of Death.

Eiko met Youko when she went to pick Yayoi up, and seems like they're the same and are into the whole chasing fear thing.

 

Episode 25 was good. Kietarou got in touch with Ai to check in with her via a text message, and she immediately called him back. She was distraught due to the attack on the train. She was naturally fine, but she was upset and blamed herself for others getting hurt. At Keitarou's suggestion of them visiting her at the hospital, she was extremely happy. The order of objectives are: visit Ai, confront her God, and then on the way back, investigate the train crash that might give Yayoi clues on her parents' death. They have 7 graduate spirits to confront the god with. There was an ancient exorcist who placed a protective ward around Kyoto, so they intend to form a pentagram with the graduates cursing the area, trapping the god inside and weakening it, before retrieving the graduates and attacking it. They intend to use substitutes to transfer to curse from everything else to the god by making it the substitute, so only the god will be affected.

Poor Ai is having some nightmarish dreams to do with her god. She really needs that help! Keitarou, Yayoi and Eiko have now set off. They've left one of the arms in their graduate house as a trap to lure in the body snatcher spirits and their allies. The allies also suspect Yayoi may still be Yayoi, so they're on the move. Everyone is moving now with their goals!