Sengoku Youko – Season 1 Episode 4 Recap & Review

Jinka and Humans

Sengoku Youko Episode 4 begins with Jinka teaching Shinsuke to fight. Tama finds Shakugan a dress that wouldn’t get in the way of her transformation. Just then, a katawara informs Tama about an evil katawara who asks for sacrifices without protecting the village.

Tama approaches the village head and offers to solve their problem, but they do not believe her. A boy guides them to the location of the katawara but expresses his anger as they arrived late and his mother was eaten by the katawara the previous day.

Reaching the katawara’s lake, Tama begins to negotiate with the katawara. He declines everything she says and hurls a projectile at them. Jinka saves the two of them. Seeing this, the Katawara gets afraid and removes the boy’s mother from his stomach and holds her hostage. Jinka is unable to decide whom he should save, but suddenly a man cuts open the katawara from behind and rescues the boy’s mother.

The man then takes the two hostages and challenges Jinka to a duel. Jinka uses four of his major skills and isn’t able to defeat the swordsman. The battle ends with Jinka’s loss, but the swordsman spares his life.

Later that night, one of the Dangaisyuu approaches Raidou and questions him about not killing Jinka and tells him to have another deciding battle this time. He threatens him about his sister’s life if he doesn’t comply.

Jinka stays silent and away from everyone upon arriving home, and Shakugan tries to cheer him up. Just then, a Dangaisyuu arrives and brings him the challenge note. That night, Jinka tries to envision a way to win the fight.

During the fight, things don’t seem to be going well, and Jinka gets stabbed through the palm. However, he calls down the fist at the end moment, knocking himself as well as Raidou down. Jinka is still able to fight while Raidou surrenders.

The Dangaisyuu informs Raidou that his sister is one of the four beast leaders and tells him to forget about her at the end of Sengoku Youko Episode 4.


The Episode Review

Sengoku Youko Episode 4 brings us intense battles between Jinka and Raidou, one of the assassins sent by Dangaisuu. Until now, Jinka seemed to be unquestionably powerful, but as we progress, he seems to face more challenges and greater foes. This just goes to show how powerful the Dangaisuu can be and sets up expectations for future fights.

As the episodes proceed it seems to be Tama’s goal to push Jinka closer to humanity and cure his resentment. This causes Jinka to observe and analyse every action done by a human and it is intriguing to see how he perceives actions that push him to either side of his opinion.

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