Moon Phase 19-21
Took a long time, but Shaft finally added more than a still to the ending credits. Looks nice. As for the rest of the show... while Kouhei is finally trying to pick up the family legacy, the solitary nature of training is wearing down everybody. Having Artemis enter the picture isn't helping. She provides a curious foil to Hazuki, I think to show what would happen if Hazuki had remained isolated in the castle for even longer and not discovered all the friendships she got in the outside world. It's pretty clear who the masked man is - the show's not really hiding it - just a matter of when the other shoe drops. The tone's changed pretty significantly with the move from the city to the country. Whatever all this is leading up to, whatever good stopping point it finds, I'm sure Shaft will make it interesting to look at.