Absolutely loved this ep as well

Gabimarus ninpo was so hype

Sagiri has become weaker and useless after Episode 1. That's honestly pretty disappointing and annoying.

Hell’s Paradise #4: Hell and Paradise

Staff Count:
1|1|3|18+2
30|42+8|33/6+5|0

Digital Inbetweening/Finishing counted for Inbetweening

Explanation on Staff Count

The action was pretty nice. The show still has rough edges but there was a decent amount of action animation at least, and there weren’t nearly as many off-model shots as there were in episode 2. Yuzuhira is definitely not to be trusted, she hides probably the most crucial information from Gabimaru. But well, I guess a non-trusting alliance kind of works here. I also liked the backstory we got with the brothers, that was kinda sweet. This episode in general made me realize that the executioners are kinda ill-equipped for this mission. Their swords don’t do that much, they also have to be careful not to break them. Swords are useful against the convicts but they are the smaller problem.

Gabimaru and Yuzuriha's interactions are hilarious lmao. She's a lot of fun! Nice to see Senta too! One of my favourite Yamada clan members

Surprised they didn't get Nobuhiko Okamoto to voice Aza Chobe. Would have been great as the angry big bro. Lost count of how many times Toma said "nii-san" lol.

Hope Sagiri regains consciousness soon

New "allies", new characters and important information on monsters, which look like gods who are protecting something important, and on insects and their dangers. My theory: Sagiri may have been poisoned by centipedes which if you notice bite her kimono at one point. We look forward to next week!

I don’t know if it was just my speakers or not but the fights feel like they’re lacking volume which makes them feel less impactful. It just gets kinda quiet when they start fighting.

That was a good episode. Gabimaru's ninjitsu was so cool but those creatures are so weird and the whole island seems like some sort of fantasy.

This episode was fucking based. Excelent animation in the fight scenes, an amazing cast of characters and it seems that this show is getting better and better with each episode. 9/10, best episode so far.

I'd say it's the best episode so far, all the background that it's showing while building the cast is marvelous and well done , the action was nice and were finally getting to see more and more of the island, peak is becoming peak with a good adaptation, nice work again Mappa.

Loved the fact that they didn't cut the Tamiya face panel or even the comparison of the Venomous Vase as well, it was subtle but it was there.

Yuzuriha's outfit tho ?.
Sagiri is also becoming more useless, isn't she supposed to be a threat to Gabimaru but now it doesn't seem that way

Man, poor Sagiri.
So, if she's "weak" now, she'll be one of strongest in the future but, this island is so wtf!

Also, Gabiru o homem santo!

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I think that the best thing about the episode was the last part related to the brothers; in less than 6 minutes we got to know everything related to the background of 2 characters from their past, their journey, aspirations, philosophy and the type of their relationship, and most importantly I got to relate to them, without forgetting their cool character design. I still do not know know the importance of the first part of the episode related to Tetsunosuke that gave us a glimpse into his background even though he didn't have a major role in the episode, and I don't think this is all about him, I preferred if we gave a full arc character later like they did with the brothers instead of taking a part of this episode. The part about the Kunoichi wasn't bad, we got to know some infos about the creatures and the treacherous nature of Kunoichis, which I think will be of importance in the future, but I still didn't fully connect with our 2 main characters, especially since I do not feel any danger to our protagonist, Sagiri's confidence problem was interesting at first but later it became a little annoying since it became so repetitive.

very good episode for the side character intros

Im convinced this man can go to attack on titan and literally beat off the titans by himself

This is my first seen anime where the main character is already op.
its kinda interesting

so what I'm getting is that the Asaemon are a big fucking joke?
one of their supposedly strongest members got outed like nothing by the big guy;
Sagiri can't even hope to control Gabimaru now;
they got two dumbasses drooling over a criminal, and apparently any random guy can simply "infiltrate" the clan in a month and get access to the convicts.