Ushio and Tora Episode 4: Tora Goes to the City - Bobble Reviews

Something supernatural's afoot. Or should I say...a stone?

"Yeah, it's almost like it's important, it's almost like we should've left it in that ground there."

"Yegads, it was sealing the ugly demons of the week! YEEEAAAAAAAAARGH!!"

There's this stone, and when you lift it it unleashes a slurry of floating heads! That's why they call it a keystone. Because it was key to the setup of this episode. Only Ushio and Tora can stop these hungry fiends from eating even more civilians. But first: you remember how Ushio's father left the temple and came back, but then left again, but surely only for the duration of the rest of that third episode?

Come on! You can't have "Ushio and Tora and Pop" without the pop, dammit!

Let's move on to the next items on our list: the sparkling diamond standbys of every OoshieTore episode. That would be Shenanigans (outhouse battle; check and mate) closely followed by Disagreements and, lastly, Something About Tora Wanting to Eat People, which I find really brings the whole dish together and gives it a good tangy flavor.

Well, long intro short, the two butt heads, separate, and our boy Ushio does some detective work. He learns that the big heads are trying to eat a dead lady. But they're so dumb that they're going to eat somebody who just likes her instead, and not even her actual remains or anything.

Might I add: convenient.

This leaves Tora to do all the important stuff. See, he levitates into the big city, where he watches all the strange machines and lonely people, and he really thinks about life, and it really lends this episode some gravitas.

"Episode 4: Tora Gravely Reflects Upon His Own Dubious-Yet-Conceivable Mortality"

Then he's sitting outside of a fast-food joint — which is exactly where that girl Inoue is! So now you're thinking, "Great, so that's where he's gonna fight the Big Head Nebulae to defend the honor of that one girl from Ushio's school." Well, you'd be wrong, because you forgot this episode was also about Tora wanting to eat people but being disturbed by their modern fashion and odors.

Meanwhile, Inoue's fashion and stench are unique, and hearken to caveman times.

i wouldnt stab this guy with a thirty nine and a half foot beast spear pole

OH thank you heads. Any face is better than Tora's.

The stakes are high: the heads want to eat Inoue, and Tora wants to eat Inoue. And then just when you're thinking it couldn't get any more intense, you remember that Ushio exists too, for justice.

"Not if I eat her first!"

She tries to run away, but then she just falls, and they have to go pull her up to try to eat her! What a freaking pain. Women, am I right? Just throw a long, thin object under her spine to stop her fall, like last time a dame let this happen.

I want to reiterate: her back is broken.

After placting her on a flat surface, Tora zaps most of the heads to pieces with his edgy animation powers.

But frickin' Ushio runs in at the last moment and gets the huge technicolor splash page!
It's not like he did anything this episode. It's not like he was the one concerned about lives.

Ushio realizes that they left each other over a big misunderstanding! So Tora didn't eat the construction workers after all! Boy, this trip to the city has taught us much. Now that the heads are deads, let's make up like a happy couple should: shortly after bickering and over a healthy meal.

"Awawrawrawrawr." "Aww, we love you too, doggy."

Ho hooooo! Tora is literally starving to death. 'Til next week, y'all.

ToradoraDOOOOOOOOOOOOOR.....