Katana Maidens ~ Toji No Miko (Episode 9 - Review)

 By: ThunderheavyarmContinuing from last week, the girls continue their squad training. Still unable to score points, but getting praise from their student instructor, the girls takes some R&R by hitting the baths and then heading to the local festival. The festival focuses on the reverence of enshrined Noro. An old practice meant to keep the Noro from awakening and becoming and aradama. We’re also told that Noro and by extension aradama came into existence as the refining process of the okatana. During this time, the girls struggle with their decision to join Mokusa as fighters or as a temporary hideout.As the festival draws to a close, the sword organization attacks cordoning off the townspeople and beginning to arrest suspected supporters. The group retreats while another sword team protects the shrine and is attacked by the fourth member of the elite guard: Tsubakaro Yume. Just as before, she easily overpowers the Toji and chases the rest of the group. They are delayed at the dock where they have the sub hidden by military police. Believing the Toji to be aradama because of their modified trackers which is likely their reasoning for being there and attacking in the first place. Yume catches up with the group as their boarding the sub but only defeats the one Toji that stays behind to let them get away. The episode raps up with the Mokusa base of operations captured and the group retreating as Yume coughs up blood.Well it was eventually bound to happen. The dreaded filler episode is upon us. While there are a few points that they continue to explain the series, the first third of this episode is completely skip able. The explanations needed to continue the story are in the second act with all of the fighting in the third. And what little action there is feels like an after thought given how little there is and how quickly it ends. So unless you want to see Yume violently stab someone, there really isn’t much to get from this episode. See you guys next week.