Have ya considered rope? Impressions: Big plot episode, though I can't really say that anything all that surprising was revealed. Osoto, as expected, murdered literally everybody, but mostly just random killings for absolutely no reason, and one because he wanted to become Atori. And then the entire rest of the episode is spent faffing […]
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