Yomi no Tsugai Episode 7 – Japanese Fans Question Yuru's Power, Faction Politics, and Pacing

Isn't Yuru too weak? Asa can fire wave-attacks from her hands, but Yuru can only fight with a bow and arrow or a hatchet. He's supposed to be some world-changing existence but he has no abilities? Even both twins together aren't that impressive. Is using Sayou-sama supposed to BE Yuru's ability?

Asa is "Kai" (the Solver) and Yuru is "Fuu" (the Sealer), but Yuru hasn't awakened his power yet.

He has Sayou-sama, he has high sniping ability and stealth ability, and his base physical abilities are high — he's not weak.

Even though he doesn't fully understand the situation and is just being dragged along, the fact that he can move that decisively at all means Yuru is plenty strong.

Maybe we'll find out later, but do Higashimura, Kageomori, and the other factions all use the twins differently? Kageomori lets Asa move freely, but did Higashimura really need to keep her under house arrest? Wouldn't it have been better to raise Asa happily in the village like Yuru, win her trust, and have her side with the village?

The answer to that question is in volumes 9-10, which is probably outside this anime's range. Most of the "how about this, what about that" questions get answered later. Readers post hints here but they're holding back from touching the actual core mysteries — you can tell they're really restraining themselves.

None of Kageomori, Higashimura, or Nishi-no-mura are monolithic, which makes the twins' situation even more complicated.

The fact that Yuru kept getting attacked inside Higashimura's barrier — which is supposed to keep outsiders out — and developed his hunter mentality from that, suggests there's an organization with insiders helping the attackers, not just lone-wolf collaborators like Tadera.

Slaughtering ordinary villagers with zero combat ability — and the author seems to think "because Gab was an assassin" is a sufficient explanation. That's terrifying authorship.

It was retaliation for killing Asa and for the fact that they had Yuru locked up to eventually kill him.

The way the villagers looked at and reacted to young Yuru and his father when they came back from the mountain — they completely had "we know what's going on" energy.

At the moment of the village attack, whether Yuru had awakened was unclear. Of course Kageomori would go all-out.

Next is already episode 8 and the plot has barely moved — that's hilarious. I mean the vibe and characters are good. This is the kind of work where reading the manga in one sitting is the better experience.

Faithful adaptation of the source is fine, but this episode in particular had way too many shots that were just manga panels directly traced — it felt monotonous.

Honestly this anime is missing that climactic excitement. Episode 1's impact was just too strong. Not that it's BAD though.

Yeah the pacing is dragging. It'll keep dragging a bit more. Things start moving a bit later.

The story shifting into a Kageomori-clan focus and dragging from there gives it an unavoidable bloated feeling. (Side note: I couldn't tell who Hikaru's VA was until I checked the cast list. I knew Yamaguchi Kappei could do this kind of voice from Pop Team Epic, but...)

Who exactly IS Gab-chan? She seems to have a long history with Asa but where are her parents or family? She looks like a kid but she's living-in and serving at that house — did she leave home young? Also I want Gab-chan to chomp-chomp on my you-know-what.

Gab-chan is merciless to adults but kind to children (does she see Asa as a child too?), which makes me wonder if she had toxic parents.

Only Gab-chan has this otherworldly vibe like she was isekai'd in directly from the Fullmetal Alchemist universe.

Like with Kageomori, I'm genuinely conflicted about whether Dela is fully trustworthy. If I were Yuru, I'd struggle.

From Yuru's perspective Dela is also one of the people who deceived him this whole time. And Dela has connections to the outside world, which arguably makes him worse than the villagers.

The straw bull-headed and horse-headed demons — those are Gozu/Mezu, the prison guards who torment the dead in hell. The Yomi (underworld) of this anime's title is similar to but distinct from hell. I wonder if there's a meaning to that.

Were the straw bull/horse left behind after the Tsugai were defeated the actual bodies/true forms of the Tsugai? Or are they just temporary vessels? Tsugai are said to be bound to their users by blood — if a straw figure or one of the Sayou-sama stone statues gets destroyed, does that destroy the Tsugai itself?

What was that thing Gab-chan was burying — a straw doll with something cut off?

Whether the parents had no choice but to take only Asa during their escape, or whether they intentionally left Yuru behind — that completely changes the story.

The ED song is absolutely, devastatingly bleak.