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1. [Insert Guile's Theme Here]
We begin our day with a sparring session between Taiyang and Yang while the dog who stole the show watches nearby.

3. Ninja vs Ninja
We now return to Polystralia, with the Good Ninja chasing the Bad Ninja while jumping on some palm trees (or at least I think they're palm trees).

We manage to see more of said Bad Ninja, and by that I mean her skin and hair, whose colors are slightly different from how they were in the last episode. Mainly, the hair now being indigo/purple, and the skin being midnight blue with some brown patches that for whatever reason turn blue under the moonlight.

IIRC, her hair and skin were more...normal, last time.

Sun seems to be going back to being useful instead of a walking joke....

4. Go Go Power RNJRs....
Speaking of seemingly dead people, we cut back to RNJR and Qrow.

Ruby and Jaune hold Qrow on a stretcher, while Ren and Nora guard the front and back. And I begin this scene with 2 questions:

1) Why isn't Nora helping Jaune carry Qrow instead of Ruby? She's definitely stronger than Ruby, physically, and Ruby has the sniper rifle so she can easily scout the surroundings.

2) Which one of them had the brilliant idea of taking a poisoned, possibly dying man through dead woods that are doing their best to look haunted?!

While Qrow's condition is getting to the point he's saying abstract stuff, Nora mentions "they should be close". Without the map, like Ren says, there's no way of knowing, but anyone with half a working brain should know, if there's anything close in a place like that, it's not something good.

Ren says they are close to "something" before rushing towards the sign in front of him. We find familiar names in that sign, along with 1 or 2 new ones.

-They come from Higanbana...

-To the northeast lies Kuchinashi and Mistral...

-To the northwest is a place called Kuroyuri..."Black Lily".

...Interesting name. What is it with Anima and places with names to run away from? A flower associated with death, a flower whose name means Demon Lily if read separately (and Tiger Lily if read together, which isn't much better), and now a Black Lily...

At the same time....yet another japanese name. What is the weird obsession of the writers with naming every place in Anima in Japanese? The only ones that aren't are Mistral and Windpath, and we don't even know anything about the latter. Is it hard to name at least 1 town in Chinese? Korean? Vietnamese?

...That said though, the people must have realized a place called Black Lily isn't safe (anymore), since it's name on the sign is crossed.

Now they are faced with a predicament, as they soon realize:

-First of all, it doesn't say how close those places are. Could be days or even weeks away on foot.

-Second of all, the right path, to Mistral, seems to take them through the mountains, which is already difficult on it's own, even harder while carrying dead weight.

-And third of all, Kuroyuri was destroyed years ago, according to Ren.

-And fourth of all, Ren is acting out of character (or finally getting real character ).

Jaune and Ruby spitball some ideas, but Ren shoots them all down, in a manner that's either cynical or realist. Taking the left path to go around the mountains would <font style="color:#DC143C">take too long, and the chances of finding anything useful in a ruined old village <font style="color:#DC143C">are super slim.

Why do I say Ren's getting character/acting OOC? Because he doesn't say that with serenity, he says it <font style="color:#DC143C">with anger, frusfration. <font style="color:#XXXXXX">Either he has history with Kuroyuri...he's failing at remaining calm against their odds...or something else.

Jaune is about to ask him why he's acting like that, but Nora proposes another idea:

And that is all.

Conclusions
1-The more I find out about Raven, the more I believe Yang was conceived in a night of drunken passion.

2-I wonder if Taiyang has some sort of training to help Yang find the nihil serenity she needs. Mmm.....<font style="color:#6495ED">maybe Golf?

3-As I was writing this, mostly the part of Whitley not looking convincing while underestimating Hunters, a thought came to mind. I wonder now....Wally may be a lier, but...<font style="color:#6495ED">is he evil? Is he bad?

The idea is this: <font style="color:#6495ED">Wheatley is only pretending to be, because his plan requires him to play the Weasel persona. Basically, does he really hate Weiss? Does he really adore his father? He invited Weiss to accompany him to meeting the business partners. Was it to rub his "victory" on her? Or was it because <font style="color:#6495ED">he wanted someone whose company he liked, or at least accepted?

Extending on that...did Whilly perform his plan of non-action to become the Heir...out of jealousy of Weiss? To give her the middle finger? ...<font style="color:#6495ED">Or did he do that to give Weiss freedom, so she could become a Huntress and live her life without being so tied down by her father?

4-I thought the horns were part of Illya's body, but...after the mask broke, the horns dissappeared. <font style="color:#6495ED">They were a part of the mask. That feels...a bit cheap. Do those spots on her body count as a Faunus Trait? I've seen people with spots like those before...

5-The way Illya switches colors...it's disgusting. It's like a human trying to be a lizard without trying. It's uncanny, just plain ugly to look at. With the green skin, <font style="color:#DC143C">she looks more like a frog than a lizard as well.

By the way, <font style="color:#6495ED">is that done naturally? Or is it some sort of Semblance? Tyrian has venom, so the former makes sense, but if the spots are already a trait, then...isn't that cheating?

6-First, we had people whose eyes switched colors. Now, we have people who switch their entire body color. What will come next, <font style="color:#6495ED">people who can switch other people's colors?

7-...Say, in hindsight, where did Illya pull that smoke before leaving? She just swinged her LightRapierDrillWhip thing and the smoke appeared. Did she throw something and I didn't notice? <font style="color:#DC143C">Her Thing was full of Lightning Dust, there was no other kind of Dust.

8-If Sun dies, I'm raging. <font style="color:#DC143C">He was just starting to become useful again, he can't die now.

9-So, Qrow's death is still not cemented? They implied the Trojan/Whatever Grimm was behind Jaune and Ruby, if he's still alive after the incoming beatdown it would be absurd.

10-Mmm...Qrow whispered out "She's not... coming...Tai". What was he talking about? <font style="color:#6495ED">Was he talking about Summer? About Raven? In what sense did Qrow mean that? In a "she chose to stay there" sense, or in a "I won't let her go with you" sense? We lack so much context, and seeing this show, the stupid has a chance of being real.