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It's definitely better than I was expecting. I thought it would crash and burn after the crazy first episode, but it's staying pretty grounded and telling good stories. I'm glad they give each case at least a couple episodes so we can dig in to the emotions of the situation before the action resolves things.

It really says something that it can pull a "humans are the real demons" and not have me immediately drop the show.

>There are too many good shows this season.
There really was. The saturday streams are loooooong.

This really is a fantastic show.
Ostensibly it's a show about a demon hunter, but he's more of a detective and you hear get a lot of story in each episode. I'm such a sucker for this kind of thing. Episode six was a climax to a plot that had been going on for a few episodes and it was done in such a beautiful way. It's nothing groundbreaking, but it just felt right and rewarding to see it play out.
Even episode 7 where there was no demon at all was satisfying to hear the man talk about his younger days and a friend that was in love.
I'm not sure what it is that determines whether or not I can tolerate or enjoy a situation where people simply talk, as there are many shows where my mind drifts away but a few shows where I stay at full attention. This show is definitely the latter.

Man, what a great show. I really need to think of a better way to describe this kind of show that I like, it's the format akin to Kino's Journey where there's a central character but other characters steal the focus for an episode or two when it's their time for their story to be told. The surprise of the episode 8-9 wouldn't have been a surprise if I paid more attention or had more Japanese mythological "common sense".
I do know of the Japanese concept that well-used objects gain a soul but it just wasn't in the foreground of my thought processes of what could be going on. I have a feeling I'm missing the subplot with the prostitute, or rather that it's making reference to previous things in the story that I've forgotten.
Seems like there's a major story change with episode 10...