Episode 7:
Akari receives a check-up at the Wizard hospital and visits a comatose friend that helped to save the world in the past. She returns to Eris’s apartment and the gang throws a welcoming party since she will also be staying there to protect Eris. Kureha teases Eris for writing letters to her adopted uncle. Renji makes a ruckus outside and Kureha drags him to the bathroom to clean himself. Kirihito shows up on the balcony and checks on the progress of the jewel recovery mission. Kureha returns and Kirihito disappears and mysteriously as he arrived. Naturally bathroom hijinks ensue when Eris unknowingly walks in on Renji in the buff.
The following day Renji, Akari, and Eris enjoy a field trip to the ice skating rink where they get to relax and have fun. Renji helps Eris practice the basics of ice skating. Kureha has a casual conversation with an old wizard who gives their moral support to protect the world again. Meanwhile, the second years are taking a meal break, and Anzelotte drops by to steal Renji’s dessert and have a spot of tea. The rest of the day is uneventful and as the school trips ends, Eris picks up some souvenirs for everyone at the gift shop. However, this is only the calm before the storm because the other Emulator Lords are making their move to stop Eris from regaining the jewels.
Episode 8:
Renji and Eris are cleaning out the Astronomy clubroom when the two are suddenly fall into a time vortex. The two are separated as they fall through but they both wind up in an ancient alternate reality ruled by Emulators. Eris falls into the clutches of the Devil Lord Amy who was originally hoping to summon Shaimaal using the Jewel of Justice at the Tower of Babel. Anzelotte somehow manages to call Renji and tell him about the situation as well as inform him that he needs to defeat the Devil Lord that summoned them.
Renji enters the base level of the tower with his new goal and is promptly assaulted by a menagerie of beasts. With a burst of magic he is saved; Lo and behold, Kirihito is here too. The two work together despite their differences to save Eris. Renji makes his way up to rescue her while Kirihito works on destroying the tower. Eris escapes from her confinement and also heads to the top of the tower to confront Amy. Amy begins the second summoning on Shaimaal, but Kirihito rains on the party and begins to destroy the summoning elements before it is complete. With Shaimaal breaking apart, Amy decides to substitute Eris as the sacrifice, and Renji joins the party casually late to save Eris from danger.
Shaimaal attempts to take out Kirihito with a final blast but only manages to injure him. As Shaimaal disappears, Amy enacts revenge on the interlopers for their interference. The powerful Devil Lord proves to be too much for Renji to handle alone. Eris takes the Jewel of Justice and it is she that finally gets to protect Renji. Eris overwhelms Amy with a massive attack and defeats the Devil Lord. Renji and Eris return to the present seven minutes after their disappearance with Kureha and Akari none the wiser.
Bell continues to monitor Eris’s progress, and Leon reports that everything happened as predicted in his magical book. With the outcome of the next battle almost ensured in her favor, Bell decides to face Anzelotte in battle for the final jewel.
All in all, not a bad pair of episodes. Not much happened in these two so they got lumped together. I already saw the next two episodes and it gets epic. Episode 9 is a good example of what Touhou the Animation could be. Kirihito is also making his ever ominous presence known and some stuff about him will be revealed in episode 10.
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