English Dub Review: Lucifer and the Biscuit Hammer “The Knight, Shinonome Hangetsu”

Overview

Yuuhi and the others celebrate Samidare’s birthday and enjoy a moment of peace and calm, but Yuuhi also learns that Samidare is truly ill, and she’s only able to be active now thanks to the Spirit, Anima. So once their battle is over Samidare’s days will be numbered once more. Yuuhi finally tells Shinonome Hangetsu that he wants to become stronger, and Hangetsu agrees to help. Then Hangetsu begins to speak about his own past…


Our Take

Outside of the “saving the world” mechanics, Yuuhi has his life too. but a family-approved date with Samidare in combination with being a hardcore fan of her father as an author, plus the coincidental surprise being Samidare’s birthday, this is a family celebration of a happy birthday. Sami’s life force is built upon the Anima before the Biscuit Hammer strikes Earth, and almost immediately, within the eyes of The Knight that is Hangetsu Shinonome, he’s also accepted by their father for Hisame.

What a smooth dad encouraging Yuuhi to get the hook-up and recognizing he’s a decent person. But Shinonome’s Knightly stance is not something created out of birth, but someone raised just like any typical kid, plus his traumatic past is not the kind of hero of justice’s alluding to. The golem of the week strikes back, and up until this point, Yuuhi struggled with defeating them, which Shinonome gives his pep talk as means of encouragement. But with the onslaught of getting hit hard by the golem, the same way that his dog Saw got struck down by an accident, Shinonome makes an incredibly selfless decision that further changes the dynamic.

Overall, this episode did a good job building up Hangetsu in such a way that whatever impact he’ll make in both his and Samidare’s lives will matter. Learned his backstory and motivation about his father and training during childhood. How seeing his beloved dog save that child while he stood still with fear changed how Hangetsu wanted to live and No hesitated after that. It is all the more saddening when you realize he might’ve been able to help Samidare and Yuuhi deal with their defeatist mindsets in regards to adulthood. Yet, like any good coming-of-age story, their lives move on, and it remains to be seen what direction they’ll take from there…