English Dub Review: Utawarerumono Mask of Truth “To Tuskur” 

Overview

Haku heads to Tuskur, where he meets the princess of the kingdom…

Our Take

Well, it seems that Haku’s reputation is spreading. And this is juxtaposed to the first time seeing Haku in the flashback before the Calamity as a hacker wearing a lab coat like a science dude. As always, Kuon has the best faces and reactions to all of the chaos of her life and I love it.

I’m surprised we haven’t seen Eruru yet, but there’s still time for that perhaps as I don’t know that Kuon knows about her father so surely she will come up then? And Seeing Kuon and Haku both being their goofy selves just made the episode a lot of fun. I didn’t care for the harem-y scenes, but Kuon doing her big identity reveal in a roundabout way and Haku doing a “password” in-joke was easily one of the best small moments in the season.

While the show has been quite underwhelming so far, I’m glad Yunyun and Megumin finally got some time to properly shine. I’m also ecstatic that this is continuing after the last battle. It makes things better as it also recenters the plot back onto Haku and Kuon’s relationship, which took a backseat during the civil war arc. With 8 episodes left, what direction could they possibly take with this?