English Dub Review: Toilet-Bound Hanako-kun “Tsukasa and Amane”

OVERVIEW (SPOILERS)

Nene reunites with Kou and learns the darkest secrets of the brothers’ old house.

OUR TAKE

It looks like our time in the haunted house has come to an end as Nene and Kou are finally able to escape and find out more about Hanako (previously known as Amane) and his brother Tsukasa and their cursed childhood. Most of it we already knew or could piece together, like the fact that Amane got incredibly sick and tired and was probably on death’s door for a time there, up until Tsukasa asked the spirit within the house to heal his brother’s sickness…in exchange for his own life. But what seems like it answers everything only leads to more questions. As we know, Amane did not get much of a life after having it saved, only living for about another decade or so, which is how he became Hanako in the first place. HOWEVER, as we have also discussed, Tsukasa should know this because his spirit has been roaming the same school as Hanako, just in a pallet swapped outfit, which implied that they at least died at the same time…but I guess that wasn’t the case. So, it looks like there’s still plenty of unanswered mysteries left to be revealed about Tsukasa and how he became the odd spirit he is today.

But while that mystery is still left hanging, we do at least know for sure that Kou and Nene were able to get out of this whole thing safely. Their good natured souls end up having them try to save Tsukasa from his fate, though for whatever reason he doesn’t go with them and the house burns down. Or stops pretending to NOT be burnt? Whatever illusion that was making it look NOT burnt ends up getting dropped so now it’s just a regular pile of mostly destroyed lumber. So yeah, our two protagonists are still among the living, but their quest to find a way to re-open the bridge between the Near and Far Shores seems to have gone bust. That just leaves us with two more episodes in this season for them to figure all of this out and get everything back to the status quo! And something tells me that that’s exactly what’s going to happen, unless there’s somehow another stretch of a dozen episodes left to make this season even longer! But I’m going to assume we just have two episodes left and see if that leads to some grand resolution of some kind.