life line by line

I can sum up this episode in one relatively short paragraph:

Suzu and the crew go to a friend’s summer villa where various strange things are happening. The wife of the owner, who had an somewhat unhealthy obsession of Suzu, passed away a few years ago but that’s odd… since Suzu just saw her! Eventually leads to Suzu confronting the lady’s dead spirit after it “kills” Kantarou, Youko, and Haruka. The spirit wants Suzu but she doesn’t want to go, which after much yelling the spirit gives up and sends Suzu back. Apparently 3/4 of the episode was an dream as the crew is still at the river bank that were at in the beginning of the episode. We find out that the villa is in ruins and through the dream/flashback Suzu had while the spirit had her, learn that after the wife died the husband hung himself right after. So what is the whole point of the filler episode, and what does Suzu get out of this? Suzu learns how to play the leaf whistle thanks to the dead wife, and gets some praise from Haruka. =P

Short summary right? I like Suzu’s character and all, but Tactics 15 was one weird filler episode. Maybe because it didn’t really deal with Kantarou or Haruka defeating “an monster-of-the-week” but I just didn’t like this one that much. I really can’t explain why, but yea. I will note, howerver, that it was interesting that this and the previous episode dealt with the supporting cast’s daily lives and how even they have to deal with demons every now and then. I can’t really think of anything else favorable to say, so I’ll leave off with the hope that the Main Villians show up again and get the ball rolling back to some actual good plot development.