yes! i noticed her going "darling" again! xD i love it ♥ it never fails to make me LOL because haineko seems like a more over-the-top matsumoto and i think it's hilarious because hyourinmaru seems like he's more cool-headed than mr. grumpypants herself ;) so those two in a scene together are obviously going to be the funniest thing ever.

i can't seem to get over poor hyourinmaru's dilemma. now that i think about it, it figures that muramasa would have to completely wipe his memories of toushirou in order to get him to come to the dark side-- i always assumed hyourinmaru and toushirou to have a very close and... solemn relationship. even from just their first scene in this arc, hyourinmaru did not look like the type who would easily turn on his shinigami: fighting against him to make him stronger somehow? not gonna work with toushirou. and i swear, i swear he looked sad in that first scene. well, as sad as an ice dragon can look, i guess...

so i was expecting it to be something different, yeah, but... oh, it still hit me so hard! ;_____; it makes total sense, really. i think the anime team is really getting it right this time around. you can bet i'm gonna catch this next episode on time! ^^