Episode 9 – Peach Boy Riverside

The only context we actually get for the order placement of this week’s Peach Boy Riverside comes at the very end, framed as it is as a dream by Mikoto who’s seemingly still asleep following his attempted battle in last week’s episode, which is only a little funny to me. The rest uses that narrative device for a full-length flashback to how Mikoto met…Mikoto! The original holder of his name we’d seen alluded to before, who might also be the actual mythological Momotaro, and the origin of those Oni-slaying eye-powers. That’s all conjecture based on imagery though, as Peach Boy Riverside seems less interested in elaborating on its lore so much as simply adding to it. That’s not necessarily a bad thing, since I’d be far less enthused by rote-world building than I am in the story articulating what it means in more of an idea-based sense. To that end, this week’s episode does have…