Unnamed Memory – Episode 03 Review

「森の見る夢」 (Mori no Miru Yume)
“What the Forest Dreams of”

I’m finding it quite funny how we have the likes of Unnamed Memory and Spice and Wolf both airing at the same time – and having myself wind up covering both. There’s an increasingly nice synergy between the two, where both showcase a fairly disjointed (age-wise) relationship with organic growth and supplement with the promise (or at least hope) of more to come. While I’ll always be partial towards Spice and Wolf given the nature of the material, I also have to say Unnamed Memory is doing a pretty damn fine job at competing for top spot.

Considering the big unknown of Unnamed Memory was the true nature of witches in its world, lo and behold an episode where we get a tad more info about them. The one up to bat this time is Lucrezia, the so-called Witch of the Woods who besides an apparent passion for herbology and enjoying nature also gets great kicks out of high impact sexual violence sly flirting. Oscar’s meeting with her and the subsequent mini-saga involving cheeky dream magic shows two things: that witches are far more dangerous than might be initially apparent (*chuckles in wet dreams literally killing you*) and that Oscar, for all his playing, does indeed see Tinasha as a viable partner as even the King picks up on. It’s a combination hinting towards some significant dilemmas later on, for if both Oscar and Tinasha wish to keep each other out of their problems, at some point they will come across one leaving no choice – and no possibility for getting away without a scratch. Tinasha’s injury and subsequent recovery from last week wasn’t a one-off, it was foreshadowing, and rest assured the cost will be paid in full.

Proving this point were the other cameos this episode in the form of one unnamed antagonist and the recurring duo of Valt and Miralis. Simply put this is teasing through and through: all three are aware of and have familiarity with Tinasha (in the case of our unknown face to the degree Tinasha is seeking him out), all three are after something having to do with monsters, and Tinasha finally stumbling across things is likely to happen sooner rather than later. Far too early to get a good sense of what will happen with this plot line, but safe to say it involves witches and possibly the reason Tinasha locked herself in that tower.

On the bright side at least it won’t be boring getting to that point, because if Oscar and Tinasha can keep these sorts of scenes up, we certainly won’t be lacking in fun material to dig into.

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