Kunato enters every room ready to destroy spirits out of pure grief, and Botan keeps trying to show him they're not all monsters. The show doesn't ask you to choose sides, it asks you to watch a man whose loss is so heavy he can't see anything else learn to see again through someone who already has. By the end, you understand that redemption isn't about forgetting what was taken; it's about letting someone else's kindness crack the rage open.
Kunato Hyoma belongs to a clan that seals tsukumogami, spirits that possess old objects and are usually sent back to their world after a simple talk. A past deadly encounter left him full of rage, so he fights every spirit he meets instead. His grandfather Zouhei finds this unfit for a future clan leader and gives him a choice: move to Kyoto and live with Nagatsuki Botan, or be cast out. Botan's family is made up of six tsukumogami, and where Hyoma lost someone to a spirit, she was saved by them. Still set on finding the spirit that took everything from him, Hyoma reluctantly agrees. As unknown groups of evil spirits threaten the balance between worlds, he has to earn Botan's trust and overcome his hatred for her unusual household. Expect a supernatural action series adapted from a seinen manga by Onigunsou.
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