It looks like Shinra and the Headless Rider will be getting most of the screentime next episode. Splendid~[ PREVIOUS EPISODE PREVIEW ] Listen to my story.I want you to hear this unique story about her and I until the very end.I'm sure you'll be trembling with fear and non compos.[ OFFICIAL SYNOPSIS ] Episode Title: Alone With Only Your Shadow For ComfortOriginal Text:街行く人々が語る都市伝説“首なしライダー”の噂。ナンバープレートのない漆黒のバイクに跨がり駆ける姿を目撃した者は意外と多い。ある時からごく自然に、池袋の闇と雑踏に溶け込んだ不可解な存在。しかし、その真実の姿を知る者は果たしているのだろうか。そんな考察をめぐらせる一人の男・岸谷新羅。一方、考察の対象である“首なしライダー”本人は、ある一人の老画家の行方を捜し、街をさまよい続けていた。Vague Translator #1 (Google) says:Urban legend says that people who go around "the Headless Rider" rumors. Souten 跨 sensitive to those who witnessed his jet-black motorbike with no license plate number was surprisingly high.Naturally from the time there, the crowd melted dark and mysterious presence in Ikebukuro.But those who know what the truth is that it plays. Goro Silla man Meguraseru such consideration.Meanwhile, the subject of consideration, "the Headless Rider" person is looking for a missing person in the old painter had been wandering the city.Vague Translator #2 (Yahoo) says:The town the city legend “neck which the people who go talk it is not rumor of the rider”. It rides in the jet-black motorcycle which does not have the license plate and as for the person who witnesses the form which runs unexpected it is many. Extremely from at the time of a certain naturally, the Ikebukuro darkness and the incomprehensible existence which fuses to bustle. But, the person who knows that truth form it probably has carried out? Alone man bank valley Sinra who can reflect upon such consideration. On the one hand, it is the object of consideration, “the neck there is no main person of the rider”, to search the whereabouts of a certain alone old age artist, it continued to wander about the town.What I Can Come Up With From the Vagueness:People are spreading rumors about the Urban Legend, the "Headless Rider". This creature rides a jet black motorcycle without a license plate. People who get to see this legendary being are surprisingly high.Supernatural. Darkness. Ikebukuro. There's a person who knows the truth behind the legend.Meanwhile, the Headless Rider searches for a missing person from an old painter who is wandering in the city.[ THOUGHTS ] We hear Jun Fukuyama talking in the preview, so it's definitely Shinra saying that he'll be telling his and the Rider's story on the next episode. I'm hoping to see some Shinra background (we see his kid self in the preview after all) and also how he and the Rider met. We know that they live together, but don't you know they're also lovers? I'd love to see how that happened.We get to see the Rider hanging out with Shizuo and Izaya. I'm very very pleased. I don't care what they're doing there. The duo's screentime, no matter how short, is enough to make me delighted~Oh, and it looks like we'll be seeing the Rider's horse next episode!*loves horses*KYAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!I've heard that in the novels, the Rider was questioned by the . . media/police/can't-remember on why she's not using headlights and not having a license plate. She has explained that her motorcycle is actually a horse and it turned into such on TV! I wonder if the anime will do it that way . . .Anyway, here's the comparison of the original Dullahan and our modern Dullahan:Both look cool~ Pretty saddening for me that the horse is headless as well . . .(horse hair is pretty~)
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