Tales of the Eight Thunder Gods: Shikoku's Stratagem

7 episodes (complete)

In the Demon City, where sound goes to die and human faces float in the walls—each one frozen in its final expression—Shikoku of the Eight Thunder Gods walks among fragments of memory she has collected for years. She stops before one: a young man who died as a decoy, trembling with terror, yet smiling at the very end. She cannot understand it. When her fellow Thunder God Utsuro falls, Shikoku sees that same incomprehensible smile on the face of her leader Taikyoku's grief. Something about humans—their bonds, their loyalty, their irrational emotions—holds a power she cannot predict. And Shikoku cannot leave what she does not understand alone. Now, thinning her own power to slip past the Magical Defense Force's barrier, she infiltrates the human world to observe the Seventh Unit and its key figure, Wakura Yuuki. From the lively Suruga Shushu to the commanding Uzen Kyouka, Shikoku will dissect the mechanism of human cohesion—and bring humanity down from its very foundations.