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Witch Hunter Robin Volume 04:

Fugitive (DVD)

After the attack on Robin at her apartment, Michael, Dojima, and the others convince her to stay at headquarters. They believe that she will be safe there. They also start to believe that perhaps it is Amon who is after her, as he hasn’t been seen since the night of the attack.

But they are wrong. A brutal attack is staged on STNJ headquarters, and only Robin escapes – and only because she had help.

After the attack, the STNJ team tries its best, but with both Robin and Amon missing, they are having a very tough time. Robin, meanwhile, has been given a job as a messenger at a law firm. It’s a far cry from Hunting, but still, she finds that she seems to be inescapably tied to witches. Her new employer, Nagira, is also doing some investigating, and he has found something which puts his life in jeopardy. Once again, Robin must use her powers to protect the people around her. But are her powers truly out of control?

Now that the main plot line of Witch Hunter Robin is coming to the forefront, the intensity of the story has been increasing at a decent rate. How will the attack on Robin affect her and the rest of the team? Or more importantly, how was Amon related to those events? Curiouser and curiouser.

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Episode 15: Time to Say Goodbye

Another plot heavy episode to start this disk off right! Robin is now staying at STNJ headquarters while the team looks to figure out who is behind the attack on Robin. Robin is now starting to relive all of the past conversations that she’s had over her tenure with the team – especially with the long-lived witch and the Inquisitor from the Church. Michael’s hacking talents lead to 3 potential witch hunters, but their information is classified

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and the team cannot progress… until the Captain demonstrates the detective skills that got him there. Using police contacts, he determines that two of the hunters haven’t been in the country in the last three years, and the chief gets a lead on the third. Dojima also rises to the occasion, running off after the lead and discovering that the other hunter is deceased, but this leaves the team with only one real lead: Amon.

Elsewhere, Amon is visiting the hospital to check up on Touko; he doesn’t stay long, but he does apologize to her and says that he is going to have to go. En route to the hospital, the Commander receives a phone-call.

The call is in regards to an up-coming attack on STNJ headquarters, he expresses that he understands and asks for a delay on the attack. At the hospital, the Commander laments that he was unable to protect his daughter and apologizes to her. Back at STNJ headquarters, a group of SWAT members disable the buildings’ security system and begin neutralizing (shooting to disable, not kill) all of the STNJ members until they come to Robin who is too scared to react to the sudden attack. Robin is saved when the SWAT members are hit with a flash-bang fired by Amon.

Robin barely escapes and Amon isn’t so lucky.

Episode 16: Heal the Pain

A month has passed since the attack on the STNJ headquarters and the team is still running at less than half strength without Robin and Amon. Making things worse, Sakaki broke his leg during the attack and is laid up while it heals. In the interim, Karasuma and Dojima are now the primary hunters and investigators.

Robin is now working as a bike messenger for a law firm. The firm is being run by Nagira and agreed to help Robin as a favor for Amon. While completing a run, she sees Dojima running away from 3 men – one of which is a witch. The witch attacks Dojima aggressively, but before he can really hurt or kill her, Robin jumps into the fray and protects her friend. After sitting down with her, Robin learns the condition of the team and asks about Amon, except Dojima doesn’t know anything. Robin then asks Dojima to not tell everyone about her and leaves.

Back at home, Robin meets with her boss Nagira who gives Robin some new information: the SWAT team that attacked STNJ headquarters took an Orbo gun and some information from the computer systems – except the information should be encrypted by Michael.

Episode 17: Dilemma

Karasuma is working hard to tow the line for STNJ and as a result, she is trying to do both her and Amon’s job. As a result, she is getting run down and her powers have been waning. Dojima realizes that she and Karasuma cannot keep this pace and aren’t as effective a team as they need to be, so she suggests that they enlist Robin to help capture their problem cases – namely the witch that they’re currently tailing.

Robin’s current job takes her back to her last drop-off, this time she is going to be baby-sitting a young girl for the day. While playing with the girl, she notices that the girl is forming power-marks in the sand with her mind. She realizes that her ward is a “seed” (a human with the latent powers of a witch – they may not develop this generation). Seeing Robin leave with the girl, Dojima chases after her on a Vespa; when she catches up with her, she tries desperately to convince Robin to join in on their more difficult hunts. Robin refuses, believing that because she is a target, she could indirectly harm her friends. Dojima slowly wears down Robin’s defenses and once the little girl’s ride arrives, they take off after their target.

Episode 18: In My Pocket

This episode starts with a witch being killed by another witch in the Walled City (the area where the team battled with the immortal witch). The team is discovering a high number of fatalities in the area over the past while – and all of the deaths have been of witches. Karasuma decides to spend some time in the Walled City getting a lay of the land and figuring out what is going on in the area.

Robin is called out early for a job, a delivery in the area where she stayed with Touko. Thinking about the letter that she received on the day that she was attacked, she decides to pay a visit to her old apartment. In the apartment, the letter is missing and Robin is haunted by her memories of the attack and leaves quickly. Negima has become involved with the happenings of the Walled City by speaking with an information broker. It appears that all of the killings in the area are over an object called the “Splinter of Knowledge” that was apparently left by the immortal witch when she died. Negima continues to press the broker to find more information, and he discovers that one of the power players is “The Professor”, an especially powerful witch who doesn’t make too many foolish moves.

The next morning, Robin finds Negima missing and decides that she had better help find him. Not knowing how to do that, she heads to STNJ headquarters and speaks with Michael from the secret passage. Using his hacking skills, he is able to pinpoint Negima from his cell-phone. In the interim, Negima has fallen prey to the Professor who has been interrogating him for information about the Splinter.

Robin arrives to help her friend, but once the Professor realizes that he cannot hurt Robin, he turns to attack Negima. Seeing her friend in danger she attack the Profesor, but he is completely engulfed in the flames and instantly killed.

So far so good. Witch Hunter Robin has been downright addictive, and I’m barely able to contain my excitement as each volume is being released… it’s pathetic really.

- Tazman

(May 29, 2004)

“Woah! Is that really the blood of Christ?”

“Yes.”

“Then that guy must have been wasted 24-7.”

- Peter and the Priest (The Family Guy)