As the previous episode of the Skull Man involved Tachiki being injured on the Phantom Monorail, this episode starts off with Kyoichiro getting a slap to the face from one of the nurses at Ootomo Hospital, for touching her backside, when telling a fictitious story, and making the nurse look at the ground.

After a slightly different start to the episodes then the previous episode of the Skull Man, Hayato meets up with Usami may was interesting in that Usami may looked really nice in his suit, and IMO(in me opinion) comes off to not as a mad scientist stereotypical character, but a scientist that is weird and interesting.

I thought it was interesting that Usami gave Hayato a movie ticket to see the movie The Fake Blind Spot on Sunday at 3:30pm, and Ootomo Theater. The Fake Blind Spot is a movie that is a conspiracy mystery, which is the rage at the moment. As Hayato’s relationship with Kiriko has been as interesting element to this series, I thought it was interesting that Kiriko would use the bath as a place to develop photographs, thus making Hayato and Kiriko to use the bath at the orphanage to ensure that they don’t smell. As Hayato and Kiroko walked back to Hayato’s place, I thought the screenwriting and dialog between the two was really good, as the two played off one another really well.

As this episode featured Kumashiro Masaki listening to a tape that was delivered to his house in this episode, I thought that the audio of the tape gave some nice hints in what is some of occurring in this episode. As Kyoichiro got slapped across the face early on in this episode of touching a nurses butt, Kyoichiro does the same thing again to the same nurse, but this time she doesn’t slap Kyoicjiro, but just looks angry at Kyoichiro and then blush’s and says pervert.

I thought that the scene where Usami meets Hayato in the cinema, was really moody and intriguing, as Usami talks to Hayato in cryptic talk. I thought that this sort scene was well animated, as one could see the cinema screen shadow flicking on the characters in the cinema, while this scene played out.

I was surprised that Usami Akira (an employee of Ootomo Pharmaceuticals’ Biochemistry Research Facility), was shoot dead by the Skeleton Man, in the under-construction Ootomo Tower. I also thought it was interesting that Hayato was able to find the tape entitled ‘The voice of God’ is a coin locker at the end of this episode.

Overall, I thought is was a shame that Usami died by the hands of the Skeleton Man in this episode, as Usami really was an intriguing and strange character that I certainly would of like to get more screen time in this series. I thought that this episode was more atmospheric then previous episode of the Skull Man, due to ‘Voice of God Tape’ and Usami playing a key role in this episode. As this series is set in the mid 1900’s (I think), I really have been impressed with the assortment of classical music that this series has been able to deliver, was also adding atmosphere to most scenes in this series.

As the series is entitled the Skull Man, and that there has been little involvement with the real Skull Man so far, I’m not really frustrated about the Skull Man making not many appearances in the series so far, as when the Skull Man and the Skeleton Man do make appearances in the episode, is really captures the viewers attention, then the Skull Man or Skeleton Man getting a lot of screen in the series, which would then make their appearances less atmospheric.

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