Summertime Render “Into The Darkness” Review
Summertime Render “Into The Darkness” is the tenth episode of the Summertime Render anime. After all the revelations in episode 9 and the mark he’s left with, Shinpei decides they need to investigate the old clinic. On their way to the old clinic, Sou reveals that when he was in fourth grade, he tried to sneak in the clinic as Tetsu Totsumura and his friends invited him for a test of courage. However, he wasn’t able to get in as his father caught them. Since they owned the clinic, Sou didn’t think much of it as it was possible for Seido to be there, but he finds it weird and wonders what his father was doing there. They go to the old clinic and while looking around, they find an old wood Hiruko statue. Shinpei notices a crack on the wall and asks Ushio to go, who then sees the wall is a secret door but it needs a key. Shinpei figures the Hiruko statue looks pregnant and Ushio scans it, and copies the key from inside. As they open the secret door, Ushio tells them she feels a shadow down below and has a bad feeling. Sou wonders what his father is doing as there is a secret door that can only be opened with Shadow’s help. As they go down, they see its an old tunnel dug during the war. Shinpei asks Ushio to prioritize protecting herself and Sou to protect her as well. He explains that if he dies, he will loop, but if Ushio dies first, she may not loop back with him. Heading towards the shadow, they see a baby-like shadow, who appears to be deaf and blind, but manages to smell them. The shadow jumps on Sou, but Shinpei manages to pin it with his nailgun and Ushio kills it. Ushio explains that the first shadow she felt is still down the tunnel and they continue. They hear a gunshot and end in a natural cave, where they get surrounded by baby-like shadows.
Just Getting Better
This show just gets better and better, even with the investigation scenes, there’s so many little clues that could likely have pointed the crew in the right direction had they spent the time to read them. Ushio especially seeing as she had medical records. The whole cave looks like a shadow nest and it’s festering, I guess the question now is where did the gunshot come from? It couldn’t have been any of the team, it’s looking a lot like Shinpei is going to have to risk going back again. This new place is filled with riddles and there’s just not enough time to unveil them all.
