Jigoku Sensei Nube (2025) Episode 12 Discussion

So yeah, it seems the way they want to defeat that monster is to seal it away rather than killing it. Not even surprised since it may as well be the strongest monster that showed up this season.

Hell of an episode, Nube truly is a beast when he goes all out. Episode felt like a mini movie imo.

So the key to defeating the nutting fish monster was to remove it from the fog and expose it to the sun, sounds simple enough but in practice it proved to be very difficult, but it resulted in a lot of badass Nube moments, animation went very hard many times throughout the episode, when those kids are in trouble Nube locks tf in, this time it could’ve been especially bad with several kids doomed to die unless the fish gets defeated. Also good on Tamamo for helping Nube here, the scene where the kids begged Tamamo was quite emotional ngl, so even the seemingly heartless fox man can be moved, I really liked his development here, I hope this is the start of the path to becoming a good guy for him.

And finally, with the help of Tamamo and the kids, Nube did the damn thing and torched that fish, a very satisfying win after all the pain it caused, I think Nube has earned at least three dates with Ritsuko for this one. And thankfully we aren’t done yet, we have one episode left of this cour according to MAL, it’s gonna be hard to top this episode but hopefully it’ll still be a good stopping point for now.

@TheColonel76 If we're only getting this and the 2nd cour in Winter 2026, then I feel like we're going to lead into the big plots that show up later, though there's a big gap in any available scans of the manga, which feels like we'll never get anything officially available, Shueisha and Viz by association are just sitting on a gold mine, though they're already struggling at times anyway, especially with MHA wrapping up by Spring 2026, all they have is Vigilantes there, plus whenever we get back to Boruto, Black Clover and Bleach TYBW. They've at least got some staying power, but...

@holdingnothing A shame about the unavailability of the manga, I’m more of an anime guy myself but I think they should definitely make those available if they can. Cool to hear we’ll probably get some more big plot stuff in the next cour too, this fish arc has shown it can get pretty serious so if it’s anything like this, it should be a good time, although I’m a fan of the episodic stuff too, I’ve liked just about everything from Hell Teacher so far.