Onihei ‒ Episode 3 Review (ANN)

Rebecca Silverman: "If there's one phrase that I could use to sum up Onihei's third episode, it would have to be “death flags.” If you've watched enough anime, you'll be familiar with the concept: someone with a shady, usually blood-soaked past decides to get out of the life, finds a nice person to run away with, pictures their rosy future, then dies in a pool of their own blood because they have to complete one last job. It's about as by-the-book as you can get, and this show is not above playing into all the tropes of the almighty Death Flag. You can almost see it coming from the moment Heizo comments that his mysterious attacker smells of white plum blossom perfume – the flowers of fruit-bearing trees have a long association with ephemerality and the beauty of an early demise."