Winter 2017 First Impressions: Onihei – Episode 01 Review

Heizo Hasegawa, the chief of Arson Theft Control for the Edo Police, is charged with keeping the city safe from thieves. When he catches a thief named Kumehachi one moonlit night his actions set the gears of fate in motion. A thief and murderer named Tanbei of Chigashira is on the loose and his new prisoner just so happens to have ties to that man. Convinced of his former benefactor’s innocence, Kumehachi agrees to hunt down the real criminal, but in doing so receives a shock that could change the direction of his life from that day forward.