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Recap / J-WITCH S1 E29, "The Demon Behind"

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Having retrieved the Oni Mask of Tarakudo's lieutenant Ikazuki, the heroes animate it with the Rat Talisman to interrogate it, only for it to end up in an unexpected place. To make matters worse, Uncle and Tohru have an argument and refuse to speak to each other, limiting the team's effectiveness.


  • Absurdly Sharp Blade: The Samurai Khan's blades can cut through anything, even the Guardians' elemental attacks. The sole exception is Jade's own shadow blades.
  • All Just a Dream: Invoked. Uriah assumes that Ikazuki ending up on his butt is a dream, and the Guardians and company let him think that because they don't want him in the group.
  • Big "NO!": Ikazuki, when he's removed from Uriah at an inopportune moment, banishing his Shadowkhan before he can defeat the heroes.
  • Borrowed Catchphrase: Irma briefly uses Uncle's "one more thing", then is comically horrified with herself over it.
  • Brain Bleach: Upon seeing Ikazuki stuck on Uriah's rear end, Cornelia covers her eyes and cries out "I'm blind! I'm blind!"
  • Didn't See That Coming: Irma voices this as everyone's reaction when Uncle and Tohru declare they won't speak to each other anymore.
  • Even Evil Has Standards: Ratso feels extreme discomfort with touching the butt of Uriah, a minor, even to remove Ikazuki's mask, and he only agrees to do it because Uriah himself desperately wants the mask off and Cedric and Wong are threatening him, telling the other Enforcers that they'll never speak of it again.
  • For Want Of A Nail: Ikazuki ends up on Uriah instead of Finn.
  • Jaw Drop: All the villains get this when Ikazuki's mask ends up on Uriah's ass.
  • Laser-Guided Amnesia: Hay Lin gives the fisherman who found Ikazuki's mask a potion to wipe his memories of the magical experience.
  • Let Us Never Speak of This Again: Ratso paraphrases this regarding him touching the rear of Uriah, a minor, to take Ikazuki's mask off. And at the end of the chapter, the whole J-WITCH team agree to never discuss how Uriah ended up soiling himself after getting knocked out by Uncle.
  • Like Cannot Cut Like: The Samurai Khan's shadow katanas can cut through everything, except Jade's weapons she creates through her shadow magic.
  • Logical Weakness: When Chow asks Wong if he can make an Oni mask removal potion for Ikazuki, he answers that the enchantment to create the potion needs Light Chi in order to work, which as a Dark Chi wizard he completely lacks.
  • Mythology Gag: When Ikazuki's mask ends up on Uriah's rear end, Finn repeatedly says that he's glad that it wasn't him, which was the case in canon.
  • Only Sane Man: Cedric proves himself to be this for the villains when he points out that trying to corrupt one of the Guardians' allies (Tohru, in this case) seems bound to fail, since they've already tried this three times and failed.
  • Potty Failure: At the end of the chapter, Uriah is knocked out by Uncle, and since he'd been needing to go to the bathroom for a while, but couldn't before he yanked Ikazuki off of his butt, he ends up soiling himself, much to everyone's disgust.
  • Pressure Point: Uncle uses this to Uriah.
  • Punctuated! For! Emphasis!: Phobos does this when he gives his minions another chance to retrieve Ikazuki's mask.
    Phobos: Bring. Me. That. Mask!
  • Thinking Up Portals: Jade, as the Guardian of Shadows, can travel through the Shadow Realm, which they use to reach Tohru when he’s kidnapped.
  • This Is Wrong on So Many Levels!: Will's reaction to seeing Ikazuki's mask on Uriah's rear.
  • Toilet Humour: As Jade and Irma laugh at Uriah having Ikazuki's mask stuck on his butt, the Enforcers join in and jokingly ask that if Uriah needs to go to the bathroom, what does that make out of Ikazuki's mouth. And then there's Uriah’s Potty Failure at the end of the chapter.

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