Tokko — Season 1, Episode 8: Awake ~ 'time to say goodbye'

Episode synopsis

As Ranmaru continues to get deeper and deeper into the mystery of the Phantom demons, he is accosted by two strange men wearing shades and wielding pistols when he was strolling in a local park. To make things worse, Saya gets injured in a depicted hit and run accident staged during her break hours by an unknown vehicle. Ryoko and the others inform Ranmaru that a secret sort of cult society may have hired assassins to kill her when the TOKKO unit met Ranmaru in the old Machida apartment. In the subsequent fight, Akiha helps Rannmaru awaken his bond with his symbiote demon by stabbing him in the chest before pushing him into the open hole that he (and the other TOKKO members have seen 5 years ago) had seen in the Machida massacre. Ranmaru's awakened symbiote soon turned the tides in the favor of TOKKO when his symbiote defeated the demons in the area.

About Tokko

Tokko is a Japanese manga series written and illustrated by Tohru Fujisawa. It was serialized in Kodansha's Afternoon in 2003 and collected into 3 tankōbon volumes. An anime adaptation directed by Masashi Abe, animated by AIC Spirits and Group Tac, first aired in Japan on April 15, 2006 and ran for 13 episodes. The manga was licensed in North America by Tokyopop, who released the first volume on July 15, 2008. The anime was licensed in the United States and United Kingdom by Manga Entertainment, with its first DVD released on March 20, 2007, and in Australasia by Madman Entertainment. In the US the SciFi Channel aired Tokko in 2007, in 2010 it aired on Chiller, while in Canada it was shown on Super Channel.

More episodes from Season 1

• E1Dawn ~ 'awakening'
• E2Dream ~ 'a girl appears'
• E3Bond ~ 'moments would be lost'
• E4Omen ~ 'corpses in the laboratory'
• E5Phantom ~ 'a father, all alone'
• E6Sorrow ~ 'who kills my brother'
• E7Love ~ 'a telephone call'
• E9Cold ~ 'we were born to be'
• E10Shake ~ 'never mind'
• E11Prison ~ 'No woman, No cry'
• E12Anger ~ 'if not in love'
• E13Dark ~ 'remain tender together'