A Certain Dark Item Episode 4 Turns On Mugino's Leadership
Episode 4 of A Certain Dark Item puts the mercenary team ITEM under pressure and asks why its five members never betray each other.
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Why it matters
The episode treats the team's loyalty as a product of Mugino's hands-off leadership rather than fear, which is the show's main character beat for its most powerful figure so far.
Key Facts
- Episode 4 of A Certain Dark Item centers on Mugino and the mercenary team ITEM.
- Choubi pretends to be a corpse and stabs the villain Mitori with one of Mitori's discarded knives.
- Mugino is described as one of the few Level 5 espers in Academy City.
- Rikou and Frenda treat Mugino as a person rather than as a powerful esper.
- A Certain Dark Item is streaming on Crunchyroll.
Choubi, the member without powers, plays dead and stabs the liquid metal villain Mitori with Mitori's own discarded knife. The episode's answer is that Mugino asks little of the group beyond results and grants them wide personal freedom.
Mitori, the liquid metal villain of the arc, is the one who raises the question: ITEM lies, steals and tortures for money, so why do its members never sell each other out? The episode works through the answers and rejects fear. Choubi, Saisai and the rest take jabs, but when the fight turns, Choubi covers herself in blood, pretends to be a corpse and stabs Mitori with one of Mitori's own knives while Mugino keeps her occupied.
The episode ends on Mugino herself. Rikou and Frenda treat her as a person rather than a Level 5, and she leaves the group's off-hours and methods to them as long as missions get done.
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- Anime News Network A Certain Dark Item Episode 4