I'm kind of dreading the next episode. And the next few after that. I get it... the sword upgrades are supposed to be important. But I don't like the way they seem to be glossing over (what I consider to be) important characterization stuff in favor of stupid!humor and sword-upgrade-action. They've done fairly well in handling the Sesshomaru/Kagura stuff, but the parts with the Inu-tachi are seriously making me scratch my head.