Best episode ever! This episode was really great. Besides the semi-erotic feather giving (bending over backwards and moaning???) I found absolutely nothing wrong with this episode and in fact found it to improve on it's manga counterpart!
The episode started off with a bang! We got several fight scenes, pretty much all the plot threads tied up and some plot advancement concerning the "big bad" of the series and some characterisation and character interaction between several characters that didn't happen in the manga, such as those three mysterious men. ;)
I'd say it's pretty obvious who or what is in that myserious tube the bad guys have, Hell, I figured it out in the first episode but the kept the identity of the thing/person hidden way into the manga. Still nice to see the villians though.
Best episode so far and hopefully a taste of things to come. Almost no filler dialogue in this episode and a really touching tree symbolism at the end.
5 stars!
Edit: Didn't see Miyuki at all in this world! Did anyone else?