Sankarea - Ep10

Although the story has return to focus in on Chihiro, it is mostly for creating tension. It almost as if they are purposeful trying to extent the series so that it ends with a confrontation between Chihiro and Danichirou. It appears that will have to wait for another time because this episode focus in on the back-story of Rea's mother. Then from her we learn that Rea's current mother is really her step-mom that her true mother die shortly after giving birth to Rea. This means that Rea didn't just want to escape from her father that was lusting after her but also from all the hatred that her mother had for stealing all of danichirou's affection. Under that sort of pressure it is completely understandable that Rea was willing to do anything to escape from all of that, even if that meant that she had to die to do so.

It turns out that the story goes all the way back to when he was a boy, it turns out that all the maids that work there come from the high class families but they don't come there to work but as future brides of the new head of the Sanka family. Although after awhile they began to believe that he just wasn't interested in women, but when Danichirou was in College was when Aria Rea's step-mom start to work as a maid there. She believe that it was possible for her to win him over because no other man has ever refused her.

However things didn't go as plan because later that year when a fencing tournament was held, and even before it start things were setup so that Danichirou would win. Although Danichirou didn't like the fact that he didn't win base on his own strength but on the strength of his family. However when a crippled 15-year-old girl approached him, and tolled him that even though it might have been setup by getting angry he is invalidating all of his hard work. Then at this moment he fell in love with this little girl because she was the only one to ever be real with him. Then shortly after this he ends up deciding to marry this 15-year-old girl. This you could say that this is his form of rebellion against his family, to choose someone himself and not someone his family choose for him.

However it is not something that was meant to last because shortly after giving birth, his wife end up dying. This seen him into a deep depression and it is Aria that supported him through this and ultimate results in him marrying her, but in reality it was a marriage of convenience because he only married her to satisfy his family. Although he was married to Aria he was still consumed by the shadow of his late wife, which ultimately lead to his unhealthy obsession with his daughter Rea. Given that she is the mirror image of his late wife. This leads to Aria hating Rea for stealing all of Danichirou's attention, and resulted her being stuck in a loveless marriage. Things end with Chihiro being brought before Danichirou, the question remains what does Danichirou intent to do with Chihiro.