Episode
Stigma of the Wind: Katherine Returns
Overview
Katherine McDonald challenges Ayano to a fight. While awaiting for the day of the fight Katherine hires Kazuma to be her coach, and falls in love with him. As a result, Katherine makes a proposal to Ayano: if she wins, she takes Kazuma back to America with her, and if she loses, he stays. Ayano ends up winning, but Katherine decides to stay anyways.
Details
- Series
- Stigma of the Wind
- Season
- Season 1
- Episode
- Episode 15
- Air date
- 2007-07-20
- Runtime
- 25 min
Episode context
Katherine Returns is Episode 15 in Season 1 of Stigma of the Wind. It aired on 2007-07-20. The runtime is 25 min.
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Episode 14: Another Ayano Disaster
An American fire mage, Katherine McDonald, confronts Ayano while she is having dinner with Kazuma. Her purpose is to bring the title of the strongest clan of fire mages to the McDonalds and obtain the Enraiha. Ayano wins, but causes major damage to the building and her dress. As a result, Kazuma treats her to ramen instead.
Episode 16: Father and Son
Jūgo once again sets up Ayano and Kazuma, but this time he gets her friends to invite the two to a hot spring. Just when things seem to go Jūgo's way, Detective Tachibana and Genma, Kazuma's father, end up at the same hot spring as Kazuma. Every time they meet each other, Genma and Kazuma fights and ends up destroying miscellaneous sections of the hot springs. However, in the end, it seems that their fights were just their way of communicating with each other.
More episodes from this season
Episode 13: Let's go to the Amusement Park!
Ayano and Kazuma get set up to a date by Ayano's father under the guise of an investigation. Ayano's friends got dressed up to see her date and in the meantime took a batchful of photos.
Episode 17: How to Defeat a Magic User
Normal teenagers, who were once weak or have been hurt, become magicians in enormous amounts. Not only are these "magicians" taking advantage of their newly acquired powers, but they also talk like they are playing a game, using words such as "level up." Kazuma, Ayano, and Nanase are asked to investigate the problem, and Nanase shows just how a normal teenager can beat a magic user. Kazuma sees Tsui-Ling after defeating one of the new mages.
Episode 12: Confession Under the Moon
Ayano is having trouble fighting, whilst Kazuma takes Ren and Ayumi from the cavern, exiting through the top. This causes the behemoth to be freed and Ren, Kazuma and Ayano begin the fight against it. Ayumi helps the team out as best she can and suppresses the powers of the behemoth, giving Kazuma, Ren and Ayano time to defeat it.
Episode 18: Tokyo RPG
Ren and his friends encounter one of those "magicians" during one of their outings and are attacked by a fire-using one. Ren uses his powers to defeat the "magician," who reveals information on the whereabouts of the "game" known as Pandemonium. Ren decided to check the place suspected to be the headquarters with this information, discovering that it is in another dimension. As he prepares to leave, he is suddenly teleported inside the building. Meanwhile, Tachibana calls for Kazuma to regroup at the Kannagi's place to discuss further plans.
Episode 11: One's Own Determination
Ren and Ayano go to the Tsuwabukis' mansion to meet Ayumi and try to save her, while Kazuma arrives and helps them along. Ren resolves to save Ayumi's life by destroying the main problem itself—the behemoth that is sealed in Mount Fuji.
Episode 19: Pandemonium
Kirika briefs everyone about the recent events and its connection to the game Pandemonium which caused the players to "download" youma through the net unknowingly. After they learn that Ren has been kidnapped, Kazuma, Ayano, and Tachibana enter Pandemonium. Ayano fights Lapis, who has the appearance of Tsui-Ling. Meanwhile, Kazuma finds Ren, and identifies the man behind Pandemonium as Bernhardt Rhodes, a former enemy he defeated in the past.
Episode 10: The One to Protect
Ayumi tells Ren she wants to go to the beach, where they meet the Tsuwabukis. It is then that Ayumi is revealed to not be human, but rather a clone, created for the Taisai ritual for sealing Mount Fuji. Meanwhile, Kazuma is still watching the Tsuwabukis and waiting for the treasure.
Episode 20: Jade Afterimage
Kazuma questions Bernhardt about Lapis and denies that the girl is Tsui-Ling, whom Bernhardt sacrificed to a demon. Bernhardt in turn, replies that the girl Lapis is what remained of Tsui-Ling whom Kazuma failed to protect due to his lack of power. As Kazuma attempts to attack Bernhardt, Lapis deflects the blow and shows her power as a "Swordsmaster" by slicing in half the building they were in. Kazuma saves Ren, Ayano, and Kirika but disappears soon after. Back at the Kannagi home, Kirika informs them that a new Pandemonium has appeared and has granted "class changes" to some of its players. Meanwhile, Kazuma, brooding over the happiness of his past with Tsui-Ling, resolves to kill Bernhardt and Lapis.
Episode 9: Meeting Under the Moon
Ren meets a young girl, Ayumi, who has escaped from the Tsuwabuki family, the most powerful clan of earth mages. Seeing how badly they treat her, Ren decides to use his power to protect her at the cost of starting a conflict between the Kannagi and Tsuwabuki families. Meanwhile, Kazuma accepts a mission from Tiana's tribe to retrieve the pixie heirloom stolen by the Tsuwabuki family.
Episode 21: The Mad Wind Mage
Since the new Pandemonium appeared, battles held every night which pitched "magicians" together in a battle and the winner gains experience points. Kazuma appears at these battles, brutally attacking the combatants and asking them on the location of Pandemonium. He goes so far as to assault Katherine and allow Nanase to be kidnapped. Afterwards, Tachibana informs Ayano that Kazuma has regressed to his former cold-hearted persona, and only Ayano can bring him back.