yo! nanami's death is really.. the ed at the end of episode 7 was tear-jerking

I think Emonzaemon was pretty confident when facing Pengin until entou jyuu missed. Then, I suppose he took a chance when he could not be that confident with the outcome of the battle with Pengin's ninpou being so powerful. Since all he was doing is deflecting the bullets, it might as well have hit himself instead of Pengin. I think he posed that question for both himself and pengin.

on another note, i thought emonzaemon was Houou. Since Houou's ninpou is basically taking body parts, he could have discarded the body that is emonzaemon.

oh and another thing, do houou have eyes?!