I just got #16, guys.
Overall thoughts = Pretty damn good, although not good enough for a 4 month wait! ><***
I got my Yukimura fix, though, so it's almost all good. :9 (Still. Damn it, Yukimura, I AM SO MAD AT YOU FOR BEING ON THE MIBU SIDE RIGHT NOW! Come back over RIGHT THIS INSTANT!)
Still no Sasuke, though. He's like, the amazing vanishing and reappearing character. I still say there should be a spinoff series just about Yukimura and the Juuyuushi, man, full of touching, heart-warming scenes. I'd be all over that.
I do have a bit of a question, though, about Hotaru's speech. In these last few ones, he seems to speak really, really formally...like, "I know not." Is this just kind of a weird translation? Because it seems really un-Hotaruish. Maybe I'm wrong.