My favorite scene has to be them in the Inn/Bar, I was thinking the same thing as Guts when looking over their new townie friends.
Also, it's even creepier that these freaks aren't attacking them, but just sort of avoiding the issue... for some reason that more than anything makes me wonder if Isma isn't the God(dess) herself, keeping her forces at bay while she satisfies her curiosity about these new visitors... though I still lean toward the idea of her being another, more benevolent, spirit or medium (like Aaz said, perhaps daylight is what's keeping things mellow in the village =).
BTW, seeing the shark jaws on the wall made me hope it was foreshadowing of a shark God, of course, the tentacled idol belies that idea, then it hit me...
SHARKTOPUS!P.S. That's not a closed eye on the idol, it's a closed mouth.
