This anime sure is willing to explain everything except why trying to murder an entire village was deemed necessary or acceptable.

No, the village (whatever that means) sending assassins after Asa (and her parents?) is not valid. I doubt all adults in that village are involved.

I know I keep repeating this, but it just annoys me so much. The anime clearly wants me to care about/like Gabby, Asa and Jin, but this whole mass murder thing is kind of in the way of that.

The way information is (not) divulged is so unnatural. There’s no excuse for Yuru not to ask for more detaila other than forcing suspense. Like, Asa says things related to Higashi village multiple times that should make Yuru question everything, but he just… doesn’t. He doesn’t inquire further. What’s the point of all this exposition by the perpetrators if it brushes past the reason the events in the anime even started.