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Neko-sensei
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I need to give a big shout-out to episode 23 for its clever and affecting use of My Grandfather's Clock, a tune the original lyrics to which I thought had been forgotten...
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Cab329
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That episode was adorable. This show has really grown on me over the course of this year.
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AJ (LordNikon)
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The 1985 flashback was interesting. I'd half expected to see the original child Neko Musume design, but instead we got what looked like an older/future secretary design of her.
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Merida
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No mention of Neko Musume who proved yet again that she's best girl?
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Gina Szanboti
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I think she just ignored the outer trappings indicating a lack of wealth and bought his stories about being wealthy (with the gang being his underlings). It also doesn't seem to be unusual for her victims to be in love with her and still want to protect her after she rips them off. But Rat Man going the extra mile to protect her from his friends, even after she robbed him a second time, genuinely touched her. That and his ingenuous sincerity on their wedding night also seemed to endear him to her, just not enough to prevent her from acting on her nature (see the scorpion parable). So I think she did end up caring for him. I think the part that pressed my heart the most was his emphasis on calling Kitaro et al "my family." It seemed both part of his deception that he was wealthy and normal (i.e., not an outcast), and part of his longing to actually have a family. The origin story of the Sekiyo sounds like the workers spending all their money on the local prostitutes or hostesses and needing an excuse to tell their wives about where all the money went. "It wasn't my fault, I was supernaturally seduced by a youkai!" |
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Gina Szanboti
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I liked that episode, but it seemed like everyone just turned on a dime emotionally, which made it kind of hard to run with. Her mother goes from "you're dirty, you're not my daughter" to "you go get a boyfriend sweetie and have fun!" literally overnight, apparently because she got 30 seconds of male attention. That's not just unhealthy, it's clinically bipolar. Yuna, on the other hand, leaps from threatening her mother with a knife to saving her life and forgiving all, in the space of about 15 minutes. That's one helluva mood swing, but I guess she's her mother's daughter. Even the youkai went from one extreme to the other at the drop of a hat. I'm going to need to see a doctor for the whiplash. So it looks like this is just going to keep on going, which is fine with me. |
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Merida
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^I think it was mentioned somewhere that it's going to be 50+ episodes which is great since this is still one of my favourite shows.
But i agree that this was one of the weaker eps...was Mr. Bucktooth really the first one to ever ask mom out since her husband left her all those years ago or did she honestly fall madly for him (which would at least not make her superficial)? Now that i think about it, i wonder if the contrast between him and Gahi was intentional, though an 'ugly' human is still better than a gorgeous yokai would be a bit of a lame moral. 
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NeverConvex
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Really enjoyed the first Western Yokai episode! Goofy name of their leader aside, the western yokai were really well animated and stood out as really pleasantly threatening, interesting villains. The stakes have also clearly ratcheted up a few notches from where Gegege's stories usually relax.
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Merida
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It would be really disappointing if that was the actual "message", but i have faith in this show being more nuanced than this. I mean, they pretty much slammed the Japanese immigration policy as antiquated in the first couple of minutes after all... 
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thekingsdinner
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Just want to point out the latest episode is 29, not 28
There seem to be two episode 26's.
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JacobC
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Sorry for the confusion! We'll fix it with the next one. |
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Merida
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I was watching this shortly after finishing Castlevania 2, so it was especially fun comparing these two different yet also similar versions of Carmilla. 
It was also nice to see the girls get most of the action for once, even though Kitaro did help out in the end and i enjoyed seeing him and Agnes working together. |
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Neko-sensei
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I saw the vampire episode as a horror-themed version of those "STOP! Eiga dorobo!" shorts that play before films in Japanese cinemas. Those who don't actually care about the experience of the film itself (they're only there for the sweets) and attempt to record and reappropriate that experience become literal bloodsucking vampires, whereas our heroes, who allow themselves to be in the moment of the cinema, are safe. It's a plea for viewing a trip to the movie theater as an excursion to another reality, and not merely a way to distract yourself for a few hours.
...Yes, I'm pretty sure that message wasn't entirely intended, but as a cinemaphile that's what I got out of it! |
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Gina Szanboti
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I wonder how Rat Man got out? He evidently did, since he''s all over the preview.
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AJ (LordNikon)
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I wonder if Azuki-Arai is suppose to be spoiler[Nobuyoshi Araki aka] Azuki Araki
They look remarkably similar.
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