Kakuriyo no Yadomeshi

S2E6 is out and it’s packed! I slept early and was able to woke up at 4 am AEST without an alarm so that I could watch it. And I love the episode! The animation was generally well done (except for one scene where Aoi's emon was incorrectly drawn again), and it feels more like Season One in the feeling now. Since my day is also packed today, I’m writing my review here now. First and foremost, we hear the word “jyaki” for the first time, so the cat (or jyaki) is out of the bag now! interestingly, the translators used the word “ogre-devil” for that. I don’t dislike it, and I actually do admire that word choice. However,  I never use the word “ogre” to translate “oni” anyway, so I will stick with jyaki. It’s a bit weird as well, like translating “onigiri” to “rice cake” or “sushi” to… rolled rice or something else. We also see a revelation from Ginji at dawn, though it departs rather markedly from his own narrative in the novel. There are also some creative licence in scene interpreta...

  New stills have been dropped for S2E6, and since two of them are about Ōdanna-sama, I just have to post them here. I originally posted the visual of the young Ōdanna-sama in the post about S2E5 review , but since I found out about some more stills, I just have to make a separate post. As such, this post is just about me narrating the stills. I saw some of these stills first from Otaku News  (the one above, in particular), but apparently Kakuriyo Anime has been regularly posting more stills (more than the ones uploaded to X), and I didn't know about it! Gah! Anyway, chronologically, we will see this one first, where Byakuya (and Sasuke-kun) rescued Aoi from that bastard Raiju.   Afterwards, Byakuya teleported Aoi and Sasuke-kun to the Yoto underground. Here, we have Byakuya, Aoi and Sasuke-kun welcomed by Shimon, the brother of Dr Saraku, in Shimon's clock shop called The Silhouette.     Next, Byakuya would narrate  Ōdanna-sama's backstory, and ...

Yūma Midori's novel vol 13 (left) and Toba Tsugaru's manga vol 9 (right) While waiting for S2E6 where Byakuya will tell Aoi about Ōdanna-sama’s backstory, I thought I’d spend some time discussing the novel and manga. Yūma Midori-sensei’s Kakuriyo no Yadomeshi vol 13 was released on 15 Oct, hence I bought it recently from Amazon JP. To save on shipping, I bought Toba Tsugaru manga vol 9 as well. While I was skim-reading these books, I found some interesting stuff that I want to share with you, dear readers, hence this post. Particularly, I want to share my brief reading of the chapter where Aoi saw her mother (in the novel). Since I now have the Toba manga vol 9 as well, I am also making a brief review of Toba manga vols 7-9. Toba vol 9, by the way, has the almost-kiss scene! Eeeeekkk!!! Needless to say, SPOILER ALERT, particularly for novel Vol 13. So, novel Vol 13 is about the whole Tenjin-ya core team having a holiday trip in our world (and thus Tenjin-ya is closed for a sh...

Ep 5 is out, but so sorry that I am late with this review. Been super busy at work... Having said that, I actually like this episode! Unfortunately, we cannot see Ōdanna-sama’s jyaki form, not even his jyaki shadow, but we see his astral form – more on that later. This episode is also important for other things, including Aoi’s great grandmother’s, a chance glimpse of Zakuro and of course Aoi’s bonding with Takechiyo. The cliffhanger is great too! Also, as some fans already mentioned, the animation is getting better (starting from Ep4 last week, actually). Aoi's kimono emon are drawn more correctly in many scenes. The background music (particularly when Aoi was shopping with Sasuke-kun) was very nice with plenty of Japanese tones. The pacing is also not as fast as I feared (well, in my prediction , I overshot because this production team has been running like the Flash trying to wrap everything in one cour), hence we might have 13 episodes instead of 12. Yay? This episode covers Vo...

At least Kakuriyo is promoted at the Crunchyroll main banner during the first half of the week! Because how fast Season Two is cruising now, it’s clear now we will only have one cour (but I hope we will have two opening themes to set the tone for the latter half of the cour). Thus we only have a maximum of nine more episodes if we are going with 13 episodes. If we’re going with 12 episodes, then we only have eight more episodes… Thus, I thought it’s useful to predict the arrangement of the remaining episodes for Season Two so that we can at least hope for some congruent storyline. Again, this is just my prediction, and I may totally be wrong. I am assuming we will have only 12 episodes in total, because this production team skimps so much. Edit 10 Nov'25: We will have 12 episodes for S2, as confirmed  here  (in Japanese). It means Episodes 7-12 will be super packed, because I don't think they're extending the story or leaving it to hang on Ep 12. I mean, if they plan to do ...