Kakuriyo no Yadomeshi

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. Below is my educated guess on the remaining Season Two episodes. Use it just as a guidance, please. Ep 5: Aoi feeding Takechiyo-sama, Aoi and Sasuke-kun shopping for macaroon ingredient at downtown Yōto, and Aoi was spirited away to the ancient ceme...

Ep 4 is out, and while (as expected) we don’t have Ōdanna-sama, we have a lot of development here. Well, it’s to be expected because this episode combines Vol 6 Ch 10 , Vol 7 Ch 1 ( here and here ), Vol 7 Ch 2 and a part of Vol 7 Ch 3 …  Again, I am basically a broken record now for saying that I don't like the speed for we lost a lot of details, but it also means that we’ll see Ōdanna-sama again soon .   Now, I usually jump right into Ōdannaoi (Ōdanna-sama & Aoi) scenes, but since the gorgeous oni isn’t here (well, he’s in jail…), let’s go chronologically this time. Ep 4 picks up where Ep 3 left behind,with Raijū announcing that he’d be the new master of Tenjin-ya. However, his glee wasn’t long-lived, for Byakuya delivered a full kick that sent the Thunder Beast tumbling down the stairs. Our hero Byakuya then told the intruder Raijū that the King’s consent isn’t enough to change the leadership of Tenjin-ya. Since Tenjin-ya is the governing place of a Hachiyō, a majori...