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Season Two Ep 7 review

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Episode 7 is out, but it was a packed day for me yesterday, hence sorry for the delay in my review. Ep 7 covers Vol 7 Ch 6 , Vol 7 Intermezzo 2 , and the early part of Vol 7 Ch 7 (which I am still transcribing). Despite some highlights, this episode unfortunately also brings me some confusion, to say the least about the pacing and length of this Season Two. I will talk about it later, but as a preamble, the pacing of S2 is inconsistent. S2 moved at lightning speed for Eps 1-3, and then it halted and took a stroll for Eps 4-7. At this rate, I will have to assume that we will get Cour 2, but since we have no announcements at all about it, I am left feeling like there are so many things hidden here, like the Hidden World itself… More on that later. For now, I am going to give my review chronologically, but just be forewarned, I am not feeling very happy with this episode, hence quite a bit of ranting. First: the Ginji and Aoi scene was well done. It picked up from Ginji’s resolution in Ep...
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Season Two Ep 7 stills

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  I was truly debating whether I should post the new stills of Ep 7 because... I don't want to change the image of young Ōdanna-sama showered in sakura petals...for I think hands down that's one of the most beautiful shots that S2 managed to produce!  However, since Ep 7 has really nice stills as well (which also includes one still of young Ōdanna-sama under a camphor tree), I thought I'd just post this short article then. It's basically just my interpretation on how the story would unfold. However, it also makes me wonder about the length of this S2. I mean, we're at Ep 7 already, and if we only have one cour of 12 episodes... how do they pack Vol 8 then? Does it mean that we will have one cour but a bit longer than 12-13 episodes...? Edit : We will have 12 episodes for S2, as confirmed here (in Japanese). It means the last five episodes 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 ...
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Season Two Ep 6 review

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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...
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Season Two Ep 6 stills

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  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 ...
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Novel Vol 13 and Toba manga volumes 7-9

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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...
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Season Two Ep 5 review

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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...
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