Season Two Ep 9 stills


The Kakuriyo anime team posted Season Two Ep 9 visuals one day late this week, but that's okay (hey, people might be under the weather etc, right... I know, because I am late for my deliverables due to some mild cold as well). The visuals are very interesting, and since I haven't read most of Vol 8 novel, I'm going to find a lot of surprising things, which is exciting too! I do wonder if they're going to change the OP and ED songs because Tōyama Nao has five songs in her Kakuriyo S2 album, and we have heard three of them (Toryanse, "Recipe for Tears" and "A Spoonful of Light"). It would be nice to hear "Utagoe wo Mejirushini" (“The Goal of My Singing Voice”) as OP2 and "Souiukanji no kaime"...(“The Kind of Feeling I Get”) ED2.

But first, let's go through the visuals. 

First, we have Aoi in a very cool hooded coat and a cute newspaper-boy cap. I really thought it was a new character when I saw this still a few minutes ago. If Ōdanna-sama sees Aoi in this garb, he'll find her very adorable!


Then we have Byakuya with a new kimono with Ainu-like patterns. The kimono looks cool, and he looks different with this style of kimono. Will have to translate what the fan says here, but not sure I have time (and it's cursive, so a bit hard).


Then we have Aoi riding on Ginji's true form of the nine-tailed fox. Come to think of it, Ginji, Ranmaru and the tanukis are the only ayakashi of which true forms are regularly displayed. Also, where is Ranmaru? He's onboard, I know, because Vol 8 has him on the cover. I'd love to see him with a hoodie!


Then we have Chiaki-san. He was not onboard Seiranmaru, so he must have gone to the North earlier.


Then there's a meaty hotpot that Aoi cooked...


And a gorgeous snow castle. It might be the old castle by the lake in Vol 8 Ch 5. 


Then we have Kasuga, Ginji and Aoi arriving at the castle (I think, from the background)...


And we have Kasuga's husband Kiyo, the current Hachiyō of the Northern Land.


Sorry for the short commentaries. As I said, I am quite clueless about Vol 8, so I'm going to learn about many things together with you. I do appreciate the Ainu-patterned kimono that Ginji, Byakuya, etc are wearing though. I think it's very appropriate. I think Yūma Midori sensei is sympathetic to the Ainu; it shows in her portrayal of the whole indigenous Kakuriyo tribes vs the invaders in the Kakuriyo history.

Thursday will be a very busy day for me, but I will try to watch it in the morning if I can. Might be a bit late again with the review... so, until Thursday evening or Friday evening then, for the Ep 9 review!

Comments

Oni-fan said…
Wow I love the attire they're wearing! The guys all look so good in them. Can't wait for Kasuga x Kiyo moments (if any, since I see Kasuga blushing...) since Odanna-sama is still away :")
November 25, 2025 at 9:31 PM
Icha said…
Oni-faaaan, hiiii! Yeah, I’m glad that we don’t have Vol 8 cramped into one episode, but as I said before, it is lonely without Ōdanna-sama. It also made me wonder why the first half of Vol 6 was skipped at all. They could have just added one more episode (thus 13 eps) and they would have cover that orchard date!! To think of that loss… OTOH, it seems they only started to realise how bad some of ep 1-3 scenes were animated belatedly, hence they only improved the visuals from ep 5 onwards… I don’t want the orchard scenes to be badly animated, so I will just hope they can include it in the splice of life episodes, if any…
November 25, 2025 at 10:21 PM
Post a Comment

Popular posts for the last 30 days

Kakuriyo Novel Volumes 7-11 Heavy Spoilers

Image
A part of my Kakuriyo novel collection: Volumes 7-10.  This post contains HEAVY spoilers. You’ve been warned.  I’m at the moment translating Kakuriyo no Yadomeshi Vol 7 Ch 1 , following on the surprising news from Raijū in Vol 6 Ch 10 . There is no Ōdanna-sama in Vol 7 Ch 1 because of what happened in Vol 6 Ch 10, but we do have Aoi feeling his loss (which is great from the viewpoint of story development, but it’s still painful). In the same chapter, one of my 2nd most favourite characters, i.e. Byakuya-san (yep, now I actually have Byakuya and Hatori competing with Ginji for the runner-up in my heart), is in charge of the move to rescue Ōdanna and Tenjin-ya. Byakuya is actually going to be very active in this quest, hence he’s going to be a very close ally of Aoi’s. Surprising, really, because he was very cold when we first met him… (but then we realised he was a cat-lover, and I always forgive cat-lovers…).
Read more

Kakuriyo volumes 6-11 summary… and a reflection

Image
Ōdanna & Aoi, art by Laruha This post contains the summary of Kakuriyo no Yadomeshi volumes 6-11 (Vol 11 is the Gaiden) per Amazon Japan. SPOILERS of course, so don't read it if you don’t want to know how the Kakuriyo stories continue. The summary does spill the bean of a very important aspect of Ōdanna and Aoi. However, the descriptions don’t spoil you that deep, because you still won’t know some mundane and important things, e.g. Ōdanna’s favourite food, his real name, and the reason for the events that take place in Vol 7-10. Oh, and you won't know whether Ōdanna would kiss Aoi or not, and if he would, when. Beforehand though, I’d like to make a short observation about some Kakuriyo haters. Perhaps “hate” is too strong a word, but I cannot help using that word whenever I come across some blogs/websites that consistently shred Kakuriyo to pieces. I won’t name the blogs here, but if you google “Kakuriyo no Yadomeshi”, it’s likely you’ll find 2-3 blogs that constantly...
Read more

Updates and recap of the rest of Volume 10

Image
Byakuya is one of my favourite characters, and he's prominent in Vol 7 Ch 4 ( Source ) It was still 19 December 2021 when I started writing this post, and it was a year ago on 19 Dec 2020 that I decided to make this blog to celebrate the beautiful writing that is Kakuriyo no Yadomeshi. Unexpectedly, the blog has slowly but surely attracted readers from around the world. Visitors from the United States, the Philippines and Indonesia are the big three visitors, followed by Russia, Malaysia, Brazil, the Netherlands, Italy, Mexico and Australia. I have made sure that my own visits are not counted in the blog, hence Australian visitors should truly reflect the trend that there are many readers in Australia who follow the Kakuriyo story. Nevertheless, we have other readers coming from other countries as well: Singapore, India, Canada, the UK, Vietnam, Germany, Poland, Thailand, Bangladesh, New Zealand, Spain, Italy, etc. I even had visitors from the Dominican Republic, South Africa, Moro...
Read more