For the second time this season Natsume Yuujinchou strikes into the human realm, with the same old outcomes. It’s exorcists who usually present the trail to that world. And whereas (as Natsume says this week) they are not all the identical – Nitori and Matoba-san are definitely fairly totally different in character – these episodes are virtually all the time the darkest and most standard of the collection. And certainly, episode 5 and this week’s effort are about as Yin-Yang as Natsume Yuujinchou will get.
For a present as constant as this, the poles are literally fairly polar. The fanbase appears fairly evenly cut up – in my opinion, I discover all these tales, with virtually no exceptions, much less involving than their opposites. However that may be a relative idea. It begins innocently sufficient, with Natsume and Nyanko-sensei in search of a spot to get out of the rain. However as quickly as you hear “deserted prepare station within the woods,” you could be fairly certain it is getting darkish.
Matoba bookends this episode and is throughout it, however he is fairly mysterious even by his requirements. He simply occurs to be on the station when Natsume and Nyanko arrive, and he instantly begins shelling out his ordinary reptilian attraction. You virtually by no means see Natsume react to anybody the best way he does to Matoba; his reflex is clearly to do away with Dodge as shortly as doable. Matoba-san has a birdcage lined with a sheet that emits stunning hen sounds. However he says it is truly a youkai known as a hitokubi (human head). It seduces folks with its music, grows sturdy from their meals, after which lures bigger youkai to assault them.
How does this all tie into what occurs later, on the Hakozaki mansion? I am truthfully unsure. Hakozaki, in case you’ve forgotten (I do not blame you, it has been seven years) was the bizarre outdated exorcist in whose mansion Natsume helped discover a “secret research.” His granddaughter requested him again as a result of she sees unusual issues within the neighborhood, however Matoba and his entourage present up uninvited and search out a youkai they let slip. And greater than that, it’s one which was “created” by a member of the clan. Furthermore, Matoba carries an umbrella although it isn’t raining today – and there’s a good purpose for that.
A few of that is fairly easy. In each circumstances, Matoba makes use of a youkai whose arrival is predictable to destroy one other that he can not or is not going to destroy himself. The one who involves the mansion exhibits up each month, desiring to steal his proper eye. However the story he tells Natsume about how Youkai can remodel himself right into a human he and his clan know and belief was clearly straight info. Was it planting seeds for one thing to occur sooner or later, or does this indicate one thing in regards to the assembly on the prepare station?
Once more, this is not actually my favourite face of Natsume Yuujinchou nevertheless it makes for an fascinating change of tempo. And I would reasonably have it now than eat up the previous few episodes because the seasons have usually accomplished. Plus, there’s the matter of Natsume’s grandfather, who’s the enigma that ends all riddles with this premise. After hinting at it twice, it could be disappointing to say the least if there is no such thing as a connection between him and Hakozaki (or his home). However for now it is only a plague – no info is understood but.
