Any day with Natsume Yuujinchou in it is a good day. It’s an auspicious winter indeed that brings us new Natsume Yuujinchou and Mushishi both, and we’ve had two Natsume OVAs and a Mushishi TV special in the span of about a month. Even better was the announcement that Mushishi […] Read more
There’s not another manga writer out there with the emotional accuracy of Midorikawa Yuki, and no director better suited to communicate her vision than Omori Takahiro. I’ve already written a series review for Natsume Yuujinchou, and a lot of the same things I felt when I wrote that one apply here. […] Read more
If you add it all up cumulatively, I’m sure there’s no series that’s inspired as much genuine emotion in me as Natsume Yuujinchou. I almost don’t want to talk about this finale much, because it so effectively speaks for itself. Why should I blather on in my clumsy way when […] Read more
Everything that last week’s Natsume Yuujinchou episode was, this one seemed to embody just the opposite. If you’ll forgive me for saying so, this was one of the oddest episodes I can recall in four seasons of the series. Not in a bad way, mind, but still off – for […] Read more
Anime is a wonderfully diverse and varied medium, but there are things only Natsume Yuujinchou can do. In a sense this has been an odd season for this great series – it started out with arguably the best month ever, followed it with possibly the weakest (though that’s relative) and […] Read more
For some reason it seems as if every two-part episode of this series features one episode that’s much better than the other, and this one was no exception. If I’m to be honest the last few episodes of Natsume Yuujinchou have been pretty vanilla. I don’t recall an ep in […] Read more
Is it me, or are we seeing an awful lot of Nattori lately? Another Nattori ep, another two-parter, more plot… As we’ve progressed through “Shi” it’s begun to look more and more like “San”. That’s not necessarily a good thing from my perspective, as that was my least favorite of […] Read more
I confess I was a little skeptical about an entire episode devoted to Nanase, but it ended up being a story very much in the classic Natsume Yuujinchou tradition. There was a bit of a tease factor here, knowing we were going back in time to the heyday of Natsume […] Read more
The first of this arc’s two episodes might have been the funniest Natsume Yuujinchou yet, but the tone shifted sharply in the conclusion, delivering one of the series’ darkest and most somber efforts. Anyone who reads this blog regularly knows that as a matter of personal preference, I’m not as […] Read more
I’m with Nyanko-sensei on this one – I love festivals. If I have any minor quibble with the fourth season, it’s that it’s been a little light on the Nyanko-sensei this far. That was corrected in a big way this week as Madara moved front and center for the first […] Read more