Hmmm… I gather from the buzz on the interwebs that Nurarihyon has decided to go with a manga “ending” for the season, rather than come up with a more conclusive anime-original ending.  Of course we still have another episode to go next week, but it looks as if DEEN has […] Read more

Well, that pretty much explains it… Answers, you say you want answers?  You got ‘em – pretty much all of them, in fact, though we do have a few new questions asked along the way.  And some of them, like the true identity of Minagoroshi-Jizo, aren’t fully explicable to an […] Read more

Here was another episode I found entertaining and suspenseful, but I confess I find myself having a relatively hard time figuring out exactly what just happened.  Whether this is an issue with the adaptation or the manga I‘m not sure, but I don’t think all of that obfuscation is intentional. […] Read more

Well, the pieces have certainly all come together but I’m still nowhere near certain how they all fit together.  As big as this arc is, I’m not sure even two cours is going to be enough to finish it properly.  Rurouni Kenshin needed 30+ episodes for its Kyoto Arc, after […] Read more

The last four minutes of this episode probably explained more about what’s really happening this season than the previous 19 put together… I’m not going to be hard on this episode, as it was thoroughly entertaining if not quite as much so as the last two.  And I think this […] Read more

“Please, Master Rikuo – do that thing with me again…” It’s almost as if Nurarihyon has been saving double entendres for two years, and did a massive download for the first five minutes of this episode.  “He did it with Zen, too?!”  Never mind the expression on Itaku’s face when […] Read more

It’s been quite a good season on Nurarihyon.  But in terms of cool, sheer GAR and romance, this might just be the best episode yet. To be honest, I’m kind of rooting for Tsuchigumo at this point.  Nothing against Rikuo, but he’s obviously not going to lose this fight and […] Read more

I still can’t figure out where Rikuo’s youkai on-off switch is… Things in Kyoto are making a lot more sense now that the Tengu’s role in all this has been clarified.  But just when I thought I had Rikuo’s switching forms figured out, he’s training in human form even though […] Read more

Yes, things are quite serious in Kyoto now.  Aotabo has finally put the kids to bed and taken the field. Let me just quickly say that as a matter of course, I would love to have a blog post on Nurarihyon out sooner than Mondays.  It’s a matter of waiting […] Read more