Natsume Yuujinchou episode 8

Did you see Usain Bolt 100m? More import­antly have you seen the par­ody of his win? It’s here if you want to watch it. But ser­i­ously, that race has to be one of the most bizarre things I have ever seen in sport. Oh wait, this is an anime blog, bet­ter get back to anime.

This epis­ode of Nat­sume Yuujin­chou involves fire­flies and curly noodles

You got a little some­thing on your shoulder..

Nat­sume went down to the lake to see some fire­flies but finds some chap sit­ting there with a youkai on his shoulder. The youkai real­ises that Nat­sume can see her so she goes off to talk to him.

You might want to watch out. It may look like a sweet little kitty but it’s actu­ally a giant wolf!

Nat­sume decides to run away, which seemed rather out of char­ac­ter for him. I mean, two epis­odes ago he was naive enough to be lead to a fest­ival where he would have been eaten if it wasn’t for Nyanko. This time it’s just one little youkai he could eas­ily beat with that power punch of his yet he decides to run away. Serves him right to fall off a cliff.

Oh no, we’ve gone into a loony toons show where bot­tom­less cliffs appear reg­u­larly at humor­ous intervals

Luck­ily, the youkai saves Nat­sume or else the show would have ended rather pre­ma­turely. So Nat­sume invites her back to his house to for a few drink­ing games, includ­ing try­ing to decide what her name is. Nyanko, being the wise old hat that he is, decides upon that her name is curly noodles.

Doesn’t this look sus­pi­cious to you?

She claims to be friends with the chap from earlier so Nat­sume heads down to the lake to see if the guy can see youkai as well. But when he gets down there he spots a badly drawn monster!

I wasn’t pay­ing much atten­tion to what the char­ac­ters were saying

I mean, how could I with that weird thing in the background

Try­ing to focus on sub­titles with that in the pic­ture is too hard

One thing Nat­sume Yuujin­chou man­ages very well is put in these little cute things on occa­sion, like here when she hides her blush­ing with her mask was such an ‘Awww’ moment

  But then one day the guy couldn’t see youkai any­more so he couldn’t see the fire­fly girl, which was very sad and stuff since they had fallen in love. This made our poor fire­fly very lonely indeed. But he was get­ting mar­ried in a few days and the fire­fly just wanted to see him before he got married.

So what would you do if a girl hopped on top of you in the middle of the night like this but she was glow­ing in a sus­pi­ciously radio­act­ive way?

Ser­i­ously, this was a bit much for me. A giant mon­ster opens it’s huge mouth to eat this itty bitty firefly

Next Epis­ode Preview:

I nor­mally don’t do one of these but I haven’t done my oblig­at­ory cyc­lops shot yet so here he/she is!