Natsume Yuujinchou episode 9

I’ve got so many things I want to share with you folks, such as the crazy hap­pen­ings in the Eng­lish Premi­er­ship. I could also blab­ber on about the fact that I’m now 18 so now I can leg­ally drink, smoke, gamble and buy x-rated movies. I could also men­tion the fact that I only yes­ter­day dis­covered that yaoi paddles actu­ally exist, which made me won­der whether there is some sort of con­nec­tion between homo­sexu­al­ity and rowing.

But no, instead I will write about Nat­sume Yuujin­chou epis­ode 9, because that’s what you all really want to hear about.

No Nat­sume!!! What did I tell you about wear­ing that hat!

Nat­sume took Nyanko for a walk. If the epis­ode had ended there it would have made my day. But nah, we had to have a story, a fight, a cyc­lops and someone who was feel­ing a bit lonely. So cue a cer­tain mem­ber of the Ouran Host Club.

I wish everytime I smiled that roses appeared behind me

So this guy is a movie star. I thought he was Natsume’s older brother ori­gin­ally, but unlike Nat­sume he prob­ably could pull off that hat.

Out of all the bad­dies in this show, a fly­ing sheet of paper was one of the least scary

Nat­sume was then vis­ited in the night by a fly­ing piece of paper. Yeah, not so scary but Nat­sume decides he doesn’t want any paper cuts and jumps out of the win­dow. It turned out that it was sent by that bishie from earlier to check if he could see youkai. Which seemed a bit silly to me, he could have just showed him his cool tattoo…

Now I really want one of these. It’s a tat­too that crawls around, which is like the coolest thing ever! What it actu­ally is is a youkai that feeds a bit of his life force or some­thing. Either way, I want one

Natori, the bishie movie star, picks Nat­sume up from school and asks him to tea. This was all kinda funny since Nat­sume was embar­rassed to be seen with him. Natori explains how he could see youkai as well and how he has done a fair amount of research on them. He asks Nat­sume to accom­pany him as a sidekick/apprentice but Nat­sume declines, with a bit of help from Nyanko (as usual).

Although I gen­er­ally try to stay away from using inter­net slang, this moment is too good to pass up: PWNED!

Natori has all these female youkai at his beck and call to do his bid­ding, so he assumed Nyanko was the same. Obvi­ously Nyanko was annoyed and attacked Natori, which angered his youkai fangirls which res­ul­ted in this..

Unfor­tu­nately, we never got to see who won

Natori and Nat­sume still weren’t get­ting along so well even after all that. In fact, the whole thing took a turn for the worst when a angry youkai attacked them. Nat­sume was all ready to do his stander ‘punch ‘em inna face then con­nect with them’but Natori instead stabbed it in the head.

Far scar­ier than a sheet of paper

The anime has yet to have a cyc­lops or a lonely per­son (Natori isn’t lonely, he has his fangirls). So cue our oblig­at­ory cyc­lops shot.

Nat­sume had talked to her earlier but she had been a bit rude to him. This time though he was able to chat away to her. She had been tied to a house in order to pro­tect a cel­lar, which fun­nily enough was the place where Natori had his little job he had to do. Actu­ally her story was quite sad. She had tried to escape but only suc­ceeded in injur­ing her hands. So of course, she just sits around feel­ing very lonely until one day a cer­tain boy shows up…

Cute, but not as cute as little Natsume

Yup, Natori was that little kid who band­aged up her hand. How­ever he doesn’t recog­nise that she is the one he’s exor­cising. So in hops Nat­sume to try stop him. Nat­sume was a wee bit unsuc­cess­ful so in hops Nyanko to save him…as usual. So how does it end? The youkai is saved, Natori remem­bers who she is and she becomes one of his fangirls.

Impres­sions (this is meant to be under­lined but my under­lin­ing but­ton has gone awol for some reason. So can you just pre­tend that it’s under­lined, thanks!)

So appar­antly there are now two ways to get an army of youkai. 1: You could get them to write their name into a book of friends or 2: Be unbe­liev­ably sexy

What was inter­est­ing about this epis­ode was the fact that Natori was able to get info on the youkai, which sug­gests that there are a fair few people who have been able to see youkai. They prob­ably have their own inter­net site. Also, if he had done so much research, you would think he might have heard of the book of friends, but appar­ently not. Or he might have and that’s why he came to Nat­sume in the first place. Maybe the book of friends isn’t all that well known.

Or, the one I think is most likely, is that Reiko was the first one to test the idea of get­ting their name and being friends, up until then it had been unheard of. It would explain why youkai are always kinda con­fused when Nat­sume starts talk­ing to them.

This guy has been tossed aside a bit. I thought he would fea­ture more but oh well, it means we get more Nyanko

I feel I should say what I think of Nat­sume Yuujin­chou as a whole right about now. It is a good show, it’s relax­ing and intel­li­gent. You can’t really fault it on any­thing it does and so far it’s only had one poor epis­ode. But it doesn’t do a whole lot. It’s enjoy­able but only to a cer­tain extent. Meh, its a good foil to the mad­ness of Geass I guess.