I refuse to accept that the only thread for this week's episode died with no discussion.
This installment was fucking boss. Japanese children's animation, where suicide attempts, people being beaten to death with golf clubs, crippling depression that estranges you from your family, desiccated corpses, and utter despair for the future of society are just another half-hour in front of the boob tube!
I stopped following the show in the middle of the wesern yokai arc, and I don't feel like catching up with every episode.
Which are the essential ones that I should watch, let's say on the plastic surgery/WW2 research episodes level?
I was kind of expecting her to kamikaze the yokai w/the car full of coolant & everyone staying dead afterwards. Should've known that the rat was taking video for blackmail purposes.
Rat man actually running an honest business (though with a family of asshole) and ratting them out was pretty good.Surprisingly the mummies are returned back too. Tiger yokai need to be a lot less retarded and maybe kitaro will put on a blinder to his soul sucking activity.
have a bump because i like Kitaro
A severe lack of Mana lately.
It's really all a matter of taste, and this show has so many different modes. I have 40, 41, 43, 45, 47–49 (end of the Nanashi arc), 52, 54, 56, and 64 on my list, but 39's great if sexy yuki onna are your thing and every episode has something or another to recommend it. Just watch everything after the Western Yokai arc, I say.
She's back next week.
Also, whoever was drawing her in the camping episode REALLY remembered that she is "Big Mana."
That was badass, I was expecting the liquid nitrogen tanks blowing up both of them, kitaro finishing the job and just walk away from the wreckage with the wife's phone showing her happy family picture and fade to black ending with the wacky new ed mood whiplash.
This episode look nice, gotta catch up to it.
Its great.
This week's villains were ooh so soulless and comically ugly to boot, I've liked some past eps like this but the dark shit always treads a fine line.
That's actually part of the point. It's so incredibly easy to sympathize with Shouko if the people she's menacing are ridiculously obvious scum that we almost lose sight of the fact that giving in to your basest impulses and going on a murder spree is, you know, really really bad for you.
The trouble with embracing your hate is that eventually you wind up hating everything, and that's exactly what the Suiko represents in this episode. Although Shouko's tormentors 110% deserve a few good whacks with a golf club, THEIR culpability doesn't actually make any difference to Shouko's inner, moral core, which she (nearly?) destroys in the process of exacting her revenge. If the villains were more sympathetic, the message would be diluted—Shouko would be less a cautionary tale about ourselves and more an object of our own moral disapprobation.
Thought you were saying tiger demon is the ugly one but then I remembered the asshat family.
To be fair, even for this show, their designs are pretty absurd.
The original writer/creator got his arm blown of by US GI's in WW2 and he still says they weren't as bad as the Nips, What do you expect?
The mom's design blew up my sides the most.
I want actual consequence of the yokai eating humans but I guess that won't happen.
Brutal.
Was the western yokai arc good?