January 6, 2009

Zoku Natsume Yuujinchou - 01

Filed under: Currently Watching, Natsume Yuujinchou
by: Tales



Thoughts: Two Nyanko-senseis are double the trouble!
Overall Rating: 9
This series really turned out to be worth the wait. Many other series just do not make me laugh like this one does. The sequencing of the scenes in the opening song were well done. The music fit perfectly in with everything, and I asked myself if this was the same Natsume Yuujinchou I had watched before in the previous season.

We start off with Natsume getting hit in the head with a soccer ball while he’s laying on a wall. After falling over, a demon crawls out from the bushes and chases him. Natsume runs into a similar seal that unsealed Madara from his prison in season one. A black version of Nyanko-sensei pops out and follows Natsume home. Gotta love Nyanko-sensei laying right next to his counterpart. The black cat snatches the Book of Friends and Natsume and Nyanko-sensei chase after it. Natsume runs into a spirit named Beniya, and it turns out that she knew Madara. She helps disguise Natsume as a spirit to let him mingle with the demons in the festival in order to find out where the black cat went.

This episode stayed true to the first season, in that it had some comedy mixed in with the usual spirit and demon encounters. The pace of the episode went pretty fast considering it was just episode 1. It makes me wonder how much plot development we’ll see in the next couple episodes. I do hope that Natsume opens up about seeing spirits to a few of his classmates. It would make the story much more interesting.

6 Comments »

  1. Two Nyanko-senseis- now I’m looking forward to this episode even more :D

    Comment by Karura — January 6, 2009 @ 9:57 am

  2. It was well worth the wait! The opening sequence with Natsume and the ball had me in hysterics! This season looks very very promising :D The OP & ED are both gorgeous!

    Comment by Hime — January 6, 2009 @ 2:15 pm

  3. Yes they are. I can’t wait for episode 2.

    Comment by Tales — January 6, 2009 @ 7:31 pm

  4. hmmmhmmm.. u can see bishie youkais in season 2…. ureshi…

    Comment by mariku — January 26, 2009 @ 6:20 am

  5. this is great anime….

    Comment by umaianime — May 11, 2009 @ 11:02 pm

  6. I absolutely loved both seasons and was extremely sad when it ended.

    Comment by EKA — June 28, 2009 @ 7:00 pm

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