#Natsume Yujincho

[schrodingersauthorii]

I’d always been sooo confused about wtf Matoba was doing back in the very end of the That Which Is Not Human arc, but it’s actually really simple: he was waiting to see if Natori and Natsume could seal the yokai themselves. He was intentionally lurking, probably like he ALWAYS does for Natori, because Natori doesn’t want his help but sometimes actually does need it. So Matoba pretends to leave, maybe makes an excuse to Nanase, goes back, and waits. If they’d been successful, he’d have just left unseen.

(But maybe Nanase knows- maybe Matoba doesn’t even disguise his intentions. Maybe Natori knows that she knows- and doesn’t that add a little zing to their interactions?)

No wonder they’re both batshit. Their early canon relationship is just…

Matoba doing his best in his own way to respect Natori’s wishes to do things himself but creating this messed up stalker dynamic because he Can’t Be Normal. Natori slowly going insane because Matoba is always lurking in the shadows, ready to swoop in and remind him that he’ll Never Be Good Enough. And the Matoba clan hires Natori for exorcisms, so what does Natori think of that? Does he see it as charity he can’t refuse? A way for Matoba to keep a closer eye on him? An indication that he’s good, just not Good Enough?

All the exorcists are throwing up a little when they see the two of them. Some of Natori’s assassination attempts aren’t because he’s a Natori, but because everyone but him knows he has Incredible Influence he could use if he ever got his head out of his ass. How are they not beating yokai that feed off negative emotions off with a stick.

(They are- they’re just exorcists, and think that it’s normal. It is not.)

[connan-l]

I sometimes see people wondering when Reiko died exactly and how old her daughter was at the time of her death, but we do, in fact, already have a little bit of an answer to this in canon.

Now this is something that is only implied, but in the very first chapter of the manga, during the conversation Natsume has with Nyanko-sensei the first time he reveals his true form and right before our first Reiko flashback, we have this line (that was cut off from the anime):

[NATSUME: She [Reiko] may not have been able to relate well to others... Not many people even remember her, since she died so young. Not even her own daughter...]

[NATSUME: 確かに祖母は人とうまくつきあえなかったらしい 彼女を憶えている 「人」はほとんでいないんだ 娘だった母でさえ記憶にないくらい若くして亡くなっていて・・・・・・]

This is the official English translation, while the fan translation has this:

"There aren't that many people who remember her. She died so young that even my mom, her daughter, probably didn't remember her..."

This leaves some more uncertainty in the phrasing, but the meaning is basically the same. The original Japanese, "母でさえ記憶にないくらい若くして亡くなっていて" is a bit closer to the fan translation in a literal sense, except in Japanese there is no "probably"; Natsume sounds pretty certain his mother didn't remember Reiko.

So, if "not even her own daughter" remembered Reiko, it's fair to assume that she must have died when Takashi's mom was still a child, and a really young one at that.

(I suppose you could maybe make an argument that Reiko could have still died when the daughter was older, but then something happened that made her forget? But that doesn't seem likely to me.)

Now, this was the very first chapter written 20 years ago, back when NatsuYuu still wasn't supposed to become a long series with much of an overarching narrative, so maybe it's something that could change later. Midorikawa has definitely retconned some details in her story before. But for now that's still one of the only crumb of information we have about this.

Which, if this is correct, then it's very sad because that means Reiko only lived with her daughter for a handful of years at most and never even got to see her grow up. And given we know the grandfather wasn't around and Reiko was a single mom, then the daughter probably spent most of her childhood without her parents, and barely knew anything about either of them (or, well, nothing at all in the father's case).

Which also begs the question as to who raised Reiko's daughter after her death then. We knows Reiko had no family, and no one know anything about the grandfather, so there was no relative, even distant ones, to look after her like with Takashi.

Did she just end up in the foster system/an orphanage, or did someone specific took care of her? If so, does that mean there was a person close enough to Reiko that would have taken care of her child like this? Did the daughter just carry the Book of Friends with herself all this time? Did she knows what the Book of Friends even was, or anything about her mother's abilities? During the eastern forest arc, Takashi says that his mother didn't have any spiritual powers, but then again he never met her or know anything about her at all, so who knows how much that can be true.

Regardless, there's something particularly tragic about the idea that each generation of the Natsumes grew up as isolated orphans who barely knew anything about their family.

[mysticdragon3md3]

Translated from Japanese by Google: "Thanks to all the support from the anime Natsume's Book of Friends ㊗️ the 15th anniversary 💐 and the 7th season! Yay~ 🎉😻🎊 I'll be able to meet Nyanko-sensei again in that Natsume anime…! thank you very much. Thank you very much. I'm looking forward~! ✨"

NATSUME YUUJINCHOU IS GETTING A SEVENTH SEASON?!?!?!?!!!! ^U^!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! OMGOMGOMGOMGOMG!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[hatsumishinogu]

Natsume's Book of Friends Vol.30

[mysticdragon3art]

Giving Nyanko Sensei all my booze🍶🍾🍷🍸🍹🍺🍻🥂🥃

8.14.2023. Just unboxed Nendoroid Nyanko Sensei. Biggest sake bottle came with Nendoroid Nyanko Sensei. Smaller brown sake bottle is from an Orcara miniatures set. Small, clear sake bottle is from a Re-ment miniatures set. Scrapbook paper backdrop.

[akashi-tetsuki]

new season for natsume yuujinchou

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[hedonistbyheart]

God i just can't be normal about Natori Shuuichi😩

[floorpancakes]

rewatching/continuing that show that starts with the high school boy that's associated with cats running away from and eventually being overpowered by spirits that noone else can see so he looks crazy

[goodlucktai]

do you think you'll write for natsume yujincho again? i adore your fics

oh most definitely. i’m going to try to participate in natsume week this summer bcus it’s tradition

[prosperity009]

Fav chara Natsume Yujincho

My favorite in Natsume Yujincho :

Matoba Seiji

Natsume Takashi

Tanuma Kaname

Natori Shuichi

😍❤️

[chenechen]

Natsume Yujincho season 7 🎉

[schrodingersauthorii]

Sometimes, I’ll start writing fanfiction that ultimately goes nowhere BUT I get a capital H Headcanon out of it. So alas, the Matoba-gets-cursed-into-becoming-a-mermaid fic will likely never see the light of day, but I remain totally and sincerely convinced that Matoba Seji’s love language is allowing people to find blackmail on him. To him, nothing says affection better than mutually assured destruction- and no, neither Natori or Natsume recognize this demented overture of friendship, though it is canonically present several times.

(The train station special being a particularly overt example, because Matoba knows Natsume is a Tiny Innocent Babe who needs to be told Here Is Blackmail For You To Use, (So Now We’re Even.))

[qyza8kcq4x6udjq]

Natsume Yujincho x YugiohDM - Crossover

YugiMuto AIBO AIBO

[wormtoasty]

save me natsume yujincho soundtrack...

[azer1ck]

I started watching Natsume Yujincho and episode 3 just got to me. ;0;

[ten-kei]

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