#tonari no yokai san

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WATCH TONARI NO YOKAI-SAN!!! WE GOT GAY CARS!!!

[animecatoftheday]

Today’s anime cat of the day is:

Buchio from Tonari no Yokai-san!

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The 3rd Character Design Tournament

Please remember to vote for characters solely based on their design, rather than which character you are more familiar with or like more! Reblogs for more reach are much appreciated as well.

Chiaki Nishiya | Tonari no Yokai-san

“and he's gay”

Darth Maul | Star Wars

“dark and mysterious. markings are a lovely blend of natural, jagged shapes and straight lines. the markings give him a permanent scowl, reinforcing his role as the "scary villain". plus he has arguably the coolest lightsaber in all of star wars. AND he has a gay little ear piercing.”

[ladyloveandjustice]

Spring 2024 Anime Overview: Train to the End of the World and Tonari no Yokai-san

Who knows if poor Whisper Me a Love Song (a cute yuri anime about a girl band... with dire animation conditions so it's currently stuck on episode 10 with the last two episodes delayed indefinitely) is ever going to finish, but here’s some my first post reviewing the rest of what I watched.

Delicious in Dungeon continued to kill it with the second half of the season, kicking into high gear and introducing cranky catgirls, but you can see my general thoughts on the show here.

Train to the End of the World

I love bizarre anime, especially bizarre anime starring loveable weird girls, and Train absolutely delivers.

 A teenage girl named Yoka is bullied by a slimy businessman into pushing a button that activates the 7G cellular network across Japan, but said network warps and changes Japan completely, having bizarre effects on the citizens. For example, all the adults in Yoka's hometown have been transformed into animals and are starting to act like animals.

Shizuru is Yoka's best friend, and she said some seriously nasty things to Yoka before her friend left town. Yoka's been missing ever since the 7G incident and Shizuru is desperate to find her and apologize. So when she sees a picture showing Yoka in Ikebukuro, she decides to drive a train to find her, and her friends Reimi, Akira, Nadeshiko, and also her dog come along. As they travel across the warped Japan, they face many weird encounters and obstacles.

Train to the End of the World is greatly entertaining, as we see the girls encounter nihiists with mushrooms growing out of their heads, screaming goatmen that ram into the train and even zombies on their journey. The dialogue is snappy, and the girls all have a fun personalities. As a lover of girls doing silly violence, I also adored how everyone besides Akira (who is the smart one) has ridiculous combat skills, with Shizuru having her own form of martial art, Reimi being physically unstoppable when she's mad, and Nadeshiko might come off as the ladylike bow and error wielder...but actually she also can beat the shit out of people with said bow as a blunt object. It's fun to watch them go wild.

An example of how ridiculous the show can get is the encounter with the zombies--the absolutely bizarre logic is that since zombies are supposed to be dead to all sensation, arousal will make them blow up. Instead of the girls acting sexy to arouse them like most anime would do, they just say dirty words, and Akira recites a whole paragraph from Lady Chatterley's Lover that she apparently memorized, and they sing a hilariously bawdy folk song. This episode DOES contain the show's biggest moment of sexualizing the teenage girls though- a hyper detailed panty shot that was super jarring considering the show avoided fanservice before then.

And the next episode had Nadeshiko forced to don a somewhat skimpy outfit. Those are the only two instances of fanservice, but that episode also had a joke where this character in this children's cartoon come to life's entire gimmick was that she was suicidal. It was probably meant to be "lol look how inappropriate this would be for children" but it still felt fairly mean spirited at times.

Despite those hiccups to watch out for, the anime works because it never forgets it's core theme or friendship--the relationships between the girls are developed at a good pace, and Shizuru's guilt over what she did to Yoka is explored well too. It's not just a ridiculous anime, it has a heart too. So if an anime where a girl punches a bear in the face and arms herself with vegetables appeals to you…check it out!

Tonari No Yokai-san

Tonari no Yokai-san takes place in a world where yokai have integrated into human society. The central characters are Buchio, a cat who became a nekomata after living to twenty, and Jiro, a crow tengu who is close friends with a little girl he calls Mu-chan.

This is a very sweet, gentle series that has some heartwrenching and dark undertones occasionally.  Mu’s father has been lost to an eerie void, and a lot of the stories focus on grief. The immediate comparison tone and content-wise is Natsume’s Book of Friends, but it distinguishes itself by presenting a world where yokai are very much part of society, to the point where they have to do paperwork  and pay taxes. (There was also a confirmation that one character is bisexual when his backstory involves dating a guy yokai, so that was nice, especially since he's currently in a relationship with a car yokai that's probably meant to be romantic? Yes I said car yokai it is his car.)

There’s also some sci-fi elements mixed in with alternate timelines and what not. I think these elements could be integrated more smoothly, but they are pretty novel. It’s a really solid series.

I do love stories about yokai and I thought it was enjoyable and touching, but it didn’t rock my world the way I wanted it to…it might be that it followed too many characters at once so I couldn’t dig into any of them the way I really wanted to. Still, it’s a sweet, tender and pleasant watch, I definitely rec it.

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[animefeminist]

2024 Spring Premiere Digest

Licensing frustrations aside, there are a number of titles to look forward to this season.

Which shows do you review? 

We don’t review shows that are direct sequels, shorts, or (generally) for very young children. Anything not licensed and/or immediately available is off the table as well; series that are dropped in batches (the binge/Netflix model) won’t receive a premiere review but are eligible for recommendations at end of season. Shows with late release dates will be reviewed separately from the digest.

While shows may change category as they continue to air, for ease of reference this is the order that will be used when discussing shows on our mid-season and wrap-up podcasts. Please note that any shows released in batches/by cour rather than weekly will not be discussed on the mid-season podcast.

Read it at Anime Feminist!

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Tonari no Yokai-san 13 [END]

You may kiss the...oh sorry.

I thought this turned into Evangelion...

Awww Buchio.....

Fairly sedate ending considering everything that had come beforehand....show was pretty decent in the end and I enjoyed the mix of drama & lightheartedness.

My AniList Rating: 7.5 My Average Episode Rating: 7.692 Best thing about the show: Fun, fluffy (and sometimes not so fluffy) yokai Worst thing about the show: The sudden turn into dark territory was a bit jarring My favourite character: BUCHIO Would I Rewatch?: I don't wanna go through the darkness again...

[violetearuby]

Tonari no Yokai-san - Episode 8

[grelleswife]

Hi just wanted to share something since you like trying new anime: Tonari no Yokai-san, which is about Yokai and humans living together and it is VERY WHOLESOME <3 In fact it may remind one of dadbastian raising his boy!!

Reminiscent of Dadbastian, you say? 👀

The trailer was adorable and gave the gentle, cozy fantasy vibes that I find irresistible, so it’s going on the to-watch list posthaste!

[yourmotherisafragginaardvark]

People are sleeping on this anime. It's so sweet and cozy and there are yokai.

[scallioncreamcheesebagel]

buchio from tonari no yokai-san is literally the cutest character in all of anime

[visualstorage]

—From Tonari no Yokai-san

[bergeronprocess]

Spring anime season is looking SPARSE as hell for me - I've been reading all of the new show reviews on Anime Feminist and Anime News Network, as is my custom - except for two things: Nijiyon Animation 2 because I am a Love Live Nijigasaki girlie and Tonari no Yokai-san. This show has EVERYTHING: slice of life vibes, cicadas because it's summer, a cat that turned into a nekomata when it turned 20 years old and now has to do paperwork lol, a little girl who can see some scary void stuff, a crow man... I'm very intrigued by it so far and excited to see where it is going.

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[averinna]

I'm a furry now

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✨ Crunchyroll ha annunciato l'arrivo in simuclast di altre cinque nuove serie!

Dal 4 aprile:

A SALAD BOWL OF ECCENTRICS

Dal 6 aprile:

YATAGARASU: THE RAVEN DOES NOT CHOOSE ITS MASTER

TONARI NO YOKAI-SAN

DRAGON RAJA -THE BLAZING DAWN-

Dal 13 aprile:

THE NEW GATE

📆 Il palinsesto primaverile della piattaforma, completo e aggiornato, lo trovate qua.