(L+CR) Uchouten Kazoku (The Eccentric Family)

[Cadallin]

Originally Posted by nil

In the next ep preview, Benten said, "月が綺麗ですねと言われても(Tsuki ga kirei desune ne to iwarete mo.. "Even if you say, The moon sure looks nice.")".

This phrase is derived from a famous episode that a poplar novelist Soseki Natsume translated "I love you" into Japanese as "月が綺麗ですね(The moon sure looks nice tonight.)".

Which all good Persona fans should know

This series is great fun, and immensely entertaining!

[Pocari_Sweat]

Originally Posted by Cadallin

Which all good Persona fans should know

This series is great fun, and immensely entertaining!

BUuuuuurn my dreeeeeeeeeead!

[Cadallin]

Originally Posted by Pocari_Sweat

BUuuuuurn my dreeeeeeeeeead!

Try telling Yasuburou that!

[NoemiChan]

I love this series.... Why did I missed this..?! It reminds me of Miyazaki-sama!

[cyth]

Episode one does the series such terrible disservice. So Friday guys up next episode, huh.

[Kanon]

Benten is the most attractive woman of the season. There's something about her that makes her terribly alluring. I'm curious to find out more about her. She remains very mysterious.

The Friday Fellows are all surprisingly good people for tanuki eaters. Not exactly what I expected.

[Dop]

What a beautiful image to end the episode with

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Spoiler for Those Friday Fellows:

Seems like the Friday Fellows are not quite the evil group of tanuki-eating ogres we'd been led to believe, but rather it's a club where the members seem like reasonably nice people, who'd rather have a beef hotpot but tanuki is the old tradition.

One of them even saved the life of Yasaburou's mother, it seems.

There was quite a sense of melancholy at the end of the episode, I felt.

Originally Posted by Kanon

Benten is the most attractive woman of the season. There's something about her that makes her terribly alluring. I'm curious to find out more about her. She remains very mysterious.

Oh yes. She's a wonderful character - the sort of woman you'd fall heavily for even with the sure knowledge she'd completely screw up your life - she's like a flame to a moth.

[Beltane70]

To be honest, I was actually hoping that the Friday Fellows were going to turn out to be just as they were presented in this episode.

[Sol Falling]

Haha. It seems at least one of them shares Benten's own twisted compulsion to eat up something that they like, however. Benten's desire to eat Yasaburo up some day seems like a real inevitablity. The grief she expresses over the scenario is shallow given she herself is still determined to instigate it.

Kaisei is freakin' cute. I totally want to see her fighting with Benten over Yasaburo, lol. Depending on the execution their interactions have the potential to be awesomely dramatic or incredibly adorable.

Anyway, the Friday Fellows are still pretty mysterious. It doesn't look like they have tanuki guests all that often if they seemed to be impressed with Yasaburo's transformation performance. Since they at least know about tanuki I have to wonder about their role within supernatural society, and how that reflects upon the knowledge of the rest of human society.

[Alhazred]

Originally Posted by Sol Falling

Since they at least know about tanuki I have to wonder about their role within supernatural society, and how that reflects upon the knowledge of the rest of human society.

Actually, given the way the professor described his encounter with Yasaburo's mother i sort of doubt that any of the humans at that party aside from Benten realize that tanuki are anything more than dumb animals; note the disbelief around the table when the professor claimed that the tanuki he'd rescued understood that he'd done her a favor.

[Blaat]

Indeed, they know about transforming Tanuki because it's part of Japanese folklore.

[Shadow5YA]

I like how Yasaburo has the guts to striptease as Benten despite knowing she could turn him into dead meat

[kyouray]

Originally Posted by Kanon

Benten is the most attractive woman of the season. There's something about her that makes her terribly alluring. I'm curious to find out more about her. She remains very mysterious.

This. Specially with this dress and the full moon part
I also love her relation with Yasaburo.

Originally Posted by Sol Falling

Since they at least know about tanuki I have to wonder about their role within supernatural society, and how that reflects upon the knowledge of the rest of human society.

Originally Posted by Alhazred

Actually, given the way the professor described his encounter with Yasaburo's mother i sort of doubt that any of the humans at that party aside from Benten realize that tanuki are anything more than dumb animals; note the disbelief around the table when the professor claimed that the tanuki he'd rescued understood that he'd done her a favor.

Tanukis seem to be considered as primitive beings otherwise humans wouldn't eat tanukis. That's what I'd think but it's so weird : there was this disbelief although Yasaburo was here and was an evidence that tanukis are as intelligent as humans but still they weren't bothered at all talking about hot pots and eating tanukis.

[Alhazred]

Originally Posted by kyouray

Tanukis seem to be considered as primitive beings otherwise humans wouldn't eat tanukis. That's what I'd think but it's so weird : there was this disbelief although Yasaburo was here and was an evidence that tanukis are as intelligent as humans but still they weren't bothered at all talking about hot pots and eating tanukis.

When Benten and Yasaburo confirmed that he was a tanuki the Friday Fellows may have thought they were making a joke, given Yasaburo's excellent 'transformation show.' They were amazed by how well it was done, which they shouldn't have been if they really believed that magical, shape-shifting tanuki actually existed. The tanuki is an actual animal (distantly related to dogs), so i'm thinking that (plus folklore on how they can change shape) is probably the limit of their knowledge on the subject.

[GundamZZ]

This show is so different from The Tatami Galaxy, even they have same author. It's different in style and pacing.

[Sol Falling]

Originally Posted by Alhazred

When Benten and Yasaburo confirmed that he was a tanuki the Friday Fellows may have thought they were making a joke, given Yasaburo's excellent 'transformation show.' They were amazed by how well it was done, which they shouldn't have been if they really believed that magical, shape-shifting tanuki actually existed. The tanuki is an actual animal (distantly related to dogs), so i'm thinking that (plus folklore on how they can change shape) is probably the limit of their knowledge on the subject.

What about Benten flying out the window though? That's what gives me pause about assuming the Friday Fellows really don't know anything about the supernatural.

[Alhazred]

Originally Posted by Sol Falling

What about Benten flying out the window though? That's what gives me pause about assuming the Friday Fellows really don't know anything about the supernatural.

That's an interesting question. It's possible they know about supernatural things like Benten flying but don't necessarily have the whole picture. For some reason that feels easier to accept than a group of otherwise pleasant-seeming folks who have no compunctions at all about eating a guy they were just having a friendly conversation with.

It looks like the next episode will give us a bit more insight into how the humans view Benten's magic, however.

[ars89]

Kaisei really is great, too bad her family is crazy. Too bad Benten finally caught Yasaburo. Interesting that the guy his mom owes her life to is apart of the Friday Fellows and apparently the one that likes to eat tanuki the most. Benten looking unnaturally sad towards the end. If she's going to feel like that she shouldn't eat him.

[Pocari_Sweat]

I lost my shit at:

"If you eat the thing you'll like, then it'll be gone!"
"Obviously, you can't have your tanuki and eat it too."



This show is just fucking amazing week by week. Best thing I've watched/seeing this year since Shin Sekai Yori.

[nojay]

Originally Posted by Alhazred

That's an interesting question. It's possible they know about supernatural things like Benten flying but don't necessarily have the whole picture.

It looks like there are two worlds, the mundane world and the supernatural world and they don't intersect much unless the supernatural creatures like the tanuki or tengu intend it. Thus we humans wouldn't or couldn't see Benten fly above the rooftops of Kyoto at night or observe the leisure cruisers of tanuki society in the sky during the fireworks festival. On the other hand Yasaburo can put on a "quick-change" act for the Seven Lucky Gods and they have no problem seeing him do it because he did it deliberately.

It may be partly a "I'm seeing things, didn't happen" cloaking effect and partly "this only affects the supernatural world" like the drowned clocktower and the whale in episode 4 -- that locale doesn't exist in the mundane world but it is real in the supernatural realm, perhaps only while Yasaburo and Benten think it exists.