Anime 34534 Natsume Yuujinchou Go Specials

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Synonyms: Natsume Yuujinchou Go: Hitoyo Sakazuki, Natsume Yuujinchou Go: Yuugi no Utage, Natsume Yuujinchou Go: One Night Sake Cup, Natsume Yuujinchou Go: Party of Fun & Games

Japanese: 夏目友人帳伍特別編

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Type: Special

Episodes: 2

Status: Finished Airing

Aired: Mar 30, 2017 to Apr 26, 2017

Producers: None found, add some

Licensors: None found, add some

Studios: Shuka

Source: Manga

Genres: Slice of Life, Supernatural

Themes: Iyashikei, Mythology

Demographic: Shoujo

Duration: 23 min. per ep.

Rating: PG-13 - Teens 13 or older

Statistics

Score: 8.32¹ (scored by 21,432 users)

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Ranked: #249²

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Popularity: #3249

Members: 46,454

Favorites: 58

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One Night Sake Cup
On his way back home from an errand, Takashi Natsume gets lost in the forest. Luckily, he is rescued by a traveling youkai couple who make sake cups for a living. Taking a sip of water from one, Natsume feels a surge of energy rush throughout his body, thanks to the "One Night Cup." It is a special cup that makes every drink delicious, but unfortunately, its effects last only for one night. The following day, Natsume attends the youkai banquet with his loyal protector, the sake-loving chubby cat Madara, and gets the once-in-a-lifetime opportunity to learn how to make sake cups.

Party of Fun & Games
Natsume is filled with regret after hastily declining a rare invitation to a banquet from Madara. Curious, he chases after the cat to an old, run-down mansion but soon enough feels the uncanny presence of numerous youkai nearby. When he runs into the seductive youkai Hinoe, she explains that the empty estate serves as a hide-and-seek playground where the winning spirit acquires authority over a valley. With still no trace of Madara, Natsume starts having eerie dreams of the mansion, but this time as the game's participant.

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Characters & Voice Actors

Natsume, Takashi

Main

Kamiya, Hiroshi
Japanese

Madara

Main

Inoue, Kazuhiko
Japanese

Natsume, Reiko

Supporting

Kobayashi, Sanae
Japanese

Hinoe

Supporting

Okamura, Akemi
Japanese

Fujiwara, Touko

Supporting

Itou, Miki
Japanese

Misuzu

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Kuroda, Takaya
Japanese

Ushikao no Chuukyuu Youkai

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Shimozaki, Hiroshi
Japanese

Nishimura, Satoru

Supporting

Kimura, Ryouhei
Japanese

Fujiwara, Shigeru

Supporting

Itou, Eiji
Japanese

Hitotsume no Chuukyuu Youkai

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Matsuyama, Takashi
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Opening Theme

"Takarabako (タカラバコ)" by Sasanomaly (ササノマリイ)

Ending Theme

"Akane Sasu (茜さす)" by Aimer

Reviews

Aug 5, 2017

RPWPA

Recommended

If you are like me and just finished these after Roku and not by the chronicle order then you would be surprised by the quality of the OVAs and how good they are.

In this OVA you see stuff that wasn't there in ROKU like unique characters and stories, with ROKU being more on the repetitive side and had many mistakes, this however was perfect in the 2 episodes, the characters are really good and their way of thinking is unique that it would make you think that there really are much more important things in life than just surviving or having people around you for ...

Jan 2, 2022

lamaraptor

Recommended

When reviewing specials like this with only a couple episodes it gives a rare opportunity to do specific reviews about the individual stories rather than a show as a whole. Natsume Yuujinchou is a very episodic series, so you almost have to look at each story in isolation anyway. So here we go.

The first episode it a story of Natsume meeting an elderly yokai couple who loves making ceramic cups. These magical cups make sake taste especially delicious, which Nyanko-sensei loves of course, but they only last until the end of the night. The couple met Reiko once when she was still young, and told ... her to come drink sake with them when she was "grown up." In classic tragic Natsume fashion, she never gets the chance as they find out she died long ago and this is her grandson. The longevity of yokai and the short lives of humans is an ever-present theme of the series. But when faced with the losses of time, this episode seems to say its okay for things to come to an end. When the ceramic cups that make delicious sake start to fade sooner and sooner in the day, the yokai ouji-san seems to take it in stride that it's a part of getting old and that someday it will have to come to and end. It's one of the rare cases in the show where a yokai is shown to succumb to the wheel of time and not just a human. They live incredibly long lives, but still they eventually fade away, and that's okay. It's part of nature and it's okay to be sad, but there's no point in fighting the inevitable. Despite this Natsume does help them stave off the effects of time for just a bit longer by helping them get some special mcguffin at the end. It's just another way the show tries to end everything on a positive note, even when faced with tragedy.

The second episode is a fun adventure with a game of hide-and-seek. Natsume, completely by accident, stumbles into a game that at first seems like it might be another sinister evil yokai trying to mess up his life. But in a rare turn, this game is actually pretty harmless, and just a game of regular old hide-and-seek. The winner gets to control that yokai's domain after he's gone, another yokai that seems to be aware that even he won't be around forever. Yokai are an extension of nature, as the Shinto religion is basically the worship of nature. The series seems to say that while nature tends to have much longer life than humans, it can eventually die. This ghost that just wants to play hide-and-seek realizes the fragility of humans, and notes that even though it's just a harmless game, it's still too much for a child of man to handle, as Natsume hasn't been able to sleep properly while "playing." The game kept pulling him into the same yokai mansion every time he shut his eyes to go to bed, like "you're not allowed to leave until we're done here." So the yokai lets him go when he realizes Natsume probably wouldn't be having a good time. It's a fun story with surprisingly little actual conflict and the stakes were never more than a little loss of sleep. Nothing crazy like Exorcist clans plotting or dangerous yokai trying to kill Natsume and all his friends. Just a cozy story about a dying ghost and his final wish to play a game.

Overall these are both solid entries to the Natsume Yuujinchou series as a whole, so they get a decent 8/10

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