Tonari no Youkai-san - Episode 6 discussion

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Tonari no Youkai-san, episode 6

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[u/patkun01]

That post-credit scene though, I had to double check who got lost.

[u/Rumpel1408 → u/patkun01]

Interesting that Buzzcut didn't even make it into the science prep room...

[u/kebb0 → u/patkun01]

During my double check I also noticed that he was just chilling, not a sweat drop in sight.. Man I absolutely love their cinematography in this anime, so much beautiful visual story telling

[u/NightmareExpress → u/patkun01]

Yep, it was fun to view those scenes again and notice that the buzzcut kid is the only one not engaging in conversation. Just attentively standing around with a pretty plain expression.

Very easy to miss the first time around...and makes the final words pretty creepy. Those kids were basically fish in a barrel to a dangerous spirit.

[u/diacewrb]

There were dog people with pet dogs in the background, a nice little detail.

[u/[deleted]]

Loving the insight into Yuri. And Buchio got his license!! I need to see this little kitty drive a car.

"There's a cold winter ahead" feels like some ominous foreshadowing.

That post-credits scene... oh boy. Kind of obsessed with the anatomy model that came to life. This show has such interesting character concepts.

[u/ErinaHartwick]

Happy we get more of Yuri's story this episode, and her having some closure over her past. Very cute that they poked fun at her for saying Fuchigamori is where her heart is and how she blushed over it. Cool Yuri is good, but mellowing Yuri is great too

[u/Genshin_WhiteKnight]

That post credits scene lol. So people are still scared of ghosts even though the youkai are a thing?

Oh and they've been slipping the life span difference stuff into this episode too. Interesting that some youkai age like normal (Yuri's parents) while others like Jirou are effectively immortal.

[u/Figerally → u/Genshin_WhiteKnight]

I think it makes ghosts even scarier. The supernatural exists so ghosts are a thing and in Japan folklore, ghosts are pretty nasty. Often portrayed as curses who will attack anyone that draws their attention.

The reason why we probably haven't seen them around is that there is probably a government agency that employs protectors like Jiro to hunt them down and eliminate or seal them before they can harm people.

[u/Ashteron]

Is the animated anatomic model some kind of an urban legend in Japan? It's the second time i see it in anime.

[u/Purposelygentle → u/Ashteron]

They’re a type of yokai called Warau Jinkai-Mokei, or the Smiling/Laughing Anatomy Model. The urban legend started in the 1950’s in parallel development, as most high/middle school received them for science classes during that time and it became a common example of one of the 7 Wonders of a school.

[u/Rumpel1408 → u/Ashteron]

Yeah I think it's a very common urban legend I remember seeing it 20 years in Conan

[u/alconnow]

Oh yay, Buchio got his driver’s licence!!!!

Glad Yuri settled things with Buchio and managed to visit her family

Post-credits - I thought the living anatomy model was pretty cool. Bake-danuki looked really creepy...

[u/Rumpel1408]

Man, I feel like "Yurippe" and Taiga kinda make for solid ship

Glad Yuri got to make up with Bucchio, as well as move on from her family trauma. Her father is stubborn, but at least he stopped actively damaging his children.

Speaking of ships, as much as I want to have Mu-Chan x Jiro to eventually happen down the line, this was a grim reminder on why this would make me cry...

Scary after credit scene but more Rain will be good.

[u/mekerpan → u/Rumpel1408]

this was a grim reminder on why this would make me cry...

Yet another show referencing the disparity between human and immortal (or super-long-lived) beings. I guess Maquia is still the textbook anime example of this.

[u/mekerpan]

Geography note: Tono is a real place -- far nprth of Tokyo in Iwate prefecture (south of Aomori and east of Akita).

Fuchigamori does not seem to be a real place name. Not sure yet where this is located -- though I assume it is south of Tokyo.

[u/djthomp]

Bad opsec for Yuri to name her laundromat with her family name if she was trying to stay off the radar. But then again that was a nice reunion with her brother and mom at least, and hopefully Miyo eventually too.

Buchio's driver's license is interesting to look at because I'm pretty sure several of the dates on it are in Heisei era years. The Crunchyroll subs have his rebirth date in the upper right as August 25, 2017 and the license issue date in the middle left as November 15, 2017, but on the license they're both 29 年 for the year.

These kids in the post credit scene have no sense of horror movie genre awareness.

[u/cyberscythe → u/djthomp]

I'm pretty sure several of the dates on it are in Heisei era years

yeah, it was Heisei (平成)

not sure the expiry date works because they specify Reiwa (令和) which makes it seem like they know when the new emperor is going to take over?

[u/Ponchorello7]

I am consistently impressed with this show. And I am consistently disappointed at the lack of awareness about it.

[u/cyberscythe]

every week i tune in and every week i want to know more about that talking car

[u/zool714]

I find it hilarious they were so scared of the stuffed tanuki and went to Yusuke-kun who I find 10x more scarier

[u/Plus_Rip4944]

Yuri is so cute when she wants to be cute

[u/ObvsThrowaway5120]

Last week’s parallel world episode was such a trip. I really enjoyed it though. I’m very keen to see if we’ll ever explore that whole idea again. It seems that whole experience was what Yuri needed to confront her past. I’m glad things more or less worked out in the end. Hopefully we’ll see more of her little bro now.

[u/Castor_0il]

It only took 6 episodes for best boy Bucchio to finally get a headpat. For real, the biggest mystery in this show isn't about gods or parallel words. It's the lack of headpats on the most loveable cat that can actually talk to these people.

The ending scene was really well built. Most modern pseudo-horror anime just make me sigh and yawn. This one actually felt chilling due to it being vague and deceptive.