From what I remember of the first two seasons, it’s that Natsume Yuujinchou was one of those series where the episodic episodes were actually better than the arcs. The biggest reason for that was that it was just wonderful in writing self-contained stories, and the arcs, while very good, couldn’t match those. Let’s see whether the third season can bring in a difference here.
This arc was very different from the previous episodes, due to the inclusion of someone who can count as an actual villain. /at the moment, he’s not that interesting yet, compared to some of the bad youkai that Natsume met so far. He still needs something, and I hope that the next episode can deliver it.
And again, Nyanko-sensei sleeves Natsume alone unguarded, but in this episode it does make sense: he had no way of knowing that the bad guy was right onto Natsume, and that he’d be particularly interested to get the book of friends (otherwise I can’t see why he’d send six of his subordinates, including himself, after Natsume).
Rating: * (Good)
FINALLY! The Matoba arc begins. I was getting tired of “Natsume the Yokai Whisperer” this season.
You got to have something to break up the yokai-of-the-week episodes once in awhile.
I haven’t seen this episode yet but from what I recall of the 2nd series the two parters were excellent. One introduced Taki and the other one had the kid that turned into a youkai and Natsume had to think about choosing between humans and youkai. These were my favorite stories in season 2 so I am going to have to disagree with you on this one.
Well get use to arcs 😀 Cuz there were more chapters that become bi-arc or even three chapter arcs. Not sure how the anime will be handling that one, they already did shorten one of those bi-arcs with Taki & Tanuma along with the one with his old classmate. But yeah the manga started adopting those bi-arcs a lot more. So the anime will probably have one more or two perhaps.
Good? Goooood? Whhyyy it was awesome! It was especially hilarious this episode =(
Finally some action! And the self-humour when Natsume had to stay with Nattori? at an inn over night again was hilarious. 🙂
I wonder if Reiko had such unpleasant encounters with the Matoba clan, too…