Single release from fhána, titled Que sera, sera, is the OP for anime series Uchouten Kazoku. Will be out on 21 August 2013. Only one edition available for preorder. Track-listing of Que sera, sera ケセラセラ 君という特異点 ケセラセラ -Instrumental- 君という特異点 -Instrumental- Single Title: Que sera, sera Catalog Number: LACM-14129 Release Date: 21 August 2013 Retail Price: [...]
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「紅葉狩り」 (Momijigari) "Red Leaf Hunting" Even the great Benten feels the deepest of sadness at times.
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Supreme beauty, yet with sadness   I don’t know if we’ve gotten a direct continuation from one episode to the following one in this series before, but this episode picked up right at the end of the last, with Benten and Yasaburou up on the rooftops. So what happens when they are joined by Hotei? […]
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I’ll probably be taking it a little easy on this one, since I just finished writing the Shinsekai Yori manifesto[1] and am pretty much done with writing forever at the moment. Anyway. Uchouten Kazoku is the best, and last week’s episode was … Continue reading →
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Yasaburou and Hotei follow Benten along the rooftops of Kyoto, stopping at a rooftop garden, where Hotei tells the story of how he met Benten, and fell in love with her on the spot. After she leaves, Hotei tells Yasaburou of the tanuki he met that same night: Nise-emon Shimogamo Soichiro, who spoke with him […]
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After watching these four episodes, I’m certain that Uchouten Kazoku will be my favourite P.A. works anime for a long time. As I start getting back to watching and reviewing anime, the first series I automatically went to was Uchouten Kazoku.  The first two episodes left me with a lot of intrigue, to the point … Continue reading »The post Uchouten Kazoku – 02, 03, 04, 05 appeared first on Anime Aura.
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You can choose your friends, but you cannot choose your family, or so the saying goes. By placing them side by side, Uchouten Kazoku is able to explore the various relationships forged between family members, friends, lovers, rivals, and business partners alike, similar to how the ever-rotating wheel of relationships between tengu, humans, and tanuki […]
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You can choose your friends, but you cannot choose your family, or so the saying goes. By placing them side by side, Uchouten Kazoku is able to explore the various relationships forged between family members, friends, lovers, rivals, and business partners alike, similar to how the ever-rotating wheel of relationships between tengu, humans, and tanuki […]
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This week on Iron Chef, Battle Sukiyaki! It might be interesting to find out at the end of the series that this is all a historical retelling of some event that’s happened sometime in the past and now we’re all caught up to the present. But for now, Yasaburou’s (kinda) back from his self-imposed exile, […]
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「金曜倶楽部」 (Kinyou Kurabu) "The Friday Fellows (Club)" Love is scary, and it's not even Valentine's Day yet!
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Well this episode was weirder than normal. All in all, not a lot happened. But what did was pretty important. Our tanuki hero is on the run from Benten after destroying the inner parlor and losing the Flying Thunder God fan. His efforts to be on the run don’t get him very far though. As […]
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Well this episode was weirder than normal. All in all, not a lot happened. But what did was pretty important. Our tanuki hero is on the run from Benten after destroying the inner parlor and losing the Flying Thunder God fan. His efforts to be on the run don’t get him very far though. As […]
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Benten corners Yasaburou at an antique shop where he’s meeting with Kaisei and forces him to attend a night of sukiyaki with the Friday Fellows, with the unveiled threat that they’ll boil him if he isn’t entertaining. He dazzles the increasingly drunk fellows with his transformations, even changing into a sultrier Benten. One drunk fellow, […]
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Last episode pulled the family together for the closest thing to a resolution the show’s demonstrated yet – but of course, this show isn’t normally about neat resolutions. It’s about people. That’s why it’s good. It employs great craft of storytelling, … Continue reading →
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Uchouten Kazoku 4 brings us the fire festival from the Shimogamo’s point of view, that is, feeding Yakushibou’s kettle some booze and having the tea room fly in the air for a better view, you know, that old anime cliche. While the episode was dazzling me with visuals it managed to go into detail about […]
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「大文字納涼船合戦」 (Daimonji Nouryousen Gassen) "Daimonji Leisure Cruiser Battle" Even on holidays, there's always people bickering in Kyoto.
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Still quite the Eccentric Family This episode may have finally seared it into my brain: Uchouten Kazoku is the far and away best storytelling this season. But what was so good about it? Well, it starts from the time when…  Not afraid to Backtrack Tormenting the Tengu Some might consider it a flaw that they [...]
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