Nothing happened really in this episode except they went to a festival, got drunk afterward, and finally something happens at the end. Ao gets kidnapped by Enjin. A lot of people have heard me state my complaints before and may ask, “Why don’t you just drop it?” and the reason is because after episode 8 [...]
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As Yozakura Quartet has largely avoided being too action-oriented so far, preferring instead to focus on the relationships, thoughts and feelings of the main characters, I was a little wary of just how well the series could pull off an episode that was entirely centred around the main plot line and with a much larger action quota to boot. Thankfully, I didn't have to worry too much - While
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Summary: The town festival has arrived, and both the Hiizumi and Sakura families must do a special ritual 7 times in 7 days. It sounds impressive, but really all this involves is Akina opening up a door. Then Hime sits with her spear and thanks the spirits of the Nana-Gou until she falls asleep. [...]
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JUST TUNE [savage genius][OP] & Nagareboshi [ROUND TABLE feat. Nino][ED] Yozakura Quartet; I have yet to watch the anime, but am quite interested in the manga. Might pick it up soon, by the way. Before I proceed, I apologise for this post’s lateness, since the SINGLES came out quite early. ^^;; JUST TUNE: Tracklist 1. JUST TUNE 2. Mizu [...]
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  Man, you were doing so well for almost two whole months. Impressions: I have to admit that as the action started winding down and Enjin started ranting and raving about how much this world sucks blah blah blah humans and youkai blah blah blah will remake the world, I got up to get a brownie [...]
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Summary: Enjin arrives with more black feathers than Suigin Tou, but just like that he retreats. Gin’s deep lolicon longings for Ao have put Enjin out of commission, so he allows Shinozuka to go wreck some havoc on the town. Meanwhile, Kotoha is excited to be going on a business trip to the national [...]
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[ Episode 7: Flower and Trees ] lol did the shota get raped? I found it pretty funny how it got all dramatic when Gin dropped the cheesecake in that dream/illusion. The serious music started playing and I just lol’d at the face Ao made. The vampire loli make a return with the appearance of some other guy [...]
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It's festival time in Yozakura Quartet, with the entire town celebrating the sacred tree which protects them from evil. This once again allows us to enjoy the friendship and camaraderie of the main characters as they work towards and enjoy the festival itself, although the post-festival party ends up becoming arguably just a little too enjoyable once the water starts flowing. Yes, I said water
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  Can youkai even be underage? Impressions: Another rather uncompelling episode from the vanilla ice cream show of the season. Most of the episode is consumed by a festival/ritual for Hime to take her spear into a cave and pray for the local gods to do whatever the hell it is that they do. Then everybody [...]
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[ Episode 6: Spinning Song ] Tsuntsun dere rap?! lol I love the transition of the last three panels above. That scene was just hilarious~ I’m not seeing what the big deal is being half youkai, half human. It didn’t seem like it was a racial thing like because you’re part youkai/human, but more like it was because [...]
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I don’t know what it is that compels me to write about mediocre-to-average shows by Studio Normad, but whatever. Kou Matsuo isn’t a director whose work I’m terribly familiar with. I did however really like Kure-nai, so I figured Yozakura Quartet would be good, too. And it is! Almost. One of the things that made Kure-nai work [...]
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So It feels kind of weird that I’m reviewing episode 6 of this, when I just reviewed episode 5. It feels like I’m behind. But I’m not. So It’s weird. Tho I am behind in Earl and Fairy because the subs are taking longer to come out. Anyways this episode was probably the best so [...]
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ef - tale of melodies: Episodes 4-5 Episodes 4 and 5 have been especially entertaining seeing how characters of the previous season have slowly reappeared. It’s also good to know that their appearances play a very important role of putting together events of the past with the events of the present. I’ve always thought that the [...]
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This episode I was rather “dreading” , since it seemed like a filler. Turns out my guesses were about 98% right. This show was haft filler/haft not. It had some plot movement in it, but other then that it really felt like a filler. It was a good filler cause Ao got to direct it, [...]
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After Ao got an episode virtually all to herself last time around, this time Yozakura Quartet dedicates an instalment to Kotoha, the group's half-human half-demon employee. This perhaps somewhat goes against what you may have been expecting, given that episode five ended with the revelation that Gin (whose body has been possessed by Enjin) is in fact Ao's brother (which I should have guessed
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  Get your mind out of the gutter. Impressions: Well, that was anticlimatic, and honestly just a little bit pathetic. I’m not certain if it’s possible for Darth Shinozuka to have been less disappointing. Sure, they could have used stills, but I’m not actually convinced that that would have been any worse than speedlines bullets while [...]
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Summary: Hime volunteers everyone for kindergarten care, and the kids terrorize the group until Ao uses her Satori powers to give the kids exactly what they want. However, there is one anti-social emo kid named Junta in the corner, and Ao tries to help the kid out. However, when she reads his mind and [...]
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After its last episode focused on what can undoubtedly be called the main story arc of Yozakura Quartet, this fifth instalment of the series allows it to take something of a back seat once again, instead deciding to focus its central theme around one of the main "quartet" of the show's title. This means that we get an episode filled with Ao's sweetness, as she faces the rather obvious dilemma
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[ Episode 5: Waiting Under... ] The town song better be in the OST. This episode was better than I thought it would be. There were lulz like Hime teaching the kids the town song and Akina popping up in front of Ao’s skirt. And it got fairly serious with another Enjin and hawt nun encounter and [...]
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Summary: Several mysteries get explained, and we learn that Enjin has possessed the body of Hime and Akina’s friend Nanami Gin (Ao’s older brother!) for the last two years. Now Enjin is trying to get some strange sprouts to take root on the Nana-Gou, but the sprouts tend to wither quickly. Enjin’s partner Shinozuka [...]
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