With the events surrounding Souichirou Shimogamo’s death resolved a sense of peace and quiet returns to the city. A peace soon broken by Akadama’s son, who has returned seeking revenge after a century-long absence.
A mostly laid-back and ambling character-driven slice-of-life that has occasional bursts of dramatic plot development. You don’t have to see the prequel to follow events here, but it would help immensely since this is a relationship-focused series.
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Agree. Watching the prequel is unnecessary, but definitely rounds-out the relationship dynamics. Not a kid’s show. If anything, this series recalls certain short stories by Thomas Mann. It will appeal to those fascinated by tragic, subtly twisted love and the failure to ‘gracefully surrender the things of youth‘, which is painfully dramatized in a leonine battle for ‘mating rights’, and further elaborated in the special treatment accorded to a teenage boy. It has been a while since I saw this but what impressed me then and will eventually make me rewatch it is its humiliating exposé of ego issues. This… Read more »