Once again, I begin blogging a series with the second episode. How long will this continue, I wonder?
Anyways, Ayakashi is pretty cool. As I understand it, Ayakashi is the anime-style retelling of three classical Japanese horror stories, a fact that you simply could not have guessed from the title. Each tale will comprise four of its twelve episodes. The first tale is called Yotsuya Kaidan, which means something that I cannot suitably decypher with my meager (read: nonexistent) knowledge of the Japanese language.
In the first episode, we met Tamiya Iemon, who was forbidden to see Oiwa, his girlfriend, ever again by Oiwa’s father, who believed him to have done something bad that I can’t remember. Iemon subsequently caught the father at night and killed him. Then, he married Oiwa, saying that he’d help her get revenge. And then some other stuff happened and the episode ended.
But this time, I blogged it. […]
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