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Summary:
With their house still destroyed, Keita and Youko have taken up residence in a tent under a bridge. With no money in the bank, Youko decides to help out by going and finding work, but has very little success. Sitting alone, she thinks about how Keita had told her earlier that she hadn’t changed. Youko feels that she has changed: she had thought it would be easy to tell Keita about her true form, but it hasn’t been like that. She notices Hake standing nearby, and Hake takes her to the aquarium. Getting down to business, he tells her that the Dai Youko (Great Kitsune) has started to move. He explains that it’s a very powerful creature, one that’s been kept sealed by the Kawahira family. But now the force field has started to come apart. Youko knows this all too well because she was the one who had helped seal the Dai Youko – her father. Hake now needs Youko’s help in re-sealing her father.
Thinking about what she has to do, Youko watches from a rooftop as the sun sets. Keita walks up behind her, knowing that this is the same rooftop where they contracted. Youko confesses to him that she’s not an Inukami: she’s actually an enemy of the Kawahira family and the Inukami, the daughter of the Dai Youko. To her surprise, Keita is more impressed by this fact than anything other emotion since he had learned about the Dai Youko from his grandmother. He says that it doesn’t matter if she’s an Inukami or a Kitsune because the one he contracted with is Youko. He reiterates that she hasn’t changed, and neither has he. That’s why, even with this, their relationship hasn’t changed. Keita then presents her with some cake as a token of them renewing their contract, cake that he had bought with the last of his money. Youko happily accepts it, but then hears the growl of the Dai Youko. She flies alone off towards the mountains.
At the seal location, various small animals are attempting to reinforce the force field around the seal. However, their efforts are not enough to keep the Dai Youko at bay. Youko arrives just in time and the Dai Youko calms down to address his daughter. It’s been 300 years since they’ve seen each other, and the Dai Youko tries to get Youko to free him. But Youko apologizes and begins to re-seal her father. As she’s doing so, she tells him about how happy she is with Keita. With Keita, she can laugh from the bottom of her heart, and every day is enjoyable. Even if she had nothing else, as long as she had Keita, she’d be happy. As she’s re-sealing her father, the Dai Youko sees some of Youko’s memories with Keita. His last words declare that he’ll never permit her to be with a human. Afterwards, all the animals and even the Inukami applaud Youko for what she did. Returning home, Youko jumps onto Keita and declares that she loves him.
I had noted last week that Youko’s true form looked more like a fox than a dog, and just as I had suspected, Youko is indeed a Kitsune, not a dog type. And now that all the Dai Youko and Kitsune stuff comes out, everything starts making sense about Youko’s fire-based powers, her true form, why the other Inukami don’t like her, why her tail is so big, etc. And we now know what that rock from the beginning of the OP is too.
This episode does a good job of showing how important Keita is to Youko, and it also hints at the first time she and Keita met. I assume that that meeting is why Youko expected Keita to remember her name back in episode five.
And so this is like the third straight episode of Inukami that I’ve really enjoyed watching. It would be five straight great episodes because I enjoyed episode 10, but episode 11 wasn’t that good. Anyway, my point is that Inukami has become quite an enjoyable show. I hope it can continue going strong.
Awesome =DD, but the subbed takes so long T_T
dont worry anymore cuz Mendoi its going to sub Inukami too n they are way faster than Himitsu i cant way to watch them ^_^
Great, another fine ep.
Please don’t forget about the other shows such as SCHOOL RUMBLE!!!
Canfio, read this post and all of the comments that follow it.
Omni, you plan on blogging the new SR episodes , or completely dropping it?
It depends on how good or bad NHK ni Youkoso is. If NHK is something I want to do, and
Shakugan no ShanaZero no Tsukaima continues to amuse me, then I’ll probably drop SR. If either NHK or Zero no Tsukaima turn out to be garbage, then I’ll pick up SR again. (These are all Sunday shows.) In other words, I won’t really know until the start-of-season rush is over. For now, I’m just not motivated enough to pick SR back up, especially since I’m so behind on it.Yea!!! another group to subbing this!!!! woot-ness thx for the updates Omni!
To Omni:
It is very common in Japan that the name Youko is associated with the fox or denotes fox-like connotations. It is not to be surprised.
Haha, Omni, Shakugan no Shana XDD! Zero no Tsukaima sure brings back memories to u heh? XD.
Ohh no wonder…because each day i visited ur blog like 30 times XDD and there’s always something new…but now I was like hmm…it looks like u miss something XD. But anyway its cool XD. Can I ask u a question that is off of topic in there?
So..Youko is a kitsune?….not surprising considering she’s afraid of dogs…cute ones anyway…and her fire ability is also a sign of a kitsune. Now, it would be interesting if she and Kenta were to marry. What sort of children would they have?
It is very common in Japan that the name Youko is associated with the fox or denotes fox-like connotations. It is not to be surprised.
Don’t speak as if it’s that obvious. Youko’s name is always spelled in hiragana as ようこ, not the kanji 妖狐, so as to not give away the connotation. Thus, I never made the connection that the youko that’s synoymous with kitsune was the youko here, especially since they had always called her an Inukami – there was no reason to suspect otherwise. Of course, it all makes sense now.
To Omni:
Unfortunately for myself, I have null knowledge about hiragana, katakana, and kanji. Two things I know about the three systems are: for which cases are they used and the differences between the symbols but that’s all.
BTW, did you notice how Youko was biting on Keita’s arm? It seemed like she was gnawing his arm like a bone. I lmao on that scene!
Yeah, Inukami has developed almost exactly as I had hoped it would from the start. Kudos to the studio for keeping us entertained while they get to the meat of the series.
AHAHAH…
I won 100 bucks from a bet with a friend that her true form was a fox(kitsune) and not a dog(inu)..
ahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahaha…..as I drawed alot on my childhood mangas and play alot og games and whatch TOO MUCH animes I NEVER LOSE (LOL)!! 😉
Bets are not fun …of course at least if you can´t win 😉 😉
PS: winners don´t use drugs 😉
by the way talking about kitsune(FOX) have you guys seen on youtube the video from a NARUTARD spanish singing a naruto theme music without knowing the song´s meaning and the music!!
THAT WAS FREAKING RIDICULOUS!!!
I bet the japanese people have made a lot of jokes with that brat ^_^ 😉
About time they revealed more of Youko 😀
Fox > dogs, they are more beautiful. ^_^
We need subs people! SUBS
Ha, so she’s acutally a fox. Explains a lot about her fear of dogs, and such.
Its always worrisome when subs are so slow to appear simply because it means the subbers are more likely to have drop their hobby because of real life concerns. It’ll be interesting to see if this funny little oddity gets licensed.
Yeah
Youko being a fox…
It’s natural for her to hate dogs then. 🙂
I hope the series keeps heading in this direction.
Same the books will never be translated though.
This episode was subperb! The animation was near the best its been so far, the fight scenes wern’t anything amazing! but the character designs were drawn right! and I hope they keep it up untill the end.