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The Eastern Forest

The Eastern Forest

Name
Kanji 東方の森
Romaji Touhou no Mori
Information
Air Date January 9, 2012 (JP)
February 19, 2024 (US)
Episode 41
Adapted From Chapter 35
Chapter 36
Opening Song Ima, Kono Toki
Ending Song Takaramono
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The Eastern Forest is the second episode of the fourth season and the forty-first episode overall of the Natsume Yuujinchou anime series. It first aired on January 9, 2012.

Summary[]

Natsume, now trapped in the mansion, is trying to keep the Monkey Mask youkai from revealing the Book of Friends to Matoba. While Hinoe and Misuzu attempt to find the strange youkai’s master.

Plot[]


Natsume and Matoba have a talk, but when the conversation doesn't go the way he wants, Matoba orders Natsume to be put in a cell. Natsume escapes with the help of Nyanko-sensei.

Along with his other demon companions, Natsume helps the monkey-masked demons living in the forest by liberating the forest of the strong sealing spells cast by the exorcists. But, the monkey-masked demons did not notice this until their kind great leader told them.

Characters in Order of Appearance[]

Trivia[]

  • Like his late maternal grandmother, Takashi is revealed to be an infinitely powerful topmost exorcist in his own right, and seems to be invulnerable to all of the Matoba clan's shiki put together; probably even stronger than Matoba Seiji himself or even the entire Matoba clan put together.

Anime and Manga Differences[]

  • Unlike the manga, Reiko is never mentioned even once or is her illegitimate daughter.
  • Reiko was mentioned many times between Natsume and Matoba; the latter desperately wanting the former to tell him exactly what he learned about his late maternal grandmother's nearly infinite spiritual strength as an exorcist in her own right and her various encounters dealing with powerful youkai. As such, his late mother is referenced to have been a "kind and ordinary person" who did not inherit any of her mother's high spiritual prowess.
  • Matoba nearly finds out about the Book of Friends, as one of his shiki had managed to look inside Natsume's satchel and found something like a notebook known as the "Book of Something-or-Other" there, which further piques his unusual interest in Takashi. He had also mentioned that "they" (both Takashi and Madara) are on a completely different power level than the whole Matoba clan combined.

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