#Ebisu isaburo

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Long black hair tied in a single braid

Red eyes

voiced by Ryohei Kimura

Did Judar transmigrate to Yohaji??

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A Terrified Teacher At Ghoul School Episode 12 Review - The Lost Teacher

Just a head’s up, this is the last episode of the first half of the show. The show has two cours back-to-back, so the rest of the season will be aired in Winter 2025. There won’t be an episode next Tuesday, December 31 due to it being New Year’s Eve. The second half will resume January 7 with a new opening and ending!

Anyways, it can’t be a Yohaji episode without Haruaki getting into some kind of trouble wherever he goes. This time, he gets lost while Class 2-3 is on a field trip to Tokyo. This guy’s sense of direction needs to be studied alongside his voice actor’s lungs. Anyways, this episode is mainly Haruaki and Class 2-3 trying to find and reunite with each other as the kids split up in all directions while Haruaki himself gets help from an unlikely stranger.

This episode introduces Ebisu, but he never introduces his name to Haruaki. However, you can tell that this man is Sano’s brother as he appeared in the flashback in the previous episode. Nine years later, he still has disdain for youkai. He seems intrigued by Haruaki as he knows he’s a human teacher at Hyakki Academy and he also knows that Sano is attached to him (not that Sano will ever admit that). I wonder how he knows all about this; he’s probably stalking his brother or something… Also, Ebisu is not a youkai, which means that Sano isn’t one either—Sano not being a youkai was established back in the first episode where the Yakubyougami wasn’t in Haruaki’s encyclopedia and that he wasn’t affected by Yanagida’s perfume that he sprayed on Momoyama back in episode 8.

Anyways, it’s interesting to see the differences Ebisu and Haruaki have when it comes to youkai. Ebisu hates them but keeps it a secret, while Haruaki is afraid of them, but keeps persevering because he’s kind and wants to do his best as a teacher to guide his students, youkai or not. That’s why Haruaki went to save the little Zashiki-warashi trapped in the fire despite the fact that he doesn’t have to. He wants to do it because it’s both the right thing to do and that he cares a lot about youkai. The little girl could be a future student of his in the future, which means that Haruaki still imagines himself teaching at Hyakki Academy years from now, which is honestly massive character development for him. The way Haruaki is a misfortunate magnet, yet is managed to be saved by an amulet given to him by the God of Misfortune feels like some sort of Uno Reverse card of sorts.

It’s sweet that Class 2-3 didn’t rejoice over losing their teacher and doing whatever they want and took the time to look for him, even if meant costing them their trip. I know for a fact that not having a teacher around is a student’s biggest joy and that realistically, students would be happy to do whatever they want without teacher supervision, so it’s nice that these kids aren’t about that. They split into different groups and search different areas to look for their teacher. Youkai students function a bit differently when in human territory; they have their own set of rules implemented too like humanoid youkai need to hide their non-human features like how Nyuudou needs to wear a mask despite looking mostly human while the non-human looking youkai have to be disguised as objects or mascots like how Yanagida is disguised as a pennant and Daisy and Marilyn are mascots following Utagawa around. Though, the kids do get to explore Tokyo while searching for their teacher. Though, Hijita spends his day searching the sewers, which keeps the running gag of him getting the short end of the stick in situations at times.

Though, there is a little detail that there are youkai living in Tokyo as Akira and Yamazaki disguised as him are going to a cafe they visit every six months that have actual youkai in them. And the rules of youkai are a little odd when some are doing their magic out in the open without being concealed like how Yamazaki is showing off his wrappings while there are people around. I also find that there is an air patrol youkai to be hilarious.

My only gripe is that this episode actually removes a little detail that was in the manga regarding Fuji and another character, but it makes sense because that other character hasn’t been fully introduced into the story yet. In fact, they skipped that chapter, but given what I’m seeing in the second cour’s trailer, maybe he’ll finally get that spotlight.

If I had a nickel for every media that has Ryota Osaka and Ryohei Kimura in it together, I’d be a millionaire by now because it’s happened so often, whether they be characters that have interacted with each other or not. Like I mentioned in my review of the previous episode, Kimura and Osaka have been in several media together where they voice characters that have a lot of chemistry like Haikyuu with Bokuto and Akaashi, Tales of Zestiria as Sorey and Mikleo and now Yohaji with Ebisu and Haruaki. This makes a voice actor fan like me happy. Keep at it—keep casting these two together!

Also, the trailer for the second cour is on Youtube if you want to watch it! I’ve never heard of Sou before, but there are a lot of people excited for him singing the second opening. I honestly can’t wait to see what the second half of the show will bring in terms of what they’ll animate and how it’s presented. Let me know your thoughts on this episode!

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A Terrified Teacher At Ghoul School Episode 11 Review - Chance Encounters

After two weeks of animating mini-arcs, the anime resumes animating and mixing individual manga chapters as one episode. This one mixes chapters 25, 26, 32 and 33, but primarily focuses on Chapters 26 and 32. I should really review the manga one day… Anyways, this entire episode focuses on the theme of chance encounters.

Why I say it focuses on chance encounters is because Haruaki meets his students’ parents for parent-teacher conferences. He went through hell trying to meet Renjou, Maeda and Oota’s families as he almost gotten eaten and now, he has to deal with Mame’s. Because of the strain, he asks Sano to tag along as he goes to the Maizuka’s family…who turn out to be yakuza. Mame’s foul mouth makes sense if you think about it… It was nice learning about how animals often produce a litter of offsprings, so this also applies to animal youkai. Mamekichi has over 30 siblings and he’s the eldest while Beans, his three-year-old sister, is the youngest. All I can say is that Mame’s mom really has stamina to pop out that many kids. No wonder she’s crazy strong for being able to beat the snot out of Mame’s dad for going to a brothel behind her back.

Because this is a comedy story, of course Mame’s parents are crazy as heck, mainly his dad. His dad is basically a yakuza who’s also extremely doting and overprotective. He has a weird habit of wanting to test Mame’s teachers’ strength to see if they’re worthy enough to take care of his son. I guess this makes sense in that Mame lives in a dorm, so he lives away from his family. This means that the teachers of Hyakki Academy are essentially his guardians, so it makes sense that his parents would be a bit concerned and since there’s a human teacher at school too, it also gets even more concerning. Though, the protectiveness is mainly used as comedic factor. Also, it’s revealed that he didn’t let Miki do the strength test as he’s acquainted with Miki’s family’s business, which is the brothel that he goes to.

I feel like Ryota Osaka was casted for this anime just to test his screaming skills. Despite that, I do like seeing many sides of Haruaki in the first half of this episode. He may scream a lot, but he knows how to get down and dirty without resorting to physical violence. He legit tried to blackmail Mame’s dad about the brothel because he knows there’s no way he could win in a fight and he also doesn’t want to give a bad impression if he unleashed his exorcist powers. He cares a lot about his students and also wants to prove his worth as a teacher. He can be cool when he wants to be, which is why Beans develops a precocious crush on him. Though, I didn’t like that Mame’s dad thought he wanted to date Beans after seeing the smooch.

The second part of the story focuses on the teachers going to Kyoto for field trip research. It turns out that Haruaki has met Sano, Miki and Hatanaka nine years ago, but they don’t seem aware of it. Basically, Haruaki got lost in Kyoto when he was supposed to go to Nagoya and met the younger Hatanaka and Miki who were on a class trip to Kyoto but split from their group to wander around on their own. That’s when they met Haruaki who was lost. Then they met a young Sano who called himself Mii-kun who was also lost as he got separated from his older brother. 

I feel like this meeting was definitely fateful as Sano became Haruaki’s student nine years later and he finally became friends with Hatanaka and Miki as his first attempt of befriending them was cut short due to the principal. I did like how despite Hatanaka and Miki were delinquents in their youth, they had a kinder side as they stuck around the lost Haruaki and Sano. If they weren’t nice people, they would’ve just left them behind and not helped Sano reunite with Mametaro. I like that little detail. Also, they would’ve been friends earlier had not the maskless principal came to interrupt. It would’ve been crazy how the how foundation of the story could’ve changed if the principal didn’t show up.

This episode also introduces the last of the major supporting cast. Sano’s brother, Ebisu, makes his debut here. He was announced before the anime aired, so it took 11 episodes for him to get a major debut. Although his appearance is brief, I do like that there’s a lot shown about him like his disdain for youkai. Remember that Sano is not a youkai, but a god—that was why Yanagida’s perfume didn’t work on him back in Episode 8. I can’t wait for Ebisu to make his present-day debut!

The voice actors for Mame’s parents, Beans and Ebisu are crazy, seriously! Mame’s dad is voiced by Katsuyuki Konishi who you might know as Uzui from Demon Slayer and Aryu from Blue Lock. Like, first you get Kenichi Suzumura as Haruaki’s dad and now Konishi as Mame’s? Satelight knows how to flex. On top of that, Mame’s mom is voiced by Asami Seto who you might know as Nobara from Jujutsu Kaisen. This is the first time I’ve heard her voice a mom and she did a great job! Beans is voiced by Nao Toyama, who voiced Emma Nakazono from A Sign of Affection and Suma from Demon Slayer. I know that Toyama is popular, but I didn’t expect to hear her voice three-year-old Beans here. This was super unexpected. Ebisu is voiced by Ryohei Kimura. What’s hilarious is that this isn’t the first time Kimura voiced a man with long black hair tied in a braid with red eyes. He voiced Judar from Magi. Not only that, this is another instance where Kimura and Osaka are in one anime! They voiced Bokuto and Akaashi in Haikyuu and Sorey and Mikleo from Tales of Zestiria. This is another reason why I can’t wait for Ebisu’s present-day debut because of this! The Kimura-Osaka combo is just too good!

I’m so glad this anime has 24 episodes. I can’t wait to see what next week’s episode will be. To be honest, I’ve been mentally stressed out a lot for a while, so this anime really brightened my day. I hope that my readers who are curious about this show will feel the same when they watch it! Let me know your thoughts on this episode!