#Ren Adashino

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Kaii to Otome to Kamikakushi; Mysterious Disappearances - Episode 12

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Ren Adashino sketch

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“Kaii to Otome to Kamikakushi” The First Promo for Spring 2024

The first promotional video for the television anime adaptation of Nujima's manga Kaii to Otome to Kamikakushi (Mysteries, Maidens, and Mysterious Disappearances) was revealed on the official website. The April 2024 release date of the anime is set.

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Kaii to Otome to Kamikakushi by Nujima

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Kaii to Otome to Kamikakushi Episode 01 - Adashino Ren

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mmmd - first mystery: tsukiyomi's water of life

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Man I’m gonna miss these characters so much. I loved this show, but this finale was a little odd?

I still don’t really understand what happened with Occhan and why she had to go back if she has an established friend group and is happy in this world? And then what’s the point of Ren disappearing and telling the Cat emperor he won’t be solving anymore cases if he comes right back thanks to Sumireko lol? Also no Erika in the finale 😭

And are we ever gonna find out why Occhan dresses like that as an elementary school student lmaoo. Yea the tummy crop top is clearly plot relevant

Even though it was messy, still enjoyed this episode on the whole. Occhan’s farewell video to Sumireko broke me, she looked up to her like an older sister, why tf did they split them up. I knew ren was something more than human, but I didn’t expect him to be a curiosity himself and given form by Occhan.. but then did Rin’s brother have sight too or how did he get this special eyes?

It was nice seeing the bookstore and the book lady again, nice way to tie in that flashback episode and of course bring Ren back. “I need you Adashino Kun” “I won’t bathe with you” 😭 yea that’s the banter we’ve come to love and expect from these two. Crazy finale but if you think about it, really was a microcosm of the show. Wacky, emotional and just fun. I’ll be reading the manga for sure.

Hopefully Occhan does come back some day since they talked about her walking in and buying Sumireko’s book some day 🙏🏾

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Everything Else (Spring 2024)

Bartender: Glass of God

At Eden Hall, each glass has a story. A quiet bar lies tucked away in the streets of Tokyo, and it seems only the most desperate souls burdened by their own troubles manage to find its doors. But after a glass of God poured by the brilliant bartender Ryu, they leave renewed. Ryu has a gift—he knows how to soothe the soul with the perfect drink. Who will he meet next? (LiveChart)

Mysterious Disappearances

Sumireko Ogawa is a busty bookstore clerk who wants to become a novelist after some writing success in her youth. When strange occurrences start cropping up around the city, she teams up with her flirtatious co-worker Ren Adashino to look into them. But Ren is hiding a secret of his own! With their combined skills of occult knowledge, what will they discover as they investigate? (MyAnimeList)

Yatagarasu: The Raven Does Not Choose Its Master

The story is set in an alternate world called Yamauchi, ruled by the Yatagarasu clan, who are able to transform between human and crow forms. Yukiya, a beautiful and eccentric Yatagarasu boy, is chosen to serve the young prince. While encountering various events in the conspiracy-filled imperial court, he forms a strange master-servant relationship with the young prince. (MyAnimeList)

The Grimm Variations

Once upon a time, brothers Jacob and Wilhelm collected fairy tales from across the land and made them into a book. They also had a much younger sister, the innocent and curious Charlotte, who they loved very much. One day, while the brothers were telling Charlotte a fairy tale like usual, they saw that she had a somewhat melancholy look on her face. She asked them, "Do you suppose they really lived happily ever after?"

The pages of Grimms' Fairy Tales, written by Jacob and Wilhelm, are now presented from the unique perspective of Charlotte, who sees the stories quite differently from her brothers.

Episode 1: Cinderella

Episode 2: Little Red Riding Hood

Episode 3: Hansel and Gretel

Episode 4: The Elves and the Shoemaker

Episode 5: The Town Musicians of Bremen

Episode 6: Pied Piper of Hamelin

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i don't know if you're scared of being someone nobody misses in this life. i you're scared that nobody is looking for you. but adashino oto and ren, i want to know you. i want to remember you. i want it to be clear in my mind, who you were to me, who you became, and what happened to you. what happened to us. i know you were scared of being someone that nobody missed, oto. but i miss you now. you might have been ren's sister, but you were family to me, too.

-sumireko

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Kaii to Otome to Kamikakushi; Mysterious Disappearances - Episode 9

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Mysterious Disappearances episode 7

That train was super creepy! It's fascinating to finally make some progress towards getting more details about the world and explaining what is going on; particularly with the Adashino siblings themselves. I'm curious about if Oto is aware Ren isn't biologically her brother, has he possessed of taken the form of her real brother without her knowing, or does she know everything and is happy to assign the title of older brother to him? More mysteries to unravel.

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characters who are ougilikes (worked out by me and my friends) (ougilike- has to serve as a narrative foil to the protagonist AND needs to share enough traits and/or backstory/personal circumstance with ougi. cannot consist of only surface level similarities; traits must manifest in similar ways to the ouger supreme.) these are their stories.

archer fate

erika umineko (mean to ougi. ougi isnt that bad...)

beatrice umineko

kaworu evangelion

kabru dunmeshi (though he's on thin ice)

characters who are ougiLITES

adashino ren mysterious disappearances

characters who are NOT ougilikes

shadow the hedgehog (but he is an archer-like)

akechi goro (too furious. too self-focused)

tohsaka rin (just lying all the time isn't enough!!! needs to be the same Type of lying!!!)

guest appearances (other characters that came up)

vergil dmc

tattletale worm/ward

v2 ultrakill

chuchu utena (also akio and touga but they are NOT LIKE OUGI WHAT THE FUCK WHY WOULD SHE SAY THIS THAT'S SO MEAN TO OUGI)

akiha tsukihime

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Mysterious Disappearances

怪異と乙女と神隠し

(Anime + Manga)

Supernatural mystery by Nujima

Era: 2020s

Rating: B

Plot: Sumireko Ogawa, a once promising novelist, is working as a bookstore clerk with Ren Adashino, a fan of hers. One day, their manager finds a reverse shoplifted book, and knowing it's Sumireko's birthday, gifts it to her. After reading a passage from it later that day, while late shopping she finds herself shrinking to the size of a child. In a spurt of creativity, she skips work for a week, at the point Ren is asked to check on her. He finds the room empty, but sees some bad news: a marker sign post on that book.

Length: 12 episides, around 60 chapters (currently)

Thoughts: Well, here's something that I didn't expect to be so interesting, but here we are. As someone who kinda grew on books exploring mysterious phenomena and later reading about urban legends on the internet, the stories have all a very familiar feel to it. While the arching plot isn't that exciting - Ren is trying to send his little sister Oto "home", wherever that is, but the steep price are curiosities - cursed items who do not belong in this world. Where it shines is bringing together folk stories and urban legends, for instance, the subway station Ren lives with his younger sister Oto is the Kisaragi Station of the imageboard story, but the most developed example of it so far is the Little Girl in Red story - based on a true Taiwanese urban myth, thanks to some detective work they discovered it has morphed into other similar but local legends and they manage to solve the predicament, or the idea that in a digital world a tsukomogami - a tool who acquired a spirit - might not be a physical object, but a virtual one, who wants to keep doing the job it was created for, even after being retired.

Recommended to: fans of urban legends. And of women with scary breasts.

Plus:

Yeah, sorry, but "Her boobs are so big they scare me", when discussing a VTuber that got a life of it's own and is harming her fans is funny.

Interesting premise and delivers on it.

Minus:

A shame the adaptation mostly closed the door on a second season.

You'll probably feel a bit pervy looking at it.