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Me explaining why I find every art Tanamai-sensei makes of child Haru and Mii-kun being friends inherently sad even though the arts are not sad in themselves.

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Did they really do that before the 21st century?

[incorrect-terrified-teacher]

Child!Hijita: Mr. Abe, Sano called me the b-word!

Haruaki: Sano, is this true?

Child!Sano: Motherfucker doesn't start with a B.

[himshoo]

sometimes art is realising youre gonna have to cover the bg

speedpaint below

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*Eats a shrimp*

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“Youkai Gakkou no Sensei Hajimemashita!” The Manga For Gets TV Anime in 2024

The official website for Mai Tanaka's Youkai Gakkou no Sensei Hajimemashita! (A Terrified Teacher at Ghoul School!) television anime adaptation went live. To mark the occasion, Tanaka also unveiled a drawing (seen above). The 2024 release date of the anime is set.

[chochuuya]

reading a terrified teacher at ghoul school 🤭 my fav so far is, of course, haruaki and sano~ the manga is funnier than i expected 😭

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Youkai Gakkou no Sensei Hajimemashita! E01 - Sano & Maizuka

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Any name idea for that group?

I have a squishy bff?

FuwaTomo team? (Fuwafuwa=fluffy, Tomodachi=friend)

I know Hatanaka, Mame and Tamao already form the "Animal Youkai group".

But add their owners best friends + Haruaki and Marshmallow, it def should be the "FuwaTomo" team 🤣❤️

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(sorry in advance for the long ask) i feel silly for not noticing earlier but i realized that "Sano Mikoto" follows the same "__ no mikoto" name pattern that several japanese gods have. but that also made me wonder: if the 佐 from sano's name means "help" then his whole name sounds like "the god of help/assistance". but based on how that doesn't align with his yakubyougami nature and how ebisu reacts to hearing the name in ch 53 (his reaction is a bit more clear in the jpn raws) (1/2)

佐 doesn't really mean "help" on its own, it only somewhat means that when it's part of the word 補佐 "hosa" , which means "assistant" (in an organizational structure to a chief or leader) rather than like "helping people". Most of the time 佐 is just used as a kanji to represent the sound "sa", which is somewhat frequently the case for the on-readings (similar to chinese pronunciation) of kanji.

This is particularly prevalent when it comes to ancient literature like the creation myths and stories around gods, where the stories originally only existed in verbal form, and when japan adopted the chinese writing system some 1500 years ago, they applied certain chinese characters to the sounds that existed in japanese (the 50 or so hiragana that exist now) in order to put the stories into writing.

(and then over time 50 or so kanji got simplified into hiragana for normal use but thats neither here nor there. but names got to keep their kanji, which is why creation myth gods often have stupid long names that are 1 kanji per syllable, and the kanji used dont mean much of anything by themselves)

(theres also that often the kanji chosen will have been positive words, stuff like "fast" or "wise" or "powerful", in addition to the chinese word sounding like the japanese syllable (which was the more important part). Its unclear whether all these attributes were all applicable to the god named, its just as possible people afterwards applied those attributes to them in future retellings of the stories because the kanji was in the name. sort of a chicken and egg problem. and anyway, does it really matter what the one "true" interpretation of a story is, if one exists at all? it's a very modern sensibility to demand one, when for much of history stories only existed in the air between a storyteller and a listener. im getting off track here)

this is a lot of words to say, what is significant about the 佐 in "sano", is that it's the same one as in susanoo-no-mikoto. susanoo, notable for being associated with storms and disaster, for being exiled from heaven after causing some sort of destruction, and for being a child of izanagi and izanami and born after their first child hiruko (or rather, ebisu).

the thing about the yakubyougami thing, as with every other youkai and everything about folklore, is that at the end of the day, it's a story. youkai are just a set of attributes and circumstances that are wrapped up as a story, and in turn given a name and a face. a kamaitachi is just the occurrence of "wind whipping up suddenly and dust and leaves cutting someone" wrapped up as a story of "what if an imperceptibly fast weasel with knives did it?!"

it's why there can be so many different versions of stories for the same youkai, with behaviors and appearance differing from place to place, or the same "story" being given a different "name" in different places

(relevant to the latest chapter, i sort of suspect this is why theres like 10 different monkey youkai whose lore is just "this monkey is a FREAK")

what im getting at is, this isnt really like scientific taxonomy classifications, where theres genes you can sequence or criteria you can check to see if something is the right species. (and even then, there's birds stranded on isolated islands, fish sealed in caves, microorganisms in general, etc etc) there's not like a "youkai auditor" that goes around auditing if you're Really the youkai you say you are.

nor is it like you intrinsically know what youkai you are and all the lore about it and what behaviors youre supposed to have and what powers you have etc. you're told that by your parents, and in cases where that isnt possible, you figure it out somehow. like with beniko (popped out of a house and raised by humans), they looked it up and people have come up with a name for the phenomenon, which was called "zashiki warashi". or in cases like odawara where you really do just come to life alone, i imagine you either make a name for yourself, or humans who come across you will make a name for you.

which is a lot of words to say, sano can call himself whatever the hell he wants to make his life easier and not have to explain his backstory or have classmates make guesses at his backstory, as long as his traits somewhat fit. especially since recently he's often in the same scenes as kurahashi, who is now confirmed to straight up not be who or what he says he is.

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A Terrified Teacher At Ghoul School

Another anime befitting spooky season with the yokai theme and such, but it’s a lot different than Dandadan’s spooky premise. Ghoul School focuses more on the comedy. However, the pacing feels a little awkward to me. It’s like they meshed a few chapters into one and the clunkiness shows a bit. Why does Satelight keep doing this? They did this with Cherry Magic back in Winter!

The premise of the story is the MC Haruaki Abe who moves to Hyakki Island to teach at their high school. Haruaki is a sniveling crybaby who is super-sensitive to the point that his first teaching job at a public high school had him resign after thirty minutes. It’s only thanks to the school principal at his new school that he got a new job despite him having a lack of proper teaching experience. However, the biggest twist is that the school he’s teaching at is one specialized for yokai. Given that Haruaki is a big wimp, he does not take this fact well. Another big twist is that the school principal is also a yokai and that he hired Haruaki because Haruaki is descended from a famous onmyoji named Abe no Seimei, which means that he’s special in a way? It makes sense given that he deflected two yokai spells in the first episode alone.

Because of the school setting, the comedy is mainly centered around poking fun at Haruaki and making him miserable whenever possible from embarrassing him in front of the class to getting chocolate shoved in his face because a student hates humans to getting German suplexed by another student towards the end of the episode. It does get hilarious with how much the author wants the MC to suffer yet at the same time, it gets a little tiresome seeing him so miserable all the time like one episode of misfortunate feels enough, yet we’re going to have to sit through 24 episodes of the same thing. I just hope the comedy gets creative enough. On top of that, the MC is a teacher who has a school uniform fetish, so it does get a little weird when he’s being bribed with a catalog book of school uniforms. The fact that it seems that he likes girls’ uniform more than guys does raises some eyebrows. It would be nice if he liked both genders’ uniforms…

There are so many students, so it’s hard to keep track of who is who, so for now, I’ll just talk about the major characters who appeared and how I feel about them. The principal himself seems like an enigma because he’s the one who hired Haruaki and is a yokai himself. I do wonder what sort of yokai he is. Then, there’s Sano, who is a Yakubyogami. Since he has ‘Gami’ in his name, which means god, does this mean he’s a god of misfortune and not a yokai? Anyways, Sano is usually composed, but does get irritated with Haruaki’s sniveling and whining. He brings misfortune to whomever he touches, so Haruaki gets the brunt of it most of the time. Mamekichi Maizuka is a mamedanuki, which is like a small Tanuki yokai. He’s super adorable! The fact that the yokai encyclopedia says that his kind transforms by putting their scrotum on their heads to transform is a weird fact and that Mamekichi has to protect his dignity by denying all claims makes it hilarious. Then, there’s Hijita who hates humans and was mean to Haruaki. At least he apologized later on, but it was still mean how he took out his anger on Haruaki just because his sister married a human; he’s a Dorotabou, which is some sort of mud/dirt yokai? Last major character introduced is Zashiki, who is a Zashikiwarashi. She’s a shut-in who got addicted to gaming via Hijita. Fortunately, she’s still willing enough to go to school. I do like how Zashikiwarashi brings either good or bad fortune depending on the color of clothes they wear. I do like learning these little yokai trivia while getting to know these characters.

The voice cast is a mix of big names, rising stars and new faces. Haruaki is voiced by Ryota Osaka. This is actually the whiniest I’ve heard Osaka as he usually plays cool and suave characters. It’s weird to hear him shrieking and yelling, but it’s a nice change of pace from his usual roles. The principal is voiced by Jun Fukuyama. You know the principal is going to be important if he’s voiced by Fukujun. Then we got Ryota Suzuki who voices Sano. It’s funny how he played Kurosawa in Cherry Magic which was also produced by Satelight. Is he a Satelight staple or something? Mamekichi does sound like he’d be voiced by Ayumu Murase, which he did in the drama CD adaptation of this story, but he’s actually voiced by newcomer Reo Tanie who sounds very similar to Murase. That’s crazy. Hijita is voiced by Taito Ban whom I normally associated with stoic and aloof characters like Shizusumi from Given and Sung Jinwoo from Solo Leveling so for him to voice a hot-tempered siscon is a nice change of pace and it does show that Ban can be diverse in his roles. Zashiki is voiced by Akari Kito who surprised me because I normally associate her with sweet and cute characters so for her to voice the tomboyish and gruff Zashiki is also a nice change of pace. Seriously, the voice actors in this anime are just playing against their typecast and it shows how versatile they can be. I like that!

The animation was good, though. I can tell a lot of time and budget was poured into drawing all the students and their antics alongside Haruaki’s. You’re gonna need a lot of time to properly animate a lot of characters. Though, let me talk about the pacing a bit. It does feel like the anime meshed a few chapters together and made a clusterfuck of an episode. I never read the manga, but it does feel weird that Haruaki just decided to cut class to go find Zashiki to get her to come to school and that Hijita suddenly came back from Hawaii on the exact day he starts the new school semester. It feels as if the Hijita story and the Zashiki stories are supposed to be two separate stories, but got squished into one. Though, I do commend Satelight for making it flow, but the pacing still feels weird…

I honestly can’t wait to see what other misadventures Haruaki will have at Hyakki Academy and how much he’s going to suffer from his students’ antics. I want to know more about the other students too! I hope they get to have screen time! What are your thoughts on the premiere of this episode?

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some yohaji memes

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More yohaji manage coloring because yeah