Uchouten Kazoku 2

After uncovering the truth behind their father's untimely death, life for the four Shimogamo brothers returns to relative peace with each trying to live up to their father's greatness in their own way. For the eldest, Yaichirou, who aims to become the next Trick Magister and leader of the tanuki society, it starts with reinstating the popular shogi tournament. For Yajirou, it is restoring his former shapeshifting abilities, whilst little Yashirou is content with continuing his work at the family’s factory. But for the third son, Yasaburou, it simply means embracing the "fool's blood" he inherited from his father and living a carefree but interesting life. This, of course, includes hunting for the mysterious and elusive snake-like creature known as a tsuchinoko, and causing ripples of trouble at every turn.

However, these ripples threaten to turn into waves with the return of Nidaime, the estranged son of the brothers' tengu teacher, Professor Akadama. Nidaime bears a grudge against not only his father, but his father's apprentice Benten as well. His loyalties suddenly brought into question, Yasaburou must use his tanuki wit to appease all sides without getting caught in the crossfire, before the delicate balance between human, tengu, and tanuki is overthrown and all hell breaks loose.

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Shimogamo, Yasaburou Main

Sakurai, Takahiro Japanese

Shimogamo, Yajirou Main

Yoshino, Hiroyuki Japanese

Shimogamo, Yaichirou Main

Suwabe, Junichi Japanese

Shimogamo, Yashirou Main

Nakahara, Mai Japanese

Benten Supporting

Noto, Mamiko Japanese

Ebisugawa, Kaisei Supporting

Sakura, Ayane Japanese

Shimogamo, Tousen Supporting

Inoue, Kikuko Japanese

Shimogamo, Souichirou Supporting

Ishihara, Bon Japanese

Akadama Supporting

Umezu, Hideyuki Japanese

Nidaime Supporting

Majima, Junji Japanese

Tsuji, Mitsuhito Producer

Yoshie, Terushige Producer

Takenaka, Nobuhiro Producer

Souma, Shouji Producer

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Jun 25, 2017

anchobio1

Recommended

There really isn't a more sincere and authentic anime out there today. The eccentric family 2 is a much-needed continuation of the universe masterfully crafted in The eccentric family season 1.

Story: 10/10
The eccentric family is one of those extremely rare anime where the story doesn't make any effort to spoonfeed it's audience explanations or justifications for what's happening. Watching the story unfold in this anime is like watching a river flow, you might not know the in-depth details of every little intricacy of the universe, but the flow of the story is that much better for it. The stories told in this anime are fun, ... light-hearted, relatable and incredibly genuine.

Art: 10/10
The art style, like the rest of the elements in this anime, is calming yet also incredibly deep. I would almost use the term therapeutic as it provides great continuity across many different settings where other styles come up short. Overall a great style for mid-air fight depictions or simply to watch the characters sit in a room and have an inspired dialogue.

Sound: 10/10
I usually don't notice the sound of an anime, or it gets drowned out by the other elements if they are good, but for The Eccentric family, the sound completely introduces another beautiful working element to the whole of the project. It's not the type of sound one might imagine an anime like this to have, being gritty and calming all at the same time, and it squarely ties everything together for a wonderful sensory experience.

Characters: 15/10
Where The Eccentric Family really shines is its characters. The development of each individual character in the show, even going as far as characters that only have a couple lines the entire show, is second to none. I find that this is due to the element that I mentioned above where characters don't spoon feed you the motives for what they do, so you're left as an audience to determine if Yasaburo is constantly thinking of everything or constantly thinking nothing at all being led by his fools blood.

Overall 10/10
I couldn't recommend an anime higher than The Eccentric Family Series, and that's really all I have to say about that.

Reviewer’s Rating: 10

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Jun 25, 2017

oryouohagi

Recommended

Eccentric Family has become one of my personal favorites lately, with its unique art style, storytelling, and lively characters. When I first saw a second season was coming, honestly, I didn't know where the story could advance any further. For me, it was kind of closed off in a nice manner, although there were some threads left undone.

STORY 10

As I said, I wasn't sure where this show could advance any further with its story, but I had to admit: it was as good (or even better), than that of the first season. The flow of the show stayed similar, following the acts of young Yasaburo, ... yet somehow still managed to avoid being repetitive. The little side stories added up nicely to the main line, and it all became merry.
It can be felt, how this piece was adapted from a novel, not from an LN or a Manga, the story has a concrete way to flow, with little pieces of foreshadowing making it a lot more interesting.

ART 10

I might be biased, but I don't think any studio can compete with P.A. works' unique artstyle, when it comes to stunning backgrounds, and this show excels even between other works of the same studio. It's original, and just great to look at, I found myself staring blankly most of the time at the mountains and vegetation, and having to rewind the video, beacuse I didn't pay attention to the story.
As for the character design, it lacks every bit of fanservice, leaving us with a bit solid westernish look, but all the same likeable style. The design of the tanukis is still bloody cute.

SOUND 10

It might not be the best to write this part after finishing the series, as the music grabbed my soul, and took a piece out of it with the final fight scene's outstanding music and audio.
It satisfies every need one could have towards this facility, the sound effects are just great, mixing traditional japanese sounds, like that of the bamboo water fountain and such, and some modern sounds that could be found in every other anime.
The music is soft, where it needs to be, funky where it needs to be, and serious where it needs to be.

CHARACTERS 10

This might be the strongest point of the show, so I feel inclined, to give it a 11 instead of 10.
It's not that they are overly realistic, or have strong character traits, it's just that they mix so well with together, and the story. Yasaburo is an incredibly interesting personality, who always gets in trouble, but somehow everytime finds the way out of the mess.
His brothers are just fantastic, it feels like a true and real family, when you add the late father and the caring mother to the mix.

ENJOYMENT 10

I can't deny how much I looked forward to the next episode every week, right after finishing the newest one.
The music, the sounds, the art and the characters just blend so well with the whole story and the magical world that is Kyoto, it will leave anyone speechless after finishing this series.
Add a cachy opening and a beautiful ending theme to it, and you get the 10 star enjoyment.

OVERALL 10

I can't praise this anime enough, about how good it is in every field other anime fail so miserably.
It's just put so well together, the characters interact in an unrealistic, yet believable way, the comedy is just first rank, and the overall laid back feel of the show can change into a serious tone in just a matter of seconds.

I would definitely recommend watching this season of the show, even if you didn't quite like the first one, just like I did.

Reviewer’s Rating: 10

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Jun 25, 2017

LaLeLuLiLo

Mixed Feelings

When watching Eccentric family there was only one prominent feeling i had throughout the shows course, and that is the feeling of deja vu. It felt like i was watching the same show all over again only with several tweaks placed here and there to make the show a tad bit different. New characters are introduced, new conflicts are created, some subplots are added even a romantic one, and maybe tying up a loose end or two. However the story still follows many similar beats to the first season that it starts to feel repetitive, because it seems that the only time there’s any worth ... given to the story is near the exact same time as last season. There’s still the trick magister election, there’s still the firework festival predicament, there's still the friday fellows tanuki hot pot situation. Yet despite following the same beats, the show is more loosely written than the first season which makes sense due to how many subplots the show had to go through. It’s because of this that the story lacks a central focus until near the end when it needed to force everything to come together, and in the end was uninteresting.

As for the characters there’s not much to say. Several new characters are introduced into the show, but the show just scratches the surface on them. There’s not much character development since some of the characters went through their character arc last season, and all that’s left is to see it come to fruition which in the end was unrewarding. Everyone else mostly stayed the same, and by this point it had gotten harder to give a damn about these characters.

I’m not really going to delve into the art and sound since not much has really changed since last season, however I did find the show to be lacking in the sound department this time.

Overall the show just felt very monotonous as it took the least interesting bits of the first season, and did them all over again. For a show called eccentric family, eccentric would be the last thing i would call it.

Reviewer’s Rating: 5

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