Natsume Yuujinchou (夏目友人帳 ) Episode 2

Episode 2 (click the title to see the megaupload link)
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Title : The Dew God's Small Shrine (Jap: "Tsuyukami no Hokora" (露神の祠) )

Air Time : July, 14 2008

Name Released : Susugi, Tsuyukami, and some other youkai in the beginning of the episode

Here goes nothing. The second episode

The episode starts in school now where Takashi was asked to join into a haunted house event. Now that's about it. On the way back home he was attacked by a youkai who attempted to gain right on the book. The attempt was of course a failure as Madara come for the rescue. Thumbs up for Madara.

Madara really did his job as a bodyguard inspite of his unwillingness

Later, Takashi explained about the two types of youkai, one from before and one who sought for their name back.

At that night, during the dinner with the Fujiwaras, a godly looking youkai, but sadly too small, came for a visit and his name.

Notice his size

The book is convenient in a way that it will automatically search for the name just by saying the name. The book will respond, just like a powerful search engine >.<. This time the returning is not as easy as before that the pages are stuck together. Presumably, by the carelessness of Reiko.

And so Natsume gave up returning the name since force will only hurt the god. The next day, Natsume decided to visit the god shrine. On his way to the shrine, he met an old lady who in her life continuously enshrined the god.

Natsume finally reached the shrine and found the god there. The god then explained who he was and what happened in his life. He said he was once looked so majestic, I wonder how he looked. And so, to release his name, Natsume was just have to release the owner of the name that stuck to the name of the god. And so the search began,

A sketch of the suspected Youkai. The only relevant thing is the kanji on his body

After sometime, they finally knew who the owner was and somehow they encountered it in the mountains. Natsume and the others was attacked and in the end Natsume was able to release both of their name. This part, I personally think Natsume is some sort of psychic, being able to see youkai's mind. That way, he was able to get the name of this aggregating youkai.

Tsuyukami got his name back but he continuously shrunk and in the end disappeared as no one enshrined him anymore. The old lady back there had passed away and she's the last one to enshrine him.

That's the end of episode 2. I simply love how the author properly wrote the story.