May 04, 2024
Tonari no Youkai-san ep.05
Okay, that was TOTALLY not was I was expecting from this show. Parallel universes.
The news on TV shows a shot from the International Space Station (and of course, there's a Youkai on the crew) and a discussion is had about the probe they're going to be sending into a wormhole they've discovered. Turns out there's a whole Time and Space ministry, and they also investigate terrestrial incidents as well. Of which there have been a few in town lately.
As an example, Railway workers are startled by an unscheduled train blowing through their work area. It turns out to be empty when it stops at the station, but a human worker finds a woman is on the platform, confused about how she got there. Then she's terrified when one of the Youkai workmen comes up to them, and she runs off down the track, followed by the driverless train.
But it's not a ghost story.
The Kitsune, Yuri, has a brief encounter with her doppelganger from the alternate world at her front door, and they both pass out. Taira and Buchio arrive to visit at just that instant, and the version of Yuri they find seems off, and she thinks that Buchio is a ventriloquist's trick. Or perhaps she's dreaming, but how odd, she thinks, that she'd be aware of that while dreaming. But being introduced to Jiro and his father, the Tengu, turns that into a nightmare. Fortunately the science team is on site as well (They were meeting with Jiro) and they have a gadget that will let them exchange the girls back.
The experience in the all-human world helps Yuri face a familial problem that was introduced in the first act.
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