a difference between the experience of reading the natsuyuu manga and watching the anime which is only interesting to me is that there's no distinction between special chapters and regular ones in the anime. the reason i find that interesting is that the specials are, so far in my reread, the only chapters that spend any time completely outside of natsume's POV. when we see other characters' perspectives in regular chapters, it's typically part of an extended monologue or a memory being transmitted to natsume, so we're still not really leaving his perspective. the only times we leave his POV are when he's physically not present in a scene, and in those instances we usually don't get any narration or interior monologue from the other characters.
tanuma in "a suspicious visitor" is the only exception i can think of off the top of my head, though i'm sure there are others i'll get to and just don't remember at the moment. the scene between matoba and ban at the end of the homura arc, for example, is outside of natsume's POV by necessity but is pure dialogue with no interior narration because these are not characters to whom we have that kind of access! (for more on matoba's elusive subjectivity see sp15, says tumblr user worldunbent.)
the special chapters jump all over the place; so far i've gotten to chapters from the perspectives of little fox, an unnamed youkai, nyanko, tanuma, and hinoe (although hinoe's chapter is framed as a story she's telling natsume, so it could have fit in a regular chapter). they have a separate numbering system from the regular chapters, are much shorter, and almost always come at the end of volumes*. in the anime, however, there's absolutely nothing to distinguish the episodes adapting the specials from the ones adapting regular chapters other than the POV shifts, which gives anime-only viewers a very different impression of how the series approaches character interiority. i don't think there's anything wrong with this as an adaptation move and it's pretty much necessary, but it's just notable because in a series that's all about how people see the world differently, the choice to make such a distinction between chapters in the protagonist's POV and chapters from everyone else's POV is a significant one.
the reason i'm paying so much attention to POVs in this reread in the first place is because i've been listening to the podcast media club plus and jack, who is pretty new to anime, keeps pointing out the constant perspective shifts in hunter x hunter and the other hosts are like, "yeah, that's normal." this post from another listener expands on how and why it works as a genre norm in shonen battle anime/manga specifically. so now i'm just cursed to be hyperaware of POV shifts in anime/manga, and given that the three series i'm reading/watching at the moment are hxh, dungeon meshi, and natsuyuu, natsuyuu really stands out in how rarely it leaves natsume's head in the regular chapters. i guess i need to go read some more shoujo for a larger sample size lol
*i have a chapter spreadsheet 🤓 and the exceptions to this are sp18, which is just stuck in the middle of v22, sp20, which is the second-to-last chapter of v24, and sp21, which is the first chapter of v25. i understand the placement of sp20, which is "intermission detectives" and makes sense to have as an break between regular chapters, but i'll have to figure out what sp18&21 are doing when i get to them.
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[ID: Panel from the Natsume's Book of Friends manga. Shinobu, a woman wearing a suit, is leaning against a doorframe smirking slightly in the direction of the reader and saying, "Well, hello. You must be the last of the guests." /end ID]
well hello yourself 😳😳😳
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"There are some barriers set up, like with Hakozaki-san. Yorishima was once an exorcist family to rival the Matoba clan. But these days he's closed up shop and secluded himself in these woods."
"I know-"
"Natori, lately you've come to resemble the Matoba brat."
"Yorishima-san was once an exorcist, but has now quit and shut himself away deep in the mountains."
"Matoba-san... haven't you ever wanted to quit being an exorcist?"
"No. Not even once."
"...I see."
"For some reason, I was relieved to hear that. I wonder about Natori-san, that kind person who is always wavering..."
"[Matoba-san,] haven't you ever wanted to quit being an exorcist?"
"Those who can't heartlessly dedicate themselves to it aren't fit to be exorcists. If you stand up for ayakashi, that kid Natori's just gonna falter."
"...You should stop playing nice, or I might not be able to tell which of us is the monster."
"[You are an ayakashi,] which I have decided to spend my life fighting."
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the first gouenji sketch is inspired from captain tsubasa (il famoso drive shoot), and the second from some official art. you'll notice that his hands aren't in his pockets, but directly in his pants, bc he's a teenager
the rest is about other characters i like :)
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Can you blend Midorikawa Ryuuji from Inazuma eleven?
Midorikawa Ryuuji from Inazuma Eleven is being blended!!
You cannot save him.
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