Japan has demons for everything.
Impressions:
Riiiight. After the barrage of shows today, I recall why Nube’s mediocrity felt tolerable. That, and getting a chance to learn about random Japanese yokai. The one in this episode is literally called a pillow flipper, which is the least threatening monster imaginable. Apparently from the belief that your soul leaves your body when you sleep, and therefore, a monster that moves your pillow to the opposite side of the bed is messing with your soul. Or in this case, just flips the pillow over to the cool side. Japanese folklore, you’re so wacky.
In any case, just an excuse for a “what-if” episode. Everybody’s grown up and so we tour all the characters and what they’re up to now. All the kids are doing great. Nube was mauled by a tiger on one of their misadventures and is now catatonic and paralyzed. Boy, they sure collectively put that trauma behind them, didn’t they? I think it would’ve worked better had it been treated like a dream, but no, it’s meant to be an entirely different parallel reality that we return to briefly for an attaboy at the end. Not sure that’d be my attitude realizing there’s other worlds out there without traumatic tiger-related maulings, but what do I know about the Japanese elementary school system?
