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0ssianic · 6 months

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Color Illustrations from the Natsume Yuujinchou Official Fanbook by Yuki Midorikawa

#natsume yuujinchou #natsume's book of friends #official art #natsume yuujinchou official fanbook #natsume takashi #natsume reiko #nyanko sensei #my scans

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danikatze · 7 months

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Inktober day 10: nocturnal.

There it is, my first Inktober comic of this year haha. I have another one planned, but that's only going to be one page. :3 I don't know if it's clear (probably not), but on the second page Hinoe steals the book of friends from Reiko's bag and she gives it back in the last panel.

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#Natsume's Book of Friends #Natsume Reiko #Natsume Yuujinchou #Hinoe #described #inktober #inktober2023 #danikunst #2 #day 10 #comic #fan comic #fanart #2023

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dailysmilingnatsume · 6 months

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#daily-smiling-natsume #natsume yuujinchou #natsume takashi #natsume reiko #nyanko sensei #madara #official art #1561

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connan-l · 3 months

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I sometimes see people wondering when Reiko died exactly and how old her daughter was at the time of her death, but we do, in fact, already have a little bit of an answer to this in canon.

Now this is something that is only implied, but in the very first chapter of the manga, during the conversation Natsume has with Nyanko-sensei the first time he reveals his true form and right before our first Reiko flashback, we have this line (that was cut off from the anime):

[NATSUME: She [Reiko] may not have been able to relate well to others... Not many people even remember her, since she died so young. Not even her own daughter...]

[NATSUME: 確かに祖母は人とうまくつきあえなかったらしい彼女を��えている「人」はほとんでいないんだ娘だった母でさえ記憶にないくらい若くして亡くなっていて・・・・・・]

This is the official English translation, while the fan translation has this:

"There aren't that many people who remember her. She died so young that even my mom, her daughter, probably didn't remember her..."

This leaves some more uncertainty in the phrasing, but the meaning is basically the same. The original Japanese, "母でさえ記憶にないくらい若くして亡くなっていて" is a bit closer to the fan translation in a literal sense, except in Japanese there is no "probably"; Natsume sounds pretty certain his mother didn't remember Reiko.

So, if "not even her own daughter" remembered Reiko, it's fair to assume that she must have died when Takashi's mom was still a child, and a really young one at that.

(I suppose you could maybe make an argument that Reiko could have still died when the daughter was older, but then something happened that made her forget? But that doesn't seem likely to me.)

Now, this was the very first chapter written 20 years ago, back when NatsuYuu still wasn't supposed to become a long series with much of an overarching narrative, so maybe it's something that could change later. Midorikawa has definitely retconned some details in her story before. But for now that's still one of the only crumb of information we have about this.

Which, if this is correct, then it's very sad because that means Reiko only lived with her daughter for a handful of years at most and never even got to see her grow up. And given we know the grandfather wasn't around and Reiko was a single mom, then the daughter probably spent most of her childhood without her parents, and barely knew anything about either of them (or, well, nothing at all in the father's case).

Which also begs the question as to who raised Reiko's daughter after her death then. We knows Reiko had no family, and no one know anything about the grandfather, so there was no relative, even distant ones, to look after her like with Takashi.

Did she just end up in the foster system/an orphanage, or did someone specific took care of her? If so, does that mean there was a person close enough to Reiko that would have taken care of her child like this? Did the daughter just carry the Book of Friends with herself all this time? Did she knows what the Book of Friends even was, or anything about her mother's abilities? During the eastern forest arc, Takashi says that his mother didn't have any spiritual powers, but then again he never met her or know anything about her at all, so who knows how much that can be true.

Regardless, there's something particularly tragic about the idea that each generation of the Natsumes grew up as isolated orphans who barely knew anything about their family.

#Natsume Yuujinchou #NatsuYuu #Natsume Reiko #Natsume Takashi #Natsume's Book of Friends #Natsume #Reiko Natsume #Natsuchou #Takashi Natsume #Connan's Ramblings #Connan's Posts #Natsume Yujincho

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fandomsofhope · 4 months

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Hinoe being one of few youkai who can distinguish between human genders and sexes and she uses this skill to be a lesbian.

#a lesbian stereotype really but it’s still funny to me. I get it #natsume yuujinchou #natsuyuu #hinoe #natsume reiko #fandomsofhope

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claiai · 5 months

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What else is there to do on fall break than to rewatch all of natsume yuujinchou for the 12th time hmmmmm

#natsume yuujinchou #natsume's book of friends #natsume takashi #natsume reiko #my art lol #ummmm I like the English dub because it feel like new content #Natsume in Japanese is like yes sir #Natsume in English like bruh fr #I need season 4 dubbed because seaso #season 4 is the most depressing and I just wanna watch the bottle episode in English #the bottle episode and the yokai circle episodes are my fav #imma make a tier list even if I’m the only one in this hashtag #anyways ya i don’t know how to draw

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arataka-reigen · 7 months

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Ok, from the very first episode you already understand that this is a story about loneliness. The yokais from the Book of Friends were all lonely, waiting for the day Reiko would call them. But Reiko was even more lonely than any of them. And getting to see how Takashi is the one to break through this cursed solitude, make friends, get a family, and bring friendship even to the yokais... that is the most precious thing

#only one episode in and i am already completely destroyed. screaming. crying. cradling natsume's beautiful face in my hands.#rewatching was a bad idea #natsume yuujinchou #natsume takashi #natsume reiko #gi talks animanga #1

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raens-art · 6 months

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natsuyuu sketch dump pt.2

#my doods #artists on tumblr #fanart #small artist #traditional sketch #natsume yuujinchou #natsume's book of friends #nyanko sensei #nyanko triplets #taki tooru #natsume tree yokai #misuzu human form #natsuyuu #natsuyuu misuzu #natsume reiko #an assortment of screenshot/official art redraws + heavily referenced from the anime #nyanko-sensei #natsuyuu nyanko-sensei #taki I'm sorry you deserve better but idk how to draw hands 🗿

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katatsukiko · 10 months

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drew reiko and madara bc NATSUYUU SEASON 7 WE BALL!!!

#natsume's book of friends #natsume yuujinchou #natsume reiko #fan art #my art #art by op #nyanko sensei #madara

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akabloom · 4 months

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sick again you know what that means 🥰

#natsuyuu #natsume yuujinchou #natsume's book of friends #my art #natsume reiko #reiko natsume #redraw #hope you all had a good new years :)#mines starting off really not that good but it’s okay it’ll get better #also haven’t drawn reiko at all what is up w that 😭

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flaminhotllama · 4 months

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Doodle Covers for Chapters 109-112 + a bonus alternate cover under the cut.

#natsume yuujinchou #the fujiwaras #natsume reiko #nishimura satoru #kitamoto atsushi #taki tooru #matoba seiji #isamu taki #ny doodle cover #llama art #fun fact: nishimura is wearing a Stab shirt #and isamu is wearing a snowmaru shirt #sneaking in my other meria i love into my natsume art is my passion

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atomicpunch-natsume · 1 year

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I would watch a show of JUST THESE TWO chuckle heads aaahaha! Also think it would be pretty funny if he got to know her while he was sealed up and she just sort of kept swinging by to harass him aaahaha! @alphabetsouppredictsyourdoom

#natsume yuujinchou #natsume reiko #nyanko sensei #fan punch #not a punch #i guess he got his cat form after being sealed so she probably wouldnt have seen that #i bet she’d make fun of him aaaahaha!#the chaos of these two is too powerful though and must be contained lol

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haru-chi · 9 months

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Can we talk about Reiko for a bit ...

(I wanted to write this one because I wanna see how far this theory of mine going to develop in the future)

I don't know how to start with this one or from where exactly, but I'll try to make it organized as much as possible despite the chaos in my mind ><

I saw alot of people's theories about Reiko's husband or that some believe that he's Yorishima or other different theories about her, but I had very different theory about her or maybe her story in general. ...

- Her connection to the exorcist world

I guess it's already a given that her husband might've been an exorcist which in result would also explain how she knew about some spells .. but the connection doesn't seem to end there I fear.

the first time Natsume went to an exorcist gathering someone recognized him as Reiko, was that a human or a Youkai ?? but I believe it might be a human more than a youkai. since...

when Nanase first heard his name, she asked about Reiko so that prove exorcists do know of her somehow, she said she knew of her from the youkai, but is that really true ??

I mean one of the reasons Seiji was interested in Natsume was because of Reiko, in the manga (we don't talk about the anime ver here cuz it's too different ugh) when Seiji start threating Natsume, it was because he wanted info about Reiko that badly but what kind of info ??

Seiji also said the same as Nanase that he heard about her from the youkai and that it's natural to want to know more about someone this powerful since they're rare ...

that can be normal if Reiko is alive, but she isn't .. would you go as far as threating a little boy to get some info about someone who's already died ?? unless what you want is something that she left behind so you're desperate to get this info to the point you're threating like that perhaps ??

now you'll think, " oh so they heard about the book of friends from the youkai?!!!"

but nope, I don't believe it's from the youkai such rumors spread, why do I think so, you ask ??

in the same chapter, Madara stated even if Seiji heard about the book of friends, then that's likely from human than youkai since the youkai by instinct won't mention such a thing which hold their own life in it especially not to exorcists.

maybe it's as a myth or uncertain rumors, when and how did it start I don't know but I think the exorcist world DID hear one thing or two about Reiko and the book of friends.

in the same chapter of when Natsume first went to the exorcist gathering, Natsume realized that the book of friends must be kept a secret from those people, I tend to think of such things as having indirect meaning since Midorikawa-sensei craft her stories carefully so I took this as indirect sign that they already knew of it one way or another which led to what I'm gonna bring up next.

Now that I established that the exorcist world do know of Reiko one way or another be it as a myth or more we're yet to actually see or confirm

PS : it's normal for Natori to never have heard about Reiko or the book unlike Seiji or the others since Natori wasn't always there or grow up in this world and he's hated on top of all.

-Next is about Reiko's death

now to the next question, how did Reiko died ?? do we actually know the details ?? was it an accident ? sickness ? or killed ?? all we know is that she died at a young age leaving her daughter behind.

when Nanase showered Natsume with all those questions about Reiko and her way of death, Natsume stated that he only heard she was found died under a tree one day, nothing else is known. I smell a crime here :)

now if Reiko was indeed killed by someone, was it a human or a youkai ??

personally, as far as of now, and as far as what I stated before, I'd go to say it's a human who killed her and an exorcist at that too.

I don't think I need to state why she was killed; the aim was the book of friends :)

another reason why I believe it was an exorcist is ...

Madara stated the first time Natsume went against exorcist that he can't protect him against such humans 100%. I mean Madara for sure knows what actually happened to Reiko be it her life or her death, but he chose to stay silent about it, so if he was there but failed to protect her then he said this line out from experience.

also, an exorcist is the one who sealed him in his cat form, so what if this happened when he tried to protect Reiko from her attacker ?? but he got sealed while Reiko got killed.

and what if that time when Madara went berserk after seeing Natsume get hurt by an exorcist's arrow was very triggering to him because it happened before ??

thus, I kinda feel so far all of this point out to Reiko being killed by an exorcist more than by youkai ...

something else I think of is, where was her husband ?? her husband mostly an exorcist, right ? now what if he's the reason all this tragedy occurred, that he's the reason Reiko got into the exorcist world, that be it by him or someone around him the existence of the book of friends became known which endangered them all.

what if he tried to protect his family so that's why he was never there when Reiko had his daughter, or maybe simply he died in the line or work since it isn't a normal line of work ?

now where does that leave Yorishima in all of this ?? he clearly knows Reiko and the book of friends, if such myth or rumors going on in the exorcist circles then you can't convince me that the "walking dictionary" never heard of such a thing, he's also older than he looks so he might've witness it all. actually, what if that's the very reason he cut ties with the exorcist world ??

at first, I was like he might be the one who sealed Madara or Reiko's killer and out of guilt decided to live in isolation but Madara has no reaction when they met the first time so that was the end of that idea before it starts xDD

does he know Natsume's grandfather ? was he related to what happened to Reiko ?? many ideas go through my mind, but I don't know so far too little info for me. but that's one of the reasons why I'm against him being Natsume's grandfather and why I think the role he plays is different :)

(actually what if he's Natsume's uncle than grandfather?)

hmmm, that sum up what I have about Reiko overall, I feel I forgot to mention something but more or less that's all I hope, there's a missing link which I'm searching for (mainly Natsume's grandfather, Reiko's husband but yeaaah) but for now that's what's been living in my mind. I do have other few adjustments to the theory but will keep it to myself until I see which way it rolls with future info's.

just imagine what if Reiko's killer was a Matoba or even a Natori the paper master's family, or will it be a family we never heard of before. plus, whom to say his grandfather wasn't from a family we already know too if he's an exorcist :)

when will Midorikawa-sensei give us new info about his grandfather, been hungry for more since I know the next info gonna be a big one for sure T^T

anyway, I'll end this post with this panel and leave it at that.