Hyakkiyakou: Warashi

Hyakki-Yakou: Warashi, meaning Night parade of one hundred demons : Ghost Girl

It's an interesting piece of erotic anime that's quite unique since there's not a lot of erotica that deals with folklore and social commentary. The plot centers around an average young man who for reasons not explicitly told has to move to the countryside. During this process he meets a lonely ghost girl who can't live in urban centers and seeks a wooden house.

While I'm no expert in Japanese mythology I can give an interesting assumption that it's about not losing touch with one's heritage and be aware of seeking empty but quick ... pleasure in the modern life, with an emphasis on online pornography. The supporting characters are all young adults who live in in an unknown metropolitan city but fear the countryside since it's no fun and sexless. While at the same time lamenting the sadness of being young in modern Japan.

The Ghost girl is an interesting character as she travels through the world, cities and the universe in seek of companionship even though it can be hurtful to live with someone it's better than to be alone. Like the others she seeks quick companionship in sex but it's never enough. A beautiful modern fairy tale for adults.

Rate a 5
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Story
Slow but at the same time random. I am guessing it was a symbolical introduction. Illustrating the struggle for fitting in.

Plot simple and short. Not original.

Some of the wording along with art/animation was comical.
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Ending was romantic.

Sound
-Had a nice romantic song to go with at the time an alleged romance.

- Illustrated voices from a distance well with echo distortion.

Art
Somewhat cheap in backgrounds for in introduction. Art there also seemed completely random. As soon as the viewer could settle in something about the picture sometimes minor to major would up and go.

Some of the characters were similar to another which made knowing what was happening slightly confusing.

Overall one might come to the same conclusion as I. Artwork of characters demonstrate possible poor quality of production. For there is no by Japanese slang terminology cuteness. But I think the director was smart. If you read into plot you find story takes place for certain characters in far past. Beauty as we know today wouldn’t have existed back then. For little by little like everything we know such as strawberries has been broken down from things of dislike and expanded on areas of interest. Main complaint I had was the minor helper character. To me character should have made sense with a character of past by not being seen as a character of future. Although, when one lives for such a long period of time one with either adapt to current events or risk missing out on deadlines. In that sense I can understand.