Book of Friends: Zoku Natsume Yuujinchou Episode 1

Woa that Preta (Gaki or Hungry Ghost) yōkai was freaky. At least I assume it's supposed to be a Preta given it's crazy long neck, coupled with looking very starved being skin and bones and it's grey corpse like colour, which fits from what I've seen in Buddhist paintings depicting the six different realms that constitute saṃsāra.  
 
I still don't get why tieing a cloth around his forehead that has the kanji for eye on it makes him decieve the other yōkai of his human nature. 
 
Riou reminded me of the depiction of Helel/Lucifer(angelic form) in the Persona series but with much larger and fewer wings and minus the horns. 
 
 
I like the new opening and ending, a big part of that being I love winter and snow, also I wonder who the new girl who looks mysteriously like Reiko is in the opening and ending or is that Reiko but wearing a hat all the time and with different eyebrows.

" @Konanda: Nice catch! Yes, she was pretty creepy. As for the cloth/kanji thing, the Japanese believe(d) very strongly in the power of kanji and things like that-- I relate it very much to when a character in an anime uses an ofuda (those slips of paper with writing on them) to freeze or destroy a demon by slapping it on the creature's forehead...or a doll with a kanji on it that humans are supposed to see as a human or whatever else the kanji means. :)  Actually, the entire concept of Natsume-- that demons can be subordinated by their writing of their own names on paper --is related to this same idea, I expect. "