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Welcome back to Yozakura Family Sunday guys….a little bit late but whatever.
General Plot
Yozakura Family Episode 4 is adapting a little bit of chapter 4, chapter 10, and chapter 40.
Chapter 4 adaptation is more of less Taiyo showcase of how powerful he is after Yozakura training. The Training is making Taiyo more or less Superhuman.
Taiyo no look catch
Chapter 10 is adapting the first Taiyo and Shinzo bonding moment. It is same with the manga with no notable differences.
Taiyo piggybacked by Shinzo
Chapter 40 is adapting Kengo story, However it is not the chapter where Taiyo and Kengo bonding for the first time. I will talk about this in specific below.
Taiyo and Kengo bonding
It is pretty surprising that Silver-Link suddenly decide to pick up the pace and adapting 3 chapter consecutively.
Aditional and Changed Scene
Since the episode has a faster pace than previous episode, it is pretty reasonable that this episode has almost no additional scene.
However this episode has one additional scene that is bugging me. You can see the said scene below.
Futaba, Nanao and Shion
To note that THIS scene is after Mutsumi decide to blockade (Hibernation) the mansion, making it impossible for everybody to come out and come in.
Kengo is caught by Mutsumi
The way Futaba, Nanao and Shion talking is making it like they just come from outside of the mansion, which is inconsistent with how Hibernation work.
I understand though that it is possible for Futaba, Shion, and Nanao to compile the data inside of secret room somewhere in the Mansion.
About Changed Kengo Moment
Manga readers would instantly notice that Kengo and Taiyo first bonding moment IS NOT chapter 40, it is actually from chapter 13.
Kengo and Taiyo first mission
So in the end we must ask WHY? Why adapt chapter 40 instead of chapter 13?
To answer that let’s take a moment to look at what chapter 40 actually do.
Mutsumi explaining what Hibernation is
Chapter 40 of the manga actually introduce the concept of Hibernation. Hibernation is actually a blockade of Yozakura Mansion so nobody could get in and get out from the mansion. This could only be activated by The Head of the Family.
This Hibernation concept will be used later on chapter 47 of the manga by the villain to enter the mansion. I won’t go into too much detail here because it is a spoiler territory.
So why Kengo scene is changed then? well the short answer it is to fasten the pace.
Faster Pacing
With this faster pacing, i conclude that there is a high probability of Kyoichiro and Taiyo mission (chapter 5 to chapter 8 in the manga) be adapted into 1 episode in the future.
Since Yozakura Family more action packed chapter is more or less started from chapter 46 of the manga, i think this faster pacing is to make the anime go into that arc adaptation faster.
Conclusion
With faster pacing Yozakura Family Episode 4 improve on what previous episode lacks.
The faster pacing however doesn’t make the scene has lesser impact as it is a very faithful adaptation to the manga.
Overall i give it 5/5 for the best episode so far.
Don’t forget to catch up with the latest Yozakura Family Episode guys. Here is my review of episode 3 for helping you (if you are too lazy to watch it by yourself)