Kyoukai no Rinne 2nd Season

It's so cold.

It is.

Oden

It's oden.

It is.

Oden

Oden.

Originally a word used to refer to grilled tofu,

modern oden is based on the stewed grilled tofu.

It has been long-loved in Japan for the myriad of ingredients stewed in the broth,

including paste-based foods, radishes, egg, and konjac.

I'm so hungry.

Yeah.

Want to go for a bite?

No, I'm not in the mood today.

100 yen for a slice of radish?!

I can't spend that kind of money.

Let's go, Rokumon.

Rokumon, where are you?

Hot Pot Conductor

It's so cold again.

Yeah, it's freezing.

It'd be a good day for something warm.

We get neither power nor gas here.

We can't afford to be picky.

If it's edible, I don't care how hot it is.

Rinne, let's hang out.

Go away.

I'm busy with my part-time job.

Are you sure you want to talk to me like that?

I-It's... It's...

It's getting cold.

It's a nice day for oden.

Oden!

Swimming in a sea of rich broth in the middle of the convenience store,

shining brighter than the brightest meals,

laid out in a splendid, golden and orange display of happiness.

And there's a ton of it in my room for impoverished me!

If this is a dream, please don't wake me!

Rinne, you can bow to me some more.

Yes, my goddess.

Ageha-sama, you're too kind.

You're such a good person, Ageha.

Yes! I finally have his heart fired up.

Yes! Hurry and fire up the stove!

Their hearts were on fire, but not in the same way.

Pour the broth,

turn on the heat...

You go play outside.

Rinne, it's just the two of us now.

Oden, you say?

Really? You're treating us?

Yes, it's on Ageha-sama.

The broth's boiling.

Let's put the ingredients in.

This oden isn't for you!

Wait...

Is this...

What?

Glare!

Let me guess, Ageha-sama,

you were scheming to make Rinne-sama eat something weird to control his mind, right?

What?

Hold on, Rokumon.

All right, let's get around the pot.

You don't care?

Rinne-sama, we need to set this straight.

It's all good, it's all good.

Ageha-sama is setting us up for a trap.

I don't know anything about it.

He looked like a samurai.

Maybe he was possessing the pot.

Who knows.

I just randomly picked it out of our shed.

That's always the thing with you.

There's a manual in the box.

Let's see...

Bugyou Pot Set?

Bugyou?

As in a shogun magistrate?

Inspector Tohyama Saemon-sama is here!

So then, that man from earlier...

A Hot Pot Conductor?!

What's a Hot Pot Conductor?

Ageha! You seriously tried to hold a hot pot party

without knowing what a Hot Pot Conductor is?

Why should I have to know what that means?

Listen up. A Hot Pot Conductor is...

Hark! Prithee holdeth thine horses!

An expert of hot pots, commanding and managing each of its aspects,

That there aliment is ripe for ye.

including not just the order in which ingredients are added, where they go,

Now! Consume!

how they're seasoned, but also adjusting the temperature, removing the foam,

the addition of soup to avoid overcooking, as well as moderating the guests' timings,

mediating conflicts, at times lecturing the young, all the way down to asking,

"Shall we finish with porridge, or shall I put in some udon?"

That is the Hot Pot Conductor!

What? Ew.

The pot came with a Hot Pot Conductor, and we threw him out!

You fool!

We could have had some delicious hot pot!

Oh, all right.

Hot Pot Conductor Certificate 2nd Dan Jumonji Tsubasa-dono

As the holder of a 2nd Dan Hot Pot Conductor license, I'll be the Hot Pot Conductor.

Hand me the long chopsticks.

Wait.

What, got a problem?

You better not be trying to

take control of the pot so you can get all the good ingredients for yourself.

Don't mock me!

Only the purest of souls can be a Hot Pot Conductor.

Hot Pot is an art and a battle with oneself.

The duty of the Hot Pot Conductor is to create and serve

the most delicious hot pot possible.

Who are you?

Do you not remember my face?

That's more shogun than magistrate.

And a rowdy one, at that.

Both are lovers of peace, and both live for the people.

The Hot Pot Conductor is back all of a sudden.

What?

What should we do with him?

Let's just leave him, if he's harmless.

Okay, I think it's about ready.

Wait, Rokudou.

You haven't had the Conductor's permission yet.

Permission?

The ingredients that cook early; the ingredients that take time;

the ingredients that are best left in until they add to the broth...

One of the duties of the Hot Pot Conductor

is to determine the best time to eat and instruct on the order.

You bring discord to the pot by eating without permission.

Since when does it matter what order you eat your oden?

Hey!

Hot!

Black cats, like most cats, can't handle hot food.

How dare you, you dumb cat!

That's what you get.

You have to follow the Hot Pot Conductor's orders.

Don't you want to have good hot pot?!

Scrunch!

I am the law.

Now!

Time to eat.

Delicious!

Really?

What?

Is it?

Oh yeah, it is.

It's really good.

Yeah, it's good.

I was expecting Ageha to mess up the flavoring and disappoint all of us.

I'm going to kill you.

All we did was open the vacuum-packed bags and put them in.

Of course it's good.

Then do we even need a Hot Pot Conductor?

Yum!

Too yummy!

Is this what happiness tastes like?

This is an utter shock.

What's wrong, Rokudou-kun?

There's two kinds of suji.

Right, suji in the Kanto region refers to fish gristle paste.

But in the Kansai region, it refers to beef gristle.

And yet, here, there are both kinds of suji.

What lavishness!

What happiness!

Is that what you were going for?

No, I just bought what I could find.

I really don't think we need a Hot Pot Conductor.

What a moment of bliss.

The splendid world of oden!

What's wrong, Rokudou-kun?

There's only one radish.

They're probably near the bottom.

I put in lots.

Hey, don't stir it so violently!

You're going to crumble up the atsuage.

The Hot Pot Conductor!

He vanished.

He ate our oden.

All the radish is gone.

Why would the Hot Pot Conductor do such a thing?

I trusted him.

I feel betrayed.

The radish...

There's only one left!

Radish, the star of the oden world, dyed a vibrant orange by the broth.

If the oden pot were the earth,

the radish is a gust of wind flowing through the forest of ingredients.

Plentifully absorbing the broth from the pastes,

and releasing a mouthful of juicy deliciousness with every bite.

It is a dragon god, master of all creation!

A Buddha ruling over the world!

And there's only one radish!

Wait, Rokumon.

What are you doing, casually taking the radish?

You were after it, too, weren't you, Jumonji?

With the Hot Pot Conductor absent, I am the acting Conductor!