‘Kakuriyo: Bed and Breakfast for Spirits’ Review

Listen, I love my comfort. I will smoke and inhale lounging about in the sunlight, nuzzled up against pillows with a bag of cookies to my left and two cats curled up at my feet. I need the same kind of vibe from the anime I watch once and a while. Yes, I get fired up from my Dark Tournament watches with Yusuke and the gang, but a weeb needs her cozy, easy binges as well. Enter, Kakuriyo: Bed and Breakfast for Spirits. Right from the get, we see that this anime is literally about bed and breakfasts for asshole demons. Immediately after starting this, I am thinking about picturesque, expensive, AirBNB type of views. Intimate and snuggly. With a hot tub. What more can you ask for from an easy, slice of life*? Studio Gonzo brings to life Midori Yūma and illustrator’s Laruha’s light novel series about a young woman Aoi Tsubaki who can see spirits. After meeting one such powerful ogre spirit, she finds out that her dearly departed grandfather left her in a serious amount of debt. Now, determined to get out of it with her own two hands, she opens a restaurant at a Bed and Breakfast in the Hidden Realm; a dimension where all the Ayakashi inhabit. Aoi is a mild-mannered university student with a spine made of adamantium and a gift of cooking. Her meal-making is able to bring together spirits, once wary of her, they soon grow to become quite fond of her.

As repeated before, it’s a relatively low-risk anime; you invest very little emotion aside from enjoying the fantasy atmosphere. It’…