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Kaisei is Souun's daughter, she is Yasaburou's cousin and ex-fiancée. But why
doesn't she want Yasaburou to see her?

![Kaisei from last episode](https://i.stack.imgur.com/2GTOM.jpg)


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Why doesn't Kaisei want to be seen by Yasaburou?


The answer was finally revealed in the follow-up "The Eccentric Family 2."

The earlier series had established that some tanuki have stimuli that undo
their transformations -- Yasaburo's mother, for example, loses her ability to
hold on to her transformation when she sees or hears lightning, and she
reverts to tanuki form.

The reason Kaisei hides herself from Yasaburo is that _she_ is the stimulus
that makes him lose control of his transformation. If he sees her, he reverts
to tanuki state.

It's never explained (at least, not in the anime) how Kaisei knows this, when
Yasaburo doesn't. However, it's implied that she's known this all along, and
secretly regarded their engagement as ultimately impossible because of it.


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