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for those who don't know about the ghost festival culture in japan. the ghost will ride the horse/cucumber, prepared by the family, hoping the ghost to return home as quickly as possible and reunite with the family. the cow/eggplant on the other hand, is to hope that the return to the underworld shoule be slowly and comfortable. the joke here is that the ghost doesn't want to be sent to the underworld. so she rides the horse back to where the girl lives.
I love this series. The scene where she didn't put the water on the tomb but on the actual person/ghost itself was still so funny for me because it just make so much sense to give the offerings directly lol and the fact that the ghost considers her home as its home as well for the obon. Keep up the good work
I think the water is more about purification and the danger of remaining a ghost for too long is that you can be corrupted by your desire ( you left something undone in your life ) and become a bad spirit. So she's purifying the family grave and then the ghost to prevent it from turning into an evil spirit
It's such an irony, because our new shrine-maiden has the opposite problem of her mentor. One had trouble making the ghosts show themselves. (because she can be so intimidating!) The other now has to beat them off with a stick! hah! 😄
According to the beliefs in Japan and some other countries, houses are where the living live so the dead will be stopped by a living force that separates the two worlds, a spirit can only enter your home only if you invite them if not they will be burn by the power of the living. That's why bad spirits will scare the living to make their life energy weak, so the way to defeat them is to play DOOM Eternal music to let them know who is the Boss :3
I like how in the first clip the sound she makes starts off as a menacing ghostly wail but then quickly just shifts into adorable slide-whistle sound effects.
That's one adorable lively ghost, still acting like she's very much enjoying her unlife, lol. That first animation was so cute, was quite literally handed her offering.
I do love how all of the 'Shrine' characters seems so friendly with one another, with the Miko-character being the only one to do some brute force from time to time! Adorable animations! (Also, sidenote and me being overly nerdy about your animations: You left out the one where the Miko-character dropkicks the ghost.)
I like how the vegetable creature that brought the ghost back was a different color than the one that sent her, implying that a different exorcist(?) used the same trick, and it just took the ghost back to where she began
it's a japanese cultural thing, something about cow eggplant that bring spirit to afterlife then horse cucumber thing when spirit visited the human world during obon
@@sDert. to add to this, if I'm remembering it correctly, the eggplant cow is used to give the dead a slow journey back to the afterlife so they can enjoy the sights while on the way. on the other hand, the cucumber horse is supposed to bring the dead quickly back to world of the living so they can spend Obon with their relatives without delay... Don't quote me on this because I'm not Japanese and I probably got something wrong.
When it is time for Obon, Japanese will put a horse made of cucumber near the altar so their dead loved ones can ride the horse and return to the mortal world quickly to spend time with their family. After the festival, the horse is replaced by a cow made of eggplant so the dead can leisurely ride the cow back to Yomi (Japanese hell). In this animation, the ghost girl got sent to Yomi by the eggplant, but she rode the cucumber horse to return to the mortal world.
The last one for the Kami should be titled “‘Tadaima’- ‘I’m home!’” I didn’t know the Japanese vegetable horses carried spirits to and from the afterlife. I’m still worried about Miko-Chan. She was hurt real bad doing her duty and deserves some support and cheering up.
This reminds me of Gensokyo and Reimu Harukime in particular. She seems to alternate between depression, grudgingly doing her work, being mostly chill with Youkai and psychotic rage.
