The Monsters of Japan 

there are many wierd yokai but one of my favourites is a giant foot that smashes through your roof and demands to be washed and wont leave until you do

Writing a book with a japanese inspired kingdom and this is really helpful to throw in some myths and mysteries thanks awesome video👌

Congrats for reaching 100.000 mate! You deserved it!

I enjoy making time for these videos. Your storytelling style i find captivating, and i've encountered many interesting topics through you. and great skits! I'll gladly ...hand you some applause! Thank you for your work & efforts here.

All those hand enemies in P4G make much more sense now.

I love that you mentioned Nioh. That game and its sequel are outrageously underrated.

Hungarian here. Small correction: the owls male appendage is made of copper, thus its called the Copper D*ck Owl. Yeah. Unruly children are told that if they don't behave, they will be taken by the owl and will be either severely punished or eaten by it. Possibly both. The owl "might" be a very warped interpretation of the Copper/Iron Nosed Hag, more popularly known as Baba Yaga. There is a local variant of the bogeyman where I live, called Sime Suma (I do not think it can be translated, sorry). Sime Suma scares and terrorizes misbehaving children as well (see a pattern here :v). The more you act out, the more outright evil stuff it does to you.

I always watch your videos until the end, you are a good storyteller. Fun fact: for some reason I never watched J-horror, and decided to watch Ringu and Ju-on last week, so I feel like this video came at a perfect time for me.

RU-vid notified me a bit late about this but this was a nice watch. Agreed on the game part, though I am guilty of over-using normal undeath and ghosts in my ttrpg games as well, a fact I am now endeavouring to rectify. Though...maybe not the Owl.

Nothing like starting the gather around the fire with a spooky gathering game 👺 Thanks for bringing an awesome 👻 video 💙

I first learned about Kappa from TMNT 3, lol. Be a champ and don’t skip the ads!

Your video makes me want to replay "Blood Will Tell" on ps2.

The SMT games (Japanese Studio) also make use of folk lore from multiple cultures

Ooh spooky Bird channel video 👀🙌🔥

My introduction to this sort of lore was a Fighting Fantasy choose your own adventure book back in the 80's called "Sword of the Samurai". In one part of the story if you make the mistake of staying in a village you get attacked at night after the heads of the villagers detach from their bodies and come after you. In another you need to get past a group of Kappa in order to cross a river. You can do this by knocking them down to spill the water in their bowl shaped heads which prevents them from breathing and forces them back to the water. It's funny how these stories evolve and stay alive. :)

Finally got around to watching this. I was gonna say, the game you talk about at the beginning seems like it'd be limited to rich people, and then you mentioned that it was turned into a game by Samurai, so that checks outt.

You are profoundly hilarious at times

thanks for that list of European folkloric creatures at the end - too often Japanese yokai (and culture in general) is presented as wacky or zany, but you're right, it's more to do with media exposure than anything else (that's one of the reasons i loved Until Dawn so much - the wendigos made it!!) on another note, i'd contest the idea that there's a direct ancestry between atmospheric 60s films like Onibaba and the J-horror boom of the 90s-00s, but it's an interesting thought! thanks for a great and informative vid =]

Nice use of an authentic Spirit Journal, by the way. :)

Who knew that Quentin Tarantino had a cousin in Japan with a hand fetish?

I can confirm that Yokai are real, i played a historically accurate video game called Nioh 2, and there is Yokai in it.

I'm Hungarian, and yes. I heard a lot of these stories, as a kid. Like the Kutasbéka (Well Frog), who is a large Frog who lives in wells, and pulls children in to drown them if the look into the well. I also know the Rézfaszú bagoly, athe Owle with the large metal man part you mentioned. Interestingly enough, while yes, today it is depicted like that, originally it was different. The word "fasz" meaning penis now, originally ment the fathery tail of birds. So originally it ment an owl with brass tail fathers. But as language has a way of doing, the meaning of the word changed. Today it means penis and people forgot the original meaning, so the Owl got a manpart... There is also the Frász, what is a small, ugly creature that jumps down from trees and scares people to death. And the Man with a bag, who takes bad children away to beat them, work them to death than eat them. ,

Thanks for this neat Yokai video!

One of my favorite RU-vid channels.

The one with the dude who has an eyeball stuck up his ass is going to haunt me for weeks. Thank you very much for that visual. Halloween has never been this traumatizing before. :D

Cool video, I watched to the end. Question: what happened to all the Witcher 1 Lore Through videos?

I heard so many stories in my childhood that I've forgotten so now that I GM I'm trying to find my notes from school to steal ideas from literature. I might also try to find the old fairytale cassettes that I listened to in my preschool days but I don't have very high level of hope for that.

Can you do a video discussing the monsters of the UK thank you 🙂

Here, let me lend you a hand...I'll see myself out now. On the matter of Ringu, hearing about how the films differ from the books sounds absolutely insane because the books seem to be nonsensical in certain regards.

I got so confused when recognising your voice from your witcher tiktoks

One of these days I want to see a character from another video to show up on accident. "Elric?!?!?! What are you doing in Japan?"

Fantastic video, I've always had a fascination for Japanese mythology and mythology in general. Thank you and have a good day, sincerely an Australian.

Dissembodied feet would probably be scarier than hands tbh

Not my floor breadcrumbs!! Karma is cruel indeed

Me, overcome by the urge to suddenly like and subscribe?...thats DEFINITELY the work of a yokai. =]

Dang girl! Your hair looks wonderful!

have u seen 47 ronin? its why i want to watch this video as ive not found the resources to discover more

The Witcher games felt so refreshing, because they used european myths and monsters, that weren't widely known.

Japanese Mythology and Philippino Mythology are very interesting.

Yeah, it's weird. Even if Western studios tend to look out for Yokai more because they probably feel more exotic, and vicecersa, there definetly is a lack of originality in that regard. Hell, the only western game I have played in recent times with some variety in that regard is the Ruined King. And even then, it's not that much, and half their designs were pulled out from Legends of Runeterra. A game than on itself only had that much variety, because they really needed to fill out the card pool somehow. Althought, in the department of inventing weird monsters, one has to give them props for the Shark Chariot. Is a riot just to look at that thing.

This seems really cool, but sadly I can't watch it because my Mom said it'll give me nightmares.

10 gang let’s goooo

Distract the kids from what's going on outside by telling or showing them stories designed to terrify them. It's a classic.

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Superb video! 💜 I wonder what's your opinion on the “Witcher” series and on the fact that Henry Cavill is leaving the show. 🙂

You forgot to mention that not only are not all Tengu evil, but that they can also be incredibly helpful. They can travel through time, fetch items, offer advice and even help you with the timing of your sword swings. You only need to ask Samanosuke Akechi how he feels about Ako to know that.

Eheheh, *Boo*ddhism, eheheh

A dullahan game would be interesting and it's a bit sad that some real true stories got mix up in with the made up ones and ppl never takes caution about supernatural things when they really need to, cant never be too certain about anything in life or u will regret it bc: "Karma is a bish"

Uuuuh, i am the ghost who makes noises in cinema at the best scenes and whoooooo spoils the plot uuuuh. Seriously, make that. I know chainsawman has the futuredevil thats basically that, but it could be a yokai. An hy donr western sudios use weird mythologival creatures of everyday? Probably hintoism plays a role there, but still, why not, germanic and even weirder slavih folklore is so weird. I mean some stories are still told because ther are till monster roaming the jungle in the night that take cakeles children, becau human taficker and organ harvester are in the area :( , but you cant tell a kid that so, uuuh spooky monster.

The Witcher Lore through is GONE!!! No!!!!! 😭😭😭😭😭😭

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