I am a huge fan of Japanese Yokai. Something about them is just badass. Unlike most myths which are just "I eat people and I do the creepy thing", Yokai can be all sorts of things. They can be good, bad, and they are ALWAYS creepy. Not to mention how media portrays them. Tom Nook, the entire Persona series, a majority out of the 800+ Pokemon, ect. It's just amazing.
"Kama" means scythe or sickle, not wind. It's only said that kamaitachi rode the wind, or at least moved like it. Not all bakeneko have two tails; that's called a nekomata, and has a wildly more intense set of powers and temperament. The last picture you show during the Inugami breakdown is actually a Kasha, a cat yōkai. Tsukumogami, what the Karakasa is, are common objects that reach sentience after they've existed for one hundred years, not ninety-nine. There's no time period for Kirin. They appear in either times of great peace or great conflict to signify the coming of a drastic change and/or powerful leader.
Karakasa-obake, the umbrella yokai is very similar to our native lore. It has one leg and one eye and it would frighten people. But if any person were to catch one, it would grant everything that person could say under one breath. We call it pheichham in our region, its quite popular too. I have always thought it weird that there was a similar tale in Japanese myths, when i first watched Spooky Kitarou, I told my mom about it and she was puzzled too.
I mean the origins of the Japanese Jomon people is in Siberia, the same place the native Americans are from. The similarity might stem from there. The story might have developed independently (considering an umbrella only has one "leg"). Or maybe the Japanese and the native Americans interacted during more modern time at some point.
@@phillip7731 we're Mongolian descent so being influenced by Siberia moreover, America is pretty minimal. Also, we were a socially cut off tribe, as most of our ancestors were headhunters, so even communicating with us could only happen until the world wars and most of our folklore was developed before that period.
Eyyyyy, you watched that too! I rewatched and reread that show so many times now, and the concept of a nurarihyon yokai was interesting to me, a peaceful yokai who just parties.
I watched a movie called ,Yôkai daisensô 1968 (Yokai Monsters: Spook Warfare). That is all about Yokais, this video helped me to understand more about it, there are many Japanese films about Yokais, I will look for some more, I think they are interesting and very strange.
@@FifaMaestroAdam Yōkai Monsters: Spook Warfare is a good one, as is the kinda-sorta loose remake The Great Yōkai War (both of them are called Yōkai Daisensō in Japanese, but the second was made in 2005), as is the film that came before them, Yōkai Hyaku Monogatari (often titled in English as Yōkai Monsters: 100 Monsters). There is also the manga series GeGeGe no Kitaro, the most recent anime adaptation of which I believe is still on Crunchyroll.
A wonderful, well- balanced and accurate introduction to the Japanese 妖怪 world! And I appreciate your choices of those beautiful artworks, both old and new.
The video game Nioh.Nioh 2 literally uses a giant portion of these Yokai in their game with info on their real life mythology and lore. They even kept the look you have displayed in your vid. I love monster mythology and appreciate this vid. Good job.
My favorite episode of Avatar: Last Airbender was always the one where he goes to the spirit forest and that creepy centipede thing is there. I love stuff like that.
I was saying the same thing i love yokai the win spirit I gut a cat spirit it's no joke I love him so much I had him from the day I was born and I'm 24 when I'm writing this message but I still have my yokai cat on my inugamy dog
This is very interesting to me. As someone who watches a lot of anime, and dreams to one day become a mangaka it is nice to know the legends where some of the references in anime come from.
You should do better research, because it's very hard to become a mangaka. I would recommend the video "What it takes to be a mangaka". I know it's been 2 years, but still.
Same. Been playing and the greatest samurai in history popped up, so i watch it. Wasn't surprised to see alot of characters from the nioh games in it lol.
Sooooo, I've been playing MHWIB for 3 years and never knew "Kirin" was originally a Yokai...You learn something new everyday, Thank you...Now I know why Kirin is in the Class of Elder Dragons.
Cool video, already knew a bunch of them. I always like the concept of Yuki-Onna, but never quite understood the part of 'intense pain and suffering' dying in a blizzard is not very painful. It will hurt for maybe a minute,then u won't feel anything, all energy is drained from the cold and u fall asleep, never to awake again
Thank you for this very interesting video. But some of the pronunciations were wrong here, specifically "onna" (which means female in Japanese, and you pronounce it as "on-na", and not as "ona"); and "komainu" (which is pronounced as "koma-inu" and not as "komai-nu") But this video was very interesting and informative and thank you for that (and I loved the art featured in it.) Now I'm off to find the hoards of obvious Death Note and Gintama references in the comment section
I remember watching an anime show that portrayed all these entities. I wish I remembered its name though. The series really dove into a lot of deeper topics like even suicide. I was a kid though so I never got the chance to understand it fully.
My favourite one is called zashiki-warashi. They are harmless small yokai that takes the appearence of small children and seeing one can bring fortune to you and/or your family
