@@metallicsnake. Thank you for the inspiration. I have decided that I will continue to exist and not burn every single piece of evidence that proves I am a thing.
there’s something so darkly hilarious in the way the teacher is referred to as “The One Who Sells The Children”. Lovecraftian in a way worthy of a story where a child is sold to a moomin.
I agree with the sentiment, but Lovecraft would have given the lady a name like “Gizzum Chink” and told us to be afraid of it with no additional context 🙄 People gotta stop praising the guy if they haven’t actually read him.
@@AnkhAnanku this is a joke comment on a bad anime, not a literary comparison to an old fiction writer who was scared of air conditioners. It is *not* that deep, my dude.
@@AnkhAnanku Lovecraft wrote well, but whether you appreciate what he wrote is another story You cannot deny his ability, but you can choose to not like it
@@AnkhAnanku He's a solid writer as far as pure horror goes, but his importance to fiction is that he's probably the first major writer in human history to NOT place humans as the center of the universe, and indeed, regard them as tiny, inconsequential specks in the vast emptiness of the cosmos populated by unspeakable horrors that probably wouldn't even give mankind a second thought.
@@dirtiestdan4756 The bizarreness and absurdity of it, the way the story plays it off as completely normal, the reactions it gets out of people who are themselves so asdured in their sense of how the world works, the way it plays with our sense of "normal", there's a lot of reasons to like it really. It's creative and fun, and a good reminder that our idea of normal isn't the one way everything has to be to have a mostly peaceful, happy society. If aliens ever did visit Earth in a diplomatic sense, we'd inevitably be in for a lot of culture shock. They could run society in a way that is so counter to our own ideas of what is right or wrong, but their society may thrive far more than our own with more satisfied and content citizens, less political strife, no war, etc. I love that it's the kind of series that leaves you with more questions than it answers, the not knowing can be just as exciting and enjoyable as knowing. Also, I find odd eccentricities and odd creatures rather charming.
Eh, the only problem I could really judge is the underage and incest aspect. Other than that, it’s just creature-human romance, which is already a trope.
16:40, I love how he's just yelling the story as if it is some outrage (it is), but then he just stops MID SENTENCE to yell " *WHAT ARE YOU* " . In such an accusatory tone, I love it.
The utterly baffling premise, combined with the unsettling undertones is peak anime. I think we may need to call Protagonist Protective Services to come liberate the child brides, regardless of how sweet their husband's character designs are.
why couldn't the premise have simply been monsters adopting human best friends...? it could still keep some romantic undertones, because anime has to have romantic undertones
@@MoriMementa it sort of does make sense since these are high schooler characters though. Besides the only reason teenage marriage is not consider holistic in the now is that this modern era is that a average teenager can not afford a high payable life with having there own house and having a child to raise. back then a 13-14 year old guy or girl could easily afford their own house since every thing was cheaper back then in America but also other countries as well.in1920-1940 there are some people who were 13-14 years of age who got married to people who were in their 20's years of age. in the early 1900's a house costs somewhere around 200-300$ dollors.it was even cheaper to keep rent and a month . some times you would find a house that's cost 150-170$ back then too.even back then before the 1900's this was possible in the 1800's since things were even cheaper. Due to downsides of the concept of pedophiles or in this case rapists this relationship is considered bad now but could easily be misconception by modern people like our selves. For example i know some one told me that their grandmother married a 14-year old guy in the 1900's when she was 21-years old but she died at the age of 84 years old but the guy she married at the age of 14-years at that point was in his late age 60's when she died.today to many rapists exists for this relationship to be consider safe now.but that does not mean it could be feasible.brand name monopoly and governmental monopoly are the reasons why things are so expansive now yet back then a 13-14 year old could easily pay for their own house and everything that goes in the house was even cheaper back then.times have changed social wise and relationship wise.
@@wabbajocky8235 Nah, it's more likely just something made up because the author was bored and didn't know what kind of story to do for their editor so they just propose whatever. There is many stories like that happening with little mangaka
Yeah, like, if this started out as some Japanese lady's satirical response to serieses like The Animagus' (?) Bride where the child bride is usually female (and so she made the child bride male to have the inherent horror of it stick out to people who take girls getting married in these shows for granted), then it would honestly be kinda brilliant, but if it's meant to be taken at face value as a fun, romantic story, then there are some BIG issues
The constant emphasis that they're children in a learning facility is just so fucking hilarious I've never seen the anime but I'm sure it's not nearly as entertaining as this video
"It's because they reproduced last night." sent me into a laughing fit that sent me into a coughing fit that left me on the floor with tears in my eyes. Congratulations Mr. !, your wit is so sharp that you have successfully dealt real world damage to my mortal frame.
This video in my mind is how it feels to go insane. I feel like this is what happened to the Hunter in Bloodborne during the course of the night. What’s likely most disturbing is my lack of reaction. As another Bloodborne reference, I’ve gained so many eyes this does not phase me
what is this style of narration called. the deadpan tone of voice clashing with flowery, verbose descriptors. the wretched kanenogi. ive seen one other youtuber talk like this and it was great there too. i love it so much
All I hear is you describing and absolute masterpiece which i will definitely read alongside the manhwa where a skeleton purchaces a baby thinking that it's a cat. 100%
It took me far too long to realize that you were just calling it a moomin and that this wasn't actually a truly audacious official crossover, and honestly I appreciate that. I'm still bewildered how he could have mistakenly thought that he had been married when everybody else was calling themselves wives and the teacher made him be in a wedding.
@@yeetthegargantuanleviathan6216 No, she's his hand. Or in the place of his hand. Still girl-shaped with hands of her own but also sprouting from his wrist.
The teacher(?) woman was the villain of the story, which is funny cause the author is a woman meaning that the teacher(?) was her self insert as she wrote the most horrifying literature known to man and disguised it as innocent. On a serious note: this show is more of a turn off your brain and smile at the weird thing happening kind of show it's not meant to be taken seriously, so overall I liked it very much, very weird, very entertaining, afterall tragedy and horror is just comedy if you look at it at a far away distance.
I remember watching this anime years ago with my brother when it was released on the anime pirating sites. I thought “oh the art is cute! Let me give it a go!” And honestly I remember being more baffled at it than anything. When it ended, I just sat there and didn’t process what happened so I forgot about it. Thank you for bringing back such an old memory
Kudos to the deadpan dead inside tone the entire time aside from the really cheerful episode title announcements. This vid is hilarious and so well done. I thank you for cursing me with the knowledge that this anime/manga exists
I'm shaking and crying right now. Words cannot describe the experience my eyes have witnessed. Truly one of the few artistic pieces that must be viewed to be understood.
with every passing second I find my mind failing to reconcile the knowledge passed down to me... this video is a wonderful piece of art I will never share with another soul
this is literally the perfect tone of narration for the ongoing dread that is covering this series amazing job....i dont know how to feel that this was posted on my birthday
This video was either cursed, amazing, or both. Even after finishing it I am not sure if I watched a video by Explanation Point or if I merely gazed at a wall and hallucinated in the darkness of a better locked away part of the human zeitgeist. Joking aside though this video was great, your delivery was fantastic. Thank you.
"underage incestuous moomin infidelity" made me choke on my food while my coffee was going out through my nose, despite it being the ...th time I'm rewatching this video. well done. good job
This type of... thing has the most peculiar vibe. When character do or go through horrible things either intentionally for no apparent reason or do not object for no apparent reason. I have found more of these, on an unmentionable here website
OMFG this was glorious. After a short adjustment period I spent the rest of the video laughing in disbelief. The way your voice sounds like you're giving it everything you have to stay committed to the bit without breaking was spectacular :P
Though this wretched concept of a story dares to exist and shrivel up our eyeballs, your humoristic way of explaining it was so entertaining, it left me WHEEZING! Thank you so much! 🤗
okay, for anyone wanting to know what's actually going on, according to tvtropes: " these aren't intended to be marriages, wealthy Japanese families are adopting minor Kami into their families as a form of legal tax evasion since the government has a bunch of tax loopholes for families with multiple species. Everything else has been a massive misunderstanding."
Is this supposed to be what male-targeted romance anime looks like to women? A monster buys you and then you inexplicably fall in love with it and everyone just treats the whole situation like it's normal and to be expected? Makes sense to me!
The most cursed thing about this anime isn't so much the subject material, but the fact that the end credits account for nearly one third of each episodes total length.
You gave this series much more life than i could have ever expected, such entertainment for free is incredible, i love your energy and wording it's absolutely incredible, subscribed
Just one question: WTF did I just watch!? PS: From now on, whenever I feel insecure about my stories being worth writing; I just have to remember someone wrote a whole series about a boy married to a moomin...
I stumbled upon this ages ago while I was sick with a fever and couldn't sleep. I don't know whether to be relieved or worried that this wasn't a sleep deprived fever dream.
I remember see this show when was aired and no thinking at all about anything what happen, but now i can't stop making theories about what is happened reached to the conclusion that the Moomin has some class of passive mind wash ability to make everyone accepting like a normal thing after of enough time in his presence (in the first episodes the extras was scared of them but after that they just don't care at all) and that they just try to mimic humans behaviors without understand the reason behind that or maybe this is al part of a plan where the they use his husbands as a way to propagate his existence a something normal to take all the town
The thing that has me sitting down and contemplating about the existence of this series is that the age of consent in Japan is 16. So by Japan's standards according to the law, they wouldn't be child brides. That doesn't make me want to keel over and pass way any less though!
Incorrect! While the age of concent in Japan is 16, that only means they could fuck (under very narrow circumstances) and it would be legal. To marry in Japan, you need to be 18.
I can only imagine that these creatures possess mind-manipulation powers, having emerged from some kind of hellish dimension and invaded human society, warping it into...this. An absolutely *frightening* concept if you ask me.
😂 your explanation of the anime kept me more entertained than it’s own summary would have. My tiny adhd brain focused for one video of sheer confusion as to why everyone who should be horrified sees this as normal and the onlookers are instead the ones horrified. My curiosity is getting the better of me and I want to read the manga now 😱
"This is 16-year-old Tamorihinoa, in two and a half minutes, he will be married to a Moomin" That literally broke me. I made a noise that could be felt physically and mentally, I am less okay than I was before, and that was already bad enough.
And yet, somehow.... They have a year anniversary before his next birthday.. I'm confused, but quite honestly, at this point... what does any of this matter?
@@kris.p.bacon1361 yeah, I got that. But if you're going to write a child grooming story, at least get birthdays and anniversaries straight. I mean, god... timelines are super basic.
Every time he cuts himself off mid word to exclaim "WHAT ARE YOU?!" At the worm thing in the background brings me one step closer to god and I am grateful.
The reveal about the ex-wife who isn’t even an ex-wife had me _sobbing into my pillow_ for about 3 minutes, this manga is the definition of surrealist horror and I’m truly scared 😭💀
This video was sent to me by a dear friend in what I can only assume was an assassination attempt. Do not drink water while watching. I laughed until I cried, I cried until I choked, I choked until I nearly vomited, then drank water and went back to choking. I swear my life flashed before my eyes. "The wretched Kanenogi" has become a permanent crack in my armor. Simply hearing it uttered causes me to cackle. Well done sir. Your delivery and intonation were incredible.
Honestly, that was me throughout the entire video. Like WTF is a moomin!!!! Does anyone know if they ever explain it? I don’t think I have it in me watch the show to find out. 😅
17:43 - For serious, though, that _is_ a bit disturbing. Like, imagine if a bunch of alien beings just show up, immediately integrate in human society and start enforcing bizarre customs for poorly understood reasons, and _nobody finds it strange or worrying._ To the point where even people who entertain the thought that maybe these creatures are literal demons only do so jokingly. Almost as if their subconscious is trying to warn them about it but _something_ doesn't allow them to take it seriously.
The sentence I'm says that there are A LOT of them recently, not that they only showed up recently. Given Lauchen is regarded as a local deity, creatures of this sort have been around for a while(legal framework existing for them is proof of this), but the population has suddenly increased as of the time the story begins.
This could be a cool horror concept where you find yourself in a town where everyone acts like monters that recently appeared and are abducting children is normal and just go on with thier lives
@@rustycrowbar4250 I mean, I feel like a little editing and a change of music would make it feel like a horror show in no time. Just linger on various facial expressions, apply some minimal effects maybe if you wanna go that extra mile, honestly I feel like if you made this an abridged series and changed the music you’d be golden
It's interesting philosophically because it's like some kinda weird glimpse into a different civilization entirely where the things considered "normal" is just plain freaky to us. It weirdly evokes a certain feeling for me that's probably like what Columbus felt when he first landed in the Americas.
I appreciate that there was no victim-blaming aimed at the child wives. They are helpless against the forces that compell them to be sold to (literal) monsters who perversely use them for shampooing and hugging
It's kind of weird that the only monster that has precedent to do and get away with this is the misfortune eating shrine snake god thing, since it wouldn't be surprising for it to demand some sort of spousal sacrifice in exchange for good fortune and services. Every other monster has zero precedent to get away with this since they all seem to do nothing, provide nothing, and have no leeway to get away with their childnapping. This actually would have been a very interesting story if all of the monsters were minor gods who are providing some sort of benefit to society in exchange for spouses to serve as a fictionalized social commentary on power dynamics conflicting with moral values...but the vast majority of the monsters are just walking, pointless jokes.
All the other wives were picked but from this videos synopsis [never actually watched it] Sitka (Spelling might be wrong but bandage moomin) seemed like they were forced by their child bride.
I've read this (don't ask) and the worst part is that everyone is Obsessed with the giant snake to the point where his wife is jealous. Something isnt right here.
i actually remember watching this back in highschool. i thought it was really wholesome... because i was 16 or 17 and didnt realize the implications. its so sad, it could really be this weird cute miniseries if not for the age gap, which, for such a weird premise, youd think would be the least of the worries, but here we are....
@@ok472 not that I know of but because the boys are in high school the implications are kinda sketchy, intended or not. i feel like it would have worked better with like college students
This is like something you would read on the SCP wiki. A town umder a cognito-hazard where bizarre creatures arrive, go to the local high school, demand one of the kids marry it.. and everyone is fine with this. Even the bride him/herself is fine with it.
Dear god... you have cracked the code!!! But not only that, the record of such an event is its own cognitohazard... but what effects I cannot yet determine, except that it is messing with my mind!!
The creatures seem to have some sort of effect on the minds of their victims, immediately brainwashing them into being their "wife" As of yet there is no known reason as to why they do this, as they don't seem to need to procreate, but... I don't want to imagine such horrors. Get Dr. Bright with the chainsaw cannon ASAP
The ominous intro punctuated by sentences like "in two and a half minutes... he will be married to a moomin" followed by an ever distressed tone is so entertaining. I particularly like how you described watching sick anime almost as a pandemic which you happen to have brought to US.
Your presentation of this cursed story was very entertaining - it sounds like you had a lot of fun making it. Felt like you could have started laughing at more than a few points. I am not sure if the existence of this story has made my life more enjoyable... but listening to the way you describe it certainly has! Your articulation was a treat, as always. Thanks fam.
this was conceptualized, illustrated, noticed and approved, signed off by an executive, animated, and presumably passed through a few more sets of eyes beyond that. the contents of this slice-of-life high school drama demon-pedo-boywife-arranged-marriage-show were, if not actively constructed by all involved, tacitly endorsed by a lot of people. it makes me feel like i'm missing something.
It's sorta based off of folk lore (I think commonly japanese) where mythical creatures seem to demand brides as payment or for safety, so I think that aspect of it sorta makes it kinda interesting, and not a completely random idea.
This video is so fucking funny. The delivery, the jokes stacking on top of each other like a precarious tower of books going up to the ceiling, the building hysteria every time the snake showed up in the anime, the increasing resignation to events as the episode recaps continue... I kept having to pause to giggle and then immediately choke on more laughter at the very next sentence when I unpaused. Maybe my new favorite UA-cam video.
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This was such an experience. I have never felt so sorry for existing in my entire life.
Don't give up one day your find moomin
@@metallicsnake. Thank you for the inspiration. I have decided that I will continue to exist and not burn every single piece of evidence that proves I am a thing.
same
I feel like I'm missing part of the joke here. This was a cute show.
@@Clawdragoons Four words: Underage Incestuous Moomin Infidelity
As a finnish person, i must specify that this is not a moomin but a close relative of the moomins, called the groomins.
Best comment.
The legendary groomer moomin
Groomer Moomin who eats Hoomins
perkele...
11:37 and that sperm-shaped thing is called a coomin
there’s something so darkly hilarious in the way the teacher is referred to as “The One Who Sells The Children”. Lovecraftian in a way worthy of a story where a child is sold to a moomin.
I agree with the sentiment, but Lovecraft would have given the lady a name like “Gizzum Chink” and told us to be afraid of it with no additional context 🙄
People gotta stop praising the guy if they haven’t actually read him.
@@AnkhAnanku this is a joke comment on a bad anime, not a literary comparison to an old fiction writer who was scared of air conditioners. It is *not* that deep, my dude.
@@AnkhAnanku Lovecraft wrote well, but whether you appreciate what he wrote is another story
You cannot deny his ability, but you can choose to not like it
"I smoke meth, but I'm NOT a degenerate." -Lovecraft, our lord and savior
@@AnkhAnanku He's a solid writer as far as pure horror goes, but his importance to fiction is that he's probably the first major writer in human history to NOT place humans as the center of the universe, and indeed, regard them as tiny, inconsequential specks in the vast emptiness of the cosmos populated by unspeakable horrors that probably wouldn't even give mankind a second thought.
This seems like it appeals to maybe the most niche market of kinks possible, and honestly I kinda have to respect it for being so utterly unashamed.
Me, it appeals to me!
@@1tylerq127 what about it though
@@dirtiestdan4756 The bizarreness and absurdity of it, the way the story plays it off as completely normal, the reactions it gets out of people who are themselves so asdured in their sense of how the world works, the way it plays with our sense of "normal", there's a lot of reasons to like it really.
It's creative and fun, and a good reminder that our idea of normal isn't the one way everything has to be to have a mostly peaceful, happy society. If aliens ever did visit Earth in a diplomatic sense, we'd inevitably be in for a lot of culture shock. They could run society in a way that is so counter to our own ideas of what is right or wrong, but their society may thrive far more than our own with more satisfied and content citizens, less political strife, no war, etc.
I love that it's the kind of series that leaves you with more questions than it answers, the not knowing can be just as exciting and enjoyable as knowing. Also, I find odd eccentricities and odd creatures rather charming.
@@1tylerq127 u want to fuck the moomin, guess what buddy that doesn’t make you special.
Because I would too.
Eh, the only problem I could really judge is the underage and incest aspect. Other than that, it’s just creature-human romance, which is already a trope.
“The Wretched Kanenogi” nearly every time without fail made me cackle. This is a masterpiece.
Its this and "at least Tsukitsuka is happy" that gets me everytime 🤣
“Viewer beware, you’re in for a scare” sends me into hysterics every time
Poor tamori 😂🤣😂🤣😂🤣😂🤣
Also describing all the wives as “poor ___” 😭💀
@@anerrorhasoccurred8727 "Poor Gigachad Tsuchikiyose Tetsushi"
So the moomin, pink Pikatchu, the invisible one and two-eyes are the main husbands, but in reality we know that Loch Ness is better than all of them.
if only because it could correctly identify a female
Nessie is best girl in all media franchises
mothman is also a nice contender.
@@kristianhughes3746 im confused
Yeah but, he’s always tryin to bum $3.50 off everyone.
16:40, I love how he's just yelling the story as if it is some outrage (it is), but then he just stops MID SENTENCE to yell " *WHAT ARE YOU* " . In such an accusatory tone, I love it.
The fact that the teacher just sold the kids is something I can't comprehend
She must. She's the one that sells the children
The utterly baffling premise, combined with the unsettling undertones is peak anime. I think we may need to call Protagonist Protective Services to come liberate the child brides, regardless of how sweet their husband's character designs are.
why couldn't the premise have simply been monsters adopting human best friends...? it could still keep some romantic undertones, because anime has to have romantic undertones
@@kristianhughes3746 That would have been so much better!
@@MoriMementa it sort of does make sense since these are high schooler characters though. Besides the only reason teenage marriage is not consider holistic in the now is that this modern era is that a average teenager can not afford a high payable life with having there own house and having a child to raise. back then a 13-14 year old guy or girl could easily afford their own house since every thing was cheaper back then in America but also other countries as well.in1920-1940 there are some people who were 13-14 years of age who got married to people who were in their 20's years of age. in the early 1900's a house costs somewhere around 200-300$ dollors.it was even cheaper to keep rent and a month . some times you would find a house that's cost 150-170$ back then too.even back then before the 1900's this was possible in the 1800's since things were even cheaper. Due to downsides of the concept of pedophiles or in this case rapists this relationship is considered bad now but could easily be misconception by modern people like our selves. For example i know some one told me that their grandmother married a 14-year old guy in the 1900's when she was 21-years old but she died at the age of 84 years old but the guy she married at the age of 14-years at that point was in his late age 60's when she died.today to many rapists exists for this relationship to be consider safe now.but that does not mean it could be feasible.brand name monopoly and governmental monopoly are the reasons why things are so expansive now yet back then a 13-14 year old could easily pay for their own house and everything that goes in the house was even cheaper back then.times have changed social wise and relationship wise.
@@1BadAssArchAngelvs14 please summarize. For I am a mere layman, and don't understand what you are trying to express with this college essay.
@@1BadAssArchAngelvs14 pls touch grass.
the logical terminus of "My mom sold me to 1Direction" fanfiction.
That is... Very oddly specific.
@@ashmoleproductions5407 it was common back in the day.... ;-;
Omfg I remember those, the were alllll over Wattpad 🤣🤣🤣
You know, I could see this coming from a Japanese woman’s point of view of how gross the pressure to marry is.
haven't watched the anime but if this is supposed to be the takeaway then it does a really bad job of presenting it
@@wabbajocky8235 Nah, it's more likely just something made up because the author was bored and didn't know what kind of story to do for their editor so they just propose whatever. There is many stories like that happening with little mangaka
@@narudayo5053 pretty much tbh
Yeah, like, if this started out as some Japanese lady's satirical response to serieses like The Animagus' (?) Bride where the child bride is usually female (and so she made the child bride male to have the inherent horror of it stick out to people who take girls getting married in these shows for granted), then it would honestly be kinda brilliant, but if it's meant to be taken at face value as a fun, romantic story, then there are some BIG issues
@@doefarris2189 Nah, it's fictional. It can be as fun, romantic, etc. as the author desires.
The tone that continues through the whole video unchanging even as he says “bearbushka” and “giga chad” is truly incredible
“In 2 and a half minutes he’ll be married to a moomin” laughed so hard I nearly vomited, well done
The constant emphasis that they're children in a learning facility is just so fucking hilarious I've never seen the anime but I'm sure it's not nearly as entertaining as this video
"It's because they reproduced last night." sent me into a laughing fit that sent me into a coughing fit that left me on the floor with tears in my eyes. Congratulations Mr. !, your wit is so sharp that you have successfully dealt real world damage to my mortal frame.
I love his obsession with the background snake monster that’s only explained in the manga
I adore the shellshocked horror you portrayed here, but the apex of the comedy (for me at least) was "Phillip Pullman would be proud!"
This video in my mind is how it feels to go insane. I feel like this is what happened to the Hunter in Bloodborne during the course of the night.
What’s likely most disturbing is my lack of reaction. As another Bloodborne reference, I’ve gained so many eyes this does not phase me
what is this style of narration called. the deadpan tone of voice clashing with flowery, verbose descriptors. the wretched kanenogi. ive seen one other youtuber talk like this and it was great there too. i love it so much
All I hear is you describing and absolute masterpiece which i will definitely read alongside the manhwa where a skeleton purchaces a baby thinking that it's a cat. 100%
Dude please tell me what it’s called that sounds hilarious!!!
im sorry what
@@zUJ7EjVD and it is so god damn ADORABLE
That's.. wow. That's a plot line.
are there any other anime i need to here about.
It took me far too long to realize that you were just calling it a moomin and that this wasn't actually a truly audacious official crossover, and honestly I appreciate that.
I'm still bewildered how he could have mistakenly thought that he had been married when everybody else was calling themselves wives and the teacher made him be in a wedding.
I would 100% watch more abjectly horrified recountings of anime.
Also I just like the way he says "moomin."
The phrase “I have never been to Belgium” is such a strange and powerful phrase.
Is it weird? Yep. But I'll raise you Midori no Hibi, an anime where a girl becomes a teen-age boy's right hand. And no, that's not a metaphor.
Im pretty sure it is a metaphor, and what your thinking of is 'turn of phrase'
@@yeetthegargantuanleviathan6216 No, she's his hand. Or in the place of his hand. Still girl-shaped with hands of her own but also sprouting from his wrist.
I think it's "hibi", not "hiba".
That shows honestly not bad
@@seneca983 You're right. Corrected now.
The teacher(?) woman was the villain of the story, which is funny cause the author is a woman meaning that the teacher(?) was her self insert as she wrote the most horrifying literature known to man and disguised it as innocent.
On a serious note: this show is more of a turn off your brain and smile at the weird thing happening kind of show it's not meant to be taken seriously, so overall I liked it very much, very weird, very entertaining, afterall tragedy and horror is just comedy if you look at it at a far away distance.
I remember watching this anime years ago with my brother when it was released on the anime pirating sites. I thought “oh the art is cute! Let me give it a go!” And honestly I remember being more baffled at it than anything. When it ended, I just sat there and didn’t process what happened so I forgot about it. Thank you for bringing back such an old memory
I always feel a special kind of betrayal when the art style is great and the content is…not
Its seems that the red head and bandage man? Have the healthiest relationship
I have so many questions about this anime, but I dare not ask them for fear of ending up on a government watch-list.
Kudos to the deadpan dead inside tone the entire time aside from the really cheerful episode title announcements. This vid is hilarious and so well done. I thank you for cursing me with the knowledge that this anime/manga exists
I'm shaking and crying right now.
Words cannot describe the experience my eyes have witnessed.
Truly one of the few artistic pieces that must be viewed to be understood.
with every passing second I find my mind failing to reconcile the knowledge passed down to me... this video is a wonderful piece of art I will never share with another soul
5:54 who describes a person as unnecessarily tall? That implies it was a choice.
The way you narrate the anime makes it seem so funny for no reason 😭
I love the "slimes of love" being repeated often it is only trumped by the "WHAT ARE YOU" every time the snake Moomin shows up
this is literally the perfect tone of narration for the ongoing dread that is covering this series amazing job....i dont know how to feel that this was posted on my birthday
“Hell hath no fury like a former male child bride scorned by a banana bear”
Tsukitsuka seems happy
I hate that I want to watch this.
I was sold with how fluffy the moomin was
This video was either cursed, amazing, or both. Even after finishing it I am not sure if I watched a video by Explanation Point or if I merely gazed at a wall and hallucinated in the darkness of a better locked away part of the human zeitgeist. Joking aside though this video was great, your delivery was fantastic. Thank you.
I too tremble in abject confusion and horror
Why is this actually so cute
And funny lol
"underage incestuous moomin infidelity" made me choke on my food while my coffee was going out through my nose, despite it being the ...th time I'm rewatching this video. well done. good job
This type of... thing has the most peculiar vibe. When character do or go through horrible things either intentionally for no apparent reason or do not object for no apparent reason. I have found more of these, on an unmentionable here website
The most wretched part of all is that the animation is disgustingly good 😭
Meanwhile, my favorite manga adaptations are barely trying
I wish I could marry moomin
don't we all
Snufkin tho
@@IdeaOfEvil Do I want to marry him? No. Do I want to _be_ him? Fuck yeah.
I wish we could get you help.
@@hobosorcerer too late buddy.
OMFG this was glorious. After a short adjustment period I spent the rest of the video laughing in disbelief. The way your voice sounds like you're giving it everything you have to stay committed to the bit without breaking was spectacular :P
18:25 Adorable snake
What the fuck did I just watch. Was the elevator pitch for this series "sexual tension with a pokemon knockoff and their child bride trainer."
"You're not the only one cursed with knowledge."
Though this wretched concept of a story dares to exist and shrivel up our eyeballs, your humoristic way of explaining it was so entertaining, it left me WHEEZING! Thank you so much! 🤗
This video is a piece of art, I will die on this hill while laughing uncontrollably whenever I watch it. Thank you so much.
okay, for anyone wanting to know what's actually going on, according to tvtropes: " these aren't intended to be marriages, wealthy Japanese families are adopting minor Kami into their families as a form of legal tax evasion since the government has a bunch of tax loopholes for families with multiple species. Everything else has been a massive misunderstanding."
Is this supposed to be what male-targeted romance anime looks like to women? A monster buys you and then you inexplicably fall in love with it and everyone just treats the whole situation like it's normal and to be expected? Makes sense to me!
I'm never going to watch or read this, but I'm glad it exists. I can tell the author of the manga must have had a blast drawing it.
The most cursed thing about this anime isn't so much the subject material, but the fact that the end credits account for nearly one third of each episodes total length.
You gave this series much more life than i could have ever expected, such entertainment for free is incredible, i love your energy and wording it's absolutely incredible, subscribed
Just one question: WTF did I just watch!?
PS: From now on, whenever I feel insecure about my stories being worth writing; I just have to remember someone wrote a whole series about a boy married to a moomin...
I cracked up every time you would say "WHAT ARE YOU?!" in reference to the snake moomin
I stumbled upon this ages ago while I was sick with a fever and couldn't sleep. I don't know whether to be relieved or worried that this wasn't a sleep deprived fever dream.
Am I high on mushrooms? Even secondhand, this show’s a drug trip.
I remember see this show when was aired and no thinking at all about anything what happen, but now i can't stop making theories about what is happened reached to the conclusion that the Moomin has some class of passive mind wash ability to make everyone accepting like a normal thing after of enough time in his presence (in the first episodes the extras was scared of them but after that they just don't care at all) and that they just try to mimic humans behaviors without understand the reason behind that or maybe this is al part of a plan where the they use his husbands as a way to propagate his existence a something normal to take all the town
Your way of storytelling is on a masterclass level of genius.
The thing that has me sitting down and contemplating about the existence of this series is that the age of consent in Japan is 16.
So by Japan's standards according to the law, they wouldn't be child brides.
That doesn't make me want to keel over and pass way any less though!
Incorrect! While the age of concent in Japan is 16, that only means they could fuck (under very narrow circumstances) and it would be legal. To marry in Japan, you need to be 18.
I dunno why but the deadpan way you said "in 2 minutes he will be married to a Moomin" just absolutely made me lose it
in short: "this episode: the writer's barely disguised fetish"
I nearly choked on my lunch when he heard "poor Tamori began to have lewd thoughts about the Moomin" xD
This is the best thing you have ever made.
this was a great shitpost, your voice sounded a lot like ambiguous amphibian, I fucking laughed when you editted the 'you're finally awake guy'
I was channeling him hard when I made this. He makes such good stuff.
Love how he calls the Moomin the “wretched Kenenogi”
I can only imagine that these creatures possess mind-manipulation powers, having emerged from some kind of hellish dimension and invaded human society, warping it into...this. An absolutely *frightening* concept if you ask me.
Anime is a terrifying genre tbh. Like obviously there’s a lot of good stuff out there but it’s also host to stuff like,,, this.
😂 your explanation of the anime kept me more entertained than it’s own summary would have. My tiny adhd brain focused for one video of sheer confusion as to why everyone who should be horrified sees this as normal and the onlookers are instead the ones horrified. My curiosity is getting the better of me and I want to read the manga now 😱
The consistent "poor" in front if the kids names and "wretched" in front of the Moomins name is killing me
Don't forget the one gigachad
Tsukitsuka seems happy.
Is there a more appropriate way to refer to these… things
My favorite is the woman at the school referred to as “the one who sells the children”
@@Sh12pen poor gigachad
"This is 16-year-old Tamorihinoa, in two and a half minutes, he will be married to a Moomin"
That literally broke me. I made a noise that could be felt physically and mentally, I am less okay than I was before, and that was already bad enough.
And yet, somehow.... They have a year anniversary before his next birthday.. I'm confused, but quite honestly, at this point... what does any of this matter?
@@cameronjadewallaceall you need to know is the moomin is grooming a child
@@kris.p.bacon1361 yeah, I got that. But if you're going to write a child grooming story, at least get birthdays and anniversaries straight. I mean, god... timelines are super basic.
@@cameronjadewallace Emotional and physical gaslighting to get the boy stuck with the legendary “moonmin”, whatever the hell it is
This is nothing new to animes besides that it's usually a little girl getting married
"hell hath no furry like a former male child bride scorned by a banana bear"
made me fall out of my chair laughing
"Underage Incestuous Moomin Infidelity" was even better XD
It earned a sub from me.
He had me at " wait whats that? THERE ARE GIRLS AT THIS SCHOOL!?"
"A bear babushka... Bearbushka."
"Hell hath no fury like a former male child bride scorned by a banana bear" had me physically chocking. I almost died 😂😂😂
I actually had my life flash before my eyes as I choked on water because of that line
I keep rewatching this video like a toddler high on Cocomelon. The intonation. The slowly growing despair. The wretched Kanenogi. It is a masterpiece.
its enough for just the words "wretched kanenogi" to send me into an awful fit of laughter. send help
Oh I am so glad to know I am not the only one rewatching this video for the exact same reason.
I read this in Explanation Point's voice
Every time he cuts himself off mid word to exclaim "WHAT ARE YOU?!" At the worm thing in the background brings me one step closer to god and I am grateful.
There's a flu! 🤧
There's a WIFE! 👰
There's a m o o m i n. 🐮🍌🐻❄️👀
The line “underage incestuous moomin infidelity” made me immediately suffer 5d6 psychic damage
shit thats a lot
And they were all a 6
@@Muriuki34 And now I have disadvantage on all checks and saves
@@connorwalters9223 Not to mention that you're vulnerable to psychic damages
The more he explained the plot behind that, the more I felt like I was just getting consecutively punched.
i love how he refers to them all by full name and doesnt stop calling him ‘gigachad tsuchikiyose tetsushi’
or how he calls the moomin wretched kanenogi. it's hilarious.
"Poor gigachad tsuchikiyose tetsushi"
And the main char is always prefixed with "poor" 😂
Gigachad Tsuchikiyose Tetsushi got the hottest wives, I mean, husbands or whatever.
@@samhg3658all of the wives are
I think it's the "voice tinged with mild concern and barely-contained horror while sounding ambiguously tired" that really sells the insanity of this.
“Viewer beware… you’re in for a scare”
It's the classic ambiguousamphibian voice when he gets upset about something and just spends half an episode writing depressing poetry.
Respectfully, your horror is the correct response to this child bride situation. But it was absolutely hilarious.
Wouldn't they be grooms, not brides because they're men?
@@panayiotianavas3380 Don't question anime logic...
@@panayiotianavas3380 it's anime
@@panayiotianavas3380 no, they're brides
It's anime, not to be taken that seriously obviously 😂
The reveal about the ex-wife who isn’t even an ex-wife had me _sobbing into my pillow_ for about 3 minutes, this manga is the definition of surrealist horror and I’m truly scared 😭💀
Underage incestuous moomin infidelity that line is just too stupid
@@SomeoneNews stupidly accurate
This video was sent to me by a dear friend in what I can only assume was an assassination attempt. Do not drink water while watching. I laughed until I cried, I cried until I choked, I choked until I nearly vomited, then drank water and went back to choking. I swear my life flashed before my eyes.
"The wretched Kanenogi" has become a permanent crack in my armor. Simply hearing it uttered causes me to cackle. Well done sir. Your delivery and intonation were incredible.
Concrete.
I read this and heard his despairing voice read off "I laughed until I cried, I cried until I choked, I choked until I nearly vomited"
@@waluigi-8576 das conk creet bay bee
oh. this explains a lot about how my friend sent me this.
@@c.leslie4233Same lmao this comment probably inspired my friend to send it to me too. Oh, the horrors akdbkabd
The "WHAT ARE YOU??" at the occasional appearance of the snake thing made my laugh so hard
I started waiting for it
Me too!
same
Honestly, that was me throughout the entire video. Like WTF is a moomin!!!! Does anyone know if they ever explain it? I don’t think I have it in me watch the show to find out. 😅
"No longer is poor tamori a moomin 16 year old child bride, he is now a moomin 17 year old child bride"
The truth
The truth is the new normal
17:43 - For serious, though, that _is_ a bit disturbing. Like, imagine if a bunch of alien beings just show up, immediately integrate in human society and start enforcing bizarre customs for poorly understood reasons, and _nobody finds it strange or worrying._ To the point where even people who entertain the thought that maybe these creatures are literal demons only do so jokingly. Almost as if their subconscious is trying to warn them about it but _something_ doesn't allow them to take it seriously.
This is some Night Vale level horror.
I am convinced that they can warp minds and reality
Sound like Colonialism
My honest reaction to people (i have not been hurt yet they must be good)
The sentence I'm says that there are A LOT of them recently, not that they only showed up recently. Given Lauchen is regarded as a local deity, creatures of this sort have been around for a while(legal framework existing for them is proof of this), but the population has suddenly increased as of the time the story begins.
This whole anime is basically just gaslighting the audience into thinking everything happening is normal and okay, and yet I can’t look away
This could be a cool horror concept where you find yourself in a town where everyone acts like monters that recently appeared and are abducting children is normal and just go on with thier lives
@@rustycrowbar4250 I mean, I feel like a little editing and a change of music would make it feel like a horror show in no time. Just linger on various facial expressions, apply some minimal effects maybe if you wanna go that extra mile, honestly I feel like if you made this an abridged series and changed the music you’d be golden
Mhm, even some of the things without the context their child brides are a little- odd
@@rustycrowbar4250 starving anonmyous but the 2nd part.
It's interesting philosophically because it's like some kinda weird glimpse into a different civilization entirely where the things considered "normal" is just plain freaky to us. It weirdly evokes a certain feeling for me that's probably like what Columbus felt when he first landed in the Americas.
This could have been a lot more acceptable if you just... replace "wife" and "husband" with "Roommate" or "Familiar"
Honestly if they did it would just be a chill and nice show instead of THE NIGHTMARE
IM GOING TO CRY
They could’ve made a series about a bunch of kids getting strange pets, or roommates. BUT MARRIAGE IM SORRY WHAT?
Why the hell are the humans referred to as brides
@@reptile1687 fujoshis
How to take care of a mummy. That’s what you’re describing.
@@TheMewtata what do you mean
@@TheMewtata What kind of Mummies did you watch?
"The wretched Kanenogi" is officially part of my lexicon. Thank you for that.
Like "The Loathsome, DUNG-Eater"
The poor gigachad sachikiyose tetsushi
I wish I could like this more
😂😂😂 my brother and I quote this video all the time. That’s the favorite line for suuure!
i love how when prompted to verify that they are married, they throw a wedding rather than just show a marriage certificate lol
I appreciate that there was no victim-blaming aimed at the child wives. They are helpless against the forces that compell them to be sold to (literal) monsters who perversely use them for shampooing and hugging
It's kind of weird that the only monster that has precedent to do and get away with this is the misfortune eating shrine snake god thing, since it wouldn't be surprising for it to demand some sort of spousal sacrifice in exchange for good fortune and services. Every other monster has zero precedent to get away with this since they all seem to do nothing, provide nothing, and have no leeway to get away with their childnapping. This actually would have been a very interesting story if all of the monsters were minor gods who are providing some sort of benefit to society in exchange for spouses to serve as a fictionalized social commentary on power dynamics conflicting with moral values...but the vast majority of the monsters are just walking, pointless jokes.
@@joshuakim5240 now I want a fanfiction based on your idea
All the other wives were picked but from this videos synopsis [never actually watched it] Sitka (Spelling might be wrong but bandage moomin) seemed like they were forced by their child bride.
16 is actually the minimum legal age for men to get married in Japan.
@@Ikajo that means nothing when their parents still dictate who they marry in any age
"Who are you?!" Had me laughing harder then I want to admit.
Timestamp 12:16
12:16
XD
16:43 Lol
I've read this (don't ask) and the worst part is that everyone is Obsessed with the giant snake to the point where his wife is jealous. Something isnt right here.
@@GlassGuts snake obsession, huh?
XD
i actually remember watching this back in highschool. i thought it was really wholesome... because i was 16 or 17 and didnt realize the implications. its so sad, it could really be this weird cute miniseries if not for the age gap, which, for such a weird premise, youd think would be the least of the worries, but here we are....
Hlw you didn't realised its very weird?
is the age of the monsters ever revealed
@@ok472 not that I know of but because the boys are in high school the implications are kinda sketchy, intended or not. i feel like it would have worked better with like college students
@@kaitov5 true
This is like something you would read on the SCP wiki. A town umder a cognito-hazard where bizarre creatures arrive, go to the local high school, demand one of the kids marry it.. and everyone is fine with this. Even the bride him/herself is fine with it.
Dear god... you have cracked the code!!! But not only that, the record of such an event is its own cognitohazard... but what effects I cannot yet determine, except that it is messing with my mind!!
Headquarters, we need an MTF on the ground and enough class A amnestics for a town!
This reminds me of one particular scp.
instead of a moomin it was a kind non-pedo tree
The creatures seem to have some sort of effect on the minds of their victims, immediately brainwashing them into being their "wife"
As of yet there is no known reason as to why they do this, as they don't seem to need to procreate, but... I don't want to imagine such horrors. Get Dr. Bright with the chainsaw cannon ASAP
This sounds like something Children of the Scarlet King would do
"Kichka seems happy. It's because they reproduced last night."
Not sure if those sentences made me want to laugh or want to die.
They didn’t actually, those were just some kind of charm. Fuwai and Sora made one as well
@@runeanonymous9760 The Redhead Boy and the Invisible Man made teru teru bozus. It would be counted as reproducing in their situation.
I die laughing each time i hear "Tsukitsuka is happy" 🤣
both?
LMAO the rain dolls
The worst part of this is that an anniversary occurs before a character ages up a year. Wretched Kanenogi warps time, apparently.
oh my god... so my assumption that they could warp minds and reality was true?!
wait what does that mean?! do they stay young? forget how much time has passed?
maybe Michael Jackson was a moomin
@@kristianhughes3746 these things DEFINITELY have some form of mind control, at the very least.
The ominous intro punctuated by sentences like "in two and a half minutes... he will be married to a moomin" followed by an ever distressed tone is so entertaining.
I particularly like how you described watching sick anime almost as a pandemic which you happen to have brought to US.
5:49 "a boy described as gloomy, sinister, and unnecessarily tall..." WHY, OF ALL THE LINES, IS THIS WHAT BROKE ME FIRST
Your presentation of this cursed story was very entertaining - it sounds like you had a lot of fun making it. Felt like you could have started laughing at more than a few points.
I am not sure if the existence of this story has made my life more enjoyable... but listening to the way you describe it certainly has! Your articulation was a treat, as always. Thanks fam.
what he said
*signed
Exactly the way I feel man
13:04 feels like my man almost laughed, almost, for the wretched kanenogi is no laughing matter
this was conceptualized, illustrated, noticed and approved, signed off by an executive, animated, and presumably passed through a few more sets of eyes beyond that. the contents of this slice-of-life high school drama demon-pedo-boywife-arranged-marriage-show were, if not actively constructed by all involved, tacitly endorsed by a lot of people. it makes me feel like i'm missing something.
It's fiction, so that's a start. Also, way worse anime. Especially if you start going towards a certain 18+ area.
@@bimates2690 a fiction that is by text book definition A Fetish? AND IT'S PUBLIC?!?! now i know why Thanos exist 😭😭
It's a story using the genre of absurd humor. It's *meant* to not follow common sense, be weird, and leave you wondering if it was all a fever dream.
Simple, it's a joke.
It's sorta based off of folk lore (I think commonly japanese) where mythical creatures seem to demand brides as payment or for safety, so I think that aspect of it sorta makes it kinda interesting, and not a completely random idea.
This video is so fucking funny. The delivery, the jokes stacking on top of each other like a precarious tower of books going up to the ceiling, the building hysteria every time the snake showed up in the anime, the increasing resignation to events as the episode recaps continue... I kept having to pause to giggle and then immediately choke on more laughter at the very next sentence when I unpaused. Maybe my new favorite UA-cam video.
I read this in Explanation Point's voice