Who Is This Japanese Yōkai That Is Obsessed With Your Butt?

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  • @bentoth9555
    @bentoth9555 10 місяців тому +555

    Kapp'n in Animal Crossing exhibits another trait of the kappa: obsession with cucumbers. He brings em up in his songs all the time.

    • @bigboy4006
      @bigboy4006 10 місяців тому +15

      I was thinking Kapp’n after seeing this video’s thumbnail.

    • @bentoth9555
      @bentoth9555 10 місяців тому

      He's a dorect referemce to the kappa. Just much less obsessed with butts. @@bigboy4006

    • @jdb6026
      @jdb6026 10 місяців тому +3

      Kappa in Harvest Moon: (More) Friends of Mineral Town also loves cucumbers. You gift him cucumbers to marry him.

    • @PokeUFO
      @PokeUFO 10 місяців тому +14

      Cucumbers and butts sounds like a good weekend

    • @DanielWillagerrv2fn
      @DanielWillagerrv2fn 10 місяців тому +4

      @@PokeUFO 🤨

  • @thenathanimal2909
    @thenathanimal2909 10 місяців тому +537

    "Hold onto your butts."
    -A man who fought Kappas and got eaten by a Raptor

    • @jasonjimerson7046
      @jasonjimerson7046 10 місяців тому +24

      Samuel L. Jackson... I keep forgetting that was him in that movie.

    • @loki2240
      @loki2240 10 місяців тому +10

      Protect your butt jewels! 😂

    • @Wolfy39565
      @Wolfy39565 10 місяців тому

      😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂​@@loki2240

    • @IdentityNone
      @IdentityNone 10 місяців тому +7

      “He’s coming, Cover your butt” - Bitruvius Lego Movie

    • @Kimm134Saya
      @Kimm134Saya 10 місяців тому +3

      This can't be a coincidence. I just saw a post on Facebook about Animorphs, but a book of Charles Tingle about butts and raptors was also included.

  • @EMNstar
    @EMNstar 10 місяців тому +561

    Imagine a Kappa disguised as a Proctologist, offering free Prostate Exams

    • @jasonjimerson7046
      @jasonjimerson7046 10 місяців тому +17

      😂😂😂

    • @genghisgalahad8465
      @genghisgalahad8465 10 місяців тому +21

      Is that your scenario? Whatever floats your boat!

    • @VegimorphtheMovieBoy
      @VegimorphtheMovieBoy 10 місяців тому +29

      Two years later: "Coming soon from Blumhouse": The Kappa

    • @RainintheBrain
      @RainintheBrain 10 місяців тому

      I say what what what in the butt in the butt
      You take my soul from butt let’s do it from the butt oh yeah

    • @chada75
      @chada75 10 місяців тому +8

      Bird Up!

  • @deathsyth8888
    @deathsyth8888 10 місяців тому +168

    "What what in the butt."
    - Kappa

  • @jessetorres8738
    @jessetorres8738 10 місяців тому +217

    I love that in the 2012 Nickelodeon TMNT series there was an episode where they traveled back in time 20 years & pretended to be these guys to scare a group of ninjas (& that wasn't even the craziest thing that happened in the show).

    • @kenlanegc5635
      @kenlanegc5635 10 місяців тому +20

      I saw that and I also love how Leo fully acknowledged the Shirikodama element of the Kappa legend. The only thing I didn’t like was how they never once said “Kappa” and just said “Yokai” instead.

    • @Hkgiu
      @Hkgiu 10 місяців тому +3

      They also were called Kappa in the 3rd live action movie

    • @jurassicsmackdown6359
      @jurassicsmackdown6359 10 місяців тому +2

      Them fighting Triceratons on their home world was crazy

    • @CariPR94
      @CariPR94 6 місяців тому +2

      ​@@kenlanegc5635 Tang Shen actually called them "kappa" a few times.

    • @bo0mpalo0mpa66
      @bo0mpalo0mpa66 4 місяці тому +1

      I was literally about to talk about this too 😭

  • @jorshtastic6372
    @jorshtastic6372 10 місяців тому +235

    The fact that Bowser (and his Koopas) are based on the Kappa brings a whole new meaning behind him constantly being after that Peach

    • @nyetloki
      @nyetloki 10 місяців тому +8

      Bowser has no relation to Kappa.

    • @jorshtastic6372
      @jorshtastic6372 10 місяців тому +13

      @@nyetloki Bowser is absolutely based on a Kappa

    • @nyetloki
      @nyetloki 10 місяців тому +11

      @@jorshtastic6372 citation needed. Nothing about Bowser is kappa related.

    • @beddrunk
      @beddrunk 10 місяців тому +3

      Isn't Bowser King of the Koopas? Idk Mario lore too much so I'd also like to know the answer

    • @nyetloki
      @nyetloki 10 місяців тому +13

      @@beddrunk koopa is bowsers name in Japanese. Koopa troopers are their names in English and not in Japanese.

  • @MoonBratStudio
    @MoonBratStudio 10 місяців тому +166

    I was told by a Japanese man that studied and made sculptures of yokai, that the kappa might also have been a way to refer to the poorest of Japanese peasants who lived near the rivers; a way to tell derogatory and cautionary tales about them.

    • @themaestro2572
      @themaestro2572 10 місяців тому +18

      That's pretty messed up.

    • @theevilascotcompany9255
      @theevilascotcompany9255 10 місяців тому +41

      @@themaestro2572 It's a common theme among mythologies across the world, to use legends of creatures to marginalize people who are different. The same kind of historical evidence suggests that European myths of changelings, fae and elves (the mean kind, not the ones from Lord of the Rings) were used to describe children born with deformities or with what we know now as Down's Syndrome.

    • @themaestro2572
      @themaestro2572 10 місяців тому +17

      @@theevilascotcompany9255 hmm, I heard a rumor that Queen Elizabeth's (may she rest in peace) maternal ancestors, the scottish clan Lyon-Bowes of Glamis accordingly had a son, physically deformed and mentally disbaled, kept hidden in a locked room in the castle.
      The Monster of Glamis they called him.

    • @shirleymaemattthews4862
      @shirleymaemattthews4862 10 місяців тому +5

      ​@@theevilascotcompany9255the fact that you describe elves originally being deformed children and the fact that Santa has elves working for him...💀

    • @williamelliott186
      @williamelliott186 10 місяців тому

      ​@@shirleymaemattthews4862😂😂 I'm weak

  • @oddbird5825
    @oddbird5825 10 місяців тому +158

    Hellboy fought a Kappa too in one of his Animated adventures. He just finds a guy throwing cucumbers in to the water. When Hellboy asks what he’s doing, the guy says, “I’m feeding the Kappa cucumbers. They LIKE cucumbers.”…. 👀

    • @annien.1727
      @annien.1727 10 місяців тому +1

      Yeah, kappas like to eat human entrails, so if you give them a cucumber with your name written on it, they'll leave you alone.

    • @ZetaN7
      @ZetaN7 10 місяців тому +9

      Sword of Storms

    • @nunyabiznes33
      @nunyabiznes33 10 місяців тому

      Obsessed with butts and cucumbers. Hmmmm... 🤔

    • @tc-channelhobby4051
      @tc-channelhobby4051 10 місяців тому

      @@ZetaN7hahahahhahahhahahaha

  • @EayuProuxm
    @EayuProuxm 10 місяців тому +46

    Kappa having its lifeforce water in a bowl on its head is like Charmander having its lifeforce flame on its tail.

    • @GSBarlev
      @GSBarlev 3 місяці тому

      I was thinking about Lombre. I mean, obviously Golduck is the OG Kappa Pokémon, but I believe the Lotad line's connection with the Kappa has been confirmed by Gamefreak.

  • @Quixotic1018
    @Quixotic1018 10 місяців тому +45

    This is, and this is no exaggeration, the best title for a video from this channel.

  • @CalledArcanas
    @CalledArcanas 10 місяців тому +84

    I have long enjoyed this series and hope it continues for a long time to come. Some topics I would love to see include:
    -Sea Serpents
    -Manticore
    -Qalupalik
    -Dingonek
    -Globsters
    -Flatwoods Monster
    -Orang Pendek
    -Skinwalker
    -Congo dinosaurs (Mokele Mbembe, Kongmato, Kasai Rex, etc...)
    -Dungeons and Dragons monsters (Aboleth, Beholder, Mind Flayer, etc...)
    -Resident Evil bio-weapons (Hunter, Licker, Tyrant, etc...)

  • @TomTreutlein
    @TomTreutlein 10 місяців тому +73

    I cherish this channel. Thank you, Storied team, for doing what you do. I haven't watched in awhile, but it's great to see you're still going. It's cathartic to hear all of these tales.

    • @pbsstoried
      @pbsstoried  10 місяців тому +23

      We’re well-into recording for season 6. Thanks for watching!

  • @WaterWonk
    @WaterWonk 10 місяців тому +37

    "But I poop from there!"
    "Not right now you don't."

  • @caitlinpenny7412
    @caitlinpenny7412 10 місяців тому +26

    Many of the older editions of harvest moon and story of seasons video games have kappas that live in various ponds but you can only see/talk to them if you offer them fish or cucumbers

  • @IndustrialBonecraft
    @IndustrialBonecraft 10 місяців тому +47

    THE LOATHESOME DUNG EATER

  • @vivianscircle
    @vivianscircle 10 місяців тому +27

    Dr Z lovely and awesome as always!
    I loved the guest professor!!! Her wit and humour were amazing! Would love a whole podcast with her talking more about Japanese folklore.

    • @Cali4niaAesthetic
      @Cali4niaAesthetic 10 місяців тому +2

      I was gunna say the same thing, I already love her from this episode, I need more of her personality, what a gem!

    • @erinzeb
      @erinzeb 10 місяців тому +1

      She was great!

  • @germanomagnone
    @germanomagnone 10 місяців тому +34

    it's really interesting and funny how Kappa is a symbol of respect for ancient values for the Japanese. "Extra History" also talked about it in a video entitled: "The Kappa: Hold on Your Butts! - Japanese Myth - Extra Mythology", really nice.
    among the Yōkai the kappa has a "little mermaid cousin" who was welcome during the covid pandemic, her name is Amabie she is a strange mermaid-like yokai she looks like a kappa mermaid with 3 fish tails instead of legs.
    according to some scientists the kappa was "born" due to sightings of the The Japanese giant salamander (Andrias japonicus) Cha is almost 1.5 meters long, perhaps in those times there were perhaps particular species of turtles or amphibians that had given rise to this Yōkai.

    • @atsukorichards1675
      @atsukorichards1675 10 місяців тому +2

      The other theory of kappa's origins is the drowned bodies.

  • @alang.bandala8863
    @alang.bandala8863 10 місяців тому +64

    I jist remember in the original Ninja Turtles comic that Shredder called the turtles "Kappas"

  • @alexoblivion9295
    @alexoblivion9295 8 місяців тому +2

    A small, accidental detail about Ninja Turtles 3, the samurai helmets were attached to the heads by a square peg that fit into the top of the head. If you removed the helmet, it left a square shaped hole in the top of the head

  • @SmallFry00001
    @SmallFry00001 10 місяців тому +20

    me, a Harvest Moon girlie, seeing the thumbnail: Kappa!!!!!!!

  • @jessicatuepker1491
    @jessicatuepker1491 10 місяців тому +19

    I remember seeing these in the Arthur episode where Sue Ellen gets scared by a weird noise she hears in the woods. She's the daughter of a diplomat and has been all over the world so she knows a bit about different cultures and folklore. She thinks the noise she heard in the woods might be some kind of creature that followed her "from overseas". The kids all get together and talk about what they think the noise might have been. Sue Ellen says "It might have been a kappa. A water spirit from Japan. The only way to defeat it is to make it bow!" Buster imagines telling a Kappa, "Hey, look, there's five dollars!" and runs away. The kapa bends down to look for the five dollar bill but gets stuck and cries out, "Daddy! I'm stuck!" The kappa's father comes right over and says a stereotypical Japanese martial arts master accent, "You have to learn to be more careful. The next guy might have a sword. Do you remember what happened to Larry?" Also remember them being mentioned in a Nick toons Network short lived cartoon about a guy called Mikey winning a contest to play a character on a Japanese TV show. The show was called Kappa Mikey or Captain Mikey. I don't remember the premise of the episode but there were something about kappas in it. The director of the show Mikey is on basically says "I always thought kappas were cool. So that's why I named your character Kappa Mikey" Since both of these were shows aimed at children, the butt stealing thing was left out.

    • @themaestro2572
      @themaestro2572 10 місяців тому +4

      Oh yeah I remember that Arthur episode, first time I heard about the Kappa. I thought it was funny how Buster tricked it.

  • @lilbasenji1
    @lilbasenji1 10 місяців тому +6

    Yay!!! A new monstrum video!!!!! I think the first time I was exposed to kappas was in Pokémon. Although I learned more about them in digimon, anime, and yo-kai watch. These are such interesting creatures. Although I can’t help but chuckle about how you can stop them with cucumbers and being polite. Although the butt stuff is a little unsettling. It kinda makes you wonder why ancient Japan fashion didn’t have more pants for women and men.

  • @Xanaduum
    @Xanaduum 10 місяців тому +4

    I heard years ago that Kappa would suck the intestines out of kids that got too close to the bodies of water they lived in. Used as a way to scare Japanese kids from messing around near bodies of water they could potentially drown in.

  • @GojiMet86
    @GojiMet86 10 місяців тому +42

    There's also the Shirime, too. It's a yokai that has an eye where its, ummm, bootyhole is supposed to be. I wonder what would happen in a skirmish between a Kappa and a Shirime......
    Japan really comes up with some weird stuff.

    • @dawoof5119
      @dawoof5119 10 місяців тому

      that would be an epic anime Battle

    • @PH7018c
      @PH7018c 10 місяців тому

      ...por largo que tenga el pico, al ojo no me llega...
      😂😂😂😂

  • @viktoria279
    @viktoria279 10 місяців тому +7

    I’m going to need you to make more Monstrums, definitely one of my favorites on UA-cam

  • @PeriwinkleB
    @PeriwinkleB 10 місяців тому +2

    Yesssss, I wondered for YEARS when you’d cover this! My heart is so happy! 😀
    Also, love that you wore green for this video 💚

  • @YeenMage
    @YeenMage 10 місяців тому +39

    I learned about Kappa and their Kappa King Kuzenbo from the video game SMITE.
    Damn, he was released in 2017 - that was 7 YEARS AGO! I'm getting old.

    • @c0ldsh0w3r
      @c0ldsh0w3r 10 місяців тому +2

      Nioh

    • @SeantheDracunyan76
      @SeantheDracunyan76 10 місяців тому

      Yokai watch for me​@@c0ldsh0w3r

    • @HarryBuddhaPalm
      @HarryBuddhaPalm 10 місяців тому +3

      I learned about them from a show called "Kappa Mikey" that came out in 2006. Take that, junior.

    • @gordonyantis941
      @gordonyantis941 10 місяців тому

      The first time I played Star Gladiator in 1996, I had absolutely no clue what a "Kappah Nosuke" was.

  • @cocacola4blood365
    @cocacola4blood365 10 місяців тому +3

    Fun Fact: Among it's many attributes the Kappa have the potential to breath new life into "Don't have a cow!" and "Where's the beef!?"

  • @princessbuttercup4020
    @princessbuttercup4020 10 місяців тому +2

    1) Everybody needs to watch Sarazanmai.
    2) Sarazanmai is about connections and Dr. Z referenced that at the end.
    3) MY SON GOT HIS 5 SECONDS OF FAME!!!11

  • @marlonmoncrieffe0728
    @marlonmoncrieffe0728 10 місяців тому

    Finally!
    I've been calling for a kappa episode for a while now!
    Thanks, Dr. Z!

  • @thecastertc7996
    @thecastertc7996 10 місяців тому +1

    fantastic work on kappa achknowledgement
    did you know that in a cartoon called "OK K.O: Lets be heroes" one of the characters is a Kappa named Dendy. she even has a episode where she explains how kappas are discriminated. the episodes ends well (understandable as its a cartoon, but it does have a interesting message)

  • @Yingerpoof
    @Yingerpoof 10 місяців тому +12

    Kappa are my favorite Japanese mythological creature! I remember seeing lots of statues and signs on sidewalks in Kyoto displaying their image. I had no idea they were so indisciminant in their attacks though, I always heard them more in the context of drowning children than anything else. Also, the obsession with butts is new! Reminds me of the shirime, especially when taking the prankster habits into account.

  • @triceratops2653
    @triceratops2653 10 місяців тому +5

    I LOVE THIS! Do more Yokai!!!

  • @gmt5664
    @gmt5664 10 місяців тому +1

    There was a children's theater called "Kappaza" that would come to Hawai'i from Japan back in the '70s. People would wear cute costumes and tell children's stories. I went every year.

  • @JenFoxworth
    @JenFoxworth 10 місяців тому +2

    I was aware of about 15 different Kappa in fandoms etc. You listed all of them. I am pleased. XD

  • @renecorrea892
    @renecorrea892 10 місяців тому +13

    I would like all these chapters to be in the future seasons of Monstrum.
    *Sea Serpents
    *Leviathan
    *The Headless Horseman ✅
    *Phantom Vehicles
    *Boogeyman
    *Ghosts
    *Possessed Dolls ✅
    *Shadow People
    *Undead
    *Goblins
    *Bigfoot ✅
    *Man-Eating Plants ✅
    *Creepy Clowns ✅
    *Killer Robots
    *Swamp Monsters
    *The Mummy ✅️
    *Living Scarecrows
    *The Invisible Man
    *Dr. Jekyll & Mr. Hyde
    *Merfolk
    *Demons
    *Living Skeletons
    *Stingy Jack (Jack of The Lantern)
    *Gnomes
    *Sea Monsters that attacked Submarines
    *Alien Abductions ✅
    *Ogres
    *Ghouls
    *Lich
    *Cyborgs ✅
    *Witches
    *Kaiju
    *Cthulhu ✅
    *The Rake
    *Revenants
    *Vampires
    *Dagon
    *Ogopogo
    *Colossal Claude
    *Spectral Carriages
    *Kappa ✅
    *Flatwoods Monster
    *The Flying Dutchman
    *El Charro Negro
    *La Santa Compaña
    *Davy Jones's Locker & the Undead Pirates
    *Mutants
    *Beast People of Dr. Moreau
    *The Picture of Dorian Gray
    *Haunted Houses
    *Jiangshi
    *Ahuizotl
    *Gremlins

  • @TheBearAspirin
    @TheBearAspirin 10 місяців тому +17

    You must go to the yokai celebration, Hyakki Yagyō (Night Parade of One Hundred Demons) in Kyoto's Ichijo-dori Street that occurs in October! 👹

    • @jonathan0225
      @jonathan0225 10 місяців тому +1

      The Phrase always reminded me of nurarihyon no mago, and recently JJK thru Geto.. didnt know until recently that this is a festival and quite neatly is close with halloween.😊

    • @pbsstoried
      @pbsstoried  10 місяців тому +8

      What!? This sounds amazing!-*Dr.Z*

  • @adrianmorrison4678
    @adrianmorrison4678 10 місяців тому +5

    Can you please do a video on the drop bear of Australian culture? Also the history of the bat's depiction as a monster like the vampires and reputation as a devilish disease spreader would come in handy. Lastly, the legacy of dinosaurs being portrayed in media and movies as monsters and the impact of Jurassic Park might excited everybody.

  • @linkin0983
    @linkin0983 10 місяців тому

    I'm glad you're back with these vids ❤ They definitely are some of my favorites in YT.

  • @50footbrewery
    @50footbrewery 10 місяців тому +2

    You could spend your entire life covering yokai. I'll watch every one.

  • @robbabcock_
    @robbabcock_ 10 місяців тому +1

    Wonderful video! I'd never heard of the Kappa, very interesting!

  • @GiantEagle610
    @GiantEagle610 10 місяців тому +10

    No wonder the Kappa has a butt attack in the games Nioh and Nioh 2

  • @Mokiefraggle
    @Mokiefraggle 6 місяців тому

    Somehow I managed to miss this one, and this is one of my favorite yokai! Though I'm kind of sad you didn't mention the _other_ thing about kappa and butts, especially since you showed _that_ particular piece of artwork more than once in the video! Some stories speak of kappa having the most _horrifyingly_ foul farts, and in fact using it either to ward off humans, or as one of their fouler pranks. However, despite their gross, fishy farts being a tool for tormenting people, they're apparently terribly offended if a human turns it around on them, and farts on the kappa! Hence that one picture of the guy flipping the back of his kimono up as a faint yellow cloud wafts toward the kappa, who's backpedaling in horror. Apparently, kappa are in fact firmly against the "He who smelt it dealt it!" rule.

  • @romangodfrey2228
    @romangodfrey2228 10 місяців тому

    I’ve been waiting for this video! Thanks you 🤌🏽🤌🏽

  • @deathmaskr1200
    @deathmaskr1200 10 місяців тому +8

    Recommendations or requests for Monstrum:
    *Halloween
    *Day of the Dead
    *Jason Voorhees
    *Freddy Krueger
    *Skinwalker
    *Oni
    *Hanako San
    *Kuchisake Onna
    *Little Green Men
    *Ghost Trains
    *Sewer Alligators
    *Hidebehind
    *Bugbears
    *Boggarts
    *Kitsunes
    *Poltergeists
    *Ghost Ships
    *Sluaght
    *Urban Legends
    *Fext
    *The Phantom of The Opera
    *Rougarou
    *Giants
    *Dwarves
    *Hobgoblins
    *Goblins
    *Living Skeletons
    *Living Scarecrows
    *Spiders
    *Bogeyman

  • @oldworldpatriot8920
    @oldworldpatriot8920 5 місяців тому

    I like the thumbnail,it looks like he ran into someone he knew unexpectedly,like “oh hey Landon what’s up” and waves awkwardly

  • @juliusalimari
    @juliusalimari 10 місяців тому

    I absolutely loved this video! Great work, I'm a big fan!

  • @robertjohnson9187
    @robertjohnson9187 10 місяців тому +5

    Potential idea for a video: how the Backrooms mythos is a modern reimagining of the minotaur and the labyrinth he roams around in.

  • @TylerRakstis
    @TylerRakstis 10 місяців тому +2

    Now we finally get to the most well-known Japanese mythical monster, something I and others was hoping you get too soon.

  • @FaithOriginalisme
    @FaithOriginalisme 10 місяців тому +2

    I once saw a beautiful piece of art that showed a Kappa bowing to pick up trash.

  • @alitain8135
    @alitain8135 10 місяців тому +1

    Amusing timing of this video. I'll be going to Japan next month for the first time, and one of the places I'm planning on visiting is Tono. Looking forward to it. Plus you can totally get a Kappa hunting license there which is amusing.

    • @mattyt1961
      @mattyt1961 10 місяців тому

      really? a hunting license... right, going there now too :)

  • @cocacola4blood365
    @cocacola4blood365 10 місяців тому

    I saw the title and knew this would inspire so many twisted pop culture references. I was not disapointed.

  • @insulaarachnid
    @insulaarachnid 10 місяців тому +2

    This was a great episode. I would love to hear about what myths the Ainu people have.

  • @alexanderkidonakis9185
    @alexanderkidonakis9185 10 місяців тому +2

    Master Roshi wore a turtle shell and was also obsessed with butts

  • @genghisgalahad8465
    @genghisgalahad8465 10 місяців тому +28

    Tryna Kappa feel! Yōkai'n you not?? 🎉

  • @canis2020
    @canis2020 10 місяців тому +3

    This is by far my most favorite yokai

  • @Wolfy39565
    @Wolfy39565 10 місяців тому +2

    Yes! my daughter and i love your show! its a bonding experience ❤❤❤

  • @pedrocruz4409
    @pedrocruz4409 10 місяців тому +2

    I’m lol’ing at the tnmt3 reference! I remember now. One of the guardsmen is startled and shouts “kapa”(not how it’s pronounced here). And Mikey is like capa? Cappuccino??
    lol… sigh…

  • @mecahhannah
    @mecahhannah 10 місяців тому

    Awesome as always thanks ❤

  • @jedadiahamaral2761
    @jedadiahamaral2761 10 місяців тому +1

    Using fear to keep people from pooping in open water is awesome. Reminds me of the pork issue with Muslims and the cooking thing

  • @Mackyle-Wotring
    @Mackyle-Wotring 10 місяців тому +1

    Thank you Professor Emily Zarka for making this excellent video. On the topic of Yokai, I am wondering if you and your team can make a video about the Kitsune?
    ~Mackyle Wotring

  • @AhnkoCheeOutdoors
    @AhnkoCheeOutdoors 10 місяців тому

    My Japanese mother was born and raised in the mountain village of Ashio in Tochigi Provence in 1928 #11 of 13 siblings. The Watarase River flowed thru the ravine below her village, and she told me that she and her siblings were warmed to stay out of that river, or the Kappa would eat their butts off. I remember going down to the stream with my mother, and cousins to the area where these Kappa supposedly dwelled. Of course by this time my mother did not believe these myths, and folklore, but I was 6 years old so still a tad scary. This was back in 1966. I got to return to this place in November of 2023, and it was beautiful, as if time stood still the 57 years that I was gone.

  • @roxannateofanov1031
    @roxannateofanov1031 10 місяців тому +11

    Kappa? Capaccino? Nah, it makes me hyper.
    Wasn't sure she'd mention TMNT3, but she did and my day is complete

  • @TruculentSheep
    @TruculentSheep 10 місяців тому +2

    There's something curiously British about Kappas. It wouldn't surprise me if they made a cameo in The Mighty Boosh, or just hung out with the Spirit of Dark & Lonely Water in that forboding, boggy duck pond in the local nature reserve.

  • @desperado8605
    @desperado8605 10 місяців тому

    Interesting as always Dr. Zarka

  • @ASm_rtOtaku
    @ASm_rtOtaku 9 місяців тому +1

    For a Kappa, the most important thing in life is gonna be booty. Booty more important than food, booty more important than water..

  • @youremakingprogress144
    @youremakingprogress144 10 місяців тому +2

    Their association with sexual harassment is where we get the term "kappa feel."

  • @randywoodworth5990
    @randywoodworth5990 9 місяців тому +1

    I think there was one tale where the kappa built a wooden bridge that supposedly still exists to this day.

  • @pumirya
    @pumirya 10 місяців тому

    Thanks for another awesome video. 👍🙂. keep up the good work!

  • @AnimeShinigami13
    @AnimeShinigami13 10 місяців тому +6

    Ludicolo and co aren't the only kappa pokemon, you forgot Psyduck. Pretty sure its evolved form, Golduck is called one of the names for kappa you put up on the screen in Japanese. Ludicolo just happens to be the more festive of the two kappa pokemon.

  • @tankenming4760
    @tankenming4760 10 місяців тому +3

    The Kamemon line from Digimon are based on kappas! Personally the kappa is also one of my favourite yokai!

  • @Just_Some_Guy_with_a_Mustache
    @Just_Some_Guy_with_a_Mustache 10 місяців тому +8

    "M-my blood! He pulled out all my blood!"

    • @ilikecookies9796
      @ilikecookies9796 10 місяців тому +2

      "You call that breaking my spine?"

    • @chumorgan443
      @chumorgan443 10 місяців тому +2

      Tugged out your blood plug

  • @RayVi5ions
    @RayVi5ions 10 місяців тому +1

    Betweeen the thumbnails haircut and video description I thought maybe I was a Kappa

  • @bubblemum
    @bubblemum 10 місяців тому +1

    I noticed that the oldest drawing of a kappa looks a great deal like a seal or sea lion, I wonder if they could also be a source for the Kappa mythos?

  • @kingbladerZed
    @kingbladerZed 10 місяців тому +2

    I would like to make a request on what kind of Monster Monstrum should deep dive next. The Devil Whale.

  • @moxxibekk
    @moxxibekk 10 місяців тому +2

    There's an anime from a few years ago that is a heartfelt, psychological look at the human connection....and the protagonists turn into kappa after having power balls removed from their butt......

  • @alexandruv.3390
    @alexandruv.3390 9 місяців тому

    Kappa has also been represented in gaming in Heroes of Might and Magic VI, where it looks more like a toad, but has the liquid holding head shape. They also like clapping with their feet while idleing. Same game also has the Yuki Onna among other mythical creatures.

  • @Colorlessketches
    @Colorlessketches 10 місяців тому +1

    4:41 sound effect had me rolling😂

  • @mmps18
    @mmps18 10 місяців тому

    Kappas are so cool and funny, thank you Storied!

  • @RealityMFiction
    @RealityMFiction 10 місяців тому +1

    Kapas like cucumbers and butts, hmmm thats quite the combo.

  • @jareththegoblinking3191
    @jareththegoblinking3191 10 місяців тому +1

    I first heard about Kappa in that TMNT show, that one episode where they time travel and saw Young Splinter and Shredder

  • @-RONNIE
    @-RONNIE 10 місяців тому

    Thanks for the video

  • @chrisofthehoovers4055
    @chrisofthehoovers4055 10 місяців тому +2

    Kappa are some of my favorite monsters from around the world.

  • @WhiteLongSword7
    @WhiteLongSword7 9 місяців тому

    Dr. Okuyama's narrations were cool, especially the funny bit about losing your mojo lol

  • @deonwhite201
    @deonwhite201 10 місяців тому

    I’am glad that I have stumbled across this You Tube video channel

  • @EayuProuxm
    @EayuProuxm 10 місяців тому

    0:18 While described as childlike in appearance
    0:08 *Big yellow beak, green skin, abs, big buff arms*
    But it's got a bowl cut, so the statement checks out

  • @ryomahoffman6803
    @ryomahoffman6803 Місяць тому

    Kappa have always been my favorite mythical creature since I was a kid!!!

  • @sandradermark8463
    @sandradermark8463 10 місяців тому +1

    First Extra Credits and now Monstrum do episodes of Kappas. Newt Scamander and Remus Lupin would be proud! Tooi from Sarazanmai cameo!

  • @roberthiltz2741
    @roberthiltz2741 10 місяців тому

    My first experience of Kappa was as a child playing Final Fantasy 3 on Super Nintendo(in Japan it was FF 6 released on the Famicom) in which the “imp” status could effect your party members or enemy combatants. That little sketch of imp concept art for Final Fantasy shown in this video was done by Amano who is a fellow artist and lover of mythology!

  • @jonathanthegreat2008
    @jonathanthegreat2008 3 місяці тому

    No ands, ifs, or BUTTS about it, Japanese lore is CU-CUMBERSOME! Dr. Z, thanks for this episode! 😂❤😂❤😂❤

  • @Not-Right-Meow
    @Not-Right-Meow 10 місяців тому

    Everytime I watch something about kappas it fascinates me how much the anime Sarazanmai is true to the lore

  • @LastGleaming8
    @LastGleaming8 9 місяців тому

    Love the video! You should do an episode on Rephaim

  • @stratonrye
    @stratonrye 10 місяців тому

    I was going to post that I love when the turtles get mistaken for kappa in the past. Lol. You guys beat me to it.

  • @AedanBlackheart
    @AedanBlackheart 2 місяці тому

    3:28 I love her explanation lmao

  • @astrowolvez
    @astrowolvez 10 місяців тому

    There’s a prefecture that has kappas and a shrine for them and that prefecture has only had a single water related disaster in hundred of years.

  • @astrowolvez
    @astrowolvez 10 місяців тому

    Ahh finally doing kappas!!

  • @diegomelgar5866
    @diegomelgar5866 10 місяців тому +1

    If you give them a cucumber that means you want to breed with them 😅 so if you find one in a river you better have a fresh cucumber in you pocket

  • @KraftyKreator
    @KraftyKreator 10 місяців тому

    Hilarious that one gets this mysterious “ball” pulled out of your rear and then you get all rubbery- apparently after some funtime with the rear, one can get very rubbery legged.

  • @HeraclesN-fp1bw
    @HeraclesN-fp1bw 10 місяців тому +1

    Kappa are easily one of my favorite youkai which my favorite anime depictions of one is One Piece’s character Kawamatsu, & just has a fun fact that there is an anime called Sarazanmai which is about the organ

  • @windlessoriginals1150
    @windlessoriginals1150 10 місяців тому

    Thank you