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"if you don't watch it till the end, a titan-sized yokai will come after you" I just binge watched your whole channel. If I can make throught 200 years of Fujiwara having control over the Heian court by marrying their daughters to them, I can make it through a 10 minutes yokai video easy peasy!
Mikoshi-nyudo is my favorite youkai. One of the attractions of Mikoshi-nyudo is that it has obvious weaknesses. The phenomenon of becoming larger when looking up and becoming smaller when looking down is interesting as an irony of power. In modern novels, Mikoshi-nyudo is used as a metaphor for overestimation.
That youkai can also symbolized that if you're looking up at peoples you thought are better (richer, prettier, smarter, more popular, etc) than you and want to be them, there would be no end because you will always find someone who's better at you, "there's anothe sky above the sky" and all that. But if you look down, you'll eventually reach the ground and can't go down further.
I vaguely remember stories about giants in Europe. The female ones tended to be a nasty piece of work... They were only about 3m tall, but had a nasty habit of either hugging you to death, or self-inserting themselves into your household and eat everything... There's even a song about one, which is quite famous: Herr Mannelig.
I'm glad that these stories came about because giant yokais set the stage for Godzilla, giant space robots, giant naked titans, I've even seen giant naked anime ladies. Truly, where would we be without such lore????
I actually heard about this one yōkai called “ Daidarabotchi “ its a yōkai that they said sometimes it poses as a mountain range when its sleeping their resemblances are bald headed priests, big rolling eyes, a long tongue, and pitch black skin- If you search up Daidarabotchi the folktale pictures are creepy-
I'm making this comment to personally thank you. I am in the process of writing a book that is all about Japanese history, yokai, and the Japanese gods and it has been difficult trying to learn and understand it. But with your videos, I am able to understand everything and will be able to make an action pack book with my characters. Thank you, Linfamy.
I like the idea of an Umi bozu being driven off by a ship's crew all starting to smoke. Captain: " Alright boys, smoke em if you got em." * aggressive toke sounds*
I've always thought of Umi bōzu as one of the creepiest yokai. I remember reading that they might be the souls of people with no one to watch their graves, so they take refuge in the sea. Truly one of my favorites! Edit. I'm going to bake myself a cake! xD
Interestingly, that tobacco smoke thing also shows up in Irish folklore, where it's sometimes said that all kinds of fairies and fair folk really, really hate the smell of it.
@@Linfamy Difficult. You’d think Shinto magick would be sorta easy. But Kotodama is harder to learn than incantations. And Yokai are spirits, so they have 0 problems doing this sort of thing. So yeah, it’s got it’s ups and downs but it’s better than being crushed by a massive toad or a long necked priest
*Me as an onmiyoji/shrine maiden who use yokai allies diligently writing down all of this information to turn into my DM for our Japanese folktale inspired RP session* Heheheh this gon be goood😁🌸👘😎
There are many other giant yōkai. Like ōmukade, tearai oni, amemasu, ikuchi, akkorokamui, yamata no orochi, akugyo, gashadokuro, and I think the largest might be the daidarabotchi
There's an anime called kakuryo no yadomeshi, which has a lot of folklore characters in it, including kitsune zashiki warashi and even umi bozu....maybe you can check it out?
Your Videos are always great to watch and funny. They really helped me to understand some anime references about Japans history, mythology and folklore. I am currently watching an anime called Hozuki's Coolheadness it's a great comedy anime, based about the japanese hell and about japanese mythology and folklore. Keep going with the awsome videos !
The giant toad is also known to be friends with ninjas from the Hidden Leaf village and are immune to any attacks from annoying, idiotic water goddesses.
I know Linfamy did a whole video about the origin and traits of the gashadokuro, but I was still kinda hoping to see it here. Easily the best giant yokai ever.
I wonder what you do if you’re able to grab the bucket and now are left holding a bucket with a yokai in it? Like just holding it randomly and asking your friend “okay, now what do we do with it?”
With all these yokai having stretchy and shapeshiftey powers, I’m guessing people made them up while tripping on some hallucinogenic plants. Seems legit.
I watched the first episode.. at the point where a titan reached in and ate a person or specifically a mother I believe, and the blood splattered everywhere.. it scared me. ALOT.. never again.
Hey Linfamy! The city near where I live, Yokkaichi, has a mascot that is an Onyudo. During the Yokkaichi festival there is a giant Onyudo puppeted by 6 hidden people that stretches to over 7 m, and I believe it's the tallest such puppet in Japan (ua-cam.com/video/SH2LCmEsv8c/v-deo.html). It was originally built in 1805 and was never rebuilt, just broken pieces have been replaced over time, and during the off season he usually chills on random street corners under the covered shopping arcade, so sometimes you turn the corner and are surprised he's there. There is an old tale about a giant rokurokubi here, but other evidence of the Yokkaichi festival imply in the Edo period it was a hundred demon parade and only the Onyudo stuck around. In addition the little yuruchara mascot of Yokkaichi is Konyudo-kun, the little baby of the Onyudo daddy. He's super cute.
5:53 that's actually the handiwork of a different Yokai, called a Funa-Yuurei, or Boat-spirit. it's a boat filled with drowned souls who capsize your ship by pouring water into it with ladles.
I wonder what a „Ningen“ is? Ningen means „human“. But there is a giant white humanoid without legs that swims in arctic waters called Ningen. I always get tense when i look up an image of this being😂
Umi bozu must have been many souls of people who lost their lives at sea, their size must have grew over time or large number of people who lost their lives at sea where there is hardly any survivors
Why is it that most myths from every type of mythology always come together like that cyclops? Answer is most likely someone from Japan went to Greece and learnt of cyclops there,came back and told about it
The open bucket reminds me of of a German phrase, which translates to give someone a basket and is used to describe the refusal of one's crush to date you. Allegedly, it stems from the times where many houses had a window under the roof with a pulley above it. It was used to store cargo in the attic. Apparently, they were occasionally used as elevators and it was a prank to send you a bottom less basket...
Which one did you like best?
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Yaa
a big brain means a dumber life because the neuron signals travel faster in small brains
Titan On Attack
Maybe a stupid question but if I am already paying for CR Premium can I still use this code?
So if you want to die stop watching but you too Beaver dam funny
"if you don't watch it till the end, a titan-sized yokai will come after you" I just binge watched your whole channel. If I can make throught 200 years of Fujiwara having control over the Heian court by marrying their daughters to them, I can make it through a 10 minutes yokai video easy peasy!
😂
Depending on the titan I might just stay
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Lol
😂😂😂😂😂😂😂
Me too
“It is like a woman’s nose hair. No one has ever seen it. And for those to do, they do not live long.” 😅😂🤣 I die.
Oh no! did you see a woman’s nose hair?
I've played enough Dark Souls to know how to handle giant bosses
Don't know if I frames work Irl.
Yorm the giant?
YOUR EVEN HERE TOO!?!??!
@@LittleLiamGames bruh he is everywhere I go he go.
But, but...
Have you guys ever ZeroLenny those giant bosses?
"A Titan sized Yokai will come after you."
Me, trained in the ways of Monster Hunter for years: BRING. IT. ON.
WERES MY DRAGONATOR
Good luck ✊
There's an umibouzu if you go to frost islands at night. You gotta wait on the pirate ship, not sure how long
2p22
Me:*pulls out pokeball*slave?
Edit:i meant pets,i totally didn't make my pokemon do slave labor for me
Mikoshi-nyudo is my favorite youkai. One of the attractions of Mikoshi-nyudo is that it has obvious weaknesses. The phenomenon of becoming larger when looking up and becoming smaller when looking down is interesting as an irony of power. In modern novels, Mikoshi-nyudo is used as a metaphor for overestimation.
That youkai can also symbolized that if you're looking up at peoples you thought are better (richer, prettier, smarter, more popular, etc) than you and want to be them, there would be no end because you will always find someone who's better at you, "there's anothe sky above the sky" and all that. But if you look down, you'll eventually reach the ground and can't go down further.
The more i look at Yokai mythos and stuff like pokemon and kaiju, the more i see that japan has always been a land of monsters
4:46, bald giant monster with tentacles...
Koro-sensei, did you run out of money again????
😂😂😂
im crying on the ending
😂.. loved the Pikachu on the palanquin.
🌟
"A giant sized Yokai will come after you."
Jokes on you I'm into that!
😳
So you like being stepped on-
I swear, if anybody mentions lady dimetriscu...
Hold the fuck up
@@jf2801 lady who???
"ran straight into a folk tale" - I CHOKED laughing
I vaguely remember stories about giants in Europe. The female ones tended to be a nasty piece of work... They were only about 3m tall, but had a nasty habit of either hugging you to death, or self-inserting themselves into your household and eat everything... There's even a song about one, which is quite famous: Herr Mannelig.
I'm glad that these stories came about because giant yokais set the stage for Godzilla, giant space robots, giant naked titans, I've even seen giant naked anime ladies. Truly, where would we be without such lore????
I need the name of that giant naked ladies anime, please.
Made this joke before but.. I'd watch a fight between any of these 5 vs the youtube algorithm.
I actually heard about this one yōkai called “ Daidarabotchi “ its a yōkai that they said sometimes it poses as a mountain range when its sleeping their resemblances are bald headed priests, big rolling eyes, a long tongue, and pitch black skin-
If you search up Daidarabotchi the folktale pictures are creepy-
I'm making this comment to personally thank you. I am in the process of writing a book that is all about Japanese history, yokai, and the Japanese gods and it has been difficult trying to learn and understand it.
But with your videos, I am able to understand everything and will be able to make an action pack book with my characters.
Thank you, Linfamy.
Good luck with the book!
That’s how you compensate I thought you just put a loud engine in your car Like most small people
Nah, my way's much better
One of my main sources of knowledge of folklore and culture in Japan, love it when this guy posts
Love it when this guy comments.
@@Linfamy could be said the same with you keep up the great work love your stuff
You fight almost everyone of these yokais in Nioh. Glad this channel has supplementary information for the stuff that intrigues me so in that game.
A man of culture!
The Umi Bozu is my favorite yokai. I'm actually using them as a basis for a space entity that attacks spaceships in a story I'll write in the future.
I like the idea of an Umi bozu being driven off by a ship's crew all starting to smoke.
Captain: " Alright boys, smoke em if you got em." * aggressive toke sounds*
This pleases the Kaiju of my heart.
These videos are so entertaining. I really love learning about these yokai.
Those 5 Japanese giant stories are so cool!
I've always thought of Umi bōzu as one of the creepiest yokai. I remember reading that they might be the souls of people with no one to watch their graves, so they take refuge in the sea.
Truly one of my favorites!
Edit. I'm going to bake myself a cake! xD
They appeal to both Thalassophobia and Megalophobia! Not many monsters out there that can hit two or more phobias at once
@@the13throse That's right! And the uncertainty of what they really look like also makes them super creepy to me!
They're extremely creepy, but for me my fear of them comes from how masterfully Eiichiro Oda uses the myth in One Piece.
Always amazed by your content 👍
Would love if you could do episodes on Nioh, Nioh 2 and Sekiro :)
*stands up, right fist on chest, the other behind the back*. And this is how I watched the whole video.
😂
The gashadokuro would probably have been included, but UA-cam isn’t ready for such a big and spooky boi.
That big skeleton boi is my favorite yokai
Interestingly, that tobacco smoke thing also shows up in Irish folklore, where it's sometimes said that all kinds of fairies and fair folk really, really hate the smell of it.
Can you really blame them?
@@roguedragon9992 Oh I agree, I hate it too, and have sometimes joked about being half-fairy or a changeling because of that.
That joke about having no one to do... Oof that hits close to home
This feels like a Nioh tie-in video thst came half a decade late. Love it.
2:12 "and crush them under his feet.... in a bad way"
One of my favorites is the omukade, a giant centipede.
There are giant salamanders in the States too! We call them Hellbenders :)
Unfortunately very rare now
Noice, always happy as heck to see a new video
Thing is I’m trying to become a sorcerer so Yokai coming into my room doesn’t sound like a threat. Bring it bro!
How's the sorcerer training going?
I just hired Kevin Fast, the World’s Strongest Priest to guard me from Yokai while sleep. He reads the best bedtime stories.
@@someguy669 Forget that. I’m my own sorcerer. Don’t need someone reading me nursery books
@@Linfamy Difficult. You’d think Shinto magick would be sorta easy. But Kotodama is harder to learn than incantations. And Yokai are spirits, so they have 0 problems doing this sort of thing. So yeah, it’s got it’s ups and downs but it’s better than being crushed by a massive toad or a long necked priest
I had missed this one somehow, but you linked it in your latest video. The system works!
Woohoo! So people do click those 🤔
AWWWW YEAH, my boi Linfamy is sponsored!!!
:D
@@Linfamy :')
Some of your quips are hilarious, Linfamy. I almost choked on my breakfast when you mentioned nose hair on a woman and the umi bozu. 😂
Great content delivered with a sly/wry sense of humor in flawless english.
1:27 *attack on titan music plays*
*Me as an onmiyoji/shrine maiden who use yokai allies diligently writing down all of this information to turn into my DM for our Japanese folktale inspired RP session* Heheheh this gon be goood😁🌸👘😎
Ooh have fun
There are many other giant yōkai. Like ōmukade, tearai oni, amemasu, ikuchi, akkorokamui, yamata no orochi, akugyo, gashadokuro, and I think the largest might be the daidarabotchi
I don't even need to be cursed to watch your videos till the end
;)
I was hoping to hear about the Gaint Skeleton Yokai, the Gashadokuro. That thing is pure nightmare fuel.
Lol the frantic sword swinging was cute for some reason
1:26 time stamp for me
7:19 :
Me: free item nice
Also me:"start hunting for mikoshi
1) Hitotsume nyūdō -one eyed giant priest yokai
2) Umi bōzu -giant sea monk yokai
3) Mikoshi nyūdō -long necked priest yokai that looks over
4) Ōgama -giant toad yokai
5) Hanzaki -giant salamander yokai
This long-necked monk reminds me of the men of Yusuke Urameshi's father, Reizen in Yu Yu Hakusho
There's an anime called kakuryo no yadomeshi, which has a lot of folklore characters in it, including kitsune zashiki warashi and even umi bozu....maybe you can check it out?
Smooth transition into the sponsorship!
“Eager to get his hands around some land meat” the phrasing is perfect
Your Videos are always great to watch and funny. They really helped me to understand some anime references about Japans history, mythology and folklore. I am currently watching an anime called Hozuki's Coolheadness it's a great comedy anime, based about the japanese hell and about japanese mythology and folklore. Keep going with the awsome videos !
Glad you like the vids!
Salamanders bigger then my bravery make me glad I'm land locked.
Salamanders live in fresh water, so being land locked won't save you
@Arctic Dino 😱
The anime mononoke has an episode about umibozu I believe! Awesome anime, watch it!
“You may remember them from your nightmares” 😂
Failed curse..its so interesting that with out ending it I won't be able to sleep and thought peacefully..whoa..🥰💜
The Pikachu statue killed me 🤣🤣
The giant toad is also known to be friends with ninjas from the Hidden Leaf village and are immune to any attacks from annoying, idiotic water goddesses.
I know Linfamy did a whole video about the origin and traits of the gashadokuro, but I was still kinda hoping to see it here. Easily the best giant yokai ever.
I like your new animation style
I wonder what you do if you’re able to grab the bucket and now are left holding a bucket with a yokai in it? Like just holding it randomly and asking your friend “okay, now what do we do with it?”
With all these yokai having stretchy and shapeshiftey powers, I’m guessing people made them up while tripping on some hallucinogenic plants. Seems legit.
Most probably
@@Linfamy I’d be suprised if that wasn’t the case.
I watched the first episode.. at the point where a titan reached in and ate a person or specifically a mother I believe, and the blood splattered everywhere.. it scared me.
ALOT.. never again.
HAHAHAHA THE REFERENCE IN 2:19 THOUGH
Surprized the gashadokuro wasnt here
As big as a tree? Does that mean that the Gashadokuro could prey on the Hitotsune Nyudo? Since Gashadokuro are as big as castles.
Ahhh, I know Umi bōzu from Kakuriyo no Yadomeshi. It's a good anime.
I also recognized from the anime !
It's really telling how many monsters are priests or monks
Hey Linfamy! The city near where I live, Yokkaichi, has a mascot that is an Onyudo. During the Yokkaichi festival there is a giant Onyudo puppeted by 6 hidden people that stretches to over 7 m, and I believe it's the tallest such puppet in Japan (ua-cam.com/video/SH2LCmEsv8c/v-deo.html). It was originally built in 1805 and was never rebuilt, just broken pieces have been replaced over time, and during the off season he usually chills on random street corners under the covered shopping arcade, so sometimes you turn the corner and are surprised he's there.
There is an old tale about a giant rokurokubi here, but other evidence of the Yokkaichi festival imply in the Edo period it was a hundred demon parade and only the Onyudo stuck around.
In addition the little yuruchara mascot of Yokkaichi is Konyudo-kun, the little baby of the Onyudo daddy. He's super cute.
5:53 that's actually the handiwork of a different Yokai, called a Funa-Yuurei, or Boat-spirit. it's a boat filled with drowned souls who capsize your ship by pouring water into it with ladles.
Aw dang it... I started this right before I had to go to work.
I want to see a video on the Gap Woman
My favorite giant yokai is the Okubi, particularly the version from the film Yokai Monsters: 100 Monsters.
Oooh big thick yokai.. sounds nice
I wonder what a „Ningen“ is? Ningen means „human“. But there is a giant white humanoid without legs that swims in arctic waters called Ningen. I always get tense when i look up an image of this being😂
Yay! A bit AoT related video!
I need a video on the Gashadokuro
*Just aim for their napes and you'll be fine*
"you might remember it from your nightmares" lmao
I love the fact you put pikachu in the video
Linfamy: watch attack on titan
me who just finished watching the series and read the manga for the ending : pls dont make me remember and cry again-
* insert attack on titan theme song *
Umi bozu must have been many souls of people who lost their lives at sea, their size must have grew over time or large number of people who lost their lives at sea where there is hardly any survivors
Ohhh! That hanzaki reminds me a lot of Del Lago from Resident Evil 4! Imma show this video to my friends now >:D
That's a good video.
That's a good comment
@@Linfamy That's a good reply
Why is it that most myths from every type of mythology always come together like that cyclops? Answer is most likely someone from Japan went to Greece and learnt of cyclops there,came back and told about it
7:59 kitsunes have the sense of humour of a child
This writing is amazing
So, Godzilla is amphibian, another mystery solved :D
Will those Yokai start the Rumbling?
yay! an upload!
The ending to the manga made me cry and now I'm slowly watching the rest of the Anime...like its a sad ending but also a good happy one too.
Oh great, Cthulhu went on a trip to Japan. Nice...
Do a Yokai Stories: Nebutori! 👍😊😍🥰
Yay Linfamy posted :D
:D
7:15 ohhh i get that Delicious in Dungeon shapeshifter now
3:34 Isn't that the Yeti from "Doctor Who: The Web of Fear" but edited?
The open bucket reminds me of of a German phrase, which translates to give someone a basket and is used to describe the refusal of one's crush to date you. Allegedly, it stems from the times where many houses had a window under the roof with a pulley above it. It was used to store cargo in the attic. Apparently, they were occasionally used as elevators and it was a prank to send you a bottom less basket...