To quote a Tumblr post I once saw; “It doesn’t matter how terrifying or monstrous or deadly you make your eldrich monster, there’s gonna be a person who hauls themselves out of the sewers to tell you that they will personally fuck it.”
Yep. I can imagine what i would say which goes along the lines of "No matter how terrifying you are, how deadly you are, or how hostile you are, we as humans can endure longer. No matter how many of us you may strike down, we will continue to grow stronger than you ever imagined. It may not be now, it may not be generations from now, but eventually, EVENTUALLY, you WILL fuck one of us, whether out of true desire, or morbid curiosity, and in that regard, we have already won"
@@marcusalm7350 so the spider demon pretended to be a woman to sleep/eat this dude wich is zeus in cosplay as a lumber jack. proably doing RnR sounds like zeus yea. Jorogumo: wow your realy incredible for a........ Zeus: o your awake?
@@jessdanae138 Look! This one is as big as a mountain and has millions of giant evil children that infest entire parts of the world! Sleep tight, son! And remember, if you see a spider, it's actually a long distant child of Ungoliant come to eat your face.
@@ulfurgaming4268 Hawaiian and Icelandic myths are perfect examples of that 😂. Yes I know Icelandic mythology is largely based on Norse myths, but it’s still a very unique mythos especially with its lovecraftian nightmare monsters
@@pokeyscorpion8224 oh yeah you get bored enough and are expierncing shot you dont no what it is youll come up with some weird shit hell japan thought the sound of their houses settling where tiny oni that would take spoons and other items and bash em about
Personal explanation: Japan was always weird, post-WWII is just when the rest of the world LEARNED just how weird they are ... and decided that they LOVED it
"So now the woodcutter knows this hot lady he's been seeing is actually a jorogumo, but surprisingly this isn't a deal-breaker for him" *Monster Musume intensifies
Y’know, if the Jorogumu was actually going to kill the woodcutter, she would have killed him way earlier, either when he dropped his axe (No axe means no woodcutting, meaning he’s not going to leave for a very long time), or when he arrived for the many, many, maaaany times they met up. Because she didn’t kill him those times, she probably didn’t kill him when he got caught. So yes... This man has a Spider-Demon Waifu. *Tips my hat*
@@shadowkhan422 I thought you said this was a *fun* fact. Besides, the Jorogumu is a cross between a woman and a spider-demon. So that’s mostly just a possibility.
The first lumberjack is pretty nice isn't he? Who woke up with a spider web on his boot and put it on a tree instead of ripping it like a normal person
Spider-Wife, Spider-Wife, Hungry waterfall Spider-Wife. Strings you up, by your legs, Eats your face, now you're dead. Hey bro, don't date the Spider-Wife.
She didn't necessarily ate him. I mean if she wanted she could've eat him a long time ago. Maybe she legitimately fell in love with him. I mean he still loves her, huge spider yokai or not. That does something to a maiden's heart, spider maiden or not...
Can we talk about how local dude from 3:00 thought that a confused little spider was making a home on his leg, and he just, like, gently moved the web over to a tree instead of just destroying what he thought was a little spider's hard work? That's so sweet of him to be so considerate of the spider. I mean, the spider was actually a man-eating spider lady, but, you know, it's the thought that counts.
There's a bit of Japanese and Buddhist culture in that. Insects aren't universally creepy in Japanese aesthetics, and being kind to a spider and avoiding killing it is an example of how you act if a spider might have been a human in a previous life.
She was gonna drain him like an insect at first, but his boundless, unflinching (bordlerline psychotic) love for her quickly conquered her heart and made her go all dere dere for him.
Its been around, and in many cultures too. But where did you think anime got it from? Japan was batshit for a while, all it took was animation for it to get noticed
Or they do die tragically, only for the couple's hanyou son (with his father's ancestral axe) date a Miko. Then son and Miko forms a posse looking for a shattered Macguffin for 56 volumes.
I like to think that the Jorogumo, at some point during her little seduction of the woodcutter, decided, “Huh, this guy hasn’t tried hitting on me, demanded sexual favors from me, or done anything that past meals have tried. And he even learned what I was, and he still came back. Maybe I won’t eat him...until he dies, that is, then it’s fair game.”
Uniquegirl 10 I suspect this refers to the legend of Tamamo No Mae, the Rock is what happened after she got killed, there's a whole other bunch of stuff before that
Okay but can you imagine proving it though? "This rock was cursed by an evil spirit to kill whoever touches it!" "oh yeah? Prove it!" "uhhhh.................." **curveballs the rock into their skull David and Goliath style** "ah ha! Told you!"
I see what you did there. For mythological context, the Kitsune in question was Tamamo-no-Mae, one of the infamous Three Terrible Yo-kai of Japan, who was a famous trickster and seductress who charmed her way into the Imperial court in order to corrupt and destroy as many monarchs as she could. When she was eventually found out, chased down, and slain, her spirit possessed the rock in question, and her malevolence seeped to the surface as a deadly poison, killing anything it came in contact with. That was, until a priest came along, reconciled Tamamo's spirit, and set her free, thus causing the rock to shatter. Sorry for the nerd-out, I'm just a huge mythology buff, hence why I'm subbed to OSP (and I really hope someone commissions Red to do a video on those three, their stories are actually really interesting)
@@joshcolon8291 she also apparently did a stint or two in both China and Korea at some point before her death so there's that too, Im not sure if she is the same one or is just broad termed in both those countries due to similarities of the mythos and the like to something similar in each respective culture, Either the way the idea of a country hoping fox lady is pretty cool
@@chandlermuehlberg2044 they are different kitsune in China and Korea, and iirc there is a story of a Korean kitsune mourning her sister accross the sea
0:33 That sealed stone, the "killing stone" just cracked open this year inexplicably. So... some people think that kitsune might go on a killing rampage to get revenge on the world for sealing her away hundreds of years ago! Fun!
Considering how many unpopular rulers have either gotten the boot and/or died since, something that kitsune was known for causing, I think she's doing us a service.
@@coltonwilliams4153 bribery typically isn't the cheat code to calm down a supernatural entity that's pissed. Besides, Kitsune are neither God or Fae, they are fox spirits :)
"Son, your love interest is a spider demon with a craving for mortal flesh." "AH FUCK YEAH! I'M GETTING MY HEAD BIT OFF TONIGHT!" "I apologi- Wait, what did you just say?" "WOOP WOOOOOOOOOOP!"
This video left me feeling very confused with my emotions. On the one hand, I'm terribly arachnophobic so the image of a giant spider demon absolutely terrifies me...but on the other hand my love for sappy romance schlock makes me want to think this guy got to actually live with her happily and she DIDN'T eat him. Cap that off with the ending song being She's Always a Woman by Billy Joel and that's a melting pot of things I love and things I'm cripplingly horrified by.
Tyler McKnight She wouldn't have necessarily ATE him. That's not what spiders do to their prey and (if female) husbands. See, spiders wrap their meal up while still living and then drink all their bodily fluids. So, yeah. If a giant spider lady asks you out and you have kids, she's going to immediately kill you after she's pregnant. Have fun being afraid of spiders!
@@demonicprinter Well generally; the female can be persuaded NOT to eat the male if he can provide her with sufficient food as a replacement. If the male's gifts are enough to keep the female sated for long enough he can mate with her and get out of there without dying. However given the relatively short lifespan of males most only really bring enough to keep the female busy during sex because it's likely their only chance for it in their lifetime anyway so there's not much need to be concerned with escaping. Translating that into humanoid spider-women; wait on her hand and foot (all 8 of them), constantly feed her and attend to her every whim and she MAY decide to let you live so long as you're useful.
typhoonhurricane18 Thank you for expanding my knowledge. I shall now marry a spider. If I don't come back, I didn't have good enough presents for my waifu.
"AHH, YES! THIS SEEMS LIKE A GOOD PLACE TO START CUTTING DOWN TRE-" *drops axes* "..........I SEEM TO HAVE CLUMSILY DROPPED MY AXE IN THIS RIVER, I HOPE NOTHING ENCOUNTERS ME AS I TRY TO RETRIEVE I-" *a beautiful women shows up out of no where holding his axe*
right about the same time the Kitsune murder rock broke, Joro spiders suddenly became extreemly prevalent in the Southeastern US and now everyone locally seems to be almost alarmingly okay with them.
It bothers me that the web was weak enough the guy could casually pull it off his leg and put it on the tree, but then strong enough to uproot and pull a tree in the the water. idk, maybe this is a weird demon spider web that needs time to get that sticky?
He needs to tap her belly just the right way to communicate his indentions or she might feel threated and flee, alternatively she might decide he is food and eat him. At least that is all I know about spider courtship, you know... just in case.
I like to imagine he lives there, and she only partially drains his life at any given time. He's happy with a spider girlfriend, she's got a constant food source. Everybody wins? I just think she could have killed him way quicker and easier instead of going on all those dates.
Red says it at the start. The Joren Waterfall. www.tripadvisor.com/Attraction_Review-g790340-d1313660-Reviews-Joren_Waterfall-Izu_Shizuoka_Prefecture_Tokai_Chubu.html
@@cartooncritique6625 Remember that Tolken was ok with a Living mythology(ie, changing parts when retelling a story), and didn't have issue with people modifying his stuff. So while he might be weirded out, he'd be fine with it. Canon is only 'canon' for the story it's in. After all, look at Lancelot - he's a French SI who isn't canon per the original story.
@@jonathanprice8684 Exactly. Plus Tolkien would probably appreciate the incorporation of other mythological inspiration, given how much he clearly loved European folklore
It actually just cracked open this year inexplicably... Scientists speculate it was because of odd weathering. A surprisingly large amount of people seem to be genuinely worried that the sealed kitsune spirit has now been released and will be going on a killing rampage- or something.
I like to think the Spider-Demon also fell in love because otherwise, why not just do the same thing she tried to do to the other guy? Instead she returned the ax and talked to him, hung out with him. Or maybe I'm just a hopeless romantic who loves shipping a little too much (Oh my god, I'm like a male Aphrodite in that regard).
Maybe, after what happened with the other guy failed, she got smarter and went with the alternative strategy of approaching him as a human woman and draining him slowly.
1:20 Honestly, Youkai being translated to Demon is the mother of all mistranslations. Demons are very specifically evil Angel's fallen from heaven. Youkai are spirit-ish creatures that take on all manner if roles, good evil and neutral. Calling them Fae woukd probably be more accurate.
And that’s why I feel that there’s a connection between the myths of the Britanian archipelago and the Japanese archipelago. Yokai and fae are just way too similar, from how varied their appearances are, to their actions, and even the stories about some of their domains doing weird shit. I think it’s the meridian, combined with where they’re at on their respective plates. The walls between worlds might actually be thinner there.
While I agree Yokai being called demons is wrong, demons are actually not Fallen Angels. Fallen Angels are their own class of creature. Demons are the spawn of Adam's first wife Lilith after she was banished from Eden.
@@torazely Where in the Bible is that? Because the Bible is pretty clear on the origin, and relation, between angels to Fallen to demons. Also to my memory and reading Lilith isn't recorded.
@@clayxros576 first off, the Bible has no reference to how Angels or demons came to be. They just show up at some point. Secondly, she's from Jewish folklore, meaning she was most likely purposefully excluded from the Bible when it was being written, considering women weren't allowed much freedom or agency in th past, therefore attempting to validate the sexist male-dominated society by saying that women were purposefully made to submit to men.
@@torazely The Bible records God's dealing with humans, and therefore describes how Earth was created. Not the Heavens, and by extension Angel's. However Demons are explicitly noted as being thrown out from Heaven, and further following Satan. Demons follow Satan, and aren't differentiated from fallen angels. Thus they are, logically, the same thing. Jewish mythology isn't Hebrew mythology. God disowns them for a pretty clear reason, especially because they were well known (and called out) for mixing their beliefs with other beliefs systems. Lilith isn't recorded in the Bible, thus she didn't exist. Otherwise it would have recorded her and her progeny. You're making alot of assumptions about the Bible. Have you read it or are you mashing this stuff together?
The question is which Mothman, The Horror Story Mothman or the Shin Megami Tensei Mothman? Because I'll be a little hilarious if it is the SMT Mothman with his RëD EYES... Blue Body Hair and Colorful Wings, cute and dangerous little thing (-:
3:55 Tengu are just crazy, I think the Tofugu website have an article on Tengu that goes into detail about their origin, so you might want to check that out
Ten days ago in fact. They've already preformed a ceremony as a preventative measure. Lots of active shrines that will likely see a spike in talisam sales. Still, its likely going to cause some urban legends of its own.
In Italy we've got a cat demon: The Mammon Cat. It's basically a giant, man-and cattle-eating cat that reigns over all cats and has carnival related magic powers
Alex Middleton unfortunately we lost most of the details about the mammon cat. It's like in Red's video about Queatzalcoatl: most legends treat him as something so famous it doesn't need introductions. So we have to construct our way to its origin by the little pieces of information scattered around the peninsula
Wren Dean Ok, that's something I made up. But most Mammon Cats are connected in some way to Carnival. So they are basically the spirit of the holiday, like Santa Clause is for Christmas or the Easter Bunny for... Easter.
liam mercado123 but look at it this way...for every joining of two legs, there is one V, or more specifically, the rule "every pair of legs, for all legs results in one v for every pair... Or, let _x_ represent the number of legs and _v_ the obvious *_x_** - 1= **_v_** , If **_x_** is more than 2* It's like how you have 5 fingers, and 4 bits in between.
Wait... So Matt broke into their video here, but in the EC episode they invite him over when he's in the woods, in that episode he doesn't know who they are but they know who he is and in this video they don't know who he is and he knows who they are- WHAT IS THE CANON?! Edit: too many likes for lil old us
@@galactakid7064 James Portnow of Extra Credits, their "game industry liaison" as they would call him from time to time, turned out to be a serial harasser who would threaten to terminate the employment of at least two people at Extra Credits unless they would date him. He was also responsible for their pro-lootbox stance, but that's just me being petty.
Mother fucking what? James? W-why? I’ve been watching that channel for almost six years! I never would’ve thought that he’d do something like that. Was that why Lele left? I have *way* too many questions
Nope. Zeus turned into animals at least three times, once into a golden shower (of coins), and various other deities have turned into animals to procreate.
@@rimfire8217 I mean... My grandparents are Buddhists while my Parents are Christians. I'm both in terms of belief in the laws they state rather than the history and traditional people inside the story.
@Ben Siener from what I've heard, Buddhism is literally one of the best religion. Buddhists are really peaceful and such compared to all the others. (Sorry, mom and dad)
Huh. Remind me, why was that kitsune pissed off again? Maybe she’s calmed down and Japan won’t have to worry about a malevolent fox spirit going on a killing spree. The foxes usually don’t go murdering people without a reason, right?
@@splitjawjanitor5369 Imagine Tamamo-No-Mae being confused as hell when the people respond to the death of unpopular rulers with statements of "Finally!" and "Thank god for that".
I love how all these English videos on the Jorogumo are trying to be nice to it and put “Binding bride” “ maiden spider” and names like that when it clearly just means whore spider 🤣🤣 it’s literally the two bits that encompass the word, Joro =whore , gumo= spider Still love the video tho😊 One of my favorite yokai
@@wildcardjoey4776 In fairness, it’s just uncle Ben that has chronic death syndrome, very technically speaking the parents are just out of the picture forever (short of short stories dedicated specifically to killing them off in ways that don’t leave a significant impact on Peter whatsoever).
And yet the same people who reject and scoff at "regional folklore" often believe in a religion which is basically the same thing. All just claims of magic ("miracles") based on nothing but some story some people wrote over a thousands years ago, and of fantastical beings with superpowers that have never been observed ("god"). Kind of hypocritical, no? Why not go all the way and recognize it's all bullshit fairy tales?
@Dragon born I mean don't get me wrong, i enjoy fairy tales. I almost exclusively read fantasy novels. Made up stories are great. But believeing they're anything more than just fiction is delusional. And yeah, we know also WHY people made these stories up, we can follow the evolution of popular myth tropes through the spreading and branching and mutual influencing of religions thorughout recorded history. We know which tropes and stories and character archetypes the bible adapted from earlier religions or ones contemporary with it. We've even seen in the 20th century how an entire proto-religion based on a fictional person that never existed but that people believe did, can develop over just a few decades - look up the so-called "John Frum" Cargo Cult of Vanuatu.
A good myth to delve into is The Rainbow Serpent. The myth slightly alters per tribe legend in Australia, yet the story is always similar. G vid as usual.
I think I remember reading a book about that in elementary school. Isn't that the story where the birds eat the serpent and become colorful depending on which bits of his flesh they ate?
Lowkey i kinda wanna see this version of this story adapted to some romance comic where the jurogumo at first pretended to enjoy spending time with the woodcutter so she can kill and eat him when his guard is lowered but overtime the spider yokai genuinely falls in love the woodcutter but is now conflicted on going through with her plan of eating him and killing him or actually marrying him
There you are listening to a video about Japanese folklore when suddenly, you're watching a plug for Extra Credits. You didn't want this, you didn't ask for this, yet here you are.
Check out Extra Credits' sister video here! ua-cam.com/video/BGPo-TvgiGc/v-deo.html
-R
Fantastic video as always! Keep it up!
Overly Sarcastic Productions I feel like they had a happy ending it’s cute!
I love you guys are doing a crossover with Extra Credits. You're both my favorite channels! I hope you guys do more of these in the future.
Gotta love the collaboration; two great channels. I hope to see more.
Is James Portnow still involved with Extra Credits?
Yes. Alright then, screw them.
To quote a Tumblr post I once saw; “It doesn’t matter how terrifying or monstrous or deadly you make your eldrich monster, there’s gonna be a person who hauls themselves out of the sewers to tell you that they will personally fuck it.”
Watched Alien, can confirm
Yep. I can imagine what i would say which goes along the lines of "No matter how terrifying you are, how deadly you are, or how hostile you are, we as humans can endure longer. No matter how many of us you may strike down, we will continue to grow stronger than you ever imagined. It may not be now, it may not be generations from now, but eventually, EVENTUALLY, you WILL fuck one of us, whether out of true desire, or morbid curiosity, and in that regard, we have already won"
@@xleplayVA sounds like a Reaper from Mass Effect
@@xleplayVA Is there anything truly more inspirational than a determined power-bottom?
@@andrewhopkins886 i mean, just take a look at DIO from jojo's bizarre adventure.
My man just risked his life to be with his spider girl waifu.
What a hero.
Wut
@@thomasweisgram4373 Detected the normie
YO, YOU'RE----- not wrong
There was hentai like this actually. Good stuff. And surprisingly good gore. Just ... don't get angry.
Hey, when you find love, embrace it in whatever eight legged form it takes!
Everyone: "WOODCUTTER NO"
Woodcutter: "WOODCUTTER YES"
Jorogumo: "Woodcutter, No" -proceeds to to slap him- (?
Headcanon:
Woodcutter is Zeus in disguise
@@marcusalm7350
so the spider demon pretended to be a woman to sleep/eat this dude
wich is zeus in cosplay as a lumber jack. proably doing RnR
sounds like zeus yea.
Jorogumo: wow your realy incredible for a........
Zeus: o your awake?
@@timvanrijn8239 you were trying to cross the border weren't you?
Huh?
So fun fact: John R. R. Tolkien, the guy most people think of, did _not_ have arachnophobia. His son. Christopher on the other hand, _did_
Gee I wonder why?
Tolkien: “SON LOOK AT THIS RAD GIANT SPIDER I’VE ADDED TO MY BOOKS!”
Christopher: *SHRIEKS*
@@jessdanae138 Look! This one is as big as a mountain and has millions of giant evil children that infest entire parts of the world! Sleep tight, son! And remember, if you see a spider, it's actually a long distant child of Ungoliant come to eat your face.
@@jessdanae138
This explaination is totally cannon to me.
His dad created Ungoliant. Can you blame him?
To be fair, she didn’t specify which Tolkien she was referring to.
"And so your girlfriend is a spider-woman. I'm sorry."
"I'm... actually okay with this."
May Parker
“I roll for seduction.”
“Ok-“
“Natural 20!”
“GDI”
And that the tale of the first weeb in history
"That must mean she is great at bondage"
As people say, jokes on you, I'm into that shit.
Blue: *emerges from the abyss* Did someone say smores.
Touché.
Tartarus
The only thing that may appease the ninjas.
vaspeter2600 that one made me smile
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And so, the monstergirl fandom has existed since ancient times...
Oh sure, but since the internet came out, and we got access to the historical Japanese backlogs, the fever is spreading. Mweh heh heh.
ChaosSorceror_Davidicus it’s not just Japanese mythical backlogs now… 😬
@@SolstaceWinters And European europe has a lot of backlogs. Africa and the americas have some to but Europe wrote more down
The reason God invented flamethrowers....
Still cowards compared to fishman
Red: “Did you know there’s one about a specific rock that was possessed by a malevolent kitsune?”
Me: “Yeah it broke”
I, for one, welcome our new fluffy overlord!
@@dlausactor6373 Death, by _Snu Snu?_
Mikon!
Yes, sora, death by snu snu
yeh honestly i was looking for this comment
People make jokes about how Japan got weird after WW2, but this ancient myth shows that this thirst for weird waifus was there from the very start.
Well when your on an island isolated from the mainland yeah your gonna create some crazy things
@@ulfurgaming4268 Hawaiian and Icelandic myths are perfect examples of that 😂. Yes I know Icelandic mythology is largely based on Norse myths, but it’s still a very unique mythos especially with its lovecraftian nightmare monsters
@@pokeyscorpion8224 oh yeah you get bored enough and are expierncing shot you dont no what it is youll come up with some weird shit hell japan thought the sound of their houses settling where tiny oni that would take spoons and other items and bash em about
Personal explanation: Japan was always weird, post-WWII is just when the rest of the world LEARNED just how weird they are ... and decided that they LOVED it
To be fair its not just Japan. Remember that the greeks have mermaids and Bird woman "Who in some myths are not actually ugly but super hot."
"So now the woodcutter knows this hot lady he's been seeing is actually a jorogumo, but surprisingly this isn't a deal-breaker for him"
*Monster Musume intensifies
FBI: HOLY SHIT YOU READ THAT TOO umm ....
ahem. ....Nothing illegal here.
I see he's a fellow 'leg man'
Name checks out
I mean there's two ways it could play out:
1. Get a hot spider girlfriend
2. Die
Seems like a win/win to me
Both
"Tolkien's crippling arachnophobia did not die for this."
I love Red's sass.
What the hell do you think the name of the channel is? xD
I don't get it, what's that from? Explain?
@@KnittingGirl28 J R R Tolkien, author of the Lord of the Rings and the Hobbit. Both of which feature copious amounts of giant person-eating spiders.
@@Scientin Thankie for the explanation, 'ppreciate it.
I'm more wondering if shelob could always become a beautiful woman or that was just shadow of war.
Y’know, if the Jorogumu was actually going to kill the woodcutter, she would have killed him way earlier, either when he dropped his axe (No axe means no woodcutting, meaning he’s not going to leave for a very long time), or when he arrived for the many, many, maaaany times they met up. Because she didn’t kill him those times, she probably didn’t kill him when he got caught. So yes...
This man has a Spider-Demon Waifu. *Tips my hat*
"Fun" fact . Most spider females usually end up eating their mate after they done . Rip lumberjack
@@shadowkhan422 I thought you said this was a *fun* fact.
Besides, the Jorogumu is a cross between a woman and a spider-demon. So that’s mostly just a possibility.
I...like that?
@@shadowkhan422 But was that a known fact by the time this legend was made?
@@shadowkhan422 oh.... yikes... it was all part of her master plan
"Yokai is an umbrella term..."
Umbrella Yokai at the front of group shot.
I see what you did there, Red!
REEEEE
Technically a blacksmith too
@Lily Lavelle WRYYYYYYYYYYYY!!!!
That's what that was?!
Surprise!
The first lumberjack is pretty nice isn't he? Who woke up with a spider web on his boot and put it on a tree instead of ripping it like a normal person
I honestly thought I was nice until I saw that part. Gotta try harder I guess.
Probably saved his life. Bet it’s like fishing if he ripped it he would’ve died
If he ripped it the tree wouldn’t have been ripped into the water, meaning he never finds out about the spider-demons and countless other people die.
@Warren Lehmkuhle lmaooooo
@@alexisguillen8400 well he probably thought it was making it's home and didn't want to break it 😑
Spider-Wife, Spider-Wife,
Hungry waterfall Spider-Wife.
Strings you up, by your legs,
Eats your face, now you're dead.
Hey bro, don't date the Spider-Wife.
Why did I sing this?
@@elg6197 cuz ya cool
She didn't necessarily ate him. I mean if she wanted she could've eat him a long time ago. Maybe she legitimately fell in love with him. I mean he still loves her, huge spider yokai or not. That does something to a maiden's heart, spider maiden or not...
@@elg6197 It is impossible to read that and not sing it in your head.
I like this one
Can we talk about how local dude from 3:00 thought that a confused little spider was making a home on his leg, and he just, like, gently moved the web over to a tree instead of just destroying what he thought was a little spider's hard work? That's so sweet of him to be so considerate of the spider. I mean, the spider was actually a man-eating spider lady, but, you know, it's the thought that counts.
I know, right?
1:30
@@eduardomelo151 You're completely right, I feel real stupid XD
Probably why she decided to not eat him.
There's a bit of Japanese and Buddhist culture in that. Insects aren't universally creepy in Japanese aesthetics, and being kind to a spider and avoiding killing it is an example of how you act if a spider might have been a human in a previous life.
One of the first reported cases of “NO WAIFU NO LAIFU”
She was gonna drain him like an insect at first, but his boundless, unflinching (bordlerline psychotic) love for her quickly conquered her heart and made her go all dere dere for him.
Why have i felt i seen this story in an R18 anime?
Would make a great anime
HotaruTakumi
Sex, drama, action, horror, fantasy, and even romance between two worlds?
Man, I would love that...
@@kyokyoniizukyo7171 pretty sure its already out there. the Japanese are like proud Asian Slytherin's that's true and its not racist ok!
I don't know how to feel about that "dating hot spider monster" was not a concept invented by anime.
Its been around, and in many cultures too. But where did you think anime got it from? Japan was batshit for a while, all it took was animation for it to get noticed
I mean as Red has said in other Vids, Anime just takes all these Legends and folktales wholesale and runs with it
And yet still came from Japan.
"Tolkien's" crippling arachnophobia din not die for this"
Monster monsune
if anime has taught me anything, he lived happily ever after with his cute spider waifu, and they had plenty of horrific abominable babies together.
If the _other_ kind of anime has taught me anything, he lived happily ever after for a few hours.. the horrific abominable babies made sure of that.
Or they do die tragically, only for the couple's hanyou son (with his father's ancestral axe) date a Miko. Then son and Miko forms a posse looking for a shattered Macguffin for 56 volumes.
@@bobmilaplace3816 Lmao inuyasha
Well you are already halfway there look up this hypnosis mothwoman hentai.
@@williewillie5622 Couldn't find anything of value
I like to think that the Jorogumo, at some point during her little seduction of the woodcutter, decided, “Huh, this guy hasn’t tried hitting on me, demanded sexual favors from me, or done anything that past meals have tried. And he even learned what I was, and he still came back. Maybe I won’t eat him...until he dies, that is, then it’s fair game.”
This is a super cute idea.
They had ten kids and she didn’t eat him when he died she gave him a burial and then figured out how to get more men like him to eat them instead
How do we know she didn’t make his ass immortal so he’ll be with her forever?
@@joshuastrittmatter4188
Fair point.
Turns out that the lumberjack's spider-waifu just really likes bondage.
This is canon now.
H ewas apparently pretty into it too.
I fully support this idea!
....for reasons >.>
Probaly vore too.
Willow Wisp Haven't watch that since hh got took down, so you have any other alternatives???
“Yknow that one about the specific rock that was possessed by a malevolent kitsune that killed everyone it touched? I love it, it’s great.”
Uniquegirl 10 I suspect this refers to the legend of Tamamo No Mae, the Rock is what happened after she got killed, there's a whole other bunch of stuff before that
Okay but can you imagine proving it though?
"This rock was cursed by an evil spirit to kill whoever touches it!"
"oh yeah? Prove it!"
"uhhhh.................." **curveballs the rock into their skull David and Goliath style** "ah ha! Told you!"
Read this while it was being said, nice.
Priest when the lumber jack went back to get his spider girl waifu: *Suprised pikachu meme*
"One specific rock that was possessed by a malevolent kitsune and killed everyone it touched" was it a... rolling stone?
Get your damn jojo reference outta here
I see what you did there.
For mythological context, the Kitsune in question was Tamamo-no-Mae, one of the infamous Three Terrible Yo-kai of Japan, who was a famous trickster and seductress who charmed her way into the Imperial court in order to corrupt and destroy as many monarchs as she could. When she was eventually found out, chased down, and slain, her spirit possessed the rock in question, and her malevolence seeped to the surface as a deadly poison, killing anything it came in contact with. That was, until a priest came along, reconciled Tamamo's spirit, and set her free, thus causing the rock to shatter.
Sorry for the nerd-out, I'm just a huge mythology buff, hence why I'm subbed to OSP (and I really hope someone commissions Red to do a video on those three, their stories are actually really interesting)
@@joshcolon8291 she also apparently did a stint or two in both China and Korea at some point before her death so there's that too, Im not sure if she is the same one or is just broad termed in both those countries due to similarities of the mythos and the like to something similar in each respective culture, Either the way the idea of a country hoping fox lady is pretty cool
@@chandlermuehlberg2044 they are different kitsune in China and Korea, and iirc there is a story of a Korean kitsune mourning her sister accross the sea
For the end song I would have chosen "She's a Man Eater."
Already used that one once
I'm 99% sure that was already used.
She used that song for Sekhmet
I would've chosen "Sweet True Lies" by Beast In Black.
I would've chosen tainted love
Woodcutter: THAT'S WHY SHE GIVES SUCH GREAT HUGS!
Priest: Wait Wha-
Me: I like you dude.
Nova Glacrr It’s just a coincidence that she is so tall
Me: Aw fuck, here we go again.
normally a woodcutter is supposed to cut wood not give them a whole log
xD
As I said, I actually skimmed that the first time and read "So THAT'S why she has such a great ass!"
My girlfriend 's a spider demon?
THAT'S WHY SHE GIVES SUCH GREAT HUGS!
Sounds like a sitcom XD
I would be willing to bet this will become an anime in the next five years.
Sounds like the name of a generic rom-com light novel that's inevitably gonna get a rubbish anime adaptation...
Actually there is an anime with a spider women in it it’s called
Monster musume
Underrated
0:33 That sealed stone, the "killing stone" just cracked open this year inexplicably.
So... some people think that kitsune might go on a killing rampage to get revenge on the world for sealing her away hundreds of years ago! Fun!
Have they tried bribing her? That usually works to calm pissed off gods and fairies.
Probably came to America or Ukraine.
Considering how many unpopular rulers have either gotten the boot and/or died since, something that kitsune was known for causing, I think she's doing us a service.
@@coltonwilliams4153 bribery typically isn't the cheat code to calm down a supernatural entity that's pissed. Besides, Kitsune are neither God or Fae, they are fox spirits :)
Yes, but they can be just as fickle as fair folk or many gods, and it does work in some stories
Woodcutter: "My mind's telling me no"
Also woodcutter: "But my body"
Her body’s saying hell yes
He sees nothing wrong with a little bump and grind.
Finding out that your girlfriend is actually a shape shifting spider demon is nothing compared to seeing Extra Credits appear in this video.
Bobby Ferg Quick! Repel him with buddhism...I think.
"Wait, that voice sounds familiar. Could that be... Not-Dan!?"
He has his hands on everything.
So a Jorogumu is a cute spider girl who offers free death? 10/10 waifu.
HSUYAAUUAHA, God damnit sadboys!
Everything is a waifu if you turn it into a cute girl.
Yeah I am sadly lonely enough to actually go for it XD
@@Bob-lr2xp Interesting, I'll be sure to check it out.
@@Bob-lr2xp just wait for the day they make azathoth into a cute anime waifu.
"Son, your love interest is a spider demon with a craving for mortal flesh."
"AH FUCK YEAH! I'M GETTING MY HEAD BIT OFF TONIGHT!"
"I apologi- Wait, what did you just say?"
"WOOP WOOOOOOOOOOP!"
Totally worth it
"El pizza th'-fuck??"
This video left me feeling very confused with my emotions. On the one hand, I'm terribly arachnophobic so the image of a giant spider demon absolutely terrifies me...but on the other hand my love for sappy romance schlock makes me want to think this guy got to actually live with her happily and she DIDN'T eat him. Cap that off with the ending song being She's Always a Woman by Billy Joel and that's a melting pot of things I love and things I'm cripplingly horrified by.
100% same feeling
Tyler McKnight She wouldn't have necessarily ATE him. That's not what spiders do to their prey and (if female) husbands. See, spiders wrap their meal up while still living and then drink all their bodily fluids. So, yeah. If a giant spider lady asks you out and you have kids, she's going to immediately kill you after she's pregnant. Have fun being afraid of spiders!
@@demonicprinter Well generally; the female can be persuaded NOT to eat the male if he can provide her with sufficient food as a replacement. If the male's gifts are enough to keep the female sated for long enough he can mate with her and get out of there without dying. However given the relatively short lifespan of males most only really bring enough to keep the female busy during sex because it's likely their only chance for it in their lifetime anyway so there's not much need to be concerned with escaping. Translating that into humanoid spider-women; wait on her hand and foot (all 8 of them), constantly feed her and attend to her every whim and she MAY decide to let you live so long as you're useful.
typhoonhurricane18 Thank you for expanding my knowledge. I shall now marry a spider. If I don't come back, I didn't have good enough presents for my waifu.
Do you knoe Lucas the Spider?
Seriously, Red. Make an album.
Please?
What's the song she sang at the end of this one?
@III Sekhmet III it's by Billy Joel. Also yes Red REALLY NEEDS TO MAKE AN ALBUM
ALBUM WHEN!?
Make an album already, red. Come on. Your voice is downright angelic when you sing. Damn.
"AHH, YES! THIS SEEMS LIKE A GOOD PLACE TO START CUTTING DOWN TRE-"
*drops axes*
"..........I SEEM TO HAVE CLUMSILY DROPPED MY AXE IN THIS RIVER, I HOPE NOTHING ENCOUNTERS ME AS I TRY TO RETRIEVE I-"
*a beautiful women shows up out of no where holding his axe*
Anime has told me that Japanese speak like this, even when alone
>>>> To Be Continued
right about the same time the Kitsune murder rock broke, Joro spiders suddenly became extreemly prevalent in the Southeastern US and now everyone locally seems to be almost alarmingly okay with them.
Priest: "Your girlfriend is a Spider Jokai."
Jack: "That is why she gives such great hugs!"
"Your girlfriend is a Spider Yokai" Would be a great anime title.
@@rayanderson5797 yo that....isn't wrong....
@@rayanderson5797 That would be fun to watch
... Which Jack?
@@AnimeSunglasses The Lumber Jack.
Cats can lockpick ?
M'aiq : *_I'm so proud of you._*
That's sounds like something Sekhmet would approve of.
@@hannahc3317 Sekhmet was the name of my female master thief Khajiit in Skyrim. She would approve indeed.
Honest M'aiq *one day human*
Morgona: pfft, amateur
Morgana: Lookin’ cool Zoey!
"Zoe has level 100 lock-picking"
My sides hurt from laughing so hard
As a cat owner, I can confirm that cats can burglar their way anywhere
How did she hold a lock pick
@@griffintattongeyer2949 we don't ask
@@griffintattongeyer2949 Didn't you watch the Puss in Boots movie ? They use their claws to pick locks ^^
@@griffintattongeyer2949 cats can just teleport, there is no way to keep a cat out of a place it wants to be
Local priest: "Don't fuck with me, I have the power of buddhism and anime on my side"
The priest is a general in the bonk army
@@tanishqayadav2239 the priest:no horny shal go unnotice.
@@AugustoEL we shall eliminate all the horni once and for all
*People come and go but cryptids are eternal.*
Spider woman : *drags a tree into a river
*Rock music start*
that local dude :Why do I hear boss music?
It bothers me that the web was weak enough the guy could casually pull it off his leg and put it on the tree, but then strong enough to uproot and pull a tree in the the water.
idk, maybe this is a weird demon spider web that needs time to get that sticky?
@@robertdicke7249 Maybe.
I hope him and his spider Waifu are happily together. Weeb End
dont you mean web end
He needs to tap her belly just the right way to communicate his indentions or she might feel threated and flee, alternatively she might decide he is food and eat him. At least that is all I know about spider courtship, you know... just in case.
I like to imagine he lives there, and she only partially drains his life at any given time. He's happy with a spider girlfriend, she's got a constant food source. Everybody wins?
I just think she could have killed him way quicker and easier instead of going on all those dates.
@@Halinspark You know, valid point! She can uproot a tree, why couldn't she uproot, you know, his head.
@@rimfire8217 good point
"But surprisingly, this isn't a deal-breaker"
This sums up a lot of romance stories
Does uh, anybody happen to know where this waterfall is?
Asking for a friend.
Red says it at the start. The Joren Waterfall.
www.tripadvisor.com/Attraction_Review-g790340-d1313660-Reviews-Joren_Waterfall-Izu_Shizuoka_Prefecture_Tokai_Chubu.html
Is this friend's name "Fortunato?"
"Friend"
Inquisitor White didn’t know we were “friends”, but thanks 😂
Sorry man, the spider lady's already taken by Mr Lumberjack.
"My cat had level 100 lockpicking." Me: this one has wares if you have coin.
"and we've got a click on disc 6"....
and it might even buy items from you though it needs to save up for colleg
"Tolkien's crippling arachnophobia didn't die for this.." FINALLY GOD I HATED THAT THEY DID THAT TO SHELOB I WANT MY GIANT SPIDER BACK
Well, fortunately that game is FAR from being considered canon...at least I hope.
@@cartooncritique6625 Remember that Tolken was ok with a Living mythology(ie, changing parts when retelling a story), and didn't have issue with people modifying his stuff. So while he might be weirded out, he'd be fine with it. Canon is only 'canon' for the story it's in. After all, look at Lancelot - he's a French SI who isn't canon per the original story.
Be careful what you wish for, Rem...
It’s not out of the question, plus it was probably just easier to animate
@@jonathanprice8684 Exactly. Plus Tolkien would probably appreciate the incorporation of other mythological inspiration, given how much he clearly loved European folklore
Four years later: Still waiting on a full video about that killer rock.
It actually just cracked open this year inexplicably... Scientists speculate it was because of odd weathering.
A surprisingly large amount of people seem to be genuinely worried that the sealed kitsune spirit has now been released and will be going on a killing rampage- or something.
@@AlyxTremblay Wait… it seriously split open?
@@AlyxTremblay I thought a monk pacified the evil kitsune in the rock a couple of centuries ago.
Automatic English subtitles think "Jorogumo" is "draw Goomba", and there's something special about that.
Wow
That InuYasha anime music when discussing the inaccuracy of the "demon" translation.
Perfection.
I thought that's what that was! no wonder it sounded familiar.
Honestly, hearing that Youkai is translated as Demon makes thing make WAY more sense, since Youkai are way more like Fae than demons.
I'm so glad I'm not the only one who noticed! It's been forever since i've seen Inuyasha, but I can't wait for the sequel
I scrolled too far to find this comment.
Huh, here I'd thought it was from Demon Slayer but this came out before that.
Jorogumo upon meeting the wood cutter: 88w88 what's this??
*Food*
ツInsomniac Draws Fanart please stay away from me and my family
I love how the Emperor wakes up raving about space aliens from the moon one day and everyone just rolls with it rather than having him sectioned.
THE POWER OF BUDDHISM COMPELS YOU
Meditates agressievely
I like to think the Spider-Demon also fell in love because otherwise, why not just do the same thing she tried to do to the other guy? Instead she returned the ax and talked to him, hung out with him.
Or maybe I'm just a hopeless romantic who loves shipping a little too much (Oh my god, I'm like a male Aphrodite in that regard).
Maybe she just likes playing with her food.
Maybe, after what happened with the other guy failed, she got smarter and went with the alternative strategy of approaching him as a human woman and draining him slowly.
Dude, do you not know what female spiders do to their mates? They have a fling followed by supper, but it's a dinner reservation for one.
@@thestranger4894 she also did ship people except she made her otps real by kidnapping people.
Example: Helen of Troy
You are good to go so long as you aren't willing to literally murder for your OTP
“Tolkien’s crippling arachnophobia did not die for this...”
That line killed me😂😂😂
Spiders are proof gods not real.
Christian Martinez. Athena would like to have a word with you, mate.
No idea who that is
@@ironicname2
She's a Greek goddess who is credited with responding to a bragging weaver by turning the woman into the first spider.
Well it looks like I gotta burn an entire Greek god.
1:20
Honestly, Youkai being translated to Demon is the mother of all mistranslations. Demons are very specifically evil Angel's fallen from heaven. Youkai are spirit-ish creatures that take on all manner if roles, good evil and neutral. Calling them Fae woukd probably be more accurate.
And that’s why I feel that there’s a connection between the myths of the Britanian archipelago and the Japanese archipelago. Yokai and fae are just way too similar, from how varied their appearances are, to their actions, and even the stories about some of their domains doing weird shit. I think it’s the meridian, combined with where they’re at on their respective plates. The walls between worlds might actually be thinner there.
While I agree Yokai being called demons is wrong, demons are actually not Fallen Angels. Fallen Angels are their own class of creature. Demons are the spawn of Adam's first wife Lilith after she was banished from Eden.
@@torazely
Where in the Bible is that? Because the Bible is pretty clear on the origin, and relation, between angels to Fallen to demons.
Also to my memory and reading Lilith isn't recorded.
@@clayxros576 first off, the Bible has no reference to how Angels or demons came to be. They just show up at some point.
Secondly, she's from Jewish folklore, meaning she was most likely purposefully excluded from the Bible when it was being written, considering women weren't allowed much freedom or agency in th past, therefore attempting to validate the sexist male-dominated society by saying that women were purposefully made to submit to men.
@@torazely
The Bible records God's dealing with humans, and therefore describes how Earth was created. Not the Heavens, and by extension Angel's. However Demons are explicitly noted as being thrown out from Heaven, and further following Satan. Demons follow Satan, and aren't differentiated from fallen angels. Thus they are, logically, the same thing.
Jewish mythology isn't Hebrew mythology. God disowns them for a pretty clear reason, especially because they were well known (and called out) for mixing their beliefs with other beliefs systems. Lilith isn't recorded in the Bible, thus she didn't exist. Otherwise it would have recorded her and her progeny.
You're making alot of assumptions about the Bible. Have you read it or are you mashing this stuff together?
Tell us the story about the kitsune rock Red. Please
Oh Kitsune in general
Maybe it's this yokai.com/sesshouseki/
It's Tamamo no Mae
@@chelvo56 All I can think of is Fate now. ........now I really wanna cuddle a big floofy tail.
@@chelvo56
Actually the story of Tamamo no Mae is kinda sad.
I still have nightmares about mothman...0:06
Mothman at my window:"Dö yöü hävë thë lämp bröthër?"
THAT IS THE FUNNIEST JOKE IN THE COMMENTS!!!!! THANK!!!
Well, do you have a lamp???
The question is which Mothman, The Horror Story Mothman or the Shin Megami Tensei Mothman?
Because I'll be a little hilarious if it is the SMT Mothman with his RëD EYES...
Blue Body Hair and Colorful Wings, cute and dangerous little thing (-:
3:55 Tengu are just crazy, I think the Tofugu website have an article on Tengu that goes into detail about their origin, so you might want to check that out
So, uh, about that rock you mention at 0:35 ...it, uh, broke into like 3 pieces... this year
Yeah we screwed
Ten days ago in fact. They've already preformed a ceremony as a preventative measure. Lots of active shrines that will likely see a spike in talisam sales. Still, its likely going to cause some urban legends of its own.
In Italy we've got a cat demon: The Mammon Cat.
It's basically a giant, man-and cattle-eating cat that reigns over all cats and has carnival related magic powers
I wish I knew more about Italian folklore but what I do know of it is really awesome
Alex Middleton unfortunately we lost most of the details about the mammon cat.
It's like in Red's video about Queatzalcoatl: most legends treat him as something so famous it doesn't need introductions.
So we have to construct our way to its origin by the little pieces of information scattered around the peninsula
What does "carnival related magic powers" mean exactly?
Like Roman chupacabra?
Wren Dean Ok, that's something I made up.
But most Mammon Cats are connected in some way to Carnival. So they are basically the spirit of the holiday, like Santa Clause is for Christmas or the Easter Bunny for... Easter.
"But Grimsby, 8 legs..."
"7 viganias."
More like 4 cause its one V for every pair of 2.
liam mercado123 This is not the things we should be debating
liam mercado123 but look at it this way...for every joining of two legs, there is one V, or more specifically, the rule "every pair of legs, for all legs results in one v for every pair...
Or, let _x_ represent the number of legs and _v_ the obvious
*_x_** - 1= **_v_** , If **_x_** is more than 2*
It's like how you have 5 fingers, and 4 bits in between.
m a y b e m o r e
Liam it's actually probably 3 because she probably has 6 legs
I'd really wanna see the one about the rock and the kitsune
It's tamamo no mae's story (or p much how it ends tbh) and it's honestly a wild ride
monkee boi It would still be interesting. I've never heard about that story so I'd love to see it done by OSP😊
Really reminds me of a Rolling stone in Italy
fuccboi gilgamesh What did Keith Richards do this time?
fuccboi gilgamesh jojo reference?
Red: *talks about Fox Spirit Rock at **0:35*
This year on March 5th: You won't believe what's happened!!!
Wait... So Matt broke into their video here, but in the EC episode they invite him over when he's in the woods, in that episode he doesn't know who they are but they know who he is and in this video they don't know who he is and he knows who they are-
WHAT IS THE CANON?!
Edit: too many likes for lil old us
None. At this time.
Holloe Holloe it’s achronological, the backstory will be later
A cannon is an artillery-sized gun, but that's not important right now. The Canon is inconsistent, but it's also the word you want.
Time travel.
It has something to do with the Japanese Myth Portals... I heard something about Neko Blood and... Oh god no.
"Well if you want a story that has a definate unhappy ending!" *Points to Extra Credits logo*
Oh, so they know about the James Portnow situation.
The what?
@@galactakid7064 James Portnow of Extra Credits, their "game industry liaison" as they would call him from time to time, turned out to be a serial harasser who would threaten to terminate the employment of at least two people at Extra Credits unless they would date him. He was also responsible for their pro-lootbox stance, but that's just me being petty.
@@crazyinsane500 1. His last name is portnow?
2. What
3. The
4. Fuck
crazyinsane500 Holy shit
Mother fucking what? James? W-why? I’ve been watching that channel for almost six years! I never would’ve thought that he’d do something like that. Was that why Lele left? I have *way* too many questions
So people wanting to [love] the monsters _Isn't_ a new thing.
All animals love to breed, and sentience only seems to add the desire to breed with things you (really) shouldn't.
Neither is vore fetishists, apparently.
Venom legit has the same concept
Selena Gamya
Explains why monster girl fetishes are so common nowadays...heck, even I have one...
Moths are cute man...
Nope. Zeus turned into animals at least three times, once into a golden shower (of coins), and various other deities have turned into animals to procreate.
Saying the phrase
"Because Christianity..."
Isn't as funny as
"The power of Buddhism"
@@rimfire8217 I mean... My grandparents are Buddhists while my Parents are Christians. I'm both in terms of belief in the laws they state rather than the history and traditional people inside the story.
The power of buddhism isnt as nearly as fun as Jesus Juice
@@poopsiepop4179 wtf that sounds so wrong XP XD
My personal favorites are Mantra Mojo and By the power of Bibble
@Ben Siener from what I've heard, Buddhism is literally one of the best religion. Buddhists are really peaceful and such compared to all the others. (Sorry, mom and dad)
"Jorogumo, I've come to bargin."
3 vids in a week?? I’m blessed rn
3:38 Blue: *_"DID SOMEBODY SAY S'MORES?"_*
Matt: _touche_
Also, Blue looks so adorable in that shot
Fun Fact: That evil rock she mentioned in the video cracked open earlier this year...... yeah..... 2022 amiright?
Huh. Remind me, why was that kitsune pissed off again? Maybe she’s calmed down and Japan won’t have to worry about a malevolent fox spirit going on a killing spree. The foxes usually don’t go murdering people without a reason, right?
I, for one, welcome our new fluffy overlord!
And now numerous unpopular rulers are now ousted and/or dead, just like she was famed for doing. Keep on trucking, Tamamo-No-Mae!
@@splitjawjanitor5369 Imagine Tamamo-No-Mae being confused as hell when the people respond to the death of unpopular rulers with statements of "Finally!" and "Thank god for that".
I love how all these English videos on the Jorogumo are trying to be nice to it and put “Binding bride” “ maiden spider” and names like that when it clearly just means whore spider 🤣🤣 it’s literally the two bits that encompass the word, Joro =whore , gumo= spider
Still love the video tho😊
One of my favorite yokai
SPIDERSLUTS!!!!!!
*Bombs*
@@bilibiliism I don’t know Japanese, what does it mean?
And you all missed that they're just arachnia's daughters.
Spider-Whore, Spider-Whore, fucks whatever a spider can!
This channel is literally the reason Im taking anthropology and mythology in college
Jorogumo is just basically Rachnera from Monster musume.
yknow, i was just thinking the exact same thing.
So does that mean the guy went looking for permission from... Papi?!
Papi is more of a harpy than a Tegu
tangmo mopet but more of the man eating type
Smartest man in exsistence
I love how she called the word yokai an umbrella term, especially because there’s a yokai that is in fact a monstrous umbrella.
Ignore warnings. Live with spider waifu.
More like spider Die-fu, am I right?
@@twilitvigil5066 Ba-dum tish!
@@aria5614 Thank you, thank you, I'll be here all week.
The Dream.
Cordie intesifies
You have a beautiful singing voice. Thank you for the song and the story!
I mean, it's not surprising that the weirdest mythological folklore comes from Japan. Japan is Earth's Florida after all
The question is where is japan's florida. Osaka? Gensokio if it exist?
@@cedricrobertson2893 I don't know enough about Japan's geography to say
@@cedricrobertson2893 Osaka is Japan's equivalent to the South so yeah lol.
(I’m just here to watch the debate. Popcorn, anyone?)
That's pretty incomprehensible to most ppl not from the US.
For the sake of me wanting a happy ending, let's say they got together and named their kid Peter Parker
>Happy ending
>Named their kid Peter Parker
Pick one
@@wildcardjoey4776 oh noo.
@@wildcardjoey4776 In fairness, it’s just uncle Ben that has chronic death syndrome, very technically speaking the parents are just out of the picture forever (short of short stories dedicated specifically to killing them off in ways that don’t leave a significant impact on Peter whatsoever).
im done with that
Yes
Gotta love that regional folklore 👌🏻
And yet the same people who reject and scoff at "regional folklore" often believe in a religion which is basically the same thing. All just claims of magic ("miracles") based on nothing but some story some people wrote over a thousands years ago, and of fantastical beings with superpowers that have never been observed ("god").
Kind of hypocritical, no? Why not go all the way and recognize it's all bullshit fairy tales?
@Dragon born I mean don't get me wrong, i enjoy fairy tales. I almost exclusively read fantasy novels. Made up stories are great. But believeing they're anything more than just fiction is delusional.
And yeah, we know also WHY people made these stories up, we can follow the evolution of popular myth tropes through the spreading and branching and mutual influencing of religions thorughout recorded history. We know which tropes and stories and character archetypes the bible adapted from earlier religions or ones contemporary with it.
We've even seen in the 20th century how an entire proto-religion based on a fictional person that never existed but that people believe did, can develop over just a few decades - look up the so-called "John Frum" Cargo Cult of Vanuatu.
A good myth to delve into is The Rainbow Serpent. The myth slightly alters per tribe legend in Australia, yet the story is always similar. G vid as usual.
I think I remember reading a book about that in elementary school. Isn't that the story where the birds eat the serpent and become colorful depending on which bits of his flesh they ate?
If we were going the Japanese monster girl Interpretation then I'd probably be in the same boat as the wood cutter.
2:57 Ok but this shot is legit adorable though.
I know right?
who DOESNT want to have a spider gf?
That is among the most adorable drawings I've ever seen and @@firebladeentertainment5739 you're right and you should say it louder
The Inuyasha music is oddly appropriate!
MekBloom this sounds like a much better “dating a youkai” story.
No filler episodes at least.
I wasn't the only one to catch that? Ok. Awesome.
That one figure about center right, is that a fox?
Sesshomaru's theme😂
‘Yeah Zoey has level 100 lock picking’
*I ain’t even gonna ask how that’s possible*
Claws
Ever watched Puss in Boots?
THE GRIND!..IM TALKING PLAYIN' SINCE DAY ONE, HYPER CRAFTED MAX GROWTH, 17 HOURS A DAY PER PLAY-SESSION, OBSESSIVE...GRIIIIIIND!!!
ON THE THIRD DAY OF CHRISTMAS RED GAVE TO ME A JOROGUMO MYTHHH
And Second Day of Han... hanukaah... hanukkah. Well, botched that.
@@anotherfeat1647
Good job.
The third day of Christmas is December 27 you moron. This was the third day of Advent.
"You know that one malevolent rock with the kitsune that killed everyone it touched, i love that one!" ....Weeeeelll ya see-
Well...that kind of sucks. I guess if a guy is lonely enough, dating a woman who will probably eat him must seem better than dying alone.
marriage, amirite
It's been a while since I've seen you in the comment section. How've you been, clericofchaos1?
I can confirm this
Can confirm, is true.
@@Guciom
So, human women?
Lowkey i kinda wanna see this version of this story adapted to some romance comic where the jurogumo at first pretended to enjoy spending time with the woodcutter so she can kill and eat him when his guard is lowered but overtime the spider yokai genuinely falls in love the woodcutter but is now conflicted on going through with her plan of eating him and killing him or actually marrying him
THE CROSSOVER THAT STOLE MY WIG
I know!!!!
Me: Eh, just some random video about a Japanese spider waifu
*Extra Credits appears*
Me: WTF, Zoey and Matt? What are you doing here!?!
A fairy tale with a mysterious open ending: I love it!
I heard inuyasha music in the back ground at one point
Silver Heart Me too
Inuyasha's theme I believe.
@@AuroraLalune I grew up with inuyasha and it's my favorite anime so if It's somewhere in a video I can quickly pick up on it
Yep, I heard it too while talking about Yokai
Right??
Even years later, I still know it well enough to recognize it *immediately.*
Still a better love story then Twilight.
Anything is better than Twilight.
Jovan Mitrić seems about right
There are similarities though - someone was also dating his food.
@@hemidas Like, literally, *anything*
Jovan Mitrić I agree!
There you are listening to a video about Japanese folklore when suddenly, you're watching a plug for Extra Credits. You didn't want this, you didn't ask for this, yet here you are.
and bam your a spider
Marley you didn’t want this, you didn’t ask for this, yet here you are with eight legs and an exoskeleton.
@@lucasfryman4800 nyooooooooo!!
I just wanted to watch a folktale about a spider woman. Not listen to the voice of an overly opinionated, know-it-all asshole.
Yeah that video will forever tarnish their reputation
Soooo. . . That demon rock broke. . .
Whoa another video in 3 days? Heck yes!
that Inu Yasha sound track!
When does the music start in the video? I didn't see that anime (yet).
Witch is cool because one of the most memorable moments happened during the Jurogumo episode.
Perfection!
I hope for Christmas, you'll talk about Odin being Santa
Or being jesus before Jesus, damn bastard and his cross.
She talked about that before kinda in her Christmas vid. Several allusions to Odin were brought up.
I thought that was Saint Nicholas.
@@sidewinder1209 no he's the patron saint of prostitutes.
@@Luinta ah, a lady of culture. (If you're referencing what I think you're referencing).