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Mononoke was my first Ghibli film, and still a fave, even after seeing most of the catalog. Now my daughter is hooked on anime after seeing Ponyo. Miyazaki is a genius.
You get scared taking trash out at night, I get scared when I have to turn off the ground floor lights resulting me dashing up the stairs like an elephant on fifty barrels of sugar.
My Japanese teacher has taught me how to translate the title track of Princess Mononoke. It has not much to do with the video but I am proud of my achievement and I wanted to let you know it.
Eyo Linfamy I just watched princess mononoke with my girl on friday and was spitting them educated guesses that it was the sengoku era and that ashitaka was emishi. I’m learning and spreading you’re great knowledge. (also decapitating arrows was really funny at first, not often so you see arrows de-limbing people) Thank you for your great knowledge 🙇🏻♂️
Lol when u said “removing samurai heads with arrows” the movie clip of that part & 4:29 !!!! That made me laugh out loud!!!!!! Ty u made my day because of that funny part of the video
Eboshi is one of my favorite characters: badass, but flawed and while she has some claim to be the hero, her actions could also be considered villainy. Despite having little screen time, she's a surprisingly complex character.
Yes Ghibli perfectly portrayed her as a 'gray' character, not 100% good but not 100% bad either (just like most matters or things in this world) People could see her as a hero or antagonist, depending on which side you see her from
There’s a low end Japanese restaurants chain in Bangkok called yayoi. Romulus and Remus founders of Rome were also raised by wolves 🐺 pretty cool 😎 how both powers like the same animals
@@arcotroll8530 Yeah. Another was Atalante from Greek myth, a powerful huntress who helped out Jason and the Argonauts as well as helped Theseus hunt the Caledonian Boar. She was brought out to a mountain to be abandoned by her birth father, but was discovered by a bear mother who recently had lost her cubs. Bears were a symbol of Artemis, goddess of the hunt and moon, so Atalante became quite skilled with the bow as she was raised by the bear. Another one, and one that really goes to show how ancient the trope is, is Enkidu from the Epic of Gilgamesh. The EoG is the single oldest known written work of fiction in the world, and while there are stories that can predate it thanks to oral tradition, it's currently the first story that was written down that we know of. King Gilgamesh was a cruel king, and the people prayed to the gods about his tyranny, and in response the gods made a man out of clay named Enkidu. Enkidu was "born" out in the wilds, and was taught how to live by wild animals, before being discovered by a Priestess who took him in, taught him how to live as a man rather than an animal. Then he went on to beat the shit out of Gilgamesh, become close bros with him, and eventually was killed, causing Gilgamesh to undergo a massive journey and character development that is the central story of the Epic. "Person raised by wild animals" is one of the oldest cliches in the world thanks to the EoG, so it shows up absolutely everywhere. It's a way to show that a character has incredible physical ability, as they are able to survive in the wilds without any of the comforts and protections of civilization. Then the trope tends to diverge with the character either being a heroic figure who leaves the wilds and joins society, showing that they have that physical power but will use it for humanity, or the character stays as a "wild man" and often becomes a villain that is defeated by the actual hero of the story, as they'd rather keep that physical ability for their own sake.
I searched a lot about Mononoke's costume design but couldn't find anything really accurate because in my language there aren't many articles about it so it was really nice to know! What I do found was that the inverted triangles are usually used to represent the feminine and in occultism they are a symbol for summoning spirits as well, what may be related to her face paint. Also many characters wolf/nature related have now the same facepaint as her like Rayla from The Dragon Prince or Red from Tangled the Series (that's actually a werewolf) what I think it's obviously a reference to her. What I found that related the most to the use of facepaint in Japan was about the Kabuki theater, but then despites the use of red paint it all looked more like Kyoshi from Avatar then like San so it makes much more sense what you said. Thank you for the awesome video! :)
I’ve been waiting for a Princess Mononoke video from your channel, it’s one of my favorite movie and I love the story and mythology. That diss as student debt by giving it a Kami spirit though.....that hurts pretty deep lol!!
I'm glad I'm not the only one who thought the arrow dismemberment was a bit extra. It's kinda neat to see all the folklore put together especially now that I get some of it from this channel and having to figure out all the offhand references that crop up in Fate/Grand Order the second say, Sakata Kintoki and Shuten or Ibaraki are in a scene together, or stuff like Shuten's beef with Suzuka Gozen.
@@konstantinriumin2657 lol no I get that, it's just kind of not something you generally see in a family film, which Princess Mononoke still very much is.
I never knew that the Wolf in "Spice and Wolf" had a real world connection with Japanese folklore as a deity of agriculture! It's been a while since watched that show, can't remember the names of the characters
Thanks for the video, Mononoke hime is one of my all time favourite movies. Good to hear about its inspirations. Also, to brag a little: I actually visited Kasuga shrine in Nara, as well as Yakushima, which is said to be an inspiration for kodama forest - and I can absolutely believe that.
My niece loves this movie, she watchedvit when she was a little girl and would act just like her because wolves are her favourite animals and Princess Mononoke was the princess of the wolves ❤❤❤❤❤
Concerning the shishigami: "Deer" comes from Old English "dēor", which refers to any quadraped. So Deer god (or Deer spirit) is actually pretty appropriate.
Wow this is such a great video I did’t know I needed. All of this historical context gives the film so much more depth and now I want to rewatch it tonight. Instant subscribe!
Thank you for clearing up the name of the movie for me. It always confused me on why it was called Princess Mononoke when no one in the movie was called Mononoke
@@deplatformedcrowprinceluna6339 Daiki: *eats all the aburaage in a week* Hitomi: hey Daiki- What The Heck?! Daiki: *transforms into a nine tailed kitsune* and You said I would not achieve it in this way Hitomi: *confused half-bakeneko noises*
That's not a youkai. At least the animals in that movie. Ther are Gods, Ther are The Gods of Nature. Ashitaka, a young man who lives in Emishi's hidden village, is cursed by the Tatari god who tries to attack the village. Rather than just waiting for death, he sets out for a land far west to open up his own destiny. What Ashitaka saw there was the people of the Tatara field who carved out the forest to make iron, the chief Eboshi, the mountain dog clan who protected the forest, and the human girl Sun who lives with the mountain dog. Ashitaka knows why the Tatari God was born in the gap I'll give you a hint. (1) The place name has a history. (2) White is divine, red is suspicious For instance 1,White Wild boar (Ibukiyama no Okkoto Nushi) A male animal god described in "Kojiki". In "Kojiki", a wild boar god of the child and the wet wind appears three degrees. 1. Encountered when Yamato Takeru went to Ibukiyama 2. Appears at the time of rebellion against Emperor Ogami by Kosaka and Shinobukuma 3. Emperor Yuryaku is attacked at Mt. Katsuragi, The name comes from the Okkoto, Fujimi-cho, Nagano Prefecture, where Miyazaki's villa was located (Near my daughter-in-law's parents' house) 2 Moro no Kimi White large 300-year-old with a tail of two God dog . Female and mother. Like her two mountain dogs, she raises a sun abandoned by humans and loves her as a daughter. This wolf belongs to Mitsumine Shrine and is generally called "Oinusama" and is worshiped. The original name is "Okuchi no Makami". It is a deified god of Japanese wolves.
4:58 Everything significant is a kami. That weird looking tree? That’s significant, probably a kami. Your student debt? That’s significant...probably a kami. Linfamy, you are hilarious! 😂
Pretty sure Miyazaki said specifically that the film takes place during the Muromachi period, so more the prelude to the Sengoku period than directly in it.
I don't know how true this is but there's an island that inspired Miyazaki to write Mononoke called Yakushima. It is amazingly beautiful, it's got these cryptomeria trees that are absolutely ancient.
This tradition of naming things in nature also is part of my native language. The name of a rock, plant, stars, water-spring or some natural structure is also the name of that very object and the name of what were once a god/"being". Though most of my country do not have such animist or shamanist traditions anymore, the act of superstition from the olden days still lingers; knocking on wood (since trees are where most gods lived) and saying "passing through" when going through an unfamiliar place.
The Deidarabocchi form of Shishigami in this picture was also inspired by the original 1954 Gojira (Godzilla), and again another spirit god in the Manga MUDMEN.
Just watched Princess Mononoke yesterday, it's really good movie since I like Japanese myth. Somehow I found one of your video because I subbed your channel before.
When living in japan in the 90’s I assumed that “Mononoke” “Mono” being thing and “Ke” being hair and so meant something like “Asokonoke” or “Mange”The hair down there”. Knowing that contemporary Japanese didn’t trim their pubic hair I made my second dubious assumption that a healthy full Bush that hangs proudly like a wet monks beard when climbing out of the onsen or ofuro is something of great reverence or a symbol of social standing and therefore the movie was named “Princess Pubes” obviously . I am now aware that I may have been completely wrong. gaijin logic.
After I watch this video, I watch the Princess mononoke for the first time. Man, it's a beautiful movie. And there's some thing i've learned from this movie 1. Linfamy are right, you can't trust Jiko. 2. Ashitaka and San are cute.
I love princes mononoke and I live in the Santa Cruz mountains and I walk my trash down a half mile through the woods often at night cause I procrastinate every trash day
Yes, deer 🦌. Your singing was amazingly adorable. I enjoyed the episode. Deers and wolves are pretty. I’m gonna pretend that you my deer and I’m your wolf. 😂 Okay. That’s going overboard with my daydream. See you soon.
It's crazy how the Japanese shinto beliefs and folklore sound similar to traditional African religions. For example the belief that a tree could be inhabited by a spirit and how the forest often has malignant entities lurking around. As a west African we had stories of trees bleeding when they were cut and fully possessed trees that no one went near because anyone that did seem to have unexplained misfortune befall them.
Oh yeah, that arrow head thing, I got surprised by too, I knew the movie had some blood on it but didn't know was that heavy on these themes, and compared on how light hearted movies of the studio, is quite a surprise XD
It seems Miyazaki didn't want to be known as someone who only made movies about cutesy things. "Hm.. what's *not* cute? I know, tearing off limbs and heads."
Take a closer look at the scene where Ashitaka shoots a powerful arrow. His arrow hits the sword. It doesn't hit samurai's arm. In another scene, when the samurai's neck is cut, multiple parts are cut with a single arrow. Obviously, the arrow has a magical power(Juryoku?). It has been pointed out that it may have a cylindrical cutting force field.
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Please do Spirited Away next
Great video!
hey @linfamy do you know an anime called "mayonaka no occult koumuin" i think that anime have(?) a ton of youkai or folklore reference
Yeah, Ashitaka is neutral. Until he sees a cute wolf-kami-girl.
True 😂
in that case i would stop being neutral aswell😑
Pussy changes a man
i mean.. you gotta tab that furry loving pussy
Shhhh stop revealing my secrets
Mononoke was my first Ghibli film, and still a fave, even after seeing most of the catalog. Now my daughter is hooked on anime after seeing Ponyo. Miyazaki is a genius.
Mine too! Rewatching Castle in the sky and Howl's moving castle
My first was Spirited Away ☺
my first was my neighbor Totoro and Princess Mononoke was my most recent.
When you said Fujiwara I got a shiver up my spine expecting to hear that they famously wed their daughters into the imper......
lol 😂
It's been a while we heard that. Maybe you should drop it subtly in a future video.
I am so disappointed...
I just got flashbacks of tofu when he said Fujiwara
A picture of Fujiwara Chika from Love is War came into my mind when he mentioned Fujiwara
Every time he puts out a movie it's because he's had it with people
People are pretty shit :p
@@Linfamy he's a closeted misanthrope. Since all of his movies indirectly have a anti Humanity sentiment to them
When's he going to snap and make a gorefest movie where all the human, including children, explode into gory bits?
Never trust anyone with that mustache.
:O
Let's wait for that part to come now :0
Nor Indian guys who say your computer has a virus
Nor people who knock on your door saying they can save you money on your electricity bill.
Couldn't agree more
You get scared taking trash out at night, I get scared when I have to turn off the ground floor lights resulting me dashing up the stairs like an elephant on fifty barrels of sugar.
😂
It’s human necessity. You MUST run like all the demons of hell are hot on your heels chasing you up the stairs!!
My Japanese teacher has taught me how to translate the title track of Princess Mononoke.
It has not much to do with the video but I am proud of my achievement and I wanted to let you know it.
Congrats, that's a great accomplishment 👍
Wow
This was a very good video. Princess Mononoke is my favorite Ghibli film and it's cool to learn about the folklore it's influenced by.
It's a great film :)
When he said "director miyazaki finally had it, with people"
I felt that, you felt that, the whole world felt that
Eyo Linfamy I just watched princess mononoke with my girl on friday and was spitting them educated guesses that it was the sengoku era and that ashitaka was emishi. I’m learning and spreading you’re great knowledge. (also decapitating arrows was really funny at first, not often so you see arrows de-limbing people) Thank you for your great knowledge 🙇🏻♂️
Nice job with that educated guess 👍
My student debt would most likely turn into a tatarigami
😱
It just missed Linfamy's list of most evil Yokai.
The shishigami in the movie looks like something you’d see during a heavy shroom trip.
Pretty sure that's what happened. They all ate shrooms off the ground while venturing deeper into the forest. It would explain that ending :P
@@Linfamy It makes sense that use of psychedelics influenced many mythologies around the world.
@Ila Kroder 😂 *southern tribe
We all know that deer ate a Super Mushroom and became... that.
Yamato Takeru: the two brothers from Digimon who have the crests of friendship and hope.
Never thought this movie had a strong connection with Japanese folklores. This video made me to appreciate the movie even more. Thanks!
anime AND a history lesson, my favorite
👍
"I bet she's a vegan." +10 Internets.
Lol when u said “removing samurai heads with arrows” the movie clip of that part & 4:29 !!!! That made me laugh out loud!!!!!! Ty u made my day because of that funny part of the video
Eboshi is one of my favorite characters: badass, but flawed and while she has some claim to be the hero, her actions could also be considered villainy. Despite having little screen time, she's a surprisingly complex character.
Yes Ghibli perfectly portrayed her as a 'gray' character, not 100% good but not 100% bad either (just like most matters or things in this world)
People could see her as a hero or antagonist, depending on which side you see her from
@@daniellxnder yes, that's how I like it.
There’s a low end Japanese restaurants chain in Bangkok called yayoi. Romulus and Remus founders of Rome were also raised by wolves 🐺 pretty cool 😎 how both powers like the same animals
Meanwhile, wolfs in Swedish folklore are true evil. You couldn't even say Wolf, because the wolfs would hear it and come to you.
A lot of mythical figures around the world have similar origins.
@@arcotroll8530 Yeah. Another was Atalante from Greek myth, a powerful huntress who helped out Jason and the Argonauts as well as helped Theseus hunt the Caledonian Boar. She was brought out to a mountain to be abandoned by her birth father, but was discovered by a bear mother who recently had lost her cubs. Bears were a symbol of Artemis, goddess of the hunt and moon, so Atalante became quite skilled with the bow as she was raised by the bear.
Another one, and one that really goes to show how ancient the trope is, is Enkidu from the Epic of Gilgamesh. The EoG is the single oldest known written work of fiction in the world, and while there are stories that can predate it thanks to oral tradition, it's currently the first story that was written down that we know of. King Gilgamesh was a cruel king, and the people prayed to the gods about his tyranny, and in response the gods made a man out of clay named Enkidu. Enkidu was "born" out in the wilds, and was taught how to live by wild animals, before being discovered by a Priestess who took him in, taught him how to live as a man rather than an animal. Then he went on to beat the shit out of Gilgamesh, become close bros with him, and eventually was killed, causing Gilgamesh to undergo a massive journey and character development that is the central story of the Epic.
"Person raised by wild animals" is one of the oldest cliches in the world thanks to the EoG, so it shows up absolutely everywhere. It's a way to show that a character has incredible physical ability, as they are able to survive in the wilds without any of the comforts and protections of civilization. Then the trope tends to diverge with the character either being a heroic figure who leaves the wilds and joins society, showing that they have that physical power but will use it for humanity, or the character stays as a "wild man" and often becomes a villain that is defeated by the actual hero of the story, as they'd rather keep that physical ability for their own sake.
I actually had been to Gifu to see those deer. They're indeed cute. But I also found out I'm allergic to them in that trip. =_=
Oof. But worth it 😂
I guess logically I should know you can be allergic to just about anything. But I never would have assumed you could allergic to deer. Huh 🤔
I searched a lot about Mononoke's costume design but couldn't find anything really accurate because in my language there aren't many articles about it so it was really nice to know! What I do found was that the inverted triangles are usually used to represent the feminine and in occultism they are a symbol for summoning spirits as well, what may be related to her face paint. Also many characters wolf/nature related have now the same facepaint as her like Rayla from The Dragon Prince or Red from Tangled the Series (that's actually a werewolf) what I think it's obviously a reference to her. What I found that related the most to the use of facepaint in Japan was about the Kabuki theater, but then despites the use of red paint it all looked more like Kyoshi from Avatar then like San so it makes much more sense what you said. Thank you for the awesome video! :)
where is "Fajiwara Clan is a clan that maintained it's control over imperial court by marrying their daughters to the Emperor."
This is fake Linfamy.
"Who 'famously' married their daughters to the imperial court"
you caught me
@@Linfamy he must be watching some tentacle stuff for research purpose
@@MahdiShibly the things I do for you guys...
@@Linfamy much love, spread the knowledge
I’ve been waiting for a Princess Mononoke video from your channel, it’s one of my favorite movie and I love the story and mythology. That diss as student debt by giving it a Kami spirit though.....that hurts pretty deep lol!!
Oof good luck with the debt 💗
Great video. I love Princess Mononoke. It was one of my first Studio Ghibli films! I love the Jack-O’-Lantern face on your avatars too haha
Always happy to wake up hella late to new linfamy hotness.
;)
Always great to dive into the depths of history and folklore in modern media, especially when combined with your humor. XD
Feeding deer is great! I'd be at the shrine often.
I'm glad I'm not the only one who thought the arrow dismemberment was a bit extra. It's kinda neat to see all the folklore put together especially now that I get some of it from this channel and having to figure out all the offhand references that crop up in Fate/Grand Order the second say, Sakata Kintoki and Shuten or Ibaraki are in a scene together, or stuff like Shuten's beef with Suzuka Gozen.
I think it is to show Ashitaka's strength multiplied by his curse of hatred. It makes death by his arrows so "cruel".
@@konstantinriumin2657 lol no I get that, it's just kind of not something you generally see in a family film, which Princess Mononoke still very much is.
@@konstantinriumin2657 I'd say brutal more so than cruel since death by arrow to the face usually isn't as quick.
I never knew that the Wolf in "Spice and Wolf" had a real world connection with Japanese folklore as a deity of agriculture! It's been a while since watched that show, can't remember the names of the characters
Thanks for the video, Mononoke hime is one of my all time favourite movies. Good to hear about its inspirations. Also, to brag a little: I actually visited Kasuga shrine in Nara, as well as Yakushima, which is said to be an inspiration for kodama forest - and I can absolutely believe that.
Really like your folklore content. Helps me appreciate japanese media a lot better, thx💐
Glad you like it :D
Shintō is so shamanic and indegenous.
My niece loves this movie, she watchedvit when she was a little girl and would act just like her because wolves are her favourite animals and Princess Mononoke was the princess of the wolves ❤❤❤❤❤
Concerning the shishigami: "Deer" comes from Old English "dēor", which refers to any quadraped. So Deer god (or Deer spirit) is actually pretty appropriate.
"dier" in dutch means "animal" plain and simple. Yer old english sounds about right
@@moensbruno I guess it has the same origin as the german word "tier" then? interesting.
Very cool to see your take on this!
A lot of Japanese mythology denotes an animal's power to having more tails.
I'd like to know more about the god with a human face, linfamy. Is everything but his face godlike? Asking for a friend.
Yes 😏
Although... "Is everything but his *face* godlike?" This is a slap to the face 😂
@@Linfamy well, it's not godlike, so not much he can do about it. 🤷♂️
Oh my Kami sama
Also related to the qilin/kirin as well, a pure spirit of east Asian folklore
Why do I feel like there's an actual Digimon named phenomenomon
If there isn't, there should be
Caught me off guard. Got mucus came out of my nose because of your joke
@@kalebbautista2320 hahaha yes!
Wow this is such a great video I did’t know I needed. All of this historical context gives the film so much more depth and now I want to rewatch it tonight. Instant subscribe!
Hell yeah ;)
can't stop laughing at "Has a name-wtf" LMAO
Yeee Studio Ghibliii
Yayy
Thank you for clearing up the name of the movie for me. It always confused me on why it was called Princess Mononoke when no one in the movie was called Mononoke
The Ainu came to Hokkaido from Sakhalin in the 10th century.
You are one of the best you tubers! Hilarious all the way and very informative.
Glad you like :)
God when are you gonna hit million subs? Cuz your stuff deserves it.
The spirit animals corrupted by anger reminds me a lot of Possession of Shura from Sekiro
😂😂😂 I love the narration ! Very well done.
thank you, i have been waiting years for you to make this video, please recommend other movies that show amazing natural japan landscapes
This is saved in bookmark. Pure epic episode. Thank you! This is my favorite anime.
Honored to make it in your bookmarks.
you had me at describing the factions xD
nice work sir lin. this broadens my view on japanese myths.
that philosopher pocahontas got the right idea :)
We need to hear more from this philosopher.
Hilarious! More Ghibli's animes analysis and historical/folkloric background!
Linfamy: kitsunes can grow a tail every 100 years
Daiki (My one-tailed kitsune OC who is 500 years old): *sad kitsune noises intensifies*
emphasis on the can; your OC just thinks too many is just gaudy 😘
To be fair, some accounts state it is every thousand years. Keep hope alive! 🤣
@@Shin_Lona Daiki hasn't lose hope yet
@@OrisR
You’ll thank me later **shoves Daiki with a bunch of aburaage that until Daiki gained 9 more tails in an instant because of the aburaage.**
@@deplatformedcrowprinceluna6339 Daiki: *eats all the aburaage in a week*
Hitomi: hey Daiki- What The Heck?!
Daiki: *transforms into a nine tailed kitsune* and You said I would not achieve it in this way
Hitomi: *confused half-bakeneko noises*
Massive street cred in the studio ghibli reunion 😅😅
That's not a youkai.
At least the animals in that movie. Ther are Gods, Ther are The Gods of Nature.
Ashitaka, a young man who lives in Emishi's hidden village, is cursed by the Tatari god who tries to attack the village. Rather than just waiting for death, he sets out for a land far west to open up his own destiny. What Ashitaka saw there was the people of the Tatara field who carved out the forest to make iron, the chief Eboshi, the mountain dog clan who protected the forest, and the human girl Sun who lives with the mountain dog. Ashitaka knows why the Tatari God was born in the gap
I'll give you a hint.
(1) The place name has a history.
(2) White is divine, red is suspicious
For instance
1,White Wild boar (Ibukiyama no Okkoto Nushi)
A male animal god described in "Kojiki".
In "Kojiki", a wild boar god of the child and the wet wind appears three degrees.
1. Encountered when Yamato Takeru went to Ibukiyama
2. Appears at the time of rebellion against Emperor Ogami by Kosaka and Shinobukuma
3. Emperor Yuryaku is attacked at Mt. Katsuragi,
The name comes from the Okkoto, Fujimi-cho, Nagano Prefecture, where Miyazaki's villa was located
(Near my daughter-in-law's parents' house)
2 Moro no Kimi
White large 300-year-old with a tail of two God dog . Female and mother. Like her two mountain dogs, she raises a sun abandoned by humans and loves her as a daughter.
This wolf belongs to Mitsumine Shrine and is generally called "Oinusama" and is worshiped.
The original name is "Okuchi no Makami". It is a deified god of Japanese wolves.
4:58 Everything significant is a kami. That weird looking tree? That’s significant, probably a kami. Your student debt? That’s significant...probably a kami. Linfamy, you are hilarious! 😂
😂
thanks for the info about the dears in the park. i was wondering why they bow down to the people around me
Pretty sure Miyazaki said specifically that the film takes place during the Muromachi period, so more the prelude to the Sengoku period than directly in it.
I thought Jikobo had some fun frog/toad symbolism in his movements too. Quite curious about that.
I would greatly appreciate it if you did a video or a series of videos on the Ainu.
I don't know how true this is but there's an island that inspired Miyazaki to write Mononoke called Yakushima. It is amazingly beautiful, it's got these cryptomeria trees that are absolutely ancient.
This tradition of naming things in nature also is part of my native language. The name of a rock, plant, stars, water-spring or some natural structure is also the name of that very object and the name of what were once a god/"being". Though most of my country do not have such animist or shamanist traditions anymore, the act of superstition from the olden days still lingers; knocking on wood (since trees are where most gods lived) and saying "passing through" when going through an unfamiliar place.
The Deidarabocchi form of Shishigami in this picture was also inspired by the original 1954 Gojira (Godzilla), and again another spirit god in the Manga MUDMEN.
dude all your vids are amazing but this one is particularly good, and ive not even seen Mononoke.
Thanks man :)
Linfamy the god of linfamy youtube channel
Just watched Princess Mononoke yesterday, it's really good movie since I like Japanese myth. Somehow I found one of your video because I subbed your channel before.
It's a great movie :)
1:29 I loved this part lmao
13:25 that looks so much like the water spirit in avatar the last airbender!
Very interesting bro love the knowledge
When living in japan in the 90’s I assumed that “Mononoke” “Mono” being thing and “Ke” being hair and so meant something like “Asokonoke” or “Mange”The hair down there”. Knowing that contemporary Japanese didn’t trim their pubic hair I made my second dubious assumption that a healthy full Bush that hangs proudly like a wet monks beard when climbing out of the onsen or ofuro is something of great reverence or a symbol of social standing and therefore the movie was named “Princess Pubes” obviously . I am now aware that I may have been completely wrong. gaijin logic.
The demonic corruption looks similar to maggots wriggling through a dead corpse to me.
So we all kinda guessed correctly 😂 ....... I'll watch it when m free or bored from studying..... having exams next whole week 😭
Oof, good luck on exams!
Which exams?
After I watch this video, I watch the Princess mononoke for the first time. Man, it's a beautiful movie. And there's some thing i've learned from this movie
1. Linfamy are right, you can't trust Jiko.
2. Ashitaka and San are cute.
It's a great movie :D
I love princes mononoke and I live in the Santa Cruz mountains and I walk my trash down a half mile through the woods often at night cause I procrastinate every trash day
"Scary places like your hallway" and then I was in my hallway. Thnks 😐
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I knew Pan wasn’t dead! He just flew off to Japan for a while.
if i recall, Ashitaks uses stone arrows. is that another thing with real world roots?
fuck yes, im so ready for this video
really glad i found your channel
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"student debt- not significant" that hits
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Yes, deer 🦌. Your singing was amazingly adorable. I enjoyed the episode. Deers and wolves are pretty. I’m gonna pretend that you my deer and I’m your wolf. 😂 Okay. That’s going overboard with my daydream.
See you soon.
I like those animals too.
8:19 it that romanian statue!!!!!+
Pog!!
i like it more now thanks linfamy
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@@Linfamy :o
It's crazy how the Japanese shinto beliefs and folklore sound similar to traditional African religions. For example the belief that a tree could be inhabited by a spirit and how the forest often has malignant entities lurking around. As a west African we had stories of trees bleeding when they were cut and fully possessed trees that no one went near because anyone that did seem to have unexplained misfortune befall them.
Oh yeah, that arrow head thing, I got surprised by too, I knew the movie had some blood on it but didn't know was that heavy on these themes, and compared on how light hearted movies of the studio, is quite a surprise XD
It seems Miyazaki didn't want to be known as someone who only made movies about cutesy things. "Hm.. what's *not* cute? I know, tearing off limbs and heads."
I love the idea of one of the guards, named Kyle, in medieval Japan, is just excessive for no reason.
Take a closer look at the scene where Ashitaka shoots a powerful arrow. His arrow hits the sword. It doesn't hit samurai's arm. In another scene, when the samurai's neck is cut, multiple parts are cut with a single arrow. Obviously, the arrow has a magical power(Juryoku?). It has been pointed out that it may have a cylindrical cutting force field.
If I work out enough, one of these days I hope to be able to generate a force field with my arrows.
The whole people being raised by wolves thing reminds me of Romulus and Remus.
Bro, that changed the whole movie
A lot of mystery explained. Great post.
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日本人も先住民族だし。アイヌはそれよりもあとだし、アイヌと蝦夷は違う民族。弥生人なんてものは存在しない。縄文人に様々な血が混ざって、数千年経ったのちの人々のことを弥生って呼ぶんだ。そもそも日本人は二千年以上も住んでるのに先住民族じゃないとか可笑しい。
I thought "Mononoke" had somethign to do with vengeful spirit. Such a beautiful movie.
When Miyazaki just had it with human? Nah, that was Grave of the Fireflies :v
12:52 hey look! It's Xerneas!!!
the linfamy, a god with a human face
best god ever!!! i worship :)
(please bless me by hearing my comment :D)
You have been heard.
4:46 that caught me off guard lmao
I really enjoyed this. Thanks.
Glad you like =)
13:16 you forgot the infamous jinmenken-inu ("dog with old man's face").
Goddammit i was told the deer was bowing so I bowed back
Super interesting stuff. Next time I will see the movie in a totally different way.
Lindaddy bringing in another banger
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@@Linfamy oh my oh my he's noticed me again!!!!