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@danielsantiagourtado3430

3 ай бұрын

Love your content guys 😊😊😊

@OrificeHorus

3 ай бұрын

Absolutely great content Also would you consider a podcast episode about House of Leaves???

@OrificeHorus

3 ай бұрын

Absolutely great content Also would you consider a podcast episode about House of Leaves???

@AskMia411

3 ай бұрын

Love the folktale videos, even if they are a little short! Do you have any plans to summarize The Phantom of the Opera? I think it’d make a great Halloween special!

@insectostrich4407

3 ай бұрын

I have a suggestion. Maybe do a video on the Black Knight, how he’s depicted in pop culture and where the legend originated from.

It’s interesting how universal the “nonhuman wife who will leave forever if you do one specific thing” trope is.

@hanzzel6086

3 ай бұрын

Seems pretty accurate to how *some* "normal" women are acting these days. Edit: added some, since some people were taking this too seriously (which I can kinda understand as to why).

@xShadowChrisx

3 ай бұрын

Japanese men must have had a *lot* of women leaving them that got explained as the supernatural for the trope to be so prevalent in their culture.

@mikaroni_and_cheez

3 ай бұрын

​@@hanzzel6086 Sexism aside, what were these "one thing"s that broke your relationships?

@bastienfelix4605

3 ай бұрын

⁠@@hanzzel6086 riiight… And the “dumbass male protagonist who blatantly ignore their clearly supernatural partner’s one key rule and thus suffer actual consequences” seems pretty accurate to how you’re currently acting. Stings, huh? That stuff goes both ways, you know? And if you understood the folktale, you might realize the woman wasn’t in the wrong there…

@hanzzel6086

3 ай бұрын

@@bastienfelix4605 Did I say she was in the wrong? And I would point to the absolute glut of women on TikTok and other such apps that have openly stated they have done so. Some with good reason (abuse, especially physical abuse, should never be tolerated), but shit like "he told me about something he thought was a bad dream" (or "I had a dream that he cheated on me") is *not* what I would consider to be a good reason! Oh, and most men are not "pretending" to be oblivious of thier spouses weird behavior. Edit: And I absolutely would ignore my wife's blatant supernatural shit if I thought it would cost me my loving wife.

That is a hilarious story, because also technically, he DIDN'T tell anyone else, just the person who made him promise

@amfstudios8695

3 ай бұрын

Wonder why he didn't bring that up. Yokai are basically the Japanese fae, so I'd assume fae rules work just as well on then! XD

@kryptonianguest1903

3 ай бұрын

But he believed he was telling someone else, so he still broke his word.

@vinx.9099

3 ай бұрын

i mean she could counter them that in practically every aspect she was a different person. or counter with that the wording wasn't that he shouldn't tell anyone else, but just that he shouldn't tell anyone.

@CelestialAnamoly

3 ай бұрын

I mean, she didn't kill him so that technicality was broken too

@Me-vn3gz

3 ай бұрын

didn’t she already tell this story???

In some versions of the story, another reason she spared him after he told was because he technically didn't tell anyone since she already knew it. I like to think she didn't leave forever but merely left to go get groceries or something while calming down.

@ShiraCheshire

3 ай бұрын

Can you imagine your significant other dissolving into snow and wind, thinking they're gone forever, and a few hours later they show up with a ingredients for dinner like nothing happened haha Do you bring it up... ? Or would that be a bad idea, considering that talking about that subject is what got you into trouble to begin with?

@ArcherBro

3 ай бұрын

@@ShiraCheshire I can see her kissing his cheek and saying "I can't stay mad at you and your handsome face."

@dragonbretheren

3 ай бұрын

@@ArcherBro "You're lucky you're cute."

@1Kapuchu100

3 ай бұрын

"We're gonna talk more about this when I get back from shopping!" *Vanishes into a puff of snowflakes*

@excalibur2078

3 ай бұрын

That’s now my head cannon

"If I ask her if she’s single, will she kill me faster or slower" THAT SENTENCE HAD NO RIGHT TO MAKE ME LAUGH AS IT DID 😭 dude seriously got his priorities straight (pun intended) "She is going to kill but damn she cute !"

@OrificeHorus

3 ай бұрын

Tsundere plotlines be like

@Olimar92

3 ай бұрын

You'd be surprised how often Japanese Folk Tales end up with the guy wondering if the cute girl will kill him fast or slow.

@Archgeek0

3 ай бұрын

"faster or slower... and which would I prefer?"

@jocosesonata

3 ай бұрын

Honestly, same. If I'm beset by a supernatural entity, ghost girl, or whatever, and she looks gorgeous... Well, if I feel like I'm about to die, might as well give it a shot.

@Myomer104

3 ай бұрын

​@@jocosesonataThere was a story I read that was technically a "The Ring" fanfic where the guy who watched the video met the ghost with a kiss as she was coming out of the screen. They're still happily married about a decade later.

O-Yuki: Be a good father to our children! Also O-Yuki: *Proceeds to go for milk*

@thechristsknight7758

3 ай бұрын

The kids: "Hey Dad, where'd Mom go?" Minokichi: "She left to get ice-cream...."

@71723

3 ай бұрын

"Get back here and be a good mother!"

@reyonXIII

3 ай бұрын

Between Kuzunoha and Oyuki, the only way ditching their families even if they love their kids makes sense is some kind of youkai prime directive they have to uphold. Though in Kuzunoha's case, she got found out by her son Abe-no-Seimei. Oyuki don't really got an excuse TBH. Yeah, he blabbed, but clearly, the NDA was way more important than sticking around for her 10 kids.

@UGNAvalon

3 ай бұрын

@reyonXIII Tbf, the terms of the NDA involved literal death, so the fact she spared him “for the sake of the kids” means that she cares more about her kids than you might expect. 🤔

@jeffeppenbach

3 ай бұрын

They didn't have cigarettes yet... so yeah.

“I think the moral of this story is that any relationship that starts with an NDA is doomed from the jump,” is perhaps one of the best punchlines you’ve delivered. It caught me like a left hook.

@matthewmuir8884

3 ай бұрын

Funny enough, there is a folktale with a similar "tell no one of this" premise that actually ends well for the couple: a chivalric romance called _Lanval._ In that story, a lady of the fey offers to be in a relationship with Lanval if he agrees to keep her and their relationship secret. He eventually breaks his promise, but she forgives him and the story ends happily.

@dedalionarts6077

3 ай бұрын

Quec question from a non-english speaker. What NDA short stands for?

@Vulpilux

3 ай бұрын

​@@dedalionarts6077 Non-Disclosure Agreement, a contract that prohibits the contracting party/parties from publicly revealing information about a chemical formula or a movie that has yet to be released for example, pretty much anything sensitive that you don't want everyone to know about.

@deathrayman8074

3 ай бұрын

@@dedalionarts6077 My guess is that it's for "Non-Disclosure Agreement". I believe it's a contract stating you won't talk about something written in the contract until a certain time point. For example, a few years ago, Red and Blue got a sponsorship from LEGO to explain some of the history for the Coliseum to go with the LEGO Coliseum set that was releasing, so they signed NDAs to not talk about the set until it was revealed.

@dedalionarts6077

3 ай бұрын

@@deathrayman8074 ok, thank you for responce 👍.

In my opinion the moral of this story and of the "unknowingly marrying an entity" genre in general is: If you think your wife is supernatural in some way, you don't say *shit*. Take that to your grave, and don't risk making your beautiful wife mad 'cause she'll vanish and you'll be lonely or she'll kill you or something. You met her under odd circumstances? You're just lucky. She doesn't seem to age? Must be her skincare routine and good genes. She sometimes locks herself in a room for an entire night and refuses to let you in? All couples need boundaries. Your life has been unending good luck since you met her? That's just confidence from meeting the woman of your dreams. Strange disappearances or animal deaths began when she moved into the area? Weird coincidence, but it's not your problem.

@DarkestElemental616

3 ай бұрын

EXACTLY.

@josemontalvomelendez5642

3 ай бұрын

The sequel to the rule of dating when you’re an adventuring hero or live in a magical world 1) don’t piss off your sorceress wife ( JASON) 2) don’t question your cute monster wife

@RosesSpindle

3 ай бұрын

I'd like to see a story where the human brings up the neighbors' suspicions that his wife is an entity, but then the wife gently insists that that's impossible, because IF she was such a being, then she'd have to leave, because it's FORBIDDEN for one of their kind to marry a human. Hint. HINT. Then her husband agrees, asks his darling wife to forgive him for his foolishness, never brings it up again, and they spend a very happy lifetime together, The End.

@irispounsberry7917

3 ай бұрын

Ah yes, World of Darkness rules for how not to get sucked into (and probably killed) by the supernatural side(s). Ignorance is bliss indeed.

@generalgarchomp333

3 ай бұрын

Honestly based.

For someone so cold, she really is temperamental.

@caicat722

3 ай бұрын

Having a feiry personality/responses is how you stay warm in those climates. I'm from NY, so I should know

@gregorywalter2540

3 ай бұрын

Cold fury.

@IISheireenII

3 ай бұрын

Like a snowstorm

@Aman_Mondal

3 ай бұрын

Fubuki means snow storm but also can mean cold and unforgiving anger so yeah that form of anger is seen a lot in Asian culture

@celot9412

3 ай бұрын

Temperaturemental

Minokichi must have been one of those especially cute woodcutters because HOLY SMOKES, *TEN CHILDREN* ? That means that the scary snow lady stuck around with him for *seven and a half years at the bare minimum* . Well, anime protagonists had their roots somewhere, didn’t they?

@sammyvictors2603

3 ай бұрын

She probably had twins or triplets.

@lord_ozymandias

3 ай бұрын

presuming that she’s immortal it probably wasn’t so long to her

@hanzzel6086

3 ай бұрын

​And she also wasn't basically perma-pregnant. They where probably together for 10+ years.

@dongiovanni4331

3 ай бұрын

Before modern medicine, people tended to have more kids, as fewer tended to live to adulthood.

@thechristsknight7758

3 ай бұрын

He had the denseness of not noticing the obvious and everything...

It's funny that a whole lot of stories would be resolved by the classic "JUST **TALK** TO EACH OTHER", but this specific case talking about is exactly what brought his ruin.

@Dragonlover553

3 ай бұрын

Anything can be a weapon if you use it wrong enough.

@TheGolux

3 ай бұрын

I mean "Don't do the one specific thing you were clearly instructed to not do" is also a thing that comes up a lot

@sarahgent2674

2 ай бұрын

There's a fairytale called Faithful John (or Johannes) where the main plot is that John, a servant to the king who's just gotten a new wife and is taking her home, overhears some crows saying that unless someone essentially ruins the wedding, she'll die immediately. But they also make a lot of hay about how if anyone says that she'll die because of these things, that person will turn to stone. John then has to ruin the wedding three different ways, and after the third the king is angry and so John has to tell him and then turns to stone. There's some more plot after that, but honestly I feel like the "turning to stone" part was probably added somewhere in the oral history after all the kids kept asking why John couldn't just tell the king what was going on.

@TheGolux

2 ай бұрын

@@sarahgent2674 definitely a possibility!

If you think about it, she left him with a fate worse than death: raising 10 kids.

@joshuahunt3032

3 ай бұрын

Alone, potentially.

@kingofcards9516

3 ай бұрын

And no child support. At least she didn't take the house, like most do

@Dragonian05

3 ай бұрын

By himself. In the snow.

@blarg2429

3 ай бұрын

@@Dragonian05 If he's still in the snow, then in a sense she's still there even if she's not pitching in around the house anymore.

@TheMewtata

2 ай бұрын

Hopefully she took breaks between birthing, and some of those kids are getting old enough to help out.

The hilarious part is he could have lead this off with "Did I meet you somewhere before (the moment he met the human disguise she uses)", then dropped just enough hints that she'd be able to identify that he's figured her out, without actually telling the story to a stranger.

@niserresin2006

3 ай бұрын

Had he figured it out? He didn't exactly accuse her, he just kinda casually brought it up.

@coltonwilliams4153

3 ай бұрын

@@niserresin2006 He didn’t.

@timothymclean

3 ай бұрын

@@niserresin2006 It sounds like he _definitely_ didn't recognize her the first/second time they met.

@markcochrane9523

3 ай бұрын

@@niserresin2006 It depends on who's telling it. In this telling he casually brought it up, in other tellings he was suspicious of her from day 1 and asked her about it because he couldn't stop thinking about it.

@alvedonaren

3 ай бұрын

Didn't he explicitly forget that he wsn't supposed to tell the story to anyone lese, though?

It's really gotta be appreciated how far Red's art has come over nearly the past decade. I know she doesn't take too much pride in the art she did in the Illiad video, but it is still charming. However this, with the design, the detail, the lighting, it blows the Illiad video out of the water, and this is her standard level of work now. Really impressive.

@abiean222

3 ай бұрын

she did a "legends summarized: trojan war" video last year and the jump in quality is amazing!

@jannegrey593

3 ай бұрын

I still re-watch Odyssey video. You can see where her drawings came from. And you can identify what "just" improved and what she changed or added to her repertoire.

@asiabrew81

3 ай бұрын

I remember noticing her hit a new level in 2022's Journey to the West. It is something of a privilege to watch skills progress like this.

@brianaschmidt910

3 ай бұрын

The best part is watching how they both progress in their skills because of this.

@user-oy8bs9xx3b

2 ай бұрын

Yes! I love how her art is so incredibly expressive. Like the faces are very stylized but you can read every little twitch in them, I end up looking at her art a TON to improve the expressions of my own since I also tend towards stylization over realism

Y'know, having your life threatened multiple times by a loved one who cares about you enough to have like 10 kids is peak monster romance

The first encounter with Yuki-Onna is so sleep paralysis. Except the demon was like, Elsa Frozen

@Neuvost

3 ай бұрын

I appreciate your implication that Elsa's last name is Frozen.

@whitherwhence

3 ай бұрын

@@Neuvost her middle name is "Disney's"

@Regfife

3 ай бұрын

Instead of taking his secret to the grave he just had to...Let It Go.

@Dragonlover553

3 ай бұрын

And she was flirty.

@lilykep

3 ай бұрын

She seems like the type to have 10 kids then dip.

This is one of those stories I always think about. Especially the “I will spare you only for the sake of our children” bit

@71723

3 ай бұрын

Nowadays, you're lucky she's even thinking about the kids and how the split will affect their lives.

@akrinornoname2769

3 ай бұрын

​@@71723 I don't have the studies on hand, but generally "we stay together for the kids" is not actually good for the kids

@Magnustopheles

3 ай бұрын

​@@akrinornoname2769 as someone whose parents did "stay together for the kids," I was aware the divorce was coming for almost a year before it happened. There was a visible shift in how they talked to each other.

@notactuallyacat.

3 ай бұрын

My mother’s parents “stayed together for the kids”. She doesn’t speak of them fondly.

My dad is arguing that it's already spring

@PyrotechNick77

3 ай бұрын

Is some cultures Yes its spring symbolically/spiritually! Imbolc/Candelmas (Feb 2 usually) celebrated by pagan Europeans, witch folk, and some Christians celebrates the midpoint between winter solstice and spring equinox; it's the waning of winter as the snow starts to melt into spring and when many animals leave and reawake from their burrows after hibernation. So spring has started.

@SarahAbramova

3 ай бұрын

​@@PyrotechNick77 he did mention something like that, so it's kinda confusing when to me, it'll be spring in March.

@overlookers

3 ай бұрын

Fog is the thing for a strawberry spring

@sdogreads4444

3 ай бұрын

Where I live we usually get our first snow storm around Halloween and our last usually in April though it has happen in May sometimes. So for me spring feels dont usually hit til late April/May because of that.

@amberbydreamsart5467

3 ай бұрын

I'm a season descriptivist, not prescriptivist. The date doesn't determine when it's spring, the weather does. It's spring when you step outside and go 'oh! that's warmer than I thought it'd be!' several times in a week. Not quite there here where I am in the south usa, but it will be soon!

When i was in middle school i read a book of mythical creatures including the snow woman, but in this version rather then a snow fae stickler for rules this snow woman finds men in the snow and offers a hug to warm them up these men not noticing the womans hands digging into the mans back freezeing him from the inside, This was used to explain "paradoxical warming" when someone is dying of hypothermia they pull thier clothes off to cool down

@omargoodman2999

3 ай бұрын

Yup, I was looking to see if someone had brought this up before I did so myself. At a certain point, having your senses bombarded with *"It's Fuckin' Freezing! Get warmed up or you gon' DIE!"* is more distracting than helpful, so the brain just... turns off the annoying alarm. And it's also pulling blood supply in from the extremities and concentrating it in the core to keep vital organs warm longer. This can result in a sudden _apparent_ spike in temperature. But it hasn't changed the fundamental situation, you're still freezing to death. So it's kinda being trapped in a sealed space, running out of oxygen. But with only an hour of breathable air left, you find a few spare oxygen tanks that will give you five extra hours... so you figure, we'll, now that I have so much to spare, I don't have to skip my daily workout. And you start doing your: 100 Push-ups 100 Sit-ups 100 Squats Run in place for 10km And the idea of _freezing to death in a blizzard_ being a waifu is the obvious result of finding dudes fully stripped naked out in the snow after such a storm... people put 2 and 2 together, and got Rule 34.

I've never heard of the term "Gunge" before, but now it will forever be a part of my vocabulary.

@jackukridge5381

3 ай бұрын

Gunge tanks were a regular feature on UK kids TV in the past. They are as bad as they sound.

@fredfry5100

3 ай бұрын

Seriously?😂

@Munchkin.Of.Pern09

3 ай бұрын

I grew up with the word “grunge”, which is similar enough to “gunge” that they’re functionally interesting. Edit: Interchangeable. Not interesting. Not sure how that typo happened.

@Neuvost

3 ай бұрын

Like Inuit people, Chicago people need extra vocabulary to describe their frozen wasteland.

@Sojoboscribe

3 ай бұрын

From and old song my mom taught me (not totally remembered) "In the country, they say the spring begins with the song of the thrush, In the city, you know springs started by the melting of the slush" Oh, cigarette backs and dirty sacks and things that would make you blush It's the start of Spring in the city, it's the melting of the slush."

Snow days were really dangerous things back then but now its a vacation, we've progressed well.

@HyattHyatt3179

3 ай бұрын

Relatively well. People where I live seem to magically forget that it usually snows at least a little bit every year, and every year they have to close of roads because people forgot what snow is and subsequently lost their ability to drive properly. It's not even because it's slippery or anything like that.

@SamBrockmann

3 ай бұрын

You never lived in Minnesota, huh?

@Alforbia

3 ай бұрын

I mean, they're a vacation *because* they're super dangerous still. xD

@eldritchcupcakes3195

3 ай бұрын

I was promised a snow day today and it didn’t even actually snow until after school was supposed to start

The Yuki-Onna! Rejection was never THAT cold! Also, pretty sure the Pokémon Frosslass was inspired by this story, and as it is one of my favourite Ice Types, this has to count for something, right? XD

@kevinchong5424

3 ай бұрын

Indeed. You can even see the kimono in her design

@matthewmuir8884

3 ай бұрын

Indeed, Froslass was inspired by the Yuki-Onna. There's even a sidequest in Pokémon Legends: Arceus that takes inspiration from this story, where the player can find an ancient journal written by someone who went through this story's events, but with a Froslass.

@Sigmund_Froid

3 ай бұрын

@@matthewmuir8884 Oh, that's actually pretty neatl! I still have to play Legends, it seems really cool!

@EG-hy9mv

3 ай бұрын

It goes after handsome men and freezes them to use as decor. It's definitely Yuki-onna inspired, if a bit more deranged

@snowyowl235

3 ай бұрын

​@EG-hy9mv so Lusamine was taking inspiration from Froslass all along?

Love the great influence Yuki-Onna has on anime/manga culture, with Yukina from "YuYu Hakusho" and Yukio from "Monster Musume" being great examples of characters heavily based on this creature from Japanese folklore.

@gamewatch6861

3 ай бұрын

It’s also where the inspiration for Frostlass comes from.

@amithabraham2224

3 ай бұрын

Kakuriyo was my first foray into learning about yuki-onna

@leeshajoi

3 ай бұрын

She even got her own Pokemon.

@stevenchoza6391

3 ай бұрын

Also the inspiration behind Sode no Shirayuki from Bleach.

@vincentleonard3797

3 ай бұрын

​@@gamewatch6861 Didn't that one sidequest in Legends: Arceus basically admit that's what they were doing?

When I heard that he was about to tell his wife that was totally not the winter spirit in disguise about his encounter I literally went "oh no!" I love the way you drew Yuki-Onna, it is so beautiful and ethereal, but still feeling cold and inhuman

3:07 Gotta love the subtle heart the tree branches form in the background. Pretty stuff.

@CelestialAnamoly

3 ай бұрын

Oh cool! I didn't notice!

Moral of the story, when a beautiful frost breathing yokai woman tell you not to snitch or else, Don't snitch or else.

I love yuki-onna legends! My favorite is the ubume one, where a pregnant mother dies during a blizzard. She haunts the mountains with her baby and asks passersby to hug her child but with every hug the child grows heavier and heavier until the hugger can no longer lift themselves and sinks into the snow.

@Fralexion

3 ай бұрын

Ooh, that was the version Bitterkarella's Midnight Pals did!

@timothymclean

3 ай бұрын

So the first few dozen huggers get away with the hug, but the last one bears the burden of their kindness?

There's a sidequest in Pokémon Legends: Arceus that's inspired by this folktale. In it, the player can find an ancient diary left behind by someone whose life was spared by a Froslass (a Pokémon inspired by the Yuki-Onna) and it's clear from the diary that the guy went through a variation of this story.

@BJGvideos

3 ай бұрын

Dude married a Pokémon and had no idea

@spino-ace

3 ай бұрын

Dude had 10 kids with a pokemon?

@matthewmuir8884

3 ай бұрын

@@spino-ace It's not outright stated, but it is heavily implied during the sidequest, as the player encounters a Froslass that is heavily implied to be the one he unknowingly married, and she's with multiple snorunts (the Pokemon that can evolve into Froslass).

@spino-ace

3 ай бұрын

@@matthewmuir8884 doesnt make it less weird tho Thanks for the cool info 👍🏼

I love that the book is literally called "Scary Book"

@syabilaazri7834

3 ай бұрын

That Asia for ya.... we at least tell children horror story so that way the kids would listen to grow-ups and at least aware of stranger danger.....

@ZarlanTheGreen

3 ай бұрын

...except it isn't called that. It means "Scary *_Story"_* (more like "supernatural story", literally speaking, but it always refers to scary ones)

@architeuthis3476

2 ай бұрын

There's a lot more going on in that book than just ghost stories. There are a lot of haikus and essays on nature as well. Its pretty interested, definitely check it out!

Fun fact: The yuki-onna is the inspiration for the Pokémon Froslass. Makes sense that it can learn the attack Draining Kiss by leveling up.

@matthewmuir8884

3 ай бұрын

There's even a sidequest in Pokémon Legends: Arceus where the player can find an ancient journal written by someone who went through this story, but with a Froslass.

@Carewolf

3 ай бұрын

Frostlass? Sounds a Scottish Yuki-onna

"You'll never believe what happened to that Urashima boy!" Lol

Ahh, Yes, threats of Murder! A great way to have a relationship!

@timothymclean

3 ай бұрын

Props the the woodcutter for deciding to just live a normal life instead of trying to pursue the ice woman who threatened to murder him. He tried, anyway.

Minokichi: "10 kids? More like Juu-ki-Onna, amiright?" Yuki: "...Heh. Hehehehehe. Okay. You get to live." Da Rude Snowstorms outta there

I guess she meant "never tell this story ever" and not "never tell anyone this story".

@gokbay3057

3 ай бұрын

I mean, she said anyone, not anyone else. So telling it to her still counts as breaking his word.

@ZarlanTheGreen

3 ай бұрын

@@gokbay3057 ... He didn't know it was her, so that still counts as telling someone else!

@Cangeltibon

2 ай бұрын

He didn’t know it was her, so as far as he knows he’s telling someone else.

Thank you anime for showing me what a Yuki-onna is

For those interested, the movie "Dreams" directed by Akira Kurosawa has a segment based on the Yuki-Onna story. There's also a pretty faithful adaptation of the tale made in 1968 callled "The Snow Woman"

@aaronfletcher8745

3 ай бұрын

Granted, I haven't seen Dreams, but might you be confusing it with Masaki Kobayashi's Kwaidan (1964), in which the second segment is an adaptation of this tale starring Tatsuya Nakadai?

@architeuthis3476

2 ай бұрын

@@aaronfletcher8745 _Kwaidan_ is a crazy good movie! _Hoichi the Earless,_ OMG!

Props to Red for conveying how ethereally terrifying the Yuki-Onna is.

Remember the 'Tales from the Darkside' version where she's a New York Gargoyle who straight up kills him and takes the kids?

@Eric_1991

3 ай бұрын

As soon as she mentioned "don't tell anyone about me* I immediately knew where it was going because of that movie

@BigTr33

3 ай бұрын

Thank you! I knew someone else would have remembered this

@legomech1946

3 ай бұрын

Yep, same here! Glad I'm not the only one to think of this! @@Eric_1991

@EHH246

19 күн бұрын

I know it because it has one of the best practical effects transformations I have seen in a movie when she turns back into a gargoyle!

"That nice Urashima boy met his wife fishing." I understood that reference.

A wild Froslass has appeared.

I’ve heard this one before! Yuki-Onna, the snow woman! (It’s too bad her love for him wasn’t stronger than him breaking his word…)

@BJGvideos

3 ай бұрын

Technically he didn't though. He only told her.

@jacobshore5115

3 ай бұрын

@@BJGvideos and yet she likely never returned to him regardless… (unless there’s some version of this story I don’t know about where she feels bad and comes back to him, especially since he has a lot of kids to look after, and they shouldn’t just have a dad, they’d need their mom too...)

@Alforbia

3 ай бұрын

@@BJGvideos She said never to tell anyone. Not never to tell anyone else. That's not a technicality that would work. Although, people saying that he broke his word are also a bit wrong. Dude never promised anything, he was just threatened. xD

@connorgrynol9021

3 ай бұрын

Magical creatures with conditional vows have standards too.

@Ceares

3 ай бұрын

I mean we have to assume it was or she would have killed him instead as promised. Her kids are at least half snow spirit, she could have just taken them and raised them on her own after his death.

Ey, this gives me hope that Red’ll cover other Japanese ghost stories like the rest of Lafcadio Hearn’s ghost stories and the story of Oiwa. Love your work, OSP! 💗💗💗

Maybe it's just my love of anything Japanese combining with my love of anything winter/snow related talking but does anyone else love how stunning Yuki-Onna is animated in some of these frames? 1:51 2:01 2:08 4:05 Not like in a "oh, she's pretty" sense but more of a "wow this is really well drawn" sense.

@PikaPenny17

3 ай бұрын

Yeah, Comic Aurora has really had a positive impact on her art.

@prefertoremainanonymous-vp2gp

3 ай бұрын

Not to mention 3:28, the lightning in that frame was really good imo

this story has a special place in my heart. for one thing, I'm japanese canadian. a snow woman is an easy japanese creature to imagine in canada. also, before I knew what being aroace was, I just assumed I was a cold hearted ice queen. this gave me a liking to characters like the yuki onna and hans christian andersen's the snow queen.

I LOVE the folklore videos Edit: THIS ONE IS NO EXCEPTION

He should have coaxed the yuki-onna herself to reveal her identity. Something like "honey, is there something you're not telling me?"

So funny talking about snow, over here we're at the height of summer, always makes me smiles thinking about how different "universal" esxperiences are around the world.

In/Spectre did the yuki onna story in its season 2 and it was actually a nice romance story with everyone getting a happy ending.

@marc-ericleblanc-seguin4514

3 ай бұрын

It was so wholesome

@Sojoboscribe

3 ай бұрын

They did it in Inuyasha as well, if I recall.

Meeting a woman named “Snow” right after meeting a supernatural snow woman is much like meeting a guy called Wolfgang after a werewolf encounter. Yes it’s a normal name and could be a complete coincidence but you should probably be more open to considering the association.

One of the biggest takeaways I’ve gotten from this series is that woodcutters are an integral part of Japanese folklore

always loved the Yuki-Onna story, like sure it's real short/simple but the core concept of "ice ghost was more thirsty than murderous" is just so amusing.

Winter is actually my favorite time of year. Yeah, Winter has it's down sides. But I love how the season feels and at times it looks absolutely beautiful. Also, no bugs, I hate bugs!

The OG "I didn't really want that relationship and I'm going to use anything to justify abandoning you with the kids"

Was waiting to see when red would do this myth lol. I like to describe the Yuki-Onna as delightfully creepy lol.

This is my favorite -Onna from Japanese folklore, so you finally doing her is amazing. Thank you for doing it.

The movie Kwaidan, made in 1964 is a collection of four of the tales in the original book. It is absolutely beautiful and eerie at the same time.

I'm a huge fan of japanese mythology and OSP has been a great source of myths for me. On an unrelated note, Happy lunar new year everyone!

Kinda like how this was handled in In/ Spectre, where the the yuki-onna started with the 'i told you if youtold anyone else id kill you', and the dude replied 'but i only ever told you, specifically because i knew it was you, so i technically havent broken my promise'.

I was ITCHING for some good yōkai related story-telling, thanks Red!

I love how this time the person who survived meeting a supernatural entity and would have been spared a lot of grief if he just did what he was told didn’t fail because of temptation or pride but just because he …forgot. I just find that hilariously relatable. I too would forget specific instructions that would probably save my life.

I like to think of this as a tragic love story more than as a ghost story. The way I think about it is that it's in the very nature of yuki-onna to kill men stuck in a blizzard as an incarnation of winter and cold, but that this one resisted this instinct on behalf of how she likes him initially, then observes him while he recovers and gets his life back on track and falls in love with him for real and then tries to make a full actual marriage work - which she does for several years, if not a decade. But she can't fight her nature entirely and as soon as the contract that allows them this happiness is broken, even if this breach should not matter when looked at logically and critically, they both lose their loved one forever. And she still loves him and their children enough that she makes THEM the condition for sparing his life once more. Or: how relationships between humans and supernatural beings are fragile and often only held together by a promise of little logical sense but plenty of magical significance.

Is it just me or did she just used the situation to leave the husband and the kids because she was getting tired? Since technically he didn't tell anyone but her, and she already knew it - she was the bloody perpetrator of that situation!

In another version of this story, she didn't leave at the end, because he pointed out that he guessed who she was, and he thus hadn't broken his deal. Then upon the day of his death of old age, a snowstorm strikes the village and she just sadly wanders off into it, never to be seen by her family again.

You've already talked about an ice lady, Red; let it go!

@zer0w0lf94

3 ай бұрын

You're really proud of that one, aren't you?

@arthurdias6860

3 ай бұрын

But it is a different ice lady, let Red be into the unknow

@ChristopherHill-nt9ir

Ай бұрын

Stop making frozen puns

@arthurdias6860

Ай бұрын

@@ChristopherHill-nt9ir why? The cold bothers you in anyway?

I was in an online high school for a while and only got to see people outside of my family 4 times a week or so, I would watch your videos with my dad as a interesting conversation starter since he used to be and English teacher and were both into literature, I just wanna say thanks for making such good and fascinating videos, keep it up.

I always liked the idea that the Yuki-Onna was a variety of grim reaper, (one who deals exclusively in victims of the cold and snow) who took the other woodcutter because he froze to death. (Depending on the circumstances, sleeping in the snow _is_ supposed to be a very bad idea.)

And more the important day in February than Valentine's Day is the day after that when all that heart-shaped chocolate and candy will be on big clearance sales as stores hurry to get it all out the door so they can put up the first Easter products

@PersoMena

3 ай бұрын

Granted, they don't always WAIT for the Valentines Day stuff to be gone before bringing out the Easter stuff - sometimes they're both out at once. But yeah, holiday stuff frequently isn't on sale until AFTER the holiday it's initially for.

@myrehmisk

3 ай бұрын

Yes! It's just like the day after Halloween only I care way less about the change of decor.

Interesting as always. It reminds me of Tales from the Darkside: The Movie (1990). A man sees a gargoyle tear apart a few people and promises never to spill the beans. He meets a hot woman and they have kids, only when he spilled to the beans to her - it turned out worse. The kids turn into gargoyles and leave with there mother after she kills him. I also remember a similar story but the bride was Kitsune, instead of a Yuki-Onna.

@architeuthis3476

2 ай бұрын

That segment of _Tales from the Dark Side_ was actually an adaptation of the Yuki-Onna story as portrayed in the 1962 film _Kwaidan,_ which is one of the best movies I've ever seen. The segment _Hoichi the Earless_ alone is one of the best pieces of cinema ever made. Definitely check it out!

I love how the game of telephone of oral tradition strips folklore of all narrative logic

Love the Urashima Tarou reference. If we had a daughter, I wanted to name her Yuki but my wife was firmly against that because of this story. Not even with different kanji. And Yuka and Yuko were too close, as well.

wow....literally got here just as the video got posted a minute ago. Neato

Can I say that I appreciate your song covers in the credits because you speak super clearly so I've learned the proper lyrics to SO many songs thanks to these lol.

The first part of the tale describes sleep paralysis (aka "the old hag") exactly! Suddenly waking but being unable to move or speak, with the strong feeling that *something* bad was in the room with you. If you somehow managed to move or speak, it vanished. (I had attacks of that a lot when I was younger, and it was always terrifying.) It's supposedly common across cultures -- there's paintings of demons & witches sitting on folks' chests, for example. Might be an interesting folklore thing to cover in the future, Red. 😁

A tale in Tales from the Darkside has the same plot. Also in a some versions on the story the girl kills the guy on the spot for revealing the secret and goes out into the magic woods with her children.

I learned about Yuki-Onna because of the top-tier fanfiction, “My Hero School Adventure is All Wrong, As Expected”

I've waited so long to see this story covered here! Yuki-onna is one of my favorite stories in general! It definately helps that you can't really watch an anime with even vauge supernatural elements without Yuki-onna showing up at least once.

Very like the tale of Melusine and a bunch of other stories in which a guy is told to keep his supernatural bride's secret or else, and of course we inevitably get "or else" or we wouldn't have heard the story. Never knew it got all the way to Japan (or all the way to Europe, depending on where it started). Thank you!

Yes, February is often gray and hideous. Thank you!

Yuki Onna is one of my favorite Youkai from Japanese mythology

Yuki-Onna was even an inspiration for a daikaiju that fights Ultraman Jack. 😊

”February when the snow disapears” Laughs in swedish

I didn’t know the lady that Beatles fans hate has pre existing folklore

@timothymclean

3 ай бұрын

No, no, you're thinking of the Yoko-Onna. Completely different legend.

It has been far to long since we had a fun storytime with Red. Love it when I see it

I just realized this is the second yokai story on the channel involving a woodcutter falling in love with a yokai. Man, lumberjacks must be built different in Japan.

Hello? New OSP video, about one of my favorite Japanese stories no less?! Today is a good day.

So many stories about magical wives who have a condition to their magic that is triggered well into their marriage, after kids, so she leaves in spite of them. Perhaps it's a common explanation for why Mummy abandoned the family or.... disappeared.

thank you! I've been hoping for a long time you would do this one!

Always on point with your musical covers in the outros. Cold as ice, indeed.

OSP Jumpscare

Yay, new osp.

"Feburary is a cold, grey month of winter limping over the finish line." Me (in the usually cold, grey area this time of year) just getting done washing my car in 60 degree weather

I've been waiting so long for my favorite! I love the Yuki-Onna and seeing her in your style was as gorgeous as I knew she would be! :D

4:20 Is that a jab at _50 Shades of Grey?_

That Fable name sounds like the title of an anime show XD

@momsaccount4033

3 ай бұрын

It’s just a romanized Japanese word. If ‘Yuki-Onna’ was the title of a story, the story itself is either creatively esoteric, or extremely amateurish.

she is totally a tsundere

OSP, can we do a dating game where you have to choose which monster girl you could date?

@Sigmund_Froid

3 ай бұрын

That does sound like a hilarious video idea! "On today's episode of 'A Date to die for!'" XD

@connorgibes709

3 ай бұрын

I'm almost positive that already exists

... I have questions about those children. I know Hanyo are quite strictly a modern creation but.... Does their dad ever worry they're gonna melt? Japan gets *HOT* in the summer months...

@CelestialAnamoly

3 ай бұрын

Nah, all their girls will just be little Elsasn nothing to worry about

I love the way the Yuki Onna is drawn, it really makes her feel ghostly and somewhat godlike.

"Hey, babe. Are you a snowstorm? Because your beauty is giving me chills."

Well happy Chinese Luna new year with the year of " an emounrous f'ck you" dragon

@syabilaazri7834

3 ай бұрын

Suprise that she didnt make a chinese video for this week....