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@vincentvooyz

4 жыл бұрын

first

@ch34pwoowoo7

4 жыл бұрын

Hello

@vincentvooyz

4 жыл бұрын

hi

@akirashinsa

4 жыл бұрын

Make a video on dragons

@ch34pwoowoo7

4 жыл бұрын

DxD for life yea

I theorize the dragons set up the catfish as a scapefish.

@Linfamy

4 жыл бұрын

Sounds like something a dragon would do

@bearrett_8783

4 жыл бұрын

@@Linfamy Haha dragon go brrrrrr

@monkofdarktimes

4 жыл бұрын

I think the catfish and dragons collaborate on this

@Linfamy

4 жыл бұрын

@@monkofdarktimes the famous Dragon-Catfish Conspiracy.

@jester886

4 жыл бұрын

Nah they still out there, hiding

Also catfish were used as mascots for some of Japan’s Earthquake Early Warning system products (authorized by the Japan Meteorological Agency).

@Linfamy

4 жыл бұрын

true!

Man, I really hope Kami-con doesn't get cancelled this year due to Covid. I hear Amertarasu is supposed to reveal some really amazing new plants in her garden and Susano has his own panel about big creatures he has killed recently.

@Linfamy

4 жыл бұрын

This con needs to happen.

@lizzychang3834

4 жыл бұрын

Linfamy YES

@vishwamitrangasepam4555

4 жыл бұрын

Sounds like a con.

@bigblockman11

4 жыл бұрын

they are gods, why would gods fear diseases? especially one that have a 0.2 lethality rate to all but those whom are 40 or older?

@anselmareich3549

4 жыл бұрын

@@Linfamy INDEED!!!

As an artist, I can confirm that drawing catfish is fun and that drawing completely accurate anatomy is boring.

@Linfamy

4 жыл бұрын

Your art looks cute =)

@Nikku4211

3 жыл бұрын

Yeah, give everything the dog package.

Me recieving an A for my history essay. Linfamy: I have thought you well...

@Linfamy

4 жыл бұрын

Congrats! What was the topic?

@acatwithacutehat

4 жыл бұрын

It was about the mermaid monkey think 0^0 I saw how my history teacher was looking a bit scared at my essay while grading it :3

I'm autistic and I love how easy it is to tell when you're making a joke. I can't even begin to tell you how many jokes I've missed by taking things seriously

@Linfamy

4 жыл бұрын

Wait but how do you know? You could've missed a million jokes 😅💗

“More catfish abuse” I love this series, not the catfish abuse lololol

@Linfamy

4 жыл бұрын

@Arjibi

4 жыл бұрын

@@Linfamy I'm sure that's you can't sing this in Japanese 雪花飄飄北風嘯嘯 天地一片蒼茫 一剪寒梅 傲立雪中 只為伊人飄香 愛我所愛無怨無悔 此情長留 心間 And ああ、イマは恋に落ちる あなたは私を捕まえる ええと、この赤ちゃんのすべてをあなたに与える かわいくて意地悪と呼んで 私たちはそれを得るつもりだから あなたが賭けることができる私の愛 黒私たちはダブルゴン それらのスタックおっと！ 私は瀧になり、 あなたは私の三葉になります 乗るか死ぬか XとO - ลลิษา มโนบาล -

@MrTak44

4 жыл бұрын

Catfish Lives Matter!!!

@Linfamy

4 жыл бұрын

You are woke

For those River monster fans on animal planet. There was actually a study on the correlation between earthquakes and catfish in Japan. They put a catfish in a tank, and nearby it was a seismograph to keep check of earthquakes. A Laser was put at a point in the tank, it'd record any time the catfish swam by it. just before and during a quake, the usually lazy catfish would actually become more active and pass by the laser more often. It's actually rather common for animals to know before humans when a natural disaster is coming.

@Linfamy

4 жыл бұрын

Yes, apparently the catfish were going crazy when the earthquake happened (I'm not sure if they did that before or after). But one of the reasons catfish became associated with earthquakes is that the newspapers printed pictures of tons of catfish thrashing about in the water after the quake hit.

@TheSlipperyNUwUdle

3 жыл бұрын

I can’t believe I found one of my two fellow fans of that show here!!! I love that episode. Great show. Weird it appeals to me, a young woman with almost no interest in fishing. But here we are.

im keeping everything in the divorce

@Linfamy

4 жыл бұрын

Famous last words.

@pseudonym9599

4 жыл бұрын

Oh to be a lawyer in the season of quarantine....

I just love remembering how one of the Touhou games makes constant references to this with Iku, Tenshi, and fighting an actual catfish in a dream

@Skeloperch

2 жыл бұрын

The fighting games (plural). Scarlet Weather Rhapsody introduces Tenshi, but no catfish. In its sequel, Hisoutensoku, you fight a giant catfish named Namazu, but no Tenshi. When Tenshi returns a decade later for Antinomy of Common Flowers, she wields Namazu.

Linfamy: *Makes a video about Onamazu* Pokemon fans: Let us introduce ourselves

@Punaparta

4 жыл бұрын

Surprised that the Touhou fans aren't here, because Meiling's route in Hisoutensoku makes sense now.

4:48 "artists are not zoologists" Paleoartists: allow us to introduce ourselves

Another outstanding video! I would just like to say that I greatly appreciate your work. You somehow manage to upload beautiful content in such short amounts of time! I have no idea how you do it, but I wish you luck in all your future projects! You've also responded to multiple of my comments previously, and I love that, despite your channel size, you still interact with your fans. Hopefully I'll be able to donate soon, as you definitely deserve it.

@Linfamy

4 жыл бұрын

Thanks for the kinds words! The pandemic does help in creating videos, now that I have nowhere to go 😅

Moral of the story. Don't marry. Second moral: build earthquake-proof. Especially if you store riches in your house. Third one: don't waste money in brothels. Fourth: don't sleep on the job. Fifth: beware of gods and catfish.

@Linfamy

4 жыл бұрын

All good lessons.

@revan0890

4 жыл бұрын

Pfft, what are you? Responsible?

@creativedesignation7880

3 жыл бұрын

My takeaway is: redistribute wealth! You got a giant catfish on your side after all.

Earthquake Catfish. I never knew I needed this but here I am. Love you man. Stay cool.

@Linfamy

4 жыл бұрын

💗

“Kamicon” is probably one of the best jokes you’ve done on the entire channel

A episode of Pokemon was based on this, it was basically banned after a earthquake happened right before it aired

The tradition that Takemikazuchi, which is the enshrined deity of the Kashima-jingu Shrine (present Kashima City, Ibaraki Prefecture), seals in a big catfish with a keystone was widespread at that time, and it appeared rather often in namazu-e as a character to fight the catfish The Manyoshu (Collection of Ten-Thousand leaves) includes a poem about the spirit rock which reads, 'The spirit rock may move but will never be pulled out while Kashima's deity is alive.' The word "kaname-ishi" may be used as a metaphor for something one cannot or should not move

@user-du8wu1ym7e

4 жыл бұрын

@steve gale Kaname-ishi (spirit rocks) are found in Kashima-jingu Shrine in Kashima City, Ibaraki Prefecture and Katori-jingu Shrine in Katori City, Chiba Prefecture. The ground segment of the spirit rock in Katori-jingu Shrine is round while that of Kashima-jingu Shrine's has a dent. The two rocks may be connected underground Also called a wedge-shaped stone in an arch crown that supports a framework called Keystone, of the constructed structure

@user-du8wu1ym7e

4 жыл бұрын

@steve gale Folktales are different depending on the region. A typical composition would be where the main character of "Shibaraku" holds the namazu bozu down with a keystone. In our area, the ground is loose because it is near the lake Therefore, the Buddha's messenger caught the big catfish. And he locked him in the bell and sank it into the lake. the big catfish is still going to be alive. In Japan, it is said to ring a bell before a natural disaster or man-made disaster occurs.In recent years, the dawn of the day before, such as World War I, World War II, and the Great East Japan Earthquake

@user-du8wu1ym7e

4 жыл бұрын

@steve gale The meaning of Kaname in Japanese means very important

@user-du8wu1ym7e

4 жыл бұрын

@steve gale Originally, Kaname is the pivot of the Japanese fan “Ougi“. It suppresses everything, and if it's gone, the fan breaks Derived from it, it means points such as main, vita, pivot,pin,heart and soul,center,centre,heart,essence,inwardness,substance,sum, need,etc.

I think that the Catfish are really just blind and they cause earthquakes by accident. Also, just a suggestion, I think that you should talk about Omukade. Ya know, the centipede that makes Dalamadur look like a garter snake.

@cmelton6796

3 жыл бұрын

It's dark underground, this checks out

The Kaname-ishi in Kashima-jingu is actually in Ibaraki, a prefecture north-east of Tokyo. It’s a historic shrine with cultural significances. If you look in a map, you will see Tokyo lined up in between Mt. Fuji and Kashima-jingu :)

Theory: Diglett is actually a catfish

@Linfamy

4 жыл бұрын

🤔

@pseudonym9599

4 жыл бұрын

This is just a wiscash

@bearrett_8783

4 жыл бұрын

Diglett + Whiscash. Interesting

@luphuong5239

4 жыл бұрын

Diglett is a mole , Whiscash is a catfish.

@pseudonym9599

4 жыл бұрын

Wiscash is a ground/water type. Perfect subterranean earthquake-spamming catfish analog.

I'm so happy you added the namazu from FFXIV. Love those dorks.

@Linfamy

4 жыл бұрын

:D

@lottaleissner497

4 жыл бұрын

Noooo! They are one of the beast tribes I actually wanna prank instead of help! I get chills hearing that squeeky sound of them walking! :P But I do love being annoyed by them though...

That spouse argument line was fantastic linfamy

@Linfamy

4 жыл бұрын

😅

You're very consistent in your uploads man, respect

@Linfamy

4 жыл бұрын

💗

Because when you're poor there's nothing you can lose in an earthquake

Liked and shared. Catfish say, "I'm a take a walk", Bangs off the walls and the island shakes, Rich folks face plant atop their cakes , Edo screams like a stooping hawk, Rich folks cry, and the poor folk laugh, Both rich and poor have watched the show, Families perish in the undertow, Only the rich get epitaph, Now there's work for everyone, boy, We're building, whoring, betel chewed, Giant catfish shakes its obi, lewd, Glad that moneybag ain't a Koy.

@Linfamy

4 жыл бұрын

lol you spent time on this

@VEROTIKAA

4 жыл бұрын

omg so cool ty i really enjoyed your poem

@WildBillCox13

3 жыл бұрын

@@Linfamy Here it is recited as a "rap" kzread.info/dash/bejne/o4qj1KmTfdTYhdo.html

@WildBillCox13

3 жыл бұрын

@@VEROTIKAA Thanks VEROTIKAA!

@Linfamy

3 жыл бұрын

@@WildBillCox13 Loved it

I feel like this yokai also has a Chinese legend counterpart, but I can't remember what.

@burntgyoza

4 жыл бұрын

Please write it here once you remember it. I'm curious.

@ucnguyen6375

3 жыл бұрын

I think in Vietnam there is one as well, the legend said that this catfish caused earthquakes too, and the catfish is currently sealed, the head is sealed in Japan, the body China, the tail in Vietnam so it can't create any trouble

Hong Meiling's dream catfish enemy sitts in a dark corner of unmenthionnes...

I have a new apartment. Feeling happy 😊 Thanks for the informative video

@Linfamy

4 жыл бұрын

Nice congrats! Time for decorating.

omg i love all your videos and your voice i almost never comment but i really enjoy your voice and videos also cant wait for the next part of the story you read for us about the escorts and the bar brawl gone wrong

Heeeey Another great video! I really liked the analysis of various namazu-e!

@Linfamy

4 жыл бұрын

i swear i learn more from you than actual school-

@Linfamy

4 жыл бұрын

😂

@VineFynn

3 жыл бұрын

You dropped this: .

I love yokai and I love your videos! Keep up the good work and bring on the amazing Japanese artwork.

@Linfamy

4 жыл бұрын

Oh boi Kami-Con. Hope it won't get cancelled due to COVID-19

@Linfamy

4 жыл бұрын

Is nothing ever sacred???

Ha! I’m fishing in FF14 right now while I listen to a random mix of your videos and was just wondering how much of this lore went into the Namazu lore in the game, and suddenly they pop up in the video! The Namazu happen to be my favorite beast tribe, yes yes ☺️

Lol I am living for the stories and your Witt!! Lol

onamzu the great catfish? I thought it's an idea of create by Splatoon but.... Wow I never knew it's exist in our universe

Magnificent...keep on making yokai tales

@Linfamy

4 жыл бұрын

Kami-con is the best pun ever! 😂 Also, who's the real catfish? The yokai, or the 50 year old man who used fake pics?

I think that catfish are sensitive to detect the earthquake. This is nice video.🙂

@Linfamy

4 жыл бұрын

That sound like a yummy Japanese folklore

That catfish joke was a good one

The Namazu in FFXIV also get "drunk" on tea, it's intoxicant. xD

@Linfamy

4 жыл бұрын

Too cute lmao

'Artists are not zoologists.' Only truth.

@joanhoffman3702

4 жыл бұрын

One look at a medieval beastiary will confirm that!

Poor catfish..he just wanted to help ;-;

In Lufia 2 for the SNES there's a portion of the game where a giant catfish is causing a nearby village to suffer from earthquakes. Never understood it as a kid.

I never thought a cat fish can be that hard

Cool. I think I saw an episode of River Monsters with Jeremy Wade when he was in Japan searching for the giant catfish. And they mentioned about the Namazu, or catfish, a fish that was said to be able to predict, and or cause earthquakes. And we get to learn more about stories, and references to the catfish. It. Appreciate learning about it, too.

I love the history of Whiscash I love to teach the pokemon move earthquake.....it's super effective!

1:13 well took you longe enough. Honestly I was surprised you didn't blurt a Catfish joke right from the start 🤣

@Linfamy

4 жыл бұрын

Took some restraint, but managed to delay the joke XD

Imagine feeling an earthquake and your grandparent saying “it was the catfish again”

three words you are underrateddddd

@Linfamy

4 жыл бұрын

The Dragon Ball GT one at the end doesn't actually cause earthquake though, but merely detect it by using his whisker. He used it to fool the villager around him to give him tribute.

Great video.

Funny that the concept of relation of earthquake with something living underground is very similar to that in my culture 😃

5:05 "Here's some people beating up a catfish in drag in front of a brothel" I guess nothing's really changed that much.

Awesome!

To answer you question in the beginning If I had the power to make earthquake I would not use the power-

@Linfamy

4 жыл бұрын

You are a good person :P

It would be great to have a video of yokai spider or the mirror yokai, since they appear a lot in movie and anime (like inuyasha)

When the rice fields are drained in preparation for planting new rice, people in my country celebrate by catching fish in the mud. This is usually done in some states that still practiced traditional method of cultivation. Apart from eels and other freshwater fishes that live in murky water, they also hand catch Catfishes who hid under the wet muddy ground. Unfortunately, the modern planting method makes it hard for them to survive. Catfishes can survive the condition for a few months underground and when the new rice is planted and the field is flooded with water, those who survived emerged from the mud and feast on the parasites and insects in the flooded rice field. The myth of 'Onamazu' must have come from the fact that catfishes can burrow in wet and muddy ground to survive drought. They must have thought that if the fish moved, there would be a big earthquake. I agree that catfishes are good for the farmers, because they help destroy bad insects and parasites and making the water suitable for rice farming.

The Japanese where the first furries just look at the pictures of the catfish

@Linfamy

4 жыл бұрын

Haha! But are there fish furries? Fish aren't even furry.

2:14 The curtain system was broken? Sounds like the blind leading the blind...

Oh boy am I fast

@Linfamy

4 жыл бұрын

Hi fast, I am linfamy

@toji4509

4 жыл бұрын

Oh

You make amazing vidioes

@Linfamy

4 жыл бұрын

You make amazing comments.

And here I thought the renewal was a metaphor, but apparently it’s literal and physical lol

nice

@Linfamy

4 жыл бұрын

Your videos r interesting and funny.

Can we talk about, how cute all these catfishs look?

That's a big catfish. Wonder if he could help us today.😂

@Linfamy

4 жыл бұрын

Help us how?

@Ladya-eg7yp

4 жыл бұрын

You know with all that's going on in the world

I'd forgotten the aspect of having a stone dropped on it. Sort of explains O-Namazu's appearance in Scarlet Weather Rhapsody, what with the motif of stones falling from the sky, world renewal, and being used as an avatar of Tai Sui Xing Jun.

Reminds me of the Elephant Koi in ATLA. It’d be so cool if we could ride giant cat fish. It would totally be a sport.

@Linfamy

4 жыл бұрын

Too slippery

In the Super Nintendo game Lufia: Rise of the Sinistrals, there is a catfish boss who attacks with earthquake magic. Once defeated, he promises to go back to sleep and not trouble the nearby village any longer with his earthquakes. I had no clue about the folklore that inspired such a boss, but now I do! Cool to know.

Hello nice to see your video again

@Linfamy

4 жыл бұрын

Hello, nice to see you again

I love yoki stories

Haha when's the next KamiKon? I think the world needs one soon

Was having deep fried cat fish in mango sauce when ur vdo popped up

@Linfamy

4 жыл бұрын

How was it 😂

@MCorpReview

4 жыл бұрын

Linfamy good as always. Crunchy ! like the idea they can create earthquakes but now they only satisfy tummy rumbles.

I'm always hiding on the dark side of the moon due to Amaterasu's not seeing me rule.

Catfish: *shapes the earth slightly* Fish tank keepers: *corydoras flashbacks*

So, will the next video is about kamakura period? I will be interested about kamakura period because I know literally nothing about it.

@Linfamy

4 жыл бұрын

mayyybe

The OG catfish pictures

@Linfamy

4 жыл бұрын

ikr?

Linfamy thinking he’s smoothing slipping Andrew in at 4:27. 😂😂😂

Yeah. I was waiting for that mention at 6:36.

@Linfamy

4 жыл бұрын

Zoonama?

@latoyathunderstar9585

4 жыл бұрын

@@Linfamy for the Dragon Ball GT episode. Yeah. It is quite nostalgic for me. True. GT is not canon as it was a company add-in to the series because Akira Toriyama just designed SS4. Someday I will have to watch the Supers series.

Yay more video, i absolutely love them! And i love you (*_no homo_*)

@Linfamy

4 жыл бұрын

💗

@Ede_Rapina

4 жыл бұрын

@@Linfamy yes

Nice-looking dragon.

Uwaa! Another yokai story!!! Yoink!

@Linfamy

4 жыл бұрын

yoink?? XD

@o5rockers

4 жыл бұрын

@@Linfamy Welp it's my way of being happy. (≧▽≦)

A lot of those pictures seem to show 火消し firemen (identified by their tattoos, short black clothes adorned with Kanji and the large sceptre thing in the penultimate picture) around the 大鯰. Does anyone know the link between them?

Yo, if it isn't too violent, can you do a video on the Kingyo no yūrei?

Drawing catfish is fun. A strawberry approved

My favourite quote is this video 'Artist are not zoologist' 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣

Kashima shrine is actually in Ibaragi prefecture.

@Linfamy

4 жыл бұрын

Yep, that was my mistake 😅

Was wondering if the ffxiv version would pop up lol :)

heyyyy I am ur fan. love from India 😘😙🙇🙏🙋

@Linfamy

4 жыл бұрын

Heyy, love from USA

The olde japanese guy reference got me 😂😂😂

Hm interesting. For the next yokai story you could tell us about the nure-onna (snake woman). Those who want, like the comment!

I think in some way the Onamasu can be viewed as a god of societal shift,societal upheaval and as a disrupter of the status quo and he can also be interpreted as a patron god of those who are in poverty.

Haha...I was about to draw Onamazu too

:0 finally early this time still 15 min late tho ;-;

@Linfamy

4 жыл бұрын

Nah no such thing as late

What is that tune that plays during the onamazu-e pictures?

"If you could create earthquakes, what would you do." I would, like not. I cannot remember any situation in my life that would have been improved with an earthquake.