Love your content guys 😊😊😊

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

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

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!

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.

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

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

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.

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

didn’t she already tell this story???

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).

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.

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

⁠@@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…

@@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.

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?

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

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

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

That’s now my head cannon

Tsundere plotlines be like

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.

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

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.

​@@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.

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

"Get back here and be a good mother!"

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.

@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. 🤔

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

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.

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

​@@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.

@@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.

@@deathrayman8074 ok, thank you for responce 👍.

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

Cold fury.

Like a snowstorm

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

Temperaturemental

EXACTLY.

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

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.

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.

Honestly based.

She probably had twins or triplets.

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

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

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

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

Alone, potentially.

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

By himself. In the snow.

@@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.

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

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

@@niserresin2006 He didn’t.

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

@@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.

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

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

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

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.

@@sarahgent2674 definitely a possibility!

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

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.

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.

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

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

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

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

​@@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.

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

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

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

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

And she was flirty.

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

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

Seriously?😂

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.

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

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."

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.

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

Fog is the thing for a strawberry spring

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.

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!

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.

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.

You never lived in Minnesota, huh?

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

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

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

Kakuriyo was my first foray into learning about yuki-onna

She even got her own Pokemon.

Also the inspiration behind Sode no Shirayuki from Bleach.

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

Indeed. You can even see the kimono in her design

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.

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

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

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

Oh cool! I didn't notice!

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.

Frostlass? Sounds a Scottish Yuki-onna

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.....

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

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!

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

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

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.

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

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

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

Dude married a Pokémon and had no idea

Dude had 10 kids with a pokemon?

@@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).

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

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?

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

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

Thank you! I knew someone else would have remembered this

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

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!

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

@@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...)

@@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

Magical creatures with conditional vows have standards too.

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.

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

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

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!

It was so wholesome

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

Love that one. It's great how the guy walks up to the Yuki-Onna after reuniting with her, tells her the story, and when she chastises him by saying she was planning to him if he told, he turns it around by saying, "I didn't tell anyone. I was just reminiscing with the person who was there." Really hope we get a season 3. There is still plenty of material they can adapt.

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.

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

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

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

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

Stop making frozen puns

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

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

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

I'm almost positive that already exists

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