Surely this will end the debate within our loving community! ^________^ On the real though, I enjoyed making this video a lot. Hope you guys enjoy it too. More Monhun vids are on the way!

You didn't do the important part to get jho to eat his tail, you forgot to pet the poogie.

I love that this feels like something a research team of monster hunters would do. Countless hours of observing and hunting one species, just to figure out if it will consume its own flesh or not.

Lore wise, 100% a Deviljho would absolutely eat their own tail, it makes sense considering they'll eat anything. It's just odd that it hasn't been added as a mechanic for him in the franchise yet.

Imagine that Jho is in Wilds and he DOES eat his own tail there.

After capturing all of the 28 MHtri monsters, look under the ship in Moga village to find deviljho eating its tail

the biggest case of self gaslighting in a gaming community ever, what a fantastic series

Has anyone considered that hunters would be extremely pissed if they wanted the material from the tail but he eats it, making that pretty much impossible while batting you around first and using a Jaggras Great sword?

What upsets me the most is for years I have prided myself on informing friends and new players about the ins aand outs of Monster Hunter and all the unique details, secrets, exploits, tactics, and lore. The fact that I have spread this bit of misinformation despite never seeing it happen is saddening. It also just makes too much sense and would actually be badass. I remember telling people to make sure they carve before he eats it.... Damn me!

Monster Hunter 6 releases: Deviljho picks up its severed tail in its mouth, swallows it whole, and only leaves a shiny to carve. Capcom: 😏

I feel like Deviljo eating his tail was just something Capcom said as a lore description for it. Kinda like how in Pokemon, a pokedex entry will say something like "This pokemon flattens mountains" or "This pokemon eats people's dreams" but we never actually see them do it, we're just told that they CAN do it.

this myth is actually really similar to what we have back in mhfu times. there is a longsword named centenarian dagger which in the description says "is able to cut lao-shan lung's tail" but no one actually did it

I feel like I am being gaslit, because I have multiple very vivid and distinct memories of seeing Jho eat his own tail in solo hunts in Tri, and no. There were no popo, ludroth, aptanoth or anything else underneath the tail he would have been eating instead. I've lost carves to this guy eating his own tail. I got into the habit of mid-fight carving BECAUSE of Deviljho.

The funniest part about this is that the community actually liked to troll around Deviljho back when he was released by actively putting meat under his severed tail. Little did they realize these videos would troll the community once again several years later.

the deconstruction of the portable 3rd clip is the most insane detective work i have ever seen. the way you deduced the exact cut they made out the meat texture to achieve the same pixel arrangement in your own simulation is straight up mind blowing

"He'll eat your poisonous meat" Damn I didn't know Jho was chill like that

If I had a nickel for every time Jho eats his own tail, I'd have no nickels, which is fine, but it's weird that it never happens

This story blowed my mind. I played monster hunter 3 ultimaite when I was still a kid. At the time, I never watched any video on the subject and never read the description of monsters. However, I was sure I had seen the Devijo eating his own tail.

I-... I've died so many times to rush carve the tail the moment it got cut off to prevent it from getting eaten... just for it to not have ever been a problem in the first place

I’ve always believed in that Deviljho could eat his own tail as a rare thing to see. Similar to how a Seltas Queen can kill and eat a normal Seltas! She only does this when certain conditions are met and even then it’s a very rare thing to experience! That what I always thought about jho eating his own tail, it’s just a rare thing to see.

I'm positive I saw Jho eating his tail on Tri. I believe it was the World Eater quest.

This is mind blowing. I have a distinctive memory of Deviljho carrying his tail off when I was trying to carve it in World. He also killed a Kulu ya ku during a capture quest. It was already limping and he just picked it up and started slamming it against the walls and I was powerless to do anything until it was dead

Unrelated but there's something very cozy about deep dives into niche things like this, by content creators with a genuine passion

This blew my mind. I swear I have a memory of this happening in 4U, I even remember the specific room. Crazy how collective consciousness and the power of suggestion will work Maybe there was a small monster under it, maybe a teammate put meat under it too. This has been quite the revelation

This is a mind screw I swear I remember fighting a Jho in 4 Ultimate and I cut its tail off and before I could carve it the Jho began to eat it preventing me from getting anything from it and I was so upset about it because I needed a Jho tail to craft something.

I'm so upset because I have vividly seen Deviljho eat his own tail on a singleplayer hunt, but I've already heard that he did so I didn't think to capture it.

The part you brought up at the end with the client side small monsters is actually really interesting. When me and a friend of mine were trying to get it to happen in GU, there was a moment where we were clearing out velociprey so they wouldn't interfere, and he was attacking one that was nowhere near him on my screen. I think this perfectly explains why so many people swear they've seen it, they technically have, it was just an illusion created by multiplayer desyncing instead of natural, intended behaivor.

Mandela effect is a hell of a thing. People will swear up and down on shit that isn't real because they are SO convinced that it is haha

My first time playing monster hunter world back in 2018 i was doing a quest in the wildspire waste, i dont remember what the quest was which could be an important part but i put it on gods life that i saw devilhjo pick his tail up in his jaws shortly after i severed it. It was in the center of the map where there is an landbridge and kestodons, however i never kill and and they were on the opposite side of the bride still cowering. What i do know for sure is that it was not a devilhjo quest and all i was trying to do was get a devilhjo material to try and see if it unlocked his armor for me to see. Believe it or don't the choice is yours, but i saw it happen, just not him gnawing at it like he does to pinned hunters or placed meat.

I wonder why no one's tried decompiling Tri and reverse engineered the sections for Jho eating things. Feels like it'd be easier than testing manually for weeks and combing through every piece of footage that exists

The Mandala Effect. In all seriousness, you need to find an expert MH game ripper which then can research and dig into all of jho's movement animation and values to confirm whether or not jho had an exclusive feature like that. The alternative way is to find the guy who worked on jho and ask if did he or did he Not add something for jho to eat his tail.

I distinctly remember a jho eating it's tail in 3U. The tail sprite didn't go away, I just lost the ability to carve it.

I swear I have seen deviljho eating his tail back in the Tri days. It could be that the monster's tail dropped on top of already existing meat. It was over a decade ago now so I'm not certain, but just my two cents. I was with 3 other randos so it could be one of them put meat down under the tail just to play a prank. I remember being very surprised to see him eating his tail, and I also can't recall it ever happening again.

I love this channel, on a completely unrelated note, I thought this was about the wyverian egg debate though

I'd genuinely swear on my life that I saw it happen in tri back when it was still online. It was in area 2 on flooded forest near that log where you can gather the frogs. I genuinely can't imagine that being made up, unless one of the other players put meat in the tail all the way back then.

That Dragonator shit goes so deep, no way he'd ever risk touching that with a video

I never saw Jho eat his tail but remember carving nothing from a tail

Although we have found out that he likely does not eat his own tail, something that is true is that this rumor and word of mouth fact has existed since Tri's release and is not due to the NHC productions video. The rumor really is completely tied to how Deviljho was presented to us and it's the main thing that made people believe he can do it.

Really enjoyed that man, would love to see more deep dives!

I swear I saw this when I was starting out high rank in 3U on the WiiU I was in the middle of a glacial agnaktor quest, deviljho showed up and scared the hell out of me. I was starting to get used to long sword, and managed to cut off the tail. Cha-cha and Kyamba were getting his attention, so I went for a tail carve. As I was carving, he walked up and ate it! I got the text "nothing was carved" or something along those lines.

You know, mentioning small monster desync actually gives me an idea. What happens if the host kills a small monster and has it land on top of the tail on his screen? For other players, the small monster will be elsewhere, so where does Deviljho go to eat in that instance? Plus, when Deviljho eats something, you become unable to carve it, right? What happens when Jho is visually far away from the thing that it's eating? Does it cancel the carves of the small monster miles away, or does it cancel the carves of the thing closest to Jho? This is no longer about eating the tail, but there are mysteries still to be solved...

Why does every body care if devijho eats his own tail leave him alone

I think the reason why Deviljho doesn’t eat its own tail is because the tail is part of its model and would maybe require special tags for it to be eaten. Maybe Capcom’s team couldn’t figure it out

My brother and I started with Tri, and never seen him eat his tail. We heard stories from other players in Loc Lac about this phenomenon, but never cared about it one way or another. I think the dev just misspoke in their excitement, and the only way this story can end now is one of the “researchers” in World’s sequel saying the same thing, but Deviljo still can’t eat its own tail.

I have seen people put meat down to make it look like he was eating his own tail several times before hearing about this. I always took it as an in joke, only hearing about this as a big thing in the past few days. That may have fed into people thinking they have seen it happen not knowing what people were doing.

Speaking of false memory/mandela effect, mine is very peculiar because it was not preceded by myth or hearsay. Back when i was around 9-10ish years old (yes i was that young when i first played MH on PS2) i vividly remember, to this day, that my weapon got stolen by a melynx. And when i tried to attack the hunter just does this "shrugging off" animation. I even remember the specific area where it occurred. And since i've never seen it mentioned anywhere before i just shrug it off as my overactive imagination

Pretty sure as a kid when I was playing 4 ultimate I remember seeing a deviljho eat his own tail. It’s still pretty faint in my memory but I remember seeing him or another deviljho (not sure which it’s been a long time) eat another (or it’s own) tail while I was hunting it on heavens mount.

2:41 omg I NEED this sad palico pic

God i love the monster hunter community. The monsters; their story, the weapons and armors; their play styles, the lore, schraide kingdom, mechanical dragon, wyverian egg, and now deviljho tail. Cant believe i used to avoid these types of games because i was afraid of the monsters and i didnt know how to use the controls.

Jho might not eat his own tail, but I have personally witnessed him eating an Odogaron tail.

I think I experienced this once, where it ate it's tail and lose the carve option there. It was so long ago so I am not sure, but I was spamming arrow rain move, and my partner uses a weapon that can cut it's tail. This was in MHP3rd

As a player from MHtri from way back in the day (at least on the wii) it was very common to place para meat or other types to prevent other players from carving the tail while the fight was happening. This could be where the misconceptions arise

How come nobody has just just asked Capcom's MH team themselves about the topic? Maybe they'd be willing to let people see for themselves if it's really just a lore thing or if it's built physically into Tri

Deviljho ate its tail for me ONCE in more then 1200 hours in generations ultimate and I remember It because the carve was gone and all and i was pretty mad. At the time I didn't know It was such a conapiracy, had i known I would have recorded.

Yeah, i totally thaught i remembered him eating his own tail back in 3 and 3U but it totally could have been an instance where the downed small monster wasn't there on my screen. I even remember telling friends about him eating his own tail. Best Mandela effect to ever grace us😂

have you tried the arena area for testing in portable 3rd?

Dude, you are flipping epic. The real Hunter Sherlock… Tri.

The fact that even official Capcom merch shows Jho eating its tail is so surreal. Mandela Effect at its finest

I'm very late to this and this is amazing. Seeing the dedication of one man trying to get a pickle to cannabalise its own body part

As someone who started with World and stayed/stays out of the communities. When I fought jho in the introductory quest I remember severing his tail and him running around eating things. Then suddenly his tail was gone. But I'd never seen a tail cut despawn before so I just assumed he ate it when me and 3 others failed to locate it. I don't imagine stuff like that helped.

Believe it or not, I never thought jho would eat his own tail. I didn’t even know there was a rumor around it and I’ve been playing since 3U.

it was a Deviljho vs Savage Deviljho special quest, and halfway thru killin th first one, his tail comes off and then Savage Jho climbs from underground and eats the tail.

Wilds gonna bring in Deviljho as a DLC and the cutscene gonna be him charging in to disrupt another hunt when you cut the target monsters tail, then another cutscene triggers if you cut his tail off during the hunt and he eats it

there would have to be some kind of flag on the game object that would make it consumable. so if some one could use a resource editor to read the flags on the things DJ can eat, vs the things he wont eat, then look at the tail object (my guess is there's a separate object when it's on the ground) to see if it has that "eatable" flag.

I started playing in Gen, andy first exposure to it was some endgame players dragging my noob butt around on endgame quests. We were fighting a savage Jho, and when someone cut the tail off, they were like, "hurry, go and carve before he eats it!" So I did. And then I always made sure to grab the carve quickly. And I told the generation after me to do the same. It's so crazy that it was always false

I love this video so much, I fully believed he could eat his own tail too until I saw this title and thumbnail in my recommended and went "Oh yeah I never actually saw him do it"

So strange. I remember cutting his tail one time, turning my back to continue fighting, seeing him do something by the tail, and the tail disappeared. Only like 30 seconds to a minute passed between me seeing the tail on the ground and not seeing it. It wasn't like 5 or 10 minutes had passed or anything like that.

15:45 Funny you mention this because I believe this is exactly what happened with the Poogie question. I recall reading an interview in which one of the game's leads stated in no uncertain terms that petting Poogie does nothing.

I witnessed a Deviljho eat its own tail on a quest once. I forgot the name of the quest, but it's a special quest in MH3P where you slay it with no equipment. And I'm a hunter who does not bring any raw or tinged meat on hunts because my inventory space is filled with combo books. Try making it idle once you cut off its tail and hide near it without carving it.

Now thats how urban legend works. It's a lore that it eats its tail, but not in game, it appears.

the thing I always remembered hearing about back in the day was that savage deviljho would get mad after a tail sever and yeet its own tail at you as an attack haven’t seen either pickle do that in world tho

I feel like this is something I've seen happen, and yet now I'm second-guessing myself. I always jumped right to carving the tail in fear it'd be eaten, but I guess I don't need to do that? Probably what makes this myth so widely believed is that it feels like it would be true. If Deviljho can eat dead or sleeping large monsters, then if anything being able to eat its own tail feels more believable than those things it can actually do.

This reminds me of the time I found out that Yian Garuga was not a hybrid monster and I felt like such an idiot for believing that it was for so long

What a journey! Music from Ace Attorney was on spot. I really like your videos.

You could have just looked in the code.

this video made me laugh, it made me cry, and made me smile. truly a 10/10 masterpiece

I stubbornly stand by witnessing this a handful of times. I never even heard of it as a rumor or announcement, I learned it was feature by seeing it blind firsthand! But your research and reasoning are top notch. Subscribed

it's like the "mew under the truck" but more extreme lmao

Well, I did got Deviljho to eat ANOTHER Deviljho's tail in one of the event quest from 3U(?) (one of the 3rd gen game) where you fight 2 Deviljhos in the Arena.

You know i absolutely have vivid memory of similar things happening in 3u. I remember cutting off his tail and him lunging at us, then immediately turning 90 degrees back to his tail to eat it. It didn't disappear though as I'd expected. That said, with common knowledge of his appetite there was absolutely meat on the ground in a few spots and it could have landed on one. Beyond that I'm sure there were small monsters to eat as well. Very strange having such a vivid memory of mine challenged. But also love how much work the community, and yourself have put into this. Well done on this one

I've played 4U for at least at thousand hours, I can literally offer my right hand to the Elder Gods, because I've saw a Jho eating his own tail when I was little

Jho did eat his tail when my bro and I were playing 3U... I was more devastated at the fact I never got to carve that tail and may have spurred my habit of carving tails despite being in a warzone.

As someone who recently joined the community, I’m sad I missed out on such a great mystery.

WOW. Never once I actually stopped to think about it, but yet it feels so crazy to not have seen him eat his own tail. This was such an interesting video, thank you!

Funny thing is the only way we will know definitely for sure is if we actually see it. As long as we don't see it then it's always skeptical that it could be

I remember him eating his tail the first time I really hunted him, and I remember this because he picked it up and went off with it before I had a chance to carve it, like what Odogaron does carrying those giant meat chunks.

Just wanted to say you make my favorite Monster Hunter content around! Keep it up :)

this is the biggest slay I’ve seen all week

7:30 No problem. Filming a screen with a camera was a common setup back in the day.

This feels like that one vid about bloodborne where someone finds an enemy years later after release in the dungeons and claims it's never seen before but many ppl playing it think they did see that enemy before. And I sureley imagine that if the tail eating was actually a thing in the game then someone who just doesn't record their gameplay and honestly doesn't care about such a detail would have seen this happening.

You know you're getting old when this has become a legend

Poogie! Maybe the devs had planned on it, maybe concept art. And they forgot lol

"Similar texture to a pickle" flawless description of an evil pickle.

I always thought it was weird that I've never seen him eat his tail after hunting more than a hundred Deviljho.

Deviljho was really eating his own tail in MH3 and MH3U. I witnessed it

I coulda sworn I saw it once, in mh4u. I don't know what else it could have been, maybe my palico?

I think I know one way some of us got tricked. During deviljho fights I would just spam bait and meat on the ground, and there's a pretty good chance to cut the tail right when he's trying to eat it, landing it over the bait

I remember vividly me and my buddies were playing on monster hunter 4 ultimate we'd take turns carving while the others fought it and on my turn to carve the deviljho ate his own tail before I had the chance to carve it.

The double jho quest in the arena actually has not them eating their own tails but eating each other’s tails. It’s a rare occurrence but it happens. That’s as close as we can get legitimately.

ok i could be remembering wrong but back in try there was this event quest to hunt 2 deviljhos called rage match, during that event i saw the 2nd one eat the 1st ones tail. now i could be remembering wrong or someone in the match could've put tainted meat in the tail to mess with us but i saw it happen.