"Snails aren't scary, they're super harmless!" France: *"Oh ho ho, au contraire!"*

me seeing goomy for the first time: S L I M Y B O I

“Is the Goomy line’s origins French or Japanese?” Why not both?

So Pokémon basically is like “hey here is two creatures from mythology that seem somewhat similar let’s combine them for this region that one of the creatures hails from”

Goomba: Seems shocked that it takes that long to evolve Goomy into Goodra Dreepy: Im about to make this man suffer

As the old meme goes. “Why not both?” :D

I like Goodra, so it's cute and looks like it wants to hug their trainer

"dragon's need to have four legs and wings or they don't count" Lou Carcolh disagrees

Pokemon sun: An amazingly friendly Pokémon, but if left to itself, loneliness overcomes it, and it oozes gooey tears. ;_;

Thats a shame he's gotta put that in the beggining now

I have no idea why I kept saying Shussenbora towards the end there. My brain is dumb. ANYWAY! ENJOY THE FOLKLORE OF THE BEST GOOPY BOIS!!! (Also yes, Sliggo is not Sliggoo. Again, no idea why my brain defaulted like that lol.)

Does anyone else want a dragon snail in their fantasy now?

I'm sure it's likely a fusion of the two. Many pokemon have several mixed inspirstions

Wait, you’re telling me the terrifying snail dragon actually has *lore?* Nani?!???!

*Sees new episode of Yokai Hunters* Whelp, time for finger stretches. RIN! PYOU! TOU! SHA!

Literally just caught a goodra as I saw this

You know what’s kinda funny? They bring up how the Goodra line are essentially dragon snails and now? We do get that quite literally in Legends arceus not 2 to 3 years later!

Lou Carcolh or Shussabora? Me and Intellectual: *why not both!*

1:29. DO NOT YIFF THE GOODRA

Personally I like the interpretation that it’s both!

Missed an opportunity to end with "This is Gaijin Goodra, signing out"

A coppa sounds like a Yoki that goes around stealing things people use to make their lively hoods.

Why not both? It is a Japanese developed game set in France after all.

Y’all forgot to mention the paintings of knights fighting snails.

Look like some dragons don’t have be scale but can also be gooey

*Hears Digimon* ...(brings up Renamon with big Anime sparkle eyes)

You had me rolling with laughter at thiccness/motomoto meme

I see your other yokai-inspired pokemon running around in the background there, nice touch!

I like the tengu, kappa, and Kitsune in your party :)

Two years later, pokemon is like " yo Gaijin you right" BAM hisuian goodra!

Oof, that COPPA intro... Dark times ahead, everyone

The french theory got me thinking of the anime "the time I got reincarnated as a slime".

2:19 Now I finally undersatnd Visionaires from the 1980s. Their main villain turned into this sucker and I never got the idea of Giant Monster Snail as a magical creature, let alone the leader of an evil army

OMG FOLKLORE ON GOODRA?? This is amazing! I had no idea this stuff about my favourite Pokémon!! This is by far my favourite episode of yours! Edit: oh definitely Shussebora.

Sliggoo needs rain in order to evolve into Goodra, maybe a reference to the Shussenbora need of staying in the seas for 1000 years before it can reach his final state as a dragon.

snails are harmless creatures that are slow and eat plants killer cone snail: *laughs in poisonous harpoon* let me introduce myself

Goodra: Exists Me in Aku's voice: EXTRA THICC!!!!!!

Pumped for the Digimon episode. Always thought you would enjoy the franchise! As for Goodra's inspiration, I think both are correct. Gamefreak loves taking concepts and combining them so I think it is fair to say that boththe French and Japanese folklore had a hand in creating it

Wow, I didn't know that France had lore like that! I had no idea that a dragon snail was even a thing! I find it interesting that the French seem to have created a monster based on what they also eat...🤔

DID I HEAR DIGIMON AT THE END THERE!?!? YEEEESSSSS!!! I'VE BEEN WAITING FOR THIS FOR SO LONG!!!!

I would've loved that Goodra had a Mega Evolution that looked like a Flail Snail (maybe Dragon/Fighting)

I think you forgot to cover European text that had illustrations of knights fighting snails.

I love Goodra! Happy to see a video on this awesome Pokémon!

The Pokémon impidimp looks like something that can be talked about here

2:42 Is that an Image from The Secret Saturdays!? :D.... that show needs more love.

There's also the fact that a lot of medieval painting show knights fighting giant snails as well as dragons

Coming back to this video after playing Legends Arceus, and it all seems to connect with Goodra's Hisuian form

Holy crap, you not only made something that sounded absolutely ridiculous, weird, and what I thought was uninteresting, then made it absolutely amazing. I have not felt this sense you covered Shovel Knight's Shovel Blade.

I'm enjoying your videos and now I'm hyped to see your Digimon videos when they come out ^-^

Huh, well damn! I legit was not expecting any sort of culture behind Goodra and it's line. Also, thanks for reminding me that Flail Snails exist! They're 100% going to be in my next adventure :D

let's not forget that Sliggoo needs it to be raining or foggy to turn into Goodra. Maybe a reference to the Shussabora going to the ocean for it's final 1000 years?

Goodra is no doubt my favorite Pseudo-Legendary Pokemon, mine has lots of Ribbons from the Best Friends Ribbon, to the Alola Champion Ribbon. Can't wait to bring my Goodra to Shield and Shining Pearl! 😄

The best Pokémon designs draw on multiple sources.

Fantastic stuff as always. Great to see you at ANYC.

Amazing. I can't believe with all the dragon mythology research I've never come across anything like this. Thank you for enlightening me.

it was fun to sit here and see when you were talking about the yokai and being able to sit here and think to myself "oh hay I know this one" I have learned so much about monsters from some research I did on something I was writing fro fun, but I learned so much. this channel has been a help with that as well, so thanks.

Very interesting once again. Pokémon always intrigued me with it being pretty much based on all types of folklore. Love watching these video, honestly.

My third favorite Pokémon. You've given me even more reasons to love it!

When i hear digimon then instantly imagine you talking about Royal knights.

God I love this channel, thank you for all this fascinating info Gaijen!

I like how you had a bunch of yokai inspired Pokémon in the background at the camp.

That part at 1:10 for a yokai equivalention for hydriegon is almost right but hydriegon is based of a kaiju actually called king ghidorah the king of terror and the golden dragon from outer space and Godzilla's number 1 enemy.

So... this kinda helps explain the Namekians from Dragonball, with some offshoots of them being dragonoid, rather than slug/snail (the Dark Vassals & the Dragonball Dragons)...

I can´t support you on patreon Gaijin but I will try and like and comment on each and every of your videos! I so dearly adore your content and I would hate to see it be restrained or degraded, given how much of a lore addict that I am, and wish to see so much more of you in the future! Keep on exorcising those demons!

Really enjoyed this!

Major props for this vid. Blown away

I’m so happy to see another Pokémon video!!!

Oh man! I can't wait for you to cover Digimon!!! That's so exciting!

Goodra was the last pokemon I expected to have this much lore revolving around it. This was a good insight. Great job on this video!

6:45 That picture Is the one used in SCP-111; which, ironically enough, is also titled “Dragon Snails.”

I just liked the sound Goomy made when poke it.

Did anyone else notice that in the pokémon camp where other pokemon based on Japanese mythology? (Froslass = Yuki onna, Sneasel = Kamaitachi, etc).

i just was out of a job and (sadly) a home for like a year..i'm back as a viewer and still looove your stuff

The answer to which creature it's based of is easy, both. Pokemon have many inspirations and it's more than likely both creatures inspired our slimy bois

I both laughed and cried at the disclosure (in the beginning of this video). I laughed, because I found it amusing. I cried, because I understand the REALITY...WHY it had to be done.

Man, I love these videos.

I like how the mons you put out to play with in the camp are all youkai-inspired.

*Level 40* Dreepy and Deino: "that's cute"

This is a awesome video gajijn

For those wondering about Lou Carcolh's pronunciation it's pronounced like LOO KAR-KOLE.

Good vid Goombah, im really happy to see a chilean illustration used in the video the author goes with the name Feig and is the Lou Carcolh in the seg 2:33

I never would have thought this pokemon would have such ties to a legendary creature I love to learn neat things like this on this channel

I love how you decided to get this to go for COOPA. I think it works rather well. I have a feel like its a mix of both French and Japanese Yokai design. Since it did make its start in France version of Pokemon, and it has such a long evolution, I think they took aspects of both to make Goodra's evolution line up.

Something you forgot to mention is Sligoo’s unique evolution method to become Goodra. It needs to reach the necessary level when raining, and natural rain at that, similarly to how the Shussenbora needs to go to the sea for it’s final evolution so do Sliggoo need to find areas of natural rainfall.

He said Digimon! By far growing up I was a bigger Digimon fan than Pokemon. I knew all the gen 1-3 -mons by heart. I played three games and a fighting game back when I was hardly thinking about how cool Gold and Silver, then Ruby and Saphire were. Palmon and Renamon are still treasured by me. Digimon! Also, getting as many people as I can hearing about COPPA. If it helps at all. I have so many things this might affect. KZfaq is just a big domino in what could be a long line. As Barney Fife would say, "You've got to nip it in the bud!".

I recently went to a conference at the American Folklore Society where Michael Dylan Foster, (Yes, That Michael Dylan Foster) was talking about a new concept he was working on where one culture's idea of a creature then overrides another culture's idea of a similar creature. In particular he was talking about how different water based creatures from all around Japan were all slowly turned into Kappa, even when the creature had a seperate name and distinct features such as being more monkey-like or living in salt water. He was calling it Memetic Staining though the actual name is still being work shopped. Either way I think that may be what's happening here. While researching France the designers found myths about the Lou and said, "Oh giant Snail monster, I know about those" and thus their own notions of what snail monsters are like stained the french model leaving a somewhat synchronized pokemon.

Amazing!! In my opinion, i think is a mix between the two cultures. Parts from the shussebora and also the lou caracloh.

I appreciate that all the pokemon in your camp are yokai inspired too. On brand on point 👌🏾👌🏾👌🏾👌🏾

Thinking about it, the Stormblood expansion adds a region called the Ruby Sea, and in that region underwater in case you can find two creatures, a Yumemi, a snail, and a Naked Yumemi, a snail with no shell.

Gamefreak: "We're gonna make a goo pokemon that's goo shaped!" Internet: "THICC" Gamefreak: "WHAT NO DO-" Internet: "Also you know goo girls have been a thing for a while, right?" Gamefreak: "...well, poop."

*hears you wanna do digimon* DO IT, I"D LOVE TO SEE YOUR TAKE ON MANY OF THEM. Also it Goomy seems to be a combination of the two legends.

Sometimes you forget that actual work goes into Pokémon other than ‘hey that would be neat.”

And now for something unrelated; watching your Pokemon mulling about in camp always gets me for some reason. Then again I do have a fox named Swiper so...

Man this was a two in one deal of a indepth look at goo gangs possible origins!

i already expected a pokémon video. but goodra...even better :D

You didn't even talk about how Sliggoo can only evolve into Goodra when it's raining. Outside of the Dive mechanic making a comeback, that's probably as close to as living underwater as we're gonna get.

All I can say is that when X and Y was coming out and the full pokedex was revealed, the moment I saw goodra it, for lack of better term, was love at first site. The moment I caught a goomy I trained it so that it could lead my team asap. To this day I would say goodra is one of if not my all time favorite pokemon.

Thanks for the video. :D

The way you say Lou Carcolh is adorable. ~French guy.

Li'l G can't stop poking the jiggly Goomy and neither can I, so jiggly and cute.