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I would love to hear you talk about Faes and the Fairyfolk and how they evolved from genuinely terrifying creatures to the cute little troublemakers we know today

You have underestimated the amount of time I will listen to a lecture of Yokai, I need more.

16:09 Woah! Princess Mononoke just became even more awesome!

Im in recovery and have severe PTSD and anxiety depression etc etc and I have frequent panic attacks. These videos help me at night time when my head starts going, thank you so much guys, keep up the amazing effort !!

Yokai are great. My favorites are the kyōrinrin, a sort of dragon made of forgotten scrolls and documents, ōmukade, a massive man-eating centipede, and the woman riding a flaming wheel, whos Japanese name escapes me

Minamoto no Yoritomo and Minamoto no Yoshitsune were descendants of Yorimitsu, who is mentioned earlier in the video. (The fictional Genji in the Tale of Genji is a member of the same clan -- 源氏 [Genji] means "Minamoto [源] clan [氏]".) "Morimoto" (森本) is a completely separate name. Also, "Mie" wasn't a province of old Japan -- modern Mie Prefecture roughly corresponds to Ise Province.

I already listened on Spotify but I’m sure eventually I’ll come back here to see the visual aides. Thanks for making my favorite podcast!

I love these epic length explorations of mythological categories. But Crofty really needs to adjust the gate on his mic, lower the threshold slightly and reduce the attack time. It makes you sound mumbly and hard to understand. And you have such great information to impart!

Been playing a bit of nioh 2 recently so I wanted to get some info

Get home from a bad day at work. Turn on the KZfaqs, and OMG it's Mythillogical! Day saved!

Your mate has an unusual, soft-spoken style. It's cool.

In regards to the tale of the Oni and Momotaro in Shinto religion, for those interested the game Okami quite beautifully illustrates it with multiple references to other yōkai throughout :)

Amazing as always! I really appreciate all the work both of you do to create these videos for us!

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I absolutely love these videos, I really like Crofty, you guys are great, awesome episode, I learn so much whilst listening and relaxing

I love your videos a lot! Your videos actually help me with history class in school and inspire me to do some sort of history major in college when I graduate highschool

As I just started the new instalment in the Monster Hunter series, I found this video very enlightening. The games in the franchise usually take inspirations from indigenous peoples and for the current one the devs have decided to go with a heavy focus on their own Japanese mythology. As I listened to this video, I found plenty of parallels that I wouldn't have noticed otherwise and made me see the game's world in another light. I have been following the channel for a while since I have an interest in history, especially early history. However I liked this video the most as it helped me appreciate one of my favorite franchises even more.

Everyone's mind: *focusing on the myths* My mind: *YO-KAI, YO-KAI WATCH, YO-KAI, YO-KAI WATCH, HE CAN TALK TO THE SPIRITS, HE DOESN'T HAVE TO FEAR IT AND THEY'RE ALWAYS GONNA HEAR IT CUASE YOU KNOW HE'S GOT A YO-KAI WATCH*

I've been falling asleep to this literally almost every night since it came out

Thank you for another fascinating deep dive!

Glad to see you guys back

I sincerely appreciate these long form discussions of these topics!

Absolutely brilliant, love this thanks 👍

I love you guys and the research you do. Thank you.

Been living in Japan for a while now, not heard of this before, excited to hear all about it

These guys are awesome, thank you for mythillogical

Please do more of this podcast. Its really nice and calming to work to

Thank you for the relaxing, educational content

here's a handy, super easy cheat sheet for anyone who's ever been unsure how to pronounce a japanese word: just remember that the vowels pretty much always sound the same, no matter what. so if you can pronounce "samurai", "sushi" and "nintendo", you can pretty much pronounce every single japanese word. a is always "ah", o is always "oh", u is always "ooh", i is always "ee", e is always "eh". there are really only those five ways to say them. so when the vowel is elongated without an apostrophe, just pretend you're saying it for slightly longer, like it's accented. and if there is an apostrophe, just pretend you're saying the vowel twice in a row. "o'o" is "oh-oh". no hard stop, just say it twice. otherwise, just make a short vowel sound ad you'll probably have it right. japanese as a language is far less arbitrary than english. the rules are the rules. and now you know them. kinda. close enough. even accents aren't hard to learn. of course, r's and f's and such are a little different than they are in english and may take some practice, but for most things if you just speak the words in the front of your mouth, like you do when putting on a spanish accent, you'll be pretty dang close.

Nice work. Thank you!

Great job. I enjoy listening to you guys

I love studying Japanese ukiyoe art. And I came across many a story related to yokai. Thank you for your work

Stellar work 😊

Thank you for helping me survive through my office job with these podcasts

Kinda disappointed that the Chinese interpretation of 妖怪（yaoguai) wasn't mentioned. Journey to the West is filled to the brink with them.

Big hello shout out to both you professional pod casters! Great job well done!

Thank you for yet another addictive lecture that helps me through all the full time shifts at my office 😅

You’re the greatest historian in world history Histocrat!!!!

I just found a 2 and a half hour lecture about yokai. I need more.

This is golden!

Nioh is a game that is really closely centered on yokai, with a really nice encyclopedia entry for each. Nioh 2 also has a pretty good outline for the unification of Japan, but then again so do approximately half of koei tecmo's games.

GREAT VID!

6:21 "potential listeners" Thank you for not taking me for granted

I listen to this episode every night to satiate my racing thoughts before bed- thank you Charles and Crofty for both calming and educating me, you guys are the best :)

Video starts at 5:41

1:19:42 Many of the people in Hokkaido weren’t just viewed as politically unaligned with the rest of Japan, but they were ethnically distinct themselves, being Ainu. The Ainu essentially underwent cultural genocide by both the Russians and the Japanese.

This is absolutely incredible, thank you for making it! one minor note, which in all likelihood isn't even relevant anymore because this was uploaded 2 years ago, the compression on Crofty's audio is a little too high (slight echo would be preferred)

The kappa/ kawatarō reminds me of the Kelpie, which is usually an aquatic horselike creature that tricks people into mounting in, in which then it will drown them. It would be interesting to hear if you guys can dig more stuff about it

thank you

Yōkai are so incredibly interesting, i really like the Sagari which is the spirit of a horse who dies on the road and is left to rot. The spirit rises into the trees, particularly hackberry trees, and they drop down in front of travelers and whinny or scream in their faces.

call me a yokai, cuz earning the title "bewitching queer" sounds like life goals to me.

I fall asleep to you guys and histogram just wanted to say thank you.

Holy shit, this is great!

So glad I found this one ❤ my dad was covered in this and he was a wink wink read between the lines type guy😂 he put me on the path from a very young age

I just see Dark souls enemies.

2:01:45I'm getting flash backs from many battles against the headless in sekiro: shadows die twice If you know you know.

My favorite yokai is a kitsune!❤❤ Love ur vids

New subscriber here! Thank you💛💛💛

I learned about Yokai from my autistic son, he loves the cartoon Yokai Watch

Good show.

This is fascinating to me as a devotee of "The Monstergirl Encyclopedia" series by one Kenkou Cross, and the numerous amateur prose works based on it. Leaving aside the silliness of the franchise (it's erotica, ranging in tone from horror to goofy to romantic depending on author), it's very interesting to see how Cross has adapted this body of mythology into his own world.

The kamis demand more of this!

japanese mythology is exceptional in that it can evoke mystical elements of our consciousness, it's way more thoughtful than greek mythology and rightfully so because it evolved millennia later, they are not just tales of basic instincts.

Painting up a Jorogumo and her warband/larder while I'm listening to this.

This episode was really great and I appreciate your narrative work. But please Histocrat, either raise your gain for your recording or get a different mic. Your low and high end are rough to listen to, especially when listening to the non-english pronunciations. Thanks for your work.

Newly subbed! Is it announced anywhere when/if you're doing pt2 on the druid series? Thanks!

Wow I thought you died! Turns out I had my notification set to “personalized” aka don’t show anything. That changes today! RING THAT BELL

I'd argue the most likely place that westerners would know the tanuki is tom nook from animal crossing

6:21 "I am trying to give some AIDS to our listeners[...]" I think we need a Histocrat and Crafty out of Context-channel

Japanese always come up with the weirdest and creepy creatures. I see these and totally think Dark Souls or Bloodborne

So the crazy people that said pokemon is demonic were accidentally right...

Deserves 10* the views

Just gonna get my yugioh cards out for this lesson. Also, when you brought up Steven King, I was sure you were going to bring up It. An undefinable entity that takes up the form of your greatest fear.

Early, scary Kappa sounds just like Tooms from the X-Files!

Hey you should look at the anime Mushi Shi. Very interesting take on this subject and educational for an anime

Neat channel maestro

You had a section on Kappa and left out the most famous example of them, the Koopa from Mario are based directly on the Kappa, not to mention the Tanooki suit from SMB3.

Histocrat, my friend. I would highly suggest that you organize your videos (chronologically) into playlists. It would be greatly appreciated. Thank you.

😸well done🐭

I have a Tanuki statue in my kitchen, and yes, he has the raccoon pouch. 👍

“Moving on, now that we’ve alienated most of our audience…” That’s a good line 😆 Lol

A good anime/manga to read if your Interested in this topic is called nurarihyon no muga lots of action because it's a Shonen but it references alot of the Yokai culture in a very fun way and it's hype.

citations up front we love to see it

Volume is terrible and inconsistent with the first guy talking

I think the closest western equivalent to youkai is fey. Just as chaoitic, undefinable, and "be extremely careful with how you interact with them".

Zun: _Yokais are girls_ Refuses to elaborate Leaves

hengeyokai are changeling creatures. from the verb henkan sure = to transform to change form. the famous Kitsune yokai is a good example as they often took the appearance of humans, often women and also sometimes having only 1 leg.....differences between Yokai, Yure, Majin, bakemono, mamono and Oni are thin for a westerner and hard to differentiate. Oni were actually not demons but a clan of mage ogres who lost to the demon clan and got "incorporated" under the Majin class (demons) I hinge everything g I can find on yokai and the spiritual creature of Japanese lore, so thank you for that lengthy video full of new knowledge!

I'm just at the beginning of video . . . have you histocrats read "GEGEGE NO KITARÔ"?

Crofty get a new mic? Better than previous episodes.

Nice art. Are they arranged?

I remember the momotaro story from when I was little

listening to this I suddenly had a realisation that Terry Pratchett's 'The Luggage' in the Discworld series was a Yokai.

I wish you guys would bring back the mythological series I'm waiting for a mermaids episode! Especially with Disney working on the live action of The Little mermaid it could really bring a lot of traffic to your channel. Plus is just an interesting topic

My First time Got Mandy by the Monster Yokai. They did Exodia cut me into 5 peices.

time to go to gensokyo

There must be a joke of "Shimon bar Yōkai" somewhere but I don't know the best way to make it

Good.

Where can I find the research paper by Brandon Michael Howard - A Yokai Parade Through Time in Japan?

55:12 Yoooooooooo