The Hell Carrot/Jigoku no Ninjin! (Patreon)

We finally got it finished and I wanted to share here first!

I present to you: "The Hell Carrot". 

I particularly like this story because it's very likely the basis for Akutagawa Ryuunosuke's famous story "The Spider Thread" (Kumo no Ito). I mean, a spider's thread is cool, but a Hell Carrot is infinitely cooler in my book.

John, Richard, and I spent so much time working on this. I'm so very proud of John Cairn's animation (two months waking up at 1am and working through the night and day) and Richard's wicked sound effects (long days agonizing over minute details). Me? I recorded this several years ago and hear all kinds of things I want to fix, but they wouldn't let me (seeing as how the animation was made for that version).

But it sounds like John might be interested in doing more such projects together, so my fingers are crossed that we can get another obscure Japanese folktale out for the world for everyone to enjoy.

I hope you all like it.

XO,

t

P.S. Speaking of spiders, it's 9pm and we just got back from recording in a scary forest. I need to de-spider web myself and listen to the recordings. The new Uncanny Japan with the experimental new format (and tonight's binaural sounds) will drop tomorrow. Let's just say I had to wear binaural mics, walk down these narrow, pitch black paths, and at times stop then run! 

After an hour out there and walking quite deep into the mountain we decided we were ready to come home when we came across all these inoshishi (wild boar) signs. Be careful! They're everywhere! Also, we have made traps, so don't step in them! 

The topic of the next show is Ushi no Koku Mairi (putting a curse on someone in the ~most~ creepy way). It's a hair raising one and a little longer than usual.