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㊙️Secret Mission: Should You Choose to Accept it㊙️ (Patreon)

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2023-04-24 01:15:49
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Hey hey! 

You'll never believe what happened. Gyaa~! and Ugh! I can't get into all the details just yet, but since this space is only for patrons, and I can tiptoe around Vague like the best of them (you'll get it, believe me), AND I have somewhat of a Secret Mission I'd like to propose to you, I'm posting. But first a game of Pictionary about the exciting news, until I can say more.

Here we go. Me: Standing in front of you wildly making the gesture square and opening this square thing, putting on an invisible shelf.You: Book!

Me: 👍You: Read a book?

Me: 🙅‍♀️

Me:  Madly scribbling with imaginary pen, typing furiously on invisible typewriter. You: Write a book? Me: 👉 ✨👃✨🙆‍♀️Wew! 

And now for the Secret Mission/Huge Help/Picking Your Wonderful Brains part. 

What kind of yōkai, Japanese mythical creature, and/or folk hero can you find in popular culture and where? And by popular culture anything will do, games, movies, anime, manga, comics. 

Examples would be something like the inugami in Inuyasha or how the kappa appeared in Harry Potter, or how Mario had the tanuki suit. 

I'm sure there are A LOT. But nothing is too big or too small, obvious or obscure. And it would be really helpful if the mythical creature was something a little unknown to the masses, like a kasa obake or Abe no Seimei or Momotaro or Yuki Onna. Again, I'd be grateful for anything at all.I can't promise I'll be able to include everything, because in the end that's an editor's and publisher's call, but please let me know the name you'd like to be called in the Acknowledgements and I can mention you there. 

If you don't want to reply here and would rather send an email, the uncannyjapan@gmail.com mail is perfect. 

Or if you do reply here, maybe with the name you'd like to show up in the Acknowledgments in parentheses so I make sure to get it right. 

Anything at all would be of enormous help, even if there's a very obscure yōkai that showed up in something and you were like Wait a minute! Like did you know Rokurokubi and Nukekubi appeared in the Hellboy comic?! 

You are all so wonderful and wicked smart, the best kind of family anyone could possibly wish for. I'm working on the next episode (a kind of Part Two to Ohaguro) and the Bedtime Story this week. So keep an eye out for those. 

As soon as "things" are signed I can reveal more, 

XOXO,

terrie

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Korps

Ōkami the video game has a ton of yokai in it along with Japanese fairy tales

Korps

Animal Crossing has tanuki and kitsune too

Daniel Cook

Gegege no Kitaro, Doraemon, yokai watch of course!

Boss Wilks

Oh my gosh, the Fate series, especially the Fate Grand Order mobile game, which is very popular, has LOTS. Plenty of oni in particular, but also other folkloric creatures like the Tongue-cut Sparrow and the Crane Wife, and figures like Ashiya Dōman (Abe-no-Seimei is mentioned frequently, but hasn't been revealed as a character yet, at least not in the English language version- I can check if he's in the JP language version no). There's also a mobile game named Onmyouji where you play as Abe-no-Seimei and *all* the dozens and dozens of Shikigami you can control or fight are yōkai or similar. When I haven't just returned from a mad weekend I can pop you some more as well, since I use them as examples in my talks. I know there's some in Genshin Impact but I'll have to look up names.

Uncanny Japan -- Thersa Matsuura

Thank you so much! I was debating adding actual folktales to the Table of Contents, since Momotaro was okay, why not The Crane Wife and The Tongue-Cut Sparrow? Now I know they're out there!

Uncanny Japan -- Thersa Matsuura

Is Mushishi in English? This manga has always stuck with me, the first thing I ever really read that addressed how 'bugs' were blamed for everything back in the day. Thank you, Dan!

Amoretta Morris

Loads of Pokémon are based off Japanese folklore! One of my favorites, Mawile, is inspired by futakuchi onna. Ninetales (kitsune), Lombre (kappa), Froslass (yuki onna), and Banette (tsukumogami) are a few other examples. There are also about a million anime you could reference. Sarazanmai is the wackiest thing ever, full of kappa shenanigans but also oddly moving.

Daniel Cook

Yes, English on Amazon Video, both dub and subs

Dollar Rain

The Touhou shoot-em-up game series is an obvious one (I've mentioned it before IIRC) https://en.touhouwiki.net/wiki/Category:Bestiary The game centres around a kind of sealed-off section of Old Japan where youkai and other Japanese mythological creatures migrate to as the modern world encroaches. There are 18+ mainline games, 11+ spinoff games, multiple manga series, a few short stories, and enormous amounts of fan-made content. Each game usually introduces 5-6 new characters, and each is usually a new type of youkai or spirit not seen in previous games, so there are a *lot* of references to old tales there. They're often semi-obscure youkai/spirits too, like pipe-foxes, menreiki, satori, yamawaro, arahitogami, night-sparrow, and others. I know the most recent Tomb Raider reboot heavily featured Japanese myth (and Himeko shows up) The Ni-Oh game series features youkai extensively as boss enemies (as well as a story based around Miura Anjin) Boss Wilks above mentioned the Fate series, but that's not very Japan-centric as it basically has alternate/weird verisions of historical/mythical characters from all around the world showing up through summoning. If I look over my manga shelves, I can see from a quick glance: Jinmensou To Issho - (girl gets cluster of Jinmensou on her face after a night of drinking) ねこむすめ道草日記 - Slice-of-life featuring a youkai cat with other spirits (That's just the Japan-centric ones I can see at first glance, there would be a lot more if you counted ones that mixed in western stuff)

Uncanny Japan -- Thersa Matsuura

I remember when Pokemon first came out and I was like, Wait! I know where that idea came from, brilliant! My son grew out of them but they kept making new ones, so I'm sure there are a lot I've missed. Like Froslass! And how clever is the naming of them all. I'm always impressed with the cleverness of it. Thank you, Amoretta!

Mélissa Yoyotte

You should look into Natsume Yujinchou, it’s kinda similar to Mushishi (someone mentioned it above). It is about a boy who can see Yôkai and there are a lot of tidbits at the end of each manga (at least in the French edition). It is also an anime. It’s designed so you can pick and watch any episode as a standalone if you like.

Mélissa Yoyotte

Also the horror light novel/manga/anime Otherside Picnic is filled with more modern yôkai (internet urban legends). The main character usually explains where the myth comes from/who they are too.

Dollar Rain

Hmm, what are some other titles out there I can think of ... Otome Youkai Zakuro - Fox spirits and other yokai attempt to deal with the changes of the Meiji Restoration UQ Holder - A sequel series to "Negima!" focused around a group of immortals, most of the series is western-magic themed but one of the character's immortality comes from eating mermaid flesh hundreds of years ago

Dollar Rain

Omamori Himari - Young teen inherits an ayakashi cat familiar and item-enhancing exorcist powers, and meets a load of other ayakashi along the way (a cup tsukumogami, a mizuchi, makura-gaeshi, zashiki-warashi, hinoenma, ippondatara, and others) Youkai Shoujo Monsuga - (Somewhat raunchy) urban fantasy comedy starring a rokurokubi and a guy who can see (and unfortunately *smell*) ghosts, and the other yokai they meet in the city

Uncanny Japan -- Thersa Matsuura

Fantastic! I totally forgot to suggest the jinmensō, the table of contents was so full... These are wonderful, thank you, DR.

Dollar Rain

On the topic of the Jinmensou, I'm not sure how well this qualifies, but Left Hand from the Vampire Hunter D series might qualify (or at least be inspired by the legend).

Dollar Rain

Ah, I remembered another one with a recent release (originally released in the 80s) - Pocky & Rocky / 奇々怪界 It's a shoot-em up starring a miko and a tanuki fighting other Japanese mythological creatures (and other things like angry sentient Daruma doll heads). The Shin Megami Tensei (and spinoff Persona) game series has summoning demons as a main theme, but those demons can sometimes be based off gods or yokai. (For example, in Persona 4 the main character's Persona is Izanagi. Mara is also infamously featured as well as a demon/Persona. Yes, it looks exactly like you're imagining it.) However the series, though very Japanese in character (especially the Persona spinoff) contain a wide variety of world religious content. EDIT: The famous Yu-Gi-Oh card game has a fair few cards based on Japanese mythology, despite the strong European and Egyptian theming in the rest of the game. https://www.reddit.com/r/yugioh/comments/dh21w7/cards_related_to_japanese_mythology/ Granblue Fantasy, the very popular mobile/web RPG game has most of its mythology as either original storytelling or based on western myths, but there is a recurring subplot about 12 priestesses based on the Twelve Heavenly Generals. https://gbf.wiki/Category:Zodiac_Characters who have to deal with crisises due to rampaging bonnou/kleshas possessing people. There's also two sentient temple bells as characters. https://gbf.wiki/Joya_(NPC) https://gbf.wiki/Joy_(Event) EDIT 2: How could I forget Youkai Watch? It wasn't that popular in English, but I hear it was enormous in JP. EDIT 3: Forgot some extras from Granblue. A tsuchinoko also shows up as a rare summonable creature, and makes a one-off appearance in one of the mini-stories accompanying the regularly reoccuring battle event. (He also transforms into a dark-skinned open-shirted man for some reason.) https://gbf.wiki/Tsuchinoko https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e4iWFlUPcd4 There's also a subplot about youtou taking control of some characters (or threatening to take control). The old wind god and thunder god pair show up in one side story https://gbf.wiki/Wind_God_and_Thunder_God (from this, I think?) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wind_God_and_Thunder_God_%28K%C5%8Drin%29 Naruto, one of the most famous manga of the last few decades, has summonable beasts that some ninja use with blood contracts. There's a kama-itachi, Enma, a nue, and others. There are also special "tailed beasts" that get sealed into certain characters to be used as living weapons. Most of these are original creations of the series, but a few are directly lifted from Japanese myth. The one-tail beast is a tanuki made of sand (and it's said it was once sealed in a kettle), the two-tail beast is a bakeneko, the eight-tails is an ushi-oni variant, and the nine-tails is a classic wicked kitsune.

Dollar Rain

I remembered another tsuchinoko one! The action-stealth spy game series Metal Gear has tsuchinoko show up as secrets in two of its installments. https://metalgear.fandom.com/wiki/Tsuchinoko In Metal Gear Solid 3, there is an animal hunting, capturing and eating system (since it's set in a remote forest). If you prepare well, you can catch a tsuchinoko as an extremely rare, specific event. If you do so you can call your handlers, who will congratulate you and then immediately order you not to eat the thing https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jLTJYxfljDs You can also capture one in Metal Gear Solid V, and it gets you significant income if you survive to the end of the mission after capturing one, along with impressed comments from your #2 guy. EDIT: The Fatal Frame series (otherwise known as Project Zero in JP) is a horror series themed around traditional japanese ghosts and folk religion. The core stories are all original, but there are a few imports from ordinary myth. The first game features a particularly nasty variant of tag/onigokko and/or kagome-kagome https://fatalframe.fandom.com/wiki/Demon_Tag_Ritual Fatal Frame II is strongly themed around the traditional association between butterflies, death and souls https://fatalframe.fandom.com/wiki/Fatal_Frame_II:_Crimson_Butterfly A spirit based off the modern legend Hasshaku-sama shows up in Fatal Frame V https://fatalframe.fandom.com/wiki/Tall_Woman