SO many yokai in Mario! Still got TONS more to look into. In the meantime, if you want to spice up your D&D game with some yokai goodness, check out my new Kappa race over on dmsguild! tinyurl.com/y3voxpsp (P.S. Sorry about the clipping at the end!)
Gaijin Goombah Media Hi Gaijin Can you do My fan comic Yokai University in Yokai Hunters No straight Roads cultural references Which Ninja Randy Cummingham Miraculous Ladybug franchises Red Hood The Phantom Thieves Black Star from Soul eater
Gaijin Goombah Media I love your Yokai research that I make a 5 chapter of a Yokai University in my videos in my channel New One Day of Marshmello part 1&2 are now released on my channel
um from the cover you d and D Kappa looks like a ronin/samurai build does the kappa you built have sumo characteristics or was there nothing in D&d that translated well into those skills?
A little more accurate to say "fairy tales did it.," but yeah. Though it's funny to say that borrowing from old folklore and storytelling is "inspired by" yet borrowing from established modern media is considered straight up plagiarism. I also have to ask, Super Mario Land 2. Did they just give no shits about directly referencing Japanese Yokai that no one outside of the country would get, or did they just see no point in localizing everything and just thought they'd just be weird characters that needed no explanation?
Well a LOT of well known videogame series' are from Japan, and stuff being based on yokai is the same kind of thing as stuff being based in christianity or really any religion, the only difference is that Japanese religions and folklore are less well known
Anything made in a given country will retain its country's culture. They can try to make everything culturally ambiguous as possible, even outright have localization teams rename things and dance around others, but you still know that it's made from that country of origin because of those hallmarks. Even when they try very hard to emulate another country, those references sneak in. Look at the cartoon series Gumball. They WANT you to think the series if American, but they'll use the terms "Car Park" and "Cinema."
@@GaijinGoombah You know, the comparison makes sense when you compare the Tsurube Oroshi to the Thwomp's artwork from the original SMB3, as the spikes use to look like hair. There is another Yokai that the Mario series has, and it's the Nurikabe, the Wall Yokai that became the Whomps in SM64.
"Thwimps and Thwomps And Wimps and Womps And Grindles and Spindles and Grrrols There's Tox box and Flomps And Rhomps and Bomps And Walleyes and Wallops There all pretty much invincible and they will crush you without hesitation like a cartoonish Sherman's March to the Sea" - BDG
On the contrary, I'm 25 and Super Mario 64 is the first game I ever saw my brothers play on console. Granted, I gravitate more towards Zelda nowadays, but one never forgets their first.
I'm 24 and while I've never played the console release of Mario 64, I grew up on the DS version. Not to mention that different generations would have grown up on all three of the games in the collection. Friend of mine from work is 19 and got it so he could play Mario Galaxy again.
15, when i had the wii i didn't have a single mario game. But now i can finally experience the klunky camera of 64, the klunky dialogue of sunshine and the klunky motion controls of galaxy!
1:45 Minus the backwards long jump from Mario 64 because they ported the Shindou version from 1997! RIP the most memorable (and iconic) glitch ever found!
@@esppupsnkits4560 where did I say that? It was pretty clear I was talking about the animation. I agree with you 100% and don't think money should have been spent on an elaborate animation. With the grueling research he does I think he could have kept a lower-fi presentation and budgeted that money more for himself. I get the vibe that he is happy with having that animation though and if that makes him feel better about the content he puts out then all the power to him. I just didn't think the flashiness was necessary :)
Gaijin!!! I’ve been doing Yokai research for a couple years for a story/game I want to make, and I found a Yokai that was a blend between a cat, dog, rabbit and fox, and had elemental powers. Sounds like a pretty straight forward inspiration for the Eevee-line, but I haven’t been able to find it again. I haven’t seen any PokeTubers mention it as an inspiration of Eevee so it could be cool for a Yokai Hunters video 🤷🏽♂️
Lockstin & Gnoggin made a video about Eevee and he said the inspiration was just to make a Pokémon that looks as normal as possible. The evolution in different elements probably has nothing to do with that yokai. I could be wrong though.
@Sushi :3 Nope, you had it right, the different elemental evolutions weren't even thought of until later. Eevee is just meant to look strangely familiar. The mystery creature is a carbuncle btw.
@@ZombieBarioth I don't know, Carbuncle isn't from Japanese mythology as far as I know, the story I heard about it involved the devil among a few things.
Sushi :3 I know the video you’re referring to, he just says that’s his assumption for the inspiration, Nintendo/GameFreak have never said the actual inspiration for it to my knowledge
I got excited when you mentioned the fluff balls in yoshi's island being a yokai and wanted to look them up and MY GOD kesaran-pasaran is so dang cute and wholesome! thank you for that throw away line it made my night to learn about that
You know kinda interesting how the most successful video game franchises of the past had creatures based on folk lore. I mean aside from Mario and the Japanese lore, we got Castlevania which took in pretty much every horror movie monster trope they could find, werewolves, dracula, Frankenstein's Monster, hunchbacks hoppers, flying medusa heads, soooo much. Man I know your main thing is japanese lore but I'd kill for an analysis of the monsters of Castlevania one day.
I actually made a Kappa monster stat block for a friend who's been considering running a Japan-inspired DnD campaign. At her suggestion (because she knows a bit more about yokai than I do) I basically made them like goblins, small and squishy, easy to kill, but very deadly in large numbers. I also threw in stuff to make the good at grappling, because sumo stuff. The hard part was including their butt ball grab, but what I settled on was an attack that requires the target to be restrained or incapacitated to work, and requires a relatively low Con Save, dealing a butt load (heh) of Necrotic damage if they fail, and straight up killing the target and extracting their shirikodama if the damage drops them to 0. I thought I had it all figured out, but then your Kappa player race made me realize something...the little bastards have shells. BACK TO THE DRAWING BOARD, THANKS GAIJIN!!!
The last time you brought up these guys in passing (don't remember the video) I mentioned in the comments something to the effects of "Aren't these guys the origin of Thwamps?" glad to see you agree with the idea.
This is really cool! I never knew about this particular yokai, but Thwomps are one of the most interesting enemies I've come across in the mainline Mario games! Love the video!
Hey Gaijin, ever thought of checking out little nightmares and dissecting the Japanese influence in the last 2 levels? It’s had me intrigued for years!
lol you cut your self off at the end, thanks so much for the video's GG I love your Yokai hunter vids and yes I think it's a one to one cameraperson on all three. unless Nintendo say's otherwise this makes to much sense not to fit.
Looks like I got a new game to pick up, Kemono Heroes. Being October would the night of Hundred Demons would be Mario Yokai Inspired baddies we would never have thought to be based on Yokai?
Not quite the "sweeping analysis of devotion to Edo-era Japan architecture, fashion, and speech patterns in Shogun Studios" video I thought would be coming, post-release of Paper Mario: The Origami King. But I missed the Yokai Hunters series as well. I love gaining insight into the various humanoid spirits, long-lived inanimate objects, and bizarre creatures that govern the otherworld and cause trouble for unsuspecting humans. Not meaningful to anyone under the age of 30? Excuse you, Gaijin. I am 27 and watched my cousins play Mario 64 on their N64 system, and later played a bit for myself when I inherited the system as a young teen. I played a few opening levels in Galaxy, my favorite 3D Mario game, back when the Wii console was new, but I never played Sunshine. And all three of these games are LPs that I initially watched when getting into chuggaaconroy, and gaming RUclipsrs in general, in 2014.
I was going to ask about the fire buckets. Then I see a mention towards the end. Oddly, a From Software game is what first comes to my mind of this. Lost Kingdoms. Both the first and second games have these as monsters. They can also be captured in cards as well to be summoned as traps later. Likewise, this talk of "fighting in groups" actually helps to make sense of their combo attack in Lost Kingdoms. I'm also surprised to see no mention of that game due to the whole card summon thing. I had thought it was just a gimmick to match with other card themed games. However, this talk of Onmyodo (spelling) is making me think otherwise. Though, I do admit I didn't even make that big a connection until the mention of the bucket fires and the ritual earlier in the video. I'm curious of what you say of both Lost Kingdoms games, on the subject of lore.
I was laughing for 5 minutes straight after seeing that clip of Bowser basically getting blown away so far that it felt like a home run being hit in Smash Bros.
From an older video by Gaijin, Bowser is revealed to be a Chinese turtle god. There is a mystical being from China, Tonglinxian Longgui(同性戀龙龟), or Homosexual Dragon Turtle. So Gay Bowser is some Yokai with deep lore.
I love hearing about the inspiration behind creatures from the games of my childhood. But you've intrigued me with your D&D creations. I so have to get me hands on the races you created to use in my other channel. [Also, really loved your Ninja character build video.]
So.... Mileena and Kitana from the Mortal Kombat series have a wide mouth with sharp teeth, just like that yokai who wears a mask and asks you if she’s beautiful. You know the thing’s name right? And can you do a Yokai Hunter episode on that?
"Tsurubeotoshi" has the image of throwing a bucket into a well. In addition to the name of the youkai, the seasonal word for the haiku "Autumn sun sets", the expression that the stock price plummets, the waterfall, and anything that falls from above is called Tsurubeotoshi.
I think your right about your comparisons, but I was hoping you would also cover the whomps as well, since they remind me of the wall yokai, nurikabe. But overall, yes thank you for telling me how the thwomp is actually based off a yokai that is giant head and it’s sole purpose is to crush me. ^^ Thank you.
Hey, GG, have you found out the origins for the D&D Kenku yet? They were originally based on Tengu, and had swordsmanship to match! 5e kinda fails to bring this to the table, though.
I say this without any resentment, but I find it hilarious to see the 5 star average after 1 review on your kappa race for D&D hahaha. I am sure that will change soon but still
man what a great video I have always wondered about thwomps and thwimps so it was a pleasure to finally hear where they were inspired from as a guy who is around your age I get how you feel and also in regard to the fire variation you were talking about at the end there is another enemy in mario 3 that resembles what you were saying in world 2 in any stage with a pyramid there is a fire enemy that jumps around that resembles a head with a fire like tail trailing behind it maybe this is what the developers intended the fire version of the enemy to look like? just a thought as a fellow old guy who remembers the games well
Based off the yokai art for the fire variant, i wouldnt think lava bubbles/potaboos (which i believe the only difference between is the presence of a face), but instead of the fire ropes. A much rarer enemy in the series, they also first appear in 3, and take the form of a bouncing chain of flames with no distinguishing connection, with the largest wisp in the chain having a face and ALWAYS being the first to land, then beginning their next jump shortly after the final chain segment lands. The enemy usually appears in desert areas, and more recent games seem to give them a preference for dark underground caves, where light sources are often limited to various animated fire. Looking at the extended universe of spinoff games, i can point to their existence in both the grumble volcano and desert hills racetracks in the Mario Kart series.
I personally thought the Thwomps were based off of a wall yokai (can't remember the name of it), but I guess that's more of an inspiration for Mario 64's, and Mario Party's wall enemies. You did show a clip of one face planting onto the poor plumber.
this is amazing! I'm wondering if (you could suggest to the patrons) that you do a splatoon-based episode, I have wondered if octavio could be connected to a koromodako and the great zapfish is a giant electric catfish... not much unlike Ōnamazu, minus the tectonic consequences of its writhing...
I love the pun, and the video, and your channel. い ぉゔぇ ようｒ ゔぃでおｓ! I'm English, and your videos are teaching me so much! (The Japanese translates to I love your videos! Or that's what it's supposed to say, I used Google keyboard)
Thwomps being stone versions of a giant head yokai that waits for victims to crush actually makes a lot of sense. Too bad in Super Mario 64 and Galaxy they constantly slam.
The first games I ever played on N64 was "Yoshi" (I don't even remember what it's actually called, that's how young I was, when I first played it) and Tetris. So kinda the same franchise, just a different main character (I still love that little derpy dino 🥰)
SO many yokai in Mario! Still got TONS more to look into. In the meantime, if you want to spice up your D&D game with some yokai goodness, check out my new Kappa race over on dmsguild! tinyurl.com/y3voxpsp (P.S. Sorry about the clipping at the end!)
Gaijin Goombah Media
Hi Gaijin
Can you do My fan comic Yokai University in Yokai Hunters
No straight Roads cultural references
Which Ninja
Randy Cummingham
Miraculous Ladybug franchises
Red Hood
The Phantom Thieves
Black Star from Soul eater
Gaijin Goombah Media I love your Yokai research that I make a 5 chapter of a Yokai University in my videos in my channel
New One Day of Marshmello part 1&2 are now released on my channel
As a D&D newbie, I'm excited for this homebrew!
um from the cover you d and D Kappa looks like a ronin/samurai build does the kappa you built have sumo characteristics or was there nothing in D&d that translated well into those skills?
I Love The Japanese Mario Videos. They're Quite Interesting.
I feel like yokai are the “Simpson’s did it” of in game monsters. Fascinating how much they are connected to.
A little more accurate to say "fairy tales did it.," but yeah. Though it's funny to say that borrowing from old folklore and storytelling is "inspired by" yet borrowing from established modern media is considered straight up plagiarism. I also have to ask, Super Mario Land 2. Did they just give no shits about directly referencing Japanese Yokai that no one outside of the country would get, or did they just see no point in localizing everything and just thought they'd just be weird characters that needed no explanation?
Video games originated in Japan after all.
Well a LOT of well known videogame series' are from Japan, and stuff being based on yokai is the same kind of thing as stuff being based in christianity or really any religion, the only difference is that Japanese religions and folklore are less well known
Anything made in a given country will retain its country's culture. They can try to make everything culturally ambiguous as possible, even outright have localization teams rename things and dance around others, but you still know that it's made from that country of origin because of those hallmarks. Even when they try very hard to emulate another country, those references sneak in. Look at the cartoon series Gumball. They WANT you to think the series if American, but they'll use the terms "Car Park" and "Cinema."
@@mightyfilm I'm pretty sure we still call it the Cinima in America, as an American. That's what I call it.
I had zero idea thwomp is a yokai. Nintendo is a wild card when it comes for japanese mythology
Wildcard as in "everything goes!" I mean, look at Nintendo's games why shouldn't they use the rich mythology japan has?
@@QuintarFarenor so true
Quintar Farenor I mean they even put a Kasa Obake in a KIRBY GAME
Is this a hanafuda pun? 😂
Well it makes sense that Nintendo puts quite a few characters or yokai from Japanese mythology in their games as they are a Japanese based company.
Never in my life did I think a video game about two Italian plumber brothers stomping on mushroom people would have so much contained within.
Dude, I heard "viewers like you" and had a flashback to years of watching PBS and almost said "thank you"
It's no less true though.
@@GaijinGoombah Is there a yokai called Butsuri-Nasji? I looked it up, with no success
@@GaijinGoombah You know, the comparison makes sense when you compare the Tsurube Oroshi to the Thwomp's artwork from the original SMB3, as the spikes use to look like hair. There is another Yokai that the Mario series has, and it's the Nurikabe, the Wall Yokai that became the Whomps in SM64.
"Thwimps and Thwomps
And Wimps and Womps
And Grindles and Spindles and Grrrols
There's Tox box and Flomps
And Rhomps and Bomps
And Walleyes and Wallops
There all pretty much invincible and they will crush you without hesitation like a cartoonish Sherman's March to the Sea"
- BDG
Brian David Gilbert, Polygon, Bowser's Military Hierarchy | Unraveled, 2/17/19
I feel like there’s a yokai for just about anything, they come in so many shapes and sizes and do a lot of different things
Isn’t that what yokai are an explanation for a bunch of phenomena?( in no way am I trying to be mean I’m just asking to make sure)
@@manuelcastillo9932 correct heck theres even a yokai explanation for sleep paralysis
That’s the beauty of it!
Is there a yokai that explains why I get bubble guts?
I guess Japan could have a similar motto to Apple; "There's a Youkai for that," lol.
This yokai looking like it had it's universal record of a stunt bike arcade game broken by a blue jay and a raccoon.
ooooohhhh!
I have a feeling your going to drop a lot of heavy Yokai lore on us, Hehe.
Warm Lillie I see you watch mat pat a lot.
1:10
"It likely doesn't mean much for anyone under the age of thirty"
You have never told a worse lie.
On the contrary, I'm 25 and Super Mario 64 is the first game I ever saw my brothers play on console. Granted, I gravitate more towards Zelda nowadays, but one never forgets their first.
I'm 24 and while I've never played the console release of Mario 64, I grew up on the DS version. Not to mention that different generations would have grown up on all three of the games in the collection. Friend of mine from work is 19 and got it so he could play Mario Galaxy again.
25, I played 64, Sunshine was one of my favorites, and I completed Galaxy.
15, when i had the wii i didn't have a single mario game.
But now i can finally experience the klunky camera of 64, the klunky dialogue of sunshine and the klunky motion controls of galaxy!
6:25 I guess I’ll see this thing in my nightmares soon
what if you just put a gaint spike on your head.
lol
1:45 Minus the backwards long jump from Mario 64 because they ported the Shindou version from 1997! RIP the most memorable (and iconic) glitch ever found!
And them reversing the camera...
@@jazz5753 they at least did that in the Shindou version right?
Waaaaait a minute…
Are the three heads that work for Yubaba in Spirited Away Tsurube Oroshi?
My thought exactly! 😍
HexManiacHana that’s what I was thinking
If I ever saw this yokai I would say “heads up”!
5:08 for the patrons wondering what their money is used for... Boom here you go
THIS IS VERY CORRECT!!!
That's what's sad imo, clear waste of funds.
@@jakejutras5420 i thought it was pretty dope lol, but what would you have used the funds for? Just curious
@@jakejutras5420 so researching and using your favorite games to teach people is a waste of funds? Miss me with that crap
@@esppupsnkits4560 where did I say that? It was pretty clear I was talking about the animation. I agree with you 100% and don't think money should have been spent on an elaborate animation. With the grueling research he does I think he could have kept a lower-fi presentation and budgeted that money more for himself. I get the vibe that he is happy with having that animation though and if that makes him feel better about the content he puts out then all the power to him. I just didn't think the flashiness was necessary :)
Gaijin!!! I’ve been doing Yokai research for a couple years for a story/game I want to make, and I found a Yokai that was a blend between a cat, dog, rabbit and fox, and had elemental powers. Sounds like a pretty straight forward inspiration for the Eevee-line, but I haven’t been able to find it again. I haven’t seen any PokeTubers mention it as an inspiration of Eevee so it could be cool for a Yokai Hunters video 🤷🏽♂️
I wanna see this knowledge.
Lockstin & Gnoggin made a video about Eevee and he said the inspiration was just to make a Pokémon that looks as normal as possible. The evolution in different elements probably has nothing to do with that yokai.
I could be wrong though.
@Sushi :3
Nope, you had it right, the different elemental evolutions weren't even thought of until later. Eevee is just meant to look strangely familiar.
The mystery creature is a carbuncle btw.
@@ZombieBarioth I don't know, Carbuncle isn't from Japanese mythology as far as I know,
the story I heard about it involved the devil among a few things.
Sushi :3 I know the video you’re referring to, he just says that’s his assumption for the inspiration, Nintendo/GameFreak have never said the actual inspiration for it to my knowledge
Nintendo sure loves putting yokai in their Mario games don’t they.
BOUT TIME WE GOT THE SUMMONING CHANT AGAIN!
Cue me having to drop everything I'm doing to perform the correct hand signs to go along with it.
I learned that chant from tactics and from Rei Hino on Sailor Moon, so of course I say it in time with Little G.
I got excited when you mentioned the fluff balls in yoshi's island being a yokai and wanted to look them up and MY GOD kesaran-pasaran is so dang cute and wholesome! thank you for that throw away line it made my night to learn about that
I always love your Yokai vids. Always fun to learn neat facts like this.
You know kinda interesting how the most successful video game franchises of the past had creatures based on folk lore. I mean aside from Mario and the Japanese lore, we got Castlevania which took in pretty much every horror movie monster trope they could find, werewolves, dracula, Frankenstein's Monster, hunchbacks hoppers, flying medusa heads, soooo much. Man I know your main thing is japanese lore but I'd kill for an analysis of the monsters of Castlevania one day.
"...the entire fame is full of glitch gremlin yokai"
That's a pretty good reference right there, my friend. A very good one.
I actually made a Kappa monster stat block for a friend who's been considering running a Japan-inspired DnD campaign. At her suggestion (because she knows a bit more about yokai than I do) I basically made them like goblins, small and squishy, easy to kill, but very deadly in large numbers. I also threw in stuff to make the good at grappling, because sumo stuff. The hard part was including their butt ball grab, but what I settled on was an attack that requires the target to be restrained or incapacitated to work, and requires a relatively low Con Save, dealing a butt load (heh) of Necrotic damage if they fail, and straight up killing the target and extracting their shirikodama if the damage drops them to 0. I thought I had it all figured out, but then your Kappa player race made me realize something...the little bastards have shells. BACK TO THE DRAWING BOARD, THANKS GAIJIN!!!
The last time you brought up these guys in passing (don't remember the video) I mentioned in the comments something to the effects of "Aren't these guys the origin of Thwamps?" glad to see you agree with the idea.
A little thing to add, the walking version of the Thwomp could be a nod to the Nurikabe (a living wall) at least in appearance anyway
*Thomps: Haha, Plumber go splat*
Haha plumber go flat
"Yokai hunters"
*literally everything in existence is a Yokai being hunted*
John Blake:
Sir, that could all just be a coincidence.
Jim Gordon:
You're a detective now, son. You're not allowed to believe in coincidence anymore.
This is really cool! I never knew about this particular yokai, but Thwomps are one of the most interesting enemies I've come across in the mainline Mario games! Love the video!
I seriously never would have guessed Thwomps, of all things, have that deep of an inspiration! Very cool!
i just love that cutscene feeling at 5:08 ^^ loved it since its first appearance :D
I never knew this yokai existed until I saw this video. Thanks Gaijin Goombah! You learn something new every day!
Hey Gaijin, ever thought of checking out little nightmares and dissecting the Japanese influence in the last 2 levels? It’s had me intrigued for years!
Well, this yokai explains what the three bouncing heads in Spritied Away (a Miyazaki film) are.
“I know it likely doesn’t mean much for anyone under the age of 30”
Me: *Going to be 30 in 4 months* “I feel attacked.”
As a ninja chipmunk, I think you'll be ok. Ninja are usually well prepared.
I'm about to be 30 next year in April
One of the yokai featured in the intro reminds me of the Whomps.
lol you cut your self off at the end, thanks so much for the video's GG I love your Yokai hunter vids and yes I think it's a one to one cameraperson on all three. unless Nintendo say's otherwise this makes to much sense not to fit.
Yes, more Yokai Hunters!
Looks like I got a new game to pick up, Kemono Heroes.
Being October would the night of Hundred Demons would be Mario Yokai Inspired baddies we would never have thought to be based on Yokai?
Man, I so wish more devs watched your videos and responded to confirm or deny their awareness of your correlations
Not quite the "sweeping analysis of devotion to Edo-era Japan architecture, fashion, and speech patterns in Shogun Studios" video I thought would be coming, post-release of Paper Mario: The Origami King. But I missed the Yokai Hunters series as well. I love gaining insight into the various humanoid spirits, long-lived inanimate objects, and bizarre creatures that govern the otherworld and cause trouble for unsuspecting humans.
Not meaningful to anyone under the age of 30? Excuse you, Gaijin. I am 27 and watched my cousins play Mario 64 on their N64 system, and later played a bit for myself when I inherited the system as a young teen. I played a few opening levels in Galaxy, my favorite 3D Mario game, back when the Wii console was new, but I never played Sunshine. And all three of these games are LPs that I initially watched when getting into chuggaaconroy, and gaming RUclipsrs in general, in 2014.
1:51 Bowser: "WHEEEEEEEEEEE!"
5:08
This transition was so prompt and out of nowhere I thought it was an ad break at first.
What if the lava bubbles are the babies, the thwimps are the children and Thwamps are the adults.
I was going to ask about the fire buckets. Then I see a mention towards the end.
Oddly, a From Software game is what first comes to my mind of this. Lost Kingdoms. Both the first and second games have these as monsters. They can also be captured in cards as well to be summoned as traps later.
Likewise, this talk of "fighting in groups" actually helps to make sense of their combo attack in Lost Kingdoms.
I'm also surprised to see no mention of that game due to the whole card summon thing. I had thought it was just a gimmick to match with other card themed games. However, this talk of Onmyodo (spelling) is making me think otherwise. Though, I do admit I didn't even make that big a connection until the mention of the bucket fires and the ritual earlier in the video.
I'm curious of what you say of both Lost Kingdoms games, on the subject of lore.
how about the phanto? scary relent;ess flying things that hunt you down if you take what they're gaurdung, that has youkai all over it.
Holy crap, Thwomp is that green head thing from Spirited Away!
Thanks again for sharing your hard work
6:16 What game is that? Looks like something I'd like to play!
The game is "Kemono Heroes" . It's on Nintendo Switch. Check the Eshop.
I was laughing for 5 minutes straight after seeing that clip of Bowser basically getting blown away so far that it felt like a home run being hit in Smash Bros.
Next thing you're telling me Gay Bowser is a Yokai with deep lore, history and cultural significance.
More like an Eastern deity... thing.
From an older video by Gaijin, Bowser is revealed to be a Chinese turtle god. There is a mystical being from China, Tonglinxian Longgui(同性戀龙龟), or Homosexual Dragon Turtle. So Gay Bowser is some Yokai with deep lore.
@@broccolijjb2997 My mind has been blown
Time to get smacked by some yokai hunters.
Today I have realized that the word "Koopa" was based of the other word "Kappa".
it's even closer in japanese, where the former is spelled "kuppa" (in romaji, at least. and it's only a one-character difference in kana too).
I love hearing about the inspiration behind creatures from the games of my childhood. But you've intrigued me with your D&D creations. I so have to get me hands on the races you created to use in my other channel.
[Also, really loved your Ninja character build video.]
1:59 Should be called "Butsuri-Ana", because it doesn't DISABLE collision, but makes a gap in its geometry.
So.... Mileena and Kitana from the Mortal Kombat series have a wide mouth with sharp teeth, just like that yokai who wears a mask and asks you if she’s beautiful. You know the thing’s name right? And can you do a Yokai Hunter episode on that?
"Tsurubeotoshi" has the image of throwing a bucket into a well.
In addition to the name of the youkai, the seasonal word for the haiku "Autumn sun sets", the expression that the stock price plummets, the waterfall, and anything that falls from above is called Tsurubeotoshi.
I think your right about your comparisons, but I was hoping you would also cover the whomps as well, since they remind me of the wall yokai, nurikabe. But overall, yes thank you for telling me how the thwomp is actually based off a yokai that is giant head and it’s sole purpose is to crush me. ^^ Thank you.
Huh, I was expecting the wall yokai, but I must've been thinking of Whomp's inspiration. Love to discover a new yokai
I’ve actually learned so much from your videos it’s actually inspired me too learn more about Japan and possibly visit the country thanks Gaijin!
I love the idea of electronic or digital yokai, I had a couple ideas already for them once I saw Butsuri-Nashi
This type of content is y I love this channel
4:23 no wonder I had a feeling Maui looked familiar.
@Gaijin Goombah Media at 10:14you cut off the "out" in "signing out", just a heads up!
Hey, GG, have you found out the origins for the D&D Kenku yet? They were originally based on Tengu, and had swordsmanship to match! 5e kinda fails to bring this to the table, though.
I say this without any resentment, but I find it hilarious to see the 5 star average after 1 review on your kappa race for D&D hahaha. I am sure that will change soon but still
I love how satsifying Mario enemies names are
There is a game called Kemono Heroes and I hadn't heard of it.
They're gonna revoke my furry card
I simply love the little chant the gumba does
I can't unsee the Yokai that is literally a hairy ball 2:30
Can’t wait for a Yokai hunters on all of the Funny Parade!
man what a great video I have always wondered about thwomps and thwimps so it was a pleasure to finally hear where they were inspired from as a guy who is around your age I get how you feel and also in regard to the fire variation you were talking about at the end there is another enemy in mario 3 that resembles what you were saying in world 2 in any stage with a pyramid there is a fire enemy that jumps around that resembles a head with a fire like tail trailing behind it maybe this is what the developers intended the fire version of the enemy to look like? just a thought as a fellow old guy who remembers the games well
Based off the yokai art for the fire variant, i wouldnt think lava bubbles/potaboos (which i believe the only difference between is the presence of a face), but instead of the fire ropes. A much rarer enemy in the series, they also first appear in 3, and take the form of a bouncing chain of flames with no distinguishing connection, with the largest wisp in the chain having a face and ALWAYS being the first to land, then beginning their next jump shortly after the final chain segment lands. The enemy usually appears in desert areas, and more recent games seem to give them a preference for dark underground caves, where light sources are often limited to various animated fire. Looking at the extended universe of spinoff games, i can point to their existence in both the grumble volcano and desert hills racetracks in the Mario Kart series.
the thumbnail: WHAT ARE YOU DOING STEP-THWOMP
Oi oi oi, RUclips! Why wasn’t this video in my inbox? I was waiting all day for it!
Anyone that confuses whomps and thwomps should not exist.
Korporal K. Reep yea
@5:09-5:19
rin pyo to sha kai jin retsu zai zen "Kyu-Kyu Nyo Ritsu Ryo"
I Get that the First part is the Kuji-in; But What does the Last part mean?!
Thank you for reminding me of yokai watch because of moori yokai in the tv show and how he just says his name like a pokemon would do.
I personally thought the Thwomps were based off of a wall yokai (can't remember the name of it), but I guess that's more of an inspiration for Mario 64's, and Mario Party's wall enemies. You did show a clip of one face planting onto the poor plumber.
When are we getting the *Kitsune Race* for your Homebrew DnD Series?
I'm not a Mario fan, but I'm thrilled to see people happy in this, the year of despair.
0:47 aint that Walkappa's evolution from Yokai watch though?
this is amazing! I'm wondering if (you could suggest to the patrons) that you do a splatoon-based episode, I have wondered if octavio could be connected to a koromodako and the great zapfish is a giant electric catfish... not much unlike Ōnamazu, minus the tectonic consequences of its writhing...
Oh yeah, I remember this Yokai. I love his doppy his face so much!🤣
Talk about a Big Head.
Who
@@justadude274 clearly the Yokai
@@lanterns_glow so what do you think happens in this video
@@justadude274 an explanation of how Thwomps and Thwimps are based on a Yokai that is literally a giant head that drops on people.
@@lanterns_glow do you love Digimon?
1:43 All the bugs and glitches...except Mario 64's Backwards Long Jump, so no 0/1 star speedruns on Switch
I love the pun, and the video, and your channel.
い ぉゔぇ ようｒ ゔぃでおｓ!
I'm English, and your videos are teaching me so much!
(The Japanese translates to I love your videos! Or that's what it's supposed to say, I used Google keyboard)
I was assuming it would be a nurikabe but I was proven wrong. Colour me impressed!
That kitaro exhibit looked terrifying.
If Kirby and Mario were ever to meet up they would have at least one common interest trying not to get squashed by thwomps
Thwomps being stone versions of a giant head yokai that waits for victims to crush actually makes a lot of sense. Too bad in Super Mario 64 and Galaxy they constantly slam.
Really thought we were gonna learn about the nurikabe today, but I guess that's more Whomp's territory
Great video, and I do think lava bubbles are yokai too
Awesome! Love this stuff
1:15 I grew up there too Gaijin~
The first games I ever played on N64 was "Yoshi" (I don't even remember what it's actually called, that's how young I was, when I first played it) and Tetris. So kinda the same franchise, just a different main character (I still love that little derpy dino 🥰)
Love this guy!
I was expecting Thwomps to based on a Stone Yokai but no there based on a Yokai who's literally a Giant Head
Everyone knows about the twomps.
But does anybody remember about the *SHLOMPS* ?
They were really cool...
All jiggly and jolly.