In similar way the Tanuki suit, from Super Mario, comes from a leaf. While being able to fly, Mario also can turn into a statue using the suit. Tanuki, for his association with money, it's said to give lucky in your business. Hence the whole joke/pun of Animal Crossing.
Oh wow, this had a few mistakes: 1) "Racoon dog" is the correct english term for this canid. The mistake people often make is calling them racoons. 2) Foxes are not universally evil in Chinese folklore. 3) Considered how rarely racoon dogs appear in Chinese folklore, I would say that the tales of them mostly originated in Japan.
Tanuki are indeed Raccoon Dogs, but not all raccoon dogs are tanuki. Tanuki is the formal English name for the Japanese sub-species N. p. viverrinus, which is markedly different from continental sub-species like N. p. procyonoides or ussuriensis.
Fun fact Tokugawa Ieyasu, the first shogun of the Edo period, was nicknamed “Tanuki (たぬき親父)” because of his cunning way of taking over the whole Japan.
lol, i tried to add this to my favorites twice. I'm drunk. i have no idea who this guy is but he made me laugh multiple times. give him a raise koichi. did he introduce himself at the beginning? id even rememver. gonna keep on drinking booze and curl up in a nutsack I guess i'm a tanuki.
I'm loving this yokai episode theme! I'm an artist and have spent time exploring yokai and Japanese folklore in the past, so videos like this one are entertaining for me. Good stuff :O
The hilarious thing is that the tanuki having giant balls isn't about fertility. Japanese gold smiths would use tanuki fur pelts to flatten golden balls out into thin gold leafs/sheets, because the fur pelts are durable and yet soft, able to allow hammer blows to shape the gold underneath it without being damaged. So the connection between tanuki, giant balls, and wealth are the result of a casual crude observation for how literal balls of gold were covered with tanuki pelts while being flattened out.
I am currently at episode 1 in an anime called BNA and got so interested in a Tanuki, which led me here. Thanks to your funny and informative video. 😂 now I understand why a character is embarrassed to be called a Tanuki.
It’s funny because I’m looking this up to learn more about the Nook’s and at 0:19 the first picture of the Tanooki statue it looks identical to one of the statues in the game that I have placed right outside of Nook’s Cranny
Thank goodness, now I understand the Tanuki Suit from SMB3 and most of the events in Pom Poko. It also makes me think about Tom Nook and his shop a lot more...Is this why Animal Crossing furniture is displayed as leaves in your pockets??
@@cosmicdoggo9296 In Japanese folklore it's just the opposite. Kitsune (foxes) are highly skilled transmorphers who can doppelgange about any other creature and easily maintain the form/shape. Tanuki (raccoon-dogs) are much more rookie and clumsier in shape-changing, easily get distracted and lose the camoflauged shape/form. Tanukis hold leafs on their head to help concentrate in holding the doppelgange shape. EDIT: Cats are somewhere between those two. Then, cats usually acquire shape-changing only when they grow old and like to stay in the shape they have changed into
I'm seeing that Trigger incorporated a little bit of the lore when making BNA. The Tanuki girl Michiru could shapeshift, and when she was trying to change into human form, she put a leaf on her head. They had the Tanuki statue in her room where she was staying. When she flew with the albatross, she wished she could be a wanderer as well. Given the lore of the Tanuki, it makes since that she would initially deny that she was one at first. Her friend, who could also shapeshift, was a Kitsune, the other shape changing trickster in Japanese lore. I'm going to be watching the Kitsune video next. Perhaps it's lore will match up with Nazuna's character. BNA: Brand New Animal is an amazing anime done by Trigger. I highly recommend it.
Tanuki is Japanese Raccoondog. Only subspecies that differ from the other sspes in chromosome level. There are about 5 other raccoon dog subspecies in Koreas, Vietnam, Eastern China and Ussuria/Amuria (S-E Siberia). The Ussurian subspecies was introduced to West Russia in early 1900s and is now conquering Europe piece-by-piece from East to West. Consider invasive pest species in here as they eat about anything, survive high-snow Winters by hibernating from November to March and produce up to 10 pups /year...
Super informative! Thanks so much! I have wondered for literally years what those little statues outside of everyone's homes in my neighborhood in Japan were...
And here i was falling in love with the cute ver of the modern art, animation,tanuki...but when i got back to google,result are shown as a creepy tanuki in the night with their eye glowing in the darkness and accidentally my brain start making up on how tanuki sounded like and also lead me to wander of by imagination that lead me into a dark forest alone with that mischief tanuki.....ok im scared of the old version tanuki
2:47 Wild E. COYOTE makes the wall paintings. Road Runner just runs through it. While WE. COYOTE is bound by physics of matter, he crashes into walls, flung by his traps, and falls due to gravity.
@@dsbmitchell It's explained in manga by Gaara's insomnia as he couldn't sleep well as a little kid for he was too afraid that Shūkaku will break out/materialize and kill someone/destroy things. But it's clearly a reference to tanuki's "mask" just like Naruto's "whiskers" are reference to Kurama and Kiba's face painting is reference to ninja dogs.
@@mrj.kottari8453 Thank you! That makes a lot of sense. Gaara is one of my favorite characters from the anime (I never read the manga), and his back story is so tragic.
I like your Zangief t-shirt. It's strange that I came to your video after I saw a video on the new atage of SFV where it has tanuki balls in the background, so I searched tanuki and got your video
squirrelsinmykoolaid Shippo was a Fox Demon, or a Kitsune. They use "Fox Fire," which is just an illusion, similar to what he said in the video - The myth of the Tanuki originally came from the "Evil fox trickster" myths of China.
Do not watch this if u are intending to watch the BNA anime series on Netflix it is a spoiler in the 15, 20, seconds of it about the Tanuki and the Fox otherwise it's cool. I'll watch it later.
At 5:28, I recognize that version. It was in the household in the Ninninger Super Sentai season. But my question is why did people assume this animal had such powers? Was it just pick a random native species and act like it's important?
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So, that’s why Tom Nook wears an apron.
*_WHEEZE_*
lol
he hides those big balls
Why. Did I read this today
Just why ;~;
Woah. When Tom Nook gives you furniture it turns into a leaf... 😳
Paloma Harper
MIND BLOWN
CHILDHOOD BEDAZZLED
H m m K
Finally someone got it
all just illusion
In similar way the Tanuki suit, from Super Mario, comes from a leaf. While being able to fly, Mario also can turn into a statue using the suit.
Tanuki, for his association with money, it's said to give lucky in your business. Hence the whole joke/pun of Animal Crossing.
Oh wow, this had a few mistakes: 1) "Racoon dog" is the correct english term for this canid. The mistake people often make is calling them racoons. 2) Foxes are not universally evil in Chinese folklore. 3) Considered how rarely racoon dogs appear in Chinese folklore, I would say that the tales of them mostly originated in Japan.
We come from Japan...ish
Tanuki are indeed Raccoon Dogs, but not all raccoon dogs are tanuki.
Tanuki is the formal English name for the Japanese sub-species N. p. viverrinus, which is markedly different from continental sub-species like N. p. procyonoides or ussuriensis.
I'm just NUTS over TANUKI!!!!
Sergio Lobato I'm nuts about Kitsune! Brothers!
Sergio Lobato oh! Nvm! I get it!
lol
Oh God why Mario
Ahahah!
That Ghibli movie is one of the saddest movies I have ever seen.
Enrique Z have you seen Grave of the Fireflies? Ghibli really knows how to hit you where it hurts.
@@kayseacamp the same dude made both the movies like damn my mann
The way they shows the tanuki as a whole but the ripped everything later on
Anyway i was shock when i see that they have balls....
At least they got Mr Krabs to voice Gonta in the American dub
Fun fact
Tokugawa Ieyasu, the first shogun of the Edo period, was nicknamed “Tanuki (たぬき親父)” because of his cunning way of taking over the whole Japan.
Great video, I was really interested in why tanuki balls are a thing, thank yous
I feel like you sort of glossed over the whole “...murdering the elderly...” thing.
Yeah it’s normal there’s no reason to talk about it
Wait, what? You mean you DON’T go around murdering the elderly when you’re bored?
Well, that certainly explains the police hunting me down.
Probably for the best
lol, i tried to add this to my favorites twice. I'm drunk. i have no idea who this guy is but he made me laugh multiple times. give him a raise koichi. did he introduce himself at the beginning? id even rememver. gonna keep on drinking booze and curl up in a nutsack I guess i'm a tanuki.
glacierlily responding to myself because i think the nutsack part is hilarious
Haha, oh my god
Rememver
"Illuminatanuki"
Tanukilluminati
I'm loving this yokai episode theme! I'm an artist and have spent time exploring yokai and Japanese folklore in the past, so videos like this one are entertaining for me. Good stuff :O
Same here!!!
The hilarious thing is that the tanuki having giant balls isn't about fertility. Japanese gold smiths would use tanuki fur pelts to flatten golden balls out into thin gold leafs/sheets, because the fur pelts are durable and yet soft, able to allow hammer blows to shape the gold underneath it without being damaged.
So the connection between tanuki, giant balls, and wealth are the result of a casual crude observation for how literal balls of gold were covered with tanuki pelts while being flattened out.
"to murdering the elderly...."
I was not ready for that.
I am currently at episode 1 in an anime called BNA and got so interested in a Tanuki, which led me here. Thanks to your funny and informative video. 😂 now I understand why a character is embarrassed to be called a Tanuki.
How is incorrect to call a raccoon dog a raccoon dog?
He literally called it a dog seconds later
It’s funny because I’m looking this up to learn more about the Nook’s and at 0:19 the first picture of the Tanooki statue it looks identical to one of the statues in the game that I have placed right outside of Nook’s Cranny
Thank goodness, now I understand the Tanuki Suit from SMB3 and most of the events in Pom Poko. It also makes me think about Tom Nook and his shop a lot more...Is this why Animal Crossing furniture is displayed as leaves in your pockets??
Yes. Folklore tanukis use leaves as transformation helping tool as they aren't as good shapeshifters as foxes are :)
@@mrj.kottari8453 exept foxes transformation s are newer perfect there Tails or ear s are alweys showing wile Tanuki s dont have that problem
@@cosmicdoggo9296
In Japanese folklore it's just the opposite. Kitsune (foxes) are highly skilled transmorphers who can doppelgange about any other creature and easily maintain the form/shape.
Tanuki (raccoon-dogs) are much more rookie and clumsier in shape-changing, easily get distracted and lose the camoflauged shape/form.
Tanukis hold leafs on their head to help concentrate in holding the doppelgange shape.
EDIT:
Cats are somewhere between those two. Then, cats usually acquire shape-changing only when they grow old and like to stay in the shape they have changed into
The guy looks like a tanuki too
They are tricksters known to be able to transform into human, especially into male humans.
I'm seeing that Trigger incorporated a little bit of the lore when making BNA. The Tanuki girl Michiru could shapeshift, and when she was trying to change into human form, she put a leaf on her head. They had the Tanuki statue in her room where she was staying. When she flew with the albatross, she wished she could be a wanderer as well. Given the lore of the Tanuki, it makes since that she would initially deny that she was one at first.
Her friend, who could also shapeshift, was a Kitsune, the other shape changing trickster in Japanese lore. I'm going to be watching the Kitsune video next. Perhaps it's lore will match up with Nazuna's character.
BNA: Brand New Animal is an amazing anime done by Trigger. I highly recommend it.
I caught onto that too! It actually motivate me to learn about a Tanuki !
(BNA is goated, they need to release s2.)
Tanukis ARE raccoon dogs.
Yes we are
@@Scream_Lord but "ratcoon dogs" are our nickname
@@imveryuwu8197 The fuck you mean with "we" and "our"?
@@awubutfilmsab well his username is tanuki. Maybe he identifies as a Furry? 😂
Tanuki is Japanese Raccoondog. Only subspecies that differ from the other sspes in chromosome level.
There are about 5 other raccoon dog subspecies in Koreas, Vietnam, Eastern China and Ussuria/Amuria (S-E Siberia).
The Ussurian subspecies was introduced to West Russia in early 1900s and is now conquering Europe piece-by-piece from East to West. Consider invasive pest species in here as they eat about anything, survive high-snow Winters by hibernating from November to March and produce up to 10 pups /year...
I searched up tanuki and I scrolled down and saw this and I look at the thumbnail and I say woah that’s a lot of flys- WAAiTTt hOoOlLD Up ... wtf
Yes! I'm lovin' all the new videos. I wish I would have seen this before watching Pom Poko...
Sweet episode! I really like when Tofugu talks about the topic of yokai!
Super informative! Thanks so much! I have wondered for literally years what those little statues outside of everyone's homes in my neighborhood in Japan were...
This video was very informative and interesting! And the videos just keep getting better and better! Keep them coming!
Makes me want to write a haiku titled: "Tanukintama".
Came here after watching the second episode of BNA. Not disappointed.
I love Baseball Tanuki!
They drum their belly to make you lose your way... Don't lose your waaaaaayyyyyy
That is until they beat you up with their ballsack
And here i was falling in love with the cute ver of the modern art, animation,tanuki...but when i got back to google,result are shown as a creepy tanuki in the night with their eye glowing in the darkness and accidentally my brain start making up on how tanuki sounded like and also lead me to wander of by imagination that lead me into a dark forest alone with that mischief tanuki.....ok im scared of the old version tanuki
MAMIZOU! Get Out!
Maimizou:But that's not me!
👁
I for one welcome our Tanuki overlords.
1:45 what this name anime please
I'm never seeing Super Mario 3 the same again
That was amazing narrating.
ILLUMINTANUKI conspiracy!!!! Michael you're hysterical - this needs to be a shirt PRONTO!
So that Boruto episode was just a shout out to the Tanuki story when Shukaku was merged to a tea kettle!😅
I'M GETTING A CHAINSAW ONE!!!
2:47 Wild E. COYOTE makes the wall paintings. Road Runner just runs through it. While WE. COYOTE is bound by physics of matter, he crashes into walls, flung by his traps, and falls due to gravity.
When Did Raphtalia grew balls?
She is a female
@@cosmicdoggo9296 r/woooosh
This guy puts the stress on the "ta" instead of the "nu". I died inside listening to his list of "TAWNuki" statues.
at the part of the movie where it says its my raccoon bag!! made me LOL XD
Awsome video! Yokai are very interesting, I even drew a Kappa yesterday!
"Villa Incognito" by Tom Robbins. "If you know, you know. If you don't, you don't."
I love this. We love Pom Poko by Studio Ghibli. Such a Trickster related to planet Mercury in astrology.
Awesome Zangief shirt and awesome video on the Tanuki :)
So my Animal Crossing village is all a magical illusion set up by Tom Nook Tanuki to entertain me. Okay
it's shukaku
Adi Sadewa if you think about it shukakus sand isn’t sand
Fantastic video.
Learned lots about the 狸 (tanuki)
please do more videos about yokai
I approve of this description.
Avatar: The last ballsbender racoon dogs!
I didn't know Shukaku was a tanuki ._.
Gaara's black rings around his eyes are direct reference to tanuki/raccoon dog's "burglar mask" :-)
@@mrj.kottari8453 Interesting! I always thought it was just cuz Gaara was super emo
@@dsbmitchell
It's explained in manga by Gaara's insomnia as he couldn't sleep well as a little kid for he was too afraid that Shūkaku will break out/materialize and kill someone/destroy things.
But it's clearly a reference to tanuki's "mask" just like Naruto's "whiskers" are reference to Kurama and Kiba's face painting is reference to ninja dogs.
@@mrj.kottari8453 Thank you! That makes a lot of sense. Gaara is one of my favorite characters from the anime (I never read the manga), and his back story is so tragic.
This explained a lot about BNA
I like your Zangief t-shirt. It's strange that I came to your video after I saw a video on the new atage of SFV where it has tanuki balls in the background, so I searched tanuki and got your video
Please do more origin videos! This was great. (Maybe one on kitsune or even just fox fires?)
There is a tanuki from this anime I saw was Gugure! Kokkuri-san and his name is Shigaraki.
Your shirt's amazing!
DO MORE YOKAI!!
Tanukis are my favorite because they are cute too me and I love how they are pranksters
so that explains our protagonist in BNA ( brand new animal)
Testicles? Seriously?!
Thunder Wolf
No, scrotums.
It still is really weird
So... That's tanuki mythology...
Came here after watching Pom Poko. The movie was a punch in the gut.
Tanukinati confirmed?? Oh, so that's why that Tanuki has a gigantic pair of balls in that CM
This is quite educative!!!
(At 04:23) wait, I thought he was a badger?
This guy cracks me up. "The Loki-like sociopath" .
Tanuki Are So Kawaii. Can You Do Jorogumo And Oni Next?
My favorite nickname for them is “trash panda” 😂😂
That's what raccoons are called, I've never seen someone call a tanuki a "trash panda" lol
oohhhh... BNA makes more sense now.
I can now understand why the Pom Poko anime had the super balls on these guys. LoL
Strange to say the least 🤣
Watching this I'm starting to realise why BNA's main character has the powers she has.
yeah me too
I had to come learn because of BNA
So was Shippo from Inuyasha based off of a Tanuki because he placed a leaf on his head to transform (if I remember correctly)
squirrelsinmykoolaid Shippo was a Fox Demon, or a Kitsune. They use "Fox Fire," which is just an illusion, similar to what he said in the video - The myth of the Tanuki originally came from the "Evil fox trickster" myths of China.
Pom pom purin as zangef 😂😂😂
So BNA is just big nuts
Please do kappa next!
Do not watch this if u are intending to watch the BNA anime series on Netflix it is a spoiler in the 15, 20, seconds of it about the Tanuki and the Fox otherwise it's cool. I'll watch it later.
I, Tanuki Nuts, approve this message.
Did anyone else find this after watching BNA and wondering what a tanuki is?
That story about the goldbeaters of Kanazawa is actually true
Did he say,"An-e-may
Yes!
I NEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEED ONE
Who’s watching this in 2020 after ep6 of Brand new animals?? Or just me
and their amazing bells
hi Tofugu
if a tanuki turned Into a dragon would it be able to breath fire?
Chopper is a Tanuki confirmed
At 5:28, I recognize that version. It was in the household in the Ninninger Super Sentai season. But my question is why did people assume this animal had such powers? Was it just pick a random native species and act like it's important?
I want a tanuki christmas lol
Actually that Abe does look a bit like a Tanuki......canny Tanuki~
Have you seen brand new animal
Thet tanuki girl
Idk about that Tony Tony Chopper bit he has antlers
If you took a drink of saki everytime he said Tanuki you would be drunk
What's a will-o-wisp
is that a dog gief?
Pom Poko brought me here 😂
Benten is a Tengu silly.
Illuminatuki!!!! 🦸♀️
Guess that’s one way to use em. As papa said you use em or lose em
And a Korean tanuki is leading character in a Furry novel I enjoy. He is a bit of a caniver too☺️