The idea of people falling for obvious cliche traps because the concept of cliches literally hadn't been introduced to the world yet is utterly fascinating.
3:15 "physically escaping death by clinging to the ceiling" why am i imagining Anansi stuck on the wall while death just tries to get him down by poking him with a stick?
Well, that is what happened, sort of. Anansi was going to the market one day to get some food. Unfortunately he was very, very, very thirsty and stopped by a village on the way to the market. He saw a skinny old man with blue eyes and white hair sitting nexr to a hut. "Can I git some wate(r)?" The old man didn't respond so he helped himself and took some food. He stopped by the old man's house every time he went to the market and each time began taking more water, food, and money. One day he went to the old man with his daughter and asked. "Wanna get ma(rr)ied to my daughte(r) for 15 gold pieces?" The old man didn't respond so he took it as a yes. A couple weeks later he came back to have dinner with them but doesnt see his daughter. He starts eating but ends up spotting a wedding ring inside his meal. "THE FUCK!?!?!" Anansi yelled. For once, the old man laughed and said, "you steal my water, steal my food, steal my money then give me this lazy wench who can barely cook and expect me to be fine with it?!?!?! Well Anansi, I am death, and your time has come!" Anansi runs the hall out of there to his house. He grabs his wife and kids and runs to an abandoned old house to hide in. Unfortunately death finds them and they climb up a pole so he can't reach them. Death simply grabs his bag, and waits for them to fall. "Dad, I can barely hold on any longer, I'm gonna fall!" The first son says. "If you fall I'm gonna drag yo ass from (h)ell to make you pay fo(r) the fune(r)al!" Unfortunatly this threat doesnt work because the son falls right into death's bag. Soon enough everyone else falls and ana is is the only one left. He suddenly gets an idea and tells death "oh death! I'm so fat f(r)om all the food I stole, I'm gonna splatta if I fall!" Death believes this and brings a bag of flour for anansi to fall in. Anansi falls in it, and throws the flour into death's eyes and runs out of there!
Nah, in the original tale he decided that he didn't want to hoard them the way the sky God did (totally forgot his name) so he and his wife shared them with everyone. So you could say he put them in the public domain. ;)
Fun fact the first person to voice live action Spider-Man was Morgan Freeman in the 1974 kids education show the Electric Company while the actor Danny Seagren wore the costume for all the acrobatics
@@1stcaptainraldoron538 Apparently the radioactive spider was retconned to be an aspect of the god of spiders, called the Spider Totem. Peter's basically a druid.
For TH-cam, put an underscore (_) on each side of the word. E.g, "I said _ thanks, _ asshole!" without the spaces. TH-cam formatting doesn't let you only italicize part of a word, though, which is annoying.
One version also says that Nyame issued the challenge to several gods and beings at his court, and most didn't even attempt to capture the four beasts. He was that much more delighted to see that Anansi, who, by all rights, was the weakest and most fragile being present, was the one to make it. For Anansi didn't just stand around lamenting, he went out and did it not with force, but cunning and knowledge (like knowing the quirks of each beast). Nyame gladly gave Anansi the stories, for he had proven himself WORTHY of them. Stories of heroes ad villians, stories that hid morals and lessons, and stories of unlikely warriors who manage to do things that seem impossible, the Underdogs, just like Anansi.
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he's shorter when not tied to it because a snake can never be perfectly straight, so he's probably longer if you stretch him out as far as he can go, but you may consider that like tip toeing to get taller. sooo, yea.
Fellow Ghanaian here. I love your videos and especially love that you are tackling African stories. I'd like to add that Anansi isn't really a god, as there are many gods and deities in our culture,but is sort of like a recurring character in a fable. In some stories he is but his character is usually likened to that of foxes in fables; a cunning trisker and troublemaker who usually meets the consequences of his actions. He is usually depicted as a spider, and sometimes as human as well. Also, I love your pronunciation of Nyame, although I'd like to add that it is actually pronounced like "Yam-ei". The 'n' is silent and the 'e' isn't pronounced like an I but more of a short, heightened vocal 'ei'. Anyways, thanks for making the video.
I feel like there's a pretty clear trend in mythologies around the world that the local trickster isn't really in the same category as the other deific figures, whether or not they are actually considered a God. Like even Loki isn't properly an Aesir like the others, he's just a Jotun that managed to establish himself with the rest of the pantheon. And while Sun Wukong eventually establishes himself as part of the celestial bureaucracy and as a Buddha, his origin is just as a weird stone monkey demon. Probably has something to do with the fact that Gods are typically seen as forces of Order in most mythologies. If you're a force of Chaos, you're usually considered something else. Obviously it's not a universal trait though, after all, Hermes is a trickster and indubitably an Olympian like the rest of his family, and I know that among the Haida tribes (Pacific Northwest Native Americans) they consider Raven, their local trickster figure, to be one of the foundational creators of the universe, right next to his dad. (Who, on the subject of stories, is actually considered the narrator of the Universe, as in everything in existence is literally a story that he is telling at this very moment (with occasional interjections from Raven who takes the wheel on the story when he feels like it))
the "n" is actually pronounced but its subtle. well i guess it depends on which region you're from. My dad is from Tema so he pronounces it with a subtle "n"
@@KwuOats yeah I'm from Ghana too and at the very least the n and y are pushed together so its a subtle n before the y then ends with the e which is pronounced like an I in the language(or like the beginning of the word "it"). Hard to describe in limited text but i dont agree at all that its silent🤔
I like how Red’s little Anansi constantly shape-shifts between human and spider. In one frame he looks normal and then in the next he has eight eyes and eight limbs.
Apparently, yam paste is so fairy good that you are obliged to verbally thank the person / puppet who gave you said yam paste even if this exchange results in you becoming stuck to your yam paste giver and ultimately cements you into spinning one of the most epic facepalming yarns in the pantheon of storytelling lore.
I absolutely love how you drew Anansi! Every so often with the multiple arms and then when he was hiding you could see all the eyes and just ahhhhh, I love your art and the tidbits to keep Anansi close to his spider self.
Then order chicken or some ****. It ain't rocket science (and lord knows, avoiding anything rocket related is probably for the best with that Coyote's luck).
Loki v mercury v Hermes v anansi v son goku v coyote v raynardine v Prometheus v Lucifer! Pretty sure this would turn into a farce rather quickly. Ever notice how rare female tricksters are? When I was younger I thought this might be do to misogyny, but after reading a lot more mythology I think it's more that female mythic figures tend to be seen as some other archetype even when they have the *exact same M.O.* as their male counter parts.
The version I was told was even more meta: in the end, Anansi (for it was he who wrote the story) says that this is why he's always the good guy: he owns the stories.
In his novel "Anansi Boys", Neil Gaiman suggested that Anansi's ownership of the stories is why people became more intelligent. Before Anansi, all stories were Tiger stories, where brute force prevailed and the strong preyed on the weak. After Anansi won the stories, intelligence in stories became more important, and heroes could win by outsmarting their enemies instead of outfighting them.
Well in the marvel universe he canonically is the one that created the web of life and fate (basically Every Spider-Man are his creation) so technically spider mans across the multiverse are his self insert
It's kinda funny to me that these supposedly cunning and dangerous monsters are like "hm, being tied to a stick by a stranger? Sure what could go wrong?" Lol it's in every myth like bruh are you dumb
@@dannylamb456 like the first reply said, all story tropes including the stupid tricks anansi used on them we're monopolized by that God and he kept it all to himself and so they would have never known that it was a trick until it was too late.
What about the time Loki shifted into a Mare got boned by a Stallion and gave birth too an 8 legged horse? Which became Odin's steed so if you follow that Loki is Odin's son then Odin rides his mutant horse grandson to Helhiem and back and to battle.
I love that you're doing more African myths. Anansi was one of the only African folktale I heard growing up, and the stories I heard rarely have him win, or were really that impressive.
Extremly interesting indeed, the sad thing is it’s comparatively quite hard to find much about African myths online (at least that was the case with the last one on this channel, I already knew this one). Sad because the only thing I love more than mythology is incorporating details, themes and characters/creatures from it into my writing and you can do only so much with only european mythologies before it gets unexciting and absorbed by the boredom that is mainstream fantasy.
+Vicente Ortega Rubilar Don’t get me wrong, I love them, the problem is every other lazy dope does too, so if you want to incorporate real-life myth into your work you need to pull up the sleeves and put some more effort into it, diversifying that stew of myth so you get something truly special.
Vicente Ortega Rubilar That's probably because the Greeks and Egyptians wrote down a lot more of their mythology than African/sub-Saharan cultures did. In the case of the Scandinavians, their mythology didn't really get written down until well _after_ Christianity had been firmly established in the region, so good luck figuring out what's the original story and what's the version with Christian influences.
My mom was a kindergarten teacher and for a month every year the theme was "Africa" (an oversimplified version of Africa but most of these kids hadn't yet learned that a world exists outside of Kansas so better than nothing ig) Anyway where I was going with this was that as she was writing lesson plans she'd put on a "book on video", and I remember the Anansi stories the best. That and some story where the ugly-hearted sisters threw eggs over their shoulder and the eggs turned into snakes or something...
Anansi reminds me a lot of Iktomi who’s a Plains Indian trickster spider deity. Iktomi is for the most part an antagonist in most stories but he’s also a good guy, kind of. He’s clever, and selfish, but he also lead mankind from the depths of the earth and taught them how to use the land and animals around them. It’s pretty interesting
Considering the fact that alot of African American communities still tell these stories to this day its a testament to the slave spirit of keeping stories alive. Stories were all we had of our home so a god of stories were what we needed.
2:16 The bigger question is why can’t Wile E Coyote catch Roadrunner when Coyotes are faster Roadrunner Top Speed: 20 MPH (32 KPH) Coyote Top Speed: 43 MPH (69 KPH)
Timothy McLean He does try that though. He’s never tried a proper ambush before though, just hiding in a bush and catching the RR as he goes past. That’ll solve his problems real quick.
The roadrunner has the divine protection of the gods. He seems clarvoiant, supernaturally swift, and can magically move through solid project like rocks with tunnels painted on them. Or What we have here is actually the coyote's eternal punishment for pissing off the gods in life. This is his hell. To spend eternity in an endless struggle, not WITHOUT resources, but with too many resources and it's still not enough. Unless he can learn to let go of the road runner, he will forever be cursed to fail to catch it.
So, fun fact, my favorite version of this story involves Anansi's wife. In that version Anansi is the performer and still does all these things but is actually so freaked out by task set to him he can't figure out how to accomplish it. His wife is actually the one who comes up with the ways to trap all of the creatures but if it weren't for anansi's cunning and performances it would have all fallen apart. I love how that version gives his wife agency and the two have skill sets that compliment each other. (I joking say Anansi got a boost to Dex and Cha and put all his ranks in performance. His wife got boosts to Int and Wis.)
The reason that version sucks is if he is so clever why does he need someone else to figure things out for him? Anyway my favorite version is where he only can't figure out that last one and his wife suggests the doll. That way she is still in the story, helps, but does not make it seem like Anansi is incapable of coming up with his own plans. I mean his whole shtick is being more clever than his opponents.
@@ShiningDarknes he was still quite clever. But cleverness is many things. Cleverness can be delivery of a plan, it can be how a thing is sold as much as how it is concocted. That story also offers a window into the culture from whence the story arises, as there were more than a few matrilineal groups in that part of Africa.
J _ the sky God, Nyame(Onyankopon) is actually the same as the christian almighty God. We were worshipping God even before the christians came over. But we were worshipping him through lesser gods. Which was our mistake.
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I'm Ghanaian and a huge fan of your content. I'd like to also point out that we traditionally spell his name as "Ananse" (pronunciation: "-ih" not "-ee", but tomato-tomato). In addition to being depicted as a spider, he's sometimes depicted as bald (as a result of one of his shenanigans involving hot beans), having a pot belly and twig-like legs. In some instances, he's also got a wife (who has two names that I have both forgotten) and three kids, namely *"Afuruduhwedohwe"* (My memory's a bit foggy but I think his name sort of roughly translates "The one with the big stomach") and *"Tikenenkene"* (And this one is "the one with the protruding back of the head"). [Edit: I remembered the eldest son - *"Ntikumah"* . He is generally described as the cleverest of the bunch, having outwitted Ananse himself when Ananse wanted to gather all of the world's wisdom into a pot for himself and hide it up in a tree. Tldr; Ntikumah told him to carry it up a different way as he climbed the tree, and, angry that he had not gotten all of the wisdom, Ananse threw the pot onto the ground - shattering it and releasing the trapped wisdom] This is as much as I can remember about him from my classes (with the exception of his other stories) so it's not much to go by. [Edit: *Moatia* is *Asante Twi* for *Dwarf* not Fairy. It roughly directly translates to "small animal" as they are regarded as *animal spirits* among the Akans]
I'm not sure about the American version/s of Anansi but in the Ghanaian one there's not really different versions. I mean technically there is but in reality we just smush them all together so he has some pretty wild characterisations
I remember some of his stories being read in elementary school. One of them was where he tricked the community into thinking bananas or melons could talk, then makes fools out of them in front of the king.
“For some reason, America mashed all its tricksters together.” Yeah, mixing together a bunch of enslaved people from all over Africa will do that to ya.
@@thewrustywrench21 You're right, but my larger point still stands. Mixing the cultures of several tribes, even in West Africa, is still gonna jumble some myths.
@@Zarastro54 Even then, do you know how different they are translated into English/Spanish AND passed on by just word of mouth over who knows how long? It’s not like these stories were written down for their entire existence. Cultures change stuff all the time with their stories, they’re a product of their time and when they can’t remain static through being written they change frequently.
@@Zarastro54 One Dude’s version of the story can be completely different compared to another’s to the point it becomes almost unrecognizable. Cause people steal from each other all the time.
I was just talking about Anansi in context of Animal Stories and Tall Tales for a short paper. He acts like a total ass sometimes and gets away with it because of his status as an underdog character, someone who uses cunning rather than strength to solve his problems (whom people all love to root for), much like Tom Sawyer in Twain's novel of the same name. I never got the chance to hear the whole story about how Anansi became the god of stories as a kid, so thank you for posting this. It's funny you should bring up American Gods in the video, as I am more familiar with the "pretty close to chaotic neutral" portrayal of him through Spider and as Charlie's father in Anansi Boys, another book by "Gods" author Neil Gaiman. Huzzah for using the Twilight Princess version of the "You got the thing!" jingle for Anansi getting the creatures he needs to get the stories.
Every time you say Anansi what I hear is "a Nazi" and then I get a mental image of Hitler sneaking around trying to capture faeries and it's hilarious.
3:07 this threw me through a loop, I thought this was a reference to the song but this was made 2 years BEFORE "honey I'm home" so there's either an even deeper reference going on here or this is just an eerie coincidence
I didn't even catch that, though the sound still made sense in context, which I suppose is a compliment to Legend of Zelda's sound design. Thanks for pointing it out.
I LOVE listening to your narrative! You somehow manage to balance endless sass without breaking immersion. Plus you have a great tone. Can’t tell you how many times good content has been ruined by a narrator who doesn’t think of their tone and how the energy and lack thereof may infect the content.
I've been devouring all your videos lately, because they're fantastic. Red and Blue both have great voices, and you use some of my favorite music (Journey soundtrack, Two Steps from Hell, etc ) Plus, I absolute adore Red's artwork, but that pic with the snake all tied up watching stories was the best ❤ and I was compelled to tell you so.
NGL, when I first saw the title, I mistook it for a summary of a handful of stories in which Anansi wins (which I assumed meant that Anansi usually loses in his stories). 😝
fun fact: I actually started watching American Gods because of the boat scene in episode 2. Since I already read American Gods (the book), I was excited, since Anansi is probably my favorite character in the series. No surprise he got his own spin-off book.
I remember reading about Anansi in an old book my family had of various myths and folklore from around the world and I just loved how cheeky and creative he was
I remember learning about Anansi as a kid. I read the children’s version where he’s that colorful black yellow blue and red spider and loved the design.
I’d agree, except Joseph is more than anything an Absolute Beefy Boy. I see more parallels with Jolyne - especially the string! (Though she also likes punches)
That WOULD be interesting...! Maybe a video on how ancient fairytales have inspired pop culture in ways we weren't quite aware of, or how they're different?😊
Yay anasi!! That's a pretty big part of our folk lore in my country. But no one exactly per say liked him, after all in our folk tales no one was safe from anasi and you would never want to even make contact with him, at all. We took the trickster thing to the next level. I've been listening to those stories since i was little. I'm aracnophobic beacause of those stories. 🕷😨
"Anansi is a pretty well-known god all things considered" I have never heard of him.. But I have heard of the spider creation myth Areop-Enap. Thanks Michael Scott!
Somewhere around 2:35, I started wondering if Nyame was doing all this for his own amusement. I mean, sending Anansi against some folks who were clearly not the sharpest crayons in the box can be summed up pretty well as "let's watch the fun."
As an ASANTI I love this video, there are hundreds of stories but they are dying due to oral tradition, maybe I should write a book, You Butchered the pronounciations though LOL, but well done, MOATIA is not a Fairy it means DWARF , Ashantis don't have fairies
I love this as well because Im ghanian. No one really covers any ghanian folklore. And she did butcher the name which really made me laugh. She gave it a good effort though. I look forward to more folkore.
I like how when we first see Anansi, he’s chilling out on a hammock Spiderwebs are pretty much just bug hammocks Also, we see his spider shadow Pleasantly reminding us of his arachnid origins
When you got to how Anansi caught the fairy, I thought of Brer Rabbit and "oh, that's where the Tar Baby comes from" and then you call it 'tar-babied' XD
My favorite part of this video is her subtle way of showing Anansi is a spider the whole time. I don't know if he ever turns human in the mythology, but I like how often his shadow is a spider's shadow or he spontaneously gains four arms for one frame and then loses them again. It's really clever and interesting to see
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The idea of people falling for obvious cliche traps because the concept of cliches literally hadn't been introduced to the world yet is utterly fascinating.
Yesssss
No no his got a piont
Even the oldest of cliches have to start somewhere.
Also, if you consider how old this story is, there's a good chance it predates that even being a cliche
How to catch a giant snake:
Challenge his insecurities about how long he is
Important note: does not work for Jormungandr
There HAS to be a d*ck jokes here somewhere but I just can't find it...
*snickers in Good Omens fandom*
@@motharchenemy8549 Or Ouroboros.
But it’s what you do with it that matters
I love how in the frame on the amaca, Anansi's shadow IS a spider. Really neat detail
And today I learned where the English word "hammock" comes from. Neat!
Just noticed
@@nicholas209 so amaca is African?! Awesome. I learned where the Spanish work “maca” (hammock) comes from!!! Yayyyy
@@Alusnovalotus The Spanish word is "hamaca", not "maca"
@@MrTrellheim cool. Never hear it pronounced or spelled that way but, thanks 👍🏾
I love how Anansi’s design keeps changing between a more humanoid and more arachnoid appearance. That was a cool touch.
I agree
YES!
3:15 "physically escaping death by clinging to the ceiling" why am i imagining Anansi stuck on the wall while death just tries to get him down by poking him with a stick?
kelan baron so you’re not gonna talk about the “stealing Tiger’s tesicles” part of that same paragraph?
😂
I love this 😂
Well, that is what happened, sort of. Anansi was going to the market one day to get some food. Unfortunately he was very, very, very thirsty and stopped by a village on the way to the market. He saw a skinny old man with blue eyes and white hair sitting nexr to a hut. "Can I git some wate(r)?" The old man didn't respond so he helped himself and took some food. He stopped by the old man's house every time he went to the market and each time began taking more water, food, and money. One day he went to the old man with his daughter and asked. "Wanna get ma(rr)ied to my daughte(r) for 15 gold pieces?" The old man didn't respond so he took it as a yes. A couple weeks later he came back to have dinner with them but doesnt see his daughter. He starts eating but ends up spotting a wedding ring inside his meal. "THE FUCK!?!?!" Anansi yelled. For once, the old man laughed and said, "you steal my water, steal my food, steal my money then give me this lazy wench who can barely cook and expect me to be fine with it?!?!?! Well Anansi, I am death, and your time has come!" Anansi runs the hall out of there to his house. He grabs his wife and kids and runs to an abandoned old house to hide in. Unfortunately death finds them and they climb up a pole so he can't reach them. Death simply grabs his bag, and waits for them to fall. "Dad, I can barely hold on any longer, I'm gonna fall!" The first son says. "If you fall I'm gonna drag yo ass from (h)ell to make you pay fo(r) the fune(r)al!" Unfortunatly this threat doesnt work because the son falls right into death's bag. Soon enough everyone else falls and ana is is the only one left. He suddenly gets an idea and tells death "oh death! I'm so fat f(r)om all the food I stole, I'm gonna splatta if I fall!" Death believes this and brings a bag of flour for anansi to fall in. Anansi falls in it, and throws the flour into death's eyes and runs out of there!
Btw anansi can't pronounce r's that why I put them in parenthesis
Jackson Mendoza me nuh choose none
If he owns every story in existence, does that mean everyone has to pay copyright fees to him?
Nah, in the original tale he decided that he didn't want to hoard them the way the sky God did (totally forgot his name) so he and his wife shared them with everyone. So you could say he put them in the public domain. ;)
Reito Shizaki z
And that's why it's okay to pirate streaming video. ;)
@@fire23fairy American govt will be like "We need to hunt this Anansi guy!"
Don't tell Anansi that, he might think it was funny to try making people do that.
Anansi WAS actually the first Spider-Man, like, canonically.
Spider-Man Noir unfortunately got his spider powers first.
A few Wakandans he’s met have actually referred to Spidey as, “blessed by Anansi.”
Fun fact the first person to voice live action Spider-Man was Morgan Freeman in the 1974 kids education show the Electric Company while the actor Danny Seagren wore the costume for all the acrobatics
@@1stcaptainraldoron538 Apparently the radioactive spider was retconned to be an aspect of the god of spiders, called the Spider Totem. Peter's basically a druid.
there is a spiderman from a spiderverse where he gets his powers from anansi I think
The trick for catching the fairy was hilarious. "I said _thanks,_ asshole!" is not a phrase you hear often.
Timothy McLean definitely a tsundere
Yeah it's pretty much the exact same trick used against bra Rabit. I bet the story tellers reused that part.
It's pretty me (mentally) when no one says "You're welcome".
For TH-cam, put an underscore (_) on each side of the word. E.g, "I said _ thanks, _ asshole!" without the spaces. TH-cam formatting doesn't let you only italicize part of a word, though, which is annoying.
I just thought of a full metal alchemist blooper where Alphonse is yelling “I’m trying to save your life asshole!”
One version also says that Nyame issued the challenge to several gods and beings at his court, and most didn't even attempt to capture the four beasts. He was that much more delighted to see that Anansi, who, by all rights, was the weakest and most fragile being present, was the one to make it. For Anansi didn't just stand around lamenting, he went out and did it not with force, but cunning and knowledge (like knowing the quirks of each beast).
Nyame gladly gave Anansi the stories, for he had proven himself WORTHY of them. Stories of heroes ad villians, stories that hid morals and lessons, and stories of unlikely warriors who manage to do things that seem impossible, the Underdogs, just like Anansi.
I think I prefer this version.
Like if you agree 👍
Then why didnt Anansi share it with us?! I need more African Lore!!!
> Boredom
> Laziness
> Funsies
> The existential terror of death
Aren't those the reasons why anyone does anything?
Zeus would add "feeling horny" to that list...
@@pmprestes You could say that again
I mean, I add “the cost of living” to the list as well, but I’m a squishy mortal instead of a divine spider god who has no need for the 9-5 workday.
@@pmprestes Anansi once made an exception of dis rule
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Anyone else who would totally buy an album by Red?
Me, Me, Me, Me, Me, Me, Me, ... Anyone else?
I would
Awsamazing Eden I alrdy got Gone tho!
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YES
Yes
So.. Is he shorter or longer?
*IS He shorter or longer than the stick*
Sean well, I can tie you to the stick with him as a hight reference if you want.
he's shorter when not tied to it because a snake can never be perfectly straight, so he's probably longer if you stretch him out as far as he can go, but you may consider that like tip toeing to get taller. sooo, yea.
2:08 should solve your problem
"a snake can never be perfectly straight"
When you really want to be into girls, but that cute guy just has to enter to your life every now and then.
@@laszlovarga6953 there's always the possibility of bisexuality
Fellow Ghanaian here. I love your videos and especially love that you are tackling African stories. I'd like to add that Anansi isn't really a god, as there are many gods and deities in our culture,but is sort of like a recurring character in a fable. In some stories he is but his character is usually likened to that of foxes in fables; a cunning trisker and troublemaker who usually meets the consequences of his actions. He is usually depicted as a spider, and sometimes as human as well. Also, I love your pronunciation of Nyame, although I'd like to add that it is actually pronounced like "Yam-ei". The 'n' is silent and the 'e' isn't pronounced like an I but more of a short, heightened vocal 'ei'. Anyways, thanks for making the video.
even if you don't like the video, what are you ghana do? sue red?
@@hakureikura9052 AYYYYY good pun
I feel like there's a pretty clear trend in mythologies around the world that the local trickster isn't really in the same category as the other deific figures, whether or not they are actually considered a God.
Like even Loki isn't properly an Aesir like the others, he's just a Jotun that managed to establish himself with the rest of the pantheon. And while Sun Wukong eventually establishes himself as part of the celestial bureaucracy and as a Buddha, his origin is just as a weird stone monkey demon.
Probably has something to do with the fact that Gods are typically seen as forces of Order in most mythologies. If you're a force of Chaos, you're usually considered something else.
Obviously it's not a universal trait though, after all, Hermes is a trickster and indubitably an Olympian like the rest of his family, and I know that among the Haida tribes (Pacific Northwest Native Americans) they consider Raven, their local trickster figure, to be one of the foundational creators of the universe, right next to his dad. (Who, on the subject of stories, is actually considered the narrator of the Universe, as in everything in existence is literally a story that he is telling at this very moment (with occasional interjections from Raven who takes the wheel on the story when he feels like it))
the "n" is actually pronounced but its subtle. well i guess it depends on which region you're from. My dad is from Tema so he pronounces it with a subtle "n"
@@KwuOats yeah I'm from Ghana too and at the very least the n and y are pushed together so its a subtle n before the y then ends with the e which is pronounced like an I in the language(or like the beginning of the word "it"). Hard to describe in limited text but i dont agree at all that its silent🤔
I like how Red’s little Anansi constantly shape-shifts between human and spider. In one frame he looks normal and then in the next he has eight eyes and eight limbs.
I love those kinds of divine depictions. They aren't people, their concepts in earthly forms, and that shouldn't limit how they look.
Tell TVTropes I said "you're welcome"
Me: **spits out my water**
Best crossover ever 😂😂
Yes
“Everyone loves a underspider”
Iain Hansen Until that spider is under your clothes. Then, nobody does. :)
and an Undersider
beruman And the Undertaker!
An underslider
@ beruman I understood that reference!
And i wholeheartedly support it.
Apparently, yam paste is so fairy good that you are obliged to verbally thank the person / puppet who gave you said yam paste even if this exchange results in you becoming stuck to your yam paste giver and ultimately cements you into spinning one of the most epic facepalming yarns in the pantheon of storytelling lore.
Fuzzy Stripetail
*_I SAID THANKS, ASSHOLE!!_*
Mullerornis such bad history ⛔️ you’re confusing yam with cassava! Yam IS native to Africa
Yes, confusing it with cassava or those darn sweet potatoes, which annoyingly get called "yams" in America for some reason.
0:51
Oh, a human with a spider's shadow? Red, *you* are the goddess of stories. And art, for that matter.
I absolutely love how you drew Anansi! Every so often with the multiple arms and then when he was hiding you could see all the eyes and just ahhhhh, I love your art and the tidbits to keep Anansi close to his spider self.
"You don't need to eat the Roadrunner! Just use the ACME funds to order pizza!"
I'm pretty sure Wile E Coyote isn't too big on carbs.
Have you seen how skinny he is? He could serve to put on a few pounds
Then order chicken or some ****. It ain't rocket science (and lord knows, avoiding anything rocket related is probably for the best with that Coyote's luck).
Exactly, you can build all these traps and explosives but don’t have enough sense to order dinner.
Or maybe acme just doesn’t sell food.
Boycott Israel warner bros
ok, then get a meat lover's pizza and just eat the toppings.
Anansi is my kinda dude! I wonder what would happens if all the trickster type gods met? Fun times probably! *Chaos....definitely.*
I would love to read a book about this
Isagail
*Cough* SunWukongandLoki *cough.*
Loki v mercury v Hermes v anansi v son goku v coyote v raynardine v Prometheus v Lucifer!
Pretty sure this would turn into a farce rather quickly.
Ever notice how rare female tricksters are? When I was younger I thought this might be do to misogyny, but after reading a lot more mythology I think it's more that female mythic figures tend to be seen as some other archetype even when they have the *exact same M.O.* as their male counter parts.
MarvAlice Lucifer is evil though, not a trickster.
Every single apocalypse there could possibly be in mythology.
Why I Do Things:
Boredom
Laziness
Funsies
EXISTENTIAL TERROR OF DEATH
Hunger
Mabel Meehan +
Mabel Meehan
How do you do things if you're lazy?
Angelo Igonia efficiency is intelligent laziness
yeaa,same.
Angelo Igonia so you don’t have to do them again
Let's not forget the times he teamed up with Static Shock.
Or when he fought the Gargoyles
Omg yesssss
Yahh i forgot about that
Or was the original Spider-Man
Who's Static Shock?
The version I was told was even more meta: in the end, Anansi (for it was he who wrote the story) says that this is why he's always the good guy: he owns the stories.
That actually hilarious
In his novel "Anansi Boys", Neil Gaiman suggested that Anansi's ownership of the stories is why people became more intelligent. Before Anansi, all stories were Tiger stories, where brute force prevailed and the strong preyed on the weak. After Anansi won the stories, intelligence in stories became more important, and heroes could win by outsmarting their enemies instead of outfighting them.
@@jimmeans14 That's even better!
Well in the marvel universe he canonically is the one that created the web of life and fate (basically Every Spider-Man are his creation) so technically spider mans across the multiverse are his self insert
It's kinda funny to me that these supposedly cunning and dangerous monsters are like "hm, being tied to a stick by a stranger? Sure what could go wrong?" Lol it's in every myth like bruh are you dumb
Every myth - that were currently the property of the Sky God and kept away from everyone else.
@@lorendaemon7945
Still, it seems kinda stupid to trust the spider fellow. You know, the animal most known for trapping things?
@@dannylamb456 like the first reply said, all story tropes including the stupid tricks anansi used on them we're monopolized by that God and he kept it all to himself and so they would have never known that it was a trick until it was too late.
@@dannylamb456 That's why Herakles, Anansi & co. are never straight forward with their trickery.
Senna Asad - is it possible to be straightforward with your treachery?
"Other well-known Anasi exploits include:
*stealing Tiger's testicles*
WHAT?
Weird I know.
There are no Tiger in Africa.
Well Loki tied his own testicles to a goat and tried to play tug of war with it, so that's... nothing.
What about the time Loki shifted into a Mare got boned by a Stallion and gave birth too an 8 legged horse? Which became Odin's steed so if you follow that Loki is Odin's son then Odin rides his mutant horse grandson to Helhiem and back and to battle.
I bet he was drunk.
Loki, however, is not Odin's son, he's his bloodbrother (but not his brother by blood).
The sky god watching black panther, hilarious lol
Keanu Hixson oh my gosh I didn’t catch that the first time!
Keanu Hixson Guess you can say that All the Stars are watching Black Panther
Oh good I’m not the only one who noticed that
Anansi sounds like Loki on steriods and I love it.
Anansi isn't quite as much of a dick as loki but they definitely have their similarities
Only the trickster god part of Loki, not the evil "kills Baldur and triggers ragnarok" part
Loki is also a total dick but also the reason why basically everything happens
Anansi is smarter than Loki, because Loki is known to get burned by his own schemes.
@@sflaningam7680 also loki regularly gets called out by thor, who is not exactly well renowned for his brains...
I love the way Anansi is drawn in this. The shifting between spider and human characteristics is really cool.
"Oh what a tangled web we weave when we practice to deceive." Shakespeare, you had no idea how right you got it!
I love that you're doing more African myths. Anansi was one of the only African folktale I heard growing up, and the stories I heard rarely have him win, or were really that impressive.
I have recently be really interested in different African mythology and I have loved everything.
I really appreciate these videos.
Extremly interesting indeed, the sad thing is it’s comparatively quite hard to find much about African myths online (at least that was the case with the last one on this channel, I already knew this one).
Sad because the only thing I love more than mythology is incorporating details, themes and characters/creatures from it into my writing and you can do only so much with only european mythologies before it gets unexciting and absorbed by the boredom that is mainstream fantasy.
Sherlock Smuuug exactly. Greek, Egyptian and scandinavian mythology eclipse every other.
+Vicente Ortega Rubilar
Don’t get me wrong, I love them, the problem is every other lazy dope does too, so if you want to incorporate real-life myth into your work you need to pull up the sleeves and put some more effort into it, diversifying that stew of myth so you get something truly special.
s/mitology/mythology
s/eclypse/eclipse
(sorry, couldn't resist)
Vicente Ortega Rubilar That's probably because the Greeks and Egyptians wrote down a lot more of their mythology than African/sub-Saharan cultures did. In the case of the Scandinavians, their mythology didn't really get written down until well _after_ Christianity had been firmly established in the region, so good luck figuring out what's the original story and what's the version with Christian influences.
Aye! As a Jamaican, I was raised on these stories :)
Edit: at 0:55, I see homeboy's watching Black Panther
My mom was a kindergarten teacher and for a month every year the theme was "Africa" (an oversimplified version of Africa but most of these kids hadn't yet learned that a world exists outside of Kansas so better than nothing ig)
Anyway where I was going with this was that as she was writing lesson plans she'd put on a "book on video", and I remember the Anansi stories the best. That and some story where the ugly-hearted sisters threw eggs over their shoulder and the eggs turned into snakes or something...
Same here I loved when we had story time in primary school
phillips yeah I use to love those stories in primary school
I love your depiction of Anansi. The way his spider traits appear and disappear depending on what he's doing is just awesome.
Anansi reminds me a lot of Iktomi who’s a Plains Indian trickster spider deity. Iktomi is for the most part an antagonist in most stories but he’s also a good guy, kind of. He’s clever, and selfish, but he also lead mankind from the depths of the earth and taught them how to use the land and animals around them. It’s pretty interesting
Which ethnic group is he from?
Considering the fact that alot of African American communities still tell these stories to this day its a testament to the slave spirit of keeping stories alive. Stories were all we had of our home so a god of stories were what we needed.
Red is back!
ok
Are you saying that Blue wasn't good enough?
Siki Arredondo no I enjoy watching both of them I was just implying that red is back
2:16 The bigger question is why can’t Wile E Coyote catch Roadrunner when Coyotes are faster
Roadrunner Top Speed: 20 MPH (32 KPH)
Coyote Top Speed: 43 MPH (69 KPH)
Because cartoon.
Sadly, Wile never thinks to just chase the Roadrunner. It _always_ has to be an elaborate trap.
Timothy McLean He does try that though. He’s never tried a proper ambush before though, just hiding in a bush and catching the RR as he goes past. That’ll solve his problems real quick.
The roadrunner has the divine protection of the gods. He seems clarvoiant, supernaturally swift, and can magically move through solid project like rocks with tunnels painted on them.
Or
What we have here is actually the coyote's eternal punishment for pissing off the gods in life. This is his hell. To spend eternity in an endless struggle, not WITHOUT resources, but with too many resources and it's still not enough. Unless he can learn to let go of the road runner, he will forever be cursed to fail to catch it.
Yuri Hinamura
Well, okay. I was thinking because it was Loony Tunes, but sure.
I love how you designed Anansi here! The occasional appearance of 8 eyes and multiple arms was so fun.
As a Ghanaian-American who grew up with these stories, just wanted to say thank you!
I love that you have him shapeshift his extra limbs and eyes, cause he was a trickster spirit and was known or believed to shapeshift.
So, fun fact, my favorite version of this story involves Anansi's wife. In that version Anansi is the performer and still does all these things but is actually so freaked out by task set to him he can't figure out how to accomplish it. His wife is actually the one who comes up with the ways to trap all of the creatures but if it weren't for anansi's cunning and performances it would have all fallen apart. I love how that version gives his wife agency and the two have skill sets that compliment each other. (I joking say Anansi got a boost to Dex and Cha and put all his ranks in performance. His wife got boosts to Int and Wis.)
He has a wife? Is it wrong that I shipped him with Arachnie?
The reason that version sucks is if he is so clever why does he need someone else to figure things out for him? Anyway my favorite version is where he only can't figure out that last one and his wife suggests the doll. That way she is still in the story, helps, but does not make it seem like Anansi is incapable of coming up with his own plans. I mean his whole shtick is being more clever than his opponents.
@@ShiningDarknes he was still quite clever. But cleverness is many things. Cleverness can be delivery of a plan, it can be how a thing is sold as much as how it is concocted. That story also offers a window into the culture from whence the story arises, as there were more than a few matrilineal groups in that part of Africa.
Ha! The Sky God was watching Black Panther. Just noticed that.
J _ the sky God, Nyame(Onyankopon) is actually the same as the christian almighty God. We were worshipping God even before the christians came over. But we were worshipping him through lesser gods. Which was our mistake.
@@a.inception1094 man stop disrespecting traditional african gods by calling them lesser gods
@@ronjayrose9706 They are lesser gods. Its just the way it is. We used to worship God through them. My gods, my description Rose.🙇
@@a.inception1094 well in my personal opinion there far greater than the judeo-christian God's
@@a.inception1094 lol anything to back that claim up dude?
We seriously need Loki , Anasi and Sun Wukong to team up travel out some random journey.
Keep it coming people get me that 1K bar. 200 likes more give em to me
Well I have hit 1K, but your welcome to keep on commenting
yes.
Drag in Hermès and Set for the show and throw in some Yokai and other beast and then we’ll have a show that Osp fans want to eagerly see
Let the chaos begin!
Throw in Coyote as well as Hermes (credit @fantasy shadows) and you’ve built a five man band of mischievous bs
And toss in Odysseus as the audience POV character.
2:37 So Anansi used Looney Tunes antics to take down multiple creatures just to get stories.
There are few times I can be heard audibly yelling "Hell yeah!". But Overly Sarcastic Production is special that way.
I'm Ghanaian and a huge fan of your content. I'd like to also point out that we traditionally spell his name as "Ananse" (pronunciation: "-ih" not "-ee", but tomato-tomato). In addition to being depicted as a spider, he's sometimes depicted as bald (as a result of one of his shenanigans involving hot beans), having a pot belly and twig-like legs.
In some instances, he's also got a wife (who has two names that I have both forgotten) and three kids, namely *"Afuruduhwedohwe"* (My memory's a bit foggy but I think his name sort of roughly translates "The one with the big stomach") and *"Tikenenkene"* (And this one is "the one with the protruding back of the head").
[Edit: I remembered the eldest son - *"Ntikumah"* . He is generally described as the cleverest of the bunch, having outwitted Ananse himself when Ananse wanted to gather all of the world's wisdom into a pot for himself and hide it up in a tree. Tldr; Ntikumah told him to carry it up a different way as he climbed the tree, and, angry that he had not gotten all of the wisdom, Ananse threw the pot onto the ground - shattering it and releasing the trapped wisdom]
This is as much as I can remember about him from my classes (with the exception of his other stories) so it's not much to go by.
[Edit: *Moatia* is *Asante Twi* for *Dwarf* not Fairy. It roughly directly translates to "small animal" as they are regarded as *animal spirits* among the Akans]
Huge fan of this channel. Please keep up the amazing work.
Were there different depictions of Anansi? Usually, folktales tend to change a lot, so I'm just curious. Or was this just universally accepted?
I'm not sure about the American version/s of Anansi but in the Ghanaian one there's not really different versions. I mean technically there is but in reality we just smush them all together so he has some pretty wild characterisations
I knew there was a reason I always imagined him as bald. But i guess maybe this story was from before he lost his hair.
ReyesdeMadrid you can definitely say that - there isn’t really a timeline set for all his stories as far as I know.
I remember some of his stories being read in elementary school. One of them was where he tricked the community into thinking bananas or melons could talk, then makes fools out of them in front of the king.
"I STOLE A TIGER'S TESTICLES"
...
*W A T*
Ever wondered where cheese balls come from?
This guy is mah boi! He is the original Spider-man!
Anansi Sun Wu Kong crossover when? Also this is what I needed I've been having a shite week. Thanks for being awesome Red
Maybe Loki can join the party? They would be called Troublesome Trio of Tricksters.
Trikster the sheer chaos would be amazing to ser
Don’t forget Loki
What a disaster that would be. I need it
That's an amazing idea! Also Loki "I'M A FIRE JOTUN YOU IMBECILES" Laufeyson.
I hope your week gets better. :)
So basically the sky god is the god of netflix?
*was*
He's *in the cloud*.
god of disney
"Tell TV Tropes you're welcome" great line
MJ Lycran Best line.
I remember hearing the story of Anansi as a child. So glad you made this!
I heard it as a kids song!
“For some reason, America mashed all its tricksters together.” Yeah, mixing together a bunch of enslaved people from all over Africa will do that to ya.
We got stories form a lot of places and people.
It wasn’t all over Africa, just a portion of the west coast. You really think they went all the way across Africa for some slaves?
@@thewrustywrench21 You're right, but my larger point still stands. Mixing the cultures of several tribes, even in West Africa, is still gonna jumble some myths.
@@Zarastro54 Even then, do you know how different they are translated into English/Spanish AND passed on by just word of mouth over who knows how long? It’s not like these stories were written down for their entire existence. Cultures change stuff all the time with their stories, they’re a product of their time and when they can’t remain static through being written they change frequently.
@@Zarastro54 One Dude’s version of the story can be completely different compared to another’s to the point it becomes almost unrecognizable. Cause people steal from each other all the time.
I was just talking about Anansi in context of Animal Stories and Tall Tales for a short paper. He acts like a total ass sometimes and gets away with it because of his status as an underdog character, someone who uses cunning rather than strength to solve his problems (whom people all love to root for), much like Tom Sawyer in Twain's novel of the same name.
I never got the chance to hear the whole story about how Anansi became the god of stories as a kid, so thank you for posting this. It's funny you should bring up American Gods in the video, as I am more familiar with the "pretty close to chaotic neutral" portrayal of him through Spider and as Charlie's father in Anansi Boys, another book by "Gods" author Neil Gaiman. Huzzah for using the Twilight Princess version of the "You got the thing!" jingle for Anansi getting the creatures he needs to get the stories.
Did anyone eles see a quote from black panther?
"just kidding we are vegitarians"?
It was around the begining
I thought the same thing😂
I saw the quote but didn't make the connection until you pointed it out. Good catch!
I did!
When I first read this story, from a world-myth book, I thought Anansi was female.
This was because in German spider is a female noun
Every time you say Anansi what I hear is "a Nazi" and then I get a mental image of Hitler sneaking around trying to capture faeries and it's hilarious.
Wow
Thank you for that image
Same
Considering that "fairy" is also an euphemism for "homosexual", and remembering Hitler's views on the subject...yeah......
But there's an "n" before the "s"?
I love the character design you did of Anansi, keeping the spider part and the more human part flexible and interchangeable
im ghanian and im so happy that you're doing a story about my culture!
Who else knows Anansi from Static Shock?
Me!
I think he was in Gargoyles as well
jagirl966 He was! And I think he was voiced by LeVar Burton.
th-cam.com/video/4OC5NgvAnVY/w-d-xo.html
Me!
"You're gonna have to prove yourself."
"DO I? Wait, no, let me try that again."
I love that Red is making fun of her own recurring joke.
3:07 this threw me through a loop, I thought this was a reference to the song but this was made 2 years BEFORE "honey I'm home" so there's either an even deeper reference going on here or this is just an eerie coincidence
I really loved your use of the LoZ treasure/new item/gear sound effect when anansi captures each of the creatures. 😁
I didn't even catch that, though the sound still made sense in context, which I suppose is a compliment to Legend of Zelda's sound design. Thanks for pointing it out.
Ahh I really love this series! Keep it up
I LOVE listening to your narrative! You somehow manage to balance endless sass without breaking immersion. Plus you have a great tone. Can’t tell you how many times good content has been ruined by a narrator who doesn’t think of their tone and how the energy and lack thereof may infect the content.
I've been devouring all your videos lately, because they're fantastic. Red and Blue both have great voices, and you use some of my favorite music (Journey soundtrack, Two Steps from Hell, etc ) Plus, I absolute adore Red's artwork, but that pic with the snake all tied up watching stories was the best ❤ and I was compelled to tell you so.
NGL, when I first saw the title, I mistook it for a summary of a handful of stories in which Anansi wins (which I assumed meant that Anansi usually loses in his stories). 😝
Ahh so I'm not a idiot
3:30 I always thought the linear evolution of Bugs Bunny came from Sungura to Br'er Rabbit to Bugs. But this is a believable evolution, too.
fun fact: I actually started watching American Gods because of the boat scene in episode 2. Since I already read American Gods (the book), I was excited, since Anansi is probably my favorite character in the series. No surprise he got his own spin-off book.
I remember reading about Anansi in an old book my family had of various myths and folklore from around the world and I just loved how cheeky and creative he was
Very appropriate credits song this episode. Much better than "Itsy Bitsy Spider" too
Indeed: Nobody washes Anansi down!
And a change of pace from Spider man too.
Although Spider-Man did find his way into the description
Jack Rackam Do you know what the song's name is? I really like it but I've never heard it before.
Google says it's Peggy Zeitlin - Spin Spider Spin. Link here: th-cam.com/video/EoN14e8CCWM/w-d-xo.html
I remember learning about Anansi as a kid. I read the children’s version where he’s that colorful black yellow blue and red spider and loved the design.
Anansi is just African God version of Joseph Joestar
Of all times to find a Jojo reference
ah I see you’re a man of culture aswell
So thats where the pillar men learned the fake diamond trick...
I’d agree, except Joseph is more than anything an Absolute Beefy Boy. I see more parallels with Jolyne - especially the string! (Though she also likes punches)
Your next line: do you want to prove yourself!
This used to be one of my favorite childhood stories. I loved watching it chibi-fied!
That WOULD be interesting...! Maybe a video on how ancient fairytales have inspired pop culture in ways we weren't quite aware of, or how they're different?😊
2:10
So, basically, Osebo fell for the Tried and True Team Rocket tactic of a pitfall trap.
Nice!
Aw man, I love Anansi, he's one of my favourite non-European mythological characters.
I like how Red's Anansi is a shifter. He grows extra arms and compound eyes between shots. More of this, please.
Gee, that's a funny-looking moss-covered rock! (Falls asleep)
Selena Gamya love that book! Anansi is so wicked though
I remember that story too!
My grandfather told me and my cousins that story, and once we even acted it out. I was a bush deer.
Yay anasi!! That's a pretty big part of our folk lore in my country. But no one exactly per say liked him, after all in our folk tales no one was safe from anasi and you would never want to even make contact with him, at all. We took the trickster thing to the next level. I've been listening to those stories since i was little. I'm aracnophobic beacause of those stories. 🕷😨
So yeah it's pretty heavely engraved into our culture. They even named a local televison show after him, which is pretty important to students.
@@comi33gaming37
But after these cute drawings I lost my arachnophobia XD
If it’s any consolation, I’ve always had arachnophobia without ever hearing this story.
Tell me some of the story!
"Anansi is a pretty well-known god all things considered"
I have never heard of him.. But I have heard of the spider creation myth Areop-Enap. Thanks Michael Scott!
The Gray Pet +
Thanks for the trivia!
Neil Gaiman has a book titled "Anansi Boys."
0:20 THAT SPIDER FROM THE CHILDREN'S BOOK IS AN AFRICAN GOD?!?!
*Just kidding! We are vegetarians*
Did nobody notice that?
I did! Cool Black Phanter reference.
Anansi is a famous story all over the Caribbean ( where I come from ) we have story about anansi and gods but not about anansi being a gods.
makes sense sinc eyou all are just africans on foreign land
Could be the Christianity messing with the story
@@Tu51ndBl4d3 Not the Spanish Caribbean!
@@ThePaganSun two words:Puerto Rico
More like, told in the former British, French, and Dutch Caribbean but not the Spanish-speaking Caribbean.
Somewhere around 2:35, I started wondering if Nyame was doing all this for his own amusement. I mean, sending Anansi against some folks who were clearly not the sharpest crayons in the box can be summed up pretty well as "let's watch the fun."
As an ASANTI I love this video, there are hundreds of stories but they are dying due to oral tradition, maybe I should write a book, You Butchered the pronounciations though LOL, but well done, MOATIA is not a Fairy it means DWARF , Ashantis don't have fairies
I'm a bit short on time, want me to tell so you write?
huh? Are you about to die? Who says I should write one then passes it off, lazy
I love this as well because Im ghanian. No one really covers any ghanian folklore. And she did butcher the name which really made me laugh. She gave it a good effort though. I look forward to more folkore.
0:54 "just kidding we are all vegetarians" BLACK PANTHER REFERENCE
Is it just me or does the art get more and more amazing every video?
the first ever spider man
1:12 yooo is the fairy a mosquito?! That would make so much sense
YAAAAAAAAAAY!!!!!
STORY TIME WITH RED!
I like how when we first see Anansi, he’s chilling out on a hammock
Spiderwebs are pretty much just bug hammocks
Also, we see his spider shadow
Pleasantly reminding us of his arachnid origins
I love how Nyame is watching Black Panther!
When you got to how Anansi caught the fairy, I thought of Brer Rabbit and "oh, that's where the Tar Baby comes from" and then you call it 'tar-babied' XD
Oswald the lucky rabbit
"Hey, where did the leopard go?"
"In the hole."
INCEPTION NOISE
1:31 The Hornets make a B-line (Red:heh)
My favorite part of this video is her subtle way of showing Anansi is a spider the whole time. I don't know if he ever turns human in the mythology, but I like how often his shadow is a spider's shadow or he spontaneously gains four arms for one frame and then loses them again. It's really clever and interesting to see
Red, your singing gives me chills, lashfklash, I freaking love your voice