Yokai Explained: Japanese Mermaids (Ningyo), They'll Eat Your Flesh | Japanese Folktales
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- Japanese folktales of Japanese mermaids. That's right, the Japanese had mermaids too, they were called ningyo, and they were not quite The Little Mermaid..
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No worries, just enjoy the videos :)
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Flesh eating mermaid? Gotta go get my nephew he will love mermaids after watching this lmao .
Also nice fairytale choice :) !! Edited sorry I meant folktales
There is an anime about flesh eating mermaids called Mermaid Forest.
If a fish begs for mercy, throw it back you fool! It ain't natural!
Ya serious
lol
There might be a number of those instances, but they don't make good story grist. Unless... *goes to write notes in novel ideas notebook*
In Hungarian tales the fish will grant you wishes.
It may grant you wishes if you have a wife that is realy greedy
OH!! That’s why the old woman was worried when she saw Ponyo!!
OH!!
OHH!!
Lol
ponyo~ ponyo~ ponyo, fishy in da seaa
ponyo is my favourite movie
That’s terrifying also btw the fujiwara clan famously married their daughters to the imperial family and controlled the Japanese court for 200 years
Oh really? That's interesting
Linfamy I found that out by watching a channel named Linfamy you should check him out he makes quality content
I don't know, he sounds fishy
Linfamy he is good just give him some time and you will like his content
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Before "The Little Mermaid" you could eat a Ningyo guilt free and enjoy your immortality. Now these days its a little more morally ambiguous.
I still do it anyways
Yup I mean like seriously
u would still eat it
Like that'll stop me
Save the baby mermaids! DONATE NOW!!1!11!!!!
*Do Mermaids Poop?*
_-Luffy (One Piece)_
*"Do Mermaids get morning hair?"*
_-Little Girl_
😂
Lol
No
Yes
Well yes but actually no..
Both relevant questions. Just like fish, they poop. And when they stick their head out of the water, it would only make sense it would be messy and wet. Wet hair is nothing like the movies I tell you!
“A crime against a manatee” made me honestly LOL. You’re awesome Lin, never stop being you!
I didn't get it, can you explain please
Crimes against humanity is a thing. This is a pun on that.
Japanese clans: We good. No war.
*Ningyo washed up in a shore*
Japanese clans: Cowabunga it is
The fisherman in the first story must have eaten the ningyo too...what happened to him? We must find the fisherman!
1st to replay but indeed
Because he was a man so he cant be a nun 😂 so thats why there is no record about him
Hmm the titles a little fishy don't you think...
@@simplysim1346 😒🤣
The hunt is on!!
I love Japanese Yōkai stories the most! They sure have imagination and it’s a gold mine for a writer :3
Never hurts to see another culture's stories :)
If you could choose a Yōkai you would become, which one would you pick?
Either Emperor Sutoku because he seems super powerful, or... there's a yokai called bakezori, which is a sandal that has come to life :3 :3. I'd be that, it's hilarious.
I would be a vampire cat because I’m a cat person or a Jorogumo because it’s like Spider Man but Japanese edition
Good choices :p
2:09 I went through WAY too many fashion blogs and videos for this dumb joke :D
XD hold my kalamary
Yo
BRuh
@Atakan Tekin what are those?
@Atakan ah, gotcha
Dugong? So that's where the name of the Pokémon 'Dewgong' comes from!
Ohhhh!
Yup
Yeah
Dewgong
A pokemon
A lare body of a seel
And a face of a cute cat
I love dugongs
Yeah I know
I love this channel so much! My husband is Japanese and I love literature so these stories are right up my alley. We have a daughter and I love learning pieces of her beautiful history through your videos ❤️
Yay! Glad you like it :)
In Western folklore, mermaids were originally imagined as being more like ningyao, but The Little Mermaid changed our perception of them too. Gaelic folklore also has Selkies, which are were-seals that love music and dancing and commonly come ashore to visit the pub on moonlit nights.
You couldn't say "Hold my sake?" LOL
🍶 Right? Not "for your own *sake* " right?
Takahashi Rumiko, a Japanese manga artist, penned a series of stories about "Mermaids" and the bad effects eating their flesh could have. Two of them were made into anime: _Mermaid Scar_ and _Mermaid Forest._
Ah yes, a few commenters have recommended Mermaid Forest too =)
@@Linfamy that’s what I was thinking when I started watching this.
"The creature begged for mercy as the fisherman gutted it"
Knife goes in, guts come out, that's what ningyo fishing is all about
AHH AH
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It's a shame that episode is banned in Japan.
So the Japanese see mermaids much as the Greeks did. well what comes natural i suppose; and the depths are never to be trusted!
It reminds me of a anime I saw called "Mermaid forest", where a guy eats Mermaid flesh and became immortal.
Yep that's a very common trope :)
Is this the one based off the Mermaid Saga manga?
@@joscelynnes7462 yes
@@theghostofchristmaspast293 great short manga ^_^
Yes that’s exactly what I was thinking
I feel like H.P. Lovecraft might have ripped off a few of these tales.
Hm I dunno, he's pretty creative on his own
@@Linfamy True, I don't recall any ancient tales of men using the power of air conditioning in a bid to live forever. (Cool Air)
@@symmetrymilton4542 well that story is because of several reasons.
1. Guy was paranoid about urban life and hated living with immigrants since when he moved with his wife because she paid the bills as he worked his books.
2. Guy didn't understand basic math & science so when in door heating was marketed was then implemented in nearly every residence, including his own apartment complex. Since he had no clue of thermodynamics so he didnt understand nor trust this new-age technology.
3. The guy left it "fear of the unknown" plenty of times but always had the story have that I shined/glowed unnaturally as the colors were not witnessed before and were likely from out of this known world. Yet most of his main protagonists are literal stand ins for himself with a quick and easy fix that the people be it commoners, foreigners/immigrants or even folk living in the country, if you weren't up to his racial prejudices... being a high class white man, typically im America, or at least northern Europe.
TLDR?: Lovecraft's phobias fueled his literature, but gotta admit those who followed his theme definitely dug alot deeper than he ever did
@@TheBeastr I suppose that is the date of all literature. Despite the fact that most authors despise fanfiction and related works.
Oh! Lovecraft... I am reminded of anime Bungou stray dogs. An anime where famous writers play role of character.
Japanese fairy tales: ---dead bodies of scary looking mermaids---
Japanese: NINGYO ARE BAD LUCK!
Western fairy tales: ---sexy mermaids----
Mermaids: I can be......where the people are~
Which is better?
I wanna be where the people are I wanna see what the people see
Brothers Grim: Collect all the material they can to scar all the children.
Even mermaids can be made scary! ~
🎶 I don't want to be in a Brothers Grim Fairytale ~
*Fishy* *Krueger*
OHHHH!! No wonder why the old grandma from Ponyo was in shook
Got you cucked I stole your wives ahhhhhh
And actually that even explains ponyo’s design
Literally. Shook. Lol.
Europe had fish people too. They were called Habsburgs
@Maintenance Renegade
Is there any instance in japanese history that was not caused or was at least not in connection with Fujiwara?
4:14 reminds me of an old Simpson's episode where they went to Japan and ended up in a fish factory. One of the fishes pleaded with Bart to spare his life, promising wishes but was gutted anyway
Rumiko Takahashi had some nice mermaid based graphic novels back in the day.
Mermaid Saga!!
There's a similar story I've heard about the one with the three children eating pieces of a forbidden animal & turning into said animal.
But instead of an ningyo, it was a crow's heart the children ate & turned into crows themselves.
Tbh this is the kind of mermaid I wanna see in Disney’s live action 😂😂
The Little Nightmare Mermaid
What about the Mermaid Sisters from episode 9 of Carole & Tuesday?
Their song was really good XD
fUCKING BULLSHIT
n e r o FCKING BULLSHT~
@@notyue3747 fucking bullshit. Holy shit oh fucker.
Kyousha
Our music is who we are!
First image
Me:Oh yeah
Second image
Me:OH NOOOOOO!
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I would still eat it
Immortality, HERE I COME
@Matthew good luck!
@@matthewhernandez1240 in the future Just show this vid
Mermaid legends of south east asia are the same. Most modern reports come from.the Philippines and Indonesia.
Dugong is also native to my country, indonesia, philippines and Australia
Dugong is just a cool name
@@Linfamy ya. They are more active than manatees. Aside from.that the thrive in seagrass beds which are usually found in clear tropical seas.
Hmm mermaid stories are comoon on the east coast of my country. There is also a dragon story too
Holy Moly, this reminds me of Ponyo. When the boy found Ponyo, it caused a tsunami/the oceans to rise and flood the whole island
Exactly what I was thinking
How to make a ningyo!
1 take a fish tail
2 get a human face and stitch it to the tail
3 get Snapchat and use the ugly filter
*BOOM*
Accurate
...didn’t he just say that
Darkvander 22 mmmhmmm I don’t care
Darkvander 22 oh srry
Very Accurate buddy.
😉 "The Little Mermaid" by Hans Christian Anderson
Actual story ended with Aerial sewing her human legs together
Did it? I read something different
@@Linfamy I stand corrected. The version I was thinking of was a ballet by John Neumeier, respect to you for catching that
That sounds like a deliciously macabre ending though :)
@@Linfamy very much so
I thought the little mermaid threw herself into the waves and became seafoam, but was then granted a soul (and afterlife, implied access to heaven) because she wouldnt kill the Prince to save herself when he did not love her...
My friend told me you should do the story of Tomoe Gozen! (The first female samurai)
I've learned about the ningyo and their flesh being eaten from the manga and anime 'Mermaid Forest'
Yeah I've gotten that recommendation a few times :)
@@Linfamy It is definitely worth it. Barely 10-11 episodes and really beautiful storyline.
Same mangaka as Inuyasha and Ranma 1/2. Rumiko Takahashi loves her folklore references.
Me: *not paying attention*
Also me: *hears the word fairy tail*
Me again: natsu and Lucy aren't fishes....... Are they?! 😱😱😱😱😱
😑 it's *Fairy tale* dude
It's use *Tale* not *Tail*
@@zerox8413 r/sameitstale,youthoughtitwasgoingtobewooosh?
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Thanks Winfamy!
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Hi Deidara
@@noth3451 Hello there, un
In some western stories of mermaids western mermaids are sometimes portrayed as evil sirens that lure people to they're deaths in the deep sea
Honestly only the disney one is a good mermaid.
So much thumbs up for the Missha FTE reference. Keep up the good work!
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At least Japanese Merpeople're *THICC*
Althrough I've heard consuming merpeople flesh broughts luck on asian mythology D:
Mmhmm
@@antz32 possible
The stories remind me of an anime (I forgot the name). It's about when you eat a mermaid flesh you either be a monster (this is more common) and the other is to be an immortal being (the two mc are one of these people who became immortal).
CAN SOMEBODY TELL ME THE TITLE OF THIS ANIME?! I FORGOT IT!
someone help this person out!
Was it possibly Mermaid Forest?
@@shenaev5059 Maybe that was it!
Though this might not be the one, Rental Magica had an episode about to these Japanese mermaids. It was a pretty scary episode.
I know I'm a little late, but is it In\Spectre the show is about yokai in general and the other mc is a girl who helps them. She walks with a cane.
"Hold my calamari!" had me in stiches lol.
I love learning through these videos
Yaaaay finally another lovely video
Yayyy
5:33 how to not get demonitized when sharing pictures of mermaids in videos you ask?
Just put very happy smiley faces in the most intamate parts a no problem!
Crossing fingers 🤣
1:22 I found out who it is! It's Fujiwara no Kamatari!
Love your videos
Love your comments
Japanese Folktales has alot of interesting stories. Great Job! :)
(Sorry if I have bad English.)
Very interesting. The Ningyo sound a lot like the mermaids in the Polish horror movie, “The Lure.”
I found ur channel last night and i love it! Ive been devouring your videos one after another 😸
Thanks! Yes, devour them! I've always said the videos are delicious :3
@@Linfamy hehe now ive watched them all and ill tune in for the next one for sure :)
Wow that's quite the binge 🤣👍
@@Linfamy I adore history and mythos of all cultures very much, and the artwork gave a perfect balance of seriousness and humor 😺
I read once a light novel by the name of Sugaru Miaki about a character who is a mermaid. His/her book incorporated bits of what I had learned here (immortality and beauty). Nice to know these other bits of info. Btw, the similarity between the Japanese words "ninkyō" (任侠, chivalry) and "ningyo" (人魚, mermaid) are quite intriguing. Anyhow, nice vid man:)
Yeah mortality is a very popular mermaid theme :)
I really enjoy these Folktale stories, I love them so much :D
Thanks! Glad you like em 😁
Some people : Mermaids are pretty even siren
Poeple who watch this:uh Watch this
After
Poeple: my Life has been a Lie
You mistaken sirena with siren two difference creatures. Sirena is the mermaid and the siren are bird-people
You know, there was a lesser known Video game that came out around the same time as "Ib" and "The Witch's house" called "Mermaid's Curse". it's about your stereotypical group of teens who's car breaks down at a manor much like The Shining. There, one of their friends falls ill and her body is covered in sores. The goal of the game is to survive long enough for the manor's owner to return (who put them there in an attempt to offer sacrifices for the Mermaids curse.) The good ending is achieved if you manage to keep them all alive, but there are a lot of ways you can get them killed even by doing something logical (for instance, if you light the fireplace for the sick friend when she asks for it, she will dry out and die). In one ending, the lone survivor found some dead mermaids and used their flesh as a food source. The old man told her that this action made her immortal and she runs off in her insanity.
OMG you're a comedy GENIUS!!
"Pillar, stones, and a well" and "Hold my calamari" 🤣🤣 You're too much!
Changling stories are also interesting! Great stuff! Maybe we can talk about all of this. Maybe you won't think I'm crazy. Honestly, even if you do, it's cool. I think we're getting near an important juncture....
0:54 so it's Oscar from Shark Tale?
Please do the following Japanese folktales next:
Banchō Sarayashiki (The Dish Mansion at Banchō)
Yuki-onna (The Snow Woman)
Tsurara-onna (The Icicle Woman)
The Princess Peony
Willow Wife
The Spring Lover and the Autumn Lover
Flower of the Peony
The Star Lovers
The Mirror of Matsuyama
The Story of Princess Hase
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@@Linfamy Thank you so much, @Linfamy! I love your content! Keep making videos forever, please! 😁😁😁
Slave driver 😅. But I'll keep making em if people keep watching
@@Linfamy Good enough for me!
How did the Japanese look at a dugong and think
“Oh shit it’s a mermaid that’s gonna murder me, eat me and steal my ramen.
I have brought dis honour to my family..”
Yeah, they just cute
Fear of the colour green huh? Luckily Xbox isn't popular in Japan anyway.
:p
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Why, thank you 💗
I love your videos!!! I'd love it if possible if you could make a video on Mimi-nashi Hōichi
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I legit had to turn off the stove and stop cooking just so I could laugh my ass off over that *crime against a manatee* joke.
Victory! 🤣
i want to use the last story about the bathtub mermaid in a paper im writing but cant find anything about it online to cite - do you have a source for this? love your videos btw!
My bedtime stories came from this channel from now on
Happy nightmares ;)
Lol thanks XD
People: hai manatee
Dugong: Am I A JOKE TO YOUU
:p
The first part of the story of the little girl who ate some ningyo and wound up living forever, sounds like The Highlander. Could you update it so that she becomes a fearless Shaolin priest? (The ass-kicking kind, not the relaxed seeking enlightenment kind.) Or because she's immortal and despondent over watching husbands die of old age, could she become a scholar/super-ninja? (Why a scholar? So can disappear any credible evidence that ninjas existed.)
Highlander! Wow it's been a while :)
Now I know why the phonetic Japanese term for mermaid easily rang some bells in my head from an anime I remember watching at my alma mater's anime club when I was attending college there that was presumably called "Mermaid Forest" based on some research I decidedly did in terms of revisiting that particular experience from a Spanish term for a young child that surprisingly shares its name with a very common weather phenomenon!
Do not skip the ads guys. He said he need food!!
Western mermaids also eat sailors, at least mermaids in Japan get right to the point.
Crime against Humanatee.... 😆😆😆 you got me there....
😅
If you're in the WA/OR area and want to see one of these mermaids, go visit Jake the Alligator man on the Long Beach Peninsila. He's not much of a talker, but man he's still got stories.
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Originally sirens were man eating bird people who'd lure sailors to their death by singing. Mermaids were around then, but they did entirely different things. It wasn't until later that the siren confusion happened.
The misconception of sirens being interchangeable with ''mermaids'' comes from early Roman times. The Greeks gave names to the sirens as if they were daughters of the river god Achelous and often sirens lured sailors with their songs and drowned them, so seeing all that the Romans interpreted sirens as sea creatures, but like you said they looked more like birds than anything.
The actual Greek version of mermaids are called ''Gorgons'' (like medusa) and they were supposedly the daughters of the sea monster Keto, and the primordial sea god Phorcys, they were monstrous and vicious themselves but there are also folktales about ''good'' (relatively speaking lol) Gorgons like the sister of Alexander the Great - Thessaloniki, who would encounter lost sailors at sea and if they reassured her her brother is safe and still ruling she'd lead them back to safety.
@@LazyMe420 interesting. I couldn't really find much on Greek mermaids (not sirens) other than some sources speculating that they were a type of water nymph.
Edit-
Now I'm highly confused cause some sources say gorgons were depicted as winged women with snakes for hair and were later changed to mermaids along with sirens, while some sources say they have fish tails.
@@raistlarn You probably just a bit lost because if the sources are on English that could be potentially unreliable if not by a reputable source because of the misconceptions that mermaids equal sirens, which has almost become canon by now lol. Also, if we wanna be totally honest maybe neither Siren nor Gorgon fits the description of mermaids (which I believe is a western European myth) which is where a lot of the confusion may be coming from but the Greek word for Mermaid is Gorgon ''Γοργόνα''.
''Gorgon'' can simply be interpreted as ''Sea monster'' in English (even though it also holds the meaning of causing terror, being swift and the sound of water). ''Gorgons'' were not characterized by their shape or form but by their connection to the sea and genealogy, Medusa for example did indeed look like half-snake half-woman while Thessaloniki like half-fish half-woman but they were both ''Gorgons'' or Sea monsters. On the other hand Sirens, while being named after Achelous the greatest river (not sea) in Greece and drowning sailors in a couple stories were also connected to Demeter (so essentially earth) and the muses. They were a specific monster.
I guess you could say that technically Sirens could possibly be characterized as Gorgons from a certain perspective, however that doesn't mean all Gorgons (mermaids) were Sirens and Sirens themselves were never actually called Gorgons in any of the ancient Greek stories involving them, they're simply the Sirens.
Greeks were also famous for changing the appearances of even the same monsters over the years with Romans changing characteristics of monsters even further in their own interpretations of Greek tales so strictly looking for the appearance of a monster is kinda senseless, it's more about the role they served in each story so they were often molted accordingly by each poet.
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Ohhhh now i understand Ponyo and the scene of the old lady freaking out
Okay, so next time I go to Japan, I'll buy a fishing poll, go to the jewelry store for bait, and see what I can catch. If I have any luck I'll send it to you. :) These are cool folk tails. Thanks.
This better be the truth, don't lie to me!
I saw the Fiji mermaid in Austin (or maybe it’s just A Fiji mermaid not THE one) and I’m glad to have this explanation
I grew up learning what western mermaid was but A few years ago i heard of this mermaid so now I love japan
Yes!
2:48 I've seen that story in a video before, but in the video it was a mermaid
Love the humor on this. Looks like your patrons are increasing. Hope you have moved up from bubble teas to ramen meals. Take care.
Thanks! Ramen's more nutritious for sure 😅
The boys in my class are obsessed with the Norwegian movie "Zombie lars" I'm not sure if it exists in English places or not....
When I show them this, they will be obsessed with mermaids
Haha maybe
i remember this story!
Your bad jokes are the absolute best ❤
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Very interesting. Are you going to cover emperor go sanjo and how he began to broke the fujiwara power next?
In some time..
@@Linfamy the rule of the three major retired emperors (emperor shirakawa, emperor toba and emperor go shirakawa) is so interesting and ignored that i cannot wait for you to cover them
A great anime series on this topic is called Mermaid Forest. It's pretty cool.
Finds a special human faced, wierd-looking fish.
Eats it...
Sounds logical