Years ago, I went to see the film Double Suicide with a friend and her sister (they were Chinese). After the show, the sister said, “Typical Japanese happy ending.”
@@kawaibakaneko A pair of beutiful butterflies emerged from their grave and flew side by side toward the morning sun. (that´s a legit ending from a Chinese book I read, but I can´t remember the title. Although it wasn´t a double suicide but a separated lovers, the man died, or killed, earlier, the girl begged her family to pass his grave, decked in red bridal gown, during her bridal possession to the husband her family forced her to. She jumped out of the carriage and killed herself on top of the grave)
I ain't gonna lie, I actually teared up a little watching this.. not because of the goofy video narration but because it reminded me of a good friend I had years ago in high school. He was only 15 years old when he actually pulled a SHINJU with his girlfriend.. they killed themselves after stealing his parents car (they were upset that their parents were moving and they would be apart).. in the suicide letter his girlfriend wrote him it said "If this is the only way we can be together, then I wouldn't have it any other way" Right in the feels man. Right in the feels. EDIT - I wasn't expecting this comment to blow up, was just putting my feelings out there. But to provide a little more context: They were childhood friends before they began dating who grew up across the street from one another. They were both from terribly abusive households and they committed Shinju by driving their car off a cliff. RIP Matthew and Maria.
@@alastor8091- Yes, absolutely. I see the attraction of the matter. I would think that such a romantic notion is more a female than a male thing (which is why I noticed it came from a man in this case). Unless you're Japanese that is. But I may be wrong here. Anyway, a situation or life can be so dire that carrying on would be worse. And far worse than dying for and with love. But it still isn't easy.
I love how you used pages from Ooku: The Inner Chambers for this! That’s one of my favorite manga, and despite being an award-winning series, it seems like nobody’s ever heard of it.
As a wise man once said, "🎶shinjuu wa hitori de dekinaiiiii🎶" But seriously, the first thing that came to my mind when I saw the thumbnail (also, yay, new upload!) was the life and death of the RL Dazai Osamu, one of my favourite authors. He not only died in a lover's suicide with his mistress after a total of 5 suicide attempts throughout his life, but also tried shinjuu with a waitress at the age of 21 and the waitress died while he survived. This filled him with utter guilt and he's written about it in multiple works of his. The second time he tried shinjuu was with his first wife after finding out she had cheated on him with his friend while he was recovering from addiction in a hospital. He deliberately messed with her dosage of the pill they were taking for the deed so that she'd survive, but he also (unintentionally) survived. The third time he tried shinjuu was with his mistress after he had had a terrible mental breakdown, had left his beloved family to stay at a hotel with his mistress Yamazaki Tomie (with whom he had made a shinjuu pact) and had spent months writing his magnum opus, "Ningen Shikkaku" (No Longer Human.) He drowned in the Tamagawa Canal only a month after the release of the last part of the then-serialised novel along with Tomie. An altar was found in their room after their deaths with prayers for the dead. Their bodies were found 6 days later on Dazai's 39th birthday
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I wonder at what point in time did the misunderstanding that Romeo and Juliet was a love story and not an absurd story about dumb horny teenagers became the norm among the public. Also I wonder if there were parody shinju plays.
Yes! Towards the end of the Edo Period, there were many parody plays. Shinju became more of a joke, unlike earlier in the period, where it was more romanticized.
I remember that one rakugo story about an oiran that got old and only few men visit her so she fooled a man into commeting shinju with her, he jumped in the river first then someone called her telling her a man wants to visit her so she stops now she is very happy with that news she went back to the brothel, the man actually heard everything he survived 'cause the water wasn't deep 😭 it's so funny to me Shouwa genroku rakugo shinjuu season 1 episode 6 at 15:16
I mean it's less about "teenagers dumb" and more "feuds and hatred are dumb and ruin the lives of our kids". Says so right in the opening speech of the play.
Tbh the play isn't really about Romeo and Juliet, but about toxic parenting and its effects. Romeo and Juliet are just tools to reveal the effects. They were just a couple of innocent kids who were dragged into the middle of a stupid and pointless feud between fully grown adults, and they had to pay the price with their lives. I really don't understand how so many people see it as a love story
Hopefully enough to just stick around and be with them. This whole thing honestly made me think of the novella Candide, written by Voltaire. Candide goes through all of these hardships, traveling the world, fighting in wars, getting arrested, all for the sake of his "dream girl" Cunégonde. When he finally gets to her in the end, she's washed up and ugly from hard labor and abuse, and he marries her out of pity and lives a miserable life with her. Basically, the ultimate let-down. Grand gestures of love and self sacrifice are sometimes easy compared to settling down with the man or woman of your dreams. Once passion has died down, and to one extent or another it will die down, the real work is in keeping things stable and happy.
“Once in a while a couple would even kill themselves, and the Japanese public would applaud.” RIP Edo period Japanese, you would’ve loved Romeo and Juliet. 😔
Shinju literally means "within the heart", which is where the downtrodden lovers stuck their daggers into. Or perhaps, it was the stomach. Either way, what mattered was that they were dead, and hopefully buried.
Some things are simply nice to romanticise about but sad to actually see it happen. In this modern day in age we can see it as absurd. Though in a day where life literally sucked, where you were indentured servitude, get paid shit & be grateful, or be considered the outcast low life. I can see why so many did it.
I mean, plenty of people still commit suicide, and they often don't even believe in reincarnation or life after death. People back then could die lightly because they did not think it was a sinful end, but the opposite. And they did not die for themselves, either. People now kill themselves with similar frequency, but for their own purposes and with the belief that it is sinful, or that nothing comes afterwards.
Him: I'm starting to have feelings for a woman who is doing guys for a living & if we have a relationship of any sort, society will punish us & she will go through hell for it. Her: If I give the slightest hint that I care for someone, I will be punished. Society will punish us both. Both: There is almost 0 chance that this could possibly, by any stretch of the imagination, go well. The person that I care deeply about will have such misery if we pursue this! *pause I LOVE YOU!!!! Alternatively- Both: Well, this is asking for trouble & begging for misery. Let's use some sense & not see each other any longer. Thanks for not making my life angst-ridden misery!
When it your own choice and not forced it pulls at the deepest parts of your soul- to love something so much it destroys you is one of the scariest things you hear about but when your in that situation you physically cannot live without the other half of your soul 😢❤🥰
Picture your a wife, just living your life, taking care of the kids and looking after the farm, when you hear that not only was your husband cheating with prostitutes when he was supposed to be at work, but he went and killed himself with one. And instead of talking about how wrong it was for him to neglect his family, have sex with prostitutes, and kill himself, thus leaving you with no way to support the children, all your neighbors gush about how romantic it is, and how they wish their men were so devoted.
Thanks for explaning, Now the movie Ask This of Rikyu makes so much more sense! Was already moved to tears by the movie, but this makes the romance much more profound.
Watching this before watching the old classic movie Sayonara would have given another flavor to the movie. The connection of the bridge over water by Red Buttons house was one of the symbols totally missed by me As for Romeo and Juliet. As I’ve told my daughter and nieces, it’s a story of a girl who disobeys her parents and dies within the week as a result of her disobedience
That, and the story of two families who are so hard-headed that they refuse to make peace until their feud has killed the only children of both heads, along with a multitude of others. We never even find out how the feud started.
Hey Linfamy, Got a request Please deliver a video on Shinsegumi and the life of people like Kondo Isawa Hijaka Toshizou Soiji Okita Shinpachi Nagakura.
Your videos always arrive at night. So I start to watch them, and fall asleep before the end. And now I’m keeping falling asleep, even in the morning. But I’ll manage to see most of the video.
I'm reminded of the press cat in Hoozuki no Reitetsu, who finds his mistress in the red lantern district of hell, after she shinjuu'd w/ a client, off a cliff, into a conveniently placed vat of manure, and took the cat. What a reunion! ✨✌️✨
Goodness.. Idk how others feel, but it really is fascinating to hear lore, and remarkable how much affects us and we never know! How many pinkies did we promise in our youths?!
So this is the term of what Osamu Dazai did! At least, I think he did. If I remember correctly, I think the woman he was to have killed himself with backed out at the last minute, but he still died? Or...I think it happened in a previous failed attempt and the woman died but he lived. But Dazai's family had the money to make that little incident "go away", all for him to try it again and I suppose succeed. I only read up on him a bit after the anime Bungou Stray Dogs began, though the anime plays his suicidal tendencies for laughs (kind of like that anime with the teacher who keeps trying to hang himself 😅). If I also remember correctly though, I think Dazai's suicide also inspired the writer Akutagawa's own suicide, a character who heavily respects Dazai in the anime (and in real life, I suppose), which is...unfortunate. There's a moment in the anime though where either Akutagawa or the man character, Atsushi, voices also considering taking their life and Dazai harshly slaps them and chastizes them for ever thinking of doing that. He feels that whereas his own "sins" are too heavy to be changed and wants to atone for them, the other person (again, can't remember if it was Akutagawa or Atsushi) still has hope for their future and should continue living. Once I learned that one of the two (I really think it was Akutagawa, given him looking up to him in real life) had unfortunately taken their life because of Dazai, I appreciated that moment in the anime all the more, as though it were the real Dazai who was lamenting that his own actions had sadly inspired a copycat. We'll never know, but maybe the real Dazai never would've committed suicide, especially in such a dramatic way, had he known the ripple effect it would have. Good on the anime for taking a moment to seriously address that through all of its usual comedy.
The relationship between Akutagawa and Dazai was actually reversed in real life. Akutagawa was an author Dazai greatly respected although I don't think they ever met and Dazai was inspired to commit suicide by him, although Akutagawa killed himself with barbital while Dazai's attempts and success involved drowning.
@@rachelblackmore5416 It's definitely been a long time since I'd read up on it, but I didn't know that! Or I'd forgotten it, lol. The liberties the anime has taken with ages and connections isn't helping any 😅
Man, if I had been watching that play, I don't think that I would have been able to get past how stupid the guy was to lend money that didn't belong to him. And if the hooker really loved the guy, why not blackmail his mooching "friend" or just out the "friend" to his family? Shame is a powerful force, after all. Anyway, true love doesn't need to kill itself to prove its sincerity, but it does need to clean the dishes if it didn't make dinner last night, make sure that the bedding and clothes are washed, take its shoes off at the door and help out shoveling snow. The beauty is in the boring shit. You only get to die once with Shinzu, but when it comes to domesticity, you get to die MANY little deaths everyday.
Could you do some Muromachi period videos I would love to hear about Ashikaga Takauji, Tadayoshi & the Kanno disturbance. Not many videos on it at the moment.
It's not related to this particular topic, but I'm wondering why Japan never had any folk rebellion. Maybe it just would be a reasonable outcome of all the crap going on in medieval Japan from my nation's perspective... But I guess it happened in most of the world - but in Japan, people protested in completely different ways, and I can't really understand why.
Once again, you prove to be the most "Cursed" One. (Just in case you forgot - You stated that ignorance is "Bliss") I won't shinjū for you, but I will click on "Like"!
Shinju was featured in the movie: Sayonara, with Marlon Brando and Red Buttons. Red Buttons and his Japanese girlfriend, committed Shinju at the movie's end.
Once i was thinking about committing shinju with my gf because my parents were homophobic and i didnt want them to tear us apart , me and my gf are still together and we're fine
Man, I've to start asking what manga you're getting these images from, particularly the one with mister "Exciting Business Proposal" getting read the riot act.
You know for those people who did the double love suicide... And did meet and fall in next life, fell in love, got married... If the dude shinjū'd again... You know that his heart was more connected to his balls than anywhere else
It kinda sick how romanticize and honored suicide is in anceint japan and now modern japanese still have high rate of suicide, different times same mentality.
Would you do this for your lover?
You don’t have to shinjū for me, but you *could* do this: www.patreon.com/Linfamy
HELL NA😂
I… I mean, after being literally sex trafficked…? Uh, no, he’s getting stabbed. They are all getting stabbed.
Nope lol
Lin! I never knew you were such a romantic!
But no. I would fire them first. As in, set their shitagi alight.
NEXT!!
Ok, I will SHOW MY TRUE LOVE
Years ago, I went to see the film Double Suicide with a friend and her sister (they were Chinese). After the show, the sister said, “Typical Japanese happy ending.”
Amazing 😂
What.... what would have been the chinese happy ending?!
@@kawaibakaneko It is a mystery lost in time. 😁
@@kawaibakanekoI’m Chinese and idk
@@kawaibakaneko A pair of beutiful butterflies emerged from their grave and flew side by side toward the morning sun.
(that´s a legit ending from a Chinese book I read, but I can´t remember the title. Although it wasn´t a double suicide but a separated lovers, the man died, or killed, earlier, the girl begged her family to pass his grave, decked in red bridal gown, during her bridal possession to the husband her family forced her to. She jumped out of the carriage and killed herself on top of the grave)
I ain't gonna lie, I actually teared up a little watching this.. not because of the goofy video narration but because it reminded me of a good friend I had years ago in high school.
He was only 15 years old when he actually pulled a SHINJU with his girlfriend.. they killed themselves after stealing his parents car (they were upset that their parents were moving and they would be apart).. in the suicide letter his girlfriend wrote him it said "If this is the only way we can be together, then I wouldn't have it any other way"
Right in the feels man. Right in the feels.
EDIT - I wasn't expecting this comment to blow up, was just putting my feelings out there. But to provide a little more context: They were childhood friends before they began dating who grew up across the street from one another. They were both from terribly abusive households and they committed Shinju by driving their car off a cliff. RIP Matthew and Maria.
That's very sad 🙏
Oh shit I'm so sorry for your loss
I’m really sorry that they died but I just can’t believe how extremly juvinile and stupid their action was.
Damn. I'm sorry.
@@Pollicina_db Almost like they were juveniles. In high school. Wild how that happens.
"Oh, to be stabbed in the throat by your man" has to be one of the weirdest teenage fantasies ever...
Oh, Japan... don't ever change.
I wouldn't say it's that weird. Heather Harmon attracted a pretty sizable following because of it.
"oh to be bit in the neck by your fantasy boy"
I'm an adult and not from Japan and I have these fantasies.
The joke is: "Never nuke a country twice."
The truth is: "As if we needed radiation for that. Radiation will at best wake Godzilla."
Ewwww. This is not cute or funny.
My ex once told me that he thought double suicides were romantic 😬. Dodged that bullet I suppose
You dodged the noose
She's not wrong. It is pretty romantic.
@@alastor8091- "He" 😁
@@saymyname2417 he, she, the idea still tickles the romantic organ. Loving someone so much youd rather die together than live alone.
@@alastor8091- Yes, absolutely. I see the attraction of the matter.
I would think that such a romantic notion is more a female than a male thing (which is why I noticed it came from a man in this case).
Unless you're Japanese that is. But I may be wrong here. Anyway, a situation or life can be so dire that carrying on would be worse. And far worse than dying for and with love. But it still isn't easy.
"He thought it was so totally sad, people would love it." Truer words.
That 'Manji, you didn't lock the rear door last night. Indeed my lord, accept my resignation dagger.' Joke was cruelly hilarious.
Employee: Off himself BC u scolded him
Me:
I love how you used pages from Ooku: The Inner Chambers for this! That’s one of my favorite manga, and despite being an award-winning series, it seems like nobody’s ever heard of it.
I saw the art and immediately went looking for it! I love this kind of story, any other similar recommendations?
At least it's having an anime adaptation. I hope it will get more readers to the manga!
@@MaGpeS what?! When’s it due out? I’ve wanted an anime for it ever since the issues started releasing in English!
Ahhhh thank you for this! I read it when it first came out and couldn't remember the name when i recognized the panels. Now to finish reading it 💖
I watched the anime adaptation in Netflix
As a former prostidude I can attest that love is possible without shinju.
Nat 🤣
well, prosti-dude
We ladies appreciate your work, good sir.
Times are quite different now....
Glad you got out of the life. ✌🙏
As soon as I finally graduate and get a real job, I’m gonna patreon tf out of you
Good luck with school, whatever you're working towards!
Omggg thank you!! ❤ I love your channel and learn so much from your videos, plus your jokes and puns never fail to crack me up 😂
As a wise man once said, "🎶shinjuu wa hitori de dekinaiiiii🎶"
But seriously, the first thing that came to my mind when I saw the thumbnail (also, yay, new upload!) was the life and death of the RL Dazai Osamu, one of my favourite authors. He not only died in a lover's suicide with his mistress after a total of 5 suicide attempts throughout his life, but also tried shinjuu with a waitress at the age of 21 and the waitress died while he survived. This filled him with utter guilt and he's written about it in multiple works of his. The second time he tried shinjuu was with his first wife after finding out she had cheated on him with his friend while he was recovering from addiction in a hospital. He deliberately messed with her dosage of the pill they were taking for the deed so that she'd survive, but he also (unintentionally) survived. The third time he tried shinjuu was with his mistress after he had had a terrible mental breakdown, had left his beloved family to stay at a hotel with his mistress Yamazaki Tomie (with whom he had made a shinjuu pact) and had spent months writing his magnum opus, "Ningen Shikkaku" (No Longer Human.) He drowned in the Tamagawa Canal only a month after the release of the last part of the then-serialised novel along with Tomie. An altar was found in their room after their deaths with prayers for the dead. Their bodies were found 6 days later on Dazai's 39th birthday
Huh, i didn’t know that much detail, thanks
RIP Osamu Dazai💔🙏
Dude have irl plot armor till the end rip Dazai
That song popped up in my head when I saw the thumbnail. But... it's a very tragic thing to sing about ...
What a tragic life. And it didn't help that his dead body was found on his birthday. Unfortunate, indeed.
Tokubei must be Japanese for "sweet, but dumb".
lol
Lol this types personality are everywhere.
I can’t get enough of your humor😂 I learned so much obscure Japanese history and cultures from your channel since 2020😂 legit one of my favorite channels! Please keep up the amazing work! Also love seeing your art improving over the years!
I wonder at what point in time did the misunderstanding that Romeo and Juliet was a love story and not an absurd story about dumb horny teenagers became the norm among the public. Also I wonder if there were parody shinju plays.
Yes! Towards the end of the Edo Period, there were many parody plays. Shinju became more of a joke, unlike earlier in the period, where it was more romanticized.
I remember that one rakugo story about an oiran that got old and only few men visit her so she fooled a man into commeting shinju with her, he jumped in the river first then someone called her telling her a man wants to visit her so she stops now she is very happy with that news she went back to the brothel, the man actually heard everything he survived 'cause the water wasn't deep 😭 it's so funny to me
Shouwa genroku rakugo shinjuu season 1 episode 6 at 15:16
I think the real tragedy was that Romeo didn't have any patience.
Imagine if he'd waited 30 seconds more after seeing his "dead" Juliet.
I mean it's less about "teenagers dumb" and more "feuds and hatred are dumb and ruin the lives of our kids". Says so right in the opening speech of the play.
Tbh the play isn't really about Romeo and Juliet, but about toxic parenting and its effects. Romeo and Juliet are just tools to reveal the effects. They were just a couple of innocent kids who were dragged into the middle of a stupid and pointless feud between fully grown adults, and they had to pay the price with their lives. I really don't understand how so many people see it as a love story
This makes me stop to rethink, "How much do I love someone?" I love your videos and I hope you continue to create more, teaching us more. ^^
Hopefully enough to just stick around and be with them.
This whole thing honestly made me think of the novella Candide, written by Voltaire.
Candide goes through all of these hardships, traveling the world, fighting in wars, getting arrested, all for the sake of his "dream girl" Cunégonde.
When he finally gets to her in the end, she's washed up and ugly from hard labor and abuse, and he marries her out of pity and lives a miserable life with her.
Basically, the ultimate let-down.
Grand gestures of love and self sacrifice are sometimes easy compared to settling down with the man or woman of your dreams.
Once passion has died down, and to one extent or another it will die down, the real work is in keeping things stable and happy.
Even in the captions, you were committed to misspelling "phenomenon" in the same way you mispronounced it. Respect++ 😁
I was trying to fall asleep listening to you and then I heard the attempt to say "phenomenon" 😂 I'm crying 🤣
There’s a sushi buffet named Shinju. This is challenging to process
As long as it's not shinjū 心中, you're good 😂
@@Linfamy I’m going to drive by and check 😂
@@SllacyIs it?
“Once in a while a couple would even kill themselves, and the Japanese public would applaud.”
RIP Edo period Japanese, you would’ve loved Romeo and Juliet. 😔
Always watch the full video before commenting, kids
😂
I wonder when Shakespeare was introduced to Japan, probably sometime in the Meiji period? I imagine they would have loved the Roman plays.
@@gwammeh 42nd 👍
Why?@@gwammeh
Shinju literally means "within the heart", which is where the downtrodden lovers stuck their daggers into. Or perhaps, it was the stomach. Either way, what mattered was that they were dead, and hopefully buried.
Some things are simply nice to romanticise about but sad to actually see it happen. In this modern day in age we can see it as absurd. Though in a day where life literally sucked, where you were indentured servitude, get paid shit & be grateful, or be considered the outcast low life. I can see why so many did it.
I mean, plenty of people still commit suicide, and they often don't even believe in reincarnation or life after death.
People back then could die lightly because they did not think it was a sinful end, but the opposite. And they did not die for themselves, either. People now kill themselves with similar frequency, but for their own purposes and with the belief that it is sinful, or that nothing comes afterwards.
But that reality is still the reality for very many today.
As you told the story, I thought, "that play is as stupid as Romeo and Juliet." I'm glad to see we're on the same page. ^^
Its sad tho
I just realized that in Japan, Romeo&Juliet is probably considered a drama with a happy ending💀
Him: I'm starting to have feelings for a woman who is doing guys for a living & if we have a relationship of any sort, society will punish us & she will go through hell for it.
Her: If I give the slightest hint that I care for someone, I will be punished. Society will punish us both.
Both: There is almost 0 chance that this could possibly, by any stretch of the imagination, go well. The person that I care deeply about will have such misery if we pursue this!
*pause I LOVE YOU!!!!
Alternatively-
Both: Well, this is asking for trouble & begging for misery. Let's use some sense & not see each other any longer.
Thanks for not making my life angst-ridden misery!
"You're different than the others! I LOVE you! Pay me more."
That's what Ivanka said to Donald!😃
I'd be curious to know how a soy sauce vendor could exile you from a city. 🤣
Don't mess with those soy sauce barons :p
There’s a reason it’s called KikkoMAN, and not KikkoCUCK. 😂
Your videos are a perfect mix of hilarity and knowledge. Never stop being you.
I've actually watched the kabuki play, it was fantastic. I think it had Tamasaburo Bando as the onnagata, so of course, it was an absolute wonder
Neat, I learned about this from an anime and was amused by your presentation of it tonight
When it your own choice and not forced it pulls at the deepest parts of your soul- to love something so much it destroys you is one of the scariest things you hear about but when your in that situation you physically cannot live without the other half of your soul 😢❤🥰
Also everyone was definitely aware of when the plays specifically referenced real life double suicides. It was tabloid playwriting.
Picture your a wife, just living your life, taking care of the kids and looking after the farm, when you hear that not only was your husband cheating with prostitutes when he was supposed to be at work, but he went and killed himself with one.
And instead of talking about how wrong it was for him to neglect his family, have sex with prostitutes, and kill himself, thus leaving you with no way to support the children, all your neighbors gush about how romantic it is, and how they wish their men were so devoted.
🥲
Thanks for explaning, Now the movie Ask This of Rikyu makes so much more sense! Was already moved to tears by the movie, but this makes the romance much more profound.
Iz funneh how Japanese culture has been increasingliy fascinated by death, since the late Heian period...
That was a very serious, humorous and goofy narration of a supposed serious romantic true event story.
My brain was 😐🤔😔😆😊. Keep going 👍
I actually acted out this play in high school theater years ago lolol! I was ohatsu
Nice! How did it go?
I was a rentboy through most of my twenties, idk how it is for the ladies but my male clients loved it when I was rude and cold to them lmao
British cigarette?
Brat taming lol very popular.
Rentboy…? Just say whore.
RIP to everyone who lost their lives to shinju💔🙏
Watching this before watching the old classic movie Sayonara would have given another flavor to the movie. The connection of the bridge over water by Red Buttons house was one of the symbols totally missed by me
As for Romeo and Juliet. As I’ve told my daughter and nieces, it’s a story of a girl who disobeys her parents and dies within the week as a result of her disobedience
That, and the story of two families who are so hard-headed that they refuse to make peace until their feud has killed the only children of both heads, along with a multitude of others. We never even find out how the feud started.
Always a good day when I see Linfamy in my feed.
Hey Linfamy, Got a request
Please deliver a video on Shinsegumi
and the life of people like
Kondo Isawa
Hijaka Toshizou
Soiji Okita
Shinpachi Nagakura.
Watch him troll you with like a dragon ishin, instead.
Your videos always arrive at night. So I start to watch them, and fall asleep before the end. And now I’m keeping falling asleep, even in the morning. But I’ll manage to see most of the video.
6:10 Oh, that's some Shakespeare level burn!
I'm reminded of the press cat in Hoozuki no Reitetsu, who finds his mistress in the red lantern district of hell, after she shinjuu'd w/ a client, off a cliff, into a conveniently placed vat of manure, and took the cat. What a reunion! ✨✌️✨
1:39 *proceeds to have small stroke*
"Lol ShE LoVeS Me EvEn ThOuGh I'M BuYiNg HeR."
Petition to change the pronunciation of phenomenon to phenomon
Change it like every month to keep people on there toes
8:06 Discretely glances at Dazai
yay new content I've been bingeing alot recently
Glad you like!
Really enjoy your wit and diction. I listen out for 'baybay'=baby. Would you mind sharing what your accent/background is?
Sure, I'm Vietnamese-American :)
"Love is a ticking pair of testicles ready to explode." WHAT A SENTENCE!
Gosh this is so sad. Also kinda funny. Thanks for sharing. 😊
Goodness.. Idk how others feel, but it really is fascinating to hear lore, and remarkable how much affects us and we never know! How many pinkies did we promise in our youths?!
So this is the term of what Osamu Dazai did! At least, I think he did. If I remember correctly, I think the woman he was to have killed himself with backed out at the last minute, but he still died? Or...I think it happened in a previous failed attempt and the woman died but he lived. But Dazai's family had the money to make that little incident "go away", all for him to try it again and I suppose succeed.
I only read up on him a bit after the anime Bungou Stray Dogs began, though the anime plays his suicidal tendencies for laughs (kind of like that anime with the teacher who keeps trying to hang himself 😅). If I also remember correctly though, I think Dazai's suicide also inspired the writer Akutagawa's own suicide, a character who heavily respects Dazai in the anime (and in real life, I suppose), which is...unfortunate.
There's a moment in the anime though where either Akutagawa or the man character, Atsushi, voices also considering taking their life and Dazai harshly slaps them and chastizes them for ever thinking of doing that. He feels that whereas his own "sins" are too heavy to be changed and wants to atone for them, the other person (again, can't remember if it was Akutagawa or Atsushi) still has hope for their future and should continue living.
Once I learned that one of the two (I really think it was Akutagawa, given him looking up to him in real life) had unfortunately taken their life because of Dazai, I appreciated that moment in the anime all the more, as though it were the real Dazai who was lamenting that his own actions had sadly inspired a copycat. We'll never know, but maybe the real Dazai never would've committed suicide, especially in such a dramatic way, had he known the ripple effect it would have. Good on the anime for taking a moment to seriously address that through all of its usual comedy.
The relationship between Akutagawa and Dazai was actually reversed in real life. Akutagawa was an author Dazai greatly respected although I don't think they ever met and Dazai was inspired to commit suicide by him, although Akutagawa killed himself with barbital while Dazai's attempts and success involved drowning.
@@rachelblackmore5416 It's definitely been a long time since I'd read up on it, but I didn't know that! Or I'd forgotten it, lol. The liberties the anime has taken with ages and connections isn't helping any 😅
I love your channel, when will you cover the Muromachi period? We’re so close to Sengoku/the Warring States!
Man, if I had been watching that play, I don't think that I would have been able to get past how stupid the guy was to lend money that didn't belong to him.
And if the hooker really loved the guy, why not blackmail his mooching "friend" or just out the "friend" to his family?
Shame is a powerful force, after all.
Anyway, true love doesn't need to kill itself to prove its sincerity, but it does need to clean the dishes if it didn't make dinner last night, make sure that the bedding and clothes are washed, take its shoes off at the door and help out shoveling snow.
The beauty is in the boring shit.
You only get to die once with Shinzu, but when it comes to domesticity, you get to die MANY little deaths everyday.
Sounds awesome 👍
So glad to be single 😅
@@pakde8002 It's actually pretty nice, all jokes aside.
Why would the hooker risk such an act if she wasn't sure that he wasn't lying? Oh wait, she killed herself over the dudes dumb decision. Pathetic.
@canesugar911 Haven't you ever heard the saying "the couple that blackmails together stays together"?
I clicked the "Like" button almost immediately (the 98th "Like"), then at 1:25 you yelled at me to click the "Like" button, so I clicked it again.
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Another interesting video! 👍
I had a question tho. What is the manga at 8:30? It looks so familiar, but I can't put my finger on it. 🤔
"In a cultural phenomnm-.. :|"
I feel bad tbh, he clearly was done trying to say phenomenon 💀
We read Love Suicides At Amijima in World Literature II in college.
Could you do some Muromachi period videos I would love to hear about Ashikaga Takauji, Tadayoshi & the Kanno disturbance. Not many videos on it at the moment.
Interesting and thanks. Did not know that earlier Japanese cultures were so interconnected.
Moral of the story of shinju don't lend money.
1:27 Jokes on you, I clicked the like button before I watched the video 😤
You're the best ;)
I pressed the Like button before the video even started, where's my apology? lol 😅
I'm sorry! :p
You have the cutest animations! (^_^)
It's like the movie, Pretty Woman, but with a surprise ending.
My week just got better ❤
It's not related to this particular topic, but I'm wondering why Japan never had any folk rebellion. Maybe it just would be a reasonable outcome of all the crap going on in medieval Japan from my nation's perspective... But I guess it happened in most of the world - but in Japan, people protested in completely different ways, and I can't really understand why.
what do you mean by folk rebalance
@@tjohnsmith8276 rebellion. Sorry, it was a typo.
Simple. Culture. They were indoctrinated from birth to accept the order, and see anything wrong as a single bad actor.
Look up the ikko ikko
Totally shinju-ed in the woods😂😂😂 I know I should not laugh, but that was hilarious 🤣
1:26 wait when tf did youtube start doing this with the like button
Doing what?
@@Linfamy it lighted up and had color flash around it and it looks pretty cool you should try it out
Once again, you prove to be the most "Cursed" One. (Just in case you forgot - You stated that ignorance is "Bliss") I won't shinjū for you, but I will click on "Like"!
I'll accept it :p
whats up linfamy? busy being awesome?
Nah not busy, it comes natural ;)
Oh my God I'm 1st. You rock Professor Lin!
No you rock
Did they isekai to another world, where the coutesan becomes the darklord and the man becomes the hero with a harem?
They didn't have truck-kun back then, so getting isekaid couldn't happen.
Ah nice, that was fun for lunchbreak
Great video
The stills from sakuran make me happy
0:49 from another linfamy video, technically, these weren't fake, just taken from a corpse
7:23 this part got me good ^^
9:35 can someone explain what the sticks on the left are for?
Those might be prayers, blessings or fortunes, either sold there or brought there to bless the dead.
Ah yes, another one in this series 😁
"why haven't you clicked the like button yet?"
um ackchewally i like videos when i start watching them
My hero
Shinju was featured in the movie: Sayonara, with Marlon Brando and Red Buttons. Red Buttons and his Japanese girlfriend, committed Shinju at the movie's end.
Once i was thinking about committing shinju with my gf because my parents were homophobic and i didnt want them to tear us apart , me and my gf are still together and we're fine
cant believe im this early!!
Me neither
Cheers!
That’s what he said
I really admire the Japanese history and ho'ing culture.
Ty😮
Thank YOU?
@@Linfamy
Thank YOU for uploading more chibi ^.^
Man, I've to start asking what manga you're getting these images from, particularly the one with mister "Exciting Business Proposal" getting read the riot act.
That one's called Ooku. And I rewrite the dialogues for manga panels lol, that's not the original dialogue.
Art is definitely protest and a means to challenge societal norms.
Dang... I thought the violence in the brothels in Blue Eye Samurai were played up.
Cool
No you are
Heeey... you make cool content
Heeey you make cool comment
You know for those people who did the double love suicide... And did meet and fall in next life, fell in love, got married... If the dude shinjū'd again... You know that his heart was more connected to his balls than anywhere else
Osamu dazai
Reminds me of Dazai Osamu from Bongou Stray Dogs. Grat anime btw. But only first 3 seasons.
Reminds me of the Chinese a fragant sacrifice, a posh couple dying for the sake of social order
Here for dazai ngl
Hope the play inspired real life romances but happy and wholesome.
Ohhhhh. Katen Kyōkotsu: Karamatsu Shinjū (Bleach) makes sense now.
It kinda sick how romanticize and honored suicide is in anceint japan and now modern japanese still have high rate of suicide, different times same mentality.
Modern suicide is because of academic pressure and overwork