Miscellaneous Myths: Momotarō

[@OneColdRepublican]

You telling me your Boi Peaches was the first Pokemon trainer? Sweet.

[@DreyriAldranaris36]

That’s literally what I was thinking!

[@dilophosaursniper5399]

The Pokemon trainer before Pokemon trainers

[@DynomitePunch]

he speced into beast taming and strength on his character sheet, that's why the quest is so straight forward, he couldn't do anything else other than fight and conquer cuz he put nothing into constitution , charm, int, dex, etc

[@calvinmcneil9824]

That title belongs to the Onmioji

[@demi-femme4821]

@@DynomitePunch Hey, he put a good bit into Charisma. His Intimidation and Persuasion checks are pretty good.

[@LeifMaelstrom]

I feel like the fact that characters know who he is before he even does something suggests that Momotoro is a much older character than this surviving myth.

[@sobersplash6172]

makes a lot of sense

[@IrvingIV]

in-context it may be that he's really (in)famous amongst animals

[@elijahpadilla5083]

Good point on that. One if his later stories being the only one that survived the test of time.

[@thegreatfusili4673]

Still doesn't explain how to they know who he is since this is basically his origin story.

[@elijahpadilla5083]

@@thegreatfusili4673 Not necessarily. We skip right into an adventure, meaning that before the other related myths faded out, Momotaro could've had many other misadventures before even leaving home.

[@juanmanuelpenaloza9264]

USA: Hey, remember that time we tried to kill each other? Japan: Remember? Have you seen our cartoons?! We turned the whole thing into an anime trope: Old rivals becoming best buds. USA: Huh...cool bruh.

[@admin.slayerenryu]

China: Do they pay back for the countless crimes and atrocities they committed? Japan: ....

[@mrcaterpillow9926]

China's talking a lot about of shit for someone in cumshot distance.

[@justaamateur6533]

bruh

[@Nobythulhu]

China would NOT be on Japan’s side. Trust me on that one. Do not look up Nanking if you value your faith in human decency.

[@jlin592]

Nobythulhu THANK YOU

[@kylarirons2236]

The pheasant flies in first, announces their presence, and starts taking on the oni single handedly and no, I have no idea how he pulled that off either" I assume you've never fought a goose before? or more accurately, been prey to a goose?

[@janaterbio8010]

... Birds are terrifying ;^; Never underestimate birds.

[@chanonguyet8870]

Or a emu?

[@gembocobo9484]

@@janaterbio8010 yeah specially ones that are smart enough to pull you off a cliff or deliberately start arson their prey's base

[@leshyaedawnfire]

Try a cassowary. Those effers are terrifying and can literally kill you if you so much as look at them wrong!

[@kylarirons2236]

Pretty sure cassowaries are actually just nightmare creature cooked up in a secret lab or something

[@kerentan9446]

"Impressively strong, most impressively fluffy" "Has thumbs" "Keeps itself the in the air through sheer anger"

[@kaijumurmillo6630]

@OLIVIA VALENTIN I heard that.

[@masterofmundus1304]

@@kaijumurmillo6630 I FELT that

[@stormblaze9122]

@@masterofmundus1304 I TASTED that

[@M0Lz0208]

*Godzilla had a stroke trying to read this* and was SEEN by that

[@leonmercury3732]

"Mom looks like I'm an unlikely hero" "I'll go get the ancestral weapons" How every story I make will be handled from now on. Massive lampshading.

[@silcrow4045]

Maaa! There's a weird looking Oni outside! I'll go get teh weapons son

[@arcticdino1650]

Momotaro: Ok guys, we need a pla- Pheasant: Alright let's do this! LEEEEEEEROOOY JENKINS!

[@SporkSlayer]

Except this time, it works.

[@Billy-TL]

O my god he just flew in

[@cqstlupin6074]

Ikuze kuze kuze

[@fusel5883]

“Pretend like we never tried to kill each other” ... laughs in European and it’s thousands years of war history

[@clementgoh9270]

Tbf the Europeans still kinda hate one another

[@AyubuKK]

You guys practically have warfare down to an art form/science.

[@11Survivor]

@@AyubuKK I would say it's the opposite. Us europeans made war into such an ugly and terrifyingly destructive thing that we've basically agreed never to fight each other out of how we devolve into barbaric madmen/madwomen whenever we do.

[@jorenbosmans8065]

Look, most of those were before the invention of football, and especially international football. How Else were we supposed to compete?

[@lebazardichiko9069]

Hello fellow european person ! Where are you from ! X)

[@beepboop2816]

There’s an item in animal crossing new horizons called a peach surprise and I was so confused when a baby popped out of it and now it makes so much sense!

[@iblitz95]

I’m pretty sure there’s a similar, bamboo-themed item, referencing Princess Kaguya, too.

[@aquapenguin9697]

@@iblitz95 yea

[@artisticmothman]

“They encounter a monkey-“ Me: OMG YES I- “No not that one.” Me: oh ok.........

[@Acidfrog475]

Would the story have been more interesting if he was in it?

[@Acidfrog475]

@HahaItsPatrick boi XD

[@agnewtreeman]

Small Time Animatics sun wukong is Chinese, not japan. As sad as it is, he cant

[@Lemuel928]

So not Goku.

[@archdruidbookwalter951]

"What is this, a crossover episode?!?"

[@yo-im-soup1317]

"There's a myth where the god of thunder throws a skinned pony at the sun goddess and she responds by hiding in a cave for months" And now we finally know the full story. That foreshadowing is on point.

[@Lights_of_Silver]

Well, thast not the _full_ story, as it actually is trow in a weaving shed, making one of the woman how worked foe the goddess die from shock (and giving birth? That might be very wrong), and a bit more, so no, that's just what started it

[@entity107]

OH I know this one :)

[@zarks-heroes]

Which god of thunder

[@purplehaze2358]

“The pheasant flies in, announces their presence, and takes on the oni single-handedly. And no, I don’t know how it did that.” Ever been attacked by a cassowary?

[@raisoho7087]

You're comment just oozes "Dr. Bright" energy.

[@mohammedalshirawi7584]

Cassowary = dangerous. Pheasant = food.

[@jameswoodard4304]

Cassowaries are on the complete opposite end of the bird spectrum from pheasants. The defining trait of pheasants is that they fly away frantically when you get close to them...which allows them to be shot out of the sky. Maybe it's supposed to be ironic.

[@purplehaze2358]

James Woodard Obviously my comment was ironic.

[@jameswoodard4304]

@@purplehaze2358 , Not obvious enough, I'd say.

[@Ah1My-Spinach-Puffs1]

I recognized . . . EVERY anime clip you showed. I don’t know whether to feel proud or sad for being such a nerd.

[@Morally_Immoral2]

SkyBlue be proud

[@bedizen6424]

Be proud, anime is AWESOME!

[@nevaehlheaven]

Same. I have no regrets.

[@randomprussian2284]

I thought of more........... A lot more.................... Do i win?

[@smththtwlllst]

Me too. I don't regret anything. So the beach episode was from oruan highschool host club, the festival was Free! Iwatobi swim club (my fav anime) and five minutes of yelling..... Of you don't know who that is than you don't know anime.

[@giomancyy]

“Anime is bizarre” *JOJO INTENSIFIES*

[@demi-femme4821]

Super Jump: "Yeah, dude, we'll give you plenty of creative freedom!" Araki: "I'm gonna make some weird shit!"

[@gingermcgingin1733]

Jojo has *nothing* on bobo

[@Lemuel928]

The Boy has Hamon for the first time.

[@weldonwin]

AI YAI YAI YAI!!! *(Uncontrollable Posing Intensifies)*

[@KnowNot_Name]

Aztec dubstep intensifies*

[@Erine120]

“Suck it mammals” i laughed way harder then I should have

[@MegaTang1234]

Samurai jack had a episode where jack tells a sick child this story.

[@hcn6708]

That was the Last Episode before that Long-Ass Hiatus.

[@niydfass1060]

#SamuraiJackIsJapaneseImperialistPropaganda

[@kolsveinnskraevolding]

+The Brutal Bros Nothing is as bad as the propaganda which claims Chinggis Khaan is actually an exiled samurai.

[@carterhickenlooper8784]

Ah that's where I heard this story before.

[@panthera9151]

That is my second-to-least favourite episode, BUT I love Jack's parental behaviour. So sweet.

[@jiyangli9779]

I thought Momotaro got popular because people liked peaches.

[@yonokhanman654]

I prefer nectarines.

[@graymartin6917]

same here Yono khanman

[@deadchannel1875]

Kamen rider Den-o

[@jackofhearts5542]

Look at James And The Giant Peach

[@lefandomtrash7746]

Kevin Li Ikr

[@redgallo4939]

"Power of Friendship" One of the many cliche things about anime.

[@darkspirit4733]

Red Gallo when I heard that it made think of my little pony.

[@graymartin6917]

that and killing eachother....im in the mood for an anime now. *goes to watch naruto*

[@aquabanana]

Red Gallo Welp go see Fariy tail then

[@seanstange8704]

Yeah. That's why she mentioned it in in a list of cliches

[@pablo9234]

cliche about SHONEN. Go see Code Geass, One Punch Man or FMA and even if it is present, it's a lot less important.

[@fabiomorandi3585]

The pheasant managed to channel the power of all of his ancestors in that occasion. As for how that battle turned into an oni massacre, remember what creatures lurk in the genetic heritage of that fine piece of poultry.

[@LordPenguin-qx8td]

"It's all anime?" "Always had been."

[@ShinigamiSparda]

"This bird keeps itself in the air through sheer force of anger alone." I love rewatching theses and seeing everything I missed.

[@TheHysteriaMan]

2:19 "They encounter a monky, no not that one." Damn, that would've been soooooo much more awesome of a story!

[@BlackPhantom08]

That would be like saying Yamamoto came in like Chuck Norris and kicked everyone's collective asses. In relation to the story's connection to WW2.

[@redarrow2036]

"This isn't China"-Sun Wukong

[@euphoriamagix6993]

AllenJames Apolinario HAHAHA!

[@janmeshd]

AllenJames Apolinario I agree

[@yofidelia9684]

Ahahahahahah

[@dearfatal4612]

Sun from RWBY?? LOL

[@yincheri1421]

Venice M•A•L•K sure thing

[@CSLucasEpic]

Japan folk tales are weird. Like the one about the Shirime. The story of which goes like this: Long ago, a samurai was walking at night down the road to Kyoto when he heard someone calling out for him to wait. "Who's there?!" he asked nervously, only to turn around and find a man stripping off his clothes and pointing his bare buttocks at the flabbergasted traveler. A huge glittering eye then opened up where the strange man's anus should have been. And that's it. The story ends there, it doesn't say anything else like if the Shirime kills the samurai, or if the samurai kills the Shirime, or if he runs away screaming, or anything. Just that, the samurai walks, finds a weird dude, he strips, bends over, and butt eye shows up.

[@Doralga]

weird tale I suspect the writer was so drunk that when his friend mooned him he saw an eye and wrote about it

[@Green24152]

BUTT EYE MAN

[@notoriouswhitemoth]

To be fair it's less a story more a one-off filler anecdote in an illustrated bestiary based on what is more or less the Japanese equivalent to Halloween - an event in summer called the night parade.

[@18earendil]

European folklore can be weird. Like the Welsh legends where Arthur and his knights found themselves without food during a quest. Arthur: Guys, we don't have food anymore. Let raid the spirit world and steal all their food. Knights: Yeeeaaaah!

[@beareble-lion4446]

He say no homo first you got to say no homo bru. Every holes a goal after you say no homo😉

[@prastarkeepers]

Six years later, between Donbrothers and the Pokemon Scarlet & Violet DLC, this video seems a lot more relevant now.

[@trainfan-ks5hk]

1:53 "Mom I'm going to be and unlikely hero" "I'll go get the ancestral weapons" I! Love! This! Channel! So! Much!

[@eeveestar6826]

Pokémon fans coming back to this video after experiencing the story of Ogerpon, the Loyal Three and Pecharunt and having an epiphany

[@xHelloAngie]

Helloooooooo

[@zoinksman8565]

''without superman the 'baby from nowhere' would be as weird to us as the beach episode" oh. so its completely normal either way.

[@anyathepanther7977]

"mom, looks like I'm an unlikely hero!" Ain't that every anime ever. Lucky none of his guardians died a memorable death

[@litewavegames3967]

I absolutely LOVE how Red always manages to make her characters both super cute/cool looking and also extremely ethnically accurate despite the somewhat simplistic style.

[@Duck-lb6ff]

It's interesting because the birth of Momotaro is similar to the birth of a boy in a Chinese myth, Ne Zha. Li Jing, waits the birth of his third child. His wife’s pregnancy had lasted three years and six months. The night before going into labor, his wife, Lady Yin, dreamt she saw a Daoist immortal sweeping his magical whisk across her belly. (Weird) He asked her to accept the child being and to call him “Ne Zha.” The next day, Lady Yin gave birth to a meatball. Her husband suspected the anomaly to be demonic and drew his sword. He proceeded to strike the fleshy mass, piecing the surface and revealing Ne Zha.

[@bobbyferg9173]

I have no words for this

[@netherwalker1762]

"Boys come out of balls" is all I got out of this

[@halfpintrr]

Duck I wonder if the Chinese version was first? Goku is based on Sun Wukong from Journey to the West, which is a Chinese tale.

[@teragram38crows49]

Duck there's a manga called hoshin engi. same backstory for one of the characters, nataku I think?

[@aileenzhao7951]

Agh. I'm constantly confused on whether Ne Zha's a girl or a boy. The cartoons always make him look like a girl, but he's a boy and-

[@artemisfowl52]

...So what is the founding legend for the beach episode trope?

[@kosukemiura1226]

winter

[@weldonwin]

Well, if its an anime with a mostly female cast, then Fan Service is the origin

[@DT-yw4ob]

The japanese *obsession* with youth and youthful spirit.

[@Xtoff]

The legend of Tits in a Bikini.

[@gilkot4633]

@@weldonwin If it's an anime with mainly one sex cast. I'd use Free! as an example, but all their episodes are fanservice.

[@Griffingterra]

I came back to look at this after the scarlet and violet dlc part 3, and oh my god, the mochi is the kimidango... I just realized. WOW.

[@NorthstarTex]

Just got this recommend to me, love it, also a must watch for anyone who is playing pokemon Scarlet/Violet for the Teal Mask content since it takes the legend and reverses the alignment roles.

[@karma_ramen]

i still have a bunch of books of japanese folktales for children (my mom's japanese and she read them to me as a kid), and of course momotarō was one of the tales. anyways all i'm here to say is the picture at 3:24 and the other images in that art style are from one of the books i have (except for some reason they're black and white in the vid). but yeah, i got some hardcore nostalgia from watching this. edit: i found the book! it's called japanese children's favorite stories and it's compiled by florence sakade and illustrated by yoshisuke kurosaki. just thought this was interesting

[@BenevolenceBlack]

"OGRES!!" *Inuyasha theme blasts*

[@Rosie-gx5rj]

no it's kurumakuru inuyasha os the one with demons.

[@carverblack7154]

Rosie Flores that wasn't what they meant, and it's the inuyasha theme

[@BenevolenceBlack]

Rosie Flores With the amount of times the song plays in the anime, it might as well be the main theme, even if it's not. So... your point? Yeah... the song has a title.

[@whatthe4440]

Y E S

[@saftytorch4435]

Benevolence Black Shrek's bizzare adventure.

[@rothiirluciusmagus3851]

I love Japanese folk stories. There was one that I loved when I went to Japan. I was looking around Shinto shrines in Nagoya and found one that was covered in rabbits and arrows with an archery range. I asked the shrine attendants about it and they said that the Kami of the shrine was a local rabbit god who was a bit of a local hero. The story was that there was a Samurai who was a bad man. He was mean to all of the citizens and was an all round bad guy. He was also a Master Archer and was filled with hubris over his skills with the bow. So to save the people form the tyranny, the gods sent a humble rabbit to the people who challenged the Samurai to contest of skill with the bow. The contest lasted a few days but the Rabbit had a magical bow blessed by the gods so that it could not miss and won the contest. The Samurai was shamed by the defeat and killed himself and the rabbit was praised as a hero and the shrine made for him to honour him.

[@Longtail626]

Momotaro after he pops out of the peach “Ore Sanjou” (I have arrived)

[@Pandie2828]

don't you mean I AM HERE!

[@coin0matic]

And he can't count to 4

[@syabilaazri7834]

Cant wait for the next "Momotaro" to appear in Super Sentai...i wonder how the pass the torch going to be...

[@cqstlupin6074]

Does he have to compete against urashima no taro, kintoki or tatsu no ko taro to posses a timid ikemen who is a singularity point that rides a train

[@OptimusPhillip]

It's interesting that I happen to find this now. Between Avataro Sentai Donbrothers coming out and Kamen Rider Den-O entering the mainstream meme sphere, it almost feels like Momotarou is more relevant now than a few years ago.

[@Mike_Ka-Chowski]

ORE SAAAANJOOUU

[@leungzinwang4188]

Matsuri da matsuri da

[@randomalienok6654]

Gotta love that refrence to the monkey kind or the superly overpowered character 2:20

[@screaming8435]

"Boy, I sure love stealing from the innocent!" "Yoooooo sameeeeeeee"

[@thenewguyinred]

Someone should make a crossover between Momotaro and Journey to the West some day

[@Nil_Sama]

thenewguyinred Nanbaka kinda has this concept but only in character design and names not story...

[@elijahdavila3684]

Dragon Ball sort of has some elements of both of these... I think?

[@SlapstickGenius23]

@@elijahdavila3684 it surely does have some elements of both.

[@phantommelody6560]

"Or the island of ogres nearby" *Sesshomaru theme song plays* One word: EPIC!!

[@silverfordston6ify]

Who all is here because of the new legendaries for the new Scarlet and Violet DLC?

[@nightlox_5113]

The Monke looks cool

[@Alvionalx]

me

[@Lin2Waterfall]

And a more recent reference to Momotaro that came like 10 years ago but keeps returning every now and then is Kamen Rider Den-O. It's pretty much a guy befriending a few monster-like creatures over the course of the show as they join in, time travel, and save the day. Lead guy is a hapless every-man who likes to help but is also a wimp and has shit luck and the first monster guy he befriends and gets power from is a red, oni-like hot-head with a sword called...Momotaros.

[@syabilaazri7834]

If you look at Momo belt, you notice it have a symbol of a peach.....

[@zenothtri4504]

ORE SANJOU

[@violetwitch9948]

Guess what theme of Super Sentai next year will be like after Zenkaiger?

[@Lin2Waterfall]

@@violetwitch9948 and it's gonna be frickin weird XD 2 cgi characters at least and be basically Zenkaiger Season 2.

[@Emmariscobar]

​@@Lin2Waterfall A full year later i can confirm that it was, in fact, pretty frickin weird.

[@leoryff979]

Where DID the monkey vs dog thing come from anyway? Is it just the Japanese version of "cats and dogs"?

[@TheMageOfVoid]

Haven't You Ever Heard Of The Myths Surrounding The Japanese Gods Inugami And Sarugami?

[@nidohime6233]

Not always, there where two daimyos from the Sengoku period who where good friends and their are known by the nicknames of The Monkey and The Dog. I give a cookie if you know wich ones I'm talking about~🎵

[@alloftheabove9351]

I see where the name comes from, momo means peach or peachtree, and taro means boy, so put that together and its PEACHBOY

[@Rozdlc]

This is basically how I figured out the joke about Momo's name from ATLA. "Momotaro means Peachboy? Oooh Momo means peach."

[@Cekseiro]

....He really *was* the first superhero, wasn't he..

[@Cekseiro]

@Steven Victor Neiman Who pissed in *your* Cheerios?

[@matthewdinode]

So, my wife is kicking herself for only just now getting the references in the Pokemon DLC Teal Mask. 3 animal companions, makes friends with them using food, Pecharunt is just a pun on "peach boy", a recent video shows his origin story as wanting to give a gift to the elderly couple who care for him/were brainwashed by him, their opponent is Ogerpon, etc. It's an interesting twist to have the good guys and bad guys reversed.

[@timeweoya]

I can't wait to see how this myth is adapted in the new Pokémon DLC!!

[@whitewing2]

Momotaros meets Sun Wukong Boy thats one BadAss Cross Over

[@dr.quinnzel7284]

that one kaichou wa maid sama episode

[@WolfGirl45100]

dr. quinnzel IkR!!! that's when I first learned the whole story even though I had seen it many times before like in Beelzebub 😂

[@mashasiro2842]

dr. quinnzel YAS Poor Misaki

[@noice2606]

dr. quinnzel yep

[@berningdaplacetothegroundf6012]

dr. quinnzel Yes

[@nicoledelacruz3125]

Yiiiiiis

[@_VioletValor_]

I never found the festival/beach/power of friendship stuff. AM I WEIRD

[@psh_imnowriter9095]

Nope.That means your lucky.

[@nightashton6782]

I know the Beach one,It is Ouran High school host club,The twins are Hikaru and Kauro,Luckily i dont know the other

[@cqzmic6781]

_thegreatestwave_ bruh they’re literally in EVERY animr

[@floofyowls8989]

_thegreatestwave_ So you never touched shonen anime, neat

[@Dahaka-rd6tw]

3:03 In my book, pheasant suprises sleeping ogres and pecks them in eyes and momenterally blinded ogres start to freak out after waking up, thinking they are attacked by monsters even meaner than themselves.

[@gatovillano7009]

at 1:13, you could argue that Moses is the original baby out of nowhere with magical powers, but ok.

[@PhoenixPonyPhoenixOwl]

Can someone please tell me what song that was at the end?

[@lizzinator]

Suuuuper late, but it was the orchestral version of Dragon Soul, which is Dragon Ball Z Kai's theme song

[@bigchooch4434]

0:14 THANK YOU! For YEARS I've been trying to point out that in EVERY TV SHOW EVER there's ONE episode about shrinking down and going on a fantastic freaking voyage inside someone's body!

[@timothycarney9652]

I like that this myth gives context to my favorite manga One Piece- one character in the wano arc has a fruit power, that lets her make kiridango- and any animals she feeds them too are tamed and obedient to her. Of course later it turns out it works on the zoan knockoffs that the local big bad has working for him- so a huge swath of the enemy crew defects eventually- I wonder if it works on regular zoan fruit users, because the idea of Kaido, being tamed and obedient to this little girl is very jarring.

[@lucystarlight8887]

In One Piece, all of the Admirals' code names reference the story of Momotaro, which I think is cool. Akainu means "Red Dog," Kizaru means "Yellow Monkey," and Aokiji means "Blue Pheasant." This connection is strengthened as Akainu has an attack where he makes a big dog out of lava, and Aokiji has an attack where he makes a big bird out of ice. There's a couple characters who might be based off of Momotaro, like Momonosuke and Sentomaru, who both look like peaches (One Piece character designs are weird). Also, the character Otama has the awesome magic power to make kibi dango, which she can feed to animals to make them her friends.

[@JBGR111]

Not only that, but the island full of oni in the story is called “Onigashima” (literally meaning “Demon Island”), which is where the villain Kaido (who looks rather oni-like) lives

[@4rq775]

0:11 Red: says Bizzare and anime in the same sentence. People who watch jjba: IS THAT A REFERENCE I HEAR

[@miyuki2061]

Coming back to this 6 year old video to beg anyone watching it again to go watch Avataro Sentai Donbrothers. You will not be disappointed.

[@HeartSongPony]

What about Thumbelina? That story had a child appearing from nowhere. She came from a plant too.

[@nkbujvytcygvujno6006]

HeartSongPony I think Thumbelina came after the original Momotaro myth. After all, the legend wasn’t invented at World War II. Just popularized.

[@AntediluvianRomance]

Actually, children appearing from unlikely sources are pretty wide-spread throughout folklore. There's the whole trope of a couple wishing for children, and after they do something of a ritual nature (like praying or making a doll out of wood or bread or something) they either have a magic child or receive a gift that provides them with a child or their doll comes to life (kinda like Pinocchio-skip-to-the-end). In several folk stories such children are tiny but capable of unusual deeds. In others they grow up to be great warrior heroes. It seems like this plot is related to the idea of godly conception, where a god or a spirit enters a woman's body via food, wood chips, footprints or various assorted objects.

[@alyssapark6127]

every time i heat this myth i end up wondering if they ever DID eat that peach he popped out of...

[@billveusay9423]

Why was I so happy to see a Sun Wukong cameo ?

[@TBTabby]

I once saw "Hey! Spring of Trivia" feature an alternate version of Momotaro's birth: instead of finding a baby inside the giant peach, the old woman eats some of the peach and becomes young again, the old man does the same, and they do something that haven't had the urge to do for some time, leading to Momotaro being born in the usual way.

[@NineQuestionMarks]

Well, beach episodes can actually be explained with one word: Fanservice.

[@thatone2724]

bread isn't bland, it's beautiful

[@juanmanuelpenaloza9264]

Cake is fancy bread

[@ClaireDeLoon]

Americans are like onions. They smell? Yes...No! They make you cry? No! ONIONS have layers, AMERICANS have layers. ... CAKE! Everybody loves cake! for those of you who don't get it, it's funny because the guys in this that are supposed to be ogres, and its a Shrek reference.

[@Grace-os3jl]

I read 'Onions/Americans have lawyers!' and thought "Where's the lie, tho."

[@ratbastards332]

MeerkatBlitz I

[@97CoolDragon]

No! XD

[@PhoenixPrincess10]

Want to know something everybody likes? Parfaits. It's like one says "hey, let's get some parfaits." And another guy says, "Nah, I don't like no parfaits." Parfaits are one of the delicious things in the whole darn planet.

[@TornaitSuperBird]

PhoenixPrincess10 what if I don’t like them?

[@phoenixshadow6633]

I assume you're getting a lot more traffic after Pokemon released its DLC

[@yusheitslv100]

I bet this video is getting more views since they just revealed Momotarō's companions' Pokémon forms.

[@jrrollins84]

The adventure part of Momotaro story sounds a little bit like the Wizard of Oz.

[@jaxsonsteen484]

wow, I was wondering if I was the only one that heard it.

[@synderthmc]

were off too see the oni, the bloody murderous oni of japan

[@ellementalgamingandreviews3719]

3:44 HELL YEAH BILL WURTZ FOR TEH WIN

[@bobmcguffin5706]

I love the fact that she watches that

[@noagill3560]

Elle Mental Gaming And Reviews in

[@PlantagenetRose]

2:19 **gets excited for Sun Wukang** 2:20 **gets sad it isn’t Sun Wukang**

[@PotatoWithALaptop]

This is the first mythology from Japan I’ve heard of that isn’t batshit crazy and you know what I kinda love it animal companions are always a plus.

[@sharpfury77]

don don donbrothers, don don donbrogoing, don don donbrothers, don don don don don don don yeah

[@oberynmartell818]

heared inuyasha soundtrack...liked

[@kavinskysmith4094]

4:05 OHHHH so that's what that statue was about that james may kept on laughing at given his thing there looked like a !

[@jacquehohenheim7934]

[insert Kamen rider Den-O reference here]

[@Maswartz226]

Sasaki Kojirō ORE SANJOU!

[@emilygordbort7300]

This story gets much more interesting if you give peach boy and his cronies access to mind control and chemical warfare

[@Nova-jw6ju]

i accodentally fell asleep watching youtube and while this video was playing in the background, i was having a dream of this myth narrated by red. THANK YOU RED YOU ASSIST ME EVEN IN MY DREAMS

[@losj3020]

fun fact: Fujiko F. Fujio (the creator of Doraemon) made a Momotaro-themed comic where the ogre in the island IS actually a white person. Not sure about his country of origin but in the story he's a sailor stuck in an island. The Japanese people who see him get scared of him because he's very tall, has very diff features (reddish skin, light hair, a bigger nose), and can't speak the language so he just yells a lot for help. In the story the misunderstanding got solved and he returns to his homeland. I sometimes wonder if this work is particular is trying to paint a more sympathetic light to the assigned "US as an ogre" in the Momotaro popularity since Fujiko F. Fujio in general is pretty anti-war in a lot of his other works

[@DottaNatural]

If heroes are using "power of friendship" to win then I am cheering for the villain.

[@thebluePrincess5904]

you do realize that almost every hero in every story uses that trope to some degree.

[@Morally_Immoral2]

Not the frequency of which is done in anime it gets annoying to a point

[@bedizen6424]

So, you're rooting for every single villain out there.

[@brano13177]

The Blue Knight 590 i mean hell more then half of all military films have freindship and camaraderie, the "band of brothers": and yet thats okay and yet when anime does it "its cliche". Do people just want to laud and follow the ideals of "being a dick and apathetic chode because fuck idealism and basic decency?"

[@treythegamerwolf551]

@@thebluePrincess5904 dc nor marvel don't, I mean Batman fights alone and does better when he's alone, of course there are times when he slowly loses his sanity, but that's neither hear nor there

[@deadchannel1875]

And then: Momotaros from Kamen rider Den-o came to be

[@adolhein]

ORE, SANJOU!

[@crawlingboy]

ORE YOUYAKU, SANJOU

[@syabilaazri7834]

I wonder what Zi-o will think when he meet The Taros...

[@idunnosong]

my friends didnt know that ogerpon + crew was based off this story so i had to direct them to it

[@abc-qh5fc]

the momotaro song has been stuck in my head for 292873 years

[@najibzubir7699]

Well, that's a code...

[@ASquared544]

I think we can all safely say that animation as a whole brings in a lot of weirdness. Not just Japan, all animation.

[@sambathchhum8738]

2:36 "Yare yare daze..." MoMotaro mumbled to himself after he broke the fight between Iggy and Petshop.

[@-Commit-arson-]

This is how the story really ended The boy and his animals collapsed the islands dock And then the Oni’s proceeded to light the boys animals on fire (look it up. We mass napalm bombed Japan) and then swatted the boy with the sun twice

[@SophieHatterLeFay]

Fighting or "because you wete nice to me" are the default friendship button, hitting either one could net you with Hero's Friendship

[@satan2872]

Red: Well who the Oni representing? Red: Well, America... Me: God sometimes i feel bad to be a American yeesh

[@KigaiOkasu]

And once Japan woke up a sleeping giant and instilled in him a great resolve…we woke up Godzilla.

[@janwitkowsky8787]

It was Matthew Perry's fault. No, not that one.

[@acanofsoda9153]

I freaking love you, you explain things perfectly in the way I can understand

[@MNeko]

And now we have a Pokémon DLC with themes from this story.

[@Guciom]

4:08 More like Japan tolerates the US as a necessary thing even though they clearly still have a grudge for those TWO ATOM BOMBS.

[@sketchbookonline2040]

Guciom Why wouldn't they still hold a grudge? We kinda...Okay. I'm just gonna say it, we FUCKED them up

[@WeiYinChan]

Sketchbook Online as a Chinese who really likes Japan and really don't like atomic bombs, I'd say that they fucked themselves up when they started the war... if not for the two atomic bomb we along with dozens of other Asian countries would have been finished.

[@NotAFakeName1]

Guciom I don't think that's how they see it. They aren't burning with resentment over ww2, they just view the atom bombs as a horrible tragedy that should never happen again.

[@barsni4779]

First - educaton reforms are capable of making people believe anything. That holocost did not happened, that A-bombs were dropped by russians and such. Second, @WeiYinChan It's not like they just decided to start a war - it had complicated reasons and prerequisites. Third, nah, Japan pretty much was doomed since the point they did not won in midway. Remember, they did not have resourses for prolonged war. They wouldn't even be capable to control continental territories for long since you need constant military presence capable of controlling them - and that is also draining. Even if USSR wasn't called to clean the house. Well, they might have, if they managed to seal good peace treaty from US.

[@WeiYinChan]

B'ars NI yes there were complicated reasons but it doesn't change the fact that they started the war by starting to attack countries around them, raping and killing countless civilians in multiple Asian countries. They started it mostly due to militarisation and imperialism they learnt from the west combined with their original bushido values and a failing economy and growing population. But the moment they started the war they really can't complain about taking damages because of the war. I sympathise with them on the atomic bomb tragedies but they reap what they sow and what happened in Nagasaki and Hiroshima is nothing compared to the damaged they did to all the Asian countries they invaded purely because of greed. As a Chinese the atomic bombs may as well had been why I exist at all.

[@tylermcquaid1272]

I want to say thank you for every video I watch of your channel. This is entertainment that is actually entertaining. Lol. You guys are awesome. Bro

[@starsummer8326]

Yu-gi-oh is not just about the power of friendship........ it’s also about a card game and a pharaoh that doesn’t know his name.😠🙂

[@slynthehedgehog8061]

And a faith in destiny so strong, it bends the rules of the universe.

[@BioniclesaurKing4t2]

Momotaro…Momotaros? "Ore, sanjou!" _Sword_ _Form_ (du-nu-du-du-duuuuh…du-na-nuh)

[@phantomphool]

'I think Momotaro likes you.' Says the man, slowly disconecting from reality

[@justsomejerseydevilwithint4606]

4:06 what is it with America and Island Nations? First Britain, then Hawai'i, then Japan, then puerto rico. Half of those were invasions!

[@saraisaza5697]

Momotarō just living his best like *Inuyasha boss music starts playing* (Ps. I love how you add Inuyasha music from time to time, it's some of (in my opinion) the best OST in anime of all times. Also all hail Supreme Princess of Anime Rumiko Takahashi)

[@divrequiem1728]

I love this channel period.

[@elsiekarp]

There's a rock sculpture in the art museum StormKing in New Jersey that's called Momotaro. Its really cool looking you guys should look it up