The Kidnap | 誘拐事件 - Explained

Hello everyone, and welcome to a video where we look at the story behind the latest indie horror game from Chilla's Art, The Kidnap. In this short horror game, you play as third grader Renya.
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Intro - 0:00
Story - 2:04
Endings - 7:39
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[@GamingHarryYT]

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[@keip4568]

Noooooo!! 😢

[@foamyrocks665]

Hey Harry! Hope this comment reaches you. I know you are taking a break from Lovecraft themed video games but I have a suggestion when you want to do one in the future. I recommend playing The Last Door, both games, part 1 and 2. I consider them one of the best video games inspired by Lovecraft and E. A. Poe. Liked the video as always!

[@Kei-ye8if]

Apparently parents abandoning their kids to fend for themselves like this is a common occurrence in Japan, which I expected to be the case since Chilla's Art usually makes games themed around pertinent matters there. It may not be among their strongest games, but the story and theme is still really sad, and left me thinking about it.

[@evolancer211]

I don't think the kids are abandoned, more like they are given freedom/autonomy

[@TheReasonableLiberal-hn2rs]

​@@evolancer211That sounds stupid. There's freedom and there's neglect.

[@J3llyf12hy]

@@TheReasonableLiberal-hn2rsParentification is so real in Asian cultures. I was lucky because I was the baby but our oldest sister had to sacrifice a lot at a very young age and it’s still really hard for her. Honestly, the oldest general gets the short end of the stick.

[@shizukunoseija8048]

It's hard to put your kids in Japan's daycare because there's long waiting list and I've never heard of people there hiring babysitters (probably because it's pricey) + they mostly live far away from relatives (especially if they're in big cities like Tokyo) so no people to help them take care of the kids.

[@BaDazai]

​@@shizukunoseija8048yet knowing this, they still have them. I'd think you'd get the logistics sorted out before popping a child out. 😅

[@stitchfan93]

Every child deserves a parent, but not every parent deserves a child.

[@themachoechidnaugandarandy7583]

That's why we have abortion around

[@nunyabusiness3652]

This kind of comment has been so overused that if I have a shot of every same comment I see, I'll die from poisoning. Yeah, I agreed with the statement, I see the same quota over and over that it's as annoying as people stating first in every video

[@Hehe-yh1hp]

​@@nunyabusiness3652then don't read the comments.

[@TheHardestPill]

​@@nunyabusiness3652 I'm saying! 💀

[@twit_t9668]

To me, the clown is a representation of the boy in the future. He never had a childhood, and never grew up - because his sister had trapped him in an abusive cycle trying to please the neglectful mother. The trauma he experienced of the dead kidnapper's mother and his own mother dying broke him. I think that is what the cage in the clown scene means: an innocent child trapped from forces beyond his control.

[@fulltimeslackerii8229]

it’s not that deep. it was just meant to be a scary red herring

[@dolphindiver7724]

I had a similar theory. That or the clown was just a representation of the boy’s fears of his sister having been kidnapped. I do definitely think the clown wasn’t just some random thing and did have some real purpose in the game

[@Jhud69]

I think it's more straightforward than that honestly. It's both a red herring as well as the kid's paranoia that comes out of trauma - he already wets the bed which is a common sign of trauma in children and well, knowing their mother she was at LEAST emotionally abusive. Then she abandons them and then his sister disappears, all while there are rumors about a killer clown. He probably just dreamed that his sister was caught by the killer clown, simple as that.

[@axhen]

from what i understand it's based on a true story of a woman abandonning her 5 children (one of which was a toddler), which makes it really unsettling

[@stitchfan93]

Yup you're correct. Sad 😢

[@itwilsonboiii4789]

share the story. is it similar to the "kidnapper" scenario here

[@axhen]

@@itwilsonboiii4789 en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sugamo_child_abandonment_case this is a wikipedia article i found on it

[@Listening_Books12345]

I really like Chillas arts' stuff. Even if the stories aren't very long or complex, they effectively build a sense of confusion and dread in the players, and oftentimes tell very intense stories about things people really experience, like abuse, stalking or abandonment.

[@colossalfightergx6326]

Did nobody picked up that when the mother came to foster care to take her children back, she was pretending that all that animosity she had towards them never happened?

[@hamimahanuar]

this not being one of chilla's art strongest games to some people is very suprising to me 'cause this one left quite an impact on me, so i do consider it one of chilla's best.

[@SirEvilestDeath]

Don’t you just hate it when you open a door and find a room with a clown watching your sister caged up? I mean, I don’t know how often it happens to you but I have to deal with that like twice a week minimum and the strangest part is, I don’t even have a sister.

[@rajkolv]

I have a sister, can we trade ? Need a good sturdy cage for a tricorn ( unicorn with three horns and abnormally large left testicle) we found in the mountains when we visited my Amish relatives, pleas respond soon thank you 🙏🏻

[@afunguy5924]

This thread is a trip bruh

[@SnuSnuDungeon]

This game reminded me of Kotaro Lives Alone. Both show the abuse and neglect of parents in Japan

[@nassarihyman2864]

Dude I loved that show I can’t wait for the next season

[@ZyroShadowPony]

​@@nassarihyman2864i hope its soon. I believe the manga already ended so they do have the source material

[@Ekaterinats2005]

Abusive Parents are mean, selfish, cruel and heartless assholes!

[@MyAteSpiders]

I love that its the Jank that makes these games so much scarier than they actually are!!!!

[@mainsupport6847]

Fact: based on a true story of Sugamo in 1988 and the movie "Nobody knows" (2004)

[@sandman6045]

Poor Renya he became a psychotic himself🥲

[@Oriana_leung]

5:30 Rumored to be the father's room. Thanks for making a video on all the endings!

[@tazzidoe7083]

Love a chilla art game! I know this one was a bit more simple but the smile at the end was just creepy, another great game by them!

[@Georgino893]

Chillas art always make the best games! I love them all & seeing my favorite KZbinrs (gaming Harry, 8-bit Ryan, fooster, etc.) playing them makes it even better

[@karinaenriquez2780]

hey I wasn’t sure if you noticed, but you’re in the end credits as a highlight supporter! it was super cool to see your YT name displayed :)

[@maljunior]

Gonna leave a like and save this one to watch later when I'm free.

[@JackkaPakka]

Loving all these videos i hope the vampyre video comes soon such a good game

[@stereokuuji]

5:05 Nice one😂

[@DGneoseeker1]

...Mr Kidnapper meant no harm? Despite all the dead bodies in the attic? Oh I see. It was just that somehow despite being chased by the guy who is obviously nuts, nobody called the police. They took the kids to foster care but nobody checked the creepy guy's house?

[@stoplookingatmychannel]

He has an intellectual disability, an adult who has the mind of a child due to the trauma, so yeah he meant no harm. Kinda like Norman Bates except he wasn't killing random people.

[@Cog_Nomen]

There's one dead body: his mother's. The only other potential body is in the ending where the kids' mother attacks him, triggering a flashback to his own abuse. When he's chasing the protag, he isn't being a violent serial killer; he's obediently following the older sister's instructions. Yes, he's obviously "nuts", but part of the point is that he might seem "creepy", but the actual monsters are the two abusive mothers. The game shows examples of protag's friends' mothers being kind and nurturing, so it isn't some broad anti-mother thing... wouldn't an equally good question be why the police just gave these children back to their mother, who hadn't even reported them missing for weeks, without investigating *that* house? It's crazy, across the different endings: she abandoned them for so long that they're "kidnapped", taken in by a friend's parent, and sent to an orphanage, all without any sign of their mother, yet when she suddenly shows up, the authorities don't charge her with anything for endangering/neglecting her children - just hand her the children to take back and re-abandon.

[@Cog_Nomen]

Oh, and in the endings where the protag goes to the houses of friends whose parents call the police, they do go investigate and arrest the kidnapper. The only reason they don't immediately in one route is because the friend's mother the protag goes to for help works with abused children, so she goes to talk to the kidnapper first. She doesn't search like the police would so she doesn't find the body, and based on how his kidnapping was all doing what the older sister told him, she gets the impression that he's just mentally a child, so not any danger as long as the kids leave him alone, and decides not to tell the police.

[@dudewithtude4476]

new explained vid...new vid to go to bed with lol

[@Myko_Room]

They actually rip off the Kayako in the attic scene with the kidnapper's mother. I think Renya was possesed.in that final one.

[@ArkLionHeart]

Greetings @gamingharry please do Fears to Fathom the lookout! Thank you for explained videos, you’re amazing!

[@whygreene8600]

Are you gonna do a DI2 Haus dlc explained? Bit on the short side but seems like it has interesting lore and nobody as of yet has done an explain on it

[@rofflesvanwagon]

Oh sweet, new video.

[@alexanderkrisnov8595]

i clicked as soon as a i saw a new video 😁

[@kimbonguno4741]

Love your videos !! i u hope u get to 1 mil. subs soon 🤝🤝🗿🗿❤❤🙏🙏🕉💪💪

[@andrewleyton6689]

god damn is sad knowing there's not happy ending the sister is just to stuborn or doesn't want to accept the reality his mother never loved them and kenya becomes a phycotic like the kidnape because his mother gets her come opens

[@renerivera9715]

Yeah I saw the gameplay of this game it's creepy and the story was sad

[@harlannguyen4048]

The homework part is a VTuber's worst nightmare.

[@silentknightstudios4686]

Love this series

[@MaximPROD]

How the hell do you make videos so quickly, after the monster which was Alan wake 2. You absolute animal

[@T2theG123]

Getting to Clocktower anytime soon?

[@ravi_arithocrix5040]

good video

[@twitchthought]

Are you gonna cover the new dead island 2 dlc?

[@E_blanknamehere]

She cant hear him Shes got her airpods in!

[@kemyaali2056]

MY PLATE IS BEING HEATED AS WE SPEAK

[@kemyaali2056]

i wonder if he reads my plate comments under his videos

[@mono0095]

Taking 2 birds with 1 stone....

[@m_Alice]

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[@oxymoron02]

3:30 Press E to Sis

[@fulltimeslackerii8229]

is “sarou” a cross language pun on “sorrow”

[@isolatedarea5404]

👋👋👋 I am New here

[@mahdimerzaei7985]

Please do ad infinitum next

[@callunalee7372]

Thank you for the new video. Have a nice day anyone (:

[@GhostAbysus]

First

[@saschaberger3212]

Learning to clean in school but can't clean his home. Children...

[@kratosGOW]

45k likes in under 3 hours! Goddamn!

[@backgroundnoise9310]

Not one of their stronger games.

[@IvanSensei88]

I hate when I see a dot crosshair in a horror game.. kills the immersion and ambiance. It's as useful as mounting an ACOG Scope on a spoon to aim at the soup better.

[@GamingHarryYT]

Tbf I think you might be able to switch the crosshair off. Could be wrong though

[@IvanSensei88]

@@GamingHarryYT If it's true, that's awesome. I see this trend a lot though. Almost makes me feel like as if all these indie game devs are building their horror games from like the exact same template which has it included - and only a few bother to remove it. But yeah, this is a personal pet-peeve of mine regarding horror games.

[@KingDaveth]

So...basically everyone sucks in this game lmao

[@regidio5083]

Weak mother. Skill issue. 😂

[@aidannation78]

This game was written by marvel writers

[@ClumsyVash]

Bro why do you say spoilers 😂😂

[@GamingHarryYT]

Have to. Otherwise people will cry about it

[@stereokuuji]

Have you met people from the internet 😂

[@erikbritz8095]

*No Hate but wow this game sucked, watched this hoping for more substance and yeah 10% substance and 90% garbage for me the hypes dying off fassttt for chillas art games*

[@AG-en5y]

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