Japanese Cryptids are TERRIFYING

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0:00 Intro
1:10 Tsuchinoko
6:43 Hibagon / Japan's Bigfoot
12:30 Honshu Wolf
20:08 Fanart Showcase
20:16 Kabagon / Antarctic Godzilla
24:13 Japan's Mothman / Giant Crows
27:00 Giant Okinawan Bats
28:20 Kussie / Japan's Nessie
32:17 The Kani Ban Bani / CrabDog
35:00 Hokkaido Goblin Bear
38:01 Patreon Shoutouts

#cryptids #japan #urbanlegends

[SakuraStardust]

Thank you to ​⁠​⁠​⁠ @blameitonjorge for providing voiceover ❤

[cienciababcock]

that bear just wanted to go for a swim and became a cryptid LMAO-

[Truthisscarierthanfiction]

I find the honshu wolf so fascinating and I really hope its real. I also was surprised at how many tsuchinoko reports there were, including scientists being interested in the snake cryptid

[Pigpen_YT]

I absolutely love how one of the most famous Japanese Cryptids is a snake that rolls around in a ball. The idea of being chased by a snake doing a spin dash is crazy. Anyways fantastic video as always! Japanese cryptids do be strange

[equarep]

Its been a pleasure being able to help look for info on this topic! Cryptozoology is one of my favourite topics

[alicethemad]

The thing that gets me about the tsuchinoko is… that’s just a snake that ate something. It’s just a snake with a big midsection, meaning it looks exactly like a snake that ate something large. It’s such a normal creature for a cryptid.

[ripleyandweeds]

I love the one Hibagon theory that they're just regular people who decided they were gonna return to monke

[starparodier]

As a teen, Katamari and Metal Gear both made me think tsuchinoko was real for a bit… I just thought it was a weird fat snake! 😂

[Goozero]

*shows the only known photo of a Tsuchinoko*

My dude, that's a yam.

[aubreymorgan]

Most impressive of anything here are those photos of the Honshu wolf. Regardless of what it is…someone finally took clear pictures! And it’s from the 90s when cameras were not as good as modern tech. We need this guy on Bigfoot photos

[cuckoobrain]

Title: "Japanese Cryptids are TERRIFYING"!
The Japanese cryptids: Fat snake, short bigfoot, small friendly wolf, elephant seal, big crow/big bat, FAST Nessie, CRAB DOG and bear

[I_like_spiders]

How wild is that, just going for a walk and you happen to make friends with a long extinct animal, share some snacks with it. Can you imagine hiking one day and you just find a mammoth 😂 give it some peanuts or whatever.

[Pirta]

The kanibanbani makes me laugh as a Finnish person, because in Finnish "kani" (pronounced pretty much the same as japanese) means rabbit, and then the banbani sounds like bunbunny - so my mind just keeps going to bunnybunbunny 😂

[Yezpahr]

What motivates a bear to go swim 20km through salt water? And back again.
He must've smelled something good.

[dragonsbanecannibal]

I Wasn't Ready For The Spinning Gorilla

[MrITSCLOBBERINTIME]

That was a fun video! It's very uncanny how specific the crab-dog was!

[uitandtie]

18:35 "Listen to it carful".
She preceded to put music over it.

[WeWillAlwaysHaveVALIS]

Flat snake wheel is very cute.

Fun video and I am very happy to see another upload from you.

[耳雄]

I've heard from my mother that my great-grandmother has seen a Tsuchinoko in a shrine located in Kagoshima prefecture - in her memory it just came by and once she noticed it, slowly waddled away

[frostare]

1:05 Tsuchinoko, my beloved! I still remember my sister catching that Dunsparce, the games were not yet translated so we still called the guy "Nokocchi". Some time later I played Castlevania Aria of Sorrow (also shown here! Woo!) And read more about the guy and my mind was blown when I found Dunsparce (the English, and consequently, Spanish name already revealed by now) was one of these guys! I was so proud when i played Yo-kai Watch too and recognized what they were supposed to be, hahaha.

7:31 LOOOL, I need to find that video!

8:18 OHMYGOODNESS, DRAGON QUEST MENTION, THANK YOUUU!!! *dies*
Ahem! Seriously though, I was the one who added the ヒババンゴ/Brainy Badboon part to that Wikipedia article both in English and Spanish, haha. Dragon Quest was (and I like to believe it still is, heh) really popular and influenced a lot of things and back then (like in 2010, not that long ago) it saddened me it wasn't as talked about in the West. Hey, forget being influential, they're fun games! It's as if Mario or Pokémon had been just as influential but hardly as popular, if that hypothetical case had happened, I'd rather recommend them to people as it being a fun series rather than by how influential it was, same here with DQ. Anyway, sorry for my long rambling.


11:16 Hahaha, cuuute!

16:00 Man, this is the kind of things that give me hope, alongside Thylacine sightings. Hope there can be dodo sightings and Steller Sea Cow sightings as well...

I love videos from cryptids, so thanks again Sakura and team! Glad to find a lot I didn't know about, like the Arctic Godzilla and Kussie! And that bear at the end was certainly a chad, hahaha.