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royal purple is everywhere 😀
A fun fact with JapanMan.EXE/YamatoMan.EXE, you can only encounter him in the Post Game of Battle Network 3. You encounter him in the Secret Area, the home of the head of the Undernet… and he's pulling a Benkei, stopping anyone from going to see his lord "S" unless they can best him in combat. It's been a few years but if I remember correctly he's still reluctant to let MegaMan pass even after being defeated, but his lord allows MegaMan's passage. Because S, or Serenade, is a really interesting navi.
While not as much as Yamato Man, Enker is also based off samurai.
OMG ive been watching you for 9 years or more? What is time?
so how about making a video on how Samurai the Super Sentai series Samurai Sentai Shinkenger?
Huh… hearing about how samurai looked to bugs honestly just makes it so much funnier and cooler that one of their big entertainment shows started with a grasshopper and then gradually evolved into all kinds of things.
It is always so cool seeing all the research you do for this show, something i would love to see you analize would be either the super heavy samurai or six samurai archetypes from yugioh
Perhaps so something on Sunstar from Megaman V.
Man… I need to go replay MMBN now. (grabs what is left in the Bokksu box and runs)
Thank you for pronouncing Yamato Man properly, unlike some other Mega Man YouTube content creators out there.
it's kinda interesting that purple has the same symbolism and importance in japanese history as in medieval europe as well. i wonder if that was a concept introduced via trade?
So, is Benkei also a source of reference for Final Fantasy's character Gilgamesh? That's who I immediately thought of as you mentioned he collects weapons from unworthy samurai and confronted an enemy on a bridge. Not to mention that image @7:36 just screams Gilgamesh.
Other megaman bosses with cultural ties? I'm surprised Tenguman hasn't been featured yet. Unless I'm mistaken.
Wondering, which of these two lists Yoshimitsu would fit the most in.
As for legendary spears: Tonbo-giri.
Thanks for this.
Y'know, I feel like it would be a fun change of pace to step away from Japan for a moment and do Knightman.
7:38 maybe the fish was used as a bludgeoning weapon to use on warriors he didn't respect or perceive as a threat 🤣
Absolute upvote and joy for talking about Saito Musahito 'Gengoro' Benkei. Epic
Honestly it would be cool to see a video on the Mesoamerican inspired stage of Block Man from Mega Man 11
I'm hesitant to suggest Tomahawk man out of concerns that Capcom butchered the indigenous tribes
8:28 I just thought it was a cool sounding word 😎😅
Don't get me wrong, I love Megaman, but it saddens me to see the absolutely amazing Usagi Yojimbo get so few votes.
It's been a while since I played Mega Man 6, but what weapon was Yamato Man's weakness? Is there any significance, cultural or otherwise, there?
Seems like purple was just a hard to get color in general. In medieval Europe it was so expensive that even paintings of royalty often substituted it for red.
Love the video I even learned more new things I like how you point out the way of spear and how there are so many variety of pieces for it not allot of people know that
Which Samurai: Final Fantasy XI edition.
You are expecting my fellow dunce Americans to be educated, cultured, and civilized?! 💯😂😂😂
Well, that explains the Japanese fascination with mythological spears, things actually found in western cultutures, mostably Norse mythology's Odin, a literal one-eyed warrior king who willingly gave up one of his eyes for enough water from the Pool of Wisdom to fill his cupped hands, and his mighty Gungnir, a spear that would always strike precisely where the thrower intended (not just Odin) when thrown and always returned to Odin's hand when thrown, it sounds like the Norse and Japanese had similar ideologies so it's no wonder Odin and Norse mythology would be all over manga and anime; and CuChulain and his spear Gaebolg from Irish mythology, and the stories about Cuchulain are insane, from the tale of how he earned his name (serving as the dog guarding the residence of a man named Chulain, who is a blacksmith or king depending on which version you come across, for 7 years, the time it would take to find and train a new dog, and thus earning the name Cuhalain, which literally translates to "hound of Chulain; to the way he died on the battlefield, being a literal single man versus an army of literal hundreds and tying himself to large stone to remain standing until the literal end of his life), and Gaebolg has its own set of stories, all of which are rather terrifying, so long as it can pierce flesh its a guaranteed kill on the one who had the head pierce their hide, and Cuchalain had to train for literal years under the greatest instructors of the Tuatha Dedanan (the pre-Christian gods of Ireland) just for the chance to get a look at the thing becaud of how dangerous it was, and he was a natural warrior and well-learned individual, it was only his encounter with Chulain's aforementioned dog that had him learn an important lesson in humility and his sense of responsibility is what led him to act as the dog's stand-in until the replacement could be brought back to that place.
Now that I think about it, even though the terms are different because of literally different cultures, just how much of Cuchulain's stories could have him basically be considered a "Western Samurai," despite that term not existing until contemporary times; Cuchalain was considered one of the greatest warriors to ever exist and was known for his loyalty and integrity, even if he did get caught up in his own ego from time to time. However, he was still so respected as a warrior that most armies would actually fly the surrender message when they got the news that he was fighting on the opposing side, that's some mad props there to reputation, and his only weapon was the spear Gaebolg, he was even known to go onto active battlefields with little to no armor.
Actually, I think the mythic Irish and mythic Japanese would have gotten along pretty well, they both have strong warrior traditions, and from the stories I've managed to find, at least modern Japanese give them some mad respects; Cuchalain is almost a constant in the Fate franchise, and I've seen weapons bearing the name Gaebolg pop up quite a bit in different games that heavily feature warring factions that have come out of Japan. That said, I find it amusing that, culturally, Ireland and Japan have other ideas about how to treat the Otter (as in the animal) in their respective mythologies. From what I've managed to gather, Japanese culture has the Otter pegged as a trickster, and I'm sure there are a few yokai that immediately spring to mind when I say this; but in Irish mythology, the Otter is a nearly invincible warrior, imagine a bunch of warrior tribes that are kind of like the Greek hero Achilles in that they only have a single weak point (while it's well-known Achilles's heal was his weak point, it's not as well known what point beneath their arm, or even which arm, an otter's weak point is). I would absolutely laugh out loud if I saw a series where the mythological Japanese otter and mythological Irish otter met and the kinds of shenanigans that could potentially ensue from that.
Seriously, Yamato Man's stage is one of my favorites in the whole series – not just MM6, but the WHOLE. DAMN. SERIES. Multiple references to Japan and samurai culture, plenty of booby traps, a secret path through the stage (okay, not so secret, but one still felt like a genius when one found it), the fact that the stage is literally called the "Impregnable Fortress" – yeah, this stage just drips. Kinda makes me want to go play through MM6 again right now…
… BTW, I dunno if the sale is still on, but Capcom was offering the entire Mega Man Collection, erm, collection for $30 when I downloaded it the other weekend. Just saying… 😏
This wouldn't warrant a whole episode, but what about the Shishi Truck in Mega Man 7? Or the Japanese fan Auto sometimes pulls out?
I found this video by watching Zefrank and his Dragonfly video
lol the taknuki enemies in this stage shoot their balls at you
this is making me think of the super heavy samurai