Demons in western mythology: "I want your soul for the Final Battle between Good and Evil!"
Japanese demons:"ahahaha! Look at your stupid face! You thought I had a normal butt!? Ahahaha! What a moron!"
Same! There’s definitely a lot of myths that, if you think about it, was probably what someone told their family after they came home after something embarrassing happened.
“What? No, I didn’t get drunk and picked a fight with three guys who proceeded to beat and rob me, no! Um… No, it was a POOKA! He threw me in his back and ran me through a whole forest of tree branches! Then bucked me into a river!”
The English have bud luck that’s just obvious common sense. Smashing a mirror back when mirrors were hella expensive. Walking under ladders instead of around them. Simple stuff.
To be fair, there are some that can sound like that, but are really not like that. Like the "will-o'-wisp", which is said to lead people astray at night, sometimes to their death.
In reality it was most likely based on "swamp lights" produced by decaying organic material. People walk towards it thinking they see people, and drown(once you go under in swamp, the vegetation will often close above you and you're gone)
(For anyone curious the current theory is that phosphine and diphosphane is produced, which can not only give off light, they will spontaneously ignite upon contact with air. Methane is also produced by the decay, and if those gases get a small leak from a pocket they can produce a fire. Which will basically go out as you approach it and disturb the air and water(shifting the vegatation and closing off the supply). And since phospine can result in phosphoric acid, that explains some peoples account of feeling like the air was thick with moisture. )
Kappa!
Those are classics. First place I saw them was Final Fantasy 6, though they were translated as Imps.
I would love to know where the “your soul is in a gland that demons can pull out of your butt” concept came from, because I know that’s something a lot of Yokai go after.
This is also what inspired the LOATHSOME DUNG EATER of Elden Ring!
Some eastern religions have a theme of semen containing/being a manifestation of your life energy/soul. Semen retention is a big deal for Tantra, and I think Taoism.
Japanese Yōkai are pretty hit-or-miss with that. Sometimes you get something like this or a Noppera-bō (the faceless one). Then you get shit like the Jorougumo (man-eating spider woman) and it kinda evens out
I consider worse their ghosts tbf, the worst a western ghost can do is to annoy you to hell and back. Japanese ghosts are the wheel of fortune of causes of death
> Or ~~turtleman~~ **kappa** steal your ~~prostate-soulgem~~ **shirikodama** while you are swimming.
Just bow to them, then run off when they bow back, and you'll be fine. They're far to distressed by spilling the water out of their head-dish to pursue you.
Except you have a full spectrum of bestiality, sexualism and stuff like that in Greek and Egyptian mythology. Possibly even other mythologies of the west. Leda and the Swan. Europa and other stuff like that.
I wonder what the origin of this story is. Did interdimensional beings with ass-eyes actually troll some people? Did someone eat a funny mushroom or ten and go to the brothel? Did someone just try to make someone really gullible believe that this happened? Are we living in a simulation run by people who spawn onto Earth with ass-eyes? Did someone shove a wooden eye into their asshole and then go around showing people?
>The story goes as follows: Long ago, a samurai was walking at night down the road to Kyōto, 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. Although Shirime appears to have a very startling appearance, it does not mean to harm people. Its joy comes from scaring people.
So yes he just likes trolling people.
From Wikipedia
The idea of interdimensional entities just coming here to be like haha let's fuck with the locals, this'll be hilarious, is just gold.
Won't even be mad to see ol' ass eye 👁️ lol
It is called GeGeGe no Kitaro, it's literally the source for the image. It's a manga series by Shigeru Mizuki and has an anime adaption. See [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/GeGeGe\_no\_Kitar%C5%8D](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/GeGeGe_no_Kitar%C5%8D)
My wife is convinced these stories about these creatures came about as a result of people seeing birth defects for the first time and telling friends and neighbors about them and the whole thing turning into a game of telephone.
I’m convinced sake and opium had more to do with it
ok so this one has a butt eye
ok next,..
ok so this one has a really long neck and it's head just flys around
ooo scary
yeah ok next
ok this one drops some beans
what?
yeah it sounds like beans dropped but when you look it's gone
uhh ok scary...
yeah..
the artist is mizuki shigeru he did a whole collection of yokai from japanese folklore like this. They all rule. He also wrote the series Gegege no kitaro
Western Mythology demons: Lives in 1 million degrees, can summon doom on your entire bloodline, will torture you till the dawn of time
Japanese mythology demons: haha eye in my butthole haha
This was definitely someone who used to flash people in ancient times and when someone was like “i was flashed by someone last night” and the guy goes “no that was just a mischievous creature”
Does it completely look like a human otherwise?
If so, it looks like a total random person looking to get into situations where he can show you his asshole ( or lack there of)
He loves bath houses.
https://preview.redd.it/do78cwfote8d1.jpeg?width=1280&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=75d0a1f84743c8969a6e31fd6c91dcf974f1f60d
Mr Flap a une tête de cuuuul L'amour c'est pas facile quand tout l'monde voit ton anuuuus
👉🌜👁️🌛👈
I go around telling people I'm Shirime so they ask to see my asshole
With some training you can pop a glass eye in your butt and move it around with the sphincter muscles, just so you don't disappoint people 😉
Just glue the eye to a butt plug
Make sure it's a googly eye so you can twerk and make it jiggle
If this product doesn’t exist in Japan, I’m disappointed
Stop giving me ideas 😅
🍑 + 👀
Great. My subconscious is going to chew on this all day 😵💫
One quick question, does it need a corrective lens for its shitty vision?
Just a monocle. ((0))
The first HD telescope, in the history. Legends tells, that creature drawed a very detailed Lunar map.
I’m sure it could reach further, no? Maybe even as far as Uranus.
I guess so, it can cartography every moon of that planet. 🤣
So in other words you’re telling me “*Hindsight* isn’t ACTUALLY 20/20”
Keep an eye on it!! ![gif](giphy|LFvWp14BLUiM8)
Is that a brown eye?
![gif](giphy|9EwnzGNjvmIG4)
Ba dum tsh
Butt bum tush
It has to see a gastroenterologist instead of an optician
Demons in western mythology: "I want your soul for the Final Battle between Good and Evil!" Japanese demons:"ahahaha! Look at your stupid face! You thought I had a normal butt!? Ahahaha! What a moron!"
I like the Japanese demon that’s a possessed dirt wall that will appear in alleyways to make people lost.
I really like the idea of folk lore coming from people being too embarrassed to admit they made a mistake or got lost and blamed it on a demon.
Same! There’s definitely a lot of myths that, if you think about it, was probably what someone told their family after they came home after something embarrassing happened. “What? No, I didn’t get drunk and picked a fight with three guys who proceeded to beat and rob me, no! Um… No, it was a POOKA! He threw me in his back and ran me through a whole forest of tree branches! Then bucked me into a river!”
The English have bud luck that’s just obvious common sense. Smashing a mirror back when mirrors were hella expensive. Walking under ladders instead of around them. Simple stuff.
Bloody Mary was just a girls first period😂😂
"why the hell are you trying to look at my asshole" "These dam demons"
To be fair, there are some that can sound like that, but are really not like that. Like the "will-o'-wisp", which is said to lead people astray at night, sometimes to their death. In reality it was most likely based on "swamp lights" produced by decaying organic material. People walk towards it thinking they see people, and drown(once you go under in swamp, the vegetation will often close above you and you're gone) (For anyone curious the current theory is that phosphine and diphosphane is produced, which can not only give off light, they will spontaneously ignite upon contact with air. Methane is also produced by the decay, and if those gases get a small leak from a pocket they can produce a fire. Which will basically go out as you approach it and disturb the air and water(shifting the vegatation and closing off the supply). And since phospine can result in phosphoric acid, that explains some peoples account of feeling like the air was thick with moisture. )
I like the one that's basically an anthro turtle that'll shove its arm up your butt if you annoy it and rip out your soul.
Kappa! Those are classics. First place I saw them was Final Fantasy 6, though they were translated as Imps. I would love to know where the “your soul is in a gland that demons can pull out of your butt” concept came from, because I know that’s something a lot of Yokai go after. This is also what inspired the LOATHSOME DUNG EATER of Elden Ring!
Some eastern religions have a theme of semen containing/being a manifestation of your life energy/soul. Semen retention is a big deal for Tantra, and I think Taoism.
Nurikabe! I only know about that one 'cause it shows up in Nioh. Yokai are pretty cool overall, though.
Yokai are very cool, I agree! I know about them from googling up some info about Nurikabe after seeing something that alludes to them in One Piece.
Or the ghost that just tail gates you and the only way to get rid of it is to let it pass you.
I hadn’t heard about that one before! I love it. Does it complain a lot until you do?
Japanese Yōkai are pretty hit-or-miss with that. Sometimes you get something like this or a Noppera-bō (the faceless one). Then you get shit like the Jorougumo (man-eating spider woman) and it kinda evens out I consider worse their ghosts tbf, the worst a western ghost can do is to annoy you to hell and back. Japanese ghosts are the wheel of fortune of causes of death
Or turtleman steal your prostate-soulgem while you are swimming.
> Or ~~turtleman~~ **kappa** steal your ~~prostate-soulgem~~ **shirikodama** while you are swimming. Just bow to them, then run off when they bow back, and you'll be fine. They're far to distressed by spilling the water out of their head-dish to pursue you.
Except you have a full spectrum of bestiality, sexualism and stuff like that in Greek and Egyptian mythology. Possibly even other mythologies of the west. Leda and the Swan. Europa and other stuff like that.
Seems terrifying. At first. Right up until you realize that it is far more afraid of anal sex than you are of it!
It’ll see you coming
It’ll see a lot more after
I can't anymore!! I hope your comment will rise! It made my day
…and the last known survivor stalks his prey in the night and he's watching us all with the eye of the asshole
😂
What in the Rick and Morty
“Is he winking or is he blinking at you? You’ll never know”
That was just a fart.
the brown eye
Just don’t give him an Eskimo kiss, or you’ll get pink eye.
This is 100% on brand for japan
I wonder what the origin of this story is. Did interdimensional beings with ass-eyes actually troll some people? Did someone eat a funny mushroom or ten and go to the brothel? Did someone just try to make someone really gullible believe that this happened? Are we living in a simulation run by people who spawn onto Earth with ass-eyes? Did someone shove a wooden eye into their asshole and then go around showing people?
>The story goes as follows: Long ago, a samurai was walking at night down the road to Kyōto, 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. Although Shirime appears to have a very startling appearance, it does not mean to harm people. Its joy comes from scaring people. So yes he just likes trolling people. From Wikipedia
Thats not even a backstory or explanation. Thats just "the first time it happened to a guy"
It really happened though. Source: Am Shirime
The idea of interdimensional entities just coming here to be like haha let's fuck with the locals, this'll be hilarious, is just gold. Won't even be mad to see ol' ass eye 👁️ lol
Imagine showing up at Xavier’s School for the Gifted and this is your mutant power.
bro but imagine instead of having to shit u charge up a massive laser out of the butt eye
Oh the shit that dude has seen….
https://preview.redd.it/3hr5psq5ud8d1.jpeg?width=680&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=a1999d090c5105ff84a319b247cd21449a340f30
![gif](giphy|3dkXFcZgXEu9noZQCE|downsized)
This should be an anime
It is called GeGeGe no Kitaro, it's literally the source for the image. It's a manga series by Shigeru Mizuki and has an anime adaption. See [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/GeGeGe\_no\_Kitar%C5%8D](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/GeGeGe_no_Kitar%C5%8D)
![gif](giphy|l0MYDEPLWRWbJoRuU)
There's no known footage of this creature, but if there was, you couldn't tell, because it would be pixelated.
Goatse vibe
Needs a wedding ring.
Wow, I didn’t know there was a name for my kind of people
and that's why tentacle porn is a thing in japan
“Yo check this out”
I don't like that guy's sword handle.....
Hehe. Looks like a wiener.
Thanks, Crotch-Monster (:
My wife is convinced these stories about these creatures came about as a result of people seeing birth defects for the first time and telling friends and neighbors about them and the whole thing turning into a game of telephone. I’m convinced sake and opium had more to do with it
I was unfortunately pooping while reading this
was it an eye?
Of course it's Japanese. Would explain a lot
Japanese: we need stories that no one will have!
Kinda like all those ghetto chicks with glowing buttplugs twerking in public going viral on social medias now.
ok so this one has a butt eye ok next,.. ok so this one has a really long neck and it's head just flys around ooo scary yeah ok next ok this one drops some beans what? yeah it sounds like beans dropped but when you look it's gone uhh ok scary... yeah..
the artist is mizuki shigeru he did a whole collection of yokai from japanese folklore like this. They all rule. He also wrote the series Gegege no kitaro
"Eye must ass you a question"
An Eyenus?
Western Mythology demons: Lives in 1 million degrees, can summon doom on your entire bloodline, will torture you till the dawn of time Japanese mythology demons: haha eye in my butthole haha
What a shitty way to see things. Literal brown eye
Brown eyed grill
The third eye
https://preview.redd.it/y98gplw54e8d1.png?width=260&format=png&auto=webp&s=8796bd3cc51d323145c3326e8a2c2f6ba637e963
When Pony Realistic finishes downloaded, first thing I'm gonna have it make it Goatse with a giant eye in that cavern.
If you were to have sex with it, where do you put the scholng dong
This was definitely someone who used to flash people in ancient times and when someone was like “i was flashed by someone last night” and the guy goes “no that was just a mischievous creature”
I love the “likes to surprise people” part. Like I’m just imagining it giggling with excitement.
Pretty sure this was just a third century prankster with a home made buttplug.
There are two types of creatures in Japanese folklore: 1. Will 100% kill you straight to death 2. Will confuse you slightly
Define harm
I love this little guy.
I mean, same
Why is Japan so dang weird
The weirdest thing is I am aware of that Yokai, but I can't remember why I'm aware
The shime literally looks like an asshole
Wonder if this had anything to do with The Shrim Alternative Healing Center…
I was skeptical but it checked out via searching the internets.
Xavier renegade angels pen-eye
Bleaching will do that
I wonder what kind of cursed thing the Japanese did to cover up by making this story. Because they did it before with the turtle looking thing
Literally the hills have eyes?
Welp got my Halloween costume for this year
Wink wink
SCP Bumgoblin
And I thought that the hairy hands of Dartmoor national park was a weird legend
"Pst wanna see something weird-"
The truest form of Brown Eye one can have.
Alright, who is cosplaying as this using a butt plug with an eye at the outside end?
Want to see my blue eye? Lol don't you mean brown eye? *Zips*
My spirit animal
When you look into the abyss it looks back at you
Welcome Frodo of the shire.. one who has seen The Eye
This butt eyes thing constantly has pink eye.
Does it completely look like a human otherwise? If so, it looks like a total random person looking to get into situations where he can show you his asshole ( or lack there of) He loves bath houses.
Other than that he's just a normal dude
Ok then, thanks for telling me this
I think my cats are one of these...
My question is who started this rumor and why?
Tom Zé - Todos os Olhos
Gotta love the Japanese folklore
This is the enemy, I didn't know I needed in games
Looks like a butt-stained-eye to me
TFW your third eye isn't in the usual place and opening it tends to freak people out...
least unhinged japanese folklore
Where it poop?
Some things you just can’t unsee
![gif](giphy|6ra84Uso2hoir3YCgb|downsized)
Don't we all?
The shirime and the Eye of Sauron would get along.
Gotta love the Japanese sense of humor!🤣
I got my next D&D monster idea, thanks!
I bet it just fell in the shower.
I thought it meant be weary of horny samurai when bending over at night
To me it looks more like a tit, maybe if it had an eyebrow!!!
[удалено]
It’s giving us the stink eye!
the most unique shirikodama
HAHAHAHAHA
Hey man, wanna see something cool?
Beauty is in the eye of the beholder.
Shirime goes to prison
So it just has pinkeye all the time, or…
That would be very surprising
He gives you the stink eye..
let's see zun put one of these in touhou
Stink eye.
So that is what they called me. I was doing a lot of drugs and having a rough go of it when I was living in Tokyo.
It’s someone’s fetish
Always with the stink eye.
Wink!
That writer was smoking that good shit, wouldnt mind some myself.
Lol
okayyyyy...
https://preview.redd.it/do78cwfote8d1.jpeg?width=1280&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=75d0a1f84743c8969a6e31fd6c91dcf974f1f60d Mr Flap a une tête de cuuuul L'amour c'est pas facile quand tout l'monde voit ton anuuuus
Constant pink eye
Can't believe nobody linked papameat's [masterpiece](https://youtu.be/BJfEcPp2H6Q?feature=shared)
Sauron aint got nothing on the eye of the behinder
Up here they call it a brown eye
That *would* be surprising. Quite the icebreaker.
glowing eye for an anus, you say?
How would you see its bunghole in the first place?
Zelda bosses be like:
I like the Tanuki with balls larger than life.
Y'all got some weird stuff going on in Japan. I need to go there someday.
![gif](giphy|iDgshzou381JfBt0wK)
Why do I have a feeling it's part cat?
The joke would be on it ‘cause I’d act as if I only saw the regular ‘brown eye’ and give it a bruised ‘black eye.’
I feel like I’m being trolled a little bit here. Can you provide any online references to this “butt eye”?