• inconel@lemmy.ca
    29·
    3 months ago

    As someone educated in Japanese subculture I thought it was testing knowledge of hasshaku-sama (urban legend of 8 ft tall mistress, you may also find spicy contemporary interpretation too).

        • Zarobi@aussie.zoneEnglish
          5·
          3 months ago

          It’s a bit hard to find non-Japanese information since it’s a relatively new and lesser known yokai, but this site does a pretty decent breakdown.

          Tap for yokai

          Ms. Eight Feet Tall (八尺様, Hachishakusama, also informally called Hasshakusama) is a type of main Japanese spirit (Yokai) that takes the form of an impossibly tall female specter often rumored to have a deep, masculine or an attractive, feminine voice in which she repeats the interjection “Po” [ぽ] repeatedly, and has a habit of preying on children, usually those who are nine to eleven years old.

          It is said that Hachishakusama catches her victims by stalking a select child she takes a liking to for a few days or even months. After a certain time has passed, she takes the child away from their family members and their whereabouts are left completely undisclosed ever since. It’s unknown how or why she chooses to abduct them, but it can be assumed that like most spirits, she can also just teleport to the child’s location and take them away with her that way too.

          However, there are a rare few of people who have been “liked” by Hachishakusama and lived to tell the tale. Those who are fortunate enough to have survived the spirit’s wrath have to leave Japan and reside in a different country; they cannot return to Japan due to the risk of being hunted by Hachishakusama once more which also prohibits them from seeing their families by extension even under urgent situations, like a relative of theirs passing away.

          Basically, don’t reciprocate her affection or pity her too much. If she finds you interesting and you see a tall dark woman watching you intermittently, flee the country immediately. She stalks people to see if they’re a good replacement for her lost son, and “adopts” them.

          Source: https://villains.fandom.com/wiki/Eight_Feet_Tall

  • Jankatarch@lemmy.world
    81·
    3 months ago
    Unrelated rant about search engines

    I am going insane because I was just curious if Persian speaking countries also read comic books right-to-left too, and despite the amount of specifying, my search engine just fucking insists that I am looking for the Manga reading directions. What happened to the internet?

  • Solrac@lemmy.world
    3·
    3 months ago

    Me knowing exactly who that is, knowing full well that kid is most likely gonna be less safe from now on

  • Lovable Sidekick@lemmy.worldEnglish
    1·
    3 months ago

    Oh I get it, Americans read left to right and Japanese read right to left.

    Interesting variant of this - somebody tried swapping the reels of the movie Passengers - I think they moved the first reel toward the middle, so it starts when Jennifer Lawrence wakes up. At this point Chris Pratt is concealing that it was him who woke her up, and a lot of his behavior is very sketchy and sinister because you don’t see what led up to it. Then after she finds out and hates him you see reel 1 as a flashback, and it flips the whole tone of the story. After thinking about it I really wish the director had told the story that way.

    • chiliedogg@lemmy.world
      1·
      3 months ago

      I hate how it was resolved so much.

      Dude basically murdered her and in the end when given the chance to go back to her planned life she chooses to stay with him. It’s apparently okay for someone sentence you to death and deceive you into sleeping with them as long as they’re handsome.