For more information on tanuki, check out our article of Tofugu.com:
http://www.tofugu.com/2015/01/30/tanuki-the-magical-canine-with-gigantic-magic-tanuki-balls/

Welcome to Tofugu’s new series, Yokai 101. We’re gonna teach you all kinds of things about spooky, fun, and magical Japanese creatures. We’ll start with the tanuki, the magical canine with giant balls.

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38 Comments

  1. And a Korean tanuki is leading character in a Furry novel I enjoy. He is a bit of a caniver too☺️

  2. I just put a tanuki outside Nooks cranny because they looked similar, I didn’t know that was culturally accurate 👁👄👁

  3. Wow no one noticed he’s more about Japanese culture then American. It was Wile E Coyote who painted the tunnel….

  4. And here i was falling in love with the cute ver of the modern art, animation,tanuki…but when i got back to google,result are shown as a creepy tanuki in the night with their eye glowing in the darkness and accidentally my brain start making up on how tanuki sounded like and also lead me to wander of by imagination that lead me into a dark forest alone with that mischief tanuki…..ok im scared of the old version tanuki

  5. I understand now why they changed Tanuki Mario's gliding to resemble a flying squirrel.
    Prob wouldn't do well with western moms. xD

  6. 2:47 Wild E. COYOTE makes the wall paintings. Road Runner just runs through it. While WE. COYOTE is bound by physics of matter, he crashes into walls, flung by his traps, and falls due to gravity.

  7. Sure, I guess if you have such ridiculously massive scrotum you'd get creative to cope with the inconvenience of it…Build things, paint faces on it…hang it out to dry on a clothesline??

  8. Feeding ppl feces is more humane than feeding them cruel cancer-invoking "foods", such as McD's and CCola -_-
    / in my personal humble opinion, at least. /

    Gimme the horse sh<3t, keep MCD's to yerselff

  9. I can now understand why the Pom Poko anime had the super balls on these guys. LoL
    Strange to say the least 🤣

  10. you know…we talk about the insult to injury with the turkey
    you die, just to have your head shoved up your butt

    …but can we talk about the horror of the nutt wallet?

  11. Imagine walking up to a black and white wild dog and it puts a leaf on it’s head and turns into a human, what you doin?

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