#yama-oroshi

[majimemegoro]

Yakuza 5 Okudera knowledge poll

[klushund]

Yama-oroshi heard through the grapevine, that you can catch yourself a yakuza with Pocky...

Needless to say, Saejima has no idea what's going on.

[maddogofshimano]

Territory of the Beast: Yama-oroshi boss rush

Spoilers for Y5 and Y6

Now I was pretty excited to see this new KSR Saejima card and to see that there was a Yama-oroshi boss rush event. 

But then I realized Saejima’s card said it was him in 2016 which is decidedly NOT when he fought Yama-oroshi in Y5, and then I was hooting and hollering

Summary: After getting out of jail for a third time, Saejima decides to visit the mountain village so he can properly thank Okudera for everything the man taught him. Unfortunately, a child has gotten stranded on the mountain, and Saejima rushes to his aid

In the wake of the war between east and west that swallowed up five major cities... An incident occurred after Saejima had once again left his imprisonment at Abashiri.

<Boots crunching on snow> Saejima: ....It's been a while. I hope Okudera-han's doin' well.

<He knocks on the door> Saejima: He ain't comin' out... is he not home?

<Another set of boots in the snow>  Nishina: Oh! Well if it isn't Saejima-san! What are you doing here?

Saejima: Oh, Nishina-han. Been a while. Saejima: Since I got outta jail, I wanted to give my thanks for all the help I got before, but... do ya know where Okudera-han is? Nishina: I see. You've been back in prison since last time. Nishina: Well, your timing isn't the best. Right now, Okudera-san's gone down the mountain to buy some hunting equipment. (Tl note: WHY are you always doing this sort of thing to Saejima you are SO MEAN) Saejima: ...Do you know when he'll be back? Nishina: Maybe today or tomorrow. Saejima: I see... In that case, I oughta clear away the snow that's piled up 'fore he gets back. Seems like there's a good amount.

Nishina: Great. I'm sure Okudera-san would be delighted. And, if he's not back today, swing by my place and you can stay the night. Saejima: Are you sure? Nishina: Mhm. I know the kind of man you are, and since you've paid your debt to society there's nothing to worry about. Saejima: ...I owe ya one. Thanks for this, Nishina-han. Saejima: By the way... Has Yama-oroshi been around? Has it approached the village at all? Nishina: It's been docile. As long as it's not provoked, I don't think it'll come near humans again. Nishina: We probably owe that to you driving it away from the village last time it came around. Nishinia: ...I really have to thank you again. Saejima: Hah, no thanks are needed. I'm the one that oughta be payin' ya back still. If it weren't for this village, I'd be dead. <music changes> Villager's voice: It's awful! Nishina-san! Nishina: What is it? What happened? <Nishina steps off screen> Nishina: ....!? I see. Got it. <He returns> Nishina: ...Sorry, Saejima-san. There's something I need to take care of. Saejima: What's going on? Nishina: ..............Okay. This area's landlord's son, he was playing on the mountain and got stranded... Nishina: ...It seems like he may have entered Yama-oroshi's territory.

Saejima: What!?

Nishina: A rescue party has been called, but it'll take some time for them to arrive, so I think we should go in separately to search too. Saejima: ...Then I'm comin' too. I can't let 'em kill Yama-oroshi. Nishina: ...............It'll be reassuring to have you come along, Saejima-san. I'll lend you a gun and clothes. Come with me. <they're now up on the mountain and the wind is howling> Saejima: (It's really comin' down... Gotta find him fast.....)

Saejima: ....! Nishina-han, here! Nishina: ...The size of these footprints... They must be Yama-oroshi's. And they're recent... it must be close. Saejima: .....! Over there... There's something there. Yama-oroshi: ...............

Nishina: Has it... noticed something over there? It looks like it's looking at something.... That's.... Saejima: ...............Is that the boy who got stranded earlier? Nishina: Y-Yeah...! This isn't good! Take aim! ....We have to stop Yama-oroshi before it attacks! <BANG> Yama-oroshi: ....! Roaaaaar!

Nishina: Saejima-san, hurry up and fire! It's turning this way! Saejima: ....No, Nishina-han. No more shootin' guns. Nishina: What? Saejima: I'll hold Yama-oroshi off. You get that stranded guy outta here. <Saejima drops his gun> Nishina: ...!? Hey! Why are you tossing your gun.... Nishina: Don't tell me... you're going to face it bare handed? That's insane... you'll be killed! Saejima: .....Please. Nishina-han. Nishina: Sa-....Saejima-san........ Nishina: ....Shit..... I'm coming right back. And when I do, if you're in danger I'm shooting it no matter what.

<Nishina leaves> Saejima: ....Thanks, Nishina-han. Yama-oroshi: ROOAAAAAR!

Saejima: ....Looks like you're full of energy, Yama-oroshi. Saejima: Well then... Let's have our first match in a while, yeah?

<the boss rush event occurs with Full-Scale Offensive as the background music>

Yama-oroshi: Roooaaaar!

Saejima: Haa... Haa... Just as damn tough as expected.

Saejima: (It seems like Yama-oroshi's taken a good amount of damage too...) Saejima: (...But the thick skin it's got is preventin' any decisive blows from takin' it down.... I gotta aim for the vulnerable spots on its face) Saejima: (But... Yama-oroshi is too damn fast to land a full force blow on its head like that....) Saejima: (If there's somethin' I can do to make it stop movin'.... I can use that as my chance to hit it squarely...) Nishina: Saejima-san! I brought that idiot kid back to the village!

Saejima: Nishina-han! Saejima: (This is bad... Now Yama-oroshi's going to be shot and killed...) Nishina: Saejima-san! Use this! <He throws something> Saejima: What's Nishina-han thowin' to me... This is...! Saejima: .......! ......Thanks a bunch, Nishina-han! 

Yama-oroshi: ROOOAAAAAR!

Saejima: ....Sorry, Yama-oroshi. I'm gonna pull a dirty trick...!

<Something is sprayed> Yama-oroshi: ....!!!!

Saejima: (Great, the bear spray stopped it! This is my chance!) Saejima: Haaaaaaaaa........ oraaa!!!! <a big punch> Yama-oroshi: ....! Grr.... rrrrr....

<Yama-oroshi drops> Saejima: Whew.... That was... a close one.... <Saejima drops too> Nishina: S-Saejima-san!!!!

Saejima: Ugh.... where am I?

Nishina: ....Thank goodness. Saejima-san, you're awake.

Saejima: Nishina-han... Ah, that's right. After I took down Yama-oroshi, I blacked out... Nishina: Seriously. What an absurd guy you are... Why the hell would you deliberately throw aside your gun to fight a bear with just your fists... Saejima: ......Thanks for not interruptin' that, Nishina-han. 

Saejima: This whole thing... was all because of humans enterin' the otherwise docile Yama-oroshi's territory. Saejima: So, I wanted to do my damndest to prevent Yama-oroshi gettin' killed for defendin' it's turf. Nishina: ...If you had used a gun, it would have ended in death. To avoid killing, you chose to fight it bare handed... Nishina: The landlord's stranded child and Yama-oroshi, you were working to save both of them. Saejima: ............... Nishina: ....When you said you were going to fight it bare handed, I thought you must have had a reason for it. Nishina: ...So, just in case you did, I grabbed the bear spray. Saejima: ...So that's why... Thank you again, Nishina-han. Nishina: Nah, it was nothing. I'm just glad Yama-oroshi wasn't killed. Villager's voice: Nishina-saaaan. On his way back up the mountain, it seems that Okudera-san's car got stuck in the snow..... Nishina: What? I see. I'll go right away. Saejima: Nishina-han, I'm goin' too. Nishina: ...Are you okay enough for that? I think it'd be best if you just rested... Saejima: It ain't a problem. The whole point of this trip was to try to repay the favor that Okudera-han did for me. Right here and now, I got a chance to help him in some way. Nishina: ...You're a tough man, huh. You're saying that despite having just fought a bear. Saejima: Heh, let's get a move on already, Nishina-han.

<EVENT END>

Bonus stuff:

SHOW US OKUDERA WHY ARE YOU HIDING HIM!!

okay first of all this was NOT the raffle prize but I am going to do that one still. the raffle winner very kindly wanted me to do this one first because we were both Very Excited to see what’s going on here

I really love Nishina being like “oh you went to jail again? after we very kindly hid you from the cops? fine. whatever.” and Saejima being like “oh a kid’s in danger? well I better make sure nobody kills the man-eating bear”

I also love Saejima’s smiling sprite. they do so badly with the smiles all the time. this one does kind of work as a shit eating grin tho

Very tragically I think this confirms the 15th anniversary book’s timeline that Saejima went back to jail at the end of Y5 and didn’t get out until the end of Y6, meaning he was out for 9 months during 2010, a few days/weeks at the end of 2012/start of 2013, and then back in jail until the end of 2016. I hate it here

Here’s the cards that came with the event! Saejima’s is “The Snowy Mountain’s Ferocious Tiger” and Yama-oroshi’s is “The Snowy Mountain’s Emperor”

and finally here’s the event music, it is unsurprisingly the music that plays in Y5 when you fight Yama-oroshi

[kenzan-kiwami]

wow, if i had a nickel for every piece of media i have consumed recently in which a guy punches a bear in hokkaido then learns to hunt from a native, i'd have two nickels, which isn't a lot, but it's weird that it happened twice

[skrunksthatwunk]

tojoctober day 11: bite!!

it's saejima getting mauled by boog, a real plot event from yakuza 5 /j

[rggtattoos]

Hi ! Majimemegoro here. I've really enjoyed reading your posts, thanks for sharing your hard work. Could you make a post on bears in japanese tattoos ? I'm thinking about this because of Okudera's hunting partner haha. Cheers and no pressure if it's not a topic you'd be interested in posting on.

This one was a doozy! I learned a lot about some things Yakuza 5 may have been trying to say with its inclusion of the Hunting Village. Heads up: discussion of the assimilation and subjugation of indigenous people.

(art from Art Japanese)

Mainstream Japanese culture only has a few appearances by bears in mythology. Bears live in the mountains, rarely coming to the populous areas like cities. They are considered reclusive animals that rarely interact with humans. The most notable bear in mainstream Japanese mythology is the Onikuma or “Demon Bear,” a bear that has grown to enormous size to the point that it can pick up livestock and walk back into the mountains.

In Japan the bear is associated with the group of indigenous people known as the Ainu. The Ainu are native to the Hokkaido region of Japan, where 5's Tsukimino and Hunting Village is located. They worship the bear as a powerful spirit and god. The Ainu word for bear, "kamuy" is the same word used for "god or spirit." In mountainous regions, bears and the Ainu live in close proximity to one another, sharing food sources and walking trails. The bear has become a symbol that is deeply connected with the Ainu, their culture, and their resilience in the face of the government attempt to assimilate their people and eliminate their culture. (A move that was directly modeled off the US forced assimilation of its native people, with cooperation with US officials.) While traditionally making realistic depictions of bears is said to risk affecting the spirit of the bear, modern Ainu are known for their detailed wooden bear carvings.

The Ainu historically practiced yearly bear sacrifice, but the practice was banned in the 1950’s. However, in 2006 it gained protection as an important cultural practice. For the ceremony a bear cub was captured during a hunt, and would be raised as a child of the village before being sacrificed in adulthood. After the bear was sacrificed, a feast would be held with song and dancing. A woman of the village would recite a story of a floating world on the back of a fish, ending on a cliffhanger in hopes of luring the god back next year to hear the rest of the story. 

Yama-oroshi means "mountain wind" and is also the name of a yokai from Japanese folklore. It is a type of tsukumogami: a tool or other inanimate object that contains a spirit. The yama-oroshi is a metal grater that has been badly cared for and becomes too dull to slice anything. It grows a body and the slicers stick out like a porcupine's spines.

References

The Ainu People

Onikuma

Yama-Oroshi

[raymend]

the world if saejimas story in y5 was better

[majimassqueaktoy]

Yama-oroshi is the reason bears are called kuma and devils are called akuma. He's that close to being an actual devil.

[calamity-callie]

The ABCs of Elder Dragons

A is for Amatsu, storms spawn at his call

B is for Blackveil, a spore-spewing Vaal

C is for Ceadeus, giant peaceful guy

D is for Daora, carefree in the sky

E is for Eruzerion, fire and ice he controlled

F is for Fatalis, an apocalypse foretold

G is for Gogmazios, eat, sleep, and fight!

H is for Harudomerugu, who burned a hot white

I is for Ishvalda, wailing lonely tunes

J is for Jhen Mohran, swimming through the dunes

K is for Kulve Taroth, gems and gold galore

L is for Lunastra, a harsh queen for sure!

M is for Malzeno, keeping danger concealed

N is for Namielle, water and thunder, she wields

O is for Oroshi Kirin, a quick and frigid horse

P is all alone, nothing starts with this of course!

Q is for Chameleos, no it isn’t! What a sneak.

R is for Ruiner Nergigante, brutal culler of the weak

S is for Shah Dalamadur, titan snake of the spear

T is for Teostra, a king without peer

U is for Ukanlos, not a dragon, but close!

V is for Velkhana, a cold and beautiful host

W is for Wind Serpent, Ibushi’s his name

X is for Xeno’Jiiva, a tough child to tame!

Y is for Yama Tsukami, a creature quite bizarre

Z is for Zorah Magdaros, mountain who travels far

[viviaubm]

Autumn screams about monster hunter monsters 4: Kirin

do you ever think about kirin. its so weird. its like the only monster in the series thats straight up named after a preexisting mythological creature. but its also designed after unicorns. whats this fuckin guy's deal?

this fuckin MLP oc lookin ass is cool as hell. but so odd. different from every monster in the game. so small. only elder dragon to not have its own theme as far as im aware. this guy is like the weirdest elder dragon in the series. at least yama tsukami and nakarkos are both cephalopods. but the only similar monster to kirin is oroshi kirin. who is also Just A Fucking Kirin.

nothing else in the entire series is like this. its the only horse monster. its attacks are so unlike everything else. this fuckin thing is a goddamn anomaly. its like the weakest elder dragon and normally gets its shit kicked in by a pissed off ape. whats your fuckin deal man why are you like that

oroshi kirin also has the color scheme ever. its so good. i love this guy. kirin is great i just wish his fight wasnt Like That.

[a-land-lacking-sleep]

Electric Trains Chapter 18 Outline

I wrote the first two paragraphs of this chapter at the end of Chapter 17, then wrote Novembmas Snippets for a month and didn't touch this at all. All in all, I basically kept to the outline and simply embellished from there, there weren't really any major deviations. I edited the Blorbo joke slightly, and leaned into Kamado's accent slipping when he's flat-footed, mostly because I've been playing a lot of Yakuza/LAD recently and I felt another good way of showing how overly formal Kamado can be was the use of "-san/-han" as an honorific (and let me play with Emmet being half-Johtoan).

Oh, except for Akari's Team! That wasn't in the outline and I showed them all in this chapter! I already showed Ember the Typhlosion, Iona the Gardevoir, and Skylar the Staraptor in previous chapters, and had them in the outline elsewhere. But now I've also shown Yama the shiny Snorlax, Oroshi the Alpha Gyrados, and Kuu-chan the Ursaring! I'll probably do a different post down the line to go in-depth on her team, probably after I finalize her Sinnoh-era team.

The next chapter is 19... Except it's not. I have two Chapter 19s in my outline, because I had to fill in a chapter to make sure I hit 25, since I messed up my outline. So next chapter is a breather, with a different focus than usual! A break from Ingo being hurt, from the drive to find family, and from Akari being a gremlin. I hear a certain red head will be joining the group...

[majimemegoro]

Proud to announce that when I arrived home my father excitedly informed me that he’d found a documentary about bears attacking people in Japan. I have a brand 👍

[sir-yeehaw-paws]

WHERE DID THE FREAKING YAMA OROSI COME FROM?????

@majimemegoro ANCESTOR YAMA OROSHI

[joy-returns-in-the-morning]

Tojoctober Day 30 - Monster

Yama-oroshi attacks!

[monsterhuntertournament]

Round 1 Part 2 Matchups

After a bit of a wait, the matchups for Round 1 Part 2 are ready! The matches themselves will start being posted on January 5th, and will once again remain open for voting for a week each. This post will once again be periodically updated to include links to each match, and the posts themselves will (still) be tagged as Round 1 Poll. Finally, here are the matchups for Round 1 Part 2:

Acidic Glavenus Vs. Rathian

Shrieking Legiana Vs. Oroshi Kirin

Great Maccao Vs. Wind Serpent Ibushi

Snowbaron Lagombi Vs. Shogun Ceanataur

Ahtal-Neset Vs. Dalamadur

Gogmazios Vs. Violet Mizutsune

Blangonga Vs. Gypceros

Bulldrome Vs. Sand Barioth

Malzeno Vs. Tetsucabra

Glacial Agnaktor Vs. Seltas Queen

Vespoid Queen Vs. Silver Rathalos

Ashen Lao-Shan Lung Vs. Risen Shagaru Magala

Gaismagorm Vs. Ruiner Nergigante

Tidal Najarala Vs. Bishaten

Goss Harag Vs. Volvidon

Hellblade Glavenus Vs. Jyuratodos

Pyre Rakna-Kadaki Vs. Banbaro

Agnaktor Vs. Blackveil Vaal Hazak

Yian Kut-Ku Vs. Lao-Shan Lung

Narwa the Allmother Vs. Berserk Tetsucabra

Risen Teostra Vs. Rusted Kushala Daora

Seregios Vs. Great Jaggi

White Fatalis Vs. Xeno'jiiva

Aurora Somnacanth Vs. Apex Arzuros

Ukanlos Vs. Akantor

Garangolm Vs. Apex Rathalos

Seltas Vs. Blood Orange Bishaten

Valstrax Vs. Uragaan

Zorah Magdaros Vs. Teostra

Rustrazor Ceanataur Vs. Nergigante

Risen Kushala Daora Vs. Kirin

Anjanath Vs. Gendrome

Frostfang Barioth Vs. Congalala

Diablos Vs. Malfestio

Odogaron Vs. Khezu

Yama Tsukami Vs. Kulve Taroth

Royal Ludroth Vs. Gobul

Ruby Basarios Vs. Somnacanth

Yian Garuga Vs. Deadeye Yian Garuga

Brachydios Vs. Duramboros

Aknosom Vs. Jhen Mohran

Azure Rathalos Vs. Steel Uragaan

Alatreon Vs. Kecha Wacha

Behemoth Vs. Coral Pukei-Pukei

Bazelgeuse Vs. Barioth

Scorned Magnamalo Vs. Lagombi

Baleful Gigginox Vs. Boltreaver Astalos

Purple Gypceros Vs. Dah'ren Mohran

Gigginox Vs. Velocidrome

Iodrome Vs. Furious Rajang

Ash Kecha Wacha Vs. Great Wroggi

Shara Ishvalda Vs. Primordial Malzeno

[skrunksthatwunk]

OBSESSED with the fact that i finally move in to tumblr.com for the rgg content and find out there's an okudera renaissance happening