Fables and Folktales: Tokoyo and the Sea Monster
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Published 2022-09-23
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All Comments (21)
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Tokoyo's dad is going to be the best/worst at parties. "Your kid became a doctor? Oh how cute. Lemme tell you about MY kid..."
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If I had a nickel for every time a hero killed a sea monster that ate young girls while on a quest to save one of their parents from the fate consigned to them by a figure of authority, I'd have two nickels which isn't a lot but it's weird that it happened twice
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The only issue I have with this tale is that there aren’t MORE tales of Tokoyo doing even more badass things.
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Nice to see the "unnamed damsel in distress with no agency that is only characterized by their relationship to the badass hero that saves them" being a man for a change (the dad in this case)
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Love that her lost poster for her dad lists him as “30 or 40 years old”
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I love the genre of folktale that goes 'And here is a terrible monster, so dangerous and deadly that it has been terrorising the locals for years - nay, generations! Anyways, here's our hero, who's going to beat it in 2.5 seconds with their hands tied behind their back and then go home.' They show up everywhere and I love them all.
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I love how this random girl just happens to be an epic badass for no reason whatsoever.
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I appreciate Red's character development from someone who accidentally repeated fake folklore to someone cautious enough to admit the weaknesses in her sources ahead of time.
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Greek tragedies primed me for her to have the horrible realization that the sea serpent was actually her father and then she’d be chased by the furries for six more chapters until she finally got forgiveness from one of the gods or died tragically. But not before doing a lot more stuff way more messed up than killing her sea serpent dad, that the narrative doesn’t feel the need to punish her for.
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Tokoyo is way more badass than I expected. I love this girl.
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Tokoyo, about to be attacked by the sea monster: Agh, call an ambulance, call an ambulance! BUT NOT FOR ME
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The sheer amount of doneness that Tokoyo radiated. You can feel that.
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I like to think in like 400 years there'll be a reincarnation of Red making classics summarised videos about JoJo and other campy anime
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I don't care if this is fanfic from a British guy, Tokoyo is a monster slaying badass and you cannot take this away from me!!!
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1:14 I thought he looked familiar! I have that book! I read it, like, 27 years ago! It's actually nowhere near as bad as you would expect. R.G. Smith really went out of his way to understand Japanese culture on its own terms — absolutely unbelievable for a man from the Edwardian British Emipre! — and then, even more unbelievable, tried to explain Japanese culture as accurately as possible, in a way that British people would understand.
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I absolutely LOVE at 2:21 that she moves faster than her eye glare can keep up.
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“English gentleman who left his wife for 18 years to tour the east, which means he would probably be really impressed with advancements in body-pillow technology”
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“I’d love to go to Japan, I’ve watched so much JoJo Bizarre Adventure”. That line made me laugh.
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I like how Tokoyo apparently moves so fast swiping the girl from the priest that she leaves her eye-shines in the rocks behind her
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i've said it once before, but I would kill for Red to just do a playlist of her just doing full versions of her acoustic endings. You've got such an amazing voice red!
