A Feral Halloween in Japan | Kanpai Kronicles 9

Happy Halloween! In this week's episode we're exploring the wonderful world of trick-or-treating and how that's played out in Japan as well as our home countries!

Timestamps

• 00:00 Intro
• 1:33 Exploring our old halloween costumes
• 5:15 The beautiful Yokai of the Week
• 12:40 Would ghosts survive well in modern Japan?
• 20:25 Our earliest memories of Halloween
• 32:19 How did Halloween arrive in Japan?
• 36:42 The real Horror season happens in Summer
• 41:49 The colourful riot of Shibuya Halloween
• 48:04 Japanese Mad Max Experience
• 55:05 In Kansai they go hard
• 59:01 You are given permission to be feral
• 1:08:41 Better to be weird together than by yourself
• 1:13:58 What would be good Halloween costumes for us?
• 1:17:26 Norm's forbidden halloween costume
• 1:24:09 Pandemic during Halloween, how would it look like?
• 1:26:28 Impulse Halloween and responsibilities
• 1:31:19 Organised chaos across all timezones

Links

• Yokai of the Week: https://yokai.com/kuchisakeonna/
• Article on differences in celebrating Halloween in the US vs. Japan: https://www.kokugakuin.ac.jp/en/article/11192

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