/jp/ - Otaku Culture

Do it, anon. Just look how fluffy it is.

That's the real good end. Who cares about the rest of the game.

>>7951042
rape you or something I bet

...what DO kitsunes normally do if you mess with their cute fluffy tails?

>>7951031
>That's the real good end.

That's not the Queen Harpy

If you pull the tail, you will never get to feel how fluffy it is as you have enraged tamamo

>>7951042

Historically speaking, strictly factually, without interpretation or extrapolation?
Nobody knows. It doesn't say. The people who wrote down the myths in antiquity seem to have been just as practical minded as the people the myths originated with.

The only mentioning of the subject I could find seems to indicate paying any attention to the tail whatsoever is a very sensitive matter. In the case of Kuzunoha, her son by a human catching sight of even the tip of her tail forced her to leave human civilisation, for reasons that seem vague to the modern mind. However, in that case she was disguised and maintaining the disguise flawlessly was vital to the safety of herself and her family, so it may have been a special case.
Nothing seems to be written down about proper tail etiquette when dealing with kitsune in their true form or in-between forms.

>>7951162

I mean in media nowadays in general...I wonder if any anime/manga touched upon it.

>>7951018
It begins to shake and laugh hysterically.

Didn't you see the big "TRY ME!" on the box?

>>7951186
inb4 "how can a tail laugh?"

>>7951174

Oh... well, then. Template time.

1: Girly girl silly moan.
2: Assorted -dere reactions.
3: Foxtopus.
4: See picture.

May be others, but can't think of any concrete examples.

Chapter 2 where?

>>7951204

foxtopus?

>>7951218
Full high dexterity control over the tails, things like wrapping around you and throwing you across the room perhaps. but then thats not very moe-moe anime style, is it

>>7951222

Has there been any full dexterity kitsunes though?

>>7951218

What the other Hermit of Voile said.

Variations and especially dangerous examples include Omachi and Ninetails (Okami).

>>7951230

In popular culture, yes, plenty. Nintails mentioned above is probably the extreme example.

However, none with prehensile tails that I'm aware of. Even though kitsune tend to be depicted with tails stylistically different from real foxes, it's probably impossible drawing a prehensile fox tail and getting it to look "right".

>>7951236

...what might other examples of that be?

>>7951250

I don't know if she's done it and I don't know her name, but this one appears to at least be capable of the foxtopus.

You need a depiction that either has a sufficient everyday tail mass or the ability to change it for shocking or comical effect, or an "end boss" type of depiction.

"Tail mass". Oh, the science.

>>7951257

...any other pics of the "foxtopus" in action?

Oh... well, apparently that wasn't that hard.

Her name is Kohakuren, but think many people on /jp/ already know.

>>7951265

Know there are others, but the only one I have labeled is the often reposted one.

Usually the foxtopus is more benevolent, like Bkub's Ran carrying Chen around in her tails. The violating foxtopus is rarer.

>>7951278

>Bkub's Ran carrying Chen around in her tails

That pic you posted with Chen looked like she was being tickled by the tails...

>>7951286

Aye, that would be the later variety.

In sharp contrast, this one is the only depiction I've seen where a fox spirit seems to accept strangers touching her tails, if out of necessity.
Even with the artist giving word it's completely innocent, still looks heartbreaking.

>>7951297

What is the pic with Chen being carried in Ran's tails?

>>7951301

This one should not be taken as representative of the theme.

Now I'm hungry.

>>7951312

Backup within your tails....genius..

KITSUNE WARFARE 2

>>7951317
I want to see Ran or any other Kitsune using fried tofu as a blanket now. Not a burning desire, but it'd be quite amusing.

>>7951318

>KITSUNE WARFARE 2

Makarov was planning a terrorist attack against a major Russian airport, but but then he met a hot girl and called it off to spend more time with her.
The End.

>>7951328

Not sure where you can find a pan large enough to deep fry that much tofu in one piece.

Or maybe factory made aburaage is produced in sheets.

>>7951358

Why do kitsunes love tofu anyways?

>>7951368

This is the great mystery.

Traced it as far back as to the belief that if a man who has been in a relationship with a fox woman wants to seek her out, he should bring either a fried mouse or deep fried tofu to a mossy tree stump and wait.

The mouse makes sense, as mice are a large part of foxes' diet. The stump too makes some remote sense, as old tree stumps are often infected with triboluminescent fungus, the origin of the mythical "foxfire".
The tofu makes absolutely no sense.

>>7951380


Yet it seems EVERY kitsune LOVES tofu.

>>7951388

Guess it's the Japanese version of hedgehogs and cheese. In Sweden, hedgehogs are traditionally thought to love cheese, even though cheese is actually outright unhealthy to hedgehogs. Nobody really knows where the idea comes from.

Then again, both foxes and hedgehogs are quite opportunistic animals that live close to humans, and quite often sneak into people's houses in search of food.
Guess in Sweden a hedgehog found some cheese, in Japan a fox found some deep fried tofu, and over the centuries it snowballed from there.

>>7951413

So if I want to make a Kitsune trap...I should just use alot of Tofu as bait?

last time we had this thread we came to the same conclusion, no one knows why kitsune love fried tofu

It's true, but it's very unsatisfying.

The simple phrase and concept of "I don't know" is the origin of all research, but it preferably shouldn't be the result.

>>7951462

I never had fried Tofu before...maybe if I did, I would know why they like it so much.

>>7951462
well there's got to be an origin to this belief somewhere, probably requires digging though

>>7951479

"... this nation where the customs are arcane and the laws the word of the gods..."

Next to all Westerners who spent any significant time in Tokugawa Japan commented on how the Japanese were either unwilling to discuss or outright ignorant of the origins of many customs unique to Japan. And fox spirits in China and Korea lack that particular part about tofu.

Guess the answer lies somewhere on the other side of Tokugawa victory at Sekigahara, and the obviously changed social and cultural climate that comes with national isolation.

Must get fluffy tail!

>>7951559

... and in the end, heavy and obscure mythical backround aside, it's perfectly fine and enough just to enjoy the fluffy tails. And the people they are attached to.

Got to snooze. Finishing up with foxtopus-capable fox spirit.
Goodnight, /jp/.

Maybe I should get some fried Tofu for lunch today...