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dailyfigures · 1 month

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The Doll ; Bloodborne ☆ Good Smile Company

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thewinedarksea · 3 months

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myth moodboards: ningyo

in japanese folklore, fantastic beings that were half-fish and half-human.

#ningyo #japanese mythology #mythedit #mermaids #mine #*#mythmoodboard

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nanabansama · 3 months

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Hi! so I was just wondering about Nene and Hanako! you know that Nene is a ningyo and the story says that her husband grew old and died and she lived a long life ! Do you think something like that can happen in the story? If Hanako can be human again and they get married or something like that !?

Hi! You must be talking about the story Yao Bikuni. Yes, in that story a girl eats the flesh of a ningyo (Japanese term for a half-human, half-fish creature) and becomes effectively immortal. She stays young and marries several men over the course of multiple centuries, but after seeing so many of her husbands and friends die she becomes a Buddhist monk. Then she travels the land helping others and planting camellia trees before eventually she perishes in a cave at 800 years old.

Some fun similarities to the story of TBHK are that a girl eats part of a mermaid, said girl lives EIGHT hundred years while Yashiro's last name infamously contains the kanji character for 8, and that the girl in the story is connected to the camellia, a commonly recurring flower in TBHK and one heavily associated with Hanako/Amane in particular. Indeed, when you examine all of this together, it's hard to imagine that AidaIro wasn't a bit inspired by this story.

To answer your question, I think it's possible that things could end up like you say. But just eating the flesh is what made the girl from Yao Bikuni immortal, while all eating a scale did for Nene was give her the ability to turn into a fish and bind her destiny to Hanako's. Optimistically we could take this to mean Nene will be saved from her premature death and that somehow, the Mermaid's Curse means that Hanako can't leave her and they get to live happily ever after...but considering the story of TBHK already contains several differences from Yao Bikuni, I wouldn't be surprised if things take a darker turn.

On the other hand, Yao Bikuni is still quite tragic since the girl has to watch all of her friends and family die while she stays forever young, not so dissimilar from a ghost...so maybe cursing Nene to such a fate is still somewhat dark in itself. Considering Hanako also ate the scale of a ningyo, though, maybe he would be her sole companion? That would be more bearable. :)

Thank you for the ask! I actually didn't know about this story beforehand and had fun picking it apart. Maybe you guys have other theories of what could happen based on the Yao Bikuni story?

#asks #hananene #yao bikuni #ningyo #mermaid's curse #i kept writing yaoi bikuni on accident lol #jshk #tbhk

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evilertree · 5 months

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Ningyo infested waters.

Featured in Daszombes Lethal company creature concept video, go check it out :)

#myart #illustration #ningyo #spec evo #lethal company #horror #youkai #yokai #concept art

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kantokraze · 4 months

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angel from below

there was no siren song when Maki Harukawa jumped.

#danganronpa #ndrv3 #digital art #maki harukawa #angie yonaga #harunaga #new danganronpa v3 #dr #art #procreate #ningyo #siren

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redsamuraiii · 7 months

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Case Closed : Detective Conan (Ep 222 - 224)

I love this type of mystery episodes where they explore Japanese culture and folklore.

#case closed #detective conan #ran mouri #kazuha toyama #conan edogawa #kogoro mouri #heiji hattori #anime #japan #japanese culture #japanese folklore #shrine maiden #miko #japanese mermaid #ningyo #shinto #taiko drum

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kristsingto · 6 months

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people say you can attain immortality if you feast on a ningyo’s flesh. mafuyu knows she shouldn’t, but ventures to the surface whenever her misery is too palpable.

one day, she’s caught by a painter from a fisherman family and her life is turned upside down.

not featured here: sickly painter ena who has been searching for a ningyo

#sou art #mafuyu asahina #prsk #project sekai #niigo #nightcord at 25:00 #25 ji nightcord de #ningyo #fanart

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serialdesignationm2 · 8 days

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I finally got around to drawing my Hilda OC, Isana!

She's a ningyo (mermaid of Japanese folklore), and here is shown her human disguise/form and normal ningyo form. Isana wears an eyepatch from a friend of her dad's stabbing her bc he's a racist piece of shit, and Isana's Japanese. I might make a post eleborating on her backstory someday, but I'm tired so that might be some time.

Her friends: Hilda, Frida, David, Eugene, and her pet/familar/whatever child Kelpie called Eachann (pronounced IY-kahn) which is a Scottish name that means horse, because Kelpies are horse-like things from Scottish folklore.

Isana is my addition to the few Eugene oc/self-insert shippers (although hers is purely platonic) and the other Hilda ocs

Also my apologies if the art is shitty, I'm ass at art :(

#hilda oc #ningyo #ningyo oc #hilda #hilda the series #hilda netflix

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wearesorcerer · 4 months

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I just realized that the spell monkey fish (PF1e Advanced Class Guide 188; 1st level transmutation, +10 Climb & Swim speeds in light or no armor) is equally likely a reference to the Fiji Mermaid (itself used as the art for the Ningyo [Bestiary 4 206, Pathfinder AP #37 -- Serpent's Skull 1: Souls for Smuggler's Shiv 80]) as it is to Sea Monkeys (which also inspired the Coral Capuchin [Bestiary 6 66, Pathfinder AP #58 -- Skull and Shackles 4: Island of Empty Eyes 82]).

This just leaves a playable race and a magic item to complete the set of ridiculous piscisimian hybrids.

#spell #monkey fish #pathfinder #Fiji Mermaid #ningyo #sea monkeys #coral capuchin

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philoursmars · 4 months

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Il y a une petite quinzaine, je suis allé avec Julien et Katie, au Louvre-Lens pour une expo temporaire : “Animaux Fantastiques”. Une très belle expo !

Hokusai - "la manga" - à gauche, cheval de mer, rhinocéros d'eau ; à droite, loutre, pangolin, "kappa" (génie à carapace) et "ningyo" (homme-poisson), Japon, 1815

William Hogarth - "Satan, le Péché et la Mort"

Adriaen Collaert - blaireau, taupe, renard autour d'un "rasselbock" (ou "wolpertingern" ou "jackalope") , lapin cornu - Anvers, Flandres, vers 1600

Andreas Keller dit Cellarius - "Harmonie du Macrocosme" , Atlas céleste - Pays-Bas, 1708

voir 2

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ancientorigins · 1 year

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The long-standing mystery surrounding a mummified mermaid kept at a Japanese temple has finally been solved. Thanks to a combination of dating and scanning technology, the mermaid has been exposed as a clever fake. Hold onto your fins for this incredible revelation!

#mermaid #mermaids #Ningyo #mummy #Japan #hoax

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dreamerkitty · 1 year

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Ningyo from the Yokai Watch anime

Episode 73

Episode 93

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Episode 108

Episode 166

Episode 170

Episode 173

#yokai watch #yo-kai watch #youkai watch #yo kai watch #yokai watch anime #mermaidyn #ningyo

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estevangel · 4 months

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Parte 2

Espero les siga gustando y agradecimiento especial a AngryRichie. https://www.deviantart.com/angryrichie quien me presto a sus personajes para un pequeño cameo en esta parte.

#anime #originl character #mermaid #ningyo #estevangel #silvernaqua #original comic #original manga

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funeraliss · 1 year

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