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Hotsui Matsuri Day 2: Folklore/Supernatural Anime to Watch

Happy Hotsui Matsuri Day 2! Here's five supernatural/folklore anime we recommend you watch! (Please. Watch Gegege so we don't have to)

Welcome back to Hotsui Matsuri! I’m super excited to be back on the blog writing for this holiday. While we’ve been busy with our other projects, our love of anime has never truly faltered. Today on Hotsui Matsuri, I’m going to be diving into one of my favorite things to bring to everyone; anime watch lists. In honor of this holiday where we talk about spiritual otherworldly things, I thought I’d…

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Day 5 of Hotsui Matsuri: The Beauty of Natsume Yuujinchou

Here's a brief summary of why Natsume Yuujinchou is a beautiful, beautiful anime. #anime #anitwt #hotsuimatsuri #natsumeyuujinchou

It’s either your calming cup of tea or the most boring show you’ve ever seen. It paints gorgeous sceneries, touches on ancient mythologies, and crafts soothing and beautiful OSTs. The show is honestly one of my favorites, and it’s perfect for Hotsui Matsuri. Natsume Yuujinchou, or better known as Natsume’s Book of Friends is a slice-of-life anime/manga about an orphan boy who inherited a book…

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Day 2 of Hotsui Matsuri: Nihongo Legends-Tengu

Hotsui Matsuri: Tengu Time Edition #anime #anitwt #hotsuimatsuri

Some people call them tricksters, others say they are ogres, and some yet liken them to angels instead. What mysterious creature do I speak of today? The Nihongo Legend of a yokai depicted as humanoid creatures with red faces, long noses, and avian wings. The creature I speak of is none other than the infamous tengu. Today for Hotsui Matsuri, we’re going to explore the legend of the…

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Day 5 of Hotsui Matsuri 2024: Nihongo Legends - Akuma

What exactly is an akuma?

Hello all and welcome back to Hotsui Matsuri! We’re on day five out of six so we’re in the homestretch now. Today’s post is highlighting yet another (non-anime) culture topic as we explore the realm of Nihongo Legends. A few days ago, Star introduced you all to the wonderful and quirky world of yokai, so today I’m going to be focusing on another kind of spirit. One that you would absolutely have…

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Hotsui Matsuri Day 4: More Traditional Instruments!

Are you all ready for more traditional Japanese instruments?!

It’s Hotsui Matsuri day four and today I’m going to be moving away from anime in my post to talk about some culture topics instead! I’m going to be revisiting a topic that I personally have loved over the past few years that we’ve done this campaign, and that is introducing you all to traditional Japanese instruments! You can find past posts here, here, and here. Today, I’m going to be bringing…

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Day 3 of Hotsui Matsuri 2024: Nihongo Legends - Yokai

Welcome back to another day of Hotsui Matsuri! To add to our Nihongo Legends collection, this year we’re bringing up Yokai! Which is an ever growing list within Japanese folklore. Yokai by definition are creatures of the spirit world born from many things in many shapes and sizes. So let’s dive in! To some, Yokai are considered the first “monsters” of Japan. Each one is made from different…

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Day 1 of Hotsui Matsuri: Introduction Post

Hey again! It’s time for our in blog festival Hotsui Matsuri to bring in the fall season! This year we will highlight more traditional Japanese instruments, yokai, akuma, as well as traditional fashion and supernatural anime recommendations. Below is our lineup: Day 1: Introduction to Hotsui Matsuri Day 2: What Supernatural anime to watch Day 3: Nihongo Legends: Yokai Day 4: Highlighting…

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Day 6 of Hotsui Matsuri: Japanese Karma- Good Luck/Bad Fortune

Hey all, welcome back to Hotsui Matsuri, it’s our last and final day so we figured we talk a little bit about the funny and ironic use of Good and Bad fortune in anime and Japanese media. One of the basics to this push and pull knowing a few basic facts about Buddhism and its karma. What are the 12 laws of karma? The 12 laws of karma are the Great Law, the law of creation, the law of humility,…

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Day 4 of Hotsui Matsuri: Highlighting More Traditional Instruments

I'm back at it, highlighting five more traditional Japanese instruments! #HotsuiMatsuri

It’s Hotsui Matsuri day four and Star and I have officially (hopefully) survived the heatwave in our city! Days of over 105 degrees really made me miss our normally tame summers, but hey–that’s global warming for you. If ever there was a reason for you to start caring about the environment, it should be that our planet is literally burning. ANYWAY, today on Hotsui Matsuri, I’m going to be…

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Day 3 of Hotsui Matsuri: Nihongo Legends-Sacred Weapons

Hey! Welcome to another day of Hotsui Matsuri! I wanted to write a little piece about these mystical objects in Japanese folklore since they are sprinkled in a lot of anime and japanese media. Many of my favorites come from classic tales like The Tale of the bamboo-cutter, where a bamboo-cutter and his wife raise a tiny child he finds in a bamboo shoot who turns out to be the missing Moon…

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Welcome to Day 1 of Hotsui Matsuri 2023!

Hello readers! We’re back for another year of Hotsui Matsuri, where we dive a little deeper into the culture of Japan’s spiritual world from urban legends, spirits and legendary weapons. So without further ado, here’s our lineup for this year! If you are interested in more of these kinds of blogs check out our previous years 2022, 2021, and 2020! Day 1: Introduction to Hotsui Matsuri! Day 2:…

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Day 6 of Hotsui Matsuri 2024: Demystifying Japanese Traditional Fashion

Welcome back to our final day of Hotsui Matsuri! I, Star, felt like it was over too fast -cries in shoujo- but it’s all good, we’ll have more content to give you next year too! For now though, we’ll end this year in a fashionable exit as I take you on a short tour of Japan’s traditional fashion trends. From how to wear a Kimono to when to Yukata I got chu! I’m pretty passionate about this subject…

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Day 4 of Hotsui Matsuri: What is Obon- Demystifying Japanese culture

Happy #Obon and day 4 of #HotsuiMatsuri

Heyo~ Welcome to the 4th day of Hotsui Matsuri! What better way to start off Obon then to explain what it is, amirite? What is Obon? Obon is a celebration of life of ancestors that has passed on. Similar to the Mexican, Day of the Dead holiday. The belief is that during this time of year the souls of the dead enjoy a day on Earth so we light lanterns to guide them back to whence they came…

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Day 7 of Hotsui Matsuri: Girls/Boys Day Sibling Spotlight

Day 7 of Hotsui Matsuri: Girls/Boys Day Sibling Spotlight

Hey everyone! Welcome to the last day of Hotsui Matsuri and the second annual sibling post! Best Duo Nezuko & Tanjirou So this year for best duo, I had to go with a new age pair this year considering last year we went with the possibly ever epic duo of Ed and Al from Full Metal Alchemist. So this year? This year as we’re looking at the new age pair, we’re going with Nezuko and Tanjirou! That’s…

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What is Matsuri anyways?-- So glad you asked!

Here to explain to you kind folk what a Matsuri is! Who's down for Yakisoba? #aniblogger #partytime

It’s me, Star, kicking off our very own HOTSUI MATSURI. With the most important question to answer. What is a Matsuri? Well, Matsuri quite literally means festival. They are also like fests here with food stalls, vendors, decorations, activities related to the celebration. Everyone wears appropriate outfits and cookies depending on the season some in the seasonal setting and some in modern attire.

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Hotsui Matsuri Day 5 - More Traditional Japanese Instruments

It's the final day of Hotsui Matsuri! And we're talking about more traditional Japanese Instruments! #hotsuimatsuri #aniblogger

How are we already at day five? Hotsui Matsuri is coming to a close today and we’ve already been there and back again to our local Obon Festival to do some Bon Odori. So today, at the end of the day, I’m here to sit down and talk about some more traditional Japanese Instruments; because if there’s one thing we can all join together with and understand–it’s music. Kagura Suzu This Japanese…