Comments on: Hitting the Wall in Japan: It’s All About Nurikabe http://www.tofugu.com/2012/08/16/nurikabe-youkai/ A Japanese Language & Culture Blog Sun, 13 Apr 2014 10:14:53 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.8.2 By: neu http://www.tofugu.com/2012/08/16/nurikabe-youkai/comment-page-1/#comment-51199 Tue, 04 Dec 2012 11:00:00 +0000 http://www.tofugu.com/?p=22827#comment-51199 Absolutely not trolling. For me, many sentences and words that are not Japanese rominization are in italics. Odd how that’s considered normal, but maybe I’m just weird.

]]> By: Patrick M. Hausen http://www.tofugu.com/2012/08/16/nurikabe-youkai/comment-page-1/#comment-47181 Tue, 04 Sep 2012 08:10:00 +0000 http://www.tofugu.com/?p=22827#comment-47181 I did suspect that Japan is the most superstitious country in the world, but this beats everything. What really made me laugh out loud was the physical shape of the contemporary nurikabe – may I introduce … Bernd the bread?

http://www.brot-bernd.de/einleitung.htm

This is a German TV character resembling a disillusioned ill-tempered cynical loaf of white bread. Who would not be ill-tempered with arms too short to accomplish anything useful and being the constant target of your colleagues practical jokes? I find the similarity pretty striking :-)

Best regards
Patrick

]]> By: jeimuzu http://www.tofugu.com/2012/08/16/nurikabe-youkai/comment-page-1/#comment-46665 Tue, 21 Aug 2012 20:08:00 +0000 http://www.tofugu.com/?p=22827#comment-46665 they had nurikabe in silent hill 2, i think.

]]> By: fee_fi_Fiona http://www.tofugu.com/2012/08/16/nurikabe-youkai/comment-page-1/#comment-46588 Sun, 19 Aug 2012 08:58:00 +0000 http://www.tofugu.com/?p=22827#comment-46588 Probably, they sure look the part in any case ^_^

]]> By: rick http://www.tofugu.com/2012/08/16/nurikabe-youkai/comment-page-1/#comment-46586 Sun, 19 Aug 2012 05:14:00 +0000 http://www.tofugu.com/?p=22827#comment-46586 So, I’m hazarding a guess that whomps from the mario series were a result of this youkai.

]]> By: Amy Wheeler http://www.tofugu.com/2012/08/16/nurikabe-youkai/comment-page-1/#comment-46560 Sat, 18 Aug 2012 06:04:00 +0000 http://www.tofugu.com/?p=22827#comment-46560 If anyone’s seen Hana Kimi, 2007 version — when the boys made the challenge course for couples to go through to try and split them up, I’m pretty sure the martial arts dorm were dressed up as nurikabe. It makes more sense now.

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