Did you grow up thinking the Nine-Tailed Fox was just a monster sealed inside Naruto Uzumaki? The real story of the Japanese Kitsune is far stranger, older, and more fascinating than you can imagine.
We pull on the thread of the Kurama legend and unravel a 1,500-year-old myth that's hiding in plain sight.
Join me on Simply Wild as we journey deep into Japanese folklore to uncover the truth behind the fox spirit. We'll explore its dual nature: the divine, white fox messengers (Zenko) of the god Inari, and the cunning, shapeshifting tricksters (Nogitsune) who create fox-fire (kitsunebi) and even possess humans (kitsunetsuki).
Finally, we connect it all back to the real-world Japanese Red Fox and reveal how Masashi Kishimoto's masterpiece is a perfect retelling of this ancient, complicated relationship between humanity and one of the world's most intelligent animals.
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