Digital Ehon is a site that turns the folktales of various countries into a picture book and translates them into various languages in order to offer them to the children of the world. Their sincere hope that children may come to gain a greater mutual understanding of people and cultures thorough this site. With that end in mind we shall do our best to offer a wide variety of folktales that children will enjoy.
The Crab and the Monkey, also known as Monkey-Crab Battle (Saru Kani gassen) or The Quarrel of the Monkey and the Crab, is a Japanese folktale. In the story, a sly monkey kills a crab, and is later killed in revenge by the crab's offspring. Retributive justice is the main theme of the story.
STORY:
While out walking, a crab finds a rice ball. A sly monkey persuades the crab to trade the rice ball for a persimmon seed. The crab is at first upset, but when she plants and tends the seed a tree grows that supplies abundant fruit. The monkey agrees to climb the tree to pick the fruit for the crab, but gorges himself on the fruit rather than sharing it with the crab. When the crab protests, the monkey hurls hard, unripe fruit at her. The shock of being attacked causes the crab to give birth just before she dies.
The crab's children seek revenge on the monkey. With the help of several allies—a chestnut, an usu, a bee, and a cow pie—they go to the monkey's house. The chestnut hides himself on the monkey's hearth, the bee in the water pail, the cow pie on the dirt floor, and the usu on the roof. When the monkey returns home he tries to warm himself on the hearth, but the chestnut strikes the monkey so that he burns himself. When the monkey tries to cool his burns at the water bucket, the bee stings him. When the startled monkey tries to run out of the house, the cow pie moves and trips him and the usu falls from the roof, killing the monkey.
GAME:
Digital Ehon Vol. 3 - Imadoki no Saru kani is based on the japanese fairy tale of the same name. The gameplay is like the usual in an interactive book since in the first game mode the player can interact with each image using the pointer to see different objects or characters moving, and in the second game mode is just to watch the story without any kind of interaction.
The game features full japanese voice acting.
Manufacturer's description:
Revolution of the picture book! Everyone modern twist on an old tale that knows, ordinary can not be expressed in a picture book animation and games, narration, is software that stir the imagination of children in such sound effects appeared! Third bullet recorded "battle to Sarka"! Gimmick is as full of "Oasobi mode", you can enjoy the "story mode" of Storytelling in the narration.
Features:
- First person perspective.
- 2D graphics
- Cartoon graphics
- Fantasy & Fairy Tales themes.
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