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Pages in category "Yōkai in anime and manga" The following 85 pages are in this category, out of 85 total. This list may not reflect recent changes. A.
The museum collection holds over 5,000 artworks and objects that represent yōkai, supernatural beings in Japanese folklore. [2] The museum was founded in 2019 by Yumoto Kōichi, [3] a scholar of yōkai who has also written numerous books on the subject of Japanese monsters and supernatural entities and mythological creatures. [4] [5]
[4] Yōkai are mischievous creatures, sometimes considered demonic, that shed light on mysterious or unexplained phenomena, for example, damaging winds or noises in the night that cannot be explained. [2] There are three basic types of yōkai, Obake who are usually depicted as shapeshifting monsters; Yurei, that are ghosts; and the more general ...
Yōkai (妖怪, "strange apparition") are a class of supernatural entities and spirits in Japanese folklore.The kanji representation of the word yōkai comprises two characters that both mean "suspicious, doubtful", [1] and while the Japanese name is simply the Japanese transliteration or pronunciation of the Chinese term yaoguai (which designates similarly strange creatures), some Japanese ...
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In the Hyakki Yagyo Emaki from the Muromachi period, yōkai that appeared as umbrellas could be seen, but in this emaki, it was a humanoid yōkai that merely had an umbrella on its head and thus had a different appearance than that resembling a kasa-obake. [7]
Yokai Girls (Japanese: 妖怪少女―モンスガ―, Hepburn: Yōkai Shōjo ―Monsuga―) is a Japanese manga series written and illustrated by Kazuki Funatsu. It was serialized in Shueisha's seinen manga magazine Weekly Young Jump from March 2014 to June 2017, with its chapters collected in 14 tankōbon volumes.
Japanese scholar and folklorist Kunio Yanagita recorded perhaps the most prominent early example of nurikabe and other yōkai in his books. [2] Manga artist Shigeru Mizuki claims to have encountered a nurikabe in New Guinea, inspiring a nurikabe character in his manga Gegege no Kitarō. [2]