Knowing this was a reference to kappa, one of my favourite yokai, this reference could've been a highlight on its own. I hadn ...

“I spent more than a year drawing about 100 kinds of yokai,” Meyer said. “Because it was an introduction, I tried to include kappa, ‘yuki onna’ (the snow woman) and other well-known ...

While ‘Bloat’ is a refreshing take on the subgenre, a jumbled plot keeps the new screen life film from achieving greatness.

where Gajiro and other yokai can be found. Details have yet to be released, but the attraction is said to cost 9 million yen and be modeled after a kappa’s body part. In the past, Fukusaki used ...