While many are inspired by trees, flowers, and foods, fans shouldn't discredit how many of these Pokémon are actually based ...

Knowing this was a reference to kappa, one of my favourite yokai, this reference could've been a highlight on its own. I hadn't found one yet in Seikyu so I was a little worried they didn't have a ...

“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 ...

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 ...

Professor Himeda, who teaches folklore at the university, has launched a youkai circle. At the end of the Edo period, a demon woman who fell in love with a kappa and a zashikiwarashi tried to ...