Beyond Ghibli | A Yōkai by Any Other Name @BeyondGhibli | Uploaded 7 years ago | Updated 3 hours ago
Yōkai are Japanese creatures of folklore, and despite showing up everywhere in today’s anime, manga and videogames, they’re often mistranslated and misrepresented in Western localisations. In this video I explore the concept of Yōkai, and delve into a couple of spectacular films featuring them.

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(0:23) An introduction to Yōkai
(2:40) Mizuki Shigeru and Modern Yōkai
(5:41) A Letter to Momo
(9:00) Hotarubi no Mori e
(10:43) Conclusion

Extra-Curricular Reading:
Matthew Meyer [ http://matthewmeyer.net and http://yokai.com ]
Hyakumonogatari Kaidankai [ hyakumonogatari.com ]