Dandadan merges Japanese mythology with urban legends in a fresh way, blurring the lines between spirits, aliens, and yokai. Turbo Granny is inspired by Japan's cryptid lore and possesses ...

Long before the supernatural mermaid-like “yokai” shot to fame, however, a U.S.-born illustrator living here started introducing Japanese ghouls and hobgoblins to the world while providing ...

Mythical monsters known as Yokai are said to stalk the land in Assassin's Creed Shadows, but can Naoe and Yasuke disprove the ...

In the world of Dandadan, yokai (or spirits) are a huge facet of the story. Although there do not seem to be supernatural elements at first, the floodgates come rushing in the moment Okarun ...

In this episode of YOKAI: Exploring Japanese Folklore, we track down the legend of the ferocious Ushioni, a Yokai with the hulking body of a bull and an ogre-like face. In certain regions of Ehime ...

He is Masanobu Kagawa, the chief curator at the Hyogo Prefectural Museum of History, and the first Japanese to get his doctorate in the study of yokai. In an interview with The Asahi Shimbun ...

The Yōkai drawings inspired the Impressionist artists as well as the cartoons and video games that we interact with today. Read more here.

In this episode of YOKAI: Exploring Hidden Japanese Folklore, we follow the cry of the Konakijiji, a Yokai that resembles an old man but with a voice like a weeping infant. It's said to lure ...