Bethesda and Tango Gameworks’ Ghostwire Tokyo has plenty of cultural influences found in the game, and with it being set in the studio’s home country, there are excellent opportunities to learn more ...
What looks like a reptile-amphibian hybrid, has a dish shaped skull, smells like fish, is child-like and out to steal your crops and drown your livestock? The Japanese water yokai, Kappa. Monstrum is ...
In the run up to the release of Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles in the UK, there's an online exhibit titled The Legend of Yokai. According to the exhibit, before the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles emerged ...
Japanese yokai spirits live in an interesting realm that blends eerie and endearing, as some of them can be terrifying monsters, but others are cute little troublemakers and pranksters. Despite their ...
Artist and io9 comrade-in-hanging-out Marcelo Gallegos has tipped us to his delightful yokai mash-up creation, the Kappa Leprechaun. This little guy is the hybrid of A.) those diminutive bastards who ...