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. PATREON: http://Patreon.com/BeyondGhibli TWITTER: http://twitter.com/BeyondGhibli (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 [ https://hyakumonogatari.com/ ]