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Podcast: Slashers
Episode: Yokai
Description: Yōkai (妖怪, ghost, phantom, strange apparition), the term is basically a catchall for Japanese supernatural monsters, spirits, and demons in folklore. The word itself is made up of the kanji for "bewitching; attractive; calamity" and "spectre; apparition; mystery; suspicious."
Yokai were apparently the first monumental monster card game, pre-dating Pokemon by about a thousand years. Yokai have spawned comics, video games, cartoons, movies, media, and collectibles.
There are many subsets of Yokai, including oni, tengu, tsukumogami, and yūrei. In this episode, we break down the history of these creatures, and how they are
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