"Strange Japanese Yokai assembles an extraordinary collection of mysterious creatures in every possible shape and size, each with their own unique back story. Some are well-known, others obscure. The one thing they share in common is that they are creepy and weird! The 122 different Yokai described in this book include: The Kappa: A dangerous creature who lives in lakes and rivers and attacks passers-by; The Nurarihyon: A mysterious Yokai with a...

"Seventeen-year-old Kira Fujikawa has never had it easy. She's bullied by the popular girls in school. Her parents ignore her. And she's also plagued with a secret: She can see yokai, the ghosts and demons that haunt the streets of Kyoto. But things accelerate from bad to worse when she learns that Shuten-doji, the demon king, will rise at the next blood moon to hunt down an ancient relic and bring the world to a catastrophic end. Not exactly skilled...

"The manga anthology based on Sarazanmai finally makes its appearance! Beginning with character designer Miggy s cover illustration, this collection features a luxurious array of manga and illustrations from creators such as Kyouhei Azumi, Sakuya Amano, Aya Isino, Akira Caskabe, Chinatsu Kurahana, Mataaki Kureno, Chiho Saito, Misaki Saitoh, Chidori Sakuraba, Isuzu Shibata, Samata Techno, Asumiko Nakamura, pako, Shoko Hidaka, Akari Funato, Lily Hoshino,...

"MORE AND MORE YOKAI CATS! The special mischief of yokai cats never ends! Meet the one who hangs from the ceiling by its back feet, and another who can prophesy in human language! What tricks will the one who loves sand get up to? Find out in volume three of this series about the lives of yokai cats and their people."-- provided by publisher.

"THE PURR-ADE OF YOKAI CATS CONTINUES! More yokai cats join our old friends! Meet one who grows nine tails as it ages and can disguise itself as other objects, another who feels great on days with thunderstorms (its body generates small amounts of electricity), and the Kijimuna, who has bright red fur and is good at catching fish. Find out what it's like to live with these strange new yokai cats!"--

The Birth of Kitaro collects seven of Shigeru Mizuki's early, and beloved, Kitaro stories, making them available for the first time in English, in an all-new, kid-friendly format. These stories are from the golden era of the late 1960s, when Gegege no Kitaro truly hit its stride as an all-ages supernatural series. Mizuki's Kitaro stories are both timelessly relevant and undeniably influential, inspiring a decades-long boom in stories about yokai,...

In this genre-bending and deeply emotional memoir that mirrors the sensation of being caught between realms, the author, after the death of her father, grapples with her bipolar disorder and sets out to interrogate the very notion of recovery through the lens of figures from Japanese, Taiwanese and Okinawan legend.

"More additions to the strange and endearing world of yokai cats! Amabie has a fish-like lower body, like our old friend Ningyo. Warai Onna and her owner love to smile and see others smile, while Uwan's scary face sometimes comes out of nowhere! Life goes on for these unique cats and their owners in volume six!"--

"Nanami Momozono is alone and homeless after her dad skips town to evade his gambling debts and the debt collectors kick her out of her apartment. So when a man she's just saved from a dog offers her his home, she jumps at the opportunity. But it turns out that his place is a shrine, and Nanami has unwittingly taken over his job as a local deity! New Year s is coming up, and that means the Tochigami Shrine needs to send a representative to greet the...

Takashi Natsume, a troubled high school student with the ability to see hidden spirits and demons, drifts from relative to relative and ends up in the small town where his grandmother was raised, where he learns the full extent of his inherited gift.