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Yokai Attack !
The Japanese Monster Survival Guide
Matt Alt, Hiroko Yoda
llustrations by Tatsuya Morino
Paperback 192 pages
132 x 189mm
ISBN : 978-4-7700-3070-2 / 4-7700-3070-3
Publish : Oct, 2008
Price : $14.65 |
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[ About the Book ]
How do you escape from the Human-faced tree?
Keep your home safe from the Bathtub Licker?
Make it through a date with a woman whose neck puts an anaconda to shame?
Forget Godzilla. Forget the giant beasties karate-chopped into oblivion by endless incarnations of Ultraman, Kamen Rider, and the Power Rangers. Forget the Pocket Monsters. Forget Sadako from The Ring and that creepy all-white kid from The Grudge. Forget everything you know about the spookiest Japanese creatures you've never heard of, and it's high time they got their due.
Yokai Attack! is a one-stop guide to Japan's traditional creepy-crawlies. Yokai are ethereal sorts of beings, nearly always encountered at night; everyone has their own take on how they might look in real life and what sorts of specific characteristics and abilities they might have. This book is the result of long hours spent poring over data and descriptions from a variety of sources, including microfilms of eighteenth-century illustrations from the National Diet Library in Tokyo in order to bring readers detailed information on almost 50 of these amazing creatures for the first time in English.
All-new illustrations, created by the talented Tatsuya Morino, detail the potential appearance of each yokai. Alongside each illustration is a series of "data points," with each yokai's important features at a glance--especially handy for any potential close encounters.
So forget Godzilla. Forget the giant beasties karate-chopped into oblivion by endless incarnations of Ultraman, Kamen Rider, and the Power Rangers. Forget the Pocket Monsters. Forget Sadako from The Ring and that creepy all-white kid from The Grudge. Forget everything you know about Japanese tales of terror. Yokai Attack! Will surely convince anyone that Japan's tradition of fascinating monsters is a long one--yet far from being history.
About the Author
HIROKO YODA and MATT ALT are a husband and wife team who run a Tokyo-based translation company that specializes in producing the English versions of Japanese video games, comic books, and literature. Matt is the co-author of Super #1 Robot, a history of Japanese robot toys, and Matt and Hiroko are also the co-authors of Hello, Please! Very Helpful Super Kawaii Characters from Japan, an on-the-street expose of Japanese cute character culture. They happen to have firsthand yokai experience as extras in Takashi Miike's film The Great Yokai War (Kadokawa Films, 2005).
Illustrator TATSUYA MORINO became the assistant of Shigeru Mizuki, one of Japan's most beloved manga artists, fresh out of high school. After going independent, he illustrated the graphic novel Kibakichi, which was turned into two movies in Japan. He also works as a character designer, with credits including Gainax video game "Yokai Family" and the web comic "Trip Trek". His comic "Legentail Sennenta" is currently being serialized in Kadokawa Shoten's monthly comic collection Kero Kero Ace.
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