Yokai
Shigeru Mizuki's Supernatural Parade
$75.99
- Hardcover
176 pages
- Release Date
11 November 2025
Summary
Manga titan Shigeru Mizuki brings Japan’s most entertaining myths to the modern age.
As travelers approach a lush, cedar forest—the soft floor and woodland scent palpable from Shigeru Mizuki’s fecund drawing—something falls from the trees with a thud: a human head, twelve times average size. A dozen more heads follow, peering at the travelers with maniacal laughter, before retreating back into the woods. A hallucination? No, this is Tohoku No Tsurubeotoshi.
An earthworm, large…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9781770467989 |
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| ISBN-10: | 177046798X |
| Author: | Shigeru Mizuki, Zack Davisson |
| Publisher: | Drawn and Quarterly |
| Imprint: | Drawn and Quarterly |
| Format: | Hardcover |
| Number of Pages: | 176 |
| Release Date: | 11 November 2025 |
| Weight: | 964g |
| Dimensions: | 27mm x 275mm x 224mm |
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Critics Review
“A glimpse into an artist’s mind, and possibly a front-row seat into how he created his manga.” —Rebecca Silverman, Anime News Network
Shigeru Mizuki
Shigeru Mizuki (1922-2015) was one of Japan’s most respected artists. A creative prodigy, he lost an arm in World War II. After the war, Mizuki became one of the founders of Japan’s latest craze-manga. He invented the yokai genre with GeGeGe no Kitaro, his most famous character, who has been adapted for the screen several times, as anime, live action, and video games. In fact, a new anime series has been made every decade since 1968, capturing the imaginations of generations of Japanese children. A researcher of yokai and a real-life ghost hunter, Mizuki traveled to over sixty countries to engage in fieldwork based on spirit folklore. In his hometown of Sakaiminato, one can find Shigeru Mizuki Road, a street decorated with bronze statues of his Kitaro characters.
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