Yokai, 9781770467989
Hardcover
Enter Japan’s weirdest myths; playful spirits, giant eyeballs, and more.

Yokai

shigeru mizuki's supernatural parade

$87.14

  • Hardcover

    176 pages

  • Release Date

    11 November 2025

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Summary

Yokai: Shigeru Mizuki’s Supernatural Parade

Manga titan Shigeru Mizuki brings Japan’s most entertaining myths to the modern age.

As travellers 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 …

Book Details

ISBN-13:9781770467989
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:454g
Dimensions:216mm x 267mm
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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

About The Author

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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