#Tetsuro Yoshida

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Daimajin (1966) 『 大魔神 』 Written by Tetsuro Yoshida 吉田哲郎 Directed by Kimiyoshi Yasuda 安田公義

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8teen mixed mexcian & black ! gender-fluid ! . (n)sfw blog (sometimes) ! will write for female and male !! i mainly write for jjk . haikyuu . one piece . atsv . jjba . and csm . ( with reader inserts ) . i will update without schedule for series or smaus! will take character or trope requests :3 lower case intended unless said otherwise!!

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[chernobog13]

YOKAI MONSTERS: 100 GHOSTS (March, 1968)

YOKAI MONSTERS: SPOOK WARFARE (December, 1968)

YOKAI MONSTERS: ALONG WITH GHOSTS (March, 1969)

The Yokai Monsters trilogy from Daiei Film, released in the US by ADV Films under their Rubbersuit imprint.

While written by Tetsuro Yoshida, and featuring various yokai from Japanese mythology and folklore, the films are not connected and are stand-alone tales. Like the Daimajin Trilogy from the same studio two years prior, they can bee seen in any order.

The yokai are brought to life using puppetry, suitmation, and in some cases animation, which makes them a lot of fun to watch. Nowadays most of them would be created using CGI, which would ruin the whole experience (at least for me).

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Source: Tetsuro Kasahara (X / Twitter), Yoshida Harumi (X / Twitter)

A rare photograph of Atom: The Beginning manga author Tetsuro Kasahara, standing on the right. The photograph was taken on August 23, 2023.

Kasahara was interviewed by Harumi Yoshida, a member of Japan's House of Representatives. Yoshida is shown holding Kasahara's art book.

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firstly, my genres:

smut = ♡

fluff = ☆

angst = ■

characters I write for:

games:

Jonas💕 (oxenfree)

Alex (oxenfree)

Nona (oxenfree)

Ren (oxenfree)

shows/movies:

Zuko (atla)

Suna Rintaro (Haikyuu)

Kageyama Tobio (Haikyuu)

Kuroo Tetsuro (haikyuu)

Daichi Sawamura (haikyuu)

Ushijima Wakatoshi (haikyuu)

Howl (Howls Moving Castle)

Eddie Munson (stranger things)

Paxton Hall-Yoshida (Nhie)

Trent (idk his last name, from nhie tho)

Devi Vishwakumar (nhie)

Eleanor Wong (nhie)

Fabiola Torres (nhie)

Ben Gross (nhie)

(List will grow over time!!)

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☆ FANDOMS/CHARACTERS I WRITE FOR

*•. anime .•*

my hero academia:: denki kaminari, katsuki bakugo, shoto todoroki, ochako uraraka, kyouka jirou, momo yaoyoruzu, izuku midoriya, tenya iida, eijirou kirishima, hanta sero, nejire hado, tamaki hamajiki, himiko toga, setsuna tokage, sen kaibara, juzo honenuki, kinoko komori, itsuka kendo, tetsutetsu tetsutetsu, keigo takami, toya todoroki, rumi usagiyama, moe kamiji, kaina tsutsumi, yu takeyama, shino sosaki

attack on titan:: jean kirstein, mikasa ackerman, eren jaeger, armin arlert, annie leonhart, reiner braun, sasha braus, hitch dreyse, bertholdt hoover, pieck finger, porco galliard, colt grice, levi ackerman, hange zoe, historia reiss, ymir, onyakopon

jujutsu kaisen:: megumi fushiguro, yuuji itadori, nobara kugisaki, yuuta okkotsu, maki zenin, toge inumaki, kirara hoshi, kinji hakari, mai zenin, momo nishimiya, noritoshi kamo, kasumi miwa, kokichi muta, suguru geto, satoru gojo, shoko ieiri, utahime iori, choso kamo, hajime kashimo, yuki tsukumo, hirumi higuruma

demon slayer:: inosuke hashibara, zenitsu agatsuma, kanao tsuyuri, genya shinazugawa, giyuu tomioka, shinobu kocho, mitsuri kanroji, iguro obanai, sanemi shinazugawa, tengen uzui, makio uzui, hinatsuru uzui, suma uzui, kyojuro rengoku, tamayo, akaza, aoi kanzaki

haikyuu:: tooru oikawa, hajime iwaizumi, issei matsukawa, takahiro hanamaki, daichi sawamura, koushi sugawara, asahi azumane, yu nishinoya, ryunosuke tanaka, tobio kageyama, shoyo hinata, tadashi yamaguchi, kei tsukishima, keiji akaashi, koutaro bokuto, wakatoshi ushijima, eita semi, taichi kawanishi, tsutomu goshiki, hayato yamagata, rintaro suna, aran ojiro, osamu miya, atsumu miya, akira kunimi, kiyoomi sakusa, tetsuro kuroo, kenma kozume, morisuke yaku, yutaro kindaichi, keishin ukkai, kiyoko shimizu, hitoka yachi, komori motoya

tokyo revengers:: keisuke baji, takashi mitsuya, takuya yamamoto, manjiro sano, senju akashi, chifuyu matsuno, rindou haitani, seishu inui, hajime kokonoi, haruchiyo akashi, soya kawata, wakasa imaushi, shinichiro sano, ran haitani, emma sano, yuzuha shiba, takeomi akashi, izana kurokawa, ken ryuguji, takemichi hanagaki

bleach:: ichigo kurosaki, rukia kuchiki, orihime inoue, uryuu ishida, rangiku matsumoto, yoruichi shihouin, retsu unohana, shunsui kyoraku, soi fon, kisuke urahara, byakuya kuchiki, renji abarai, ulquiorra schiffer, grimmjow jaegerjaquez, shinji hirako, ikkaku madarame, jushiro ukitake, yumichika ayasegawa, shuhei hisagi, izuru kira, szayelaporro granz

bungo stray dogs:: osamu dazai, chuuya nakahara, atsushi nakajima, ryunosuke akutagawa, ranpo edogawa, akiko yosano, fyodor dostoyevsky, sigma, michizo tachihara, tecchou suehiro, doppo kunikida, junichiro tanizaki, gin akutagawa, ichiyo higuchi, lucy montgomery, mark twain, mushitaro oguri, ozaki kouyou, bram stoker, yukichi fukuzawa, sakunosuke oda, ango sakaguchi, margaret mitchell

chainsaw man:: denji, power, aki hayakawa, quanxi, angel devil, asa mitaka, reze, kishibe, kobeni higashiyama, hirofumi yoshida, michiko tendo

blue lock:: rensuke kunigami, yoichi isagi, meguru bachira, hyoma chigiri, reo mikage, seishiro nagi, rin itoshi, sae itoshi, shouei barou, asahi naruhaya, wataru kuon, michael kaiser, alexis ness, ryusei shidou, kenyu yukimiya, zantetsu tsurugi, ikki niko, aoshi tokimitsu, jin kiyora, nijire nanase, ranze kurona, tabito karasu, yo hiori, julian loki, jyubei aryu, oliver aiku, shuto sendo

naruto:: sakura haruno, neji hyuga, rock lee, shikamaru nara, hinata hyuga, temari, ino yamanaka, ten ten, kurenai yuhi, sasuke uchiha, orochimaru

one piece:: nami, vinsmoke sanji, roronoa zoro portgas d. ace, nico robin, vivi nefertari, usopp, trafalgar law, shanks

hunter x hunter:: kurapika kurta, chrollo lucilfer, feitan portor, leorio paradinight, phinks magcub, nobunaga hazama, machi komacine, pakunoda, shizuku murasaki

seraph of the end:: shinoa hiragi, guren ichinose, mikaela hyakuya, yuichiro hyakuya, shinya hiragi, shiho kimizuki, lacus welt, mitsuba sangu, rene simm, shigure yukimi, rika inoue, krul tepes, ferid bathory, mito juujo

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[rekamdilema]

DAFTAR PESERTA MAKRAB DIALEKTIKA MAHASISWA 2023.

Paskal Pahlevi — Yoshida Hirofumi

Gentala Langit Dierja — Luocha

Kanaka Gandhi — River Lee

Khaizure Wirasandya Rhayagi — Gojo Satoru

Gabriel Adhiarja — Bamby

Abirama Ghandy Darpa — Jin Jooha

Cakra Vikesh Rahayundra — Albedo

Rania Seraya Renjana — Charlotte

Ida Bagus Evaro Tanishka — Yuuta Okkotsu

Aradhana Cahari Sayudha — Kim Dokja

Bima Surya D. Widayat — Doug

Marissa Daya Bhargavi — Serena Serenity

Halka Seroja Adamar — Alhaitham

Mahandika Segara Dharmadjie — Welt Yang

Alarik Yudhistira — Go Eunhyuk

Athan Kalair — Oikawa Tooru

Unggul Adityawarman — Marius von Hagen

Arsenio Keenan — Kaedehara Kazuha

Hatta Siregar — Suna Rintarou

Verrell Bramasta — Caelus

Flora Arum Kirana — Rosa

Nadindra Putri Airani — Jingliu

Andrew Hadrian Wicaksono — William Moriarty

Ayina Batrisyia Keshwari — Sangonomiya Kokomi

Iyus Maknyus — Sampo Koski

Meilana Yudhistira — Ruan Mei

Kirana Natalia — Hakim Navia

Jeon Wonwoo — Hirano Taiga

Benyamin Abraham — Blade

Suraduhita Sranti — Bronya Rand

Matthew Wijayanto — Kuroo Tetsuro

Alvaerza Jessan — Connie Springer

Jemima Sasikirana Atmadja — Mona Megistus

Arshavina Diah Lituhayu — Kafka

Ezra Panaragan — Vyn Richter

Jupiter R. Aubrielle — Furina

Soke Wisesa Sastrawidjaja — Yoo Joonghyuk

Sadajiwa Sada — Armin Arlert

Artalik Sadawira — Karasu Tabito

Jose Satyaka Hermano — Do Eunho

Sagara Gunadhya — Geto Suguru

Aidan Benedict — Michael Kaiser

Athaya Sekala Gantari — Baek Dohwa

Rayasa Astrologist Megistus — Tartaglia

Madaniya Serina Bachdim — Nilou

Alea Azalia Ayasaki — Remi

Radhitya Abimanyu — Kaveh

Respati Aryaguna — Jing Yuan

[mariocki]

Daimajin (Majin, the Monster of Terror, 1966)

"You realise you started as a drifter, and yet you've been basking in the lord's wealth? How dare you! What do you have against our lord?"

"I have nothing against him - nor do I owe him anything."

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[obmains]

Muto dori sabaki gata

Skip to Issue 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11.It is believed that Takagi Yoshin-Ryu Jutaijutsu was developed from Takenouchi-Ryu Jujutsu, and was influenced by Kukishinden-Ryu. The advantage of heaven the advantage of earth perseverance, effort and invention personal power.For reference, some of Morikawa Tetsuro's postscript.Yamabiko 2: A complete view of Togakure-ryu Ninjutsu.Yamabiko 1: A few words directed at modern Budo.Letter to Soke (Chris Roworth) / Yamabiko.My experience of Toate Fudo Kanashibari no Jutsu (Someya Ken'ichi).Yamabiko: A Ninja's view of Abebe's run (from Tokyo Sports Newspaper, 1964).Be forever young in your training (Ishizuka Tetsuji).Yamabiko 1: "Let us all buy advance tickets to paradise while we are alive" (Takamatsu Toshitsugu).Soke and Kyojitsu Tenkan (John Cantor) / Yamabiko.Chester Taikai (Pedro Gomez) / Yamabiko.The Grace and the Energy (Nathalie Delalande).Find the right path (Sveneric Bogsaeter).People who study Budo (Robert Matson) / Yamabiko.Names of human Kyusho and parts of a Katana.Letter to Soke (Mariette van der Vliet).I became a 5th Dan in Atlanta / Looking back at three world Taikai (Uehara Hiroshi) / Yamabiko.Mysterious healer (Ben Jones) / Yamabiko.Frankfurt Taikai: Friendship and Harmony (Steffen Froehlich) / Yamabiko.Murphy's Law in Ninjutsu (Arnaud Cousergue).Recording the Daisho Sabaki, Muto Dori and Shiraha Dome Videos / 15 days walking with Hatsumi Sensei (Pedro Fleitas) / Yamabiko.Videos, Tokyo Dojo training nights, Daikomyosai.Reflections on my Fifth Dan test (Yoshida Shin'ichi) / Yamabiko.An unforgettable moment (Sveneric Bogsaeter) / Yamabiko.Ninjutsu - practise and self-defence (Elias Krzywacki) / Yamabiko.Life Value of a Ninja (Jack Hoban) / Yamabiko.1993 Argentina Ninjutsu Taikai BUDHA Taikai (Daniel Hernandez) / Yamabiko.Dawn Course of Argentina (Manaka Fumio) / Yamabiko.Bujin Juyushi: Training & Teaching Schedules.Yamabiko: Birth of the Bujinkan Juyushi.Letter of thanks to Soke from the author Mine Takaichiro.Moment of relief after "Memorial service for 3000 slaughtered souls".Memorial service for 3000 slaughtered souls (Editors).Yamabiko 2: Tale of a world-famous singer.Honesty is the best policy (Brin Morgan) / Yamabiko.Taikai - my reflections (Sveneric Bogsaeter) / Yamabiko.Letter to Soke (General Kemper) / Yamabiko.Articulo para Sanmyaku (Jose Maria Conejo) / Yamabiko.NIN exhibition at Chiba City Folk Museum (1979).Let them cut your flesh, and cut their bones.Stories of living martial heroes (Editors).Kamiwaza at the Huelva Taikai (Ben Jones).Shooting the Bojutsu Video (Oguri Koichi).Filming the Rokushakubo-jutsu Video (Kan Jun'ichi).Stories from the filming of the Bojutsu video.The merits and demerits of sports martial arts (Nagato Toshiro).Letter to Soke from his Buyu "Gorilla" (Ricardo).The point of balance: the human being between spirit, body and mind (Pedro Fleitas).Unless otherwise marked, all articles are by Dr Hatsumi, the Bujinkan Dojo Soke (in particular the "Yamabiko" articles, which are often a response to the one listed immediately before). Note: actual issue numbers vary depending on the country - the list here is based on the order of publication in Japan. Bujinkan Densho Sanmyaku: index Contents of Sanmyaku by issue

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CHARACTERS/ANIMES I WRITE FOR

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Haikyuu!!

Fukurodani:

Washio Tatsuki

Akaashi Keiji

Konoha Akinori

Sarukui Yamato

Bokuto Kotaro

Komi Haruki

Onaga Wataru

Anahori Shuichi

Inarizaki:

Kita Shinsuke

Suna Rintaro

Ojiro Aran

Akagi Michinari

Omimi Ren

Atsumu Miya

Osamu Miya

Ginjima Hitoshi

Shiratorizawa:

Ushijima Wakatoshi

Semi Eita

Tendou Satori

Shirabu Kenjirou

Ohira Reon

Yamagata Hayato

Kawanishi Taichi

Aoba Johsai:

Yahaba Shigeru

Iwaizumi Hajime

Hanamaki Takahiro

Matsukawa Issei

Kunimi Akira

Kindaichi Yuutarou

Watari Shinji

Oikawa Tohru

Date Tech:

Futakuchi Kenji

Aone Takanobu

Sakunami Kosuke

Sasaya Takehito

Kamasaki Yasushi

Moniwa Kaname

Koganegawa Kanji

Nekoma:

Kuroo Tetsuro

Kai Nobuyuki

Yaku Morisuke

Yamamoto Taketora

Fukunaga Shohei

Kenma Kozume

Inuoka So

Shibayama Yuki

Nohebi:

Daishou Suguru

Numai Kazuma

Sakishima Isumi

Hiroo Koji

Kuguri Naomasa

Itatchiyama:

Iizuna Tsukasa

Sakusa Kiyoomi

Komori Motoya

Karasuno

Yamaguchi Tadashi

Tanaka Ryunosuke

Daichi Sawamura

Kamomedai

Aikichi Suwa

Izuru Nozawa

Sachiro Hirugami

Hoshiumi Korai

Kazuyoshi Bessho

Gao Hakuba

Keiichiro Kanbayashi

MSBY:

Thomas Adriah

Meian Shugo

Inunaki Shion

Barnes Oliver

Hinata Shoyo

Schweiden Adlers:

Romero Nicollas

Sokolov Tatsuto

Fukuro Hirugami

EJP:

I write for all members of EJP; they're just already listed elsewhere

Demon Slayer

Hashira:

Sanemi Shinazugawa

Tomioka Giyuu

Muichiro Tokito (platonic only!)

Himejima Gyomei

Rengoku Kyojuro

Obanai Iguro

Tengen Uzui (platonic only!)

Demon Slayer Corps:

Tanjiro Kamado

Zenitsu Agatsuma

Inosuke Hashibara

Genya Shinazugawa

Murata

Other:

Yushiro

Tokyo Revengers

Toman:

Mitsuya Takashi

Hakkai Shiba

Chifuyu Matsuno

Muto Yasuhiro

Sanzu Haruchiyo

Baji Keisuke

Sano Manjiro "Mikey"

Ryuguji Ken "Draken"

Ryohei Hayashi "Peh"

Val Halla:

Hanma Shuji

Kazutora Hanemiya (timeskip only)

Black Dragons (all gen's):

Seishu Inui

Kokonoi Hajime

Taiju Shiba (timeskip only)

Wakasa Imaushi

Keizo Arashi "Benkei"

Takeomi Akashi

Shinichiro Sano

Tenjiku:

Ran Haitani

Rindou Haitani

Kakucho Hitto

Kanji Mochizuki

Other:

Naoto Tachibana (Timeskip Only)

Black Clover

Magic Knights Cpt./misc.:

Julius Novachrono

Marx Francois

Nozel Silva

Fuegoleon Vermillion

William Vangeance

Jack

Magic Knights:

Nacht Faust

Asta

Finral Roulecase

Magna Swing

Henry

Zora Ideale

Langris Vaude

Yuno Grinberryall

Leopold Vermillion

Non magic Knights/other kingdoms:

Zenon Zogratis

Gaja

My Hero Academia

Villains:

Shigaraki

Dabi

Mr. Compress

Twice

Kurogiri

Overhaul

Chronostasis

Pro Heroes:

Edgeshot

Best Jeanist

Gang Orca

Fat Gum

Hawks

Endeavor (platonic only)

Teachers:

Vlad King

Ectoplasm

Aizawa Shota

Present Mic

Snipe

Students:

Todoroki Shoto

Kirishima Eijiro

Bakugo Katsuki

Mezo Shoji

Kaminari Denki

Mirio Togata

Amajiki Tamaki

Jujutsu Kaisen

Tokyo Jujutsu High

STUDENTS:

Fushiguro Megumi

Itadori Yuji

Inumaki Toge

Okkotsu Yuta

Panda (PLATONIC ONLY!!)

Junpei Yoshino

Hakari Kinji

STAFF:

Yaga Masamichi

Gojo Satoru

Ijichi Kiyotaka

Kusakabe Atsuya

Kyoto Jujutsu High:

Kamo Noritoshi

Todo Aoi

Mechamaru

MISC. ADULTS:

Suguru Geto

Nanami Kento

Fushiguro Toji

Takuma Ino

Curses:

Choso

Sukuna

Chainsawman:

Public Safety Devil Hunters:

Captain Kishibe (young or old cause he's fine either way)

Aki Hayakawa

Angel

Denji

Beam

Violence

Yutaro Kurose

Private Sector Devil Hunters:

Hirofumi Yoshida

Bungo Stray Dogs:

Armed Detective Agency:

Fukuzawa yukichi

Kunikida Doppo

Ranpo Edogawa

Dazai Osamu

Atsushi Nakajima

Junichiro Tanizaki

Kenji Miyazaki (platonic only!)

Port Mafia:

Chuuya Nakahara

Akutagawa Ryunosuke

Tachibana Michizou

Misc.:

Ango Sakaguchi

Oda Sakunosuke

Edgar Allen Poe

Fyodor Dostoevsky

Sigma

Jouno Saigiku

Tecchou Suehiro

**PLEASE NOTE: That for all characters in Tokyo Revengers, I will only write for them when they're 16+. Obviously I don't write anything near NSFW, but I'm 19, so writing about these characters when they're like 13 is uncomfortable for me. Same goes for students in BNHA, I will not, under any circumstances, write anything suggestive for any characters under 18. If you don't like it, don't read it. There are plenty of authors on this site, I'm sure you'll find one you agree with :)**

[chernobog13]

THE KAPPA ATTACKS!

So far on Yokai Monsters: Spookwarfare:

Daimon, an evil Babylonian vampire demon, has travelled to Japan.  He has killed Lord Isobe, the samurai magistrate, and impersonated him.

Daimon haș just killed Isobe’s steward, Saheji Kawano, and possessed his dead body.  This is witnessed by a kappa who lives in a nearby pond.

The kappa decides enough is enough.  He sneaks out of his pond confront Daimon.

The kappa uses his patented “squirt him in the back with water” trick to attack Daimon.

It does not go as planned.

Now that Daimon is alerted to his presence, the kappa goes with a direct assault.

It does not go as planned.

Never one to give up in the face of adversity, the kappa continues his attack to drive Daimon away.

The kappa realizes this might be tougher than he first thought.  Still, Daimon has not fought back, so maybe a different approach is needed.

Unfortunately, the kappa has over-played his hand, and Daimon decides he’s had enough of the aquatic yokai.

In desperation the kappa is able to escape before his head catches on fire!

The kappa is arguably the most famous of all yokai, pretty much recognized worldwide, and wildly popular in Japan.  That’s probably why writer Tetsuro Yoshida had him be the first yokai to appear in the film.

Traditionally, kappa were a threat to humans, especially those who approached the body of water (river, stream, pond, etc) they lived in.  Kappa were known to pull humans, horses, cows and other animals into the water to drown them and then consume their livers.  They were usually portrayed as having an aggressive, threatening personality.

This kappa, however, is different from his traditional forebears.  He only uses violence when confronting the evil Daimon, but is otherwise portrayed as playful and comical, and perhaps not too bright.

How- or if -  he is going to be able to defeat the powerful Daimon remains to be seen.

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Hi guys thank you for another year,  wish you all that you have the best holidays and final years celebrations with the people you love! Next year will be a lot better and I hope that your wishes for the next come true! Since is time to celebrate, I took the opportunity to make a follow forever and show all this amazing peoples bellow, they are very talented and post very amazing stuffs! A lot them spired me to do my on blog stuff and learn more everyday! I hope you guys like it! 

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@hachikenz, @haijiskiyoses, @hanabing, @hanae-ichihara, @haru-kaas, @harunosakuras,  @hatakedi, @hatake-ichizoku,  @hinata-boobs, @hoezukis, @hyuuga-lioness, @icchiruki, @ichigoskurosaki, @ichigo-iichie, @igurobanai, @i-just-really-love-sakura, @ikizais, @inosais, @j-ellals, @jobin, @jojotaros, @justgaara, @kagariis, @kagebullshitnojutsu, @kairi-chan, @kakashi-chidori, @kaneki-kenway, @kawaiinohime, @khilluas, @kiirishima, @kiluaas, @kilruas, @kmuiyato, @kotorii, @krshima,  @kiun, @kuruisu, @larimii, @levy-studies, @lewyn-martell, @lndras, @lufilia, @lukacrosszeria​.

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Boss, you killed a child (Daimajin Strikes Again, 1966)

We’ve finally made it to the third outing in the Daimajin trilogy, a film that is both very similar to its predecessors and also quite different. The general plot hook is the same here - there is another evil warlord capturing people for no good, of course, but the way the film goes about it is markedly different than how the previous two.

And the way it does that? Hold your breath, because you’re probably not going to like it, but hear me out: they bring back the kids.

Yup, Daimajin Strikes Again is centered around a quartet of small children who, after hearing their families have been enslaved by the evil samurai in a place called, I shit you not, “Hell’s Valley” decide to head there and save the day. To do this, they have to pass through a haunted mountain, the domain of an angry, wild mountain god that happens to be represented by a large, placid-looking warrior statue.

Now I know what you’re thinking - a 60s adventure movie with little kids will wipe out the high stakes the first two Daimajin films had, and you’re not wrong to worry about that. The Gamera movies certainly rarely put their child protagonists into any real danger, causing them to feel  insufferably fluffy and light as a result.

We’re not, however, watching Gamera. We’re watching Daimajin, and I’m happy to say that writer Tetsuro Yoshida doesn’t really pull punches when dealing with his child protagonists. As an audience we know the kids’ incredibly journey is futile, considering a big statue is going to save the day in the last 20 minutes, but they’re convinced they can save their families, and that helps the audience want to root for them. On the way they need to tangle with rock avalanches, dangerous log bridges, and blizzards, along with a band of samurai warriors out to capture them.

Granted, it still has the feeling of a wacky boys’ adventure, especially any time the protagonists are giving their pursuers the slip (a five year old shooting arrows at an adult and scaring him off is a bit much). The natural hazards are very real, however, and there is a genuine risk the kids will die if they aren’t careful (and one legitimately does, with the rest near death when Daimajin finally wakes up). Meanwhile, the film occasionally jumps over to the boys’ families doing their backbreaking labor in Hell’s Valley, complete with the now expected scenes of the warlord doing his torturing and usual Big Bad Guy antics, such as tossing difficult workers into a pit of boiling sulfur (want to guess what happens to him at the end? Go ahead, I’ll wait).

And of course the children, in their darkest hour, plea for God to help them, and help them he does in the usual Daimajin fashion, stomping all over Hell’s Valley with the expected merciless violence. If you were looking for Daimajin to finally use that sword on his waist, you’re in luck, because it finally gets pulled out here and used in a pretty gruesome fashion.

What really elevates Daimajin Strikes Again for me is the setting - the mountain villages, forests, and crags are just beautiful, and director Kazuo Mori makes great use of them throughout, which helps the boys’ adventure feel more grand and important in scope than it would have on sets. It may not look like Lord of the Rings, but the team is able to wring plenty of beauty out of their setting.

The special effects are as quality as you’d come to expect from the franchise, and the otherwise unrelated village destruction at the beginning includes some great simulated floods and earthquakes. Daimajin also returns to his brutal violence from the first film, as a bad guy gets crushed into a wall and the main villain gets carried around kicking and screaming. Daimajin himself once again feels frighteningly supernatural, teleporting down to Hell’s Valley in seconds, bringing a tempestuous blizzard with him, all the while sporting that pitiless, unblinking gaze.

The whole Daimajin trilogy is worth a look, and while this one is often considered the weakest of the bunch, it can really only be faulted for switching up the formula a bit, something I pride the team for trying on this final outing. With higher stakes than the average kids’ movie, I think even viewers who cringe at the inclusion of kids in their kaiju cinema can come to love this one, if only because it’s the result of a team that clearly cares about the work they’re doing.

Next up, it’s back to Godzilla, as we watch that storied franchise take its first step off the cliff.

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2018: #10-YOKAI

Previously we have examined monsters from the East: the rakshasha, the kaiju and the oni. The oni can be grouped under another entire classification of Japanese monsters, yokai (see 2012: #11-ONI). Yokai started appearing in folklore and art in Japan during the Middle Ages. Yokai are supernatural monsters and spirits, usually with powers, especially shapeshifting. Some yokai are evil and some are not. Most are mischievous, and a few may bring good luck. Yokai became popular for blaming on accidents, especially when households ran out of lamp oil; that’s because “the yokai stole it overnight.” Yokai are very much personifications of animistic supernatural phenomenon. According to Japanese animism, spirit-like entities called mononoke were believed to reside in all things, very much like the midichlorians that create the Force in the Star Wars films. Some mononoke are evil, vengeful ghosts; some may be souls from yesteryear basking in the sunlight and fermenting. These mononoke supposed to have minds, feelings, and individual personalities. Good spirits are nigi-mitama, bringing good fortune. Bad spirits, ara-mitama, bring misfortune, including violence, illness and disasters. These mononoke are the basis of the yokai.

Yokai have many different external appearances: demons such as oni, human-appearing yokai, animal yokai, object yokai, and miscellaneous yokai. Some consider the general classification of yokai to have a sub-classification, also named yokai, referring to those that are not oni, often the more playful and less harmful yokai. Another sub-classification are bakemono, any yokai who have the ability to shapeshift. Since there are so many types of yokai, the easiest way to classify them is by appearance. Oni have been previously covered, so how about the rest of the yokai classifications?

Human-appearing yokai are common and usually dangerous. A sub-classification of human-appearing yokai are the yamauba. Yamauba tend to be old, disheveled women who live deep in the wilderness. They appear to be friendly and nice. Then they reveal a mouth with fangs on top of or in back of their head and they try to kill you! Rokurokubi appear as normal women or men with surprise attack necks that elongate ten to twenty feet often with surprise super sharp teeth. Sometimes rokurokubi have the power of a penanggalan, aka the Tchaikovsky delusion, of the head separating from the body and flying around surveying the surrounding countryside. Other human-appearing yokai include the yuki-onna, women dressed in white who are ice ghosts. The shirime are yokai who make no physical attack and appear as normal respectable people. They usually want to lead you to see something nearby, like in an alley. As you look around the seedy location, the shirime bends over, drops their pants and underwear, and reveals a large eye looking at you in the place of any anuses. That’s all the shirime do. Aren’t yokai fun?

Another classification of yokai are animal yokai. They tend to have recognizable specific animal features. The kappa is the most popular animal yokai. Kappa are similar to humanoid turtle-men with flat heads. Kappa folktales may have emerged due to sightings of Japanese giant salamanders. They are certainly mischievous, occasionally helpful, and often dangerous. They have powers over water and are known for drowning people in rivers. Parents would dissuade their children from swimming by telling them that if they swim alone a kappa would get them. There was a custom to throw a cucumber in a river to placate a kappa when having a picnic nearby. Kappa were known to speak Japanese, enjoy wrestling, and make deals with people. The Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles are similar to kappa. A second animal yokai are the tengu shapechanging bird-men, often with ridiculously large noses when appearing as humans. Some tengu may be evil corrupters of humanity whereas other tengu may be druidical protectors of forests or mountains. A third animal yokai is the kitsune. Kitsune are shapechanging fox-men who may be wise and good or may be malevolent tricksters. Kitsune may have multiple tails, up to nine. The more tails they have, the stronger the kitsune are. Kitsune have a strong supernatural significance due to having a mythical connection to Inari, the rice god.

The next classification of yokai are yokai that are inanimate objects. Tsukumogami are objects that reached their one-hundredth birthday and thus became intelligent and self-animated. Tsukumogami include normal items such as umbrellas, sandals, furniture, and kitchen utensils. They are believed to be ghost-like and can shapeshift into human form. Umbrella yokai are the most well-known object yokai and go under several names: kasa-obake or karakasa-obake or kasa-bake or karakasa kozō. Another object yokai are morinji-no-kama, tea kettles. A very large object yokai are the nurikabe, large walls that appear at night, blocking roads to confuse travelers, getting them lost. The object yokai are usually comical and harmless.

The last yokai classifications are miscellaneous yokai. A popular miscellaneous yokai is the wanyudo. Wanyudo are flying heads surrounded by fire, usually attached to an oxcart wheel. Wanyudo yokai started appearing in folktales in the 800’s A.D. The wanyudo can be traced to a particular evil Japanese feudal lord who had his victims drawn to oxcart wheels. As punishment, the wanyudo flys about guarding the road and gate to Hell. The nuppeppo is a man-sized droopy fleshed human head with legs and arms sticking out of it. Nuppeppo are harmless and don’t do much except emitting a sickeningly sour smell. However, eating their foul flesh brings eternal life. Keukegen are furry creatures, either brown or black, resembling very furry dogs. They may only be composed of fur and have no substance beyond that, quite similar to some politicians. Keukegen look cute but are known to bring disease. Sagari are grotesque heads of horses, without bodies, that drop down from hackleberry trees at passers by and howl out a dreadful wail that could cause a deadly fever. Sagari are created when a dead horse is abandoned on the road and its soul becomes caught on a tree branch. The miscellaneous yokai are quite strange.

Yokai have appeared in Japanese art, films, television, and even in games. Yokai started appearing in manga, Japanese comic books, in the 1960’s. Yokai were first featured in the cartoon tv series, GeGeGe no Kitaro, created by Shigeru Mizuki. GeGeGe no Kitaro is about a boy, Kitaro, who has one eye and has a companion of his dead father reincarnated in his other eye which creeps about and jumps with a squish. Together they fight bad yokai... Again: a boy with one eye travels with his other eye which is animated – jumps around – and the eye has his father’s soul possessing it, and they fight evil yokai… Nope, there is no simple way to describe GeGeGe no Kitaro. GeGeGe no Kitaro has had six different tv series since the 1960’s and the latest series started in the Spring of 2018. Shigeru Mizuki also created the popular manga, Kappa no Sanpei, also featuring yokai.

Yokai feature films started with 1964’s beautiful, Kwaidan, a series of folktales including yokai. Yokai Monsters are a trio of films released in the 1960’s written by Tetsuro Yoshida, starting with 1968’s Yokai Monsters: One Hundred Monsters. My favorite in the series is Yokai Monsters: Spook Warfare, also from 1968, featuring a vampire shapeshifter. The final film in the series is 1969’s Yokai Monsters: Along With Ghosts. In 2005 Takashi Miike directed a remake of Spook Warfare titled The Great Yokai War which is a wonderful cornucopia of craziness. A live-action film of GeGeGe no Kitaro was released in 2008, Kitaro and the Millennium Curse, and it is pretty good - and the disembodied eye pops about and talks in a funny voice! Yokai-Watch is a 2013 Japanese Video Game and the popular Pokémon game includes many monsters based on yokai: shiftry are based on tengu and electibuzz are based on oni.

As new unban legends are formed, so are new yokai created to explain them. One new yokai based on an urban legend is the jinmenken, a dog with a human face. Teke teke is another new urban legend inspired yokai which is a ghost woman with no lower half of her body, so she crawls about on her hands. The 2007 film, A Slit-Mouthed Woman, focuses on the the kuchisake-onna yokai, an evil and violent slit-mouthed female serial killer wielding a large scissors. A peculiar new urban legend is that of the aka manto. They are only found in restrooms in the last stall at the end which is usually dark, old, and shunned. It turns out there is no toilet paper, so when you start looking for it you hear a creepy voice offer “red or blue” toilet paper. If you select red, you are sliced up dead and so bloody that you are entirely covered in red blood. If you select blue, the blood is drained from you are you appear blue. The aka manto may be a serial killer, or a ghost, but sometimes it is identified to be a kainade, a furry creature that just wants to rub your backside in the dark restroom…

I tend to think of yokai as being fun, harmless beings. There are quite a few of them, and they are very different from each other. Since they are asian monsters, they would logically fit into an asian-themed Dungeons & Dragons adventure, as we shall see… (on Friday see 2018: #11-THE ADVENTURE CONTINUES 6).