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Okiku
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Yuki onna
Read Chapter 12 (Who Ya Gonna Call: The Spirit World in Anime) in Drazen, Patrick. Berkeley: Stone Bridge Press, 2014.
As you’ve already encountered in titles like Bleach and Inuyasha, ghosts and spiritual themes are common in anime.
Questions to Consider:
- Why are there so many kinds of ghosts and spirits in Japanese folklore, manga, and anime?
- How have the folktales Yuki Onna and Okiku been repurposed in anime?
- Who performs exorcisms?
- What is the significance of the number 108?
- What is a miko and what characteristics does she have in manga and anime?
- Read of Muhyo & Roujie.
- How does this manga represent the relationship between humans and the spirit world?
- Note that the six-pointed star used a a symbol of “sacred power”. This is another example of manga and anime using the trappings of a foreign religion (in this case, Judaism) to connote a sense of mysterious spirituality
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