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INTEREST: Japanese Women Vote For Their Favorite Yokai Anime




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Tenchi



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PostPosted: Sat Sep 27, 2014 7:05 pm Reply with quote
Would Kamichu! count as a yokai anime? I'm looking at the Wikipedia definition of "Yokai" and a lot of the non-human-appearing gods on the show might qualify, but I suppose if we're being anal, every single creature that appears in yokai form might not technically qualify simply by virtue of them being kami.

A lot of my favourite episodes of Urusei Yatsura have some kind of single-appearance yokai, like the Amefurashi (rain spirit) in episode 30, "A Beautiful Girl Brings Rain". Lum herself is from the Oni (ogre) race and oni, in Japanese mythology, are a type of yokai, but the Oni in Urusei Yatsura are just a race of human-appearing aliens with horns and various powers, so they probably don't count.
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Kougeru



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PostPosted: Sat Sep 27, 2014 7:56 pm Reply with quote
Tenchi wrote:
Would Kamichu! count as a yokai anime? I'm looking at the Wikipedia definition of "Yokai" and a lot of the non-human-appearing gods on the show might qualify, but I suppose if we're being anal, every single creature that appears in yokai form might not technically qualify simply by virtue of them being kami.

A lot of my favourite episodes of Urusei Yatsura have some kind of single-appearance yokai, like the Amefurashi (rain spirit) in episode 30, "A Beautiful Girl Brings Rain". Lum herself is from the Oni (ogre) race and oni, in Japanese mythology, are a type of yokai, but the Oni in Urusei Yatsura are just a race of human-appearing aliens with horns and various powers, so they probably don't count.


Yeah, I'd go with them being "kami" rather than youkai. Off the list given, Natsume wins for me but InuYasha has a lot of nostalgia for me.
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marie-antoinette



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PostPosted: Sat Sep 27, 2014 8:01 pm Reply with quote
I'd probably go with xxxHolic, more on the strength of the manga than the anime (though the Kei season was pretty awesome). I can't think of much else I've seen that would be a yokai anime (I keep meaning to check out Natsume but I haven't gotten around to it yet).
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drifty1



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PostPosted: Sat Sep 27, 2014 9:07 pm Reply with quote
I liked several that were on the list, but my favorite (Beyond the Boundary) didn't even make it...
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jymmy



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PostPosted: Sun Sep 28, 2014 6:16 am Reply with quote
Haven't seen any of the big ones on the list, just Youkai Watch and Hozuki no Reitetsu.

Of the "youkai series" I've seen, Gingitsune is probably the best, and the worst of the less-narrow-than-I-had-thought field would easily be Kyoukai no Kanata.
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yuna49



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PostPosted: Mon Sep 29, 2014 8:43 am Reply with quote
I'm a bit surprised neither of the "Medicine Seller" series, the "Bake Neko" arc that ends Ayakashi Samurai Horror Tales and its sequel Mononoke, made the list. These shows had some of the largest audiences ever recorded for noitaminA; DVD sales for Mononoke averaged 12K copies per release. I also thought it had a strong female following at the time both because of being a noitaminA show, and for the appeal of the Medicine Seller himself and his seiyuu, Sakurai Takahiro.

Maybe it's just too old to score in a modern poll.
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TonyTonyChopper



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PostPosted: Mon Sep 29, 2014 12:54 pm Reply with quote
It's not like any other series than Kitaro would deserve spot 1 but YuYu hakusho second surprises me.
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Chiibi



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PostPosted: Mon Sep 29, 2014 4:35 pm Reply with quote
Inuyasha for the win. I quite enjoyed Yu Yu Hakusho as well. :>

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YuYu hakusho second surprises me.

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