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Japanese Culture and Language

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Tofugu News: A New Series, Guest Writers, and Chat Stuff

Started by tofugu · 10 months ago

The Obake Series: An Introduction

Later this month, we will be posting the first of a series of articles on Japanese monsters and ghosts, or obake (ãåã). Obake, also known as bakemono (åãç©) are a motley bunch, with unique backgro ... Continue reading »

12 comments

koichi
1 year ago

ooh, i like your bakedofu - it's cute and yet...terrifyingly vegetarian.

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Erin
1 year ago

Bakedofu, huh? I was thinking of bakefugu, but that works, too.

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Viet
1 year ago

The iChat image is awesome.

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Erin
1 year ago

Ah, thanks you guys. I love Photoshopping. Almost as much as real shopping.

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Mathias
1 year ago

Great News! I read about Obake in a book about Shinto, and it is often refered to them in Japanese movies, like in もののけ姫. However, if you’re not Japanese you usually have no clue about them. (Like me ^^)

[img]http://junktown.bunkernetz.de/upload/mononoke_hime.jpg[/img]

I can’t wait for the Obake series. :D

P.S.

What means “TLA”?

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Erin
1 year ago

Mathias:

Hehe, I took the "TLA" part out because it would cause confusion, and it didn't really mean what I thought it meant, haha. I'm glad you're excited about the series!

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Onimusha Nosferatu
1 year ago

ooo this series sounds fun. yuki onna is my favorite story. it's cool to see the diff. interpretations of it and to see where it pops up. kwaidan is a good movie for ppl to watch. it has a couple stories ppl might find entertaining.

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miya
1 year ago

hehe~ i'm looking forward to the series :3
i always love japanese ghost (d classic one though, coz d bew ones like in The Ring scares me when i try to imagine things :3)
hehehe :3

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Be
1 year ago

^^;
Looking forward for bakamono!

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Brian
1 year ago

Boku wa bakemono ga daisuki!

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Sakuragts
1 year ago

I'm looking forward to the bakemono serie! One of my favorite j-rock group have a concept where they are a type of monster and one of them is a kyoncie O.o I wonder if it's some kind of monster in japanese folklore or something

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