Rayka Studio has announced Home of the Yokai, a creature-collecting adventure RPG with an auto-battle combat system. It will launch for PC via Steam on July 10 with English, Traditional Chinese, and ...

Demon Slayer: Kimetsu no Yaiba, a Japanese manga series first published in 2016, has quickly become one of the most successful media franchises to date. The story follows teenage Tanjiro Kamado, who ...

Watch the trailer for Home of the Yokai to see the beautiful world, battles, and mystical creatures of this upcoming creature-collecting adventure RPG, featuring an auto-battle combat system. Home of ...

Researchers have discovered three new species of luminescent Polycirrus worms that emit blue-purple light. They named two of them after glowing creatures in Japanese folklore, and the other after the ...

TOKYO >> A mythical, mermaidlike creature that prophesizes harvests and epidemics became a symbol of national unity this year in the face of COVID-19. Known as “amabie,” the creature is said to have ...

The second-generation Japanese American artist known as IPaintCreatures (IPC) is a professional award-winning performance poet, painter, filmmaker, Twitch streamer, and 21st-century folklorist who ...

In Japan, there exists a folklore that is every bit its own. Ancient history and modern calamities have cultivated a national obsession with menacing creatures. The photographer Tess Ayano, spent a ...

It's been a strange year for creature collector fans. Sure, we're only a few months into 2024, but Palworld's descent into the dark side of monster-taming games has been an experience that none of us ...

There are a myriad of anime monsters that can level cities and wreak havoc across the earth the way Godzilla can. Kaiju No. 8, created by Naoya Matsumoto, cashed in on the creatures introduced by the ...

The Naruto series draws inspiration from several mythologies, incorporating references within its characters and abilities. Following a similar narrative, the Tailed Beasts have also been based on ...