Yōkai Watch
A guide to Level-5’s Yōkai Watch, the 2013 role-playing game that grew into a major Japanese media-mix franchise of animation, manga, and toys.
Yōkai
Kappa
Kappa are Japanese waterside beings whose diverse local traditions were consolidated into the familiar image of a small creature with a head dish.
Tengu
Tengu are mountain beings whose changing forms connect Buddhist warning, bird imagery, ascetic practice, martial legend, and local protection.
Kami, Yōkai, Oni and Yūrei
Kami, yōkai, oni, and yūrei are overlapping Japanese categories distinguished by relation, ritual, origin, and narrative function rather than appearance alone.