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Musings VIII: Monsters and Identity in “The Great Yōkai War”

Posted on January 22, 2017January 22, 2017 by Chris Kincaid

Monsters – the Ultimate Adversary? It seems to be the most gripping kind of tale: The fight against a monster. Our heroes may confront it literally, as a demonic creature or a mad serial killer, or more symbolically, in the faceless grinding mechanisms of society, or the depths of their own subconscious. The Japanese monsters…

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