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Nurikabe–The Ghostly Wall Yokai

Posted on February 15, 2015 by Andrew Kincaid

Japan is a land haunted by many strange monsters and ghosts. Known collectively as Yokai (and Yurei. The two words are often used interchangeably, but for our purposes we will say that Yurei refer to human ghosts and Yokai to magical creatures of all sorts), these beings can range from the mischievous to the malevolent…

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