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Amanojaku
The is a demon-like creature in Japanese folklore. Mythology It is usually depicted as a kind of small oni and is thought to be able to provoke a person's darkest desires and thus instigates them into perpetrating wicked deeds. It is described to be a being with an extremely contrary nature. If they were ordered something, they would do the opposite. One of the ''amanojaku's'' best known appearances is in the fairytale , in which a girl miraculously born from a melon is doted upon by an elderly couple. They shelter her from the outside world, and she naively lets the ''amanojaku'' inside one day, where it kidnaps or devours her, and sometimes impersonates her by wearing her flayed skin. In religion The ''amanojaku'' is commonly held to be derived from , a wicked deity in Shintō mythology, which shares the ''amanojakus'' contrary nature and ability to see into a person's heart, "a very perverted demon". The creature has also entered Buddhist thought, perhaps via syncretism with ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ghost Stories (anime)
, also known as ''Ghosts at School'', is a Japanese series of children's novels written by . It was published by Kodansha, starting in 1990. The series is a collection of popular school ghost stories in Japan, rewritten specifically for a young demographic. A four-part film series based on the books was produced from 1995 to 1999. Additionally, it was adapted into a television series in 1994 and an anime produced by Studio Pierrot in 2000. A video game was also produced. The books were received positively in Japan upon release. The first film received a nomination for Best Screenplay at the 19th Japanese Academy Awards. Sources conflict as to whether the anime's original run was successful or not, though there is evidence of a relatively successful run. Nevertheless, it received notoriety in the succeeding years with its official English dub, which mostly replaced the original script for the series with pop culture references and dark humor. Synopsis ''Ghost Stories'' follo ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Uriko-hime
Urikohime, Uriko-hime or Uriko Hime (うりこひめ; English: ''Princess Melon'',. ''Melon Maid'' or ''Melon Princess'') is a Japanese folktale about a girl that is born out of a melon, adopted by a family and replaced by a creature named Amanojaku. Summary A melon comes washing down the stream until it is found by a human couple. They cut open the fruit and a girl appears out of it. They name her ''Urikohime'' (''uri'' means "melon" in Japanese). They raise her and she becomes a beautiful young lady. One day, she is left alone at home and told to be careful of any stranger who comes knocking. Unfortunately, a youkai named Amanojaku sets its sights on the girl. The creature appears at her house and asks the girl to open. She opens the door just a bit and the creature forces its entry in her house. In one version of the story, Amanojaku kills Urikohime and wears her skin. The creature replaces Urikohime as the couple's daughter, but its disguise is ruined when the girl, reincarna ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Dororo (1969 TV Series)
The 1969 ''Dororo'' black and white anime series is based on the manga of the same name by Osamu Tezuka. In 1968, in order to pitch the series, Tezuka created a 13-minute full-color pilot which summarized the story Hyakkimaru's birth and upbringing and meeting with Dororo, and an abbreviated version of ''The Tale of the Monster Bandai''. The series was produced in black and white coloring due to budget cuts, but made the demons look more weird and menacing. While reasonably faithful to the original ''Dororo'' (1967–69) manga, the network was originally concerned that the series was too dark because of the bloody battles, vistas of carnage and burning villages, so the cute dog Nota was added to the cast. In addition, the original grim music was replaced with a new and catchy piece, and the original animation of Dororo marching through fields of corpses was replaced with scenes of Dororo skipping playfully across village roofs. Because the original manga series was cancelled b ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Impossible Spell Card
is a vertical scrolling shooter and the 14.3rd official game of the Touhou Project The , also known simply as , is a bullet hell shoot 'em up video game series created by one-man independent Japanese ''doujin'' soft developer Team Shanghai Alice. Since 1995, the team's member, Jun'ya "ZUN" Ōta, has independently developed ... series. It was first released in the 11th Hakurei Shrine Reitaisai on May 11, 2014. It released on Steam on April 1, 2019. The player controls Seija Kijin, the main character, to take down bosses and avoid the bullets. Because in this game, the bullets are almost too dense to avoid directly, the player must use a series of 9 cheat items which belong to other characters of ''Touhou Project'' to finish the avoidance. All levels in ''Impossible Spell Card'' may be completed without the use of items, however. ''Gold Rush'' On November 16, 2014, ZUN released ''Danmaku Amanojaku ~ Gold Rush'' (弾幕アマノジャク ゴールドラッシュ), a singl ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Team Shanghai Alice
, formerly known as ZUN Soft, is a Japanese ''dōjin'' game developer. Since 1995, the sole member of the group, Jun'ya "ZUN" Ōta, has independently developed and self-published the ''Touhou Project'', a bullet hell shoot 'em up series, as well as collaborated with other circles to produce related print works and music albums. Name "ZUN Soft" was originally created as a generic developer name for each Touhou Project game. After Touhou's PC-98 era, ZUN changed the name of the team to "Shanghai Alice". According to ZUN, this name was chosen to fit the overall theme of the ''Touhou Project''. "Shanghai", to him, is a multicultural city where Western and Oriental styles meet, and "Alice" evokes a feminine or gothic lolita feeling. "Fantasy Ensemble" (幻樂団 ''Gengakudan'') stems from ZUN's unsuccessful attempt to register the group as a music circle for Comiket 61 in December 2001; he decided to keep the name while applying as a game circle for Comiket 62, where he would rele ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Touhou Project
The , also known simply as , is a bullet hell shoot 'em up video game series created by one-man independent Japanese ''doujin'' soft developer Team Shanghai Alice. Since 1995, the team's member, Jun'ya "ZUN" Ōta, has independently developed programming, graphics, writing, and music for the series, self-publishing 18 mainline games and six spin-offs . ZUN has also produced related print works and music albums, and collaborated with developer Twilight Frontier on seven official ''Touhou'' spin-offs, most being fighting games. The ''Touhou Project'' is set in a land sealed from the outside world and primarily inhabited by humans and ''yōkai'', legendary creatures from Japanese folklore that are personified in ''Touhou'' as ''bishōjo'' in an anthropomorphic ''moe'' style. Reimu Hakurei, the ''miko'' of the Hakurei Shrine and the main character of the series, is often tasked with resolving supernatural "incidents" caused in and around Gensokyo. The first five games were de ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Amano Jyaku
{{Unreferenced, date=September 2009 Amano Jyaku (''AMANO Jyaku'') is a fictional character, and the titular protagonist of ''Urotsukidōji'' ("wandering child"). A renegade man-beast, Amano has spent the past three hundred years scouring the planet for the '' Chōjin'' ("Super-Deity"). He is based on Amanojaku, a demon-like creature in Japanese folklore. Synopsis Sometime in the 17th century, Amano Jyaku began his search for the ''Chōjin'' in the human realm - it is not known whether Megumi Amano or Kuroko accompanied him. Also, during this time, he must have encountered Suikakujyu and started off his infamous rivalry with him. Little is known up to 1923, where he foiled Suikakujyu's attempt to destroy the ''Chōjin'' using a water demon. Unfortunately, it triggered off the Great Kanto earthquake and Tokyo suffered heavy losses. Cut to Osaka, in the late 1980s/early 1990s, and Amano Jyaku's quest for the ''Chōjin'' has taken him to Myojin University. It is here that he, Megumi a ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Heaven
Heaven or the heavens, is a common religious cosmological or transcendent supernatural place where beings such as deities, angels, souls, saints, or venerated ancestors are said to originate, be enthroned, or reside. According to the beliefs of some religions, heavenly beings can descend to Earth or incarnate and earthly beings can ascend to Heaven in the afterlife or, in exceptional cases, enter Heaven alive. Heaven is often described as a "highest place", the holiest place, a Paradise, in contrast to hell or the Underworld or the "low places" and universally or conditionally accessible by earthly beings according to various standards of divinity, goodness, piety, faith, or other virtues or right beliefs or simply divine will. Some believe in the possibility of a heaven on Earth in a ''world to come''. Another belief is in an axis mundi or world tree which connects the heavens, the terrestrial world, and the underworld. In Indian religions, heaven is considered a ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Urotsukidōji
is a Japanese erotic horror manga series written and illustrated by Toshio Maeda. First serialized in ''Manga Erotopia'' from 1985 to 1986, ''Urotsukidōji'' marked a departure from Maeda's earlier works, with its focus on erotica, dark humor, and the supernatural. Starting in 1987, the manga was adapted into a series of original video animation (OVA) anime releases by director Hideki Takayama. The adaptations deviate significantly from the manga, adding elements of violence, sadomasochism, and rape not present in the source material. ''Urotsukidōji'' has been credited with popularizing the trope of tentacle rape, and ''The Erotic Anime Movie Guide'' calls it a formative work in the hentai genre. In 2005, it was voted as one of the 100 greatest cartoons in a poll by Channel 4. Synopsis Manga Amano Jyaku, a mischievous, sociopathic demon/human hybrid, is banished to Earth and ordered by The Great Elder to find the ''Chōjin'': the unbeatable god of the demon world who i ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
