{"product_id":"yokai-shigeru-mizukis-supernatural-parade","title":"Yokai: Shigeru Mizuki's Supernatural Parade","description":"\u003cp\u003eManga titan Shigeru Mizuki brings Japan's most entertaining myths to the modern age\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eAs travelers approach a lush, cedar forest--the soft floor and woodland scent palpable from Shigeru Mizuki's fecund drawing--something falls from the trees with a thud: a human head, twelve times average size. A dozen more heads follow, peering at the travelers with maniacal laughter, before retreating back into the woods. A hallucination? No, this is Tohoku No Tsurubeotoshi.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eAn earthworm, larger than a human, floats in the air, backlit from window lights ensconced by shadowy darkness. Sontsuru--majestic on the page in Shigeru Mizuki's delicate ink lines and bold colors--is no worm, but a yokai who haunts families across generations, wriggling between their skin and muscles.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eAnd then there is Shirime, a city dwelling trickster who shouts, \"A moment, sir!\" only to then lift their kimono to reveal their unusual rump--a giant, glowing eyeball where one would otherwise expect a crack.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIndeed, not all the yokai in the pages of Yokai: Shigeru Mizuki's Supernatural Parade are there to cause fright. Like Mizuki himself, yokai often have a playful spirit, which Mizuki explores with joy in this stunning collection, which contains one hundred new, lavish, full page yokai illustrations, with biographies for each.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eYokai: Shigeru Mizuki's Supernatural Parade is the companion book to Yokai: The Art of Shigeru Mizuki, and includes supplementary writing by acclaimed Mizuki scholar and translator Zack Davisson.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Glorp Gum","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47237727486119,"sku":"9781770467989","price":39.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0852\/0926\/files\/9781770467989.jpg?v=1762539237","url":"https:\/\/glorpgum.com\/products\/yokai-shigeru-mizukis-supernatural-parade","provider":"Glorp Gum","version":"1.0","type":"link"}