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June 2021 comics stack!

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I've always been kind of meh about the whole thing of using kintsugi as a metaphor, but you add in some metal staples and I am all in on that.

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Japan’s rulers became embarrassed of the backwards superstitions of their country and made belief in yokai illegal. They spent about 100 years purposefully wiping out yokai from the culture.

A Short Course in Yokai with Translator Zach Davisson by Brigid Alverson

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Yokai almost disappeared following the Edo period, when Japan was swept up in a mania for modernization. When meeting with the Western powers, the country was embarrassed of its provincial passion for the supernatural. The government tried to sweep yokai under the carpet in favor of rational thinking and scientific advancement. As the military took over and Japan plunged into the darkness of WWII, the yokai were forgotten. But one young man remembered. Comic artist Mizuki Shigeru (水木しげる; 1922 – Present) was raised on yokai stories told by his village wise woman. When he came home from the war, he started working in the new manga industry, drawing the stories he had heard as a boy. His comic Ge ge ge no Kitaro (ゲゲゲの鬼太郎) became one of Japan’s most popular comics, and Mizuki taught all of the children of Japan about the country’s mythical past.

A Brief History of Yokai by Zach Davisson