Ultra-Pop Yokai Arrive at the Yokai Art Museum with “Yokai Like! Like!” and “Plamo Kai”

Yokai Nesugoshi

An old alarm clock was destroyed just as it was one day away from becoming a “Tsukumogami” (a deity of mourning), which is said to change after 100 years of use. It is truly a terrifying yokai that blocks the ears of sleeping people so that they cannot hear the alarm of their alarm clocks, but it is ironic that it takes the form of a chicken. Chickens, which announce the arrival of morning with their cries, are the natural enemy of the night-dwelling yokai. But the chicken that does not announce morning has become a yokai itself.

Yokai Iine! Iine!

A yokai that affirms you. At first glance, this yokai seems to be a favorable yokai for human beings. However, if you fall under the spell of this yokai, you will not be able to recognize your own shortcomings, and your growth as a human being will come to a standstill. Some of them may even turn into monsters that attack others who have different opinions from their own, as their thinking becomes more and more biased as they hear only information that suits them. In a sense, this may be the most terrifying monster of our time.

 

The Plastic Monster

This monster is born out of a grudge against plastic models that have been left unmade for decades. It is said that the grudge against old tools that are thrown away after being used for a long time becomes a yokai called tsukumogami, or mourning god. Unused objects also become yokai in an attempt to escape the unbearable lightness and meaninglessness of their existence.

Plamo Kai

A yokai born from the vengeful spirit of a model kit that was left untouched for decades. While the vengeful spirits of old, discarded tools were believed to transform into tsukumogami (yokai), even items that are never used can become yokai as well. Their existence, marked by unbearable lightness and meaninglessness, drives them to escape this state by transforming into a yokai.

The “Gaijinboshi” (The Masked Man)

The human pursuit of beauty sometimes goes against nature and causes pain to the human body. In a sense, beauty is one of the monsters created by humans. The beauty brought about by high-heeled shoes and the accompanying disease of “bunions,” which is similar to the Chinese bunion, reveal the irrationality of beauty. The inability to avoid wearing them in spite of the pain – this could be called a curse. This work embodies such a modern curse.

In addition to the above, when he finds wrong wording on social networking sites and bulletin boards, he says, “You’re wanted! You’re under arrest! or “Yokai Ochake,” which appears in bars and steals alcohol from those who carelessly use it. The “Akaname,” a yokai that licks the innards of people in the bathtub, is quietly licking radioactive materials in a place where people have disappeared due to the nuclear power plant accident.