Estas apariciones suelen reunirse para realizar un desfile durante una noche de verano. Los yokai forman parte de esta mitología son criaturas fantasmagóricas del folclore japonés que fascinan a aquellos que las descubren. Más allá del manga, las propias leyendas del país nipón son una rica fuente de historias.

«Qué noche más oscura… La clase de noche que llaman oborouki-yo, cuando los yokai merodean la tierra».Įs innegable la influencia que la cultura japonesa ha tenido en el cómic. His favorite movie is Satomi Hakkenden (1959).Ĭrítica publicada originalmente en el blog. He also made a futuristic spin-off series Space Usagi. First published in 1984, the comic continues to this day, with Sakai as the lone author and nearly-sole artist (Tom Luth serves as the main colorist on the series, and Sergio Aragonés has made two small contributions to the series: the story 'Broken Ritual' is based on an idea by Aragonés, and he served as a guest inker for the black and white version of the story 'Return to Adachi Plain' that is featured in the Volume 11 trade paper-back edition of Usagi Yojimbo). He began his career by lettering comic books (notably Groo the Wanderer by Sergio Aragonés and Mark Evanier) and became famous with the production of Usagi Yojimbo, the epic saga of Miyamoto Usagi, a samurai rabbit living in late-sixteenth and early-seventeenth-century Japan. He and his wife, Sharon, presently reside and work in Pasadena. He later attended the Art Center College of Design in Pasadena, California. Stan Sakai (Japanese: 坂井スタンSakai Sutan born May 25, 1953) is an artist who became known as an Eisner Award-winning comic book originator.īorn in Kyoto, Sakai grew up in Hawaii and studied fine arts at the University of Hawaii.

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