When Yokai Go Feline: Exploring the Curious Case of Nezumi Otoko and Kitaro’s Cat Transformations
The flickering black and white picture, a nonetheless from a long-forgotten tv broadcast, reveals him crouched low. Whiskers twitching, a rat-like grin barely hid behind comfortable fur. That is Nezumi Otoko, the Rat Man, in one among his most perplexing varieties: a cat. And he isn’t the one inhabitant of the Yokai world susceptible to…