When Yokai Go Feline: Exploring the Curious Case of Nezumi Otoko and Kitaro’s Cat Transformations
The flickering black and white image, a still from a long-forgotten television broadcast, shows him crouched low. Whiskers twitching, a rat-like grin barely concealed behind soft fur. This is Nezumi Otoko, the Rat Man, in one of his most perplexing forms: a cat. And he’s not the only inhabitant of the Yokai world prone to…
