Yōkai tag

[Albwin]

I believe it would be helpful if there were a specific "Yōkai" tag as an umbrella term for manga featuring East Asian legendary creatures. (The Chinese Yaoguai and Korean Yogoe could also very well be listed under the comparatively better known Japanese term, for all three terms denote the same kind of highly variable East Asian legendary creatures, after all.) Seeing as presently Yōkai-themed manga (manhwa and manhua, too) are either categorized as "Monsters", "Demons", "Ghosts" or even more broadly as "Supernatural", it is quite hard to specifically search for them.

Greetings,

Albwin

 

[wowfucktron]

Yokai are just stronk ghosts.

Why would this extra work be necessary for a minority of manga plots?

 

[bigtiddyoneesan]

Ye, too specific. Wouldn't be long until people started asking for a "Spooky Scary Skeletons" tag.

 

[Albwin]

From my point of view, the tags presently used are culturally unfitting to describe the phenomenon known as Yōkai (or Yaoguai or Yogoe, respectively). Furthermore, I would have no problem if tags were used consistently, i.e. if Yōkai were always categorized under "Monsters", for example. But since there are at least four different tags which are used inconsistently, it makes searching for Yōkai-themed manga all the harder.

 

[annie3]

I'd like to have a yokai tag