Greetings yokai lovers!

Our first story this month is called “Kaeru no mukui,” or “the frogs’ revenge.” This is another local story, from Katsuyama, Fukui. Today this city is known for its many dinosaur fossils, as the mountains here were once the Jurassic surface. It’s why Fukui is known as “dinosaur country” and why we have robot dinosaurs all over the place.

But this story is not about dinosaurs. It is about frogs. Or rather, it’s about a boy who liked to kill frogs, and how the frogs get their supernatural revenge on him.

As you can see from the sketch above, it’s not a pretty sight!

I’ll share the full story later this week, with the finished illustration!

More soon…