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It is indeed nice that Japanese media likes to embody youkais as nice cute human girls, since we are in a plce that is found in Bullet Hell games, let's take Touhou as an example, uncountable youkais of all kinds and ages, we see them in music, in art, and as consumed products, but have you asked yourself, what really is a youkai?
A youkai is an entity that is unexplainable to humans, seeing a youkai will give you the most intense chills ever, you will witness the unexplainable, something your mind isn't able to comprehend, just from seeing such entities, you will likely fall into coma, collapse mentally, and possibly die from shock.
you have to train well for years hardly in a shrine with extreme spiritual environment to be able to JUST face and talk to them, either way, you are just a lower entity, a fly, compared to them, they can see the unseen within you, but you cannot even get to see what they are, you encountering youkais is nothing but a magnificent fear no other being on earth could face.
