Yokai are kind of like Japanese demons and magical creatures and such. They (and a few other characters in this thread) are from the Touhou Project, a series of games (mostly). To sum it up, you got a little isolated pocket reality called Gensokyo that's got a human village, some mountains, underworld, and other places for various "fantastical" types of beings to exist since in the more modern age of science many of them risk ceasing to exist outside of it. And suffice to say when you have moon rabbits (from the moon), humans, all kinds of magical creatures, beings, gods, and even some aliens thrown in there... you can end up with a not insignificant amount of fighting and trouble. And so we have the games... playing as our wonderful protagonists and keeping peace in this little world of theirs. Protagonists like....
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