Scary but Sad Anime: Ayakashi - Bakeneko - oshare-japan (おしゃれJAPAN)

My friend on Facebook - Ms. Alla Koroid recommended I see a horror anime movie, "Ayakashi - Bakeneko". Great fun and filled with scary but sad feeling.

Bakeneko

"Ayakashi" means monster as Japanese in the old-time, maybe until the Edo era, believe its existance. "Bakeneko" means cat monster.

The synopsis of the story is: the main character is a buyer man of medicine ,and the place where the event happened is a big old samurai residence. He visited to sell something of medicine, and felt something haunted the residence. And then, when a daughter of samurai tried to go out for her wedding, haunting and unnatural phenomenon happened. She was suddenly dead and a servant, who also tried to go somewhere, was dead, too. The buyer said the something haunted to this residence and nobody couldn't move out there.

In addition, he said: if we want to know the haunting monster, we need to know three elements as making it. One is "Katachi", another is "Makoto", and the rest of them is "Kotowari"...

All of them are Japanese words. "Katachi" means figure, "Makoto" means truth, and "Kotowari" means reason. In other words, Ayakashi was created by the obvious cause that it haunted.

"Katachi" "Makoto" and "Kotowari" as the Kanji (Chinese Character" are below:

The buyer of medicine

This idea is known "Causality"- Japanese says "Inga Ouhou". It is the idea of the relationship between an event (cause - "In" as Chinese character) and a second event (effect), where the second event is a consequence ("Ka" or "Ga" as Chinese character) of the first. It is from Indian philosophy and Buddhism, then we Japanese as living Buddhism sphere are familiar with this idea well.

Japanese classic horror stories are basically based on "Inga Ouhou" and "Bakeneko" is the typical one. "Inga Ouhou" as the Kanji is below:

"Inga Ouhou" is consist of three types of the causality in Buddhism. The first is "Zen-in Zen-ka". "Zen" means good.

The second is "Aku-in Aku-ka (for short: Akka)". "Aku" is evil.

The third is "Ji-in Ji-ka". "Ji" is self.

The bride as a victim

The case of "Bakeneko" is a quiet thought of "Aku-in Akka" and "Ji-in Ji-ka".

Thus, all of them who related the secret which caused making small cat into the monster were eventually dead. Its story is , as I said earlier, scary but sad, especially the almost ending scene - "neko, neko,,,,".

You can see all episodes of the "Bakeneko" with English subtitle from Youtube.

In the end. I would like to thank a lot to my friend, Alla, for letting me know it as the great anime movie.

Scary but Sad Anime: Ayakashi - Bakeneko

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