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Youkai. Not the Saiyuuki youkai, but the trad bogles with the horns and the bulging brows and the six feet long necks. I can't see the fascination at all. There's... no there there. The one characteristic they possess is gluttony. They want to eat humans. Or each other. Or anything. But whatever it is, they want to eat. I mean, what can you do with people like that? It's irritating enough when manga characters are gluttonous as their main characteristic- that annoying squirt in Kou Josei, or Luffy or Gokuu or you name it. They at least occasionally have some other character facet. But youkai have none. Makes one think that Gramps must have been mad. Why would anyone devote their lives to anything as one-dimensional as that?
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