Ive heard of Youkai,Yasha,Youko are there any others and why so many?

-- Anonymous, August 08, 2003

Answers

yes there are probly a lot more, why u say? because there are different characters to represent it. Look at japanese characters for info.

-- Anonymous, August 08, 2003

Akuma is also another way to say it, although I think it means devil, but they're pretty much the same.

-- Anonymous, August 09, 2003

same as before but i'll explain as much as i can...

diff chars have same meanings at times but the meaning is implied differently at different parts of the word and then there the japanese "katanaga" thing which is different then "kanji" while both is used they each have variations on the words..

i made no sense what so ever even to myself when i wrote the above...

anyways not all the words mean the same thing...

-- Anonymous, August 09, 2003

"katanaga"?!? There is no such Japanese writing. There are "hiragana" - which is the original Japanese writing, then there's "kanji" - which was derived from Chinise, and finaly there's "romaji" - our letters (btw... there is no use of "ou" when writing in romaji ou == ô - so if a kanji means "youko" it gets written "yôko" in romaji | but noone reads the rules so nyah).

Anyway, enough with ranting :P (didn't mean to hurt any feelings), here's the "demon" - oni, tenma, de-mon, akuma, akki

-- Anonymous, August 09, 2003

Perhaps they meant katakana? 'cause there *is* such a thing as katakana.

-- Anonymous, August 09, 2003

Katakana is used for writing english words or names. It's different from romaji, kanji and hiragana.

-- Anonymous, August 09, 2003

Well, the English language is like that too. For example, the word big can be represented by humongus, gigantic, titanic, large, tall, huge, colossal, and big, along with many others. The main reason why the Japanese have different words meaning the same thing (which is also true much more often in the English language) is so that the word will go along with the context of a conversation and also for reasons of euphony.

-- Anonymous, August 09, 2003