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Ōkami Kakushi (おおかみかくし, literally Wolfed Away) (wordplay on ōkami (wolf) and kamikakushi (spirited away)) is a Japanese visual novel developed by guyzware (now colorful Inc.) and published by Konami for the PlayStation Portable, with Ryukishi07 of Higurashi no Naku Koro ni fame as game director and the manga author duo Peach-Pit as character designers. [2]
Ōkami Kakushi is a 12-episode 2010 Japanese anime television series based on the Konami visual novel of the same name. The series is produced by AIC under the direction of Yoshihiro Takamoto. The series was first broadcast on the TBS television network in Japan between January 8 and March 26, 2010. Two pieces of theme music are currently used ...
The name Kuraokami combines kura 闇 "dark; darkness; closed" and okami 龗 "dragon tutelary of water". This uncommon kanji (o)kami or rei 龗, borrowed from the Chinese character ling 龗 "rain-dragon; mysterious" (written with the "rain" radical 雨, 3 口 "mouths", and a phonetic of long 龍 "dragon") is a variant Chinese character for Japanese rei < Chinese ling 靈 "rain-prayer ...
The game's name is a pun, as "ōkami" can mean either "great god" (大神) or "wolf" (狼) in Japanese. Ōkami was one of the last PlayStation 2 games released prior to the release of the PlayStation 3. It was not commercially successful, leading to the closure of Clover Studio following the departure of Kamiya and other leads on the game.
From the Kantō region to the Kinki region, along with Kōchi Prefecture, there are legends of okuri-ōkami (送り狼; literally, 'sending off wolf'). Like the okuri-inu, they are feared as a yōkai that stalk you on mountain roads and passes that are said to eat its victims when they fall over, but can actually protect people from danger if ...
Japanese wolf, historically ōkami, an extinct subspecies of the gray wolf; Kuraokami, or Okami, a legendary Japanese dragon and Shinto deity of rain and snow; Okami Station, a station in Shimane Prefecture, Japan
Lone Wolf and Cub (Japanese: 子連れ狼, Hepburn: Kozure Ōkami, "Wolf taking along his child") is a Japanese manga series created by writer Kazuo Koike and artist Goseki Kojima. It was serialized in Futabasha 's Seinen manga magazine Weekly Manga Action from September 1970 to April 1976, with its chapters collected in 28 tankōbon volumes.
Mineko Ohkami (押上美猫, Ōkami Mineko, born August 2) is a Japanese manga artist, known for being the author of many shōnen and shōnen-ai series, including Dragon Knights and Lumen Lunae. Her Pen name derives from the fact that she likes wolves and cats (ohkami = wolf; neko = cat) [citation needed]