Why do japs like elves so much? They pretty much made them a part of their own folklore

So a movie you saw has an elf in it and you think that counts as actual folklore huh? Goddamn dude.

>one movie reflects the culture of an entire nation

That's a demon though.

> I want to say because they most likely draw a lot of parallels between Elves and those Moon Gods and their Lunar Kingdom that they told about in folklore, like, the ones that came down to take back the bamboo cutters daughter.
Notice how their elves are attractive women who are young forever 90% of the time in their fiction and male elves are nearly nonexistent?
Well that’s a lot closer to the reasons why elves are popular in Japanese-made Western fantasy shit then anything coming out of classical Japanese mythology.

A movie based on folklore. The author of GeGeGe no Kitaro (THE yokai manga) designed the yokai for it.

The Great Yokai War.

The comment equivalent of
>"I post on /a/, so I'm basically an expert on Japanese culture"

>The Great Yokai War

Looks fun.
I'll have to give it a watch, thanks user.

>A movie from 2004 partially based on a manga created in the 1960’s and using the antagonist from a novel series written in 1983 is totally a legit example of classic historical Japanese folklore!
Next you’re going to be telling us that Lethal Weapon and Tango & Cash are legit good examples of what American police detectives do on a daily basis.
Yasunori Katō is an awesome villain though and Teito Monogatari is a seriously cool book with some great influence on Japanese pop culture.

>The great yokai war
>Thinks that literally anything in it could be an 'elf' due to pointy ears

Do Hylians from Legend of Zelda count as elves, Veeky Forums?