Forum - View topicThe List - 7 Popular Japanese Folk Monsters
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wonderwomanhero
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I think the Pokemon Froslass is based on yuki-onna.
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Kelly
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Some other examples are Watanuki's father and son friends who own a food cart in the spirit realm, and his devoted pal the Pipe Fox in xxxHOLiC who gets him out of several scrapes when Domeki isn't around to do it. He's pretty awesome. My favorite Fox Youkai has unfortunately not shown up in animated form: Ten-Chan from the Petshop of Horrors manga, one of the few residents of D's shop who you could actually run into with a reasonable expectation that it won't go very, very badly. Unless I'm forgetting something he's only in two chapters, but he's a hoot and makes quite an impression when he does show up and seems interesting enough that he could carry a limited series on his own. One can only hope that a fully realized Petshop anime including Ten-Chan, T-Chan and Chris might be made someday. |
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Alph4Xerxes
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What, no tanuki? You put in nue, which I hadn't even heard of, but not oni, zakishi warashi, shinigami, etc? I would have thought them all more popular/well-known
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RichardFromMarple
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The Oni didn't get mention, which were the insperation for Lum & her family in Urusei Yatsura.
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ANN_Lynzee
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They definitely are, but I've written about Death Gods before and Oni could probably have their own article. As for Kitsune (mentioned by a previous poster) that was just a personal choice to exclude. I think they're over done and wanted to highlight some lesser known monsters that still show up regularly.
Also true! I didn't have enough space to go into as much detail on that as I would have liked. |
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GiriOni
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What about Chief from Arakawa under the Bridge, he's a Kappa. *trollface*
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midori kou
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No mention of a kodama. I am sad.
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Petrea Mitchell
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Really interesting list this week! I for one didn't know about the tsuchigumo monsters-- the only show I know the term from is Otogi Zoshi, which used the original sense.
Hmm, this brings a whole new meaning to the spider motif of the Phantom Troupe in Hunter x Hunter, too... |
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CrownKlown
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list of anime manga with foxes in them - Yu Yu Hakusho - Kurama - Nura Rise - Rosario Vamp - Naruto - otome Youkai Zakuro - inu boko - inukami - main female is a fox not an inukami - Natsume's book of friends - bleach - problem childrend from another world - high school dxd - kanokon - dog days (they are not spirts but one is a humaniod fox basically the equivalent of a fox spirit) - our home fox deity - Kamisama Hajimemashita etc. basically if some kind of human form animal spirits appear in a show it will have foxes, but apparently none of these shows count, and OP conveniently skipped over my last post |
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Little_Hawk
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No fox, no oni, no tanuki, this is madness.
Some lesser known ones that can be used are nuraihyon, yatagarasu, and every haunted house in every anime theme park has that lady with the really long neck coming out of a well in it. |
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tasogarenootome
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Ooh, after reading that description of tengu, I'm wondering if that was the inspiration for the demon form of Neuro from Matantei Nogami Neuro?
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Chrno2
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We got some Air Master love going on here. I guess that would be the list of tall women. Yeah, Maki was pretty damn big. Now there's a series I wouldn't mind seeing release. Hey Discotek!!!
I've seen quite a bit of anime where foxes, cats and frogs are often recurring. Frogs end up being somewhat less known unless you know the tale and how they relate to ninja's. Think it's the whole Miyamoto tale of ninjas. But kitsune's be it just a fox creature or a powerful ninetails seem to show up quite bit. Pokemon - Vulpix (Rokon) Ninetales (Kykon) also, Meowth and Persian, has a double tale like a Nekomata. Digimon Tamers - Renamon Persona 4 -Yosuke Hanamura's persona Jiraya My-HiME - Akira's child Gennai The phoenix and dragon are popular folk monsters as well. Pokemon, Osamu Tezuka's Phoenix, and of course Dragon Ball. Ah, yes 'Hell Teacher Nubei' was full of supernatural students. Then there's Shigeru Mizuki's GeGeGe no Kitaro series. But for the most modern take on monsters, there's 'Petopeto-san. Ushio & Tora had, all kinds of crazy monsters but the one that stood out in the OVA was the "kamaitachi' (sickle weasles) clan. Wicked City had kumo onna, the creepy spider women. Yes, the famous scene from the 80's that left male viewers grabbing their "junk" in fear. SHE'S A MAN EATER!! Urusei Yatsura, Shuten Doji, My-HiME and whole host of others that contain oni. |
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KENZICHI
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It would be cool if you did the top 7 most emotional fights/battles. I'd love to read that list. Please!
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ANN_Lynzee
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Actually, I "conveniently" addressed your post if you read above. No need to get antagonistic.
That's a great idea, thanks for the suggestion! I'll probably have to pull out some back log otherwise it'll be full of Utena 
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hyojodoji
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Actually, the term 'tsuchigumo' had been already used earlier than Sakanoue no Tamuramaro's capturing Isawa in Tōhoku. And, area-wise, the term 'tsuchigumo' was also applied to people who were not emishi, lived in western areas in Japan and didn't tender their submission to the Imperial Court. Bungo no Kuni Fudoki says:
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