Obake (お化け) and bakemono (化け物) are a class of yōkai, preternatural creatures in Japanese folklore. Literally, the terms mean a thing that changes, referring...

Kasa-obake (Japanese: 傘おばけ) are a mythical ghost or yōkai in Japanese folklore. They are sometimes, but not always, considered a tsukumogami that old...

Obake no Q-Tarō (Japanese: オバケのQ太郎, Hepburn: Obake no Kyū-Tarō) is a Japanese manga series by Fujiko Fujio about the titular obake, Q-Taro, who lives with...

Chōchin'obake (提灯お化け, 'paper lantern ghost') or chōchin-obake is a Japanese yōkai of chōchin (a type of lantern), "[the] lantern-spook (chochinobake)...

latter half of the 19th-century before being supplanted by the Edo version. Obake karuta is an obsolete variation of Iroha karuta unique to Tokyo. The cards...

Chiisana Obake Acchi, Kochi, Sochi (Japanese: ちいさなおばけアッチ・コッチ・ソッチ, lit. "Little Ghosts, There, Here and Where") is an anime television series by Studio...

Hawaiian historian, author and folklorist. He was primarily known for his Obake Files, a collection of articles and stories regarding native and imported...

Bakotsu (馬骨, lit. 'horse bone') is one of the 16 yōkai depicted in the Tosa Obake Zōshi, drawn during the Edo period; it appears as a skeletal, flaming horse...

Shiryō (死霊), meaning dead spirit, or the more encompassing Yōkai (妖怪) or Obake (お化け). Like their Chinese, Korean, and Western counterparts, they are thought...

screens Kameosa – A possessed sake jar Kasa-obake – An animated paper umbrella. Also known as karakasa-obake. Kosode-no-te – A possessed kimono robe Koto-furunushi...

Galaxy Queen, Honey Manda, and Mitsubachi Doubler (Double Girl)) Obake no Q-taro (Obake no Q-taro 8 songs: opening, ending and insert songs) Batten Robomaru...

The Tosa Obake Zōshi (土佐お化け草紙, lit. 'Tosa ghost book') is a Japanese yōkai emaki (illustrated scroll). It was written by an unknown author and is set...

Chubby Cherub (known in Japan as Obake no Q-tarō: WanWan Panic (オバケのQ太郎 ワンワンパニック, Obake no Q-tarō WanWan Panikku, lit. "Q-tarō the Ghost: BowWow Panic"))...

Hero 6 while becoming the first of Obake's lackeys. Globby eventually sees the error of his ways once learning Obake's plans to destroy the city (explaining...

GeGeGe no Kitarō: The Great Sea Beast (July 6, 1996) GeGeGe no Kitarō: Obake Nighter (March 8, 1997) GeGeGe no Kitarō: Yokai Express! The Phantom Train...

The Virtual Boy is a 32-bit tabletop video game console developed and designed by Nintendo, first released in Japan on July 21, 1995 and later in North...

がんばれゴエモン～でろでろ道中(どうちゅう) オバケてんこ盛(も)り～, Hepburn: Ganbare Goemon Derodero Dōchū Obake Tenko Mori Konami (December 23, 1998). Goemon's Great Adventure (Nintendo...

to help him fight back Daimon. The forest is home to the one-legged Kasa-obake, the frightening Futakuchi-onna, the long-necked Rokurokubi, the clay monster...

illness. The pair was best known for their popular comedies, including Obake no Q-Tarō, Ninja Hattori-kun, Kaibutsu-kun, Perman, Kiteretsu Daihyakka...

associated with them. Yōkai that shapeshift are known as bakemono (化け物) or obake (お化け). Japanese folklorists and historians explain yōkai as personifications...

Riokku (リオック, loanword from the Indonesian name) or Obakekorogisu (オバケコロギス, "Obake raspy cricket") in Japan) is a species of cricket that lives in Indonesia...

from Japanese mythology, resembling large mollusks. They are a type of obake that forms when turban snails, especially Turbo sazae, reach 30 years of...

"Eliminating Buu with Ghosts: A Knockout Kamikaze Attack!" Transliteration: "Obake de Bū Taiji Hissatsu! Kamikaze Atakku!!" (Japanese: オバケでブウ退治 必殺！カミカゼアタック...

had "baba" in her name, but she is also considered a kijo. Also, the Tosa Obake Zōshi (author unknown) that spelled out tales of yōkai in Tosa Province...

Eliminated With Ghosts!?" / "Trapped in Forever" Transliteration: "Yatta ze!! Obake de Seikō Bū Taiji!?" (Japanese: やったぜ!!オバケで成功ブウ退治!?) March 8, 1995 (1995-03-08)...

part in agricultural events. Shinto's afterlife beliefs also include the obake, restless spirits who died in bad circumstances and often seek revenge....

Card from the Japanese game obake karuta, c. early 19th century...

mark as a singer and producer through a series of releases, including Obake's Draugr, Seven Mutations and their 2011 self-titled debut, Owls’ The Night...

shapeshifting fox spirits of East Asia such as the huli jing of China, the obake of Japan, the Navajo skin-walkers, and gods, goddesses, and demons and demonesses...

This obake karuta ('monster card') from the early 19th century depicts a kitsune. The associated game involves matching clues from folklore to pictures...