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...
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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...
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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...
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Chōchin'obake (redirect from Chochin Obake)
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)...
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Karuta (redirect from Obake karuta)
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...
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Glen Grant (historian) (redirect from Obake Files)
Hawaiian historian, author and folklorist. He was primarily known for his Obake Files, a collection of articles and stories regarding native and imported...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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Chubby Cherub (redirect from Obake no Q-Taro WanWan Panic)
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"))...
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List of Disney's Big Hero 6 characters (section Obake)
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...
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GeGeGe no Kitarō (redirect from Gegege no Kitarō: Obake Nighter)
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...
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List of Virtual Boy games (redirect from Doraemon: Nobita no Doki Doki! Obake Land)
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...
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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...
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Yokai Monsters: Spook Warfare (section Kasa-obake)
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...
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illness. The pair was best known for their popular comedies, including Obake no Q-Tarō, Ninja Hattori-kun, Kaibutsu-kun, Perman, Kiteretsu Daihyakka...
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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...
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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...
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from Japanese mythology, resembling large mollusks. They are a type of obake that forms when turban snails, especially Turbo sazae, reach 30 years of...
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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...
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"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...
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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)...
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part in agricultural events. Shinto's afterlife beliefs also include the obake, restless spirits who died in bad circumstances and often seek revenge....
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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...
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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...
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This obake karuta ('monster card') from the early 19th century depicts a kitsune. The associated game involves matching clues from folklore to pictures...
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Namco October 4, 1991JP October 4, 1991 Unreleased Unreleased Chiisana Obake Acchi, Kocchi, Socchi Atlus VAP December 4, 1992JP December 4, 1992 Unreleased...
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