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== [[Anime]] and [[Manga]] ==
* ''[[Ranma ½|[[Ranma ½]]'' had one that shared a personality almost identical to its mythological counterpart; when it stirred itself, it did little more than just wanting to eat women and drink booze. However, it appeared to have only seven heads. {{spoiler|Turns out the eighth is in back - it's ''the size of a small mountain,'' with the seven smaller (though still huge) dragon heads and necks sprouting from the back of the main head's skull. Kind of like a dragon version of a [[Dungeons and Dragons|Beholder]].}} This Orochi had magical moss growing on its main head that was a powerful curative- even drinking water that had flowed past the moss could sustain a person's life, as well as making animals grow to [[Attack of the 50-Foot Whatever|unnatural sizes]]. Notably, the male characters also had to dress in drag in order to lure it out (while Akane disguised herself as a boy to avoid it.) Unfortunately, they all looked so hideous the Orochi wasn't fooled.
** Another spiritual example/reference is Happosai, a [[The Alcoholic|sake-swilling]] [[Dirty Old Man]] who ''goes into withdrawal'' if he is unable to sate his perversion and perhaps ''the'' most powerful martial artist in the series. In his [[Backstory]], he was only beaten when his students left out enough sake for him to drink himself into a stupor, after which they sealed him in a cave with a bundle of dynamite by means of a [[Shimenawa]]-adorned boulder. He of course returns to bug Ranma, and finds himself thwarted time and time again by his intended victim - a [[Hot-Blooded]] "[[Testosterone Poisoning|Manly Man]]" acting as a perfect Susanoo figure, complete with an [[Attractive Bent Gender]] curse that Happosai always falls for.
* ''[[Blue Seed]]''. Unless you read the subtitles, which tend to mistranslate it as [[Department of Redundancy Department|"Orochi no Orochi"]].
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