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** There is also a [[Monster of the Week]] in the third season of ''MMPR'' (Professor Long Nose) whose design adheres more to the classic tengu image.
* ''[[Shin Megami Tensei]]'', like the oni example above, has several types of Tengu running around: from tiny annoyances (Koppa Tengu), to evil corruptive spirits (Karasu Tengu) to competent, powerful warriors (Kurama Tengu), each modelled after a different branch of Tengu.
* ''[[Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles (2003 series)|Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles]]''; the original Shredder, or Demon Shredder, is a former human whose wickedness cursed him with Tengu form.
==Baku==
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==Tsuchinoko==
A snake-like creature with a long, wide body. It is mostly harmless to most people, unless awoken from its sleep as its venom can fell a man instantly.
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* Several shorts exclusive to the [[Seikimatsu Occult Gakuin]] DVDs center around a pet tsuchinoko kept by Maya and Ami.▼
* You can catch a tsuchinoko if you're lucky in ''[[Metal Gear Solid 3: Snake Eater]]''. [[Fridge Logic|Which is odd]], since it takes place in Russia. The team congratulates you when you do and you get an achievement (in the [[Updated Rerelease|HD remake]]).
* The [[Pokémon]] Dunsparce is a tsuchinoko.
▲* Several shorts exclusive to the [[Seikimatsu Occult Gakuin]] DVDs center around a pet tsuchinoko kept by Maya and Ami.
* A particularly elusive enemy that serves as a [[Metal Slime]] in ''[[Castlevania Aria of Sorrow]]''. Not because it drops a lot of money if killed, but because possessing its soul reduces prices at the shop.
* In ''[[Touhou]]'' canon, specifically ''Strange and Bright Nature Deity'', Marisa adopted a rather cute tsuchinoko as a pet after chasing it out of a fairy's house.
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==Nurikabe==
A monster that takes the form of an animate section of wall. It has the power to turn invisible, and likes to use this power to impede travelers.
▲=== Examples ===
=== Anime and Manga ===
* During one of the [[School Festival]] episodes of ''[[Azumanga Daioh]]'', as the girls ponder Osaka's idea of an ''obakeyashiki kisaten'' ("haunted cafe"), they imagine Chiyo dressed as a nurikabe.
* In ''[[Okami]]'', there’s a family of nurikabe that go by the name "Blockhead." They claim to be "the only one", though.▼
=== Live-Action TV ===
* In the ''[[Punky Brewster]]'' episode "The Perils of Punky", Allen is taken by the spirit and turned into one.▼
=== Video Games ===
▲* In ''[[
* In ''[[Final Fantasy VII]]'', the Demon Wall you encounter in the Temple of the Ancients acts like a nurikabe, aggressively impeding the exit for our heroes (as opposed to acting as an [[Advancing Wall of Doom]] like its other incarnations throughout the series).
* Wall Face and Doom's Wall from ''[[Secret of Mana]]''
* Whomp from the ''[[Super Mario Bros.]]'' franchise are based on the nurikabe.
▲* In the ''[[Punky Brewster]]'' episode "The Perils of Punky", Allen is taken by the spirit and turned into one.
▲* One appears in episode 2 of ''[[Inu x Boku SS]]''
==Rokurokubi and Nukekubi==
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* ''[[Okami]]''
* ''[[Omamori Himari]]'' features several other Youkai in addition to the aforementioned, including an water serpent in a leading role, a Shutendoji and many others in minor parts. Most of the major ones are [[Cute Monster Girl]]s.
* In ''[[One Piece]]'' four of the Five Elders have [[One-Winged Angel]] forms that are based on Yokai. Jaygarcia Saturn is an Ushi-Oni, Marcus Mars is an itsumade, Topman Warcury is a fengxi, and Ethanbaron V. Nusjuro is a bakotsu. Shepherd Ju Peter is the odd man out, his demon form most resembling a sandworm from ''[[Dune]]'', though it may have been based on a Cryptid called [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mongolian_death_worm the Mongolian death worm].
* ''Petopeto-san'': Most of the cast are youkai of one kind or another, if not [[Half-Human Hybrid|Half Human Hybrids]].
* ''[[Pokémon]]'' has a lot of creatures based on youkai. An example is Mawile, who is based on the futakuchi-onna, a woman with a monstrous, voracious mouth growing out of the back of her head and hair that functions like tentacles, and Ninetales, which is based on the kitsune. A complete list of Youkai-inspired Pokemon [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FXhwp2X8lto&ab_channel=Linfamy is found here.]
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