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In the Japanese role-playing horror game Ao Oni, the titular oni is depicted as a blue/purplish creature with a large head and human-like features. In the subsequent 2014 movie adaptation , the oni is given a radical makeover to appear more monstrous and scary, while in its 2016 anime adaptation, the oni remains faithful to its original appearance.
Beholder, a creature in the role-playing game Dungeons & Dragons with one large eye and many smaller eyestalks; Cyclops in the role-playing game Dungeons & Dragons; Draken, a one-eyed sea monster in the animated series Jumanji; Imbra, an idol and the highest god of Kafiristan in Rudyard Kipling's The Man Who Would Be King
One year before, the kenku had been rated the seventh-most powerful race in Dungeons and Dragons by the same website. [20] Colin McLaughlin called them one of his "favorite creatures in D&D", and found that their backstory "gives the kenku a type of humanity and sadness you rarely get to see from a splash monster page."
An old man spirit with one eye and one leg, found in Shikoku. Yamako An ape-like occasionally-cannibalistic creature that can read minds. Yama-no-Kami The kami of mountains. There are two types: gods of the mountains who are worshipped by hunters, woodcutters, and charcoal burners or gods of agriculture who come down from the mountains and are ...
Hibagon – The Japanese equivalent of Bigfoot. Hitotsume-kozou – A Yōkai that takes on the appearance of a bald, one-eyed child. Jiangshi – A being in Chinese legends and folklore similar to zombie or vampire. Jinn – (Arabian) Genie-like beings. Jorōgumo – A spider that can change its appearance into that of a seductive woman.
The people of Kōchi Prefecture on Shikoku believe in a creature called shibaten or shibatengu (シバテン, 芝天狗, lawn tengu), but this is a small childlike being who loves sumō wrestling and sometimes dwells in the water, and is generally considered one of the many kinds of kappa. [24]
Character race is a descriptor used to describe the various sapient species and beings that make up the setting in modern fantasy and science fiction.In many tabletop role-playing games and video games, players may choose to be one of these creatures when creating their player character (PC) or encounter them as a non-player character (NPC).
Oiwa-san from the One Hundred Ghost Stories by Katsushika Hokusai. An old chōchin would split upwards and downwards, and the part that got split would become a mouth and stick out a long tongue, and the chōchin obake is commonly considered not to have one eye in its upper half, but two.