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  2. List of legendary creatures from Japan - Wikipedia

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    A bird-headed, crustacean-armed, snake-bodied spirit that cuts fishing nets and mosquito netting. Amorōnagu A tennyo from the island of Amami Ōshima in Kagoshima Prefecture, who is said to bathe in pools and waterfalls in ravines. Anmo A ritual-disciplinary demon from Iwate Prefecture whose purpose is to scare naughty children into behaving ...

  3. List of Demon Slayer: Kimetsu no Yaiba characters - Wikipedia

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    How strong he becomes varies on the strength of the demon he devours, and this also makes him vulnerable to a demon's weaknesses. He wields a hand-held shotgun that fires special shot made with the same steel as the Demon Slayers' Nichirin sword, as well as a Nichirin wakizashi. He is the younger brother of Sanemi, the Wind Hashira, who shuns ...

  4. Demon Slayer: Kimetsu no Yaiba - Wikipedia

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    Demons are former humans who possess supernatural abilities such as enhanced strength, rapid regeneration, and unique powers referred to as "Blood Demon Arts". Demons can only be killed if they are exposed to direct sunlight, decapitated with weapons crafted from an alloy called Nichirin, or injected with a poison extracted from wisteria flowers.

  5. Kiyohime - Wikipedia

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    The "Anchin-Kiyohime" legend can be summarized as follows: [4] [11] The legend, connected with the founding of the Dōjō-ji temple in Kii Province (modern-day Wakayama Prefecture), relates how a priest named Anchin from Shirakawa in Ōshū province (present-day Shirakawa, Fukushima) making pilgrimage to the Kumano Shrine in southern Kii, lodged at the home of a shōji [] (庄司) (steward of ...

  6. Tanjiro Kamado - Wikipedia

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    Early sketches of Nezuko and Tanjiro. Tanjiro Kamado originates from Koyoharu Gotouge's ideas involving a one-shot with Japanese motifs. Tatsuhiko Katayama, their editor, was worried about the one-shot crusade being too dark for the young demographic and asked Gotouge if they could write another type of the main character who would be "brighter". [3]

  7. List of One-Punch Man characters - Wikipedia

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    Ch. 68 After the deaths of previous swordsmen trios at the hands of a toxic form of a monster Fuhrer Ugly, Kamikaze is entrusted by a dying Nichirin with one of the two Sacred Blades, the Sun Blade, and becoming a new leader of the order, with a mission to search Moon Blade, once the war against Monster Association is over. Ch. 148

  8. Snakes in Chinese mythology - Wikipedia

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    Yanwei (延维) is a snake deity in Chinese mythology, depicted with a human head and a snake’s body, featuring two heads. Its body is purple, its heads are red, and it measures roughly the length of a cart's yoke. Yanwei is known to abhor thunder, becoming motionless whenever it occurs.

  9. Mizuchi - Wikipedia

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    The ancient chronicle Nihongi contains references to mizuchi.Under the 67th year of the reign of Emperor Nintoku (conventionally dated 379 AD), it is mentioned that in central Kibi Province, at a fork on Kawashima River (川嶋河, old name of Takahashi River in Okayama Prefecture), a great water serpent or dragon (大虬) dwelt and would breathe or spew out its venom, poisoning and killing ...