Its body is similarly shaped to that of a turtle, but the Kappa walks on two-webbed feet when it surfaces above ground. Pokémon-esque in nature, the Kappa is a small, green goblin-like creature that is believed to be found lurking near shallow rivers and streams. There are many sources for the Kuchisake-Onna stemming from simple stories of women chasing children in the late ’70s to the more popular tale of a jealous husband who cut her wife’s mouth with a sword when he discovered her affair, but The Slit-Mouthed Woman is one of the most widely known horror legends the country knows. She would then reply “Am I pretty now?” and either slit her prey’s mouth to match, or cut them in half if responded negatively. The slender-figured girl with a facial mask would approach strangers and ask “Am I pretty?” Naturally, the subject would remark affirmatively as the culture would suggest, but as she removes the mask her true visage would be revealed a bloody mouth slit wide open from cheek to cheek. Kuchisake-OnnaĪn urban legend that dips into both beauty and youth, the Kuchisake-Onna (“The Slit-Mouthed Woman”) would roam the streets of Japan to search for her foes.
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Disregarding Godzilla–a fictionalized creature dreamed up by a movie studio–or Pokémon which many can argue is a by-product of one of the creatures in the list below, take a look at some of the most legendary and nightmare-inducing monsters, demons and ghosts to ever stalk the Land of the Rising Sun. In fact, many are either bipeds or mutations of actual beings or animals, making them that much more believable and horrific as they may walk amongst us at any given time.
You may imagine these creatures, or Yokai, to be as cute as Hello Kitty or Rilakkuma due to the nature of Japan’s “all-kawaii-everything” lifestyle, but you’d be wrong - many of these characters, unlike those found in western civilizations, are not relics of long-deceased recorded species like dinosaurs or extinct birds.
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