Changes: Yokai Physiology

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"Diet: souls; occasionally snacks on babies."

― Matthew Meyer, The Night Parade of One Hundred Demons: A Field Guide to Japanese Yokai

The power to use the abilities of yōkai. Variation of Mythic Physiology.

Also Called

Bakemono Form/Mimicry/Physiology (animal/monstrous Yokai)
Obake Form/Mimicry/Physiology (shapeshifting yokai)
Yokai Form/Mimicry
Yōkai Form/Mimicry/Physiology
Youkai Form/Mimicry/Physiology

Capabilities

User with this ability either is or can transform into a yōkai (ghost, phantom, strange apparition), a class of supernatural monsters and spirits in Japanese folklore. Japanese folklorists and historians use yōkai as "supernatural or unaccountable phenomena to their informants". In the Edo period, many artists, such as Toriyama Sekien, created yōkai inspired by folklore or their own ideas, and in the present several yōkai created by them are wrongly considered as being of legendary origin.

Yōkai range eclectically from the malevolent to the mischievous, or occasionally bring good fortune to those who encounter them. They have often animal features (such as the Kappa, which is similar to a turtle, or the Tengu which has wings), other times they can appear mostly human, some look like inanimate objects and others have no discernible shape. In some folklore, Yōkai are originally animals, or spirits infused with supernatural energy that turns them into Yōkai. Yōkai usually have a spiritual supernatural power, with shapeshifting being one of the most common.

Applications

Gain the form of yōkai.
Possess any special abilities of yōkai.
Spiritual Force Manipulation

Variations

See Yōkai also:

Tsukumogami

Bakezori Physiology

Yakubyo Gami

Undead

Animal

Demon

Hag

Other

Associations

Limitations

Depending on the type, but most can be affected by spiritual powers or objects, such as those wielded by Shinto priests and shrine maidens.

Known Users

See Also Youkai, Yōkai Wiki and Yokai.com.

Yokai (Japanese Mythology/Folklore)
Many characters (Rosario+Vampire)
Some characters (Kanokon)
Yokai (Highschool DxD)
Claymore (Claymore)
Hanyos (InuYasha)
- Naraku
- Inuyasha
- Jinenji
- Shiori
- Izumo
- Ai
- Shion
- Asagi
- Dai
- Roku
- Moegi
Most characters (Nekomusume Michikusa Nikki])
Mala Mala Jong (Xiaolin Showdown)
Yokai (Nioh)
Kurama (Yu Yu Hakusho)
Hiei (Yu Yu Hakusho)
Chu (Yu Yu Hakusho)
Rinku (Yu Yu Hakusho)
Jin (Yu Yu Hakusho)
Toya (Yu Yu Hakusho)
Shishiwakamaru/Shishi Wakamaru (Yu Yu Hakusho)
Suzuki/Suzuka (Yu Yu Hakusho)
Yusuke Urameshi (Yu Yu Hakusho); hanyo, after second resurrection
Various other Yu Yu Hakusho characters (Yu Yu Hakusho)
Some characters (Immari Ommamori)
Natsuho Nekogasaki (Urami Koi, Koi, Urami Koi)
Almost everyone (Touhou)
Totoro (My Neighbour Totoro)
Haku (Spirited Away)
No-Face/Kaonashi (Spirited Away)
Yokais (Stitch!)
Many characters (Inu x Boku SS)
Tora (Ushio to Tora)
Yo-kais (Yo-kai Watch)
Baron Draxum (Rise of the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles)
Big Mama (Rise of the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles)
Yokai (Super Sentai)
- Yokai Army Corps (Ninja Sentai Kakuranger)
  - Nurarihyon
  - Daimaou's family
  - Professor Yugami
  - Nue
  - And more...
- Kibaoni Army Corps (Shuriken Sentai Ninninger)

Gallery

Videos

いのちの食べ方 - Eve MV

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