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In this story, the bakeneko took the shape of Nabeshima Katsushige's wife and sought Katsushige's life, but his retainer, Chibu Honuemon, slew it. However, after that the Chibu family was unable to produce a male heir because of the cat's curse. It is said that the bakeneko was deified at the shrine of Shūrinji (now Shiroishi Town) as a ...
Species: Beast (Bakeneko possessed as Shikigami) Ability: Sorcery (while possessed as shikigami), surprising people (as bakeneko) Residence: Yōkai Mountain; Stage 2 boss and Extra Stage midboss. She has two tails and is a bakeneko yokai. She is also Ran Yakumo's shikigami, but since Ran herself is a shikigami of Yukari Yakumo, she is a ...
Ghost Cat Anzu (Japanese: 化け猫あんずちゃん, Hepburn: Bakeneko Anzu-chan) is a 2024 animated film directed by Yōko Kuno and Nobuhiro Yamashita and produced by Shin-Ei Animation and Miyu Productions.
It is revealed by the bakeneko at the end of episode 14 of the anime that the source of the stress was her feelings for Araragi. The stress was so severe that the cat resurfaced again after only 2 weeks after Hitagi and Koyomi started dating, as compared to the 17 years of stress that Tsubasa got from her family.
Some tales state that these demons, like bakeneko, assume human appearances, usually appearing as older women, misbehaving in public, and bringing gloom and malevolence wherever they travel. Due to these beliefs, sometimes kittens' tails were cut off based on the assumption that if the tails could not fork, the cats could not become nekomata.
In addition to the 31 episodes, the story of Decade is also told in the films Kamen Rider Decade: All Riders vs. Dai-Shocker and Kamen Rider × Kamen Rider W & Decade: Movie War 2010. On October 4, 2009, TV Asahi began a re-broadcast of the series from beginning to end at 6:30 am timeslot.
Steve Berman's short story, "A Troll on a Mountain with a Girl" [14] features Yamauba. Lafcadio Hearn, writing primarily for a Western audience, tells a tale like this: Then [they] saw the Yama-Uba,—the "Mountain Nurse." Legend says she catches little children and nurses them for awhile, and then devours them.
Catbus is believed to be based on the Japanese bakeneko (化け猫, “changed cat”), an ancient urban legend where cats that grow old learn to shapeshift. In the original Japanese version of My Neighbor Totoro , Catbus is voiced by Naoki Tatsuta , whilst in the Disney English release, Catbus is voiced by Frank Welker , and by voice actor ...