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In Japan, the term Bake-Neko (
In here, yōkai cats with specifically titled Bake-Neko are focused, although there are a number of unnamed cats that are presumably Bake-Neko in the series, and there are Bake-Neko from overseas as well.
Cast[]
- Ichirō Nagai (First anime)
- Chikao Ōtsuka (Second anime)
- Hisako Kyōda (Third anime)
- Takeshi Aono (Fourth anime)
List of individuals (As specific Bake-Neko)[]
Ability (As specific Bake-Neko)[]
Size Shifting
Air Breath
Cat Possession Sickness
Agility
Illusion
Legend[]
Illustration of Bake-Neko
A Bake-Neko is, in Japanese folklore, a cat with supernatural abilities akin to those of the kitsune or the tanuki. A cat may become a Bake-Neko in a number of ways: it may reach a certain age, be kept for a certain number of years, grow to a certain size, or be allowed to keep a long tail.
A Bake-Neko will haunt any household it is kept in, creating ghostly fireballs, menacing sleepers, walking on its hind legs, changing its shape into that of a human, and even devouring its own mistress in order to shapeshift and take her place. When it is finally killed, its body may be as much as five feet in length. It also poses a danger if allowed into a room with a fresh corpse; a cat is believed to be capable of reanimating a body by jumping over it.
Trivia[]
- Within the chapter Bake-Neko, spirits of dogs were also referred to Bake-Neko; these spirits of dogs and cats, died from car accidents, form a group and live in the Reikai Apartments together.