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My friend *Koomori-desu and I wanted to draw different Yokai with each other. Yokai are creatures in Japanese folklore that range from good to evil and have spiritual or supernatural powers.

The Bakeneko is the first creature I've done.

Information from Wikipedia:
A bakeneko 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 shape shift 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.

In Japanese folklore, any cat that lives over thirteen years old, reaches one kan (eight pounds) in weight or is allowed to keep a long tail can become a bake-neko ( 化け猫 ) or Ghost Cat. A bake-neko is a cat that gains paranormal powers after certain circumstances. The breeding of the Japanese Bobtail may have some connection with this superstition. After a bake-neko tail grows long enough it forks into two tails, then the bake-neko is no longer called a bake-neko, but a neko-mata. Other forms of bake-neko are Maneki-neko . Most of the stories about the bake-neko are told orally in Japan.

XD I'm too tired to type it all my self so...copy & paste ftw!

So this is my version of the Bakeneko. Still working on it. X.x;

Bakeneko (C): Me *LethalPepsi

Kitsune: [link]

Description
My friend *Koomori-desu and I wanted to draw different Yokai with each other. Yokai are creatures in Japanese folklore that range from good to evil and have spiritual or supernatural powers.

The Bakeneko is the first creature I've done.

Information from Wikipedia:
A bakeneko 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 shape shift 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.

In Japanese folklore, any cat that lives over thirteen years old, reaches one kan (eight pounds) in weight or is allowed to keep a long tail can become a bake-neko ( 化け猫 ) or Ghost Cat. A bake-neko is a cat that gains paranormal powers after certain circumstances. The breeding of the Japanese Bobtail may have some connection with this superstition. After a bake-neko tail grows long enough it forks into two tails, then the bake-neko is no longer called a bake-neko, but a neko-mata. Other forms of bake-neko are Maneki-neko . Most of the stories about the bake-neko are told orally in Japan.

XD I'm too tired to type it all my self so...copy & paste ftw!

So this is my version of the Bakeneko. Still working on it. X.x;

Bakeneko (C): Me *LethalPepsi

Kitsune: [link]