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In East Asia, Fantastic Foxes are prominently featured in folklore. Broadly speaking, these East-Asian foxes have a number of similarities: they're often intelligent, shapeshifters, and possessed of multiple tails. However, the different cultures of East Asia have within them different names for these supernatural foxes: In China, they are called húli jÄ«ng ("fox spirit") or jiÇ”wÄ›i hú ("nine-tailed fox"). In Japan, they are called bake-gitsune ("changed/changing/monstrous fox") or youko ("youkai fox"), though both are often localised simply as kitsune ("fox"). In Korea, they are known as gumiho/kumiho ("nine-tailed fox"). In Vietnam, they are referred to as hồ ly tinh (a direct transliteration of huli jing) or yêu hồ ("demon fox"). And likewise, differences exist in the depictions of such beings—for example, the Korean gumiho/kumiho is more often presented as outright malevolent than is the Japanese kitsune — often killing humans in order to eat their hearts and/or livers. The kitsune, on the other hand, is depicted as sometimes marrying humans, in which capacity they prove to be devoted spouses and parents. Indeed, kitsune, when benevolent, have come to be closely associated with a Shinto kami, Inari. Nevertheless, when the stories of such foxes cross borders, the local word is simply applied: that is, when a story of a húli jÄ«ng is imported to Japan, it is told as a story of a kitsune. For example, the Chinese húli jÄ«ng DájÇ� is usually considered to be the same entity as the Japanese kitsune Tamamo-no-Mae. But it should not be thought that these foxes begin their lives as supernatural beings. Instead, in many depictions, they start as normal foxes. As they grow older, they grow too in power (and number of tails). Eventually they gain human-level intelligence (or greater), as well as various powers: Voluntary Shapeshifting (in particular to human form), possession, enchantment, supernatural wisdom, and more. A fully nine-tailed fox may be depicted as being incredibly powerful, and dangerous even if they're not malevolent. Physically, they have a few distinguishing features: as already mentioned, they have multiple tails (up to nine). They may also have squinted eyes or Eyes Always Shut (which is called kitsune no me in Japanese, meaning literally "fox eyes" or idiomatically "shifty eyes"). In behaviour, their activities vary from divine servants (or even gods of a sort), through shapeshifting tricksters and seducers — to bringers of ruin and eaters of men. Or, as mentioned above, they might fall in love and marry, and live happily that way. (And in that last case, their children — while not foxes themselves — will inherit magical powers.) One particular variety, the small, weasel-like kuda-gitsune or "pipefox" (sometimes known as kanko, izuna or osaki)note in modern Japanese, izuna is considered a dialectal term for weasels is employed as a Familiar by human families. In most depictions, they follow commands faithfully but are capable of slowly bringing their masters to ruin (most often by multiplying until they run out of food). These are sometimes depicted as "fragments" of more powerful foxes (see Tamamo-no-Mae under Mythology), or even their detached tails come to life. In modern fiction, such foxes turn up often: anime in particular has them as a staple whenever mythology appears, while Western writers note the similarities between them as The Fair Folk, and use them thusly. Additional fun fact: kitsune are common Animal Motifs for Japanese character types, and are often portrayed as foils and rivals to Tanuki. In fact, in Japan women are considered to be "tanuki-faced" (square/round) or "kitsune-faced" (inverted triangle/heart-shaped), the latter being considered sexier, so to call a Japanese woman fox-faced is looked upon as paying them a very sultry compliment. Fortunately, all of these fox-spirit types can be cowed by the presence of dogs. See also Youkai, Little Bit Beastly, Beast Man, The Fair Folk, and Ghostly Animals. Compare Tanuki. Fantastic Foxes is the Super-Trope. See Fox Folk for other fox people. The Femme Fatale kitsune is automatically a Foxy Vixen, and evil examples fall under Foul Fox. |
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Kanon: Makoto Sawatari turns out to be a fox that Yuuichi cared for when he was young, but he set her free when he had to leave town. Her wish to see him again lets her become human, but despite being able to meet him again years later she has no memories of being a fox, or really anything about her former life at all. | |
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Ultraman Taro: Appropriately for a series inspired by Japanese fairy tales, had a kitsune kaiju called Miegon as a Monster of the Week. While its appearance was rather reptilian for a fox, Miegon possessed all the qualities one would expect, like nine tails, illusory tricks, and various fire-based abilities. | |
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Nowhere Boy: The gumiho, who is actually one of the thirteen people who have to save the world. She still has her cravings when her animalistic side gets tempted. | |
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47 Ronin: Witch is a malevolent kitsune with heterochromia who serves as The Dragon to the main antagonist. | |
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Usagi Yojimbo has Kitsune the gentlewomanly thief who is a wily fox but not a magical one, a fake kitsune in the background of "The Inn on Moonshadow Hill" and two real kitsune who teach Gen a lesson. While in "Fox Fire" Usagi saves what looks like a mundane fox from hunters, then is bewitched by a fox woman, only for the fox he rescued to come to his aid. | |
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RuneQuest: Fox women are magical shape-changers, spend most of their time in their animal forms, and occasionally change into their human forms. As humans, fox women are legendary for their beauty and lust, and they often seduce human males. | |
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Laon: The eponymous Laon is a mischievous — and occasionally malicious — gender-bending nine-tailed kumiho who was stripped of all but one of their tails as punishment for losing a bet, and departs to the human realm; allying with amnesiac journalist Taeha Gwon to get them back. | |
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In Akiko Shikata's song "Otoshimono" (from her album Wokashi), a girl speaks of her brother who was taken by foxes as a child, and apparently turned into a kitsune himself. | |
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The Fuchsbau Wesen in Grimm are very similar to Kitsunes. In-Universe, however, Fuchsbau are Wesen of Europoean descent and distinct from Kitsune, who are later revealed to be Japanese Wesen who are also fox-like but have white fur. According to legend, Kitsune are one of the very few Wesen to have a tail—nine, in fact. | |
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Loves Lost And Found has Oyuki Akamine, who shows up to assist Sun-hyo in defeating malevolent supernatural creatures. | |
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My Roommate is a Gumiho: As evidenced by the title, Woo-yeo is a gumiho. He spends most of the show in his human form but will occasionally transform into the full fox-spirit form. He takes the life force from women and absorbs it in order to slowly become human. Dam has swallowed his fox bead and the two need to work together to get it out of her. | |
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In Golden Sky Stories, the player characters are shapeshifting animal spirits called henge, with fox henge being one of the available options. In general, fox henge have powerful magical abilities and are often worshipped as gods, but have very little inclination for socializing or menial work. | |
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Ninjas And Superspies adds shapeshifting fox spirits as an available player race in its Mystic China sourcebook. | |
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In Residents of Proserpina Park Mirai encounters a kitsune, whom she names Fox Ears, while riding on a bus in Japan. Fox Ears, true to her name, takes the form of a woman with fox ears and a tail. She is haughty and high-strung but also provides helpful information to Mirai. | |
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In Miraculous Ladybug, Volpina is a fox-themed supervillain who has illusionary abilities and is known for lying. She is based on a real fox-themed superhero empowered by the incarnation of Illusion which is a fox-like spirit. | |
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Old World of Darkness: During the 1998 "Year of the Lotus" releases, Werewolf: The Apocalypse received an Asian-themed expansion called Hengeyokai which introduced the Kitsune werefoxes.note There was a similar creature already in this setting, but this book really fleshed them out. They are described as the youngest of the Changing Breeds and are the most spiritually inclined. While physically weakest, they are skilled in elemental sorcery as well as paper-themed origami sorcery. As a character goes up in rank, their vulpine forms grow additional tails, generally up to five (the games' level cap), but the legendary Bai Mianxi got up to nine tails. | |
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Vampirella: The Warren run had the series "The Fox", featuring huli jing Ming Toi in ancient China. | |
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Lovecraft Country: Meeh Ji-Ah is a Korean woman possessed by a kumiho/nine-tailed fox, and she must kill 100 men and absorb their souls through her tails during sex to become a human again. She's convinced to stop at 99 and learn to accept herself as she is. | |
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Sascha in Shall We Date?: Blood In Roses. | |
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Enchanted in the Moonlight: Miyabi is a kitsune with the usual shapeshifting powers, ghostly blue fox-fire, and trickster attitude. He appears variously as a handsome young human man, a longer-haired version of his human form with fox ears and a tail, and an actual fox with supernatural markings. | |
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Hiiro no Kakera: Yuuichi Komura is descended from a kitsune and can partially transform into one. | |
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Sonic Prime: The alternate universe version of Miles "Tails" Prower — who as a two-tailed fox was already based on the kitsune — from New Yoke City is shown giving himself seven extra mechanized tails that double as Combat Tentacles, bringing him up to a total of nine. This coincides with his Meaningful Rename of "Nine", based on a legend of a kitsune gaining nine tails total upon reaching full maturity. His shadow in the recap of his backstory highlights his hardened nature, showing his usual two-tailed form before going to a menacingly posed nine-tailed version. | |
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Shang-Chi and the Legend of the Ten Rings: White-furred fox-spirits — referred to as jiuweihu, another name for huli jing, by tie-in merchandise — are seen among the supernatural wildlife present in Ta-Lo, with a three-tailed kit being shown playing with its nine-tailed parent. | |
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SCP Foundation: SCP-953 is a kumiho, straight out of Korean myth down to killing humans to eat their livers. Calling her a kitsune sends her into a violent rage... though she has taken advantage of the confusion on occasion. Her profile notes that the difference between kumiho and kitsune seems to be a matter of ethnicity and culture akin to "the difference between a Cherokee Indian and a New Delhi Indian." SCP-150-JP, available on the Japanese site, is codenamed "the Kitsune" due to being a red fox with supernatural powers — in its case the ability to warp reality by swapping the properties of objects — though unlike SCP-953 it doesn't appear to actually be a fox-spirit. |
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The Supernatural episode "The Girl Next Door" features a kitsune with the alias Amy Pond. Perhaps unsurprisingly, the portrayal of the creature is almost wholly inaccurate. Here, the kitsune is presented as a being of human appearance with the ability to transform its hands into deadly claws. Amy and others like her must feed on human brains in order to survive and can only be killed with a stab to the heart. About the only thing the show's kitsune have in common with the mythical creature is their foxlike eyes. | |
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The Fox Sister presents a very dark and vicious gumiho who serves as the main antagonist; she has a habit of impersonating her victims after she feasts on them (such as the protagonist’s sister), alluding to Korean folklore where they're typically portrayed as malevolent. | |
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My Girlfriend Is a Nine-Tailed Fox involves an Idiot Hero freeing a trapped gumiho spirit from a painting. It goes about as well as one would expect. In this version, however, the stories of her eating men's livers in order to become human are deliberate slander, intended to discourage human menfolk from pursuing her beauty and thus leaving the local human women bereft. | |
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In Britsune Garden Series, kitsune are very important to the setting, connected to goddess Kanako Okami and a four-tailed kitsune even appears on the English coat of arms. Kitsune are also the inspiration for the titular species. Even one particular character, Hinata, though she is actually a Kamitsu Britsune, resembles a nine-tailed one. However, their fear of dogs is rather downplayed, instead of being downright terrified, kitsune are known to get startled if they suddenly encounter a dog. | |
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The eponymous Kamen Rider Geats aka Ace Ukiyo is based on the kitsune, and not only is he an Experienced Protagonist, he's also willing to manipulate and lie - though he's also got his softer side. | |
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Shall We Date? franchise: Sascha in Shall We Date?: Blood In Roses. Enojo from Mononoke Kiss, though he is called a "humanoid fox." In Shall We Date?: Wizardess Heart, Hisoka turns out to be a half-human half-Kitsune. |
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Hotel Transylvania 3: Summer Vacation: One of the film's extras is a female, posh-looking kitsune, being the only Eastern creature among a cast made up entirely of Western monsters. She makes another cameo in the sequel. | |
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Ran is an adaptation of King Lear for Japanese audiences. One of the three sons of the elderly Great Lord has a wife who is clearly manipulating him to his downfall. She has her husband send his right-hand man off to kill a rival woman and return with her head encased in salt. The would-be assassin takes a page from Zhuge Liang and returns telling a tall tale about how he beheaded a kitsune. He opens his satchel and reveals the head of a kitsune statue, then curses the "demon" who got away, likes to disguise itself as a beautiful woman, and seeks to corrupt and ruin men. The wife reacts with fury. Sadly, the son does nothing. It doesn't end well. | |
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Akumaizer 3: Episode 33 features Kitsunen of the Akuma Clan, a white fox-like demon who runs a bathhouse that lures in unsuspecting people and carries with her a pot to boil people in. | |
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Pathfinder The Pathfinder Campaign Setting Dragon Empires Gazetteer introduced kitsune as a playable race. They can shift between their true humanoid fox form and a specific human one, can gain the abilities to outright change into foxes or humans they have met, have some degree of innate magical ability, and tend to be neutrally-aligned Shapeshifting Tricksters. There are also nogitsune, either kitsune women possessed by Oni spirits or Oni who formed facsimiles to kitsune bodies, who fill the "corruptive evil fox" version. The Pathfinder Advanced Race Guide includes a new Kitsune-Only Feat called Magical Tail that gives the Kitsune a new tail each time it's taken and a new magical ability to go along with it. While in 2nd edition Kitsune can grow tails every time they attain a new spell level (either from classes or ancestry feats). |
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The Kindness of Devils: Loves Lost And Found has Oyuki Akamine, who shows up to assist Sun-hyo in defeating malevolent supernatural creatures. A Conspiracy of Serpents has Oyuki's daughter, Kasumi, who helps Grete and her allies fight against the villainous serpents. |
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Kyuemon Izayoi from Shuriken Sentai Ninninger, who fits the trickster archetype because he's extremely secretive and manipulative, and you never really know where his loyalties lie until late in the series, where it turns out he's Big Bad Gengetsu Kibaoni's firstborn son. The same goes for his Power Rangers Ninja Steel counterpart, Madame Odius, who ends up usurping Galvanax as the Big Bad. | |
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Dungeons & Dragons: The 1st edition supplement Oriental Adventures had a fox spirit creature called a "hu hsien". Kitsunemori, a 3rd edition supplement, is a campaign setting with kitsune as a playable race. |
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The World of Darkness: Old World of Darkness: During the 1998 "Year of the Lotus" releases, Werewolf: The Apocalypse received an Asian-themed expansion called Hengeyokai which introduced the Kitsune werefoxes.note There was a similar creature already in this setting, but this book really fleshed them out. They are described as the youngest of the Changing Breeds and are the most spiritually inclined. While physically weakest, they are skilled in elemental sorcery as well as paper-themed origami sorcery. As a character goes up in rank, their vulpine forms grow additional tails, generally up to five (the games' level cap), but the legendary Bai Mianxi got up to nine tails. In Chronicles of Darkness, the kitsune are a type of fox-spirit. Due to Father Wolf coercing their progenitor Inari to rein them in during the ancient times, they're divided into two factions: benign Inari Seha (obedient foxes of Inari) and malevolent Inari Kihar (foxes who abandoned Inari). They are most commonly encountered as allies or enemies of werewolves (depending on faction), but kitsune bonded to human hosts are playable. |
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Kitsune: References the concept by title, and is a reference to the fox-girl nature of its protagonist. | |
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In Hellboy Animated: Sword of Storms, a kitsune is pretty much the only youkai on Hellboy's side when he is transported to a Japanese folklore-inspired Magical Land. | |
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In Metamatronic's Monster AU, Leon Kuwata is portrayed as a kitsune. He only has five tails because, in the author's words, he's incompetent. | |
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Love, Death & Robots: One of the main characters in the episode "Good Hunting" is Yan, a young huli jing who befriends Liang — the son of a demon-hunter who kills her mother. As the English colonize China, Yan loses her magic and gets stuck in human form as the world is taken over by technology. When she's victimized and turned into a steampunk cyborg, Liang builds her a new body with the ability to shift back into a nine-tailed fox-like form so that she can seek revenge. | |
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In Make a Wish, Harry Potter finds a young kitsune that attempts to prank him. Harry puts her in touch with the Weasley twins. | |
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Akira Kurosawa's Dreams has a segment in which a little boy wanders into the woods and seeks a kitsune wedding procession. | |
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Fables: The spin-off Fairest shows bisexual Rapunzel once had a relationship with a female kitsune named Tomoko, (who mostly looks like a human woman with three fox-tails but would gain various other vulpine attributes while having sex and drinking the blood she drew from bites), and they still mean a great deal to each other. | |
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Kamen Rider: The eponymous Kamen Rider Geats aka Ace Ukiyo is based on the kitsune, and not only is he an Experienced Protagonist, he's also willing to manipulate and lie - though he's also got his softer side. In Kamen Rider Gotchard, one of the "Chemy" Mons is a kitsune named Ninetail, and as with other Chemies it ended up in a Fusion Dance with a host to become a Malgam Monster of the Week. The Kyubi Malgam's host turns out to be an actual kitsune spirit, who was guardian of a dying village. In keeping with their Trickster aspect, neither kitsune was malicious, and they were instead working together to put up a Monster Façade; by goading Gotchard into a fight, the impact of the battle dug out a hot spring that could revitalize the town. |
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Jiang Ziya: Huli jing, referred to as Fox Devils in the localization, are a recurring antagonistic force, with their leader Daji/Nine-Tailed — a colossal four-armed nine-tailed fox-monster — being the Big Bad. | |
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Babymetal uses kitsune as a recurring motif, especially as the main theme for the song "Megitsune", which compares women to kitsune — specifically, how women can disguise their appearances with makeup, much like how kitsune can disguise themselves with illusions. | |
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Avatar: The Last Airbender (2024)'s world draws heavily from Eastern mythology. In a deviation from the cartoon, the beautiful Princess Yue first appears to Sokka in the spirit world as a multi-tailed white fox. | |
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The card game Kitsune: Of Foxes and Fools has the players taking on the role of mischievous fox spirits playing pranks on mortals who deserve it. It does however draw some inspiration from other mythologies than that of the kitsune—for instance, the "Bloodthirst" consequence temporarily causes them to acquire the "appetites" of gumiho. | |
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Harry Is a Dragon, and That's OK has twin kitsune Tyler and Anne Smith, depicted here as beings with some innate magical abilities and who can shift between fox, human, and human/fox hybrid forms. The two are among the first of many non-human students that are enrolled in Hogwarts after Harry's arrival, and they swiftly enter a Friendly Rivalry with Fred and George Weasley (the other mischief-inclined twins at Hogwarts). | |
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Kagaku Sentai Dynaman: Fox Evo, while nominally based on a normal fox, possesses many of the magical powers associated with kitsune like shapeshifting and illusions. | |
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Phoenix Wright: Ace Attorney – Dual Destinies: "The Monstrous Turnabout" involves a legend regarding the Nine-Tailed Fox, a kitsune that defeated the tengu Tenma Taro, providing the namesake for the village of Nine-Tails Vale and inspiring the Masked Luchador called the Amazing Nine-Tails. | |
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Tale of the Nine Tailed features a whole bunch of Korean fox spirits. The protagonist is an ancient and powerful former deity (he resigned), but the more common "liver-eating monster pretending to be a beautiful woman" also appears. | |
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In Lighting Candles, when Tadashi Hamada becomes a guardian spirit, he is able to turn into a fire kitsune (particularly ironic since he died in a fire). | |
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The Tsukiuta stage plays feature Hajime and Shun as Kurotenko and Shirotenko, majestic four-tailed Little Bit Beastly figures who seem to act as rulers of the ayakashi realm. | |
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In Turning a New Leaf, Chairwoman Kannazuki Shizuka has fox-like characteristics that evoke the kitsune. | |
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Magic: The Gathering: The Kitsune of Kamigawa are patterned off of this. Per Word of God, it was originally intended for the sets to have a wide variety of Kitsune types, such as Blue to represent tricksters and White for shrine foxes. However, the plans were scrapped and they became the purely White-aligned clan seen in the final version. Much like their mythological counterparts, they grow tails the wiser they get. A notable feature is their faces, which are depicted as kabuki theater kitsune masks instead of conventional fox heads. | |
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Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles (IDW): Kitsune appears to be named after the Japanese fox spirits, although she might be a bit odder than that, having recently been implied to be from a whole family of ancient, powerful animal spirits. | |
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In Chronicles of Darkness, the kitsune are a type of fox-spirit. Due to Father Wolf coercing their progenitor Inari to rein them in during the ancient times, they're divided into two factions: benign Inari Seha (obedient foxes of Inari) and malevolent Inari Kihar (foxes who abandoned Inari). They are most commonly encountered as allies or enemies of werewolves (depending on faction), but kitsune bonded to human hosts are playable. | |
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Umma: After the delivery of Amanda's mother's cremains, Amanda finds the kumiho (nine-tailed fox from Korean mythology) that was eating her chickens. | |
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One issue of Marvel's Eternals: The 500 Year War (a prequel to the 2021 Eternals film) has Kingo and Sprite in 12th century Korea, where the murderous Deviants they're hunting are mistaken for Kumiho by humans who encounter them | |
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Super Sentai Kyuemon Izayoi from Shuriken Sentai Ninninger, who fits the trickster archetype because he's extremely secretive and manipulative, and you never really know where his loyalties lie until late in the series, where it turns out he's Big Bad Gengetsu Kibaoni's firstborn son. The same goes for his Power Rangers Ninja Steel counterpart, Madame Odius, who ends up usurping Galvanax as the Big Bad. Kitsune have appeared as a Monster of the Week in certain series: Kagaku Sentai Dynaman: Fox Evo, while nominally based on a normal fox, possesses many of the magical powers associated with kitsune like shapeshifting and illusions. Ninja Sentai Kakuranger featured a nine-tailed kitsune who wrapped most of her tails around her body like feather boas. She appeared in Mighty Morphin' Power Rangers as Katastrophe, the result of Rita Repulsa turning Katherine, the soon-to-be second Pink Ranger, into a monster. Samurai Sentai Shinkenger: The ayakashi Isagitsune is based on kitsune (and In-Universe is the basis for them), which is exemplified by the array of magic spells that he uses to befuddle and overpower the Shinkengers. He appeared in Power Rangers Samurai as Vulpes. |
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Please Be Happy: The protagonist is a Korean fox-spirit who goes by Miho and is searching for a traveler who showed her kindness when she was a normal fox, wandering the Earth while relying on her mysterious ability to be forgotten after 24 hours by anyone who meets her to survive through thievery. When her travels take her to the floating island city of Wellington, New Zealand, Miho ends up befriending—and perhaps falling in love with—the human barista/aspiring novelist Aspen and the vampire librarian Juliet, and can end the game having ascended into a divine nine-tailed fox once her yeowoo guseul is fully charged. After Miho starts settling down in Wellington, she encounters a belligerent gumiho who she nicknames Silver, who hates humans and sees Miho as weak and a traitor to their kind for wanting to adapt to civilization. However, Miho's kindness and empathy can break through Silver's bad attitude and they can part ways as friends... not that Silver would ever admit it to Miho's face. |
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In This Bites!, in order to keep up with the rest of the crew, Su, the cloud fox, decides to gain kitsune-like powers by finding "the Children of Inari". It's implied that this will be the training she undergoes during the two-year Time Skip. | |
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Mystery Skulls Animated: Mystery is a kitsune disguised as a dog; in the past, he was a trickster spirit that led samurai to their deaths, but after a fateful encounter with a particularly strong one, he became a guardian spirit to her family and stayed that way since. | |
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Lost Girl. Inari, the Villain of the Week of "The Kenzi Scale" is a kitsune (constantly mispronounced as "kit-soon") fae who does a kidnap-and-replace of Kenzi, desiring the strong friendship she has with Bo. She's apparently insane as the other kitsune fae shown in the episode aren't villainous. | |
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Shang-Chi: One of the species of mystical beasts from Chinese mythology found in Ta-Lo are jiuweihu, white fox-like creatures with multiple tails. Despite existing in the same universe as White Fox, it's not clear if they're related to the Korean kumiho. | |
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Wartime Stories has an episode that covers the titular creature in detail, from its legend in Japanese folklore to a US Marine's encounter with one on the island of Okinawa. Interestingly, despite being a Yōkai, it's shown to be hurt by gunfire and can be killed with the force of an explosion. | |
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The cast of Karin-dou 4koma are primarily youkai, so of course this type is included. Shizuki grows her second tail early on in the series, while Sachi (a kuuko) doesn't show off hers. | |
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Agents of Atlas: Superspy White Fox (Ami Han) is the last-known surviving kumiho in Korea, all others having been slaughtered by three-legged canine demons called Samjoksu. She's a Voluntary Shapeshifter, has Super-Senses, Super-Speed and Super-Reflexes, Speaks Fluent Animal, can hypnotize others with her voice, and can drain life energy using her Yaewoo Guseul (Fox Marble). She is firmly on the side of good and is the top operative of the South Korean National Intelligence Service. | |
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In Shall We Date?: Wizardess Heart, Hisoka turns out to be a half-human half-Kitsune. | |
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The Sandman (1989): The spin-off The Dream Hunters is a kitsune tale in which a fox falls for a monk targeted by a cruel Onmyoji and goes to Morpheus for help. | |
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On Teen Wolf, the second half of the third season deals with kitsune mythology. Kira Yukimura is revealed to be a kitsune and possesses a golden spiritual aura in the shape of a fox. In keeping with the idea that the kitsune can create fire or lightning by rubbing its tails together, Kira has the ability to manipulate electrical currents. Her mother has these powers as well. There are said to be 13 different types of kitsune, including the nogitsune — a trickster spirit that feeds on chaos, strife, and pain. The latter comes into possession of Stiles' body for the remainder of the season. | |
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White Snake (2019): The owner of the Precious Jade Workshop is a fox-demon named Baoqing, who appears as a child-sized woman with a human face on one side of her head and a fox face on the other. She returns in the sequel as a more prominent character, and at one point even transforms into her true form — a colossal pink eight-tailed fox. | |
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In Kamen Rider Gotchard, one of the "Chemy" Mons is a kitsune named Ninetail, and as with other Chemies it ended up in a Fusion Dance with a host to become a Malgam Monster of the Week. The Kyubi Malgam's host turns out to be an actual kitsune spirit, who was guardian of a dying village. In keeping with their Trickster aspect, neither kitsune was malicious, and they were instead working together to put up a Monster Façade; by goading Gotchard into a fight, the impact of the battle dug out a hot spring that could revitalize the town. | |
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Samurai Sentai Shinkenger: The ayakashi Isagitsune is based on kitsune (and In-Universe is the basis for them), which is exemplified by the array of magic spells that he uses to befuddle and overpower the Shinkengers. He appeared in Power Rangers Samurai as Vulpes. | |
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Nihonverse Pocketville: Kitsune are prominent characters in the series, one of the most important being Amaterasu, the High Priestess of Onmyou. Kyuubi Emiko, also known as Queen Elaine, is a six-tailed kitsune gijinka who is one of the most important Otherworlders who stepped foot onto the queendom, being the Seventh Folklorist. |
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A Conspiracy of Serpents has Oyuki's daughter, Kasumi, who helps Grete and her allies fight against the villainous serpents. | |
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In The Inexplicable Adventures of Bob! Lari the ninja mistakes Molly the Monster for one of these and becomes infatuated with her. He's a little squicked out when he realizes that she can't actually change into a regular human. | |
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Komugiko Sawatari from Megatokyo is later revealed to be a kitsune, and she comes from a whole clan of them. Some of them hide their fox ears and tails, while others display them openly. | |
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The God of High School: Legends speak of a kumiho that once served God but He feared its power and ordered its execution, and it retaliated by rebelling against Him and destroying half of Heaven before swearing revenge. In the present day, Ilpyo is able to draw on its power through his Charyeok and take on a sort of hybrid form vaguely reminiscent of Naruto's. | |
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GURPS: The Shapeshifters supplement includes a detailed template for kitsune characters. | |
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In The Bridge, a gumiho features as an Arc Villain. Lifted almost exactly from the Korean fable "The Fox Sister", she's a cannibalistic sadist who stalked an immigrant across the ocean to Equestria after murdering her fiance and his family. | |
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Ninja Sentai Kakuranger featured a nine-tailed kitsune who wrapped most of her tails around her body like feather boas. She appeared in Mighty Morphin' Power Rangers as Katastrophe, the result of Rita Repulsa turning Katherine, the soon-to-be second Pink Ranger, into a monster. | |
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In Constellations, a pair of twin kitsunes appear to cause mischief, and a young one adopts Assault as her father after he buys some fried tofu for her. | |
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Housepets! features Great Kitsune as the DM of the tabletop fantasy game that is being played, with our protagonists as pieces. He's smart enough to be the DM, and has an obvious trickster side, but is also somewhat impulsive and a bit short-sighted despite his best attempts to be the Big Good the pets need. Turns out that there's already been another kitsune in the comic... Great Kitsune's little brother is none other than Karishad, handily explaining the latter's weirdness and seeming ability to bend reality to his odd whims. | |
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