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The baku has the body of a bear, the head of an elephant, the ears and eyes of a rhinoceros, the tail of an ox, and the legs of a tiger, having believed to have been made from the leftover body parts after the gods finished creating all of the other animals. Since its name refers both to the dream-eating creature and the Real Life Malayan tapir, modern iterations of the baku often give it a tapir-like appearance. This is because when the first Malayan tapirs were brought over to Japan, people believed them to be live baku due to the uncanny resemblance between the animal and the mythical creature.
Despite their grotesque appearance, the Baku is seen as a welcomed, benevolent youkai because they devour malevolent spirits and Peeve Goblins that are believed to be the cause of nightmares, similar to dream-catchers and gargoyles in other cultures. Children would sing "Baku-san, come eat my dream" three times to ask the baku to cure them of their nightmares, but if they did so frivolously, it would go on to eat their hopes and good dreams as well.
See also Dream Stealer. Sub-Trope to Youkai. No relation to the capital of Azerbaijan, the alien race from Star Trek: Insurrection, or the Pig Man character from Final Fantasy IX.
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The Dream Eaters And Other Stories
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Dream Eater Merry: Merry Nightmare has powers revolving around dreams and nightmares, and she has a strong baku motif.
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Digimon:
Bakumon (who goes by the name Tapirmon in the dub) is an Animal Digimon with the appearance of a small tusked-warthog-esque creature with a cloud instead of backlegs. Lore states that it was generated from a medical computer for detecting brain waves, and it seems that it uses the data from humans in REM sleep as nourishment, later going on to feed on bad dreams and malignant viruses. When one appeared under the influence of The Corruption in Digimon Frontier, it used its powers to show the DigiDestined their worst fears and when it was purified, it gave them pleasant dreams instead. Another appears in Digimon Ghost Game and has Dream Walker powers.
Digimon Universe: App Monsters has Dreammon, a masked baku who inhabits a dream app can induce dreams in others. He uses a dream-based Secret Test of Character to decide whether or not to grant his power to Astra and Musimon, allowing the latter to gain his Ultimate-Grade form.
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In the iOS port of Death Smiles, Mu the tapir-looking familiar is actually a Dream Stealer who eats dreams to empower himself. His One-Winged Angel form is a giant pink tapir with a huge tusk.
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Dark Cloud: Dark Cloud 2 / Dark Chronicle features a mini-boss in Starlight Canyon called the Memo-Eater, an obese monster with a tapir's nose that possesses a girl and eats her memories.
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Naruto: A baku appears as Danzou's summoning and looks like a huge, tuskless fierce elephant, able to suck anything in his trunk.
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The adorable Mukumuku from How to Keep a Mummy. He helps out Daichi, who has been having nightmares every night.
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Baku appear in the 1st Edition Monster Manual 2 and Planescape, depicted as elephant-headed creatures with the the front parts of a rhino and the hindquarters of a dragon. Rather than having any association with dreams however, they are instead powerful beings with Psychic Powers that come from the Upper Planes and visit the Material Plane to combat evil.
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A storyline of Ayakashi Triangle has Ritta and Suzu's dreams manipulated to attack them by what turns out to be a baku, which mostly resembles a black elephant. Shirogane implies it normally fulfills the roles of protecting humans by eating their bad dreams. This one was corrupted, so it causes people bad dreams and tries to eat their spirits along with it.
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Yo-kai Watch: Baku is one of the few yo-kai who didn't get a Dub Name Change. He is a purple baku who is said to put people to sleep before eating their dreams. In Yo-kai Watch 2 he is a story character. He even gains an evolution called Bakulia.
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Monster Musume: A Cute Monster Girl version of a baku shows up in Chapter 65 at the mixed-species hotsprings. She looks mostly like an attractive, curvy human except for her tapir-like ears and her skin color having the black, white, black pattern of a Malayan tapir.
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Pathfinder: Baku resemble floating, shaggy and tusked tapirs, and can when feeding choose to eat all of a person's dreams — causing them to wake up later exhausted and unrefreshed — or only their nightmares — which grants immunity to nightmare-inducing magic or dream haunting by malicious beings. They are mortal enemies of the dream-haunting night hags, and go to great lengths to hunt them down, fight them and prevent them from preying on sleeping minds.
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A purse-based Baku appeared in Shuriken Sentai Ninninger, adapted as Smellephant for Power Rangers Ninja Steel.
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Dungeons & Dragons:
Baku appear in the 1st Edition Monster Manual 2 and Planescape, depicted as elephant-headed creatures with the the front parts of a rhino and the hindquarters of a dragon. Rather than having any association with dreams however, they are instead powerful beings with Psychic Powers that come from the Upper Planes and visit the Material Plane to combat evil.
Oriental Adventures has a creature that much more closely matches the characteristics of the mythological baku, such as having the same composition of animal parts and the ability to consume bad dreams. Its name however is the shirokinukatsukami.
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×××HOLiC: The Dream Collector is a being that lives in another dimension and takes for form of a baku wearing an outfit that resembles the ones worn by Victorian chimney sweeps. He collects both dreams and nightmares, keeping them in balloons that he nurtures so that he can sell them for a high price.
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Nightmare Ninja Yumebakushi from Ninpuu Sentai Hurricaneger could place children into a deep dream that they would never wake up from, turning them into stone. Adapted as Starvark for Power Rangers Ninja Storm.
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Get Amped: There's an accessory called "Baku Pillow/Tapir Pillow". It's a cursed pillow that allows the user to summon the Baku to attack their enemies. It can be used to force enemies to sleep and get nightmares so the Baku can devour their nightmares, or you can also sleep with it to get the same result. Its strongest attack is to summon the Baku to breath out all the "nightmares" it has devoured towards the target, causing them to be assaulted in their minds and taking big damage.
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Hell Teacher Nube: The baku, instead of being a benign creature that eats nightmares, eats good dreams and leaves its victims in a state of utter, suicide-inducing despair. It's actually composed of hundreds of tortured souls who moan and writhe in the vague shape of a tapir.
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Parodius: The Final Boss is a baku named Bug (a Punny Name that works better in Japanese).
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Final Fantasy VI:
When a character wakes up from Sleep status on his or her own, a small baku comes by to "eat" their dreams away.
At one point your party enters a Dream Land and one of the enemies is alluring Rider/Critic, a scantily clad woman riding a baku.
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Weregeek: One member of the cast played a baku in the Changeling run. The Talking Guy thought it was a Drowzee.
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Kaitou Sentai Lupinranger VS Keisatsu Sentai Patranger: Tapir-themed Gangler monster Nero Kilner was able to trap people in their dreams using his Nemulance staff.
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Kagaku Sentai Dynaman's Tapir Evo, while nominally based on a regular tapir, possessed the ability to control dreams by transforming them into nightmares, making them come true, or even creating nightmare versions of others.
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Them's Fightin' Herds: Nidra's design is based on the baku, as she's a tapir associated with sleep.
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Tensou Sentai Goseiger has Elmgaim of the Baku, who combines his motifs with a velvet worm and Freddy Kreuger. Appears in Power Rangers Mega Force as Dream Snatcher.
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Ology Series: Monsterology includes the baku in the chapter dedicated to terrestrial beasts. It's depicted as tapir-like creature with short elephant tusks, a black coat with large yellow dots, and the paws of a tiger, and is native to Japan and coastal China. While it does not eat nightmares, it's noted to have a profoundly soothing effect on people, similar to that experienced when petting a cat.
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Pokémon:
Drowzee (and by extension its evolution, Hypno), a bipedal tapir-like Pokemon best known for eating dreams.
Munna, and Musharna are likewise tapir-based 'mons, and are themed quite heavily around dreams and sleep. They also take cues from cartoon "dream clouds".
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3×3 Eyes: The Fire General of the Five Generals of Gui Yan vaguely resembles a Baku, being an elephant-like gargoyle monster. Like the other generals, he presumably has psychic powers which allows him to give nightmares to people.
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The Sandman Universe: In The Dreaming Arc "Pathways and Emanations", when Judge Gallows takes over as regent of the Dreaming to instill order, he tries enforcing his frontier justice onto the realm by hanging the various blanks that had immigrated there. Since they are made of dream-matter and thus cannot die in the conventional sense, he hogties a Baku and feeds dissonants to it. Since the Baku was made to bring equilibrium to dreams, this was Not the Intended Use.
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Legend of the Five Rings features malevolent bakus. They still eat bad dreams, but they eat their victim's memories as well.
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Yu-Gi-Oh!: There are a few monsters based on the creature:
Explossum is a Level 1 Beast-Type monster that, despite its name, is not an opossum. It's Japanese name, Baku-Dan, is play on "Bakudan" meaning bomb.
Number 41: Bagooska the Terribly Tired Tapir is a Rank 4 Fiend Type Xyz Monster.
One of the Performapal monsters is Inflater Tapir, a Level 6 Beast-Type monster.
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The Sandman: The Dream Hunters: Baku appear as background fauna as dream-eaters. They can be invoked if one dreams something of ill-omen.
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Super Sentai: Baku-based monsters are quite common.
Kagaku Sentai Dynaman's Tapir Evo, while nominally based on a regular tapir, possessed the ability to control dreams by transforming them into nightmares, making them come true, or even creating nightmare versions of others.
One Monster of the Week in Ninja Sentai Kakuranger was Bakuki, who appeared in Ninjaman's debut episode. While he claims to be a modern version of the Baku, he looks nothing like one, being a hooded demon-like being instead. Appeared as Vampirus for Mighty Morphin' Power Rangers.
Nightmare Ninja Yumebakushi from Ninpuu Sentai Hurricaneger could place children into a deep dream that they would never wake up from, turning them into stone. Adapted as Starvark for Power Rangers Ninja Storm.
Yumebakura from Samurai Sentai Shinkenger (Rhinosnorus in Power Rangers Samurai), like all ayakashi, claims to be the inspiration for a youkai. In his case, his dream-based powers and amalgamation of rhinoceros, elephant, tiger, and ox body parts make him the Baku.
Tensou Sentai Goseiger has Elmgaim of the Baku, who combines his motifs with a velvet worm and Freddy Kreuger. Appears in Power Rangers Mega Force as Dream Snatcher.
A purse-based Baku appeared in Shuriken Sentai Ninninger, adapted as Smellephant for Power Rangers Ninja Steel.
Yumepakkun from Uchu Sentai Kyuranger is a Baku-like alien who consumes the dreams of children.
Kaitou Sentai Lupinranger VS Keisatsu Sentai Patranger: Tapir-themed Gangler monster Nero Kilner was able to trap people in their dreams using his Nemulance staff.
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Animal Crossing: Luna from Animal Crossing: New Leaf is a baku, and fittingly runs the Dream Suite.
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Doremy Sweet from Touhou Kanjuden ~ Legacy of Lunatic Kingdom is a baku, though like most Touhou Project characters she appears mostly human. However, being the ruler of the Dream World, she's strongly associated with dreams and sleep, and her overall design was inspired by the Malayan tapir, the animal the baku is based on.
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Lost Girl depicts a baku as an unambiguously good fae whose nightmare eating is depicted as a particularly soothing hug. Unfortunately, they were hunted to near extinction because their remains retain their soothing nightmare preventing qualities, and are thus highly endangered.
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Yomi, a side character from Ayakashi: Romance Reborn. The game has a variation on the baku's mythology, where if Yomi loses control over his emotions, all the nightmares pour out of him and enter the minds of anyone in the vicinity.
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Digimon Universe: App Monsters has Dreammon, a masked baku who inhabits a dream app can induce dreams in others. He uses a dream-based Secret Test of Character to decide whether or not to grant his power to Astra and Musimon, allowing the latter to gain his Ultimate-Grade form.
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Dual Hearts: Tumble is a baku and one of the two main characters. He and Rumble enter dreams to help the dreamers by fixing their nightmares, while also collecting dream energy and searching for the keys needed to traverse the local temple and acquire the Dream Stone.
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Ultraman Ace has a Baku-themed monster, Baktari, who used to be an ordinary tapir before getting turned into a choju by the Yapool.
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Nightmare Inspector has a baku for a main character, who helps rid people of their nightmares in return for being allowed to eat said nightmares.
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In Nioh 2, a Baku appears as a Guardian Spirit under the euphemistical name "Yumehami" (lit. Dream Devourer). Most notably, becomes The Corrupter to Tokichiro. The final DLC has the Baku as a proper Guardian Spirit, who ends up making a Fusion Dance with Otakemaru to turn into the True Final Boss .
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Yumebakura from Samurai Sentai Shinkenger (Rhinosnorus in Power Rangers Samurai), like all ayakashi, claims to be the inspiration for a youkai. In his case, his dream-based powers and amalgamation of rhinoceros, elephant, tiger, and ox body parts make him the Baku.
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Onegai My Melody: Baku is a tapir who has been known to eat black notes, which are basically manifested nightmares.
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Yumepakkun from Uchu Sentai Kyuranger is a Baku-like alien who consumes the dreams of children.
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Urusei Yatsura: The second movie and the chapter/episode it was loosely adapted from features a baku.
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Cross Edge has an interesting variation on this trope: The Final Boss of the game is an Evil Baku, the Empyreal One, that was drawing people's minds into the game's world. Its inverse, the Bright Baku, turns out to be party member Miko (though she is unaware of this for most of the plot). May, the young girl who can return the people's minds back, is Miko's powers given their own form.
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Tapir, the wizard from Cocoron, eventually turns out to be a baku who you have to fight in the game's final battle.
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YU+ME: dream contains "a giant elephant-ram-boar-bear thing with purple hair" called a baku. It does live in the dream world, and attempts to eat the main characters' party.
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Flight Rising Two kinds of baku can be encountered in Bamboo Falls: the standard Lightning Baku and the Arcane Dream Eater.
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Dream Tropes
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Index of Fictional Creatures
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Trope Names from Other Languages
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