Namahage

Namahage (なまはげ Namahage) is a yōkai.
==Appearance==
Namahage is a yōkai with a red oni face, long wavy gray hair, sharp teeth, big eyes with yellow sclerae, and blue irises. He wears a mino that covers most of his body, his arms and legs have tan skin and he wears straw boots.
==Personality==
==History==
Namahage was originally a separate story from the GeGeGe no Kitarō series, but was later adapted into an episode of the 1968 series.
===1968 Anime===
Daisuke Higashi, an intelligent but not polite young man, became a Namahage after wearing a mask of a Namahage kept at a shrine and played pranks with it, but accidentally killed an old man called Rokubei by shocking him. Horrified, he took the mask off, but found that his face now resembled a Namahage. However, Rokubei, thought to be dead , was not only alive, but actually a real Namahage.
===1985 Anime===
Namahage briefly appeared in the film GeGeGe no Kitarō: Gekitotsu!! Ijigen Yōkai no Dai-Hanran as a mob, but was immediately knocked out by Nezumi-Otoko. He is later seen sucked up by Nozuchi.
===2007 Anime===
He is the 13th of the chosen 47 Yōkai Warriors of Japan and the representative of Akita.
===The Great Yōkai War===
==Powers and Abilities==
Transformation
Namahage Transmutation
==Legend==
Namahage are oni-like yōkai that are portrayed during New Year's festivities. They have either red or blue faces, wear mino coats, and always carry knives and buckets with them.
On the 15th day of the New Year in the Akita Prefecture, villagers would dress up as Namahage and go from house to house, scaring children into behaving themselves, all the while chanting phrases such as "Are any crybabies around?", "Is the knife sharpened?", and "Have the azuki beans been boiled?". Similar yōkai from other regions serves the same purpose as Namahage such as Amamehagi, Suneka, and Toshidon.
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