Soroban-Bōzu

Soroban-Bōzu (算盤坊主 Abacus Monk), or Soroban-Kozō (算盤小僧, Abacus Boy) is a human-like yōkai.
==Appearance==
Soroban-Bōzu appears a little boy, with tan skin and brown hair. His only article of clothing is a leaf pelt that reaches his left shoulder, a pair of leaves on his head and carries around an abacus tied around his neck. During the sports festival he wore a yellow headband.
==Personality==
==History==
===2007 Anime===
He appears in episode #25 of the fifth anime adaption, The Great Yōkai Sports Festival, as one of the many participants of the sports festival, representing the Western Japan team.GeGeGe no Kitarō (2007): Episode 25
He later appears in GeGeGe no Kitarō: Nippon Bakuretsu!!. Soroban-Bōzu appears as one of the multitude of Yōkai parading through cities due to Yato-no-Kami's influence. He is later returned to where he came from after Hana agrees to follow Yato-no-Kami.GeGeGe no Kitarō: Nippon Bakuretsu!!
===Akuma-kun===
Soroban-Bōzu appears in Akuma-kun: The Great Prophet Nostradamus as a member of Shingo Yamada's Twelve Apostles, his position unknown.
==Powers and Abilities==
==Gallery==
Soroban-Kozo statue.JPG|Soroban-Kozō statue at Shigeru Mizuki Road
==Legend==
The Soroban-Bōzu or Soroban-Kozō is a yōkai that appeared in the town of Tanba, which is now apart of the Kyoto prefecture. It made a crackling sound, similar to that of an abacus near a large tree near the roadside. And when anyone checked behind the tree to see what was making the noise, no one was there. It was said that its true identity was a mischievous tanuki, but it was also believed to be the spirit of a young monk who hanged themself on a nutmeg tree after they were scolded by a head priest for making a mathematical error. 
==Trivia==
*A statue of Soroban-Kozō appears as one of the numerous bronze statues made around Sakaiminato, to keep Kani-Bōzu from being lonely and as a tribute.GeGeGe no Kitarō (2018): Episode 17
==References==
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