Sodehiki-Kozō

Sodehiki-Kozō (袖引き小僧 Sodehiki-Kozō, lit. Sleeve-pulling Boy) is a child-like yōkai who is fond of playing a prank to pull one's sleeves from behind.
==Appearance==
==Personality==
==History==
==Powers and Abilities==
==Other Media==
===The Great Yōkai War===
===Video Games===
====GeGeGe no Kitarō: Yōkai Yokochō====
Sodehiki-Kozō appears in the game as a C-Rank Customer Yōkai.GeGeGe no Kitarō: Yōkai Yokochō
==Legend==
Sodehiki-Kozō is a young boy yōkai from the Saitama Prefecture. When you're walking down the street at dusk, you may feel someone pulling on your sleeve, but when you look behind, nobody is there. And as you start walking again, your sleeve gets pulled once more. Sodehiki-Kozō is said to be the culprit, and while mischievous, he is not malevolent and only wants to pull harmless pranks on you.
The true identity of Sodehiki-Kozō is unknown as he's stated to be invisible, Shigeru Mizuki depicted him as a piglet-like boy with a black body, but he is also rumored to be the spirit of a fallen samurai, pulling sleeves to request help from travelers.
In another story from the Saitama Prefecture, a young boy from a poor family hid being a jizō statue, waiting for his parents to return home from work. When they got there, the boy ran out, but his parents mistook him for a bandit and beat him to death, the boy's spirit becoming a Sodehiki-Kozō.
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