Saru-Oni

Saru-Oni (猿鬼 Saru-Oni, lit. Monkey Demon) is a ape that became either oni or kijin.
==Appearance==
==Personality==
==History==
===Shōsetsu Gegege no Kitarō ~Shu no Oto~===
He is the boss of his yakuza gang Saru-Oni-Gumi in Ikebukuro. Kyō is his lover, and Ren is a member under him.Shōsetsu Gegege no Kitarō ~Shu no Oto~: Hard-Boiled Nezumi-Otoko
===The Birth of Kitarō: Mystery of GeGeGe===
Saru-Oni was featured in the 2023 movie The Birth of Kitarō: Mystery of GeGeGe
==Powers and Abilities==
==Legend==
Saru-Oni is an ape yōkai with a horn on its head from the Ishikawa Prefecture.
On Notojima Island in Ishikawa's Nanao Bay, a Saru-Oni terrorized the local inhabitants. The people, following a sign from the deity of the Iyahime Shrine, requested that the emperor send down the warrior Sadaishō Yoshinao to exterminate the Saru-Oni. After being slain, the Saru-Oni's horn was kept in the Iyahime Shrine, where it's said to stay to this very day. 
In the town of Noto, Ishikawa, a Saru-Oni who lived in a rock cave in Tome terrorized local villages and plundered the land as he wished. The terrors the Saru-Oni committed eventually got so bad that the Eight Million Gods of Japan gathered in Izumo to discuss what to do with the rampaging ape. The goddess Kamisugi-Hime was sent to deal with Saru-Oni, shooting him in the eye with an arrow before killing him with her sword, Onikirimaru.
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