Ittan-Momen (5th)

**Ittan-Momen** (一反木綿, *Roll of Cotton*) is a flying yōkai made of cotton and a member of the Kitarō Family. Kitarō and friends often ride on him when traveling.

He is Rare Elite unlocked by getting from Rare Capsule.

## Appearance

Ittan-Momen resembles a strip of white cloth with arms and a pair of thin pointy eyes that lack discernible pupils. His body gets thinner towards the tail and he has no mouth. His body is roughly 10 meters long, though he has been depicted much shorter. He can also stretch his body to some extent to become longer. His appearance relatively stays the same throughout the different anime series with small differences. Despite the lack of a visible mouth, Ittan-Momen is capable of eating and drinking.

In the 2007 anime, Ittan-Momen is dull white with several marks spread across on his body. His eyes have orange sclerae with small shadows beneath them and his arms are longer with his fingers having sharper edges.

## Personality

Unlike the character of legend, Ittan-Momen is a good yōkai who often helps Kitarō in his cases and battles. Although he's normally used for transportation, he is also a competent fighter and has even been asked by Medama-Oyaji to lead troops into battle before. Nezumi-Otoko has even referred to him as a "war hawk", always preferring to fight first and talk later. As he is made of cotton, he is weak against fire and scissors. In the manga, he has blood and can bleed, though this is not true in most anime adaptations. In the fifth anime, he is shown to be fearful of vampires and is even sucked dry by the Vampire Tree. He also appears to have a heart, as he was killed in *The Great Yōkai War* when the Witch pierced his heart with a poison needle. Whenever his body gets torn, he only needs to be sewn back together to recover. He is always careful to keep himself clean.

He is finicky about keeping himself clean and prefers to wash and dry himself by hand. This is because he hates the tumbling of washers and the hot air of dryers. He loses his strength when he gets wet and has to be dried in order to get back to normal. As a result, he hates rainy weather and uses umbrellas and raincoats in such situations. He loves visiting the old capital cities and once went on a bus tour there by hiding in Neko-Musume's luggage. Unfortunately, she got mad at him when she found out (particularly that he was hidden amongst her underwear), so he flew back home himself. Ittan-Momen claims to dislike children (Ep. 74), often scolding them when they get to close to him and his fellow yōkai. However, in Ep. 4 he forms a bond with a young girl who helps dry him when he gets wet. He loves to read, and in Ep. 98 he helps defeat Fuguruma-Yōbi by reaching out to her about their mutual love of books. In Ep. 74, the Tengu Police arrest him after mistaking him for Tsujigami. He is restrained by having his arms tied together since he could just slip out of the snake handcuffs.

## Abilities

Although Ittan-Momen's primary role in the series is to provide transportation, he does have multiple abilities to help in fighting situations. Ittan-Momen's main abilities are flight, constriction, and the ability to cut and pierce his targets with his body.

As a cotton yōkai, one of his main weaknesses from across many adaptations has been water. However, when Nezumi-Otoko cut Ittan-Momen into pieces, he was able to regenerate after getting wet with water.

* **Flight**:His most basic ability. He can levitate in midair for extended periods of time, and carry anywhere between 2-3 people in most instances. He is an extremely agile and fast flyer.
* **Constriction**: Ittan-Momen can put his elongated body to his advantage by wrapping himself around a target and constrict it. His constriction is known to be fairly strong as a man of average strength cannot free itself from his grasp as seen during the repeated times he has constricted Nezumi-Otoko. Stronger opponents may be able to free themselves with sufficient physical strength. Although his constriction is visibly painful to many, it is unclear whether he can actually shatter bones, so his constriction is better used as a restraining weapon than an offensive one.
* **Revival**: In the Jigoku Arc, Ittan-Momen's body regenerates its own although it takes time to. While Ittan-Momen in the fifth series was noted to be weak (he lost his power when being soaked), Ittan-Momen in the other series is able to recover completely from severe wounds with water.

## Evolution in Game

Evolves into **Juttan-Momen** at Level 10.

## Performance in Game

Has a 25% chance to weaken Aku Enemies for 50%, 2 seconds.