Vol.7

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1
【Tōsuke】
Tōsuke is an apparition of sliced bread that was once in the mouth of a young, beautiful girl who was seen running in the morning while saying, "Ah! I'm late! I'm late!" However, Tōsuke disappeared into thin air as soon as the young girl bumped into a male student on his first day in the new school that very morning. Tōsuke loves observing people's romantic affairs and quietly watches how the relationship turns out for lovers with a smirk on its face.

2
【Fumi-sarashi】
Fumi-sarashi isn't a Yokai Post (like the post box in a certain Yokai anime series) but is a yōkai of a post box. It has a terrible blabbermouth, and once you put a mail into its mouth, all of your mail's content will spread as a rumor throughout your entire town by the next day. Fumi-sarashi's favorite topic is bitter-sweet juvenile emotions that are embarrassing enough to make anyone blush, but due to the decline in letter-writing in recent years, you often see Fumi-sarashi wallowing in sorrow.

3
【Tsubura-me】
Tsubura-me is a monster of bubble wrap roll that had all of the bubbles squished. If you touch the red teardrops coming out of it, Tsubura-me will curse you. To destroy it, you must squish all of its reddened eyes further or blind it by using a light source or some other bright things. People say that you can also blind Tsubura-me by showing it an excessively glorious celebration in certain regions.

4
【Muzō】
Muzō is a fog-like elephant that appears in the bathroom. The urge to urinate when a person enters the bathroom is caused by the "elephant energy" (or rather, vapor) that comes out of Muzō's nose. Even if you open the bathroom door to drive it out, it stays inside quite persistently.

5
【Yumanako】
Yumanako is a perverted creature that only stares at people while they bathe and does nothing else. It appears wrapped in clouds of steam, and most of the time, people can only see its eyes, leaving them clueless about how it looks in its entirety. In reality, Yumanako is quite a shy creature and runs away as soon as people stare back at it.

6
【Me-kujira】
Me-kujira is a monster that comes riding the waves of rage. Whether in the virtual world or reality, Me-kujira will eat anyone consumed by anger regardless of who they are. Once eaten by Me-kujira, people cannot escape it until they attack someone else with their wrath.

7
【Wasure-na】
Have you ever had an experience where you completely forgot that you wrote a note for something or the things you've written on your note was wrong? If so, your note may likely transform into a Wasure-na.
Wasure-na slip into people's minds in a flock and absorb people's memories to engrave them into their bodies. Wasure-na may look cute, but it's a somewhat troublesome entity.

8
【Shimeshime】
Shimeshime is an extremely muscular beast. Using the muscular body (that it is proud of), it beats the lights out of humans… Well, actually, such is not the case. Every night, Shimeshime goes around a person's house, closing the lids of jars, faucets, and anything that can be sealed in such ways so tightly that people cannot open them up. (Please don't criticize it for putting its muscles to waste.)

9
【Futon-fuki】
Futon-fuki appears every night in someone's home and blows away the futon off the sleeping residents. Such mediocre harassment is what it does the best. If you ever find your futon crumpled up and thrown away in the morning, it's either you have bad sleeping postures, or it's the fault of Futon-fuki. Futon-fuki hates dad jokes, especially those involving the word "futon," so if you say a futon-related dad joke before you sleep, it disappears from your home because it's unable to tolerate the hideous pun. In some colder regions, some people have a custom of putting weights on top of their futons because the chills people get during the night because of the lack of futons caused by Futon-fuki can be fatal.

10
【Ke-Djirashi】
Ke-Djirashi is a super hairy imp. Due to living in a stressful society for so long, it has learned to tear out its own hair as a coping mechanism. Ke-Djirashi never goes bald. Its hair grows out eternally, so areas surrounding it become filled with curly hair strands. If you ever find some curly hair in an unfathomable place in your home, it's proof that you have Ke-Djirashi living in your house.

11
【Damashi-tanshi】
Damashi-tanshi is a monster of a USB terminal. The instance that often occurs when you try to stick a USB device into something, but it's flipped around on the wrong side is actually caused by Damashi-tanshi. Despite how it looks, it's a mean-spirited creature that turns its face around to trick people repeatedly.

12
【Haze-ita】
Haze-ita is a creature of a smartphone that has been discarded because it was swollen up. Haze-ita crawls into a person's hand while they sleep, swells up, and explodes. Haze-ita is an extremely dangerous creature.

13
【Kihi-cho】
Kihi-cho is a carnivorous bird monster that other birds dislike. Its feathers sparkle and reflect the lights like CDs. In fact, its tail feathers are made of CDs. People greatly appreciate Kihi-cho because its presence acts as a bird repellant in farming fields, rice fields, and verandas of people’s homes. However, the lights reflected from Kihi-cho’s feathers have caused fires so people are also cautious about it.

14
【Hazui】
Hazui is a tiny, white monster. It grabs onto the bottom of a person's neck and pretends to be the clothing label, causing an extreme embarrassment. Initially, the clothes that this monster attached itself as a fake label was called "Hazui." Eventually, that term was made into its formal name. Embarrassing and harassing human beings bring great joy to Hazui.

15
【Shuki-obi】
The alternative spelling is 酒鬼帯火 (same pronunciation).
Shuki-obi is a demon of drunken frenzy that continues to chase after alcohol even after it has been decapitated. (Not to be confused with Shuten-dōji.) Its face is fiery red, and it spews out alcoholic breath from its mouth. No matter how much a person dislikes alcohol originally, anyone who becomes possessed by Shuki-obi becomes an unhinged drunkard who wreaks havoc.

16
【Karindo】
Karindo is what has become of a person who persistently obsesses over words. Karindo cannot see through its eyes. Its red hair and elongated ears are its unique features. It uses its long ears to hear the words that others are saying and swings its sword to hunt those words down. Any word that Karindo has hunted disappears from human speech. Karindo is depicted in many forms: male, female, elderly, and youth. Karindo can appear anywhere.

17
【Bake-yasha】
Discarded plastic spoons and forks gathered together to transform into this creature known as Bake-yasha. It appears in front of people when they are eating outside, being lured by the scent of their meals. If a person carelessly throws away their food or meal containers, Bake-yasha will attack the person with its sharp claws. But if the person deals with their food or meal containers with great care, Bake-yasha will disappear without causing any harm.

18
【Tsukigami-sama】
Tsukigami-sama is a monster of labels. When Tsukigami-sama walks, written labels fly around everywhere, and one by one, each label sticks onto people. These labels spread contagiously from person to person. Due to Tsukigami-sama, this nation (Japan) is filled with labels. But the sad fact is that Tsukigami-sama is an entity that has once been labeled with the identity of “label giver” by humans.

19
【Mukuro-tōga】
Mukuro-tōga is a monster birthed from the collective grudges held by moths burnt to death via light traps. The flames that eternally burn on its wings represent the tenacity of its vengefulness. The mysterious blue light it carries also lures the humans. Mukuro-tōga will eat the people attracted by the blue light from their heads first. People call it Mukuro-tōga in Japanese from the fact it is a moth (蛾, “ga”) that uses a lamp (灯, “tō”) to make piles of corpses (骸, “mukuro”). Humans continue to be terrorized by its presence.