31 favorite monsters: Nuppeppo

Like the kappa, tanuki, tengu and hundreds more, the nuppeppo or nuppefuhofu (roughly meaning "blobby" or "lumpy") is one of Japan's widely recognized youkai dating back to centuries-old artwork.



Originally lacking much context or explanation, "blobby" has picked up a variety of recognized attributes about as delightful as you would expect; it likes to wander graveyards at night, it enjoys startling humans with its grotesque appearance, it stinks of (and is sometimes said to be composed of) incredibly rotten meat, and according to some, the consumption of its stinky, flabby tissues can grant a person immortality - if they can stomach it.