AoBozu
Beware the Blue Monk, AoBozu. They say he appears in rice fields, and steals children who are disobedient to their parents. Every single culture has something like this, whether it’s the Bogeyman or Rawhead & Bloody Bones. If you disobey mommy and daddy, a horrible demon will rip you apart and eat you. You stupid kid.
Actually, that part of the legend is new. The first Aobozu depiction was in Toriyama Seiken’s famous book (look it up), but all it had was a picture and a name. He might have been making a pun on a green/blue “inexperienced” monk. Honestly, we will never know. But AoBozu is similar to another cyclopean monk, the Hitotsume-Kozu. There are a lot of one-eyed Yokai, and a lot of monk Yokai, so it only stands to reason that there are more than a few one-eyed monk Yokai.
Here is a look at the "set" for this photo: i5.photobucket.com/albums/y185/Ridureyu/figures/figures00...
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AoBozu
Beware the Blue Monk, AoBozu. They say he appears in rice fields, and steals children who are disobedient to their parents. Every single culture has something like this, whether it’s the Bogeyman or Rawhead & Bloody Bones. If you disobey mommy and daddy, a horrible demon will rip you apart and eat you. You stupid kid.
Actually, that part of the legend is new. The first Aobozu depiction was in Toriyama Seiken’s famous book (look it up), but all it had was a picture and a name. He might have been making a pun on a green/blue “inexperienced” monk. Honestly, we will never know. But AoBozu is similar to another cyclopean monk, the Hitotsume-Kozu. There are a lot of one-eyed Yokai, and a lot of monk Yokai, so it only stands to reason that there are more than a few one-eyed monk Yokai.
Here is a look at the "set" for this photo: i5.photobucket.com/albums/y185/Ridureyu/figures/figures00...
Featured on Life In Plastic: nerditis.com/2014/06/20/life-in-plastic-special-the-night...