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rdonj · #61 January 14th, 2010, 03:22 PM

Yeah, I don't really know that much about j-horror either. Meant to say that in my last post but I forgot. Whoops.

Sombre · #62 January 15th, 2010, 10:32 AM

Doesn't have to be J-Horror, can also be more generally asian myths about undead and monsters - see the flying entrail trailing heads - those are really a Philippine thing.

I think I might put a high fear 'Creeping lady' summon in as a nod to The Ring and Charlotte Perkins Gilman's "The Yellow Wallpaper". Proto-Feminist horror baby!

SlipperyJim · #63 January 15th, 2010, 11:16 AM

How about an ethereal, life-draining, frozen succubus?
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yuki-onna

Also, Jikininki appear to be Japanese ghouls:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jikininki

Sombre · #64 January 15th, 2010, 11:42 AM

I've done some research and I will definitely add the following:

Jikininki Ashigaru - Undead form of starving Ashigaru who resorted to eating the buried corpses of women massacred prior to the civil war. Summoned by the buried (D2E2)
Jikininki Samurai - See above, but Samurai, more expensive/higher research

Shi Kawako - 'Death Kappa' - undead evil Kappa created by the suffering of the drowned. Being drowned in a well is particularly bad for japanese children because wells are known to be infested with starving kappa whose favourite meal is child flesh. These are the embodiment of the drowned's suffering and now serve as their bodyguards. Summoned by drowned (D2W2).

Akurojin - ghost flames created from the evil thoughts of those who executed the Burned have possessed the bodies of criminals and burn them horribly from the inside while regenerating their blistering bodies constantly. They are accompanied by a pair of Hitodama (floating flames) which burn and decay the enemy. Summoned by the Burned (D2F2)

SlipperyJim · #65 January 15th, 2010, 11:47 AM

Looks good, Sombre!

Sombre · #66 January 15th, 2010, 12:33 PM

I will also add a Yuki-Onna because they sound fun!

I guess they'd be an undead ethereal seductress unit with life drain, a powerful cold based touch attack and a huge chill aura. That way you could thug them up too. Probably require water and death to summon, but more than the drowned have without boosters. Maybe W4D3 or something.