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Congratulations! Your Tynamo evolved into an Eelektrik!

(Bonus below!)

(The eel dog quadrupled in weight)

Link to submas masterpost!

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BWAAAAHHHHH wake the fuck up everyone on earth

Suuuuuck

*FOOMP*

I think about Sukimamori a lot.

Sukimamori (sukima = gap, yamori = gecko, mamori/mori = guardian) is a youkai created by Japan Railways West, Osaka Municipal College of Design and Osaka Metropolitan University for an awareness campaign to warn small kids (and their parents) to "mind the gap" and not fall between the train and the platform.

It dwells in the gap between train and platform (appearing when the gap is created) and is 14 meters long. It likes people who board carefully, eclairs (it kind of looks like one), and gaps, and dislikes people who board carelessly or run on the platform. Despite being a little scary, it's actually helpful and wants to stop kids from falling in. Most of all, the campaign itself - titled the mouthful yet delightfully vague Children Falling Into Gaps Prevention Project - is supposed to be attention-grabbing in order to remind people that this is a thing that can happen.

Yeah, well. Mission successful.

"Don't show any gaps in your defense", the slogan goes.

One or two of these traits could be a coincidence, but I want to believe that the specific combination of a 1.) purple youkai that 2.) lives in the gaps at 3.) train stations with 4.) prominent hand and eye imagery couldn't have been designed in a complete vacuum from Touhou. Certainly that's a pretty harmless thing to believe in. And not a hard connection to make.

https://seiga.nicovideo.jp/seiga/im11192689 (fanart, obviously)

In the end, though, Sukimamori just stands out to me because I really like this creature in its own right.

OMCD Sukimamori site Sukimamori Twitter

#touhou #youkai #aw I really enjoy this

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critterbitter

Look it’s my favorite man and his giant slimy therapy eel! Wow! Don’t worry, the eel’s using levitate.

Masterlist for funny train men and their weird creature friends!

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critterbitter

Get in losers, we’re going climbing.

I like to imagine Lady Sneasler is chatty with Ingo, and while the two can’t understand the nuance of each others words they can certainly understand the vibes.

Masterlist for my submas stuff!

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