gintama fun idea: all folklore creatures/cryptids are just amanto that came to earth centuries to millennia ago and were just chilling mostly in peace, and were just annoyed as the humans when other amanto (tendōshū) invaded and shattered their hard-earned peace
so beings like kappa, werewolves, vampires, selkies, faeries, chimeras, satori, zduhać, dragons of different varieties, qilin, nāgas, bunyips, and etc etc
were all just amanto chilling under the radar for the most part, only occasionally seen enough that they became "mythological creatures"











