#lantern ghost

[hakkasm]

[gooberto]

i’ve been replaying Yoshi’s Island on the SNES for switch thing and was gripped with a sudden and inexplicable desire to draw one of the little lantern dudes

[weirdmarioenemies]

Name: Lantern Ghost

Debut: Super Mario World 2: Yoshi’s Island

Time for a confession. When I was little, I thought these things were dogs for a good while.I saw the top-middle part of the mouth as a nose, and the trailing fabric as a floppy ear. Why would there be dogs underground? I don’t know! Dogs like to dig sometimes! Maybe they formed an underground society.

Of course, that’s no nose, it’s a spooky ghost smile! But would you believe that they’re not ghosts, either? They are none other than... Shy Guys! Their Japanese name is “Chika Heihō”, meaning “Underground Shy Guy”. And in hindsight, I feel like I should have suspected. They come in varying colors and just sort of wander around, and though they make a different sound, they emerge from pipes to replenish your egg supply, just like Shy Guys do.

But why are there Shy Guys dressed as ghosts lurking in caves anyway?! If you want to efficiently spook the unsuspecting, just do it at night when it’s dark everywhere! Why wait until someone happens to mosey on into a cave?

...Oh yeah, it’s because they’re shy.

BONUS: BIG LANTERN GHOST

Did you guess it? This one is big! And creepy, too, saying “wee hee hee” with shaky text, and talking about how it wants to “take care of” Mario and return to the darkness. Major creepo! It appears as a mid-boss in Paper Mario, and can only be attacked once it can be seen. To do this, Mario and friends must attack the lantern to light up the room. And once he’s defeated, what’s inside the lantern...?

A friend!

[tittletattles]

IT HALLOWEEN!!!!!!!!!!

my fav mario spookies........... aaa

[cutterl]

Lantern Ghost

Probably going to post a lot of Miiverse drawings because I want to make a last hurrah of drawings there.

[jigokuyeah]

Ao-andon

青行灯 (あおあんどん)

Blue Lamp Ghost

other names: Ao-andō

From the now defunct website Obakemono Project:

In the Edo period, a popular pastime was hyaku monogatari, or "a hundred stories". A crowd of people would gather in a room where a hundred candles were burning inside andon lamps, which had been covered in blue paper to create an eerie atmosphere. Then a hundred frightening supernatural tales would be told, and after each one was finished, a candle would be put out. When the last story was told and the room went dark, the demon called ao-andon was said to appear.

Art by S.H.Morgan

Learn more about Ao-andon at

 Hyakumonogatari.com

Yokai.com

Yokai Wiki

[mudwerks]

(via The Grim Gallery: Exhibit 2087)

Oiwa the Lantern Ghost by Utagawa Kuniyoshi

[gooberto]

I’ve been a huge yokai mood this october! Even though they’re from legends born on the opposite end of the globe, a good deal of yokai media tends to have a wonderful combination of spookiness, whimsy and cuteness that makes it a perfect fit for the season.