Editing Kitsune (section)

==Monstergirls==
Whilst there are stories of kitsunes doing evil things even in Japan - Tamamo no Mae in particular is the most famous of all the Japanese kitsune, and is known as one of the Three Terrible Yōkai of Japan for crimes that concluded with causing the Genpei War - for the most part, the most popular kitsune stories are those of the kitsune bride. There's a reason calling a woman "foxy" is a huge sexual compliment in Japan. As such, kitsunes are enormously popular in the [[monstergirl]] fandom, and alongside [[catgirl]]s are considered basic entry-level examples.

Monstergirl kitsunes usually take a form similar to the catgirl; a pretty woman with fox's ears and one or more fox's tails. The more tails a kitsune sports, the more powerful a spirit she is ([[/d/|and the more fluff there is to touch]]), with nine tails being the maximum. They tend to be intelligent but playful, with a pronounced love of trickery and mischief. Many are also very fond of booze, although that's actually more appropriate behavior for other [[hengeyokai]]. If the setting includes magic, they will usually be very skilled at magic. That said, as wild as they can be whilst still free to do as they please, they are usually also depicted as very loving and devoted brides.

Monstergirl kitsunes are often shapeshifters, and because Japan lacks quite the same antipathy towards furries, kitsune who can shapeshift from/into the form of an anthropomorphic vixen are roughly as common as ones who only shift between "human girl" and "human girl with ears & tail".

The [[Monster Girl Encyclopedia]] famously explores multiple aspects of the kitsune legend in its monstergirls.

The basic "kitsune" of the MGE world is called a Youko, and is characterized by being basically a party-girl; these kitsunes care only about sex and pleasure, and they are some of the sluttiest monsters in Zipangu. In fact, their lore notes that they originally came from the Mist Continent, which means the Youko owes its inspiration to the more [[succubus]]-like Huli Jing of China, and/or to Korea's cannibalistic Gumiho.

Another kitsune variant is the Inari, who is still a horny fox-girl, but far more in control of herself; she prefers to seduce and tease men into wanting her, rather than aggressively throwing herself at them the way her youko cousin does.

Both types of kitsune "leak" magical energies, which can spontaneously form another mamono called the Kitsune-bi - which the actual name the Japanese use for "fox-fire", a will'o'wisp-like phenomena they believe to be created by kitsunes. The kitsune-bi mamono is a living embodiment of their horniness, made manifest as a ghostly [[loli]] foxgirl with tails of ethereal bluish-purple flame.

Kitsune-bi can create a fourth mamono by possessing human women to better enact their desires; these victims manifest ghostly vulpine ears and tails comprised of the same ethereal blue-purple fire as the kitsune-bi controlling them, and become vastly more lustful. Ironically, kitsune-tsuki is the actual name used in Japanese folk-lore for people believed to be possessed by kitsunes. The kitsune-tsuki mamono is mostly stuck as she is, although in some rare cases they meld with their possessor and transform into a full-fledged youko or inari.

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