Talk:Oni (folklore)

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[edit] Setsubun

  • Edited to include link to Setsubun festival, and changed the translation of "Oni out, good luck in" to instead match the one on that page.

An Oni characters showed up in Arion, Lord of Atlantis.

[edit] "Oni in Modern Culture"

I removed this:

  • Oni are the demon like creatures that inhabit the Chaos Realm in the Mortal Kombat series. Mainly shown in Mortal Kombat: Deception.

Are they really that important to Mortal Kombat as a whole? A simple random appearance of an oni in something is hardly notable. It's like listing every appearance of demons in the demon article. If I had my druthers, I'd avoid any "in popular culture" section altogether (they're magnets for cruft and non-notability, and they grow like cancer), but if we add one, it ought to focus on places where oni are important to the fictional work under discussion. — BrianSmithson 15:50, 27 March 2006 (UTC)

I dont believe that it Needed to be removed. Oni are Oni not just demons, specifically Japanese demons. They appear in very few places outside of Japan. Saying that its like listing any appearance of demons is incorrect. Oni are very specific. And yes it is important the Oni Warlord is the first boss in the Mortal Combat: Shaolin Monks game, and with him there was a large group of Oni. Maybe not Important to the entire series but the Oni do play a large part at least in the Shaolin monks part of the saga. I vote for re wording it and putting it back in. Jesheckah

Huh? The "in popular culture" section of this article is already as long as my arm. Wikipedia is not an indiscriminate collection of information. — BrianSmithson 22:24, 25 September 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Disguise

I always though that oni disguised themselves as attractive women...What mythical creature is this I'm thinking of? --Josquius 23:19, 31 March 2006 (UTC)

Anyway if this article is really to have a list of oni from anime, shouldn't Urusei Yatsura be at the top of this list? That reminds me, there's no mention of oni in the Urusei Yatsura article.

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