#corpse weeper

it looks horrible in flight

acts of violence

mini PSA that corpse weepers in fact have two (wildly asymmetrical) eyes, not three. at many angles and in many scenes this is easy to miss and come to the conclusion they have three symmetrically arranged eyes, so it seems worth pointing out.

Sometimes you just have to design a fucked up monster boy

Note: Ten favorite monsters, part six. Part five. The spider horse from The Brothers Grimm is also an interesting monster, because aside from being an impossible hybrid it also acts as a storage vessel and we have no idea what its actual diet is.

Maybe I should include more literary monsters in future lists? The problem is that they don’t all have illustrations. :( 

1. Mycelium from Ben 10

Fungi are more closely related to animals than plants, so it’s a little odd Wildvine could communicate with the Mycelium but Ben couldn’t. 

I like how it’s a fungal monster not based on a mushroom. (It does have walking mushroom minions, though.) And like the Martians from War of the Worlds, the Mycelium is defeated by a mundane solution. In this case, athlete’s foot powder. 

2. Gingerbread Man from The Brothers Grimm

Gingermud Man? I didn’t like this movie. “The Gingerbread Man” wasn’t even collected by Jacob and Wilhelm. Face stealing reimaginings of folktale pastries are cool, though. 

3. Errour from The Faerie Queene

Serpentine brood mama. After she’s slaughtered in self-defense by the Redcrosse Knight, Errour’s hatchlings consume her blood to the point of bursting. 

4. Adorea from Franken Fran

Her face is a mass of tendrils and she’s designed to store stolen organs so she has zippers all over her body. The full panel shows her organ collection.

5. Corpse Weeper from Made in Abyss

Any creature that mimics human speech to lure in prey is scary AF and I respect it. (The color scheme and third eye make it even cooler.) They don’t look like parrots or mynahs or any mimicking bird I can think of. The facial structure makes me think of a cartoon rodent or mustelid.

6. Unown from Pokémon 3: The Movie 

The only official Pokémon media I’ve finished aside from a few episodes are Time out for Torchic, Pokémon: The First Movie, Pokémon Detective Pikachu, and this movie. I liked Spell of the Unown because it’s basically a portal fantasy with cute monsters. The title characters are a living alphabet colony that grants wishes. 

The franchise was super popular pretty much everywhere it is today. Even though I wasn’t into the anime, my childhood favorite was Vulpix. ‘Cause I like dogs and you could get Pokémon stickers from one of those grocery store vending machines. 

7. Floop’s Fooglies from Spy Kids

They’re actually people who have been forcibly transformed into grotesque, but technically kid-friendly monsters. (Thankfully, it was only temporary.) 

8-10. werecats 

Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets: Poor Hermione. Animal shapeshifting is just for Animagi, eh? (Or for rare instances of forced ferretification.) I love the entire concept of the Polyjuice Potion. Moste Potente Potions is only available in the school library’s spooky Restricted Section. The brewing process is like a less complicated Powder of Life. It’s used by heroic and villainous character alike.

Scooby-Doo on Zombie Island: The backstory is interesting. Simone and Lena are the only survivors of a feline worshipping sect. They then decide to live in a house made from pirate ship wood, adopt a bunch of cats, and utilize dark magic to become psychic vampires. They also offered ferryman Jacques immortality in exchange for transporting prey. Their only mistake was not making Beau their tomcat. 

Sleepwalkers: More energy vampires! Two of their defining traits are mother-son mating and feeding off female virgins. (The in/cest was probably inspired by Cat People 1982.) Those customs should turn me away from sleepwalkers, but other “napcat” traits are interesting. Their archnemesis is the housecat, they have a Sphynx-esque form, and possess invisibility.  

Today’s 22nd anime monster of this month is...!

Corpse weeper from Made in Abyss! I really liked the world & ecology of this show.