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I suggest we move this page to Akaname, which is also about a Japanese bathroom licking ghost. Neither article has any citations or references, but this one seems to have been cut and pasted from a website called Scary4Kids, and so this move will at least remove any charges of plagiarism until I can find any references on the Internet that such a myth actually existed in Japan. Cheers! Duende-Poetry ( talk) 23:25, 1 December 2011 (UTC)
Also please indent your comments too keep the flow consistent. It can be done by simply using 1 more colon (:) than I used in my previous comment.— cyberpower ( Talk to Me)( Contributions) 00:16, 2 December 2011 (UTC)
This information came from where exactly? Because it doesn't look like ... you know, actual research. Just saying, before I start deleting ... it gets a bit tiring, people, trying to see what has actual historical Japanese relevance and what got put here by some 13 year old because it once appeared in an InuYasha episode. Duende-Poetry ( talk) 17:17, 27 November 2011 (UTC)
I'm not familiar with editing Wikipedia pages, so I thought I would post this on the Talk page for someone else to consider adding in.
Aka Manto may also be referenced in the video game "The Legend of Zelda-Majora's Mask". See http://www.screwattack.com/news/hand-toilet-character-study
The creator of the Zelda series says the hand in the toilet is a reference to Japanese scary stories, though he doesn't specifically call this hand the Aka Manto. He also talks about the hand from these scary stories grabbing you from underneath. I have not found any resources saying that the Aka Manto grabs you from underneath.
Also, it may be important to note that the hand is likely attached to a whole person who is trapped in the toilet, so this would only be a comical reference to the scary story. The hand is not the actual Aka Manto.
The hand also appears in the Legend of Zelda-Skyward Sword. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 76.14.123.108 ( talk) 19:37, 9 August 2015 (UTC)
So the previous AfD was quashed due to non-English language notability, understandable. But then what do we do with this article? It's not up to standards and I do not know Japanese. Rap Chart Mike ( talk) 14:46, 17 July 2018 (UTC)
I changed 'urban legend' to 'legend' where appropriate based on the fact that ghost stories are not urban legends, but simply legends. As it was, urban legends were being conflated with legends. Arctic Gazelle ( talk) 16:48, 9 May 2021 (UTC)
Magyar 2001:4C4E:2B81:2B00:8CB1:57D3:ACE5:DD30 ( talk) 12:31, 31 October 2022 (UTC)
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I suggest we move this page to Akaname, which is also about a Japanese bathroom licking ghost. Neither article has any citations or references, but this one seems to have been cut and pasted from a website called Scary4Kids, and so this move will at least remove any charges of plagiarism until I can find any references on the Internet that such a myth actually existed in Japan. Cheers! Duende-Poetry ( talk) 23:25, 1 December 2011 (UTC)
Also please indent your comments too keep the flow consistent. It can be done by simply using 1 more colon (:) than I used in my previous comment.— cyberpower ( Talk to Me)( Contributions) 00:16, 2 December 2011 (UTC)
This information came from where exactly? Because it doesn't look like ... you know, actual research. Just saying, before I start deleting ... it gets a bit tiring, people, trying to see what has actual historical Japanese relevance and what got put here by some 13 year old because it once appeared in an InuYasha episode. Duende-Poetry ( talk) 17:17, 27 November 2011 (UTC)
I'm not familiar with editing Wikipedia pages, so I thought I would post this on the Talk page for someone else to consider adding in.
Aka Manto may also be referenced in the video game "The Legend of Zelda-Majora's Mask". See http://www.screwattack.com/news/hand-toilet-character-study
The creator of the Zelda series says the hand in the toilet is a reference to Japanese scary stories, though he doesn't specifically call this hand the Aka Manto. He also talks about the hand from these scary stories grabbing you from underneath. I have not found any resources saying that the Aka Manto grabs you from underneath.
Also, it may be important to note that the hand is likely attached to a whole person who is trapped in the toilet, so this would only be a comical reference to the scary story. The hand is not the actual Aka Manto.
The hand also appears in the Legend of Zelda-Skyward Sword. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 76.14.123.108 ( talk) 19:37, 9 August 2015 (UTC)
So the previous AfD was quashed due to non-English language notability, understandable. But then what do we do with this article? It's not up to standards and I do not know Japanese. Rap Chart Mike ( talk) 14:46, 17 July 2018 (UTC)
I changed 'urban legend' to 'legend' where appropriate based on the fact that ghost stories are not urban legends, but simply legends. As it was, urban legends were being conflated with legends. Arctic Gazelle ( talk) 16:48, 9 May 2021 (UTC)
Magyar 2001:4C4E:2B81:2B00:8CB1:57D3:ACE5:DD30 ( talk) 12:31, 31 October 2022 (UTC)