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Who Is This Japanese Yōkai That Is Obsessed With Your Butt?
Season 6
Episode 1
What looks like a reptile-amphibian hybrid, has a dish shaped skull, smells like fish, is child-like and out to steal your crops and drown your livestock? The Japanese water yokai, Kappa.
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