The Most Terrifying Japanese Yokai

The Japanese have a lot of yokai tied to toilets, and using the restroom, particularly in public places like schools, but no toilet-based yokai is as cruel as aka manto. The aka manto generally sticks to one particular stall, and should you be so unlucky as to choose that stall, she will give you a

The Japanese have a lot of yokai tied to toilets, and using the restroom, particularly in public places like schools, but no toilet-based yokai is as cruel as aka manto. The aka manto generally sticks to one particular stall, and should you be so unlucky as to choose that stall, she will give you a choice. After doing your business, she will offer you either red paper or blue and, unfortunately, one must be chosen. This is where the stories deviate a bit, depending on who you ask, according to yokai.com. If red paper is chosen, aka manto slices up the poor toilet user until they are soaked in their own blood. If blue paper is chosen, the aka manto instead sucks all the blood out of the person. 

There are variations though, such as red paper leading to flaying and blue paper leading to strangling. Whatever the case, there is no right answer to the question, and in the end there is generally no way to survive. To circumvent this, some people bring their own toilet paper to public restrooms to try to avoid having to answer at all, which doesn't actually sound like a bad idea when considering the alternative. 

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