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* ''Manga/ChainsawMan'' has the Fox [[OurDemonsAreDifferent Devil]], a being created by [[ClapYourHandsIfYouBelieve humanity's fear of foxes]] and the mythological creatures inspired by them with it taking the form of a vulpine {{kaiju}}. It acts as a TokenHeroicOrc as it's one of the few Devils that doesn't outright want to KillAllHumans, but is a VillainousGlutton that only cooperates with people in the hopes of being given [[MonstrousCannibalism tasty enemies]] and will abandon [[DealWithTheDevil contractors]] it deems more effort than they're worth.
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* "Manga/PetshopofHorrors": Ten-Chan is one of the very few residents of the shop that you'd actually want to run into, being both benevolent and powerful. He only makes two appearances throughout the series, but they make quite an impression. Sadly, the short anime doesn't get up to his manga material.
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* ''Manga/HoshinEngi'': So Dakki is a nine-tailed fox monster in human guise, though the power to assume a human form is a common trait of Youkai in general. Considering that the story takes place in ancient China and is inspired by the Chinese classic ''Literature/FengshenYanyi'', she technically counts as a ''hu li jing''.
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* ''Manga/SoulHunter'': So Dakki is a nine-tailed fox-monster in human guise, though the power to assume a human form is not reserved to Kitsune in this setting and is a common trait of Youkai in general. Considering that the story takes place in ancient China and is inspired by the Chinese classic ''Fengshen Yanyi'', she technically counts as a Hu Li Jing.
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* ''Anime/PomPoko'': While Creator/StudioGhibli's film focuses mostly on tanuki, it's noted by there were once shapeshifting foxes in the area [[spoiler:who chose to live among humans]].
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* ''Literature/BeyondTheBoundary'': Ayaka Shindou is revealed to be a very powerful kitsune in disguise.
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* ''Literature/KakuriyoBedAndBreakfastForSpirits'': One of the main characters is a nine-tailed fox named Ginji.
* ''Literature/{{Kanokon}}'':
** Chizuru Minamoto is a 400-year-old kitsune who tries to seduce the protagonist, Kouta Oyamada, and can [[FusionDance merge with him]] by kissing him. [[spoiler:She's eventually revealed to also be a reincarnation of the [[{{Orochi}} Yamata-no-Orochi]], a DraconicAbomination slain by the storm-god Susanoo, who Kouta is the reincarnation of, making both of them the targets of a cult seeking to unleash the Orochi and an organization dedicated to preventing the Orochi's resurgence at all costs.]]
** Tamamo Minamoto, Chizuru's [[spoiler:adoptive]] mother, is stated to be ''the'' Tamamo-no-Mae of ancient Japanese folklore, nine tails and all, and frequently gets into mischief whenever she turns up.
* ''Literature/{{Kanokon}}'':
** Chizuru Minamoto is a 400-year-old kitsune who tries to seduce the protagonist, Kouta Oyamada, and can [[FusionDance merge with him]] by kissing him. [[spoiler:She's eventually revealed to also be a reincarnation of the [[{{Orochi}} Yamata-no-Orochi]], a DraconicAbomination slain by the storm-god Susanoo, who Kouta is the reincarnation of, making both of them the targets of a cult seeking to unleash the Orochi and an organization dedicated to preventing the Orochi's resurgence at all costs.]]
** Tamamo Minamoto, Chizuru's [[spoiler:adoptive]] mother, is stated to be ''the'' Tamamo-no-Mae of ancient Japanese folklore, nine tails and all, and frequently gets into mischief whenever she turns up.
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* ''Manga/{{Inuyasha}}'' has Shippou, an orphaned ''kitsune'' child who tags along with Inuyasha and Kagome (and she herself was momentarily accused of being one at the beginning of the story). The group doesn't entirely take Shippou's abilities seriously because he is a child, although they do take his heart and will to help seriously. Much later in the story, a small arc focuses entirely on the group's stay at an inn that turns out to be a testing ground for a group of youthful Kitsune who are going through examinations (in field testing, as it were). Due to the accidental encounter with the testing grounds, Shippou is forced to sit the exams as well. Despite having made no preparation (and not even known his kind had to take exams on a regular basis) and being one of the youngest examinees, Shippou quickly proves to everyone that when he's compared to his own kind, his abilities are leagues ahead of a child his age, and even far in advance of most of the older students as well.
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* ''Manga/TheFoxAndLittleTanuki'' is about a [[GrumpyBear grumpy]] ''bakekitsune'' named Senzou who, after wreaking havoc across the land with his considerable powers, is sealed away for several centuries and then freed by the Sun Goddess so that he can raise a {{Tanuki}} pup to become a servant of the gods, on the grounds that his powers be restored if he succeeds. His backstory involves FantasticRacism between black kitsune like himself, and the white kitsune who are chosen to serve gods as well - one such white fox named Koyuki serves as his caretaker in the modern day.
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[[AsianFoxSpirit Asian Fox-Spirits]] in {{Anime}} and {{Manga}}.
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* ''Manga/{{Aria}}'': Akari encounters a kitsune wedding procession in a recreation of the Fushimi Inari Shrine on Mars.
* ''LightNovel/BeyondTheBoundary'': Ayaka Shindou is revealed to be a very powerful kitsune in disguise.
* ''Manga/BusterKeel'' has one of the four greatest evils, Dakki, a seven-tailed fox-demoness with elemental powers (one for each tail, themed after a color), taking the form of a gorgeous buxom woman with blond hair who secretly manipulates an entire kingdom from the shadows as the unseen queen, gathering powerful adventurers to turn into her minions. Showing some knowledge of classics, her two main minions, Gold and Silver, are based on the demons Kinkaku and Ginkaku from ''Literature/JourneyToTheWest'', themselves sons of a Huli Jing.
* ''Manga/CellsAtWork'': One type of Opportunistic Bacteria is depicted as a hybrid-form kitsune with a gem in the middle of its chest. Quite fitting, since Opportunistic Bacteria side with the immune system when the body's healthy and make trouble when unhealthy, representing the Kitsune's trickster nature.
* ''Franchise/{{Digimon}}'':
** [[Anime/DigimonTamers Renamon]] and her evolutionary line are all based on ''kitsune''. Her rookie form is a humanoid fox ninja, her champion forms (Kyuubimon and Youkomon) are nine-tailed foxes, her ultimate forms (Taomon and Doumon) are humanoid foxes in onmyōji robes, and her mega forms (Sakuyamon and Kuzuhamon) are humans in Shinto-themed fox armor.
** [[Anime/DigimonDataSquad Kudamon]] is a white elongated weasel-like fox Digimon coiled around a holy cartridge, and is based on the ''kudagitsune'' variant of ''kitsune''.
** [[VideoGame/DigimonReArise Rasenmon Fury Mode]] is a feral bipedal beast-man clad in purple and black armor, with nine spiralling tails it uses to impale its opponents.
* ''Anime/DragonBallSuper'': Liquiir, the God of Destruction of Universe 8, is a humanoid fox with nine tails.
* ''Manga/TheFoxAndLittleTanuki'' is about a [[GrumpyBear grumpy]] ''bakekitsune'' named Senzou who, after wreaking havoc across the land with his considerable powers, is sealed away for several centuries and then freed by the Sun Goddess so that he can raise a {{Tanuki}} pup to become a servant of the gods, on the grounds that his powers be restored if he succeeds. His backstory involves FantasticRacism between black kitsune like himself, and the white kitsune who are chosen to serve gods as well - one such white fox named Koyuki serves as his caretaker in the modern day.
* ''Manga/GaRei'': The Nine-Tailed Demon-Fox is said to have been a powerful kitsune who laid waste to India and China before attacking Japan, where it became the Spirit Beast of the evil exorcist Tamamo-no-Mae. After Tamamo was killed, the Nine-Tailed Demon-Fox's crystalized soul formed into the [[ArtifactOfDoom Bane Stones]], which the protagonists spend most of the plot recovering to ensure it doesn't come back. It's eventually revealed that the Nine-Tailed Demon-Fox is actually [[AnimalisticAbomination a giant singularity of hatred]] and DestroyerDeity meant to cleanse the Earth of all life and is more [[DraconicAbomination draconic]] than vulpine in appearance. [[spoiler:Kagura uses its power to revive Kensuke after he's killed (and, subconsciously, Yomi too) at the cost of most of Tokyo, nearly killing her in the process.]] NiceJobBreakingItHero.
* ''Anime/GAROCrimsonMoon'': The fox deity Inari, depicted as a trio of black-haired women wearing fox-themed uniforms, give orders to Raikou (the wearer of the Garo armor) and a female Makai Alchemist named Seimei; occasionally using kitsune to deliver orders.
* ''Manga/GeGeGeNoKitaro'' often features Youko as the many Yokai featured, especially the Kyuubi no Kitsune or Tamamo-no-Mae, a recurring antagonist. Tamamo reaches her peak of danger in the 2018 anime, where not only she's the last of the [[FourIsDeath Four Treasonous Generals]] to appear, but also using her "clones" (avatars physically resembling her human form but with only a fraction of her power and a single tail each) to brainwash various world leaders into declaring war on Japan. [[spoiler: Her main body manages to turn the Oni of Hell against Enma and devour the Hell King, gaining a huge boost in power]]. Notably, she lets out a loud vulpine cry as she transforms into her giant fox form.
* Gintaro and Haru of ''Manga/{{Gingitsune}}'' (''Silver Fox''). As Heralds, they are the spirits of dead foxes given new names after death. Haru, being [[ImmortalImmaturity relatively young]], doesn't have as much skill or power as Gintaro does.
* ''Manga/GugureKokkurisan'': The titular Kokkuri is a kitsune summoned by the main character, Kohina Ichimatsu. More specifically, he's who the Kokkuri divination game is named after, as it's often believed that playing Kokkuri summons a fox spirit.
* ''Franchise/{{Gundam}}'': The Ninja-themed manga ''Hidden Shadow of G'' features the Bound Fox, a Kitsune-themed variant of ''[[Anime/MobileSuitZetaGundam Zeta Gundam]]'''s Bound Dog TransformingMecha with a conveniently placed array of rear-mounted drop tanks.
* ''Manga/HellTeacherNube'': Nube gained a rival who was a kitsune in human guise; later, Nube went to confront the nine-tails kitsune.
* ''Manga/TheHelpfulFoxSenkoSan'' details the story of Senko, a 900-year-old ''inari'' kitsune, descending from the divine realm to act as the caretaker for Nakano, a regular human {{Salaryman}} working at a "black company" that pushes him hard enough that his stress and depression physically leaks out and starts affecting the world around him. What follows is Senko doing her best to pamper him in order to relieve his stress, one major method being him fluffing her soft tail, which she [[FantasticArousal reacts in an interesting way to]]. There are also several other kitsune in the story, such as Senko's co-worker Shiro and their boss Sora.
* ''Webcomic/HetaliaAxisPowers'': [[TheStoic Japan]] dresses in a kitsune costume, complete with ears and tail, for [[http://img14.deviantart.net/fc1d/i/2013/289/a/9/all_hetalia_halloween_costumes_by_heta_lolia-d6qpdgs.jpg one Halloween]].
* ''LightNovel/HighSchoolDXD'': Kunou and her mother Yasaka are kitsune. The [=ORC=] works with Kunou to find Yasaka after she is kidnapped, and Kunou becomes a LoveInterest to Issei.
* ''Manga/HozukisCoolheadedness'' has several kitsune among the recurring cast.
** Gon is a lazy kitsune running a HostClub in the RedLightDistrict. The club is staffed entirely with other kitsune who used to take the form of PrettyBoy hosts thanks to their shapeshifting powers, but eventually realised that they get more customers by staying in their animal form and turning it into a fox café.
** Daji the nine-tailed fox is a recurring character and the owner of the aforementioned cafe. Gon is working there because Daji is the only thing that scares him enough to put him to work.
** [[IdolSinger Miki]] act like a CatGirl as part of her stage persona but is actually a fox.
* ''Manga/HyperPolice'': Sakura the ''kyuubi'' is a fox-spirit who has eight-and-one-fifth tails.
* ''Manga/InuXBokuSS'': Soushi Miketsukami is a HalfHumanHybrid variant of ''kitsune''.
* ''Manga/{{Inuyasha}}'' has Shippou, an orphaned ''kitsune'' child who tags along with Inuyasha and Kagome (and she herself was momentarily accused of being one at the beginning of the story). The group doesn't entirely take Shippou's abilities seriously because he is a child, although they do take his heart and will to help seriously. Much later in the story, a small arc focuses entirely on the group's stay at an inn that turns out to be a testing ground for a group of youthful Kitsune who are going through examinations (in field testing, as it were). Due to the accidental encounter with the testing grounds, Shippou is forced to sit the exams as well. Despite having made no preparation (and not even known his kind had to take exams on a regular basis) and being one of the youngest examinees, Shippou quickly proves to everyone that when he's compared to his own kind, his abilities are leagues ahead of a child his age, and even far in advance of most of the older students as well.
* Tomoe from ''Manga/KamisamaKiss'' is a kitsune, typically appearing as an attractive young man with a fox's ears and tail. He has [[CunningLikeAFox all the typical slyness of a fox]], as well as the ability to shapeshift.
* Ukon from ''Manga/KamiSamaNoEkohiiki'' is a small talking fox who's also the attendant of a [[NoNameGiven nameless]] Shinto god, similarly to how foxes are traditionally viewed as attendants/messengers of the god Inari.
* ''LightNovel/KakuriyoBedAndBreakfastForSpirits'': One of the main characters is a nine-tailed fox named Ginji.
* ''LightNovel/{{Kanokon}}'':
** Chizuru Minamoto is a 400-year-old kitsune who tries to seduce the protagonist, Kouta Oyamada, and can [[FusionDance merge with him]] by kissing him. [[spoiler:She's eventually revealed to also be a reincarnation of the [[{{Orochi}} Yamata-no-Orochi]], a DraconicAbomination slain by the storm-god Susanoo, who Kouta is the reincarnation of, making both of them the targets of a cult seeking to unleash the Orochi and an organization dedicated to preventing the Orochi's resurgence at all costs.]]
** Tamamo Minamoto, Chizuru's [[spoiler:adoptive]] mother, is stated to be ''the'' Tamamo-no-Mae of ancient Japanese folklore, nine tails and all, and frequently gets into mischief whenever she turns up.
* ''Manga/{{Kekkaishi}}'' features an ailing kitsune as the leader of the Kokuboro that serve as the antagonists for much of the anime adaptation.
* ''Manga/KitsuneNoYomeiri'': In addition to the main character [[YamatoNadeshiko Kyouka]], the White Kitsune Princess, a number of other kitsune turn up. All of them exhibit magical powers and are tricksters to some extent but only the upper-class kitsune take on human form for any length of time.
* ''Kyubi no Kitsune to Tobimaru'': An ill-fated 1968 anime adaptation of a novel by Okamoto Kidō based on the legend of Tamamo-no-Mae, wherein the young Emperor Tobimaru meets and falls in love with a beautiful girl named Tamamo, who turns out to be an evil nine-tailed fox.[[note]]The film was only screened in one theatre due to the studio, Daiei Film, mismanaging it, resulting in it becoming a box-office bomb. The original negatives disappeared after the director/producer, Gentaro Nakajima, committed suicide; while the theater print is kept at the Tokyo Metropolitan Library, which occasionally screens it but has made no effort to restore and release it to the general public.[[/note]]
* In ''Manga/LoveHina'', while she's not a true kitsune, Mitsune Konno is nicknamed "Kitsune" partly as a pun on her name, partly because she looks sort of like a fox (especially since her [[EyesAlwaysShut eyes are usually closed]]), and mostly because she's a gossip and trickster who loves being a tease to Keitaro.
* One of the yokai in ''Manga/MononokeSharing'' is a kitsune named Yooko. She's the resident LovableSexManiac of the group.
* ''Franchise/{{Naruto}}'':
** The Nine-Tailed Fox is introduced as a calamitously powerful [[FoulFox evil nine-tailed kitsune]] that attacked the village of Konoha without provocation before being [[SealedInsideAPersonShapedCan sealed inside the protagonist]], Naruto Uzumaki, by the Fourth Hokage. However, the Nine-Tails [[OurMonstersAreDifferent isn't]] a traditional nine-tailed kitsune; it's the strongest of the Tailed Beasts, nine [[AttackOfTheFiftyFootWhatever colossal monsters]] made of living sapient chakra, and describes itself as a "[[MadeOfEvil living mass of malevolence]]" consumed by hatred for humanity. [[spoiler:It turns out that [[NotEvilJustMisunderstood "evil" isn't quite the right term]], just very, very angry at humans for generations of using him as a living weapon. [[TheHero Naruto]] slowly gets the Nine-Tails to let go of his grudge, at least in regards to him, and in a shout-out to ''Yu Yu Hakusho'' the Nine Tails' name is eventually revealed to be Kurama.]]
** Naruto himself has a few fox-like attributes, such as [[LittleBitBeastly marks on his cheeks that look like whiskers]] (likely because [[spoiler:his mother was the previous host of the Nine-Tailed Fox]]), a tendency to close his eyes making him look like a fox, being CunningLikeAFox, and the [[DistractedByTheSexy Sexy Jutsu]]. By tapping into the Nine-Tails' power, he can wreathe himself in a vulpine AnimalBattleAura, which initially serves as his SuperPoweredEvilSide.
** In the ''Manga/Naruto1997'' pilot Naruto was the son of the Nine-Tailed Fox demon. His father was killed years ago and Naruto was taken in by a human. Naruto lives in human form but his "true form" is a fox. In the pilot, Naruto is much brattier and more of a trickster than he is in the final manga.
* ''Manga/NatsumesBookOfFriends'' features a small kitsune child who follows Natume home from his class trip.
* ''Manga/NekoMusumeMichikusaNikki'': Kokkuri-san is a lesbian kitsune who works as one of TheSevenMysteries of the elementary school and takes a liking to Chika, one of the students.
* ''Manga/NuraRiseOfTheYokaiClan''[='s=] BigBad is Haguromo Gitsune, a nine-tailed fox, who is about to give birth to a monster. She wasn't always quite so evil, since she was willing to [[spoiler: ''reabsorb and rebirth her grown son so he'd be immortal''... and then she was killed and her son (Abe no Seimei below) vowed revenge.]]
* ''Manga/OmamoriHimari'' has the budding BigBad as a Nine-Tailed Kitsune and her [[OurVampiresAreDifferent Shuten-doji]] spokesman.
* ''Manga/OnePiece'': Kitsune are introduced, appropriately enough, in the [[{{Wutai}} Land of Wano Arc]]:
** It's revealed that exists the mythical Zoan Dog Dog model Nine-Tailed Fox, which allows the eater to turn into a nine-tailed fox or a HalfHumanHybrid and even shapeshift at will. [[spoiler:It was eaten by Catarina Devon, of the Blackbeard Pirates.]]
** Komagitsune (large foxes with flame-like tuffs of fur) are among the fauna of Wano. One of them, named Onimaru, was the pet of a Daimyo, Shimotsuki Ushimaru, and guarded its master's grave after his demise. [[spoiler: He befriended Kawamatsu the Kappa and helped him gather weapons for the rebellion against Orochi, taking human form and the alias of Gyuukimaru of Oihagi Bridge.]]
* ''Manga/OtogiMatsuri'': Yomogi's fox-like spiritual companions, who can be seen and heard only by her (and later, Yousuke.) They mainly serve to assist her with menial tasks such as cleaning and to warn her of impending danger.
* The heroines of ''Manga/OtomeYoukaiZakuro'' are artificially-created half-kitsune hybrids created from female fetuses being magically mutated with the blood of natural kitsune.
* Kuugen Tenkou and Gyokuyou from ''LightNovel/OurHomesFoxDeity''.
* In ''Manga/RosarioPlusVampire'', this is Kuyou's true form. As the main villain of his own arc he has four tails, while when he returns in the Fairy Tale arc he's gained a fifth tail to demonstrate that he did ''not'' [[VillainForgotToLevelGrind forget to level grind]].
* ''Manga/SengokuYouko'':
** The main character Tama is a 200-year-old pacifistic kitsune who appears as a young girl and is the travelling companion -- and later wife -- of the temperamental and initially misanthropic sage Jinka.
** Tama's mother Kuzunoha is a hedonistic and wicked kitsune who ran rampant in the past, causing chaos wherever she went, until she fell in love with the evil Buddhist priest-turned-MadScientist Yazen, and desired to become human.
** Jinka is able to temporarily transform into a kitsune by drinking Tama's blood and seeks to permanently become one due to his misanthropy. After being tricked by Yazen into thinking he killed Tama, he goes berserk and devours the flesh of a god to become a thousand-tailed fox-god, and even after his sanity is restored he remains a kitsune.
* ''Manga/SoulHunter'': So Dakki is a nine-tailed fox-monster in human guise, though the power to assume a human form is not reserved to Kitsune in this setting and is a common trait of Youkai in general. Considering that the story takes place in ancient China and is inspired by the Chinese classic ''Fengshen Yanyi'', she technically counts as a Hu Li Jing.
* ''Manga/{{Tactics}}'': Youko is a kitsune whom the protagonist has bound to his service. She doesn't seem too upset about this.
* ''Manga/TamamoChansAFox'': The protagonist is a fox spirit from Kyoto's famous Fushimi Inari shrine who poses as a high school girl out of curiosity about human life. While her human disguise has almost all the adults perfectly fooled, [[OpenSecret all her classmates can see right through it]], though they don't let on so she doesn't get in trouble.
* Yako from ''Manga/ToiletBoundHanakoKun'' usually appears as a human woman, but her true form is a small white fox. This is because she was originally a fox statue that guarded a shrine gate before she became one of TheSevenMysteries of Kamome Academy.
%%ZeroContextExample * ''VisualNovel/TriangleHeart3SweetSongsForever'': Kuon
* ''Manga/UruseiYatsura'' features a kitsune-like fox with a crush on Shinobu as a RecurringCharacter.
* ''Anime/PomPoko'': While Creator/StudioGhibli's film focuses mostly on tanuki, it's noted by there were once shapeshifting foxes in the area [[spoiler:who chose to live among humans]].
* ''Manga/UshioAndTora'': The legendary monster [[BigBad Hakumen no Mono]] -- inspired by the legend of Tamamo-no-Mae -- takes the form of a colossal nine-tailed fox with a shark-like face. Compared to most other examples, it's more akin to an EldritchAbomination, as it's an OmnicidalManiac entirely made of [[MadeOfEvil Yin]], and took the combined strength of all the youkai and humans of Japan to drive it away. Despite having been sealed away, it is still as powerful as ever. Furthermore, it originally lived in China and India but later moved to Japan [[spoiler: to escape the only thing it fears: the Beast Spear.]] The series also has a more benevolent example in the Kudagitsune Izuna, a BoisterousWeakling who, along with his unseen brothers, excel at DemonicPossession and helps Ushio and Tora when they have to enter a person's body to remove the demons possessing said person.
* ''Manga/XXXHolic'': Kudakitsune is a pipe fox in her transformed shape. Watanuki also runs into a kitsune family who runs an oden stand in the spirit world.
* ''Manga/{{Yaiba}}'': Shiro Amakusa is one of Onimaru's seven swordsmen revived in an animal body, and he got to be reincarnated into a fox. Even when he's in human form, he sports whiskers, ears, and sometimes the tail.
* ''VisualNovel/YamiToBoushiToHonNoTabibito'': Meirin is a three-tailed fox-spirit and Tamamonomae is a nine-tailed fox-spirit, though they [[MindScrew may be the same person]].
* ''Anime/YokaiWatch'':
** Kyubi from the games is [[CharacterizationMarchesOn given a deal of portrayal]] as [[TheCasanova a casanova]] who in [[AbortedArc a short story arc]] must harvest 100 heart orbs in order to get promoted and fixates into Katie to get the last one, unsuccessfully. This trait was carried in the games, most notably Yo-kai Watch 2, Blasters, and 3,
** The sequel ''Anime/YokaiWatchShadowside'' features his return with both Lightside and Shadowside forms, and adds a Fangirl Kitsune Yo-kai as well, Inari (Lightside)/Tatarigitsune (Shadowside). [[Anime/YokaiWatchShadowsideTheReturnOfTheOniKing The movie prior to the series]] marks his first appearance in Shadowside-related material, and his Shadowside form is more feral, and quadrupedal.
** ''Anime/YokaiWatchForeverFriends'' sets Tamamo-no-Mae as one of the BigBadEnsemble.
* ''Manga/YuYuHakusho'': Kurama is a kitsune who was gravely injured, and inhabited his spirit into a [[EvenBadMenLoveTheirMamas female human's womb, where she would eventually give birth to him in human form while he recovered]]. Possibly Koto (seems fox-like but meows occasionally in the manga; could just be that the translators didn't know either).
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[[AsianFoxSpirit Asian Fox-Spirits]] in {{Anime}} and {{Manga}}.
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* ''Manga/{{Aria}}'': Akari encounters a kitsune wedding procession in a recreation of the Fushimi Inari Shrine on Mars.
* ''LightNovel/BeyondTheBoundary'': Ayaka Shindou is revealed to be a very powerful kitsune in disguise.
* ''Manga/BusterKeel'' has one of the four greatest evils, Dakki, a seven-tailed fox-demoness with elemental powers (one for each tail, themed after a color), taking the form of a gorgeous buxom woman with blond hair who secretly manipulates an entire kingdom from the shadows as the unseen queen, gathering powerful adventurers to turn into her minions. Showing some knowledge of classics, her two main minions, Gold and Silver, are based on the demons Kinkaku and Ginkaku from ''Literature/JourneyToTheWest'', themselves sons of a Huli Jing.
* ''Manga/CellsAtWork'': One type of Opportunistic Bacteria is depicted as a hybrid-form kitsune with a gem in the middle of its chest. Quite fitting, since Opportunistic Bacteria side with the immune system when the body's healthy and make trouble when unhealthy, representing the Kitsune's trickster nature.
* ''Franchise/{{Digimon}}'':
** [[Anime/DigimonTamers Renamon]] and her evolutionary line are all based on ''kitsune''. Her rookie form is a humanoid fox ninja, her champion forms (Kyuubimon and Youkomon) are nine-tailed foxes, her ultimate forms (Taomon and Doumon) are humanoid foxes in onmyōji robes, and her mega forms (Sakuyamon and Kuzuhamon) are humans in Shinto-themed fox armor.
** [[Anime/DigimonDataSquad Kudamon]] is a white elongated weasel-like fox Digimon coiled around a holy cartridge, and is based on the ''kudagitsune'' variant of ''kitsune''.
** [[VideoGame/DigimonReArise Rasenmon Fury Mode]] is a feral bipedal beast-man clad in purple and black armor, with nine spiralling tails it uses to impale its opponents.
* ''Anime/DragonBallSuper'': Liquiir, the God of Destruction of Universe 8, is a humanoid fox with nine tails.
* ''Manga/TheFoxAndLittleTanuki'' is about a [[GrumpyBear grumpy]] ''bakekitsune'' named Senzou who, after wreaking havoc across the land with his considerable powers, is sealed away for several centuries and then freed by the Sun Goddess so that he can raise a {{Tanuki}} pup to become a servant of the gods, on the grounds that his powers be restored if he succeeds. His backstory involves FantasticRacism between black kitsune like himself, and the white kitsune who are chosen to serve gods as well - one such white fox named Koyuki serves as his caretaker in the modern day.
* ''Manga/GaRei'': The Nine-Tailed Demon-Fox is said to have been a powerful kitsune who laid waste to India and China before attacking Japan, where it became the Spirit Beast of the evil exorcist Tamamo-no-Mae. After Tamamo was killed, the Nine-Tailed Demon-Fox's crystalized soul formed into the [[ArtifactOfDoom Bane Stones]], which the protagonists spend most of the plot recovering to ensure it doesn't come back. It's eventually revealed that the Nine-Tailed Demon-Fox is actually [[AnimalisticAbomination a giant singularity of hatred]] and DestroyerDeity meant to cleanse the Earth of all life and is more [[DraconicAbomination draconic]] than vulpine in appearance. [[spoiler:Kagura uses its power to revive Kensuke after he's killed (and, subconsciously, Yomi too) at the cost of most of Tokyo, nearly killing her in the process.]] NiceJobBreakingItHero.
* ''Anime/GAROCrimsonMoon'': The fox deity Inari, depicted as a trio of black-haired women wearing fox-themed uniforms, give orders to Raikou (the wearer of the Garo armor) and a female Makai Alchemist named Seimei; occasionally using kitsune to deliver orders.
* ''Manga/GeGeGeNoKitaro'' often features Youko as the many Yokai featured, especially the Kyuubi no Kitsune or Tamamo-no-Mae, a recurring antagonist. Tamamo reaches her peak of danger in the 2018 anime, where not only she's the last of the [[FourIsDeath Four Treasonous Generals]] to appear, but also using her "clones" (avatars physically resembling her human form but with only a fraction of her power and a single tail each) to brainwash various world leaders into declaring war on Japan. [[spoiler: Her main body manages to turn the Oni of Hell against Enma and devour the Hell King, gaining a huge boost in power]]. Notably, she lets out a loud vulpine cry as she transforms into her giant fox form.
* Gintaro and Haru of ''Manga/{{Gingitsune}}'' (''Silver Fox''). As Heralds, they are the spirits of dead foxes given new names after death. Haru, being [[ImmortalImmaturity relatively young]], doesn't have as much skill or power as Gintaro does.
* ''Manga/GugureKokkurisan'': The titular Kokkuri is a kitsune summoned by the main character, Kohina Ichimatsu. More specifically, he's who the Kokkuri divination game is named after, as it's often believed that playing Kokkuri summons a fox spirit.
* ''Franchise/{{Gundam}}'': The Ninja-themed manga ''Hidden Shadow of G'' features the Bound Fox, a Kitsune-themed variant of ''[[Anime/MobileSuitZetaGundam Zeta Gundam]]'''s Bound Dog TransformingMecha with a conveniently placed array of rear-mounted drop tanks.
* ''Manga/HellTeacherNube'': Nube gained a rival who was a kitsune in human guise; later, Nube went to confront the nine-tails kitsune.
* ''Manga/TheHelpfulFoxSenkoSan'' details the story of Senko, a 900-year-old ''inari'' kitsune, descending from the divine realm to act as the caretaker for Nakano, a regular human {{Salaryman}} working at a "black company" that pushes him hard enough that his stress and depression physically leaks out and starts affecting the world around him. What follows is Senko doing her best to pamper him in order to relieve his stress, one major method being him fluffing her soft tail, which she [[FantasticArousal reacts in an interesting way to]]. There are also several other kitsune in the story, such as Senko's co-worker Shiro and their boss Sora.
* ''Webcomic/HetaliaAxisPowers'': [[TheStoic Japan]] dresses in a kitsune costume, complete with ears and tail, for [[http://img14.deviantart.net/fc1d/i/2013/289/a/9/all_hetalia_halloween_costumes_by_heta_lolia-d6qpdgs.jpg one Halloween]].
* ''LightNovel/HighSchoolDXD'': Kunou and her mother Yasaka are kitsune. The [=ORC=] works with Kunou to find Yasaka after she is kidnapped, and Kunou becomes a LoveInterest to Issei.
* ''Manga/HozukisCoolheadedness'' has several kitsune among the recurring cast.
** Gon is a lazy kitsune running a HostClub in the RedLightDistrict. The club is staffed entirely with other kitsune who used to take the form of PrettyBoy hosts thanks to their shapeshifting powers, but eventually realised that they get more customers by staying in their animal form and turning it into a fox café.
** Daji the nine-tailed fox is a recurring character and the owner of the aforementioned cafe. Gon is working there because Daji is the only thing that scares him enough to put him to work.
** [[IdolSinger Miki]] act like a CatGirl as part of her stage persona but is actually a fox.
* ''Manga/HyperPolice'': Sakura the ''kyuubi'' is a fox-spirit who has eight-and-one-fifth tails.
* ''Manga/InuXBokuSS'': Soushi Miketsukami is a HalfHumanHybrid variant of ''kitsune''.
* ''Manga/{{Inuyasha}}'' has Shippou, an orphaned ''kitsune'' child who tags along with Inuyasha and Kagome (and she herself was momentarily accused of being one at the beginning of the story). The group doesn't entirely take Shippou's abilities seriously because he is a child, although they do take his heart and will to help seriously. Much later in the story, a small arc focuses entirely on the group's stay at an inn that turns out to be a testing ground for a group of youthful Kitsune who are going through examinations (in field testing, as it were). Due to the accidental encounter with the testing grounds, Shippou is forced to sit the exams as well. Despite having made no preparation (and not even known his kind had to take exams on a regular basis) and being one of the youngest examinees, Shippou quickly proves to everyone that when he's compared to his own kind, his abilities are leagues ahead of a child his age, and even far in advance of most of the older students as well.
* Tomoe from ''Manga/KamisamaKiss'' is a kitsune, typically appearing as an attractive young man with a fox's ears and tail. He has [[CunningLikeAFox all the typical slyness of a fox]], as well as the ability to shapeshift.
* Ukon from ''Manga/KamiSamaNoEkohiiki'' is a small talking fox who's also the attendant of a [[NoNameGiven nameless]] Shinto god, similarly to how foxes are traditionally viewed as attendants/messengers of the god Inari.
* ''LightNovel/KakuriyoBedAndBreakfastForSpirits'': One of the main characters is a nine-tailed fox named Ginji.
* ''LightNovel/{{Kanokon}}'':
** Chizuru Minamoto is a 400-year-old kitsune who tries to seduce the protagonist, Kouta Oyamada, and can [[FusionDance merge with him]] by kissing him. [[spoiler:She's eventually revealed to also be a reincarnation of the [[{{Orochi}} Yamata-no-Orochi]], a DraconicAbomination slain by the storm-god Susanoo, who Kouta is the reincarnation of, making both of them the targets of a cult seeking to unleash the Orochi and an organization dedicated to preventing the Orochi's resurgence at all costs.]]
** Tamamo Minamoto, Chizuru's [[spoiler:adoptive]] mother, is stated to be ''the'' Tamamo-no-Mae of ancient Japanese folklore, nine tails and all, and frequently gets into mischief whenever she turns up.
* ''Manga/{{Kekkaishi}}'' features an ailing kitsune as the leader of the Kokuboro that serve as the antagonists for much of the anime adaptation.
* ''Manga/KitsuneNoYomeiri'': In addition to the main character [[YamatoNadeshiko Kyouka]], the White Kitsune Princess, a number of other kitsune turn up. All of them exhibit magical powers and are tricksters to some extent but only the upper-class kitsune take on human form for any length of time.
* ''Kyubi no Kitsune to Tobimaru'': An ill-fated 1968 anime adaptation of a novel by Okamoto Kidō based on the legend of Tamamo-no-Mae, wherein the young Emperor Tobimaru meets and falls in love with a beautiful girl named Tamamo, who turns out to be an evil nine-tailed fox.[[note]]The film was only screened in one theatre due to the studio, Daiei Film, mismanaging it, resulting in it becoming a box-office bomb. The original negatives disappeared after the director/producer, Gentaro Nakajima, committed suicide; while the theater print is kept at the Tokyo Metropolitan Library, which occasionally screens it but has made no effort to restore and release it to the general public.[[/note]]
* In ''Manga/LoveHina'', while she's not a true kitsune, Mitsune Konno is nicknamed "Kitsune" partly as a pun on her name, partly because she looks sort of like a fox (especially since her [[EyesAlwaysShut eyes are usually closed]]), and mostly because she's a gossip and trickster who loves being a tease to Keitaro.
* One of the yokai in ''Manga/MononokeSharing'' is a kitsune named Yooko. She's the resident LovableSexManiac of the group.
* ''Franchise/{{Naruto}}'':
** The Nine-Tailed Fox is introduced as a calamitously powerful [[FoulFox evil nine-tailed kitsune]] that attacked the village of Konoha without provocation before being [[SealedInsideAPersonShapedCan sealed inside the protagonist]], Naruto Uzumaki, by the Fourth Hokage. However, the Nine-Tails [[OurMonstersAreDifferent isn't]] a traditional nine-tailed kitsune; it's the strongest of the Tailed Beasts, nine [[AttackOfTheFiftyFootWhatever colossal monsters]] made of living sapient chakra, and describes itself as a "[[MadeOfEvil living mass of malevolence]]" consumed by hatred for humanity. [[spoiler:It turns out that [[NotEvilJustMisunderstood "evil" isn't quite the right term]], just very, very angry at humans for generations of using him as a living weapon. [[TheHero Naruto]] slowly gets the Nine-Tails to let go of his grudge, at least in regards to him, and in a shout-out to ''Yu Yu Hakusho'' the Nine Tails' name is eventually revealed to be Kurama.]]
** Naruto himself has a few fox-like attributes, such as [[LittleBitBeastly marks on his cheeks that look like whiskers]] (likely because [[spoiler:his mother was the previous host of the Nine-Tailed Fox]]), a tendency to close his eyes making him look like a fox, being CunningLikeAFox, and the [[DistractedByTheSexy Sexy Jutsu]]. By tapping into the Nine-Tails' power, he can wreathe himself in a vulpine AnimalBattleAura, which initially serves as his SuperPoweredEvilSide.
** In the ''Manga/Naruto1997'' pilot Naruto was the son of the Nine-Tailed Fox demon. His father was killed years ago and Naruto was taken in by a human. Naruto lives in human form but his "true form" is a fox. In the pilot, Naruto is much brattier and more of a trickster than he is in the final manga.
* ''Manga/NatsumesBookOfFriends'' features a small kitsune child who follows Natume home from his class trip.
* ''Manga/NekoMusumeMichikusaNikki'': Kokkuri-san is a lesbian kitsune who works as one of TheSevenMysteries of the elementary school and takes a liking to Chika, one of the students.
* ''Manga/NuraRiseOfTheYokaiClan''[='s=] BigBad is Haguromo Gitsune, a nine-tailed fox, who is about to give birth to a monster. She wasn't always quite so evil, since she was willing to [[spoiler: ''reabsorb and rebirth her grown son so he'd be immortal''... and then she was killed and her son (Abe no Seimei below) vowed revenge.]]
* ''Manga/OmamoriHimari'' has the budding BigBad as a Nine-Tailed Kitsune and her [[OurVampiresAreDifferent Shuten-doji]] spokesman.
* ''Manga/OnePiece'': Kitsune are introduced, appropriately enough, in the [[{{Wutai}} Land of Wano Arc]]:
** It's revealed that exists the mythical Zoan Dog Dog model Nine-Tailed Fox, which allows the eater to turn into a nine-tailed fox or a HalfHumanHybrid and even shapeshift at will. [[spoiler:It was eaten by Catarina Devon, of the Blackbeard Pirates.]]
** Komagitsune (large foxes with flame-like tuffs of fur) are among the fauna of Wano. One of them, named Onimaru, was the pet of a Daimyo, Shimotsuki Ushimaru, and guarded its master's grave after his demise. [[spoiler: He befriended Kawamatsu the Kappa and helped him gather weapons for the rebellion against Orochi, taking human form and the alias of Gyuukimaru of Oihagi Bridge.]]
* ''Manga/OtogiMatsuri'': Yomogi's fox-like spiritual companions, who can be seen and heard only by her (and later, Yousuke.) They mainly serve to assist her with menial tasks such as cleaning and to warn her of impending danger.
* The heroines of ''Manga/OtomeYoukaiZakuro'' are artificially-created half-kitsune hybrids created from female fetuses being magically mutated with the blood of natural kitsune.
* Kuugen Tenkou and Gyokuyou from ''LightNovel/OurHomesFoxDeity''.
* In ''Manga/RosarioPlusVampire'', this is Kuyou's true form. As the main villain of his own arc he has four tails, while when he returns in the Fairy Tale arc he's gained a fifth tail to demonstrate that he did ''not'' [[VillainForgotToLevelGrind forget to level grind]].
* ''Manga/SengokuYouko'':
** The main character Tama is a 200-year-old pacifistic kitsune who appears as a young girl and is the travelling companion -- and later wife -- of the temperamental and initially misanthropic sage Jinka.
** Tama's mother Kuzunoha is a hedonistic and wicked kitsune who ran rampant in the past, causing chaos wherever she went, until she fell in love with the evil Buddhist priest-turned-MadScientist Yazen, and desired to become human.
** Jinka is able to temporarily transform into a kitsune by drinking Tama's blood and seeks to permanently become one due to his misanthropy. After being tricked by Yazen into thinking he killed Tama, he goes berserk and devours the flesh of a god to become a thousand-tailed fox-god, and even after his sanity is restored he remains a kitsune.
* ''Manga/SoulHunter'': So Dakki is a nine-tailed fox-monster in human guise, though the power to assume a human form is not reserved to Kitsune in this setting and is a common trait of Youkai in general. Considering that the story takes place in ancient China and is inspired by the Chinese classic ''Fengshen Yanyi'', she technically counts as a Hu Li Jing.
* ''Manga/{{Tactics}}'': Youko is a kitsune whom the protagonist has bound to his service. She doesn't seem too upset about this.
* ''Manga/TamamoChansAFox'': The protagonist is a fox spirit from Kyoto's famous Fushimi Inari shrine who poses as a high school girl out of curiosity about human life. While her human disguise has almost all the adults perfectly fooled, [[OpenSecret all her classmates can see right through it]], though they don't let on so she doesn't get in trouble.
* Yako from ''Manga/ToiletBoundHanakoKun'' usually appears as a human woman, but her true form is a small white fox. This is because she was originally a fox statue that guarded a shrine gate before she became one of TheSevenMysteries of Kamome Academy.
%%ZeroContextExample * ''VisualNovel/TriangleHeart3SweetSongsForever'': Kuon
* ''Manga/UruseiYatsura'' features a kitsune-like fox with a crush on Shinobu as a RecurringCharacter.
* ''Anime/PomPoko'': While Creator/StudioGhibli's film focuses mostly on tanuki, it's noted by there were once shapeshifting foxes in the area [[spoiler:who chose to live among humans]].
* ''Manga/UshioAndTora'': The legendary monster [[BigBad Hakumen no Mono]] -- inspired by the legend of Tamamo-no-Mae -- takes the form of a colossal nine-tailed fox with a shark-like face. Compared to most other examples, it's more akin to an EldritchAbomination, as it's an OmnicidalManiac entirely made of [[MadeOfEvil Yin]], and took the combined strength of all the youkai and humans of Japan to drive it away. Despite having been sealed away, it is still as powerful as ever. Furthermore, it originally lived in China and India but later moved to Japan [[spoiler: to escape the only thing it fears: the Beast Spear.]] The series also has a more benevolent example in the Kudagitsune Izuna, a BoisterousWeakling who, along with his unseen brothers, excel at DemonicPossession and helps Ushio and Tora when they have to enter a person's body to remove the demons possessing said person.
* ''Manga/XXXHolic'': Kudakitsune is a pipe fox in her transformed shape. Watanuki also runs into a kitsune family who runs an oden stand in the spirit world.
* ''Manga/{{Yaiba}}'': Shiro Amakusa is one of Onimaru's seven swordsmen revived in an animal body, and he got to be reincarnated into a fox. Even when he's in human form, he sports whiskers, ears, and sometimes the tail.
* ''VisualNovel/YamiToBoushiToHonNoTabibito'': Meirin is a three-tailed fox-spirit and Tamamonomae is a nine-tailed fox-spirit, though they [[MindScrew may be the same person]].
* ''Anime/YokaiWatch'':
** Kyubi from the games is [[CharacterizationMarchesOn given a deal of portrayal]] as [[TheCasanova a casanova]] who in [[AbortedArc a short story arc]] must harvest 100 heart orbs in order to get promoted and fixates into Katie to get the last one, unsuccessfully. This trait was carried in the games, most notably Yo-kai Watch 2, Blasters, and 3,
** The sequel ''Anime/YokaiWatchShadowside'' features his return with both Lightside and Shadowside forms, and adds a Fangirl Kitsune Yo-kai as well, Inari (Lightside)/Tatarigitsune (Shadowside). [[Anime/YokaiWatchShadowsideTheReturnOfTheOniKing The movie prior to the series]] marks his first appearance in Shadowside-related material, and his Shadowside form is more feral, and quadrupedal.
** ''Anime/YokaiWatchForeverFriends'' sets Tamamo-no-Mae as one of the BigBadEnsemble.
* ''Manga/YuYuHakusho'': Kurama is a kitsune who was gravely injured, and inhabited his spirit into a [[EvenBadMenLoveTheirMamas female human's womb, where she would eventually give birth to him in human form while he recovered]]. Possibly Koto (seems fox-like but meows occasionally in the manga; could just be that the translators didn't know either).
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