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** At one point your party enters a DreamWorld and one of the enemies is alluring Rider/Critic, a scantily clad woman riding a baku.
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* ''VideoGame/CrossEdge'' has an interesting variation on this trope: [[spoiler: The FinalBoss of the game is an Evil Baku, the Empyreal One, that was drawing people's minds into the game's world. Its inverse, the Bright Baku, turns out to be party member Miko (though she is unaware of this for most of the plot). May, the young girl who can return the people's minds back, is Miko's powers given their own form.]]
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* ''[[{{Series/LostGirl}} Lost Girl]]'' depicts a baku as an unambiguously good fae whose nightmare eating is depicted as a particularly soothing hug. Unfortunately, they were hunted to near extinction because their remains retain their soothing nightmare preventing qualities, and are thus highly endangered.
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* Doremy Sweet from ''VideoGame/TouhouKanjudenLegacyOfLunaticKingdom'' is a baku, though like most ''Franchise/TouhouProject'' characters she appears mostly human. However, being the ruler of the Dream World, she's strongly associated with dreams and sleep, and her overall design was inspired by the Malayan tapir, the animal the baku is based on.
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* A baku appeared in ''Manga/{{Inuyasha}}'', one of the few non-malicious youkai, though still considered troublesome, as it was in danger of overeating on dreams and taking the good ones as well as the bad. It's also significant for being the only youkai to appear in the present day instead of the distant past.
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* ''Manga/DailyLifeWithMonsterGirl'': A CuteMonsterGirl version of a baku shows up in Chapter 65 at the mixed-species hotsprings. She looks mostly like an attractive, curvy human except for her tapir-like ears and her skin color having the black, white, black pattern of a Malayan tapir.
* Bakumon from ''Franchise/{{Digimon}}'' (who goes by the name Tapirmon in the dub) is an Animal Digimon with the appearance of a small tusked-warthog-esque creature with a cloud instead of backlegs. Lore states that it was generated from a medical computer for detecting brain waves, and it seems that it uses the data from humans in REM sleep as nourishment, later going on to feed on bad dreams and malignant viruses. When one appeared under the influence of TheCorruption in ''Anime/DigimonFrontier'', it used its powers to show the [=DigiDestined=] [[YourWOrstNightmare their worst fears]] and when it was purified, it gave them pleasant dreams instead.
* Bakumon from ''Franchise/{{Digimon}}'' (who goes by the name Tapirmon in the dub) is an Animal Digimon with the appearance of a small tusked-warthog-esque creature with a cloud instead of backlegs. Lore states that it was generated from a medical computer for detecting brain waves, and it seems that it uses the data from humans in REM sleep as nourishment, later going on to feed on bad dreams and malignant viruses. When one appeared under the influence of TheCorruption in ''Anime/DigimonFrontier'', it used its powers to show the [=DigiDestined=] [[YourWOrstNightmare their worst fears]] and when it was purified, it gave them pleasant dreams instead.
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* ''Manga/DreamEaterMerry'': Merry Nightmare has powers revolving around dreams and nightmares, and she has a strong baku motif.
* ''Manga/MonsterMusume'': A CuteMonsterGirl version of a baku shows up in Chapter 65 at the mixed-species hotsprings. She looks mostly like an attractive, curvy human except for her tapir-like ears and her skin color having the black, white, black pattern of a Malayan tapir.
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* ''Manga/YumekuiMerry'': Merry Nightmare has powers revolving around dreams and nightmares, and she has a strong baku motif.
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* Doremy Sweet from ''VideoGame/TouhouKanjudenLegacyOfLunaticKingdom'' is a baku, though like most ''Franchise/{{Touhou}}'' characters she appears mostly human. However, being the ruler of the Dream World, she's strongly associated with dreams and sleep, and her overall design was inspired by the Malayan tapir, the animal the baku is based on.
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* Doremy Sweet from ''VideoGame/TouhouKanjudenLegacyOfLunaticKingdom'' is a baku, though like most ''Franchise/{{Touhou}}'' ''Franchise/TouhouProject'' characters she appears mostly human. However, being the ruler of the Dream World, she's strongly associated with dreams and sleep, and her overall design was inspired by the Malayan tapir, the animal the baku is based on.
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* In ''VideoGame/Nioh2'', a Baku appears as a Guardian Spirit under the euphemistical name "Yumehami" (lit. Dream Devourer). Most notably, becomes TheCorrupter to [[spoiler: Tokichiro]]. The final DLC has the Baku as a proper Guardian Spirit, [[spoiler: who ends up making a FusionDance with Otakemaru to turn into the TrueFinalBoss .]]
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* ''Manga/DailyLifeWithMonsterGirl'': A CuteMonsterGirl version of a baku shows up in Chapter 65 at the mixed-species hotsprings. She looks mostly like an attractive, curvy human except for her tapir-like ears and her skin color having the black, white, black pattern of a Malayan tapir.
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* Bakumon from ''Franchise/{{Digimon}}'' (who goes by the name Tapirmon in the dub) is an Animal Digimon with the appearance of a small tusked-warthog-esque creature with a cloud instead of backlegs. Lore states that it was generated from a medical computer for detecting brain waves, and it seems that it uses the data from humans in REM sleep as nourishment, later going on to feed on bad dreams and malignant viruses.
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* Bakumon from ''Franchise/{{Digimon}}'' (who goes by the name Tapirmon in the dub) is an Animal Digimon with the appearance of a small tusked-warthog-esque creature with a cloud instead of backlegs. Lore states that it was generated from a medical computer for detecting brain waves, and it seems that it uses the data from humans in REM sleep as nourishment, later going on to feed on bad dreams and malignant viruses. When one appeared under the influence of TheCorruption in ''Anime/DigimonFrontier'', it used its powers to show the [=DigiDestined=] [[YourWOrstNightmare their worst fears]] and when it was purified, it gave them pleasant dreams instead.
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* ''ComicBook/TheSandman'': Baku make an appearance in ''The Dream Hunters'', grazing on bad dreams as background fauna.
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** In ''The Dreaming'' Arc "Pathways and Emanations", when Judge Gallows takes over as regent of the Dreaming to instill order, he tries enforcing his frontier justice onto the realm by hanging the various blanks that had immigrated there. Since they are made of dream-matter and thus cannot die in the conventional sense, he hogties a Baku and feeds dissonants to it. Since the Baku was made to bring equilibrium to dreams, this was NotTheIntendedUse.
** Baku make an appearance in ''The Dream Hunters'', grazing on bad dreams as background
** In ''The Dreaming'' Arc "Pathways and Emanations", when Judge Gallows takes over as regent of the Dreaming to instill order, he tries enforcing his frontier justice onto the realm by hanging the various blanks that had immigrated there. Since they are made of dream-matter and thus cannot die in the conventional sense, he hogties a Baku and feeds dissonants to it. Since the Baku was made to bring equilibrium to dreams, this was NotTheIntendedUse.
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** At one point your party enters a DreamWorld and one of the enemies is alluring Rider/Critic, a scantily clad woman riding a baku.
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See also DreamStealer. SubTrope to {{Youkai}}. No relation to the capital of UsefulNotes/{{Azerbaijan}} or the alien race from ''Film/StarTrekInsurrection''.
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See also DreamStealer. SubTrope to {{Youkai}}. No relation to the capital of UsefulNotes/{{Azerbaijan}} or UsefulNotes/{{Azerbaijan}}, the alien race from ''Film/StarTrekInsurrection''.''Film/StarTrekInsurrection'', or the PigMan character from ''VideoGame/FinalFantasyIX''.
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* ''VideoGame/{{Touhou}}'': Doremy Sweet from the Touhou Project is based on a baku, although like all of the characters from that series, it's almost impossible to tell.
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* ''VideoGame/{{Touhou}}'': Doremy Sweet from the Touhou Project ''VideoGame/TouhouKanjudenLegacyOfLunaticKingdom'' is based on a baku, although though like all of the most ''Franchise/{{Touhou}}'' characters from that series, it's almost impossible to tell.she appears mostly human. However, being the ruler of the Dream World, she's strongly associated with dreams and sleep, and her overall design was inspired by the Malayan tapir, the animal the baku is based on.
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* ''Manga/UruseiYatsura'': The second movie and the chapter/episode it was loosely adapted from feature a baku.
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The baku has the body of a bear, the head of an elephant, the ears and eyes of a rhinoceros, the tail of an ox, and the legs of a tiger, having believed to have been made from the leftover body parts after the gods finished creating all of the other animals. Since its name refers both to the dream-eating creature and the RealLife Malayan tapir, modern iterations of the baku often give it a tapir-like appearance. This is due to the fact that when the first Malayan tapirs were brought over to Japan, people believed them to be live baku due to the uncanny resemblance between the animal and the mythical creature.
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The baku has the body of a bear, the head of an elephant, the ears and eyes of a rhinoceros, the tail of an ox, and the legs of a tiger, having believed to have been made from the leftover body parts after the gods finished creating all of the other animals. Since its name refers both to the dream-eating creature and the RealLife Malayan tapir, modern iterations of the baku often give it a tapir-like appearance. This is due to the fact that because when the first Malayan tapirs were brought over to Japan, people believed them to be live baku due to the uncanny resemblance between the animal and the mythical creature.
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* The adorable Mukumuku from ''Manga/HowToKeepAMummy''. He helps out Daichi, who has been having nightmares every night.
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* ''VideoGame/AnimalCrossing'': Luna from ''Animal Crossing: New Leaf'' is a baku, and fittingly runs the Dream Suite.
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* A baku is the title character of the {{Music/Vocaloid}} song "Dream-Eating Monochrome Baku" and its sequel, "Sleeping Beauty", although the "baku" in this case is depicted as a dashing young man (played by Kagamine Len) who has the powers of a baku. The baku tricks a young girl into allowing him to consume her bad dreams, which eventually grows into consuming ''all'' of her dreams until he consumes her soul entirely, leaving her an EmptyShell. Although the sequel reveals that [[WellIntentionedExtremist he has a good reason for doing so.]]
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* A baku is the title character of the {{Music/Vocaloid}} song "Dream-Eating Monochrome Baku" and its sequel, "Sleeping Beauty", although the "baku" in this case is depicted as a dashing young man (played by Kagamine Len) who has the powers of a baku. The baku tricks a young girl into allowing him to consume her bad dreams, which eventually grows into consuming ''all'' of her dreams until he consumes her soul entirely, leaving her an EmptyShell. Although the sequel reveals that [[WellIntentionedExtremist he has a good reason for doing so.]]
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* ''VideoGame/FlightRising'' Two kinds of baku can be encountered in Bamboo Falls: the standard Lightning Baku and the Arcane Dream Eater.
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** Drowzee (and by extension it evolution, Hypno), a bipedal tapir-like Pokemon best known for eating dreams.
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* ''VideoGame/YokaiWatch'': Baku is one of the few yo-kai who didn't get a DubNameChange. He is a purple baku who is said to put people to sleep before eating their dreams. In ''VideoGame/YokaiWatch2'' he is a story character. He even gains in evolution called Bakulia.
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* ''VideoGame/YokaiWatch'': Baku is one of the few yo-kai who didn't get a DubNameChange. He is a purple baku who is said to put people to sleep before eating their dreams. In ''VideoGame/YokaiWatch2'' he is a story character. He even gains in an evolution called Bakulia.
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* ''VideoGame/DualHearts'': Tumble is a baku and one of the two main characters. He and Rumble enter dreams to help the dreamers by fixing their nightmares, while also collecting dream energy and searching for the keys needed to traverse the local temple and acquire the [[MacGuffin Dream Stone]].
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* Bakumon from ''Franchise/{{Digimon}}'' (who goes by the name Tapirmon in the dub) is an Animal Digimon with the appearance of a small tusked-warthog-esq creature with a cloud instead of backlegs. Lore states that it was generated from a medical computer for detecting brain waves, and it seems that it uses the data from humans in REM sleep as nourishment, later going on to feed on bad dreams and malignant viruses.
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* ''Manga/SazanEyes'': The Fire General of the Five Generals of Gui Yan vaguely resembles a Baku, being an elephant-like gargoyle monster. Like the other generals, he presumably has psychic powers which allows him to give nightmares to people.
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* ''Manga/XxxHolic'': The Dream Collector is a being that lives in another dimension and takes for form of a buku wearing an outfit that resembles the ones worn by Victorian chimney sweeps. He collects both dreams and nightmares, keeping them in balloons that he nurtures so that he can sell them for a high price.
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* ''Manga/XxxHolic'': The Dream Collector is a being that lives in another dimension and takes for form of a buku baku wearing an outfit that resembles the ones worn by Victorian chimney sweeps. He collects both dreams and nightmares, keeping them in balloons that he nurtures so that he can sell them for a high price.
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The baku has the body of a bear, the head of an elephant, the eyes of a rhinoceros, the tail of an ox, and the legs of a tiger, having believed to have been made from the leftover body parts after the gods finished creating all of the other animals. Since its name refers both to the dream-eating creature and the RealLife Malayan tapir, modern iterations of the baku often give it a tapir-like appearance.
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The baku has the body of a bear, the head of an elephant, the ears and eyes of a rhinoceros, the tail of an ox, and the legs of a tiger, having believed to have been made from the leftover body parts after the gods finished creating all of the other animals. Since its name refers both to the dream-eating creature and the RealLife Malayan tapir, modern iterations of the baku often give it a tapir-like appearance. \n This is due to the fact that when the first Malayan tapirs were brought over to Japan, people believed them to be live baku due to the uncanny resemblance between the animal and the mythical creature.
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* ''TabletopGame/DungeonsAndDragons'': Baku appear in the 1st Edition ''Monster Manual 2'' and ''TabletopGame/{{Planescape}}'', but have nothing in common with their mythological counterparts beyond the name and having an elephant-like head, instead being psionic ChaoticGood creatures that associate with subtropical lands. Confusingly, ''Oriental Adventures'' includes a creature with the description and characteristics of the mythological baku, but it's called shirokinukatsukami.
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** Baku appear in the 1st Edition ''Monster Manual 2'' and ''TabletopGame/{{Planescape}}'',but have nothing in common with their mythological counterparts beyond the name and having an elephant-like head, instead being psionic ChaoticGood depicted as elephant-headed creatures with the the front parts of a rhino and the hindquarters of a dragon. Rather than having any association with dreams however, they are instead powerful beings with PsychicPowers that associate with subtropical lands. Confusingly, come from the Upper Planes and visit the Material Plane to combat evil.
** ''Oriental Adventures''includes has a creature with that much more closely matches the description and characteristics of the mythological baku, but it's called shirokinukatsukami.such as having the same composition of animal parts and the ability to consume bad dreams. Its name however is [[CallARabbitASmeerp the shirokinukatsukami]].
** Baku appear in the 1st Edition ''Monster Manual 2'' and ''TabletopGame/{{Planescape}}'',
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* In ''Manga/{{Naruto}}'' a baku appears [[spoiler: as Danzou's summoning]] and looks like a huge, tuskless fierce elephant, able to suck anything in his trunk.
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-> ''"...by the Edo period the baku has become a full-fledged devourer of nightmares, a guardian creature charged with protecting the vulnerable sleeper as he or she ventured into the other world of dreams. For this purpose, an image of a baku might be placed near the pillow at night. There were even pillows made in the shape of baku."''
-->-- ''The Book of Yokai: Mysterious Creatures of Japanese Folklore''
The baku has the body of a bear, the head of an elephant, the eyes of a rhinoceros, the tail of an ox, and the legs of a tiger, having believed to have been made from the leftover body parts after the gods finished creating all of the other animals. Since its name refers both to the dream-eating creature and the RealLife Malayan tapir, modern iterations of the baku often give it a tapir-like appearance.
Despite their grotesque appearance, the Baku is seen as a welcomed, benevolent youkai because they devour malevolent spirits and PeeveGoblins that are believed to be the cause of nightmares, similar to dream-catchers and gargoyles in other cultures. Children would sing "Baku-san, come eat my dream" three times to ask the baku to cure them of their nightmares, but if they did so frivolously, it would go on to eat their hopes and good dreams as well.
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* Bakumon from ''Franchise/{{Digimon}}'' (who goes by the name Tapirmon in the dub) is an Animal Digimon with the appearance of a small tusked-warthog-esq creature with a cloud instead of backlegs. Lore states that it was generated from a medical computer for detecting brain waves, and it seems that it uses the data from humans in REM sleep as nourishment, later going on to feed on bad dreams and malignant viruses.
* ''Manga/HellTeacherNube'': The baku, instead of being a benign creature that eats nightmares, eats ''good'' dreams and leaves its victims in a state of utter, suicide-inducing despair. It's actually composed of hundreds of tortured souls who moan and writhe in the vague shape of a tapir.
* A baku appeared in ''Manga/{{Inuyasha}}'', one of the few non-malicious youkai, though still considered troublesome, as it was in danger of overeating on dreams and taking the good ones as well as the bad. It's also significant for being the only youkai to appear in the present day instead of the distant past.
* In ''Manga/{{Naruto}}'' a baku appears [[spoiler: as Danzou's summoning]] and looks like a huge, tuskless fierce elephant, able to suck anything in his trunk.
* ''Manga/NightmareInspector'' has a baku for a main character, who helps rid people of their nightmares in return for being allowed to eat said nightmares.
* ''Anime/OnegaiMyMelody'': Baku is a tapir who has been known to eat black notes, which are basically manifested nightmares.
* ''Manga/SazanEyes'': The Fire General of the Five Generals of Gui Yan vaguely resembles a Baku, being an elephant-like gargoyle monster. Like the other generals, he presumably has psychic powers which allows him to give nightmares to people.
* ''Manga/UruseiYatsura'': The second movie and the chapter/episode it was loosely adapted from feature a baku.
* ''Manga/XxxHolic'': The Dream Collector is a being that lives in another dimension and takes for form of a buku wearing an outfit that resembles the ones worn by Victorian chimney sweeps. He collects both dreams and nightmares, keeping them in balloons that he nurtures so that he can sell them for a high price.
* ''Manga/YumekuiMerry'': Merry Nightmare has powers revolving around dreams and nightmares, and she has a strong baku motif.
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* ''ComicBook/TheSandman'': Baku make an appearance in ''The Dream Hunters'', grazing on bad dreams as background fauna.
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* ''Literature/OlogySeries'': ''Monsterology'' includes the baku in the chapter dedicated to terrestrial beasts. It's depicted as tapir-like creature with short elephant tusks, a black coat with large yellow dots, and the paws of a tiger, and is native to Japan and coastal China. While it does not eat nightmares, it's noted to have a profoundly soothing effect on people, similar to that experienced when petting a cat.
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* ''Franchise/SuperSentai'': Baku-based monsters are quite common.
** ''Series/KagakuSentaiDynaman'''s Tapir Evo, while nominally based on a regular tapir, possessed the ability to control dreams by transforming them into nightmares, making them come true, or even creating nightmare versions of others.
** One MonsterOfTheWeek in ''Series/NinjaSentaiKakuranger'' was Bakuki, who appeared in [[SixthRanger Ninjaman]]'s debut episode. While he claims to be a modern version of the Baku, he looks nothing like one, being a hooded demon-like being instead. Appeared as Vampirus for ''Series/MightyMorphinPowerRangers''.
** Nightmare Ninja Yumebakushi from ''Series/NinpuuSentaiHurricaneger'' could place children into a deep dream that they would never wake up from, turning them into stone. Adapted as Starvark for ''Series/PowerRangersNinjaStorm''.
** Yumebakura from ''Series/SamuraiSentaiShinkenger'' (Rhinosnorus in ''Series/PowerRangersSamurai''), like all ayakashi, claims to be the inspiration for a youkai. In his case, his dream-based powers and amalgamation of rhinoceros, elephant, tiger, and ox body parts make him the Baku.
** ''Series/TensouSentaiGoseiger'' has Elmgaim of the Baku, who combines his motifs with a velvet worm and [[Franchise/ANightmareOnElmStreet Freddy Kreuger]]. Appears in ''Series/PowerRangersMegaForce'' as Dream Snatcher.
** A purse-based Baku appeared in ''Series/ShurikenSentaiNinninger'', adapted as Smellephant for ''Series/PowerRangersNinjaSteel''.
** Yumepakkun from ''Series/UchuSentaiKyuranger'' is a Baku-like alien who consumes the dreams of children.
** ''Series/KaitouSentaiLupinrangerVsKeisatsuSentaiPatranger'': Tapir-themed Gangler monster Nero Kilner was able to trap people in their dreams using his Nemulance staff.
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* ''TabletopGame/DungeonsAndDragons'': Baku appear in the 1st Edition ''Monster Manual 2'' and ''TabletopGame/{{Planescape}}'', but have nothing in common with their mythological counterparts beyond the name and having an elephant-like head, instead being psionic ChaoticGood creatures that associate with subtropical lands. Confusingly, ''Oriental Adventures'' includes a creature with the description and characteristics of the mythological baku, but it's called shirokinukatsukami.
* ''TabletopGame/LegendOfTheFiveRings'' features malevolent bakus. They still eat bad dreams, but they eat their victim's memories as well.
* ''TabletopGame/{{Pathfinder}}'': Baku resemble floating, shaggy and tusked tapirs, and can when feeding choose to eat all of a person's dreams -- causing them to wake up later exhausted and unrefreshed -- or only their nightmares -- which grants immunity to nightmare-inducing magic or dream haunting by malicious beings. They are mortal enemies of the dream-haunting night hags, and go to great lengths to hunt them down, fight them and prevent them from preying on sleeping minds.
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* ''VideoGame/AnimalCrossing'': Luna from ''Animal Crossing: New Leaf'' is a baku, and fittingly runs the Dream Suite.
* [[spoiler:Yomi]], a side character from ''VideoGame/AyakashiRomanceReborn''. The game has a variation on the baku's mythology, where if [[spoiler:Yomi]] loses control over his emotions, [[spoiler:[[PowerIncontinence all the nightmares pour out of him and enter the minds of anyone in the vicinity]]]].
* Tapir, the wizard from ''VideoGame/{{Cocoron}}'', eventually turns out to be a baku who you have to fight in the game's final battle.
* ''VideoGame/DarkCloud'': ''Dark Cloud 2 / Dark Chronicle'' features a mini-boss in Starlight Canyon called the Memo-Eater, an obese monster with a tapir's nose that possesses a girl and [[LaserGuidedAmnesia eats her memories]].
* In ''VideoGame/FinalFantasyVI'', when a character wakes up from Sleep status on his or her own, a small baku comes by to "eat" their dreams away.
* ''Videogame/GetAmped:'' There's an accessory called "Baku Pillow/Tapir Pillow". It's a cursed pillow that allows the user to summon the Baku to attack their enemies. It can be used to force enemies to sleep and get nightmares so the Baku can devour their nightmares, or you can also sleep with it to get the same result. Its strongest attack is to summon the Baku to breath out all the "nightmares" it has devoured towards the target, causing them to be assaulted in their minds and taking big damage.
* ''VideoGame/{{Parodius}}'': The FinalBoss is a baku named Bug (a PunnyName that works better in Japanese).
* ''Franchise/{{Pokemon}}'':
** Drowzee (and by extension it evolution, Hypno), a bipedal tapir-like Pokemon best known for eating dreams.
** Munna, and Musharna are likewise tapir-based 'mons, and are themed quite heavily around dreams and sleep. They also take cues from cartoon "dream clouds".
* ''VideoGame/{{Touhou}}'': Doremy Sweet from the Touhou Project is based on a baku, although like all of the characters from that series, it's almost impossible to tell.
* ''VideoGame/YokaiWatch'': Baku is one of the few yo-kai who didn't get a DubNameChange. He is a purple baku who is said to put people to sleep before eating their dreams. In ''VideoGame/YokaiWatch2'' he is a story character. He even gains in evolution called Bakulia.
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* ''Webcomic/{{Weregeek}}'': One member of the cast played a baku in the [[TabletopGame/ChangelingTheLost Changeling]] run. The [[TalkativeLoon Talking Guy]] [[PopCulturalOsmosis thought it was a]] [[Franchise/{{Pokemon}} Drowzee]].
* ''Webcomic/YuMeDream'' contains "a giant elephant-ram-boar-bear thing with purple hair" called a baku. It does live in the dream world, and attempts to eat the main characters' party.
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-> ''"...by the Edo period the baku has become a full-fledged devourer of nightmares, a guardian creature charged with protecting the vulnerable sleeper as he or she ventured into the other world of dreams. For this purpose, an image of a baku might be placed near the pillow at night. There were even pillows made in the shape of baku."''
-->-- ''The Book of Yokai: Mysterious Creatures of Japanese Folklore''
The baku has the body of a bear, the head of an elephant, the eyes of a rhinoceros, the tail of an ox, and the legs of a tiger, having believed to have been made from the leftover body parts after the gods finished creating all of the other animals. Since its name refers both to the dream-eating creature and the RealLife Malayan tapir, modern iterations of the baku often give it a tapir-like appearance.
Despite their grotesque appearance, the Baku is seen as a welcomed, benevolent youkai because they devour malevolent spirits and PeeveGoblins that are believed to be the cause of nightmares, similar to dream-catchers and gargoyles in other cultures. Children would sing "Baku-san, come eat my dream" three times to ask the baku to cure them of their nightmares, but if they did so frivolously, it would go on to eat their hopes and good dreams as well.
SubTrope to {{Youkai}}. No relation to the capital of UsefulNotes/{{Azerbaijan}} or the alien race from ''Film/StarTrekInsurrection''.
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* Bakumon from ''Franchise/{{Digimon}}'' (who goes by the name Tapirmon in the dub) is an Animal Digimon with the appearance of a small tusked-warthog-esq creature with a cloud instead of backlegs. Lore states that it was generated from a medical computer for detecting brain waves, and it seems that it uses the data from humans in REM sleep as nourishment, later going on to feed on bad dreams and malignant viruses.
* ''Manga/HellTeacherNube'': The baku, instead of being a benign creature that eats nightmares, eats ''good'' dreams and leaves its victims in a state of utter, suicide-inducing despair. It's actually composed of hundreds of tortured souls who moan and writhe in the vague shape of a tapir.
* A baku appeared in ''Manga/{{Inuyasha}}'', one of the few non-malicious youkai, though still considered troublesome, as it was in danger of overeating on dreams and taking the good ones as well as the bad. It's also significant for being the only youkai to appear in the present day instead of the distant past.
* In ''Manga/{{Naruto}}'' a baku appears [[spoiler: as Danzou's summoning]] and looks like a huge, tuskless fierce elephant, able to suck anything in his trunk.
* ''Manga/NightmareInspector'' has a baku for a main character, who helps rid people of their nightmares in return for being allowed to eat said nightmares.
* ''Anime/OnegaiMyMelody'': Baku is a tapir who has been known to eat black notes, which are basically manifested nightmares.
* ''Manga/SazanEyes'': The Fire General of the Five Generals of Gui Yan vaguely resembles a Baku, being an elephant-like gargoyle monster. Like the other generals, he presumably has psychic powers which allows him to give nightmares to people.
* ''Manga/UruseiYatsura'': The second movie and the chapter/episode it was loosely adapted from feature a baku.
* ''Manga/XxxHolic'': The Dream Collector is a being that lives in another dimension and takes for form of a buku wearing an outfit that resembles the ones worn by Victorian chimney sweeps. He collects both dreams and nightmares, keeping them in balloons that he nurtures so that he can sell them for a high price.
* ''Manga/YumekuiMerry'': Merry Nightmare has powers revolving around dreams and nightmares, and she has a strong baku motif.
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* ''ComicBook/TheSandman'': Baku make an appearance in ''The Dream Hunters'', grazing on bad dreams as background fauna.
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* ''Literature/OlogySeries'': ''Monsterology'' includes the baku in the chapter dedicated to terrestrial beasts. It's depicted as tapir-like creature with short elephant tusks, a black coat with large yellow dots, and the paws of a tiger, and is native to Japan and coastal China. While it does not eat nightmares, it's noted to have a profoundly soothing effect on people, similar to that experienced when petting a cat.
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* ''Franchise/SuperSentai'': Baku-based monsters are quite common.
** ''Series/KagakuSentaiDynaman'''s Tapir Evo, while nominally based on a regular tapir, possessed the ability to control dreams by transforming them into nightmares, making them come true, or even creating nightmare versions of others.
** One MonsterOfTheWeek in ''Series/NinjaSentaiKakuranger'' was Bakuki, who appeared in [[SixthRanger Ninjaman]]'s debut episode. While he claims to be a modern version of the Baku, he looks nothing like one, being a hooded demon-like being instead. Appeared as Vampirus for ''Series/MightyMorphinPowerRangers''.
** Nightmare Ninja Yumebakushi from ''Series/NinpuuSentaiHurricaneger'' could place children into a deep dream that they would never wake up from, turning them into stone. Adapted as Starvark for ''Series/PowerRangersNinjaStorm''.
** Yumebakura from ''Series/SamuraiSentaiShinkenger'' (Rhinosnorus in ''Series/PowerRangersSamurai''), like all ayakashi, claims to be the inspiration for a youkai. In his case, his dream-based powers and amalgamation of rhinoceros, elephant, tiger, and ox body parts make him the Baku.
** ''Series/TensouSentaiGoseiger'' has Elmgaim of the Baku, who combines his motifs with a velvet worm and [[Franchise/ANightmareOnElmStreet Freddy Kreuger]]. Appears in ''Series/PowerRangersMegaForce'' as Dream Snatcher.
** A purse-based Baku appeared in ''Series/ShurikenSentaiNinninger'', adapted as Smellephant for ''Series/PowerRangersNinjaSteel''.
** Yumepakkun from ''Series/UchuSentaiKyuranger'' is a Baku-like alien who consumes the dreams of children.
** ''Series/KaitouSentaiLupinrangerVsKeisatsuSentaiPatranger'': Tapir-themed Gangler monster Nero Kilner was able to trap people in their dreams using his Nemulance staff.
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* ''TabletopGame/DungeonsAndDragons'': Baku appear in the 1st Edition ''Monster Manual 2'' and ''TabletopGame/{{Planescape}}'', but have nothing in common with their mythological counterparts beyond the name and having an elephant-like head, instead being psionic ChaoticGood creatures that associate with subtropical lands. Confusingly, ''Oriental Adventures'' includes a creature with the description and characteristics of the mythological baku, but it's called shirokinukatsukami.
* ''TabletopGame/LegendOfTheFiveRings'' features malevolent bakus. They still eat bad dreams, but they eat their victim's memories as well.
* ''TabletopGame/{{Pathfinder}}'': Baku resemble floating, shaggy and tusked tapirs, and can when feeding choose to eat all of a person's dreams -- causing them to wake up later exhausted and unrefreshed -- or only their nightmares -- which grants immunity to nightmare-inducing magic or dream haunting by malicious beings. They are mortal enemies of the dream-haunting night hags, and go to great lengths to hunt them down, fight them and prevent them from preying on sleeping minds.
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* ''VideoGame/AnimalCrossing'': Luna from ''Animal Crossing: New Leaf'' is a baku, and fittingly runs the Dream Suite.
* [[spoiler:Yomi]], a side character from ''VideoGame/AyakashiRomanceReborn''. The game has a variation on the baku's mythology, where if [[spoiler:Yomi]] loses control over his emotions, [[spoiler:[[PowerIncontinence all the nightmares pour out of him and enter the minds of anyone in the vicinity]]]].
* Tapir, the wizard from ''VideoGame/{{Cocoron}}'', eventually turns out to be a baku who you have to fight in the game's final battle.
* ''VideoGame/DarkCloud'': ''Dark Cloud 2 / Dark Chronicle'' features a mini-boss in Starlight Canyon called the Memo-Eater, an obese monster with a tapir's nose that possesses a girl and [[LaserGuidedAmnesia eats her memories]].
* In ''VideoGame/FinalFantasyVI'', when a character wakes up from Sleep status on his or her own, a small baku comes by to "eat" their dreams away.
* ''Videogame/GetAmped:'' There's an accessory called "Baku Pillow/Tapir Pillow". It's a cursed pillow that allows the user to summon the Baku to attack their enemies. It can be used to force enemies to sleep and get nightmares so the Baku can devour their nightmares, or you can also sleep with it to get the same result. Its strongest attack is to summon the Baku to breath out all the "nightmares" it has devoured towards the target, causing them to be assaulted in their minds and taking big damage.
* ''VideoGame/{{Parodius}}'': The FinalBoss is a baku named Bug (a PunnyName that works better in Japanese).
* ''Franchise/{{Pokemon}}'':
** Drowzee (and by extension it evolution, Hypno), a bipedal tapir-like Pokemon best known for eating dreams.
** Munna, and Musharna are likewise tapir-based 'mons, and are themed quite heavily around dreams and sleep. They also take cues from cartoon "dream clouds".
* ''VideoGame/{{Touhou}}'': Doremy Sweet from the Touhou Project is based on a baku, although like all of the characters from that series, it's almost impossible to tell.
* ''VideoGame/YokaiWatch'': Baku is one of the few yo-kai who didn't get a DubNameChange. He is a purple baku who is said to put people to sleep before eating their dreams. In ''VideoGame/YokaiWatch2'' he is a story character. He even gains in evolution called Bakulia.
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* ''Webcomic/{{Weregeek}}'': One member of the cast played a baku in the [[TabletopGame/ChangelingTheLost Changeling]] run. The [[TalkativeLoon Talking Guy]] [[PopCulturalOsmosis thought it was a]] [[Franchise/{{Pokemon}} Drowzee]].
* ''Webcomic/YuMeDream'' contains "a giant elephant-ram-boar-bear thing with purple hair" called a baku. It does live in the dream world, and attempts to eat the main characters' party.
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