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Cybronya45 (Green Sprout)
#1: Aug 22nd 2025 at 3:40:19 PM

It's fanart on a deactivated deviantart.

https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/karasutengu.png

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#2: Aug 22nd 2025 at 3:54:53 PM

It was apparently chosen in this thread, though the original link to the photo is dead and it doesn't seem like anybody in the thread cared about getting permission.

That said, it might be better if we do a collage of different looking tengu like what we've been doing with other monster tropes recently. I'll see if I can make one in my spare time.

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#4: Aug 22nd 2025 at 4:37:27 PM

Okay, managed to put together a decent collage using the OP's photo and others I managed to find, aiming for a blend between the two primary types (bird-based and long-nosed). Sorry about 3/4 being anime or anime-like, it was a struggle to find good images from other mediums for some reason

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https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/tengus.jpg

Sources (counter-clockwise from top left): Karasa Tengu from Yo-kai Watch: Forever Friends, the Great Tengu of Mount Kurama from Nura: Rise of the Yokai Clan note , Kujou Sara from Genshin Impact, and an ancient Japanese drawing of a tengu (CC-licensed photo found here)

Edited by RadioContactLine on Aug 22nd 2025 at 4:43:28 AM

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#5: Aug 22nd 2025 at 4:37:57 PM

[tup] 4

Edited by GoosefromWikipedia on Aug 22nd 2025 at 4:38:09 AM

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#6: Aug 22nd 2025 at 4:41:50 PM

[tup] 4

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#7: Aug 22nd 2025 at 4:50:12 PM

[tup]4. Can't say no to Sara.

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#8: Aug 22nd 2025 at 5:06:59 PM

[tup] to 4

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#9: Aug 22nd 2025 at 5:40:54 PM

4 [tup]

Edited by Auchical on Aug 22nd 2025 at 8:41:10 AM

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#11: Aug 22nd 2025 at 6:38:08 PM

[tup]4

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#12: Aug 22nd 2025 at 11:41:30 PM

[up]

(Annoyed grunt)
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#13: Aug 23rd 2025 at 12:17:39 AM

[up][up][tup]

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#16: Aug 23rd 2025 at 3:04:51 PM

4[tup]

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#17: Aug 23rd 2025 at 5:07:40 PM

I'm a bit apprehensive about the anime woman (I assume from genshin impact) because she doesn't really scan as a tengu if you don't notice the mask on her head, which can easily be mistaken for a hat. the main other identifier, her wings, are mostly cropped out. she sticks out to me as not readily belonging.

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#18: Aug 24th 2025 at 4:06:40 AM

[up][tup] I agree, she is maybe a bit too distinct

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#20: Aug 24th 2025 at 6:37:42 AM

[up] Isn't that fanart?

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#21: Aug 24th 2025 at 6:56:20 AM

I don't get the arguments against Sara. I think it's nice to have a Cute Monster Girl version that is more humanoid than the others.

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#22: Aug 24th 2025 at 8:18:46 AM

[up][up]Nope, it's from Dragon Empires Gazeteer, page 4.

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#23: Aug 24th 2025 at 8:33:00 AM

[up][up] it's not that I think a Cute Monster Girl can't belong, but that this particular example wouldn't track to me as a tengu if it wasn't in an image with other tengu.

tentative [tup] to the pathfinder tengu, or if we want an example of a Cute Monster Girl that I think more clearly scans as being based on a tengu (overtly red color scheme, long-nosed mask on her face, carrying a leaf fan) I can offer Tenjo from Star★Twinkle Pretty Cure. (I realize that might mess with the balance of wanting bird-based ones and long-nosed ones, though. Hmm)

https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/tenjo.png

Edited by NoUsername on Aug 24th 2025 at 11:34:11 AM

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#24: Aug 24th 2025 at 8:43:13 AM

[up] My problem with that is that it would ruin the balance between two mostly bird-based tengu and two mostly long-nose-based tongue which I tried to capture. (Also she doesn't read to me as "tengu" much at all without context but that's just my opinion)

I suppose the Pathfinder tengu would work better in that regard, but I'm also concerned that it just looks like a generic Bird Person at wikisize. Sara at least has several identifiable features you could make out even at wikisize. I can try remaking the collage sometime later, but I'm really not convinced.

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#25: Aug 24th 2025 at 8:45:40 AM

if enough people are convinced by the existing collage then you shouldn't worry about it, it mostly just comes down to my own opinion and I seem to be in the relative minority

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