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* In ''{{VideoGame/Feral}}'', Shinigami are a playable species that resemble lanky, floating humanoids with jagged teeth, claws, a barbed tail, and a mane of fur that drapes around their chest and shoulders.
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Japanese religion and spiritualism being highly syncretic, features of preexisting Taoist, Buddhist, and Shinto death entities appear to varying extents in different depictions of shinigami. For instance, the idea of [[CelestialBureaucracy a highly stratified and bureaucratic society of psychopomps and divine judges]] seen in series like ''Manga/{{Bleach}}'', ''Manga/DescendantsOfDarkness'', and ''Manga/YuYuHakusho'' originated in Chinese Buddhism, on the model of the massive Han bureaucracy in the living world.

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Japanese religion and spiritualism being highly syncretic, features of preexisting Taoist, Buddhist, and Shinto death entities appear to varying extents in different depictions of shinigami. For instance, the idea of [[CelestialBureaucracy a highly stratified and bureaucratic society of psychopomps and divine judges]] seen in series like ''Manga/{{Bleach}}'', ''Manga/DescendantsOfDarkness'', and ''Manga/YuYuHakusho'' originated in Chinese Buddhism, on the model of the massive Han UsefulNotes/{{Han|Dynasty}} bureaucracy in the living world.
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* In ''VideoGame/MasterDetectiveArchivesRainCode'', Shinigami (Shinigami-chan in Japanese) is haunting {{Amnesiac Hero}} Yuma Kokohead due to a pact they made. While the spirit form she takes on in the real world resembles a cartoony ghost, her true form is humanoid and resembles a young woman. By changing into her true form, she can access the Mystery Labyrinth, an alternate universe where mysteries from cases in the real world materialize. [[spoiler:Solving a case in the Mystery Labyrinth allows Shinigami to reap the soul of a case’s true culprit(s]. It's also implied that more death gods exist

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* In ''VideoGame/MasterDetectiveArchivesRainCode'', Shinigami (Shinigami-chan in Japanese) is haunting {{Amnesiac Hero}} Yuma Kokohead due to a pact they made. While the spirit form she takes on in the real world resembles a cartoony ghost, her true form is humanoid and resembles a young woman. By changing into her true form, she can access the Mystery Labyrinth, an alternate universe where mysteries from cases in the real world materialize. [[spoiler:Solving a case in the Mystery Labyrinth allows Shinigami to reap the soul of a case’s true culprit(s]. culprit(s)]]. It's also implied that more death gods existexist.
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* In ''VideoGame/MasterDetectiveArchivesRainCode'', Shinigami (Shinigami-chan in Japanese) is haunting {{Amnesiac Hero}} Yuma Kokohead due to a pact they made. While the spirit form she takes on in the real world resembles a cartoony ghost, her true form is humanoid and resembles a young woman. By changing into her true form, she can access the Mystery Labyrinth, an alternate universe where mysteries in cases from the real world materialize. [[spoiler:Solving a case in the Mystery Labyrinth allows Shinigami to reap the soul of a case’s true culprit(s).]]

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* In ''VideoGame/MasterDetectiveArchivesRainCode'', Shinigami (Shinigami-chan in Japanese) is haunting {{Amnesiac Hero}} Yuma Kokohead due to a pact they made. While the spirit form she takes on in the real world resembles a cartoony ghost, her true form is humanoid and resembles a young woman. By changing into her true form, she can access the Mystery Labyrinth, an alternate universe where mysteries in from cases from in the real world materialize. [[spoiler:Solving a case in the Mystery Labyrinth allows Shinigami to reap the soul of a case’s true culprit(s).]] culprit(s]. It's also implied that more death gods exist
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* In ''VideoGame/MasterDetectiveArchivesRainCode'', Shinigami (Shinigami-chan in Japanese) is haunting {{Amnesiac Hero}} Yuma Kokohead due to a pact they made. While the spirit form she takes on in the real world resembles a cartoony ghost, her true form is humanoid and resembles a young woman. By changing into her true form, she can access the Mystery Labyrinth, an alternate universe where mysteries in cases from the real world materialize. [[spoiler:Solving a case in the Mystery Labyrinth allows Shinigami to reap the soul of a case’s true culprit(s).]]
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* In ''VideoGame/BlazBlue'', Ragna The Bloodedge has earned the [[RedBaron moniker]] of The Grim Reaper (or Shinigami in Japanese) due to his BadassLongcoat and SinisterScythe. However, he has shown that DarkIsNotEvil.

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* In ''VideoGame/BlazBlue'', ''Franchise/BlazBlue'', Ragna The Bloodedge has earned the [[RedBaron moniker]] of The Grim Reaper (or Shinigami in Japanese) due to his BadassLongcoat and SinisterScythe. However, he has shown that DarkIsNotEvil.
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* In ''LightNovel/KyouranKazokuNikki'', "shinigami" is [[EveryoneCallsHimBarkeep the title given]] to BloodKnight, skull-mask-wearing monster-exterminators.

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* In ''LightNovel/KyouranKazokuNikki'', ''Literature/KyouranKazokuNikki'', "shinigami" is [[EveryoneCallsHimBarkeep the title given]] to BloodKnight, skull-mask-wearing monster-exterminators.

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