History Main / Tengu

* In ''Kurenai Enishi'', the 6th Music/{{Tsukiuta}} stage play, the idols are [[TrappedInAnotherWorld sutten-kororin'd]] into the ayakashi world by a young tengu, and get caught up in the fight between his two older brothers, leaders of rival tengu villages. The tengu look like ordinary humans, without wings -- unlike in the previous stage play, Natsuyumesai, when Kai's tengu form had wings.

* Aya Shameimaru and Hatate Himekaidou from ''[Franchise/TouhouProject''. Momiji Inubashiri is also listed as a tengu, but she is of the white wolf variety instead of a crow. It could be that she is a [[http://www.monstropedia.org/index.php?title=Tiangou Tiangou,]] a dog-like creature from Chinese mythology that's related to the Japanese tengu.

* Ponosuke Ninokuru from ''Manga/AyakashiTriangle'' is based on a karasu tengu, except he's a pigeon instead of a crow. He's still a humanoid bird that dresses and uses a staff like a yamabushi, but Ponosuke is humble, excessively-formal, and only a bit bigger than a regular pigeon. He also has wings on his back like a dai tengu. Ever since the exorcist ninja Soga rescued Ponosuke from a cat, he's served as his {{familiar}} and his family's retainer.

* In the backstory of ''{{VideoGame/Metroid}}'' the [[{{Precursors}} Chozo]] started off as [[NinjaPirateZombieRobot Ancient Egyptian Tengu]] {{IN SPACE}}, but had an epiphany in their twilight years that led them to reinvent themselves as peaceful scientists. Even in the present day, however, they are more than capable of training Samus into one of the galaxy's greatest warriors.

* [[ExactlyWhatItSaysOnTheTin Naturally]], Tengu Man from ''VideoGame/MegaMan8''. He has a long red nose and wields the power of wind.

** Tengu are a playable race, albeit based mostly on ''D&D''[='=]s kenku, and consequently wingless -- their arms end in clawed hands. They are proficient with all sword-like weapons, skilled at picking up new languages, and can eventually learn to transform into crows or long-nosed humans. Their patron deity, the LordOfTheOcean Hei Feng, usually takes the form of a raven-like tengu with glowing eyes.

* ''Franchise/PrettyCure'' has two villains based on tengu - Shakince of ''Anime/MahoGirlsPreCure'' and Tenjo of ''Anime/StarTwinklePrettyCure''. The former has wings, the latter has red skin and the telltale long-nosed mask, and both use fans.

* ''Franchise/{{Anpanman}}'' has Tengu Boy, a young tengu that uses his powers to get out of doing his chores (much to his father's displeasure).

* VideoGame/ChampionIslandGames: Both species of Tengu are featured in the game. The Karasu tengue form Team Red and are renowed for their wisdom (their headquarters being a library), while a Hanataka tengu is the boss in the Ping Pong minigame.

* Ponosuke from ''Manga/AyakashiTriangle'' is based on a karasu tengu, except he's a pigeon instead of a crow. Correspondingly, while he’s a humanoid bird that dresses and uses a staff like [[WarriorMonk yamabushi]], Ponosuke is humble, excessively-formal, [[{{Familiar}} loyal to his human master]], and only a bit bigger than a regular pigeon.

* In ''Manga/{{Naruto}}'' members of the Uchiha clan are sometimes depicted with tengu imagery; most notably the Susanoo technique in its complete form is shaped like a Dai Tengu. The name Uchiha itself means "fan", an item commonly associated with tengu.

* Haiji Miyamoto from ''Manga/RosarioToVampire'', one half of a [[VitriolicBestBuds Vitriolic]] ThoseTwoGuys with [[OurWerewolvesAreDifferent Ginei Morioka]], is revealed to be a ''karasu tengu'', which was foreshadowed before the reveal, as his being a ComedicLolicon (and proud of it!) is due to his particular type of tengu being known for loving children, though in a different manner from how he does.

* ''[[VideoGame/GanbareGoemon The Legend of the Mystical Ninja]]'' has a stage named Tengu Mountain, where the long noses of tengu heads carved out of rock can be used as platforms. There is also a MiniBoss fight against three tengu warriors, one of which throws a yatsude leaf as a weapon.

Tengu are often depicted as mountain-dwelling and are associated with martial arts, sometimes being cited as [[MentorArchetype the origins]] of {{Secret Art}}s such as {{Ninja}} techniques. They are particularly identified with [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yamabushi yamabushi]], the mountain-dwelling monks of the Shugendo religion, and are often depicted wearing the yamabushi's traditional costume (depending on the story this may be a disguise, a show of religious devotion, or the original clothing that yamabushi garb was based on). Other common features include long white hair, "tengu geta"[[note]]Wooden sandals (geta) with one unusually tall slat rather than two, requiring superhuman balance to walk in.[[/note]] and large fans made of feathers or [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fatsia_japonica yatsude leaves]].

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* Setsuna from ''Manga/NegimaMagisterNegiMagi'' is half "bird tribe". They never say the name, but they have encountered a full Bird Tribe Demon and it resembles the classical ''tengu''.
* Both Haruka and Sugino in ''Manga/{{Tactics}}'' are tengu - Haruka is known as the Oni-eating Tengu before he is named and bound by the protagonist. Sugino fights with the traditional feather fan that magically raises huge gusts of wind, while Haruka carries a monk's shakujou with a spiked base. It's also stated that while Haruka was born tengu, Sugino became a tengu through arrogance and hubris--a genuine folklore reference.
* Yotsuba meets [[spoiler:Jumbo]] dressed as a tengu boss during the [[FestivalEpisode cart-pulling festival]] of ''Manga/{{Yotsuba}}''. She's young enough to find it scary, even though she knows it's a mask.
* One episode of ''Anime/SamuraiChamploo'' features a cult of fanatical sohei (warrior-priests) who disguise themselves as tengu to waylay travelers. In RealLife, the legends of the tengu probably originated from sohei.
* Kurama-hime from ''Manga/UruseiYatsura'' is a CuteMonsterGirl version of the Tengu (though she trades the long nose for little crow wings on her head and is thusly an avian BeastMan). She's also served by more traditional Karasu Tengu (which are runty little humanoid crows).

* In ''Manga/{{Kekkaishi}}'' the main character helps the great tengu god to make an offspring.
* In ''Manga/NuraRiseOfTheYokaiClan'' there are a big amount of them, being shown not only as the big nosed old men, but also as humans with crow wings or small anthro crow creatures.

* Some fans have referred to Shishiwakamaru of ''Manga/YuYuHakusho'' as this.

* ''Manga/{{xxxHolic}}'' features the “Kurasu Tengu,” who look like yakuza children on flying skateboards.
* ''Manga/{{Bleach}}'': Love's zanpakuto is modeled after a Tengu's nose, being [[{{BFS}} absurdly large]] and being named [[MeaningfulName Tengumaru]].[[note]]-maru is a common ending for a Japanese male name or, as fitting for this case, the name of a sword.[[/note]]

* One of the first story arcs in ''Manga/{{Yaiba}}'' features a village infested by a mischievous Tengu who steals their food. It's actually revealed to be [[UsefulNotes/MiyamotoMusashi Musashi]] with a Tengu mask on.
* The Mountain God in ''Manga/HellTeacherNube'' has several Tengu as his minions, and he often uses them to sever Nube and Yukime's bonds to one another. One of them almost succeeded in killing Nube using its giant wind-blowing leaf, which it first used to blow bad daydreams into Nube's mind and then went for the more direct approach of blowing Nube onto the train tracks as a train sped by.
* So far, only Karasu Tengu appear in ''Monster Girl Encyclopedia'', although their profile does mention Daitengu. They mostly avoid humans, preferring to gather information about them in secret, but will kidnap men during mating season. They only seek a NiceGuy, and can be driven away simply by verbal insults.
* ''Franchise/{{Anpanman}}'' has Tengu Boy, a young tengu that uses his powers to get out of doing his chores (much to his father's displeasure).
* The leader of the Eastern youkai in ''Manga/UshioAndTora'' is a tengu, though his usual appearance is an old man. Later during the great Bakemono War arc we see a eastern Karasutengu (though he looks like a hawk) and a western counterpart, both serving as the right hand man to their leaders. According to WordOfGod, Shinno, the leader of the Western Youkai, is a Daitengu as well, though he doesn't look the part, (he resembles a normal human with elongated lobes and spiky hair).
* ''Manga/SengokuYouko'': two giant Tengu (one humanoid, the latter crow-like) guard the entrance to the land of Ooyama Mizuchihime. When they're defeated by Senya they split into hundreds of smaller copies.

* In ''Manga/JapanTenguPartyIllustrated'' the fractured and disgraced remnants of the tengu species come together from all over the country to rise up, reclaim their pride, and rule over the nation of Japan.
* [[Anime/DigimonFrontier Karatenmon]] from ''Franchise/{{Digimon}}'' is a Wizard Digimon whose name and design are derived from the mythological Karasu-tengu.
* In ''Manga/NekoMusumeMichikusaNikki'' the Tengu is, well, a tengu who serves as the overseer of the area's youkai. While he spends most of his time in the shape of a crow, he can transform into a Hanataka Tengu.
* ''Manga/GugureKokkurisan'''s Tengu is a KnowledgeBroker mountain god... and a paedophile.
* Tengu Brunch from ''Manga/{{Toriko}}'', while later some more bird-like Tengu are encountered in the Hex Food World working in Brunch's restaurant. [[spoiler: It's later revealed that all the youkai are actually the descendants of those humans who mutated after being forcefully injected Gourmet Cells by the Blue Nitro]].
* Both families of Tengu Yokai from the ''Anime/YokaiWatch'' anime show up in the same episode--Tengloom, the apathy Yokai, shows up in a long short where Nate has to stop him from inspiriting his friends and making them gloomy, while the actual Tengu shows up in a short afterwards mostly to show up Whisper after Whisper pretends to be Tengu's friend. In the English dubbed version, although the dub implicitly takes place in America, Nate notes that [[CulturalCrossReference tengu are such famous mythological figures that even he's heard of them.]]
* ''Webcomic/HetaliaAxisPowers'': [[TheStoic Japan]] dresses as a Tengu for the ''Manga/Hetaween2011'' Halloween party, at least until [[spoiler: the FoodEnd of the event, where he ends up drunk and dressed in the same rags and SlaveCollar that [[TheDitz North Italy]] had been wearing, due to Ancient Rome's attempt at making the costume popular.]]
* Haiji Miyamoto from ''Manga/RosarioToVampire'', one half of a [[VitriolicBestBuds Vitriolic]] ThoseTwoGuys with [[OurWerewolvesAreDifferent Ginei Morioka]], is revealed to be a ''karasu tengu'', which was foreshadowed before the reveal, as his being a ComedicLolicon (and proud of it!) is due to his particular type of tengu being known for loving children, though in a different manner from how he does.

* In ''Animation/PleasantGoatAndBigBigWolf: Joys of Seasons'' episode 21, Mr. Slowy tells the goats about the lunar eclipse occuring in Goat Village actually being the result of a tengu trying to eat the moon. Mr. Slowy instructs the goats to bang pots/pans and wooden spoons to scare it off.

* One issue of ''ComicBook/BatmanAndTheOutsiders'' involved Katana running [[IncrediblyLamePun afowl]] of a flock of tengu summoned by magic.

* Several characters in ''Literature/TheEccentricFamily'' are tengu living in modern-day Kyoto.

* In ''Literature/TheDresdenFiles'', Harry is briefly assisted by a group of katana-wielding tengu (referred to here as [[TabletopGame/DungeonsAndDragons kenku]]) during the events of ''Literature/{{Changes}}''.
* Bernard Adelstein is occasionally compared to one in ''TokyoVice'' thanks to his prominent schnoz. He also resembles a crow, in that as a crime reporter he's inquisitive and drawn to the stench of death.

* In the ''Series/MetalHeroes'' series ''Series/SekaiNinjaSenJiraiya'', the Torinin (Bird Ninjas) Karasutengu are the [[{{Mooks}} common underlings]] of the Sorcerers Clan.

* The tengu of ''TabletopGame/LegendOfTheFiveRings'' are aloof but benevolent, and some of Rokugan's greatest swordmasters trained under them.
* Tengu appear in ''TabletopGame/{{Malifaux}}'' as some of the many mythical creatures serving the Ten Thunders.
* In ''TabletopGame/WerewolfTheApocalypse'', the Tengu are the East Asian branch of the Corax were-ravens, who serve as Gaia's information gatherers and messengers, and were the ones who came up with most of the Corax's battle powers. One group are known to kidnap mortals and train them as monster hunters.

* In ''Kurenai Enishi'', the 6th Music/{{Tsukiuta}} stage play, the idols are [[TrappedInAnotherWorld sutten-kororin'd]] into the ayakashi world by a young tengu, and get caught up in the fight between his two older brothers, leaders of rival tengu villages. The tengu look like ordinary humans, without wings - unlike in the previous stage play, Natsuyumesai, when Kai's tengu form had wings.

* Aya Shameimaru and Hatate Himekaidou from ''[Franchise/TouhouProject''. Momiji Inubashiri is also listed as a tengu, but she is of the white wolf variety instead of a crow. It could be that she is a [[http://www.monstropedia.org/index.php?title=Tiangou Tiangou,]] a dog-like creature from Chinese mythology that's related to the Japanese tengu.
** Tengu are noted as having the most advanced society of all youkai in Gensokyo, due to there being an unusual number of myths about its organisation. Specifically they have a government of Great Tengu, a bureacracy of Long-nosed Tengu, printing presses run by Yamabushi Tengu, a "nimble information corps" of Crow Tengu (the variety most often seen by outsiders) and a border patrol of White Wolf Tengu, all lead by Lord Tenma.
* [[ExactlyWhatItSaysOnTheTin Naturally]], Tengu Man from ''VideoGame/MegaMan8''. He has a long red nose and wields the power of wind.
* ''VideoGame/MiniNinjas'' features tengu prominently, living in remote forest locations and helping wandering ninjas on their way.
* ''{{VideoGame/Okami}}'' has the crow-like version ("Crow Tengu"), and the long-nosed version ("Great Tengu").
* Ōtengu and Karasu-tengu from ''Onmyōji'', [[ExactlyWhatItSaysOnTheTin obviously]].
* Gohyakumine Bankotsubo, the boss of ''VideoGame/DeadOrAlive 2'', and a playable character in ''Dead or Alive 4''. His skin is dark black, with white facial hair, and a very long nose. The arcade version of ''Dead or Alive 5 Ultimate'' [[MovesetClone brought back his moveset]] but in true Dead or Alive fashion, gave it to [[RuleSixtyThree an attractive female]], Miyama no Nyotengu, instead.

* One of these is a miniboss in ''VideoGame/MadWorld''. Or at least, a guy dressed like one. He uses ninjutsu, and appears in stages and stage segments with ninja.
* ''VideoGame/ZenoClash'': Father-Mother appears to be inspired by this, if not explicitly based on them. He/She sports the phallic nose, and general crow theme.

* ''VideoGame/{{Achaea}}'' has wild Tengu in one of the forests. They appear as winged black kittens, and are about as cute as you'd expect flying kittens to be.

* The later ''VideoGame/MonsterRancher'' games have the Raiden family of monsters, which, though named after the god, are clearly modeled on tengu, with their birdlike faces and mastery of martial arts.
* ''Franchise/ShinMegamiTensei'' has several types of Tengu running around: from tiny annoyances (Koppa Tengu), to evil corruptive spirits (Karasu Tengu) to competent, powerful warriors (Kurama Tengu), each modelled after a different branch of Tengu.
* The "Iai Slash" minigame in ''[[VideoGame/RhythmHeaven Rhythm Tengoku]]'' features various Tengu as the main enemies.
* The toriningen of ''VideoGame/YumeNikki'', being tall humanoids with long, beak-like noses. True to form, the [[TurnsRed angry]] [[GoddamnedBats variants]] carry off Madotsuki and place her in inescapable areas.
* ''Hana Tāka Daka!?'', a HorizontalScrollingShooter for the UsefulNotes/PCEngine, stars a flying tengu.
* The first stage of Round 6 of ''VideoGame/{{Shinobi}} III: The Ninja Master'' has Karura, a crow tengu MiniBoss that appears in a whirlwind of feathers.

* In ''VideoGame/{{Angband}}'', tengu are minor demons that can cast some teleport spells.
* One of the many characters you can kiss in ''VideoGame/{{Chulip}}''

* ''[[VideoGame/GanbareGoemon The Legend of the Mystical Ninja]]'' has a stage named Tengu Mountain, where the long noses of tengu heads carved out of rock can be used as platforms. There is also a MiniBoss fight against three tengu warriors, one of which throws a yatsude leaf as a weapon.
* In the backstory of ''{{VideoGame/Metroid}}'' the [[{{Precursors}} Chozo]] started off as [[NinjaPirateZombieRobot Ancient Egyptian Tengu]] {{IN SPACE}}, but had an epiphany in their twilight years that led them to reinvent themselves as peaceful scientists. Even in the present day, however, they are more than capable of training Samus into one of the galaxy's greatest warriors.
* ''VideoGame/{{Dungeon Crawl}}'' features tengu as both enemies and a playable race.
** As enemies, regular tengu and their conjurer and warrior counterparts are rather weak due to their low HP and weak spells, but [[{{EliteMooks}} tengu reavers]] are much beefier,physically hit harder,pack a punch with their elemental spells, and can summon a battlesphere that deals irresistible damage. Their king, Sojobo, packs similarly hard-hitting spells and is usually found with a court of fellow reavers.
** Similarly, as a race, tengu excel at [[{{AnAxeToGrind}} all]] [[{{SimpleStaff}} sorts]] [[{{EpicFlail}} of]] [[{{GoodOldFisticuffs}} sch]][[{{ILikeSwords}} ools]] [[{{BladeOnAStick}} of fighting]] and are good at [[{{BlowYouAway}} air]] [[{{ShockAndAwe}} magic]] and [[{{PureEnergy}} general]] [[{{EnergyBall}} conjuring]]. However, they have low HP and have to rely on dodging and simple running away to avoid damage.
* Several Yokai in ''VideoGame/YokaiWatch'' are modeled after tengu. Tengloom and Nird resemble anthropomorphic crows, but there's also a Yokai just called "Tengu" who resembles a more traditional tengu with a long nose. (There's also his PaletteSwap, Flengu.)
* A tengu resembling the ''Hanataka'' variety is one of the many creatures you can summon in ''{{VideoGame/Scribblenauts}}'' and all it's sequels.

* In ''VideoGame/FateGrandOrder'', Rider Minamoto-no-Yoshitsune (Ushiwakamaru) is said to have studied martial strategy under the tengu. [[GenderFlip She]] wears tengu-geta sandals and a feathered headdress to honor them, and her "Tengu's Strategies" skill increases the charge rate of her party's Noble Phantasm attacks.
* ''VideoGame/LoveNikkiDressUpQueen'' has a Tengu costume that was one of the outfits available in the {{Youkai}} themed Haunted Night event. It has the wings, mask, and other traditional clothing.
* In ''VideoGame/RiverKing: Mystic Valley'' you can befriend three spirit pets that you can raise. One is a boy named Tenma who is obviously modeled after a tengu.
* ''VideoGame/{{Nefarious}}'' features tengu as one of the types of grunts Crow fights against in the [[{{Wutai}} Sukochi]] kingdom. Interestingly, they're depicted as corvids wearing tengu masks.
* Kuya from ''VideoGame/AyakashiRomanceReborn'' is a tengu. He even wears the tengu geta mentioned above. He can generate a powerful gust of wind with a flick of his fan.
* Unsurprisingly, Tengu are just one of the many yokai enemies encountered in ''VideoGame/{{Nioh}}''. Armed with a staff that gives them wide sweeping attacks, limited flight that lets them close the distance fast, the ability to strike from afar with RazorWind, and grapple maneuvers that can't be blocked, and you have a very dangerous foe that can [[BossInMookClothing qualify as a boss in and of itself]].

* Chikage in ''VisualNovel/EnchantedInTheMoonlight'' is a tengu, although being as it's a romance game he lacks any trace of the traditional long nose and instead appears as a handsome young man with black-feathered wings.

* In ''WesternAnimation/LegendOfTheThreeCaballeros'', the trio must escape the Underworld by fighting a Tengu guarding a gateway back to the Living World that leads to the foothills of Mount Fuji. Despite being called a Karasu Tengu, he is also described as being falcon-like instead of crow-like.

* Setsuna from ''Manga/MahouSenseiNegima'' is half "bird tribe". They never say the name, but they have encountered a full Bird Tribe Demon and it resembles the classical ''tengu''.

* ''{{Franchise/Anpanman}}'' has Tengu Boy, a young tengu that uses his powers to get out of doing his chores (much to his father's displeasure).

* [[Anime/DigimonFrontier Karatenmon]] from ''{{Franchise/Digimon}}'' is a Wizard Digimon whose name and design are derived from the mythological Karasu-tengu.

* ''Webcomic/AxisPowersHetalia:'' [[TheStoic Japan]] dresses as a Tengu for the ''Manga/Hetaween2011'' Halloween party, at least until [[spoiler: the FoodEnd of the event, where he ends up drunk and dressed in the same rags and SlaveCollar that [[TheDitz North Italy]] had been wearing, due to Ancient Rome's attempt at making the costume popular.]]

* Aya Shameimaru and Hatate Himekaidou from ''[[VideoGame/{{Touhou}} Touhou Project]]''. Momiji Inubashiri is also listed as a tengu, but she is of the white wolf variety instead of a crow. It could be that she is a [[http://www.monstropedia.org/index.php?title=Tiangou Tiangou,]] a dog-like creature from Chinese mythology that's related to the Japanese tengu.

Tengu ([[NonIndicativeName literally "sky dog"]]) are a type of {{Youkai}} found in Myth/JapaneseMythology that are most commonly associated with crows, known for their great agility, magical power and arrogance.[[note]]To the point where in Japanese a conceited person can be described as "turning into a tengu", based on [[{{Metamorphosis}} a common fate for such people in legend]].[[/note]] Old stories portray tengu as TheTrickster and[=/=]or {{Evil Mentor}}s who lure Buddhists into depravity, but gradually they were [[AlternativeCharacterInterpretation reinterpreted]] into simply dangerous, territorial beings which are [[GoodIsNotNice capable of nobility in their own right]].

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* One issue of ''BatmanAndTheOutsiders'' involved Katana running [[IncrediblyLamePun afowl]] of a flock of tengu summoned by magic.

* Kuya from ''VideoGame/AyakashiRomanceReborn'' is a tengu.