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Man-Faced Dog

Episode 1

The Jinmenken  (人面犬 "Jin men inu" literally Human-Faced Dog, or in the English credits as Man-Faced Dog) is a minor ghost in the Ghost Stories anime, and a ghost host in Gakkou no Kaidan SP.  He is voiced in the English dub by Andrew Love.

Ghost Stories anime[]

Biography[]

The Man-Faced Dog makes it debut at the first episode, when the gang find Kaya, and they think that the cat is scared because of a dog that is barking for him. When Keiichirou tells the dog to stop it, the Man-Faced Dog looks at him, frightening the gang with his human face. In Episode 13,The Man-Faced Dog along with Hanako and other minor ghosts help Satsuki and the gang, as they are also afraid of Da Vinci.

The gang encounter the Man-Faced Dog in Episode 7 "The Soul Stolen by the Mirror!! Utsushimi", in which it criticizes them for failing to see that Leo has been traded with an evil replica, the same as the crowd they are fleeing from.

Personality[]

The Jinmenken is always grumpy, however, it seems he is inoffensive, like most of the minor ghosts.

Gakkou no Kaidan SP[]

Human faced dog

The Jinmenken is one of the "Ghost Hosts" who introduce the segments in Gakkou no Kaidan SP. He is always pranking jokes on the other Ghost Hosts.

Trivia[]

  • While folklore of Jinmenken goes back at least to the Edo period, the recent urban legend in Japan is that if someone gets late in putting the garbage out, the Jinmenken appears to scare the person. Wild theories abound, that the Jinmenken are spirits of homeless people, escaped laboratory experiments, or people who were bitten by one of them and converted.[1]
  • The Man-Faced Dog appears in the end credits painting.

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