Aka Manto

Kanji: 赤マント
Kana: あかまんと
Pronunciation: Aka Manto (Ah-kah Mahn-toh)

TRANSLATION: Red Cloak / Red Cape
ALTERNATE NAMES: Aoi Manto (Blue Cloak)
ORIGIN: Showa period (20th Century); Urban legend

HABITAT: Public bathrooms, school toilets (usually the last stall)
DIET: None (Kills for sport/revenge)

ABILITIES:

• Manifests in locked bathroom stalls
• Reality warping (offering paper that doesn't exist)
• Unavoidable lethality if rules are broken
• Teleportation ghost features

WEAKNESSES:

• Confusing the spirit by asking for 'Yellow' or other colors
• Refusing to answer (ignoring him)
• Running away immediately

OVERVIEW: Aka Manto is a famous Japanese urban legend about a malicious spirit that haunts public toilets and school bathrooms. He asks occupants a trick question: 'Red paper or blue paper?' The answer determines their gruesome fate.

APPEARANCE: He appears as a man wearing a red cloak and a white mask that covers his handsome but disturbing face. In some versions, he is described as having no feet or floating. He is almost always encountered in the last stall of a female restroom.

BEHAVIOR: Once a victim sits on the toilet in a haunted stall, a mysterious voice asks, 'Do you want red paper or blue paper?' If the victim says 'Red,' they are sliced apart until their clothes are stained red with blood. If they say 'Blue,' they are strangled until their face turns blue or all their blood is drained. If they try to outsmart him by asking for a different color, mysteries hands drag them into the netherworld.

INTERACTIONS: The only way to survive is to ignore the voice completely, run away, or decline any paper. He specifically targets vulnerable people in isolated bathrooms, making him a terrifying figure in school ghost stories.

OTHER FORMS: There are regional variations, such as 'Red Vest' or 'Red Cape,' but the core mechanic of the color choice leading to death remains consistent.