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Gong crocodile, fuck yeah.

Alright, so we're talking Japanese mythology.

This here monstrosity is called Waniguchi, which apparently means gong crocodile, or it better mean gong crocodile because that's what it is. Semantics aside, it behaves like a crocodile if crocodiles lived in temples and had fang-filled gongs for heads. Whether there exists an Eastern Captain Hook who hears the monster coming from its ringing head exists is up to debate. It's a vanilla tsukumogami, that is to say an animate object that gained a soul over the years. It'd be nice to have a girlfriend who also doubles as an antique radio, but given she's been used by three previous generations you may consider her a slut. Those critters don't like electricity anyway, which is used to explain why we don't have living buildings walking around.

There IS a myth of a walking building, though, in form of a demonic ramen bar that drugs its customers to sleep and turns into a portal to hell, so the monsters there can feast on the helpless victims.