Board Thread:WARNING ALL USERS False Info\Spoilers/@comment-108.201.172.92-20140204200446/@comment-1409671-20140220052617

Yes, that is from my 1997 document, which has been copied and recopied all over the internet, since it was the first English web page on kitsune. I was very naive when I wrote it, there's a lot of information which is just 'wrong'. Ocean, River, Mountain, Forest, Thunder, Time, Sound, Earth, Fire, etc. Completely wrong. The idea of three 'prime' elements, and so forth, all wrong.

Now, that being said, I think the people who wrote this story arc drew a lot from the information I'd put up. And I'm fine with that. How they're showing everything in Teen Wolf, I don't see as 'wrong'. I see it as 'this is their take on the kitsune', and so far, I'm finding it very awesome. What they've done so far, I consider incredible storytelling, and they're not doing anything I would point at and say 'you're doing it WRONG'. The elements they've introduced, I could easily see a kitsune doing.

For example, Nogitsune Styles feeding off the pain that Scott 'ate'? I can totally see that. That pain is chi, and the nogitsune is feeding off that chi. Kira drawing on the electricity? Certainly, because electricity is chi, and kitsune feed off chi. All of that fits just fine.

But yeah, if you're going to decide what kitsune each character is... I'd say step away from the elements, and look at the other method of identifying foxes. Ghost foxes, red foxes, shrine foxes, etc.

I've spent over fifteen years studying kitsune, Shinto, and Japanese mysticism, and my views on kitsune have evolved a lot since that article in 1997. :)