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Shadow Crocodile’s appearance monster

"Horse": The creature appeared in the first episode. Its shape is similar to the Brontosaurus, but unlike the Brontosaurus, this creature is carnivorous. It has the characteristics of a bird's beak on its head. It is huge but agile. It can move on land and underwater to hunt prey in stealth mode. In this episode, it kills a three-person photography team that went to the uninhabited area of ????the forest to create a pseudo-documentary about monsters

"Ice Fang": The creature appears in the second episode. Its shape is similar to that of an ape and its size is huge. It has long and slender white hair all over its body, and its mouth has long and short fangs exposed. It grows on the snow-capped mountains and has extremely weak eyesight. It relies on thermal energy sensing to search for prey and is also sensitive to sound. In this episode, it killed the father of the female mountaineer who appeared in this episode, and killed the mountaineering team except the female mountaineer. The female mountaineer finally escaped by lowering her body temperature.

"Return": The creature appears in the third episode. Its shape is similar to a squid, its surface is dark red, its body fluid is black, and it can move underwater and on land. The terrifying thing is that this creature will use humans as a reproductive carrier and rely on human skeletal structure to develop. Because of this, it has self-awareness. In this episode, it hunts an Ama, who then transforms into a new squid-like creature. The creature that Ama transformed into takes away the Ama who appeared at the beginning at the end, and Ama also turned into a squid-like creature

"Two Bows": A creature appears in the fourth episode, its shape is similar to a snapping turtle, and it uses the sewer as its nest. It is huge in size and has the physiological habit of regularly shedding its shell. Its claws are sharp and powerful, allowing it to climb at will and move quickly. In this episode, it attacked two children who accidentally entered the lair, but did not cause any casualties. At the end, it was burned to death by the biochemical troops of the research institute led by another character in the anime, Kimura Masaki. At the same time, a piece of blood produced by the creature was also discovered. An egg was taken away by the biochemical troops of the research institute

"Special Colors": The creature appeared in the fifth episode. Its shape is similar to a toad, but it is huge and can walk upright. It is a carnivorous creature. What's special is that its epidermal organs can hide its body and achieve a state of invisibility for hunting. In this episode, it swallowed a convenience store boy alive and was burned to death by the institute's biochemical troops at the end

"The Abyss": The creature that appeared in the sixth episode, its morphological prototype is very similar to a rumored creature that cannot be confirmed The Antarctic artificial human Ningen is a humanoid aquatic creature with a huge size. It lives near the Antarctic icebergs. Because it will surface from time to time, it may breathe like a whale. The creature has poor eyesight, hunts with sound waves, or calls out to its companions by emitting powerful sound waves, and has amazingly powerful arms and hands. In this episode, it hunted a civilian submersible as its prey. The submersible emitted powerful sound waves at the last moment to disguise itself as the creature's kind and escaped the disaster without causing any casualties

"Cut": Episode 7 The appearance of the creature is not fully exposed, and the main body is located below the ground. This creature uses sound and vibrations to determine the location of prey on the surface, and then rushes out of the surface through a super-large crab claw-like part to carry out hunting behavior. In this episode, it appears on the school playground and causes no injuries. Although its main body does not appear, the little boy in the film drew the rough shape of the creature in the playground

"Mimicry": There are two creatures that appear in the eighth episode. The first one is the creature that appears in the seventh episode. , revealed in full form in this episode, its size is the largest among the creatures in the anime. This creature lives in the mountains and attracts humans by disguising its mouth and esophagus as a road tunnel. Another way it forages is by sensing seismic waves, and then using its claw-like parts to hunt prey. The scary thing is that it can also cause hallucinations in humans by releasing a certain sweet gas. In this episode, the male protagonist Banba of this anime was hallucinated and almost swallowed the creature's tongue as if he was a female companion. The second form resembles a flea and has super jumping ability. It has a long and narrow mouthpart on its head, which it uses to penetrate the human body to hunt humans. After finishing eating, the stabbed human will turn into a mummy. In this episode, a flea-like creature killed several drivers, and a giant creature killed the male protagonist's female companion, and was finally killed by a fighter jet from the institute's biochemical unit at the end

"Bewitched": Chapter The creatures that appear in the ninth episode are in the form of a group of carnivorous plants that live in an abandoned botanical garden. The main body is a large tree that can stretch out a large number of vines, and each body is a piranha flower. This flora usually survives by absorbing nutrients from other ordinary plants. When living organisms appear in the local area, they will start hunting together. The vines of big trees have an amazing ability to wrap themselves around, and they move quickly. The piranha has an extremely wide range of movement. Their only weakness is light, and they will stop moving when exposed to light. In this episode, they killed almost all the humans who appeared in the botanical garden. The only surviving boy was transformed by the flora, turning him into a human with flora consciousness, able to handle police interrogation and walk freely. At the end, because The sunlight forced the plant boy to reveal his true appearance, and he was arrested by the biochemical team of the research institute

"Shadow Crocodile": The creature that appears in the tenth episode is the most important monster of this animation, and its prototype comes from the monster in ancient Japanese legends The fish "rocks caress". This creature may be a high-dimensional creature, in the form of a shadow. The shadow state resembles a giant crocodile, with a mouth full of sharp teeth. It feeds on the shadows of all living creatures, and the living creatures that are swallowed by the shadows will also suffer the same damage. It moves quickly and slowly, can attach itself to any object, and is extremely destructive. The only way to kill the creature is to destroy the object it is attached to, and it will take the same damage until it dies.

In this episode, Shadow Crocodile killed an Ama at the beginning and injured the huntress who hunted it. After that, it almost ate all the humans in a village. Only a little girl survived by hiding under the foundation of the house. Difficult

"Encounter": The creature that appears in the eleventh episode is still the shadow crocodile. It is basically unchanged from the previous episode. The only change is that this episode reflects the shadow crocodile's "clone" skill. It can split into several individuals for hunting, forming a more powerful destructive force. At the same time, this episode also shows the corrosive ability of this creature. Humans who are injured by the shadow crocodile but not killed will leave eternal scars on their bodies. In this episode, the male protagonist of this anime recalls that his parents were killed when he was a child. The shadow crocodile once again ate almost all the humans in the village, and almost ate the child. At the critical moment, the female hunter who appeared in the previous episode came to the rescue. He ran away from the Shadow Crocodile, but this encounter left an indelible scar on Banba's face

"Pitch Black": The creature that appeared in the twelfth episode was a cloned Shadow Crocodile, and Kimura appeared in the fourth episode The shadow crocodile cells extracted from the snapping turtle hatched from the taken away eggs were copied and cloned. The institute tried to transform it into a biological weapon. In order to prevent it from getting out of control, the biochemical troops used strong light to control it within a limited range. In this episode, the reasons for the appearance of Shadow Crocodile and the appearance of monsters everywhere are revealed. Shadow Crocodile cells are the source of the proliferation of monsters. However, the cloned shadow crocodile still escaped, and the plant boy who appeared in the ninth episode attacked the research institute with the intervention of the flora with shadow crocodile cells in his body

"Return to the Emperor": Appeared in the thirteenth episode The creature is still a cloned shadow crocodile. The change is that the cloned shadow crocodile has demonstrated the ability to fuse with "same kind". It recognizes the banba with remaining shadow crocodile cells in its body as the same kind, and merges with the banba that intends to combine with it. One body. Banba, who became Shadow Crocodile, left a large area of ??black patches on his face. Unlike the plant boy, because the Shadow Crocodile cells in his body are cells left over from the original body, Banba can control the behavior of the cloned Shadow Crocodile and still retain his thoughts. Basic human nature, while using the power of the Shadow Crocodile for his own use as a means to deal with the original Shadow Crocodile in the future.

In this episode, Banba manipulated the cloned shadow crocodile to kill the soldiers of the biochemical force of the institute to facilitate his escape, and finally let the cloned shadow crocodile devour Kimura