Watahiko
ワタヒコ
Supporting character in MUSHI-SHI.
Watahiko appears in episode 21, "Cotton Changeling." Watahiko was born to Aki and Yasuke as a strange green goo. When it vanished, a baby was found in its place after some time. Then another, and another... all identical, all named "Watahiko." He is actually a form of fungal mushi that once inside the body of a pregnant woman, kills the embryo and takes it's place. Then after it escapes at birth forms a base near the home it was born and creates children to gather energy for itself, almost like plant roots. All the children of the base mushi share a hive mind, when one ...
