Popular Culture
- Kodama appear in the animated film Princess Mononoke, in which they are portrayed as small, white humanoids with large, rattling heads and mask-like features, similar to bobbleheads. In one scene San (Princess Mononoke) chops down a sapling. They appear to crowd around it. Near the end, when the trees begin to die, kodama can be seen falling from the air and dissolving on the ground.
- Kodama are presented as demons in the Megami Tensei series, and sometimes 'evolve' into Sudama.
- Kodama is the name of an independent professional wrestler who works for CHIKARA Pro.
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