Kutaka Niwatari

Species: God

Ability: Capable of healing throat illnesses

Kutaka is a god of chickens and a guard of Hell. She lives in a spring atop the Youkai Mountain but goes to Higan for her job of overseeing the gateway to otherworlds such as Hell under the yama's oversight. She first appeared as stage 3 midboss and boss in Wily Beast and Weakest Creature, then reappeared as the extra stage midboss.

Her true identity is that of Niwatarijin, the god of wild chickens before they were domesticated. People tend to think of chickens as being weak and cowardly, but she's a polite and just god who values equality and altruism above all. She's been considering what she can do to help raise the status of chickens, who've been reduced to a food source for humans. (Source: official ingame profiles)