Bakemono vs Kaibutsu

 Whilest I'm playing Code:Realize, I had an important question. There is usually a word I hear in japanese, and it means monster, but in this game they call the heroine kaibutsu instead and it's still translated as monster. So to get my answers, I spent some time surfing on the internet, looking for the answer. 

It turned out, Bakemono (化け物) and Kaibutsu (怪物) aren't quite has the same meaning, but still they are very close. As you can see, mono and butsu are written with the same kanji and the meaning is the same. 

Whiles bakemono means a thing that has "changed", it can be a ghost or a ghostlike thing, a shape shifter or people or animal that can turn into a monster. If you take a quick look on Parasyte the maxim, they call those parasites bakemono, because they are non humans and can change their shape to melt into the crowd. They also use this word quite often in Mayoiga, the lost town. (I watched that anime by mistake when I planed to see Free and I just didn't pay attention on what am I playing on crunchyroll. It was my best mistake, I enjoyed it even more than Free.) In this anime, they arrive into a hauned town, where noone lives. They dissapeared, and they call these ghostlike things bakemono. 

I've seen kaibutsu as a title for a more beastlike anime. It means "unkown" thing. It's usually an unnatural, huge strong, beastlike thing, however an earthy way of using it is for suspicious and mysterious things or people. 

I hope this helped you out too! x