[quote=@AtomicNut]<Snipped quote by PPQ Purple>

Well yes and no. It's the closest match, as sometimes they are portrayed as child eaters... Western ogres are usually brutish, huge, and sometimes have magical powers.

Oni usually have afterlife demonic traits due to their association to the eastern equivalent of Hell. 

Oh well.[/quote]
I will freely admit that my knowledge of eastern mythology is fairly limited to the point that I goofed. Most of what I know about it o comes from video games and dubbed anime. Oh well.