A Monstrel (モストレル Mosutoreru?) is a Japanese-created wasei-eigo pseudo-word or made up word created by Akihisa Ikeda (池田晃久 Ikeda Akihisa?) (creator of Rosario + Vampire) to literally mean a hybrid ayashi or a hybrid Yokai. Their name is perhaps the word "monster" and a "minstrel", the English word "minstrel" literally meaning a type of singer or a poet. Their nickname or moniker is "Outcast Ayashi". Monstrel or plural Monstrels are typically made up of many different parts of a monster or inbred, being monsters created by two different races of monsters getting together. They are typically either a hybrid or a fusion.