>I have, however, seen many stories of youkai
>of all kinds both eating and sleeping...)

Indeed. When the authors bother to try explaining that at all in the case of capital-M Magicians, the usual answer is either that they were once human and are still in the habit, or just do it for fun/to be sociable.

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