Futakuchi-Onna

Futakuchi-Onna (二口女 Futakuchionna, lit. Two-Mouthed Woman) is a yōkai woman with a second mouth on the back of her head. She is a member of the Yōkai Castle trio alongside Tantanbō and Kamaitachi. Like her teammates, she first appeared in the Shonen Magazine story Yōkai Castle. In the 1968 anime, her name is instead Ōguchi-Onna (大口女 Ōguchi-Onna, lit. Large Mouth Woman).
==Appearance==
Futakuchi-Onna has the appearance of a woman with long dark hair dressed in a kimono. As her name implies, she has a second mouth on the back of her head. Her second mouth is larger and has sharp teeth. In the original manga, her face was round and her regular mouth also has sharp teeth, but in most adaptations, her face is more conventionally attractive.
In the 1968 anime, Ōguchi-Onna has a face devoid of all features other than a large mouth.
In the 2018 anime, Futakuchi-Onna appears as a woman with pale yellow skin, pointy ears, and sharp white nails. Her long hair is white, having a pair of snakes with red pupil-less eyes and two strands that resemble snake tongues lie in front of her face. Her eyes have yellow sclerae with red irises and thin pupils. She wears a light green kimono with white trim and a red obi. After being revived by Nanashi, she has an upside-down pentagram mark on her forehead.
==Personality==
In the 1985 anime, Futakuchi-Onna constantly laughs during her tasks, especially during battles.
==History==
Futakuchi-Onna works with Tantanbō and Kamaitachi kidnapping kids to convert them into yōkai. She grabs Kitarō with her hair and tries to feed him to her second mouth, but Kitarō throws pepper into her mouth, causing her to reel back and fall out a window to her death. In the first and fourth anime adaptations, she survives the fall and continues to fight, and is turned to stone with her partners and the Yōkai Castle when the rope seal is placed around the castle.
===1968 Anime===
She appears in the third episode of the first anime adaption, Yōkai Castle. She also appears in the seventh episode, Ghost Train, as part of Nezumi-Otoko's yōkai sideshow.
===1985 Anime===
Futakuchi-Onna is unsealed as a stone shrine is knocked over during construction, where she and the others cause havoc by making the construction machinery go haywire. She abducts a boy at an arcade and returns to the Yōkai Castle. She sneaks into the broadcast studio and kidnaps Nezumi-Otoko, escaping through the vents. After the Yōkai Castle rises from the ground, the two-mouthed woman uses her hair snakes to lift and crash a police car into another. In the castle, she chides Nezumi-Otoko for talking so big during his interview. She expounds that they are going to take the human's place and rule the world. They soon hear the clip-clop of Kitarō. Later after Kitarō escapes from Tantanbō's rock she sends her hair snakes to grab him, bringing the boy to her and tries to devour him with her back mouth. She is temporarily distracted as he uses his Yōkai Ocarina, where she throws him to the side, hanging by the roof. After being hit by his Hair Needles, she pulls him back and tries to devour him again. Just a she is about to succeed, she is struck by Sunakake-Baba's barrage of sand, stumbling off the broken railing and falls off, disappearing as she hits a sharp rock.GeGeGe no Kitarō (1985): Episode 1
===1996 Anime===
She appears in both episode #66 and 67 of the fourth anime adaption, Ominous Clouds! Yōkai Castle (Part 1) and Ominous Clouds! Yōkai Castle (Part 2). In this adaption, she spoke with a different voice from her second mouth.
===2007 Anime===
She appears in episode #61 of the fifth anime adaption, Tantanbō of the Yōkai Castle.
===2018 Anime===
At some point, Futakuchi-Onna and the others are sealed with the Yokai Castle in a stone from a mountain. Eventually, the mountain was broken down and used to make concrete, spreading fragments of the stone across varying construction sites, where most of it was used in a stadium.GeGeGe no Kitarō (2018): Episode 3
===Series===
Futakuchi-Onna and the others are awakened in the stadium by Nanashi.GeGeGe no Kitarō (2018): Episode 2 They then go on to abduct children to use as human sacrifices for the Yokai Castle, doing so from various construction sites. They eventually gathered 12 children, only requiring one more.
During the night at the stadium, Futakuchi-Onna and Kamaitachi find a girl snooping around the pillars. She uses her hair serpents to wrap around 's legs and comments on how tasty she looks and wants to eat her, showing the girl her back mouth. She argues with Kamaitachi about what to do with the girl, but Tantanbō appears and agrees with the latter to use her instead. She relents and throws the girl into the center where she sinks into the ground and turns into the last pillar, thus bringing back the Yokai Castle.
Futakuchi-Onna and the others tell the children in the pillars that while it may hurt, they will never age or die and will forever support the Yokai Castle. They leave soon after to defend the castle from Kitarō and his friends. Futakuchi-Onna finds Neko-Musume and Sunakake-Babaa on the castle grounds and sends her hair serpents at them, but the cat Yokai easily slices them. While fighting her, Futakuchi-Onna is hit by Sunakake-Babaa's Paralysis Sand, allowing Neko-Musume to slice her in half.
However, Futakuchi-Onna starts laughing as her halves cleave together. She shoots her hair serpents at her opponents, claiming they can never defeat her like this. She is soon joined by her comrades as they face Kitarō's group. She lets Tantanbō explain what their goal is by resurrecting the Yokai Castle. When they awoke from their slumber, they saw what the humans had done and realized that this world does not need humans. By using the castle's power, they plan to exterminate humans and create a world of nothing but Yokai. They listen as Kitarō calls them out on this, saying that they are worse than humans for this plan.
Futakuchi-Onna dodges as Kitarō shoots his geta at them. She stands with the others after Kitarō fails to kill Tantanbō. When the boy finds the pillars using Mana's phone and destroys one, an enraged Futakuchi-Onna rushes at Neko-Musume but is sliced apart. Her body dissipates and the Yokai Castle follows suit.
===The Great Yōkai War===
==Powers and Abilities==
Hair Serpents: Futakuchi-Onna's hair can grow and form into serpents, which she uses to grab enemies to feed to her second mouth. Her hair serpents can grow to be over 200 meters.
*Enhanced Strength: Her hair snakes are strong enough to lift a police car and throw it with ease. They have also shown to be able to easily lift a petrified Konaki-Jijii and strangle him to force him back to normal.
Second Mouth: As her name implies, Futakuchi-Onna has two mouths, where the second is on the back of her head. It is much larger, being half the size of the back of her head and is filled with sharp teeth.
Yōkai Castle Jurisdiction: In the 2018 anime, Futakuchi-Onna and the others are linked to the Yōkai Castle and gain additional powers because of it. Once the pillars are no more, Futakuchi-Onna loses these powers.
*High-Speed Regeneration: So long as the castle exists, Futakuchi-Onna is able to quickly heal from any injury, effectively making her invincible.
Flight: In the 1968 anime, she was seen flying among with other two.
Whirlwind: In the 1996 anime, all the members of the trio were seen to move swiftly in whirlwinds to a distant location in seconds.
Enhanced Agility: Futakuchi-Onna displays impressive jumping capabilities in the 1985 and 1996 anime. In the 1985 anime, she demonstrates by jumping from the roofs of the building to the next.
==Legend==
In Japanese mythology and folklore, the Futakuchi-Onna belongs to the same class of stories as the Rokuro-Kubi, Kuchisake-Onna and the Yama-Uba, women afflicted with a curse or supernatural disease that transforms them into yōkai.
One legend tells of how the Futakuchi-Onna came to be is that long ago a wicked stepmother who always gave plenty of food to her own daughter, but never enough to her stepdaughter. Gradually the stepdaughter grew sicker and sicker, until she starved to death. Forty-nine days later, the wicked stepmother was afflicted with a terrible headache. The back of her head split open, where lips, teeth, and a tongue formed. The new mouth ached with debilitating pain until it was fed, and it shrieked in the voice of the dead stepdaughter. From then on the stepmother always had to feed both of her mouths, and always felt the hunger pangs of the stepdaughter she murdered.
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