Medama-Oyaji/Abilities

As the long living yokai that he is, Medama-Oyaji has a wide-array of different abilities. What he can do, however, depends largely on his pre-decay and post-decay states, and seen or hinted by different sources.
==Abilities==
===Post-Decay===
Medama-Oyaji has a small body that cannot for the most part fight by itself. He is, nonetheless, capable for the most part of possessing bodies and matter, living or not, and manipulate or transform them to varying degrees with differing limitations. Below are some of the applications of this:
*Eyeball Substitute: Medama-Oyaji is capable of functioning as an eyeball by resting in an empty eye socket and using his body and limbs as the optic nerve. He did this for Kitarō in the story The Great Tanuki War when his good eye was destroyed and also secretly replaced the eye Amefuri-Tengu was getting surgically replaced after Kitarō shot it out with his finger bullets.
*Mind Control:
*Other Body Manipulations:
*Reverse Mochi Murder (逆餅殺し Gyaku-Mochi-Goroshi): By being mixed with a sufficient amount of mochi, Medama-Oyaji can take over the substance and incarnate into masses of mochi shaped like souls with reddish eyeballs at the center. These "souls" can levitate and pursue a target and overwhelm it and even suffocate it to death.
*Eyeball Wrap:
*Transformation: In Episode 21 of the 1968 anime, Medama-Oyaji shape shifts into a bump on Kitarō's head while hiding from the 808 Tanuki.
*Spirit Creation
*Yōkai Energy Wave
*Needles
*Soul Separation
*Ear Phone
*Three Wishes
*Finger Guns (指鉄砲 Yubi Teppo): Despite his smaller stature, Medama-Oyaji is still capable of using his Finger Guns as a last resort to save Kitarō. This blast was seen to be many times stronger than Kitarō's normal Finger Guns; where its power is comparable to an enraged Kitarō's Finger Guns. When Medama-Oyaji used the attack, he was just a little exhausted and it is unknown if there are major drawbacks to using this in his tiny form.GeGeGe no Kitarō (2018): Episode 48
===Pre-Decay===
As a member of the Ghost Tribe, Medama-Oyaji used to have most of the abilities attributed to his kin prior to his decay, while also using the signature Chanchanko. However since his real form, or any mention of it is rarely brought up during the different series media, to what extent he could utilize his abilities is rarely is mostly inferred through hints, or verbal confirmation and only seen very scarcely. It is however, implied (and shown during the 6th anime series) that Medama-Oyaji was a overall stronger fighter than his son Kitarō is at present. Below are some of the abilities he could perform on his real body:
Finger Guns (指鉄砲 Yubi Teppo): This technique allows the user to fire either fingers or blasts from their fingertips.
In the 2007 anime, Medama-Oyaji teaches Kitarō how to use the technique himself in preparation for The Great Yōkai War on Kikaiga Island. It is also revealed to be a secret technique of the Ghost Tribe. Medama-Oyaji explains that the technique uses air, so it has incredible accuracy. However, it uses quite the load of spirit energy. In the 2018 anime, Medama-Oyaji borrows some of Makura-Gaeshi's power to gain what is assumed to be his former body (with some changes, such as only having one eye with a hairstyle identical to Kitarō's). In this state, he is able to use his Finger Guns using a single hand, while holding Kitarō with his other arm.GeGeGe no Kitarō (2018): Episode 14
In the 2018 anime, the Finger Guns are usually used by Kitarō as a one-shot finishing attack. However, when Medama-Oyaji used this technique against the Dream Bell Girl, he fired a large beam of energy. Kitarō can also fire beams in addition to rapid-fire from all of his fingers.GeGeGe no Kitarō (2018): Episode 27
Internal Electricity (体内電気 Tainai Denki): In the 2023 film The Birth of Kitarō: Mystery of GeGeGe, he in pre-decay form used it as one of primal offensive means along with his physical prowess. 
Physical Prowess
==Equipment==
Phantom Train (まぼろしの汽車 Maboroshi no Kisha): Medama-Oyaji can summon the Phantom Train, a magical train capable of transporting its passenger back in time, but at the cost of the summoner's life, because whoever reveals the existence of this train shall die, Medama-Oyaji in this case, thus it can only be summoned once.GeGeGe no Kitarō (2018): Episode 93
Chanchanko
==References==
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