Ubaga-Bi

Ubaga-Bi (姥ヶ火, 姥が火, or Ubaga-Bi, lit. Old Hag Fire) is a fire Yōkai.
==Appearance==
In the 1985 anime, Ubaga-Bi is a floating, disembodied head of a woman, with pink skin, red-pink hair and her eyes have no discernible sclerae. Surrounding her head are red-pink flames, which her hair follows their direction.
Within the 1996 anime, Ubaga-Bi retains her appearance, however, her skin is more orange, her hair is now red, her eyes now have yellow sclerae and visible pupils. The flames that surround her are now a mix of red and orange flames.
In the 2007 anime, her appearance is drastically different from previous incarnations, her hair is now lavender and much straighter, all flowing in a single direction. Her skin is now light blue, and her flames are light purple in color.
Within the 2018 anime, her hair has more volume and is dark red, her face also has a red skin tone and her eyes have small pupils and her sclerae are white. Her flames are now yellow and orange, which constantly shifts between the two. Her appearance in Mana's dream, however, resembles her 2007 anime appearance, being a light blue-skinned head with long white hair. The flames however are orange and are not as spread out.
==Personality==
==History==
===1985 Anime===
She was featured as one of of the Flame Yōkai Five along with Tsurube-Bi, Tenka, Kurage-no-Hinotama, and Bake-Bi.GeGeGe no Kitarō (1985): Episode 35
===GeGeGe no Kitarō: Saikyō Yōkai Gundan! Nippon Jōriku!!===
She was summoned along with Kurage-no-Hinotama, Tsurube-Bi, and Tenka to defeat Yōjin, but was largely troubled by Gahi. 
However, Kitarō made the four flame yōkai into a powerful torch with his Chanchanko, and eventually defeated the antagonists. 
===1996 Anime===
She appears in episode #50, Fukikeshi-Babaa's Amusement Park. Having caused fires while in the presence of couples. She was too powerful for Kitarō, so with the help of Fukikeshi-Babaa empowered by his Chanchanko, she was finally defeated.GeGeGe no Kitarō (1996): Episode 50
Although she was an antagonist in the above episode, she later appeared in the movie GeGeGe no Kitarō: Obake Nighter as Kitarō's friend.
===2007 Anime===
She appears in episode #25 of the fifth anime adaption, The Great Yōkai Sports Festival, as one of the many participants of the sports festival, representing the Western Japan team.GeGeGe no Kitarō (2007): Episode 25
She later appears in GeGeGe no Kitarō: Nippon Bakuretsu!!. Ubaga-Bi appears as one of the multitude of Yōkai parading through cities due to Yato-no-Kami's influence, flying around and setting multiple buildings ablaze. She is later returned to where she came from after Hana agrees to follow Yato-no-Kami.GeGeGe no Kitarō: Nippon Bakuretsu!!
===2018 Anime===
Ubaga-Bi briefly appears as one of the yōkai on the Ghost Train in episode seven who scares the company president. Later, she appears with the others, watching as the company president is sent to Jigoku by the Ghost Train.GeGeGe no Kitarō (2018): Episode 7 She appears again later in Mana's dream as one of the students in her class.GeGeGe no Kitarō (2018): Episode 14
==Powers and Abilities==
Fire Manipulation: Ubaga-Bi is able to set things on fire with the use of the flames around her. As the majority of her body is made up of the element in question, she gets weaker if her flames are doused.GeGeGe no Kitarō (1985): Episode 35
Levitation: She is able to float above the ground.
==Legend==
The Ubaga-Bi is a yōkai resembling the flaming head of an old lady. On rainy nights at the Hiraoka Shrine in the Kawachi Province, the Ubaga-Bi would fly around the village. She is said to be the spirit of an old lady who used to steal oil from the sacred lamps of the Hiraoka Shrine every night, and after she died, she became this yōkai.
One time, a local resident was walking along the road at night and he saw Ubaga-Bi fly up and hit him right in the face, knocking him down. When he got up to take a closer look he saw that it resembled a chicken-like bird that made a pecking sound, but when he saw it fly away, it had turned into a round fireball.
==Trivia==
*In Shinigami Tai-Senki, Ubaga-Bi was called "Yamagami".
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