Ōdako

Ōdako (大ダコ Ōdako) or Bake-Dako (化けダコ Bake-Dako), is an octopus yōkai that appears in the GeGeGe no Kitarō series.
==Appearance==
==Personality==
==History==
===Shin GeGeGe no Kitarō===
It lives on the Cape Octopus and attacked Kitarō to prey on him, however it retreated by Hair Needles.
===Shinpen GeGeGe no Kitarō===
He sealed Tenaga-Ashinaga 300 years ago, and Tenaga-Ashinaga held a grudge against him and revenged on his descendants instead when they were freed from the sealing.
===Zoku GeGeGe no Kitarō===
She inhabited a small island. She was courted by Mr. Arakan, the chief of the Humane Association for Females, and accepted him and eventually bore children called Octopus Humans.
===Yuki-Hime-chan and GeGeGe no Kitarō===
===Third Anime===
Two individuals are present in the 1985 anime.
One sealed Tenaga-Ashinaga away 300 years ago and is the ancestor of the octopi who meet Kitarō and his friends. Because of his age, he can no longer come ashore.
A different Ōdako attacked Kitarō and others on the Clam Boat but was soon defeated.
===Fifth Anime===
Bake-Dako appears in episode 15 of the fifth anime adaptation. He runs a massage store.GeGeGe no Kitarō (2007): Episode 15
==Powers and Abilities==
Detachable Blood Sucking Suckers
Big wave
Storm
Regeneration
Sealing
==Equipment==
Octopus Kaname Stone
==Legend==
The legend of Ōdako-no-Ashi is told in the Shikoku Prefecture. Off the coast of Ōmishima Island, there was a nearby fishing village where a beautiful 17-year-old girl named Ohama resided. One day, Ohama went to the two rocks, Jiji-Iwa and Baba-Iwa, off the coast of Ōmishima to go tide-pooling, but when she looked down at the rocks, she saw a large octopus staring at her. Ohama was startled and ran away. 
That night, the giant octopus appeared at Ohama's house and asked her to be his bride and if she didn't accept, he would ruin her family and destroy her village. Ohama was too stunned to respond so the short-tempered octopus caused havoc every night after that, so Ohama finally decided to marry him off.
But still not wanting to marry him, Ohama told the octopus that she didn't like that he had eight legs and requested that one leg be cut off each day, and if he had two legs on the sixth day, she would marry him. The octopus reluctantly agreed, and one leg was cut off the following days.
When the sixth leg was cut and the Ohama and the octopus were to be married, Ohama tried to cut the remaining two legs with a hidden knife, but to no avail, as the octopus dragged her into the sea, never to be seen again. Ohama's father, an expert diver, dove into the sea every day to try and find her, but one day he never came back. Distraught, Ohama's mother cried every day on the beach to mourn her lost family, but she too disappeared without a trace, and only Jiji-Iwa and Baba-Iwa remain on the coast today.
==Trivia==
*Cover illustration for the chapter of Ōdako in Yuki-Hime-chan and GeGeGe no Kitarō was based on a Japanese poster of the Italian movie Tentacles in 1977.
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