Hanako-san
Toire no Hanako -san (Japaneseトイレ の 花子 さん, dt " Hanako of the Toilet" ) is a Japanese Ghost ( Obake ) in a urban legend or widespread in Japan school ghost stories ( Gakko no kaidan ).
Content
The exact details of the story vary greatly from place to place. All have in common is that Hanako is a ghost who (usually in primary schools ) haunts the girls' bathroom. It is often represented as a girl with a pageboy haircut and red skirt.
In a version of Tochigi prefecture, which is also the most famous, it is on the girl's bathroom on the third floor behind the third door. Summoned it is by three knocks on her door and Hanako -san asobimasho ( 「花子 さん 遊び ましょ」, dt " Hanako, let's go play us") calls, then Hanako with a drawn- Hai ( 「はーい」, dt "Yeah " ) and answers will appear.
In Utsunomiya in the same prefecture have to open the third floor of a toilet door, three times call Hanako - san, tear the toilet paper and wash it down, then a hand appears out of the toilet.
In Yokohama in Kanagawa Prefecture, a male version called Yosuke can be found in the primary schools in addition ( elsewhere also known as taro or Shiro known) on the boy toilet. Having been approached by Hanako or Yosuke, one must flee or be killed within three seconds. If you three times is about Yosuke toilet and Hanako -san says appears from this toilet a bloody hand.
An example of the wide variety of the Sage is a version of the Yamagata Prefecture. In this Hanako has a lizard shape and three 3 m long heads. If a girl relieved loud on the toilet, Hanako fast out and eat them.
Reception
Toire no Hanako -san is one of the most modern school ghost stories. The writer Bintaro Yamaguchi she even sees as the central figure of the school ghost stories boom of the 1990s. The high prevalence of Hanako stories among elementary school students is also made as a trigger for bladder dysfunction as responsible to the Hinman syndrome.
Occasionally, it is also suspected as a template for " Moaning Myrtle " in Joanne K. Rowling's Harry Potter series of novels.
The story has been filmed several times. Was released in 1995, directed by Joji Matsuoka of Horror Toire no Hanako - san, the 1998 Yukihiko Tsutsumi Shinsei Toire no Hanako -san (新生 トイレ の 花子 さん, dt " the rebirth of Hanako of the toilet " ), an unofficial sequel found.
Masato Sasaki directed the published on VHS in 1997 V- Cinema - parter Toire no Hanako -san and Kota Yoshida originated in 2007 another video market production called Gakko no Toshi Densetsu: Toire no Hanako -san (学校 の 都市 伝説 トイレ の 花子 さん, German " school urban legend: Hanako of the toilet ").
In animated form in 1996 appeared in an eponymous anime movie directed by Akitaro Daichi and 1994-1995 35 - episode anime series Gakko no Kowai Uwasa: Hanako -san ga Kita! ( !学校 の コワイ うわさ 花子 さん が き た, dt " Creepy rumors of school: Hanako has come! " ) By Group Tac. She has also appeared in Jigoku Sensei Nube (1996/1997) by Toei Animation, Haunted Junction (1997 ) by Studio Deen and Gakko no Kaidan (2000/2001 ) by Studio Pierrot.
Manga that processed the issue, among others, are Hanako to GUWA no terror (花子と寓話のテラー) Sakae Esuno of 2004/2005, Toire no Hanako -san by Arata Yoshikawa from 2005-2007, and Fushigi no Hanako -san Toire Tsushin (ふしぎ 通信 トイレ の 花子 さん) of Hiromu Mogi (text) and Akimasa Nanjo (drawings ) of 2008/2009.