Toire no Hanako-san

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Toire no Hanako-san ( Japanese ト イ レ の 花子 さ ん , dt. "Hanako from the toilet") is a Japanese ghost ( Obake ) in a big city legend or in the school ghost stories ( gakkō no kaidan ) widespread in Japan .

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The exact details of the story vary greatly from place to place. What they all have in common, however, is that Hanako is a ghost that haunts the girls' bathroom (usually in elementary schools). She is often portrayed as a girl with a pageboy and a red skirt.

In a version from Tochigi Prefecture , which is probably the best known, it is in the girls' toilet on the third floor behind the third door. She is summoned by knocking three times on her door and shouting “ Hanako-san asobimasho ” ( 「花子 さ ん 遊 び び ま し ょ」 , Eng. “Hanako, let's go play”), whereupon Hanako with a long drawn out “ shark ” ( 「は ー い」 , German" Jaa ") appears answering.

In Utsunomiya in the same prefecture you have to open a toilet door on the third floor, shout " Hanako-san " three times , tear off the toilet paper and flush it down, after which a hand appears from the toilet.

In Yokohama in Kanagawa Prefecture there is also a male variant called Yōsuke (also known elsewhere as Tarō or Shirō) in the boys' toilet in primary schools. After being approached by Hanako or Yōsuke, you have to flee within three seconds or you will be killed. If you go around Yosuke's toilet three times and say " Hanako-san ", a bloody hand will appear from that toilet.

An example of the great variety of the saga is a version from Yamagata Prefecture . In this Hanako has the shape of a lizard and three 3 m long heads. When a girl relieves herself loudly in the toilet, Hanako picks up and eats it up.

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Toire no Hanako-san is one of the most famous modern school ghost stories. The writer Bintarō Yamaguchi even sees her as the central figure of the school ghost story boom of the 1990s. The high prevalence of Hanako stories among primary school children is also thought to be a trigger for voiding disorders such as Hinman's syndrome .

Occasionally, it is also assumed to be the model for " The Maulende Myrtle " in Joanne K. Rowling's series of novels Harry Potter .

The story has been filmed several times. In 1995, the horror film Toire no Hanako-san appeared under the direction of Jōji Matsuoka, which was an unofficial sequel to Yukihiko Tsutsumi's Shinsei Toire no Hanako-san ( 新生 ト イ レ の 花子 さ ん , dt. "The rebirth of Hanako from the toilet") . Another film adaptation by Masafumi Yamada was released in 2013 and Toire no Hanako-san Shinshō - Hanako vs Yōsuke ( ト イ レ の 花子 さ ん 新 章 〜 花子 VS ヨ ー ス ケ 〜 ) by Yasutake Torii.

Masato Sasaki directed the V-Cinema two-part Toire no Hanako-san , released on VHS in 1997, and Kōta Yoshida produced another video market production in 2007 called Gakkō no Toshi Densetsu: Toire no Hanako-san ( 学校 の 都市 伝 説 ト イ レ の 花子 さ ん , German "the big school city legend: Hanako from the toilet").

An anime of the same name was released in animated form in 1996, directed by Akitarō Daichi, and from 1994–1995 the 35-part anime series Gakkō no Kowai Uwasa: Hanako-san ga Kita !! ( 学校 の コ ワ イ う わ さ 花子 さ ん が き た !! , Eng. "Creepy rumors from the school: Hanako has come!") By Group Tac . She also appeared in Jigoku Sensei Nūbē (1996/1997) by Toei Animation , Haunted Junction (1997) by Studio Deen and Gakkō no Kaidan (2000/2001) by Studio Pierrot .

Manga that processed the topic are u. a. Hanako to Gūwa no Terror ( 花子 と 寓 話 の テ ラ ー ) by Sakae Esuno from 2004/2005, Toire no Hanako-san by Arata Yoshikawa from 2005 to 2007, and Fushigi Tsūshin Toire no Hanako-san ( ふ し ぎ 通信 ト イ レ の 花子 さ ん ) by Hiromu Mogi (text) and Akimasa Nanjō (drawings) from 2008/2009. A pornographic adaptation ( hentai ) of the topic under the title Alignment You! You! ( あ ら い め ん と ゆ ー ゆ ー , Araimento Yū Yū ) comes from Matsumoto Drill Kenkyūjo from 2006 and was also adapted as an anime. Another manga that takes up the legend of Hanako is Jibaku Shōnen Hanako-kun by Iro Aida, in which Hanako is a boy. An anime version was released at the beginning of 2020 under the title Toilet-Bound Hanako-kun .

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