Azuki-Babaa (小豆婆, Azuki Bean Hag) is a human-like yōkai.
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1985 Anime[]
1996 Anime[]
2007 Anime[]
Episode 25: She appears in episode 25 of the fifth anime adaptation, The Great Yōkai Sports Festival.
Episode 83: Her main episode appearance was in episode #83, Burn! Azuki Union, where she appears along with Azuki-Arai and Azuki-Hakari.
2018 Anime[]
Azuki-Babaa joins the crowd of yōkai gathered around the GeGeGe House, trying to drive Agnès out of the forest. She listens as Medama-Oyaji warns that if they drive her out then the tragedy Malay yōkai will repeat somewhere else. Soon followed by Kitarō as he explains how grave the consequences are if Japan becomes a part of Backbeard's empire, causing the crowd to look at one another. Until their attention is drawn to Kitarō as he stands on his resolve to fight.[1]
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Azuki-Babaa is a yōkai resembling an elderly woman washing azuki beans. Like the Azuki-Arai, she sings whether she'll wash her azuki beans or find a human to eat. But unlike Azuki-Arai, she is said to follow through on her threat to devour any human unfortunate enough to encounter her. Her true identity is said to be a badger or a weasel.
In the Bushū Providence, Azuki-Babaa lived in a small shrine and appeared washing her beans at midnight, kidnapping any passersby to eat them. Whenever someone would say "Azuki-Babaa is coming", any children would run away in fear.