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Bake-Gumo (化けぐも Bakegumo, lit. Monster Spider) is a spider yōkai or kaijū from the Akuma-kun franchise.
Appearance[]
Bake-Gumo is a human-sized insectoid creature with three curved spikes on their forehead, two slanted, glowing, oval-shaped eyes with black spots outlining them, a centipede-like mandibles and sharp lower teeth, a hairy body with a segmented belly, a pair of hands with shoulder spikes and small, scorpion-like pincers, three pairs of thin, spider-like legs, with an additional pair of hairy, humanoid legs, and a bee-like abdomen.
Promotional stills reveal that Bake-Gumo's skin and hair are brown, while their mouth is red.
Personality[]
Bake-Gumo is very deceptive and destructive, instinctively attacking humans. They also notably stalk and spy on Shingo Yamada and Mephisto's younger brother before actually attacking them. Their weakness is electricity.
History[]
Akuma-kun (1966)[]
Bake-Gumo appeared in eponymous 23rd episode of the series. An inhabitant of a mountain pass, they attacked a couple driving a sports car and a truck driver, coating them with its silk and lacing their vehicles inside a massive web.
Bake-Gumo then secretly disguised themself as a young woman and the daughter of the Fujiya teahouse's owner, successfully being invited by him, which they then covered in silk as well. Shingo Yamada woke up after having a dream about Bake-Gumo, and called upon Mephisto's younger brother to investigate the outside tomorrow
The next day, Shingo and Mephisto go to Fujiya to take a break from investigating, invertedly meeting Bake-Gumo while they're disguised as the woman. While Mephisto is eating inside, Shingo calls him after discovering multiple human remains outside, causing the two of them to be confronted by Bake-Gumo in their true form, but narrowly escaping. The yōkai then secretly shrinks into a regular spider to climb into Mephisto's pants and shock him. Bake-Gumo then turns giant to fight Mephisto, but quickly retreats after the elderly akuma uses his staff to blind one of their eyes.
As night falls, Bake-Gumo disguises back into the (now one-eyed) woman, and secretly lures Mephisto to be trapped inside an onsen and traps Shingo inside a web. After the two escape the burning Fujiya, Bake-Gumo knocks out Mephisto and takes his silk-covered body with them. They then disguise themself as Mephisto to deceive Shingo, but the boy quickly finds out they're a fake after using Solomon's Flute to heat up the forehead of the real Mephisto. Bake-Gumo retreats and enlarges themself to grab a nearby airplane.
Bake-Gumo eventually travels to Haneda airport, covering the place with webs and attacking jets and planes. Shingo and Mephisto manage to track them down again, and ride Mephisto's Magic Rocket to destroy the yōkai's webs. Meanwhile, Bake-Gumo destroys the airport's control tower, and Mephisto notices them flinching when they hit a power line. Mephisto then summons thunder, which hits Bake-Gumo, causing them to explode.
Powers and Abilities[]
Thread: Like normal spiders, Bake-Gumo can make multiple webs and threads, capable of ensnaring humans and objects.
Silk: Bake-Gumo can fire a stream of silk from their mouth, capable of incapacitating humans and objects.
Shapeshifting: Bake-Gumo is capable of shapeshifting into the daughter of Fujiya's owner, a normal spider, and Mephisto's younger brother. They can revert back into their true form in the blink of an eye.
Size-Changing: Bake-Gumo can change their size to be the size of a human to giant size.
Internal Electricity: Despite being weak to electricity themself, Bake-Gumo seems to have a form of Internal Electricity, shocking Mephisto's body while climbing into his clothes as a normal spider.
Legend[]
The term Bake-Gumo can refer to any sort of supernatural and monstrous arachnids in Japanese folklore, most prominently confused with Ōgumo and likewise entities.
Trivia[]
- Bake-Gumo's head seems to be repurposed from the suit of Doguma in Toei's tokusatsu adaptation of Kamen no Ninja Akage, meanwhile their body seems to be repurposed from the suit of Gabari from the same series.