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Futakuchi-Onna (
Appearance[]
Futakuchi-Onna has the appearance of a woman with long, dark hair dressed in a kimono. As her name implies, she has a second mouth on the back of her head. Her second mouth is larger and has sharp teeth. In the original manga, her face was round and her regular mouth also had sharp teeth, but in most adaptations, her face is more conventionally attractive.
In the 1968 anime, Ōguchi-Onna has a face devoid of all features other than a large mouth.
In the 2018 anime, Futakuchi-Onna appears as a woman with pale yellow skin, pointy ears, and sharp white nails. Her long hair is white, having a pair of snakes with red pupil-less eyes and two strands that resemble snake tongues hanging in front of her face. Her eyes have yellow sclerae with red irises and thin pupils. She wears a light green kimono with white trim and a red obi. After being revived by Nanashi, she has an upside-down pentagram mark on her forehead.
Personality[]
In the 1985 anime, Futakuchi-Onna constantly laughs during her tasks, especially during battles.[1]
In the 1996 anime, Futakuchi-Onna's front head is very haughty, while her back head acts more vicious.
History[]
Futakuchi-Onna works with Tantanbō and Kamaitachi, kidnapping kids to convert them into yōkai. She grabs Kitarō with her hair and tries to feed him to her second mouth, but Kitarō throws pepper into her mouth, causing her to reel back and fall out a window to her death. In the first and fourth anime adaptations, she survives the fall and continues to fight, and is turned to stone with her partners and the Yōkai Castle when the rope seal is placed around the castle.
1968 Anime[]
She appears in the third episode of the first anime adaptation, Yōkai Castle. She also appears in the seventh episode, Ghost Train, as part of Nezumi-Otoko's yōkai sideshow.
1985 Anime[]
Futakuchi-Onna trying to devour Kitarō.
Futakuchi-Onna is unsealed as a stone shrine is knocked over during construction, where she and the others cause havoc by making the construction machinery go haywire. She abducts a boy at an arcade and returns to the Yōkai Castle. She sneaks into the broadcast studio and kidnaps Nezumi-Otoko, escaping through the vents. After the Yōkai Castle rises from the ground, the two-mouthed woman uses her hair snakes to lift and crash a police car into another. In the castle, she chides Nezumi-Otoko for talking so big during his interview. She explains that they plan to take the humans' place and rule the world. They soon hear the clip-clop of Kitarō. Later, after Kitarō escapes from Tantanbō's rock, she sends her hair snakes to grab him, bringing the boy to her, and tries to devour him with her back mouth. She is temporarily distracted as he uses his Yōkai Ocarina, making her throw him to the side, hanging by the roof. After being hit by his Hair Needles, she pulls him back and tries to devour him again. Just as she is about to consume him, she is struck by Sunakake-Baba's barrage of sand, stumbling off the broken railing and falling off, disappearing as she hits a sharp rock.[1]
1996 Anime[]
She appears in both episode 66 and 67 of the fourth anime adaptation, Ominous Clouds! Yōkai Castle (Part 1) and Ominous Clouds! Yōkai Castle (Part 2). In this adaptation, she spoke with a different voice from her second mouth.[2]
2007 Anime[]
She appears in episode #61 of the fifth anime adaption, Tantanbō of the Yōkai Castle.
2018 Anime[]
At some point, Futakuchi-Onna and the others are sealed with the Yokai Castle in a stone from a mountain. Eventually, the mountain was broken down and used to make concrete, spreading fragments of the stone across varying construction sites, where most of it was used in a stadium.[3]
Series[]
Futakuchi-Onna and the others are awakened in the stadium by Nanashi.[4] They then go on to abduct children to use as human sacrifices for the Yokai Castle, doing so from various construction sites. They eventually gathered 12 children, only requiring one more.
Futakuchi-Onna and Kamaitachi finding Mana.
During the night at the stadium, Futakuchi-Onna and Kamaitachi find a girl snooping around the pillars. She uses her hair serpents to wrap around Mana's legs and comments on how tasty she looks and wants to eat her, showing the girl her back mouth. She argues with Kamaitachi about what to do with the girl, but Tantanbō appears and agrees with the latter to use her instead. She relents and throws the girl into the center, where she sinks into the ground and turns into the last pillar, thus bringing back the Yokai Castle.
Futakuchi-Onna and the others tell the children in the pillars that while it may hurt, they will never age or die and will forever support the Yokai Castle. They leave soon after to defend the castle from Kitarō and his friends. Futakuchi-Onna finds Neko-Musume and Sunakake-Babaa on the castle grounds and sends her hair serpents at them, but the cat Yokai easily slices them. While fighting her, Futakuchi-Onna is hit by Sunakake-Babaa's Paralysis Sand, allowing Neko-Musume to slice her in half.
Futakuchi-Onna's defeat.
However, Futakuchi-Onna starts laughing as her halves cleave together. She shoots her hair serpents at her opponents, claiming they can never defeat her like this. She is soon joined by her comrades as they face Kitarō's group. She lets Tantanbō explain what their goal is by resurrecting the Yokai Castle. When they awoke from their slumber, they saw what the humans had done and realized that this world does not need humans. By using the castle's power, they plan to exterminate humans and create a world of nothing but Yokai. They listen as Kitarō calls them out on this, saying that they are worse than humans for this plan.
Futakuchi-Onna dodges as Kitarō shoots his geta at them. She stands with the others after Kitarō fails to kill Tantanbō. When the boy finds the pillars using Mana's phone and destroys one, an enraged Futakuchi-Onna rushes at Neko-Musume but is sliced apart. Her body dissipates, and the Yokai Castle follows suit.[3]
The Great Yōkai War[]
Powers and Abilities[]
Futakuchi-Onna using her hair serpents in the 1985 anime
Hair Serpents: Futakuchi-Onna's hair can grow and form into serpents, usually keeping two active. She uses these to entangle her targets, strangle them, or grab them to feed her second mouth. Her hair serpents can grow to be over 200 meters.[1][2] She can regrow these hair serpents if they are cut down and can create even more to attack her opponent.[3]
- Enhanced Strength: Her hair snakes are strong enough to lift a police car and throw it with ease.[1] They have also shown to be able to easily lift a petrified Konaki-Jijii and strangle him to force him back to normal.[2]
Second Mouth: As her name implies, Futakuchi-Onna has two mouths, where the second is on the back of her head. It is much larger, being half the size of the back of her head, and is filled with sharp teeth.[1]
Yōkai Castle Jurisdiction: In the 2018 anime, Futakuchi-Onna and the others are linked to the Yōkai Castle and gain additional powers because of it. Once the pillars are no more, Futakuchi-Onna loses these powers.[3]
- High-Speed Regeneration: So long as the castle exists, Futakuchi-Onna is able to quickly heal from any injury, effectively making her invincible. This is demonstrated when she was vertically bisected by Neko-Musume, where her halves joined together moments after this.[3]
Levitation: In the 1968 and 1996 anime adaptations, she was capable of flying along with the other two of the trio.
Whirlwind: In the 1996 anime, all the members of the trio were seen to move swiftly in whirlwinds to a distant location in seconds.
Enhanced Agility: Futakuchi-Onna displays impressive jumping capabilities in the 1985 and 1996 anime. In the 1985 anime, she demonstrates by jumping from the roofs of the building to the next.[1]
Legend[]
Illustration of Futakuchi-Onna by Shigeru Mizuki.
In Japanese mythology and folklore, the Futakuchi-Onna belongs to the same class of stories as the Rokuro-Kubi, Kuchisake-Onna and the Yama-Uba, women afflicted with a curse or supernatural disease that transforms them into yōkai.
One legend tells of how the Futakuchi-Onna came to be is that long ago, a wicked stepmother who always gave plenty of food to her own daughter, but never enough to her stepdaughter. Gradually the stepdaughter grew sicker and sicker, until she starved to death. Forty-nine days later, the wicked stepmother was afflicted with a terrible headache. The back of her head split open, where lips, teeth, and a tongue formed. The new mouth ached with debilitating pain until it was fed, and it shrieked in the voice of the dead stepdaughter. From then on the stepmother always had to feed both of her mouths, and always felt the hunger pangs of the stepdaughter she murdered.
Along with the official introduction of Futakuchi-Onna into the Yōkai Monsters Series, an original character Nimen-Onna (