|
This article is a stub. You can help the GeGeGe no Kitarō Wiki by expanding it. |
Hone-Onna (骨女 Honeonna, lit. Bone Woman) is a yōkai and recurring antagonist. She is usually a minion for Akashita, Ōkubi and Mai-Kubi. Hone-Onna also has an infatuation for Nezumi-Otoko.
Appearance[]
Hone-Onna's human form in the 1996 anime adaptation.
Hone-Onna resembles a human skeleton. In most adaptations, she is almost always seen wearing a traditional Japanese kimono and obi belt, with her hair tied up into a bun. Depending on the adaptation, her kimono may have intricate patterns, with long sleeves typically worn by single women or brides. Other adaptations give her kimono a simpler design, removing the patterns and making the dress one solid color. The fifth anime adaptation gave her pink, skull shaped earrings, and orange highlights in her hair, along with a bone-shaped hair accessory.
In the fourth anime adaptation, she can be seen wearing an orange headband, along with a large beaded necklace. She wears a short, white dress with blue accents, and an orange skirt beneath, all of which is tied together with a belt of the same color. In her human disguise, she resembles an attractive young woman with dark brown eyes, and long hair that goes down to her back. Her outfit stays the same between her human disguise and her appearance as a skeleton.
Personality[]
In the manga, Hone-Onna is quick to serve others, like Akashita or Ōkubi, and as a result naturally pulls in the similarly groveling Nezumi-Otoko, She is also aware of Kitarō's existence like most villains in the series.
In the 1971 anime, Hone-Onna is characterized similarly, and additionally is shown to be a power-hungry and a skilled coordinator, shown by her commanding her fellow skeletons to attack the Kitarō Family. She is also quite manipulative to both Neko-Musume and Nezumi-Otoko, shown by her telling to former to control her friends. Since she only teamed up with Nezumi-Otoko once in this series, their relationship is downplayed.
In the 1985 anime, Hone-Onna's relationship with Nezumi-Otoko is more emphasized. Rather than just a platonic partnership, she seems infatuated to him to almost an excessive degree, touching Nezumi and even calling him her "Little love slave". As a result, some confuse this relationship with Nezumi-Otoko willingly dating Hone-Onna. Despite her love, Hone-Onna is still quick to call out Nezumi-Otoko if she thinks he's lazy.
In the Ao no Koku novel, unlike in previous adaptions, Hone-Onna is a friendly yōkai living in the GeGeGe Forest with a highly single-minded demeanor. As women yearning for love, she is well-acquainted with Neko-Musume, even aware of her true feelings for Kitarō.
History[]
Manga[]
Sometime in the year 1683, Hone-Onna fell under Tarōbō's psychic powers and followed his command. She disguised herself as a pretty young woman at Yoshiwara. During the night that Nezumi-Otoko had a win in gambling and decided to go there, she was picked by Shitanaga-Babaa to be with him, spending the night together. After Nezumi-Otoko lights a paper lantern, Hone-Onna reveals herself and tells him that any man who sleeps with her will do exactly what she instructs them to do.
She orders Nezumi-Otoko to collect souls at Kozukappara. Afterwards she has Gasha-Dokuro eat the malice filled souls, growing to be more ferocious, as commanded by Tarōbō. Several days later, she finds Nezumi-Otoko with Kitarō and Neko-Musume at Kozukappara, the former asking what she is planning. She replies that she is doing what Tarōbō instructed her to do and keeps her master's information a secret. Kitarō quick dispatches her, knocking her head off her body. However, she manages to order Gasha-Dokuro to demolish the city of Edo.[1]
Second Anime[]
Hone-Onna first appears in episode # 26 of the 2nd anime adaptation, Ōkubi. Like in the manga, she is a servant of Ōkubi, and is directly linked with his power. She first appears to dig up Nezumi-Otoko's coffin, but is attacked by Kitarō, and uses her severed head t knock him out. As a result, she successfully captures Nezumi-Otoko's coffin. She later holds Neko-Musume hostage after she found out her plans and lets her go under the condition she gives them spirit-eating mushrooms as food to make them mind-controlled by her. When her pan fails, Hone-Onna is scolded by Ōkubi, and later commands her fellow skeletons to attack the nearby Kitarō Family. She follows them in their cave base, using the same attacks she did on Kitarō, but is defeated by Sunakake-Babaa and Konaki-Jijii. When her superior is defeated, Hone-Onna and the other skeleton's bodies disintegrate.
Third Anime[]
Fourth Anime[]
Hone-Onna in this anime adaptation was once a woman from the Jōmon period.
Fifth Anime[]
She appears in episode #41 of the fifth anime adaptation, Overthrow Kitarō! Nezumi-Otoko's Great Counterattack.
She later appears in GeGeGe no Kitarō: Nippon Bakuretsu!!. Hone-Onna appears as one of the multitude of Yōkai parading through cities due to Yato-no-Kami's influence. She is later returned to where she came from after Hana agrees to follow Yato-no-Kami.[2]
Shōsetsu Gegege no Kitarō ~Ao no Koku~[]
Under the human guise of Honemi Iijima, Hone-Onna worked part-time at a hospital. There she fell in love with the femur bone of a patient's X-ray. With the help of Ittan-Momen, the two went to find the person who matched the X-ray by appearing in front of men and using a tape measure to measure their femur length. Eventually, they found forensic scientist Shinichi Hagiwara, the owner of the X-ray. Even after learning of Hone-Onna's true yōkai nature, the pair fell in love and eventually got married.
GeGeGe no Kitarō: Ibun Yōkai Kitan[]
The Great Yōkai War[]
Powers and Abilities[]
Her skeleton army in the 1985 anime adaptation.
Hone-Onna wielding her Bone Sword in the 2007 anime adaptation.
Skeleton control:
Skeleton body:
Transformation: In the 1996 anime adaptation, Hone-Onna took on human form as a disguise.
Bone Darts:
Body Reconstruction:
Mai-Kubi Controlling:
Equipment[]
Bone Sword:
Flute:
Legend[]
Hone-Onna's Illustration
The Hone-Onna of legend lures men to a spot of her choosing and starts seducing them. After that, she starts sucking their life force dry to the point where there is nothing but a skeleton - then a pile of dust.
Trivia[]
- Since the orders of the Akashita and Ōkubi stories were switched for the 2nd anime, Hone-Onna explicably survives.
References[]
- ↑ The Battle of Mt. Atago
- ↑ GeGeGe no Kitarō: Nippon Bakuretsu!!