Kamikiri

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Kamikiri
Kamikiri (Mizuki Road)
Name
Japanese	かみきり
Meaning	Hair Cutter
Profile
Species	Yōkai
Gender	Male
Home	Yōkai Apartments, GeGeGe Forest
Abilities	Scissor-like hands
First Appearance
Manga	Kamanari (1971)
Anime	Series 3 Episode 64 (1985)
Portrayals
1985 anime	Kōji Totani

Kamikiri (かみきり, Hair cutter) is a yōkai friend of Kitarō's who lives at the Yōkai Apartments. He first appeared in the Shonen Sunday story Kamanari.

Kuro-Kamikiri and Amikiri are subspecies of Kamikiri.

Appearance

Kamikiri has a crow-like face and mane of hair that makes his head resemble a sunflower. He has scissor-like pincers for hands.

History

Like many of the supporting cast of the Sunday run, Kamikiri was essentially a glorified mob character.
In Phantom Train, he helps Medama-Oyaji capture the vampiric Kitarō and Nezumi-Otoko with a "numbing net" and pulls them onto the train.  In Kitarō Kunitori Monogatari, he worked with Neko-Musume and Kasa-Bake to chop down the vampire flower Raglesia.

1985 Anime

He appeared in episode #64 of the third anime. Ittan-Momen flew him in to cut the spider web threads Kitarō was trapped in.

1996 Anime

In episode #40 of the fourth anime, he takes part in the relay race at the Yōkai Sports Meet, finishing second behind Yagyō-san.

Legend

The Kamikiri is a yōkai that sneaks up on people and cuts their hair with its scissor-like hands. When a human is about to marry an animal or a ghost, a Kamikiri appears out of nowhere to cut the human's hair off.

On March 10, 1874, a servant girl named Gin was attacked by a Kamikiri while on her way to the bathroom and had her hair's topknot cut off, she soon became ill, and no one ever went into the bathroom again.

Because of their similarities, it is theorized that Amikiri's design was based on Kamikiri.