Template:Infobox Konaki-Jijii (子泣き爺, Little Crying Old Man) is a comic, absent-minded old Yōkai man who attacks enemies by clinging to them and turning himself to stone, increasing his weight and mass immensely and pinning them down. He and Sunakake-Babaa often work as a team.
Legend
The original Konaki-Jijii is a ghost which is said to appear in the woods of the Tokushima Prefecture in the form of a crying infant. When it is picked up by some hapless traveler, it increases its weight until it crushes him.
Appearance
About
Techniques
Weight and Stone Techniques
Combat Skills
Other Techniques
Cast
- Anime
- Ichirou Nagai, Yonehiko Kitagawa, Kousei Tomita (1st)
- Kouji Yada (2nd)
- Ichirou Nagai (3rd)
- Kouzou Shioya (4th)
- Naoki Tatsuta (5th)
- TV Drama
- Shouichirou Akaboshi (Monday Dramaland)
- Mansaku Fuwa (Demon Flute)
- Video Games
- Takanobu Hozumi (GeGeGe no Kitarō: Ibun Youkai Kitan)
- Movies
- Kanpei Hazama
Image Songs
- Oji-san wa Naiteiru by Ichirou Nagai (1985 anime)
- Konaki no Lullaby by Naoki Tatsuta (2007 anime)
Gallery
Trivia
- Konaki-jijii first appears in a cameo as one of many yōkai attending a sukiyaki party in the story A Walk to Hell (Rental version) before making a more prominent appearance in The Great Yōkai War (Shōnen Magazine version).
- In the 2002 Kodansha International Bilingual Comics edition, he is referred to as Old Man Crybaby.
- In the 2007 anime version, he's the 3rd of chosen 47 spirit warriors of Japan. He's the representative of Tokushima Prefecture. And his mark is located behind his he upper left head.