DANDADAN's "Strongest Yokai" Reveal: Japanese Fans React — "She's the Most Famous Ghost in Japan. Of Course She's Strong."
ダンダダン「最強の妖怪」回 日本のファンの反応
“Turbo Granny, how much HIGHER are you going to drive your likeability, woman?!”
ターボババアはどこまで好感度を上げるんだあなたはもう！！
DANDADAN dropped its "strongest yokai" reveal — and the figure who answered Turbo Granny's call turned out to be Hanako-san, the toilet ghost every Japanese kid grows up terrified of. The most-liked Japanese reactions didn't gush about the art; they explained the rules. The recurring theme was a piece of folklore logic English fans rarely get told: in this world a yokai's power scales with how famous and how feared it is, and Hanako — the undisputed queen of Japanese school ghost stories — outranks almost everything. From there the thread became a crash course only Japanese fans could give: the real 1950s urban-legend origins behind Hanako, why a spirit is near-unbeatable inside its own "territory" (a rule the series set up all the way back in the original Turbo Granny fight), Jujutsu Kaisen jokes about the toilet being her literal "domain expansion," and a running fan tier-list of which legendary Japanese ghosts could possibly be stronger. And underneath all the lore talk, the same warm note kept surfacing about a certain old lady fans can't stop loving.
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Japanese fan reactions (excerpted from 205)
- @saka3247👍 392
I mean, she's the star of arguably the single most famous ghost story in Japan… of course she's strong.
まあ日本一有名と言っても過言ではない怪談の主役だからなぁ…… そら強いわ。
- @bornt.255👍 9
To Japanese people, Hanako-san and Teke-Teke are straight-up legendary-tier ghosts, after all…
花子さんとテケテケは 日本人からしたらレジェンド 怪異だからな…
- @尾田栄二郎👍 52
The "legend tier" urban legends that terrified Showa and Heisei kids — Hanako-san, Kuchisake-onna (the Slit-Mouthed Woman), Mary-san, Teke-Teke, Satchan, the Human-Faced Dog — those all feel strong. Below them, in the "only occult nerds know them" tier, you've got Turbo-Granny-level entities like Kashima-san, Hikiko-san, Satoru-kun, the Headless Rider, the Red Coat. Honestly, Japan's well defended lol
昭和平成の子供を恐怖に落とした都市伝説レジェンド枠は花子さん、口裂け女、メリーさん、テケテケ、さっちゃん、人面犬、あたりは強そう その下がオカルト好きは知ってる枠のターボババアレベルでカシマさん、ヒキコさん、さとるくん、首無しライダー、赤コートあたりって考えると日本は安泰やなw
- @kate-m5r8j👍 20
Maybe she's the type whose power scales with how much she's feared — same way a god's strength scales with how much it's worshipped?
神様の信仰と同じで、怖がられるほどに強さを発揮するタイプなのかな？
- @姿なきオドン👍 0
So strength = how widely you're known, times how much you're feared.
知名度と畏れの量が強さか
- @恒輝西野👍 0
If fame decides strength, then something like Kokkuri-san (Japan's Ouija board spirit) must be absurdly powerful, huh~
知名度で強さが決まるのならコックリさんとか ばか強いんやろうな〜
- @白い賢者👍 3
She reigns at the very top of the school-ghost-story food chain, after all.
学校の怪談の頂点に君臨する妖怪だからな
- @genten34👍 167
A toilet — basically a permanently-installed home-field, right?
トイレという常設領域かな？
- @hachiyan8922👍 88
The bathroom is quite literally Hanako-san's Domain Expansion.
トイレはまさに花子さんの領域展開
- @Dss0103👍 4
A real Domain Expansion lol
まさに領域展開で草
- @ふうが-l3g👍 3
Domain Expansion: Japanese-Style Squat Toilet.
領域展開 和式便所
- @メルメルメー04👍 72
It'd be peak if the rule was literally "nobody can beat her in a fight inside a bathroom."
トイレでの戦闘では誰も勝てないとかだったら最高
- @やご-y5w👍 11
Going by DANDADAN's own rules, that's basically canon. It was spelled out way back in the very first Turbo Granny fight (the one where she fused with a bound spirit) — ghosts and yokai are pretty much unbeatable on their own turf. It's also why Seiko, who borrows a land-god's power, is near-unstoppable anywhere inside that town.
ダンダダンの設定的に、割とガチでそうだと思います。 最初期のvsターボババア(地縛霊と合体)で語られていますが、幽霊や妖怪の類は自分のフィールドだとほぼ最強とされていた気がします。 土地神の力を借りている星子さんが、あの町の中ならほぼ最強なのも、その設定があるからですし。
- @jong1444👍 52
Same deal as the original Turbo Granny — her power gets buffed inside her own territory. On top of already being monstrously strong to begin with, obviously.
最初のターボババァと同じで、自分のテリトリーで力が強化されてるんじゃないかな もちろん素が化物みたいに強いの前提で
- @ナナシ-f7p👍 8
You can choose to just not enter the haunted tunnel — but forcing you to the toilet with sudden, unbearable bowel pressure? That's broken.
心霊スポットのトンネルは行かない選択も出来るけど強制便意でトイレに連行は強い
- @ayamik9927👍 65
Toilet Hanako-san being THIS strong is hilarious lol. Anyway — Turbo Granny was absolutely furious about girls being attacked, so maybe Hanako-san runs on that same kind of rage.
トイレの花子さん強すぎわろた まぁともかくターボババアは女の子が襲われる事に滅茶苦茶怒ってたから、もしかしたら花子さんもその系かも
- @EBI-gratin0141👍 12
The model for Toilet Hanako-san is said to be the victim of the 1954 "Kyoko-chan" incident, so it's deeply satisfying that she's brutally strong against anyone who harms girls. (…) The version everyone knows today was really shaped in the '70s — the bobbed hair and suspender skirt are supposedly the victim's actual clothing.
トイレの花子さんのモデルは昭和29年発生の鏡子ちゃん事件の被害者とされてるので、女子に危害を加える奴に超強いのは痛快でいい（…）今もよく知られた姿や話が作られたのは70年代に入ってからで、おかっぱ頭に吊りスカート姿は当時の被害者の服装だとか
- @ねこ.やなぎ👍 10
When a yokai's origins trace back to folklore, some go all the way to the age of the gods, or were land-deities to begin with — so the old ones are just naturally strong…
妖怪は民話出典だとそれこそ神代に遡ったり、元々土地神だったりするから古くから居るやつらはそら強いんだよな…
- @mogura-n5z👍 19
That, and there's apparently a tradition that she (they) were originally toilet gods to begin with.
それもあるし、そもそも彼女(達)は元々トイレの神様だったとも云われがあるみたいですね。
- @jhunkun6857👍 82
Gives off major Alice from Megami Tensei / Persona energy. Like, any ghost that takes the form of a little girl is ALWAYS the scary one.
メガテンとかペルソナのアリス感ある てか怪異系で少女姿の奴は絶対ヤベーのよ
- @イラストと格闘技大好きです👍 42
What even is this sense of relief? We don't know if she's friend or foe and yet somehow she's reassuring.
なんだろうこの安心感は、敵か味方かも分からないのに心強い、
- @メータメータ-s4i👍 57
Say what you will, the yokai side had been all goofballs until now — then a genuinely serious entity shows up and I teared up.
なんだかんだ妖怪サイドふざけた奴らばっかだったのに急にガチ怪異出てきて泣いちゃった
- @夜戦主義提督👍 50
Hanako-san being strong is SO reassuring, but I absolutely never want her as an enemy 🤣
花子さん強いの頼もしすぎるんだけど、絶対敵に回したくない🤣
- @skyuru👍 53
I've seen a lot of Hanako-sans in my time, but this one's the strongest lol lol lol
いろんな花子さん見てきたけどこりゃ最強ｗｗｗ
- @ホッケバイン👍 44
She's probably about neck-and-neck with Kashima Reiko, I'd wager.
多分カシマレイコとどっこいレベルなんじゃなかろうか
- @メータメータ-s4i👍 4
Kashima Reiko seems to be a composite of famous ghosts — Hasshaku-sama, the Slit-Mouthed Woman, Kashima-san — so honestly I think Kashima Reiko edges her out.
カシマレイコは八尺様とか口裂け女とかかしまさんとかの有名怪異の集合体っぽいから普通にカシマレイコの方が強い気がする
- @RT-mm9zx👍 6
With Kashima Reiko the only defense was ever "don't engage, don't approach, don't react." Whereas Hanako-san, inside a bathroom, looks like she could wipe out a whole armada of the Abyss-dwellers.
カシマレイコは結局「関わらない、近付かない、反応しない」しか対策無かったからなぁ 花子さんはトイレの中であれば深淵の者の大船団も壊滅出来そうではある
- @閣下ダンボール👍 0
Bathrooms have mirrors, so with Kami-kure around, couldn't you potentially link up both Kashima Reiko AND Hanako-san…?
トイレって鏡あるから紙くれがいればカシマレイコも花子さんも接続可能性なのでは…？
- @成崎海👍 99
Being on friendly terms with a yokai THIS powerful — Turbo Granny really is a beloved character, huh.
こんな最強妖怪と仲良しなんて、 ターボババアは本当に愛されキャラなんだな。
- @ポンタ-k1f👍 1
Like… if Turbo Granny comes back, up to now Okarun has only been borrowing her power — but if she could actually possess him directly (the way the Evil Eye does) from here on, he'd get insanely strong.
これさぁ…もしターボババアが戻ってきてくれたら、今まではオカルンがターボババアの力だけを借りてる状態だったけど、次からはターボババア自信がオカルンに憑依(邪視みたいに)して力を使えるようになったらめちゃくちゃ強くなりそう
- @とーかいわか👍 1
When I saw her I blurted out "is that Yasue-neesan?" (a famous Japanese comedy actress) — then found people in the video thinking the exact same thing, and it made me weirdly happy.
見た時にやすえ姉さんか？と突っ込んでいたら普通に動画で同じ事おもってる人いて、うれしかった
- @二本延長👍 18
"You can't even fart when you're about to lose it" line got me dying lol 🤣
”漏れそうなのに屁はコケんでしょ”にわろたwww。🤣
- @チョンマゲ-j2w👍 0
Genuinely satisfying — satisfying on the level of finally breaking a days-long constipation.
ほんとスッキリした、便秘が開通した時波にスッキリした
- @Kajiki-tuna👍 0
Wonder if an "oni" (a full-on demon) shows up someday too~
いつか「鬼」とかも来るんかな〜
- @イッカク-h2t👍 0
Probably won't happen, but if Yamata-no-Orochi (the eight-headed serpent god) showed up as the yokai side's final trump card, that'd be amazing.
無いとは思うけど日本の妖怪側の最後の切り札的存在で、八岐大蛇が出たらおもしろそう
- @rascalpascal2580👍 2
When Hanako-san comes, she helps you, and the ghosts run away! Now — where's that tulip appliqué?
花子さんは来たら助けてくれるし、お化けは逃げてくんだ！チューリップのアップリケはどこだい？
- @佐々木弾-k5f👍 0
I've never once met a Japanese person who said they didn't know Kitaro, the Kappa, or Hanako-san lol
鬼太郎、カッパ、花子さんを知らないって言った人に会った事ないw
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