Hanako (花子 "Hanako", or "花子さん" Hanako-san) is a ghost in both Ghost Stories and Gakkou no Kaidan SP. She appears to be harmless and has no intention to scare people. Hanako haunts the ladies restroom in the old school building.
Gakkou no Kaidan[]
Hanako has her first appearance in the pilot episode, Tonight the Spirits Will Be Resurrected! Amanojaku. She speaks to the gang while they are in the old school's bathroom. However, she accidentally scares them.
Her other main appearance was in the second episode, A Hand Reaches out of The Toilet... Akagami Aogami. The demon Akagami Aogami appears in the toilet in Hanako's bathroom stall, thus casting her out. She causes a backup in the sewer system, flooding the school and forcing the students to use the restroom in the haunted school house, as way of calling for help.
Hanako has a cameo appearance in The Picture That Swallows People: Da Vinci, helping the gang along with the other friendly ghosts of the old school.
Hanako also appears in the Ending Credits.
Personality[]
Hanako seems to not like scaring people, as she is just a shy and lonely girl that tries to make friends, but people always run away from her.
In some episodes, she is one of the most helpful ghost in the old school building toward Satsuki, after she helped her defeated Akagami Aogami and reclaimed her toilet space where she lives. She and several ghosts help Satsuki fight evil ghosts.
Appearance[]
She has dark blue hair, blue eyes and pale skin. She wears a pink dress. She is shown to be translucent.
Gakkou no Kaidan SP[]
Hanako appears in the Gakkou no Kaiden SP, which takes place after the original anime. However, she has a different appearance. She does not have a pink dress, but a red kimono with a yellow stripe. She also wears Japanese sandals and her skin is white. She has black eyes.
Hanako appears to be a good friend of Ninomiya (the haunted statue). She is one of the ghost hosts who introduce the story segments, along with other first-season ghosts in the Ghost Theater.
Trivia[]
- Hanako, just like Kuchisake-onna and Teke Teke, was based in a Japanese urban legend. The legend says that Hanako was a girl that died in the restroom of a school, so she appears in the third toilet cabin in the third floor. Some versions says that she appears in the fourth toilet cabin and in any floor. To summon her, the people must knock on the third cabin's door and wait until Hanako says "Hanako's here". Then the people can choose if they want to open the door, or run away.[1]
- Hanako is the only "good" female ghost in the old school.
- Hanako means "Flower Child".
- Hanako is the title character of the 1994 anime Gakkou no Kowai Uwasa: Hanako-san ga Kita!!
- Hanako appears as ghost of the week for Episode 5 of 1995 anime Rin-ne.
- Hanako is a supporting character in the 1997 anime Haunted Junction. The statue of Kinjiro Ninomiya, the anatomy doll, and the red-paper/blue-paper toilet ghost appear in this show as well.
- Hanako is the lead character's tech-support sidekick in 2004 manga Hanako and the Terror of Allegory.
- Hanako and Anatomy Doll guest star in episode 15 of 2017 anime Future Card Buddyfight X [2]. She returns in episode 45.
- Hanako is the ghost of the week in Episode 10 of the 2018 season of long-running anime GeGeGeNoKitaro.
- Hanako is the title character in 2020 anime Toilet-Bound Hanako-kun.
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