History Main / Gashadokuro

* ''Manga/OnePiece'': During the Wano Arc, [[DemBones Brook's]] soul form (complete with wisps and ghostly attire) is mistaken by a Gashadokuro by the [[{{Ninja}} Orochi Oniwabanshu]], who are terrified of him.

* The shadow of a Gashadokuro (modeled after Kuniyoshi's famous painting) is seen menacing Satsuki in the intro sequence, [[BaitAndSwitchCredits but never seen in the show itself]].

* ''Manga/{{Bleach}}'': The regular foes of the series, a species of fallen ghost known as the Hollow, have skeletal masks and are born from resentful spirits of the dead. They devour the spirits of humans and the recently dead. They can gather in a VoidBetweenTheWorlds when not hunting for victims, where they instead devour each other, and this combines them into one massive oversoul known as a Menos Grande. The end result is a skyscraper high hollow made of intense spiritual energy that is incredibly destructive and ravenously hungry for ever more souls. It also wears a skeletal mask, and is robed in black tatters that swirl more like a smoke than a fabric.

* ''Manga/{{Bleach}}'' The regular foes of the series, a species of fallen ghost known as the Hollow, have skeletal masks and are born from resentful spirits of the dead. They devour the spirits of humans and the recently dead. They can gather in a VoidBetweenWorlds when not hunting for victims, where they instead devour each other, and this combines them into one massive oversoul known as a Menos Grande. The end result is a skyscraper high hollow made of intense spiritual energy that is incredibly destructive and ravenously hungry for ever more souls. It also wears a skeletal mask, and is robed in black tatters that swirl more like a smoke than a fabric.

* The third phase of the Phantom Express (and the titular ghost train's conductor) in ''VideoGame/{{Cuphead}}'' is T-Bone, a gashadokuro-based monster who sticks his head and two hands out from his car. He attacks by slamming his hands down.

->The ''Gashadokuro'' are a race of malevolent yokai, native to the whole of Imperial Japan. They will appear at night, out of the darkness, and seek the blood of men. Conventional weaponry is entirely useless against the Gashadokuro, and they can only be banished by the morning sun, or by the bright lights of human creation.

->Gashadokuro are created by mass death, by the concentrated suffering of hundreds. While the Gashadokuro will eventually fade, they remain for centuries after their creation, lingering until their sorrow has diffused and faded. There is no way to hasten this process. The Imperial Japanese Anomalous Matters Examination Agency is currently aware of 203 separate Gashadokuro.

->Shinto ritual may banish a Gashadokuro, but there is no way to destroy one permanently.

-> Despite many failed attempts, no attempt at communication has been successful, and as such the Gashadokuro have proven too hostile to be enlisted into the Youkai Battalion.

-> The IJAMEA will continue its attempt to bring the Gashadokuro under Imperial control, however the process has been slow and grueling and many men have been lost. If Japan is to continue on its path, then the Gashadokuro must be reined in, lest their number grow too large and they become more than just a nuisance.
-->-- ''Wiki/SCPFoundation'', IJAMEA's entity summary for [[http://www.scp-wiki.net/scp-2863 SCP-2863]]

* ''VideoGame/FateGrandOrder:'' Oda Nobunaga's Berserker version has a Noble Phantasm where she summons a giant skeleton on fire, which proceeds to do a RapidfireFisticuffs on her enemy. Her Avenger version can summon a more gargantuan version of the skeleton, which has 3 heads and multiple arms.

SubTrope of {{Youkai}} and DemBones. Often a type of SkeletalAbomination.

* ''TabletopGame/YuGiOh'': Gashadokuro, the Skeletal Mayakashi is a Level 10 Zombie Synchro monster from the [[{{Youkai}} Mayakashi]] Archetype, manifesting as a giant skeleton decked-out in Samurai armor.

SubTrope of {{Youkai}} and DemBones.

* ''Manga/BoneCollection'': Gashadokuro are [[RankInflation SS-rank]] youkai who [[ComboPlatterPowers possess a different power in each bone]]. The LoveInterest Paira currently appears mostly human as a result of her attempts to seal her power, but she is shown in {{Flash Back}}s as a skeletal (albeit human-sized) demon.

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** The Starchild enemies in ''VideoGame/TheLegendOfZeldaOcarinaOfTime'' are normal-sized skeletons that show up on Hyrule Field at night. However, every third one that spawns is giant-sized (getting larger and larger each time it happens if Link keeps defeating them). The lore even states that they're the remains of soldiers from a massive battle, making the connection even more explicit.

** ''Series/NinjaSentaiKakuranger'': Gashadokuro is TheDragon to his father [[BigBad Daimaou]]. Fans of ''Franchise/PowerRangers'', however, will probably recognize him better as Rita Repulsa's [[{{pun}} boneheaded]] brother Rito Revolto.
** In contrast, ''Series/ShurikenSentaiNinninger'''s Gashadokuros are the villains' {{Giant Mook}}s, adapted for ''Series/PowerRangersNinjaSteel'' as Skullgators.

SubTrope of {{Youkai}}.

* ''VideoGame/{{Okamiden}}'' features two. They both have a fiery core and two swords embedded within them. The second has armor and is much stronger than the first.

* ''VideoGame/{{Touhou}}'': In the thirteenth main game ''Ten Desires'', during Sanae's extra stage, she thinks that the youkai trump card is a gashadokuro, but instead it was Mamizou (a tanuki). It's neighbor series ''VideoGame/LenEn'', features an actual gashadokuro named Sese Kitsugai who loves excavating underground.

* One of the bosses fought in ''VideoGame/DarkSoulsIII'' is High Lord Wolnir. He was once the conquering king of Carthus, a brutal warlord who crushed the crowns of the kings he had slain into dust to create his own. Eventually he became subject to the Abyss and tried calling to the gods for help. When the [[TheHero Ashen One]] encounters him, he can be found by interacting with a goblet in an altar in the Catacombs of Carthus, and he can be beaten by attacking his bracelets - the only thing keeping him out of the abyss - whereupon he becomes consumed by the darkness that surrounds him. It is never clarified if Wolnir was a giant or if exposure to the dark made him giant, but his design evokes the gashadokuro to a tee, including his undead state being a product of his war-waging ways. In reference to gashadokuro's invisibility, Wolnir is initially hidden in darkness when you enter his arena.

** The Starchild enemies in ''VideoGame/TheLegendOfZeldaOcarinaOfTime'' are normal sized skeletons that show up on Hyrule Field at night. However, every third one that spawns is giant sized (getting larger and larger each time it happens if Link keeps defeating them). The lore even states that they're the remains of soldiers from a massive battle, making the connection even more explicit.

* ''VideoGame/{{Nioh}}'' has [[BigBad Kelley]] trying to tilt the odds of the battle of Sekigahara in favour of the losing Western Army by using the corpses of the fallen to summon a colossal Gashadokuro, here appearing as a monstrous, tailed and multiarmed skeletal giant with a deformed skull seemingly composed of two skulls half-merged together. With Tenkai and Hanzo's help you have to destroy it.

SubTrope of {{Yokai}}.

* One of the optional bosses fought in ''VideoGame/DarkSoulsIII'' is High Lord Wolnir. He was once the conquering king of Carthus, a brutal warlord who crushed the crowns of the kings he had slain into dust to create his own. Eventually he became subject to the Abyss and tried calling to the gods for help. When the [[TheHero Ashen One]] encounters him, he can be found by interacting with a goblet in an altar in the Catacombs of Carthus, and he can be beaten by attacking his bracelets - the only thing keeping him out of the abyss - whereupon he becomes consumed by the darkness that surrounds him. It is never clarified if Wolnir was a giant or if exposure to the dark made him giant, but his design evokes the gashadokuro to a tee, including his undead state being a product of his war-waging ways.

-> The ''Gashadokuro'' are a race of malevolent yokai, native to the whole of Imperial Japan. They will appear at night, out of the darkness, and seek the blood of men. Conventional weaponry is entirely useless against the Gashadokuro, and they can only be banished by the morning sun, or by the bright lights of human creation.
-> Gashadokuro are created by mass death, by the concentrated suffering of hundreds. While the Gashadokuro will eventually fade, they remain for centuries after their creation, lingering until their sorrow has diffused and faded. There is no way to hasten this process. The Imperial Japanese Anomalous Matters Examination Agency is currently aware of 203 separate Gashadokuro.
-> Shinto ritual may banish a Gashadokuro, but there is no way to destroy one permanently.

The ''Gashadokuro'' (literally translated to "starving skeleton"), also known as ''Odokuro'' (or "giant skull/skeleton"), is a giant [[DemBones skeleton]] born from the bodies of those who died without proper burial, usually from plague, famine, or war. They stand [[AttackOfThe50FootWhatever 15 times taller than a normal person]] and comes out after midnight, snatching up innocent bystandards within their immense reach, whereupon they bite their heads off and to drink their blood. Because of their unambiguously malevolent behavior and origins, they classify as ''mononoke'', a class of {{youkai}} who exist as vengeful spirits who bring suffering and death onto the living in UnstoppableRage like [[StringyHairedGhostGirl onryo]] and the {{Yukionna}}.