Release Date: 2014-07-10
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| She is one of the few Yo-kai in the anime that allow humans to see them without a Yo-kai Watch. Coincidentally, Toiletta is associated with bathrooms in elementary schools and rumored to haunt the third bathroom stall, from which she emerges and scares the victim who summons her. The ritual required to do so has varied over the years, ranging from knocking on the doors, calling out a phrase or turning around on the spot several times.
Toiletta is based on the urban legend of Toire no Hanako-san (????????, translated as “Hanako-san of the toilet”) which dates as far back as the ’50s and is one of the most popular and widespread urban legends in Japan, comparably to Bloody Mary in the United States. Incidentally, “Hanako” was a very common female name at that time, similarly to the English “Mary”. She is said to be the ghost of a little girl who haunts school bathrooms, and if someone walks to the third stall of the girls’ bathroom on the third floor, asks “Are you in there, Hanako-san?” and knocks three times, she will answer “I’m here”. The story of her origins and accounts varies greatly from place to place, but she is generally imagined as a grade-school age girl with a bob haircut, a white shirt and a red suspender skirt. Depending on the source, Hanako-san can be friendly, mischievous, or actually a monstrous entity posing as a little girl, who will promptly seize those who call its name. |
You can also find Toiletta using the scale in the nurses office (night time only) and fight her once a day.
She can also possibly be battled, and thus befriended, at the “Beautiful Angel in a Flap” Yo-kai Spot, featuring Blizzaria. |
Yo-kai Watch 2 Toiletta appears in the Springdale Elementary 3rd floor girls bathroom stalls after the request “Ghost Club at School”. Opening the stalls and approaching the toilets causes her to appear. |