The inspiration behind the skip is a yokai known as Hone onna. It's the corpse of a woman that keeps returning to her home every night out of love for her husband. The husband doesn't suspect anything, as his own love blinds him. In the legends, only those unclouded by love or with strong religious faith were able to see its true form.

Hone Onna (骨女, lit. Bone Woman) is one of the companions of Ai Enma. Hone Onna appears in all four seasons of Hell Girl. Tier: 9-B physically, higher with knives. Name: Hone Onna. Origin: Hell Girl. Gender: Female. Age: 200 years old. Classification: Yokai.

Legends: Perhaps the most famous hone onna is Otsuyu from Botan dōrō, or The Tale of the Peony Lantern. Botan dōrō was introduced to Japan in the 17th century from an old Chinese ghost story. Over the centuries, it has been adapted into puppet shows, kabuki plays, rakugo, and films, and remains an influential ghost story today.

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Hone-onna are said to visit men and seduce them in the hope of sleeping with them. Similarly to the Succubus in the Western world, the story goes that they kill men by extracting their lifeforce or by grabbing their hands and holding them until the victim becomes a skeleton itself.

2023年8月20日 · Hone-onna [骨女]: Modelled after the major character named Yako [弥子] in the famous classical Japanese horror story “Botandōro” [牡丹灯籠] featured in the novel “Otogibōko” [伽婢子] (1666) by Ryōi Asai [浅井 了意], Hone-onna is a yōkai of a dead woman’s skeleton who nights after night went out of her tomb to meet ...

2023年8月15日 · According to Legend, hone-onna was a beautiful woman abandoned or betrayed by her husband or lover.

The Hone onna (Japanese: 骨女 or ほねおんな, meaning "bone woman") are women who arise from the grave to return to their loved ones in Japanese mythology. They maintain the illusion of what they looked like when alive.

Hone Onna wields a bone sword fueled with pure hatred to stab a single target, dealing damage equal to 100% of her ATK.

Hone-Onna (骨女, bone-woman) is a yōkai and recurring antagonist. She is usually a minion for Akashita, Ōkubi and Mai-Kubi. Hone-Onna also has an infatuation for Nezumi-Otoko. Hone-Onna resembles a human skeleton. In most adaptations, she is almost always seen wearing a traditional Japanese kimono...