Yamata no Orochi

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Orochi
Orochi in Yamato Takeru
Orochi in The Three Treasures
Alternate names Yamata no Orochi
Subtitle(s) Showa: Mythical Monster
(神話怪獣,   Shinwa Kaijū)[1]
Heisei: Incarnation of Evil
(邪悪の化身,   Jāku no Kenshi)[2]
Evil Spirit (邪神,   Jashin) (Tsukuyomi)[3]
Species Eight-Headed Serpent
Length Showa: 300 meters[4]
Heisei: 66 meters[3]
Weight Showa: 10,000 metric tons[4]
Heisei: 50,000 metric tons[3]
Forms Tsukuyomi, Sukinowa
Place(s) of emergence Izumo,BoJ[3] MoonYT[3]
Enemies Susano, Utsuno Ikusagami, Amano Shiratori, GodzillaTGCRA, G:RAT
Created by Japanese Mythology
Played by Puppets, Kenpachiro SatsumaYT,
Hiroshi Abe (Tsukuyomi)
First appearance Latest appearance
The Three Treasures Onmyoji II
Roar(s)
Heisei

Yamata no Orochi (八岐の大蛇,   Yamata no Orochi, lit. Big Snake Of Eight Branches) is an eight-headed serpent kaiju from Japanese mythology that made its first appearance in a Toho film in the 1959 film, The Three Treasures.

Design

In The Three Treasures, Orochi looks like a giant snake with eight heads, with eight small tails extending from the main one. Its scales are gray in color. In Yamato Takeru, Orochi is now red with horns on its heads, legs, and a single large tail, with small spikes sticking out from the sides. In Onmyoji II, the eight heads of Orochi are not connected to a body, but instead, are all connected together forming one, long, eight-headed snake. This version of Orochi is also surrounded by a fiery aura.

History

Showa Series

The Three Treasures

Orochi in the Showa era shares the same story as the Orochi from mythology, with his role in the movie being a description of that event. Every year he would arise from a lake to consume a child of the earthian deities. After consuming eight vats of sake set out for him, Susano was able to trap Orochi's heads in a tree, forcing the serpent to attack with his tails. After Susanoo stabbed his sword into Orochi's tail twice the monster died, allowing the storm god to retrieve the sword Murakumo.

Heisei Series

Yamato Takeru

Orochi was the god Tsukuyomi, lord of the underworld and God of the Moon, who transformed into this monstrous form ten thousand years ago and used it to attack the Earth. All of this was done in jealousy of his sister Amaterasu, goddess of heaven and the sun. He destroyed cities and mountains until he was stopped by his brother Susano, god of storms and the sea, his father then banished from Earth in a prison of ice. Thousands of years later, Tsukuyomi returned to Earth and was revived thanks to his servant, a trasnformed sentient broken fang who died soon after. After breaking free on the moon, he raised his castle but was bested by Yamato Takeru and Oto, who held the 'spirits' of his two siblings. Angered transformed int Orochi to kill the Yamato Takeru and Oto, but they were saved by Amano Shiratori, the servant of the Sun goddess. However Orochi threw the two into space via a blast, but Takery fused with Oto and two sacred treasure to become Utsuno Ikusagami. Utsuno Ikusagami fought Orochi, and won. Tsukuyomi was trapped on the moon and sealed into Takeru's pendant and cast into space on the orders of Susano who said that upon his return Tsukuyomi would be reformed.

Onmyoji II

Orochi was originally slain in ancient times by Susanoo, but countless years later, Orochi reemerged, placing in Susa, the son of Genkaku. Orochi also reincarnated Amaterasu in Amemiko, Genkaku's daughter. As a sign of the eight-headed dragon's power, both of Genkaku's children bore the mark of the Yamata No Orochi on their shoulder.

Abilities

Orochi

  • Orochi can spray fire from his mouths.
  • Orochi can fire lasers from his eyes in the Heisei series.
  • Orochi can withstand a great deal of punishment and the severing of most of his heads. Despite being overpowered, Orochi lasted a fairly long time.
  • In Onmyoji II, Orochi could enter the bodies of humans, which then bear the mark of Yamata No Orochi. Orochi can then thrust itself from the mark it creates.

Tsukuyomi

Godhood

Tsukuyomi is a god and presumably has various supernatural abilities stemmed to that fact. Before he was only defeated by his brother, a fellow god and by Takeru, who was given a power to counter his.

Immortality

As a god, Tsukuyomi is immune to the withering effects of time. He also survived trapped in ice for millenia and both of his defeats.

Calm Spirit

The counterforce to Takeru's 'Wild Spirit', it manifests as beams from his eyes. It's power is unknown but Susanno said it was impossible to defeat him without the Wild Spirit to defeat his calm Spirit. Presumably only his siblings could match his power and only his father and older gods surpassed his.

Materialization

Tsukuyomi manifested his armor and raised a castle of complex architecture from the Earth through nothing but his will. These creations were not illusion and real to the point they could survive his absence.

Teleportation

Tsukuyomi teleported from the Moon to Earth, he also teleported out of his armor when he transformed into Orochi.

Transformation

Tsukuyomi can shapeshift, he used this power to become Orochi and given that his servants powers stemmed from him, he can presumably take on the appearance of others.

Filmography

Comics

The Godzilla Comic Raids Again

In this comic by a series of illustrators including Hurricane Ryu Hariken, Orochi appears as an opponent of Godzilla.

Godzilla: Rage Across Time

To be added.


Gallery

Main article: Orochi/Gallery.

Trivia

References

This is a list of references for Yamata no Orochi. These citations are used to identify the reliable sources on which this article is based. These references appear inside articles in the form of superscript numbers, which look like this: [1]

  1. Godzilla Toho Giant Monster Pictorial Book. Shogakukan. 1 April 2005. p. 116. ISBN 4-09-280052-5. Check date values in: |date= (help)
  2. Definitive Edition of Toho Monster Movies!! Godzilla Special Effects Complete Works. Natsumesha. 21 December 1994. ISBN 978-4816317750. Check date values in: |date= (help)
  3. 3.0 3.1 3.2 3.3 3.4 Toho Special Effects All Monster Encyclopedia. Shogakukan. 23 July 2014. pp. 21, 89. ISBN 4-096-82090-3. Check date values in: |date= (help)
  4. 4.0 4.1 Godzilla Giant Monsters Super Encyclopedia. Kodansha. 15 March 1994. p. 52. ISBN 978-4063042702. Unknown parameter |ed= ignored (|edition= suggested) (help)

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