History Main / TeruTeruBozu

* In ''Manga/CaseClosed'', Ran and Kazuha make teru teru bozu in an attempt to chase away the rain, but Heiji sabotages their effort by turning them around so they faced inward.

* In {{Aphorism}} the kids hang the dolls upside down to make it rain, since rain prevents the Blight from occuring.
* In ''[[{{Yotsubato}} Yotsuba&!]]'', there is one chapter where Yotsuba makes many of these (including one huge one) to prevent rain, so that she can go to the beach the next day.

* A girl in UruseiYatsura is afraid of these dolls, and of Cherry, who vaguely resembles one.
* In ''HidamariSketch'', Miyako suggests making one during the rainy season so that Yuno can finally air out her winter futon and put it away, and then proceeds to make one out of the futon.

* In one episode of ''SgtFrog'', Fuyuki makes a line of upside down ones to make it rain on [[JapaneseHolidays Sports Day]]. Not only does this not work, the next day's forecast is for a 0% chance of rain.

* Takeru and Ika Musume make these during a storm in one episode of ''ShinryakuIkaMusume''. (It doesn't work.)

* In ''CaseClosed'', Ran and Kazuha make teru teru bozu in an attempt to chase away the rain, but Heiji sabotages their effort by turning them around so they faced inward.

* In ''KinnikumanNisei'', the character known in English as "Dialbolic" is called "Tel Tel Boy" (''Teru Teru'' Boi) in the original Japanese. This foreshadows the fact that his weakness is water and he's defeated when it starts to rain.
* In ''{{Change 123}}'', in the flashback of the morning that Motoko's mother died, the 5-years old Motoko checks out the weather after getting up, and we see her Teru Teru Bozu. [[spoiler:Although seemingly unimportant, this scene actually [[TheLawOfConservationOfDetail discretely points out to Motoko's superstition]], and her superstition will play a major role in the creation of her first SplitPersonality.]]

* In ''MinamiKe'', Kana makes one of these ''out of her little sister Chiaki'' so that she'll be able to go to the beach. When it works (rather to everyone's surprise), Chiaki chastises the others for praying to her with "Don't worship me!".

* ''VideoGame/MegaMan7'': A minor enemy in Cloud Man's stage is designed after the TeruTeruBozu, flipping upside down and summoning rain when shot. (If it's already raining, shooting it with the Freeze Cracker causes it to summon snow instead.)

* The Stage 3 boss of ''VideoGame/{{Parodius}}''.
* In the onlien flash game ''Poupee girl'', you can purchase ''teru teru bouzu'' dolls for your online avatar. They go in sale only when it's rainy season in Japan, though.

A small, ghost-like doll that is traditionally used by Japanese people to prevent rain. The name literally means "shiny shiny Buddist monk" and it was originally designed to somewhat look like one - it very vaguely resembles a bald man. Children traditionally hang these in a window frame when they wanted the next day to have good weather.

* {{Nyoron Churuya-san}} episode 6.

* In ''Manga/FairyTail'', Juvia before her HeelFaceTurn had one on her dress because of her being BlessedWithSuck constantly raining around her.

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* One of these is an item in ''MonsterRancher DS.'' It doesn't seem to actually affect the weather, but it ''does'' reduce your monster's stress in springtime.

* One episode of the [[KamenRiderDenO Imagin Anime]] had Ryuutaro making a room full of these to ensure good weather for a picnic. When it doesn't look like that will work, he is given a gigantic bear shaped one.

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* {{Nyoroon Churuya-san}} episode 6.

* Nyoroon Churuya-san episode 6.

* In ''FairyTail'', Juvia before her HeelFaceTurn had one on her dress because of her being BlessedWithSuck constantly raining around her.

* ''VideoGame/MegaMan 7'': A minor enemy in Cloud Man's stage is designed after the TeruTeruBozu, flipping upside down and summoning rain when shot. (If it's already raining, shooting it with the Freeze Cracker causes it to summon snow instead.)

A small, ghost-like doll that is traditionally used by Japanese people to prevent rain. The name literally means "shiny shiny Buddist monk" and it was originally designed to somewhat look like one - it very vaguely resembles a bald man. Children traditionally hang these in a window frame when they wanted the next day to have good weather.

!!Examples:

* In ''[[{{Yotsubato}} Yotsuba&!]]'', there is one chapter where Yotsuba makes many of these (including one huge one) to prevent rain, so that she can go to the beach the next day.

* Plays a scarier-than-usual role in a ''TwentiethCenturyBoys'' flashback.

* In ''MinamiKe'', Kana makes one of these ''out of her little sister Chiaki'' so that she'll be able to go to the beach. When it works (rather to everyone's surprise), Chiaki chastises the others for praying to her with "Don't worship me!".

* One of these is an item in ''MonsterRancher DS.'' It doesn't seem to actually affect the weather, but it ''does'' reduce your monster's stress in springtime.

* The Stage 3 boss of ''{{Parodius}}''.

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* In ''AzumangaDaioh'', Chiyo says she'll make these for luck for [[JapaneseHolidays Sports Day]], but Osaka tries to predict weather with her shoe, instead, so we don't find out if she followed through. (It was sunny, though.)

* In ''{{Toradora}}'', Ryuuji is seen hanging a home-made one out of cloth.

* ''{{Boktai}}'' has both a right-side up and upside-down Teru Bozu, the first always giving you at least two bars of sunlight while and the second limiting you to one. In the English version they're called the "Mr. Rainnot" and "[[SdrawkcabName Tonniar .Rm]]", respectively.

* This is probably one of the inspirations behind the [[{{Pokemon}} Pokémon]] called [[http://media.pldh.net/pokemon/ken_sugimori/update1/351.png Castform.]] Its main gimmick revolves around its ability to change forms based on the weather conditions.
** Gardevoir may have taken a little bit of inspiration from this one, too.

* A minor enemy in [[MegaMan CloudMan]]'s stage is designed after the TeruTeruBozu, flipping upside down and summoning rain when shot. (If it's already raining, shooting it with the Freeze Cracker causes it to summon snow instead.)

* In [[Aphorism]] the kids hang the dolls upside down to make it rain, since rain prevents the Blight from occuring.