History Main / TeruTeruBozu

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* In Manga/{{Aphorism}} the kids hang the dolls upside down to make it rain, since rain prevents the Blight from occuring.

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* The Ghostkerchief in ''Website/{{Neopets}}'' is based on one, with file names and item description even referring to it as "sunshine monk". It's a spooky petpet and emphasis is placed on it looking like a ghost.

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* Marisa dresses as one for a strip in ''MiniMari!''. She's excited at first, but quickly discovers how boring it is.

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* In one of the many [[{{Japandering}} wacky Japanese adverts]] Jackie Chan has appeared in he was dressed as a Teru Teru Bozu, suspended from a skyscraper singing the song.

* ''Manga/ShinryakuIkaMusume'':

* In ''Series/UltramanLeo'', UFO creature Nova disguises itself as a white one. It could shoot poisonous gas that [[HatePlague turned its victims violent]]. Its giant-sized form resembles a red octopus, as it arranged its body in the shape of a ribbon, with the head sticking out.

* ''VideoGame/{{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.

* The {{Pokemon}} Castform is based off of a Teru Teru Bozu.

* In one episode of ''Manga/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.

* In ''Manga/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.)

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* ''Comicbook/UsagiYojimbo'': In the "Teru Teru Bozu" issue, Usagi shelters from a storm with a family of charcoal gatherers and makes a Teru Teru Bozu for their son.

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* In ''Manga/FairyTail'', Juvia before her HeelFaceTurn had one on her dress because of her being BlessedWithSuck constantly raining around her. In some flashback, her younger self is seen making some more so the rain would go away and the local kids would play with her.

A small, ghost-like doll that is traditionally used by Japanese people to prevent rain. The name literally means "shiny shiny Buddhist 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.

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

* ''Manga/NyoronChuruyaSan'' episode 6.
* Nichijou episode 20.
* Kill Me Baby, episode 6.

** Gardevoir may have taken a little bit of inspiration from this one, too.
** Shuppet as well.

* In one episode in season one of ''VideoGame/{{Aikatsu}}'', Ichigo makes a large Teru Teru Bozu doll in preparation for the on-coming storm. Because of its size, other characters believe that it'll work and aren't surprised when it does.

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-->''Teru-teru-bōzu, teru bōzu''\\

-->''(Teru-teru-bozu, teru bozu''\\

-->''Teru-teru-bōzu, teru bōzu''\\

-->''(Teru-teru-bozu, teru bozu''\\

-->''Teru-teru-bōzu, teru bōzu''\\

-->''(Teru-teru-bozu, teru bozu''\\

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

* In ''Manga/Change123'', 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.]]

* "{{Kanamemo}}" has the girls at the newspaper delivery office take to making a whole bunch of Teru Teru Bozu to ward off an incoming typhoon. [[spoiler:They make the last one out of a large raincoat and rope...which freaks out a drunk passerby who, seeing only its silhouette at night, [[SuicideAsComedy mistakes it for a person hanging himself.]] Or rather, the ghost of a person who hung himself.]]

* In a {{Dorama}} called ''With Love'', one of the main characters used the screen name of TeruTeruBozu and those played some sort of important role to her and her lover.

* The {{Pokemon}} Castform is based off of a TeruTeruBozu.

* One of the TIPS in ''VisualNovel/HigurashiWhenTheyCry'' show Rika hanging a TeruTeruBozu upside down in order to call in some rain. She's doing this because she's getting tired of the same sunshine [[spoiler:[[GroundhogDayLoop that's happening over and over again]]]] during the summer. In her mother's eyes, however, this comes off as one of Rika's CreepyChild moments after Rika tells her mother why she wants them hung upside down.

* In episde two of ''Anime/{{ReKan}}'', Amami Hibiki meets the ghost of a schoolgirl offering her umbrella to strangers in the rain. When someone takes it, the faceless ghost demands their face in return, terrifying everyone in the school. Naturally, Amami isn't scared of the ghost at all, but is instead mortified because she accidentally made a comment about eyes when the ghost doesn't have any. To ask forgiveness, she makes the faceless ghost an upside-down Teru Teru Bozu, so she can hopefully use the increase in rain it brings to become friends with the ghost.

* One of the TIPS in ''VisualNovel/HigurashiNoNakuKoroNi'' show Rika hanging a TeruTeruBozu upside down in order to call in some rain. She's doing this because she's getting tired of the same sunshine [[spoiler:[[GroundhogDayLoop that's happening over and over again]]]] during the summer. In her mother's eyes, however, this comes off as one of Rika's CreepyChild moments after Rika tells her mother why she wants them hung upside down.

* ''ChocoMimi'': Mimi makes an upside-down one because she wants it to rain. There are also a few other chapters where the characters make Teru Teru Bozu.

* In ''{{Tamayura}}: Hitotose'', in the FestivalEpisode, Fuu, Norie and Maon go to visit Kaoru to check why she wasn't able to meet with them. They find her tying up a rather large Teru Teru Bozu with an (inexplicably) ''scary face'' made by Kaoru's sister. Then all four of them decide to make each her own Teru Teru Bozu and, of course, each of them gives it ''her own'' face and "hairstyle".

* [[ChocoMimi Mimi]] makes an upside-down one because she wants it to rain. There are also a few other chapters where the characters make Teru Teru Bozu.

* One of the TIPS in ''HigurashiNoNakuKoroNi'' show Rika hanging a TeruTeruBozu upside down in order to call in some rain. She's doing this because she's getting tired of the same sunshine [[spoiler:[[GroundhogDayLoop that's happening over and over again]]]] during the summer. In her mother's eyes, however, this comes off as one of Rika's CreepyChild moments after Rika tells her mother why she wants them hung upside down.