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Bankotsuko is the owner of the ramen shop in Buraza Town, and a supernatural entity in Yandere Simulator.
Appearance[]
Bankotsuko has midnight-black eyes and straight, fluffy waist-length black hair. She has neat, slightly curled bangs with a few strands curling under her eyes. She has fair skin and black eyes.
She is always dressed in a traditional Japanese kimono. However, this kimono has a special detail, in that she wears it right over left, which is exclusively used for dressing the deceased person at a funeral.[1] Her kimono is colored exclusively in dark colors, with a dark gray base, and a gradient of muted moss green beginning at the middle of the baggy sleeves. Her obi is a darkish dull red with a small faded gold button. The green in the kimono is a bright, yet dull, finch yellow, appearing a bit transparent at her wrists and ankles, which are slightly highlighted. The tree design on the skirt of her kimono has thin, drab yellow branches with solid leaves of the same color. Her white socks appear to be fingerless ones, since her toes are quietly highlighted. Her shoes are lotus red getas with thin straps. Getas are a type of shoe paired with a Kimono.
In-game, she uses the "sweet" idle animation and has a less detailed model. As she only appears at Buraza Town in her ramen restaurant, the player cannot see her full model without using third-party mods.
Personality[]
There is no shortage of books in the world that seek to enthrall the reader with fantastical stories of supernatural beings. These books are widely regarded as fairy tales for the entertainment of small children. But, on rare occasion, one might discover a book which emphatically insists that the beings from these stories are not inventions of human imagination, but truly did exist.
This type of book - often at the cost of the author's credibility and reputation - makes the outlandish claim that mankind once shared the world with a wide variety of supernatural creatures who existed in significant numbers. However, these creatures could only subsist on human flesh, making co-existence impossible. Thus, the creatures were hunted down, nearly to complete extinction.
Because these supernatural creatures disintegrated upon death, no credible physical evidence of their existence remains, aside from a small number of contemporary paintings that allegedly depict these creatures, and written accounts of supposed encounters with these creatures - all of which have long been debunked and discredited by academic communities.
And yet, despite the dubious nature of these claims, there are those who choose to believe them. "Occult Researchers" - existing in small numbers, shunned by the rest of society - dedicate their lives to seeking empirical evidence of demons, ghosts, succubi, vampires, zombies, and any other type of supernatural being that is regarded as fictional by the rest of society.
According to the legends that these researchers believe, these supernatural beings posed such a threat to mankind that grand academies were built to teach young men and women the skills they would need to slay monsters - including, by some accounts, actual magic spells. As usual, there is no physical evidence to support the notion that these "monster slayer academies" truly existed.
Supposedly, Japan was once terrorized by paranormal beasts known as "Oni" until the 1800s, when a pair of elite monster slayers from the west arrived in Japan through supernatural means, and became almost single-handedly responsible for wiping out the entire monster population. This claim is not taken seriously by the Occult Research community, who have found countless holes in the story.
Regardless of what is true or untrue, there is a portion of the population - however small - who remains convinced that supernatural creatures not only exist, but sometimes walk among us, masquerading as humans. Succubi and vampires - the most humanoid of all supernatural beings - have the highest chance of escaping notice...if one chooses to believe in such things in the first place.
It is said that the only way to identify a non-human is to examine their pupils for unusual shapes...but, with the rising popularity of Saikou-brand cosmetic contact lenses, it is increasingly common for people to display unusually shaped pupils, thus making it unconventional to attempt to "identify a supernatural being" by simply pointing out the shape of a person's pupils.
Supernatural beings do not show signs of aging after reaching maturity. If a person does not appear to age a day over the course of multiple decades, this could be seen as strong evidence that they are not human. Consequently, any supernatural being that is living in human society while masquerading as a human usually does not stay in one place for an extended period of time.
However, there are exceptions. Occasionally, a supernatural being will find a place in the world where they feel so comfortable that they don't want to leave, despite the risk of eventually being identified as a non-human. These beings are usually benign; capable of subsisting without taking human life or causing harm to humans, and thus able to survive in human society without issue.
And then, of course, there are even rarer exceptions - beings who possess the ability to use magic to charm humans into thinking, "There's absolutely nothing weird about the fact that the lady who runs the ramen restaurant has remained the same age for the past 40 years. Nothing weird at all. She probably just dyes her hair and has an excellent skincare routine."
Even rarer still are the beings who openly demonstrate their magic to humans, and yet are never identified as non-human. After all, can you really prove - beyond a reasonable doubt - that the ramen you got from that mysterious lady is what gave you a dream where you saw the memories of your ancestors? No, you can't; there isn't any empirical evidence...
...and that's why Bankotsuko has managed to live for 1,525 years without being identified as a non-human.
According to YandereDev, Bankotsuko has no intentions to harm humans. She has also managed to survive for over a millennium because she can manipulate human perception of herself.[2] Despite being a demon, she does not eat human meat.[3]
She is considered to be the most powerful monster to be alive, and even in the next century, she could be considered the last monster alive. She is known to be a pacifist, as she will never use her power for evil or to harm others. She exclusively uses her powers to enchant her food and alter other humans' memories/behavior to specifically forget or ignore her.[4]
Trivia[]
- Her name means "thousand lives" (万骨, bankotsu) and "child" (子, ko).
- Her weakness on the official website is stated to be "enchanted weaponry", which likely refers to the Heartrender.
- According to Ajia Ashitomi's task dialogue, there is a rumor of Bankotsuko not aging "a single day in decades".
- She is likely the demon Sakyu Basu mentioned running a restaurant in Buraza in a scrapped dialogue between her and Ayano Aishi.[5]
- YandereDev first mentioned adding her to the official website on November 1st, 2024.[6]
- She is the only shopkeeper who is seen with a 3D model.
- She, alongside Kocho Shuyona and the Hairdresser, is the only person who appears in both 1980s and 202X Mode.
- -79,572 would mean November 5th, 495 to November 5th, 499, depending on whether YandereDev decides an official year for 202X Mode.
- Bankotsuko was added to YandereDev's "characters" on November 14th, 2024.
- However, at the same day, her illustration was replaced with a question mark, but her original illustration can still be seen when downloading the photo file: "Ramen-full.png."
- On November 26th, 2024, she was given a new illustration.
- YandereDev mentioned that the modeler who made her previous kimono was likely inspired by a Module made for Hatsune Miku called "Demons and the Dead."[7]
