Talk:Gashadokuro

Ghosts In The Shell: poor Gashadokuro

I guess what bothers me about editing in Wiki isn't that I keep coming across information that is unsourced and vague in it's extreme, it's that no one ever bothers to write in the Discussion pages, I mean, even the vandal who stole the handles left something behind and it's as if actually commenting about what you do here is somehow taboo. Gashadokuro deserves more than an obsessive list (all uncited) of video games and comics it has appeared in the last couple of years. As James Nesbitt said in the BBC Jekyll, "show a little respect!" Duende-Poetry (talk) 15:54, 28 November 2011 (UTC)

Article pre-assumes existing knowledge of obscure Japanese mythology on the part of the reader. I'm not entirely ignorant of ancient mythology, but I don't know what a 'Yōkai' is. Until that phrase is accompanied by some detail the article is meaningless. 82.32.160.97 (talk) 20:14, 3 December 2015 (UTC)

also appears

Also appears in yo-kai watch 2 as a boss yo-kai. His english name is Gutsy Bones. In the spanish (spain) version of the game,he is called Tripasqueleto. In the latin american spanish version,is name is Huesos Valientes. Masterball2 (talk) 23:02, 12 January 2019 (UTC)

SCP-2863 Gashadokuro — Preceding unsigned comment added by JackCBug (talk • contribs) 00:43, 4 October 2021 (UTC)

later half of the 20th century?

a citation for that claim is needed, especially since it runs counter to the 1st half of 20th century & earlier ukiyo e paintings of these giant skeletons Gildedragon (talk) 14:19, 31 August 2021 (UTC)

Self-contradictory Article

This article is all over the place. Says that the concept is from the 20th century and is different to the events of the 10th century, then goes on to summarize those events as though they are relevant to the topic. The ukioe which stylized a host of animate skeletons as a giant one is said to be the reason for the modern misunderstanding of gashadokuro as a giant, animate skeleton. But, that very painting is about the 10th century events that the article states "dates back to the tenth century." How then can it be a 20th century invention?

Having read the Japanese version of this page (which, incidentally, does not summarize the story from the 10th Century, but is otherwise almost exactly the same as the English one) I think what happened is someone translated that article poorly and copied it down here without actually understanding that it meant the giant version is a 20th century invention, but the concept as a whole has been around since at least the 10th.

Because I'm not particularly familiar with the origins and I haven't regularly used Japanese for a decade, I'm not comfortable making these changes. Hopefully it will, however, help future editors get to the bottom of this. In the end, it's pages like these (which I keep seeing more and more of) that make readers distrust the contents of Wikipedia articles.--2604:2D80:DE11:1300:CCEF:3E3B:4208:A015 (talk) 13:19, 13 June 2022 (UTC)

Gashadokuro

How Gashadokuro die 103.91.141.98 (talk) 12:09, 20 December 2022 (UTC)

Wiki Education assignment: HUM 202 - Introduction to Mythology

This article was the subject of a Wiki Education Foundation-supported course assignment, between 17 January 2023 and 12 May 2023. Further details are available on the course page. Student editor(s): Ameylowery (article contribs). Peer reviewers: Pau190.

— Assignment last updated by Rockethound (talk) 22:02, 20 March 2023 (UTC)