Turbo Granny

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Turbo Granny
Japanese	ターボババア
Rōmaji	Tābo Babā
Other Names	100 km/hr Granny (100キロババア, 100 Kiro Babā?)
Characteristics
Race	Spirit (Yokai) Human (Formerly)
Gender	Female
Personal Status
Status	Active
Affiliation	Family (Formerly)
Residence	Kamigoe City (Ayase Residence) (Formerly) Shono City (Tunnel) (Formerly)
Portrayal
Japanese Voice	Mayumi Tanaka
English Voice	Barbara Goodson
Debuts
Manga Debut	Chapter 1
Anime Debut	Episode 1
Movie Debut	Dandadan: First Encounter

Turbo Granny (ターボババア, Tābo Babā^?) is a well-known yokai that was previously within a tunnel located at Shono City until her confrontation with Momo Ayase and Okarun. After having her powers sealed within Okarun, along with her consciousness being trapped inside a stuffed doll, Turbo Granny makes a deal with Momo to help Okarun find his kintama in exchange for having her powers back.

In Dandadan, she served as the primary antagonist during the Turbo Granny Arc but has since become a major supporting character throughout the series.

Appearance

The yokai took on the form of a very elderly woman with reddish brown wrinkled skin, long thick white shaggy hair, wide eyes with a yellow sclera and were stuck looked to the sides. When possessing her targets, she has her victims transform into a mirror image of herself, albeit with a large mouth with teeth that is capable of biting off body parts.

After having her consciousness extracted from Okarun, Turbo Granny is forced to inhabit a maneki-neko doll.

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Turbo Granny's maneki-neko body anime concept art.

Turbo Granny's anime concept art.

Personality

Turbo Granny is a yokai that acts cruel, sadistic, and is extremely foul-mouthed. She is also rather somewhat vulgar, as she offered Okarun a chance to suckle on her breasts in exchange for consuming his family jewels. Since she possesses impressive running power, Turbo Granny takes great pride in her speed and refuses to be underestimated. When challenged to prove herself, she is not above using trickery to get her way, having been deceitful with Okarun and Momo in their game of tag by counting irregularly. Despite her negative attitude, she is revealed to have a compassionate side, as Seiko stated that Turbo Granny would most commonly wander off to spirits of girls who died tragically in order to comfort them, which was the reason as to why she fused with the Earthbound Spirit Crab within Shono City.

Background

During modern times, the Turbo Granny was a yokai known as the 100 km/hr Granny (100キロババア, 100 Kiro Babā^?) that went around terrorizing the people of Japan. While wandering about, the Turbo Granny comforted the spirits of deceased girls who died horrible deaths and eventually fused with an earthbound spirit within a tunnel in Shono City and would curse those who would dare enter her territory by stealing their reproductive organs.

Abilities and Powers

Statistics
Attack 90/100 Speed 120/100 Kindness 90/100 Cuteness 30/100 Defense 70/100

Spiritual Power

Immense Speed
As her name implies, Turbo Granny possesses incredible speed that enables her to run at velocities of up to 100 km/h (62.1 mph).
Strengths and Weaknesses
The major strength of Turbo Granny's extreme speed is that it enables her to transverse great distances. As noted by the yokai herself, she is able maintain a consistent running speed even while turning, giving her an edge over faster vehicles, such as a train traveling at 120 km/h.
Usage
As stated in her urban legend, Turbo Granny employs her speed to capture anyone attempting to flee from her, and once caught, she casts her curse upon them.

Phone Teleportation
Turbo Granny has the ability to teleport through phone lines by utilizing her speed and her understanding of the world's spirals, specifically the spiral-shaped magnetic fields that flow around electrical currents.
Strengths and Weaknesses
The primary advantage of this ability is that Turbo Granny can teleport herself to any location where a phone is present.
Usage
Turbo Granny employed this ability to appear inside the Serpos' spaceship directly from Momo's mobile phone while possessing Okarun's body.

Spiritual Form
Turbo Granny has the power to dematerialize her physical body into a spiritual form.
Strengths and Weaknesses
Turbo Granny possessing the Earthbound Spirit Crab's body. Turbo Granny's spiritual form's primary strength is her ability to possess her target's body, gaining complete control over their actions. Even while possessing someone else's body, she retains her other powers, especially her immense speed. Her possession applies not only to humans but also to spirits, as demonstrated when she took over the body of the Earthbound Spirit Crab in preparation to play a game of cat-and-mouse with Momo.
Usage
Turbo Granny employed her spiritual form to take control of Okarun after facing difficulty in detaching him from her breast. Later, she entered her spiritual form to take over the Earthbound Spirit Crab's body to put an end to her confrontation with Momo.

Curse
Turbo Granny has the power to curse anyone she encounters who attempts to flee from her presence by stealing their genitalia. Her curse manifests as a possession, causing the victim's body to morph into her likeness and their consciousness to be overtaken by the yokai who goes on a rampage attacking others without discrimination.
Strengths and Weaknesses
Turbo Granny's possession-induce curse enables her to remotely take control of her victim's body while her real body is situated elsewhere. Like her direct possession using her spirit form, Turbo Granny's immense speed also accompanies her. Turbo Granny having her curse harm Seiko. When excluding the need to attack anyone, Turbo Granny can utilize the possessed as intermediaries to communicate remotely from her main body, located in a pocket dimension where time progresses only for the yokai and the chosen interlocutor. Additionally, her curse is contagious, enabling Turbo Granny to inflict harm on anyone who has seen the possessed, potentially causing heart attacks, strokes, or inducing bleeding from the nose and ears. The curse can only be broken if the afflicted person recovers their genitalia or performs an exorcism on Turbo Granny.
Usage
As stated in her urban legend, Turbo Granny casts her curse upon anyone attempting to flee from her inside the Earthbound Spirit Crab's tunnel after catching them with her tremendous speed.

Fusion
Turbo Granny has the ability to merge with any willing spirit.
Strengths and Weaknesses
The major strength of Turbo Granny's fusion with spirits is that it gives her access to their abilities for her to use in any way. Depending on the type of spirit she fuses and collaborates with, Turbo Granny can become a fearsome yokai.
Usage
Turbo Granny merged with the Earthbound Spirit Crab in the tunnel of Shono City to console the spirits of the girls who had met tragic ends in that vicinity. As a result, she had accessed to its control over Shono City.

Other Abilities

Luck Inducement
Due to being inside a maneki-neko doll, Turbo Granny claims to have acquired the charm's superstitious power, granting her the ability to confer good fortune upon others.
Strengths and Weaknesses
Simply by being in proximity to others, Turbo Granny can bestow upon them luck that overrides any unfortunate occurrences at the moment. In confrontational scenarios, those favored with Turbo Granny's luck gain an advantage over their adversaries, rendering the latter unlucky in the process. While an advantageous power, Turbo Granny cannot control her luck to favor specific individuals intentionally. Hence, this ability occurs randomly. Moreover, it is indiscriminate, meaning that Turbo Granny's luck is not guaranteed to always favor her and her allies and could inadvertently benefit foes.
Usage
Turbo Granny's luck bestowment usually activates whenever she accompanies the Family and they are in danger.

Former Abilities and Powers

Earthbound Spirit Crab Fusion

Territory Control
While fused with the Earthbound Spirit Crab of Shono City, Turbo Granny acquired its dominion over the territory it resided in.
Strengths and Weaknesses
The spirits of Shono City possessing its citizens to assist Turbo Granny and the Earthbound Spirit Crab. With this power, Turbo Granny could alter the environment of any particular area in Shono City, with the tunnel of the Earthbound Spirit Crab as her primary location. For instance, she could summon multiple hands from the ground to seize and imprison her targets. The two spirits could even communicate with the spirits dwelling in the vast cemetery at Shono City's outskirts, enlisting their assistance by possessing the residents. This power essentially rendered Turbo Granny and the Earthbound Spirit Crab almost invincible as long as their targets were within Shono City. Since this power was limited to Shono City, Turbo Granny and the Earthbound Spirit Crab forfeited their advantage over their enemies once they stepped outside the city's boundaries.
Usage
Turbo Granny utilized this ability to prevent anyone who dares enters her and the Earthbound Spirit Crab's tunnel from escaping. In the tunnel, she transformed her body into colossal heads of herself with teeth for eyes at the entrance and exit, cornering the trespasser. In the anime, she stretched the tunnel to make the exit unreachable. Outside the tunnel, Turbo Granny and the Earthbound Spirit Crab summoned the spirits residing in the large graveyard at the edge of Shono City to possess the city's populace and stage an ambush against their retreating enemies, aiming to overpower them with overwhelming numbers.

Urban Legend

Turbo Granny is a modern urban legend throughout Japan, featuring in multiple locations across the country and performing various unusual tasks. The common feature is that the figure involved moves at least as fast as a car and is more often than not an old woman, though there is some variation on that.

Chapter Appearances

Kintama Hunt Saga

Cursed House Arc
28. That's A Premonition About The Turmoils of Love!	Appears
29. First Love!	Absent
30. Don't Give Up!	Absent
31. The Life of an Anatomical Doll	Appears
32. Let's Go to the Cursed House	Absent
33. Better Decide Which One's Into Her	Mentioned
34. The Kito Family Is Coming	Appears
35. Where's The Tsuchinoko Monster?	Absent
36. The Kito Family's Old Lady	Appears
37. Like, This Is the Legend of the Giant Snake	Appears
38. Mongolian Death Worms Are Deadly	Appears
39. The Evil Eye	Appears
40. Contract	Appears
41. Jiji the Prodigy	Appears
42. Escape! Multistage!	Absent
43. You Won't Get Away With This!	Absent
44. That House Is a Damn Eyesore	Appears
45. It's a Pump	Absent
46. Put That Fire Out	Absent
47. That's, Like, Way Deadly	Absent
48. That UFO Is Awesome	Appears
49. He's, Like, Sealed	Appears
50. Let's All Carry Around Hot Water	Appears

Evil Eye Arc
51. We Can All Stay There Together!	Appears
52. The Hayashi Performers Are Here	Appears
53. We Became a Family	Absent
54. Get a Part-Time Job	Appears
55. Moe Moe Tri-Beam	Absent
56. Feeling Kinda Gloomy	Appears
57. Scary Dudes at School	Appears
58. Symphony No. 6	Appears
59. Symphony No. 9	Appears
60. You Can Do It, Okarun!	Appears
61. The Evil Eye's Briefs	Appears
62. I Want to Rebuild the House	Appears

Space Globalists Arc
74. Let's Go to School	Appears
75. Ran Into Someone Deadly	Absent
76. What Do We Do With Her?	Absent
77. This Person is a Pain in the Butt	Appears
78. A Pulse-Pounding Night	Absent
79. Just Who the Heck Is This Person?	Appears
80. Ran Into Some Deadly Dudes 2	Absent
81. What Do We Do About These Deadly Dudes?	Absent
82. Number One Deadliest Dude	Absent
83. At Work	Absent
84. Annoying Dudes	Absent
85. The Power of Nessie	Absent
86. I Just Wanna Leave Already	Absent
87. Can Never Sleep at a Manga Cafe	Absent
88. Spy	Absent
89. Argument	Appears
90. What're We Gonna Do?	Absent
91. Initiate! The Road to Counterattack!	Absent
92. Just Can't Sleep	Absent
93. Astral Body Adventure	Appears
94. Please Tell Me How To Get Back Into My Body	Appears
95. Day of the Decisive Battle	Absent
96. Motivation	Absent
97. What To Do About the Name?	Absent
98. What To Do About My Beauty Treatment	Absent
99. My Turn	Absent
100. Close That Gate	Absent
101. Vamola	Absent
102. Vamola 2	Absent
103. Vamola 3	Absent
104. Vamola 4	Absent
105. Banga	Absent
106. Vamola's Reasons	Absent
107. I've Decided On Takoyaki	Absent
108. I'm Gonna Kick Ya Into Tomorrow	Absent
109. Mantis Shrimp's Calculation	Absent
110. Wicked Power	Absent
111. Everyone's Reconvened	Absent
112. Today is a Tuesday	Flashback
113. Wreck 'Em	Absent
114. A Persistent Bastard	Absent
115. It's Kinta's Turn Onstage	Absent
116. Howl, Great Kinta!	Absent
117. Out of the Frying Pan	Absent
118. The Power of Reiko Kashima	Absent
119. That Note	Appears
120. Reiko Kashima's Maiden Heart	Appears

Onbusuman Arc
121. Who's This Person?	Appears
122. Let's Form a Club	Absent
123. The Class Rep's Secret	Appears
124. Ombusman	Appears
125. Let's Do an Exorcism	Appears
126. It's a Parade Float. It's a Festival. It's Ninomiya	Absent
127. Float Performance Face-Off	Absent
128. Let's Be Idols	Absent

Danmara Arc
129. Kawabanga	Appears
130. Mission Impossible	Appears
131. It's, Like, Pride	Absent
132. Delinquents' Track Meet	Absent
133. Where's Zuma?	Absent
134. Deadly Magic Object	Absent
135. She Went and Entered It	Absent
136. It's, Like, a Board Game	Absent
137. That Zuma Dude	Absent
138. Start Game	Absent
139. Let 'Em Eat Cake	Absent
140. How to Use Powers	Absent
141. Eatin' Too Many Treats	Absent
142. That's Enough Of Sweets!	Appears
143. Let's Take a Break!	Appears
144. Let's Go On An Adventure!	Absent
145. Commence Castle Siege	Absent
146. Castle Sieges Are Hard	Absent
147. It's a Megabrawl	Appears
148. Game Cleared	Appears
149. That Devil, the Fairy-Tale Card	Appears
150. This Guy's a Pain	Appears
151. Get That Family Jewel Back	Absent
152. Turbo Granny vs. Brella Boy	Mentioned
153. Unji Zuma	Absent
154. Unji Zuma 2	Absent
155. Unji Zuma 3	Absent
156. 'Brella Boy	Absent
157. Masamichi Bega	Appears
158. That Kawabanga Girl	Appears
159. Escape from the Cursed Trunk!	Appears
160. The Power of the Demonic Fairy-Tale Card	Absent
161. Saint-Germain, the Mysterious Man	Absent
162. Let's Blow the Demonic Fairy-Tale Card Away!	Flashback
163. Saviors, Don't Be Late!	Appears
164. She's Gone All Little!	Appears
165. Family Jewels—Intact	Appears

Current Saga

Kozuka Knives Arc
166. Is This a Little Fairy?	Flashback
167. Hey, There's Something There	Flashback
168. There's Someone Here	Absent
169. Find The Culprit!	Absent
170. A Suspicious Woman	Absent
171. Corner the Perp!	Mentioned
172. Those Pygmies Are Scary	Absent
173. Corner the Criminal!	Absent
174. Queen Sensei's Infirmary	Absent
175. So Who's the True Perp?	Absent
176. Scattering the Bait	Absent
177. Let's Do Some Kung Fu	Absent
178. The Power of a God	Absent
179. This Seems Kinda Deadly	Absent
180. The Owner of the Kozuka Knives	Absent
181. Must Be the Influence of a Curse	Absent
182. Something's Taken the Bait	Absent
183. So It's You!	Absent
184. The Class Rep's Head!	Absent
185. So You're The Perp!	Absent
186. Kouki Yukishiro's Power	Absent
187. Kick the Crap Outta Murakami!	Absent
188. Okarun and Kinta	Absent
189. Jumping Granny and Kung Fu Alien	Absent
190. Merging Is What Makes Us Strong!	Absent
191. The Mistake	Absent
192. Departing for Shimane	Absent
193. You People?!	Absent
194. We've Been Hijacked	Absent

Trivia

• She is probably based on the mythical practice of Ubasute, which involved elderly women being abandoned in a remote and desolate place by younger family members in times of hardship to reduce the number of mouths to fed. Though never having been widely practiced, it can be found in stories and foklore. It would further explain why she acts so angry around Momo and Okarun often complaining about their disrespect for the elderly.