Wanyuudou

輪入道

Enma Ai's assistant, who transforms into a black straw doll with a red string around its neck, likely derived from the red scarf he wears in his human form. He also frequently assumes the shape of a burning wheel on Ai's coach when she travels to the human world to claim a soul. The coach incidentally bears the same black flame crest that appears on the chests of those who contract with the Hell Girl. At all other times, Wanyuudou appears as an older man with mostly shut eyes, wearing a fisherman's hat and fairly old-fashioned Japanese clothing. Despite appearing quite mild-mannered most of the time, Wanyuudou possesses considerable martial arts skills. Wanyuudou's name means "A wheel entering the road," referencing the flaming wheel form he most commonly assumes. In episode 12 of Futakomori, it is revealed that he is from the Samurai era and had been the driver for a princess' entourage, failing to save them, with all dying in the process. As a result, he became a youkai terrorizing people in the form of a flaming wheel. It is Wanyuudou who first states that he and his two colleagues owe Ai a grave debt because she saved them from falling into Hell.