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===Oni with an iron club===

:'''''Depictions of oni vary widely but usually portray them as hideous, gigantic creatures with sharp claws, wild hair, and two long horns growing from their heads. They are humanoid for the most part, but occasionally, they are shown with unnatural features such as odd numbers of eyes or extra fingers and toes. Their skin may be any number of colors, but red, blue, black, pink, and green are particularly common. Their fierce appearance is only enhanced by the tiger skins they tend to wear and the iron clubs they favor, called kanabô (BLA BLA). This image leads to the expression "oni with an iron club" (BLA BLA BLA BLA), that is, to be invincible or undefeatable. It can also be used in the sense of "strong beyond strong", or having one's natural quality enhanced or supplemented by the use of some tool.'''''

Regeneration is not mentioned there, but note how the superhuman strength is covered by the expression "oni with an iron club" (KANABÔ ?? ONI). Daodan-enhanced Mai, Muro and Mukade are all that (virtually invincible, undefeatable, and "strong beyond strong", their natural abilities being "supplemented" by the Daodan).

So it would look like Bungie's title merged all those notions (those carried by the Buddhist ONI ''per se'' and the additional ones carried by "oni with a kanabô"), and that it thus applies to the different aspects of the effect of [[Daodan]] "symbiosis" on human beings, in particular on [[Konoko]].

ZDLO's quote above provides another interesting parallel, namely "people who can't control their anger can become oni, especially females". As for "feast on human flesh", this probably applies to the pagan ONI rather than to the Buddhist ones (the ones with the KANABÔ), but it can also be seen as an allegory for physical violence, which Daodan-enhanced symbiotes (and Mai) are rather good at. So it's all about anger and lack of control : that's pretty much what drives all of Bungie's Oni.