#the same spell on yamatae

[cebwrites]

"mimic"

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Kotetsu waves Yamato over as he's spotted across the street, seemingly excited about something. He does, Tae repeats that sentence in Kotetsu's exact voice while Izumo snickers when Yamato stands before them.

Yamato's expression in response is vaguely amused but unsurprised, then does the same after clearing his throat. Kotetsu and Izumo are both really impressed, giving him their praise.

Yamato says that "mimics" aren't uncommon among reconnaissance type nin and Tae corroborates; Kotetsu huffs that Tae's not so special after all and gets his cheek pinched by the jonin in question. Izumo points out that it's still a cool quirk to have, if not a nice party trick to have up your sleeve, then asks if they both had more voices to show.

The men agree to entertain their peers for a while with a variety of them, even copying some of the people in their life like Genma or the Fifth herself; hearing Gai's voice come out of Yamato with a fiery expression to match had Kotetsu and Izumo in stitches. Tae had a wide range between high and low, but Yamato's impressions seemed to be more accurate if he went lower.

Yamato mentioned between coughs that he used to be able to mimic more feminine voices too but after a certain point it got harder, then impossible. He met Tae's gaze on him with a small smile and watched the cogs slowly turn in his head in trying to decipher his little hint. Before any questions could be asked, though, Yamato offered to buy lunch for the gang and there were no complaints.

If the boyfriends noticed their little exchange they didn't make a big fuss out of it; Kotetsu and Izumo were, however, giggling and elbowing each other while they walked ahead to give the budding "lovebirds" some "space" together.

[mahvaladara]

Chioro Yamatano / Yamata no Orochi

“So you have 8 pet snakes... you’re an shaman medium exorcist!”

“Onmyoji...”

“Chioro! Onmyodo is a dead practice! No one does it!”

“No it’s not!”

“Well. You have 8 pet snakes.Who has 8 different breeds of snakes natural to specific provinces of Japan?”

“I do?”

“You’re a history major!”

“So?”

“So... Are you the evil snake god Orochi?”

“No. Why would you think that?”

“Your name is literally Yamata NO oro CHI! You only shoved the Chi on the start of your name!”

“No! My name is Yamatano Chioro!”

“It’s even write it the same! All you did was spell the Yamataaano as if you were english! You didn’t even bother to change the kanji! You only changed the romanji and even then you only removed the space!”

”What are you doing?”

“I am literally googling if Yamatano is even a japanese surname. And look! LOOK! First result! YAMATA NO OROCHI!”

“Himari, you have too much free time on your hands." Laughing.

[thenixkat]

The less common pop culture dragon review (multiple heads) part 1

(While you may call these hydras... well the OG hydra has no legs and is mindfuckingly poisonus, and most of the dragons in pop culture with multiple heads aren’t that. Zmey aren’t all that good a category name either since zmey are kinda weird, don’t necessarily have multiple heads, and from my research lean more into the shapeshifting and weather control/magic magic stuff)

Barf & Belch the Hideous Zippleback from How To Train Your Dragon

10/10. Lovely goofy design with a delightfully low slung lizardy body/stance. They each have their own tail too. Very good colorful markings. Also they’re shown to be pretty smart, having a solid understanding of physics and tools.

Nakarkos from Monster Hunter Generations

9/10. A liar! The extra heads are fakes! Very good glowy and grim design with the beak adding a hint of cuteness. This dragon is a cephalopod-like critter. It also shoots death lasers! Unfortunately we don’t get to see its whole body.

Hydra from Disney’s Hercules 

4/10. Loses some points for being a version of the Hydra with legs. Tho, it apparently only has a pair of arms. The details are very murky and I couldn’t get a good read on the facial features.

King Ghidorah from the Godzilla franchise

6/10. I can’t really say that I’m much of a fan of live action kaiju stuff, especially not the Japanese side of the Godzilla franchise but! There are several things that I like about this dragon. I am a sucker for multi-headed dragons having multiple tails too and I think not having the same number of tails and heads is a good call. I like his strange fan wings, they’re very distinct. I also like that doofy little crescent shaped middle horn some of his designs have. I’m actually not a fan of his new design in that recent live action movie since they took away the bits that make him distinct. Also this bastard is an evil shiny space dragon which is fun.

Yamata no Orochi in Nioh

7/10. Very imposing and combines big imposing dragon with massive fuck off snake rather well. It might juts be the lighting but the belly looks red which is an aspect that a lot of adaptions of Orochi leave out. Unfortunately I can’t find the full body image to see if it has the 8 tails as well.

Hydreigon from Pokemon

8/10. I love this goth bitch. Its lesser heads are just hand puppets, like there’s a whole elbow in those necks. The multiple ribbon thin wings are a nice touch. But wtf is going on with those legs? They look vestigial.

Snout & Peepers from Magi-Nation

5/10. Would rate higher if their body was more interesting. I do like how different but complementary the designs of these two are. And also how they’re treated as two people who happen to have a body they have to share.

Lady Dimitrescu from Resident Evil 8

9/10. This lady is a fucking fungal vampire dragon centaur that spits clouds of flesh eating flies! SHe’s also a pretty neat Dracula shoutout. Human form is well dressed, tall as heck, and nicely curvy. I would rate her higher if she weren’t so pale.

The Eborsisk from Willow

10/10. That’s so hideous and saggy I love it. Apparently a troll turned into a dragon via a botched spell, said spell causing the troll to turn fucking inside out at first. I love the jowls and lumpy nose and multiple teeny hind legs. Also like the big beefy turtle-like front legs.

[kaialone]

Yokai Watch News: Forever Friends

Doing my monthly summary of recent Yokai Watch news once again.

Like always, information is taken from various website updates and Corocoro, and translated by me.

Beware of spoilers, naturally!

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We got news about:

5th Yokai Watch Movie - Forever Friends

Merchandise (showing off some new characters, too)

A bit of Puni Puni and World

Like with the past few times, I’ll only show information from Corocoro if it’s not shown anywhere else.

And due to time reasons, I won’t be doing full translations for everything, especially if it’s just repeated information that I already covered.

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Yokai Watch Movie 5 News:

The official website for the movie has gotten some updates again.

I’ll go over the minor ones first.

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The main page got this new cover image that we had previously seen in Corocoro:

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The general information page now also uses this image as a background for the “story” section, but the text seems unchanged.

It also has an added bit about Enma in this movie, among other things, but it doesn’t have any new information in there.

One thing of note is that the added cast list finally seems to confirm the name of this Whisper-like character:

Previously, it was unclear if he is supposed to be Whisper or not, since it was hard to understand him when he said his name. But now it seems confirmed that his name is 臼田さん/Usuda-san, so he’s probably not Whisper.

(Which makes sense, considering Whisper should be sealed up around this time.)

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The character page had some characters added, but no new information about them.

They did fix the apparent typo in Itsuki’s bio, so he’s no longer called a “yokai” here. Seems like it really was a mistake after all. I mentioned that typo in this post here, back in July.

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The design contest page now shows all winning entries. Note that, as far as I know, this information especially isn’t documented forever on these pages, so back it up if you’re interested.

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Now, onto the actual news page of the site.

There’s been a comment by TVXQ, the band behind the movie’s main song 大好きだった/Daisukidatta (”I loved you”) . But it doesn’t really have any notable information in it, so I won’t cover it unless I see people who really want me too.

Same with the short interview videos that Corocoro’s youtube channel did with Chiemi Blouson and Shun Oguri, which you can see here and here.

They all talk about the basic points of “this movie is about friendship”, and “please watch it with your parents”, which is nice, but something they went over before, like these comments from last month.

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Actual news is this section, where they introduce ”Yasha Enma”, a character that was name-dropped before, but we hadn’t fully seen him yet.

(Check out this post about the news from last month if you want to know the context of that.)

Here’s what they say about him:

"Yasha Enma", the ultimate king who controls fire and ice, unveiled!

The "Great King Enma" is a super popular character of the Yokai Watch series. His ultimate form, "Yasha Enma" which no one has ever seen yet, will appear in this work!! Wielding the strongest weapon, the "En Ma Rod" (1), and using the "Dragon of Ice" and "Dragon of Fire", he displays power like that of a fierce deity! Will fierce fights unfold at the "Enma Butōkai" where the next Great King Enma will be chosen?! Please look forward to the battles of the coolest Great King Enma to date!!

"Yasha Enma" Enma, bearing the name of fierce deities that appear in mythology, the "Yaksha" (2). In his hand, the strongest weapon, the En Ma Rod. He won't just appear in his regular form, but also forms in which he controls the "Dragon of Ice" and the "Dragon of Fire".

Notes:

I had previously translated the name of his weapon 炎魔棍/Enmakon as “Enma Rod”, but I decided to spell it as “En Ma Rod” now, to make it more clear that it’s not spelled the same as the name “Enma”.

“Yasha” is the Japanese spelling of “Yaksha”. I use the Japanese spelling for his name, since we also spell “Enma” like in Japanese, rather than calling him “Yama”.

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Corocoro has some more information on Yasha Enma that the website hasn’t covered yet. So I will go over those next.

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Corocoro introduces Yasha Enma with this two-page spread:

(image source)

In addition to his regular form, it also shows the two other forms that the website only hinted at.

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悪の妖怪と戦うシンとイツキたちは妖魔界へ行き、 次の閻魔大王を決める 「エンマ武闘会」に出場。 そこで夜叉エンマと出会うのか！？ Fighting evil yokai, Shin, Itsuki, and the others participe in the"Enma Butōkai" where the next Great King Enma will be chosen. Will they encounter Yasha Enma there?!

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夜叉エンマ 最強の武器・炎魔棍をあやつる。 右目に特別な力を秘めている！？ Yasha Enma He wields the En Ma Rod, the strongest weapon. There's a special power hidden in his right eye!?

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羅雪 氷の龍を宿し、 すさまじい冷気を発する！！ Rasetsu Harboring the dragon of ice, he emits terrible cold!!

絢爛・羅雪!! Shine brightly, Rasetsu!!

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紅華 炎の龍を宿し、 紅蓮の業火を巻きおこす！！ Benibana Harboring the dragon of fire, he creates crimson fireworks!!

乱舞・紅華 Dance wildly, Benibana!!

Note that last month, I had mistakenly romanized “Benibana“ as “Kōka”, since it was really hard to read the furigana for the names.

It also seems that “Rasetsu” and “Benibana” are supposed to be the names of the two dragons themselves, so it’s a bit confusing about how those names also seem to refer to these two forms of Yasha Enma.

Notably, the merchandise I’ll go over in the next segment seems to call the forms “Yasha Enma Rasetsu” and “Yasha Enma Benibana” instead.

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Yokai Watch Merchandise News:

Boys Toy Web has added two new Yokai Watch items to their list.

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First we have the “Yōseiken Series 04: DX Ashura Goen-maru Yōseiken & Yōkai Ark Set”.

In other words, the 4th Yōseiken toy, and as always it comes with a special Yokai Ark.

The Yōseiken in question is of course the Ashura Goen-maru, which has actually been in the Shadowside anime for a long time, where it’s wielded by Dōketsu.

For a while it’s been unclear if Dōketsu was its Kenbumajin, but now it seems that he is not, and that it’s actually Ashura (Asura).

The special Yokai Ark that comes with it is an Extreme Rare-ranked one of “Sekka no Fubuki-hime”, following the trend of these bonus Arks seemingly always being a special form of a yokai who debuted in the original series.

This set will be released in December.

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Next is the “Yōkai Arc Zero ~The Other Side of the Silver Screen” pack.

This is a special Yokai Ark booster pack related to the upcoming movie.

As always, each pack has 1 random Ark in it. There’ll be 13 Arks included in this series:

We got 3 Ultimate Rare ranks: Nekomata, Kappa, and Zashiki-warashi.

This time around, their backsides feature their Godside forms: Cat King Bastet, Kappa King Sagojō, and Tengu King Kurama.

Then there’s 4 Extreme Rare ranks: Yasha Enma Benibana, Yasha Enma Rasetsu, Shien, and one that’s secret.

We got 2 Rare ranks: Kukuri-hime and Karasu-tengu.

Karasu-tengu was seen in the most recent trailer, but I don’t think Kukuri-hime has been shown before. She is presumably based on the mythological Kukurihime, but her name is spelled differently.

And 3 Normal ranks: Yamata no Orochi, Tamamo no Mae, and Yamambā.

Interestingly, Tamamo no Mae is just referred to as “Tamamo” in her Lightside form here.

Yamata no Orochi is a legendary dragon, whom Orochi/Venoct seemed to be slightly based on, but we had never seen the real deal in Yokai Watch. Yamambā is one of the names of the yokai Yama-uba.

Curious that these guys are all Normal-ranked, Tamamo no Mae especially seems like she should be more special, right?

This booster pack will also come out in December.

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Corocoro has also shown off a black Yokai Ark of Yasha Enma, and announced that they will be giving away 10000 of them in their January issue.

I think, because of how the issue naming works with this magazine, that might actually be the issue that comes out in December, but I am not sure.

Corocoro mascot/employee “Kaa-kun” made this tweet, showing off the Ark in question:

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With the three Yasha Enma Arks, and the Ark of Shien, we’ve been shown a new tribe symbol, resembling a sun:

It seems reasonable to assume that this symbol could possibly represent the Enma Tribe, but it doesn’t seem to have been confirmed as of me writing this.

But it is reminiscent of the moon-like symbol of the Izana Tribe that Kaira belongs to:

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And lastly, Yoroz Mart is going to release plush toys of Junior, Nekomata, and Yasha Enma in December, as seen in this tweet.

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Yokai Watch Mobile Games News:

This is just going to be really minor, but I wanted to go over it in some form regardless.

Corocoro revealed that the Great King Enma, in his original, young form that first showed up Blasters, will be added to Yokai Watch World soon.

And, you have probably heard of it already, But Yokai Watch Puni Puni is currently having a crossover with Dissida Final Fantasy, adding many characters originally from the Final Fantasy franchise as puni.

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The offical Level-5 youtube channel has also re-uploaded their trailer for the mobile game “Yokai Daijiten”, which you can see here.

Though they still haven’t added a proper release date for it, in fact, it only seems to say “release date to be determined” now.

In case you don’t know, this game was first announced back in 2016, I believe, alongside a smartphone version of the first Yokai Watch game.

If I recall correctly, they were scheduled to be released in 2016, but when that year came and went, the release date was updated to 2017, and now, as 2018 draws to a close, many people thought they got cancelled, but this re-upload implies that Daijiten is still being worked on in some form.

The official website for Yokai Watch 1 for smartphone says that it will be released in 2019 now, but I haven’t seen anyhting else from it.

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And that’s it for the general Yokai Watch news in November of 2018.

As always, I hope you’ve found this to be interesting and/or helpful!

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