Kyubi (Japanese: キュウビ Kyūbi) is a Rank S Fire-attribute Yo-kai of the Mysterious tribe. In the first Yo-kai Watch, he was a Secondary Antagonist but was a facade, a secondary character in later installments where he plays a minor role in the story by helping to stop the main antagonists or being part of the Elite.
In the anime he is a recurring character being an antagonist on very specific occasions without being a villain.
In the manga he was introduced as an Anti-Hero who only sees his own interests as the main antagonist in chapter 97, although he redeems himself in that same chapter and becomes one of Jibanyan's teachers in chapter 128.
Appearance[]
Kyubi is a fox Yo-kai who's twice as tall as Nathan. (220 cm.), His fur is golden thick with white belly and paws. His chest is covered in a thicker patch of purple fur, surrounded by a yellow "trim" around its shoulders, with four wispy hairs sticking out. Kyubi has purple tipped nine tails and long nails. He has golden-tipped ears, and on its face are markings resembling a kitsune theatre mask. His face has tomoe eyebrows
In the anime, Kyubi has taken human form several times. In human form, he's a young boy the same age as Nathan. He wears a blue sweater vest over a white shirt and black shorts. His eyes are green and has grayish tousled hair, with two strands standing up. Sometimes when he gets excited his nine tails come out and the disguise starts to fail.
Personality[]
He's a little more inimical, but has shown to also comical. He has womanizing personality, but with a deception to harness heart energy.
Although he is the town's guardian, this Kyubi is a somewhat unpleasant person, being arrogant, serious and cold, but not unjust. While he spoke condescendingly to Nate and Whisper and openly mocked Komasan for his timidness, he reveals after the defeat of Massiface that he is in fact, working to aid Nate and Whisper and hopes that they will be able to stop what was coming. He is also manipulative and openly admits to this, having lured Nate to the Construction Site to pit him against Massiface. In the second game his personality has softened somewhat, though he remains proud and arrogant.
In the anime, only the latter Kyubi appears, initially seen in his own miniseries corner where he's in the process of collecting Heart Orbs. He meets and attempts to charm Katie, but finds himself having great difficulty with it, much to his dismay. When shocked or annoyed, his shapeshift begins to fail; with his ears or tails showing, and in one case he reverted completely to his true form. By the end of his encounters with Katie, he finds that he's actually been charmed by her instead.
In the games, Venoct and Kyubi are treated like opposites. For example, in the second game, Kyubi is part of the Fleshy Souls while Venoct is part of the Bony Spirits. In the Oni update of the second game, Kyubi got a dark form called Darkyubi while Venoct got a light form called Illuminoct. The Crank-a-kai exclusive Yo-kai required to unlock Gilgaros that resembles Kyubi, Frostail, is a good, but still proud and arrogant, Yo-kai that brings good luck, while the Yo-kai that looks like Venoct, Shadow Venoct, is a dark, assassin Yo-kai.
In the manga it is shown that he likes to conquer as if it were a game, he also shows an explosive and selfish personality that only saves someone just to conquer him, he is very sustenance to deception as the trick of Shogunyan, he does not think he can be a good friend maybe because he knows he behaves like a child.
History[]
In the different media that Yo-kai watch has been, Kyubi has had different stories being a recurring character in all of them.
Yo-kai Watch video game series[]
In the games, he is Springdale's resident guardian Yo-kai who protects the town and the humans who live there. He once had a shrine dedicated to him near Shopper's Row. When Shopper's Row was expanded in the succeeding decades, his shrine was taken down. Evidently he was not offended by this action, and continued to stay on as the town's guardian.
In the first game he made a plan for the Nate/Katie to get rid of the McKraken sequesters and later helped when the White Yo-kai flooded the city he protected, which led to him and Venoct becoming part of the elite in the third game.
In the third game as part of the Elite together with Venoct, they visit the Yopple inc building. Falsely accused of cursing a person, he sought the help of Hailey Anne Thomas with the Darkyubi affair and her arrival only to discover that Darkyubi only wanted a friend and indirectly helped him.
Yo-kai Watch the movie[]
Kyubi took part in the battle against the wicked in Yo-kai Watch the Movie. He's shown saving Manjimutt from a wicked. with a fire ball. He also helped fight against giant Dame Dedtime.
Yo-kai Watch Anime Series[]
In "Cool Yo-kai Showdown!", He and Dandoodle tried to help Nate impress the girls but the two fought over who was cooler.
In Shoutout! Mysterious "Nu" Magazine - "Goatman Edition" helps Hailey with an article to help Phonius.
Yo-kai Watch Manga Series[]
In chapter 97 Kyubi was an Anti-Hero who saved Nate only for his interests but at the end of the chapter he redeems himself and becomes friends with Nate. In chapter 128 he was summoned by Nate to train Jibanyan to become an S-rank Yo-kai like him.
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