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Baku (Japanese: バク Baku) is a Drain-attribute Yo-kai of the Charming tribe introduced in Yo-kai Watch.
In Yo-kai Watch 4, she is part of the Mononoke tribe. Introduced as Rank D, she was promoted to Rank C in Yo-kai Watch 4. She temporarily gained her prior rank in Yo-kai Watch: Wibble Wobble.
As of Yo-kai Watch 2, Baku evolves into Bakulia starting at Level 29.
In Yo-kai Watch 2, Yo-kai Watch 3 and Yo-kai Watch: Wibble Wobble, Baku is one of the Yo-kai required to unlock Shogunyan.
Appearances[]
Video games[]
- Yo-kai Watch: Playable Yo-kai
- Yo-kai Watch 2: Playable Yo-kai
- Yo-kai Watch 3: Playable Yo-kai
- Yo-kai Watch 4: Playable Yo-kai
- Yo-kai Watch Blasters: Playable Yo-kai
- Yo-kai Watch Busters 2: Playable Yo-kai
- Yo-kai Watch: Wibble Wobble: Playable Yo-kai
- Yo-kai Watch: Medal Wars: Playable Yo-kai
Anime series[]
- Yo-kai Watch: Recurring Yo-kai
Manga series[]
- Yo-kai Watch Manga: Minor Yo-kai
- Yo-kai Watch: Wakuwaku Nyanderful Days: Minor Yo-kai
Biology[]
Baku has the appearance of a purple and pink tapir. She has yellow eyes with red irises and black pupils. She has small, pointy, horns that are a different color purple than her body, but the same color purple as the tuft of fur on her tail. Baku has an orange flower-like design next to her eyes. She also has sharp teeth on both her upper and lower jaws.
Baku can put her targets to sleep, allowing her to eat their dreams. The dream takes the form of translucent clouds that can also be viewed like a movie if she doesn't immediately eat them.
In the first game, Baku can also demonstrate the appearance of a human. This allows the player to go out at night without their parents knowing, as Baku takes the player's place in bed, asleep. Baku's dream eating also removes all traces of tiredness from the player, allowing them to be indefinitely energetic and not feeling exhausted.
Profile[]
Yo-kai Watch[]
Baku's automatically befriended after defeating her in the main story. Baku also appears on the Bamboo Path in Blossom Heights.
Yo-kai Watch 2[]
Baku's automatically befriended again during the main story, but this time, she appears in the classroom when the player forgot their summer homework in the school. After hitting Whisper with hidden sleeping smoke (thanks to Jibanyan using him as a shield) and a resulting fight, Baku offers the player her Medal in apology. She also appears on Liar Mountain in the Yo-kai World.
She can also be freed from the past Crank-a-kai with a Pink Coin.
Yo-kai Watch 3[]
Baku can be found in the graves at Shoten Temple in Blossom Heights at night.
She can also be found in Blasters T in The Boracle's Labyrinth and the Labyrinth of Legend.
Yo-kai Watch 4[]
Baku is automatically befriended during Chapter 1. She can be found in Mystic Grove, in Ark doors and rifts in Uptown Springdale and in Yo-kai spots in Hell's Kitchen.
She can be released from the Present Crank-a-kai with an Old Coin as a second prize or with a Gasha Coin, Five-Star Coin or One-Star Coin as a third prize. She can also be found in the Past Crank-a-kai with a Gasha Coin, Five-Star Coin or One-Star Coin as a third prize. She can also be befriended through Konkatsu with two red souls, one gold soul and two of Baku's Pillow.
She can also be found in the Gutsy Bones battles in Enma Tournament - Oni Arena as well as in the Lie-in Heart and Orcanos missions in PuraPura Blasters.
Yo-kai Watch Blasters[]
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He can be freed from the Crank-a-kai with a Special Coin.
Yo-kai Watch Busters 2[]
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Yo-kai Watch: Wibble Wobble[]
Baku can be found on stage 31, 72, 170, and secret stage 2-3.
Game data[]
Main series[]
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Held items[]
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| Yo-kai Watch | Sandwich 40%
Runic Charm 5% |
| Yo-kai Watch 2 | Black Badge |
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Spin-off games[]
Yo-kai Watch Blasters[]
Yo-kai Watch Busters 2[]
Other games[]
Yo-kai Watch: Wibble Wobble[]
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Yo-kai Watch: Ukiukupedia[]
Evolution[]
Yo-kai Watch 2 to Yo-kai Watch Busters 2[]
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Quotes[]
- Traded (Yo-kai Watch 2): "Baku's tired of eating [player's name]'s dreams. Be Baku's new friend!"
- Receiving food (favorite): "OMNOMNOM."
- Receiving food (normal): "Meh."
- Befriended (Yo-kai Watch 2): "Let Baku be friends and eat up all your dreams!"
- Freed from the Crank-a-kai (Yo-kai Watch Blasters): "Baku make sure you only have good dreams. Shall I come with you?"
In the anime[]
In Yo-kai Baku, Baku puts everyone, but Nate in the school, to sleep in order to eat their dreams. Despite Nate catching her in the act, but she refuses to stop, saying that she'll only stop after feasting on an incredible dream as she considers all the dreams she's eaten so far, as unfulfilling. Eventually, Nate summons Shogunyan, whose dream of being 80 feet tall, which it leaves Baku awestruck. After eating Shogunyan's dream, she happily gives Nate her medal.
Later Baku's summoned in Yo-kai Insomni to deal with Insomni, after Insomni Inspirited everyone into not getting any sleep at night. After their attacks collide, Baku and Insomni appear to have a face-off in a wrestling arena where the two face-off their powers; eventually Insomni triumphs. However, the sequence turns out to be Insomni's dream, and she's revealed to have fallen asleep, the instant she was hit with Baku's hypnotic smoke.
In The New Yo-kai Watch, Baku was seen in Yo-kai-Lifornia, where she's among the Yo-kai waiting in line for the release of the Yo-kai Watch Model Zero.
She summoned in EP082 to make Nate sleep, because he couldn't sleep.
She is summoned again in EP146, to find out what an old woman was dreaming of, as Flippit stalked her and disrupted her sleep patterns.
In the manga[]
Yo-kai Watch[]
She appears in CP005,when she starts to make everyone fall asleep to see her dreams and intentions, then she confronts Jibanyan but ends up falling asleep after using her dream gas against herself, then Nate proceeds to take her to his house where Baku and Nate become friends.
In Chapter 97, she is summoned by Nate to make Katie fall asleep so that she does not discover Nate fighting Kyubi.
Yo-kai Watch: Wakuwaku Nyanderful Days[]
Baku appears in ND015 so that Katie and Nate cannot do the homework. Katie and Baku later become friends.
Etymology[]
Origin[]
Baku's based on the dream-eating youkai of the same name. Originally from China, this beast is described as having "a bear's body, small eyes like a rhino, a long snout, a bovine tail, strong legs like a tiger's, and a spotted pelt": overall it resembles a tapir, and in fact, the word "baku" is also used to refer to the animal.
This creature will feed on good and bad dreams alike while people are asleep. Those who're woken up by nightmares will invoke its name to let it devour them so they can peacefully go back to sleep, and it's said that even the general Hideyoshi Toyotomi kept a picture of a baku by his bedside to keep nightmares away. It's also said that anyone who sleeps on a baku's pelt will never get sick.
Trivia[]
- In Yo-kai Watch 2, Baku's "random" nicknames are Dreater, Barnie, Chomp, and Crunchy.
- Baku tends to refer to herself in third person.
- In the games, Baku is often referred to as male.
- Baku, along with Peckpocket, Wiglin, Wazzat, and Lodo, are among the few Yo-kai whose medals change coloring from grey to green when they evolve.
In other languages[]
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 Japanese
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バク Baku | |
 Spanish
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Baku | Same as the Japanese name. |
 French
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Baku | Same as the Japanese name. |
 Italian
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Baku | Same as the Japanese name. |
 German
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Baku | Same as the Japanese name. |
 Korean
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맥 Maeg | |
 Russian
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Бакусон Bakuson | |
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 Arabic
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ياكو | Yaku |
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黑貘 食罗狼 Shíluōláng[1] |
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 Portuguese (Brazilian)
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Antoxa | |
Related Yo-kai[]
- Baku Rushi
- Genkibashuu Baku
- Bakuurara
- Bakulia
- Whapir