Barnaby Bernstein

Barnaby Bernstein
熊島 五郎太Kumashima Gorōta
Nickname(s)	Bear "Pookie Bear" Bear Boy
Age	11
Gender	Male
Personal Information
Hometown	Blossom Heights, Springdale
Relatives	Mrs. Bernstein (Mother) Mr. Bernstein (Father) Bearmie (Younger sister)
Media Appearances
Game debut	Yo-kai Watch
Anime debut	Yo-kai are Real
Movie debut	Yo-kai Watch the Movie
Behind the Scenes
Japanese VA	Tōru Nara
English VA	Paul Greenberg (Video games, Season 1 and 2 anime dub) Tony Azzolino (Season 3 anime dub)
Portrayed by	Yu Sawabe (M03)

Yo-kai Medallium biography "One of Nate's best friends. He also has a good relationship with Eddie. He has a simple personality, but he cares about his friends a lot. He's the class punk/prankster."

Barnaby Bernstein (Japanese: 熊島 五郎太, Kumashima Gorōta), often referred to as Bear (Japanese: クマ, Kuma), is a recurring character in the Yo-kai Watch series. He is one of Nate, Eddie, and Katie's friends and classmates of Springdale Elementary School.

In an alternate universe, he has a Yo-kai form named Mukade-otoko, due to the effects of the Kuroi Yo-kai Watch.

Appearances

Video games

• Yo-kai Watch: Minor character
• Yo-kai Watch 2: Minor character
• Yo-kai Watch 3: Minor character
• Yo-kai Watch 4: Minor character
• Yo-kai Watch Dance: Just Dance Special Version: Cameo character
• Yo-kai Sangokushi: Cameo character
• Yo-kai Watch: Wibble Wobble: Cameo character

Anime series

• Yo-kai Watch anime series: Side character
• Yo-kai Watch Shadowside anime series: Side character
• Yo-kai Watch! anime series: Side character
• Yo-kai Watch the Movie: Lord Enma and the Five Tales, Nyan!: Cameo character
• Yo-kai Watch the Movie: The Great Adventure of the Flying Whale & the Double World, Nyan!: Minor character
• Yo-kai Watch♪ the Movie: How Nate and I Met Nyan!♪: Minor character

Physical traits

Bear appears as a person with a robust build, rings around his eyes, a black pointy hairstyle pointing upwards and a plaster on his left cheek of his face. He wears a blue varsity jacket with white sleeves and a white shirt with a triangular design on it, along with brown shorts and white sneakers. His overall appearance resembles that of a rebellious biker, which gives him a rough aura, despite his gentler, yet slightly bumbling nature.

He's a bit of a bumbler, but despite his thuggish appearance, he's a rather gentle person. Bear is a bit of a glutton and he isn't shown to be athletic. He's unusually sensitive and can burst into tears. He is also known to be incredibly scared of his mother.

Profile

Yo-kai Watch

Bear plays a role in The Ring In The Pond chapter of Yo-kai Watch, where he tasks the player to search for the engagement ring his parents had lost inside a pond.

In The Extreme Dare, Bear is trapped in the anatomical model by Rattelle after he unknowingly stole one of her rib bones. He's released once the player finds the rib bone in his desk.

He also plays a role in the request "Re-Mom-Bear Me", where he asks the player to help his mom remember to make dinner that night. The player finds his mom inspirited by Wazzat, who they defeat, making Bear's mom remember not only dinner, but also a test Bear did badly on, causing her to chew him out.

Yo-kai Watch 2

Bear is involved in a line of requests. In "Bear Boy - Origins", Bear wants to act like a superhero, so he asks the player to bring him a belt from the clothes store and a dull sword from Whatta Find. Whisper then gets the idea of using Mochismo to power Bear up. This backfires when it makes him too strong, causing him to run off and accidentally fall in the river while attempting to fly. The player then goes to Mt. Wildwood Summit to find Bear through the binoculars - he's back home, being chewed out by his mom.

In "The Bear Boy Returns", he will go to the Springdale Sports Club with Eddie to train, but quickly wears himself out. Whisper has the idea of enlisting the help of Nekidspeed to help Bear. This backfires when it makes Bear too fast and he runs off. The player returns to Mt. Wildwood Summit find him back home, getting chewed out by his mom again - he had run right into her while inspirited.

In "Ultimate Bear Boy", he once again asks the player to help him, this time requesting merchandise of Glorious Mask, an old superhero. After the player retrieves the Hero Cutout in Old Springdale, Bear invites Eddie over, but Eddie isn't in the mood to play Bear Boy's rival. Whisper gets the idea to use Supoor Hero to change Eddie's mind. This once again backfires when Eddie, now calling himself "Officer Eddie", clashes with Bear and they jump off the roof of Bear's house. After chasing them, the player once again goes to Mt. Wildwood Summit to find Bear once again back home, once again being chewed out by his mom. This time Bear reveals that he had been chewed out by Eddie's mom as well - and that she's scarier than his mom.

Yo-kai Sangokushi

At the beginning of the game and on Komasan's side, Bear and Eddie get inspirited by an unknown deity where they both end up eating their ice cream cones in an unusual way.

Relationships

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Nate, Eddie, and Katie

He's good friends with them.

Bearmie

In the anime, Bearmie is Bear's little sister who has come back from her visit at BBQ.

In the anime

Main article: Barnaby Bernstein (anime)

Yo-kai Watch: The Movie

In Yo-kai Watch: The Movie, at the beginning of the film Bear is seen with Nate, Katie, and Eddie who all are leaving school. During their walk home, they discuss the strange events about things have been getting bigger.

The Great adventure of the Flying Whale & the Double World, Nyan!

In the third Yo-kai Watch movie, he is played by Yu Sawabe in the live-action scenes.

When Nate searches for Bear and Eddie he finds them at a crank-machine, where Bear has just received a rare Emperor Krills toy.

Eddie offers to buy it from him for a high price, unfortunately, Bear explains that isn't a funny joke, for this Emperor Krills figure is worth a higher amount of money. Eddie asks Bear for a discount on them being friends, in which Bear does offering it for a lower amount of money, but it seems Eddie does not have enough money to afford it.

In the background, Nate, Whisper, and Jibanyan are watching the entire thing, confused at their behaviors and especially Bear's appearance as now he's resembles a 30-year-old-man.

Trivia

• Bear's nickname, as well as his last name of Bernstein, references The Berenstain Bears, a franchise centered around a family of anthropomorphic bears.
  • Coincidentally, both Barnaby and main club protagonists' fathers work as carpenters.
• In Yokai Watch 2, while riding the train, the player will sometimes tell a story about a time when Bear got into a fight and his mother dragged him by the ear back home.
• In EP026 when Katie's inspirited by Espy, it is revealed he has a crush on Lulu.
• Nate references that Bear looks like a grown man in M03, likely because his actor Yu Sawabe was in his 30s when the live-action scenes were shot. This also makes him the only grown-up in the film to portray an 11 year-old child.
• In SS044, he along with Eddie were mentioned by Nate and Katie when Natsume asks her father for advice. However it's unknown if he still lives in Springdale, or if he moved to another town.
• He is the one who gets inspirited by Yo-kai the least amount of times compared to the rest of his friend group. The most being Nate, with Katie being a close second.
• He and Bourei Banchou share the same voice actor.

Gallery

Bear in Yo-kai Watch 1 for Nintendo Switch

In other languages

Barnaby Bernstein

Language	Name	Meaning
Japanese	熊島 五郎太 Kumashima Gorōta
Spanish	Donoso Camacho
French	Rémi Blaise
Italian	Sandro Cioni
German	Bernhard Grabowski
Dutch	Barnaby Bernstein
Korean	차기웅 Cha Giung
Russian	Барнаби Бернштейн	Transcription of English name
More Languages
Chinese (Cantonese)*	熊島五郎太
Chinese (Mandarin)*	熊島五郎太
Portuguese (Brazilian)	Bernardo Barbosa

Bear

Language	Name	Meaning
Japanese	クマ Kuma
Spanish	Oso
French	Balaise
Italian	Sandrone
German	Bär
Dutch	Bear	Same as English name.
Korean	차기웅 Cha Giung
Russian	Бурый Buryy (Anime series) Барни Barni (Video games)	Бурый (Buriy) means Brown (usual color of bear's fur) Барни (Barney) is short version of Барнаби (Barnaby).
More Languages
Arabic	جاد Jad
Chinese (Cantonese)*	熊岛 五郎太
Chinese (Mandarin)*	熊島 五郎太
Portuguese (Brazilian)	Berna
Thai	คุมะชิมะ โกะโรตะ