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"Jibanyan has taken the form of a vampire, but his victims really don't need to worry—they'll feel a bit dizzy at worst."
"You look like you've got some tasty blood on you! Can I have a taste?"
—Dracunyan, Yo-kai Watch: Wibble Wobble

Dracunyan (Japanese: ガブニャン Gabunyan) is a Rank B, Drain-attribute Rare Yo-kai of the Shady tribe introduced in Yo-kai Watch 2.

In Yo-kai Watch: Ukiukipedia Kiwami and Yo-kai Watch: Ukiukipedia Gakuen Y, he is classified as the Onnen tribe.

In Yo-kai Watch Busters 2, he is one of the Yo-kai required to unlock Shogunyan.

Appearances[]

Video games[]

Anime series[]

Manga series[]

Biology[]

Gabunyan;s form before becoming a yokai

Dracunyan before being bitten.

Dracunyan is a blue cat with green eyes and big black pupils. The chest, paw tips and muzzle are white, while his nose and inner-ear are dark peach. He has two, very long fangs sticking out from his mouth and two bright orange tail flames. He wears a long dark gray cape with a red coloring on the inside and a bright orange collar sphere attached to the center. The band around the stomach is pale orange and the sphere he wears like a collar is dark orange. 

In the anime, he is depicted as a relentless vampire, going his way to bite other living beings because all he can feast on now is blood, and he grows jealous of those who can eat Chocobars. He also does his best to keep his scare factor at around a 3 on a scale of 1 to 5, with 5 being the scariest. Just like Jibanyan, Dracunyan loves Chocobars and Next HarMEOWny.

Whomever Dracunyan bites are turned into a Dracunyan themselves. The transformation occurs in three stages: the victim's head transforms, then a cape appears on their shoulders, and finally, their body changes to that of Dracunyan. The transformed victims then proceed to seek out more victims to bite.

According to the Yo-kai Pad, Dracunyan came as the result of a cat who adored Chocobars and was bitten by a vampire, turning it into Dracunyan. It now seeks to drink the blood of humans to absorb the chocolate from inside it.

Profile[]

Yo-kai Watch 2[]

Dracunyan can be freed from the Crank-a-kai with a Wind, Flower and Moon Excitement Coin.

Yo-kai Watch 3[]

Dracunyan can be freed from the Crank-a-kai with a Flower and Heaven Excitement Coin and a Five-Star Coin.

Yo-kai Watch Blasters[]

Dracunyan can be freed from the Crank-a-kai with all kinds of Excitement Coins.

Yo-kai Watch Busters 2[]

Dracunyan can be found in the Kara Kuriya Noa Ken no Ma ②.

He can also be freed freed from the Crank-a-kai with a Five-Star Coin.

He is required for the Trick or Treat Yo-kai Circle.

Yo-kai Watch: Wibble Wobble[]

Dracunyan can be freed from the Crank-a-kai with 3000 Y Money and a Great Blue Coin.

Game data[]

Main series[]

Yo-kai Watch 2[]

Stats Calculation
HP
 
328
STR
 
200
SPR
 
138
DEF
 
117
SPD
 
192
This shows Dracunyan's stat on level: 99.


Type Name Power Attribute Range
Attack Maul (Japanese: かみちぎる Kamichigiru) 80-120 Single enemy
Technique Reaper (Japanese: 死神の術 Shinigami no Jutsu) 80-120 Drain Single enemy
No description.
Inspirit Dracufang (Japanese: チューチューする Chūchū suru) Single enemy
The Inspirited Yo-kai gets chewed on, causing it to lose HP.
Soultimate Move Big Bloodsucker (Japanese: とことん吸血 Tokoton kyūketsu) 150 Drain Single enemy
Sucks the HP out of one enemy and shares it with his allies.
Skill Bloodsucker (Japanese: 吸血マニア Kyūketsu mania) Self and adjacent allies
Steals HP from adjacent Yo-kai when attacking.
Soul Effect
Steals Enemy HP while attacking (Large)
Blasters stats[]
Blasters Stats Dracunyan
HP: 1
Strength
Spirit
Speed


Button Move
Attack
Hits an enemy nearby
Drain
Drains enemy HP and gives it to you.

Yo-kai Watch 3[]

Blasters stats[]

Attribute tolerance[]

Tolerance of attribute attack
Strong × ⇒ △ ⇒ - ⇒ ○ ⇒ ◎ weak

Held items[]

Spin-off games[]

Yo-kai Watch Blasters[]

Yo-kai Watch Busters 2[]

Other games[]

Yo-kai Watch: Wibble Wobble[]

Stats Calculation
HP
 
263-519
Attack
 
191-393
This shows Dracunyan's stat on level: 50.
Soultimate Move
Big Bloodsucker
Bites into Wib Wobs, making them into replicas of himself.
Other Effects
N/A
Soultimate Levels
LV01 Area Transformed: 34pt
LV02 Area Transformed: 47pt
LV03 Area Transformed: 60pt
LV04 Area Transformed: 72pt
LV05 Area Transformed: 84pt
LV06 Area Transformed: 92pt
LV07 Area Transformed: 100pt
Skill Levels
N/A
LV01 Effect: N/A
LV02 Effect: N/A
LV03 Effect: N/A
LV04 Effect: N/A
LV05 Effect: N/A


Quotes[]

  • Loafing: "Nyeed...Blood..."
  • Traded: "I vant to vee your friend! Right nyaow!"
  • Freed from the Crank-a-kai: "Nyothing to fear! Dracunyan is here!"
  • Befriended (Yo-kai Watch Wibble Wobble): "You look like you've got some tasty blood on you! Can I have a taste?"

In the anime[]

Yo-kai Watch[]

EP042

Nate, Katie, Eddie, and Bear in Horror of Dracunyan

Dracunyan appears in Horror of Dracunyan, in which the citizens of Springdale have begun turning into Dracunyans and biting others, turning the town into a mess of Dracunyans. With Nate and his friends being the only survivors, Nate lets his friends in on the secret of Yo-kai. Together they try to make a cure for the Dracunyans, but Nate's friends soon fall victim to the Dracunyan epidemic. Nate, Jibanyan and Whisper brew a cure containing of garlic, salt and moldy bread, but this antidote turns all the Dracunyans into Manjimutts instead. In the end, Nate wakes up, revealing the entire series of events to have been a nightmare.

A group of Dracunyan appear in EP193, where Indiana Jaws opens up a coffin, thinking there is a Treasure Yo-kai lurking beneath, but it turns out to be Dracunyan, who surround him and the others inside the tomb.

Yo-kai Watch![]

He appears in EX023.


Yo-kai Watch♪[]

He appears in MN030.


In the manga[]


Etymology[]

Dracunyan is a portmanteau of Dracula, a famous vampire character of Bram Stoker's novel of the same name, and nyan, the Japanese sound of a cat's meow. "Gabunyan" comes from gabu (がぶ) meaning to bite and nyan, the Japanese sound of a cat's meow.

Trivia[]

Gabunyan contest entry

Original drawing of Dracunyan in the Yo-kai results page shown in Corocoro

  • Dracunyan is one of the few Yo-kai based on a monster in western mythology.
  • If his backstory in the anime is counted, Dracunyan is the first Yo-kai to originate from a foreign setting, which is in a town reminiscent of Transylvania. It even predates that of the 'Merican Yo-kai from BBQ.
  • Dracunyan is the only cat Yo-kai in the Shady tribe.
  • Designed by Yuta Yamamoto, Dracunyan was one of the two winning submissions of the first Yo-kai Contest, the other being So-Sorree in the January 2014 issue of Corocoro Comic.
  • In EP090, it was revealed that Dracunyan's teeth are detachable.
  • In the English release of the manga, Dracunyan initially refers to himself in-between gulps of blood as "Vampirenyan," with other instances using his regular localized name. It's possible this may have been an early name for him.

In other languages[]

Language Name Meaning
  Japanese ガブニャン Gabunyan
  Italian Dracunyan
  German Dracunyan
More Languages
  Arabic خفاشيان
  Portuguese (Brazilian) Draculanyan