Dulluma is an orange daruma Yo-kai. He has four pairs of blue markings, humanoid arms and short legs, dark peach noses, white eyes with no visible pupils, and black facial hair. He has an outer shell that consists of pale peach skin and a serious face. His actual appearance however, has pale blue skin, drooping facial hair, and holding a dull expression (hence Dulluma's name origin).
As mentioned in his medallium bio, he is shown to be dull and sluggish, hence his English name.
Whoever Dulluma inspirits, they will become listless and unmotivated.
Beyond that, Dulluma has a dense body, with a particularly noteworthy hard head covering that contributes greatly to his Soultimate Move. He also uses this whenever he is blocking.
Dulluma appears in The Catwalk, Desolate Lane, and under cars and vending machines, and in garbage everywhere in Uptown Springdale. He can also be found in trees on a team with Moskevil, in long grass on a team with Fidgephant. In Blossom Heights, he can be found under cars and vending machines on a team with Darumacho.
Dulluma can be found in stage 2, 28, 43 and 62. He can also be found on stage 5 on Mystery Way and stage 12 on Super Mystery Way as well as stage 5 on Terror Time and stage 17 on Super Terror Time.
He can be freed from the Crank-a-kai with a One-Star Coin, an Exciting Coin or an Orange Coin.
"Dulluma" is a portmanteau of dull and daruma, and also sounds like dilemma put together.
"Darudaruma" instead combines with darudaru (sluggish, languid).
"Tentelento" combines "Tentetieso" (Roly-poly toy) and "Lento" (Sluggish).
"Dösuma is a combination of "dösen" (to snooze) and "Daruma" (daruma).
"Gusciolento" is a combination of "guscio" (shell) and "lento" (sluggish).
Origin[]
Dulluma's design is based on a daruma doll, a wooden figurine representing Bodhidharma, the Buddhist monk credited with bringing Zen Buddhism to China, famous for being so dedicated to religious practices he'd give up all his limbs for their sake. They're sold at temples with blank, pupil-less eyes, because the owner will then draw in one pupil when setting a personal goal, then the other when they achieve it, so that the "incomplete" doll will remind them of what they set out to do every time they look at it. After New Year's the dolls are taken back to the temple and burned in a sort of burial rite, after they're thanked for their services.
Perhaps as a humorous twist, Dulluma makes people lazy and listless, instead of focused on their goals.
Trivia[]
Dulluma's "random" nicknames are: Mosick, Simon, Rolypoly, and Dharma.
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