Venoct has snow white skin and golden eyes, with long and dark teal hair that covers most of his face, tied into a ponytail with a sky blue ponytail holder. He wears a dark purple kimono with a black overcoat hanging off his waist, tied with a white belt. He wears black shin covers and fingerless gloves, as well as straw sandals. Around his neck's an azure, wisp-like scarf with tails resembling dragon heads. He is 140 cm tall (About 55 inches).
Venoct before he became a Yo-kai.
Before Venoct became a Yo-kai in the Yo-kai Watch anime series, Venoct was a human with long black hair which was parted covering one eye, hazel eyes and slightly tanned skin and his dark purple kimono which has his sleeves torn off and tied with a white belt with the cute bow-tie and has black arm warmers, as well as straw sandals.
Personality[]
Extremely serious, stern and stoic, Venoct's a fighter through and through, and doesn't make friends easily. However he is also extremely honorable and would never break the few bonds he's forged. Even his initial interaction with others is cold and standoffish, with him rebuffing any ideas that he might be their ally. He also seems to not like being a Yo-kai due to his tone of voice. Venoct is staunchly loyal to the late ruler of Springdale's Yo-kai World, Ancient Enma, and he agreed to protect his son, Lucas, by erasing his memories and blending him into the human world.
While he shares some traits with his counterpart Kyubi, he lacks that Yo-kai's arrogance and manipulative nature. His personality is left largely intact in the transition to the anime, where his serious disposition makes him seem very intense when compared to the more comical characters in the show.
In the anime, during his quest for revenge, Venoct initially annoyed Nate and Whisper with his constant appearances.
Besides assisting the heroes alongside Kyubi to stop McKraken's forces in the first game, in Yo-kai Watch 2, Venoct is the second in command in the Bonies army, the same position as Kyubi in the Fleshies army.
In Yo-kai Watch 2, talk to a boy in the book store to activate the Bony Spirits exclusive quest "Enma and the Serpent"
Talk to an old man near the grave behind the Shoten Temple.
Venoct can sometimes be befriended during the mission "Serpent Corps, Dark Assassins.". He can also sometimes be befriended via the use of his boost coin.
Venoct is befriended through the request Seeking the Strongest Opponents!, available from the Detective Agency after completing Chapter 10 and upgrading the Yo-kai Watch to Rank S.
Venoct is automatically befriended in a key quest in Chapter 10. He can also be found in the Glitzy Bones battles in Enma Tournament - Oni Arena as well as in the Bushinyan (Shadowside) mission in PuraPura Blasters. Once befriended, he has one heart for Katie and one empty heart. Only one Venoct can be befriended per save file.
He debuts in the Special Chapter of Volume 3, in his presentation he shows Nate that his "Dragon Scarf" follows his orders and when he shows him he is hanged.
Appears in Chapter 59, he heard from a human who could see the Yo-kai and wanted to check if Nate was good or bad.
He was hit by Eddie's toy plane, later he saves Nate when Whisper raises him to the sky and releases him by mistake causing Venoct to believe that Whisper is evil, When Nate tries to summon Jibanyan and Robonyan but they fall Venoct believes that Nate he is evil for dropping his companions even if it is by mistake. When Nate summons Shogunyan, Venoct believes that Nate is more evil for using his companions even after death. Later he would confront Jetnyan but he would defeat him in a simple way but would be defeated by Shogunyan who would inspirit Jetnyan's body. Venoct calmed down and seeing that Nate is actually a good person, decides to befriend Nate and leaves.
In the comic trip "Venoct" he realizes that he is the "Yo-kai Wanderer" and that is why he has no home.
Yo-kai Watch: Wakuwaku Nyanderful Days[]
It appears in Chapter 6, He was passed out in a pile of snakes and hungry, then when Katie saves him by giving him a fish to eat he decides to help her with some chores until He saves Katie from a sign that collapsed and they are done friends and before leaving he warns of a "Fox Yo-kai".
Etymology[]
His English name, 'Venoct', is a combination of venom, another word for a deadly poison or toxin, and oct, a prefix meaning "eight".
His Japanese name 'Orochi' is taken from Yamata no Orochi.
His Italian name "Velenotto" is a combination of veleno (poison) and otto (eight).
Origin[]
Venoct is based on Yamata-no-Orochi , the eight-headed serpent that terrorized Japan during the age of mythology, and demanded young maidens in sacrifice. The god Susanoo, who had been exiled after a dramatic fall-out with his sister, the sun goddess Amaterasu, rescues the princess Kushinada before she's sacrificed to Orochi, defeating him by offering him eight barrels of sake then cutting off the heads of the inebriated beast one by one. After he slayed the snake, he cut off its heads and tails. As he cut the fourth tail, his sword broke and he discovered the legendary sword Kusanagi-no-Tsurugiwithin the serpent's corpse. Susanoo gave the sword to Amaterasu's to earn forgiveness, and he was once again allowed into the realm of the gods. The sword became one of the three Imperial Regalia of Japan, along with the mirror Yata no Kagami and the jewel Yasakani no Magatama.
Venoct's appearance might also be based on Orochimaru, the former pupil and rival of the legendary ninja Jiraiya (see Ogama#Origin), and master of snake-summoning magic.
Trivia[]
Venoct's model sheet, where it has a visible mouth.
Venoct has a hidden mouth that is rarely seen, except for sixth chapter of the Enma no Kyūjitsu manga, where one of Jerry's flashbacks in the anime series depict Venoct with a visible mouth rather than being hidden.
According to Venoct's model sheet for the Yo-kai Watch anime series, he has a mouth where it's noted that it shouldn't ever be seen.
In the Japanese version of the Yo-kai Watch video game, Venoct uses the assertive, masculine ore first pronoun but, in the second game he instead uses the more polite/neutral watashi.
In the English version of the game and the English dub of the anime, Venoct and Nate share the same voice actor (Johnny Yong Bosch).
In M03, Venoct is shown to be able to evolve into Illuminoct despite this not being possible in the games, Even in EP186 it appears alongside Shadow Venoct, Venoctobot and Illuminoct.
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