Kanibouzu

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Kanibouzu
カニ坊主Kanibōzu
カニ坊主Kanibōzu
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Attribute(s)
Listing No. (Spin-offs)
Busters 2	#B-053
Busters 2	#B-053

Yo-kai Medallium biography A crab Yo-Kai that has lived through rough seas and has become the master of the seas. In order to gain more power, he attacks monks and absorbs their power. The monk's spirit has taken up residence in his back. At first, the monks fought constantly, but recently they have become good friends with the crab.

Kanibouzu (Japanese: カニ坊主, Kanibōzu) is a Boss Yo-kai which debuted in Yo-kai Watch Busters 2.

Appearances

• Yo-kai Watch Busters 2: Boss Yo-kai

Biology

Kanibouzu resembles a giant crab colored coral on top of his body, pincers and the bottom of his legs, and gray on the bottom of his body, pincers and upper legs. He has an eerie-face pattern on the top of his carapace with large thin whiskers.

Profile

Yo-kai Watch Busters 2

Kanobouzu is fought as the fourth boss in the dungeon of Chapter 4.

Etymology

Kanibōzu translates to “Crab Monk”

Origin

Kanibouzu is based on the youkai of the same name (蟹坊主) meaning "crab monk"; an extremely dangerous youkai that once took residence in the Kanidera temple in the Kai region (now Yamanashi), hiding inside the pond and devouring the monks one by one. Only an errant monk who stopped to rest at the temple managed to resist the youkai's illusions, and upon solving the mystery he gathered the townsfolk to drain the pond: what appeared before them was a monstrous crab the size of two tatami, sitting on a pile of human bones.

The face on his carapace is likely in reference to the heikegani, a Japanese crab whose carapace is shaped in a way that makes it resemble a human face.