"A hopping Yo-kai wanders around sadly, looking for the figure of the one she loves. When she becomes obsessed, her heart flutters at the sight of the person she loves, and she ends up dying of cuteness."
Yo-kai Medallium biography
"The Shadowside of Kyunshii's life as she wanders after death, searching for the one whom she pines for. She's not good at attacking with a curse of "Kyun-Death" and a heart curse! ...And then she just kind of stops."
In Yo-kai Watch World, she is a Rank S Yo-kai of the Charming tribe and can be fused with a Charming Phantom Crystal to become Rank SS. She can also be fused with a Charming Black Phantom Crystal to become Zukkyunshii who is a Rank SS Yo-kai.
In her Lightside Form, she's a humanoid Yo-kai with peach colored hair with yellow gradient on the end of her pigtails. She has pink eyes, pale purple skin and purple heart-shaped blushes on her cheeks. She wears a hat with a pink colour scheme, it has a fan shape in the center with two yellow sides and a yellow orb on the top, with a pink symbol. Her dress is pink with a yellow strap. The cuffs of her selves are the same yellow, with heart details. A yellow bow is tied at the back, with a purple Loincloth item and an oriental style art of a heart in yellow. She also wears baggy pants and pink shoes.
Kyunshii first appeared in the The 18th Detective Battle. She can be fused with a Charming Phantom Crystal to evolve into an SS Rank form or with a Charming Black Phantom Crystal to evolve into Zukkyunshii who is also SS Rank.
The power of love pierces the heart, reviving all allies and recovering HP.
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Etymology[]
"Kyunshii" translates to one's chest tightening up (from emotion) so much that one feels that one's heart might stop, "dying of cuteness".
Origin[]
Kyunshii is based on the jiangshi (僵尸, pronounced "Kyonshī" in Japanese), an undead creature from Chinese legends. The origins of the legend appear to lie in the "transporting a corpse over a thousand li" practice: when the relatives of a deceased person couldn't afford the expense to transport the body to its birthplace (which was considered ideal for burying), they would hire a Taoist priest to animate it and have it travel the whole way by itself at night, if only in hops as rigor mortis had already set in. Although this could be based on a much more mundane practice from Xiangxi, where corpses would be hung on bamboo poles and transported in rows.
In popular culture, they are depicted wearing Qing Dynasty court robes and a paper talisman crafted by their master affixed to the forehead, typically bearing the words "Ji Ji Ru Luling" (急急如律令, "forthwith, in accordance to the law"), a legal postscript that is also used in esoteric spells. Their movements are stiff and jerking but they possess enormous strength, and they attack and kill the living to drain their qi. Among other things, they can be driven away by mirrors, bagua signs, or a rooster's call. They are a popular subject of Cantonese and Hong Kong horror movies, most famously titles like Mr. Vampire and Encounters of the Spooky Kind.
Trivia[]
Kyunshii is a good Yo-kai to befriend early in Yo-kai Watch 4 as she is easy to come across in Houkenden and is a competent healer
