Snippity Cricket is a grasshopper-like Yo-kai with large, fuchsia compound eyes and a sea green bowl haircut with two black antennae. He wears a fully fastened barber's jacket, brown pants, and dark blue shoes with a light tip. His four arms each hold a pair of silver scissors.
Snippity Cricket is a well-known barber. His specialty is doing unusual hairdos. He also has the power to grow back hair before it was cut.
Kirisugirisu is a portmanteau of kirigirisu (Japanese: 螽斯,"long-horned grasshopper") with kirisuteru (Japanese: 切り捨てる,"to cut down"), linking his profession as a barber.
His English name Snippity Cricket is a portmanteau of the Walt Disney character Jiminy Cricket with snip, referring to his trade as a barber.
"Luigi Longueras" is derived from Lluis Llongueras, a spanish hairdresser and multifaceted artist, with "Luigi" being the italian variant of "Lluis".
Origin[]
Will be based on the Yōkai Kamikiri
Trivia[]
Snippity Cricket was teased to be a Rank B Yo-kai when he was revealed in magazine scans.
On the Amazon Instant Video listings of his segment in the anime, he is erronously called "Crickety Snip" which may have been an earlier localized name for him.
In Snippity Cricket's episode of the Latin Spanish dub of the anime, he was accidentally called "Chapulín," which is the Spanish name for Hoppy-go-Lucky.
He and Lady Longnek are the only Slippery Tribe Yo-kai to not resemble a reptile, aquatic animal or something that is slimy/slippery.
In other languages[]
Language
Name
Meaning
Japanese
キリスギリス Kirisugirisu
A combination of kirigirisu (Japanese: 螽斯,long-horned grasshopper) and kirisuteru (Japanese: 切り捨てる,to cut down)