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Tamamo (Japanese: タマモ Tamamo), also known as Tamamo no Mae (Japanese: 玉藻前 Tamamo no Mae), is a Rank B Shadowside Yo-kai of the Mononoke tribe that appeared in Yo-kai Watch: Forever Friends. She is one of the main antagonists of the movie.
In Yo-kai Sangokushi: Kunitori Wars, her Base Form is a Rank S, Drain-attribute Yo-kai of the Shady tribe.
Appearances[]
Video games[]
- Yo-kai Sangokushi: Kunitori Wars: Playable Yo-kai
- Yo-kai Watch: Wibble Wobble: Playable Yo-kai
- Yo-kai Watch 4: Playable Yo-kai
Anime series[]
- Yo-kai Watch: Forever Friends: Major antagonist
Biology[]
In her Base Form, Tamamo is a humanoid fox Yo-kai with grey skin and long black hair. She wears a large red kimono that is open in the middle, exposing the large mouth with sharp teeth on her midsection. Her nine tails are grey with red patterns.
Tamamo's human disguise.
In her Transformation, she becomes a eight-legged fox Yo-kai resembling Zazelmare.
In her human disguise as an Oban-yaki seller she is a tall, slender woman with pale skin and dark, dull blue hair tied in two low bunches with a centre parting and brown eyes. She wears a red apron over a yellow jumper and white shirt with a calf length dull teal skirt, black tights and dull brown shoes.
She has been described to hold the power to steal and devour human souls.
She is somewhat arrogant, boasting about how she was a wise choice when Jack summoned her, talking for so long that she was sucked up by Karasu Tengu's tornadoes. She also takes pride in her appearance, and as a result, does not like having to look in a mirror while transformed.
Profile[]
Yo-kai Watch 4[]
Tamamo can be freed from the Yo-kai World Crank-a-kai with a Gasha Coin, Five-Star Coin or One-Star Coin as a second prize. She can also be freed from the past Crank-a-kai with a Five-Star Coin or One-Star Coin as a second prize. Her transformation into Tamamo no Mae can be unlocked by buying her exclusive equipment in the Busters Hell Hole for 30000 Oni Orbs.
Tamamo no Mae is the boss of Chapter 7.
Yo-kai Watch: Wibble Wobble[]
Tamamo no Mae is a befriendable Yo-kai in the Forever Friends event.
Game data[]
Yo-kai Watch 4[]
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In the anime[]
Tamamo in the anime.
Yo-kai Watch: Forever Friends[]
Tamamo no Mae appears as an antagonist who devours the souls of people, specifically women, including those of Jack's mother and Alistair's sister.
While Jack, Alistair, Tae and their Yo-kai friends are searching for her, Gusto unwittingly approaches her while in her human form, as she is selling Oban-yaki. As humans normally can't see Yo-kai, Alistair confronts Tamamo for being able to see Gusto, to which she assumes her real form and mockingly compliments him for seeing though her disguise. As the children run in order to lure her to a safer place to fight her, Tamamo transforms and chases them. Upon arriving at the river, Tamamo sees her reflection on an alley mirror and gets oddly irritated, dropping the chase for a moment in order to avoid the other mirrors, and resuming her assault on the heroes next to the riverbank. Jack then summons Kappa in order to fight her, thinking that the river would give him an advantage, but Tamamo easily overpowers him. Alistair then recalls Tamamo smashing her reflection on the mirror, so he conceives the plan of luring her to the Mirror Pond, which startles his friends. Alistair then has Jack summon Gusto and Zashiki-warashi, and prompts the latter to use his ability to stop her for three seconds. The plan succeeds, and Tamamo is frozen enough to see her reflection on the water and get overly disturbed. Alistair then launches Gusto at her, and the cat Yo-kai finishes her with his One-Hit KO Paw.
After her defeat, Alistair orders Tamamo to return the souls she devoured, to which she answers she was only following Lord Enma's orders, and that the collected souls were already sent to him to the Yo-kai World. Sometime after this, Tamamo gives Jack her Yo-kai Keystone.
Tamamo is summoned by Jack to the Enma Budokai battle between the heroes and Shien's team, but she only manages to boast about her summoning being a wise decision, before being sucked in by Karasu Tengu's tornado. She is not seen again for the rest of the film.
Etymology[]
Tamamo no Mae is named for and based on Tamamo-no-Mae, legendary kitsune and one of the "three great evil youkai" together with Emperor Sutoku's ghost and Shuten-douji (see Thurston#Origin).
In the most famous version of the story, told by Hokusai, she traveled between China, India and back to China, impersonating or possessing queens and concubines, corrupting the countries' rules and bringing them to ruin. After some time she moved to Japan and became Emperor Toba's most beloved courtesan, as beautiful as she was clever. When the emperor fell victim to a mysterious illness, the onmyōji Abe no Yasuchika, who was summoned to diagnose it, quickly identified Tamamo-no-Mae as the cause, exposing her true form of a nine-tailed kitsune. She fled the palace, but years later the warriors Kasuka-no-suke and Miura-no-suke, on the emperor's orders. tracked her down and killed her in the Nasu plains. According to the Tamamo no sōshi, her spirit embedded itself into a stone and cursed it to kill whoever touched it. It would thus be called the Sessho-seki (殺生石, "killing stone").
Out of the three great evil youkai, Tamamo-no-Mae is easily the most popular. Particularly, Ushio to Tora main antagonist Hakumen-no-mono is heavily based on her.
Trivia[]
- In Yo-kai Watch 4, the text to transform into Tamamo no Mae reads as "Transform," rather than the normal "Shadowside" text for Shadowside Yo-kai. Tamamo no Mae's entry in the Ukikipedia also does not use the Shadowside icon. Additionally, the ID for Tamamo no Mae's Keystone is not close to Tamamo's Keystone, nor does it follow the naming convention for Shadowside Forms. Her Keystone is also not designed like a Shadowside Form's Keystone is. Due to this, Tamamo no Mae can be concluded to be a Transformation, rather than a Shadowside Form.
- In the Chinese release of Yo-kai Watch 4++, Tamamo has an altered design. The mouth on her front is replaced with an obi of the same colours and her face has an overall less scary appearance with a smaller mouth and eyes.