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Tarantutor (Japanese: 鬼くももん Onikumomon) is a Boss Yo-kai introduced in Yo-kai Watch.
Appearances[]
Video games[]
- Yo-kai Watch: Boss Yo-kai
- Yo-kai Watch 2: Boss Yo-kai
Biology[]
Tarantutor is a large dark brown spider with a dark yellow skull on her back. She has a pinkish head and, unlike actual spiders, has two eyes instead of eight with slited pupils and blue sclera along with having a nose. She also has two tiny ebony black horns and three black stripes on his forehead. Her mouth has many small incisors, two medium sized sharp canines in the middle, and two large fangs on the top. She has six of her eight legs visible, in which four are large and clawed with small spines and are targeted to knock him down, exposing her jelly-like pink belly. She also has two visible back legs.
Tarantutor, like most tarantulas, is actually very shy despite her large size towering over the player, and having huge fangs, and so that she only comes out at night. Although she is scared when the sun sets, any children entering the school can be taken possession of lured away from any friends or adults and devoured.
Tarantutor has five attacks: She can quickly dive in and bite one of your Yo-kai, spit acid that does damage and poisons a Yo-kai, shoots webs at only three of the player's Yo-kai, slowing them down, and shooting an electrical beam at a single Yo-kai. Her Soultimate Move, Webbing Blitz, deals massive electric damage to three Yo-kai. Like most Yo-kai, she can easily inspirit humans and did so with Katie by taking her to the boys bathroom.
Profile[]
Yo-kai Watch[]
Tarantutor appears as the main boss in the ninth chapter of the first game: The Extreme Dare. She kidnaps Katie or Nate depending on who the player chooses at the start of the game, and hides in the boys washroom. Upon being confronted and defeated, Katie/Nate is freed from his control. Whisper wonders how once peaceful Yo-kai have adopted a suspicious behaviour.
Yo-kai Watch 2[]
She appears in the same location as the previous game, but he is only fought during the 1st ghost club quest.
Strategy[]
Tarantutor is the seventh Boss Yo-kai, launching inspirits until you knock him to the floor. She takes no true damage from all attacks until his legs are weakened, revealing his weak point. He has the following attacks.
- A normal attack involving her biting the opponent.
- Spider Silk (Japanese: くもん糸 Kumon Ito): Fires spider silk at a target, inflicting them with a level 2 inspirit, forcing them to be unable to move sometimes.
- Spiderweb (Japanese: くもん巣 Kumonsu): Same as Spider Silk, but targets all front-line Yo-Kai.
- Poison Brew (Japanese: 毒溶解液 Dokuyoukaeiki): Fires a blob of green slime at the target, damaging them and poisons them with a level 2 inspirit that deals HP damage overtime.
- Flashlight Beam (Japanese: 電光戦 Denkousen): Summons a lightning bolt to deal Electric-elemental damage to a single Yo-Kai.
- Soultimate: Webbing Blitz (Japanese: 電撃地獄糸 Dengeki Jigoku Ito): Tarantutor comes down and summons a thunderstorm to strike the frontline with 3 hits of Electric-elemental damage. Can only be used when his HP reaches 50%.
Her main gimmick is another "can't be damaged right away" type, where his weak point is the brain-like flesh exposed on his abdomen. However, she hangs on the ceiling covering up the weakpoint. You have to damage his 4 legs in order to drop him on the ground. They sap green blood when they're defeated. When all 4 are defeated, she is left vulnerable and cannot attack for a few turns. After those turns, the legs regenerate and the cycle repeats until he's defeated.
Tarantutor loves to inspirit you, so bring as many Yo-Kai as possible with a great inspirit dodge. She takes less damage from Electric-elemental attacks, but is weak to Fire(Earth in later games)-elemental attacks.
Game data[]
Yo-kai Watch[]
HP - 2,400
HP - 400 (legs)
EXP Payout - 2,500
Money Payout - $130.00
Etymology[]
"Onikumomon" comes from onigumo (鬼蜘蛛, Araneus ventricosus spider).
"Tarantutor" is a combination of tarantula and tutor.
Origin[]
Taruntutor's design seems to be based on the Gyuuki/Ushi-oni, a youkai often depicted with the head of a bull and the body of a spider. As of Yo-kai Watch 4, there is another character with the same Origin.
Trivia[]
- Tarantutor is one of two Boss Yo-kai in the game not to receive a second color swap in the Infinite Inferno, the other being McKraken's first form.
- In the French version, instead of wondering how a once peaceful Yo-kai developed such behavior, whisper cannot find any information about tarantutor and assumes that he is from another country.
In other languages[]
| Language | Name | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
 Japanese
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鬼くももん Onikumomon | |
 Spanish
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Tarantutor | Same as the English name |
 French
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Inamygal | Portemanteau of "Inamical" (Unfreindly) and "Mygale" (Tarantula) |
 Italian
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Scuolantula | From "Scuola", "School" and "Tarantula" |
 German
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Tarantutor | Same as the English name |
 Korean
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이빨거미 Ippalgeomi |