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Yamanbaa (Japanese: ヤマンバア), also known as Yamamba (Japanese: 山姥) and Gesshin Tsukuyomi (Japanese: 月神ツクヨミ Gesshin Tsukuyomi) is a Rank B Shadowside Yo-kai of the Omamori tribe and the Onnen tribe who appears in Yo-kai Watch: Forever Friends.
In Yo-kai Watch: Wibble Wobble, her Lightside form is a Rank A Yo-kai of the Eerie tribe, while her Godside form is a Rank SSS Yo-kai of the Heartful tribe.
In Yo-kai Watch World, her Godside form is a Rank S Yo-kai.
Appearances[]
Video games[]
- Yo-kai Watch: Wibble Wobble: Playable Yo-kai.
- Yo-kai Watch 4: Boss and Playable Yo-kai.
- Yo-kai Watch World: Playable Yo-kai.
Anime series[]
- Yo-kai Watch: Forever Friends: Minor Antagonist (formerly).
Biology[]
In her Lightside form, Yamanbaa is a small elderly Yo-kai with white spiky hair with a small tie on the back, a small skull necklace, and wearing a dark-colored kimono with a cyan and yellow circle design near the drooping ends of the sleeves. On her head is a gold full moon-shaped hairgrip with two purple wisps near it.
In her Shadowside form, Yamamba becomes a towering and very frightening humanoid Yo-kai. In this form, her hair is longer and her face is stretched to a crazed expression, she is also seen wearing a necklace with teeth in them. Her back is now hunched and gains a bigger cloak with velvet coloration at the end fitted with spikes and atop her hunched back is a large eye with yellow sclera and a black iris, which she uses to track her victims in 360° vision. Near her abdomen is her skull necklace now drooping. Near her hands and sleeves are six bluish wisps circling both left and right hands. She is always seen with a sharp, curved knife which she uses often for melee attack. In the Chinese version of Yo-kai Watch 4, she has a red mask that covers her mouth.
In her Godside form, Gesshin Tsukuyomi is a beautiful female Yo-kai with fair skin, amethyst purple eyes that fades to fancy light yellow, hair with lemon-lime green on the top of her head while the rest is ultramarine blue with four lower ponytails and the hair is topped with a gold full moon-shaped hairgrip with two gold kanzashi. She wears a orange peel orange, light sea green, and light yellow kimono tied by a magenta obi with yellow and cyan little obis. Worn under the kimono, is an aero blue sleeveless yukata which fades to light yellow while the inside is like a starry night sky. She is also barefoot and has a magenta ankle ring with a cyan jewel dangling.
Profile[]
Yo-kai Watch 4[]
In the game, all three forms of Yamambaa are each separate, playable Yo-kai.
Lightside Yamanbaa can be befriended via the Ark Door in Past Sakura-Motomachi. She can also be found in Soukenzan. She can be freed from the past Crank-a-kai with a Five-Star Coin or One-Star Coin as a second prize. She can be befriended through Konkatsu with two silver souls, three red souls and three gold souls.
Shadowside Yamambaa can be befriended through Konkatsu with three gold souls. Her kon is obtained through her Blasters Mission, in the Blasters ++ Mode. Her mission is split into three difficulties: Normal, Super and Ultra. Upon completing each of this, a different rarity of kon can be randomly obtained as a post-mission reward:
- Normal yields Grey Kon
- Super yields Red Kon
- Ultra yields Gold Kon
Gesshin Tsukuyomi can be randomly befriended by repeatedly completing the Play of the Gods Busters Mission, in the Blasters ++ Mode. Her Gold Kon can also be obtained via this same mission as a post-mission reward, however you cannot summon another via Konkatsu.
Yo-kai Watch: Wibble Wobble[]
Yamanbaa was available in the Y-point shop during the Forever Friends event. She cost 1000 Y-points.
Gesshin Tsukuyomi was available during the Yasha Enma Budokai, where she randomly appears after completing a round.
Game data[]
Yo-kai Watch 4[]
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In the anime[]
Yo-kai Watch: Forever Friends[]
Yamambaa in the anime.
Gesshin Tsukuyomi in the anime.
Yamanbaa debuted in M05 where her home was visited to get the Yo-kai Watch Elder Zero, where she attacked Jack Cobbler and his gang in her Shadowside form, which made them run about the old home until being eventually defeated, freeing her Lightside and Tae's grandmother, in which she rewarded the gang with the Watch.
She reappears in the near-end of the movie as Gesshin Tsukuyomi where she kicked Overseer as she was summoned, before he reformed, defeating him. She was seen giving a smile as thanks for aiding Jack and the gang.
Etymology[]
Origin[]
Depending on the text and translator, the Yamauba appears as a monstrous crone, “her unkempt hair long and golden white ... her kimono filthy and tattered,” with cannibalistic tendencies. In one tale a mother traveling to her village is forced to give birth in a mountain hut assisted by a seemingly kind old woman, only to discover, when it is too late, that the stranger is actually Yamauba, with plans to eat the helpless Kintarō. In another story, she raises the orphan hero Kintarō, who goes on to become the famous warrior Sakata no Kintoki.
Yamauba is said to have a mouth at the top of her head, hidden under her hair. In one story it is related that her only weakness is a certain flower containing her soul.
"Tsukuyomi" is based on the Shinto deity of the same name. though mostly depicted as male, and is seen as the god of the moon. Tsukuyomi was born from the right eye of the primeval being Izanagi during Izanagi's cleansing of himself during his trek into Yomi to see his deceased wife Izanami.
Yamamba's introduction in the Chinese version of Yo-kai Watch 4. The knife can be seen outside of her grip here.
Yamamba in the Chinese version of Yo-kai Watch 4 with Whisper 2040 and Whisper.
Trivia[]
- She was referred to -downcast- many times as simply, "Crazy Lady". The specific origin this is derived from is unknown.
- She's the first Yo-kai to change tribes between her Lightside and Shadowside forms.
- Yamambaa is the only Yo-kai to have both a Shadowside and a Godside form
- In Yo-kai Watch: Forever Friends, Yamanba's Shadowside form, Yamamba, appeared to be a fusion between Yamanba and Tae's grandmother.
- In the Chinese version of Yo-kai Watch 4, Yamamba was censored presumably to be less scary. She has a red mask over her mouth and is curiously holding her knife the other way. This second aspect seems to have less thought put into it as the knife clips out of her hand in cutscenes and clips through her feet when viewing her in the Ukiukipedia
- Strangely, Yamamba was not censored in the Chinese version of Forever Friends