Jibanyan

Jibanyan
Classification
Tribe	Rank	Attribute
		Fire

Stats
HP	Spirit	Strength	Speed	Defense
1170	500	710	1190	790

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Jibanyan is a Rank D Charming Yo-kai with Fire attribute.

Jibanyan lived a happy life with his owner Amy utill the sad day came when he was struck down by a speeding truck. It was then he became a Yo-Kai and was able to hear his owner call him a worthless cat. Unable to accept this, he Inspirited the crosswalk where he was hit. At this crosswalk, he attacks every truck that passes through, in hopes of one day being able to take down any truck so that he could prove he is not a worthless cat. Though taking down speeding veicles is not as easy as Jibanyan may have thought it would be, he never gives up hope and every time they knock him down he gets back up and tries again.

How to Recruit/Befriend

• Automatic story recruit.

• Infinite Inferno circles 5 and 6.

Evolution

Fusion

Fuse Jibanyan and Coughkoff to obtain Thornyan.

Fuse Jibanyan and Roughraff to obtain Baddinyan.

He is also available in the crank-a-Kai.

Stats

Moveset

Buster stats

Soul

Jibanyan is a red and white coloured cat with a chip in his left ear. He has yellow coloured eyes with large black pupils, his nose and inner-ears are dull shade of pink. Attached to his collar is an aquamarine coloured bell, matching the flames at the end of his two tails. He was red and had a curved muzzle instead of a wavy muzzle, he also had white inner ears and paws tips with a regular tail and also had a belt before he was a Yo-Kai.

Nate Adams

Nate befriends Jibanyan when he discovers him possessing people on the crosswalk. Jibanyan takes it upon himself to live in Nate's home after overwhelming amounts of cat Yo-Kai begin to inhabit the area. Despite stirring up a bit of trouble at first, he becomes a welcomed part of Nate's daily life and a close friend. Due to this, Jibanyan is usually the first Yo-Kai Nathan thinks to summon when confronting a problem. When Jibanyan was about to kiss Fusasa-tan from NyaKB, Nate summoned him to fight Hanahojin.

Amy

Jibanyan's owner before he died. Amy named him Rudy and spent most of her time relaxing with him and taking him along when going out. She loved her kitten dearly during their time together. She called him lame (though she was referring to herself) after hearing that he died by a truck, that is why he tries to defeat the truck.

Next HarMEOWny

A musical idol group consisting of young girls dressed in cat-themed attire, they are a plug for the group AKB48. Jibanyan is an enormous fan of theirs and strives to collect massive amounts of merchandise pertaining to them. He longs to meet them in person, win their hearts with his cuteness, and perhaps even receive a kiss or some pettings.

Whisper

Whisper and Jibanyan have a bit of a light-hearted rivalry and tend to bicker often. Regardless, they seem to be fairly good friends.

In Episode 1, he was a normal cat owned by a young girl named Amy. The pair were inseparable and loved one another dearly. Though upon dying and becoming a ghost he had faint recollections of Amy standing over his dead body calling him a loser. Due to how upset he was over the ordeal, he chose to repress the memory, including his name he had as a living cat. He haunted the crosswalk he died at and would possess people to fight on-coming cars and trucks as a means of seeking revenge. There he met Nate whom he befriended an soon came to live with.

In Episode 20, he got inspirited by Dandoodle and takes on a new form known as "Leonardo DiCaprinyan", which is a reference to actor Leonardo DiCaprio.

In Episode 25, it is shown what really happened. He was sent back in time by the malicious pair of Yo-Kai named Kin and Gin. He relived the days he spent with Amy, where it was revealed that she wished to be a Fashion Designer. He himself thought she would be great, but as a cat he was unable to tell her. Later they went over to the intersection, the place where he had got hit by a car when walking across. It turns out though, that Amy was supposed to die instead, as chosen by the Yo-Kai resembling Grim Reapers. But Kin and Gin appeared before him, slowed time and told him that they did this so he could have a second chance and he can change the outcome (however, this was a ruse in order to separate him from Nate). But Jibanyan refused and rammed into Amy, to push her out of the way and allow him to get hit. However, instead of calling him a loser, it turns out that Amy was calling herself this out of shame for what happened, as she held tight his mangled corpse and burst into tears. When his spirit ascended from his body, he called out "Goodbye, Amy" to her, and she heard him and turned and looked. After realizing he can say a few last things to her, he told her she'd be a great designer. Rudy then went back to being Jibanyan and returned home to Nate.

Jibanyan's signature Soultimate attack's Japanese name is a reference to Fist of the North Star protagonist Kenshiro's iconic move Hokuto Hyakuretsu Ken, a move that has Kenshiro punch the target rapidly.

Jibanyan has many different versions of himself, through fusions or not even related through Jibanyan.

Jibanyan is the only Yo-Kai that can change his Soultimate with having four versions in all, which also includes his Rank S version.

In Japan, Jibanyan's Soultimate ("Paws of Fury") in the Japanese version of Yo-kai Watch did not feature the attack being enunciated when performed, though it was later done so in later games beginning with Yo-kai Watch 2, which the English version of Yo-kai Watch reflects.

Origin

Name Origin

• His name is a combination of Jibakurei (Japanese: 地縛霊, Jibakurei lit. "Residual Haunting") and nyan, a Japanese onomatopoeia for the sound commonly made by cats.