Tengu

Tengu
Classification
Tribe	Rank	Attribute
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Number
Yokai Watch 1	Yokai Watch 2
	??

General Information
Japanese Name	天狗, Tengu
French Name
Italian Name
Time	Present
Evolution
Fusion
Favorite Food	Candy
Acquired by

Stats
HP	Spirit	Strength	Speed	Defense
1020	1410	730	1220	1000

Combat
Attack	Nasty Kick
Technique	Storm
Inspirit	Tengu'd
Soultimate Move	Typhoon Fan
Skill	Wind Play
Debut
Anime	Episode 24
Game	Yo-kai Watch 1
Voice Actor
English
Japanese	Miho Hino

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Tengu is a Rank S Mysterious Yo-kai with Wind attribute.

Yo-kai Watch 1 Game Information

How to Recruit/Befriend

• Post-game request "Take Out Tengu!"

• (1) Accept quest from Eddie's mom in their house in Breezy Hills. (Note: Need to beat the story + S rank watch + Daytime)

• (2) Battle Greesel in Infinite Inferno and get an item called "Typhoon Fan"

• (3) Go to the Rugged Path in Breezy Hills and interact with the tree stump.

• (4) Fight and defeat Tengu.

Stats

Stat	Level 99
HP	1
Spirit	1
Strength	1
Speed	1
Defense	1

Moveset

Type	Name	Power	Attribute	Range	Description
Attack	Nasty Kick	100		Single enemy	No description.
Technique	Storm	80-120	Wind	Single enemy	No description.
Inspirit	Tengu'd	Makes a Yo-kai into a hated tengu, drawing attacks to it.		Single ally	No description.
Soultimate Move	Typhoon Fan	180 Uses its fan to create a whirlwind that hits all of its enemies.	Wind	All enemies	No description.
Skill	Wind Play	Increased damage of Wind attacks.	-		No description.

Appearance

True to his name, Tengu resembles a red-skinned tengu with white hair and a long nose. He wears a light gray robe with long sleeves, a green vest over it and brown hakama. He also wears one-toothed geta sandals and white tabi. He carries a leaf uchiwa.

Personality

Tengu is a bit demanding, as seen when asked Nate and Jibanyan if they knew Whisper, at which they bluntly answered 'no', implying he is somewhat able to impose fear.

Anime

Tengu makes his debut in episode 24, first mentioned by Whisper who claims to be a personal friend of him, before Tengloom appears.

Shortly after befriending Tengloom, Whisper continues bragging about his supposed friendship with the real Tengu, when said Yo-Kai makes himself known with a raging wind current. Whisper allegedly tries to talk with Tengu -which in truth he was just complimenting about his features- and Tengu simply scoffs at his supposed friendship and sweeps Whisper away with a gust of wind. Tengu then asks Keita and Jibanyan if they know Whisper, at which they bluntly denies so.

Sometime after this, Tengu gives Keita his Yo-kai Medal, as said medal is appraised by Sebastian in order to determine Tengu's special skill.

Trivia

Origin

Tengu is based on a tengu, more precisely a daitengu (great tengu) or yamabushi tengu (warrior priest tengu). Strong, intelligent and cultured, but also territorial and proverbially proud ("tengu" is colloquially synonymous with "braggart, conceited person"), they're one of the most famous youkai species. Contrary to their bird-like kotengu underlings (see Nird#Trivia), daitengu appear as winged men with ruddy faces and long noses, wearing hermit garbs and tall tengu-geta (one-toothed wooden clogs). Their weapons of choice are Buddhist ringed staves, or leaf fans they can use to produce mighty gusts of wind.

As a side note, a tengu's nose is a hallmark of their pride, and the expression "to snap one's nose" (鼻を折る, hana wo oru) means to soundly humiliate someone. In fact, the Japanese title of the quest to befriend Tengu is "Snap Tengu's Nose" (天狗の鼻を折れ, Tengu no hana wo ore).