#buhu

[nematodeneedles]

Yo-kai Watch guys 🙂👻👹

[almost-caviar]

I did it..... I FINALLY CAUGHT UP WITH THE DAYSS!!!

I slayed with this redraw btw I'm so proud of it-

Some extra clarification under ze cut :3

For Day 17: So I was thinkin like,, Jibanyan was a very loved cat who died and was buried at a temple site / near one?? So he ended up becoming a guardian cat (like what the koma brothers are-)

On the other hand, Komasan and Komajiro were stray country dogs who somehow ended up in the city and both died to a truck

For Day 18:

Bakurobaa (or Tattletell??) was the local granny who everyone felt comfortable with, and everyone always told her about everything ever- complaining about life, gushing about something/someone new, etc,, I dunno I thought the idea was sweet :33

[xuzuul]

Ok so who was going to tell me there was a bisexual Buhu

Low image quality cuz I had to screenshot it off the wiki 💔 Yo-Criminal underrepresentation is real and scary

[peachiakeen]

Another batch of youkai drawings!

[tatonslice]

i hope this post is how someone finds out that nagatha is divorced in the anime

[wtf-a-psychoanalysis]

Buhu

Separated and reference

[weirdmarioenemies]

Name: Buhu

Debut: Yo-Kai Watch

It is a Fine Fall Funky Friday! Buhu is a creature I feel is impressively autumnal-feeling, despite not quite having any of the conventional seasonal features. Everything about Buhu feels ALMOST Halloweeny, but that bit of distance makes it really unique! Even the name feels like that. You hear "bu" and think "EEK! Did someone say 'boo'? What a fright!", but then you hear "hu" and realize this is not a scary animal. This is a sad animal. Much like the legendary Squonk.

The first thing that comes to mind with Buhu is a gooseneck gourd! These feel like the main influence of the design. Maybe one person had the usual thought of "it looks like a funny bird", and another thought "we could make it like a jack-o'-lantern". Then those two people kissed, and decided to do both! Buhu's bird head is interestingly not goose-like, and you would expect it to be crow-based if anything, but the beak is pretty nondescript to me, possibly chicken-like.

And those eyes! Always seen in a sad crescent shape, which wouldn't be the right shape if her head was held high, but she NEVER holds it high. She's not proud of anything. That's who she is! A miserable and wretched creature who spreads nothing but frustration wherever she goes. Wow. Does she suck? Is she terrible? No! Be nice.

See? She's capable of delight. Love, even! This is her swooning after a wild goose winked at her. Here we can see that her spooky face body's eyes change based on her emotions, so it is indeed an entire functional face, as we were all hoping! A monster design should always make any "false" faces actually real to some extent, because it is always awesome. That's the difference between wearing a T-shirt with a face depicted on it, and being able to see out of your nipples and eat through your belly button. It's just more intriguing creature design!

Nearly three years ago when I posted about fellow beloved Yo-Kai Cadin, I alluded to the first Yo-Kai that confronts you in the game, and I'm sure a whole Zero of you have been waiting excitedly to find out who that Yo-Kai was. I certainly wasn't. I forget I even write a lot of my posts! But indeed, implied in that post all along was Buhu, and it's really so fitting, I think. Such an unlucky creature, not even getting mentioned by name in that post, and, in fact, entirely covered up by UI elements in the screenshot on that post. Without even trying, I ended up reinforcing the very nature of Buhu, at her expense. Sad! Or scary? Maybe Yo-Kai are real after all... and they want revenge for their game series being usurped by non-whimsical nonsense!

Or maybe I simply did not feel the need to go into detail about a creature who was not the focus of the post. But which do YOU really think is more realistic?

[lowqualityykwart]

The bird of gloom and despair