#fankai

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Paraspite

I've gotten to about the end of my finished and/or polished fankais, so l'I probably go on break for a bit longer and finish some up to present, while I post other things l've made for other stuff so I don't get too stagnant or seem like too much of a weeb. I think the last one for a while will be Conk-reet's evolution.

Anyway, here's a Yo-kai I conceptualized when I first made this blog but only finished now. I made it when I first met my friend @electrozeistyking, inspired by their Parasite Crow Nefarious AU. I intentionally tried to make it kinda fucked up because she'd like it but in a different way from hers. Also, this is my Shady mascot.

1 actually thought of the English name first, but the Japanese name is what actually inspired the final design. It's "tsurätegamashi", which means spiteful and tsutsugamushi, which is actually three things. One, the yokai mentioned in the bio that gives you scrub typhus. Two, the Japanese name of the harvest mites, a bug that can give you scrub typhus. Three, the scientific name of Orientia tsutsugamushi, the bacterium within the bug, that causes scrub typhus. So, it's got the head and shape of the yokai, the body of the bug, and an abdomen based on the bacterium.

1 actually made the abdomen vaugely transparent but you can't really tell from here. This was a lot of me experimenting with new brush styles, like how I was with X-Sponge, who has weirdly shot up to be my most popular fankai. How'd that happen?

What's he got that no one else does?

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Plume Triton

Plume Triton evolves into Professor Plumage at level 20.

You know, if it’s getting this hard to do one every day, I might as well just slow down.

Anyway, here’s a simple one. Professor Plumage is just an ibis with Professor Layton’s hat and personality, so his prevo is a pigeon with Luke’s hat and personality. Both names are kinda a stretch, and I’m not actually a Layton fan so I just used what few character names I knew for the bio.

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Onabear

holyyyyyyy shit drawing a bear was hard

Anyway this is the piece that took so long, mostly because I didn’t wanna do it after I realized what it would take but I already committed to it so here it is.

This is another one who’s a member of an actual yōkai species. She is an aka-shaguma, a relative of the zashiki-warashi known for its red hair and less controllable nature, from what I can find. It’s written as 赤シャグマ if you wanna look it up, since it doesn’t have an English Wikipedia page.

Aka-shaguma are named after this headgear called the shaguma (赤熊) which means red bear, so I included a literal red bear here, since I needed to replace the animal with something.

This is actually the first fankai I made since I came back to Yo-kai Watch a few years ago. I did a bunch in middle school but most were Classic Yo-Kai because they’re easy since you just draw a real yōkai from folklore. Given that fact, and how this took so much effort, it’s my Heartful mascot.

Beartaker

yeah so I had to draw two bears and one was wearing a saddle do you know how hard it is to draw a bear saddle

Beartaker evolves from Onabear when fused with a Riding Wand.

The original Onabear (On a bear + unaware), called Caredevil (careless + daredevil) had some weird chitinous mutt instead of the bear. Maybe I’ll show that someday. I used the chitinous plating as armor here!

The Japanese name is a bit of a stretch, unfortunately. It’s sewa (assistance) + aka-shaguma, since I can’t perfectly luck into everything. Oroka-shaguma (meaning foolish shaguma) was pretty good luck.

I actually drew the bear and the rider separately and put them together for this! It probably would have been even more of a pain if I hadn’t done this. It also allowed for certain fun opportunities.

Thingleader

One fun thing about making the bear a separate drawing is that I can recolor one but not the other. The bear will probably be recolored into a Yo-criminal, because you guys deserve to see it in full.

This was originally designed as the Heartful Crank Rare, but I had a better idea for that, so she’s just a normal S-Rank Rare instead since I didn’t want to waste this.

I am fairly proud of the name. It just means “Ultra-grade group leader” or “Ultra-grade ringleader” but it has that nice forwards-to-backwards thing going on.

Sorry if this post seems way too long.

i am so tired

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X-sponge

Okay I finally got my 2DS working and someone’s old game collection, and I’ve been so focused on that I completely forgot I started drawing this guy and only now finished it.

X-sponge: I’ll give you my medal, if you can beat me in a b*ttle!

This is a Yo-kai concept that really takes advantage of me setting my stuff in the current year. Here’s a modern Yo-kai for a modern problem, that being the whole “I can’t say that on Tumblr, or Reddit, or real life! I’d get banned on TikTok!” phenomenon. He’s responsible for the strange argots people use so they aren’t immediately stamped out by the watchful eyes of the automatic moderation.

I originally designed this as “Ahhterisk” and he was going to be an asterisk shaped relative of Runsure, but it turns out ahh as ass is just AAVE and not actually self censorship. So I removed the center prongs and made him an X for the “expunge” pun.

I also took the opportunity to make him a stamp now that he was an X because spongy stamps are a thing if I recall correctly and now he can stamp an X things. Also the program I use has paint brushes with the texture of real paint and I wanted to try it for once.

The eye was originally intended as his eye, but I thought it would be funnier if it watching him, making sure he never gets a moment of peace to be not sqeaky clean. Which is ironic, because he’s a stamp.

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Mount Rushdown

Mount Rushdown evolves from Mad Mountain when fused with Starry Spangles.

Okay so I’ve been on hiatus because I’ve got something I’ve been wanting to show, but it’s taking a while. So instead of waiting on this I’ve gotten another fun one from the bank.

I want to play around with as many Yo-kai Watch gimmicks as possible, so here’s one take for a Merican counterpart. I decided on Mad Mountain because he appears a lot in the background of scenes, but never actually got an episode of his own, probably due to a lack of a proper Inspirit. So he’s significant enough to always be around, even though he’s never in focus.

In the original Japanese, Mad Mountain and Lava Lord are meant to be specific mountains, just given form. Mad Mountain is Mt. Fuji, which you could probably tell, while Lava Lord is Sakurajima, a volcano in Kyushu. So when making a third, American member, I had to make him a specific famous mountain. And considering these guys are mountains with faces, I had to pick the famous American mountain with faces.

The further puns, like being named “Mount Rushdown” or being a “face wrestler” sealed the deal. Dropping Peak isn’t based on any wrestling thing, it’s a reference to the rave reviews my guys get on the Yo-kai Craft server.

One fun thing about my work that you can see a bit of now is that Japanese humans and places use their Japanese names, while American humans and names use their dub names. This is also why Mount Rushdown has a pun name while the other two’s Japanese names are just the names of their mountains. He’s Merican, and working on dub rules!

I’m a bit trepidatious of using Mount Rushmore because of how controversial the mountain is in real life.

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Sclicitor

I have had it up to here with posts about the Yo-kai Watch petition, so I conceptualized, drew, and finished this Yo-kai in about a day with pure spite as my motivator.

It feels like no one knows everyone else knows about the petition so people keep making new posts that are just “here’s a link to the petition, sign it”. Useless fandom petitions are not new, it’s just that people are flocking to this one in response to the big crackdown on the Yo-kai Watch 2 for Phone and Switch fan remake. By the way, it doesn’t seem like more transformative work such as mods or even fan translations are being shot down, so I don’t think there’s much to worry about.

As for Sclicitor itself, the Japanese pun here is that “sēgan” can be written as 請願 (petition) or as 正眼, which can mean “welcoming eyes” or “aim for the optics”. So we have a petitioner who’s freindly but has a laser focus on your weak spots. The English name is also something I’m proud of. Change one letter in “solicitor” and you get a pun on the sclera, which is the white of the eye.

I was extra careful to make sure that actual good petitions are outside of the Sclicitors’s jurisdiction and their abilities are only used on useless petitions so that I don’t sound like I hate the concept of petitioning, just those useless petitions that don’t actually have a game plan except for getting a bunch of people together.

It’s also one my guys who is an existing yōkai species! They’re examples of the famous shirime, the Yo-kai with a eye in it’s butt! This is kinda just because it’s the only thing that would come up for “eyeball yōkai”, partially because it’s an iconic yōkai not in Yo-kai Watch, and partially because it makes this joke even funnier. I managed to do the shirime tastefully buy just turning the whole thing upside down by default so the eye became a head and the head became a tail. The red epaulets are supposed to look like blood, to give the whole “go for the optics” vibe.

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Psckaorepeyaoughn and Arachive

Here’s the “sharing a post” post, featuring my first S-Rank, and my first Crank Rare.

Psckaorepeyaoughn, who’s name I have to copy and paste every time I want to say it, is a spirit of the uncanny valley, a phenomenon that was discovered in Japan. The world translated as uncanny there, “bukimi”, happens to be the same word that was translated as Eerie in Yo-kai Watch.

As for that name, I actually made the design and power before the name, before I realized that I could just make the name as hard to look at as the guy. I had particular fun with the Japanese name which uses katakana, hiragana, kanji, romaji, and numbers to literally just spell out the Japanese word for scorpion. As for the English name, I went ham on finding as many ways to make normal sounds with odd combos of letters. I probably could’ve found weird letters too but I don’t think any fit.

Arachive is simple. I wanted to mess with the patters so it could still technically be a recolor but look more different, so I replaced the painted on face with a giant eyeball, and he’s sepia-toned so he looks like he’s of the past. I’ve noticed I get more notes when I explain the Japanese pun, so I’m gonna do that here too. Arachive’s name is a lot simpler than Psckaorepeyaoughn despite actually being a pun. Tamekomu means “stockpiling” so flip the vowels and you’ve got an arachnid pun.

And remember, every time you have trouble drawing, there’s a giant scorpion behind you.

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Conk-reet

Okay so I have a few plans for how to handle Yo-kai families, so tomorrow we’re doing an event where I see how each plan looks.

One: Each member gets their own post, added onto the earliest member via reblog.

Two: Each member gets a section on the same post to themselves.

Three: They share a post completely.

I’ll do one for each and see how it goes.

As for Conk-reet herself, she originally began as a big lizardy creature, but I was looking through my notes and realized I didn’t have many women Yo-kai, and Tough famously has no women, so this Tough guy I was having trouble designing could just be a woman instead. I made her a specific type of punk called a bōsōzoku, which I planned to mention on the card but I ran out of space and didn’t want to exclude how many times she front-flipped before dying. This is just for the road theming.

Her being a woman also adds to the pun. Originally, it was just “anaboko” (pothole) and “bokoru” (beat up), but her being a girl means can add Ana, a girl’s name, to this mix. I tried to find the most common kanji used to spell the name in order to make the pun more obvious.

There is one thing, though. Her being a Tough girl means she has a lot in common with Mana, my Watcher. Fuck, her name is even Ana! So instead of wasting all this effort and having to redesign her, I’ve decided that’s her bit now. That’s her gag. She’s a funhouse mirror of Mana with all her annoying traits and none of her nice ones.