Water Banbara

**Water Banbara**(ミズバンバラ *Mizubanbara*) is a water-based Mutant Robot from Episode 2 of Inazuman.

He is voiced by **Eiji Maruyama**.

## Personality

Water Banbara is shown to be a calm Kaijin and is loyal to his own empire. He is very cunning as he will do anything to reach his goal such as drowning an entire bus of people and kidnapping parents of a child. However, he can get annoyed when his plans are interfered with.

## Appearance

Water Banbara has a red body partially covered with seaweed and has a blue-colored chest. His arms are covered with seaweed as well, has a piece of coral on his left shoulder, and his head has a white, soggy appearance with a right black, empty eye socket while the rest of his face is red.

## Biography

When two men and a little girl, named Midori Egawa, hop on a bus, Midori drops a small Junior Alliance badge on the ground. After the bus leaves, a sea weed suddenly rises out of a sewer grate and recognizes the badge belonging to the Junior Alliance, realizing the girl is a member. To test if she has powers, the bus is suddenly transported to the bottom of the ocean when entering through the tunnel and Midori teleports herself out before she could drown.

Realizing that she is indeed a member, Emperor Banba orders for her capture to find out the whereabouts of the Junior Alliance. Midori gets washed up on the coast of the ocean and the seaweed rises out of the water to capture her. Fortunately, Goro finds Midori in time and the seaweed vanishes back into the ocean before it could be seen.

Taking Midori to a hospital, Goro has Gosaku watch her while he gets her parents. Later, when Gosaku soaks up a piece of cloth in a sink to cool Midori’s head, he suddenly hears a strange voice and finds the water in the sink has turned red. Looking at the red water, Gosaku sees the owner of the moving seaweed revealing himself as a Mutant Robot named Water Banbara. Reforming himself to his physical body, Water Banbara approaches Midori but Gosaku tries to protect her. Fortunately, Goro arrives as Sanagiman, after getting ambushed by Phantom Soldiers, and faces Water Banbara. Sanagiman starts to fight with Water Banbara while he lets Gosaku take Midori to safety. However, Water Banbara wraps him up with Water Shibari and tightens it up to squish Sanagiman. As Sanagiman struggles with the seaweed wrapped around him, Water Banbara makes his way to get Midori. Needing to get out of the Water Shibari, Sanagiman changes into Inazuman to free himself.

As Gosaku makes his escape with Midori, he suddenly finds himself in a giant puddle in the middle of the street and starts sinking into it. Inazuman arrives with his Raijingo and helps save Gosaku and Midori, much to Water Banbara’s rage. Rising out of the giant puddle, Water Banbara uses Water Jet to shoot high-pressurized water at Raijingo but Inazuman uses Reverse Chest to shoot it back, causing Water Banbara to disappear along with the giant puddle of water.

Later, Water Banbara meets up with Emperor Banba where he apologizes for his failure to capture Midori. Instead, Water Banbara captures Midori’s parents in order to use them to get the info out of her.

As Gosaku is watching Midori in Goro’s dorm, it suddenly starts to rain inside and Water Banbara appears before him. Despite Gosaku’s attempts to fend him off, Water Banbara knocks him down and kidnaps Midori. Goro arrives in time and finds Midori being taken away in a car. He tries to follow them but when they cross a bridge, Water Banbara controls a giant seaweed to constrict the bridge and destroys it while Goro was on it.

Soon, Water Banbara takes Midori to a dam where he demands to know everything she knows about the Junior Alliance as well as its other members. When she refuses to, Water Banbara reveals that he has her parents and threatens to have them killed if she doesn’t reveal anything. Fortunately, Goro arrives as Sanagiman and fights off the Phantom Soldiers to save Midori’s parents. With Sanagiman getting in the way again, Water Banbara causes the water in the dam to break out to flood humanity. Seeing this, Sanagiman changes into Inazuman and uses Restore and Reverse Chest to reverse the water flow and restore the dam. Water Banbara tries to fight against Inazuman’s power but he manages to fully fix the dam. The two then jump at each other where Inazuman rescues Midori. Enraged, Water Banbara uses his final power, Water Tornado, to conjure up a tornado of water but Inazuman uses his power again to hit Water Banbara with the tornado. The two then start physical fighting each other where they both jump up and Inazuman uses Inazuma Kempo Cartwheel on Water Banbara, causing him to blow up in mid-air.

## Powers/Abilities

**Water Form**: Water Banbara can turn himself into liquid water to sneak around. When he wants to, he can turn into red-colored water to reveal himself before reforming his body. He can also turn himself into rain.

**Seaweed Tentacle**: Water Banbara is equipped with seaweeds around his body that he can use as tentacles to grab objects and victims.

**Water Shibari**: Water Banbara can throw his seaweeds at his opponent to wrap it around their bodies and tighten to squish them.

**Water Jet**: When Water Banbara is in a body of water, he can shoot out the water like a hose by holding his hand halfway in the water.

**Hydrokinesis**: Water Banbara is able to control water and can have a huge amount appear at any place.

**Water Teleportation**: Warer Banbara can teleport himself and larger objects anywhere where there’s any form of water. He could use his Hydrokinesis to teleport to areas that lack water.

**Water Tornado**: Water Banbara can form a big tornado made out of water.