Ayakashi Bunku

**Ayakashi Bunku**(あやかしぶんぐ *Ayakashi bun gu*) is a stationary-based Kaijin from Episode 3, 4, 5, 9, and 10 of Houjin Yatsurugi Season 3.

## Appearance

Ayakashi Bunku has a black body while having an opened-up pencil case for his torso with a stamp on his chest. He also has a large eraser on in his left arm, a belt with a copper buckle, and has a pencil head that holds a black face with red ridges down the middle.

## Biography

### Strong Monster! Ayakashi come!

An empire called the Doroon Army encounter a young rocker named Takeru, who has the ability to transform into Yatsurugi with his medallion. After their foot soldiers, the Kappa-chans, get beaten by Yatsurugi, one of the members of the Doroon Army, Onimaru, finds bags of garbage on a curb and collects them in a sack to bring to the headquarters. Once he and Battengu, the other member, talk with their leader, Princess Kako, on how to torment the humans, Onimaru reveals a tub and pulls out a pencil case, called a stationary, out of the sack. Seeing how much grudge the stationary holds against humans who have disposed of them, Onimaru places a paper talisman, also known as a ofuda, on it and places it in the tub. Once telling the grudge in it to show it’s feature, the stationary bursts into smoke and becomes Ayakashi Bunku. Once being created, Ayakashi Bunku and Onimaru head out into Kisarazu.

### Takeru’s First Trial

When the Kappa-chan attack a school during nighttime, Takeru arrives and transforms into Yatsurugi by flipping his medallion to fight against them. As he starts fighting against them, Ayakashi Bunku suddenly appears and knocks him down. Onimaru introduces Ayakashi Bunku and says that he’s much stronger than the Kappa-chan. Once Onimaru teleports away, Yatsurugi finishes off the Kappa-chans and fights against Ayakashi Bunku. Yatsurugi begins losing in the fight when Ayakashi Bunku uses his Giant Compass, so he summons his claws. The two start to become evenly matched until Ayakashi Bunku launches his Pencil Rockets at Yatsurugi, hitting him. Just as Ayakashi Bunku was about to launch his last two Pencil Rocket to finish off Yatsurugi, his mentor, Kaede, arrive and manages to use her powers to bind Ayakashi Bunku. Seeing their fight suddenly got interrupted, he decides to teleport away to fight Yatsurugi next time.

### Takeru’s Ambivalence. His Reason for Battle!

Takeru had a nightmare where Ayakashi Bunku, alongside with Onimaru and the Kappa-chans were chasing after his sister, Mari, and his friend, Kaito.

### Revenge Ayakashi Bunku

After Battengu meets up with Princess Kako about Onimaru’s failure with Ayakashi TV, he promises to bring her human screaming with Ayakashi Bunku. Despite Ayakashi Bunku being created by Onimaru, Battengu assures Princess Kako that he can treat him better then Onimaru did. As soon as they arrive in Kisarazu, Battengu tells Ayakashi Bunku of all the other trash thrown away by the humans that carry the same grudge as he did. With Ayakashi Bunku feeling enraged by that, Battengu then tells him to get revenge on the humans. So Ayakashi Bunku unleashes swarms of stationary equipment all over Kisarazu to attack the humans. Afterwards, Takeru, after sensing the grudge, confronts Battengu and Ayakashi Bunku and transforms into Yatsurugi. Battengu then leaves to let Ayakashi Bunku to fight against Yatsurugi. As the two fight, they become evenly matched until Ayakashi Bunku uses his Eraser Shield to bounce Yatsurugi’s attacks back. As they continue fighting, Ayakashi Bunku gains the upper-hand in the fight. Battengu appears and tells Yatsurugi that even Ayakashi can become stronger over time.

### May Blue Fighter Come!

Battengu summons the Kappa-Chans and sends them into Kisarazu to attack the people while they’re affect by Ayakashi Bunku’s ability. Battengu reveals that Ayakashi Bunku now has the ability to put people into a state of confusion and has already affected them when he launched out the stationary equipment all over Kisarazu. Yatsurugi fights against Ayakashi Bunku again but becomes overpowered from his strength. Battengu suggest to Yatsurugi to give up but he refuses to do so. Just then, a new warrior, named Gaion, appears and fights against Ayakashi Bunku. While Gaion fights off Ayakashi Bunku, Yatsurugi faces against Battengu. Gaion gains the upper-hand in the fight, so Ayakashi Bunku summons his Giant Compass to use not against him. Gaion then summons his own weapon, a spear, and duels against Ayakashi Bunku’s Giant Compass. After a long fight, Gaion manages to weaken Ayakashi Bunku and finishes him off by throwing his spear through Ayakashi Bunku’s body and pulling it out through the other side, resulting in him combusting into blue flames and reverting back into a stationary.

## Powers/Abilities

**Giant Compass**: Ayakashi Bunku’s main weapon is a giant geometry compass that he can use as a melee weapon.

**Pencil Rockets**: Ayakashi Bunku can launch two pencils like rockets to hit his opponent.

**Teleporting**: Ayakashi Bunku can teleport away as black smoke.

**Launching Stationeries**: Ayakashi Bunku can unleash an array of stationeries to attack and injure his victims. The stationeries can also put people into a state of confusion.

**Eraser Shield**: Ayakashi Bunku is equipped with a large eraser on his left arm that he can use as a shield. The elasticity of the eraser’s rubber is able to absorb the opponent’s attacks and bounce them off. He can also use the shield to rub it in his opponent, like he was erasing, to harm them.

**Scrawling**: Ayakashi Bunku can use the pencil tip on top of his head to scrawl all over his opponent to harm him.

## Trivia

* Ayakashi Bunku is the first Yatsurugi Kaijin to appear in multiple episodes of the show, beating Bulldriller, who only appeared in two episodes, by three or two more episodes.