Yokai Kamaitachi

**Yokai Kamaitachi**(妖怪カマイタチ *Yōkai kamaitachi*) is a Kamaitachi/chainsaw-based Yokai from Episode 1 of Shuriken Sentai Ninninger.

He is voiced by **Tetsu Inada**.

## Personality

Yokai Kamaitachi is a sadistic Yokai who doesn’t hesitate to attack and enjoys spreading fear.

## Appearance

Yokai Kamaitachi has brown fur covering his back, his pelvis, his shoulders, and on the back of his neck while having a tail at the rear. He has blue, mechanical limbs where he has black hands covered with sharp edges, grey-colored lower feet with chainsaw-like edges on top, and has sickle-shaped chainsaws on his arms. He also has a blue and white armored-chest, chainsaws over his shoulders, and has a hockey mask-like face with yellow eyes.

## Biography

Two siblings, Takaharu and Fuuka, and their cousins, Yakumo, Nagi, and Kasumi, are gathered together by Takaharu and Fuuka’s father, Tsumuji, in order to prevent the resurrection of Gengetsu Kibaoni, a warlord turned oni, who was sealed away with 48 Sealing Shurikens by their grand father, Yoshitaka. As the relatives check on Kibaoni’s tomb, a general named Kyuemon shakes a gavel stolen from the Igasaki Ninjutsu Dojo and awakens Kibaoni’s spirit. Kibaoni’s spirit rises out of the tomb and corrupts the 48 Sealing Shuriken before sending them flying around. The relatives head to the city where they find a group of Hitokarage causing mayhem. There, they spot one of the corrupted Sealing Shurikens flying around until it hits a chainsaw used by a couple of workers. Once struck by the shuriken, the chainsaw suddenly transforms into a Yokai named Kamaitachi. Yokai Kamaitachi immediately starts sending energy slashes from his chainsaws at anything in his area while just barely missing the relatives. With his relatives too scared to fight in a real battle, Takaharu charges in and tries to fight off the Hitokarage and Kamaitachi by himself, despite the Yokai being much stronger than him. Inspired by Takaharu’s will to fight, Fuuka and her cousins decide to fight after all. Once Tsumuji brings them their Ninja Ichibantou, Takaharu joins with his relatives and they place their Nin Shurikens in the swords and transform into the Ninninger with Takaharu as AkaNinger, Yakumo as AoNinger, Nagi as KiNinger, Fuuka as ShiroNinger, and Kasumi as MomoNinger. Once the Ninningers fight off the Hitokarage, Yokai Kamaitachi sends his Energy Slashes at them only for Takaharu to redirect them back at him. Takaharu than fights against Kamaitachi until Fuuka and Kasumi use their Karakuri Hengen Bow to shoot at the Yokai. Before Kamaitachi could send more Energy Slashes, Nagi surprises him and uses Karakuri Hengen Sword to slash him. Yakumo then jumps from above and uses Karakuri Hengen Claw to strike Kamaitachi. Takaharu then finishes off Kamaitachi with Ninja Violent Slash where he lays multiple blows on the Yokai with his Ninja Ichibantou, causing him to blow up. As the relatives prepare to leave, Kyuemon places his own Nin Shuriken on his gavel and uses it to resurrect Yokai Kamaitachi as a giant. Once Kamaitachi rises up from the flames as a giant, he flings the Ninningers away and prepares to attack the city. Fortunately, the Ninningers are suddenly given different shurikens that allow them summon their Mecha, called the OtomoNin. Takaharu uses his Shinobimaru to charge at Kamaitachi while dodging each of his attacks. Nagi than uses his Dumpmaru to throw makibishi that Kamaitachi steps on, injuring him. Kasumi uses her Byunmaru to throw giant shuriken at Kamaitachi, only for Fuuka’s Wanmaru to catch them. Shinobimaru attacks Kamaitachi from behind but ends up tripping on a smaller building, allowing Kamaitachi is strike the OtomoNin with one of his chainsaws and pins it against one of the larger buildings. Fortunately, Yakumo uses Dragomaru to breath fire on Kamaitachi, knocking him down. With the Yokai down, Takaharu spins his OtomoNin Shuriken again, allowing them to combine their OtomoNin into Shurikenjin. The two giants duel each other with their weapons until Shinobimaru jumps out to run around Kamaitachi, making him dizzy. Once Shinobimaru jumps back into Shurikenjin, the Ninningers perform the finishing move and use Shurikenjin: Splendid Slash and lay the final blow on Kamaitachi with the Drago Sword, blowing him up for the second time and purifying the Sealing Shuriken he was created from. As the relatives claim the purified Sealing Shuriken, they find out their grandfather is still alive and was the one who gave them the OtomoNin Shuriken.

## Powers/Abilities

**Chainsaw Sickle Arms**: Yokai Kamaitachi is equipped with sickle-shaped chainsaws on his arms that he can use in combat.

**Energy Projectile Slashes**: Yokai Kamaitachi is able to send out purple energy slashes from his chainsaw arms that can slice through anything like actual chainsaws.

**Serrated Kunai**: Yokai Kamaitachi is equipped with throwing daggers with serrated edges on the blade that he can throw at his enemies.

## Gallery

Concept SketchThe Chainsaw Yokai Kamaitachi was created from
## Trivia

* Being based off the Kamaitachi, K-Suke designed the three sickles in a folded shape.
* Since a chainsaw was part of the motif, K-Suke made the face a hockey mask due to the image of a horror movie character wearing a hockey mask and wielding a chainsaw, despite knowing that Jason Vorhees doesn’t use a chainsaw.
* The mechanical element on Yokai Kamaitachi is strong as a whole because K-Suke wanted to differentiate it from the design sketch for Yokai Kappa, which was drawn at the same time.
* Initially, Yokai Kamaitachi’s arms were to be ordinary chainsaws but Producer Takebe ask to “Please make it easy to understand”. So the chainsaws became sickle-shaped.
	+ Because of this, the chainsaws did not physically rotate but K-Suke found it more interesting than reality.