Gohyakumine Bankotsubo

**Gohyakumine Bankotsubo** (Japanese: 五百峯 万骨坊 *Gohyakumine Bankotsubō*), also known as **Tengu** (天狗), is the final boss character of *Dead or Alive 2*. Since his appearance, Bankotsubo has been appearing as a secret character in other *Dead or Alive* games, such as *Dead or Alive 2 Ultimate* and *Dead or Alive 4*.

Bankotsubo is the oldest playable character in the series, at the age of 1500.

## Character

### Personality

Bankotsubo is extremely arrogant, almost grievously so. He looks down on humans, as well as his own kind with contempt and thinks them fragile and trivial. Bankotsubo is also fond of chaos and destruction, and is manipulative to a fault. He tricked his fellow tengu into allowing him close enough to murder their leader, as well as having a hold of sorts in connection with Ein's missing memories. Ironically, because of his superiority complex, Bankotsubo's defeat was quick and unceremonious.

## Gameplay

Bankotsubo fights with tengu-do, a very powerful and unconventional style that can be very unwieldy for beginners, as his movements are generally slow overall, but very damaging and prone to knocking enemies back. His combos can be easily predicted and vulnerable to holds, but if you time your combo to an opponent's advance properly, you can trap them in the attack as they will be stunned and can only respond with timed holds (unless they are knocked off the ground). These combos however are easy enough to time that they are effective for juggling your opponent after launching them off the ground. It therefore stands to reason that Bankotsubo is best suited for timed power blows and punishing counter attacks.

That said, Bankotsubo also employs a combination of hovering attacks, where he suddenly flaps his wings, allowing unique aerial combos and throws to be executed. These attacks are quite damaging and it can be difficult to anticipate what will happen after hovering, as there are multiple follow-up attacks. Bankotsubo also possesses supernatural powers, such as transforming the stage into one of several ethereal landscapes on command, or unleashing a charged wind blast that envelops the entire stage. This blast can be blocked or held (it counts as a mid-punch), however, and takes a small grace period to execute, but it can damage an enemy lying on the ground or rising from a fall, at which point the blast cannot be blocked.

In Dead or Alive 2, Bankotsubo was considered overpowered because some of his moves are considered "broken" (a notable move would be *Mizu-Uchi*, being a 12 frame high kick that crushes highs, launches on normal hit, and gives +3 advantage on block) as well as having more moves than anyone else in the cast that give frame advantage on block. His heavy down attack also deals the most damage among everyone, he has access to a ranged attack and is also the heaviest character in the cast. Because of these reasons, he was banned from competitive play.

In Dead or Alive 4 however, Bankotsubo was considered to be one of the worst characters as he was nerfed heavily from his Dead or Alive 2 iteration. His overall damage output is reduced significantly, almost all his moves are very unsafe on block, while still retaining his slow speed. He was still banned from competitive play however.

### Unlocking Bankotsubo

Bankotsubo is an unlockable character in *Dead or Alive 2*, *Dead or Alive 4*, and *Dead or Alive Dimensions*. In *Dead or Alive 2* and *Dead or Alive 4*, he can be used in every gameplay mode except Story Mode. To unlock him:

* *Dead or Alive 2* (JPN Dreamcast or *DOA2: Hardcore*): Either collect 10 stars in Survival Mode or play any of the characters 200 times.
* *Dead or Alive 2 Ultimate*: Complete Story Mode with every character.
* *Dead or Alive 4*: Complete Time Attack Mode with all the characters, including the unlockable characters.
* *Dead or Alive Dimensions*: Complete Tag Challenge Mission 17.

## Music themes

The following are the music themes used for Bankotsubo throughout the series.

*Dead or Alive 2 Ultimate*
*Dead or Alive 4*
*Dead or Alive 4* (Crash Club; as "**Jintsuriki Remix**")

## TMNT X Pokemon

Bankotsuba is one of the many villains you will face throughout the game. He's one of the strongest and most powerful on the difficulty scale.

## Trivia

* Bankotsubo's moveset is similar to the Mishima fighting style and Ogre from the Tekken series.
* Bankotsubo is the only final boss that is not affiliated with the Mugen Tenshin clan. Raidou was a nukenin ("missing shinobi"), Genra was a master shinobi, and Alpha-152 is a clone of Kasumi. Also, he was the only boss with no connection to Victor Donovan.
* Bankotsubo, Nyotengu and Alpha-152 are the only characters capable of flight.
* Bankotsubo along with Alpha-152 and Raidou are the only boss to appear in more than one main series game.
* He replaced with Nyotengu.
* Bankotsubo's birthday (January 1) is on New Year's Day. He also shares the same birthday as Mai Shiranui, a character from the *Fatal Fury* and *The King of Fighters* series who appear as a guest character in *Dead or Alive 5 Last Round*.
	+ Coincidentally, both characters had fighting styles that revolved around fans of some sort (*ha-uchiwa*'s in Bankotsubo's case, and paper fans in Mai's case).