Backbeard

*For the Henshin Ninja Kaijin, Backbeard*

**Backbeard**(バックベアード *Bakkubeādo*) is a Yokai that appeared in Episode 1 of Choujin Bibyun.

He is voiced by **Gorō Naya**.

## Personality

Backbeard is an evil, sinister yokai who makes it his goal to make humans suffer and to kill anyone who gets in his way.

## Appearance

Backbeard has an entirely black body covered with eyes all over. He has a big eye taking up his entire chest with a blue iris and has a big eyeball with a red iris for a head with long black hair draped over it.

## Biography

When a mysterious thunderstorm occurs over Tokyo, a giant eye appears and haunts a family with several smaller eyes floating around them. Outside of their home, an old man, named Daizaburo Daima, checks on the family and sees they’re being haunted by a yokai. Just then, the giant eye confronts Daizaburo and reveals its name as Backbeard. Not wanting any human who knows his existence to live, he sends a group of foot soldiers, called the Yoki, after Daizaburo. Daizaburo wards the Yoki off with an ancient magic mirror from China, but Backbeard shatters the mirror with his Giyaman Shatter, leaving Daizaburo invulnerable. Fortunately, Daizaburo gets saved by a woman, named Lisa Akechi, and a university sophomore named Kei Tsukimura, whom Daizaburo learns is destined to fight yokai. Upon seeing Tsukimura fight off the Yoki, Backbeard decides to curse him by the name of his demon king, Gulver. During his day at his university, Tsukimura gets affected by Backbeard’s curse as he breaks the gymnastic equipment, his food turns into sand, and the water he drinks turns to gasoline. Needing to break the curse, Tsukimura allows Daizaburo to perform a ritual on him to summon a star called the Army Destroying Star. During the ritual, Lisa arrives to warn him and his grandson, Santa, that the yokai are coming to attack. Daizaburo manages to complete the ritual but Backbeard appears and summons the Yoki to kill him. Fortunately, the Army Destroying Star allows Tsukimura to transform into a Choujin, named Bibyun. Backbeard gets the Yoki to fight Bibyun first, but Bibyun fights them off and manages to stab Backbeard’s eye with his Sky Sword, reverting him into his humanoid form. With Backbeard wounded, Bibyun continues to fight him and prepares to finish him off but gets interrupted by two strange-looking yokai who help Backbeard escape. Daizaburo and Lisa tell Bibyun that Santa got kidnapped by Backbeard, so Bibyun uses his radar ability to detect which direction they are at. Following the sounds of their footsteps, Bibyun uses Daizaburo’s Bibyun Car to head to a waterfall area where he finds Santa tied up with Yoki surrounding him. After Bibyun fights off the Yoki, Backbeard appears and reveals that he has Santa and the one tied up is really a small log. Backbeard threatens to kill Santa if Bibyun makes another move and starts to use his Evil Eye to kill him. Just then two more Choujins arrive, named Zusheen and Bashaan, and help take down Backbeard, allowing Bibyun to save Santa. Backbeard summons the Yoki to fight against the Choujins, but the trio manage to fight them off and Bibyun fights against Backbeard again. Backbeard fights back with his own abilities but Bibyun finds where his Evil Eye is at and manages to slash it with his Sky Sword. With Backbeard’s weak point hit, Bibyun uses his finishing move, Fireball Attack, where he turns into a fireball and hits Backbeard, causing him to disintegrate.

## Powers/Abilities

**Giant Eye Form**: Backbeard can take the appearance of giant floating eye with black lids and eyelashes.

**Eye Summoning**: Backbeard can summon an array of smaller floating eyes.

**Giyaman Shatter**: Backbeard can shoot a blue beam from it’s eye to shatter any magical item.

**Fake Hostage**: Backbeard can disguise an object as a human hostage of his.

**Curse**: Backbeard can place a curse on his victims that prevents them from eating and drinking by turning their food into sand and their water into gasoline until they die by either starvation or dehydration.

**Evil Eye**: Backbeard can use his the eye underneath his chest eye to blow up his targets or to repel them.

**Teleporting**: Backbeard can teleport himself in order to dodge his opponent’s attacks.

**Sword Resistance**: Backbeard’s body and eyes are resistance to swords. His Evil Eye, however, is not resistant.

## Trivia

* Backbeard is based off the yokai of the same name. A Backbeard yokai has the appearance of a large shadow with tentacles and a single eye in the middle.