"A Sword Bearer who lends his power to those who are legitimate users of the Sacred Sword Genbu Hotenfu. As a loyal servant of the powerful Celestial king he strictly judges over those who seek the tremendous power of the Sacred Armory."
Yo-kai Medallium biography
“A Sword Bearer who guards the Genbu Hotenfu in the Hall of Sacred Swords at the bottom of the Yo-kai World. He has requested to be the guardian of the Hall of Sacred Swords in order to contain the mighty power of the Genbu Law-Maker Axe.”
Genbu is the Sword Bearer who wields the Genbu Hotenfu (Japanese: ゲンブ法天斧,Genbu Hōtenfu). He wears green samurai armor with a purple and yellow haori-like overcoat. His hair is a purplish brown. His eyes' irises are yellow and his sclera is dark blue. On his left arm and hovering on the right side is a white snake.
In his Celestial form, Genbu is a giant green tortoise, giant branches grown from his head that resemble horns and vines that resemble a beard, his mossy black shell seems to be surrounded by fog that has the shape of a white snake.
Genbu is usually a serious character, but he has the tendency to get excited when chopping things.
Genbu can fly and his axe can easily slice anything in half, even attacks. He is also able to manipulate water, as seen by his Soultimate Move.
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Yo-kai Watch Wibble Wobble
Genbu's Sword Bearer form was a Budokai seal exclusive character during Lady Arachnia's event. His Celestial form is a crank during Juno's event.
Turning his axe into one made of water, and builds up a whole lot of strength to slash any enemy.
Yo-kai Watch: Wibble Wobble
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In the anime
Yo-kai Watch Shadowside
Genbu debuts in episode 31, where he sets a bunch of trials for the main cast to go through, which they survive. Before they could grab his axe, he materialized himself and challenged the group to a fight. Suzaku prompts Cole to transform into his Sword Bearer form and ends up getting Genbu to make a deal with the team, challenged to cut Arachnia's webs.
In the next episode, he tries to cut the webs of Arachnia but fails, getting taunted by the spider Yo-kai in the process. He then gets serious and uses up all his energy to perform his Soultimate move, successfully chopping through the webs but forcing Touma to revert.
In episode 45, Cole uses him to chop down Byakko's bamboo forest to stop the tiger Yo-kai from hiding, but the bamboos regrow quickly afterwards. He later sustains several attacks form Byakko and his clone before being defeated.
Genbu is the Japanese name of the Black Tortoise of the North, which is one of the Four Symbols based on mythological creatures in the Chinese constellations. It represents the north and the winter season.
In episode 31, Bruno mentions that Genbu was always shown as a tortoise.
Genbu's Celestial form was first released via Wibble Wobble, making him the only Celesital to debut in this manner. Suzaku's debuted in the anime, Byakko's debuted via a leak regarding him and Lord Acala and Asura's are still unknown. Kyryn also debuted in the anime, while Souryuu debuted in Yo-kai Watch 4.
Genbu does not garb his weapon during his summoning animation. Instead, he swings it forward.
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