Leadoni is a small blue oni with a single red eye and a black horn on top of his head. He smiles most of the time and carries a tourist guide flag. He wears a dark yellow skirt with spiral patterns. His large purple hand is in a beckoning gesture.
Leadoni are known to lead you somewhere. In the games, Leadoni can lead you to a good treasure chest or a bad treasure chest that has a Yo-kai that you must face. Anyone being led by Leadoni is said to become lost or lose sight of their original destination. In the anime, Leadoni seems to be able to lead people where they want to go, albeit through unconventional routes.
Leadoni can also be found in Terror Time as minions of Gargaros and his brothers. They wander around in search of the player, but have a poor scope of vision.
Several Leadoni appear as assistants of Dr. Maddiman in Yo-kai Watch.
In the anime, Leadoni guides Nate and Whisper them through the correct route of Dromp's maze. Sometime later, he gives Nate his medal.
Befriended(Yo-kai Watch): "I think you're great. Let's be friends."
Loafing:"Yay, restin'!"
Receiving food (favourite): "Hehe, tasty."
Receiving food (normal): "Kinda tasty...?"
Receiving food (disliked): "I hate this!"
Being traded:"This way! This way! Follow me!"
Freed from Crank-a-kai:"Let's be friends! I'll lead you to all sorts of successes!"
Freed from Crank-a-kai (Yo-kai Watch Blasters):"Let's be friends! I'll take you to a really fun place!"
Blasters T Camp: "Just follow me when we get there! Mee hee hee!"
In the anime
In EP053, Leadoni meets Jibanyan at a Yo-kai party off-screen; the latter subsequently introduces him to Nate and Whisper after discovering that they have become lost in Dromp's maze. Leadoni brings the group through the maze to reach Nate's house by means of absurd pathways, including walking on fences, rooftops and through neighboring houses. Some time after this, Leadoni gives Nate his Medal.
He is first summoned in EP119 to help Nate's team complete another of Dromp's mazes.
Etymology
"Leadoni" is a portmanteau of lead on and oni.
"Michibiki" is a pun on michibiki (導き, "guidance") and ki (鬼, "oni").
"Noguío" is a corruption of no guío ("I do not guide").
"Wirreführer" is a combination of "wirr" (turbid) and "irrefühen" (mislead/deceive).
Origin
Leadoni and Mynimo belong to a category called ko-oni or shoki ("small oni" or "lesser oni"). They don't have the size and power of their larger comrades, but they're insidious, mischievous creatures that often follow them in tow and cause havoc in their wake. Additionally, his behaviour reflects the expression onikakure ("hidden away by oni"), which is the Japanese equivalent of "spirited away".
Trivia
In the first game, he causes trouble for the player and Whisper 1-4 times.
He fights them to prevent getting the Leadoni wheel.
The choices you make during the Nocturne Hospital checkup will determine if you anger him and engage in fights.
Standing on your tiptoes for height angers him.
Answering "It's a gorilla" for eyesight angers him.
Answering "It's weird" for X-ray angers him.
Even though "It's weird" is the correct answer, he still gets angered mainly because he thinks your weird heart is normal, or he wants you to agree your heart is normal even though it really is not
After the battle, Whisper states that he would not know what to do if his master was a Yo-kai. This likely means that Leadoni was upset at calling the heart weird as it's implied to be what a Yo-kai's heart looks like.
Despite causing trouble to the player, you should still befriend him in early Chapter 2 to undo a seal for Shogunyan.
As Dr. Maddiman's Leadoni are absent in the second game onwards while Hans Full appears instead, his stitched up appearance and numerous large hands may mean that the Leadoni were used to make him.
Leadoni's "random" nicknames are: Thataway, Mitchell, Comere, and Cyclopta.
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