Komasan

Komasan is a character from the Yo-kai Watch anime and games.

A little Komainu of the Charming Tribe. He spent a lot of his time sitting around a shrine with a dog statue on the premises in the countryside. When the shrine was torn down, he tried to move to the city, befriending Nate, finding his brother Komajiro, and making a life for himself in the city.

In the AWA fics, Komasan is listed as a purchased prisoner from the Slave Fortress.

Appearance
Komasan is a Komainu, more closely resembling a shiba inu with long, blue fiery eyebrows that look similar to Hitodama flames. Throughout his body and head, he has ivory-coloured fur with a light blue stomach, tail, and inner ears. His eyes are a lime green colour and he has red swirls on his cheeks and hips.

He carries a green furoshiki (a cloth that can be wrapped, which is used for storing and carrying items) with a white spiral pattern wrapped around his shoulders. In The Koma-Santa Clause, he was given a green sling pouch from Komajiro after he helped deliver the presents for Christmas and uses it for storing extra things. That would become his later appearance, which is also seen in Yo-kai Watch 2 and Yo-kai Watch: Wibble Wobble. This appearance is somewhat retained in his human disguise.

Personality
He usually speaks with the stereotypical country dialect of whatever language he's been dubbed in. In English this manifests as a Southern accent, while in Japanese it's the Nagano Prefecture dialect of Japanese, most notably seen with him adding the -zura suffix to his sentences (more or less the Japanese equivalent of a Southern accent). When excited, frightened, or surprised, he usually exclaims "Oh my swirls!" (Monge~! In the Japanese version), though he once said 'Oh my snake!' when being surprised by a large snake.

Abilities
Komasan's eyebrow flames are actual fires, and can cause burns. He also can control fire, to a degree, and can summon will-o'-the-wisps to set fire to his opponents. However he's largely not a fighter, preferring peaceful interactions and making friends. In fact, in a couple games he's portrayed as initially timid and cowardly, a point that earns him the mockery of Springdale's guardian Kyubi. It doesn't take much prompting, however, for him to find his courage.

Trivia

 * "Komasan" is the "koma" half of komainu followed by the -san honorific.
 * Komasan is based on a komainu, a guardian statue halfway between lion and dog. Originating from Chinese guardian lions, they guard the entrance or inner building of Shintoist shrines. They usually come in male-female pairs, placed at each side of the entrance. Because of Buddhist influences, the right one's mouth is always open while the left one's closed, pronouncing "a" and "um", the first and last letter of the Sanskrit alphabet: together they form the sacred syllable Aum. Incidentally, these letters are the original names of Komasan and Komajiro's Alpha and Omega skills.


 * He was voiced by Melissa Hutchison in the first two seasons of the English-dubbed anime, and in the video games.
 * In the Portuguese dub, Komasan speaks with a Porto accent. As Porto is one of the most urbanizated Portuguese districts, this contradicts his personality of a country bumpkin.
 * In EP058, Komajiro says that they are over 300 years old
 * While he is based primarily on a Komainu, Komasan's leaf transformation and love of food are traits often attributed to Tanukis.
 * There's alternate artwork of Komasan, which depicts him with a thumb which he is never seen with in the games or anime.
 * In M03, Komasan used Flurry of Fury after he released himself from one of the missiles Ultimate Robonyan fired, despite the fact that it is not one of his abilities.
 * Komasan and Komajiro are the only mascot Yo-kai to have a completely different name in the Korean localization.