SHISHIWAKAMARU
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A handsome demon swordsman from Team Uraotogi, Shishiwakamaru enters the Dark Tournament determined to become famous and immediately acquires an enthusiastic fan following. His Banshee Shriek Sword channels the power of the dead, while his Cape of No Return can send opponents to another location, as Kuwabara learns in especially humiliating fashion. Shishiwakamaru eventually faces Genkai and discovers that reputation and theatrical weapons cannot compensate for the gulf in experience between them. Like several other memorable tournament fighters, he survives, reappears later and trains under Genkai before entering the Demon World Tournament. The later material turns an enemy introduced largely through style and arrogance into a recognizable member of Yusuke's wider circle. He never loses the dramatic presentation, but he gains enough perspective to become more than it.
SHISHIWAKAMARU THROUGH THE ARCHIVE //
DARK TOURNAMENT WATCH GUIDE //
Open page →The Idunn Box forces Kurama back into Yoko Kurama, exposing the legendary fox demon identity he normally carries inside his human life. The transformation is not simply a power-up. Yoko is colder, more dangerous and much closer to the person Kurama used to be before living as Shuichi Minamino changed him.
Kurama later uses the Fruit of Previous Life to reach that form again against Karasu, but the transformation still has a time limit and still cannot solve every problem for him.
Kurama later uses the Fruit of Previous Life to reach that form again against Karasu, but the transformation still has a time limit and still cannot solve every problem for him.
Why it matters
Yoko is not Kurama's "true form" replacing a fake human one. The Dark Tournament makes the two identities collide so Kurama eventually has to decide how they fit together.
