Shishiwakamaru no Dojo
The hair. The eyes. The sword. The veil. The baggy battle bloomers. What more can you ask for in a bishonen?
This is the shrine to Shishiwakamaru, the prettiest of the minor bishonen of Yuu Yuu Hakusho. Here you will find pictures, fanfics, translations, backstory, and more trivia than you thought existed for Shishiwakamaru. Please come in, wipe your feet on the mat, settle into an armchair, and browse at your leisure. And if you hear a thrumming noise and someone starts roaring with rage, please go low and head for one of the kekkai-reinforced underground shelters. We'll come and help you out when Waka-sama is out of his snit.
Shishiwakamaru is the leader of the Uraotogi team, the fourth team which Yuusuke-tachi face in the Long String of Random Syllables Tournament. He wins against Kuwabara, he loses against Genkai, he annoys the snot out of the rest of the team, and he gives great face. Really, what more can you ask for in a bishonen?
Apart from more screen time.
Shishiwakamaru is a crowd favorite, not only because of his deadly skill, but also because of his silky elegance and astonishing beauty. He has an enormous fan-club of teeny-boppers, who wave banners saying "Waka-sama inochi!" and call each other adulteresses if their affections stray to other contestants.
Shishiwakamaru's usual form is quite stunningly beautiful. I'll let someone else natter on about his long hair, his wide violet eyes, his white skin, his devilish expression, his grace with a sword, that certain way his kimono hangs—ahem. As I said, I'll let someone else natter on about Shishiwakamaru's beauty, and say that his usual form isn't his natural one. In a rage, he starts to change—pinpoint pupils, fangs (kyaa!), long, long ribbed horns, snub nose. And if he changes too far, he becomes... a wee, SD critter wearing a tiny, tiny white kimono. With wee, clawed footies which he uses to keep his perch on Suzuki's shoulder. His hair is the same, but with his horns in full, um, flower, it's hard to tell. In fact, the first time I saw Waka-chan's full youkai form, I didn't know it was him. I thought Suzuki had gotten a pet. Realization didn't dawn until a few pages later, when he appeared in ningen form, and then I had to backtrack and read the page twice. I nearly wet 'em.
So Shishiwakamaru's not just your ordinary, dime-a-dozen, silken-haired, violet-eyed, elegant, fanged, death-with-a-sword, attitude-spitting, scrumptious bishonen—he's kawaii, too.
(Think his groupies know?)
After his defeat, Shishiwakamaru disappears from the series until near the end, when Yomi asks Kurama to bring him six fighters with 100,000 points of youki. Kurama visits Genkai at her temple and invites her trainees—Jin, Touya, Chuu, Rinku, Suzuki, and Shishiwakamaru—to train with him for half a year to up their youki, then join him in the Makai. Shishiwakamaru is outvoted five to one, and the team joins Kurama.
They enter the Makai tournament and proceed to lose their matches in creative and embarrassing ways. In the first round. *Sigh* After the tournament, Shishiwakamaru wanders the Makai with Touya, Suzuki, and Jin.
Stats
| Name: | Shishiwakamaru |
| Age: | Unknown |
| Sex: | Male (but he fooled me the first time I read YYH) |
| Race: | Youkai |
| Height: | Half a head taller than Touya, a little shorter than Suzuki if you ignore Suzuki's hair. |
| Weight: | You get him on the scales. I'll watch from back here. |
| Blood Type: | No idea, but want to bet that it's AB? |
| Hair: | Blue, unless you're looking at the card sets, in which case it's purple, lavender, or pink. |
| Eyes: | Violet |
Shishiwakamaru has only a tiny following in the USA. Now that Yuu Yuu Hakusho is on TV, though, we Shishiwakamaruites can only pray that the flock will grow. Until his fan following explodes and the list of Shishiwakamaru links grows beyong all sensible proportions, here's a brief guide to all things Shishiwakamaru:
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