Yangtze Suiko

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Yangtze Suiko
Name
Japanese	長江の水虎 中国水虎
Rōmaji	Chōkō no Suiko Chūgoku Suiko
Meaning	Water Tiger of Yangtze River Chinese Suiko
Profile
Species	Yōkai (Suiko)
Gender	Male
Home	Yangtze River, China
Abilities	Driving Techniques
First Appearance
Manga	Yōkai Rally (1968)
Anime	Series 1 Episode 54 (1969)
Portrayals
1968 anime	Kōsei Tomita
1985 anime	Kazumi Tanaka
1996 anime	Naoki Tatsuta
2007 anime	Taiten Kusunoki

Yangtze Suiko (長江の水虎 (ちょうこうのすいこ) Chōkō no Suiko, lit. "Water Tiger of Yangtze River") is a Suiko who lives in China's Yangtze River. In the GeGeGe no Kitarō: Kiki Ippatsu! Yōkai Rettō game, he is named Chinese Suiko (中国水虎 (ちゅうごくすいこ) Chūgoku Suiko).

Appearance

His design is based on Nagasaki's Suiko by Shigeru Mizuki. The Yangtze Suiko has a head with a big, bald forehead, a cat-like face and eyes, pointy ears, and bristly eyelashes and whiskers. His body is long and slender, with a segmented belly, and webbed hands and feet. He is covered in fish-like scales.

In the 1968 anime, he has more muscular limbs and a more cat-like face, with a lighter-colored head and smaller forehead. He also lacks

In the 1985 anime, he looks more like his manga counterpart, but has larger ears. He has dark-green skin and a light-green belly.

In the 1996 anime, he has smaller ears and looks the most close to his manga design. He has eyes with red sclera and brown pupils, orangish brown skin, and a tan belly.

Nagasaki's Suiko's illustration by Shigeru Mizuki.

Personality

In the manga, Yangzte Suiko is a competitive racer, with a particular vendetta against Gremlin. He is also a bit of a bookworm, reading books while racing and taking his time to repair them when they get damaged.

In the 1968 anime, Yangtze Suiko is shown to be very brash and boastful.

In the 1996 anime, even when under the effects of Evil Powder, Yangtze Suiko didn't act particularly mean or evil, seeming to get along nicely with Frankenstein.

History

Manga

Yangtze Suiko appears in the Shonen Magazine story, Yōkai Rally. In this story, he represents China in the titular rally at Sado Island. While racing, he reads a book, and so waits for it to get dry after crossing a river. In the page he read, it said to not let Gremlin win, so he obliges and drains gas from Gremlin. However, since Gremlin did the same for him, he was unable to finish the race and lost.

1968 Anime

Yangtze Suiko appears in episode # 54 of the first anime adaptation, Yōkai Rally. In this adaptation, he no longer has to dry his book, and when his fuel manages to leak, it causes Gremlin, Wolfman and Frankenstein to lose balance. They all fight each other but later agree to defeat Kitarō. The three sneak attack on him, but Yangtze Suiko is defeated after being exposed to Tsurube-Bi's fire.

1985 Anime

Yangtze Suiko appears in episode # 51 of the third anime adaptation, World Yōkai Rally. In this adaptation, he first drives into buildings of Sado Island with the other participants of the rally, calling out Kitarō's name. When he agrees to join, he boldly proclaims he will take over Japan. In the rally, he started off in the fifth place, and later tried to bump Kitarō's jalopy with Frankenstein, and the two later catch up to Backbeard and Wolfman. He later falls off a suspension bridge Frankenstein cuts, and as a result, wasn't rescued by Kitarō.

1996 Anime

Yangzte Suiko appears in episode # 64 of the fourth anime adaptation, Yōkai Rally. In this adaptation, him and the other participants in the rally (minus Kitarō), were under the effects of Nurarihyon's Evil Powder. Him and Franken wondered which side of a checkpoint in the rally would make them explode, and were last seen exploding together while crossing a road of skulls. Him and the other yōkai were revived after Kitarō wished on the Yōkai Stone.

2007 Anime

Yangtze Suiko (in his 1985 design) made a cameo in the film, GeGeGe no Kitarō: Nippon Bakuretsu!!.

Powers and Abilities

Driving Techniques

Legend

In Shigeru Mizuki's books, Suiko originally take a Yangtze Suiko-like form and turns into a kappa-like form when they get old.

Trivia

Yangtze Suiko-esque Chinese yōkai attending the World Villain Yōkai Summit.

• The book Yangzte Suiko reads in the manga is Quotations from Chairman Mao, while in the first anime is the Analects.
• While his appearance and personality is different, Yangtze Suiko in the 1968 anime is said to be the same Suiko Kitarō fought previously.
• While the character has not appeared as a full fledged villain in the franchise, a small Chinese yōkai closely resembling Yangtze Suiko's 1985 design was briefly seen attending the World Villain Yōkai Summit in the 2008 movie GeGeGe no Kitarō: Nippon Bakuretsu!!.
• The rivalry between Yangtze Suiko and Gremlin is most likely a reference to how their representative countries, China and the Soviet Union, were clashing around the time the story was published.