Card Trivia:Kuriboh

"Kuriboh":

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• This is one of the cover cards of Prismatic Art Collection.

• This monster appears in the artworks of "Detonate", "Five Star Twilight", "Gift of the Weak", "Super Soldier Ritual", and "The Flute of Summoning Kuriboh".
  • A balloon version of this monster appears in the artworks of "Amazement Administrator Arlekino", "Amazement Ambassador Bufo", "Amazement Precious Park", and "Amazement Special Show".

• This card's name, "Kuriboh" roughly translates to "chestnut person" in Japanese. It is also the Japanese name for the Super Mario Bros. enemy known as "Goomba" in the international version.

• This card has many counterparts.
  • Four brother counterparts: "Kuribah", "Kuribee", "Kuribeh", and "Kuriboo"
  • "Rainbow Kuriboh"
  • "Clear Kuriboh"
  • "Kuribohrn"
  • Two Link Monster counterparts: "Linkuriboh" and "Linguriboh"
  • Two Yu-Gi-Oh! Rush Duel counterparts: "Kuribot" and "Kuribotorero"
  • Three "Winged Kuriboh" counterparts: "Winged Kuriboh", "Winged Kuriboh LV9", and "Winged Kuriboh LV10"
  • Three "Performapal" counterparts: "Performapal Kuribohble", "Performapal Barokuriboh", and "Performapal Classikuriboh"
  • A "Galaxy" counterpart: "Galactikuriboh
  • A "Junk" counterpart: "Junkuriboh"
  • A "Photon" counterpart: "Kuriphoton"
  • A "Dark Magician"-based counterpart: "Magikuriboh"
  • A "Monster Reborn"-based counterpart: "Ankuriboh"
  • A "Relinquished"-based counterpart: "Relinkuriboh"
  • A "The Winged Dragon of Ra - Sphere Mode"-based counterpart: "Sphere Kuriboh"
  • A Normal Monster recolored counterpart: "Wretched Ghost of the Attic", which itself has a "Memento" counterpart "Mementotlan Ghattic"
  • A LIGHT Fairy counterpart: "Hanewata"
    • This card prevents the player from taking battle damage, while "Hanewata" prevents the player from taking effect damage.
    • Both cards are also Level 1 monsters with opposite ATK/DEF: this card has 300 ATK and 200 DEF, while "Hanewata" has 200 ATK and 300 DEF.

• "Sangan" may also be related to this card.
  • Its Japanese name is "Critter" (クリッター Kurittā).
  • The pose of "Sangan" in its manga artwork is the same as that of this monster in its manga artwork.
    • Both of their manga artworks also have the same background.

• This card or one of its counterparts appeared in nearly every Yu-Gi-Oh! series.
  • Yugi Muto used this card in the Yu-Gi-Oh! manga and anime. In the Yu-Gi-Oh! The Dark Side of Dimensions movie, he also used "Clear Kuriboh".
  • Jaden Yuki used "Winged Kuriboh" in the Yu-Gi-Oh! GX anime and manga.
  • Yusei Fudo used "Junkuriboh" in the Yu-Gi-Oh! 5D's manga.
  • Yuma Tsukumo used "Kurivolt" and "Rainbow Kuriboh", while Kite Tenjo used "Kuriphoton" in the Yu-Gi-Oh! ZEXAL anime. In the manga, Yuma only used "Rainbow Kuriboh".
  • Yuya Sakaki used "Performapal Kuribohble", "EnterMate ClassiKuriboh", and "EnterMate BaroKuriboh" in the Yu-Gi-Oh! ARC-V manga.
  • Yusaku Fujiki used three copies of "Sphere Kuriboh" (as shields during his infiltration of SOL Technologies' data bank) and "Linkuriboh", while Ai used "Linguriboh", in the Yu-Gi-Oh! VRAINS anime.
  • Yuga Ohdo used three copies of "Kuribot" in the Yu-Gi-Oh! SEVENS anime.
  • Yudias Velgear is currently the only protagonist to not use any counterpart of Kuriboh.

• In the Yu-Gi-Oh! anime, this monster self-destructed on contact with the enemy.
  • The effect of "Detonate" to destroy as many copies of this card and "Kuriboh Tokens" the player controls references this, which works best after using "Multiply", another card that specifically supports this card.
  • In the anime, this monster seemed to be different from other monsters, as it was almost sentient.
  • In Yu-Gi-Oh! episode 06868: "Legendary Fisherman, Part 1", this monster (of its own accord) looked at "Obelisk the Tormentor" in awe as it absorbed the power of Seto Kaiba's two other monsters that were on the field.
  • In Yu-Gi-Oh! episode 09999: "Isolated in Cyber Space, Part 1", this monster itself chose to be Yugi Muto/Yami Yugi's first Deck Master in the Virtual World arc, much to their surprise.
  • Kaiba called this card one of the weakest monsters in the game, due to its low stats.
    • However, this card often prevented Yugi Muto/Yami Yugi to take battle damage that would have caused them to lose the Duel.
  • In the manga, this card's apparent weakness was such that in Yu-Gi-Oh! Duel 131 (Duelist Duel 72): "Attack of Chaos", even Pegasus was shocked that anyone would use it in their Deck.

• In the Yu-Gi-Oh! OCG Stories manga, Raye owns a doll of this monster and "Winged Kuriboh".

• In an interview in the Swedish Shonen Jump magazine in 2005, Kazuki Takahashi referred to this card as his third favorite monster. In his commentary, he also said (freely translated): What does that look actually mean?

• This card's third OCG/second TCG artwork is taken from Yu-Gi-Oh! Duel 104 (Duelist Duel 45): "Crisis!", specifically from the panel showing this monster and Dark Yugi (directly before Dark Yugi activated "Multiply").