Meisuke Nueno | |
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Age | 25 (original series) 29 (Izuna special) 32 (final chapter) 37 (Neo) |
Gender | Male |
Species | Human |
Birth Date | July 21 |
Height | 178 cm (5'8) |
Weight | 68 kg (149 lbs) |
Occupation | School teacher, Exorcist |
Debut | Chapter 1 (Manga) Episode 1 (Anime) Episode 1 (Live-action) |
Voice Actor | Ryotaro Okiayu Fujiko Takimoto (childhood) Jesús Barrero(Spanish dub) |
Actor | Ryuhei Maruyama |
Meisuke Nueno (鵺野 鳴介 Nueno Meisuke), also known as "Nūbē" (ぬ~べ~), is the main protagonist of Jigoku Sensei Nube and its sequels Jigoku Sensei Nube Neo and Jigoku Sensei Nube S.
Nube is a teacher with the ability to exorcise spirits in Japan. He is sent to an elementary school which is attacked by spiritual beings, evil ghosts or yokai.
Personality and background[]
Appearance[]
Nube is a young man wearing a pitch black suit with a white shirt and a black glove on his left hand. He has red eyes, short black hair and thick shaggy eyebrows. When he removes his black glove it is reveals a malformed, possessed hand with long black nails.
He is handsome, but he is not very popular with women because, according to the author, he likes occult stories much.
Personality[]
Nube is a nice, cheerful and careful man, who loves children and has a spirit of self-sacrifice. Normally, he looks clumsy and is a bit of a screw-up. Also, he can be sloppy with money. He sometimes shows a remarkably mature mindset and is a brave, benevolent and skilled mentor. When his students attacked by evil spirits, he will risk his life for protect them and shows incredible psychic ability, it will destroy the evils.
He doesn't take money for exorcism, and doesn't have much money. Also he has made spirit's offerings at his own expense, Plus he likes to gamble called pachinko, and has a habit of buying meals for his students, which makes his standard of living worse.
Background[]
Nube was born the son of good and charitable exorcist. However, his mother became ill then everything changed. His father asked help to people he had helped ever, but they refused and she died. His father, Jiku was disappointed and gone away from Meisuke.
Also Nube born with strong spiritual abilities, he could not control and always being possessed by evil spirits. His classmates bullied him, but his teacher, Minako, saved Nueno and tried exorcise evils inside him. Minako sacrificed herself to exorcise powerful snake ghost inside Meisuke. Meisuke was heartbroken but he decided to be being excellent teacher and save children from evil spirits as like Minako.
Few years later, he got his teaching license and became a successful exorcist. But in his first job at another school, he encountered the demon who consumed his teacher when one of the pupils was possessed by the same demon. He tried to exorcise him out, but forced to seal the demon, alongside whatever left of Minako. Then, he wore a black glove in the hand where he sealed Bakki. The child was safe, but the incident and the scandal at the aftermath saw him resigning from that school.
Abilities[]
Nube is a powerful exorcist. He uses other spiritual artifacts for his battles. The Sutra Book of the White-Robed Goddess (白衣観音経 Byaku E Kanon Kyou), a white paper-like sutra, is used by he to surround and seal certain yōkai phenomenon to either hold them down or exorcize them without the need of the Oni no Te. He also possesses a crystal ball which can make certain spirits and phenomenon visible to the human eye, and a set of prayer beads he can attack with or use as part of his summonings.
He also eventually creates his own kudagitsune, a product of another kudagitsune he borrows from itako-girl Izuna and his Oni no Te, and has mastered several spiritual techniques such as the "Youshin no jutsu, 陽神の術" (a technique where he can create a separate spiritual body that moves about by itself whenever he is asleep or meditating), and the separation of his physical body and spirit in order to transcend into other realms.
He exudes powerful mental powers when trying to protect his children, which can be translated into spiritual abilities., and he will demonstrate remarkable survival and resilience.
Oni no Te (鬼の手, Hand of Demon)[]
He is trained as an exorcist to have many means of facing his yōkai or ghosts encounters. The most powerful of these tools, though, is the "Oni no Te (鬼の手, Hand of Demon)", the result of a battle with a powerful oni from hell, leaving him forced to seal its power within the stump where his left hand should be.
This grotesque appendage, usually sealed within a black glove on his left hand, allows him to use his own spiritual energies combined with the powers of the oni both to attack evil opponents and for other means, such as communicating with other yōkai or freeing spirits. While he typically is able to control the power, he is usually only able to use a fraction of its true powers and abilities, for the oni is so powerful and hard to control it. The oni is actually being held by Minako, who died being consumed by the oni when trying to save young Nube. She was a powerful exorcist and the reason Nube wanted to become a teacher.
In the sequel, Jigoku Sensei Nube Neo, due to Bakkii and Minki going back to the hell, Nube lost his ability to uses Oni no Te. Nube meets a yōkai who lives in a mountain, Daitengu, as his master in order to regain Oni no Te without having Baki. After Nube completed his training, not only he regain Oni no Te ability, but also received a new power, namely "Oni no Te Neo" (鬼の手Neo). Unlike the original Oni no Te, Oni no Te Neo uses his spiritual energy and releases the power like a blaster, which causes massive damage against both yōkai and the mortals, but it will costs almost all of his energy after he used it.
Story Events[]
Five years ago, Nube saved Yukime from a hunter who feared the legend of Yuki-onna. Also, he saved Kyoko in a skiing accident.
Jigoku Sensei Nube[]
He was introduced to Doumori Grade School 5-3 class, but the initial impression on him was quite lame, seeing him only as a goofball. But after the class saw what their teacher's real abilities are, they started softening to him, one by one. Also, outside his class, he maintains his laidback attitude, chasing beautiful Ritsuko, wasting his money on pachinko, sleeping on the school's guardroom, and knack for comedic relief.
He was encountered Tamamo who Fox Spirit wants to kill Hiroshi, then Yukime loved him and coming to kidnap. Both were Youkai that against humans but later on they gets redemption and become to ally.
On the day of his power is down, his seal of Bakki is almost destroyed. Minako's soul inside Bakki protect him and she is going trapped to Oni no Te. Nube learned that her sacrifice saved his again and decided to sometime save her.
Bakki's brother Zekki attacked him and friends, he almost died but finally throws Zekki into hell and them got healed with Hayame's blood but all lost their intelligence.
Jigoku Sensei Nube Neo[]
12 years after the end of the original Jigoku Sensei Nube manga, Nube is called back to the Doumori Elementary from Kyushuu by Ishikawa-sensei due to the yōkai being appearing in the school once again.
Reibaishi Izuna: Ascension[]
In the alternate timeline, It's revealed that Nube has "lost" his life against Byakko due to he protects the kids and Izuna from Byakko's judgment. After discovering that Izuna time-travel back to the past to save Nubes life, he tells Izuna that it's useless to changing past as it may only create another alternate timeline, the worst situation may will cause Izuna lost all of her friends that she meets in prior 3 years. Then, Nube tells Izuna back to her future timeline.
After Izuna changed the past, Nube survived from the incident and went through the events of original Jigoku Sensei Nube manga. Currently, Nube is lives in Kyushuu with Yukime.
One year after En no Gon Gento Gakushi Genzan's defeats and Chikara's sacrifice, Nube was called back to Tokyo by a woman, who need helps to encounters yōkai. Though Yukime mistakenly thought that Nube was cheating her, Nube noticed her being misunderstood him and finds her. After Nube found Yukime at a Dōmori Hospital, he explained to her that it's misunderstood and he didn't cheat her at all. After the situation was back to normal, both Nbe and Yukime noticed that Izuna and Tamamo were angry due to the trouble that caused by Nube and Yukime. Nube and Yukime have no choice but run away back to Kyushuu from being blame by Izuna and Tamamo.
Relationships[]
Meisuke is currently the teacher of class 5-3 of Doumori Elementary and, as such, has some form of relationship with each of his students.
Students[]
- Hiroshi Tateno - One of the major children. Hiroshi was under controlled emotion by evil spirit, also Tamamo wanted to get his skull. Nube saved Hiroshi at both times.
- Kyoko Inaba - One of the major children. Kyoko lived by near from Nube's house, they know each other since before. She was his partner in their previous life.
- Miki Hosokawa - One of the major children. Miki is a troublemaker and is interested in gossip and spirits.
- Katsuya Kimura - One of the major children. Katsuya is a bad boy and gets into trouble with powerful ghosts.
- Makoto Kurita - One of the major children. Makoto is a wimpy little boy and getting into ghost-related trouble.
- Akira Yamaguchi -
- Shuichi Shirato -
- Masaru Kaneda -
- Noriko Nakajima -
- Shizuka Kikuchi -
- Ayumi Kinoshita -
- Ai Shinozaki -
- Kento Kita -
- Yuria Tachibana -
- Seira Udzuki -
- Rumi Koyama -
- Mari Tomabechi -
- Mamoru Takigawa -
- Yuki Ou -
- Wazuru Moroboshi -
Friends[]
- Ritsuko Takahashi - A fellow teacher, Ritsuko was Nube's first love interest. She was extremely afraid and she hated him bacause he likes ghost stories. However, she became to like him when knowing he rescues her and her students from evil youkai.
- Yukime - A yuki-onna who has crush on Nube. Yukime wanted to freeze Nube by Yuki-onna's rules at first but give up it and start approaching Nube. Nube refused her because they are too different, but later he accept her as his girlfriend then married.
- Kyōsuke Tamamo - A fox spirit who originally enemy. Tamako wanted to get Hiroshi's skull for disguises to human by their rules, but realized that the love inside Nube has tremendous power and tried to get to know it. Nube watched out him but later accept as good friend.
- Minako-sensei - Nube's beloved teacher in his youth, Minako was died saving young Nube after a Snake Demon attack, After being taken by the Snake Demon to hell. She was consumed by the Bakki because of her strong chi. Years later the Oni no Te possessed one of Nube's students 3 years prior to the current timeline. He found out that Minako was consumed by the Oni no Te. To save the student, Meisuke and Minako-sensei combined forces to seal the Oni no Te on Nube's left arm.
- Ishikawa-sensei - A fellow teacher. They are good friend.
- Ōtsuki-sensei - A fellow teacher. He is never believe in the existence of spirits.
- Mami Kuroi - A fellow teacher. Mami is a user of black magic.
- Yukibe - Yukime's little spirit, borns from her libido to Nube.
- Hayame - long-lived but silly mermaid. She healed Nube in return from saved her but it made him turns to fool.
- Izuna Hazuki - A high school girl who want to be exorcist.
- Beberububu - Devil from hell who summoned by Mami.
- Mugenkai Jikū - Nube's exorcist father. He was former good, but now unjust exorcist who wants great expense and Nube hated him.
- Bakki - Originally enemy, Evil Oni from hell who Meisuke sealed inside his left hand. Bakki hated Nube and humans but later redemption.
- Minki - Bakki's sister.
- Daitengu - Meisuke's master after he lost his ability to use Oni no Te.
- Ushimitsu-sensei -
- Carla Singh - Originally an enemy, after Carla's power was under Kirin's controls and being lives together with Yukime, he helped Nūbē fight other demons on multiple occasions.
Trivia[]
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Characters | |
Class 5-3 | |
Meisuke Nueno | Hiroshi Tateno | Kyoko Inaba | Miki Hosokawa | Katsuya Kimura | Makoto Kurita | Akira Yamaguchi | Noriko Nakajima | Shuichi Shirato | Masaru Kaneda | |
Other Classes | |
Ritsuko Takahashi | |
Others | |
Ishikawa-sensei | Ōtsuki-sensei | |
Yokai | |
Allies* | Yukime | Kyōsuke Tamamo | Makura No Shoji | |
Enemies* | Zekki | Bakki | Minki |