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That was Bakugami, the god of explosions. His technique is called Cherry Bomb.
Bakugami (爆神) is the Celestial Brush God of the Cherry Bomb. He appears as a boar running on top of a large bomb usually followed by piglets carrying torches to light the cherry bomb. His constellation can be found in Shinshu Field.
Cherry Bomb
Cherry Bomb is a very powerful technique, creating a lighted bomb out of thin air by drawing a circle with a line going into it. A larger circle creates a bomb closer to the camera position and a smaller circle creates a bomb farther away, but the amount of damage remains the same.
Cherry Bombs can be used to damage enemies or open a hole in a cracked wall. There are also a few uncracked walls that can be bombed open to reveal Treasure behind them, and the technique is necessary to navigate through the Digging minigames.
The bombs explode when they touch a destructible object (including other bombs after upgrades), or when their fuses run out or are directly ignited. Amaterasu is immune to the bomb's effects and can roll them around before they explode. Power Slashing bombs will make them disappear, and using Waterspout on them will douse their fuses. Bombs can also be rolled via Galestorm.
At first, only one cherry bomb can be on screen at a time, however, after certain upgrades, up to 3 bombs can be drawn. The upgrades also increase the power of the individual bombs.
Speech
Ah... Amaterasu. Origin of all that is good and mother to us all... Too often, it is easy to forget that which we cannot see. Hidden away, I had lost track of you. But now my soul is at ease. I, Bakugami, god of explosive force, lend my power to your cause. Use the Cherry Bomb to lay waste to foes and obstacles alike!
Bakugami
Children
Young Bakugami
In Okamiden, the piglets, who are the children of Bakugami make a return and are the ones who grant Chibiterasu the Cherry Bomb technique. They are the only 'child' Brush Gods who have appeared previously.
Trivia
- "Baku" means explode.
- Bakugami, represents the pig in the Chinese Zodiac, through the Japanese Zodiac's wild boar. His power is also a play on the Boar's associations in Japan, as the sign is said to bear people who are explosive and dynamic in personality.
- Instead of giving the power to Amaterasu, he runs off screen, his piglets follows him off screen as well (with torches in mouth), then the piglets lit the cherry bomb that Bakugami was on. The cherry bomb explodes, and the power rolls into Amaterasu. This is the only time a Celestial Brush Technique is given in such manner.
- But during the battle with Yami, the Technique is regained in the similar manner as the other Brush Technique.