Maou The Hand

Maou The Hand
Hissatsu data
JP name	魔王・ザ・ハンド
Dub name	Fiend Hand
Type	Catch
Element	Forest
Users	1
Evolution	Normal → G2 → G3 → G4 → G5
Cost
Inazuma Eleven 3	60
Inazuma Eleven 3	60
Strikers	50
Strikers	50
Strikers 2012 Xtreme	50
Strikers 2012 Xtreme	50
GO Strikers 2013	60
GO Strikers 2013	60
Debut
Game	Inazuma Eleven 3: Sekai e no Chousen!!
Anime	Episode 095
Manga	Chapter 39

Maou The Hand (魔王(まおう)・ザ・ハンド, Maō Za Hando, lit. Demon King The Hand) is a catch hissatsu technique introduced in Inazuma Eleven.

Game description

Description

Inazuma Eleven 3 JP: Concentrate your inner anger into energy, changing the Majin's appearance to the Maou's! (T.B.A. ) EN: Pour your fury into this move and change Majin into an angry demon! Victory Road JP: T.B.A. (怒りの心をエネルギーに注ぎ込み魔神の姿を　恐ろしい魔王へと変える。) EN: Channel anger into energy to manifest a fearsome fiend. Spin-offs Strikers JP: Concentrate your inner anger into energy, changing the Majin's appearance to the Maou's! (怒りの心をエネルギーに注ぎこみマジンの姿を魔王へと変える！) EN: Pour your fury into this move and change Majin into an angry demon! Strikers 2012 Xtreme Concentrate your inner anger into energy, changing the Majin's appearance to the Maou's! (怒りの心をエネルギーに注ぎ込みマジンの姿を魔王へと変える！) GO Strikers 2013

All text is transcribed and translated accurately to the latest version of its source material.

Users

Main-series games

Users

Player Name Element Position Unlock Ane-san Lv. 70 Byakko Lv. 65 Tachimukai Event Takeshi (Dark Emperors form) Lv. 75 NPC only Tachimukai (Real Inazuma form) Lv. 1 (G5)

Spin-off games

Users - Inazuma Eleven Strikers series

Player Name Element Position Can use Tachimukai ✓ ✓ ✓

Info

Anime

Maou The Hand is a hissatsu technique created by Tachimukai out of his own volition. After complimenting Endou on his own new technique, Kogure snooped in and mentioned how all of Tachimukai's techniques are copied from Endou's, which made Tachimukai determined to create one of his own. As Tachimukai trained for it, he revisited his basics, realizing he needed to gather power in a different way to Majin The Hand's if he were to complete Maou The Hand.

Amidst Tachimukai's training for Maou The Hand, with the help of Haruna, Kogure, Kabeyama, Kurimatsu, and Tsunami, Tachimukai managed to briefly bring out an incomplete Maou The Hand, using it to try to catch Tsunami's The Typhoon, but it was broken through by it, being rebound off of the crossbar in the process. Later, Tachimukai tried using it in its incomplete form again, but he was caught off-guard by its sheer power. After Tsunami noted what might be missing from Maou The Hand was fervor, Kogure got the idea to impishly mock Tachimukai, riling him up and making him fully materialize an incomplete Maou The Hand.

In the match between Inazuma Japan and The Empire, Tachimukai used it in its incomplete form to try to catch the ball, but it was quickly broken through by Leone's Hellfire. Once Tobitaka encouraged Tachimukai to play with his all and be unafraid of making mistakes, Tachimukai used it in its complete form, successfully catching Leone's Hellfire.

Amidst Inazuma Japan's training, Tachimukai used it, successfully catching Endou's Megaton Head G2.

In the match between Shiro Gumi and Makai Gundan Z, Tachimukai used it to try to catch the ball, but it was quickly broken through by Desuta's Dark Matter.

Amidst Inazuma Japan's training, Tachimukai used it, successfully catching Toramaru and Gouenji's combined shot.

In the match between B Team and A Team, Tachimukai used Maou The Hand G5 twice, successfully catching Someoka's Dragon Slayer V3 and Gouenji's 真 Bakunetsu Screw, respectively.

Game

In the match between Inazuma Japan and The Empire, Tachimukai used it, successfully catching Diego's Hellfire.

Usage

The user crosses their arms in the air, getting into position and quickly uncrossing them, leaning their upper body forward as purple swirls of energy spiral out of their spine. Once the energy spiral reaches its maximum height, the Maou is released, reeling both of its arms back and emitting a vigorous clamor. As the ball heads towards the goal, the user slowly raises both of their arms in a triangle-shape, with the Maou rapidly placing their open hands on top of each other, with the user catching the ball in their hands if successful.

Slideshow

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Gallery

Gallery
Game screenshots Manga screenshots TCG Miscellaneous Maou The Hand's preview in Inazuma Eleven GO Strikers 2013. Maou The Hand in the Inazuma Eleven manga. 3-4-14. Y9-11. Maou The Hand in Inazuma Eleven's English localization (first typography). Maou The Hand in Inazuma Eleven's English localization (second typography). Maou The Hand G5 in Inazuma Eleven's English localization.

Video

Anime

INAZUMA ELEVEN FIRST MAOU THE HAND G5

Game

Inazuma Eleven 3: Sekai e no Chousen!!

Inazuma Eleven Maou The Hand (Game Version With Voice)

Inazuma Eleven Strikers

Inazuma Eleven Strikers - Maou the Hand

Trivia

• Part of its name, Maou, is a reference to the eponymous demon king in Buddhism, a reference to its usage.
  • Interestingly, it can also be figuratively used to refer to "someone with overwhelming power or with unusual gifts", a reference to its prominent user.
  • Incidentally, it can also imply that Maou The Hand is an evolution to Majin The Hand. However, in the Inazuma Eleven anime, Tsunami tells the Maou is greater than infinity (Mugen The Hand), rightfully confusing Kogure.
• In the main-series games, manga, and TCG, "Maou" is rendered in Hiragana (まおう) rather than Kanji.
• In the Inazuma Eleven anime series, it is one of the hissatsu techniques which was never able to successfully catch a shot in its incomplete form.
  • It shares this trait with God Catch.
• In the Inazuma Eleven anime series, it is one of the hissatsu techniques to have skipped over an evolutionary stage.
  • It shares this trait with God Hand, Nekketsu Punch, Killer Slide, God Knows, Illusion Ball, Senpuujin, Dark Tornado, Perfect Tower, The Typhoon, Bakunetsu Screw, Snow Angel, The Mountain, Dragon Slayer, Gladius Arch, God Catch, Soyokaze Step, Mach Wind, Power Spike, Death Drop, and Reverse World.
• Maou The Hand can be seen as a parallel to Endou's God Catch as both techniques are their final and strongest techniques and involve using a mythical personification to stop the ball.
• In the English localization of the Inazuma Eleven anime, when it was used in the match against The Empire and amidst Inazuma Japan's training, it's said as The Fiend Hand despite its typography showing otherwise.
  • Additionally, a similar error occurs in the match against Makai Gundan Z, being said as Maou The Hand, and when it's used in its G5 stage, being said as Dimensional Hand.
  • Interestingly, the latter instance is the name of another technique in the English localization, namely Ijigen The Hand.