The Bear Nushi is one of the confirmed Nushi bosses in Beast of Reincarnation. Pre-release gameplay material has shown the encounter, but it is positioned very far into the campaign and most of its specifics remain unrevealed. This article covers what the trailers and developer-direct showings have actually confirmed about the fight, and is careful to flag what has not yet been shown.
Position in the Journey
The single strongest cue about where the Bear Nushi sits in the story comes from the visible flower count on Emma's hair. In the gameplay preview footage that introduces the fight, she approaches the Bear Nushi with eleven flowers already blooming in her hair. Because each Nushi she defeats adds a new flower as part of the Flower System, that silhouette places the Bear Nushi as at least the eleventh major boss on Emma's road to the Capital.
That positioning implies a substantial bench of additional Nushi sitting between this fight and the early-game Deer Nushi, which the same pre-release material shows Emma approaching with only the single shakuyaku she gained from Koo's resurrection scene. The Bear Nushi is, in other words, a late-arc encounter rather than an introductory one.
Comparison With the Deer Nushi
Aspect | Bear Nushi | |
|---|---|---|
Flowers on Emma's hair going in | One (the shakuyaku from Koo's resurrection scene). | Eleven flowers already in bloom. |
Position on the journey | Early-arc gate after the opening sequence. | Late-arc encounter on the road to the Capital. |
Player toolkit assumed | Core katana loop, basic Blooming Arts, opening parry timing. | Full combat suite: parry depth, ranged tools, mature Koo command menu, an established Spirit Stone build. |
Pre-release coverage | Visible in trailers and gameplay clips; some early framing disclosed. | Visible in trailers, but specifics deliberately kept off-screen because of late campaign placement. |
As a Nushi
Nushi are the gigantic class of Malefacts that anchor the major boss fights of Beast of Reincarnation. Pre-release coverage frames their encounters as set-piece battles built around scale, with the broader plant-and-flower motif of the game woven through how each fight unfolds. Defeating a Nushi is the gameplay event that lets Emma absorb its power, and that absorption is what physically blooms a new flower in her hair.
That class-level framing applies to the Bear Nushi as much as to any other member of the roster. The footage shown so far emphasises silhouette, scale, and the staging of the arena rather than UI-visible health bars or stat numbers, in line with how the rest of the game's Nushi material has been presented.
Late-Game Context
By the time the Bear Nushi shows up on Emma's road, almost every system the game gives the player has had time to mature. Her combat loop around katana strikes, deflects, and the timing window of parries is fully developed; her bow and stealth options are available alongside the melee kit; and her menu of Blooming Arts through Koo's command system is at or near its full breadth.
That makes the Bear Nushi a late-arc check on the full combat system rather than an early-access introduction to it. Pre-release footage frames it as a fight that expects the player to be combining real-time melee, ranged tools, and Koo's plant abilities rather than leaning on any one pillar of the kit. Players who reach this fight are not learning the systems on it; they are being tested on how well they have woven the systems together.
Expected Loadout Profile
Layer | Late-Arc Expectation |
|---|---|
Katana | A mid-to-late Katanas pick rather than the opening blade. Tempo should match the player's Parry System rhythm rather than chasing peak damage. |
Spirit Stones | An upgraded armour piece carrying up to six Spirit Stones, tuned to compound on chained parries rather than fire only once per exchange. |
Charms (Koo) | A Charms set that matches the player's preferred Blooming Arts. A late-arc Charm loadout is usually specialised rather than generalist. |
A full menu of Blooming Arts and any mods earned on the way. Pre-release material implies several plant-ability options are available by this point. |
What Has and Has Not Been Shown
Because the Bear Nushi sits deep in the campaign, the developers have kept most of its specifics out of pre-release material. The wiki separates what is confirmed from what is not below.
Confirmed
A bear-shaped Nushi is among the bosses shown in pre-release gameplay material.
Emma is wearing eleven flowers in her hair when she approaches the fight, placing it at least as the eleventh major Nushi on her road.
It is part of the same Nushi class as the Deer Nushi and the rest of the roster: a gigantic Malefact framed as a set-piece encounter.
The fight inherits the broader plant-and-flower motif that runs through every confirmed Nushi sequence.
Not Yet Shown
The biome or named district where the fight takes place.
Specific named attacks, weak points, or stagger mechanics.
Whether the boss is a bear corrupted by the Blight or a Nushi that simply takes a bear-like form.
Which species of flower Emma gains in her hair after defeating it.
Recommended loadouts, gear thresholds, or skill-tree builds for the fight.
Expect this article to grow once the game ships and the encounter can be documented from the launch build. Until then, what is on the page is what has actually been shown, framed against the broader rules of the Flower System and the Nushi class as a whole.