Danzaburou

Overview

Danzaburou is a named Anomaly referenced in the pre-launch lore of Neverness to Everness. The creature is best known from a containment operation called Danzaburou's Revenge, a chaotic incident in the city of Hethereau that drew in frontline Espers from the wider Anomaly response network. Danzaburou is classified as an Anomaly boss, meaning it sits in the rarer encounter tier alongside other named anomaly enemies rather than the faceless rank-and-file that patrols the city's rifts. Almost everything else about the creature, including its rank, attack kit, drops and canonical backstory, remains under wraps ahead of the global launch on April 29, 2026.

Hotta Studio has only mentioned Danzaburou in passing through character bios and marketing material, so this page will be updated as more details are published. Rows marked as To be announced in the stat table below are intentionally left blank rather than filled with guesses, in line with the wiki's policy against fabricating unconfirmed data.

Basic Information

Appearance and Folklore Origins

The name Danzaburou is a direct lift from Japanese yokai folklore. In real-world legend, Danzaburou-danuki is one of the three most famous tanuki spirits, a shape-shifting trickster associated with Sado Island. The Sado stories describe him as a mischievous but not purely malevolent being, capable of illusions, disguising himself as humans, and conjuring phantom carriages or processions to confuse travelers.

Neverness to Everness routinely borrows names from folklore and urban legend for its Anomalies, so the choice of Danzaburou strongly suggests a tanuki-coded design: trickery, transformation, and phantom illusions as part of the creature's toolkit. However, the game's official art and in-game model for Danzaburou have not been shown in any press material released so far, so descriptions of fur color, size, silhouette, or humanoid features should not be treated as canon until Hotta Studio publishes them. Until then, the folklore connection is best read as flavor rather than confirmed mechanics.

Danzaburou's Revenge (Story Operation)

The only confirmed in-game appearance of Danzaburou is the operation titled Danzaburou's Revenge, listed on the official Nanally character page as part of her combat record. Nanally, the first-generation head of the Coluccis family and the steadfast leader of the Eibon Antique Shop, is described as having participated in major Anomaly containment and nullification operations, and Danzaburou's Revenge is called out by name among them.

Perfect World's marketing copy also references a chaotic chase after Danzaburou unfolding on one side of a street in Hethereau, which implies the encounter is not a static arena fight but a moving set piece through the city. Whether this chase is playable from start to finish, a scripted cutscene, or a hybrid of the two is not yet clear. The operation's exact placement in the main story timeline and whether it shows up in a prologue flashback, as a repeatable side mission, or as a one-time cinematic has also not been confirmed.

Location and Encounter

All confirmed references place the Danzaburou incident in Hethereau, the neon-lit metropolis that serves as the game's open-world hub. The specific district, street, or interior where players first engage the creature has not been disclosed. Because Hethereau is broken up into wards with distinct visual identities, expect Hotta Studio to reveal the exact neighborhood closer to launch or during post-launch content drops.

It is also unclear whether Danzaburou is tied to a rift event, a fixed instance, or a roaming world boss. Other named Anomalies in the reveal material have appeared in different formats, from Hypervortex rift incidents handled by the Bureau of Anomaly Control to story-gated boss rooms, so players should not assume a specific encounter style for Danzaburou until official footage confirms it.

Combat Notes

Combat details for Danzaburou are not yet revealed. No official footage, skill breakdown, or patch note describes its moveset, phases, or defeat conditions. Writing a move list now would mean inventing content, so this section will stay intentionally thin until Hotta Studio or verified datamines make that information public.

What is reasonable to expect, based on how other named Anomalies have been described in previews, is that Danzaburou will carry a threat rating on the Worheimer Index, that a Bureau squad or a group of contracted Espers will be required to engage it, and that Nanally's participation in Danzaburou's Revenge implies the fight is tuned for mid to high level play rather than tutorial-grade. None of that is a substitute for confirmed mechanics, and the wiki will not publish specific numbers, phase counts, or elemental weaknesses without a source.

Significance in Lore

Danzaburou's lore weight comes mostly from association. It is one of the named incidents used to establish Nanally as a seasoned frontline operator rather than a retired shopkeeper, and by extension it helps frame the scale of threats the Bureau and its contracted Espers routinely handle. The operation's inclusion in a pre-launch character bio also suggests that Hotta Studio considers it one of the memorable benchmark fights in Hethereau's recent history, on par with the other named events listed alongside it in Nanally's combat record.

Beyond that, Danzaburou's folklore-derived name reinforces the game's wider worldbuilding premise: the creatures that bleed into Hethereau are not generic monsters, but echoes of myths and urban legends made physical. Readers curious about the broader classification system should start at the anomalies overview and work outward into specific anomaly boss and anomaly enemies pages as they are published.

Tips

Treat every claim about Danzaburou's stats or moves from a non-official source with heavy suspicion until launch. The creature has generated a lot of speculation thanks to its folklore roots, and pre-launch guides written by aggregator sites sometimes invent mechanics wholesale.

If you are planning to tackle the Danzaburou's Revenge operation on your first playthrough, bring a balanced team rather than stacking a single element. Until weaknesses are confirmed, broad coverage is safer than optimizing around a guess.

Watch Nanally's character trailers and any story trailers Hotta Studio releases between now and April 29, 2026. Because Nanally is directly tied to the operation in the official bio, any Danzaburou footage is most likely to surface alongside her promotional content.

Check back on this wiki page after launch. Confirmed move names, drop tables, and location details will be added as soon as verifiable sources exist, and speculative content will not be added in the meantime.