Bunbuku

At rest, Bunbuku is a sizable teapot ringed with a band of dots. The Devil Fruit reshapes it so a tanuki's head sprouts where the spout once was, a striped tail takes the place of the handle, and short tanuki legs hold it up from below. Manga panels give its eyes yellow sclera, though the anime renders them white. It is nearly always perched on a large, soft, fleshy pouch that typically sits apart from its body rather than attached to it.

For the most part Bunbuku keeps still and silent, rarely stirring. Yet it holds genuine affection for Tama, the girl in Hitetsu's care, registering visible shock at the news that she had traveled far from home.

Through means never explained, the teapot gained the Inu Inu no Mi, Model: Tanuki at some point in its past, and the fruit turned it into a living thing capable of shifting into a tanuki. As a pot it can still hold tea and other liquids, but it can no longer be set over a fire to boil water, since the flames now hurt it. Hitetsu had long treasured and used it before that transformation, and the two share a close bond, with Bunbuku serving as the smith's pet ever since.

During the Wano Country arc, Bunbuku looked on as Tama prepared and offered Luffy all of her rice at Hitetsu's home in Amigasa Village, and it kept watch at her bedside once she fell ill. After the injured girl was brought back, it sat by while Hitetsu thanked Chopper and the visiting minks for treating her. When Tama, Kiku, Momonosuke, and Chopper later set off toward Kuri Beach, Bunbuku listened in as Hitetsu spoke to them over a Smart Tanishi.