Liftmin

Liftmin
Details
No.	025
Attribute	Punpun
Gender	Male
Promin color	Orange
Motif	Forklift
Bugmin ego	Bug-Liftmin
Kamiwaza	Lifts up heavy objects.

Liftmin (Japanese: リフトミン, Liftmin) is a character in Kamiwaza Wanda and a Promin. His attribute is Punpun.

Personal

Appearance

Liftmin almost resembles a forklift. He's orange with blue features, a green nose and green markings. Liftmin has 2 wheels for his feet and 2 forklift prongs for his hands. Liftmin is one of the bulkiest Promins. The other two being Tafumin and Gymmin.

For his Bugmin ego, see: Bug-Liftmin

As a Bugmin, his forehead is in a different shape, showing that he looks angry.

Personality

Liftmin is a brave Promin with a lot of strength. He can pick up any object that is too heavy for anyone else to pick up. When Liftmin makes a noise, he says 'RifuRifu~~' or 'Rifu~~' with an accent of a handsome young man.

Relationships

• Yuto (current owner)
• Dorirumin, Kagimin, Zuzumin, Jaguchimin, Freezemin, Eishamin, Chakkamin, Gakkimin, Micmin, Sharimin, Burgemin and Jishomin (captives when Liftmin was a Bugmin)
• Sukemin (the Promin Liftmin got kidnapped along with)
• Hasamin (girlfriend)
• Denkyumin (the troubled one, now friends and the Promin Liftmin teamed up with when confronting Bug-Heartmin)

Abilities

Liftmin's Kamiwaza ability is to lift up heavy objects. As a Bugmin, he can make a forklift run away and sometimes uses it to kidnap other Promins.

In the series

Kamiwaza Wanda

Liftmin first appeared as a Bugmin in episode 9 when the Bug Bytes demanded him to use a forklift to capture the Promins that Yuto has so far except for Turbomin, Gauzemin, Tonkmin, Railmin and Hasamin.

Bug-Liftmin later appeared in episode 10 when Yuto captures and debugs him as well as recapturing and debugging the other rebugged Bugmins.

Liftmin was first summoned in episode 12 in order to pick up the heavy log with help from the other Promins.

Liftmin appeared in episode 17 when he, Hasamin, Kagimin and Zuzumin build a sandcastle together while Yuto deals with Bug-Magnemin.

In episode 19, along with Turbomin, Denkyumin, Zuzumin and Micmin, Liftmin was summoned by Yuto in order to help the Kirakira TV crew film a special television broadcast hosted by Nicole. Liftmin also gave the Kirakira TV director a cup of tea.

In episode 31, Liftmin was summoned by Yuto just to help Keshigomin who was exhausted.

In episode 32, Liftmin was summoned, along with Denkyumin and the Fusion Promin Zuppumin, by Yuto in order to confront Bug-Heartmin and rescue Wanda and Momotaru.

In episode 37, Liftmin was summoned in order to help Yuto deal with Bug-Smallmin.

Liftmin was one of the Promins Terara got caught by in episode 38.

In episode 40, Liftmin was summoned along with Tonkmin by Yuto to help him deal with Bug-Tengumin. However, after he lifts up a heavy stack of cars as he shows how strong he is, Liftmin was effected by Bug-Tengumin's Bugwaza ability causing His nose to become long.

Along with Sukemin, Liftmin was kidnapped by Bug-Katasumin and Bug-Kyatchimin in episode 43. He was rebugged and was forced to stop Chakkamin, Stopmin, Hanshamin, Cafemin, Yajiromin and Dorirumin by kidnapping them with a forklift. Bug-Liftmin was recaptured and debugged along with the rest of the remaining Bugmins in episode 45.

Liftmin made a cameo appearance in episode 47 when he was carrying a stack of pipes for Wanda's spaceship.

In the manga

Kamiwaza Wanda (original manga series)

Liftmin made his debut as a Bugmin in chapter 03 when he kidnapped all of the Promins Yuto has so far, except Turbomin, for the Bug Bytes to rebug.

Bug-Liftmin was captured and debugged by Yuto who also recaptured and debugged the rebugged Bugmins in chapter 04. As his Promin self, Liftmin teamed up with the other Promins Yuto has so far in order to get rid of the Bug Bytes.

Along with the other Promins Yuto and Masato have so far in chapter 12, Liftmin helped Yuto, Masato, Wanda and Mighty summon Wonder-Promin.

In the games

Kamiwaza Wanda: Kirakira Ichibangai Kikiippatsu

Liftmin made his video-game debut in the 3DS game Kamiwaza Wanda: Kirakira Ichibangai Kikiippatsu. He was first seen as Bug-Liftmin in the main quest 'The Bug Bytes' Trap' when the Bug Bytes use him to kidnap Tonkmin, Kagimin and Chakkamin.

Liftmin's Bugmin ego, Bug-Liftmin, was not yet battled, captured and debugged until the main quest 'Where Is The Force?' when Yuto had to put an end to the kidnapping situation once and for all.

Trivia

Background

• Liftmin is the strongest of all the Promins in Kamiwaza Wanda.
• Liftmin is one of the Promins who first appeared as a Bugmin in one episode and was then captured and debugged by Yuto in another episode. He is also the first Promin to do so. The other two being Fatmin and Katasumin.
• One of the Chinese dubbed versions of the Kamiwaza Wanda anime series have Liftmin sounding like a child instead of a man.

Resemblances

• Liftmin resembles a forklift.

Notes

• According to some Kamiwaza Wanda fans, Liftmin is in love with Hasamin, another Promin belonging to the Punpun attribute.
• Liftmin's name comes from the word 'lift' as like picking up an object with a forklift.
• On the September issue of the Laboo magazine, an image of Liftmin on the Kamiwaza Wanda 'Promins' page has a slight colouring error when a blue feature on the left side of his face was miscoloured orange.
  • The image of Liftmin with that colouring error was also seen on promotional images from the franchise's Korean 'Power-Catch Wanda' dub's Naver blog.

In other languages

Language	Promin’s dub name	Origin
Korean	리프트본 (Liftbon)	Based on the word 'lift'.
Chinese	起重精靈/起重精灵 (Qizhongzingling)	Based on the word 'qizhong' (起重) which is Chinese for 'lifting'.

Gallery

Liftmin and his lover Hasamin

Links

• Liftmin's profile on the original Kamiwaza Wanda season TBS anime website (Japanese)