- "The Taboo mink. Like an obsidian gale, it demolishes everything in its path."
- — Noise Report
The Death Metal Mink is the Taboo mink Noise in The World Ends with You.
Abilities[]
Passive Abilities[]
- Taboo Defense: Taboo Noise only take full damage from attacks that are made by characters holding the Light Puck, as part of a Cross Combo, or from Fusion Attacks. All other attacks deal significantly reduced damage.
Active Abilities[]
- Wing Slash: The Death Metal Mink attempts to slash the player, when they get too close, with the wing-like structures on its body. The attack hits 2-3 times.
- Wing Bullet: The Death Metal Mink performs a roll and shoots out a penetrating wedge-shaped projectile at the player.
- Whirlwind Dance: The Death Metal Mink quickly starts to spin into a whirlwind dance, making it invulnerable by annulling all psych attacks. It is able to move around in order to inflict damage to players close enough. This ability lasts for about 5-10 seconds.
Strategy[]
The player should keep their distance during the Death Metal Mink's Whirlwind Dance ability and hold off attacking until it ends, since the ability makes the mink Noise invulnerable and so using psychs while it is in this form only wastes a psych's uses. The player should attack Death Metal Mink as normal when it is not in this form with positive (close-ranged) psychs. Since it is a Taboo Noise, all psych attacks do significantly less damage than normal. In order to do real damage to a Taboo Noise, the attacking character must have the Light Puck. Equipable items that make the Light Puck move more slowly between Neku and his partner can therefore be helpful when fighting any Taboo Noise. Avoid negative (long-ranged) psychs, as mink Noise are resistant to them.
Other appearances[]
Week 2: Day 6[]
- Screen transition to Center St. Entrance - Scramble Crossing
Week 2: Day 7[]
- Summoned by Leo Cantus during end of day storyline boss battle - Pork City
- Summoned by Leo Cantus during boss Noise battle - Shibukyu Main Store
Name[]
The Death Metal Mink's name is a combination of "death metal" and "mink".
Trivia[]
- Noise in the Mink Noise family (after the Thrash Mink (Noise #20,)) have what can be presumed as a type of rope dart weapon (the Japanese equivalent being a Jōhyō) as it's not directly attached to the Mink itself. Each rope dart is attached to a stylized tattoo version of the Greek alphabet-- Death Metal Mink having a Pi ( Π , π ).
- As taboo noise are recolors of the final noise in their respective noise families, only one of the two Grindcore Minks was able to be be chosen, and the fact the Mink with the Pi symbol was selected, from a design standpoint, could be reference to Sho Minamimoto having created the taboo noise.