Maiamai

are a species appearing in.

Biography
NaN Maiamais are pink creatures with traits such as a snail-like shell and octopus bodies, though their young are shown to have fewer than eight limbs. With the apparent ability to travel among worlds and dimensions, a family of NaN Maiamais stopped in ALBW: during their voyage when the ALBW: lost track of her 100 children, all of which were scattered across both ALBW: and ALBW:. ALBW: finds ALBW: in a ALBW: near ALBW: that has been blocked off to contain the "strange creature" within; after introducing herself, she asks ALBW: to help locate her NaN Lost Maiamais, and gives him the ALBW: to track the number of NaN Lost Maiamais remaining in each region.

The NaN Lost Maiamais have wound up in a variety of situations—many beneath NaN Rocks, on top of NaN Trees, underwater or stuck in sand—while some have become suctioned onto walls with such strength that ALBW: cannot pull them off by hand. They make high-pitched squeaking noises, which help to notify ALBW: to their locations; when ALBW: is close to a ALBW:, he will turn his head toward the source of the noise.

One of the abilities of NaN Maiamais is to make things more "Nice" by inhaling them, shaking around while glowing with a bright light, then spitting them out. For every ten NaN Lost Maiamais ALBW: finds, ALBW: will use this process to upgrade one of his NaN Items into a "Nice" version, provided he owns the ALBW: and is not merely renting it from ALBW:. After all of the NaN Maiamais have been recovered, ALBW: will make ALBW: more "Nice" by upgrading his ALBW: ability to the Great Spin. Shortly after this, the family of NaN Maiamais decide to continue on their journey and leave to another dimension. However, a single baby ALBW: will stay behind in the cave, telling ALBW: that she is the 72nd that he saved, and asking the young hero to wish her luck on being as good of a mother as ALBW:.

Nomenclature
The name "Maiamai" comes from the Japanese word, meaning "snail". The name is also a play on the phrase "My, oh, my!", which is said by ALBW:.