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(チェン)
tɕeɴ (♫)
Chen
Chen
Black Cat of Bad Omens
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Species

Bakeneko

Abilities

Use of sorcery (possessed as shikigami), Surprising People (as bakeneko)

Occupation

Shikigami

Location

Youkai Mountain

Music Themes
Appearances
Official Games
Print Works
"Why not get put to sleep at an animal shelter? The Buddhist Paradise is warm, they say."
"Humans? Posing a threat to us? Impossible, impossible, absolutely impossible! To think that you would oppose us..."
Sakuya Izayoi and Chen (Perfect Cherry Blossom Stage 2.)

Chen () is Ran Yakumo's shikigami, who was guarding the village of Mayohiga during the events of Perfect Cherry Blossom. Unfortunately, she could put up little resistance due to being far away from her master.

General Information

Chen first appeared as the second stage midboss and boss of Perfect Cherry Blossom, along with being the extra stage midboss and Ran Yakumo's familiar in one of her spell cards. She was also Yukari Yakumo's familiar in Immaterial and Missing Power, Scarlet Weather Rhapsody, and Antinomy of Common Flowers, and was a target on Stage 6 of Shoot the Bullet. Additionally, she made a background appearance in Hopeless Masquerade.

She is a bakeneko youkai that Ran Yakumo uses as shikigami, but since Ran herself is Yukari's shikigami, she is a "shikigami of a shikigami". When possessed as a shikigami, Chen aquires the fearsome power of a kishin, but since her master is also a shikigami, her ability is fairly low.[1] The possession is removed when she is soaked in water, and since she also hates water as a cat, she is in any case weak to water. Her height is "low"[2] and is capable of human speech. She can use impressive black arts, but only possesses the intellect of a human child. Whether she is possessed or not, her personality and appearance don't change.[1]

She ordinarily lives on Youkai Mountain.[3] In Bohemian Archive in Japanese Red, she made the village of cats and tried to stand as the leader, but the progress has been unfavorable.

Abilities

The way her abilities show up in the game itself is that she runs around the screen so freely in a way that is not expected of a boss of a shooting game, which is characteristic of her (as one would expect of a cat). This could be considered cute if she were an ordinary cat, but it also makes her slightly more tricky to deal with due to her speed and deceptive movement, which can confuse her opponent. Another characteristic of her is how she spins around and around while attacking, somewhat like her master.

Use of sorcery (while possessed as shikigami)

In shikigami state, Chen becomes extremely dangerous and is able to use various kinds of sorcery. She uses techniques that focus on speed and precise, tricky movements to confuse her opponents, making it very similar to sleight of hand. For example, she could make it appear as if she is dashing to the left, but will then attack from the right instead, moving so quickly that to humans it appears like instant teleportation.[3]

Surprising people (as bakeneko)

When she becomes a regular bakeneko, she becomes more feral and will resort to more physical attacks like biting and clawing with her long nails. Rather than saying she possesses a special ability to surprise accompanying humans, it is more strongly an implication that she's not able to do anything other than things of this extent. (However, even so, for ordinary humans it is dangerous enough). This is the same ability that Kogasa Tatara has - thus in this aspect, they have mutuality.

Occupation

Chen serves as a shikigami to Ran Yakumo, and becomes much stronger when her master is present. However, she hates water, and splashing her will dispel the shikigami possession, making her resort to physical attacks. She is also very fond of catnip, and will lose the will to fight if some is scattered to distract her.

Character Design

Name

Her full name is Chen (). The kanji in her name can be literally translated as the color "bitter orange" in the Japanese Language, or simply "orange" in Chinese. All of the Yakumo family are named after the names of color. Why Chen appears before Ran and Yukari comes from the fact that the orange light has physically lower energy than the indigo, Ran, and the violet, Yukari. The pronunciation of her name "Chen" is an obsolete Chinese reading of . In Japanese, the character would be read as "tou" or "daidai"; in Mandarin, "chéng".

Design

In her first appearance, Chen has dark brown eyes, brown hair and wears a green mob cap. She has black cat ears, with a gold earring in the left one, and two tails. Her dress is red with a white bow on the collar, with gold trimming and light pink frills at the bottom. The dress has light pink sleeves. She wears socks and has long hot pink fingernails.

Appearances

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Perfect Cherry Blossom
Chen's sprite in PCB

Chen first appears in the second stage guarding the village of Mayohiga, but she is promptly defeated by the heroine. Later in the extra stage, she guards the path to Ran Yakumo, and is much more powerful due to her master's proximity, but was again defeated.

Unfinished Dream of All Living Ghost
Chen's sprite in UDALG

Chen is used for Ran Yakumo's spellcards.

Spin-offs

Fighters

Chen appeared in Immaterial and Missing Power, Scarlet Weather Rhapsody, and Touhou Hisoutensoku as a projectile in Yukari's spell card Shikigami "Chen". In Antinomy of Common Flowers she gets used in the same way, this time in a combined move with her master Ran Yakumo.

Shoot the Bullet
Chen in HM

In Shoot the Bullet, Aya Shameimaru encountered Chen on stage 6 and took photos of her danmaku.

Hopeless Masquerade

Chen made a background cameo appearance in Hopeless Masquerade on the Hakurei Shrine stage. She is seen standing with Ran Yakumo cheering (as a little animation).

Literature

Bohemian Archive in Japanese Red

Aya investigates an abandoned village inhabited entirely by cats. When she arrives, she finds Chen and cat anarchy. Chen explains that she gathered the cats there in search of a servant to call her own.

By the time Aya returns for an interview, Chen still has not managed to establish a solid leadership role for herself. Aya tells her that she lacks power and that she should reflect on the nature of the relationship between her and her master Ran. She recommends using a mouse (which Chen objects to).

Strange Creators of Outer World
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Foul Detective Satori
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Relationships

Ran and Yukari

Ran Yakumo is her master and Yukari Yakumo is her master's master.

Rin Kaenbyou

In Foul Detective Satori, Chen and Rin appear to be very friendly and physically affectionate with each other, implying a close relationship between the two.[4]

In Unfinished Dream of All Living Ghost, Ran mentioned that the two of them play with each other often, implying they are currently friends.

Gallery

Sprites

Illustrations

Screenshots

Others

Spell Cards

Spell Cards
Name Translated Comments Games Stage
Total: 16
仙符「鳳凰卵」 Hermit Sign "Fenghuang Egg" PCB
GoM
St. 2: E/N
仙符「鳳凰展翅」 Hermit Sign "Fenghuang's Spread Wings" PCB St. 2: H/L
式符「飛翔晴明」 Shikigami Sign "Soaring Seiman" PCB St. 2: E/N
陰陽「道満晴明」 Yin Yang "Douman-Seiman" PCB St. 2: H
陰陽「晴明大紋」 Yin Yang "Seiman-Daimon" PCB St. 2: L
天符「天仙鳴動」 Heaven Sign "Tianxian's Rumbling" PCB St. 2: E/N
翔符「飛翔韋駄天」
(鬼神「飛翔韋駄天」)
Flight Sign "Soaring Idaten"
(Kishin "Soaring Idaten")
GoM's version is a misprint of PCB's version PCB
GoM
St. 2: H
童符「護法天童乱舞」 Servant Sign "Gouhou-Tendou's Wild Dance" PCB St. 2: L
仙符「屍解永遠」 Hermit Sign "Shikai Immortality" PCB St. 2: E/N
鬼符「鬼門金神」 Oni Sign "Kimon Konjin" PCB St. 2: H
方符「奇門遁甲」 Direction Sign "Kimontonkou" PCB St. 2: L
鬼符「青鬼赤鬼」 Oni Sign "Blue Oni Red Oni" PCB St. Ex
鬼神「飛翔毘沙門天」 Kishin "Soaring Bishamonten" PCB St. Ex
星符「飛び重ね鱗」 Star Sign "Leaping Kasane-Uroko Star" StB St. 6
鬼神「鳴動持国天」 Kishin "Rumbling Jikokuten" StB
GoM
St. 6
化猫「橙」 Bakeneko "Chen" StB St. 6

Additional Information

Fandom

Official Profiles

Perfect Cherry Blossom - キャラ設定.txt
Chen  ○凶兆の黒猫

  橙(チェン)


  2面のボス、山に棲む化け猫に憑く式神

  主に妖術を扱う程度の能力を持つ


  その正体は、藍の式神。つまり、橙が妖怪の式神の式神である。

  式神だからといって普段は御札とかではなく、普段も同じ姿をしていて、区別は付かない。

  式神を付けていない普段も人語を話し、普通に飛び回るが、せいぜい人を驚かす程度の能力しか持たない。あと、見た目や性格は変らないが、冬は炬燵で丸くなる。


  化け猫に鬼神を憑かせて高い妖力を得ているが、橙を使う者も式神であるため、その能力はやや低い。


  また水に触れると式は離れてしまう。式の憑いて居ない化け猫状態の橙も普通に水に弱いので、常に水に弱い。

Black Cat of Bad Omens

Chen

Stage 2 Boss, a bakeneko living in a mountain possessed as a shikigami. She possesses the ability to handle sorcery.

Her true form is Ran's shikigami, which makes her a shikigami of a shikigami of a youkai. Although she's a shikigami, her normal form is not always in a form of a charm, she can remains in her human-like form in normal situation so it won't be bothersome to classify her types. Even without being in shikigami possession she can speak the human language and fly around, but she would merely have the ability to the extent of surprising people. Also, while not being possessed, neither her appearance nor personality changes, but she still curls up by a kotatsu in the winter.

Bakeneko acquire fearsome power when possessed by a kishin, but since Chen's user is also a shikigami, her ability is fairly low.

Getting touched by water dispels her shikigami possession. As a bakeneko her normal form also hates water, so she is always weak against water.

Chen  ○すきま妖怪の式の式

  橙(チェン)


  エキストラステージの中ボス。

  前の怪我が完治して間も無いのに、再び闘う事となるとは。

  今度は主の近くで、一段と強い妖力を持っているが、その力は、目の前の人間に通用するのだろうか?

Shikigami of the Shikigami of the Gap Youkai

Chen

Extra Stage midboss.

While in the middle of fully recovering from the injuries of her previous defeat, Chen is set for a second round of combat.

Her master is in the vicinity this time around, so her power has been amplified considerably. Would that power work on the human before her?

ZUN's comment from Dai Touhouten plaque
二面で妖怪ネコマタとして登場しますが、その正体が判るのは本編クリア後です。実際は八雲藍の式神です。式神は機械的な動作が得意で、プログラムされた通りに動きます。超精密動作に超反応、超高速とチートじみた行動を取れる反面、想定外の出来事には対応出来ず、逆にプログラムの穴を利用されてしまうことも……。橙の命運は使役者である藍にかかっているのです。 Introduced in stage 2 as a youkai nekomata, while her true identity remained hidden until player reaches the ending. She's actually Yakumo Ran's shikigami. Shikigami are good at simple and repetitive actions, will do exactly as instructed like it's being programmed. They possess super-precision, super-reflex, super-highspeed, almost like they're exploiting this world's glitch, but on the other hand, they have no capability of handling exceptions, and like programs they have vulnerabilities that can be exploited... How Chen's life goes is completely depending on her master, Yakumo Ran.

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