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左城宮 則紗 (さしろみや サーシャ)
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Sasha Sashiromiya
Sasha Sashiromiya
Shadow User whose Tales are Handed Down
More Character Titles
Species

Daidarabotchi

Abilities

Manipulating shadows

Music Themes

黒と影の偽歴史 ~The Fake with High Quality

Appearances
Official Games
Other

Sasha Sashiromiya (左城宮 則紗) is a fan-made character created by a Nico Nico Douga user called NRT. NRT is not a VIPPER from 2ch. Sasha is a daidarabotchi who can control shadows, who apparently is a "ground-type youkai".

General Information

Sasha first appeared on the video "I tried to create a new character for Touhou Hisoutensoku, "Sasha Sashiromiya" (東方非想天則、新キャラ”左城宮 則紗”描いてみた Touhou Hisoutensoku, shin kyara "Sashiromiya Sasha" kaitemita) on July 26, 2009. NRT wanted to show his/her idea of a final boss for Touhou Hisoutensoku, which the full version was released on August 15th 2009. Later on, it was said that she was "a youkai who was on track to be the culprit behind the Hisoutensoku Incident. For some hard-to-understand reason, she's treated like she was never there." After about four years of official absence, Sasha made an actual fangame appearance as the 2nd stage midboss of White Names Spoiled Past, a game that also has characters based on unknown figures in official Touhou Project works.

Ability

Sasha has the ability to manipulate shadows. With this, despite been a Daidarabotchi that are considered to be hugely figures, she projects shadows on fog or mountain mist, creating what appears to be huge figures. Since Sasha's body is within that shadow, she has a limit to the destruction she can cause with its size. Apparently, because the Japanese word for 'moonlight' (月影) uses the kanji that means 'shadow' (), she can also manipulate moonlight. One story involved with this is that many people witnessed countless shadows appearing to dance in the moonlit mountain fog, and the story of it was passed down as that of a legendary witches' banquet.

Background Information

Name

Her fill name is Sasha Sashiromiya (左城宮 則紗). Her last name Sashiromiya (左城宮) has sa () that literally means 'Left', shiro () that literally means 'Castle' and miya () that literally means 'Palace'. Her first name has sa () that literally means 'Law' and sha () that literally means to 'Gauze'. It seems that "Sasha" is written using ateji because it's a given name with origins in the Romance languages, which has the meaning "defender, helper of mankind". According to her profile, Sasha's name is a reference to the anime Umineko, which should have some relation to the cosplay of Marisa Kirisame.

Design

Sasha's design shows that she has green eyes and blue hair with antler-like twin ahoge. She wears a blue yukata with a number of red lotus flowers around and wears some white socks and geta shoes. Although she's a Daidarabotchi, her height is the same as a human. According to her profile, her species is perceived as being extremely huge, but what they do is project their shadows on mountain mist, manipulating it so they just look huge.

Sasha's Appearances

White Names Spoiled Past

Sasha appears as the stage 2 midboss in White Names Spoiled Past, a fangame made with the cooperation between NRT and others, including the team behind The Last Comer. The plot itself involves an incident where the humans in Gensokyo find themselves unable to form new memories. The cast features characters made by NRT as hypothetical versions of unknown figures from official games of the Touhou Project that aren't very notable.

In her appearance, Uka has requested her services as a bodyguard; Sasha herself couldn't care less about bodyguarding because she wanted to kill time by having a bout with Reimu Hakurei and others. It's said that Reimu and Marisa Kirisame have met her, but kind of haven't, where Sanae Kochiya didn't know who she was. The game breaks the fourth wall as how she's not a forgotten character, which is true as she is notable amongst the fanbase.

Spell Cards

Spell Cards
Name Translated Comments Games Stage
Total: 11
月影「月光照らす禿山の一夜」 Moonlight "A Moonlit Night on Bald Mountain" WNSP St. 2: E/N
月影「ヴァルプルギスの眩い夜」 Moonlight "Dazzling Walpurgis Night" WNSP St. 2: H/L
六軒「見えない影の密室」 Rokken "Sealed Room of Invisible Shadows" [1] WNSP St. 2: E/N
六影「ファンジターシャドウ」 Rokage "Fansyta Shadow" [2] [3] WNSP St. 2: H/L

Fandom

Despite been a fan-made character, Sasha is a very notable character in the fanbase, arguably as notable as Mitori Kawashiro. As such, she's often compared to other fan-made characters such as Mitori, Rinbokusan Sasaki and Karen Yawata.

  • Derivative work appearances: She's one of the few fan-made characters to make an appearance in Touhoumon, however, she doesn't appear in the official patch of the game.
  • Friends with Cirno: Sasha is often seen with Cirno in fan works, presumably because Sasha's a Daidarabotchi and that Cirno was chasing one in Touhou Hisoutensoku. They either shown to be friends or enemies.

Official Profiles

Sasha Sashiromiya 東方非想天則キャラ

左城宮 則紗
(さしろみや サーシャ)

種族 だいだらぼっち

能力 影を操る程度の能力

詳細

だいだらぼっち正体は、霧の
スクリーンに映った人間の影。
則紗は自分の影を蒸気に映し
実体化させることができる。

名前はうみねこを意識して
いるんだと思います。
まあ、うみねこに魔理沙が
出演してしまったので仕返し
でしょう。(登場と言ってもコス
      プレですが)

早くプレイしたいですね。

最後に一言

これ釣りだから!
こんあキャラ
居ねえから!

ご視聴ありがとうございました。

Touhou Hisoutensoku Character

Sasha Sashiromiya

Species Daidarabotchi

Ability Ability to control shadows

Details

The true identity of the Daidarabotchi is,
merely a shadow of a human reflected in the screen of the mist.
Sasha is able to reflect her shadow onto steam,
and make it into a real object.

The name is probably some
reference to Umineko.
Well, after Marisa made an
appearance in Umineko, perhaps it is
a retribution for that. (although by appearance
      Marisa only made appearance for cosplay).

I really want to play with her soon.

Also a few last words

This is only a joke character!
This character
never exists!

Thanks for watching this video.

This is (supposed to be) the official theme for Sasha. It was uploaded by SHACHI on September 11 2009.

The nicovideo
黒と影の偽歴史 ~The Fake with High Quality Fake History of Black and Shadow ~ The Fake with High Quality SHACHI
From the nico video

どうも。名前があるとしたら KUJIRA です。 東方非想天則のラスボスとして名高い彼女の曲(のつもり)です。 以下言い訳… 作曲とか初めてだし…MIDI扱い始めてまだ2ヶ月半だし… SD-90あればZUNペットできるらしい...

Thank you for watching. You can call [it] KUJIRA. It is (planned to be) the song for the famous Sasha in Touhou Hisoutensoku. And for some excuses and apologies...It's my first time composing a song... It has been 2 months since I've started working it to the quality of MIDI... If I'd an SD-90 I could even become some Pet of ZUN...

White Names Spoiled Past — Sasha Sashiromiya Profile
左城宮 則紗(さしろみや サーシャ)
種族 だいだらぼっち

影を操る程度の能力

非想天則事件の犯人になるはずだった妖怪。よく解らない理由で無かった事にされている。(大人の事情とも言う)。だいだらぼっちという妖怪は、非常に巨大だというイメージが強いが、
実際は山に発生させた霧に自分の影を投影し、それを操る事で巨大に見せているだけである。しかしその影には実体があるので、サイズによる暴力には定評がある。また、月影も「影」なので、
月光を操る事もできる。その昔、月光煌めく霧深い山に無数の影が踊っている様子が多くの人々に目撃され、魔女の宴の伝説として語り継がれたこともある。今回は羽日から用心棒になるよう
依頼されて動いているが、本人にとっては用心棒という役職はどうでもよく、ただ霊夢達と一戦交えて暇つぶしをしたいだけのようである。

Sasha Sashiromiya
Species: Daidarabotchi

Abilities: Capable of manipulating shadows

A youkai who was on track to be the culprit behind the Hisoutensoku Incident. For some hard-to-understand reason, she's treated like she was never there. (One could say that's just a pretext.) Daidarabocchi youkai are generally perceived as being extremely huge, but they actually project their shadows on mountain mist, manipulating it so they just look huge. Since Sasha's actual body is within that shadow, though, there's a limit to the destruction she can cause with its size. Also, since 'moonlight' in Japanese (月影) contains the character for 'shadow' (), she can manipulate moonlight as well. Long ago, many people witnessed countless shadows appearing to dance in the moonlit mountain fog, and the story of it was passed down as that of a legendary witches' banquet. Currently, Uka has requested her services as a bodyguard; Sasha herself couldn't care less about bodyguarding, though, and simply wanted to kill time by having a bout with Reimu and company.

References

  1. A reference to Umineko no Naku Koro ni, a murder mystery series taking place on the island of Rokkenjima. Locked-room mysteries are very common in the series. Sasha's own name (a Western name spelled with kanji, then "___omiya") happens to be a reference to the Umineko characters' own names as well.
  2. "Rokage" is a pun on "Rokken" from the previous version of the spell card; the second kanji is switched with the kanji for "shadow".
  3. "Fansyta" is a typo of "fantasy" that occurred in the original release of one of the Umineko games. It quickly became a meme amongst the Japanese fandom, poking fun at how the series already played around with the definition of its "fantasy" and "mystery" genres.