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Konngara
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 Sprite of Konngara in Highly Responsive to Prayers Astral KnightMore Character Titles | |
| Species | Yaksha (yakṣa, 夜叉)[citation needed] |
| Abilities | Unknown |
| Occupation | Astral Knight |
| Location | Silent Shrine, somewhere in Hell |
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Konngara is a being that Reimu Hakurei encounters deep within Hell, at the Silent Shrine, in Highly Responsive to Prayers. Konngara is the final enemy Reimu confronts there before returning to her shrine. However, since Konngara has no profile and exchanges no dialogue with Reimu, nothing else is known about this enemy. Like most other Highly Responsive to Prayers characters, Konngara's gender is unknown.
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Concept
Konngara may be written as 矜羯羅 and may be a reference to an attendant of the Fudoo Myoo-oo, the Japanese name for the Wisdom King Acala (Ācalanātha in Sanskrit), in Shingon Buddhism. Fudoo Myoo-oo is a violent figure, who burns away material desire with his flames. He is often depicted with fire and a sword, and attendants "Konngara Dōji" and "Seitaka Dōji", who are sometimes considered part of Fudoo Myoo-oo's "Eight Great Youths".
Name
"Konngara" is a numerical value, equivalent to 10 to the power of 112.
Appearance
Seen in Konngara's sprite, Konngara has red eyes, black hair, a red ribbon in the hair and wields a large sword. Konngara wears red robes with white trim and grey sleeves. Konngara also has what seems to be either a horn or a spike impaled through the forehead.
Story
- Highly Responsive to Prayers
- Main article: Highly Responsive to Prayers Story
Additional Information
Trivia
- Some artwork presents Konngara as male, or as an attendant of a deity. At least one text refers to Konngara as a yaksha, which are quasi-deities of a generally tutelary & benevolent character, but also sometime as malevolent, and hence why one might banished to Hell. See JAANUS link here.
- Meira and Konngara bare a striking resemblance to each other. They also share a single kanji in their names (羅), which means either "silk" or "gauze" or "Latin".
- Konngara is the only PC-98 character who shows different facial expressions during a boss fight.
- Konngara is one of the only PC-98 characters whose hair and eyes are not the same color. The only other PC-98 characters with this are Elis and SinGyoku's "male" form. This is due to the 16-bit color limit the other PC-98 characters have.
Fanon
- Konngara is often depicted to be an Oni because of the horn on her head. There is even a fan theory that Konngara could very well be one of the big four of the mountain.
- An alternate theory claims that the "horn" on her head is actually a metal spike stuck in it, based on how it appears to have a drop of blood dripping from it.
- Some western fans tend to call Konngara "Astral Knight Konngara", which makes sense since Konngara's title is "Astral Knight".
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