Due to vocalist Sayuri's poor health, Silver Forest is disbanding.
Renko Usami
Renko Usami | |
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 Renko Usami on the cover of Trojan Green Asteroid | |
| Species | Human (native to the Outside World) |
| Abilities | Telling the current time by looking at the stars and the current place by looking at the moon (a living GPS). |
| Occupation | University Student (Super unified physics major) |
| Location | Kyoto, Japan in the near future. |
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Renko Usami (宇佐見 蓮子 Usami Renko) is a student in the outside world, presumably in a college or university. She majors in physics and is very objective and logical in her approach to matters. Together with her friend, Maribel Hearn, she has an interest in what would be considered the paranormal. Their club, consisting of only the two of them, describes itself as a club for necromancers. However they don't do many of the things necromancers would normally be associated with. Instead, they investigate spirits and such. Specifically they're interested in Gensokyo and seem to be among the few, or even the only, humans in the outside world who know of Gensokyo's existence.
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Concept
According to Changeability of Strange Dream, she studies super-unified physics, specializing in "strings." According to Retrospective 53 minutes, she lives in Kyoto like Maribel does, but her actual home seems to be in Tokyo.
Name
The characters in "Renko" literally mean "lotus child."
Appearance
- (Ghostly Field Club) Brown hair. Wears a black hat, tie, white suit, bands around her sleeves, and a brown dress. Carries around a book.
- (Changeability of Strange Dream) Same as above, but now has a white bow on her hat and the bands around her sleeves are gone.
- (Retrospective 53 minutes) Same as above, but now her tie is gone, and the ribbon on her hat is red.
- (Magical Astronomy) Same as Retrospective 53 minutes, except now she has a black shawl on her.
Story
Relationships
- Maribel Hearn (Friend)
Additional Information
Trivia
- Regardless of the place she is at, with her ability to tell the time by looking only at the stars, she can only tell the current time in Japanese Standard Time (JST). If she wanted to know the Coordinated Universal Time (UTC), she would have to do the necessary calculation.
- Regardless of the presence of absence of scenery in a photograph, in Ghostly Field Club she was able to tell where a photograph was taken due to the projection of the moon in the photograph.
- In both Ghostly Field Club and Changeability of Strange Dream, she was the one who was late for the meeting with Merry.
- Renko is one of the only characters known to live outside of Gensokyo. As such, she has never actually met any of the other characters except Maribel Hearn, who also lives outside Gensokyo. Yuyuko Saigyouji has encountered the Sealing Club on a visit to the Outside World, but Renko did not seem able to see her.
Fanon
- Sometimes she appears with rabbit ears, because her name sounds like "Usamimi" (rabbit ears, in Japanese).
