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赤蛮奇 (せきばんき)
sekʲibaŋkʲi
Sekibanki
Sekibanki
The Rokurokubi Horror
More Character Titles
Species

Rokurokubi

Abilities

Making her head fly

Location

Human Village

Music Themes
Appearances
Official Games
Print Works

"I'll make you too scared to walk around, day or night!"
Sekibanki (Double Dealing Character Stage 2)

Sekibanki (赤蛮奇) is a rokurokubi living undercover as a human in the Human Village.

General Information

Sekibanki is a Rokurokubi that dwells in the Human Village in disguise as a human. She first appeared as the Stage 2 Mid-Boss and Boss in Double Dealing Character, and then as a Day 2 Boss in Impossible Spell Card.

Personality

Sekibanki is described as being slightly prideful and with a cynical view of things. She became aggressive and somewhat more youkai-like than usual when affected by the Miracle Mallet, but it seems that she is normally recalcitrant towards both humans and youkai, and she doesn't get involved much with them.

Abilities

Making her head fly

As literally stated, Sekibanki can detach her head from her body and move it at will.

Multiplying heads

Many of her spell cards involve creating clones of her head, to attack from different places at once. It's unknown if they are actual heads that can think on their own to some extent (Like Flandre's Taboo "Four of a Kind"), or just replicas resembling the original.

Long neck

She has shown to be able to elongate her neck to a great extent. This is especially notable in one of her spell cards.

Character Design

Origin

Although she's referred to as a rokurokubi in-game, Sekibanki has a few different inspirations. In Japanese folklore, a rokurokubi is a youkai that can stretch its neck to great extents. There's also a type of youkai called a nukekubi, which can remove its head completely. Although it may seem like Sekibanki is based exclusively on the nukekubi, she still does have the elongated neck of a rokurokubi (best seen in her spell cards Flying Neck "Extreme Long Neck" and Flying Neck "Twin Rokuro Head"). ZUN also uses the term 'Dullahan' as a translation or close approximation of her species' name in English.

Name

Sekibanki (赤蛮奇) is spelled with the characters for "red", "barbarian", and "anomaly". The characters are read using their on'yomi, or Chinese readings, unlike with most Touhou Project characters. The second character, ban (), is likely taken from hitouban (飛頭蛮), which is a Chinese youkai equivalent to the rokurokubi.

Design

Sekibanki has red hair and eyes. She wears a blue bow with red trimmings and a red and blue capelet that covers part of her face. She also wears a black and red long sleeved shirt, as well as a dark red skirt and red and black boots. When she's defeated, her portrait with a slash in her shirt show that she wears a white undershirt.

Appearances

Games

Double Dealing Character
Sekibanki's sprite in DDC

Sekibanki shows in front of Reimu, asking if she's there to exterminate her. At first, she doesn't recognize her opponent as the shrine maiden of Hakurei, and attacks her after claiming that humans have become too confident because the youkai have been calm for a while. After being defeated, she understands who her opponent was, and runs away.

Sekibanki shows in front of Marisa, and attacks her after saying that humans' insolence made youkai retaliate. After being defeated, she understands how strong Marisa is and runs away.

After Sekibanki shows up again, Marisa says that she was quite surprised of seeing her flying head. The youkai attacks again, trying to scare the magician with her ability, but gets defeated and mocked. Sekibanki complains about how fearless humans have become, but Marisa reassures her saying that she is just special.

Sekibanki attacks Sakuya trying to terrorize her, but the maid is far stronger than expected and defeats her.

Sekibanki shows herself, asking Sakuya if she's there to exterminate her. The maid says that she's pacifying all the rampaging youkai, but Sekibanki claims that it's too late and that the youkai counterattack has already begun. Sakuya defeats her, saying that no one except Reimu would hurt her if she behaves herself.

Spin-offs

Impossible Spell Card

Presumably from hearing or seeing a wanted sign about the mischief-making amanojaku Seija Kijin, Sekibanki appears to be one of the many youkai that tries to capture her. She uses spell cards that are considered impossible to dodge.

100th Black Market

In 100th Black Market, Sekibanki appears as the one of the 2nd market bosses. Her ability card, her head, can be acquired.

Gallery

Illustrations

Spell Cards

Spell Cards
Name Translated Comments Games Stage
Total: 11
飛符「フライングヘッド」 Flight Sign "Flying Head" DDC St. 2: E/N/H/L
首符「クローズアイショット」 Neck Sign "Close-Eye Shot" DDC St. 2: E/N
首符「ろくろ首飛来」 Neck Sign "Rokurokubi Flight" DDC St. 2: H/L
飛頭「マルチプリケイティブヘッド」 Flying Head "Multiplicative Head" DDC St. 2: E/N
飛頭「セブンズヘッド」 Flying Head "Seventh Head" DDC St. 2: H
飛頭「ナインズヘッド」 Flying Head "Ninth Head" DDC St. 2: L
飛頭「デュラハンナイト」 Flying Head "Dullahan Night" DDC St. 2: E/N/H/L
飛首「エクストリームロングネック」 Flying Neck "Extreme Long Neck" ISC
GoU
St. 2
眼光「ヘルズレイ」 Glinting Eyes "Hell's Ray" ISC St. 2
飛首「ツインロクロヘッド」 Flying Neck "Twin Rokuro Head" ISC St. 2
「身軽な生首ライフ」 "Life of a Nimble Severed Head" 100BM 2nd Market

Additional Information

  • In folklore, nukekubi are said to have symbols on their neck where the head detaches, revealing their identity - which may explain Sekibanki's choice to wear a capelet to cover her neck.
  • Sekibanki is heavily implied to be a member of the Grassroots Youkai Network in her, Wakasagihime, and Kagerou's article in Who's Who of Humans and Youkai in Gensokyo.

Fandom

Official Profiles

Double Dealing Character trial - omake.txt
Sekibanki DDC  ○2面ボス  ろくろ首の怪奇

  赤蛮奇(せきばんき)
  Sekibanki

  種族:ろくろ首
  能力:頭を飛ばせる程度の能力

  人里で人間に紛れて生活している妖怪。
  首を飛ばすことが出来るので色々と便利。

  性格は少々プライドが高く、人間とも妖怪とも打ち解けない。
  何となく斜に構えて見てしまうようである。

  今夏、人間の里でも宗教家達によるお祭り騒ぎがあったのだが、
  人間や妖怪が盛り上がっている間、それら流行り物を否定的な目で
  見て、一人ひっそりと暮していた。

  しかし今回、何故か暴れてしまう。

Stage 2 Boss - The Rokurokubi Horror

Sekibanki

Species: Rokurokubi
Ability: Ability to make her head fly

A youkai who lives in the Human Village, taking the guise of a human.
Her ability to make her head fly is convenient in various ways.

Her personality is slightly prideful, and she's recalcitrant towards both humans and youkai.
It seems she takes a somewhat cynical view of things.

The previous summer, the religious leaders had been causing riots in the Human Village.
While the humans and youkai had been rising up, though, she was living quietly by herself,
viewing the fads in a negative light.

However, this time, she went berserk for some reason.

Sekibanki DDC  ○2面ボス  ろくろ首の怪奇

  赤蛮奇(せきばんき)
  Sekibanki

  種族:ろくろ首
  能力:頭を飛ばせる程度の能力

  人里で人間に紛れて生活している妖怪。
  首を飛ばすことが出来るので色々と便利。

  性格は少々プライドが高く、人間とも妖怪とも打ち解けない。
  何となく斜に構えて見てしまうようである。

  今夏、人間の里でも宗教家達によるお祭り騒ぎがあったのだが、
  人間や妖怪が盛り上がっている間、それら流行り物を否定的な目で
  見て、一人ひっそりと暮していた。

  打ち出の小槌の魔力に冒され、いきがっていたところ霊夢達に
  成敗された。

  今はもう大人しい。

Stage 2 Boss - The Rokurokubi Horror

Sekibanki

Species: Rokurokubi
Ability: Ability to make her head fly

A youkai who lives in the Human Village, taking the guise of a human.
Her ability to make her head fly is convenient in various ways.

Her personality is slightly prideful, and she's recalcitrant towards both humans and youkai.
It seems she takes a somewhat cynical view of things.

The previous summer, the religious leaders had been causing riots in the Human Village.
While the humans and youkai had been rising up, though, she was living quietly by herself,
viewing the fads in a negative light.

She was affected by the Miracle Mallet's magic power, became ferocious,
and was punished by Reimu and company.

She's behaving herself once again by now.

Official Sources

Official sources