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Shikieiki Yamaxanadu
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 Eiki Shiki in Phantasmagoria of Flower View Supreme Judge of ParadiseMore Character Titles | |
| Species | Yama |
| Abilities | Can distinctly judge anything to be Good or Evil |
| Age | Immortal (Age is presently Unknown) |
| Occupation | Judge of the Dead |
| Location | Hell, sometimes Higan |
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Eiki Shiki, Yamaxanadu (四季映姫・ヤマザナドゥ Shikieiki Yamazanadu, first name "Eiki", surname "Shiki") is one of the Yama who judge the dead to decide whether they go to Heaven, Hell, Hakugyokurou, or get reincarnated. Whether it's because she simply has a habit of lecturing or because she genuinely wants others to change for the better, she's become well known in Gensokyo for lecturing anyone and everyone about their faults. The souls of the dead are brought to her by Komachi Onozuka over a river called the Sanzu River. However, not every soul makes it all the way to Eiki without being tired out from the journey or being extinguished by Komachi. She currently resides in Hell to judge the dead who've traversed Higan and the Sanzu River.
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Concept
Name
Her Yamaxanadu title is considered to be a combination of Xanadu (an ancient palace of the Mongol warlord Kublai Khan, which was later used as meaning a "Pleasure Palace" in a poem by Samuel Taylor Coleridge) and her status as Yama, and can mean something along the lines of "Yama of Paradise". Based on this, Eiki Shiki (using English name order) would be her Romanized name. Eiki means "reflection princess" and Shiki means "four seasons".
Appearance
In Phantasmagoria of Flower View's official art, Eiki has blue eyes and green hair that is longer on the right side. She wears a dark blue, black and white dress with gold decorations with one ribbon on both sleeves and a blue and white hat with a gold emblem in front and a red and white bow on the back that are balanced equally. She also wears black shoes with a red bow on them, and frilly socks. Furthermore, there seems to be a pattern on her uniform that seems balanced and she carries the Rod of Remorse that carries out Judgements of Death.
Her alternative outfit in Phantasmagoria of Flower View is same as her usual outfit, but her hat and dress are red, and her white shirt is purple.
Occupation
Although there are many yamas, Eiki is the one in charge of Gensokyo. She, like the other Yamas, holds the Cleansed Crystal Mirror that lets them look into a person's past, find out anything she wants to know about him/her, and then uses that knowledge to make fair judgements. (It's tiring to use, though.)
Eiki does have work breaks, but even during these she doesn't pass up chances to lecture people in the hope that they will change for the better and so she won't have to send them to Hell. For people with particularly bad karma, she will go directly to that person to warn them, sometimes by exaggerating the punishment that they would receive. It's implied Youkai tend to avoid her because of this habit.
Eiki was not always the Yamaxanadu. According to Komachi in Oriental Sacred Place, she was originally a jizou statue, who received enough faith to gain divine powers, and was promoted.
Story
- Phantasmagoria of Flower View
- Main article: Phantasmagoria of Flower View Story
Relationships
She is known and feared among humans and youkai alike for her lectures.
She also has Komachi Onozuka as her subordinate who she scolds sternly for slacking off.
Additional Information
Trivia
- The fairies in Eiki's stage are dressed in dark blue uniforms and wear hats similar to hers, and Lily White's normally white dress and hat are colored black.
- A silhouette of Eiki occupies the front of Phantasmagoria of Flower View's jewel case.
- In Eiki's spell cards, the background is The Last Judgment by Michelangelo.
- As explained in PMiSS, she carries her rod with her everywhere. She even appears to carry it in her character portrait.
- Based on her conversations with the many playable characters in PoFV, she is seen as a compassionate individual, though her conversations with Komachi can seem quite harsh. Despite all this scolding, however, Komachi remains a slacker.
- She tells Yuuka Kazami to "scare humans" like a regular youkai and tells Reimu Hakurei to "exterminate youkai more." Both of these cases can be simplified to "do your job" and it showed she does not discriminate youkai and human.
- While Eiki's combat capacity is never directly referenced, at the conclusion of ZUN's "A Beautiful Flower Blooming Violet Every Sixty Years", Yukari Yakumo believes that herself, Yuyuko Saigyouji and Reimu Hakurei to be together "no match for" the Yama. (Although the original text can also be read as a more ambiguous statement, saying that it would be "pointless to argue with" the Yama.)
- Eiki's Cleansed Crystal Mirror allows her to see everything a person has done in the past, though it is tiring to use. She can even turn these deeds against the person in question, as shown in Shoot the Bullet when she uses the spell card Judgement "Cleansed Crystal Judgement -Aya Shameimaru-" to pit Aya against herself. The -Aya Shameimaru- subscript in the card's name suggests that she can create other versions of this card for use against other characters.
Fanon
- In fan art, her name is shortened to Yamada (山田), a pun on "Yama da!" (It's the Yama!) Yamada is a very common Japanese family name, the Japanese equivalent of being called, for example, "Smith" in American English or "Pérez" in Spanish.
- Though "Yamaxanadu" is her title, it is sometimes mistaken for her last name. This can result in jokes making fun of the excessive length of her name.
- Common nicknames for Eiki are 「えーき様」 or 「映姫様] (both prounced "Eiki-sama").
- Eiki is the usual choice in fanworks where the plot requires a judge, for obvious reasons.
- In fan art she is sometimes depicted as a midget or even a baby compared to Komachi, but she's actually almost as tall.
- She is also very often depicted as an elementary child in many of the fanworks, which could be due to her drawings in Perfect Memento and The Grimoire of Marisa .
- A possible reason behind "Loli Yama" is to artificially create extra contrast with Komachi and play up the breast envy angle. Or maybe it has something to do with Bleach's Rangiku Matsumoto and her short boss.
- As an extension of this, she is often depicted as aggressive against other people with "larger breasts", to the point of even arbitrarily sending them to Hell.
- Some fan artists portray Eiki as being envious of Komachi's bust size in particular, though sending Komachi to Hell usually isn't an option.
- It's quite common for fan artists to draw Eiki with magnificent legs, and she is highly popular with devotees of zettai ryouiki or "absolute territory", a fashion involving short skirts and thigh-high stockings that leave only a highly specific and measurable section of a girl's bare thighs visible between the tops of the stockings and the skirt. Canonically, her fashion is to wear very short, frilly socks, leaving her legs mostly bare skin.
- Because of her job and Komachi's attitude, she is usually seen striking Komachi with the "Rod of Remorse" for being a slacker. However, amusingly enough, fans have also speculated that this could be just a tsundere attitude toward her Shinigami.
- A lot of fanworks portray Eiki as a bit of a short-tempered grouch who will sentence people to hell for any arbitrary reason, but this conflicts with her personality in PoFV where she's stern, but patient and is constantly smiling even when having to reveal someone's shortcomings. In fact, she spends a lot of time lecturing people on their shortcomings and sins for the sole purpose of getting them to repent before they have to be judged. In her opinion, "Hell does not exist to punish sinners. Hell exists to ensure that no-one sins."
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