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Suika Ibuki
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 Suika Ibuki in Scarlet Weather Rhapsody Tiny Night Parade of One Hundred DemonsMore Character Titles | |
| Species | Oni |
| Abilities | Manipulation of density and sparseness |
| Location | Somewhere in Gensokyo (Commonly seen around Youkai Mountain, Heaven and the Hakurei Shrine). Used to live in Ancient City |
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Suika Ibuki (伊吹 萃香 Ibuki Suika) is the only oni currently living above ground in Gensokyo, with the remainder of the oni race living underground. Just as the folktales say, she has two horns on her head that symbolize her oni heritage, and enough physical strength to throw large boulders single-handedly.
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General Information
Personality
Her personality is jolly and quite childish as you would expect from her appearance. She also likes to drink and loves to party with all her heart. She bears the typical personality traits of most oni, valuing strength and fair play while despising dishonesty and cowardice. However, it is stated in Immaterial and Missing Power in her ending that Suika was a bit of an outcast among the oni, being slightly less honest than a typical oni. Her scheme in Immaterial and Missing Power may possibly be an example of this. As another sign of this as mentioned in her ending, Suika doesn't kidnap humans, despite how kidnapping humans is the strongest bond of trust between oni and humans (and also why oni were humans' worse enemies. Fortunately, this likely helps Suika fit in modern carefree Gensokyo more). It should be noted that this is just relative to other oni, which means Suika is still much more honest than many others. In Wild and Horned Hermit, Suika however performed sneak attacks on many of youkai in and around Myouren Temple and later on Marisa and Reimu.
Character Basis
Name
Her first name Suika (萃香) is not a legitimate Japanese word, but literally it can be translated as "gathering fragrance". Incidentally, suika (スイカ/西瓜/水瓜) is the word for watermelon in the Japanese language (in common Japanese, the pitch accent for "watermelon" is flat. In order to distinguish, native speakers pronounce her name as "Su*[high] i*[high] ka*[low]"). Her last name Ibuki (伊吹) can mean Chinese Juniper in Japanese, but in her case, it's highly likely to be a reference to Shuten-douji (Ibuki-douji). Shuten-douji (酒呑童子) is the leader of the oni, that is told to live in Mt. Ooe (大江山 Ooe-yama). He is thought to be the most powerful oni ever existed and known to be one of Japan's Big Three Youkai (日本三大妖怪). Due to the similarity of their names, many fans believe she's based on Shuten-douji. In the Otogizooshi, Shuten-douji is said to have been abandoned after birth at the foot of Mt. Ibuki, and to have been previously been known as 伊吹童子 (Ibuki-douji).
- 萃香 (Suika - lit. gathering, fragrance)
- 酒呑 (Shuten - lit. alcohol, drink)
Design
Suika has two long straight oni horns on her head, decorated with ribbons. She wears a tattered pale pink blouse, a long purple and pink skirt, and 3 chain accessories tied to her belt. Her eyes are brown.
Though fighting games sprites represent her with blonde/light brown hair, it must be considered as an error, Suika's real hair color actually being ginger (orange) according to Alphes' artworks and ZUN's artworks and sprites.
Story
- Immaterial and Missing Power
During the events of Immaterial and Missing Power, the people of Gensokyo were manipulated into having feasts repeatedly, one right after another, by Suika's ability to "gather" anything. She intended to draw all the other oni out of hiding with continuous, non-stop celebration. In most characters' scenarios, Suika was defeated and the number of feasts began to decrease. In Suika's scenario, she managed to defeat all of her major foes in a feast, but her plan failed anyway due to Reimu's ability and her own short-comings as an oni.
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- Scarlet Weather Rhapsody
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In Scarlet Weather Rhapsody, she notices that temperaments are being gathered from everyone into the sky, so she decides to climb up the Youkai Mountain to follow them. Once she reaches the heavens, she locates the perpetrator. Instead of trying to put an end to whatever plot was going on, Suika demands a living space in the heavens. She later gathers everyone to the heavens to attack Tenshi Hinanawi, although whether it was to punish the celestial or just to pass the time is unclear.
- Subterranean Animism
- Main article: Subterranean Animism Story
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Aya realizes that the Moon has exploded late one midwinter night and goes to interview the person responsible, Suika Ibuki. Suika is drunk, but she manages to tell Aya that she did it as a threat to all those who were partying, reminding them of onis by shattering the sky, a proof of their awesome strength by splitting the sky apart so easily to blow up the Moon.
During the follow interview, Suika challenges Aya to a drinking match even as she asks her for sake. Aya seems to accept and invites Suika to drink with her at a nearby food cart, with hilarious results as Suika talks about silencing the poor owner. Aya then mentions her surprise at Suika and the onis being back. Suika responds that she is the only one, and she's come back only for a while. She also tells Aya how sad she is that the tengu have lost most of their influence. Suika finishes by accusing the tengu of not showing their strength and Aya ends the discussion by inviting Suika to drink about gathering news for her.
Relationships
Reimu's honesty in Immaterial and Missing Power impressed the oni when they first met. The oni now drops by the shrine often. Reimu usually has Suika pick up garbage. Once Suika even gave Reimu a wine worm as a gift so they could drink quality sake together (unfortunately, a series of events resulted in the worm being lost). She has teamed up with Reimu to go along with Yukari's scheme in Subterranean Animism.
Yukari was Suika's friend before the oni went underground. It is unknown how or when they became friends. Yukari cares about Suika, as her (hypothetical) Immaterial and Missing Power story has her stop Suika because she's worried that people will find Suika whom won't be as forgiving as Yukari is. Suika does favors for Yukari, such as rebuilding the Hakurei Shrine in Scarlet Weather Rhapsody or going along with her scheme in Subterranean Animism. The two play danmaku battles with each other, though it's been a while since the last one before Scarlet Weather Rhapsody. In Oriental Sacred Place Chapter 12, Yukari is with Suika at the Hakurei Shrine New Year's Festival. Suika (an oni) does tend to get annoyed with Yukari's "dirty tricks", but doesn't go beyond snapping that they're dirty. Suika referred to Yukari's existence as fraudulent to Youmu Konpaku in Immaterial and Missing Power, and stated to Yukari that it was rare to see her "on this side of the world" in broad daylight in Scarlet Weather Rhapsody. These may be simple figures of speech, or they may show that Suika knows many deeper things about Yukari.
Suika travelled up to Heaven and beat up Tenshi to get some land. Iku mentions in her ending that Tenshi must have gave it to her without consulting any of the other celestials about the matter. Since then, Suika played at least one prank on Tenshi by gathering up many others to come fight her. Tenshi initially figured that it'd be okay because Suika will get bored and leave heaven soon, but by the time the final story (Tenshi's) in Scarlet Weather Rhapsody ends, Suika's still up there, causing Tenshi to worry about just how long the oni plans on staying.
Iku first encounters Suika when Suika is climbing to Heaven to see someone, where she tested Suika before allowing Suika to move on. Suika won, surprising Iku with her power. Iku later runs into Suika while searching for Tenshi Hinanawi to file a report on earthquakes. The oni requests Iku play with her for a bit and fights Iku in a duel. Iku is extremely confused why the oni is still in Heaven, but had to get back to her job. Eventually, after a long string of being attacked by various residents of Gensokyo for no reason whatsoever and an infuriating meeting with Tenshi, the poor exhausted oarfish arrives back in heaven and runs into the oni again. Suika's story of Tenshi giving her land gets the oarfish even more exasperated at the celestial, and Suika cheerfully comforts her and pours her a drink, encouraging Iku to vent her complaints to the oni. It is unknown if they became friends after that or not.
After the events of Immaterial and Missing Power, Patchouli seems to have developed a bit of an obsession with taking down the oni, although the feeling isn't mutual. She now has the Scarlet Devil Mansion host Setsubun (basically an anti-oni festival) every year, despite how none of the other residents like it (the fried beans burn the mistress, and the fairy maids hate cleaning up afterwards). Suika has taken note of this and in retaliation to the first festival, destroyed the moon as a display of her own power (actually only an image of the moon. ...by shattering the heavens to do it). It is unknown if residents of the Scarlet Devil Mansion noticed. In Scarlet Weather Rhapsody, Patchouli goes right past Tenshi Hinanawi (the real culprit, quite confused) to attack Suika, instead. Patchouli has no books on the oni, but dialogue shows she knew what oni were before meeting Suika. Her wariness towards oni subconsciously existed before that, as it is revealed in Sakuya's ending that despite claiming she didn't know about oni, Patchouli knew an oni caused the feast, revealing a subconscious knowledge on the matter. Prior to that, every once in a while, Patchouli would order coffee made from good beans instead of the usual red tea. Sakuya did not know why, but after discovering this subconscious trait, she finally understood. Oni are weak to fried beans. Patchouli only consciously realized she was supposed to use fried beans, specifically, for the coffee in her own ending, but by then, she's also realized it'd be better off used as danmaku. It is unclear if she realized that she subconsciously drank coffee all along as a preventative measure to oni. It is unknown why Patchouli developed this wariness towards the oni. Patchouli's relatively young age makes this even more mysterious.
Yuyuko might have known Suika before Suika went underground, as she describes the mist in Immaterial and Missing Power to Patchouli Knowledge as nostalgic in Patchouli's story, even though she isn't sure what it is. When Yuyuko meets Suika in her own story, she disappointingly says that she had hoped to find a good memory but ended up finding a little demon instead, and the two proceed to insult each other very harshly. Although the double-speak and metaphors aren't completely clear, this could imply that Yuyuko knew Suika from long ago, and the two did not get along.
Suika and Yuugi were two of the four devas of the mountain, and are very good friends, although it's been a while since they've actually seen each other before Subterranean Animism. It is unknown if they've seen each other after those events, either. Of course, their reunion during that time was not in person, but instead Suika watching Yuugi through a TV screen and talking to her using Yukari's cell phone. Suika hopes the four of them can go mountain climbing again, some day.
These are various denizens of the underground that Suika got to see in Subterranean Animism. Of the six, Suika has never met Yamame, Rin, or Utsuho personally (or at least gotten to know them personally), but is familiar with their species. She knows Parsee, but to her, Parsee is just some lowly youkai that guards a bridge. She knows Satori, but like everyone else, stays away from her because she dislikes having her mind read. She also knows Satori's sister Koishi, to whom she is a bit warmer, inviting her to come play the next time Koishi goes above ground. She believes Koishi's ability to read the subconscious compensates for Satori's weakness in a fight, indicating she may have gotten into battles or duels with the sisters before (probably playful, but maybe not).
Their relationship is yet not revealed, but because Kasen was undoubtedly trying to avoid Suika as possible in the Wild and Horned Hermit, their connection should not be light. However, she later finds out about her from Yuugi but decides to leave it alone as she's curious on what Kasen's scheming.
Spell Cards
| Name | Translated | Comments | Games | Stage | ||
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| 萃符「戸隠山投げ」 | Gather Sign "Throwing Mt.Togakushi" | IaMP SWR |
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| 萃鬼「天手力男投げ」 | Gathering Oni "Throwing Atlas" | IaMP SWR |
Use Use | |||
| 酔符「鬼縛りの術」 酔神「鬼縛りの術」 |
Drunk Sign "Art of Oni Binding" | IaMP SWR |
Use Use | |||
| 酔夢「施餓鬼縛りの術」 | Drunken Dream "Art of Segaki Binding" | IaMP SWR |
Use Use | |||
| 鬼符「ミッシングパワー」 | Oni Sign "Missing Power" | IaMP SWR DS |
Use Use St. 6 | |||
| 鬼神「ミッシングパープルパワー」 | Great Oni "Missing Purple Power" | IaMP SWR GoM |
Use Use ---- | |||
| 符の壱「投擲の天岩戸」 | First Card "Throwing of the Rock Door" | IaMP | Story | |||
| 符の弐「坤軸の大鬼」 | Second Card "Giant Oni on the Scroll" | IaMP | Story | |||
| 符の参「追儺返しブラックホール」 | Third Card "Counter Bean-Throwing Black Hole" | IaMP | Story | |||
| 鬼火「超高密度燐禍術」 | Ignis Fatuus "Super-High Density Fire Disaster" Will-o'-wisp "Superdense Conflagration" |
IaMP SWR |
Story Use | |||
| 疎符「六里霧中」 | Undense Sign "Beyond All in the Fog" | IaMP | Story | |||
| 「百万鬼夜行」 | "Night Parade of One Million Demons" | IaMP StB GoM |
Story St. Ex ---- | |||
| 鬼気「濛々迷霧」 | Qi of Oni "Deep Fog Labyrinth" | StB SWR GoM |
St. Ex Story ---- | |||
| 霧符「雲集霧散」 | Mist Sign "Gathering and Dissipating" | SWR | Use | |||
| 鬼符「大江山悉皆殺し」 | Oni Sign "Complete Massacre on Mt. Ooe" | SWR GoM |
Use ---- | |||
| 吐息「小鬼の深呼吸」 | Breath "Small Oni's Deep Breath" | SWR | Story | |||
| 火弾「地霊活性弾」 | Fireball "Earthly Spirit Active Bullet" | SWR | Story | |||
| 「百万同一鬼」 | "A Million of the Same Oni" | SWR | Story | |||
| 四天王奥義「三歩壊廃」 | Big Four Arcanum "Destruction in Three Steps" | Soku | Use | |||
| 鬼符「豆粒大の針地獄」 | Oni Sign "Large Speck in the Needle Hell" | DS | St. 6 | |||
| 地獄「煉獄吐息」 | Hell "Sigh of Purgatory" | DS | St. 6 | |||
Additional Information
Trivia
- The Ibuki Gourd she always carries is a magical treasure of the oni, and can produce an infinite amount of sake. In Strange and Bright Nature Deity she explains that the gourd contains the extract of a wine worm, an oni capable of creating a near endless amount of sake from just a little bit of water.
- Suika is shown to have little clones of herself in official works. She rips out some of her hairs and creates either flying or running mobs of mini-Suikas as an attack in Scarlet Weather Rhapsody and Immaterial and Missing Power.
- A silhouette of Suika occupies the front of Immaterial and Missing Power's jewel case.
- Aya Shameimaru, who has probably seen or heard of nearly every youkai by now, once referred to Suika as "simply the most powerful youkai in Gensokyo". That doesn't mean there aren't others that could be nearly equal to her power, but she is still thought of as the strongest/most powerful youkai in Aya's opinion. Of course, this may be because she is a tengu, who were once subordinate to the oni.
- Despite her popular image as a carefree and laid-back drunkard, she can be very observant and harshly critical of others. In Immaterial and Missing Power, she cuts down almost everyone she encounters with her dialogue, such as by calling Alice Margatroid a coward and telling Youmu Konpaku how people make fun of her. Also, in her interview with Aya, she calls out the tengu on her two-faced attitude in regards to Oni and everyone else.
- In Immaterial and Missing Power Suika's final spellcard, "百万鬼夜行" (Romanized: "Hyakuman Ki Yakou", Meaning: "A Million Oni Parade the Night", cf. the 1776 Japanese work: "画図百鬼夜行", meaning: "The Illustrated Night Parade of A Hundred Demons"), is capable of completely erasing the HUD, leaving the player unable to know directly how much life/super meter either has.
- An alternate palette of her in Touhou Hisoutensoku makes her completely gold, a possible Guilty Gear/Blazblue reference. Another palette gives her a red ribbon and a dark blue dress, somewhat similar to Keine in appearance.
- Suika is the only character to appear as a boss in both Shoot the Bullet and Double Spoiler.
- According to the legend, Ibaraki-douji (Kasen's based oni) was a subordinate of Shuten-douji (Suika's assumed based oni). Some story even say that the two were lovers, but their relationship in the Touhou world is unknown.
- Kasen was definitely aware of Suika in the Wild and Horned Hermit, so there should be some connection between them.
Fanon
- Suika is widely considered to be the flattest character in all of Touhou. Following this are things about her giving herself breasts or in some cases, STEALING them from others in fanart([1]). She has created a small meme in western circles due to a Morino Hon 4koma ([2]), due to the last line she says in it; resulting in it coming up in other danbooru pictures and western fanworks in regards to other shapely characters.
- She's sometimes depicted as a "Moon Buster" due the fact that she made the Moon explode in Bohemian Archive in Japanese Red .
Official Profiles
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○萃まる夢、幻、そして百鬼夜行 伊吹 萃香（いぶきすいか） |
Forgathering dream, illusion, therefore a night parade of a hundred demons Suika Ibuki Species: Oni There are supposedly no oni in Gensokyo, but this girl insists that she is an oni. Oni are generally jolly and love to drink, feast, and compete with humans in any kind of contest, from simple melee to drinking games. When they find a human that they like, they tempt that human into challenging them in any way the human desires. Should the human lose, they are abducted. The oni find these games to be great fun, but humans don't appreciate the nature of that fun. Put simply, humans cannot compare to an oni's level of ability. Humans could enjoy themselves as much as the oni if they tried to reach the power level of their opponents, but they don't. Worse still, humans attempt to destroy the oni with underhanded tactics. Abduction by oni used to be a symbol of human fear, which was the oni's reason for their existence. In a way, that fear was necessary to the human race... Yet, the humans selfishly put an end to it. The oni, growing weary of being duped and killed repeatedly, abandoned humans for all time and moved to a place beyond human reach, or so the legend says. In any case, the oni have not been seen since. This girl insists that she is an oni. She is certainly jolly and loves drinking, and likes feasts so much that she has them every 3 days. The reason for that is given in-game, so I won't mention it here. But to tell the truth, she wants to restore the relationship between humans and oni. Now why did that fail...? That's also mentioned in-game, toward the end. ··
As mentioned above, Suika is jolly and drink loving. Innocent and simple-minded. She raises an upbeat atmosphere in a crowd, but when you're alone with her, you'll gradually become irritated by her childishness. Her ability allows her to control density. She can gather and scatter whatever she desires. By gathering people's sentiments, they will have parties; by scattering herself, she can become as mist. The strange mist that brought about the events of Immaterial and Missing Power was none other than herself, in very thin form. Her ability does not produce some unseen power; she can gather and scatter only that which already exists, but the process occasionally transforms one thing into something completely different. It's kind of close to creation in that way. The long lost power of the oni is truly exceptional. Her physical ability is outstanding as well; her strength, speed, and mystic power all far exceed that of a human's. Her sole weakness is her small stature, but she compensates for that in many ways. Since she loves competition against humans, she is quite tough even when she is drunk. That is to say, the more drunk she is, the tougher she becomes. Or rather, there's hardly a time when she isn't drunk. |
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萃まる夢幻、そして百鬼夜行 伊吹 萃香 |
Foregathering fantasies, therefore a night parade of a hundred demons Suika Ibuki Her pose is different from all the other characters' ... |
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○小さな百鬼夜行 伊吹 萃香（いぶき すいか）
種族 ： 鬼 住家 ： 不明（神出鬼没） 能力 ： 密と疎を操る程度の能力 性格 ： 豪傑だが単純 |
The Little Night Parade of a Hundred Demons Suika Ibuki Race: Oni Primary residence: Unknown (comes and goes as she pleases) Ability: Manipulating density and sparseness Personality: Impulsive, but simple |
| ○小さな百鬼夜行 伊吹 萃香（いぶき すいか） 種族：鬼 地底に住んでいた鬼の一人。 地底で何か起こってるみたいという噂を聞いて、紫の作戦に乗ってみた。 |
The little night parade of a hundred demons Suika Ibuki Species: oni One of the oni who lived underground. She heard rumors that something was going on underground, so she tried going along with Yukari's scheme. She did think about going to see what was happening herself, but this way looked fun and was convenient, so she was pretty impressed with Yukari's technique, which let her tag along while having a drink. |
Official Sources
- 2004/12/30 Immaterial and Missing Power - 上海アリス通信.txt
- 2005/08/11 Bohemian Archive in Japanese Red - Article and Interview: Suika
- 2005/12/30 Shoot the Bullet - Extra Stage Spell Card comments
- 2006/12/27 Perfect Memento in Strict Sense - Suika Ibuki
- 2008/04/26 Strange and Bright Nature Deity - Chapter 18
- 2008/05/25 Scarlet Weather Rhapsody - chara.html
- 2008/08/16 Subterranean Animism - Reimu/Suika Scenario; Reimu/Suika Extra Stage dialogue; キャラ設定.txt
- 2009/07/28 The Grimoire of Marisa - Suika Ibuki's Spell Cards
- 2009/08/26 Oriental Sacred Place - Chapter 12 (cameo)
- 2010/03/14 Double Spoiler - Stage 6 Spell Card comments
- 2011/11/25 Wild and Horned Hermit - Chapter 9
- 2013/04/10 Wild and Horned Hermit - Chapter 16
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