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<div>{{Infobox Character<br />
| nameJp ={{ruby-ja|霧雨|きりさめ}} {{ruby-ja|魔理沙|まりさ}}<br />
| nameEn =Marisa Kirisame<br />
| nameIPA =kiɾisa̠me̞ ma̠ɾisa̠ [[Media:Pronunciation_MarisaKirisame.ogg|(♫)]]<br />
| image =[[File:Th18Marisa.png|x250px|Marisa Kirisame]]<br />
| caption =Marisa Kirisame in [[Unconnected Marketeers]]<br />
| chartitle ={{H:title|Ordinary Magician|普通の魔法使い}}<br />
| species =[[Human]]<br />
| abilities =Using magic (Specialized in light and heat magic)<br />
| age =A child in [[PC-98]] [[canon]]; about the same age as [[Reimu Hakurei|Reimu]] in [[Windows]] canon<ref>''[[Lotus Land Story]]'': [[Lotus Land Story/Translation/Manual|Manual]]</ref> <br />
| occupation =[[Magician]], Kirisame Magic Shop owner, burglar, part-time [[youkai]] hunter<br />
| location =The Kirisame household in the [[Forest of Magic]], unknown in PC-98<br />
| MusicThemes =*{{H:title|{{lang|ja|恋色マジック}}|Love-Coloured Magic}} ([[Story of Eastern Wonderland]], [[Immaterial and Missing Power]], [[Touhou Hisoutensoku]])<br />
*{{H:title|Dim. Dream|Dimensional Dream}} ([[Phantasmagoria of Dim.Dream]])<br />
*{{H:title|{{lang|ja|星の器 ~}} Casket of Star|Vessel of Stars ~ Casket of Star}} ([[Lotus Land Story]], [[Scarlet Weather Rhapsody]])<br />
*{{H:title|{{lang|ja|魔女達の舞踏会}}|The Witches' Ball}} ([[Shuusou Gyoku]], [[Immaterial and Missing Power]])<br />
*{{H:title|{{lang|ja|恋色マスタースパーク}}|Love-colored Master Spark}} ([[Imperishable Night]], [[Urban Legend in Limbo]])<br />
*{{H:title|{{lang|ja|オリエンタルダークフライト}}|Oriental Dark Flight}} ([[Phantasmagoria of Flower View]])<br />
*{{H:title|{{lang|ja|メイガスナイト}}|Magus Night}} ([[Fairy Wars]], [[Hopeless Masquerade]])<br />
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*''[[Phantasmagoria of Dim.Dream]]'' (Playable Character, Possible Opponent)<br />
*''[[Lotus Land Story]]'' (Title Screen, Playable Character, Stage 4 Boss)<br />
*''[[Mystic Square]]'' (Playable Character)<br />
*''[[Embodiment of Scarlet Devil]]'' (Playable Character)<br />
*''[[Perfect Cherry Blossom]]'' (Playable Character)<br />
*''[[Immaterial and Missing Power]]'' (Playable Character, Possible Opponent)<br />
*''[[Imperishable Night]]'' (Playable Character, Stage 4B Boss and Midboss)<br />
*''[[Phantasmagoria of Flower View]]'' (Playable Character, Possible Opponent)<br />
*''[[Shoot the Bullet]]'' (.exe icon, Afterword story)<br />
*''[[Mountain of Faith]]'' (Playable Character)<br />
*''[[Scarlet Weather Rhapsody]]'' (Playable Character, Possible Opponent)<br />
*''[[Subterranean Animism]]'' (Playable Character)<br />
*''[[Undefined Fantastic Object]]'' (Playable Character)<br />
*''[[Touhou Hisoutensoku]]'' (Playable character in arcade mode)<br />
*''[[Double Spoiler]]'' (Scene EX-2, EX-5 & EX-8 Boss)<br />
*''[[Fairy Wars]]'' (Extra Stage Boss)<br />
*''[[Ten Desires]]'' (Playable Character)<br />
*''[[Hopeless Masquerade]]'' (Playable Character, Possible Opponent)<br />
*''[[Double Dealing Character]]'' (Playable Character)<br />
*''[[Impossible Spell Card]]'' (7th Day Boss)<br />
*''[[Urban Legend in Limbo]]'' (Playable Character, Possible Opponent)<br />
*''[[Legacy of Lunatic Kingdom]]'' (Playable Character)<br />
*''[[Antinomy of Common Flowers]]'' (Playable character)<br />
*''[[Hidden Star in Four Seasons]]'' (Playable character)<br />
*''[[Violet Detector]]'' (Wednesday Tutorial Boss, Nightmare Saturday Boss)<br />
*''[[Wily Beast and Weakest Creature]]'' (Playable Character)<br />
*''[[Touhou Gouyoku Ibun]]'' (Stage 1 Boss)<br />
*''[[Unconnected Marketeers]]'' (Playable Character)<br />
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*''[[Eastern and Little Nature Deity]]'' (Supporting Character)<br />
*''[[Bohemian Archive in Japanese Red]]'' (Interview)<br />
**''[[Extra of the Wind]]'' (Secondary Character)<br />
*''[[Seasonal Dream Vision/A Beautiful Flower Blooming Violet Every Sixty Years]]'' (Secondary Character)<br />
*''[[Strange and Bright Nature Deity]]'' (Secondary Character)<br />
*''[[Memorizable Gensokyo]]'' (Secondary Character)<br />
*''[[Perfect Memento in Strict Sense]]'' (Article)<br />
*''[[Silent Sinner in Blue]]'' (Main Character)<br />
*''[[Cage in Lunatic Runagate]]'' (Secondary Character)<br />
*''[[Inaba of the Moon and Inaba of the Earth]]'' (Minor Character)<br />
*''[[Oriental Sacred Place]]'' (Secondary Character)<br />
*''[[The Grimoire of Marisa]]'' (Main Character)<br />
*''[[Wild and Horned Hermit]]'' (Main Character)<br />
*''[[Symposium of Post-mysticism]]'' (Main Character)<br />
*''[[Forbidden Scrollery]]'' (Main Character)<br />
*''[[Strange Creators of Outer World]]'' Vol. 1 (Profile Section) and Vol. 2 (Cross Review Section)<br />
*''[[Visionary Fairies in Shrine]]'' (Secondary Character)<br />
*''[[Alternative Facts in Eastern Utopia]]'' (Essay, Advertisement)<br />
*''[[The Grimoire of Usami]]'' (Secondary Character, Section 1-1, Section 1-10)<br />
*''[[Cheating Detective Satori]]'' (Secondary Character)<br />
*''[[Lotus Eaters]]'' (Main Character) <br />
| appMusicCDs = *''[[Dolls in Pseudo Paradise]]'' (Referenced in Story; Track 10 section)<br />
*''[[Akyu's Untouched Score vol.4]]'' (CD cover)<br />
| appMiscworks = '''Miscellaneous Illustrations'''<br />
*''[[Miscellaneous illustrations by ZUN#Circle Cut|Circle Cut]]'' (C54, C64, C71, C73, C80, C86, C90)<br />
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*''[[Miscellaneous illustrations by ZUN#Fey, Scarlet Caprice 2|Fey, Scarlet Caprice 2]]'', ''[[Miscellaneous illustrations by ZUN#Hakurei Festival Records - Flower Spelling|Hakurei Festival Records - Flower Spelling]]''<br />
| appOther = *''[[Shuusou Gyoku]]'' (Extra Stage Boss #1)<br />
*''[https://ja.wikipedia.org/ラクガキキングダム Rakugaki Kingdom]'' (Playable Guest character) <br />
}}<br />
{{nihongo|'''Marisa Kirisame'''|霧雨 魔理沙|Kirisame Marisa}} is an ordinary [[human]] [[magician]] who specializes in light and heat magic and currently resides in the [[Forest of Magic]]. Her motto is: "It ain't magic if it ain't flashy. Danmaku's all about firepower,"<ref name="gumon_117-120">''[[Perfect Memento in Strict Sense]]'': [[Perfect Memento in Strict Sense/Marisa Kirisame|Marisa Kirisame]]</ref> and she has a compulsive mania for collecting things. She's considered to be the deuteragonist of the ''[[Touhou Project]]'' series along with the main protagonist, [[Reimu Hakurei]].<br />
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==General Information==<br />
Marisa is a common playable character in most games throughout the series with somewhat rare alternative roles such as being an Extra [[stage]] [[boss]]. Her first ever appearance in the ''[[Touhou Project]]'' was in the second [[PC-98]] game ''[[Story of Eastern Wonderland]]'', and she first appeared as a playable character in the third game, ''[[Phantasmagoria of Dim. Dream]]''. Additionally, she has made a guest appearance as the first Extra stage boss in the ''[[Seihou Project]]''<nowiki>'</nowiki>s first work ''[[Shuusou Gyoku]]''.<br />
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Marisa serves as an audience surrogate of sorts - she is straight-forward and much easier to understand than other characters, typically filling the support role. She also serves as a contrast to Reimu, who's blessed with innate abilities, by being the hard-working type of character without any special powers. [[ZUN]] has said that this makes her a rather "un-Touhou-like" character, but also gives him much more leeway in creating a story.<ref>[[Strange Creators of Outer World/Who's Who of Humans & Youkai in Gensokyo/Marisa Kirisame|Strange Creators of Outer World - Marisa Kirisame]]</ref><ref>[[Silent Sinner in Blue/Interview with ZUN|Silent Sinner in Blue interview]]</ref><br />
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Marisa's height is that of a girl in her early teens and is in the "fairly short" group.<ref>[[ZUN's E-mails]]</ref>. Unlike [[Patchouli Knowledge]] and [[Alice Margatroid]], who are magicians by species, she's merely an ordinary [[human]] who uses magic. In the games themselves, she's a character who consistently stresses high power and quick speed. She exceeds in attack and penetration power, but her attack range is generally narrow. Her signature move is the tremendous laser [[spell card]], ''Love Sign "Master Spark<nowiki>"</nowiki>''. She has good speed and power, but poor melee technique.<ref>[[Shanghai Alice Correspondence]] - ''[[Immaterial and Missing Power]]''</ref><br />
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===Personality===<br />
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Outwardly, Marisa is an outgoing and informal individual. She socializes with many inhabitants of [[Gensokyo]] and is friendly to both human and non-humans individuals, although still remaining wary around [[youkai]]. She's quick to act if she hears or sees anything interesting; sometimes doing dangerous things to satiate her interest at the time. An example is when she follows an eagle on a whim in the middle of a blizzard.<ref>[[Wild and Horned Hermit]], chapter 10</ref> She speaks in an informal manner and typically uses the sentence ending particle {{nihongo||ぜ|ze}}. "Ze" used at the end of verb stems delivers a "boyish" and "impolite" sound to the listener/reader. ''Ze'' is mostly used in a context to express one's will to act (similar to "let's" in English), and using it in other cases sound somewhat unnatural, perhaps "phony" or "showy".<br />
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In the past, Marisa was known to be a habitual liar. Such as when she claimed to be [[Reimu Hakurei]] to avoid being troubled by [[Flandre Scarlet]] <ref>[[Embodiment of Scarlet Devil]], Extra Stage</ref> or when she blamed various crimes to [[Alice Margatroid]] to get Reimu out of the way.<ref>[[Imperishable Night]], stage 4</ref> However, she puts no effort into actually deceiving anyone as her lies are extremely obvious. Over time, this tendency to lie has decreased and she's more likely to tell the truth to others. By the time of ''Wily Beast and Weakest Creature'', she willingly tells [[Saki Kurokoma]] to come to her place and emphasises that it is not the shrine.<ref>[[Wily Beast and Weakest Creature]], Marisa's Extra (Eagle)</ref> Although that could be because she was possessed by the proud Eagle spirit.<br />
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She has a mania for collecting things and exhibits knowledge of various valuable and/or magical objects around Gensokyo. She has been frequently seen foraging (or looting) in many places for various materials, be it mushrooms, parts of a dragon, or just whatever she thinks looks interesting at the time. That said, her hoarding habit does result in her not knowing or forgetting what objects are in her house.<br />
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Though she goes to great lengths to hide it,<ref name="gumon_117-120"></ref> Marisa is a hard Working individual who frequently seeks to better herself and seeks to be known as a great magician.<ref>''[[The Grimoire of Marisa]]'': [[The Grimoire of Marisa/Foreword|Foreword]]</ref> She takes pride in her magic and youkai extermination capabilities, claiming to be "the number two in Gensokyo".<ref>[[Strange and Bright Nature Deity]] - Chapter 10</ref> She does indeed care for the sake of Gensokyo and its inhabitants, but conceals it with her rowdiness. In many cases, she is the one who would push Reimu to investigate potential incidents.<br />
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===Occupation===<br />
It isn't directly stated how Marisa makes a living. She does state in ''[[Strange and Bright Nature Deity]]''<nowiki>'s</nowiki> 9th chapter that she regularly goes to the [[Hakurei Shrine]] to take away Reimu's [[youkai]] extermination jobs and ''[[Perfect Memento in Strict Sense]]'' implies it as well, making it a likely source of income. She's also written a book called ''[[The Grimoire of Marisa]]'' that reviews various [[spell card]]s by different owners of a spell; she's shown a desire to try and sell the book.<ref>''[[The Grimoire of Marisa]]'': [[The Grimoire of Marisa/Foreword|Foreword]]</ref><ref>''[[Touhou Hisoutensoku]]'': [[Touhou Hisoutensoku/Translation/Marisa's Script|Marisa's Script]]</ref> She has been shown to peddle magic or lucky charms, the origin of these charms are dubious but she has, at least once, successfully sold a supposedly tanuki-warding pot to a villager. <ref>[[Forbidden Scrollery]] - Chapter 39</ref><br />
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;Kirisame Magic Shop<br />
Marisa runs a shop for anything as an attachment to her own house. Although it's her primary occupation, she's usually absent. Inside the shop, it's so unimaginably disordered that it becomes like a mini-Forest of Magic.<ref name="gumon_117-120" /><br />
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''[[Perfect Memento in Strict Sense]]'' provides some information on the magic shop.<ref name="gumon_117-120" /> Though Marisa is surprisingly honest with her services, refusing to take payment for a failed job, the shop sees little use due to its difficult-to-find location in the [[Forest of Magic]] and the ambiguity of what her services actually are. (In ''[[Touhou Sangetsusei]]'', on the Kirisame Magic Shop's signboard, other than the shop name, nothing is written but "what will you do" ({{lang|ja|なんかします}}).) The [[Three Fairies of Light]] were her first customers to her shop, but ''Perfect Memento in Strict Sense'' implies she's had other customers since then, albeit not many.<br />
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;Burglary<br />
[[File:018Marisa.JPG|thumb|left|150px|Marisa caught committing burglary.]]<br />
According to ''[[Perfect Memento in Strict Sense]]'', Marisa boldly breaks in from the front and openly says her motto "I'll be borrowing these!" while carrying things off. She mostly steals books, so she might not be the kind who steals money. Her ability to "learn other people's moves" might originate from her nature as a thief.<br />
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As opposed to how she was commented to be a "prowler" in ''[[Bohemian Archive in Japanese Red]]'', Marisa said: "My life is way shorter than yours anyway, so can't you just take back everythin' after I kick the bucket? I'm just borrowin' until then. It should be good for the stuff I'm taking that way, too." [[Aya Shameimaru]]'s response was "The contents of the excerpt are very human-like and childish".<br />
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In ''[[Subterranean Animism]]'', Marisa mentions "(being) a thief" concerning the book she stole from [[Patchouli Knowledge]]. In the Extra Stage of that game, [[Koishi Komeiji]] pointed out "Are you the doll-using thief". Afterwards, when there was nobody at the [[Moriya Shrine]], she crept in, but was discovered by [[Kanako Yasaka]] and the others and was harshly punished.<br />
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She tried to steal from [[Kasen Ibaraki]] upon learning about the hermit's treasures, but got lost and was attacked by Kasen's pet tiger after she tried to kill it for its pelt.<br />
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===Possessions===<br />
;Magic broom<br />
Marisa flies on a bamboo broom as part of her magician appearance. It's an ordinary broom, but constant exposure to magic has caused a curious growth to begin. Although the bamboo is dead, leaves appear to be sprouting from the handle, independently from Marisa's magic.<ref name="gumon_117-120" /> In the fighting games, it serves additional purposes - she uses it as a weapon for striking and shooting [[danmaku]].<br />
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;Mini-Hakkero<br />
{{Main|Mini-Hakkero}}<br />
The mini-Hakkero, Marisa's treasured item, is a furnace that she uses to power her signature ''Master Spark''. From the flame of a table-top stove, to that of a flamethrower, to a powerful and unmatched wide magicannon, the mini-Hakkero has a convenient range of uses.<ref name="gumon_117-120" /><ref>''[[Silent Sinner in Blue]]'': Chapter number needed</ref> Marisa herself said, "I can't even think of makin' a livin' without it."<ref>''[[Curiosities of Lotus Asia]]'': [[Curiosities of Lotus Asia/Chapter 06|Chapter 6]]</ref> It was given to Marisa by [[Rinnosuke Morichika]] as a farewell gift when Marisa left her family to live in the [[Forest of Magic]], even though it'd be risky for a girl of her age to handle.<br />
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A magic lecture related to this item was written as follows:<br />
<blockquote>"While shooting concentrate your mind, gently muttering the spell to the Mini-Hakkero. Aiming at someone you don't like, a magicannon of love will be unleashed! <br />
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— ''[[Imperishable Night]]'': [[Imperishable Night/Spell Cards/Stage 4B#Spell Card 100|Spell card 100]] — Marisa's Magic Lecture</blockquote><br />
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;Magic Wand<br />
Marisa wielded a magic wand during her PC-98 appearances, but afterwards it was not seen again until ''[[Undefined Fantastic Object]]''.<br />
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;Mushroom Item<br />
Marisa carries, concealed in her skirt, a dangerous finished product of mushrooms made from mushroom magic. After throwing the item, it explodes. The fact that she conceals them in her skirt seemed dangerous even to [[Hieda no Akyuu]] as noted in ''[[Perfect Memento in Strict Sense]]''.<br />
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==Ability and strength==<br />
Marisa is a normal human with no innate abilities, but her true strength lies in her ability to use one of the highest classes of magic power that [[human]]s can use – an unusual feat perhaps only possible because of the effects of the [[Forest of Magic]].<ref name="gumon_117-120"/> She's also faced very powerful humans and [[youkai]] and was able to solve a number of incidents in various scenarios, all being high achievements. However, her existence is closest to an ordinary person; she was born without any innate abilities (unlike [[Reimu Hakurei]]) and has been compared to "humans of a level close to us" by [[ZUN]]. As a result, the interpretations of Marisa's power can go to extremes. She has an attachment to power and has self-belief in ostentatious display of power. She always finds opponents to fight and plays by finding faults. However, she's actually a hard worker, and her power is the result of her secret training.<ref name="SGZUN">''[[Shuusou Gyoku]]'': {{lang|ja|創曲幻想}}.txt</ref> For example, Marisa appears to have developed an innate resistance against poisonous substances, due to her gathering of mushrooms and living in the Forest of Magic.<br />
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Despite her small size, Marisa is surprisingly physically strong. In chapter 16 of ''[[Curiosities of Lotus Asia]]'', she carried out a big computer out of Kourindou in her arms. In ''[[Forbidden Scrollery]]'', she was shown jumping over the walls of the Hieda mansion<ref>[[Forbidden Scrollery]] - Chapter 7</ref> and was seen climbing youkai mountain manually (instead of just flying)<ref>[[Forbidden Scrollery]] - Chapter 45</ref>. In Marisa's otter route of ''[[Wily Beast and Weakest Creature]]'', [[Urumi Ushizaki]] tried to drown Marisa using her stone baby but ends up being amazed that Marisa is able to hold onto it despite its weight. She was also able to lift [[Sunny Milk]] and hold her up at waist height with only one hand, and without putting any apparent effort in doing so.<ref>[[Visionary Fairies in Shrine]] - Chapter 9.5</ref><br />
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===Using magic===<br />
[[File:SSiBArtChapter191.jpg|thumb|192px|Marisa in ''[[Silent Sinner in Blue]]''.]]<br />
Marisa has trained herself in magic that specialises in light and heat. She's an Eastern [[magician]] who takes a Western approach to magic, the opposite of [[Patchouli Knowledge]]. Her magic has tremendous power and few weaknesses, but it has few non-destructive uses, so she uses it for flashy youkai extermination more than anything. Her magic makes for a good danmaku show, but this is made possible only through her strenuous honest effort in creating layered effects. The majority of her spells rely on power over finesse and are themed after stars and other astronomical phenomena. According to ''Perfect Memento in Strict Sense'', it's strange for a human to have mastery of magic of this level.<br />
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Marisa picks and collects various exotic mushrooms that live in the [[Forest of Magic]]. She boils them, crushes them, dries them, and furthermore mixes them, making strange chemicals or medicine. By heating them, submerging them into water, or by throwing things in directly, through trial and error, she finds a pattern from which magic-like materials come forth. Success or failure, she records the details of each experiment.<ref name="gumon_117-120" /> In her house, there are a ton of various handmade grimoires.<br />
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Prior to starting her research in ''The Grimoire of Marisa'', Marisa did not use complex slave-type attacks, as she was only capable of using slaves that circle around her (her guest appearance in ''Shuusou Gyoku'' notwithstanding).<ref>[[The Grimoire of Marisa/Parsee Mizuhashi's Spell Cards|The Grimoire of Marisa - Parsee Mizuhashi's Spell Cards]]</ref><ref>[[The Grimoire of Marisa/Marisa Kirisame's Spell Cards|The Grimoire of Marisa - Marisa Kirisame's Spell Cards]]</ref><br />
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===Flying===<br />
[[File:ThGK Kakashi4.jpg|thumb|200px|Fight between Marisa and [[Cirno]] in ''[[Fairy Wars]]'', as shown in ''[[Symposium of Post-mysticism]]'']]<br />
Marisa is almost always depicted as riding on her broom when she flies in the sky. In the fighting spinoffs prior to ''[[Hopeless Masquerade]]'' she rides a broom only during some of her assault skills, like ''Witch Leyline'' and ''Stardust Reverie''. However, the more recent aerial fighters show Marisa making an extensive and continuous use of her broom, to the point that there isn't a single moment in which she isn't riding or holding it. In ''Great Fairy Wars'', her broom is nowhere in sight. ''[[Perfect Memento in Strict Sense]]'' states she uses the magic broom to ride around on because she believes it's an essential tool for a magician. It was originally a normal broom but sprouted leaves as a side effect of Marisa using it in magic rituals. <br />
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In the [[PC-98]] games, she's typically shown to use a vine in place of her broom in her boss appearances (with the notable exception of ''Phantasmagoria of Dim.Dream'' where she has illusionary wings instead), but her ''Lotus Land Story'' and ''Mystic Square'' endings show her using a broom. In ''Shuusou Gyoku'', she's depicted with angel wings.<br />
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===Speed===<br />
Marisa seems to take pride in her own speed,<ref name "MoF cross">[[Strange Creators of Outer World/Introduction of Previous Works/Mountain of Faith/Cross Review]]</ref> which is potentially among the fastest for a human. When she used ''Double Spark'' against [[Watatsuki no Yorihime]] in [[Silent Sinner in Blue]], she moved some meters away from the first laser fast enough that she was able to shoot a second one before the first reached the Moon princess.<ref>[[Silent Sinner in Blue]] - Chapter 15</ref> However, [[ZUN]] has mentioned that [[Aya Shameimaru]] is the fastest in [[Gensokyo]], and Marisa appears to consider Aya extremely fast,<ref>[[The Grimoire of Marisa/Aya Shameimaru's Spell Cards]]</ref> and a worthy challenger in terms of speed,<ref name "MoF cross" /> so while there is the idea that Marisa is really fast, there might be other characters that are faster than her.<br />
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Marisa's high speed is echoed in the games, usually by giving her the fastest or one of the fastest movement speed.<br />
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===Learning other people's moves===<br />
[[File:Marisa'sCopyComparison.png|thumb|200px|A comparison between the originator of an attack and Marisa's copy of it.]]<br />
Marisa's ''Love Sign "Non-directional Laser"'' was copied from [[Patchouli Knowledge]]'s regular attack from ''[[Embodiment of Scarlet Devil]]'' as confirmed by [[ZUN]].<ref>''[[Imperishable Night]]'': [[Imperishable Night/Spell Cards/Stage 4B#Spell Card 087|spell card 087]]</ref> Other than that, there are also others suggested to have been stolen; ''Love Sign "Master Spark"'' greatly resembles [[Yuuka Kazami]]'s and [[Gengetsu]]'s laser from ''[[Lotus Land Story]]'', her "Orreries Sun" resembles [[Mima]]'s orreries, and "Cold Inferno" resembles [[Remilia Scarlet]]'s familiar in ''[[Imperishable Night]]''. However, there's no official evidence that these are copied moves.<br />
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It's unknown if Marisa is inherently talented at imitating others' moves, or if she simply manages to do so due to sheer effort. She uses her [[mini-Hakkero]] to use the Master Spark, while Yuuka uses her version of the laser through other means.<ref>''[[The Grimoire of Marisa]]'': [[The Grimoire of Marisa/Marisa Kirisame's Spell Cards|Marisa Kirisame's spell cards]]</ref> Thus, her copying of the Master Spark seems more analogous to a person copying a fire-breathing dragon by using a flamethrower rather than a person copying a fire-breathing dragon by breathing flames merely through observation. Marisa also states that she can't imitate [[Kaguya Houraisan]]'s spell cards as they use special items that she doesn't possess.<ref>''[[The Grimoire of Marisa]]'': [[The Grimoire of Marisa/Kaguya Houraisan's Spell Cards|Kaguya Houraisan's Spell Cards]]</ref> In that case, it's analogous to a person being unable to copy a fire-breathing dragon since there are no devices on hand.<br />
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It's unlikely her implied tendency to copy other's moves is abnormal, as magicians such as Marisa build upon the work of others. Marisa claims in ''[[The Grimoire of Marisa]]'' that it's "magicians who build on observation", while [[Patchouli Knowledge]] uses the pride of magicians to add their own original touch to another's work while preserving and respecting the original.<ref name="SSiBCh6">''[[Silent Sinner in Blue]]'' Chapter 6</ref> Magicians seek the truth according to Patchouli.<ref>''[[Touhou Hisoutensoku]]'': [[Touhou Hisoutensoku/Translation/Patchouli's Script|Patchouli's Script]]</ref> They act like researchers in this sense, building upon the work of others. However, other magicians such as Patchouli and [[Alice Margatroid]] haven't been depicted using imitations as blatant as Marisa's for spell cards.<br />
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==Character Design==<br />
[[File:PMiSS marisa.jpg|thumb|right|150px|Marisa, as illustrated in ''[[Perfect Memento in Strict Sense]]''.]]<br />
===Name===<br />
Her full name is {{nihongo|''Marisa Kirisame''|霧雨 魔理沙}}. Her surname {{nihongo||霧雨|Kirisame|lit. "mist rain"}} means "[[wikipedia:drizzle|drizzle]]" in Japanese. The [[wikipedia:kanji|kanji]] used in her given name {{nihongo||[[wiktionary:魔|魔]]|ma}} is highly likely to come from the "ma" in {{nihongo||'''魔'''法|'''ma'''hou|"magic"}} and with {{nihongo||[[wiktionary:理|理]]|ri}} able to be interpreted as {{nihongo|"logic/law/theory"|理|kotowari}}, it can be said that they deliver the idea of her being a magician. In addition, the kanji {{nihongo||沙|sa|lit. "small sand"}} doesn't have an actual meaning, but it's often used in Japanese given names to get the sound/look of "girlishness" (different kanji, but the same idea is used in [[Minamitsu Murasa]]'s name too).<br />
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''[[Wikipedia:Marisa (given name)|Marisa]]'' is also a female given name with origins in the Romance languages, which is a variant of Latin "[[wiktionary:maris|maris]]", meaning "of the sea", but may also mean "manly". If her name was based on this, then it's very likely to indicate Marisa's character being a mix of both Eastern and Western cultures.<br />
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''[[Story of Eastern Wonderland]]'' had her name written as {{lang|ja|魔'''[[wiktionary:梨|梨]]'''沙}} in-game, with the kanji meaning "pear". In that game's attached text files and bad endings it was written as {{lang|ja|魔'''理'''沙}}. Since then, her name is still written as {{lang|ja|魔'''理'''沙}}, so {{lang|ja|魔'''梨'''沙}} was likely a typo.<br />
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===Design===<br />
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In general, Marisa is depicted with blonde hair and yellow eyes. She wears clothes with a black and white color scheme, consisting of a black vest and skirt, white waist apron and undershirt, and a black witch hat with a white bow. Her hair is commonly braided on one side with a bow on the end. She sometimes wears dark blue clothes instead, such as in ''[[Legacy of Lunatic Kingdom]]'', ''[[Subterranean Animism]]'', or the fighting game spin offs from ''[[Hopeless Masquerade]]'' onwards.<br />
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Her exact appearance vary slightly between games and print works, such as having differently colored hat bows, varying hair length and style, and different aprons. In ''[[Embodiment of Scarlet Devil]]'', she wears a white full apron with black undershirt. In ''[[Perfect Cherry Blossom]]'', she wears a pink capelet and has no braid. In ''[[Phantasmagoria of Flower View]]'' and ''[[Ten Desires]]'', her bows are purple. She wears dark blue clothes with a blue capelet in ''[[Subterranean Animism]]''. Her outfit in ''[[Undefined Fantastic Object]]'' has brown apron with an 'M', brown hat bow, a red bowtie, and she carries a wand. She wears a crescent moon accessory on her chest in ''[[Legacy of Lunatic Kingdom]]''. She has pink scarf and gloves and has snowflake patterns on her apron in ''[[Hidden Star in Four Seasons]]''. In ''[[Wily Beast and Weakest Creature]]'', she has cat-shaped patterns on her clothes.<br />
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During the [[PC-98]] era, her debut appearance in ''[[Story of Eastern Wonderland]]'' has her depicted with red hair and eyes and wearing a purple witch's outfit with a white bow on her hat (Due to the PC-98's limited colour space, purple was often used to stand-in for black outside lineart.). However her appearance changes in ''[[Phantasmagoria of Dim. Dream]]'' into having blonde hair and yellow eyes more similar to her current design. This appearance stays with her for the rest of the series. Her clothes are black in Mystic Square.<br />
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==Marisa's Appearances==<br />
{{stub|section}}[[File:Th02marisa.png|thumb|Marisa in ''[[SoEW]]''.]]<br />
Unless specified, Marisa has usually been the second playable character throughout the games.<br />
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===PC-98 Games===<br />
;''Story of Eastern Wonderland<br />
:{{Main|Story of Eastern Wonderland/Translation|l1=Story of Eastern Wonderland Story}}<br />
Marisa's adventure in the [[PC-98]] started in ''[[Story of Eastern Wonderland]]'', where she was the [[stage]] 4 [[boss]] and a disciple of [[Mima]]. She was a child who was tasked to keep [[Reimu Hakurei]] from reaching Mima, but was defeated.<br />
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;''Phantasmagoria of Dim.Dream''<br />
:{{Main|Phantasmagoria of Dim.Dream/Translation/Marisa's Scenario|l1=Phantasmagoria of Dim.Dream Story}}<br />
''[[Phantasmagoria of Dim.Dream]]'' was where Marisa first appeared as a playable character, albeit not as the second choice - instead, Mima takes on that role. In the story, Marisa follows Mima and finds Reimu at mysterious old ruins, which promise a fantastic prize for whoever enters. A battle with six others for the prize ensued.<br />
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;''Lotus Land Story<br />
:{{Main|Lotus Land Story/Translation/Marisa's Scenario|l1=Lotus Land Story}}<br />
''[[Lotus Land Story]]'' was where Marisa first started to be the second playable character, which became standardised throughout the ''[[Touhou Project]]''. Here, Marisa senses a great magic power and wishes to make it hers. She heads towards the [[Lake of Blood]] without Reimu's knowledge, not letting anyone stand in her quest for power and encounters [[Yuuka Kazami]].<br />
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;''Mystic Square''<br />
:{{Main|Mystic Square/Translation/Marisa's Scenario|l1=Mystic Square Story}}<br />
In ''[[Mystic Square]]'', Marisa overhears Reimu planning to enter [[Makai]] to take care of a recent outbreak of demons. Interested in Makai's magic, she takes off without telling Reimu.<br />
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===Windows Games===<br />
;''Embodiment of the Scarlet Devil''<br />
[[File:Th06MarisaBackSprite.png|frame|left|Marisa's back sprite in ''EoSD'']]<br />
:{{Main|Embodiment of Scarlet Devil/Story/Marisa's Scenario|l1=Embodiment of the Scarlet Devil Story}}<br />
During ''[[Embodiment of Scarlet Devil]]'', while flying through the sky, Marisa notices she suddenly cannot see the lake. She swoops in to check out the situation.<br />
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;''Perfect Cherry Blossom''<br />
[[File:Th07MarisaBackSprite.png|frame|left|Marisa's back sprite in ''PCB'']]<br />
:{{Main|Perfect Cherry Blossom/Story/Marisa's Scenario|l1=Perfect Cherry Blossom Story}}<br />
During the May of a seemingly endless winter in ''[[Perfect Cherry Blossom]]'', cherry blossom petals land outside Marisa's house. She follows these petals in search of spring.<br />
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;''Imperishable Night''<br />
[[File:Th08MarisaBackSprite.png|frame|left|Marisa's back sprite in ''IN'']]<br />
[[File:Th08MarisaSprite.png|frame|Marisa's sprite in ''IN'']]<br />
:{{Main|Imperishable Night/Story/Magic Team's Scenario 1|l1=Imperishable Night Story}}<br />
In ''[[Imperishable Night]]'', Alice is perturbed about the [[Moon]], so she decides to bribe Marisa into coming along with her to find out who's responsible for the fake Moon.<br />
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;''Phantasmagoria of Flower View''<br />
[[File:Th09MarisaBackSprite.png|frame|left|Marisa's back sprite in ''PoFV'']]<br />
:{{Main|Phantasmagoria of Flower View/Story#Marisa's Story|l1=Phantasmagoria of Flower View Story}}<br />
In ''[[Phantasmagoria of Flower View]]'', the flowers are blooming out of season, but this doesn't bother Marisa much at first. She simply wants to find out who's responsible for it and will be the first to know why.<br />
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;''Mountain of Faith''<br />
:{{Main|Mountain of Faith/Story/Marisa's Scenario|l1=Mountain of Faith Story}}<br />
Marisa sees that something is bothering Reimu and finds out that a rival shrine wants to take over. Marisa isn't going to sit back and let that happen, so if Reimu isn't going to do something about it, she certainly will.<br />
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;''Subterranean Animism''<br />
:{{Main|1=Subterranean Animism/Story/Marisa and Alice's Scenario|2=Subterranean Animism/Story/Marisa and Patchouli's Scenario|3=Subterranean Animism/Story/Marisa and Nitori's Scenario|l1=Marisa and Alice Arc|l2=Marisa and Patchouli Arc|l3=Marisa and Nitori Arc}}<br />
In ''[[Subterranean Animism]]'', a geyser appears behind the [[Hakurei Shrine]], and Reimu and Marisa are ecstatic about their newfound hot spring. The youkai, however, are less than pleased as Earth spirits begin to spew out of the geyser. Patchouli and Yukari suspect it was an attempt to lure youkai into the geyser and decide to send Marisa instead to investigate.<br />
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;''Undefined Fantastic Object''<br />
:{{Main|1=Undefined Fantastic Object/Story/Marisa A's Scenario|2=Undefined Fantastic Object/Story/Marisa B's Scenario|l1=Marisa A Arc|l2=Marisa B Arc}}<br />
In ''[[Undefined Fantastic Object]]'', Marisa notices a ship flying through the sky and hopes to be able to plunder it for its riches. When she hears that it was going to [[Makai]], she gets exited.<br />
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;''Ten Desires''<br />
:{{Main|Ten Desires/Story/Marisa's Scenario|l1=Ten Desires Marisa Arc}}<br />
In ''[[Ten Desires]]'', an influx of [[divine spirit]]s will block the flower-viewing, so Marisa wants to be the first to solve it. <br />
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;''Double Dealing Character''<br />
:{{Main|Double Dealing Character/Story/Marisa A's Scenario|l1=Marisa A Scenario|Double Dealing Character/Story/Marisa B's Scenario|l2=Marisa B Scenario}}<br />
Marisa discovers that her [[Mini-Hakkero]] is beginning to act on its own, and believes it to be turning into a [[tsukumogami]]. After discovering that previously docile youkai have become violent, Marisa learns from [[Yatsuhashi Tsukumo]] and [[Benben Tsukumo]] that a group of youkai are planning social upheaval. She travels to the [[Shining Needle Castle]] and defeats [[Seija Kijin]], who remarks that her allies can become as strong as they want to if they ignore the consequences. After being led by Seija to the inner parts of the castle, she defeats the Miracle Mallet-wielding [[Shinmyoumaru Sukuna]]. Afterwards, a magical storm similar to the one caused by the Miracle Mallet rages and Marisa finds that the cause is the tsukumogami [[Raiko Horikawa]], who had successfully changed her source of magic to that of the [[Outside World]]. After beating Raiko, Marisa lets her go in exchange for not causing any problems in the future.<br />
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;''Legacy of Lunatic Kingdom''<br />
{{Main|Legacy_of_Lunatic_Kingdom/Story/Marisa's_Scenario|l1=Marisa's Scenario}}<br />
Some probes that withers everything at their path appeared at the surface of Gensokyo, so [[Eirin]] and [[Kaguya]] decided to create [[Ultramarine Orb Elixir|an elixir]] to her, Reimu, Sanae and Reisen. Did that, they go to the Moon, where Eirin thinks the enemy is.<br />
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;''Hidden Star in Four Seasons'' <br />
{{Main|Hidden Star in Four Seasons/Story/Marisa's_Scenario|l1= Marisa's Scenario}}<br />
Gensokyo's Seasons get crazy, so Marisa decided to investigate by herself. Soon she finds the problem is that the fairies are going berserk with a new power they got. At the end, she finds the real [[Okina Matara|culprit]].<br />
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;''Wily Beast and Weakest Creature''<br />
{{Main|Wily_Beast_and_Weakest_Creature/Story/Marisa's_Scenario_(Eagle)|l1=Marisa's Scenario(Eagle)}}<br />
An eagle spirit reaches Marisa to tell her that, altough there is an invasion from beast spirits, he is a traitor; and he needs someone to help him stop the invasion.<br />
In exchange, Marisa would receive a tremendous power. Marisa accepts, she is posessed by the spirit and goes to Hell to stop the invasion.<br />
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;''Unconnected Marketeers''<br />
{{Main|Unconnected_Marketeers/Story/Marisa's_Scenario|l1=Marisa's Scenario}}<br />
Marisa finds about cards with abilities of youkais and humans she faced before. Following her enthusiasm with collecting things, she goes to be the first to have them.<br />
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===Spin-offs===<br />
;''Immaterial and Missing Power''<br />
:{{Main|Immaterial and Missing Power/Story#Marisa's Story|l1=Immaterial and Missing Power Story}}<br />
[[File:083BAiJRspecial IaMP.jpg|thumb|200px||Marisa in the Night Parade of One Hundred Oni Every Four Days Incident]]<br />
In ''[[Immaterial and Missing Power]]'', a strange feast catches Marisa's attention, so she goes to look for clues.<br />
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;''Shoot the Bullet''<br />
Marisa doesn't actually appear in ''[[Shoot the Bullet]]'', but instead in a "Special story" that was added to the [[Shoot the Bullet/Translation/Afterword|afterword]]. It shows that she and [[Reimu Hakurei]] are talking about a notebook she found.<br />
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;''Scarlet Weather Rhapsody''<br />
:{{Main|Scarlet Weather Rhapsody/Story#Marisa's Story|l1=Scarlet Weather Rhapsody Story}}<br />
In ''[[Scarlet Weather Rhapsody]]'', Marisa is unable to dry her laundry due to the constant drizzle. Deciding something's wrong, she sets out to find the perpetrator.<br />
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;Touhou Hisoutensoku<br />
{{Main|Touhou Hisoutensoku/Translation/Cirno's Scenario#Stage 3|Touhou Hisoutensoku/Translation/Meiling's Scenario#Stage 3|l1=Touhou Hisoutensoku Cirno Arc|l2=Meiling Arc}}<br />
Marisa, not a main character, is only playable via selectable character to play with in ''[[Touhou Hisoutensoku]]''. In Cirno's scenario, Marisa is sitting in a hot spring when [[Cirno]] appears and asks her if she saw a [[Daidarabotchi]]. Marisa decides to give her a hard time and fights her. After Marisa was "surprisingly defeated", she points Cirno [[Underground Geyser Center|the wrong way]]. After Cirno comes back after a realisation, Marisa points that she saw a giant figure in the [[Forest of Magic]]. Even Marisa was interested in what the giant was. In Meiling's scenario, she doesn't actually appear here, to which is in fact a pseudo-Marisa who was sent by the [[Giant Catfish]] to [[assassin]]ate [[Hong Meiling]] in her dreams, but was defeated.<br />
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;''Double Spoiler''<br />
[[File:Marisa-FW.png|thumb|175px|Marisa in ''[[FW]]'', by [[Makoto Hirasaka]].]]<br />
In ''[[Double Spoiler]]'', Marisa appeared as a [[stage]] Ex target, where she uses a few [[spell card]]s and had [[Aya Shameimaru]] and [[Hatate Himekaidou]] take photos of her and her [[danmaku]].<br />
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;''Fairy Wars''<br />
[[File:Th128MarisaSprite.png|frame|Marisa's sprite in ''FW'']]<br />
:{{Main|Fairy Wars/Story/Extra|l1=Fairy Wars Marisa Arc}}<br />
Marisa appears as the Extra stage [[boss]] of ''[[Fairy Wars]]''. While Marisa is returning from a flower-viewing session, [[Cirno]] shows up and asks for a fight due to Aya suggesting that Cirno should fight a human. Marisa doesn't take the request very seriously at first, but she decides to fight using her non-deadly lasers. Surprisingly, Cirno puts up a good fight and actually manages to defeat Marisa, although Cirno appears to be defeated instead, even though Marisa was going easy on her. Marisa just heads back home after the fight to rest.<br />
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;''Hopeless Masquerade''<br />
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;''Impossible Spell Card''<br />
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:{{Main|Impossible Spell Card#Story|l1=Impossible Spell Card: Story}}<br />
After apparently reading the newspaper by the [[tengu]] about a mischief-making [[amanojaku]], she becomes one of the many strong [[youkai]] and [[human]]s to try and stop [[Seija Kijin]]. She uses [[spell card]]s that are considered impossible to dodge.<br />
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;''Urban Legend in Limbo''<br />
Marisa appears as a playable character in ''[[Urban Legend in Limbo]]''. She was originally shown on a leaflet with various urban Japanese youkai with a torch/flashlight as though she's telling a spooky story. In the scenario, she discovered a phenomenon at [[Kourindou]] and took its power as herselves. [[Reimu Hakurei]] finds Marisa and wanted her to taste some mushrooms for poison, but Marisa attacked her with occult power. Reimu was confused, seeing a bizarre ball of sort. <br />
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;''Antinomy of Common Flowers'' <br />
In ''[[Antinomy of Common Flowers]]'', Marisa suddenly finds herself posessed by [[Koishi Komeiji]]. Although neither seems to know how it happened, the duo decides to stick together and have fun with Perfect Posession. They wind up meeting the culprits of the incident, [[Joon Yorigami|Joon]] and [[Shion Yorigami]]. The disasterous sisters use their magic to exchange teammates, and Marisa is doomed to failure with Shion at her side.<br />
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Marisa's [[Dream World]] self appears in Joon and Shion's route, complaining that she never gets to play the lead role in incidents like [[Reimu Hakurei]] and [[Yukari Yakumo]] do.<br />
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;''Violet Detector''<br />
The [[Dream World]] Marisa appears in front of [[Sumireko Usami]] and, without explanation, tell her to attack her as "Otherwise, you'll never get out of here (refering to the Dream World)"<br />
;''Touhou Gouyoku Ibun''<br />
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===Seihou Project===<br />
[[File:Sh01Marisa.png|thumb|Marisa in ''[[Shuusou Gyoku]]''.]]<br />
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;''Shuusou Gyoku''<br />
{{Main|Shuusou Gyoku/Story/Extra Scenario|l1=Shuusou Gyoku: Extra Scenario}}<br />
[[File:Sh01MarisaSprite.png|frame|left|Marisa in ''SSG'']]<br />
Marisa made a guest appearance as the first Extra stage [[boss]] of ''[[Seihou Project]]''<nowiki>'</nowiki>s first work ''[[Shuusou Gyoku]]'', a [[danmaku]] game series by the doujin circle "[[Shunsatsu sare do?]]", to which [[ZUN]] contributed music. To add to this, [[Yuuka Kazami]] made a guest appearances in the next Seihou game, ''[[Kioh Gyoku]]''.<br />
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She seems to have no view towards the [[Seihou World]]; she doesn't know that there's no vegetation and has no thoughts about scientific machinery, but she's aware of what the [[Holy Grail]] is. Curious why [[VIVIT]] and her master [[Erich]] want the grail, she fights her, but is defeated. She was then thudded by [[Reimu Hakurei]] for fighting at the [[Hakurei Shrine]]. Her way of speech indicates that this appearance was between ''[[Mystic Square]]'' and ''[[Embodiment of Scarlet Devil]]''.<br />
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===Literature===<br />
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;''Curiosities of Lotus Asia'' <br />
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;''Eastern and Little Nature Deity''<br />
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;''Extra of the Wind'' <br />
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;''Seasonal Dream Vision/A Beautiful Flower Blooming Violet Every Sixty Years'' <br />
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;''Strange Bright Nature Deity'' <br />
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;''Memorizable Gensokyo'' <br />
Marisa, along with Reimu, visits [[Hieda no Akyuu]] in ''[[Memorizable Gensokyo]]''.<br />
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;''Perfect Memento in Strict Sense'' <br />
:{{Main|Perfect Memento in Strict Sense/Marisa Kirisame|l1=Perfect Memento in Strict Sense/Marisa Kirisame}}<br />
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;''Silent Sinner in Blue'' <br />
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;''Cage in Lunatic Runagate'' <br />
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;''Inaba of the Moon and Inaba of the Earth'' <br />
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;''Oriental Sacred Place'' <br />
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;''The Grimoire of Marisa'' <br />
Marisa Kirisame is the author of [[Grimoire of Marisa]], Inspired by [[Aya Shameimaru|a certain tengu's]] [[Shoot_the_Bullet/Translation/Afterword|notebook]]. She wrote down a [[danmaku]] grimoire researching the spell cards of others hoping to acquire hints for new magic or, failing that, at least be able to sell the book to a library for a pretty price. The grimoire itself contains her commentaries of various character's spell cards and some of her own as well as explanations of spell card types and danmaku types.<br />
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;''Wild and Horned Hermit'' <br />
In ''[[Wild and Horned Hermit]]'', Marisa regularly visits the [[Hakurei Shrine]] to talk about recent happenings, attending whatever festival happens at the time, or simply visiting Reimu. Marisa was the one who originally invited [[Kasen Ibaraki]] to visit the Hakurei Shrine more often, wishing to learn life extending techniques from the hermit, much to Reimu's reluctance.<br />
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In chapter 10, Marisa goes to the mountains to search for Hahakigi's Otherworld (actually Kasen's marker tree for her pet eagle, [[Kanda]]) and was caught in the middle of a blizzard. She ends up straying into Kasen's hidden residence by following Kanda on a whim. Despite the near death experience, she later tries to return to Kasen's house but ends up being attacked by Kasen's pet tiger after trying to kill it for its pelt.<br />
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In chapter 28, Marisa was found by Kasen in [[Former Hell]] wanting to see the underworld cherries. Kasen gave her a scolding and warned her against going there.<br />
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In chapter 34, due to Reimu seemingly having an illness caused by exhaustion (actually due to her pulling all-nighters reading books from [[Suzunaan]]), Marisa took it upon herself to cook rare food, such as [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Conium_maculatum hemlock] salad, to help Reimu regain her spirit. The success of her cooking is debatable. Later, after [[Sumireko Usami]] summoned a flying saucer to the shrine, Marisa and Kasen spots an Unidentified Flying Object in the sky.<br />
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In chapter 41, prior to the events of ''[[Hidden Star in Four Seasons]]'', it was Marisa who warned Reimu that an incident is happening.<br />
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;''Forbidden Scrollery'' <br />
Marisa is a main character in ''[[Forbidden Scrollery]]''. In the first chapter she was the one who explained about Youma books to Reimu and reporting its appearance in [[Suzunaan]]. Afterwards she is shown frequently visiting Suzunaan and the human village, either for her own needs or to resolve incidents with Reimu or on her own.<br />
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She has a winter outfit unique to Forbidden Scrollery, consisting of a black coat over a white frilly skirt.<br />
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;''Strange Creators of Outer World'' <br />
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;''Visionary Fairies in Shrine'' <br />
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;''Alternative Facts in Eastern Utopia''<br />
:{{Main|Alternative Facts in Eastern Utopia/Essay/Marisa Kirisame|l1=Marisa Kirisame's Lucky Danmaku Horoscope}} <br />
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;''The Grimoire of Usami'' <br />
In the ''[[The Grimoire of Usami]]'' Marisa participated as one of the judges in the danmaku contest, hoping it would help with her danmaku research. After [[Seija Kijin]] and [[Shinmyoumaru Sukuna]] crashes the festival, Marisa was forced to leave the judge's seat to defend the audience along with the other judges.<br />
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;''Cheating Detective Satori'' <br />
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;''Lotus Eaters'' <br />
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;''Bohemian Archive in Japanese Red''<br />
:{{Main|Bohemian Archive in Japanese Red/Marisa|l1=Bohemian Archive in Japanese Red Article and Interview: Marisa}}<br />
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;''Symposium of Post-mysticism''<br />
[[File:ThGKPartI.png|thumb|200px|Marisa with Kanako & Miko in ''SoPm'']]<br />
:{{Main|Symposium of Post-mysticism/Kakashi Spirit News 4|l1=Symposium of Post-mysticism Article: Marisa}}<br />
In ''[[Symposium of Post-mysticism]]'', Marisa acts as the moderator for the symposium that involve [[Kanako Yasaka]], [[Byakuren Hijiri]], and [[Toyosatomimi no Miko]]. She'll usually start off a question to a discussion and will sometimes make her own comments. She also appeared in an article that's dedicated to a fight against [[Cirno]] which happened in ''[[Fairy Wars]]''. This made [[Hatate Himekaidou]] worried of how much stronger [[human]]s have become.<br />
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==Relationships==<br />
Marisa has met a major amount of [[characters]] that have appeared within the ''[[Touhou Project]]''.<br />
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===Reimu Hakurei===<br />
[[File:GoMIllus-Reimu.jpg|thumb|192px|Reimu and Marisa fighting, as illustrated in ''[[The Grimoire of Marisa]]''.]]<br />
[[File:SSiBArtWallpaper1.jpg|thumb|192px|Reimu and Marisa, in ''[[Silent Sinner in Blue]]''.]] In many of the print works, such as [[Silent Sinner in Blue]], [[Wild and Horned Hermit]], [[Forbidden Scrollery]], and others, Reimu and Marisa are practically inseparable, with Marisa frequently sleeping over at the Hakurei Shrine, and the pair of them eating meals, investigating incidents, throwing parties, and engaging in many of the routines of daily life together. Although it was originally Reimu's job to solely handle incidents involving youkai and the [[Human Village]], Marisa has taken on many of the responsibilities as well, especially in recent years.<br />
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They met in [[Story of Eastern Wonderland]], and Marisa seemed to immediately take an interest in Reimu. Throughout the rest of the [[PC-98]] era, Marisa often hangs around the [[Hakurei Shrine]], much like she does in the Windows era.<br />
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Occasionally, Reimu and Marisa will engage in a duel, such as in Stage 4 of [[Imperishable Night]], or in the fighting games such as [[Antimony of Common Flowers]]. Generally, in her fights with Reimu, Marisa wins about 40% of the time.<ref name="CoLACh19">''[[Curiosities of Lotus Asia]]'': Chapter 19</ref> She was initially jealous of how Reimu never does any training and yet remains strong due to her innate connection to the spiritual world as a shrine maiden, but has since developed her own techniques to match Reimu's. In such regards to Reimu's immense powers, Marisa named and added a time limit to one of Reimu's signature spells, ''Fantasy Nature''<ref>''[[The Grimoire of Marisa]]'': [[The Grimoire of Marisa/Reimu Hakurei's Spell Cards|Reimu Hakurei's Spell Cards]]</ref>. She is a peace-keeper of Gensokyo alongside Reimu, aside from a few practical jokes now and then. <br />
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===Alice Margatroid===<br />
[[Alice Margatroid]] is a fellow magician of the [[Forest of Magic]]. They were partners in ''[[Imperishable Night]]'', and she also supported Marisa in ''[[Subterranean Animism]]''. They first fought during the events of ''[[Mystic Square]]'', and later in ''[[Perfect Cherry Blossom]]''.<br />
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She seems to have a rivalry of sorts with Marisa, with the two often insulting and fighting each other, yet teaming up on several occasions. For all the bickering the two go through, they seem to be close friends, as Alice once recommended Marisa's shop to the [[Three Fairies of Light]] when they needed some [[youkai]] extermination.<br />
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===Residents of the [[Scarlet Devil Mansion]]===<br />
The residents of the mansion are fully aware of Marisa sneaking into the magic library. They generally look the other way, but various incidents and win quotes from the fighting games show that they'll fight Marisa in a duel if they actually catch her in the act. At other times, they'll simply leave her be, such as the mansion's private moon viewing party, or Marisa's endings in ''[[Embodiment of Scarlet Devil]]'', where Sakuya even plays along with her, either serving her food or helping to conceal her from [[Remilia Scarlet]]. She's on friendly enough terms that she can walk in without any issue from most of the residents, even if she steals things.<br />
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;Patchouli Knowledge<br />
[[Patchouli Knowledge]] is one of the victims of Marisa's burglary, often having books from her library stolen. Despite that, she was supporting Marisa in ''[[Subterranean Animism]]'', and they seemed to be on rather good terms. <br />
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;Flandre Scarlet<br />
In ''[[Perfect Memento in Strict Sense]]'', Marisa commented, "sometimes when I sneak into the Scarlet Devil Mansion, I run into the little sister. I had to slip by without drawin' her attention, but after goin' through all that to get into the place, I was hopin' I wouldn't run into her." <br />
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===Rinnosuke Morichika===<br />
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[[Rinnosuke Morichika]] worked for Marisa's father at his shop as an apprentice in the Human Village before leaving to start [[Kourindou]] over eleven years ago before Marisa was born, and he's known her since she was small. Judging from [[Curiosities of Lotus Asia]]'s 22nd chapter, she must have known him in person since at least around 2001, and the 6th chapter shows that Marisa once eavesdropped on a conversation between Rinnosuke and her father during one of Rinnosuke's rare visits to the Kirisame residence when she was "very young". Marisa thinks Rinnosuke is stiff with her because of her family, but the truth is Rinnosuke keeps his guard up with her because he doesn't want her to suspect when he's lying to her, particularly when it comes to her paying Rinnosuke with items that she collects. <br />
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Rinnosuke sees Marisa as something of an annoyance, as she often imposes herself on him and takes what she likes from the store. In return, Marisa views Rinnosuke as being clueless and unable to admit that he doesn't understand many of the Outside World objects he identifies as part of his role at [[Kourindou]]. Despite that, they're still on friendly terms. He also created and later gave her the mini-[[hakkero]]. She's also the only one to call him by his nickname "Kourin", signifying either familiarity or Marisa's trademark impolite nature.<br />
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Because of Marisa's collecting habits, Rinnosuke is often able to get valuable things she picks up for quite cheap, either because Marisa is unaware of its true value, or she has no need for it. However, he does feel somewhat bad about it.<ref name="cola7">[[Curiosities of Lotus Asia/Chapter 07|Curiosities of Lotus Asia: Chapter 7]]</ref><br />
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===Nitori Kawashiro===<br />
[[Nitori Kawashiro]] knows Marisa from the events of ''[[Mountain of Faith]]'', and fancies herself as a friend of Marisa's. She was a support character option in ''[[Subterranean Animism]]''. Nitori herself has a fondness for humans, and Marisa has a respect for technology, and the pair of them get along well enough because of it. Nitori and her fellow [[kappa]] are seen working with Marisa in ''[[Wild and Horned Hermit]]'', possibly for mutual business purposes.<br />
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===Mima===<br />
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In the PC-98 games, Marisa is subservient to [[Mima]]. She admires her greatly, boasting that "Lady Mima cannot be beaten" in ''Story of Eastern Wonderland''<nowiki>'s omake</nowiki> and apologizing to her when defeated by [[Reimu Hakurei]]. Mima is currently the only character to be addressed honorifically by Marisa. Additionally, she takes some inspiration from Mima, sharing her attack patterns using magical orbs (as well as using them in her ''Orreries Sun'' spell card) and using illusionary wings similar to hers in ''Phantasmagoria of Dim.Dream''. However, they are never shown to engage in conversation with one another on-screen (the closest to it being Mima telling Marisa to "train harder" in ''[[Phantasmagoria of Dim.Dream]]'' and Marisa's cheerfulness when she defeats her). ZUN doesn't answer any questions regarding their relationship, but says that Marisa's attitude towards Mima is easy to understand.<ref>[[ZUN's reply to messages on the former Gensou Bulletin Board 3]]</ref> <br />
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===Three Fairies of Light===<br />
The [[Three Fairies of Light]] live in the [[Forest of Magic]], and knew about Marisa before they'd formally met. Originally, Marisa considered the three fairies to be normal, unremarkable fairies when Marisa caught them playing pranks on Reimu and herself. However, after the fairies became Marisa's first customers at her shop where she liberated their house from [[Tsuchinoko]], Marisa and the three fairies took a liking to each other, and became friendly acquaintances.<br />
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Eventually, Marisa began to join in on their games and sometimes even play pranks on them. The fairies refer to her by her first name, showing familiarity, and are close enough to her that they'll actually cling to her for warmth in the winter. In ''[[Strange and Bright Nature Deity]]'', under the influence of alcohol, Marisa had the three fairies physically hanging off of and clinging to her for protection. Reimu seemed a bit perplexed at this sight, and started referring to them as "those fairies" that Marisa always had hanging around. Marisa and the fairies sometimes team up to play pranks on Reimu as well. In general, the fairies are very friendly towards Marisa, and now see her as their "guardian" of sorts. They are mainly friendly since Marisa doesn't show hostility to them.<br />
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Marisa is initially unable to see the fairies' house. To all [[human]]s, fairy homes appear to be normal trees, even if they're actual houses from a fairy's point of view. However, for unexplained reasons, by the time of ''[[Oriental Sacred Place]]'', she's able to detect which tree is their new house simply by looking at it from a distance. Marisa herself seems surprised she can do this, given it's not something "ordinary humans" are typically capable of, even those with a sense of magic. She gives the fairies a cheerful nod and keeps it a secret from Reimu, who was attempting to find their house to evict them.<br />
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Marisa also appeared in Sangetsusei's supplementary shooting game ''[[Fairy Wars]]'' as one of the bosses.<br />
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===Kirisame Family===<br />
Marisa's family runs a large second-hand shop in the [[Human Village]], called the "Kirisame Shop".<ref name="CoLACh19" /> Marisa has broken off relations with her family, and avoids everything related to them. She says to [[Rinnosuke Morichika]] that she'll never go back to them, and refuses to entertain the idea.<ref name="CoLACh07">''[[Curiosities of Lotus Asia]]'': Chapter 7</ref><br />
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In ''[[Perfect Memento in Strict Sense]]'', it's stated that her family is a private matter and the details are unclear. The book also hypothesizes that since the Kirisame Shop doesn't handle things related to magic items, it may be one reason why Marisa left. What the Kirisame Shop actually sells and the organisation of the family haven't been made clear. Due to this, her family has been an area of wide speculation. However, [[Marisa's unnamed father|her father]] has been confirmed to visit [[Kourindou]] on rare occasion. None of her family members have been mentioned by name.<br />
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===Minor Relationships===<br />
;[[Satori Komeiji]] and [[Koishi Komeiji]]<br />
After the events of ''[[Subterranean Animism]]'' in her scenarios with Nitori Kawashiro and Patchouli Knowledge, Marisa impressed Koishi enough with her strength that she's allowed to come and play at the [[Palace of Earth Spirits]] at any time. She may say she's a friend of Satori to get everyone down there to leave her alone, because all the underground [[youkai]] hate Satori. Although Marisa and Satori tend to put each other at unease at times, Marisa looks forward to being able to go underground whenever she wants to.<br />
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;Mimi-chan<br />
In the [[PC-98]] [[canon]], Marisa is [[Mimi-chan]]'s owner, and thinks Mimi's cute. She knows that Mimi-chan's a weapon from [[Yumemi Okazaki]]'s world, but has no idea how to use her, and thus rides on Mimi. If she knew anything about how a intercontinental ballistic missile works, she probably wouldn't be doing so.<br />
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;[[Tsuchinoko]]<br />
Marisa took in Tsuchinoko as a pet in ''[[Strange and Bright Nature Deity]]'' chapter 10. She thinks he's too cute to exterminate, and doesn't see why a human couldn't keep [[youkai]] as pets.<br />
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;[[Byakuren Hijiri]]<br />
Byakuren is a [[magician]], much like Marisa, although is much more experienced and has become a youkai while Marisa has yet to do so. Despite an initial disagreement and misunderstanding over the status of youkai and humans in the Marisa A ending of ''[[Undefined Fantastic Object]]'', Byakuren liked Marisa's direct personality, and in thanks for Marisa's help in breaking the seal, instructed [[Minamitsu Murasa]] to take Marisa to and from [[Makai]] whenever Marisa wanted. She also told Marisa that, as a magician, she could come see Byakuren if she ever had any trouble. It's unknown if the [[Palanquin Ship]]'s conversion into a temple affected the arrangement.<br />
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==Gallery==<br />
===Covers===<br />
<gallery><br />
File:Th02cover.jpg|Cover of ''[[Story of Eastern Wonderland]]'', featuring Reimu, Marisa & Mima<br />
File:Th03cover.jpg|Cover of ''[[Phantasmagoria of Dim.Dream]]'', featuring Reimu & others<br />
File:Th04cover.jpg|Cover of ''[[Lotus Land Story]]'', featuring Reimu & Marisa<br />
File:Curiosities of lotus asia 03 01.jpg|Reimu on the chapter 3 cover of ''[[Curiosities of Lotus Asia]]''<br />
File:064.jpg|Marisa on the chapter 20 cover of ''Curiosities of Lotus Asia''<br />
File:Cage in Lunatic Runagate CH6 09.jpg|Marisa in ''[[Cage in Lunatic Runagate]]''<br />
File:Seasonal dream vision 000a.png|Marisa on the cover of ''[[Seasonal Dream Vision]]''<br />
File:ThGSCover.jpg|Marisa on the cover of ''[[Perfect Memento in Strict Sense]]''<br />
File:GoM Cover.jpg|Marisa on the cover of ''[[The Grimoire of Marisa]]''<br />
File:WaHH2 Cover.jpg|Marisa on the Vol. 2 cover of ''[[Wild and Horned Hermit]]''<br />
File:FSNormalCover3.jpg|Marisa on the Vol. 3 cover of ''[[Forbidden Scrollery]]''<br />
File:FS Tankebon3 cover.jpg|Marisa on the Vol. 3 special cover of ''Forbidden Scrollery''<br />
File:Touhou Suichouka - Sample Cover.jpg|Marisa on the melonbooks sample cover of ''[[Lotus Eaters]]''<br />
File:Touhou Suichouka - Comp Ace Cover.jpg|Marisa on the chapter 1 cover of ''Lotus Eaters''<br />
File:Touhou Suichouka - Alternative Cover.jpg|Marisa on the chapter 1 special cover of ''Lotus Eaters''<br />
File:ThGI1cover.jpg|Marisa in the ''[[Strange Creators of Outer World]]'' Vol. 1 cover<br />
File:ThGI2cover.jpg|Marisa in the ''Strange Creators of Outer World'' Vol. 2 cover<br />
File:ThGI3Cover.jpg|Marisa in the ''Strange Creators of Outer World'' Vol. 3 cover<br />
File:ThGI4Cover.jpg|Marisa in the ''Strange Creators of Outer World'' Vol. 4 cover<br />
File:TGI5cover.jpg|Marisa in the ''Strange Creators of Outer World'' Vol. 5 cover<br />
File:ThGI6.jpg|Marisa in the ''Strange Creators of Outer World'' Vol. 6 cover<br />
File:ThGI7.jpg|Marisa in the ''Strange Creators of Outer World'' Vol. 7 cover<br />
File:ThGI8.jpg|Marisa in the ''Strange Creators of Outer World'' Vol. 8 cover<br />
File:GoU_cover.jpg|Marisa in ''[[The Grimoire of Usami]]''<br />
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===Artworks===<br />
<gallery><br />
File:Th06Marisa2.png|Marisa artwork from ''[[Embodiment of Scarlet Devil]]''<br />
File:Th07Marisa3.png|Marisa artwork from ''[[Perfect Cherry Blossom]]''<br />
File:Th075Marisa.png|Marisa artwork from ''[[Immaterial and Missing Power]]''<br />
File:Th08MarisaKirisame.png|Marisa artwork from ''[[Imperishable Night]]''<br />
File:Th09Marisa.png|Marisa artwork from ''[[Phantasmagoria of Flower View]]''<br />
File:Th09FullMarisa.png|Marisa artwork from ''Phantasmagoria of Flower View''<br />
File:Th09MarisaAlt.png|Alternate outfit from ''Phantasmagoria of Flower View''<br />
File:Th10Marisa2.png|Marisa artwork from ''[[Mountain of Faith]]''<br />
File:Th105Marisa.png|Marisa artwork from ''[[Scarlet Weather Rhapsody]]''<br />
File:Th11Marisa.png|Marisa artwork from ''[[Subterranean Animism]]''<br />
File:Th12Marisa.png|Marisa artwork from ''[[Undefined Fantastic Object]]''<br />
File:01Marisa2.png|Marisa artwork from ''[[Touhou Hisoutensoku]]''<br />
File:Th128Marisaspellface.png|Marisa artwork from ''[[Fairy Wars]]''<br />
File:Th13Marisa.png|Marisa artwork from ''[[Ten Desires]]''<br />
File:01Marisa1.png|Marisa artwork from ''[[Hopeless Masquerade]]''<br />
File:Th14Marisa.png|Marisa artwork from ''[[Double Dealing Character]]''<br />
File:Th145Marisa2.png|Marisa artwork from ''[[Urban Legend in Limbo]]''<br />
File:Th15Marisa.png|Marisa artwork from ''[[Legacy of Lunatic Kingdom]]''<br />
File:Th155Marisa.png|Marisa artwork from ''[[Antinomy of Common Flowers]]''<br />
File:Th16Marisa.png|Marisa artwork from ''[[Hidden Star in Four Seasons]]''<br />
File:Th17Marisa.png|Marisa artwork from ''[[Wily Beast and Weakest Creature]]''<br />
File:CoLAMarisafull.jpg|Marisa in ''Curiosities of Lotus Asia''<br />
File:Th175Marisa.png|Marisa artwork from ''[[Touhou Gouyoku Ibun]]''<br />
File:GIMarisaBattle.png|Marisa's pre-battle portrait from ''Touhou Gouyoku Ibun''<br />
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===Sprites===<br />
<gallery><br />
File:Th123MarisaColors.png|Marisa's different color palettes from ''Touhou Hisoutensoku''. The middle top corresponds to her second color palette in ''Scarlet Weather Rhapsody'', while the right top corresponds to her ''Immaterial and Missing Power'' palette<br />
File:Th155MarisaColors.png|Marisa's different color palettes. The first 5 color palettes are seen in ''Hopeless Masquerade'', the 6th to 13th are seen in both ''Urban Legend in Limbo'' and ''Antinomy of Common Flowers'', while the last two were added in ''Antinomy of Common Flowers'' v1.10<br />
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===Illustrations===<br />
<gallery><br />
File:019Marisa.JPG|Illustration of Marisa in ''[[Bohemian Archive in Japanese Red]]''<br />
File:SSiBArtChapter111.jpg|Marisa in ''[[Silent Sinner in Blue]]''<br />
File:SSiBpencilboard.jpg|Marisa in ''Silent Sinner in Blue''<br />
File:MOFI8.jpg|Illustration by ''[[TOKIAME]]'' for ''[[Chara☆Mel]]''<br />
File:GoMIllus-Marisa.jpg|Marisa illustration in ''The Grimoire of Marisa''<br />
File:Th145cover.jpg|Marisa on the leaflet of ''Urban Legend in Limbo''<br />
File:Touhou Suichouka - Chapter 1 Illustration.jpg|Marisa in the chapter 1 illustration of ''Lotus Eaters''<br />
File:Marisa Whos Who.png|Marisa from ''[[Who's Who of Humans & Youkai - Dusk Edition]]''<br />
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===Screenshots===<br />
<gallery><br />
File:ELNDCH0Marisa.jpg|Marisa in ''[[Eastern and Little Nature Deity]]''<br />
File:EotWMarisa.jpg|Marisa in ''[[Extra of the Wind]]''<br />
File:IMIEMarisaReimu.png|Marisa cameo in ''[[Inaba of the Moon & Inaba of the Earth]]''<br />
File:SSIBCH9MarisaParty.jpg|Marisa party outfit in ''Silent Sinner in Blue''<br />
File:SSIBCH21MarisaSwimsuit.jpg|Marisa with swimsuit in ''Silent Sinner in Blue''<br />
File:Th175 SS1.jpg|Reimu and Marisa in ''[[Touhou Gouyoku Ibun]]''.<br />
File:OSPCH4MarisaCostume.jpg|Marisa pumpkin costume in ''[[Oriental Sacred Place]]''<br />
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===Others===<br />
<gallery><br />
File:163BAiJRMarisa.jpg|Sketch of Marisa from ''Bohemian Archive in Japanese Red''<br />
File:GoMSigil-Marisa.jpg|Marisa's sigil from ''The Grimoire of Marisa''<br />
File:Th123MarisaSigil.png|Marisa's sigil from ''Touhou Hisoutensoku''<br />
File:Marisa_omikuji.jpg|Omikuji with Marisa's portrait made by ZUN for [[Reitaisai]] 15<br />
File:AFiEUMarisaAd1.jpg|Marisa's Magic broom ad from ''[[Alternative Facts in Eastern Utopia]]''<br />
File:AFiEUMarisaAd2.jpg|Marisa's business ad from ''Alternative Facts in Eastern Utopia''<br />
File:MARISA_OP_max.png|depiction of Marisa's ''[[Mini-Hakkero]]'' in one of the Ability Cards from ''[[Unconnected Marketeers]]''<br />
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==Skills==<br />
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==Spell Cards==<br />
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{{#lsth:List of Spell Cards/Touhou Project 1|[[Marisa Kirisame]]}}<br />
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==Additional Information==<br />
*Marisa's face was shown on most of the [[Windows]] game icons on the <tt>.exe</tt> files. This excludes the spin-off fighters, ''[[Double Spoiler]]'', ''[[Fairy Wars]]'', ''[[Impossible Spell Card]]'' and ''[[Violet Detector]]''.<br />
*Marisa is the second most frequent character to appear in the ''[[Touhou Project]]'' games after Reimu. This is because the two appeared in every game, but Marisa didn't appear in ''[[Highly Responsive to Prayers]]'' and ''[[Gold Rush]]'', which Reimu did. Various exceptions would show to change these statistics such as ''[[Shoot the Bullet]]'', in which both characters didn't appear (but Marisa was used on the .exe's icon), but the two appeared in an afterword story, and ''[[Fairy Wars]]'' had only Marisa, but Reimu was still shown in a cameo.<br />
*Marisa has seven theme musics (excluding remixes), making her the character with the most theme songs.<br />
*Marisa has appeared on the covers of ''[[Story of Eastern Wonderland]]'', ''[[Phantasmagoria of Dim.Dream]]'', and ''[[Lotus Land Story]]'', as well as on the poster for ''[[Urban Legend in Limbo]]''.<br />
*According to [[Rinnosuke Morichika]], Marisa was inspired to use star-themed magic after a meteor shower viewing party around the year 2001. Marisa's strategy guide in ''Story of Eastern Wonderland''<nowiki>'</nowiki>s omake says her third attack uses star magic, but she only starts to use star magic as her main motif beginning with ''[[Phantasmagoria of Dim.Dream]]''. This would imply that the last 3 PC-98 games don't take place in their release years.<br />
*According to [[Hieda no Akyuu]], Marisa may become a youkai magician like [[Alice Margatroid]] due to the high amount of magic she possesses.<ref name="gumon_117-120" /> In ''Imperishable Night'', she did express interest in immortality and eternal youth.<br />
*Marisa may be somewhat of a mathematical genius; in ''[[Mountain of Faith]]'' she utters the line "I could recite all the digits in pi before I got there." However, considering that pi has a literally infinite number of digits which never end or repeat in any pattern, it's likely just an expression to say "at this rate I'll never get there."<br />
*Marisa holds the distinction of being one of the very few characters in any Touhou game who's known to have a living family.<br />
*In ''[[Imperishable Night]]'', Marisa survives looking at the full [[moon]], which should drive normal [[human]]s insane. When Alice asks if she's alright, she says that it's alright since she's insane to begin with. She might well be joking, since [[Reimu Hakurei]] maintains her sanity looking at the full moon too. It could be that humans who are strong-willed enough can overcome that influence.<br />
*In both ''[[Mountain of Faith]]'' and ''[[Subterranean Animism]]'', Marisa lacks her signature bomb move, Master Spark. She regains her Master Spark as a bomb in the following game ''[[Undefined Fantastic Object]]''.<br />
*One of her alternate palettes in ''[[Touhou Hisoutensoku]]'' resembles [[Ellen]] from ''[[Phantasmagoria of Dim.Dream]]''.<br />
*One of her alternate palettes in ''[[Hopeless Masquerade]]'' resembles her PC-98 outfit.<br />
*Marisa was first seen using a wand in ''[[Story of Eastern Wonderland]]'', ''[[Phantasmagoria of Dim.Dream]]'', and ''[[Lotus Land Story]]''. She's not seen with a wand again until ''Undefined Fantastic Object'', which is so far the only [[Windows]] game where she's seen with one.<br />
*Marisa seems knowledgeable about species not native to Japan such as the [[wikipedia:Beaver|beaver]] in Chapter 4 of ''[[Wild and Horned Hermit]]'' and the [[wikipedia:Rafflesia|rafflesia]] in Chapter 14 of ''[[Oriental Sacred Place]]''.<br />
*When introducing herself or asked who she is, Marisa often blatantly lies that she's the [[shrine maiden]] Reimu Hakurei.<br />
*Marisa has copied one of Patchouli's attacks and named it ''Love Sign "Non-Directional Laser"''. <br />
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==Fandom==<br />
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==Official Profiles==<br />
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| image = [[File:Th03Marisa.png|200px|Marisa Kirisame]][[File:Th03MarisaAlt.png|200px|Alternate outfit]]<br />
| text = ★ 魔法と紅夢からなる存在 ・・・ 霧雨 魔理沙<br />
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魅魔を「魅魔様」と慕う、天下無敵の魔法使い。(なにが無敵かはさておき)こちらは普通の人間である。ただ、ちょっとばかし強力な魔法が使えるごく普通の少女である。魔法使いなので、基本的にかなり頭が良い。が、世の中をひねた見方をしたり、「人間どもめが!!」ってコバルト爆弾を爆発させたりは、しません。<br />
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今回は、夢幻遺跡からもれてくる魔力にひかれている。<br />
| translation = '''A Being made of Magic and Red Dream - Marisa Kirisame'''<br />
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The unstoppable magician that longs for [[Mima]] and calls her "Mima-sama" (Which part of her is unstoppable, don't ask.) She's quite an ordinary human girl, who can just control some devastating magic. As is the nature of a magician, she's very intelligent, but does ''not'' act cynically nor sets off a Cobalt Bomb while shouting "You insolent [[human]]!!"<br />
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This time, she is interested in the magic power flowing out of the Fantastic Ruins.<br />
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{{Profile Quote<br />
| image = [[File:Th04marisa.png|200px|Marisa Kirisame]]<br />
| text = ★ 魔法と紅夢からなる存在 ・・・ 霧雨 魔理沙<br />
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魔法使いだが普通の少女である。多少自信過剰ぎみっぽいが、その自信に合うだけの力もそれなりに持っている。<br />
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非常に頭が良く、強い力に執着するけど、まだまだ子供。普段なにやってるかは不明(笑)<br />
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靈夢よりみためが子供っぽいが(靈夢も子供っぽいが)、歳は同じ位。<br />
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二人とも、ちょっとどこかがずれている様な・・・<br />
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| translation = '''A Being made of Magic and Red Dream - Marisa Kirisame'''<br />
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She's an ordinary girl, even though she's a magician. Her personality is somewhat self-confident, but she has enough power to support her confidence too.<br />
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She's very intelligent, and is looking for power, but is still a child. What she does in her daily life is unknown.<br />
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She looks even younger than [[Reimu Hakurei|Reimu]], but their ages are very close.<br />
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I think they both are a bit off from average...<br />
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{{Profile Quote<br />
| image = [[File:Th05marisa1.png|Marisa Kirisame]]<br />
| text = 霧雨 魔理沙(きりさめまりさ) ・・ 魔法使いさん<br />
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魔法使いだが普通の少女である。多少自信過剰ぎみっぽいが、その自信に合うだけの力もそれなりに持っている。<br />
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非常に頭が良く、強い力に執着するけど、まだまだ子供。普段なにやってるかは不明(笑)。実は努力家。<br />
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靈夢とは異なった行動原理をもっている様である。<br />
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| translation = '''Marisa Kirisame - A Magician'''<br />
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She's an ordinary girl, even though she's a magician. Her personality is somewhat self-confident, but has enough power to support her confidence too.<br />
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She's very intelligent, and is looking for power, but is still a child. What she does in her daily life is unknown. In fact, she's a hard worker.<br />
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Apparently she has different standards of behavior from [[Reimu Hakurei|Reimu]].<br />
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| image = [[File:Sh01Marisa.png|Marisa Kirisame]]<br />
| text = ・紅夢の魔法使い 霧雨 魔理沙(キリサメ マリサ)<br />
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東方に住み着く魔法少女。力に執着し、力を誇示する自信家で、いつも闘う相手を探しては、難癖を付けて遊ぶ女の子。しかし実は努力家でその力は隠れて修行したものである。修行を全然しないくせに才能だけで強い霊夢に妬みを持つこともあり、いつもいじめたりする。その実、魔理沙は霊夢がいないとつまんなくて死んでしまう位、仲がよい。<br />
| translation = '''Magician of Red Dreams Marisa Kirisame'''<br />
<br />
A magical girl living in the east. She's a girl who's attached to power, confident enough to like showing off her power, and is always looking for someone to fight with and someone to mock.<br />
<br />
However, the truth is she's a hard worker and her power is the result of her secret training.<br />
<br />
Because of this, she often gets jealous of Reimu who never trains but still exceeds Marisa with her talent alone, and always tries to get in Reimu's way.<br />
<br />
Surprisingly, Marisa is very attached to Reimu at the same time, so much that she'd die of boredom without her.<br />
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| text = ○奇妙な魔法使い 霧雨 魔理沙(キリサメマリサ)<br />
<br />
魔法使いの宿命として、人々の生活から離れて暮らしている少女。<br /><br />
基本的に、頭は切れるが、それを自分の生活に生かしていない。<br /><br />
人間が忘れ去ろうとしている存在なので、自分から人間に干渉しようとはしない。好きなことをやっていれば満足なのである。<br /><br />
中でも、霊夢が大好物(?)なので、ちょくちょく遊びに行っている。<br />
<br />
武器は魔法。人生全てが遊びなのである。<br />
| translation = '''The Strange Magician, Marisa Kirisame'''<br />
<br />
A girl who lives in isolation from other people, as is the fate of a magician. <br><br />
Basically, her wits are sharp, but she generally does not make the best use of them in her daily life. <br><br />
As a being whom humans are going to forget about, she is not going to interfere with them willingly. She's content doing the things she likes. <br><br />
Above all else, [[Reimu Hakurei|Reimu]] is her favorite thing<ref>The word used here is 大好物 (daikoubutsu). It literally means "favorite thing", but usually refers to "favorite food". The word is seldom used to describe a person. Because of ZUN's "(?)", it appears the line was made to be purposefully ambiguous.</ref> (?), so she often goes out to play with her. <br />
<br />
Her weapons are magic. They make everything in life play.<br />
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| text = ○奇妙な魔法使い<br />
<br />
霧雨 魔理沙(きりさめ・まりさ)<br />
<br />
能力:魔法を操る程度の能力<br />
<br />
こちらも主人公です。この二人は東方シリーズの主人公です。<br />
<br />
魔理沙は、性格がひねくれてますが、ほんとの所も性格悪いです。<br /><br />
人間のはずですが人間から遠いところに存在しています。本当に人間なのか疑わしいところですが、実は人間です。<br />
<br />
今回はエプロンのようなもの着けて、魔法使いだかなんだか分からなくなっていますね。<br />
| translation = '''The Strange Magician'''<br />
<br />
'''Marisa Kirisame'''<br />
<br />
Ability: Manipulation of magic<br />
<br />
This girl is also one of the protagonists. These two (Marisa and [[Reimu Hakurei|Reimu]]) are the heroines of the [[Touhou]] series.<br />
<br />
Marisa has a very contrarian, uncooperative personality, and she really is a pretty bad person. <br><br />
Although she's [[human]], she remains distant from other humans. It's questionable as to whether she really is human, but she is.<br />
<br />
This time she's wearing something resembling an apron, so it's hard to tell if she's a magician or what.<br />
}}<br />
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| text = ○普通の魔法使い 霧雨 魔理沙(きりさめまりさ)<br />
<br />
普通の少女。寒いと(服を着込む為)若干能力が低下する。<br />
<br />
魔法の力を世に役立たない方向で使用する事を生甲斐とする。環境にも易しい。<br />
<br />
最近の一番の大魔法は、自宅の地下に温泉脈を召喚し床暖房の代わりにした事。<br />
<br />
実は努力家であり、また蒐集家でもある。<br />
<br />
霧雨邸には、どこからくすねて来たのか貴重なグリモワール(魔導書)や、マジックアイテムが所狭しと並んでいる。が、使おうとはしない。<br />
<br />
<br />
武器は魔法。さしあたって今の目標は、丹の生成。<br />
<br />
<br />
両武器とも、威力面では申し分ない。<br><br />
唯一の高速キャラ。<br />
<br />
「マジックナパーム」は動きの激しい敵<br><br />
にはあまり効果的ではない。<br />
<br />
恋符の「イリュージョンレーザー」は<br><br />
残像にも攻撃判定があり、途切れる<br><br />
ことが無い為割と使い勝手がよい。<br />
<br />
なお、「マスタースパーク」は安定した<br><br />
最大ダメージが与えられるボムで<br><br />
強い。<br />
<br />
| translation = '''Ordinary Magician, Marisa Kirisame'''<br />
<br />
An ordinary girl. The cold weather (or rather, the extra layers of clothing) weakens her abilities somewhat.<br />
<br />
Her motivation in life is developing uses for magic that aren't beneficial to society. Also eco-friendly, too.<br />
<br />
One of her recent great magic spells summoned a hot spring vein underneath her house to use as a floor-heating device.<br />
<br />
She's actually a hard worker, as well as an avid collector.<br />
<br />
There are many precious grimoires and other magic items she has collected from all sorts of places all around her house. However, she doesn't use them.<br />
<br />
Magic is her weapon. For the time being, her aim is to create a new elixir.<br />
<br />
:Both of her [[spell card]] types are certainly not lacking in damage. She's also the character with the highest speed.<br />
:"Magic Napalm" isn't very effective against moving targets.<br />
:Love Sign's "Illusion Laser" continues to hit enemies with its afterimage, so it's easy to continuously damage the enemy, making it quite useful.<br />
:Also, "Master Spark" is a powerful bomb that can deal the highest damage with good stability.<br />
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| text = ○普通の黒魔術師<br />
<br />
霧雨 魔理沙(きりさめ まりさ)<br />
<br />
主に魔法を使う程度の能力を持つ。<br />
<br />
幻想郷に住む、ちょっと普通な魔法使い。蒐集癖を持つ。<br /><br />
年々、蒐集癖が酷くなっていく気がする。<br />
<br />
滅多に人を招き入れる事の無い霧雨邸は、幻想郷の森(通称 魔法の森)の中にある。こぢんまりとした建物である。<br /><br />
建物の中は、とてつもなく雑然としていて、地震でもあればアイテムの雪崩に押しつぶされそうである。<br />
<br />
マジックアイテムは一箇所に集めると、それぞれが干渉して性質を弱めたり強めたり、また、別の性質を持つ事がある。この家には魔理沙も知らない力を持ったアイテムが眠っているかもしれない。<br />
<br />
ちなみに、冬にこもって製作していた丹は、ちょっと大きすぎて飲み込めなかったようである。要改良。<br />
| translation = '''An Ordinary Black Magician'''<br />
<br />
'''Marisa Kirisame'''<br />
<br />
Mainly she possesses the ability to use magic.<br />
<br />
A bit of an ordinary [[magician]] living in [[Gensokyo]]. She has a mania for collecting things.<br />
<br />
It looks like her mania for collecting things is getting more serious after each year.<br />
<br />
Her house, which she rarely invites anyone into by the way, is located in the forests of [[Gensokyo]] (a.k.a. [[Forest of Magic]]). It's a bit on the smallish side. The interior is extremely disordered, and would cause an avalanche of collected items if an earthquake hit.<br />
<br />
When magic items are gathered in one place they tend to interfere with each other, causing their powers to amplify, weaken, or in some cases even develop completely different powers. Due to this fact, this house may hide items that even Marisa herself never imagined possible.<br />
<br />
On another topic, the elixir she had been secretly developing during the winter ended up being too large for consumption. More improvement is required.<br />
}}<br />
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| text = ○普通の魔法使い<br />
<br />
霧雨 魔理沙(きりさめまりさ)<br />
<br />
種族:人間<br /><br />
住処:魔法の森にある霧雨邸<br /><br />
能力:魔法を使う程度の能力<br />
<br />
普通の魔法使いさん。人が余り寄りつかない魔法の森にある家に籠もって、日々魔法の研究を続けている。<br />
<br />
性格は、負けず嫌いで意地の悪い所もあるが、根は真っ直ぐ。何処に行っても迷惑がられるが、実際に迷惑な行動も多い。<br />
<br />
森に籠もる理由の一つは、人が寄りつかないからである。研究中に邪魔が入って欲しくないし、人に会いたいときは自分から出掛ければいい。掛ける専用の携帯電話みたいな物である。でも、余所では色々と邪魔をする。何処に言ってもだ。<br />
<br />
スピードとパワーはあるが、体術は余り得意ではない。移動は速くてもいかんせん技が重い。パワーは魔法を纏う事で必要以上にカバーしている。<br />
| translation = '''Ordinary Magician'''<br />
<br />
'''Marisa Kirisame'''<br />
<br />
Species: [[Human]]<br />
<br />
Location: The Kirisame household in the [[Forest of Magic]]<br />
<br />
Ability: Ability to use magic<br />
<br />
An ordinary [[magician]]. She usually cloisters herself in her house located at the [[Forest of Magic]], where there are almost no visitors, and researches magic.<br />
<br />
Her personality is unyielding and obstinate, but deep down she is an honest person. She's treated like an annoyance wherever she goes, but in fact she often causes the annoyance to begin with.<br />
<br />
One of the reasons she stays in the forest is because no one bothers to go there. She doesn't want to be disturbed while she's doing research, and when she wants to meet others she can always go there herself. She's like a send-only cell phone. However, she causes a disturbance at other places, wherever she goes.<br />
<br />
She has good speed and power, but poor melee technique. While her movement is fast, her attacks are slow. She covers for her lack of physical strength with magic, but the amount of enhancement is actually overkill.<br />
}}<br />
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| text = ○普通の魔法使い 霧雨 魔理沙(きりさめまりさ)<br />
<br />
魔法使いさん。<br />
<br />
魔法の森に住む人間。魔法を使う程度の能力を持つ。<br />
<br />
散らかった部屋を掃除するため、整理整頓に役立つ魔法を研究しようと家中のアイテムや本をひっくり返す毎日。言うまでも無く成果は上がらない。<br />
<br />
彼女は努力家であり、また蒐集家でもある。<br />
<br />
負けず嫌いであることがバレバレの負けず嫌いも嫌い、という困った負けず嫌いである。<br />
<br />
<br />
武器は魔法。暗いところは魔法で明るくする。<br />
<br />
<br />
備考<br />
<br />
今回はアリスと組む。<br />
<br />
低速移動は単独使用時のみの性能<br><br />
である。<br />
<br />
ミサイルは爆発に威力があり、<br><br />
まとまった使い魔を倒す時は一番楽<br><br />
である。<br />
<br />
大抵の敵は瞬殺可能。<br />
<br />
細かい事気にするな。という人に<br><br />
お奨め。<br />
<br />
| translation = '''Ordinary Magician, Marisa Kirisame'''<br />
<br />
A magician.<br />
<br />
A [[human]] living in the [[Forest of Magic]]. She can use magic.<br />
<br />
She spends her days rummaging through the items and books in her house, trying to develop magic that would be useful for cleaning her disheveled room. Needless to say, she hasn't had any success.<br />
<br />
She's a hard worker, as well as a collector.<br />
<br />
She hates losing, but she also dislikes those who clearly hates losing. What a troublesome person who hates losing.<br />
<br />
Her weapon is magic. When in the dark, she lights up the surroundings with magic.<br />
<br />
:''Notes''<br />
:She teams with [[Alice Margatroid|Alice]] in this title.<br />
:Focused speed only applies when she's used as a solo character.<br />
:Her missile's explosion deals a good amount of damage, so it's useful for shooting swarms of enemy familiars down.<br />
:It will kill most enemies instantly.<br />
:Recommended for players who don't care for subtlety.<br />
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| text = ○普通の黒魔術師<br />
<br />
霧雨 魔理沙(きりさめ まりさ)<br />
<br />
Marisa Kirisame<br />
<br />
<br />
種族:人間<br />
<br />
能力:魔法を使う程度の能力<br />
<br />
<br />
幻想郷にすむ、ちょっと普通な魔法使い。蒐集癖を持つ。<br />
<br />
人間が余り訪れる事の無い魔法の森に住み、魔法の研究をしながら自由気ままに暮らしている。<br />
<br />
<br />
魔法使いというとインドア(引きこもり)なイメージが強いが、彼女は自分から出かけることが多い。魔理沙は研究に没頭している時は人が居ない方が良いのだが、そうじゃない時は賑やかなのが大好きだからである。森は人間を引き寄せない為、都合がいいのだ。決して、研究途中のものを見せたくないから隠れている訳ではない(魔理沙談)<br />
<br />
| translation = '''An Ordinary Black Magician'''<br />
<br />
'''Marisa Kirisame'''<br />
<br />
Species: [[Human]]<br />
<br />
Ability: Ability to use magic<br />
She's an ordinary [[magician]] living in [[Gensokyo]]. She also has a mania for collecting things.<br />
<br />
No one has any business in the [[Forest of Magic]], so she lives there in comfortable solitude while studying to improve her magical ability.<br />
You might imagine witches as being indoor-type people, but Marisa is a rather active outdoor-type person. She prefers a lively atmosphere over silence, but still doesn't like to be disturbed when she's studying. The [[Forest of Magic]] is the perfect place for her because almost no one bothers to visit her there. Marisa would also like to point out that, "Concealing my half-finished works is ''not'' the reason I'm living in there."<br />
}}<br />
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| text = ○4面ボス 普通の黒魔術師<br />
<br />
霧雨 魔理沙(きりさめ まりさ)<br />
<br />
Marisa Kirisame<br />
<br />
<br />
種族:人間<br />
<br />
能力:魔法を使う程度の能力<br />
<br />
<br />
普通の魔法使いさん。<br />
<br />
<br />
子の刻を過ぎたあたりから森が騒ぎ始めていた。ちょっと不吉な予感を感じていたが、暫らくしてその予感は的中する。子の刻を過ぎてから、通常ならとっくに夜が明けてなければいけない時間が経ったが、夜は永遠に続くかのように見えた。こりゃ面白そうだ、と慌てて出発したが……、犯人を見つけたときちょっと焦ってしまった。<br />
<br />
| translation = '''An Ordinary Black Magician'''<br />
<br />
'''Marisa Kirisame'''<br />
<br />
Species: [[Human]]<br />
<br />
Ability: Ability to use magic<br />
<br />
An ordinary [[magician]].<br />
<br />
A bit past midnight, she felt a disturbance ripple through the forest. She had a feeling that something bad was about to happen, and she was right. Many hours later, it was still as dark as midnight, long past the time for dawn, as though the night was everlasting. She left home in a hurry to investigate this interesting night... and was a little too impatient when she met the people responsible for the unnaturally long night.<br />
}}<br />
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| image = [[File:Th09Marisa.png|200px|Marisa Kirisame PoFV]]<br />
| text = ○普通の魔法使い 霧雨 魔理沙(きりさめまりさ)<br />
<br />
魔法使いさん。<br />
<br />
魔法の森に住む人間。魔法を使う程度の能力を持つ。<br />
<br />
幻想郷中を花で包んだ今回の異変も、魔法の森にはその効果が及ばなかった。<br />
<br />
森にはそんな気の利いた植物など似合わないのである。<br />
<br />
ただ、彼女は森の外で花を楽しんでいるのであまり関係はなかった。<br />
| translation = '''Ordinary Magician Marisa Kirisame'''<br />
<br />
A magician.<br />
<br />
A human living in the [[Forest of Magic]]. She has the ability to use magic.<br />
<br />
This disaster, which covered whole [[Gensokyo]] with flowers, didn't affect the forest.<br />
<br />
The forest doesn't need a pretty plant like that, after all.<br />
<br />
That had little effect on her, however, as she enjoys these flowers outside of the forest.<br />
}}<br />
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| image = [[File:Th09Marisa.png|200px|Marisa Kirisame]]<br />
| text = ○普通の魔法使い<br />
<br />
霧雨 魔理沙(きりさめ まりさ)<br />
<br />
Kirisame Marisa<br />
<br />
<br />
種族:人間<br />
<br />
能力:魔法を使う程度の能力<br />
<br />
<br />
<br />
幻想郷にすむ、ちょっと普通な魔法使い。蒐集癖を持つ。<br />
<br />
人間が余り訪れる事の無い魔法の森に住み、魔法の研究をしながら自由気ままに暮らしている。<br />
<br />
<br />
全ての行動は自分の為であり、異変を解決させるのも解決したいからするだけである。<br />
<br />
今回は幻想郷の何処に行ってもまんべんなく異変が及んでいたため片っ端から自分の足で回ってみることにした。<br />
| translation = '''Ordinary Magician'''<br />
<br />
'''Marisa Kirisame'''<br />
<br />
Species: [[Human]]<br />
<br />
Ability: Ability to use magic<br />
<br />
A somewhat ordinary magician living in [[Gensokyo]]. She also has a mania for collecting things.<br />
<br />
She lives in the [[Forest of Magic]] where humans rarely visit, and leads a carefree life while researching magic.<br />
<br />
Every action she takes is for herself, and she solves incidents just because she wants to do so.<br/><br />
This time, as disaster has covered all of [[Gensokyo]] evenly, she decided to sweep across the place.<br />
}}<br />
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| text =<br />
○普通の魔法使い<br/><br />
霧雨 魔理沙(きりさめ まりさ)<br/><br />
Kirisame Marisa<br />
<br />
種族:人間<br/><br />
能力:魔法を使う程度の能力<br/><br />
<br />
幻想郷に住む、普通な魔法使い。蒐集癖を持つ。<br />
<br />
ひねくれて見えるが、内実は誰よりも真っ直ぐ。いつも黒い服を着ているが、それは魔法使いは黒だと思い込んでいるのと、汚れが目立たないと言う理由から来ている。真っ直ぐである。<br />
<br />
今回は霊夢が動いたから勝手に動いたが、異変らしい異変は起きていない様に見える為、目的地に着いたら何を言えばいいのか考えながら山に挑んでいる。<br />
意外と信仰心は厚い。<br />
<br />
攻撃性能は、オプションの配置に癖のある装備で、使いこなすと強くなる装備となっています。<br />
| translation =<br />
'''Ordinary Magician - Marisa Kirisame'''<br />
<br />
Species: Human<br/><br />
Ability: Ability to use magic<br />
<br />
An ordinary magician living in Gensokyo. She also has a mania for collecting things.<br />
<br />
She seems a bit weird, but in reality she's the most straightforward. She always wears black clothing because she thinks that's what magic-users should do and because it hides dirt very well. Very straightforward.<br />
<br />
This time she's just following Reimu's lead, but since this doesn't look like a typical incident, she's thinking about what she should do when she gets to the mountain.<br />
<br />
She has a surprisingly high amount of faith.<br />
<br />
Her fighting style generally relies on equipment that is suitable for people who likes positioning themselves. It becomes very powerful once you master it.<br />
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| text = ○''普通の魔法使い''<br/><br />
霧雨 魔理沙(きりさめまりさ)<br />
<br />
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種族:人間<br />
<br />
職業:魔法使い<br />
<br />
住家:魔法の森にある霧雨邸<br />
<br />
能力:魔法を使う程度の能力<br />
<br />
性格:愛想が悪く意地悪だが、<br><br />
根は真っ直ぐ。<br />
<br />
また、蒐集家(コレクター)<br><br />
である。<br />
<br />
<br />
| translation =<br />
'''An Ordinary Magician'''<br/><br />
'''Marisa Kirisame'''<br />
<br />
<br />
Race: Human<br />
<br />
Occupation: Magician<br />
<br />
Place of residence: The Kirisame residence in the Forest of Magic<br />
<br />
Ability: Ability to use magic<br />
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Personality: Inconsiderate and lacking manners, but generally straightforward.<br />
<br />
In addition, she's a collector.<br />
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| text =<br />
○普通の魔法使い<br/><br />
霧雨 魔理沙(きりさめ まりさ)<br/><br />
Kirisame Marisa<br />
<br />
種族:人間<br/><br />
能力:魔法を使う程度の能力<br /><br />
<br />
幻想郷に住む、普通な魔法使い。蒐集癖を持つ。<br /><br />
<br />
ひねくれて見えるが、内実は誰よりも真っ直ぐ。いつも黒い服を着て<br /><br />
いるが、それは魔法使いは黒だと思い込んでいるのと、汚れが目立た<br /><br />
ないと言う理由から来ている。真っ直ぐである。<br /><br />
<br />
魔法使いの為、魔法を使う妖怪と相性が良い。<br /><br />
ただ、余り好かれてはいない。<br />
| translation =<br />
'''Ordinary Magician'''<br/><br />
'''Marisa Kirisame'''<br />
<br />
Species: Human<br/><br />
Ability: Ability to use magic<br />
<br />
An ordinary magician living in Gensokyo. She also has a mania for collecting things.<br />
<br />
She seems a bit weird, but in reality she's the most straightforward. She always wears black clothing because she thinks that's what magic-users should do and because it hides dirt very well. Very straightforward.<br />
<br />
Since she's a magician, she has good affinity with youkai who use magic. Nevertheless, not many people are very fond of her.<br />
}}<br />
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| text =<br />
○普通の魔法使い<br/><br />
霧雨 魔理沙(きりさめ まりさ)<br/><br />
Kirisame Marisa<br />
<br />
種族:人間<br/><br />
能力:魔法を使う程度の能力<br /><br />
<br />
幻想郷に住む、普通な魔法使い。蒐集癖を持つ。<br /><br />
<br />
ひねくれて見えるが、内実は誰よりも真っ直ぐ。いつも黒い服を着て<br /><br />
いるが、それは魔法使いは黒だと思い込んでいるのと、汚れが目立た<br /><br />
ないと言う理由から来ている。真っ直ぐである。<br /><br />
<br />
暗くて狭いところは結構好き。<br /><br />
| translation =<br />
'''Ordinary Magician'''<br/><br />
'''Marisa Kirisame'''<br />
<br />
Species: Human<br/><br />
Ability: Ability to use magic<br />
<br />
An ordinary magician living in Gensokyo. She also has a mania for collecting things.<br />
<br />
She seems a bit weird, but in reality she's the most straightforward. She always wears black clothing because she thinks that's what magic-users should do and because it hides dirt very well. Very straightforward.<br />
<br />
She rather likes dark, enclosed spaces.<br />
}}<br />
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| text = 霧雨 魔理沙 (きりさめ まりさ)<br/>人間/主に魔法を使う程度の能力<br />
人里離れた森の中で「霧雨魔法店」という何でも屋を営む<br/>魔法使い。営むといっても実質開店休業状態だが。<br/>マジックアイテムの蒐集家で、天才肌の霊夢とは逆に地道<br/>な努力を重ねるタイプ。とはいえ、負けず嫌いで真っ直ぐな<br/>性根の彼女がそんなことを表に出すはずもない。<br />
| translation = '''Marisa Kirisame''' <br/>[[human]]/ability to use magic<br/><br />
A magician working at the Kirisame magic shop in a forest, <br/>far away from the [[human village]]. <br/>Though she works, the shop is mostly closed. <br/>A collector of magic items and a hardworking type, unlike [[Reimu]]. <br/>Even then, with her competetive and straightforward personality, <br/>she probably does not show her true self.<br />
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| text =<br />
○普通の魔法使い<br /><br />
霧雨 魔理沙(きりさめ まりさ)<br /><br />
Kirisame Marisa<br />
<br />
種族:人間<br /><br />
能力:魔法を使う程度の能力<br />
<br />
幻想郷に住む、普通な魔法使い。蒐集癖を持つ。<br />
<br />
ひねくれて見えるが、内実は誰よりも真っ直ぐ。いつも黒い服を着ているが、それは魔法使いは黒だと思い込んでいるのと、汚れが目立たないと言う理由から来ている。真っ直ぐである。<br />
<br />
実際の所、宝船に宝があると思っていない。世の中そんなに甘くない。宝が無くてもおもしろそうだから乗り込むのである。好奇心旺盛。<br />
| translation =<br />
'''Ordinary Magician'''<br/><br />
'''Marisa Kirisame'''<br />
<br />
Species: Human<br/><br />
Ability: Ability to use magic<br />
<br />
An ordinary magician living in Gensokyo. She also has a mania for collecting things.<br />
<br />
She seems a bit weird, but in reality she's the most straightforward. She always wears black clothing because she thinks that's what magic users should do and because it hides dirt very well. Very straightforward.<br />
<br />
In actuality, she doesn't believe that there are treasures in the ship. That would be too easy. She boards the ship because it seems fun to her, even if there's no treasure. She's just brimming with curiosity.<br />
}}<br />
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| text = 霧雨魔理沙<br/>大胆小心な人間<br />
森に住む普通の魔法使い。よく神<br/>社に来て霊夢の思いつきにつきあ<br/>ったり、つきあわせたりしている。<br/>霊夢が天才型なら魔理沙は努力<br/>型だが、その様子を他者に見せる<br/>ことは無い。<br />
| translation =Kirisame Marisa<br />
The bold, yet cautious human<br />
<br />
A normal magician that lives in the forest.<br />
She visits the shrine often, mainly to play along with [[Reimu Hakurei|Reimu]]'s inspirations, or make Reimu play along with her's.<br />
If you were to call Reimu a genius, Marisa would be the hard worker, but she never shows her hard work to others.<br />
}}<br />
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| image = [[File:Th13Marisa.png|200px|Marisa Kirisame TD]]<br />
| text =<br />
普通の魔法使い <br/><br />
霧雨 魔理沙(きりさめ まりさ) <br/><br />
Kirisame Marisa<br />
<br />
種族:人間<br />
能力:魔法を使う程度の能力<br />
<br />
幻想郷に住む、普通な魔法使い。蒐集癖を持つ。<br />
<br />
ひねくれて見えるが、内実は誰よりも真っ直ぐ。いつも黒い服を着ているが、それは魔法使いは黒だと思い込んでいるのと、汚れが目立たないと言う理由から来ている。真っ直ぐである。<br />
<br />
神霊が人間の欲の塊である事に気付いた彼女。彼女の行動は純粋な好奇心。好奇心も欲である。<br />
| translation =<br />
'''Ordinary Magician'''<br/><br />
'''Marisa Kirisame'''<br />
<br />
Species: Human<br/><br />
Ability: Ability to use magic<br />
<br />
An ordinary magician living in Gensokyo. She also has a mania for collecting things.<br />
<br />
She seems a bit rebellious, but in reality she's the most straightforward. She always wears black clothing because she thinks that's what magic users should do and because it hides dirt very well. Very straightforward.<br />
<br />
She noticed that the divine spirits were actually masses of human desire. <br />
Her motivation is from pure curiosity.<br />
Curiosity is also a form of desire.<br />
}}<br />
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| image = [[File:Th135Marisa.png|200px|Marisa Kirisame HM]]<br />
| text =人間代表の魔法使い 霧雨魔理沙<br />
<br />
里はお祭り騒ぎだ。<br/><br />
しかし、このお祭りは何処か廃退的で刹那的な 匂いがする。<br/><br />
心を掴むのが仕事の宗教家達が喜ぶ匂いである。<br/><br />
彼女は先回りし、宗教家達が甘い汁を吸う前に<br/><br />
自らの味方を増やす闘いに出た。<br />
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特技 三度目の粉飾魔<br />
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強射撃や必殺技を使うたびに星が一つずつ点灯していき、 全ての星が点灯すると一度だけ強射撃や必殺技が強化版に変化します。<br/><br />
威力の増加、範囲の拡大、無敵時間の追加など、<br/><br />
攻撃ごとに異なる性質が強化されます。<br/><br />
総じて、全ての星が点灯している魔理沙は危険です。<br />
<br />
ラストワード サングレイザー<br />
<br />
乗っている箒で周辺をなぎ払って相手を打ち上げ、<br/><br />
無防備なところに最大推力で突進打撃を見舞う大技です。<br/><br />
なぎ払いは攻撃範囲が広く、<br/><br />
攻撃中の魔理沙は無敵という頼れる技です。<br />
| translation ='''The Human-Representative Magician, Kirisame Marisa'''<br />
<br />
The village is reverberating with sounds of the festival.<br/><br />
However, this festival somehow smells empty-hearted and momentary.<br/><br />
The religionists whose job it is to ensure the hearts of others smell like joy.<br/><br />
The girl anticipates it, and before the religionists taste the sweet soup,<br/><br />
she appeared in combat to increase her own allies.<br />
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'''Special skill: Three-Tiered Embellishment Magic'''<br />
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Each star lights up one by one when using strong ranged attacks or special attacks, and when all the starts are lit up, the next strong ranged attack or special attack will be powered up.<br/><br />
Depending on the attack, a different aspect of it will be strengthened,<br/><br />
such as its power increasing, its range enlarging, or granting a period of invincibility.<br/><br />
Generally speaking, Marisa is dangerous when all the stars are lit up.<br />
<br />
'''Last Word: Sun Grazer'''<br />
<br />
Riding on her broom, Marisa mows down the vicinity and crushes her opponent,<br/><br />
and when undefended, performs her strongest skill, a full-force assault.<br/><br />
The attack range of her sweeping through is wide,<br/><br />
and you can rely on Marisa to be invincible while attacking.<br />
}}<br />
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| image = [[File:Th14Marisa.png|200px|Marisa DDC]]<br />
| text =○普通の魔法使い<br /><br />
霧雨 魔理沙(きりさめ まりさ)<br /><br />
Kirisame Marisa<br />
<br />
種族:人間<br /><br />
能力:魔法を使う程度の能力<br />
<br />
幻想郷に住む、普通な魔法使い。蒐集癖を持つ。<br />
<br />
ミニ八卦炉が強烈な火を放つ。<br /><br />
現在、勝手に火を噴くようになり家の中には置いていない。<br /><br />
魔法の森は湿気っているので森林火災の危険は無さそうだが……<br />
| translation ='''Ordinary Magician'''<br/><br />
'''Marisa Kirisame'''<br />
<br />
Species: Human<br/><br />
Ability: Ability to use magic<br />
<br />
An ordinary magician living in Gensokyo. She also has a mania for collecting things.<br />
<br />
Her [[Mini-Hakkero]] shoots intense flames. Fearing that it might start emitting fire on its own, she has to keep it outside of her house. The [[Forest of Magic]] is quite humid, so there shouldn't be much danger of starting a forest fire, but...<br />
}}<br />
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| image = [[File:Th145Marisa.png|200px|Marisa Kirisame ULiL]]<br />
| text ='''恐怖!学校の魔法使い'''<br />
<br />
'''霧雨 魔理沙'''<br />
<br />
'''オカルト「学校の七不思議」'''<br />
<br />
火力こそパワー。大火力の申し子の魔法使い。 <br/><br />
貫通力の高い射撃と高性能の打撃を武器に戦うが <br/><br />
勢いがありすぎて小回りが利かないのが玉に瑕 <br/><br />
<br />
オカルトアタックは「実際にあった学校の恐怖」 <br/><br />
名状しがたい学校の恐怖が手を変え姿を変え襲いかかります <br/><br />
| translation = '''Horror! Magician of the School'''<br />
<br />
'''Marisa Kirisame'''<br />
<br />
'''Occult "The Seven Wonders of the School"'''<br /><br />
There’s power in fire''power''. A Magician with a natural talent for great firepower.<br /><br />
She fights with highly penetrating projectiles and power-efficient blows,<br /><br />
however her one weakness is the low maneuverability that comes with such overwhelming power.<br /><br />
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Her Occult Attack is “The Nonfiction School Horrors”.<br /><br />
The indescribable horrors lend Marisa a hand and with morphed appearances they come charging.<br />
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| image = [[File:Th15Marisa.png|200px|Marisa LoLK]]<br />
| text =○普通の魔法使い<br /><br />
霧雨 魔理沙(きりさめ まりさ)<br /><br />
Kirisame Marisa<br />
<br />
種族:人間<br /><br />
能力:魔法を使う程度の能力<br />
<br />
幻想郷に住む、普通な魔法使い。蒐集癖を持つ。<br />
<br />
ひょんな事から、月の都のパワーストーンを手に入れた。<br><br />
どうやらこのパワーストーンが都市伝説を具現化させていたと<br><br />
気付き始めたところに、ついに月の使者が現われた。 <br />
| translation ='''Ordinary Magician'''<br/><br />
'''Marisa Kirisame'''<br />
<br />
Species: Human<br/><br />
Ability: Ability to use magic<br />
<br />
An ordinary magician living in Gensokyo. She also has a mania for collecting things.<br />
<br />
In a rather odd turn of events, she obtained a power stone from the Lunar Capital.<br><br />
Just as she started to realize that somehow, this power stone had been<br><br />
[[Urban Legend in Limbo|manifesting the urban legends]], the lunar emissaries finally appeared.<br />
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| image = [[File:Th145Marisa.png|200px|Marisa Kirisame AoCF]]<br />
| text =高火力で星好きな魔法使い<br />
<br />
霧雨魔理沙<br/><br />
<br />
「思ったより完全憑依って<br/><br />
簡単なんだな」<br/><br />
<br />
魔法の森で研究に勤しむ白黒の魔法使い<br/><br />
<br />
完全憑依異変を知り、奇妙なスレイブと憑依バトルを楽しむ<br/><br />
だが魔理沙は気づく、完全憑依の噂はあまりに早く広がっている事に<br/><br />
<br />
火力とスピードの研究に余念のない彼女は<br/><br />
決闘でも大味だが大火力とスピードで敵を翻弄します。<br/><br />
| translation = '''High-Firepower and Star-Loving Magician'''<br />
<br />
'''Marisa Kirisame'''<br/><br />
<br />
''"This whole Perfect Possession thing is''<br/><br />
''a heckuva lot easier than I thought, huh?"''<br/><br />
<br />
A black-and-white magician who does diligent research in the Forest of Magic.<br/><br />
<br />
After discovering the Perfect Possession incident, she enjoys the possession battles with the help of her bizarre slave.<br/><br />
However, Marisa soon comes to realize that the Perfect Possession rumor has been spreading all too fast...<br/><br />
<br />
Her fighting style may be plain, but with her deep devotion to researching firepower and speed, she can run circles around any enemy.<br/><br />
}}<br />
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| image = [[File:Th16Marisa.png|200px|Marisa HSiFS]]<br />
| text = ○極寒に震える魔法使い<br /><br />
霧雨 魔理沙(きりさめ まりさ)<br /><br />
Kirisame Marisa<br />
<br />
種族:人間<br /><br />
能力:魔法を使う程度の能力<br />
<br />
幻想郷に住む、普通な魔法使い。蒐集癖を持つ。<br />
<br />
直接的な害の無い異変なので、何処から手を付けて良いのか途方に暮れている。<br /><br />
本格的に調査しようと思う前に、興奮している妖精達に巻き込まれるように<br /><br />
戦闘が始まった。<br />
| translation = '''Magician Shivering in the Arctic Cold'''<br/><br />
'''Marisa Kirisame'''<br />
<br />
Species: Human<br/><br />
Ability: Capable of using magic<br />
<br />
An ordinary magician living in Gensokyo. She has a mania for collecting things.<br />
<br />
The incident isn't directly harmful, so she's at a loss as to where to begin.<br/><br />
Before she even considered doing a standard investigation, she was pulled into<br/><br />
a fierce battle with the excited fairies.<br />
}}<br />
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| text = ○至極普通の魔法使い<br><br />
霧雨 魔理沙(きりさめ まりさ)<br><br />
Kirisame Marisa<br />
<br />
種族:人間<br><br />
能力:魔法を使う程度の能力<br />
<br />
幻想郷に住む、普通な魔法使い。蒐集癖を持つ。<br />
<br />
動物霊を憑依させると、いつも以上の力が出すことが出来る。<br><br />
その事を非常に魅力的だと思い、動物霊の誘いに乗った。<br><br />
地獄に行くことには恐怖を感じていなかった。むしろどんな者が待ち受けて<br><br />
いるのか楽しみだった。<br />
| translation = '''Excruciatingly Ordinary Magician'''<br/><br />
'''Marisa Kirisame'''<br />
<br />
Species: Human<br/><br />
Ability: Capable of using magic<br />
<br />
An ordinary magician living in Gensokyo. She has a mania for collecting things.<br />
<br />
By allowing a beast spirit to possess her, she could become far more powerful than usual.<br><br />
As this was an extremely attractive prospect to her, she took the beast spirit up on its offer.<br><br />
She felt no fear about going to Hell. In fact, she was quite excited to find out what sort of beings awaited her.<br />
}}<br />
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| text = ○普通の魔法使い<br><br />
霧雨 魔理沙(きりさめ まりさ)<br><br />
Kirisame Marisa<br />
<br />
種族:人間<br><br />
能力:魔法を使う程度の能力<br />
<br />
幻想郷に住む、普通な魔法使い。蒐集癖を持つ。<br />
<br />
カードには多種多様の魔力が込められていた。<br><br />
知っている人間、妖怪の魔力ばかりである。<br><br />
こんなに面白いカードは他の人よりも早く集めなければいけないと思った。<br><br />
きっと皆そうするに違いない。そうなったら、値段が上がる一方だからだ。<br />
| translation = '''Ordinary Magician'''<br/><br />
'''Marisa Kirisame'''<br />
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Species: Human<br/><br />
Ability: Capable of using magic<br />
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An ordinary magician living in Gensokyo. She has a mania for collecting things.<br />
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A myriad variety of magic powers were hidden in the cards.<br/><br />
Every single power belonged to a human or youkai that she knew.<br/><br />
Faced with something so interesting, she thought she had to collect them faster than anyone else.<br/><br />
Everyone was bound to do the same. Because, of course, that would make their value shoot right up.<br />
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==Official Sources==<br />
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*1997/08/15 '''[[Story of Eastern Wonderland]]'''<br />
*1997/12/29 '''[[Phantasmagoria of Dim. Dream]]''' - 夢時空.txt<br />
*1998/08/14 '''[[Lotus Land Story]]''' - 幻想郷.txt<br />
*1998/12/30 '''[[Mystic Square]]''' - 怪綺談.txt<br />
*2002/08/11 '''[[Embodiment of Scarlet Devil]]''' - Marisa's Scenario & Extra Stage; おまけ.txt; Manual<br />
*2003/08/17 '''[[Perfect Cherry Blossom]]''' - Marisa's Scenario & Extra Stage; キャラ設定.txt; Manual<br />
*2004/08/15 '''[[Imperishable Night]]''' - Magic Team's Scenario & Extra Stage; キャラ設定.txt; Manual<br />
*2004/12/30 '''[[Immaterial and Missing Power]]''' - 上海アリス通信.txt<br />
*2005/08/11 '''[[Bohemian Archive in Japanese Red]]''' - [[Bohemian Archive in Japanese Red/Marisa|Article and Interview: Marisa]]<br />
*2005/08/14 '''[[Phantasmagoria of Flower View]]''' - Playable character; キャラ設定.txt; Manual<br />
*2005/08/25 ~ 2006/03/25 '''[[Eastern and Little Nature Deity]]'''<br />
*2005/10/01 '''[[Seasonal Dream Vision/A Beautiful Flower Blooming Violet Every Sixty Years]]'''<br />
*2006/05/26 ~ 2009/01/26 '''[[Strange and Bright Nature Deity]]''' <br />
*2006/12/27 '''[[Perfect Memento in Strict Sense]]''' - [[Perfect Memento in Strict Sense/Marisa Kirisame|Ordinary Magician: Marisa Kirisame]]<br />
*2007/06/08 ~ 2009/04/09 '''[[Silent Sinner in Blue]]''' <br />
*2007/08/17 '''[[Mountain of Faith]]''' - Marisa's Scenario & Extra Stage; Manual<br />
*2008/05/25 '''[[Scarlet Weather Rhapsody]]'''; chara.html<br />
*2008/08/16 '''[[Subterranean Animism]]''' - Marisa & Alice/Patchouli/Nitori's Scenario & Extra Stage; キャラ設定.txt<br />
*2009/05/26 ~ present '''[[Oriental Sacred Place]]''' <br />
*2009/07/28 '''[[The Grimoire of Marisa]]''' - [[The Grimoire of Marisa/Marisa Kirisame's Spell Cards|Marisa Kirisame's spell cards]]<br />
*2009/08/15 '''[[Undefined Fantastic Object]]''' - Marisa's Scenario & Extra Stage<br />
*2010/07/24 ~ present '''[[Wild and Horned Hermit]]'''<br />
*2010/08/14 '''[[Fairy Wars]]''' - Extra Stage dialogue<br />
*2011/08/13 '''[[Ten Desires]]''' - Marisa's Scenario & Extra Stage; キャラ設定とエキストラストーリー.txt<br />
*2012/10/26 ~ present '''[[Forbidden Scrollery]]'''<br />
*2013/05/26 - '''[[Hopeless Masquerade]]''' - Playable character<br />
*2013/08/12 - '''[[Double Dealing Character]]''' - Playable character<br />
*2014/05/11 - '''[[Impossible Spell Card]]''' - Day 7 Boss<br />
*2015 - '''[[Urban Legend in Limbo]]'' - ???<br />
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<div>{{Infobox Character<br />
| nameJp = {{ruby-ja|十六夜|いざよい}} {{ruby-ja|咲夜|さくや}}<br />
| nameEn = Sakuya Izayoi<br />
| nameIPA = izajoi sakɯja [[Media:Pronunciation_SakuyaIzayoi.ogg|(♫)]]<br />
| image = [[File:Th18Sakuya.png|x380px|Sakuya Izayoi]]<br />
| caption = Sakuya Izayoi in [[Unconnected Marketeers]]<br />
| chartitle = {{H:title|Maid of the Scarlet Devil Mansion|紅魔館のメイド}}<br />
| species = [[Human]]<br />
| abilities = Time manipulation<br />
| occupation = [[Maid]]<br />
| age = Said to be in her teens, implied to be way older.<br />
| location = [[Scarlet Devil Mansion]]<br />
| MusicThemes = *{{H:title|月時計 ~ ルナ・ダイアル|Lunar Clock ~ Luna Dial}} ([[Embodiment of Scarlet Devil]], [[Immaterial and Missing Power]])<br />
*{{H:title|メイドと血の懐中時計|The Maid and the Pocket Watch of Blood}} ([[Immaterial and Missing Power]])<br />
*{{H:title|フラワリングナイト|Flowering Night}} ([[Phantasmagoria of Flower View]], [[Scarlet Weather Rhapsody]])<br />
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{{nihongo|'''Sakuya Izayoi'''|十六夜 咲夜|Izayoi Sakuya}} is the Chief [[Maid]] who serves [[Remilia Scarlet]], the head of the [[Scarlet Devil Mansion]]. She is the only [[human]] living in the Scarlet Devil Mansion.<ref name="PMiSSSakuya">[[Perfect Memento in Strict Sense]]: [[Perfect Memento in Strict Sense/Sakuya Izayoi|Sakuya Izayoi]]</ref><ref>『三月精 第2部』「上海アリス通信 三精版 第5号」(『月刊コンプエース』Vol.7 p.275。実質的には「第6号」なのだが誤植で「第5号」になっている。単行本未収録)</ref><br />
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==General Information==<br />
Sakuya first appeared as the Stage 5 [[boss]] in ''[[Embodiment of Scarlet Devil]]''. She appeared in ''[[Perfect Cherry Blossom]]'' as a playable character and in ''[[Imperishable Night]]'' as [[Remilia]]'s partner along with being in the new fighting game ''[[Immaterial and Missing Power]]''. Later, she appeared again as a playable character in ''[[Phantasmagoria of Flower View]]'', ''[[Scarlet Weather Rhapsody]]'' and in ''[[Touhou Hisoutensoku]]''. She was a playable character once again in ''[[Double Dealing Character]]'', and again in ''[[Unconnected Marketeers]]''.<br />
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She essentially takes the position of managing the Scarlet Devil Mansion. Her height is "tall"; she is taller than [[Reimu Hakurei]] and [[Alice Margatroid]] but about the same height as [[Yukari Yakumo]] and [[Hong Meiling]].<ref name="email">[[ZUN's E-mails]]</ref> She was not born in Gensokyo, and the name "Sakuya Izayoi" was given to her by Remilia Scarlet.<ref name="email" /> In ''Perfect Memento in Strict Sense'', Akyuu guessed that she might have originally been a [[#Vampire Hunter|vampire hunter]]. <br />
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===Personality & Age===<br />
Sakuya tends to be a little spacey, but it's unknown if its just an act. She's polite and pleasant towards to her mistress [[Remilia Scarlet]] and those she's close with, such as Patchouli Knowledge, while being less formal with other people. With those she's frequently annoyed with, such as [[Marisa Kirisame]], she can be somewhat harsh and direct with her insults and smack-talk, especially during duels.<br />
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Sakuya seems to lack knowledge of basic scientific concepts, such as "humans need oxygen to breathe," as seen in both [[Silent Sinner in Blue]] and her route in [[Unconnected Marketeers]]. Ironically, she has also stated that she is an "atheist" on multiple occasions, such as in [[Wild and Horned Hermit]], despite living in a land where Gods are literally real.<br />
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As for her age, ZUN directly stated that "she plays the role of a human maid about 10 to 20 years old"<ref>[[Embodiment of Scarlet Devil]]: {{lang|ja|おまけ}}.txt</ref> and "perhaps she is a character in her early teens<ref>インターネットラジオ「萎えラジDNA コミケット72直前スペシャル」(2007年8月11日放送)でのZUNの発言</ref>, and in ''Perfect Memento in Strict Sense'', according to Hieda no Akyuu, "she claims to be in her late teens", but acts with the mannerisms of someone and the level of her ability seems like that of a human that's been living for more than a hundred years. According to a quote from [[Remilia Scarlet]] and Sakuya's ending in ''[[Imperishable Night]]'' (Good Ending #3), Sakuya has been working at the [[Scarlet Devil Mansion]] for so long, Remilia doesn't feel it fitting to call her human. With a comment like that, it seems safe enough to assume she has been at the Scarlet Devil Mansion for an extremely long time.<br />
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===Ability===<br />
;Manipulating time<br />
[[File:SSIBSakuya.jpg|thumb|192px|Sakuya stopping time in ''[[Silent Sinner in Blue]]'']]<br />
Sakuya possesses the ability to manipulate time, where she's able to control the flow of time, such as speeding up time, slowing it down, erasing it, and stopping time altogether. She can also compress the flow of time to make both past and future to exist at the same time, making the same object from different timelines be in many places simultaneously<ref>[[Imperishable_Night/Spell_Cards/Last_Word#Spell_Card_217|Imperishable Night - "Deflation World"]]</ref><ref>[[The_Grimoire_of_Marisa/Sakuya_Izayoi's_Spell_Cards|The Grimoire of Marisa - Sakuya Izayoi's Spell Cards]]</ref>. The extent of her ability lets her not only control the time of the place in which she is, but influence the flow of time of a person, a specific object or even a small zone if she so desires, such as stopping the time of an object and thus affecting the space, making it stand still on thin air or creating time suspension fields where everything inside them will be affected by her ability; she can also accelerate or decelerate the movement of objects from slowed down speed to incredibly high speed, to even reaching the speed of light, making it move at tremendous speed. However, as it is difficult to reverse events that have already occurred, and since she is not able to return broken things to how they were originally even if she reversed time, in reality, it is not possible to reverse time.<ref name="PMiSSSakuya"/><ref name="k04-05">[[Curiosities of Lotus Asia]]: Chapter 4–5</ref> However, she is able to do things to the extent of moving things back to where they were originally.<ref name="PMiSSSakuya"/> She has shown the ability to erase time of an object from a respective timeline; such as erasing bullets of the present and then the future, making them non-existent. <ref>[[Double Dealing Character]]</ref><br />
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She is also able to manipulate space,<ref name="PMiSSSakuya"/><ref name="GBB2">[[ZUN's reply to messages on the former Gensou Bulletin Board 2]]</ref> and can narrow or lengthen it: she made the [[Scarlet Devil Mansion]], which was originally spacious, even more abundantly spacious, and furthermore just like this she cleans alone. [[ZUN]] also said that "Manipulation of Time" is synonymous with "Manipulation of Space". By manipulating space-time, Sakuya is also capable of creating another Sakuya and making it appear in front of her, which will execute a different action to that of the original. This is apparently related to "another time" though it isn't explained thoroughly. <ref name=''[[Touhou Hisoutensoku]]''> "[[Touhou Hisoutensoku/Spell Cards/Sakuya Izayoi|Alternate Skill Cards - Time Paradox]]"</ref><br />
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According to ''[[Perfect Memento in Strict Sense]]'', the power to control time is a power that a [[human]] can possibly have, but isn't acquired just from just training. In the games, using this ability, she scatters an infinite quantity of knives. To disclose the secret of this trick, she stops time and assiduously collects the knives.<br />
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[[Hieda no Akyuu]] believes Sakuya has managed to live so long while still looking like a teenager by manipulating time. It's true that Sakuya can increase the speed at which something ages, such as making bamboo flowers bloom instantly in Marisa's A ending of ''[[Embodiment of Scarlet Devil]]'', even though this would normally take sixty years. It seems safe enough to assume she can decelerate aging for a specific object, too.<br />
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Despite the seemingly reality bending effects of her time manipulation, by Sakuya's own admission her ability to stop time is actually her moving at extremely high speeds with no mass and that she lacks the ability to stop someone else's time. This could very well be an effort to have Reimu leave and rid the Scarlet Devil Mansion suspicion of kidnappings.<ref>[[Wild and Horned Hermit]]: Chapter 35</ref><br />
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===Occupation===<br />
As the head [[maid]], she oversees all the [[Fairy Maid|fairy maid]]s as the only [[human]] maid. The other maids have many perks to their jobs and rarely choose to leave (even though they are not paid or given vacations); however, they are nearly useless and most of the work is done by Sakuya alone, which would be impossible if she didn't stop or slow time. She shops at the [[Human Village]], but she is cold toward other humans and has no friends there. However, ever since [[Remilia Scarlet]] was beaten by the heroine of ''[[Embodiment of Scarlet Devil]]'', Sakuya has begun opening herself up more.<br />
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At the time of ''Embodiment of Scarlet Devil'', she merely worked at the Scarlet Devil Mansion in return for food. Continuing in ''Imperishable Night'', she did not worry at all about the clothing, food or housing and felt satisfied.<ref name="th08_txt">[[Imperishable Night]]: {{lang|ja|キャラ設定}}.txt</ref> Meanwhile, she is utterly devoted to her mistress.<ref name="th08_manual"/> She's constantly seeking out new varieties of tea flavours for Remilia to try, as shown in several official works. For example, she mentions in ''[[Phantasmagoria of Flower View]]'' that with so many flowers around, she can make as much tea and as many pastries as she wants. (Flowers have often been used to provide flavouring for tea, especially in the past, and are still the basis of jasmine tea.)<br />
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Theoretically, Sakuya is the fifth character to serve as a [[maid]] in the ''[[Touhou Project]]''. The other maid characters are [[Ruukoto]], [[Mugetsu]], [[Yumeko]] and [[Alice Margatroid]]. However, due to the fact that Mugetsu is probably not a maid, Sakuya would be the fourth maid in the Touhou Project.<br />
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===Possessions===<br />
[[File:GoMIllus-Sakuya.jpg|thumb|192px|Sakuya placing her knives, as illustrated in ''[[The Grimoire of Marisa]]''.]]<br />
She possesses a great amount of silver<ref name="PMiSSSakuya"/><ref name="th08_manual">[[Imperishable Night]]: Manual</ref> throwing knives and is skilled at handling them, and with only her ability to manipulate time<ref name="GBB1">[[ZUN's reply to messages on the former Gensou Bulletin Board 1]]</ref>, she is skilled in conjuring knives from nowhere.<ref name="PMiSSSakuya"/><ref name="th07_manual">[[Perfect Cherry Blossom]]: Manual</ref><ref name="th075_txt">[[Immaterial and Missing Power]]: {{lang|ja|上海アリス通信}}.txt</ref><br />
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Her throwing range is said to be 20 [[wikipedia:Ken (architecture)|ken]] (about 36 meters or 39.8 yards) and has the accuracy such that she is able to strike an apple on the forehead of a [[fairy]]. A portion of her throwing-knife ability is within her cooking ability and therefore is very skilled at cooking as well.<ref name="th07_manual"/> She also is able to conjure knives in battle as [[danmaku]] as well. In the games, despite Sakuya showing to make knives appear mysteriously when time is stopped, her artwork in ''[[The Grimoire of Marisa]]'' shows that she's placing the knives physically.<br />
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==Backstory==<br />
ZUN has stated in [[ZUN's E-mails|his e-mails]] that Sakuya is not her real name and that she is not from [[Gensokyo]]. According to her profile in ''[[Embodiment of Scarlet Devil]]'', her power to control time distanced her from [[human]]s, and she eventually gave up trying to be friendly with them.<br />
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It is unknown how she came to work for the [[Scarlet Devil Mansion]].<br />
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==Character Basis==<br />
===Name===<br />
Her full name is {{nihongo|''Sakuya Izayoi''|十六夜 咲夜}}, which was given to her by [[Remilia Scarlet]]. The characters for {{nihongo||十六夜|Izayoi}} literally means "Sixteenth night" (the night just after that of the full moon), and {{nihongo||咲夜|Sakuya}} literally means "Flowering night". The Japanese word for {{nihongo|"last night"|昨夜}} can also read as ''Sakuya'', which would point towards the night of the full moon. The word for {{nihongo|"night of the new moon"|朔夜}} can also read as ''Sakuya'', which is possibly related to the ability to manipulate time. The word {{nihongo||十六夜|Izayoi}} has come to mean "sixteenth night" from the expression {{nihongo|"izayou tsuki"|いざよう月}}, where "izayou" means "not to progress/proceed forward at all", which might have a deep connection to her ability as well.<br />
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===Design===<br />
[[File:PMiSS sakuya.jpg|thumb|right|150px|Sakuya in ''[[Perfect Memento in Strict Sense]]''.]]<br />
Sakuya was first seen in ''[[Embodiment of Scarlet Devil]]''. In this game, she was seen with bright red eyes, silver hair worn in long braids on both sides of her face with green bows at the ends and a white [[maid]] headband. She wears a pink/white and dark blue French maid's outfit with an apron, short sleeves and a green ribbon. She is also seen carrying three knives and the phrase "Red Magic" appears to be embroidered on her left sleeve.<br />
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Later in ''[[Perfect Cherry Blossom]]'', when choosing a player, Sakuya appears to have grey eyes, blue colored long sleeves and a red scarf. She also has red shoes and two knives, one blue and one red. However, her appearance in-game shows her having blue eyes. She's wearing such clothing because it was effectively winter during the game.<br />
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Her appearances in ''[[Immaterial and Missing Power]]'', ''[[Imperishable Night]]'' and ''[[Scarlet Weather Rhapsody]]'' are very similar. Sakuya is seen with grey eyes and once again wearing short sleeves. She appears to the have a thin black ribbon on the maids outfit. However in ''Imperishable Night'' she holds a knife and an old stopwatch, where as in ''Scarlet Weather Rhapsody'', she has three knives and a plate with cups and a teapot on it. The colour of her eyes changes with each work.<br />
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In ''[[Phantasmagoria of Flower View]]'', she has dark blue eyes and long sleeves. The Roman numerals for I (1) through XII (12) line the bottom of her apron. <br />
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In ''[[Double Dealing Character]]'' and ''[[Unconnected Marketeers]]'' she additionally wears stockings.<br />
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====Alternative Outfits====<br />
Her alternative outfit in ''[[Immaterial and Missing Power]]'' and ''[[Scarlet Weather Rhapsody]]'' is mainly light blue with a white apron and her hair is light green. In ''[[Phantasmagoria of Flower View]]'', her outfit is mainly dark red instead of dark blue.<br />
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==Mystery and Theory==<br />
{{Theories Summary}} [[Hieda no Akyuu]] states there are several theories regarding Sakuya's origins and/or behaviour (including she is a homunculus, a zombie, or an [[wikipedia:Eccentricity (behavior)|eccentric]]).<ref name="PMiSSSakuya" /><br />
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===Sakuya's Species===<br />
[[ZUN's E-mails]] has referred to her as [[human]], as do most of her official profiles. In ''Perfect Memento in Strict Sense'', [[Hieda no Akyuu]] considers Sakuya as a human, but wonders if she is not actually from Gensokyo, but perhaps one of many other worlds including Higan, the Netherworld, the Lunar Capital, and the outside world. [[Reimu Hakurei]] questions her humanity in ''[[Embodiment of Scarlet Devil]]'', but throughout the series Sakuya insists and refers to herself as a [[human]] very often. ''Perfect Memento in Strict Sense'' states her ability to control time is an extremely powerful ability for a human to possess. Sakuya doesn't seem to react [[wiktionary:abnormally|abnormally]] regarding to either the Lunarians from the [[Moon]] or the Moon itself in any official work, nor does any "alien" in regards to Sakuya. For example, [[Watatsuki no Yorihime]] doesn't show any recognition of her.<br />
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;In relation to Sakuya's eyes been red<br />
In ''[[Embodiment of Scarlet Devil]]'', and possibly ''[[Immaterial and Missing Power]]'' and ''[[Scarlet Weather Rhapsody]]''<nowiki>'</nowiki>s [[spell card]]s, there are parts when her eyes become red. In ''Embodiment of Scarlet Devil'', it may possibly be due to the Scarlet Mist Incident, but it was inferred that those were to manipulate the eyes of insanity. In ''Imperishable Night'', at the scene where [[Remilia Scarlet]] worried that Sakuya might become insane at the time Kaguya cast the light of the true full moon, even when Sakuya looked at the true full moon there did not seem to be any abnormality caused by the full moon. However, ''[[Imperishable Night]]'''s Good Ending #3 indicates Sakuya went a bit mad. Additionally, ZUN [http://www16.big.or.jp/~zun/pic/top/top040830.jpg drew Sakuya with red eyes] shortly after the release of IN, and [http://web.archive.org/web/20040905235851/http://www16.big.or.jp/~zun/cgi-bin/bbs/minibbs.cgi answered a fan's question] about her red eyes in the picture, stating that they should play through the game to understand. The implication here is that Sakuya did indeed go mad. That being said, [[Reimu Hakurei]] and [[Marisa Kirisame]] passed through seeing the moon just fine, although they had their own reasons as to why they don't become insane.<br />
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;In relation to Konohana-Sakuyahime<br />
[[ZUN]] has said that the contents of ''[[Touhou Bougetsushou]]'' contained a hint as for the reason why [[Eirin Yagokoro]] was surprised at seeing Sakuya. In ''[[Cage in Lunatic Runagate]]'', there appeared another character with the same first name, [[Konohana-Sakuyahime]]. If Eirin is indeed Yagokoro Omoikane no Kami, she would know Konohana-Sakuyahime since the latter is the wife of Ninigi-no-Mikoto, Omoikane's nephew. Thus, the fact that Sakuya shares the same name as her nephew's wife would be a reason why Eirin was surprised.<br />
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Since the two share the same first name though, there's a possibility that Sakuya is based off of Konohana-Sakuyahime or at least in some other way related. In the Kojiki, Konohana-Sakuyahime was written as "{{lang|ja|木花之佐久夜}}", where the "{{lang|ja|夜}}" corresponds to the "ya", therefore making every part of the name "Sakuya" with a basis in Konohana-Sakuyahime. Furthermore, there were tales related to Konohana-Sakuyahime where she can be seen to be controlling time like Sakuya, like the tale of the one-night pregnancy and the delivery in the middle of fire.<br />
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===Vampire Hunter===<br />
Sakuya being a vampire hunter is a theory that's the widely accepted by Akyuu, based on the fact that her [[wikipedia:Silver|silver]] knives are the same kind used to slay [[vampire]]s and other [[demon]]s. Silver is one of the prime weaknesses of vampires.<br />
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The theory that was said by Akyuu claims that long ago, a young vampire hunter was training herself, defeating smaller [[demon]]s in an unknown location, but never had the chance to fight a vampire. Confident in her abilities, she decided to set out on a journey to slay vampires and ended up at the [[Scarlet Devil Mansion]]. There she saw [[Remilia Scarlet]], who was surprisingly strong, and Remilia easily defeated her. However, Remilia wanted the girl's power for herself, so she spared her life and gave her a new name, which also gave her a completely opposite fate: Sakuya Izayoi. Sakuya then became the head [[maid]] of the Scarlet Devil Mansion before it was moved to [[Gensokyo]]. This may also have some relation to her species theory.<br />
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===Human Cuisine===<br />
[[File:OSP15Sakuya.jpg|thumb|192px|Sakuya shown cooking in ''[[Oriental Sacred Place]]'' Chapter 15.]]<br />
Sakuya's involvement in the [[human]] cuisine of the [[Scarlet Devil Mansion]] is unknown. All official details regarding this topic can be interpreted both ways. In other words, there exists neither confirmation nor denial that Sakuya prepares humans. The Scarlet Devil Mansion has humans to eat. While Sakuya has never been shown preparing humans, it's stated that all other maids in the mansion are practically useless and Sakuya is the one who does all the work. This heavily implies that she is involved in cooking as well since it's one of the biggest duties in a household.<br />
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[[Flandre Scarlet]] confesses to [[Reimu Hakurei]] in ''Embodiment of Scarlet Devil'' that she has no idea who prepares her human food, but doesn't think it's Remilia. Her profile confirms the pastries she eats are made from humans, but doesn't say who prepares the pastries. In ''[[Wild and Horned Hermit]]'' Chapter 11, Sakuya comments at the flower viewing party, "It's been a while since I've seen such seedy-looking food. I usually see steaks dripping with blood."<br />
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[[Embodiment of Scarlet Devil/Translation/Afterword|Music comments]] in ''Embodiment of Scarlet Devil'' by [[ZUN]] state that Remilia's tea is blood. In ''[[Strange and Bright Nature Deity]]'', Sakuya asked Remilia if she thought her latest (not humans) tea tasted like blood. Also, Sakuya's ending in ''Immaterial and Missing Power'' mentions that tea time is usually "red tea".<br />
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In chapter 35 of ''[[Wild and Horned Hermit]]'', faced with Reimu's accusation that she's the one behind the sudden disappearances of the Human Village people because of Remilia's need for blood, Sakuya jokes that it didn't occur to her to kidnap people that way and then denies her involvement in the case on the basis that the kidnapped people come back unharmed the next day with no recollection of what they were doing during that time, stating that her time manipulation powers cannot stop the flow of time for people other than herself.<br />
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==Story==<br />
===Games===<br />
;''the Embodiment of the Scarlet Devil''<br />
[[File:Th06SakuyaSprite.png|frame|Sakuya's sprite in ''EoSD'']]<br />
During ''[[Embodiment of Scarlet Devil]]'' Sakuya attempts to prevent the heroine from reaching her mistress, but fails.<br />
:{{Main|Embodiment of Scarlet Devil/Story/Reimu's Scenario#Stage 5|l1=Reimu Arc}}<br />
Sakuya is cleaning when Reimu interrupts her and demands Sakuya to bring her to her mistress. Sakuya refuses to put Remilia in danger and faces against Reimu.<br />
:{{Main|Embodiment of Scarlet Devil/Story/Marisa's Scenario#Stage 5|l1=Marisa Arc}}<br />
Sakuya is cleaning when Marisa comes in and muses at Sakuya's maid position. Sakuya deadpans about Marisa's magician class and after a rather amusing discussion on Marisa "application", the ruse is uncovered and they fight.<br />
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;''Perfect Cherry Blossom''<br />
[[File:Th07SakuyaBackSprite.png|frame|left|Sakuya's back sprite in ''PCB'']]<br />
:{{Main|Perfect Cherry Blossom/Story/Sakuya's Scenario|l1=Perfect Cherry Blossom Sakuya's Scenario}}<br />
Later, during ''[[Perfect Cherry Blossom]]'', Sakuya is able to show more of her true character, even if her main reason for trying to solve the problem is that the delayed Spring will affect her too. Sakuya wants no distractions and to quickly find the culprit, unfortunately for her, she gets into a full fledged adventure.<br />
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;''Imperishable Night''<br />
[[File:Th08SakuyaBackSprite.png|frame|left|Sakuya's back sprite in ''IN'']]<br />
[[File:Th08SakuyaSprite.png|frame|Sakuya's sprite in ''IN'', ''PoFV'', ''StB'' and ''ISC'']]<br />
:{{Main|Imperishable Night/Story/Scarlet Team's Scenario 1|l1=Imperishable Night Scarlet Team's Scenario}}<br />
Remilia gets fed up at Sakuya's inability to catch her subtle hints to fix the Moon. Sakuya faithfully follows her disgruntled mistress into the night.<br />
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;''Phantasmagoria of Flower View''<br />
[[File:Th09SakuyaBackSprite.png|frame|left|Sakuya's back sprite in ''PoFV'']]<br />
:{{Main|Phantasmagoria of Flower View/Story#Sakuya's Story|l1=Phantasmagoria of Flower View Sakuya's Scenario}}<br />
Sakuya wanders about but this time more for her inquiring nature rather than actually solving the incident.<br />
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;''Double Dealing Character''<br />
[[File:Th14SakuyaBackSprite.png|frame|left|Sakuya's back sprite in ''DDC'' and ''UM'']]<br />
:{{Main|Double Dealing Character/Story/Sakuya A's Scenario|l1=Sakuya A Scenario|Double Dealing Character/Story/Sakuya B's Scenario|l2=Sakuya B Scenario}}<br />
Sakuya discovers that some of her silver knives started acting up and have become independent. Meanwhile, [[youkai]] at the [[Misty Lake]] have been running a rampage, so Sakuya goes out to test her new knives.<br />
;''Unconnected Marketeers''<br />
In [[Unconnected Marketeers]], Sakuya was ordered by [[Patchouli]] to investigate the ability cards in order to purchase some for her mistress, Remilia. Eventually, she invites [[Chimata Tenkyuu]] to the Scarlet Devil Mansion, where she holds a special market in Remilia's honour.<br />
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===Spin-off===<br />
;''Immaterial and Missing Power''<br />
:{{Main|Immaterial and Missing Power/Story#Sakuya's Story|l1=Immaterial and Missing Power Sakuya's Scenario}}<br />
Sakuya realizes the air is charged with some strange power and investigates on what could it be.<br />
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;''Shoot the Bullet''<br />
In ''[[Shoot the Bullet]]'', [[Aya Shameimaru]] encountered Sakuya on [[stage]] 7 and took photos of her [[danmaku]].<br />
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;''Scarlet Weather Rhapsody''<br />
:{{Main|Scarlet Weather Rhapsody/Story#Sakuya's Story|l1=Scarlet Weather Rhapsody Sakuya's Scenario}}<br />
During the events of ''[[Scarlet Weather Rhapsody]]'', she is initially commanded by [[Remilia Scarlet]] to find possible suspects behind the strange weather. After Remilia grows tired of "questioning" suspects, she orders Sakuya to personally find and deal with the culprit. After doing so, Sakuya tells Reimu where to find [[Tenshi Hinanawi|the culprit]], and latter helps to rebuild the [[Hakurei Shrine]] after it is destroyed for the second time.<br />
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;''Touhou Hisoutensoku''<br />
:{{Main|Touhou Hisoutensoku/Translation/Sakuya's Script|l1=Touhou Hisoutensoku Story}}<br />
If connecting ''SWR'' with ''[[Touhou Hisoutensoku]]'', then Sakuya can become a selectable character to play with, although she appears in no scenarios.<br />
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;''Hopeless Masquerade''<br />
[[File:Th135Sakuya.png|frame|Sakuya in ''HM'']]<br />
Sakuya appears as a background cameo in ''[[Hopeless Masquerade]]'' on the [[Hakurei Shrine]] [[stage]]. She standing with [[Remilia Scarlet]] and [[Patchouli Knowledge]] holding a tray with tea on it. <br />
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;''Impossible Spell Card''<br />
:{{Main|Impossible Spell Card#Story|l1=Impossible Spell Card: Story}}<br />
After apparently reading the newspaper by the [[tengu]] about a mischief-making [[amanojaku]], she becomes one of the many strong [[youkai]] and [[human]]s to try and stop [[Seija Kijin]]. She uses [[spell card]]s that are considered impossible to dodge.<br />
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===Literature===<br />
;''Bohemian Archive in Japanese Red''<br />
:''Main article: [[Bohemian Archive in Japanese Red/Sakuya]]''<br />
[[File:WaHHSakuya.png|thumb|170px|Sakuya as seen in [[Wild and Horned Hermit]] chapter 21]]<br />
The article reports of Sakuya sneaking into [[Marisa Kirisame]]'s house and stealing various objects with the intent of building a rocketship to travel to the [[moon]]. Sakuya explains her odd behavior by claiming she is only carrying out Remilia's request.<br />
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In the interview, [[Aya Shameimaru]] asks to speak to Remilia to find out why she wanted those items, but in stalling Sakuya, she is late in delivering tea to [[Patchouli Knowledge]], who arrives to see what the hold-up is. Patchouli explains that they were going to use the items for a magic spell which would send them to the moon, but it ultimately proved useless in the end. The interview ends with Sakuya inviting Aya to join them for tea-time.<br />
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;''Silent Sinner in Blue''<br />
Sakuya is ordered by Patchouli to gather information on how to construct a "[[Wikipedia:Saturn_V|Saturn V Rocket]]" that would be able to bring Remilia to go to the Moon. After receiving information from [[Rinnosuke Morichika]] on its construction, she visited the [[Hakurei Shrine]] to convince [[Reimu Hakurei]] to help "fuel" the "rocket" by lending a God's strength. <br />
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Sakuya joins Reimu, [[Marisa Kirisame]], and Remilia in their adventure to the moon, where she is the first to fight (and lose) against [[Watatsuki no Yorihime]].<br />
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;''Wild and Horned Hermit''<br />
Remilia reacts to Reimu's new event of ''Mamemaki for Setsubun'' (an event where people throw beans to drive away the [[oni]]s) and decides to make her own festival without the beanthrowing in which Sakuya aids with the preparation. Kasen learns that the vampire is also weak against beans and decides to pay them a visit in which Sakuya kindly welcomes her and tell her about the festival. After Reimu's change of mind, the Scarlet Devil Mansion cancels its own festival and sets up a sushi stand at the [[Hakurei Shrine]].<br />
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;''Forbidden Scrollery''<br />
Sakuya goes to the Hakurei Shrine looking for Remilia's new pet, a supposed Tupai, which seems to have disappeared. Later, she goes along with Reimu to [[Suzunaan]] to research about the creature. After Hieda manages to capture it and reveal it was actually a Chupacabra, Sakuya returns it to the [[Scarlet Devil Mansion]].<br />
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==Relationships==<br />
As a playable character in several games, Sakuya has met a large number of characters. Generally, she treats everyone with professional politeness fitting of a perfect and elegant [[maid]], but youkai that get in her way while she is resolving incidents are coldly exterminated.<br />
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===Residents of the Scarlet Devil Mansion===<br />
Sakuya is loyal to [[Remilia Scarlet]] and serves her as the Head [[Maid]] without question, a servitude in which no one knows why either trust each other so much. She follows Remilia's requests even when she knows it won't work, such as catching [[Lily White]] to restore Spring in ''[[Strange and Bright Nature Deity]]'', as requested by her mistress. When Remilia playfully criticizes Sakuya for her failure to catch spring, she takes it in good stride and doesn't disagree. She will also do things for Remilia which she won't even ask, like accompanying her in ''[[Imperishable Night]]'' and ''[[Immaterial and Missing Power]]'' (or trying to, in the latter case), or putting on a sleight-of-hand magic show for Remilia without warning in ''[[Curiosities of Lotus Asia]]''. Remilia has said that Sakuya is an excellent cleaner, though not before contrarily stating that humans are useless. On occasion, she's more a babysitter than a maid. She chastises Remilia in her ''[[Scarlet Weather Rhapsody]]'' and ''Immaterial and Missing Power'' victory quotes for sneaking out food or playing around too much.<br />
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[[Hong Meiling]] is a fellow employee who she pesters about her work productivity as shown in ''[[Immaterial and Missing Power]]'' and ''[[Touhou Hisoutensoku]]'' victory quotes. Meiling seems easily frightened when Sakuya shows even a slight bit of anger as shown in ''[[Strange and Bright Nature Deity]]''. However, in Meiling's ''Touhou Hisoutensoku'' ending, when Meiling is found passed out and asleep, Sakuya takes Meiling inside because she is worried Meiling will get heatstroke.<br />
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She also serves [[Patchouli Knowledge]] since Patchouli rarely leaves her room. Sakuya has the highest authority as chief maid<ref name="PMiSSSakuya" />, yet Patchouli's rank is noticeably higher within the Scarlet Devil Mansion. Sakuya may also be serving her because Patchouli is Remilia's friend, though she does care for Patchouli personally. In ''[[Silent Sinner in Blue]]'', she takes a private moment to watch and smile at Patchouli, who's blissfully unaware as she's researching a new magical breakthrough.<br />
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[[Koakuma]] is simply a fellow employee of the [[Scarlet Devil Mansion]] and presumably nothing more.<br />
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On top of serving Remilia, she presumably serves her younger sister [[Flandre Scarlet]], who is usually not allowed out of [[Scarlet Devil Mansion]] due to her emotional instability. Someone prepares Flandre's food, which are [[human]]s prepared in the shape of pastries and other pleasant things, but it is not directly stated to be Sakuya.<br />
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As the head maid, Sakuya has precedence over all the other [[Fairy Maid]]s of the [[Scarlet Devil Mansion]]. She is familiar with every each one and notices any abnormality such as the [[Three Fairies of Light]] dressing up as three [[maid]]s. Due to the poor work productivity of the fairies, Sakuya presumably does most of the work. An advertisement in ''[[Bohemian Archive in Japanese Red]]'' states that Sakuya interviews for recruiting, so she may have interviewed the majority (if not every) of fairy maids herself.<br />
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===Marisa Kirisame===<br />
Despite [[Marisa Kirisame]]'s tendency to "borrow" books from the library, Sakuya has shown on a few occasions (mainly endings) to be quite friendly with Marisa, going so far as to serve her snacks and tea and hiding her from Patchouli. This may explain Patchouli's low "catness" rating in ''[[Immaterial and Missing Power]]''.<br />
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===Residents of [[Eientei]]===<br />
From the events of ''[[Imperishable Night]]'', Sakuya is one of the few people who know that [[Eirin Yagokoro]] and [[Kaguya Houraisan]] are from the [[moon]], and presumably keeping it a secret. Eirin's profile states Eirin is surprised to see Sakuya, but only Eirin knows why. Sakuya has not shown any abnormal interactions or familiarity with Eirin that could hint at what this is (she was suspicious of Eirin during the rocket party in ''[[Inaba of the Moon and Inaba of the Earth]]'', but so was everyone who knew Eirin was from the moon).<br />
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ZUN's only hint in regards to this can be seen above in the section about [[Sakuya_Izayoi#Sakuya's_Species|Konohana-Sakuyahime]].<br />
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===Minor Relationships===<br />
;[[Three Fairies of Light]]<br />
Sakuya met them in an omake in ''[[Eastern and Little Nature Deity]]'', where she stops their prank by throwing some knives at them. In ''[[Strange and Bright Nature Deity]]'', at the mansion, she saw through their [[maid]] disguises but didn't say a word and let them stay. She eventually kicked them out (according to the fairies' conversation) or frightened them out by telling them if they don't work, they don't eat. Sakuya was smiling, so she may have been speaking as-a-matter-of-factly.{{Reference needed|Employees in the Scarlet Devil Mansion are paid with food}} Later, when they're spying on Sakuya and others at the [[Hakurei Shrine]], she sees them, revealing she can see through their abilities to hide themselves even though [[Reimu Hakurei]] and [[Marisa Kirisame]] cannot. She cheerfully invites them to join, but this only scares them into running away, which disappoints her.<br />
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;[[Alice Margatroid]]<br />
Sakuya attacks her in ''[[Immaterial and Missing Power]]'' to release stress. In ''[[Scarlet Weather Rhapsody]]'', she says it's to punish Alice for intruding even after Alice has already left. In both cases, Alice thought it was a poor reason. In comparison, [[Marisa Kirisame]] and [[Youmu Konpaku]] don't even get into trouble when caught intruding in the mansion (in fact, they usually get tea, instead)<ref>[[Cage in Lunatic Runagate/Seventh_Chapter|''Cage in Lunatic Runagate'' Chapter 7]]</ref>.<br />
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;[[Cirno]]<br />
Sakuya has trouble understanding why Cirno finds freezing frogs or flowers fun in ''[[Phantasmagoria of Flower View]]'', but at least came to understand [[Fairy|fairies]]' recklessness from watching Cirno fight in ''[[Touhou Hisoutensoku]]''. Cirno does not want to be a fairy [[maid]].<br />
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==Gallery==<br />
===Covers===<br />
<gallery><br />
File:Curiosities of lotus asia 04 01.jpg|Sakuya in ''[[Curiosities of Lotus Asia]]''<br />
File:Curiosities of lotus asia 05 01.jpg|Sakuya in ''[[Curiosities of Lotus Asia]]''<br />
File:WaHH5Cover.jpg|Sakuya on the Vol. 5 cover of ''[[Wild and Horned Hermit]]''<br />
File:ThGI2cover.jpg|Sakuya in the ''[[Strange Creators of Outer World]]'' Vol. 2 cover<br />
</gallery><br />
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===Artworks===<br />
<gallery><br />
File:Th06SakuyaFull.jpg|Sakuya full artwork from ''[[Embodiment of Scarlet Devil]]''<br />
File:Th06Sakuya.png|Sakuya artwork from ''[[Embodiment of Scarlet Devil]]''<br />
File:Th07Sakuya3.png|Sakuya artwork from ''[[Perfect Cherry Blossom]]''<br />
File:Th075sakuya01.png|Sakuya artwork from ''[[Immaterial and Missing Power]]''<br />
File:SakuyaIN.png|Sakuya artwork from ''[[Imperishable Night]]''<br />
File:Th09Sakuya.png|Sakuya artwork from ''[[Phantasmagoria of Flower View]]''<br />
File:Th09FullSakuya.png|Sakuya artwork from ''Phantasmagoria of Flower View''<br />
File:Th09SakuyaAlt.png|Alternate outfit from ''Phantasmagoria of Flower View''<br />
File:Th105Sakuya.png|Sakuya artwork from ''[[Scarlet Weather Rhapsody]]''<br />
File:02Sakuya2.png|Sakuya artwork from ''[[Touhou Hisoutensoku]]''<br />
File:Th14Sakuya.png|Sakuya artwork from ''[[Double Dealing Character]]''<br />
File:Th18Sakuya.png|Sakuya artwork from ''[[Unconnected Marketeers]]''<br />
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===Sprites===<br />
<gallery><br />
File:Th123SakuyaColors.png|Sakuya's different color palettes from ''[[Touhou Hisoutensoku]]''. The middle top corresponds to her second color palette in ''[[Scarlet Weather Rhapsody]]'', while the right top corresponds to her ''[[Immaterial and Missing Power]]'' palette<br />
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===Illustrations===<br />
<gallery><br />
File:020Sakuya.JPG|Illustration of Sakuya in ''[[Bohemian Archive in Japanese Red]]''<br />
File:021Sakuya.JPG|Another illustration of Sakuya from ''[[Bohemian Archive in Japanese Red]]''<br />
File:SSiBArtWallpaper2.jpg|Sakuya in ''[[Silent Sinner in Blue]]''<br />
File:Top040830.jpg|Sakuya's illustration by ZUN<br />
File:Sakuya Whos Who.png|Sakuya from ''[[Who's Who of Humans & Youkai - Dusk Edition]]''<br />
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===Screenshots===<br />
<gallery><br />
File:SBND01Sakuya.jpg|Sakuya in ''[[Strange and Bright Nature Deity]]''<br />
File:EotWSakuyaRemilia.jpg|Sakuya and Remilia cameo in ''[[Extra of the Wind]]''<br />
File:SSIBSakuya2.jpg|Sakuya in ''[[Silent Sinner in Blue]]''<br />
File:IMIESakuya.png|Sakuya in ''[[Inaba of the Moon and Inaba of the Earth]]''<br />
File:OSPCH4SakuyaCostume.jpg|Sakuya mummy costume in ''[[Oriental Sacred Place]]''<br />
File:LE Sakuya.jpg|Sakuya in ''[[Lotus Eaters]]''<br />
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===Others===<br />
<gallery><br />
File:GoMSigil-Sakuya.jpg|Sakuya's sigil in ''[[The Grimoire of Marisa]]''<br />
File:Th123SakuyaSigil.png|Sakuya's sigil from ''[[Touhou Hisoutensoku]]''<br />
File:Sakuya_omikuji.jpg|Omikuji with Sakuya's portrait made by ZUN for [[Reitaisai]] 15<br />
File:SakuyaCardTH18.png|Sakuya's shot type on a Ability Card from ''[[Unconnected Marketeers]]''<br />
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==Skills==<br />
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{{#lsth:List of Skills|[[Sakuya Izayoi]]}}<br />
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==Spell Cards==<br />
{{hidden begin|title = Spell cards|titlestyle = background:palegreen; text-align:center;}}<br />
{{#lsth:List of Spell Cards/Touhou Project 1|[[Sakuya Izayoi]]}}<br />
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==Additional Information==<br />
*Despite helping rebuild the [[Hakurei Shrine]] later in ''[[Scarlet Weather Rhapsody]]'', Sakuya casually ignores [[Reimu Hakurei]]'s donation requests for shrine upkeep in ''[[Immaterial and Missing Power]]'', saying she [[Irreligion|doesn't believe in gods]] anyway.<ref>''[[Immaterial and Missing Power]]'' [[Immaterial and Missing Power/Story/Sakuya's Scenario|Sakuya's Scenario]]: "Too bad. I don't believe in gods."</ref> She also self-describes as an atheist when Reimu asks her about disappearances in the Human Village in [[Wild and Horned Hermit]].<br />
*Her alternate outfit in ''Immaterial and Missing Power'' and ''[[Scarlet Weather Rhapsody]]'' is a homage to [[Ruukoto]], the first [[maid]] of the [[Touhou Project]]. In ''[[Touhou Hisoutensoku]]'' more alternate outfits were added, including a [[wikipedia:List of Rozen Maiden characters#Suigintou|Suigintou]] palette and a [[wikipedia:Dio Brando|Dio Brando]] palette.<br />
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==Fandom==<br />
{{main|Fandom/Embodiment of Scarlet Devil#Sakuya Izayoi|l1=Fandom: Sakuya Izayoi}}<br />
Sakuya is one of the most popular characters in the ''[[Touhou Project]]''. She sometimes appears to be an icon for the ''Touhou Project'' and has appeared in many fangames, mostly as a playable character or a [[boss]], and in other fan-made anime and artwork. She is also a target for various memes and jokes.<br />
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==Official Profiles==<br />
{{hidden begin|title = [[Embodiment of Scarlet Devil]] - おまけ.txt|titlestyle = background:lightblue; text-align:center}}<br />
{{Profile Quote<br />
| image = [[File:Th06Sakuya.png|Sakuya Izayoi]]<br />
| text = ○紅魔館のメイド<br/><br />
十六夜 咲夜(いざよい・さくや)<br/><br />
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能力:時間を操る程度の能力<br/><br />
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5面ボスです。メイドで、10〜20年程人間をやっています。<br/><br />
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彼女はその能力により人間から煙たがられてしまいます。すでに普通の人間と仲良くやっていくのをあきらめています。<br/><br />
これといった名誉欲や支配欲などはなく、飯さえ食えればそれでいいと思い、紅魔館でメイドをやっています。<br/><br />
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紅魔館では清掃係兼メイド長を担当していて、常に時間を止める能力を活かして仕事をしています。<br/><br />
(時間止めて掃除をすると埃が舞わないとか)<br/><br />
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この家の主人がアレなので、実質、メイドというか子守り役というか、この家を仕切っています。<br/><br />
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カードアタック 全9種<br/><br />
| translation = '''Maid of the Scarlet Devil Mansion'''<br/><br />
'''Sakuya Izayoi'''<br/><br />
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Ability: Time manipulation<br/><br />
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5th stage boss. Plays the role of a human maid about 10 to 20 years old.<br /><br />
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That power of hers distances her from the human race. She has given up trying to be friendly to ordinary people.<br/><br />
She does not care about honor or power; she thinks so long as it earns her dinner, being the Scarlet Devil Mansion's maid is fine.<br/><br />
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She is the chief of the Scarlet Devil Mansion's maids and cleaning staff, and always takes advantage of her ability to stop time when working.<br/><br />
(If she cleans when time is stopped, it won't raise dust.)<br/><br />
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Due to the nature of the mistress of the house, it is arguable whether she serves the role of maid or babysitter, but in any case, she is in charge of most of the affairs of the household.<br/><br />
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Total of nine card attacks.<br />
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{{hidden begin|title = [[Perfect Cherry Blossom]] - Manual|titlestyle = background:lightblue; text-align:center}}<br />
{{Profile Quote<br />
| image = [[File:Th07Sakuya1.png|200px|Sakuya Izayoi PCB]]<br />
| text = ○紅魔館のメイド 十六夜 咲夜(いざよいさくや)<br/><br />
とあるお屋敷の瀟洒なメイド。時を操る程度の能力を持つ。<br/><br />
頭も切れ、腕もたち、弱点は無い様だが猫舌。<br/><br />
投げナイフの技術は料理の腕に比例する為、咲夜は料理が大変上手。<br/><br />
最近は貴重な食材を使用した創作中華にはまっている。<br/><br />
なおナイフは、節約と環境保護のために投げた後に回収する。<br/><br />
もし、戦闘中にナイフが尽きた場合は、時間を止めて回収にあたる。<br/><br />
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武器は投げナイフ。タネ無し手品を得意とする。<br/><br />
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なんと言っても、ボム数が4である。クリアだけなら楽勝。<br/><br />
「ジャック・ザ・リッパー」は、前方ある程度の角度範囲内の敵をロックして狙い撃ちをする。<br/><br />
威力は低めだが、非常に使い勝手の良い武器。<br/><br />
一方、時符は全ての武器が不思議な挙動をする。<br/><br />
「ミスディレクション」は、移動方向にショットが傾く。この状態で「パワーディレクション」に移行すると、ショット方向がロックされる。<br/><br />
ボムは、「パーフェクトスクウェア」「プライベートスクウェア」共に、威力が皆無で無敵時間はゲーム中最長である。また、このボムだけ使用中に移動速度が上がる。<br/><br />
最大の特徴は、ボム中は敵弾を停止させ、「その敵弾にかすることが出来る」+「ボム終了後にボーナスアイテムになるため、ボーナスアイテムの得点が通常の得点になる」事である。<br/><br />
かすり数によっては、大きく稼げる武器になっている。<br/><br />
| translation = '''Maid of the Scarlet Devil Mansion'''<br/><br />
'''Sakuya Izayoi'''<br/><br />
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The elegant maid of a certain mansion. She possess the ability to manipulate time.<br/><br />
Sharp and able, she has no real weak points but can't eat hot (temperature) foods.<br/><br />
Since she wants her knife-throwing skills to be comparable to her cooking skills, Sakuya is incredibly good at cooking.<br/><br />
Her is currently addicted to creating Chinese delicacies using expensive ingredients.<br/><br />
In order to save money and the planet, she reuses knives she's already thrown.<br/><br />
If she were to run out of knives during a battle, she'd just stop time and pick them up again.<br/><br />
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Throwing knives are her weapon. Deceitless sleight-of-hand is her specialty.<br /><br />
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In any case, she starts out with 4 bombs. It makes it easier to clear the game.<br/><br />
"Jack the Ripper" locks onto enemies at certain angles in front of you.<br/><br />
It has low power, but it's a very easy to use weapon.<br/><br />
On the other hand, all of the "Time Sign" weapons have very unusual movement.<br/><br />
"Misdirection" angles its shots in the direction you're moving. If you switch to "Power Direction" when it's angled, the shot direction will lock in its current position.<br/><br />
The bombs, "Perfect Square" and "Private Square" are both very weak, but they have the longest invincibility time in the game. Also, these are the only bombs that make you move faster when you use them.<br/><br />
The biggest distinguishing point is: enemy bullets stop during bombs, so the fact that you can graze them like this + the fact that they become bonus items when the bomb is finished (and normal point items then get the bonus item value) mean that the more you graze, the higher you will score with her weapons.<br />
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| text = ○紅魔館のメイド<br/><br />
十六夜 咲夜(いざよい さくや)<br/><br />
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主に時間を操る程度の能力を持つ。<br/><br />
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幻想郷にある湖のほとりに、その紅いお屋敷はある。そこで働くメイドである。給金は無い。<br/><br />
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この館で掃除したり、指示したり、料理したり、お嬢様の世話したりで、普通に忙しい。<br/><br />
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館は無駄に広く、それでいて単調な色調のため、全体像はなかなか掴めない。迷い込んだ招かざるお客様が何処かに落ちていても、分からない。先に誰かに発見されて消されていても、分からない。<br/><br />
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紅い建物は、緑の多い幻想郷に在っても何故か違和感を感じられない。<br/><br />
あたかもそこに在るのが当たり前かの様に、建っていた。<br/><br />
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咲夜も、ここに暮らしていると時間が停止しているかのように感じるのだった。もちろん、咲夜が時を止めているわけではない。<br/><br />
| translation = '''Maid of the Scarlet Devil Mansion'''<br /><br />
'''Izayoi Sakuya'''<br />
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Mainly she possesses the ability to manipulate time.<br />
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She is a [[maid]] who works at the [[Scarlet Devil Mansion]] on the banks of a lake in [[Gensokyo]] for no salary.<br /><br />
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She's kept quite busy in this mansion cleaning, commanding the other maids, cooking, and taking care of her mistress.<br />
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The mansion is unnecessarily large and has monotonous colors, so it's hard to tell things apart inside. Nobody would notice if an uninvited guest wandered inside and fell into a hole somewhere, undiscovered. Nobody would know if they were discovered and gotten rid of, either.<br />
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Somehow, this scarlet building doesn't seem out of place surrounded by the green of Gensokyo. It simply stands there as if it were always meant to be there.<br />
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Living here, even Sakuya feels as if time has stopped. Of course, that's not because Sakuya has stopped time.<br />
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| text = ○紅魔館のメイド<br /><br />
十六夜 咲夜(いざよいさくや)<br/><br />
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種族:人間<br/><br />
住処:紅魔館<br/><br />
能力:時を操る程度の能力<br/><br />
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紅魔館の住み込みで働くメイドさん。炊事、掃除、洗濯、子守にナイフ投げと、メイドがやりそうな事は全て完璧にこなす。メイド長。<br/><br />
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性格は、瀟洒で完璧そうに見えるが、たまに抜けている所も見せる。<br/><br />
仕事が完璧で速いのは、時間を止めて仕事をしているいるからだと思うが……。<br/><br />
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体術も得意とする。むしろ弾幕のような怪しげな術よりも得意な位。<br/><br />
弾幕にも投げナイフを使うのはその為である。それにタネの無い手品が好きで、戦闘にも積極的に取り入れる。そういう所が抜けている所の様な気がしてならないが。<br/><br />
| translation = '''Maid of the Scarlet Devil Mansion'''<br />'''Izayoi Sakuya'''<br />
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Species: [[Human]]<br /><br />
Location: [[Scarlet Devil Mansion]]<br /><br />
Ability: Ability to manipulate time<br />
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A [[maid]] who works and lives in the Scarlet Devil Mansion . She does a maid's duty perfectly: cooking, cleaning, washing, babysitting, knife throwing, etc. Her position is chief maid.<br />
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Her personality seems perfect and elegant, but sometimes she shows a more spaced-out side. The reason she works so quickly is probably because she stops time to do it, though ...<br />
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She also specializes in melee attacks. Probably even more so than at suspicious tricks like danmaku.<br />
This is why she uses throwing knives in her danmaku. In addition, she likes magic that doesn't have tricks to it, so she proactively adopts it into battle. I can't help feeling this point is the odd acts.<br /><br />
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| text = ○紅魔館のメイド 十六夜 咲夜(いざよいさくや)<br/><br />
悪魔に仕えるメイドさん。<br/><br />
紅魔館に住む人間。時を操る程度の能力を持つ。<br/><br />
紅魔館ではメイド長を勤めていて、ご主人様がアレなので実質、紅魔館の顔である。<br/><br />
心からご主人様に忠誠を誓うが、従事という言葉から感じるじめじめした暗い嫌な感じは全くせず、サバサバとしていて見てて気持ちがいい。<br/><br />
時折、惚けた事もするのだが、わざとか真剣なのか判りづらい。<br/><br />
本人は言うまでも無く、真剣である。<br/><br />
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武器は投げナイフ。銀が手に入り難くなってきたので別の材料を検討中。<br/><br />
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備考<br/><br />
今回はレミリアと組む。<br/><br />
低速移動は単独使用時のみの性能である。<br/><br />
全く癖の無いオーソドックスなショットで使い<br/><br />
やすい。<br/><br />
アイテムは俺のもんだ。という人にお奨め。<br/><br />
| translation = '''Maid of the Scarlet Devil Mansion'''<br /><br />
'''Izayoi Sakuya'''<br />
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A [[maid]] who serves a devil.<br /><br />
She lives in [[Scarlet Devil Mansion]]. She can manipulate time.<br /><br />
She is the head maid of the Scarlet Devil Mansion, but due to her mistress's nature she's practically head of the household.<br/><br />
She is utterly devoted to her mistress, and she feels no shame in being a "servant";<br/><br />
on the contrary, she's so easy-going it feels nice to watch her.<br/><br />
Sometimes she's a little spacy, but it's hard to tell if she's serious or faking it.<br/><br />
In either case, she's a fairly serious person.<br />
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Her weapon is throwing knives. Since silver is hard to come by, she's looking for other materials to use, too.<br />
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Notes:<br/><br />
She's teamed up with Remilia this time.<br/><br />
She can only use focused movement when alone.<br/><br />
She has a very orthodox, straightforward shot, so she's easy to use.<br/><br />
Recommended for people who must get every item.<br />
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| text = ○紅魔館のメイド<br/><br />
十六夜 咲夜(いざよい さくや)<br/><br />
Sakuya Izayoi<br/><br />
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種族:人間<br/><br />
能力:時間を操る程度の能力<br/><br />
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幻想郷にある湖のほとりに、その紅いお屋敷はある。そこで働くメイドである。<br/><br />
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メイドをしていると、こんな辺鄙な山奥でも衣食住に困らず快適である。彼女は人間だが、悪魔達と一緒にいる為人間からも妖怪からも余り良い目で見られない。でも一部の人間達はそんなことを一切気にしないで接してくれるし、何より食う寝る処に住む処に困らない。これほど快適な暮らしは他に考えられなかった。<br/><br />
| translation = '''Maid of the Scarlet Devil Mansion'''<br/><br />
'''Sakuya Izayoi'''<br />
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Species: [[Human]]<br/><br />
Abilities: Manipulating time<br />
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There's a scarlet mansion on the banks of a certain lake in Gensokyo. She works there as a maid.<br />
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When you're a maid, you don't have to worry about clothing, food or housing, even when you live this deep in the mountains. She's human, but both humans and youkai don't look too well on her since she lives with devils. Still, some humans will overlook this, and she never has to worry about her living conditions. She can't imagine a life better than this.<br />
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| text = ○完全で瀟洒なメイド 十六夜 咲夜(いざよいさくや)<br/><br />
悪魔に仕えるメイドさん。<br/><br />
紅魔館に住む人間。時を操る程度の能力を持つ。<br/><br />
あか抜けた性格だが、余裕なのか惚けているのかちょっとずれた面も見せる。<br/><br />
花の異変に関しては、さほど危険を感じていない。<br/><br />
| translation = '''Perfect and Elegant Maid'''<br />'''Izayoi Sakuya'''<br />
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A [[maid]] who serves a devil.<br /><br />
She's a [[human]] who lives in the [[Scarlet Devil Mansion]]. She possess the ability to the extent of manipulating time.<br /><br />
Though her character is refined, sometimes she acts like she's being careless or just spacing out.<br/><br />
She doesn't think the flower incident is anything terribly dangerous.<br />
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| text = ○完全で瀟洒なメイド<br/><br />
十六夜 咲夜(いざよい さくや)<br/><br />
Izayoi Sakuya<br/><br />
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種族:人間<br/><br />
能力:時間を操る程度の能力<br/><br />
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幻想郷にある湖のほとりに、その紅いお屋敷はある。そこで働くメイドである。<br/><br />
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今回は、一応異変と言うことで様子を見に出てきた物の、特に危険は無いと感じていた。それは紅魔館の者の様子も、特に慌てた物では無かったからでもある。<br/><br />
| translation = '''Perfect and Elegant Maid'''<br />'''Izayoi Sakuya'''<br />
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Species: [[Human]]<br /><br />
Ability: Manipulating time<br /><br />
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There's a scarlet mansion on the edge of a lake in [[Gensokyo]]. She's a [[maid]] working there.<br /><br />
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She heard something was going on, so she just thought she'd go out and have a look; she didn't particularly think something dangerous was happening. This is also why nobody in the [[Scarlet Devil Mansion]] was particularly upset about the flower incident.<br />
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| text = ○完全で瀟洒な従者<br />
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十六夜 咲夜(いざよい さくや)<br />
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種族:人間<br />
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職業:メイド<br />
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住家:紅魔館<br />
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能力:時を操る程度の能力<br />
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性格:瀟洒で知的、垢抜けている。<br />
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でも案外うっかりした行動をとる事もある。<br />
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| translation = '''Perfect and Elegant Servant'''<br/><br />
Sakuya Izayoi<br />
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Race: Human<br />
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Occupation: Maid<br />
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Place of residence: [[Scarlet Devil Mansion]]<br />
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Ability: Manipulating time<br />
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Personality: Elegant, knowledgeable, and refined.<br />
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However, can be surprisingly careless from time to time.<br />
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| text = '''十六夜 咲夜(いざよい さくや)'''<br/>''人間/時間を操る程度の能力''<br /><br />
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紅魔館に住むただ1人の人間。多くの妖精メイドたちを束<br/><br />
ねるメイド長である。ちなみにメイドに給金や休暇は無い。<br/><br />
代わりに自由と食事と紅茶が与えられる。<br/><br />
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時間を操る能力を持ち、レミリアからの信頼も厚い。だが、<br/><br />
人間である咲夜がなぜ紅魔館で働いているのかは謎に包<br/>まれている。<br />
| translation = '''Sakuya Izayoi'''<br />''Human / Ability to manipulate time''<br /><br />
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The only human who lives at the [[Scarlet Devil Mansion]].<br /><br />
She serves as the head maid, managing the many [[Fairy Maid|fairy maids]].<br /><br />
Incidentally, the maids are not paid in wages or awarded any days off. Instead, they are compensated with freedom, meals, and black tea.<br /><br />
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She possesses the ability to manipulate time and enjoys a deep bond of trust with [[Remilia Scarlet|Remilia]]. That said, the question of why Sakuya, a human, works at the [[Scarlet Devil Mansion]] is a riddle wrapped in mystery.<br />
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| text = ○悪魔のメイド<br /><br />
十六夜 咲夜(いざよい さくや)<br /><br />
Izayoi Sakuya<br />
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種族:人間<br /><br />
能力:時を操る程度の能力<br />
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紅魔館にすむ、人間のメイド長。<br />
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最近、勝手に敵に向かっていく短剣を手に入れた。<br /><br />
自分で投げるよりもずっと簡単で、気持ちの良い物だった。<br />
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そんな時、紅魔館の近くの霧の湖で妖怪が暴れているという<br /><br />
噂が立った。<br /><br />
咲夜は短剣を試すべく戦いに出る。 <br />
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| translation = '''Maid of the Devil'''<br/><br />
Sakuya Izayoi<br />
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Species: [[Human]]<br />
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Ability: Capable of manipulating time<br />
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The human head maid that lives in the [[Scarlet Devil Mansion]].<br />
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Recently, she has obtained knives that will aim towards enemies by themselves.<br/><br />
Since this is much easier than throwing them herself, they're quite enjoyable.<br />
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Not long afterwards, rumors surfaced that youkai were acting rowdy at the [[Misty Lake]] near the Scarlet Devil Mansion.<br />
Sakuya goes to fight to try out her new knives.<br />
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| text = ○瀟洒なメイド<br><br />
十六夜 咲夜(いざよい さくや)<br><br />
Izayoi Sakuya<br />
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種族:人間<br><br />
能力:時間を止める程度の能力<br />
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紅魔館でメイド長をしている。すましているので分かりにくいが、実は少し天然。<br />
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ちまたに不思議なカードが流通していた。<br><br />
そのカードにパチュリー様が非常に興味を持たれ、全てを回収するように命じられた。<br><br />
確かに興味深いカードだった。中にはお嬢様の魔力が込められたカードもあるという。<br><br />
しかし、お嬢様はピンピンしている。これは一体何を意味しているのか……。<br />
| translation ='''Elegant Maid'''<br><br />
'''Sakuya Izayoi'''<br />
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Species: Human<br><br />
Ability: Capable of stopping time<br />
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Works as the head maid of the Scarlet Devil Mansion. Her cool demeanor makes it hard to tell, but she's actually a bit of an airhead.<br />
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Mysterious cards were circulating in the streets.<br><br />
Lady Patchouli gained an extreme interest in the cards, and ordered her to collect every last one of them.<br><br />
The cards certainly were intriguing. Apparently, some of them even contained her mistress's magic power.<br><br />
However, her mistress was fit as a fiddle. Just what exactly could this mean...?<br />
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==Official Sources==<br />
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*2002/08/11 '''[[Embodiment of Scarlet Devil]]''' - Stage 5 dialogue; Stage 6 dialogue; おまけ.txt<br />
*2003/08/17 '''[[Perfect Cherry Blossom]]''' - Sakuya's Scenario; キャラ設定.txt; Manual<br />
*2004/04/03-2004/05/01 '''[[Curiosities of Lotus Asia]]''' - Chapters 4, 5<br />
*2004/08/15 '''[[Imperishable Night]]''' - Scarlet Team's Scenario; Scarlet Team Extra Stage; キャラ設定.txt; Manual<br />
*2005/08/11 '''[[Bohemian Archive in Japanese Red]]''' - Article and Interview: Sakuya<br />
*2005/08/14 '''[[Phantasmagoria of Flower View]]''' - キャラ設定.txt<br />
*2005/10/01 '''[[Seasonal Dream Vision/A Beautiful Flower Blooming Violet Every Sixty Years]]'''<br />
*2006/02/10 '''[[Curiosities of Lotus Asia]]''' - Chapter 18<br />
*2006/05/26 '''[[Strange and Bright Nature Deity]]''' - Chapter 1<br />
*2006/12/27 '''[[Perfect Memento in Strict Sense]]''' - Sakuya Izayoi<br />
*2007/03/25 ~ 2007/04/26 '''[[Strange and Bright Nature Deity]]''' - Chapters 7-8<br />
*2007/06/08 ~ 2009/04/09 '''[[Silent Sinner in Blue]]'''<br />
*2007/12/26 ~ 2008/01/26 '''[[Strange and Bright Nature Deity]]''' - Chapters 15-16<br />
*2008/05/25 '''[[Scarlet Weather Rhapsody]]''' - chara.html<br />
*2009/07/28 '''[[The Grimoire of Marisa]]''' - Sakuya Izayoi's Spell Cards<br />
*2009/08/26 '''[[Oriental Sacred Place]]''' - Chapter 4<br />
*2012/12/26 '''[[Forbidden Scrollery]]''' - Chapter 3<br />
*2012/04/26 '''[[Forbidden Scrollery]]''' - Chapter 6<br />
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| nameJp = {{ruby-ja|東風谷|こちや}} {{ruby-ja|早苗|さなえ}}<br />
| nameEn = Sanae Kochiya<br />
| nameIPA = kot͡ɕija sanae [[Media:Pronunciaiton_SanaeKochiya.ogg|(♫)]]<br />
| nameAlt = Sanae Kotiya<br />
| image = [[File:Th18Sanae.png|x340px|Sanae]]<br />
| caption= Sanae as she appears in [[Unconnected Marketeers]].<br />
| chartitle = {{H:title|Newbie Goddess of the Mountain|山の新人神様}}<br />
| species = [[Human]]/[[Arahitogami|Living God]] ''(not native to [[Gensokyo]])''<br />
| abilities = Causing miracles to occur<br />
| occupation = [[Wind Priestess]], [[Shrine Maiden]]<br />
| location = [[Moriya Shrine]]. Originally from [[Outside World|Suwa in the Shinano Province, Japan]].<br />
| MusicThemes = *{{H:title|{{lang|ja|信仰は儚き人間の為に}}|Faith Is for the Transient People}} ([[Mountain of Faith]], [[Touhou Hisoutensoku]])<br />
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{{nihongo|'''Sanae Kochiya'''|東風谷 早苗|Kochiya Sanae}} is a [[human]], but is also a distant descendant of the [[god]]dess [[Suwako Moriya]]. Her role at the [[Moriya Shrine]] is similar to a [[shrine maiden]], but with her inherited power Sanae has also become a minor deity herself. Originally from the [[Outside World]], Sanae migrated to [[Gensokyo]] with the shrine and its two resident goddesses, [[Kanako Yasaka]] and [[Suwako Moriya]]. As a result, she is rather knowledgeable about the outside world and modern living, although her attempts to explain scientific concepts usually just confuse the locals. Her knowledge on things like the youkai of Gensokyo, on the other hand, seems a bit lacking for a shrine maiden.<br />
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==General Information==<br />
Sanae was first introduced in ''[[Mountain of Faith]]'' as the stage 5 boss, reappeared as the extra stage midboss of ''[[Subterranean Animism]]'' and later became a playable character in ''[[Undefined Fantastic Object]]'', ''[[Touhou Hisoutensoku]]'', ''[[Ten Desires]]'' and ''[[Legacy of Lunatic Kingdom]]''. She is a secondary character in the comic ''[[Wild and Horned Hermit]]''.<br />
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===Personality===<br />
Sanae is confident, energetic and dutiful, sometimes too much so, and tends to get carried away easily or have trouble thinking for herself. She also appears to be something of a geek, making references to popular culture and having knowledge of advanced scientific concepts. As someone who grew up in the [[Outside World]], much of [[Gensokyo]] seems strange and novel to her; she finds great fun in "exterminating" [[youkai]] and solving incidents. She also may have somewhat of a complex about herself as an incident resolver, thinking foes won't take her as seriously as the other experienced youkai exterminators. The simple fact that she is adjusting to life in [[Gensokyo]] makes her an extremely rare case.<br />
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===Occupation===<br />
Sanae's occupation as a [[Wind Priestess]] means to be the priest to worship the god of wind. However, while causing miracles of wind and rain to come about through a secret technique with many secrets, since she herself is treated to the same level as [[god]]s, and has become one who gathers faith, she is also a living god. In ''[[Mountain of Faith]]'', just in front of [[Reimu Hakurei]], she said about herself, "I guess you could call me something like a [[Shrine Maiden]]", indicating that there's a chance that she's different from a Shrine Maiden, but in the works, she is fundamentally treated as a Shrine Maiden the same way Reimu is. Furthermore, since Sanae is a "god" while at the same time being a "[[human]]", even if she loses all her faith, she can continue to live as a human.<br />
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===Abilities===<br />
;Ability to cause miracles<br />
Sanae is capable of invoking miracles through her godly heritage, and many of her [[spell card]]s are themed after miracles of various religions or odd events. It's mainly the manipulation of weather, and also seems to use it in prayers for rain. The "miracles" that she can invoke are not related to good or bad fortune – they are merely events that have a very low chance of occurring. Before invoking a miracle, she needs time to prepare it proportional to how unlikely the miracle is. Simple ones can be invoked with a single word, while the most complex can take days.<br />
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;Abilities as a shrine maiden<br />
Sanae is a [[shrine maiden]], but of a different type to [[Reimu Hakurei]]. Like Reimu she is capable of summoning gods, granting her some of their powers; while she relies on this ability much more than Reimu, she is only capable of summoning her patrons: [[Kanako Yasaka]] and [[Suwako Moriya]].<br />
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==Character Design==<br />
[[File:ThGKSanae.png|thumb|200px|Sanae, as illustrated in ''[[Symposium of Post-mysticism]]'']]<br />
===Name and Origin===<br />
Her full name is {{nihongo|''Sanae Kochiya''|東風谷 早苗}}. {{nihongo|''Sanae''|早苗}} can mean "rice seedling" or "early seedling", and {{nihongo|''Kochiya''|東風谷}} "eastern wind valley". The same "east" ({{lang|ja|東}}) appears in {{nihongo|Touhou|東方}}, and the same "wind" ({{lang|ja|風}}) in the title of {{nihongo|''[[Mountain of Faith]]''|風神録}}.<br />
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Unusual amongst Touhou characters, both are real names used in modern Japan. Presumably Sanae's name is derived from the real world person {{nihongo|"Sanae Moriya"|守矢早苗}}, the 78th head of the Moriya family which claims descent from {{nihongo|the god Moreya|洩矢神|Moreyashin|"Moreya" is an archaic pronunciation of "Moriya"}}. This family were supposed to succeed one of the priests of the [[wikipedia:Suwa Taisha|Suwa Grand Shrine]], {{nihongo|Jin Choukan|神長官||"God Director"}}.<br />
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===Design===<br />
In her first appearance in ''[[Mountain of Faith]]'' she wears a blue and white outfit similar to a [[shrine maiden]]'s, with the blue areas covered in light blue polka dots and stripes. She has long light green hair, and yellow eyes (green in ''[[Undefined Fantastic Object]]'' and ''[[Ten Desires]]'', blue in ''[[Touhou Hisoutensoku]]'' portraits). In ''Mountain of Faith'', she wears a snake-shaped hair accessory wrapped around her hair on one side, and a blue headband with a frog's head on it<ref>''https://i.imgur.com/G52b2Dr.png''</ref> (both probably meant to represent [[Kanako Yasaka]] and [[Suwako Moriya]]), however, in every subsequent appearance after MoF, she has instead worn a hair clip shaped like a frog's head. She carries a gohei with straight paper decorations as opposed to the typical gohei.<br />
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In ''[[Ten Desires]]'' her hair color is slightly paler, and she wears a shorter skirt with maroon-colored boots instead of aquamarine-colored shoes.<br />
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==Story==<br />
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;''Mountain of Faith''<br />
[[File:Th10SanaeSprite.png|frame|Sanae's sprite in ''MoF'']]<br />
When [[human]]s on the [[Outside World]] began losing their faith in her and [[Kanako Yasaka]], the shrine's actual deity, Kanako decided to move the shrine to [[Gensokyo]] where at least [[youkai]] might have faith in them. During the events of ''[[Mountain of Faith]]'' Sanae tried threatening the [[Hakurei Shrine]] in order to establish the [[Moriya Shrine]] as the dominant one, not realizing how powerful humans like [[Reimu Hakurei]] and [[Marisa Kirisame]] were. In response to the threats Sanae was defeated by the heroine followed shortly after by Kanako and [[Suwako Moriya]]'s defeat. However, the residents of the Moriya Shrine have since come to an understanding with their new neighbors and live in peace with the other residents of [[Youkai Mountain]].<br />
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;''Subterranean Animism''<br />
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Following the extra scenario as the player heads through the [[Moriya Shrine]] to look for the two goddesses, Sanae appears as the midboss of the [[stage]]. She believes that the traditional greetings in [[Gensokyo]] is by attacking with [[danmaku]] because you can't be trapped by common sense. She attacks the heroine with three [[spell card]]s, but was defeated. Specifically on Reimu/Suika's scenario, she returns stating that Kanako was creating a kappa industrial revolution by using the old [[Remains of Blazing Hell]]. She was unaware of the incident that occurred in the game, making Reimu unhappy.<br />
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;''Undefined Fantastic Object''<br />
[[File:Th12SanaebackSprite.png|frame|left|Sanae's back sprite in ''UFO'']]<br />
In each scenario of ''[[Undefined Fantastic Object]]'', Sanae is ordered with a different task. Depending on this, her secondary bullet will become a snake or a frog. <br />
:{{Main|Undefined Fantastic Object/Story/Sanae A's Scenario|l1=Sanae A Scenario}}<br />
[[Kanako Yasaka]]'s task is to to train her own abilities by hunting [[Youkai]].<br />
:{{Main|Undefined Fantastic Object/Story/Sanae B's Scenario|l1=Sanae B Scenario}}<br />
[[Suwako Moriya]]'s task is to to find the [[Myouren Temple|Treasure Ship]].<br />
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;''Ten Desires''<br />
:{{Main|Ten Desires/Story/Sanae's Scenario|l1=Ten Desires Story}}<br />
Sanae notices the strange spirit at the [[Moriya Shrine]] in ''[[Ten Desires]]'' and knows what they are: [[Divine spirit|divine spirit]]s, born from [[human]]s due to powerful fears, desires and feelings. She takes the opportunity to gather the divine spirits, as it is the same as gathering faith from humans. She can't, however, figure out why all these divine spirits have appeared in the first place.<br />
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;''Legacy of Lunatic Kingdom''<br />
:{{Main|Legacy of Lunatic Kingdom/Story/Sanae's Scenario|l1=Legacy of Lunatic Kingdom Story}}<br />
The [[Wikipedia:Curiosity_(rover)|Curiosity Mars rover]] appears in Gensokyo, causing all life around it to become petrified and turn to stone when it gets too close. Left unchecked, Curiosity would eventually purge all life from Gensokyo. Kanako and Suwako send Sanae to investigate it, which eventually leads Sanae to outer space and to the [[Lunar Kingdom]], where she learns that Curiosity was sent to "purify" Gensokyo and make it inhabitable to the Lunarians, due to an external threat the Lunarians are facing. Sanae is forced to save the Lunarians, lest Curiosity continue its destructive path.<br />
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;''Unconnected Marketeers''<br />
:{{Main|Unconnected Marketeers/Story/Sanae's Scenario|l1=Unconnected Marketeers Story}}<br />
At the request of [[Kanako]], Sanae is sent to investigate the proliferation of Ability Cards on Youkai Mountain.<br />
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===Spin-offs===<br />
;''Touhou Hisoutensoku''<br />
:{{Main|Touhou Hisoutensoku/Translation/Sanae's Scenario|l1=Touhou Hisoutensoku Story}}<br />
In ''[[Touhou Hisoutensoku]]'', thinking that a gigantic robot appeared in [[Gensokyo]], Sanae is in pursuit of the giant figure, when she stumbles into a giant pit to the nuclear reactor run by [[Utsuho Reiuji]] and learns that [[Suwako Moriya]] is responsible for creating the "[[robot]]" figure, [[Hisoutensoku]].<br />
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;''Double Spoiler''<br />
In ''[[Double Spoiler]]'', Sanae appeared as an Extra stage target, where she uses a few [[spell card]]s and had [[Aya Shameimaru]] and [[Hatate Himekaidou]] take photos of her and her [[danmaku]].<br />
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;''Hopeless Masquerade''<br />
[[File:Th135Sanae.png|frame|Sanae in ''HM'']]<br />
Sanae made a background cameo appearance in ''[[Hopeless Masquerade]]'' on the [[Genbu Ravine]] and [[Youkai Tanuki Forest]] stage. She is seen standing next to [[Suwako Moriya]] waving her onusa.<br />
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;''Impossible Spell Card''<br />
:{{Main|Impossible Spell Card#Story|l1=Impossible Spell Card: Story}}<br />
After apparently reading the newspaper by the [[tengu]] about a mischief-making [[amanojaku]], she becomes one of the many strong [[youkai]] and [[human]]s to try and stop [[Seija Kijin]]. She uses [[spell card]]s that are considered impossible to dodge.<br />
===Literature===<br />
;''Wild and Horned Hermit''<br />
Throughout the manga, Sanae and [[Reimu]] have a continuing rivalry for the popularity of their respective shrines, the [[Moriya Shrine]] and the [[Hakurei Shrine]], among the residents of the [[Human Village]] and the local youkai.<br />
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Early on, Sanae requests Reimu's help with her mission of improving the inefficient netherworld reactor powered by [[Okuu]]’s nuclear powers, as part of [[Kanako Yasaka]]'s overall plan to bring clean energy to Gensokyo. Sanae's plan was to start nuclear reactions using [[wikipedia:cold fusion|cold fusion]]<ref> Chapter 2 [[Wild and Horned Hermit]]</ref>. For that, she needed Reimu's help to contact the metals god, ''Kanayamabiko no Mikoto'', to obtain a [[Wikipedia:Palladium|palladium]] alloy. After obtaining the palladium, Kanako and Sanae made a successful public demonstration of cold fusion, impressing the local residents of the [[Human Village]].<br />
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However, Sanae is also cooperative with Reimu, as it is showed in Chapter 23, where she takes care of the [[Hakurei Shrine]] while Reimu was busy being a fortune-teller. She also comes to check in on Reimu near the end of the manga when Reimu fell unconscious for an extended period of time.<br />
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==Relationships==<br />
;[[Suwako Moriya]] & [[Kanako Yasaka]]<br />
Sanae serves as the [[shrine maiden]] of [[Kanako Yasaka]] and [[Suwako Moriya]], and moved with them to [[Gensokyo]]. Sanae is also Suwako's distant descendant. During the events of ''[[Mountain of Faith]]'', Kanako sends Sanae out to collect faith. Much like [[Yukari Yakumo]]'s use of [[Ran]] and [[Chen]], Sanae can summon Kanako and Suwako in her spell and skill cards in ''[[Touhou Hisoutensoku]]''.<br />
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;[[Reimu Hakurei]]<br />
Sanae appears to have a friendly relationship with Reimu Hakurei, as she has been seen visiting the [[Hakurei Shrine]] on numerous occasions, both in the [[Undefined Fantastic Object/Story/Prologue|Prologue]] of ''[[Undefined Fantastic Object]]'' and in ''[[Wild and Horned Hermit]]''; Sanae is even tasked with minding the shrine while Reimu is training with [[Kasen Ibaraki]].<br />
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;[[Marisa Kirisame]]<br />
Sanae frequently meets Marisa on her visits to the Hakurei Shrine, and they seem reasonably friendly.<br />
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==Gallery==<br />
===Covers===<br />
<gallery><br />
File:TFM-004.jpg|Cover of ''[[Touhou Hisoutensoku OST]]'', featuring Sanae<br />
File:WaHH 3 cover.jpg|Sanae on the Vol. 3 cover of ''[[Wild and Horned Hermit]]''<br />
File:ThGI4Cover.jpg|Sanae on the Vol. 4 cover of ''[[Strange Creators of Outer World]]''<br />
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===Artworks===<br />
<gallery><br />
File:Th10Sanae.png|Sanae artwork from ''[[Mountain of Faith]]''<br />
File:Th12Sanae.png|Sanae artwork from ''[[Undefined Fantastic Object]]''<br />
File:Th123Sanae.png|Sanae artwork from ''[[Touhou Hisoutensoku]]''<br />
File:Th13Sanae.png|Sanae artwork from ''[[Ten Desires]]''<br />
File:Th15Sanae.png|Sanae in ''[[Legacy of Lunatic Kingdom]]''<br />
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===Sprites===<br />
<gallery><br />
File:Th123SanaeColors.png|Sanae's colors from ''Touhou Hisoutensoku''<br />
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===Illustrations===<br />
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File:Alphes Promotional Art UFO.jpg|Sanae in a promotional flyer by [[alphes]]<br />
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===Others===<br />
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File:GoMSigil-Sanae.jpg|Sanae's sigil as seen in ''[[The Grimoire of Marisa]]''<br />
File:Th123SanaeSigil.png|Sanae's sigil from ''Touhou Hisoutensoku''<br />
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==Skills==<br />
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{{#lsth:List of Skills|[[Sanae Kochiya]]}}<br />
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==Spell Cards==<br />
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{{#lsth:List of Spell Cards/Touhou Project 2|[[Sanae Kochiya]]}}<br />
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==Additional Information==<br />
*Sanae seems to have a relatively low alcohol tolerance compared to other characters. In one of the endings of ''[[Mountain of Faith]]'', she gets extremely nervous when informed of the constant drinking parties the [[tengu]] will hold, with the narrator commenting she'll just have to put up with it, and in ''[[Wild and Horned Hermit]]'' chapter 19, she's constantly distressed about being made to drink.<br />
*In ''Mountain of Faith'', her [[spell card]] ''[[Mountain of Faith/Spell Cards/Stage 5#Spell Card 66|Sea Opening "The Day the Sea Split"]]'' is extremely similar to [[Alice Margatroid]]'s second attack in ''[[Mystic Square]]'''s Extra Stage.<br />
*[[Touhou Hisoutensoku/Spell Cards/Sanae Kochiya#Spell Card 8|One of Sanae's Spell Cards]] in ''[[Touhou Hisoutensoku]]'' strongly resembles [[wikipedia:Akuma (Street Fighter)|Shin Akuma]]'s "Misogi" from ''Capcom vs. SNK''.<br />
*In her last stage of ''[[Touhou Hisoutensoku]]'', despite the fact that Sanae is fighting against [[Suwako Moriya]], Sanae can still use skills summoning Suwako to her aid (e.g. Using ''[[Touhou Hisoutensoku/Spell Cards/Sanae Kochiya#Skill Card 8|Summon Earth's God: Metal Ring]]''), to attack Suwako.<br />
*In ''Touhou Hisoutensoku'' Sanae's character portrait shows her having blue eyes, but her sprite has yellow eyes.<br />
*Also in ''Touhou Hisoutensoku'', Sanae has alternate colors that resemble [[Rumia]]'s, [[Fujiwara no Mokou]]'s and [[Mystia Lorelei]]'s outfits. Conversely, one of Reimu's alternate colors resembles Sanae.<br />
*Sanae appears in a promotional flyer wearing a school uniform.<br />
*When in ''[[Wild and Horned Hermit]]'' a conversation occurred about a "electric rat", a thought bubble showed up with a censored Pikachu from ''[[Wikipedia:Pokémon|Pokémon]]''.<br />
*Sanae's absences in ''[[Hopeless Masquerade]]'' and ''[[Double Dealing Character]]'' were not anticipated by fans, in spite of her many appearances in previous games and manga: ''[[Undefined Fantastic Object]]'', ''Touhou Hisoutensoku'', ''[[Ten Desires]]'' and ''Wild and Horned Hermit''. [[ZUN]] directly stated that he hasn't included the [[Moriya Shrine]] cast in recent games without reason.<ref name="ZUNAWA">[[ZUN's AWA Q&A Panel]]</ref> However, there'd be explanatory descriptions about the absences through official works:<br />
*Sanae complains that [[Kanako Yasaka]] (or possibly them) not taking action in those two incidents in ''Wild and Horned Hermit'' chapter 19. Kanako replies kindly that she must calm down, and in another scene, tells her the settlement of negotiation with the [[tengu]] about the installation of an aerial tramway; she remarks that she or they've been always busy for completing it. Along with Sanae also knowing the negotiation has been very long, it should be implied that Kanako stopped Sanae from taking action on the incidents for some reason: for example, because Kanako wanted to concentrate her mind on the negotiation, because Kanako couldn't find it worth doing to take action in the incidents, or something else.<br />
**To add the reason of her absence of ''Double Dealing Character'', Marisa points out to Sanae, in ''Wild and Horned Hermit'' chapter 19, that Sanae hasn't used [[Wikipedia:Ōnusa|her tool]] regularly; in other words, it isn't so well-used as to build its own ego and to get in rampage.<br />
*Her sigil resembles the Star of David from [[Wikipedia:Judaism|Judaism]].<br />
*According to Kanako in ''Symposium of Post-Mysticism'', Sanae hails from Lake Suwa of Shinano Province.<br />
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==Fandom==<br />
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==Official Profiles==<br />
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| text = ○5面ボス 祀られる風の人間<br /><br />
東風谷 早苗(こちや さなえ)<br /><br />
Kotiya Sanae<br />
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種族:人間<br /><br />
職業:風祝<br /><br />
能力:奇跡を起こす程度の能力<br />
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一子相伝の秘術を持つ人間である。<br /><br />
性格はいたって真面目で、自分の力に自信を持っている。時には過信しすぎる事もある。<br />
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元々は、風の神様を祀る人間だったらしいのだが、秘密の多い秘術で雨や風を降らす奇跡を起こしているうちに、周りの人間は秘術を行う人間自体を信仰するようになっていった。<br />
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つまり、風の神様が起こしていた奇跡を、いつの間にか人間が起こしていると勘違いし始めたのだ。<br />
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それにより、彼女ら秘術を扱う人間は人間でありながら信仰を集め、神と同等の扱いを受けるようになった。現人神である。<br />
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早苗は幼い頃から、口伝でしか伝えられていない奇跡を呼ぶ秘術をマスターしていた。子供でありながら奇跡を呼ぶ彼女は、多くの信仰を集められる――筈であった。<br />
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しかし、外の世界は大きく様変わりしていた。神徳の多い神様でさえ信仰する人間が激減していた。当然、人間でありながら神となった現<人神など、信仰する人間は殆ど存在しなかったのだ。<br />
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早苗は別に信仰がなくても、普通の人間として生活できるから問題はなかったのだが、早苗が祀っている神様、神奈子はそうはいかなかった。<br />
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神様は信仰を失うと力も失う。神徳も出せなくなる。<br /><br />
それは神の死に等しい。<br />
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神奈子は決断した。人間から信仰を集めるには限界がある。これからは妖怪の信仰を集める事も考えないといけない、と。<br />
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早苗はその具体的な計画を聞き驚いた。我が国には昔から『幻想郷』という世界があった。その世界は今でもひっそりと存在しているのだという。幻想郷では外の世界で失われた(幻想になった)物が集まる。<br /><br />
つまり神への信仰も、幻想郷に移りつつあると考えられる。<br /><br />
そこで神奈子は、幻想郷に神社ごと移動すると言うのである。人間の世界との決別であった。<br />
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人間の世界との別れは恐怖であったが、それ以上に奇跡を起こす力を持っていた彼女にとって、奇跡の世界へ行く事は楽しみであった。<br />
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彼女は幻想郷の人間を正直なめていた。唯一の博麗神社を脅せば幻想郷自体、自分達の思い通りになると考えていたのである。彼女は霊夢に脅しを入れに行き、そして今回のように逆に痛い目にあってしまったのだ。<br />
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幻想郷に住む人間は、彼女が思う以上に厄介であり、そして力を持っている事を彼女は思い知らされた。<br />
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ここでは、彼女は特別な存在ではない。現人神なんかではなく、ただの人間となっている事に気付いたのだ。<br /><br />
これからは幻想郷の人間として普通に生きていくしかないのである。<br />
| translation = '''Deified Human of the Wind'''<br /><br />
<br /><br />
'''Sanae Kochiya'''<br />
<br />
Species: [[Human]]<br /><br />
Occupation: [[Wind Priestess]]<br /><br />
Ability: Causing miracles<br />
<br />
A human who possesses the knowledge of a secretly inherited art.<br /><br />
She has a very straightforward personality, so she has a lot of confidence in her own abilities.<br /><br />
Sometimes, perhaps a bit too much confidence.<br />
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Wind Priestesses were originally a devotees of the wind god, but as they used their secret abilities to create miracles such as summoning the wind and rain, the people around them began to believe in these humans with mysterious abilities.<br />
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In short, over time, people began to mistake the miracles caused by the wind god as being caused by them.<br />
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In addition, as keepers of secrets, they began to accrue faith and be treated as gods, even though they were humans. They became living gods.<br />
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When she was young, Sanae had mastered the secrets to call upon miracles that had been passed down through an oral tradition only. A young girl that could call upon the power of miracles would certainly collect great amounts of faith --- one would expect.<br />
<br />
However, the outside world had changed a great deal. Faith in even gods with many divine virtues had been decreasing rapidly. There were few who would worship even a living god who had attained divinity during their life as a human.<br /><br />
<br /><br />
<br />
Though she didn't really have much faith, Sanae was able to live as a normal human without any real problems, but this would not do for the god she worshiped, [[Kanako Yasaka|Kanako]].<br />
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When people lose faith in gods, the gods lose their power. They can't manifest their divine virtues. This is the same as death, for a god.<br />
<br />
Kanako came to a decision. There were limits to the amount of faith that could come from humans. From now on, she would have to also look to youkai as a source of her faith.<br />
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Sanae was surprised to hear the details of her plan: a world called "[[Gensokyo]]" has existed within our nation since time immemorial. It is said that this world still exists, hidden.<br />
Gensokyo has collected a number of things that have become lost - or, become fantasy - in the outside world. One could say that even people's faith in gods is in the process of moving to Gensokyo.<br /><br />
And so, Kanako decided to move her [[Moriya Shrine|shrine]] into Gensokyo. She would say farewell to the world of humans.<br /><br />
<br /><br />
<br />
Sanae was afraid of leaving the world of humans, but as a person with the power to call on miracles, going to a world of miracles was one of the fun parts.<br />
<br />
She did not take the humans of Gensokyo seriously. She thought that if they threatened the only shrine in Gensokyo, the [[Hakurei Shrine]], Gensokyo itself would submit to their every wish. She went to deliver her ominous message to Reimu, and then was in turn defeated.<br />
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The humans who lived in Gensokyo were more troublesome than she'd imagined, and in time she learned of the power they held, as well.<br />
<br />
Here, she was nothing special.<br /><br />
She realized she had gone from being a god incarnate to just a normal human being.<br /><br />
All she could do now was to live a normal, peaceful life as a human of Gensokyo.<br />
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{{Profile Quote<br />
| image = [[File:Th12Sanae.png|200px|Sanae Kochiya UFO]]<br />
| text = ○山の新人神様<br /><br />
東風谷 早苗(こちや さなえ)<br /><br />
Kotiya Sanae<br />
<br />
種族:人間<br /><br />
能力:奇跡を起こす程度の能力<br />
<br />
妖怪の山にある守矢神社に住む巫女さん。妖怪退治は不慣れ。<br />
<br />
普段は神様と妖怪達に囲まれて暮している為、人間の話し相手が欲しいと思っているが、麓の人間は妖怪染みた人間ばかり。<br /><br />
そのうち、自分のああなるのかと少しだけ心配している。<br /><br />
でも、現人神と慕われただけあって妖怪にも劣らないが、少々惚けた所もある。<br />
<br />
神奈子に言われて妖怪退治の真似事をしてみたり……幻想郷に慣れようとしている。<br />
| translation = '''The Newbie Goddess of the Mountain'''<br /><br />
<br /><br />
Sanae Kochiya<br />
<br />
Species: [[Human]]<br /><br />
Ability: Causing miracles<br />
<br />
The [[Shrine Maiden]] living in [[Moriya Shrine]] in [[Youkai Mountain]]. She is not used to youkai hunting.<br />
<br />
She wishes to talk to humans more, because she lives with gods and youkai, but most of humans living around the foot of the mountain are youkai-like humans. She is worried about becoming like them. As may be expected of a living god, she is as strong as youkai, but she is also somewhat of an airhead.<br />
<br />
She tries to do something like youkai hunting on [[Kanako Yasaka|Kanako]]'s recommendation, and... she makes an effort to get used to [[Gensokyo]].<br />
}}<br />
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{{Profile Quote<br />
| image = [[File:Th123Sanae.png|200px|Sanae Kochiya HSTS]]<br />
| text = ○祀られる風の人間<br /><br />
東風谷 早苗(こちや さなえ)<br />
<br />
幻想郷に来てから早二年経とうとしていた。<br /><br />
初めは異形なる者に対して畏怖から、まともに儀式も行えなかったが、今ではすっかり馴染み、違和感なく通常の仕事を行う事が出来た。<br />
<br />
もう、多少の事では驚かないと思っていた。<br /><br />
勿論、そう思ってしまったら必ず驚かされるのが幻想郷である。<br /><br />
そこが外の世界にはない幻想郷の長所であった。<br />
<br />
彼女は、守矢神社から見える巨大な人影を見ていた。<br /><br />
人影は神社よりも遥かにでかい、彼女にとっての古典的な表現では十階建ての高層ビル位はあるだろうか。<br />
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その人影は、彼女には昔アニメで見た巨大人型ロボットに見えた。<br />
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しかし、ロボットと言うには動きが滑らかすぎた。<br /><br />
まるで生きているかの様に動く人影は、時には山に望み、時には里を睨みそして突然霧に包まれたあと、不気味なほど静かに消えた。<br />
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その事を神奈子に報告すると、それは「ブロッケンの妖怪」だと教えてくれた。<br /><br />
ブロッケンの妖怪とは、自分の影が霧に映り巨人に見える気象現象である。<br />
<br />
実際何らかの気象現象かなんかであろう、そう考えてしまう自分の思考回路が面白くなかった。<br /><br />
だから彼女は、あの影は里を襲う巨大ロボだと思う事にした。<br /><br />
そう考えると調査が楽しいからである。<br />
<br />
そう、アレは決して霧に映った影などではない。<br /><br />
霧が出てきたのは人影が出た後だったし、何より、ここは何が起こってもおかしくない場所、幻想郷なのだから。<br />
| translation = '''Deified Human of the Wind'''<br /><br />
Sanae Kochiya<br />
<br />
It had already been two years since she came to Gensokyo. At first, she was so frightened by the bizarre monsters that she simply couldn't perform the rituals of a shrine maiden, but now she had become familiar with them, and carried out her daily jobs without any discomfort.<br />
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She thought that she wouldn't be surprised by some things any more. Of course, thinking like that in Gensokyo ensures that you will be surprised. That is Gensokyo's strong point, not present in the outside world.<br />
<br />
She saw the huge figure from the Moriya Shrine. The figure was far bigger than the shrine. She guessed that, to use a classical comparison, it was about as big as a ten-story building.<br />
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The figure seemed to her like a giant robot from some [[Wikipedia:Gundam|old anime]] she had watched.<br />
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But its movements were too smooth to be a robot's. The figure moved as if it were alive, occasionally overlooking the mountain, occasionally shooting a glare at the village. Then, it was suddenly shrouded in mist, and disappeared with an uncanny silence.<br />
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When she reported it to Kanako, she told her it was the [[Wikipedia:Brocken_spectre|"Brocken specter."]] The Brocken specter is a meteorological phenomenon caused by a reflection of your own shadow on mist that seems to the observer to be a giant.<br />
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In reality, be it a meteorological phenomenon or something else, thinking like that wasn't interesting. So she decided to think of that shadow as a giant robot attacking the village. Because that would make thinking about it more fun.<br />
<br />
That's right, that definitely wasn't a shadow reflected in mist. After all, the mist hadn't appeared until after the figure was already there. More than anything, though, because this was a place where nothing was too strange to happen: Gensokyo.<br />
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{{Profile Quote<br />
| image = [[File:WaHHSanae.jpg|Sanae Kochiya WaHH]]<br />
| text = 東風谷早苗<br /><br />
皮相浅薄な人間<br />
<br />
少し前にできた、山の神社の巫女<br /><br />
さん。幻想郷歴が浅いこともあり、<br />かなり現代っ子な一面がある。山<br /><br />
の神社に祭られている神様は神奈<br /><br />
子と諏訪子。<br />
| translation = Sanae Kochiya<br /><br />
'''Superficial and Shallow Human'''<br />
<br />
The [[shrine maiden]] of the shrine that was recently built on the [[Youkai Mountain]].<br /><br />
It may be because she's new to [[Gensokyo]], but she tends to show characteristics of youth.<br /><br />
The gods worshiped at the shrine are [[Kanako Yasaka|Kanako]] and [[Suwako Moriya|Suwako]].<br />
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{{Profile Quote<br />
| image = [[File:Th13Sanae.png|200px|Sanae Kochiya TD]]<br />
| text = ○山の新人神様<br /><br />
東風谷 早苗(こちや さなえ)<br /><br />
Kochiya Sanae<br />
<br />
種族:人間<br /><br />
能力:奇跡を起こす程度の能力<br />
<br />
妖怪の山にある守矢神社に住む巫女さん。妖怪退治は不慣れ。<br />
<br />
普段は神様と妖怪達に囲まれて暮している為、人間の話し相手が欲しいと思っているが、麓の人間は妖怪染みた人間ばかり。<br /><br />
そのうち、自分のああなるのかと少しだけ心配している。<br /><br />
でも、現人神と慕われただけあって妖怪にも劣らないが、少々惚けた所もある。<br />
<br />
神霊は神社にとって重要な霊。人間の信仰心を煽るにはこういった神霊を集める事が重要だと考えている。<br />
| translation = '''The Newbie Goddess of the Mountain'''<br /><br />
<br /><br />
Sanae Kochiya<br />
<br />
Species: [[Human]]<br /><br />
Ability: Causing miracles<br />
<br />
The [[Shrine Maiden]] living in [[Moriya Shrine]] in [[Youkai Mountain]]. She is not used to youkai hunting.<br />
<br />
She wish to have human friends to keep her company, since she lives constantly surrounded by gods and youkai, but most of humans living around the foot of the mountain are youkai-like humans. The thought of becoming like one of them eventually, is somewhat disconcerting to her. As may be expected of a living god, she is as strong as youkai, but she is also somewhat of an airhead.<br />
<br />
Divine spirits are very important spirits for a shrine. She thinks that in order to stir up the faith among humans, it is imperative that she must collect these spirits.<br />
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{{Profile Quote<br />
| image = [[File:Th15Sanae.png|200px|Sanae Kochiya LoLK]]<br />
| text = ○山に住む奇跡の現人神<br><br />
東風谷 早苗<br><br />
Kochiya Sanae<br />
<br />
種族:人間<br><br />
能力:奇跡を起こす程度の能力<br />
<br />
山の神社に住む巫女さん。<br />
<br />
どうも妖怪の山に異変が起こっていることに気が付いていた。<br><br />
しかし、妖怪達にはそれが見えないのか反応する物は居なかった。<br><br />
不気味に感じた彼女は霊夢に相談する。 <br />
| translation = '''Mountain-Dwelling Living God of Miracles'''<br /><br />
<br /><br />
Sanae Kochiya<br />
<br />
Species: [[Human]]<br /><br />
Ability: Causing miracles<br />
<br />
The [[Shrine Maiden]] living in the [[Moriya Shrine|shrine on the mountain]].<br />
<br />
She realized that there was some kind of incident occurring on the Youkai Mountain.<br><br />
However, perhaps because the youkai hadn't noticed anything yet, nobody reacted to what was going on.<br><br />
Feeling a sense of unease, she went to consult with Reimu.<br />
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{{Profile Quote<br />
| image = [[File:Th18Sanae.png|200px|Sanae UM]]<br />
| text = ○奇跡の現人神<br><br />
東風谷 早苗(こちや さなえ)<br><br />
Kochiya Sanae<br />
<br />
種族:人間<br><br />
能力:奇跡を起こす程度の能力<br />
<br />
カードの売人は妖怪の山を中心に活動していた。<br><br />
推測するにカードの生産元も近くにあるのではないか。<br><br />
山にある守矢神社はそれを看過できなかった。<br><br />
放って置けば、また博麗神社に持って行かれてしまうのではないか、と。<br />
| translation ='''Miraculous Living God'''<br><br />
'''Sanae Kochiya'''<br />
<br />
Species: Human<br><br />
Ability: Capable of causing miracles<br />
<br />
The card merchants' activity was centered around the Youkai Mountain.<br><br />
One could theorize that the cards' manufacturer was somewhere nearby, no?<br><br />
Given their position on the mountain, the Moriya Shrine couldn't turn a blind eye to this.<br><br />
If they left the situation alone, they thought, then the Hakurei Shrine would get ahead of them again.<br />
}}<br />
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==Official Sources==<br />
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*2007/08/17 '''[[Mountain of Faith]]''' - [[Mountain of Faith/Translation|Stage 5 dialogue]]; Character Settings.txt (official profile)<br />
*2008/02/09 '''[[Silent Sinner in Blue]]''' - Chapter 9<br />
*2008/08/16 '''[[Subterranean Animism]]''' - [[Subterranean Animism/Translation|Extra Stage dialogue]]<br />
*2008/08/26 '''[[Strange and Bright Nature Deity]]''' - Chapter 22 (appearance only)<br />
*2009/07/28 '''[[The Grimoire of Marisa]]''' - [[The Grimoire of Marisa/Sanae Kochiya's Spell Cards|Sanae Kochiya's Spell Cards]]<br />
*2009/08/15 '''[[Undefined Fantastic Object]]''' - [[Undefined Fantastic Object/Story/Prologue|Prologue]]; Sanae's scenario dialogue ([[Undefined Fantastic Object/Story/Sanae A's Scenario|A]], [[Undefined Fantastic Object/Story/Sanae B's Scenario|B]], [[Undefined Fantastic Object/Story/Sanae A's Extra|A Extra]], [[Undefined Fantastic Object/Story/Sanae B's Extra|B Extra]]); Character Settings.txt (official profile)<br />
*2009/08/15 '''[[Touhou Hisoutensoku]]''' - [[Touhou Hisoutensoku/Translation/Sanae's Scenario|Sanae's scenario dialogue]]; [[Touhou Hisoutensoku/Translation/Sanae's Script|Sanae's Vs. dialogue]]; official profile<br />
*2009/12/30 '''[[Touhou Hisoutensoku OST]] - Cover<br />
*2010/03/14 '''[[Double Spoiler]]''' - [[Double Spoiler/Spell Cards/Stage EX|Stage EX spell card comments]]<br />
*2010/09/25 ~ current '''[[Wild and Horned Hermit]]''' - Chapter 2 ~ current<br />
*2011/08/13 '''[[Ten Desires]]''' - [[Ten Desires/Story/Prologue|Prologue]]; [[Ten Desires/Story/Sanae's Scenario|Sanae's scenario dialogue]]; [[Ten Desires/Story/Sanae's Extra|Extra Stage dialogue]]; Character Settings.txt (official profile)<br />
*2012/04/27 '''[[Symposium of Post-mysticism]]'''<br />
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[[zh:东风谷早苗]]</div>AliceDhttps://en.touhouwiki.net/index.php?title=Flandre_Scarlet&diff=437201Flandre Scarlet2021-12-10T01:37:54Z<p>AliceD: /* Abilities */</p>
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<div>{{Infobox Character<br />
| nameJp =フランドール・スカーレット<br />
| nameEn =Flandre Scarlet<br />
| nameIPA =ɸɯɽandoːɽɯ̥ sɯ̥kaːɽetto [[Media:Pronunciation_FlandreScarlet.ogg|(♫)]]<br />
| nameAlt =Frandle Scarlet, Frandre Scarlet, Frandoll Scarlet<br />
| image =[[File:GI Flandre Portrait.png|325px|Flandre Scarlet]]<br />
| caption =Flandre Scarlet in [[Touhou Gouyoku Ibun]]<br />
| chartitle ={{H:title|Sister of the Devil|悪魔の妹}}<br />
| species =[[Vampire]] ''(not native to [[Gensokyo]])''<br />
| abilities =Destroying absolutely anything<br />
| age =Approximately 495 Years<br />
| location =[[Scarlet Devil Mansion]], was originally from the [[Outside World]]<br />
| MusicThemes =*{{H:title|[[U.N. Owen Was Her?|U.N.{{lang|ja|オーエンは彼女なのか?}}]]|U.N. Owen Was Her?}} ([[Embodiment of Scarlet Devil]])<br />
| appOfficialgames =*''[[Embodiment of Scarlet Devil]]'' (Cover, Extra Stage Boss)<br />
*''[[Imperishable Night]]'' (Mentioned in the scarlet team's scenario)<br />
*''[[Shoot the Bullet]]'' (Extra Stage 1 and 2 Boss)<br />
*''[[Violet Detector]]'' (3rd Sunday - 1, 3rd Sunday - 4, 3rd Sunday - 6)<br />
*''[[Touhou Gouyoku Ibun]]'' (Playable Character, Possible Opponent)<br />
| appPrintworks =*''[[Bohemian Archive in Japanese Red]]''<br />
**''[[Extra of the Wind]]'' (Cameo)<br />
*''[[Perfect Memento in Strict Sense]]''<br />
*''[[Strange and Bright Nature Deity]]'' (Chapter 4 cameo)<br />
*''[[Inaba of the Moon and Inaba of the Earth]]'' (Chapter 9 cameo)<br />
*''[[The Grimoire of Marisa]]''<br />
*''[[Forbidden Scrollery]]'' (Chapter 3 cameo, 7 cameo)<br />
*''[[Strange Creators of Outer World]] Vol. 2'' (Profile Section, Cross Review Section)<br />
*''[[The Grimoire of Usami]]'' (Section 2-10)<br />
*''[[Cheating Detective Satori]]'' (Chapter 1, 2, 3.5, 4.5)<br />
| appOther = *''[https://ja.wikipedia.org/ラクガキキングダム Rakugaki Kingdom]'' (Playable Guest Character)<br />
}}<br />
{{nihongo|'''Flandre Scarlet'''|フランドール・スカーレット|Furandooru Sukaaretto}} is the younger sister of [[Remilia Scarlet]] and a [[vampire]] who lives at the [[Scarlet Devil Mansion]]. She first appeared as the Extra stage [[Boss|boss]] of [[Embodiment of Scarlet Devil]], and has appeared as a playable protagonist in [[Touhou Gouyoku Ibun]].<br />
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==General Information==<br />
Flandre first appeared as the Extra [[Stage]] [[boss]] of ''[[Embodiment of Scarlet Devil]]'' with the famous theme ''[[U.N. Owen was Her?]]'', as well as a target in the Extra Stage of ''[[Shoot the Bullet]]''. She's been interviewed in ''[[Bohemian Archive in Japanese Red]]'' and has had an article in ''[[Perfect Memento in Strict Sense]]'' and ''[[The Grimoire of Marisa]]''. She also appeared in ''[[Foul Detective Satori]]''.<br />
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She also notably appeared as a playable protagonist in [[Touhou Gouyoku Ibun]]. This was the first time she appeared as a protagonist in the 19 years since her introduction in 2002 in ''Embodiment of Scarlet Devil''.<br />
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===Personality===<br />
In ''Embodiment of Scarlet Devil'', she is described as being quite strange and eccentric, which makes it difficult for others to understand her.<ref name="EoSDomake" /> She's also described as being "normally docile" and generally pleasant to be around, but somewhat of a loose cannon if left unwatched. In ''[[Bohemian Archive in Japanese Red/Flandre|Bohemian Archive in Japanese Red]]'', it's suggested that she isn't very good at talking to other people, though she can get rather sassy and uppity when talking with her sister. Her friendship toward [[human]]s is very low, mostly because she doesn't care about them.<ref name="PMiSSFlandre" /><br />
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In ''[[Foul Detective Satori]]'', her attitude was particularly impolite and informal, speaking in a very casual tone and generally doing as she wished without consideration of consequences, although she stopped short of seriously injuring anyone.<br />
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In ''[[Touhou Gouyoku Ibun]]'', she appeared to only care about "destroying the indestructible" when facing off against [[Yuuma Toutetsu]], although she did display a willingness to work with [[Okina Matara]], insofar as it let her have some fun.<br />
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===History===<br />
Flandre has lived for at least 495 years, but she has allegedly never left the grounds of the [[Scarlet Devil Mansion]], and rarely leaves even the building itself, if ever.<ref name="PMiSSFlandre">[[Perfect Memento in Strict Sense]]: [[Perfect Memento in Strict Sense/Flandre Scarlet|Flandre Scarlet]]</ref> As she herself never tried going outside, she was apparently raised knowing nothing about the outside world.<ref name="EoSDomake">[[Embodiment of Scarlet Devil]]: omake.txt</ref> However, she's shown a slight interest to go outside after the events of ''[[Embodiment of Scarlet Devil]]''. Her initial attempt to do so was blocked by [[Patchouli Knowledge]]'s rain summoning magic in the Extra Stage, but since then she has been seen outside the mansion itself when she was destroying a falling meteor.<ref name="BAiJRFlandre">[[Bohemian Archive in Japanese Red]]: [[Bohemian Archive in Japanese Red/Flandre|Flandre's article.]]</ref><br />
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Until the time when she met either [[Marisa Kirisame]] or [[Reimu Hakurei]] in ''Embodiment of Scarlet Devil'', she claimed to not have seen any [[human]]s other than when they were prepared for a meal, although it's left vague as to whether that was her idea of a dark joke.<br />
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During the events of [[Touhou Gouyoku Ibun]], however, she left the grounds of the Mansion for an extended period of time of her own accord to fight [[Yuuma Toutetsu]], marking her first major departure from the grounds of the Mansion since her introduction.<br />
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===Abilities===<br />
[[File:GoMIllus-Flandre.jpg|thumb|left|175px|Flandre, as illustrated in ''[[The Grimoire of Marisa]]''.]]<br />
As a [[vampire]], Flandre possesses superhuman capabilities just like [[Remilia Scarlet]], such as enhanced physical strength, with the destructive power of [[oni]] and the nimbleness of [[tengu]], as well as a [[vampire]]'s bodily and regenerative ability. She can swing an oversized sword, though not as quickly as she would like to<ref name="GoMFlandre">[[Grimoire of Marisa]]: [[The Grimoire of Marisa/Flandre Scarlet's Spell Cards|Flandre Scarlet's spell cards]]</ref>. Since she doesn't know the proper way to attack humans, she is unable to go easy on them and blows them away without a trace.<br />
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;Destroying absolutely anything and everything<br />
Flandre can destroy anything she wants, which is truly a frightening ability with no real weaknesses.<ref name="PMiSSFlandre" /> By moving the "eye" of the object, where the tension is highest, and by attacking this eye, she is able to destroy the target. She is able to move the "eye" of anything into the middle of her hand, then she pours her power into it or in other words, she crushes the "eye" and unconditionally destroys the target with just a squeeze.<ref name="PMiSSFlandre" /> She states that everything has an "eye" and that she has the "eyes" of everything in her right hand. She destroyed a meteor with a single hand and without touching it, where Flandre stated that she "went ''squeeze'' and it went ''boom''".<ref name="BAiJRFlandre" /><br />
When Sakuya was locked in the basement with Flandre, she destroyed the lock of a door simply by holding its handle, and without making any visible explosion.<ref name="CDS 3.5">''[[Cheating Detective Satori]]'' - Chapter 3.5</ref> Everything that is made for her to play with ends up broken, which may mean why she doesn't have many playmates, to which it's recommended to never meet with her.<ref name="PMiSSFlandre" /> <br />
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;Cloning herself<br />
Flandre is able to clone herself as seen in one of her [[Embodiment of Scarlet Devil/Spell Cards/Extra#Spell Card 57|spell card]]s where she creates 3 clones that helps her in the battle. The clones ''attack as they like'' which could mean they're able to think independently to some grade.<ref name="GoMFlandre" /> It's in the category "Slave Type" so they're under the command of the original Flandre.<ref name="GoMFlandre" /><br />
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===Possessions===<br />
In her hand, she possesses an object that looks like a crooked clock needle (sometimes thought to be a [[wikipedia:Lævateinn|Lævateinn]]) – this is a prominent peculiarity associated with Flandre, in which the name is derived from her second [[spell card]] ''[[Embodiment of Scarlet Devil/Spell Cards/Extra#Spell Card 56|Taboo "Lævateinn"]]''. It shares its name with the sword (wand in some versions) of [[Wikipedia:Loki|Loki]], a Norse god known for causing mischief. This sword/wand is used by the fire giant [[wikipedia:Surtr|Surt]] in [[wikipedia:Ragnarök|Ragnarok]] (the Norse equivalent of the Apocalypse) to burn down the whole world, except for one safe heaven. Fitting that Flandre would be wielding a tool of such destructive might.<br />
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She also possesses unusually peculiar wings, an irregular shape unlike those of any living creature, [[youkai]] or [[ghost]],<ref name="PMiSSFlandre" /> or even to a [[vampire]]'s typical bat-like wings (or even organic matter). Reimu even said, "I doubt she can fly with those wings". Concerning this statement, [[Hieda no Akyuu]] noted that there are plenty of those in [[Gensokyo]] who can fly without wings.<ref name="PMiSSFlandre" /><br />
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==Character Design==<br />
[[File:PMiSS flandre.jpg|thumb|250px|Flandre's depiction in ''[[Perfect Memento in Strict Sense]]''.]]<br />
===Name===<br />
Her full name is {{nihongo|''Flandre Scarlet''|フランドール・スカーレット}} <ref>[http://web.archive.org/web/20040404190222/www16.big.or.jp/~zun/cgi-bin/diary/nicky.cgi?page=1 Winter Comic Thanks N° 2 (ZUN's Diary's post on 4th January 2004)]</ref>. The name Flandre is a modern French term for [[wikipedia:Flanders|Flanders]], a region which makes out the northern part of Belgium. Note that the pronunciation of her name in Japanese goes more along the lines of "Flandoor" or "Flandoll" rather than "Flander/Flandre" since her name in katakana was not {{lang|ja|フランドル}}, which would have been the more relevant katakana for "Flandre". Generally, there isn't actually any right or wrong way to pronounce the names in non-Japanese languages.<br />
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"Scarlet" refers to a bright shade of the color red with a slight hint of orange and is a variant of "Scarlett" as a surname. The middle dot ({{lang|ja|・}}) in the middle of her name is used in foreign names to show where the next word begins. In ''[[Embodiment of Scarlet Devil]]'', she was called {{nihongo||妹様|Imouto-sama|lit. "''your [her] honor, little sister [of the mistress]''"}} by [[Patchouli Knowledge]].<br />
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===Design===<br />
In ''[[Embodiment of Scarlet Devil]]'''s official art, Flandre has red eyes and short blond hair, which is tied into a single ponytail on her left side. Wears a red dress and vest, with a pink shirt underneath and socks. Also wears a pink mob cap with a red ribbon attached. She carries a matching wand with her, which might be the mythical [[wikipedia:Lævateinn|Lævateinn]]. Arranged from her back to the tip of her wings her 8 crystals which are presented in seven colours<ref name="PMiSSFlandre" />: '''{{color|cyan|light blue}}, {{color|blue|blue}}, {{color|purple|purple}}, {{color|pink|pink}}, {{color|orange|orange}}, {{color|yellow|yellow}}, {{color|limegreen|light green}}''' and finally '''{{color|cyan|light blue}}''' again.<br />
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===Music Theme===<br />
Her boss theme ("[[U.N. Owen was her?]]") and her second-to-last spell card ([[Embodiment of Scarlet Devil/Spell Cards/Extra#Spell Card 63|Secret Barrage "And Then Will There Be None?"]]) are references to [[wikipedia:Agatha Christie|Agatha Christie]]'s novel ''[[wikipedia:And Then There Were None|And Then There Were None]]''. The plot of the book follows eight people who were invited to a small, isolated island by Ulick Norman Owen and Una Nancy Owen. Shortly after their arrival, a gramophone record is played, accusing each visitor of committing murder and escaping justice. The characters discover that none of them actually knows the Owens, and they conclude that their initials - "U.N. Owen" - are a shorthand for "Unknown". As the novel continues, every character meets their end, with each cause of death reflecting a part of a nursery rhyme. [[ZUN]] referred to this in the title of Flandre's song because she's, essentially, an ''unknown'' being.<ref name="EoSDomake"></ref><br />
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==Flandre's Appearances==<br />
[[File:FSch7-SDMChars.jpg|thumb|right|220px|Flandre shown with [[Remilia Scarlet]] in ''[[Forbidden Scrollery]]'' Chapter 7]]<br />
In [[Embodiment of Scarlet Devil]], Flandre states she hasn't left the [[Scarlet Devil Mansion]] for about 495 years, and has been saying in the basement of the mansion since then. [[Hieda no Akyuu]] theorizes on this in [[Bohemian Archive in Japanese Red]], stating that Flandre is probably a shut-in.<br />
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It seems her confinement in the Scarlet Devil Mansion has given her time to understand every part of it, as she has been seen wandering inside the Mansion by some humans<ref>"Sometimes when I sneak into the Scarlet Devil Mansion like I own it, I run into the little sister. I had to slip by without drawin' her attention, but after goin' through all that to get into the place, I was hopin' I wouldn't run into her." (Marisa Kirisame)</ref> <ref>"I saw her shadow wandering around the mansion while I was at an outdoor party at the Scarlet Devil Mansion. It was truly frightening. I knew it was her just from the silhouette, but she doesn't get to join many parties." (Anonymous)</ref> and even hold an interview with [[Aya Shameimaru]] in the garden<ref>[[Bohemian Archive in Japanese Red/Flandre|Flandre's Interview]]</ref>. In [[Forbidden Scrollery]], Flandre appears watching [[Tupai|the pet of her sister]] along with her.<br />
===Games===<br />
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;''Embodiment of Scarlet Devil''<br />
[[File:Th06FlandreSprite.png|frame|Flandre's sprite in ''EoSD'']]<br />
[[File:Th06RemiliaBatSprite.png|frame|Flandre's bat form sprite in ''EoSD'']]<br />
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After the main events of the game, Flandre makes her way out of the [[Scarlet Devil Mansion]]'s basement while Remilia is off at the [[Hakurei Shrine]]. With no other choice, [[Patchouli]] uses her magic to cause a rainstorm around the mansion so that she wouldn't be able to leave it. Soon enough, the player character makes their way to her.<br />
:{{Main|Embodiment of Scarlet Devil/Story/Reimu's Extra|l1=Reimu Extra Arc}}<br />
When Reimu finds Flandre, she demands an explanation as to why her sister has been bothering her at the shrine. They decide to have a danmaku battle, and Reimu eventually emerges victorious. Flandre appears to calm down afterwards.<br />
:{{Main|Embodiment of Scarlet Devil/Story/Marisa's Extra|l1=Marisa Extra Arc}}<br />
Marisa introduces herself as Reimu, but Flandre sees through the play - apparently she's aware of the magician's identity. After Marisa defeats her, they trade quotes from a [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/And_Then_There_Were_None certain book], adapted to fit their current situation.<br />
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;''Shoot the Bullet''<br />
[[File:Th095FlandreSprite.png|frame|Flandre's sprite in ''StB'']]<br />
[[File:Th095FlandreBatSprite.png|frame|Flandre's bat form sprite in ''StB'']]<br />
In ''[[Shoot the Bullet]]'', [[Aya Shameimaru]] encountered Flandre on the Extra [[stage]] and took photos of her [[danmaku]].<br />
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;''Touhou Gouyoku Ibun''<br />
Flandre Scarlet works under [[Okina Matara]] in an effort to thwart [[Yuuma Toutetsu]]'s plans.<br />
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===Literature===<br />
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;''Bohemian Archive in Japanese Red''<br />
[[File:052BAiJRFlandre.jpg|thumb|150px|right|Flandre destroying a meteor in her article in ''[[Bohemian Archive in Japanese Red]]''.]]<br />
:{{Main|Bohemian Archive in Japanese Red/Flandre}}<br />
In April 2006, [[Aya Shameimaru]] reports on the strange explosion of a meteorite above [[Gensokyo]]. She learns that Flandre was the one who destroyed it, but becomes increasingly confused as Flandre explains she destroyed it by squeezing the eye of the meteorite in her hand. Even more perplexing information is given by Flandre's older sister, [[Remilia Scarlet]]. Apparently, it was planned that the meteorite was supposed to be aimed at the [[Scarlet Devil Mansion]] and that Flandre would destroy it. Inexplicably, Aya ends the article with a report that spring has begun.<br />
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In her follow-up, Aya interviews Flandre about the explosion and Remilia's information. Flandre gives the same explanation for how she destroyed the meteorite, and, when questioned, says that her sister just acts like she knows what's happening. Remilia interrupts (for which Aya is thankful), and confirms that what Flandre said was true, insinuating that Aya just can't understand, while giving strange information about the meteorite's source.<br />
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==Relationships==<br />
Currently there have not been many portrayals of her relations other than to her older sister, but since it has been stated that "she has few friends even among the youkai of the Scarlet Devil Mansion, and spends most of her time in isolation",<ref name="PMiSSFlandre" /> she probably does not have very favourable relations with other residents.<br />
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===Residents of the Scarlet Devil Mansion===<br />
[[File:053BAiJRFlandre.jpg|thumb|200px|Remilia and Flandre, as illustrated in ''[[Bohemian Archive in Japanese Red]]''.]]<br />
[[Remilia Scarlet]] is Flandre's older sister. Flandre is stated to respect her sister and Remilia cares for Flandre as shown where she is considering getting her a good tutor in ''[[Imperishable Night]]'', but it is unknown how often the two interact. ''[[Perfect Memento in Strict Sense]]'' states that it's rare (but not nonexistent) to see Flandre and Remilia together. The only times that they're depicted together is in their cameo in ''[[Forbidden Scrollery]]'' chapter 7 when they were looking at their pet [[Minor Characters#Tupai|Tupai]] and in ''[[Bohemian Archive in Japanese Red]]'', which also shows that Remilia will at least allow [[Aya Shameimaru]] to interview Flandre in the first place.<br />
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The interview shows that although Flandre might respect her older sister, it's to the extent you'd expect a snarky child to. She is willing to outright state when she thinks Remilia is just spouting nonsense, at which point Remilia comes in with a comment that she shouldn't be talking about her older sister like that. Her treatment of her older sister became harsh and she even called Remilia {{nihongo|"that person"|あいつ|aitsu}}<br />
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Not much is known about Flandre's relationships with other residents as she spends most of her time in the basement. Patchouli is aware of Flandre's existence and the need to keep her confined to the mansion, as Remilia noted Patchouli was probably causing a rainstorm around the mansion to keep Flandre from getting out. Presumebly, Sakuya also serves Flandre along with Remilia, but it's not stated, implied, or depicted in any official work. Someone prepares Flandre's food, which are humans prepared in the shape of pastries and other pleasant things, but it is never stated to be Sakuya.<br />
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It's unknown what kind of relationship Flandre has with [[Hong Meiling]], the [[Fairy Maid]]s, the recent [[hobgoblin]]s and [[Koakuma]].<br />
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===Minor Relationships===<br />
;[[Reimu Hakurei]]<br />
Though the shrine maiden promises to come play with her every so often during their dialogue in ''[[Embodiment of Scarlet Devil]]'', the two have not been seen together since then, so it is likely she just said that to get her to calm down.<br />
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;[[Marisa Kirisame]]<br />
Her conversation with Marisa in ''Embodiment of Scarlet Devil'' leaves an impression that the two are quite friendly. However, Marisa commented, "Sometimes when I sneak into the Scarlet Devil Mansion, I run into the little sister. I had to slip by without drawin' her attention, but after goin' through all that to get into the place, I was hopin' I wouldn't run into her."<ref name="PMiSSFlandre" /><br />
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;[[Okina Matara]]<br />
During the events of [[Touhou Gouyoku Ibun]], Okina Matara manipulated Flandre Scarlet into becoming an [[Assassin|assassin]] to take out [[Yuuma Toutetsu]] and thwart her plans.<br />
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==Gallery==<br />
===Covers===<br />
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File:Th06cover.jpg|Cover of ''[[Embodiment of Scarlet Devil]]'', featuring Flandre's silhouette<br />
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===Artwork===<br />
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Th06Flandre.png|Flandre in ''[[Embodiment of Scarlet Devil]]''<br />
GIFlanBattle.png|Flandre's pre-battle portrait from ''Touhou Gouyoku Ibun''<br />
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===Prints===<br />
<gallery><br />
IoMaIotECh09flan.jpg|Flandre in ''[[Inaba of the Moon and Inaba of the Earth]]''<br />
File:CDS_Flandre_room.png|Flandre's basement room in [[Cheating Detective Satori]]<br />
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===Others===<br />
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File:GoMSigil-Flandre.jpg|Flandre's sigil in ''[[The Grimoire of Marisa]]''<br />
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==Spell Cards==<br />
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{{#lsth:List of Spell Cards/Touhou Project 1|[[Flandre Scarlet]]}}<br />
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==Additional Information==<br />
*A silhouette of Flandre occupies the front of ''[[Embodiment of Scarlet Devil]]'''s jewel case.<br />
*Flandre is one of the few characters to not appear in the background during ''[[Hopeless Masquerade]]'', which would relate to her lack of leaving the [[Scarlet Devil Mansion]].<br />
*Assuming her birth year by calculating backwards in the [[Gensokyo Timeline]], Flandre was born around 1508 A.D. The canonicity of this assumption is unknown, however.<br />
*The spell card reference ("And Then Will There Be None?") to an Agatha Christie novel is definite. It's more speculative but still worth noting that the science-fiction genre saw Philip K. Dick write a novel called "Counter-Clock World" in 1967 and Frederik Pohl write "The Gold at the Starbow's End" in 1972.<br />
*On one end of the Lævateinn that Flandre is seen holding in ''[[Shoot the Bullet]]'' is very different compared to the Lævateinn that Flandre is seen holding in ''Embodiment of Scarlet Devil''.<br />
*She used the phrase "that means, you can't use a continue!" to [[Marisa Kirisame]], which was breaking the [[Canon#Fourth Wall|fourth wall]].<br />
*In the Second Touhou Saimoe Tournament, the 8th game of the first round was a battle between Flandre and [[Suika Ibuki]].<ref>[http://tuguna.info/toho/saimoe2.htm Watch report] of the Second Touhou Saimoe Tournament.</ref> Although the battle ended with Flan winning, this led to [[ZUN]] posting a rough drawing of Suika that hadn't been open to the public with a message saying "don't get defeated by a little sister that hasn't even reached the age of 500!"<ref name="ThShofu14">[[ZUN's former blog "Touhou Shofu" 14]]</ref>.<br />
*The "crystals" on her wings look somewhat similar to the crystals shown on [[Patchouli Knowledge]]'s spell card, ''[[Immaterial and Missing Power/Spell Cards/Patchouli Knowledge#Spell Card 6|Fire Water Wood Metal Earth Sign "Philosopher's Stone"]]''.<br />
*Strangely, if one uses a bomb against her in ''Embodiment of Scarlet Devil'''s Extra, she's shown to have normal wings in bat form.<br />
*It's hard to notice, but Flandre's skirt has two white ribbons on her EoSD portrait<ref>https://nrr08.com/f_scarlet.html</ref>.<br />
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==Fandom==<br />
{{main|Fandom/Embodiment of Scarlet Devil#Flandre Scarlet|l1=Fandom: Flandre Scarlet}}<br />
Flandre has not made many appearances in the series, but maybe because of her personality and the way she looks and acts, she's become a very popular character. One reason would be because of her theme music ("U.N.Owen was her?"). It is particularly famous, and is often used in MAD videos, and for a time introduced many as "newcomers hoihoi" on Nico Nico to Touhou. Furthermore, the arrangement "{{lang|ja|最終鬼畜妹フランドール・S}}" ("Final Savage Sister, Flandre S.")<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.nicovideo.jp/watch/sm1849248|title={{lang|ja|【東方】最終鬼畜妹フランドール・S【U.N.オーエンは彼女なのか?】}}|date=23 December 2007|access-date=26 October 2021}}</ref> in the album ''[[東方ストライク|Touhou Strike]]'' by [[COOL&CREATE]] seems to have been mistaken by many to have been the original music.<br />
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==Official Profiles==<br />
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{{Profile Quote<br />
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| text =○悪魔の妹<br /><br />
フランドール・スカーレット<br />
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能力:ありとあらゆるものを破壊する程度の能力<br />
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エキストラボスです。お嬢様の妹です。<br />
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吸血鬼にして魔法少女で、495年程、悪魔の妹をしています。少々気がふれていて、通常は表に出してももらえません。出ようともしません。<br />
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レミリアをお姉様と慕うも、その歯止めの効かない破壊力は、遥かにお姉様を凌ぎます。普段はあまり怒ったりしないのですが、常におかしいので他人には良く分かりません。<br />
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通常、吸血鬼は食事をするために、人間を殺さない程度にしか襲いませんが、フランドールは与えられたものしか食べたことが無いため、人間の襲い方を知りません。そのため手加減が出来なく、一滴の血の残さず吹き飛ばしてしまいます。<br />
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もしかしたら、いつも自分が食べているものが動いている人間と一致しないのかも知れません。<br /><br />
毎日食べているものが、見た目ケーキになってたり、紅茶になっていたりしたのですから...<br />
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カードアタック 全10種<br />
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'''Flandre Scarlet'''<br />
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Ability: Destroying absolutely anything<br />
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The Extra Boss. Also the Mistress's younger sister.<br />
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She is a vampiric magical girl and has been the Scarlet Devil's younger sister for about 495 years. She cannot control herself, so generally she isn't let outside. She also doesn't try going out.<br />
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She idolizes her older sister [[Remilia Scarlet|Remilia]], but her destructive power unconstrained far exceeds that of her sister's. Although she doesn't often get angry or anything, she's always peculiar, which makes it difficult for others to understand her.<br />
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Generally, [[vampire]]s always attack [[human]]s without killing them in order to feed, but Flandre has only ever eaten food that has been served to her, so she doesn't know how to properly attack a human. Because of this, she can't limit herself and ends up blowing them away without leaving a drop of blood.<br />
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Speaking of which, she doesn't even know that what she always eats were once living humans. Her daily meals are made to look like foodstuffs such as cake and tea, after all...<br />
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Total of ten card attacks.<br />
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==Official Sources==<br />
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*2003/08/11 '''[[Embodiment of Scarlet Devil]]''' – Extra Stage dialogue; afterword.txt (official profile)<br />
*2004/08/15 '''[[Imperishable Night]]''' – Referenced by Remilia in Stage 3<br />
*2005/08/11 '''[[Bohemian Archive in Japanese Red]]''' – [[Bohemian Archive in Japanese Red/Flandre|Article and Interview: Flandre]]<br />
*2005/12/27 '''[[Shoot the Bullet]]''' – [[Shoot the Bullet/Spell Cards/Level Ex|EX Stage spell card comments]]<br />
*2006/12/27 '''[[Perfect Memento in Strict Sense]]''' – [[Perfect Memento in Strict Sense/Flandre Scarlet|Sister of the Devil: Flandre Scarlet]]<br />
*2008/02/22 '''[[Inaba of the Moon and Inaba of the Earth]]''' – Chapter 9<br />
*2009/07/28 '''[[The Grimoire of Marisa]]''' – [[The Grimoire of Marisa/Flandre Scarlet's Spell Cards|Flandre Scarlet's spell cards]]<br />
*2013/03/16–2014/02/20 '''[[Forbidden Scrollery]]''' – Chapter 2 and 7<br />
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| nameJp =フランドール・スカーレット<br />
| nameEn =Flandre Scarlet<br />
| nameIPA =ɸɯɽandoːɽɯ̥ sɯ̥kaːɽetto [[Media:Pronunciation_FlandreScarlet.ogg|(♫)]]<br />
| nameAlt =Frandle Scarlet, Frandre Scarlet, Frandoll Scarlet<br />
| image =[[File:GI Flandre Portrait.png|325px|Flandre Scarlet]]<br />
| caption =Flandre Scarlet in [[Touhou Gouyoku Ibun]]<br />
| chartitle ={{H:title|Sister of the Devil|悪魔の妹}}<br />
| species =[[Vampire]] ''(not native to [[Gensokyo]])''<br />
| abilities =Destroying absolutely anything<br />
| age =Approximately 495 Years<br />
| location =[[Scarlet Devil Mansion]], was originally from the [[Outside World]]<br />
| MusicThemes =*{{H:title|[[U.N. Owen Was Her?|U.N.{{lang|ja|オーエンは彼女なのか?}}]]|U.N. Owen Was Her?}} ([[Embodiment of Scarlet Devil]])<br />
| appOfficialgames =*''[[Embodiment of Scarlet Devil]]'' (Cover, Extra Stage Boss)<br />
*''[[Imperishable Night]]'' (Mentioned in the scarlet team's scenario)<br />
*''[[Shoot the Bullet]]'' (Extra Stage 1 and 2 Boss)<br />
*''[[Violet Detector]]'' (3rd Sunday - 1, 3rd Sunday - 4, 3rd Sunday - 6)<br />
*''[[Touhou Gouyoku Ibun]]'' (Playable Character, Possible Opponent)<br />
| appPrintworks =*''[[Bohemian Archive in Japanese Red]]''<br />
**''[[Extra of the Wind]]'' (Cameo)<br />
*''[[Perfect Memento in Strict Sense]]''<br />
*''[[Strange and Bright Nature Deity]]'' (Chapter 4 cameo)<br />
*''[[Inaba of the Moon and Inaba of the Earth]]'' (Chapter 9 cameo)<br />
*''[[The Grimoire of Marisa]]''<br />
*''[[Forbidden Scrollery]]'' (Chapter 3 cameo, 7 cameo)<br />
*''[[Strange Creators of Outer World]] Vol. 2'' (Profile Section, Cross Review Section)<br />
*''[[The Grimoire of Usami]]'' (Section 2-10)<br />
*''[[Cheating Detective Satori]]'' (Chapter 1, 2, 3.5, 4.5)<br />
| appOther = *''[https://ja.wikipedia.org/ラクガキキングダム Rakugaki Kingdom]'' (Playable Guest Character)<br />
}}<br />
{{nihongo|'''Flandre Scarlet'''|フランドール・スカーレット|Furandooru Sukaaretto}} is the younger sister of [[Remilia Scarlet]] and a [[vampire]] who lives at the [[Scarlet Devil Mansion]]. She first appeared as the Extra stage [[Boss|boss]] of [[Embodiment of Scarlet Devil]], and has appeared as a playable protagonist in [[Touhou Gouyoku Ibun]].<br />
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==General Information==<br />
Flandre first appeared as the Extra [[Stage]] [[boss]] of ''[[Embodiment of Scarlet Devil]]'' with the famous theme ''[[U.N. Owen was Her?]]'', as well as a target in the Extra Stage of ''[[Shoot the Bullet]]''. She's been interviewed in ''[[Bohemian Archive in Japanese Red]]'' and has had an article in ''[[Perfect Memento in Strict Sense]]'' and ''[[The Grimoire of Marisa]]''. She also appeared in ''[[Foul Detective Satori]]''.<br />
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She also notably appeared as a playable protagonist in [[Touhou Gouyoku Ibun]]. This was the first time she appeared as a protagonist in the 19 years since her introduction in 2002 in ''Embodiment of Scarlet Devil''.<br />
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===Personality===<br />
In ''Embodiment of Scarlet Devil'', she is described as being quite strange and eccentric, which makes it difficult for others to understand her.<ref name="EoSDomake" /> She's also described as being "normally docile" and generally pleasant to be around, but somewhat of a loose cannon if left unwatched. In ''[[Bohemian Archive in Japanese Red/Flandre|Bohemian Archive in Japanese Red]]'', it's suggested that she isn't very good at talking to other people, though she can get rather sassy and uppity when talking with her sister. Her friendship toward [[human]]s is very low, mostly because she doesn't care about them.<ref name="PMiSSFlandre" /><br />
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In ''[[Foul Detective Satori]]'', her attitude was particularly impolite and informal, speaking in a very casual tone and generally doing as she wished without consideration of consequences, although she stopped short of seriously injuring anyone.<br />
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In ''[[Touhou Gouyoku Ibun]]'', she appeared to only care about "destroying the indestructible" when facing off against [[Yuuma Toutetsu]], although she did display a willingness to work with [[Okina Matara]], insofar as it let her have some fun.<br />
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===History===<br />
Flandre has lived for at least 495 years, but she has allegedly never left the grounds of the [[Scarlet Devil Mansion]], and rarely leaves even the building itself, if ever.<ref name="PMiSSFlandre">[[Perfect Memento in Strict Sense]]: [[Perfect Memento in Strict Sense/Flandre Scarlet|Flandre Scarlet]]</ref> As she herself never tried going outside, she was apparently raised knowing nothing about the outside world.<ref name="EoSDomake">[[Embodiment of Scarlet Devil]]: omake.txt</ref> However, she's shown a slight interest to go outside after the events of ''[[Embodiment of Scarlet Devil]]''. Her initial attempt to do so was blocked by [[Patchouli Knowledge]]'s rain summoning magic in the Extra Stage, but since then she has been seen outside the mansion itself when she was destroying a falling meteor.<ref name="BAiJRFlandre">[[Bohemian Archive in Japanese Red]]: [[Bohemian Archive in Japanese Red/Flandre|Flandre's article.]]</ref><br />
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Until the time when she met either [[Marisa Kirisame]] or [[Reimu Hakurei]] in ''Embodiment of Scarlet Devil'', she claimed to not have seen any [[human]]s other than when they were prepared for a meal, although it's left vague as to whether that was her idea of a dark joke.<br />
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During the events of [[Touhou Gouyoku Ibun]], however, she left the grounds of the Mansion for an extended period of time of her own accord to fight [[Yuuma Toutetsu]], marking her first major departure from the grounds of the Mansion since her introduction.<br />
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===Abilities===<br />
[[File:GoMIllus-Flandre.jpg|thumb|left|175px|Flandre, as illustrated in ''[[The Grimoire of Marisa]]''.]]<br />
While it is obvious as a [[vampire]], Flandre possesses superhuman capabilities just like [[Remilia Scarlet]], such as enhanced physical strength, with the destructive power of [[oni]] and the nimbleness of [[tengu]], as well as a [[vampire]]'s bodily and regenerative ability. She can swing an oversized sword, though not as quickly as she would like to<ref name="GoMFlandre">[[Grimoire of Marisa]]: [[The Grimoire of Marisa/Flandre Scarlet's Spell Cards|Flandre Scarlet's spell cards]]</ref>. Since she doesn't know the proper way to attack humans, she is unable to go easy on them and blows them away without a trace.<br />
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;Destroying absolutely anything and everything<br />
Flandre can destroy anything she wants, which is truly a frightening ability with no real weaknesses.<ref name="PMiSSFlandre" /> By moving the "eye" of the object, where the tension is highest, and by attacking this eye, she is able to destroy the target. She is able to move the "eye" of anything into the middle of her hand, then she pours her power into it or in other words, she crushes the "eye" and unconditionally destroys the target with just a squeeze.<ref name="PMiSSFlandre" /> She states that everything has an "eye" and that she has the "eyes" of everything in her right hand. She destroyed a meteor with a single hand and without touching it, where Flandre stated that she "went ''squeeze'' and it went ''boom''".<ref name="BAiJRFlandre" /><br />
When Sakuya was locked in the basement with Flandre, she destroyed the lock of a door simply by holding its handle, and without making any visible explosion.<ref name="CDS 3.5">''[[Cheating Detective Satori]]'' - Chapter 3.5</ref> Everything that is made for her to play with ends up broken, which may mean why she doesn't have many playmates, to which it's recommended to never meet with her.<ref name="PMiSSFlandre" /> <br />
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;Cloning herself<br />
Flandre is able to clone herself as seen in one of her [[Embodiment of Scarlet Devil/Spell Cards/Extra#Spell Card 57|spell card]]s where she creates 3 clones that helps her in the battle. The clones ''attack as they like'' which could mean they're able to think independently to some grade.<ref name="GoMFlandre" /> It's in the category "Slave Type" so they're under the command of the original Flandre.<ref name="GoMFlandre" /><br />
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===Possessions===<br />
In her hand, she possesses an object that looks like a crooked clock needle (sometimes thought to be a [[wikipedia:Lævateinn|Lævateinn]]) – this is a prominent peculiarity associated with Flandre, in which the name is derived from her second [[spell card]] ''[[Embodiment of Scarlet Devil/Spell Cards/Extra#Spell Card 56|Taboo "Lævateinn"]]''. It shares its name with the sword (wand in some versions) of [[Wikipedia:Loki|Loki]], a Norse god known for causing mischief. This sword/wand is used by the fire giant [[wikipedia:Surtr|Surt]] in [[wikipedia:Ragnarök|Ragnarok]] (the Norse equivalent of the Apocalypse) to burn down the whole world, except for one safe heaven. Fitting that Flandre would be wielding a tool of such destructive might.<br />
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She also possesses unusually peculiar wings, an irregular shape unlike those of any living creature, [[youkai]] or [[ghost]],<ref name="PMiSSFlandre" /> or even to a [[vampire]]'s typical bat-like wings (or even organic matter). Reimu even said, "I doubt she can fly with those wings". Concerning this statement, [[Hieda no Akyuu]] noted that there are plenty of those in [[Gensokyo]] who can fly without wings.<ref name="PMiSSFlandre" /><br />
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==Character Design==<br />
[[File:PMiSS flandre.jpg|thumb|250px|Flandre's depiction in ''[[Perfect Memento in Strict Sense]]''.]]<br />
===Name===<br />
Her full name is {{nihongo|''Flandre Scarlet''|フランドール・スカーレット}} <ref>[http://web.archive.org/web/20040404190222/www16.big.or.jp/~zun/cgi-bin/diary/nicky.cgi?page=1 Winter Comic Thanks N° 2 (ZUN's Diary's post on 4th January 2004)]</ref>. The name Flandre is a modern French term for [[wikipedia:Flanders|Flanders]], a region which makes out the northern part of Belgium. Note that the pronunciation of her name in Japanese goes more along the lines of "Flandoor" or "Flandoll" rather than "Flander/Flandre" since her name in katakana was not {{lang|ja|フランドル}}, which would have been the more relevant katakana for "Flandre". Generally, there isn't actually any right or wrong way to pronounce the names in non-Japanese languages.<br />
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"Scarlet" refers to a bright shade of the color red with a slight hint of orange and is a variant of "Scarlett" as a surname. The middle dot ({{lang|ja|・}}) in the middle of her name is used in foreign names to show where the next word begins. In ''[[Embodiment of Scarlet Devil]]'', she was called {{nihongo||妹様|Imouto-sama|lit. "''your [her] honor, little sister [of the mistress]''"}} by [[Patchouli Knowledge]].<br />
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===Design===<br />
In ''[[Embodiment of Scarlet Devil]]'''s official art, Flandre has red eyes and short blond hair, which is tied into a single ponytail on her left side. Wears a red dress and vest, with a pink shirt underneath and socks. Also wears a pink mob cap with a red ribbon attached. She carries a matching wand with her, which might be the mythical [[wikipedia:Lævateinn|Lævateinn]]. Arranged from her back to the tip of her wings her 8 crystals which are presented in seven colours<ref name="PMiSSFlandre" />: '''{{color|cyan|light blue}}, {{color|blue|blue}}, {{color|purple|purple}}, {{color|pink|pink}}, {{color|orange|orange}}, {{color|yellow|yellow}}, {{color|limegreen|light green}}''' and finally '''{{color|cyan|light blue}}''' again.<br />
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===Music Theme===<br />
Her boss theme ("[[U.N. Owen was her?]]") and her second-to-last spell card ([[Embodiment of Scarlet Devil/Spell Cards/Extra#Spell Card 63|Secret Barrage "And Then Will There Be None?"]]) are references to [[wikipedia:Agatha Christie|Agatha Christie]]'s novel ''[[wikipedia:And Then There Were None|And Then There Were None]]''. The plot of the book follows eight people who were invited to a small, isolated island by Ulick Norman Owen and Una Nancy Owen. Shortly after their arrival, a gramophone record is played, accusing each visitor of committing murder and escaping justice. The characters discover that none of them actually knows the Owens, and they conclude that their initials - "U.N. Owen" - are a shorthand for "Unknown". As the novel continues, every character meets their end, with each cause of death reflecting a part of a nursery rhyme. [[ZUN]] referred to this in the title of Flandre's song because she's, essentially, an ''unknown'' being.<ref name="EoSDomake"></ref><br />
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==Flandre's Appearances==<br />
[[File:FSch7-SDMChars.jpg|thumb|right|220px|Flandre shown with [[Remilia Scarlet]] in ''[[Forbidden Scrollery]]'' Chapter 7]]<br />
In [[Embodiment of Scarlet Devil]], Flandre states she hasn't left the [[Scarlet Devil Mansion]] for about 495 years, and has been saying in the basement of the mansion since then. [[Hieda no Akyuu]] theorizes on this in [[Bohemian Archive in Japanese Red]], stating that Flandre is probably a shut-in.<br />
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It seems her confinement in the Scarlet Devil Mansion has given her time to understand every part of it, as she has been seen wandering inside the Mansion by some humans<ref>"Sometimes when I sneak into the Scarlet Devil Mansion like I own it, I run into the little sister. I had to slip by without drawin' her attention, but after goin' through all that to get into the place, I was hopin' I wouldn't run into her." (Marisa Kirisame)</ref> <ref>"I saw her shadow wandering around the mansion while I was at an outdoor party at the Scarlet Devil Mansion. It was truly frightening. I knew it was her just from the silhouette, but she doesn't get to join many parties." (Anonymous)</ref> and even hold an interview with [[Aya Shameimaru]] in the garden<ref>[[Bohemian Archive in Japanese Red/Flandre|Flandre's Interview]]</ref>. In [[Forbidden Scrollery]], Flandre appears watching [[Tupai|the pet of her sister]] along with her.<br />
===Games===<br />
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;''Embodiment of Scarlet Devil''<br />
[[File:Th06FlandreSprite.png|frame|Flandre's sprite in ''EoSD'']]<br />
[[File:Th06RemiliaBatSprite.png|frame|Flandre's bat form sprite in ''EoSD'']]<br />
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After the main events of the game, Flandre makes her way out of the [[Scarlet Devil Mansion]]'s basement while Remilia is off at the [[Hakurei Shrine]]. With no other choice, [[Patchouli]] uses her magic to cause a rainstorm around the mansion so that she wouldn't be able to leave it. Soon enough, the player character makes their way to her.<br />
:{{Main|Embodiment of Scarlet Devil/Story/Reimu's Extra|l1=Reimu Extra Arc}}<br />
When Reimu finds Flandre, she demands an explanation as to why her sister has been bothering her at the shrine. They decide to have a danmaku battle, and Reimu eventually emerges victorious. Flandre appears to calm down afterwards.<br />
:{{Main|Embodiment of Scarlet Devil/Story/Marisa's Extra|l1=Marisa Extra Arc}}<br />
Marisa introduces herself as Reimu, but Flandre sees through the play - apparently she's aware of the magician's identity. After Marisa defeats her, they trade quotes from a [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/And_Then_There_Were_None certain book], adapted to fit their current situation.<br />
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;''Shoot the Bullet''<br />
[[File:Th095FlandreSprite.png|frame|Flandre's sprite in ''StB'']]<br />
[[File:Th095FlandreBatSprite.png|frame|Flandre's bat form sprite in ''StB'']]<br />
In ''[[Shoot the Bullet]]'', [[Aya Shameimaru]] encountered Flandre on the Extra [[stage]] and took photos of her [[danmaku]].<br />
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;''Touhou Gouyoku Ibun''<br />
Flandre Scarlet works under [[Okina Matara]] in an effort to thwart [[Yuuma Toutetsu]]'s plans.<br />
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===Literature===<br />
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;''Bohemian Archive in Japanese Red''<br />
[[File:052BAiJRFlandre.jpg|thumb|150px|right|Flandre destroying a meteor in her article in ''[[Bohemian Archive in Japanese Red]]''.]]<br />
:{{Main|Bohemian Archive in Japanese Red/Flandre}}<br />
In April 2006, [[Aya Shameimaru]] reports on the strange explosion of a meteorite above [[Gensokyo]]. She learns that Flandre was the one who destroyed it, but becomes increasingly confused as Flandre explains she destroyed it by squeezing the eye of the meteorite in her hand. Even more perplexing information is given by Flandre's older sister, [[Remilia Scarlet]]. Apparently, it was planned that the meteorite was supposed to be aimed at the [[Scarlet Devil Mansion]] and that Flandre would destroy it. Inexplicably, Aya ends the article with a report that spring has begun.<br />
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In her follow-up, Aya interviews Flandre about the explosion and Remilia's information. Flandre gives the same explanation for how she destroyed the meteorite, and, when questioned, says that her sister just acts like she knows what's happening. Remilia interrupts (for which Aya is thankful), and confirms that what Flandre said was true, insinuating that Aya just can't understand, while giving strange information about the meteorite's source.<br />
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==Relationships==<br />
Currently there have not been many portrayals of her relations other than to her older sister, but since it has been stated that "she has few friends even among the youkai of the Scarlet Devil Mansion, and spends most of her time in isolation",<ref name="PMiSSFlandre" /> she probably does not have very favourable relations with other residents.<br />
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===Residents of the Scarlet Devil Mansion===<br />
[[File:053BAiJRFlandre.jpg|thumb|200px|Remilia and Flandre, as illustrated in ''[[Bohemian Archive in Japanese Red]]''.]]<br />
[[Remilia Scarlet]] is Flandre's older sister. Flandre is stated to respect her sister and Remilia cares for Flandre as shown where she is considering getting her a good tutor in ''[[Imperishable Night]]'', but it is unknown how often the two interact. ''[[Perfect Memento in Strict Sense]]'' states that it's rare (but not nonexistent) to see Flandre and Remilia together. The only times that they're depicted together is in their cameo in ''[[Forbidden Scrollery]]'' chapter 7 when they were looking at their pet [[Minor Characters#Tupai|Tupai]] and in ''[[Bohemian Archive in Japanese Red]]'', which also shows that Remilia will at least allow [[Aya Shameimaru]] to interview Flandre in the first place.<br />
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The interview shows that although Flandre might respect her older sister, it's to the extent you'd expect a snarky child to. She is willing to outright state when she thinks Remilia is just spouting nonsense, at which point Remilia comes in with a comment that she shouldn't be talking about her older sister like that. Her treatment of her older sister became harsh and she even called Remilia {{nihongo|"that person"|あいつ|aitsu}}<br />
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Not much is known about Flandre's relationships with other residents as she spends most of her time in the basement. Patchouli is aware of Flandre's existence and the need to keep her confined to the mansion, as Remilia noted Patchouli was probably causing a rainstorm around the mansion to keep Flandre from getting out. Presumebly, Sakuya also serves Flandre along with Remilia, but it's not stated, implied, or depicted in any official work. Someone prepares Flandre's food, which are humans prepared in the shape of pastries and other pleasant things, but it is never stated to be Sakuya.<br />
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It's unknown what kind of relationship Flandre has with [[Hong Meiling]], the [[Fairy Maid]]s, the recent [[hobgoblin]]s and [[Koakuma]].<br />
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===Minor Relationships===<br />
;Reimu Hakurei<br />
Though the shrine maiden promises to come play with her every so often during their dialogue in ''[[Embodiment of Scarlet Devil]]'', the two have not been seen together since then, so it is likely she just said that to get her to calm down.<br />
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;Marisa Kirisame<br />
Her conversation with Marisa in ''Embodiment of Scarlet Devil'' leaves an impression that the two are quite friendly. However, Marisa commented, "Sometimes when I sneak into the Scarlet Devil Mansion, I run into the little sister. I had to slip by without drawin' her attention, but after goin' through all that to get into the place, I was hopin' I wouldn't run into her."<ref name="PMiSSFlandre" /><br />
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;[[Okina Matara]]<br />
During the events of [[Touhou Gouyoku Ibun]], Okina Matara manipulated Flandre Scarlet into becoming an [[Assassin|assassin]] to take out [[Yuuma Toutetsu]] and thwart her plans.<br />
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==Gallery==<br />
===Covers===<br />
<gallery><br />
File:Th06cover.jpg|Cover of ''[[Embodiment of Scarlet Devil]]'', featuring Flandre's silhouette<br />
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===Artwork===<br />
<gallery><br />
Th06Flandre.png|Flandre in ''[[Embodiment of Scarlet Devil]]''<br />
GIFlanBattle.png|Flandre's pre-battle portrait from ''Touhou Gouyoku Ibun''<br />
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===Prints===<br />
<gallery><br />
IoMaIotECh09flan.jpg|Flandre in ''[[Inaba of the Moon and Inaba of the Earth]]''<br />
File:CDS_Flandre_room.png|Flandre's basement room in [[Cheating Detective Satori]]<br />
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===Others===<br />
<gallery><br />
File:GoMSigil-Flandre.jpg|Flandre's sigil in ''[[The Grimoire of Marisa]]''<br />
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==Spell Cards==<br />
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{{#lsth:List of Spell Cards/Touhou Project 1|[[Flandre Scarlet]]}}<br />
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==Additional Information==<br />
*A silhouette of Flandre occupies the front of ''[[Embodiment of Scarlet Devil]]'''s jewel case.<br />
*Flandre is one of the few characters to not appear in the background during ''[[Hopeless Masquerade]]'', which would relate to her lack of leaving the [[Scarlet Devil Mansion]].<br />
*Assuming her birth year by calculating backwards in the [[Gensokyo Timeline]], Flandre was born around 1508 A.D. The canonicity of this assumption is unknown, however.<br />
*The spell card reference ("And Then Will There Be None?") to an Agatha Christie novel is definite. It's more speculative but still worth noting that the science-fiction genre saw Philip K. Dick write a novel called "Counter-Clock World" in 1967 and Frederik Pohl write "The Gold at the Starbow's End" in 1972.<br />
*On one end of the Lævateinn that Flandre is seen holding in ''[[Shoot the Bullet]]'' is very different compared to the Lævateinn that Flandre is seen holding in ''Embodiment of Scarlet Devil''.<br />
*She used the phrase "that means, you can't use a continue!" to [[Marisa Kirisame]], which was breaking the [[Canon#Fourth Wall|fourth wall]].<br />
*In the Second Touhou Saimoe Tournament, the 8th game of the first round was a battle between Flandre and [[Suika Ibuki]].<ref>[http://tuguna.info/toho/saimoe2.htm Watch report] of the Second Touhou Saimoe Tournament.</ref> Although the battle ended with Flan winning, this led to [[ZUN]] posting a rough drawing of Suika that hadn't been open to the public with a message saying "don't get defeated by a little sister that hasn't even reached the age of 500!"<ref name="ThShofu14">[[ZUN's former blog "Touhou Shofu" 14]]</ref>.<br />
*The "crystals" on her wings look somewhat similar to the crystals shown on [[Patchouli Knowledge]]'s spell card, ''[[Immaterial and Missing Power/Spell Cards/Patchouli Knowledge#Spell Card 6|Fire Water Wood Metal Earth Sign "Philosopher's Stone"]]''.<br />
*Strangely, if one uses a bomb against her in ''Embodiment of Scarlet Devil'''s Extra, she's shown to have normal wings in bat form.<br />
*It's hard to notice, but Flandre's skirt has two white ribbons on her EoSD portrait<ref>https://nrr08.com/f_scarlet.html</ref>.<br />
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==Fandom==<br />
{{main|Fandom/Embodiment of Scarlet Devil#Flandre Scarlet|l1=Fandom: Flandre Scarlet}}<br />
Flandre has not made many appearances in the series, but maybe because of her personality and the way she looks and acts, she's become a very popular character. One reason would be because of her theme music ("U.N.Owen was her?"). It is particularly famous, and is often used in MAD videos, and for a time introduced many as "newcomers hoihoi" on Nico Nico to Touhou. Furthermore, the arrangement "{{lang|ja|最終鬼畜妹フランドール・S}}" ("Final Savage Sister, Flandre S.")<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.nicovideo.jp/watch/sm1849248|title={{lang|ja|【東方】最終鬼畜妹フランドール・S【U.N.オーエンは彼女なのか?】}}|date=23 December 2007|access-date=26 October 2021}}</ref> in the album ''[[東方ストライク|Touhou Strike]]'' by [[COOL&CREATE]] seems to have been mistaken by many to have been the original music.<br />
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==Official Profiles==<br />
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{{Profile Quote<br />
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フランドール・スカーレット<br />
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能力:ありとあらゆるものを破壊する程度の能力<br />
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エキストラボスです。お嬢様の妹です。<br />
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吸血鬼にして魔法少女で、495年程、悪魔の妹をしています。少々気がふれていて、通常は表に出してももらえません。出ようともしません。<br />
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レミリアをお姉様と慕うも、その歯止めの効かない破壊力は、遥かにお姉様を凌ぎます。普段はあまり怒ったりしないのですが、常におかしいので他人には良く分かりません。<br />
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通常、吸血鬼は食事をするために、人間を殺さない程度にしか襲いませんが、フランドールは与えられたものしか食べたことが無いため、人間の襲い方を知りません。そのため手加減が出来なく、一滴の血の残さず吹き飛ばしてしまいます。<br />
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もしかしたら、いつも自分が食べているものが動いている人間と一致しないのかも知れません。<br /><br />
毎日食べているものが、見た目ケーキになってたり、紅茶になっていたりしたのですから...<br />
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カードアタック 全10種<br />
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'''Flandre Scarlet'''<br />
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Ability: Destroying absolutely anything<br />
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The Extra Boss. Also the Mistress's younger sister.<br />
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She is a vampiric magical girl and has been the Scarlet Devil's younger sister for about 495 years. She cannot control herself, so generally she isn't let outside. She also doesn't try going out.<br />
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She idolizes her older sister [[Remilia Scarlet|Remilia]], but her destructive power unconstrained far exceeds that of her sister's. Although she doesn't often get angry or anything, she's always peculiar, which makes it difficult for others to understand her.<br />
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Generally, [[vampire]]s always attack [[human]]s without killing them in order to feed, but Flandre has only ever eaten food that has been served to her, so she doesn't know how to properly attack a human. Because of this, she can't limit herself and ends up blowing them away without leaving a drop of blood.<br />
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Speaking of which, she doesn't even know that what she always eats were once living humans. Her daily meals are made to look like foodstuffs such as cake and tea, after all...<br />
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Total of ten card attacks.<br />
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==Official Sources==<br />
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*2003/08/11 '''[[Embodiment of Scarlet Devil]]''' – Extra Stage dialogue; afterword.txt (official profile)<br />
*2004/08/15 '''[[Imperishable Night]]''' – Referenced by Remilia in Stage 3<br />
*2005/08/11 '''[[Bohemian Archive in Japanese Red]]''' – [[Bohemian Archive in Japanese Red/Flandre|Article and Interview: Flandre]]<br />
*2005/12/27 '''[[Shoot the Bullet]]''' – [[Shoot the Bullet/Spell Cards/Level Ex|EX Stage spell card comments]]<br />
*2006/12/27 '''[[Perfect Memento in Strict Sense]]''' – [[Perfect Memento in Strict Sense/Flandre Scarlet|Sister of the Devil: Flandre Scarlet]]<br />
*2008/02/22 '''[[Inaba of the Moon and Inaba of the Earth]]''' – Chapter 9<br />
*2009/07/28 '''[[The Grimoire of Marisa]]''' – [[The Grimoire of Marisa/Flandre Scarlet's Spell Cards|Flandre Scarlet's spell cards]]<br />
*2013/03/16–2014/02/20 '''[[Forbidden Scrollery]]''' – Chapter 2 and 7<br />
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| nameJp =フランドール・スカーレット<br />
| nameEn =Flandre Scarlet<br />
| nameIPA =ɸɯɽandoːɽɯ̥ sɯ̥kaːɽetto [[Media:Pronunciation_FlandreScarlet.ogg|(♫)]]<br />
| nameAlt =Frandle Scarlet, Frandre Scarlet, Frandoll Scarlet<br />
| image =[[File:GI Flandre Portrait.png|325px|Flandre Scarlet]]<br />
| caption =Flandre Scarlet in [[Touhou Gouyoku Ibun]]<br />
| chartitle ={{H:title|Sister of the Devil|悪魔の妹}}<br />
| species =[[Vampire]] ''(not native to [[Gensokyo]])''<br />
| abilities =Destroying absolutely anything<br />
| age =Approximately 495 Years<br />
| location =[[Scarlet Devil Mansion]], was originally from the [[Outside World]]<br />
| MusicThemes =*{{H:title|[[U.N. Owen Was Her?|U.N.{{lang|ja|オーエンは彼女なのか?}}]]|U.N. Owen Was Her?}} ([[Embodiment of Scarlet Devil]])<br />
| appOfficialgames =*''[[Embodiment of Scarlet Devil]]'' (Cover, Extra Stage Boss)<br />
*''[[Imperishable Night]]'' (Mentioned in the scarlet team's scenario)<br />
*''[[Shoot the Bullet]]'' (Extra Stage 1 and 2 Boss)<br />
*''[[Violet Detector]]'' (3rd Sunday - 1, 3rd Sunday - 4, 3rd Sunday - 6)<br />
*''[[Touhou Gouyoku Ibun]]'' (Playable Character, Possible Opponent)<br />
| appPrintworks =*''[[Bohemian Archive in Japanese Red]]''<br />
**''[[Extra of the Wind]]'' (Cameo)<br />
*''[[Perfect Memento in Strict Sense]]''<br />
*''[[Strange and Bright Nature Deity]]'' (Chapter 4 cameo)<br />
*''[[Inaba of the Moon and Inaba of the Earth]]'' (Chapter 9 cameo)<br />
*''[[The Grimoire of Marisa]]''<br />
*''[[Forbidden Scrollery]]'' (Chapter 3 cameo, 7 cameo)<br />
*''[[Strange Creators of Outer World]] Vol. 2'' (Profile Section, Cross Review Section)<br />
*''[[The Grimoire of Usami]]'' (Section 2-10)<br />
*''[[Cheating Detective Satori]]'' (Chapter 1, 2, 3.5, 4.5)<br />
| appOther = *''[https://ja.wikipedia.org/ラクガキキングダム Rakugaki Kingdom]'' (Playable Guest Character)<br />
}}<br />
{{nihongo|'''Flandre Scarlet'''|フランドール・スカーレット|Furandooru Sukaaretto}} is the younger sister of [[Remilia Scarlet]] and a [[vampire]] who lives at the [[Scarlet Devil Mansion]]. She first appeared as the Extra stage [[Boss|boss]] of [[Embodiment of Scarlet Devil]], and has appeared as a playable protagonist in [[Touhou Gouyoku Ibun]].<br />
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==General Information==<br />
Flandre first appeared as the Extra [[Stage]] [[boss]] of ''[[Embodiment of Scarlet Devil]]'' with the famous theme '''[[U.N. Owen was Her?]]''', as well as a target in the Extra Stage of ''[[Shoot the Bullet]]''. She's been interviewed in ''[[Bohemian Archive in Japanese Red]]'' and has had an article in ''[[Perfect Memento in Strict Sense]]'' and ''[[The Grimoire of Marisa]]''. She also appeared in ''[[Foul Detective Satori]]''.<br />
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She also notably appeared as a playable protagonist in [[Touhou Gouyoku Ibun]]. This was the first time she appeared as a protagonist in the 19 years since her introduction in 2002 in ''Embodiment of Scarlet Devil''.<br />
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===Personality===<br />
In ''Embodiment of Scarlet Devil'', she is described as being quite strange and eccentric, which makes it difficult for others to understand her.<ref name="EoSDomake" /> She's also described as being "normally docile" and generally pleasant to be around, but somewhat of a loose cannon if left unwatched. In ''[[Bohemian Archive in Japanese Red/Flandre|Bohemian Archive in Japanese Red]]'', it's suggested that she isn't very good at talking to other people, though she can get rather sassy and uppity when talking with her sister. Her friendship toward [[human]]s is very low, mostly because she doesn't care about them.<ref name="PMiSSFlandre" /><br />
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In ''[[Foul Detective Satori]]'', her attitude was particularly impolite and informal, speaking in a very casual tone and generally doing as she wished without consideration of consequences, although she stopped short of seriously injuring anyone.<br />
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In ''[[Touhou Gouyoku Ibun]]'', she appeared to only care about "destroying the indestructible" when facing off against [[Yuuma Toutetsu]], although she did display a willingness to work with [[Okina Matara]], insofar as it let her have some fun.<br />
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===History===<br />
Flandre has lived for at least 495 years, but she has allegedly never left the grounds of the [[Scarlet Devil Mansion]], and rarely leaves even the building itself, if ever.<ref name="PMiSSFlandre">[[Perfect Memento in Strict Sense]]: [[Perfect Memento in Strict Sense/Flandre Scarlet|Flandre Scarlet]]</ref> As she herself never tried going outside, she was apparently raised knowing nothing about the outside world.<ref name="EoSDomake">[[Embodiment of Scarlet Devil]]: omake.txt</ref> However, she's shown a slight interest to go outside after the events of ''[[Embodiment of Scarlet Devil]]''. Her initial attempt to do so was blocked by [[Patchouli Knowledge]]'s rain summoning magic in the Extra Stage, but since then she has been seen outside the mansion itself when she was destroying a falling meteor.<ref name="BAiJRFlandre">[[Bohemian Archive in Japanese Red]]: [[Bohemian Archive in Japanese Red/Flandre|Flandre's article.]]</ref><br />
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Until the time when she met either [[Marisa Kirisame]] or [[Reimu Hakurei]] in ''Embodiment of Scarlet Devil'', she claimed to not have seen any [[human]]s other than when they were prepared for a meal, although it's left vague as to whether that was her idea of a dark joke.<br />
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During the events of [[Touhou Gouyoku Ibun]], however, she left the grounds of the Mansion for an extended period of time of her own accord to fight [[Yuuma Toutetsu]], marking her first major departure from the grounds of the Mansion since her introduction.<br />
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===Abilities===<br />
[[File:GoMIllus-Flandre.jpg|thumb|left|175px|Flandre, as illustrated in ''[[The Grimoire of Marisa]]''.]]<br />
While it is obvious as a [[vampire]], Flandre possesses superhuman capabilities just like [[Remilia Scarlet]], such as enhanced physical strength, with the destructive power of [[oni]] and the nimbleness of [[tengu]], as well as a [[vampire]]'s bodily and regenerative ability. She can swing an oversized sword, though not as quickly as she would like to<ref name="GoMFlandre">[[Grimoire of Marisa]]: [[The Grimoire of Marisa/Flandre Scarlet's Spell Cards|Flandre Scarlet's spell cards]]</ref>. Since she doesn't know the proper way to attack humans, she is unable to go easy on them and blows them away without a trace.<br />
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;Destroying absolutely anything and everything<br />
Flandre can destroy anything she wants, which is truly a frightening ability with no real weaknesses.<ref name="PMiSSFlandre" /> By moving the "eye" of the object, where the tension is highest, and by attacking this eye, she is able to destroy the target. She is able to move the "eye" of anything into the middle of her hand, then she pours her power into it or in other words, she crushes the "eye" and unconditionally destroys the target with just a squeeze.<ref name="PMiSSFlandre" /> She states that everything has an "eye" and that she has the "eyes" of everything in her right hand. She destroyed a meteor with a single hand and without touching it, where Flandre stated that she "went ''squeeze'' and it went ''boom''".<ref name="BAiJRFlandre" /><br />
When Sakuya was locked in the basement with Flandre, she destroyed the lock of a door simply by holding its handle, and without making any visible explosion.<ref name="CDS 3.5">''[[Cheating Detective Satori]]'' - Chapter 3.5</ref> Everything that is made for her to play with ends up broken, which may mean why she doesn't have many playmates, to which it's recommended to never meet with her.<ref name="PMiSSFlandre" /> <br />
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;Cloning herself<br />
Flandre is able to clone herself as seen in one of her [[Embodiment of Scarlet Devil/Spell Cards/Extra#Spell Card 57|spell card]]s where she creates 3 clones that helps her in the battle. The clones ''attack as they like'' which could mean they're able to think independently to some grade.<ref name="GoMFlandre" /> It's in the category "Slave Type" so they're under the command of the original Flandre.<ref name="GoMFlandre" /><br />
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===Possessions===<br />
In her hand, she possesses an object that looks like a crooked clock needle (sometimes thought to be a [[wikipedia:Lævateinn|Lævateinn]]) – this is a prominent peculiarity associated with Flandre, in which the name is derived from her second [[spell card]] ''[[Embodiment of Scarlet Devil/Spell Cards/Extra#Spell Card 56|Taboo "Lævateinn"]]''. It shares its name with the sword (wand in some versions) of [[Wikipedia:Loki|Loki]], a Norse god known for causing mischief. This sword/wand is used by the fire giant [[wikipedia:Surtr|Surt]] in [[wikipedia:Ragnarök|Ragnarok]] (the Norse equivalent of the Apocalypse) to burn down the whole world, except for one safe heaven. Fitting that Flandre would be wielding a tool of such destructive might.<br />
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She also possesses unusually peculiar wings, an irregular shape unlike those of any living creature, [[youkai]] or [[ghost]],<ref name="PMiSSFlandre" /> or even to a [[vampire]]'s typical bat-like wings (or even organic matter). Reimu even said, "I doubt she can fly with those wings". Concerning this statement, [[Hieda no Akyuu]] noted that there are plenty of those in [[Gensokyo]] who can fly without wings.<ref name="PMiSSFlandre" /><br />
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==Character Design==<br />
[[File:PMiSS flandre.jpg|thumb|250px|Flandre's depiction in ''[[Perfect Memento in Strict Sense]]''.]]<br />
===Name===<br />
Her full name is {{nihongo|''Flandre Scarlet''|フランドール・スカーレット}} <ref>[http://web.archive.org/web/20040404190222/www16.big.or.jp/~zun/cgi-bin/diary/nicky.cgi?page=1 Winter Comic Thanks N° 2 (ZUN's Diary's post on 4th January 2004)]</ref>. The name Flandre is a modern French term for [[wikipedia:Flanders|Flanders]], a region which makes out the northern part of Belgium. Note that the pronunciation of her name in Japanese goes more along the lines of "Flandoor" or "Flandoll" rather than "Flander/Flandre" since her name in katakana was not {{lang|ja|フランドル}}, which would have been the more relevant katakana for "Flandre". Generally, there isn't actually any right or wrong way to pronounce the names in non-Japanese languages.<br />
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"Scarlet" refers to a bright shade of the color red with a slight hint of orange and is a variant of "Scarlett" as a surname. The middle dot ({{lang|ja|・}}) in the middle of her name is used in foreign names to show where the next word begins. In ''[[Embodiment of Scarlet Devil]]'', she was called {{nihongo||妹様|Imouto-sama|lit. "''your [her] honor, little sister [of the mistress]''"}} by [[Patchouli Knowledge]].<br />
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===Design===<br />
In ''[[Embodiment of Scarlet Devil]]'''s official art, Flandre has red eyes and short blond hair, which is tied into a single ponytail on her left side. Wears a red dress and vest, with a pink shirt underneath and socks. Also wears a pink mob cap with a red ribbon attached. She carries a matching wand with her, which might be the mythical [[wikipedia:Lævateinn|Lævateinn]]. Arranged from her back to the tip of her wings her 8 crystals which are presented in seven colours<ref name="PMiSSFlandre" />: '''{{color|cyan|light blue}}, {{color|blue|blue}}, {{color|purple|purple}}, {{color|pink|pink}}, {{color|orange|orange}}, {{color|yellow|yellow}}, {{color|limegreen|light green}}''' and finally '''{{color|cyan|light blue}}''' again.<br />
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===Music Theme===<br />
Her boss theme ("[[U.N. Owen was her?]]") and her second-to-last spell card ([[Embodiment of Scarlet Devil/Spell Cards/Extra#Spell Card 63|Secret Barrage "And Then Will There Be None?"]]) are references to [[wikipedia:Agatha Christie|Agatha Christie]]'s novel ''[[wikipedia:And Then There Were None|And Then There Were None]]''. The plot of the book follows eight people who were invited to a small, isolated island by Ulick Norman Owen and Una Nancy Owen. Shortly after their arrival, a gramophone record is played, accusing each visitor of committing murder and escaping justice. The characters discover that none of them actually knows the Owens, and they conclude that their initials - "U.N. Owen" - are a shorthand for "Unknown". As the novel continues, every character meets their end, with each cause of death reflecting a part of a nursery rhyme. [[ZUN]] referred to this in the title of Flandre's song because she's, essentially, an ''unknown'' being.<ref name="EoSDomake"></ref><br />
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==Flandre's Appearances==<br />
[[File:FSch7-SDMChars.jpg|thumb|right|220px|Flandre shown with [[Remilia Scarlet]] in ''[[Forbidden Scrollery]]'' Chapter 7]]<br />
In [[Embodiment of Scarlet Devil]], Flandre states she hasn't left the [[Scarlet Devil Mansion]] for about 495 years, and has been saying in the basement of the mansion since then. [[Hieda no Akyuu]] theorizes on this in [[Bohemian Archive in Japanese Red]], stating that Flandre is probably a shut-in.<br />
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It seems her confinement in the Scarlet Devil Mansion has given her time to understand every part of it, as she has been seen wandering inside the Mansion by some humans<ref>"Sometimes when I sneak into the Scarlet Devil Mansion like I own it, I run into the little sister. I had to slip by without drawin' her attention, but after goin' through all that to get into the place, I was hopin' I wouldn't run into her." (Marisa Kirisame)</ref> <ref>"I saw her shadow wandering around the mansion while I was at an outdoor party at the Scarlet Devil Mansion. It was truly frightening. I knew it was her just from the silhouette, but she doesn't get to join many parties." (Anonymous)</ref> and even hold an interview with [[Aya Shameimaru]] in the garden<ref>[[Bohemian Archive in Japanese Red/Flandre|Flandre's Interview]]</ref>. In [[Forbidden Scrollery]], Flandre appears watching [[Tupai|the pet of her sister]] along with her.<br />
===Games===<br />
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;''Embodiment of Scarlet Devil''<br />
[[File:Th06FlandreSprite.png|frame|Flandre's sprite in ''EoSD'']]<br />
[[File:Th06RemiliaBatSprite.png|frame|Flandre's bat form sprite in ''EoSD'']]<br />
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After the main events of the game, Flandre makes her way out of the [[Scarlet Devil Mansion]]'s basement while Remilia is off at the [[Hakurei Shrine]]. With no other choice, [[Patchouli]] uses her magic to cause a rainstorm around the mansion so that she wouldn't be able to leave it. Soon enough, the player character makes their way to her.<br />
:{{Main|Embodiment of Scarlet Devil/Story/Reimu's Extra|l1=Reimu Extra Arc}}<br />
When Reimu finds Flandre, she demands an explanation as to why her sister has been bothering her at the shrine. They decide to have a danmaku battle, and Reimu eventually emerges victorious. Flandre appears to calm down afterwards.<br />
:{{Main|Embodiment of Scarlet Devil/Story/Marisa's Extra|l1=Marisa Extra Arc}}<br />
Marisa introduces herself as Reimu, but Flandre sees through the play - apparently she's aware of the magician's identity. After Marisa defeats her, they trade quotes from a [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/And_Then_There_Were_None certain book], adapted to fit their current situation.<br />
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;''Shoot the Bullet''<br />
[[File:Th095FlandreSprite.png|frame|Flandre's sprite in ''StB'']]<br />
[[File:Th095FlandreBatSprite.png|frame|Flandre's bat form sprite in ''StB'']]<br />
In ''[[Shoot the Bullet]]'', [[Aya Shameimaru]] encountered Flandre on the Extra [[stage]] and took photos of her [[danmaku]].<br />
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;''Touhou Gouyoku Ibun''<br />
Flandre Scarlet works under [[Okina Matara]] in an effort to thwart [[Yuuma Toutetsu]]'s plans.<br />
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===Literature===<br />
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;''Bohemian Archive in Japanese Red''<br />
[[File:052BAiJRFlandre.jpg|thumb|150px|right|Flandre destroying a meteor in her article in ''[[Bohemian Archive in Japanese Red]]''.]]<br />
:{{Main|Bohemian Archive in Japanese Red/Flandre}}<br />
In April 2006, [[Aya Shameimaru]] reports on the strange explosion of a meteorite above [[Gensokyo]]. She learns that Flandre was the one who destroyed it, but becomes increasingly confused as Flandre explains she destroyed it by squeezing the eye of the meteorite in her hand. Even more perplexing information is given by Flandre's older sister, [[Remilia Scarlet]]. Apparently, it was planned that the meteorite was supposed to be aimed at the [[Scarlet Devil Mansion]] and that Flandre would destroy it. Inexplicably, Aya ends the article with a report that spring has begun.<br />
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In her follow-up, Aya interviews Flandre about the explosion and Remilia's information. Flandre gives the same explanation for how she destroyed the meteorite, and, when questioned, says that her sister just acts like she knows what's happening. Remilia interrupts (for which Aya is thankful), and confirms that what Flandre said was true, insinuating that Aya just can't understand, while giving strange information about the meteorite's source.<br />
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==Relationships==<br />
Currently there have not been many portrayals of her relations other than to her older sister, but since it has been stated that "she has few friends even among the youkai of the Scarlet Devil Mansion, and spends most of her time in isolation",<ref name="PMiSSFlandre" /> she probably does not have very favourable relations with other residents.<br />
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===Residents of the Scarlet Devil Mansion===<br />
[[File:053BAiJRFlandre.jpg|thumb|200px|Remilia and Flandre, as illustrated in ''[[Bohemian Archive in Japanese Red]]''.]]<br />
[[Remilia Scarlet]] is Flandre's older sister. Flandre is stated to respect her sister and Remilia cares for Flandre as shown where she is considering getting her a good tutor in ''[[Imperishable Night]]'', but it is unknown how often the two interact. ''[[Perfect Memento in Strict Sense]]'' states that it's rare (but not nonexistent) to see Flandre and Remilia together. The only times that they're depicted together is in their cameo in ''[[Forbidden Scrollery]]'' chapter 7 when they were looking at their pet [[Minor Characters#Tupai|Tupai]] and in ''[[Bohemian Archive in Japanese Red]]'', which also shows that Remilia will at least allow [[Aya Shameimaru]] to interview Flandre in the first place.<br />
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The interview shows that although Flandre might respect her older sister, it's to the extent you'd expect a snarky child to. She is willing to outright state when she thinks Remilia is just spouting nonsense, at which point Remilia comes in with a comment that she shouldn't be talking about her older sister like that. Her treatment of her older sister became harsh and she even called Remilia {{nihongo|"that person"|あいつ|aitsu}}<br />
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Not much is known about Flandre's relationships with other residents as she spends most of her time in the basement. Patchouli is aware of Flandre's existence and the need to keep her confined to the mansion, as Remilia noted Patchouli was probably causing a rainstorm around the mansion to keep Flandre from getting out. Presumebly, Sakuya also serves Flandre along with Remilia, but it's not stated, implied, or depicted in any official work. Someone prepares Flandre's food, which are humans prepared in the shape of pastries and other pleasant things, but it is never stated to be Sakuya.<br />
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It's unknown what kind of relationship Flandre has with [[Hong Meiling]], the [[Fairy Maid]]s, the recent [[hobgoblin]]s and [[Koakuma]].<br />
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===Minor Relationships===<br />
;Reimu Hakurei<br />
Though the shrine maiden promises to come play with her every so often during their dialogue in ''[[Embodiment of Scarlet Devil]]'', the two have not been seen together since then, so it is likely she just said that to get her to calm down.<br />
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;Marisa Kirisame<br />
Her conversation with Marisa in ''Embodiment of Scarlet Devil'' leaves an impression that the two are quite friendly. However, Marisa commented, "Sometimes when I sneak into the Scarlet Devil Mansion, I run into the little sister. I had to slip by without drawin' her attention, but after goin' through all that to get into the place, I was hopin' I wouldn't run into her."<ref name="PMiSSFlandre" /><br />
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;[[Okina Matara]]<br />
During the events of [[Touhou Gouyoku Ibun]], Okina Matara manipulated Flandre Scarlet into becoming an [[Assassin|assassin]] to take out [[Yuuma Toutetsu]] and thwart her plans.<br />
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==Gallery==<br />
===Covers===<br />
<gallery><br />
File:Th06cover.jpg|Cover of ''[[Embodiment of Scarlet Devil]]'', featuring Flandre's silhouette<br />
</gallery><br />
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===Artwork===<br />
<gallery><br />
Th06Flandre.png|Flandre in ''[[Embodiment of Scarlet Devil]]''<br />
GIFlanBattle.png|Flandre's pre-battle portrait from ''Touhou Gouyoku Ibun''<br />
</gallery><br />
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===Prints===<br />
<gallery><br />
IoMaIotECh09flan.jpg|Flandre in ''[[Inaba of the Moon and Inaba of the Earth]]''<br />
File:CDS_Flandre_room.png|Flandre's basement room in [[Cheating Detective Satori]]<br />
</gallery><br />
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===Others===<br />
<gallery><br />
File:GoMSigil-Flandre.jpg|Flandre's sigil in ''[[The Grimoire of Marisa]]''<br />
</gallery><br />
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==Spell Cards==<br />
{{hidden begin|title = Spell cards|titlestyle = background:palegreen; text-align:center;}}<br />
{{#lsth:List of Spell Cards/Touhou Project 1|[[Flandre Scarlet]]}}<br />
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==Additional Information==<br />
*A silhouette of Flandre occupies the front of ''[[Embodiment of Scarlet Devil]]'''s jewel case.<br />
*Flandre is one of the few characters to not appear in the background during ''[[Hopeless Masquerade]]'', which would relate to her lack of leaving the [[Scarlet Devil Mansion]].<br />
*Assuming her birth year by calculating backwards in the [[Gensokyo Timeline]], Flandre was born around 1508 A.D. The canonicity of this assumption is unknown, however.<br />
*The spell card reference ("And Then Will There Be None?") to an Agatha Christie novel is definite. It's more speculative but still worth noting that the science-fiction genre saw Philip K. Dick write a novel called "Counter-Clock World" in 1967 and Frederik Pohl write "The Gold at the Starbow's End" in 1972.<br />
*On one end of the Lævateinn that Flandre is seen holding in ''[[Shoot the Bullet]]'' is very different compared to the Lævateinn that Flandre is seen holding in ''Embodiment of Scarlet Devil''.<br />
*She used the phrase "that means, you can't use a continue!" to [[Marisa Kirisame]], which was breaking the [[Canon#Fourth Wall|fourth wall]].<br />
*In the Second Touhou Saimoe Tournament, the 8th game of the first round was a battle between Flandre and [[Suika Ibuki]].<ref>[http://tuguna.info/toho/saimoe2.htm Watch report] of the Second Touhou Saimoe Tournament.</ref> Although the battle ended with Flan winning, this led to [[ZUN]] posting a rough drawing of Suika that hadn't been open to the public with a message saying "don't get defeated by a little sister that hasn't even reached the age of 500!"<ref name="ThShofu14">[[ZUN's former blog "Touhou Shofu" 14]]</ref>.<br />
*The "crystals" on her wings look somewhat similar to the crystals shown on [[Patchouli Knowledge]]'s spell card, ''[[Immaterial and Missing Power/Spell Cards/Patchouli Knowledge#Spell Card 6|Fire Water Wood Metal Earth Sign "Philosopher's Stone"]]''.<br />
*Strangely, if one uses a bomb against her in ''Embodiment of Scarlet Devil'''s Extra, she's shown to have normal wings in bat form.<br />
*It's hard to notice, but Flandre's skirt has two white ribbons on her EoSD portrait<ref>https://nrr08.com/f_scarlet.html</ref>.<br />
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==Fandom==<br />
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Flandre has not made many appearances in the series, but maybe because of her personality and the way she looks and acts, she's become a very popular character. One reason would be because of her theme music ("U.N.Owen was her?"). It is particularly famous, and is often used in MAD videos, and for a time introduced many as "newcomers hoihoi" on Nico Nico to Touhou. Furthermore, the arrangement "{{lang|ja|最終鬼畜妹フランドール・S}}" ("Final Savage Sister, Flandre S.")<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.nicovideo.jp/watch/sm1849248|title={{lang|ja|【東方】最終鬼畜妹フランドール・S【U.N.オーエンは彼女なのか?】}}|date=23 December 2007|access-date=26 October 2021}}</ref> in the album ''[[東方ストライク|Touhou Strike]]'' by [[COOL&CREATE]] seems to have been mistaken by many to have been the original music.<br />
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==Official Profiles==<br />
{{hidden begin|title = [[Embodiment of Scarlet Devil]] - おまけ.txt|titlestyle = background:lightblue; text-align:center}}<br />
{{Profile Quote<br />
| image = [[File:Th06Flandre.png|Flandre Scarlet]]<br />
| text =○悪魔の妹<br /><br />
フランドール・スカーレット<br />
<br />
能力:ありとあらゆるものを破壊する程度の能力<br />
<br />
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エキストラボスです。お嬢様の妹です。<br />
<br />
吸血鬼にして魔法少女で、495年程、悪魔の妹をしています。少々気がふれていて、通常は表に出してももらえません。出ようともしません。<br />
<br />
レミリアをお姉様と慕うも、その歯止めの効かない破壊力は、遥かにお姉様を凌ぎます。普段はあまり怒ったりしないのですが、常におかしいので他人には良く分かりません。<br />
<br />
通常、吸血鬼は食事をするために、人間を殺さない程度にしか襲いませんが、フランドールは与えられたものしか食べたことが無いため、人間の襲い方を知りません。そのため手加減が出来なく、一滴の血の残さず吹き飛ばしてしまいます。<br />
<br />
もしかしたら、いつも自分が食べているものが動いている人間と一致しないのかも知れません。<br /><br />
毎日食べているものが、見た目ケーキになってたり、紅茶になっていたりしたのですから...<br />
<br />
カードアタック 全10種<br />
| translation = '''Sister of the Devil'''<br /><br />
'''Flandre Scarlet'''<br />
<br />
Ability: Destroying absolutely anything<br />
<br />
<br />
The Extra Boss. Also the Mistress's younger sister.<br />
<br />
She is a vampiric magical girl and has been the Scarlet Devil's younger sister for about 495 years. She cannot control herself, so generally she isn't let outside. She also doesn't try going out.<br />
<br />
She idolizes her older sister [[Remilia Scarlet|Remilia]], but her destructive power unconstrained far exceeds that of her sister's. Although she doesn't often get angry or anything, she's always peculiar, which makes it difficult for others to understand her.<br />
<br />
Generally, [[vampire]]s always attack [[human]]s without killing them in order to feed, but Flandre has only ever eaten food that has been served to her, so she doesn't know how to properly attack a human. Because of this, she can't limit herself and ends up blowing them away without leaving a drop of blood.<br />
<br />
Speaking of which, she doesn't even know that what she always eats were once living humans. Her daily meals are made to look like foodstuffs such as cake and tea, after all...<br />
<br />
Total of ten card attacks.<br />
}}<br />
{{hidden end}}<br />
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==Official Sources==<br />
{{hidden begin|title = Official sources|titlestyle = background:pink; text-align:center;}}<br />
*2003/08/11 '''[[Embodiment of Scarlet Devil]]''' – Extra Stage dialogue; afterword.txt (official profile)<br />
*2004/08/15 '''[[Imperishable Night]]''' – Referenced by Remilia in Stage 3<br />
*2005/08/11 '''[[Bohemian Archive in Japanese Red]]''' – [[Bohemian Archive in Japanese Red/Flandre|Article and Interview: Flandre]]<br />
*2005/12/27 '''[[Shoot the Bullet]]''' – [[Shoot the Bullet/Spell Cards/Level Ex|EX Stage spell card comments]]<br />
*2006/12/27 '''[[Perfect Memento in Strict Sense]]''' – [[Perfect Memento in Strict Sense/Flandre Scarlet|Sister of the Devil: Flandre Scarlet]]<br />
*2008/02/22 '''[[Inaba of the Moon and Inaba of the Earth]]''' – Chapter 9<br />
*2009/07/28 '''[[The Grimoire of Marisa]]''' – [[The Grimoire of Marisa/Flandre Scarlet's Spell Cards|Flandre Scarlet's spell cards]]<br />
*2013/03/16–2014/02/20 '''[[Forbidden Scrollery]]''' – Chapter 2 and 7<br />
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<div>{{Infobox Character<br />
| nameJp = {{ruby-ja|姫虫|ひめむし}} {{ruby-ja|百々世|ももよ}}<br />
| nameEn = Momoyo Himemushi<br />
| nameIPA =<br />
| nameAlt =<br />
| image = [[File:Th18Himemushi.png|x300px|Momoyo Himemushi]]<br />
| caption = Momoyo Himemushi in [[Unconnected Marketeers]]<br />
| chartitle = {{H:title|Onyx Dragon-Eater|黒きドラゴンイーター}}<br />
| species = Oomukade<br />
| abilities = Capable of eating dragons<br />
| occupation = <br />
| location = <br />
| MusicThemes = {{H:title|{{lang|ja|龍王殺しのプリンセス}}|The Princess Who Slays Dragon Kings}} (''[[Unconnected Marketeers]]'') <br />
| appOfficialgames = *''[[Unconnected Marketeers]]'' (Extra Stage Boss)<br />
| appMusicCDs = <br />
| appPrintworks =<br />
| appMiscworks = <br />
| appOther = <br />
}}<br />
{{nihongo|'''Momoyo Himemushi'''|姫虫 百々世|Himemushi Momoyo}} is an ''oomukade'', a giant centipede-like youkai purportedly powerful enough to eat dragons. Her first appearance was in [[Unconnected Marketeers]] as the Extra Stage [[Boss|boss]].<br />
==General Information==<br />
===Personality===<br />
In ''Unconnected Marketeers'', Momoyo talks in a very direct, casual, and somewhat masculine way, wasting no time with formalities or pleasantries. She seems somewhat gullible, but perhaps it boils down to less of a concern with "truth" as it is with doing her job and demonstrating her immense power to others. Despite that, she does care about fairness to some degree, as seen in [[Marisa Kirisame]]'s route in the game where she agrees to give Marisa some of the gems found in the ''Rainbow Dragon Cave'' if Marisa won their duel, and honouring that agreement when Marisa wins. She seems to enjoy duelling and fighting in general, valuing strength in others above all else, as seen when she compliments the protagonist on her fighting ability after their duel, and invites the protagonist to a rematch someday in the future.<br />
<br />
===Abilities===<br />
;General<br />
In the foothills, ''oomukade'' (lit. giant centipede) are feared as the most powerful of the dragon-slaying youkai, and even dragons themselves don't dare approach them. It's unknown if their reputation extends outside that specific area. They wield great power tempered by the negative aura cast upon them, and Momoyo herself possesses enormous magical power. Legends about her might are also fueled by the fact that almost no one approaches her at all.<ref name="momoyo profile">[[Unconnected Marketeers]] - Momoyo's profile </ref><br />
<br />
;Eating dragons<br />
Momoyo's stated ability. It's unknown if she can actually eat dragons.<ref name="momoyo profile" /><br />
<br />
==Background Information==<br />
===Origin===<br />
Momoyo might be based on the oomukade from [[Wikipedia:Tawara Tōda Monogatari|The Tale of Tawara Toda]], as that monster was also known to eat dragons.<br />
<br />
Centipedes were also associated with wealth, especially precious ores, and in that capacity were sometimes viewed as messengers of Bishamonten.<br />
<br />
===Name===<br />
Her surname, ''Himemushi'' (姫虫), contains the kanji for ''princess'' (姫 ''hime'') and ''insect'' (虫 ''mushi''), as if to signify "insect royalty." Given her stated powers as being potentially more powerful than dragons, it may indicate a sense of power, although it seems unlikely she is considered true royalty. This name is also a reversal of another popular shoot-'em-up game, Mushihime-sama (虫姫さま), and may serve as a reference to it.<br />
<br />
Her given name, ''Momoyo'' (百々世), means "eternity" or "long era." The 百 ("hundred") in her name is likely derived from 百足 ''mukade'' ("centipede").<br />
<br />
===Design===<br />
In ''Unconnected Marketeers'', Momoyo wears a black shirt and black skirt with yellow highlights. Throughout her outfit are bright green chain-links running along the edges of the fabric and being worn as a belt. She has bows wrapped around her arms and legs, and a larger one on her back, perhaps signifying the segmented body of a [[Wikipedia:centipede|centipede]], which ''oomukade'' are based on. She carries a brass-coloured shovel and pickax, presumably as tools for her job mining the ''Rainbow Dragon Cave''.<br />
<br />
==Relationships==<br />
;[[Megumu Iizunamaru]]<br />
Momoyo works with her, and unlike Megumu's hostile relationship with Chimata Tenkyuu, the two are friends. Momoyo values the Tengu because she dared to face her, while most hide from Oomukade like her, and also because Megumu is a natural fighter.<br />
<br />
;[[Tsukasa Kudamaki]]<br />
As Megumu Iizunamaru's (supposed) subordinate, they know each other. Tsukasa manipulates Momoyo like everyone else, so she triggers the fight against Momoyo and the protagonist in the extra stage. Momoyo, in turn, threatens Tsukasa and blackmails her to keep silent about the fact that she is leaving treasures to [[Marisa Kirisame]] for her victory.<br />
<br />
;[[Misumaru Tamatsukuri]]<br />
Misumaru Tamatsukuri, who is very reluctant to mine the Youkai Mountain and dig for dragon stones, instructs the protagonist to stop Momoyo. Misumaru's attempt to negotiate with Momoyo is thwarted by Tsukasa Kudamaki.<br />
<br />
==Story==<br />
===Games===<br />
;''Unconnected Marketeers''<br />
Momoyo appears as the Extra boss of the game. The player enters the Rainbow Dragon Cave and after defeating Tsukasa gets spotted by Momoyo, who thinks [[Misumaru]] and the player are the thieves [[Tsukasa]] mentioned, and attacks the player. After getting defeated, Momoyo comments she was pleased to fight someone so strong, and invites the player to a rematch in the future.<br />
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==Spell Cards==<br />
{{hidden begin|title = Spell Cards|titlestyle = background:palegreen; text-align:center;}}<br />
{{#lsth:List of Spell Cards/Touhou Project 3|[[Momoyo Himemushi]]}}<br />
{{hidden end}}<br />
<br />
==Additional Information==<br />
* Momoyo is currently the only character in the series to use ''ore'' (俺) to refer to herself. It is generally considered a very informal masculine-sounding pronoun.<br />
* Assuming that Momoyo ''is'' the Great Centipede from ''The Tale of Tawara Toda'', she was once killed by [[Wikipedia:Fujiwara no Hidesato|Fujiwara no Hidesato]], who was [[Fujiwara no Mokou|Fujiwara no Mokou's]] great-great-great-great nephew.<br />
<br />
==Fandom==<br />
{{main|Fandom/Unconnected Marketeers#Momoyo Himemushi|l1=Fandom: Momoyo Himemushi}}<br />
<br />
==Official Profiles==<br />
{{hidden begin|title = [[Unconnected Marketeers]] - omake.txt|titlestyle = background:lightblue; text-align:center}}<br />
{{Profile Quote<br />
| image =[[File:Th18Himemushi.png|200px|Momoyo Himemushi]]<br />
| text = ○エキストラボス<br><br />
黒きドラゴンイーター<br><br />
<br />
姫虫 百々世 (ひめむし ももよ)<br><br />
Himemushi Momoyo<br />
<br />
<br />
種族:大蜈蚣<br><br />
能力:龍を食べる程度の能力<br><br />
<br />
大蜈蚣(オオムカデ)<br><br />
醜悪なフォルム、不快な毒、何かと嫌われ者の妖怪である。<br><br />
強大な存在である龍ですら近づかない。麓では龍殺しの最強の妖怪だと恐れられている。<br><br />
<br />
浴びせられる負のオーラから錬成した魔力は膨大であり、彼女は強力な魔力を持っている。<br><br />
そもそも近づこうとする者も少なく、それも彼女の最強伝説に拍車を掛けている。<br><br />
<br />
本当のところ、龍を食べられるのかどうか誰も知らない。<br><br />
<br />
<br />
だが虹龍洞で、龍の持ち物だと言われている『龍珠』を漁っていたのは本当だ。<br><br />
彼女が洞窟から龍珠を掘り出したところ、自分に会う事を厭わない親友の大天狗、<br><br />
飯綱丸からビジネスの話を持ちかけられた。<br><br />
<br />
百々世は、山を削り虹龍洞を掘る役を引き受けた。報酬は龍珠である。<br><br />
親友である大天狗、龍(めぐむ)を食べる代わりとして、龍珠は十分だった。<br><br />
<br />
<br />
毎日せっせと龍珠を掘り出していたところ、ついに盗掘者が現れたと聞かされた。<br><br />
もちろん、彼女は喜んだ。<br><br />
<br />
『もう龍珠は食い飽きた。<br><br />
盗掘者なんて、最高のデザートだぜ!』<br />
| translation = Extra Stage Boss<br><br />
Onyx Dragon-Eater<br><br><br />
<br />
Momoyo Himemushi<br><br><br />
<br />
Species: Oomukade<br><br />
Ability: Capable of eating dragons<br><br><br />
<br />
The giant centipede.<br><br />
A youkai that's despised for various reasons, such as its grotesque form and unpleasant toxins.<br><br />
Even massive dragons don't dare approach them. In the foothills, they're feared as the most powerful of the dragon-slaying youkai.<br><br><br />
<br />
They hold gigantic magic power tempered by the aura of negativity cast upon them, and her magic is particularly strong.<br><br />
Hardly anyone tries to approach her in the first place, which likewise adds fuel to her legends of supreme might.<br><br><br />
<br />
To be completely honest, nobody knows whether she can actually eat a dragon or not.<br><br><br />
<br />
But it's true that she was fishing around in the Rainbow Dragon Cave for "dragon gems," which are said to be held by dragons.<br><br />
As she began excavating dragon gems from the caves, she was approached with a business proposal by her friend [[Megumu Iizunamaru|Iizunamaru]],<br><br />
a Great Tengu who didn't mind meeting her in person.<br><br><br />
<br />
Momoyo accepted the job of excavator, carving out the mountain to mine the Rainbow Dragon Cave. Her payment was in dragon gems.<br><br />
The dragon gems were a good enough substitute for eating her Great Tengu friend, Megumu (whose name is written as 'dragon').<br><br><br />
<br />
As she was diligently digging up dragon gems every day, she was told that a looter had finally arrived in the mine.<br><br />
She was thrilled, of course.<br><br><br />
<br />
"I'm sick of eatin' dragon gems by now.<br><br />
A mine looter will make for the best dessert around!"<br />
}}<br />
{{hidden end}}<br />
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==Official Sources==<br />
* 2021/05/04 '''[[Unconnected Marketeers]]''' - omake.txt (profile, Extra Stage dialogue)<br />
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<div>{{Infobox Character<br />
| nameJp = {{ruby-ja|姫虫|ひめむし}} {{ruby-ja|百々世|ももよ}}<br />
| nameEn = Momoyo Himemushi<br />
| nameIPA =<br />
| nameAlt =<br />
| image = [[File:Th18Himemushi.png|x300px|Momoyo Himemushi]]<br />
| caption = Momoyo Himemushi in [[Unconnected Marketeers]]<br />
| chartitle = {{H:title|Onyx Dragon-Eater|黒きドラゴンイーター}}<br />
| species = Oomukade<br />
| abilities = Capable of eating dragons<br />
| occupation = <br />
| location = <br />
| MusicThemes = {{H:title|{{lang|ja|龍王殺しのプリンセス}}|The Princess Who Slays Dragon Kings}} (''[[Unconnected Marketeers]]'') <br />
| appOfficialgames = *''[[Unconnected Marketeers]]'' (Extra Stage Boss)<br />
| appMusicCDs = <br />
| appPrintworks =<br />
| appMiscworks = <br />
| appOther = <br />
}}<br />
{{nihongo|'''Momoyo Himemushi'''|姫虫 百々世|Himemushi Momoyo}} is an *oomukade*, a giant centipede-like youkai purportedly powerful enough to eat dragons. Her first appearance was in [[Unconnected Marketeers]] as the Extra Stage [[Boss|boss]].<br />
==General Information==<br />
===Personality===<br />
In ''Unconnected Marketeers'', Momoyo talks in a very direct, casual, and somewhat masculine way, wasting no time with formalities or pleasantries. She seems somewhat gullible, but perhaps it boils down to less of a concern with "truth" as it is with doing her job and demonstrating her immense power to others. Despite that, she does care about fairness to some degree, as seen in [[Marisa Kirisame]]'s route in the game where she agrees to give Marisa some of the gems found in the ''Rainbow Dragon Cave'' if Marisa won their duel, and honouring that agreement when Marisa wins. She seems to enjoy duelling and fighting in general, valuing strength in others above all else, as seen when she compliments the protagonist on her fighting ability after their duel, and invites the protagonist to a rematch someday in the future.<br />
<br />
===Abilities===<br />
;General<br />
In the foothills, ''oomukade'' (lit. giant centipede) are feared as the most powerful of the dragon-slaying youkai, and even dragons themselves don't dare approach them. It's unknown if their reputation extends outside that specific area. They wield great power tempered by the negative aura cast upon them, and Momoyo herself possesses enormous magical power. Legends about her might are also fueled by the fact that almost no one approaches her at all.<ref name="momoyo profile">[[Unconnected Marketeers]] - Momoyo's profile </ref><br />
<br />
;Eating dragons<br />
Momoyo's stated ability. It's unknown if she can actually eat dragons.<ref name="momoyo profile" /><br />
<br />
==Background Information==<br />
===Origin===<br />
Momoyo might be based on the oomukade from [[Wikipedia:Tawara Tōda Monogatari|The Tale of Tawara Toda]], as that monster was also known to eat dragons.<br />
<br />
Centipedes were also associated with wealth, especially precious ores, and in that capacity were sometimes viewed as messengers of Bishamonten.<br />
<br />
===Name===<br />
Her surname, ''Himemushi'' (姫虫), contains the kanji for ''princess'' (姫 ''hime'') and ''insect'' (虫 ''mushi''), as if to signify "insect royalty." Given her stated powers as being potentially more powerful than dragons, it may indicate a sense of power, although it seems unlikely she is considered true royalty. This name is also a reversal of another popular shoot-'em-up game, Mushihime-sama (虫姫さま), and may serve as a reference to it.<br />
<br />
Her given name, ''Momoyo'' (百々世), means "eternity" or "long era." The 百 ("hundred") in her name is likely derived from 百足 ''mukade'' ("centipede").<br />
<br />
===Design===<br />
In ''Unconnected Marketeers'', Momoyo wears a black shirt and black skirt with yellow highlights. Throughout her outfit are bright green chain-links running along the edges of the fabric and being worn as a belt. She has bows wrapped around her arms and legs, and a larger one on her back, perhaps signifying the segmented body of a [[Wikipedia:centipede|centipede]], which ''oomukade'' are based on. She carries a brass-coloured shovel and pickax, presumably as tools for her job mining the ''Rainbow Dragon Cave''.<br />
<br />
==Relationships==<br />
;[[Megumu Iizunamaru]]<br />
Momoyo works with her, and unlike Megumu's hostile relationship with Chimata Tenkyuu, the two are friends. Momoyo values the Tengu because she dared to face her, while most hide from Oomukade like her, and also because Megumu is a natural fighter.<br />
<br />
;[[Tsukasa Kudamaki]]<br />
As Megumu Iizunamaru's (supposed) subordinate, they know each other. Tsukasa manipulates Momoyo like everyone else, so she triggers the fight against Momoyo and the protagonist in the extra stage. Momoyo, in turn, threatens Tsukasa and blackmails her to keep silent about the fact that she is leaving treasures to [[Marisa Kirisame]] for her victory.<br />
<br />
;[[Misumaru Tamatsukuri]]<br />
Misumaru Tamatsukuri, who is very reluctant to mine the Youkai Mountain and dig for dragon stones, instructs the protagonist to stop Momoyo. Misumaru's attempt to negotiate with Momoyo is thwarted by Tsukasa Kudamaki.<br />
<br />
==Story==<br />
===Games===<br />
;''Unconnected Marketeers''<br />
Momoyo appears as the Extra boss of the game. The player enters the Rainbow Dragon Cave and after defeating Tsukasa gets spotted by Momoyo, who thinks [[Misumaru]] and the player are the thieves [[Tsukasa]] mentioned, and attacks the player. After getting defeated, Momoyo comments she was pleased to fight someone so strong, and invites the player to a rematch in the future.<br />
<br />
==Spell Cards==<br />
{{hidden begin|title = Spell Cards|titlestyle = background:palegreen; text-align:center;}}<br />
{{#lsth:List of Spell Cards/Touhou Project 3|[[Momoyo Himemushi]]}}<br />
{{hidden end}}<br />
<br />
==Additional Information==<br />
* Momoyo is currently the only character in the series to use ''ore'' (俺) to refer to herself. It is generally considered a very informal masculine-sounding pronoun.<br />
* Assuming that Momoyo ''is'' the Great Centipede from ''The Tale of Tawara Toda'', she was once killed by [[Wikipedia:Fujiwara no Hidesato|Fujiwara no Hidesato]], who was [[Fujiwara no Mokou|Fujiwara no Mokou's]] great-great-great-great nephew.<br />
<br />
==Fandom==<br />
{{main|Fandom/Unconnected Marketeers#Momoyo Himemushi|l1=Fandom: Momoyo Himemushi}}<br />
<br />
==Official Profiles==<br />
{{hidden begin|title = [[Unconnected Marketeers]] - omake.txt|titlestyle = background:lightblue; text-align:center}}<br />
{{Profile Quote<br />
| image =[[File:Th18Himemushi.png|200px|Momoyo Himemushi]]<br />
| text = ○エキストラボス<br><br />
黒きドラゴンイーター<br><br />
<br />
姫虫 百々世 (ひめむし ももよ)<br><br />
Himemushi Momoyo<br />
<br />
<br />
種族:大蜈蚣<br><br />
能力:龍を食べる程度の能力<br><br />
<br />
大蜈蚣(オオムカデ)<br><br />
醜悪なフォルム、不快な毒、何かと嫌われ者の妖怪である。<br><br />
強大な存在である龍ですら近づかない。麓では龍殺しの最強の妖怪だと恐れられている。<br><br />
<br />
浴びせられる負のオーラから錬成した魔力は膨大であり、彼女は強力な魔力を持っている。<br><br />
そもそも近づこうとする者も少なく、それも彼女の最強伝説に拍車を掛けている。<br><br />
<br />
本当のところ、龍を食べられるのかどうか誰も知らない。<br><br />
<br />
<br />
だが虹龍洞で、龍の持ち物だと言われている『龍珠』を漁っていたのは本当だ。<br><br />
彼女が洞窟から龍珠を掘り出したところ、自分に会う事を厭わない親友の大天狗、<br><br />
飯綱丸からビジネスの話を持ちかけられた。<br><br />
<br />
百々世は、山を削り虹龍洞を掘る役を引き受けた。報酬は龍珠である。<br><br />
親友である大天狗、龍(めぐむ)を食べる代わりとして、龍珠は十分だった。<br><br />
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毎日せっせと龍珠を掘り出していたところ、ついに盗掘者が現れたと聞かされた。<br><br />
もちろん、彼女は喜んだ。<br><br />
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『もう龍珠は食い飽きた。<br><br />
盗掘者なんて、最高のデザートだぜ!』<br />
| translation = Extra Stage Boss<br><br />
Onyx Dragon-Eater<br><br><br />
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Momoyo Himemushi<br><br><br />
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Species: Oomukade<br><br />
Ability: Capable of eating dragons<br><br><br />
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The giant centipede.<br><br />
A youkai that's despised for various reasons, such as its grotesque form and unpleasant toxins.<br><br />
Even massive dragons don't dare approach them. In the foothills, they're feared as the most powerful of the dragon-slaying youkai.<br><br><br />
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They hold gigantic magic power tempered by the aura of negativity cast upon them, and her magic is particularly strong.<br><br />
Hardly anyone tries to approach her in the first place, which likewise adds fuel to her legends of supreme might.<br><br><br />
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To be completely honest, nobody knows whether she can actually eat a dragon or not.<br><br><br />
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But it's true that she was fishing around in the Rainbow Dragon Cave for "dragon gems," which are said to be held by dragons.<br><br />
As she began excavating dragon gems from the caves, she was approached with a business proposal by her friend [[Megumu Iizunamaru|Iizunamaru]],<br><br />
a Great Tengu who didn't mind meeting her in person.<br><br><br />
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Momoyo accepted the job of excavator, carving out the mountain to mine the Rainbow Dragon Cave. Her payment was in dragon gems.<br><br />
The dragon gems were a good enough substitute for eating her Great Tengu friend, Megumu (whose name is written as 'dragon').<br><br><br />
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As she was diligently digging up dragon gems every day, she was told that a looter had finally arrived in the mine.<br><br />
She was thrilled, of course.<br><br><br />
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"I'm sick of eatin' dragon gems by now.<br><br />
A mine looter will make for the best dessert around!"<br />
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| title ={{ruby-ja|東方文果真報|とうほぶんかしんぽう}}<br />''Alternative Facts in Eastern Utopia''<br />
| image = [[File:AFiEUcover.jpg|250px|Alternative Facts in Eastern Utopia]]<br />
| developer =Team Shanghai Alice<br />
| publisher =Kadokawa<br />
| released =2017-03-30<br />
| genre =Official Book<br />
| writers =[[ZUN]]<br />
| illustrators =[[Aoi Aioi]]<br />[[Genji Asai]]<br />[[Aya Azuma]]<br />[[Toshihira Arata]]<br />[[ALISON]]<br />[[Amamiya Tokuhisa]]<br />[[Suichuu Hanabi]]<br />[[TOKIAME]]<br />[[nyanya]]<br />[[Haniwa]]<br />[[Hiiragi Akio]]<br />[[Hitori]]<br />[[Masakichi]]<br />[[Mizutaki]]<br />
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| ISBN = 9784048928625<br />
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{{thtitle|Touhou |Bunka Shinpou|ruby=Word's End True Report|&nbsp;~ Alternative Facts in Eastern Utopia|東方文果真報 ~ Alternative Facts in Eastern Utopia}} is an official Touhou book released on March 30, 2017. It is presented as [[Aya Shameimaru]]'s attempt to create a tabloid magazine in the style of those from the [[Outside World]],<ref>''[[Curiosities of Lotus Asia]]'' - [[Curiosities of Lotus Asia/Chapter 30|Chapter 30]]</ref> which she eventually cancelled and left unpublished.<ref>''[[Forbidden Scrollery]]'' - Chapter 49</ref> The book features in-universe articles, interviews and advertisements similar to the earlier ''[[Bohemian Archive in Japanese Red]]'', but in a significantly more chaotic and haphazard format. In fact, the magazine ''Bunbunharu Weekly'' or "{{nihongo|文々春新報|Bunbunharu Shinpou|lit. "Aya's Periodical News Report"}} follows the name and design of {{nihongo|週刊文春|Shuukan Bunshun|lit. "Weekly Magazine of Literature Periodical"}}, a notorious high-circulation tabloid published weekly in Japan.<br />
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==Plot==<br />
[[Aya Shameimaru]], a [[tengu]] reporter, decides to change her reporting style to more closely match examples of [[Wikipedia:Clickbait|clickbait]] magazines from the [[Outside World]] in an attempt to further her publication's appeal. To that end, she imports the topical rhetoric of the [[Wikipedia:2016_United_States_presidential_election|2016 United States Presidential Election]], and other hot-button political, social, and "[[Wikipedia:moral panic|moral panic]]" issues into her newspaper.<ref>[[Alternative Facts in Eastern Utopia]] - [[Alternative_Facts_in_Eastern_Utopia/Afterword|ZUN's Afterword]]</ref> Additionally, there are several advertisements for local businesses present within the newspaper, such as [[Kourindou]] and the [[Marisa_Kirisame#Occupation|Kirisame Magic Shop]].<br />
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In keeping with the 'tabloid' theme, she relies heavily on [[Wikipedia:loaded_questions|loaded questions]] to manufacture a narrative that [[Gensokyo]] is at risk of invasion from "foreign threats", going so far as to imply [[Yukari Yakumo]] and [[Reimu Hakurei]] are collaborators with these alleged conspiring outsiders, such as [[Clownpiece]] and [[Sumireko Usami]], as well as painting "immigrants" such as the residents of [[Eientei]] as "foreign drug dealers."<ref>''[[Alternative Facts in Eastern Utopia]]'' - [[Alternative_Facts_in_Eastern_Utopia/Article_and_Interview/Reisen_Udongein_Inaba#Article_2|Reisen Udongein Inaba Article]]</ref> Despite Aya's determination to steer various conversations to that end, neither Reimu nor Yukari appear concerned about the new "immigrants", with Reimu rejecting the idea that she "defends" the [[Hakurei Barrier]] from outsiders,<ref>''[[Alternative Facts in Eastern Utopia]]'' - [[Alternative_Facts_in_Eastern_Utopia/Article_and_Interview/Sumireko_Usami|Sumireko Usami's Interview]]</ref> and Yukari stating that Gensokyo is "accepting of everyone."<ref>''[[Alternative Facts in Eastern Utopia]]'' - [[Alternative_Facts_in_Eastern_Utopia/Article_and_Interview/Yukari_Yakumo|Yukari Yakumo's Interview]]</ref><br />
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During a particularly in-depth and intense conversation with [[Hecatia Lapislazuli]], in which the Goddess harshly chides Aya for her [[Wikipedia:Yellow_journalism|yellow journalism]], Hecatia warns Aya that [[Wikipedia:Isolationism|isolationism]] would result in the stagnation and eventual decay of Gensokyo, comparing such an ideology to one held by the antagonistic and elitist [[Lunar Kingdom]]. Hecatia also suggests that the surge in isolationist attitudes that might result from Aya's publication would be advantageous to the [[Lunarians]] by limiting Gensokyo's cultural evolution. This interview in particular seems to convince Aya to ultimately not publish the current iteration of ''Bunbunharu Shinpou'', becoming similarly concerned about aiding the Lunarians.<ref>''[[Alternative Facts in Eastern Utopia]]'' - [[Alternative Facts in Eastern Utopia/Article and Interview/Clownpiece and Hecatia Lapislazuli|Hecatia Lapislazuli's Interview]]</ref><br />
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In a journal-style afterword, Aya explains the rationale for many of her loaded questions and outright fabrications, viewing it as a way to make her publication "more exciting and attractive" for potential readers rather than being a true believer of any specific ideology herself. Additionally, she felt pressure to compete with [[Hatate Himekaidou]]'s ''Kakashi Spirit News'' publication, or face irrelevance in Gensokyo's sphere of journalism.<br />
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==Press==<br />
Details regarding the book, including its release date, were announced in the 3rd volume of [[Strange Creators of Outer World]]. Preorders opened shortly after. <br />
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==Read online (complete)==<br />
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==Contents==<br />
*pg. 1: [[/Memo|Memo]]<br />
*pg. 3: [[/Foreword|Foreword]]<br />
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===Bunbunharu Weekly===<br />
*pg. 5: Cover<br />
*pg. 7-9: [[/Article and Interview/Sumireko Usami#Article|Article: Sumireko Usami (with Kasen Ibaraki)]] &mdash; A female student who can cross over the barrier!<br />
*pg. 10-11: [[/Article and Interview/Prismriver Sisters and Raiko Horikawa#Article_1|Article: Prismriver Sisters 1]] &mdash; The Prismriver Ensemble's break-up!<br />
*pg. 12-13: [[/Article and Interview/Clownpiece and Hecatia Lapislazuli#Article|Article: Clownpiece and Hecatia Lapislazuli]] &mdash; A shocking photo of the invaders' secret talk!<br />
*pg. 14-15: [[/Article and Interview/Hatate Himekaidou#Article_1|Article: Hatate Himekaidou 1 (about Sumireko Usami)]] &mdash; More fake news from Kakashi Spirit News!<br />
*pg. 16: [[/Article and Interview/Shinmyoumaru Sukuna#Article_1|Article: Shinmyoumaru Sukuna 1]] &mdash; A Small Challenger to White-Water Rafting!<br />
*pg. 17: [[/Index|Index]]<br />
*pg. 18-21: [[/Article and Interview/Yukari Yakumo|Article: Yukari Yakumo]] &mdash; Gensokyo's crisis was calculated!?<br />
*pg. 22-25: [[/Article and Interview/Reimu Hakurei|Article: Reimu Hakurei]] &mdash; The Hakurei Shrine: Ally to the Outside World<ref>On the book, the number of page is misprinted as it starts from pg. 20.</ref><br />
*pg. 26-27: [[/Article and Interview/Rinnosuke Morichika|Article: Rinnosuke Morichika]] &mdash; Kourindou's Junk Restocked<br />
*pg. 28-29: [[/Article and Interview/Tsukumo Sisters|Article: Tsukumo Sisters]] &mdash; The Birth of Future Stars! The healing "Two Girls Band"<br />
*pg. 30-31: [[/Article and Interview/Dangerous Things#Front_Pages|Dangerous Things]] &mdash; DANGEROUS Things Keep Eating Away at Gensokyo!<br />
**pg. 32-33: [[/Article and Interview/Dangerous Things#Article_1|Article: Eirin Yagokoro]] &mdash; The inconvenient “true effects” of overly effective medicine<br />
**pg. 34-35: [[/Article and Interview/Dangerous Things#Article_2|Article: Nitori Kawashiro]] &mdash; "Kappa-Approved Hydrogenous Spring Water” and the Maximum Danger that Lurks Within!<br />
*pg. 36-37: [[/Article and Interview/Sekibanki|Article: Sekibanki]] &mdash; Stange "Smartphone Neck" Disease in Gensokyo!<br />
* Exclusive Bamboo Forest Scoops<br />
**pg. 38-39: [[/Article and Interview/Reisen Udongein Inaba#Article_1|Article: Reisen Udongein Inaba 1]] &mdash; The dangerous "addictiveness" of the moon's dango and their terrifying "side effects"!"<ref>On the book, the number of page is misprinted as it starts from pg. 36.</ref><br />
**pg. 40-41: [[/Article and Interview/Reisen Udongein Inaba#Article_2|Article: Reisen Udongein Inaba 2 (with Tewi Inaba)]] &mdash; Drug seller turns out to be an immigrant!<br />
*pg. 42-43: [[/Article and Interview/Aya Shameimaru|Article: Aya Shameimaru]] &mdash; “Bunbunmaru News” is HOT!<br />
*pg. 44-45: [[/Article and Interview/Toyosatomimi no Miko#Article_1|Article: Toyosatomimi no Miko 1 (with Yoshika Miyako, Soga no Tojiko, and Mononobe no Futo)]] &mdash; Is she President of the Human Village!?<br />
*pg. 46-47: [[/Article and Interview/Toyosatomimi no Miko#Article 2|Article: Toyosatomimi no Miko 2 (with Byakuren Hijiri, Seiga Kaku, and Hata no Kokoro)]] &mdash; "MAKE HUMANS GREAT AGAIN!"<br />
*pg. 48-49: [[/Article and Interview/Various Youkai|Article: Various Youkai]] &mdash; A serious food supply issue is inevitable<br />
*pg. 50-51: [[/Article and Interview/Prismriver Sisters and Raiko Horikawa#Article_2|Article: Prismriver Sisters 2 (featuring Raiko Horikawa)]] &mdash; From break-up to reformation in just three days<br />
*pg. 52: [[/Article and Interview/Prismriver Sisters and Raiko Horikawa#Interview|Interview: Raiko Horikawa]] &mdash; Becoming the Horismriver Ensemble while as a group of four<br />
*pg. 54-55: [[/Article and Interview/Hatate Himekaidou#Article_2|Article: Hatate Himekaidou 2 (about Seija Kijin)]] &mdash; The impossible "Discovery of the Real Miracle Mallet"<br />
*pg. 56-57: Tengu Quarrel - Toshihira Arata<br />
*pg. 58-63: [[/Novel/Hieda no Akyuu|Novel: Hieda no Akyuu]] &mdash; "M Dies of M" by Agatha Chris Q<br />
*pg. 65-72: Double Page: "When the Tengu Rest Their Wings"<br />
**pg. 66-69: Illustration by nyanya<br />
**pg. 70-71: [[/Article and Interview/Three Tengu|Meeting: Three Tengu]] &mdash; Urgent Meeting! Anonymous Tengu hold a Symposium<br />
*pg. 73-80: Newbie Tengu Shinmyoumaru - Haniwa<br />
*pg. 82-83: [[/Article and Interview/Doremy Sweet|Article: Doremy Sweet]] &mdash; The Ominous “Rumors” Surrounding a Popular Pillow<br />
*pg. 84-85: [[/Article and Interview/Sagume Kishin#Article_1|Article: Sagume Kishin 1 (Single)]] &mdash; SUSPICIOUS SHADY CHARACTER is frequenting pharmaceutical facility<br />
*pg. 86-87: [[/Article and Interview/Sagume Kishin#Article_2|Article: Sagume Kishin 2 (with Tewi Inaba, Reisen Udongein Inaba, and Eirin Yagokoro)]] &mdash; A Secret Conversation Sending The World Into Panic - Is this the "Yagokoro Incident"!?<br />
*pg. 88-89: [[/Article and Interview/Seiran and Ringo|Article: Seiran and Ringo]] &mdash; Even the dango business isn't always cushy?<br />
*pg. 90-91: [[/Article and Interview/Shinmyoumaru Sukuna#Article_2|Article: Shinmyoumaru Sukuna 2 (with Wakasagihime)]] &mdash; Shinmyoumaru's Still At It!<br />
*pg. 92-93: [[/Article and Interview/Kagerou Imaizumi|Article: Kagerou Imaizumi]] &mdash; A "guess the human" game has started<br />
*pg. 94-95: [[/Article and Interview/Hata no Kokoro|Article: Hata no Kokoro]] &mdash; "Ningyo-yaki In Love" is published<br />
*pg. 96-97: [[/Article and Interview/Momiji Inubashiri|Article: Momiji Inubashiri]] &mdash; At last: The countdown to the Aerial Ropeway<br />
*pg. 98: [[/Essay/Tenshi Hinanawi|Essay: Tenshi Hinanawi]] &mdash; Luxurious Heavenly Cuisine for the Needy - Tenshi Hinanawi<br />
*pg. 99: [[/Essay/Komachi Onozuka|Essay: Komachi Onozuka]] &mdash; Next Week's Deaths - Komachi Onozuka<br />
*pg. 100-101: [[/Essay/Marisa Kirisame|Essay: Marisa Kirisame]] &mdash; Marisa's Lucky Danmaku Horoscope - Marisa Kirisame<br />
*pg. 104-105: [[/Article and Interview/Kyouko Kasodani|Article: Kyouko Kasodani]] &mdash; The Reality of the Sweatshop World of Religion<br />
*pg. 106-107: [[/Article and Interview/Kogasa Tatara, Yoshika Miyako, and Seiga Kaku|Article: Kogasa Tatara, Yoshika Miyako, and Seiga Kaku]] &mdash; The Dread of the Urban Legend Incident!<br />
*pg. 108-111: [[/Article and Interview/Sumireko Usami#Interview|Interview: Sumireko Usami]] &mdash; Whose Side Is The Outsider On? - Sumireko Usami<br />
*pg. 112-117: [[/Article and Interview/Clownpiece and Hecatia Lapislazuli#Interview|Interview: Hecatia Lapislazuli]] &mdash; World-Crossing Discourse - Hecatia Lapislazuli<br />
*pg. 118: [[/Colophon|Colophon]]<br />
*pg. 120-121: [[/Essay/Aya Shameimaru#Essay_1|Essay: Aya Shameimaru 1]] &mdash; Top 100 Famous Hot Springs of Gensokyo - Aya Shameimaru<br />
*pg. 122-123: [[/Essay/Yuyuko Saigyouji|Essay: Yuyuko Saigyouji]] &mdash; Yuyuko's One Dish One Bite - Yuyuko Saigyouji<br />
*pg. 124-125: [[/Essay/Rinnosuke Morichika|Essay: Rinnosuke Morichika]] &mdash; Useless Modern Tools - Rinnosuke Morichika<br />
*pg. 126: [[/Essay/Aya Shameimaru#Essay_2|Essay: Aya Shameimaru 2]] &mdash; The secret stores that only Tengu know of - Aya Shameimaru<br />
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====Advertisement==== <br />
*pg. 25: [[/Advertisement#Marisa Kirisame 1|Marisa Kirisame 1]]<br />
*pg. 53: [[/Advertisement#Doremy Sweet|Doremy Sweet]]<br />
*pg. 64: [[/Advertisement#Marisa Kirisame 2|Marisa Kirisame 2]]<br />
*pg. 81: [[/Advertisement#Keine Kamishirasawa and Hieda no Akyuu|Keine Kamishirasawa and Hieda no Akyuu]]<br />
*pg. 102: [[/Advertisement#Nitori Kawashiro|Nitori Kawashiro]]<br />
*pg. 103: [[/Advertisement#Sakuya Izayoi|Sakuya Izayoi]]<br />
*pg. 119: [[/Advertisement#Rin Kaenbyou|Rin Kaenbyou]]<br />
*pg. 127: [[/Advertisement#Bunbunshun News Report|Bunbunharu Weekly]]<br />
*pg. 128: [[/Advertisement#Bunbunmaru Newspaper|Bunbunmaru Newspaper]]<br />
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===Self Reflection===<br />
*pg. 130-131: [[/Article and Interview/Clownpiece and Hecatia Lapislazuli#Fact_Check_to_Article|Fact Check: Clownpiece and Hecatia Lapislazuli]] &mdash; 12-13 <br />
*pg. 132-133: [[/Article and Interview/Toyosatomimi no Miko#Fact_Check_to_Article_1|Fact Check: Toyosatomimi no Miko 1 (with Yoshika Miyako, Soga no Tojiko, and Mononobe no Futo)]] &mdash; 44-45 <br />
*pg. 134-135: [[/Article and Interview/Dangerous Things#Fact_Check_to_Article_2|Fact Check: Nitori Kawashiro]] &mdash; 34-35<br />
*pg. 136-137: [[/Article and Interview/Hatate Himekaidou#Fact_Check_to_Article_1|Fact Check: Hatate Himekaidou 1 (about Sumireko Usami)]] &mdash; 14-15<br />
*pg. 138-140: [[/Report of Release Cancel|Report that Bunbunharu Weekly Is Released to Be Cancelled]] &mdash;<br />
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===Afterword by ZUN===<br />
*pg. 142-143: [[/Afterword|Afterword]]<br />
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File:AFiEUpreview.jpg|Promotional image featured in [[Strange Creators of Outer World]], with [[Sagume Kishin]]. Tagline reads: "''I wonder what kind of book it is...''"<br />
File:AFiEUBack.jpg|Back cover featuring [[Hecatia Lapislazuli]] and [[Clownpiece]]<br />
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<div>{{Infobox Character<br />
| nameJp = {{ruby-ja|二ッ岩|ふたついわ}} マミゾウ<br />
| nameEn = Mamizou Futatsuiwa<br />
| nameIPA = fɯ̥tat͡sɯiwa mamʲizoː [[Media:PronunciationMamizouFutatsuiwa.ogg|(♫)]]<br />
| nameAlt = Hutatsuiwa Mamizou<br />
| image = [[File:Th155Mamizou.png|x325px|Mamizou Futatsuiwa]]<br />
| caption = Mamizou Futatsuiwa in [[Antinomy of Common Flowers]]<br />
| chartitle = {{H:title|The Bake-danuki with Ten Transformations|化け狸 十変化}}<br />
| species = [[Bake-danuki]]<br />
| abilities = Disguising things and herself<br />
| location = [[Myouren Temple]], [[Forest of Magic]]<ref name="bou_n_1">''[[Symposium of Post-mysticism]]'': [[Symposium of Post-mysticism/Mamizou Futatsuiwa|Mamizou]]</ref><br />
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| MusicThemes = *{{H:title|佐渡のニッ岩|Futatsuiwa from Sado}} ([[Ten Desires]], [[Hopeless Masquerade]])<br />
*{{H:title|幻想郷のニッ岩|Futatsuiwa from Gensokyo}} ([[Hopeless Masquerade]], [[Urban Legend in Limbo]])<br />
| appOfficialgames = *''[[Ten Desires]]'' (Extra Boss)<br />
*''[[Hopeless Masquerade]]'' (Playable Character, Possible Opponent)<br />
*''[[Impossible Spell Card]]'' (6th Day Boss, 8th Day Boss)<br />
*''[[Urban Legend in Limbo]]'' (Playable Character, Possible Opponent)<br />
*''[[Antinomy of Common Flowers]]'' (Playable Character, Possible Opponent)<br />
*''[[Violet Detector]] (Nightmare Thursday Boss)<br />
| appPrintworks = *''[[Wild and Horned Hermit]]'' (Chapter 9, Chapter 16 cameo, 18 cameo, 20 cameo, 22 cameo, 25 cameo, Chapter 26, 31 cameo, Chapter 32, 47, 48 cameo)<br />
*''[[Symposium of Post-mysticism]]''<br />
*''[[Forbidden Scrollery]]'' (Secondary Character)<br />
*''[[Visionary Fairies in Shrine]]'' (Chapter 2 Cameo, 6 cameo, 7 cameo, 9.5 cameo, 10 cameo)<br />
*''[[The Grimoire of Usami]]'' (Section 1-10, Section 2-5, Section 2-10)<br />
*''[[Lotus Eaters]]'' (Chapter 1 cameo, Chapter 6, 7, 10, 11, 12, 18, 21)<br />
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{{nihongo|'''Mamizou Futatsuiwa'''|二ッ岩 マミゾウ|Futatsuiwa Mamizou}} is a [[Tanuki|Bake-danuki]], summoned by [[Nue Houjuu]], who originally lived in [[wikipedia:Sado,_Niigata|Sado]] in the [[Outside World]] in order to act as the [[Myouren Temple]]'s trump card against the newly-arrived residents of the [[Hall of Dreams' Great Mausoleum]], particularly [[Toyosatomimi no Miko]]. She is able to morph both herself and other creatures into different forms and can disguise herself as a [[human]].<br />
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==General Information==<br />
Mamizou first appeared as the Extra stage [[boss]] of ''[[Ten Desires]]''. She then appeared as a playable character of ''[[Hopeless Masquerade]]'', she was a 6th and 8th Day Boss of ''[[Impossible Spell Card]]'' and a Playable Character in ''[[Urban Legend in Limbo]]'' and ''[[Antinomy of Common Flowers]]''. She is a recurring character in ''[[Forbidden Scrollery]]''.<br />
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She is a [[Tanuki|bake-danuki]] of proper lineage, and a [[youkai]] of the [[Outside World]] who has been called over by [[Nue Houjuu]] (by her own judgement), as a means of resistance since the [[Saint]] who sings of youkai extermination, [[Toyosatomimi no Miko]], revived. After the quarrel, she started living in the [[Myouren Temple]]. She was originally from [[wikipedia:Sado, Niigata|Sado]] along with the [[human]]s there, and before the events of ''[[Ten Desires]]''' Extra stage, passed through the [[Great Hakurei Barrier]] to enter Gensokyo.<br />
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===Personality===<br />
Mamizou, proud of her race's esteem, is good natured, albeit with a mischievous streak. She speaks the way an old lady might, and occasionally squints as if she was nearsighted. She isn't one to take a grudge, but as [[Marisa Kirisame]] in her extra stage shows she has her limits of niceness. She does enjoy pulling pranks on [[human]]s and watching them be confused and flustered. Perhaps because in the latter half of ''[[Ten Desires]]'', there were many characters who engage in things while they actually had ulterior motives, in one part, it can be said "Mamizou is the conscience of this game." In the game, she talked in a light friendly way, and because the way she spoke indicated "training", it seems that she currently is very confident in her power as a [[youkai]].<br />
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Her first person pronoun is {{nihongo|"washi"|儂}}, which is entirely an old person's way of speaking. Nevertheless, this seems to be her way of saying things, and not so much because a belief of having aged. Since the bake-danuki who showed up in ''[[Oriental Sacred Place]]'' also used "washi", it might just be that all tanuki use old people's way of speaking.<br />
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Despite being brought in as a 'trump card', she is noted as being friendly with humans, and has been seen taking on the form of a human while in the [[Human Village]]. According to the omake text of ''[[Ten Desires]]'', "sometimes she'd trick them, but she'd also lend money to the poor and worked diligently on any task she was given, so she integrated well into human society", showing that she is reliable and kind at heart. Though she is seen in the Human Village often in human form, ''[[Symposium of Post-mysticism]]'' has stated that she does not make an effort to hide her tail, considering it a mark of her high status.<br />
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However, she doesn't get along with [[kitsune]], and in ''[[Symposium of Post-mysticism]]'', Mamizou says that [[wikipedia:Sado, Niigata|Sado]] is a country entirely of bake-danuki, and not a single fox can be found there. It's said that if she encounters one, there will be trouble.<br />
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===Ability===<br />
[[File:FS_Mamizou.jpg|thumb|right|175px|Mamizou disguised as a [[human]] in ''[[Forbidden Scrollery]]'']]<br />
;Disguising things and herself<br />
This is the ability to disguise things (including herself). Similar to [[Nue Houjuu]]'s ability, it is an ability to make the appearance of things different from what they looked like originally. As opposed to Nue who relies on how [[human]]s recognizes how it appears, Mamizou depends on her own conception. <br />
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Mamizou is able to completely disguise herself save for her large tail and her ears, which appears to be a commonality among all bake-danuki. In order to get around this, she can shrink them or camouflage them, but if she is surprised or excited her ears and tail will twitch, making it a dead giveaway. Another give away would be her smell.<ref>Nitori and Marisa's story modes in [[Hopeless Masquerade]]</ref><br />
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Her disguising abilities gain power on nights of the full moon. Since [[tanuki]] like to do things like disguising people to take on a bewildering look, they rarely do inflict direct damage. The meaning of 'disguising things' is something that resembles the fellow [[Nue (Species)|nue]], and thus mutually, they do not appear to play the role of close-range combat [[youkai]]. Thus it is a possibility that Nue has called Mamizou over with the consideration that "since the opponent can hear ten people's conversations at the same time, one has no choice but to call over a suitable youkai for splitting into 10 + 1 = 11."<br />
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She is also able to disguise other objects. However, if there is no resemblance between the base object and the disguised one, it will probably be seen through immediately, especially in regard to creatures.<br />
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While the ability is described as a simple disguise, it isn't a mere illusion and actually influences and changes the physical properties of the target. For instance, in ''[[Hopeless Masquerade]]'', she can turn the opponent into something [[Hopeless_Masquerade/Spell_Cards/Mamizou_Futatsuiwa#Spell_Card_3|completely harmless]], and her underlings seem to obtain the properties of whatever they transform into, becoming able to attack by blowing steam after they [[Hopeless_Masquerade/Spell_Cards/Mamizou_Futatsuiwa#Spell_Card_2|tranform into a giant teapot]].<br />
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;Other Abilities<br />
Mamizou possesses the ability to travel in and out of Gensokyo, but the mechanism she uses to do this has not been explained.<br />
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===Occupation===<br />
Mamizou's role is to become a strong ally in the youkai forces. She did provide loans and other assistance to humans in her pre-Gensokyo days.<br />
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==Character Design==<br />
[[File:ThGKMamizou.png|thumb|right|200px|Mamizou, as illustrated in ''[[Symposium of Post-mysticism]]'']]<br />
===Origin===<br />
Due to sayings from her specifications and sayings that indicate that she has bad relations with [[kitsune]], Mamizou is probably based on Japan's three famous tanuki, [[Wikipedia:Danzaburou-danuki|Danzaburou-danuki]] of [[Wikipedia:Sado, Niigata|Sado Island]], one of the most famous tanuki in Japanese folklore, along with [[Wikipedia:Yashima_no_Hage-tanuki|Hage Danuki]] of [[Wikipedia:Yashima, Kagawa|Yashima]] and [[Wikipedia:Shibaemon-tanuki|Shibaemon Tanuki]] of [[Wikipedia:Awaji Island|Awaji Island]]. He was the boss of tanuki on Sado, who drove off the foxes from the island.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://english.aikawa-yamaki.com/?eid=8|title=Secret Sado #2 - Aikawa Yamaki Hotel Blog|author=eyamaki|date=5 April 2010|accessdate=15 August 2011}}</ref> In another, Danzaburo was a money lender, who freely loaned money to the people. He was also said to be responsible for mirages at Futatsu-iwa, a rock formation in Aikawa, Sado.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://books.google.com/books?id=EIk0AAAAIAAJ&pg=RA2-PA85&lpg=RA2-PA85&dq=Danzaburo+tanuki&source=bl&ots=vwrFIqLOhl&sig=W5LJhJpXZQriKI8hmW1DZvWasPo&hl=en&ei=c2VITr2VJI_CsQLD2_ySCA&sa=X&oi=book_result&ct=result&resnum=1&ved=0CBgQ6AEwAA#v=onepage&q=Danzaburo%20tanuki&f=false|title=Transactions of the Asiatic Society of Japan, Volume 36|author=Asiatic Society of Japan|date=1908|publisher=The Society|accessdate=15 August 2011}}</ref> Those tanuki however were great [[youkai]] who possessed divinity and were recorded as {{nihongo|"Futatsuiwa Daimyoujin"|二ッ岩大明神}}.<br />
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===Name===<br />
Her full name is {{nihongo|''Mamizou Futatsuiwa''|二ッ岩 マミゾウ}}. {{nihongo|''Futatsuiwa''|二ッ岩}} literally translates to "two stones", refers to a location in Sado where bake-danuki were prevalent, and to a [https://momijiaoi.net/futatsuiwa/ shrine] located there dedicated to Danzaburo-danuki. The name {{nihongo|''Mami''|マミ}} can be considered to be or referenced to the {{nihongo|''[[wikipedia:ja:猯|mami]]''|猯||lit. "badger" or "racoon dog"}} indicating tanuki and mujina, or the {{nihongo|''mami''|魔魅|| lit. "deceiving spirit"}} indicating monsters who deceived humans, with the "za" of "danzaburou" added on. (In actuality, in Minato, Tokyo, there is a place called [[wikipedia:Azabu-Mamianachō, Minato, Tokyo|"Mami-ana" ({{lang|ja|狸穴}})]].)<br />
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===Design===<br />
Mamizou has brown eyes and light-brown, shoulder length hair. She is featured with tanuki ears and a giant striped tail. On her head there lays a green leaf like that of a tanuki and she has glasses. She has a ecru shirt and her skirt is red-grey with some patterns on it. As with most bake-danuki from Japanese myths, Mamizou carries things on her back that look like a bottle of sake and a booklet of promissory notes. In ''[[Hopeless Masquerade]]'', when she gets hit or performs certain attacks, she can be seen wearing grey bloomers.<br />
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When visiting the [[Human Village]] she uses a human disguise, without her raccoon ears or tail. In this form, she has long hair, a checkered scarf and large robe, and wears a leaf-shaped hair clip.<br />
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==Story==<br />
[[File:WaHHMamizou.png|thumb|right|150px|Mamizou's appearance in ''[[Wild and Horned Hermit]]'']]<br />
===Games===<br />
;''Ten Desires''<br />
[[File:Th13MamizouSprite.png|frame|Mamizou's sprite in ''TD'']]<br />
[[File:Th13MamizouReimuSprite.png|frame|Mamizou's sprite in ''TD'' disguised as Reimu]]<br />
Mamizou has the title "The Bake-danuki with Ten Transformations" with theme music "Futatsuiwa from Sado". Mamizou is secretly called in by [[Nue Houjuu]] from the [[outside world]] to become a strong ally on the [[youkai]] side against [[Toyosatomimi no Miko]] and her faction. She arrives late however and Miko had already been defeated by the heroines. She later takes up residence at [[Myouren Temple]].<br />
:{{Main|Ten Desires/Story/Reimu's Extra|l1=Reimu Arc}}<br />
In Reimu's story, Mamizou reveals that she crossed the sea of Sado in order to reach Gensokyo and criticizes Reimu for underestimating the vastness of the sea.<br />
:{{Main|Ten Desires/Story/Marisa's Extra|l1=Marisa Arc}}<br />
Mamizou sees through all of Marisa's lies. She also notes that her power is strong enough to be "within the top three" of the transforming tanuki in Japan.<br />
:{{Main|Ten Desires/Story/Sanae's Extra|l1=Sanae Arc}}<br />
Despite Sanae's mission to exterminate youkai, the two appear to have a friendly duel. Sanae, though, assumes that the bake-danuki is fairly old due to her language—many of the inflections and word choices used by older people in Japan resemble those used decades, even centuries, ago—and in this misunderstanding gives the youkai some encouragement. Mamizou tells her that her old language is merely a habit.[[File:Mamizou-WaHH9.png|thumb|right|Mamizou, [[Kyouko Kasodani|Kyouko]], and [[Kogasa Tatara|Kogasa]] at the [[Hakurei Shrine]] in ''[[Wild and Horned Hermit]]'']] <br />
:{{Main|Ten Desires/Story/Youmu's Extra|l1=Youmu Arc}}<br />
Mamizou tells Youmu that she came to give the youkai there some encouragement in their fight against [[Toyosatomimi no Miko]]. She offers to train Youmu, and after she is defeated, jokes that the half-ghost is worthy to be her apprentice. Mamizou does not appear to know about the Myouren Temple itself until Youmu explains, and finds the presence of both a youkai temple and a youkai-exterminating shrine (the [[Hakurei Shrine]]) in Gensokyo quite interesting. Mamizou invites her into the temple to rest and to talk about Sado.<br />
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;''Hopeless Masquerade''<br />
She plays a key role in helping all of the characters. As the penultimate boss of each character's route except her own, she directs each character to the source of the problems. Before her route, she directs each character to [[Hata no Kokoro]]. During her own route, she helps Kokoro by steering her in the right direction for creating her own unique personality. In Kokoro's route, Mamizou directs Kokoro to the final four-way fight with Reimu, Byakuren, and Miko.<br />
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;''Impossible Spell Card''<br />
:{{Main|Impossible Spell Card#Story|l1=Impossible Spell Card: Story}}<br />
Later on in the game, Mamizou appears to have taken note of the wanted [[amanojaku]] [[Seija Kijin]]. She confronts her and says that the [[tengu]] (presumably [[Aya Shameimaru]] and [[Hatate Himekaidou]]) have taken notice of her and have written up a newspaper about her mischief. This causes stronger [[youkai]] and [[human]]s such as [[Marisa Kirisame]], [[Sakuya Izayoi]], [[Sanae Kochiya]] and [[Youmu Kompaku]] – including Mamizou – to try and capture Seija. Also, she notes that Seija can use two items simultaneously rather than one, which made her curious why Seija weren't using this technique in the first place. She uses [[spell card]]s that are considered impossible to dodge.<br />
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;''Urban Legend in Limbo''<br />
Mamizou assists Kasen and the rest of the characters in setting up a trap that will draw the Outside World human [[Sumireko Usami]] into Gensokyo, with the intention of teaching her a lesson about the danger caused by her actions. In her own route, she goes to the Outside World and fights Sumireko herself.<br />
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;''Antinomy of Common Flowers''<br />
In ''[[Antinomy of Common Flowers]]'', Mamizou seeks to be the strongest Perfect Posession user. She teams up with [[Fujiwara no Mokou]], who doesn't share the same ambition, but is looking for some new excitement nonetheless. They eventualy challenge the culprits of the incident, [[Joon Yorigami|Joon]] and [[Shion Yorigami]]. Mamizou and Mokou are forced to fight each other in the end.<br />
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Mamizou's [[Dream World]] self appears in Joon and Shion's route with plans of taking over Gensokyo.<br />
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===Literature===<br />
;''Wild and Horned Hermit'', chapter 9<br />
After a strange 'black mist' assails the residents of the Myouren Temple and others, Mamizou pays a visit to the [[Hakurei Shrine]] accompanied by [[Kogasa Tatara]] and [[Kyouko Kasodani]], suspecting [[Reimu Hakurei]] as the culprit. Days later, [[Suika Ibuki]] reveals herself as the true attacker.<br />
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;''Forbidden Scrollery''<br />
She appears in each chapter in some sort of role, usually disguised as a human, taking an interest in youkai books and in some of the recent incidents that came about as a result of them. Her reasons for her interest and disguising herself are currently unknown.<br />
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;''Lotus Eaters''<br />
Mamizou first appears to kidnap a drunk regular customer from [[Geidontei]], sending her tanuki to take the customer away to an unknown place. She later demands [[Miyoi Okunoda]] to leave Geidontei, using the hostage customer as leverage due to the suspicion that will befall the zashiki-warashi should a customer disappears. A distraught Miyoi ends up requesting help from [[Suika Ibuki]], who proceeds to "take care" of the problem. Later at night, Mamizou shows up in Geidontei and reveals that she collaborating with Suika to get Miyoi to keep Geidontei open at night for Youkai. She promises to wait for regular customers to leave.<br />
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==Gallery==<br />
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===Covers===<br />
<gallery><br />
File:1461190529324.jpg|Mamizou on the Vol. 5 cover of ''[[Forbidden Scrollery]]''<br />
</gallery><br />
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===Artworks===<br />
<gallery><br />
File:Th13Mamizou.png|Mamizou artwork from ''Ten Desires'' <br />
File:08Mamizou1.png|Mamizou artwork from ''[[Hopeless Masquerade]]''<br />
File:Th145Mamizou2.png|Mamizou artwork from ''[[Urban Legend in Limbo]]'' and ''[[Antinomy of Common Flowers]]''<br />
File:08Mamizou2.png|Mamizou artwork from ''[[Urban Legend in Limbo]]'' and ''[[Antinomy of Common Flowers]]''<br />
</gallery><br />
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===Sprites=== <br />
<gallery><br />
File:Th155MamizouColors.png|Mamizou's different color palettes from ''[[Antinomy of Common Flowers|AoCF]]'', ''[[Urban Legend in Limbo|ULiL]]'', and ''[[Hopeless Masquerade|HM]]'', the last two were added in AoCF v1.10<br />
</gallery><br />
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==Relationships==<br />
===Residents of the Myouren Temple===<br />
Since Mamizou lives at the [[Myouren Temple]], she should know most of the residents living here, including the leader [[Byakuren Hijiri]] herself, although there has rarely any interaction. [[Kyouko Kasodani]] claims that Mamizou will listen to the problems and concerns of those living at the temple with open ears. [[Nue Houjuu]] was the one to call Mamizou to [[Gensokyo]] during ''[[Ten Desires]]'', and they are described as being friends, and are shown conspiring in Chapter 31 of Forbidden Scrollery, where Mamizou and her tanuki assist Nue in frightening the humans in the Human Village with an Urban Legend of The Bull's Head.<br />
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===Minor Relationships===<br />
;[[Hata no Kokoro]]<br />
At the end of Mamizou's storyline in ''[[Hopeless Masquerade]]'', she urged [[Hata no Kokoro]] to, through battle with other characters in the game, learn how to control her emotions and to "discover herself" instead of becoming a mere tsukumogami for Sarugaku masks.<br />
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;[[Kosuzu Motoori]]<br />
In ''[[Forbidden Scrollery]]'', Mamizou became a regular customer of [[Kosuzu Motoori]] with an interest in the [[Demon book]]s, and talks with Kosuzu warmly. By the end of the manga, Mamizou becomes quite protective of Kosuzu, going so far as to protect her from the "old school" youkai she happens upon.<br />
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;[[Kasen Ibaraki]]<br />
Kasen and Mamizou first meet at winter after the events of [[Ten Desires]] during an incident where a mysterious black mist was attacking the residents of [[Myouren Temple]], which resulted to be [[Suika Ibuki]]. Later, during the beginning of the Urban Legends incident they found a man-faced dog and tried to find a reason for these ocurrences appearing in Gensokyo. During the [[Urban Legend in Limbo|peak of the incident]] they confronted twice, when Mamizou found Kasen opening a hole in the barrier to the Outside World and made a deal with her to keep her mouth shut and look after potential intruders while Kasen was gone. Later Mamizou decided to play as the villain and decided to interfere with Kasen's plan to fight the responsible of the incident, [[Sumireko Usami]], with the benefit to move easily around the Outside World. She tricked Sumireko to explore Gensokyo and, in the meantime, put in motion Kasen's plan to scare her while she wandered freely. Then, with Reimu aprehending Sumireko, Kasen and Mamizou confronted her and Mamizou promised to look after her. As seen in [[Wild and Horned Hermit]], Mamizou became worried of Kasen's influence over the Hakurei Shrine and how obviously she was an [[oni]] so she set some oni repelling traps to provoke Kasen. After seeing this, Kasen organized a flower viewing event at the shrine to confront Mamizou in a drinking contest. Kasen won the contest and earned Mamizou's respect. They attend another event where they drink together in [[Visionary Fairies in Shrine]].<br />
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;[[Aya Shameimaru]]<br />
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==Skills==<br />
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{{#lsth:List of Skills|[[Mamizou Futatsuiwa]]}}<br />
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==Spell Cards==<br />
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{{#lsth:List_of Spell Cards/Touhou Project 2|[[Mamizou Futatsuiwa]]}}<br />
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==Additional Information==<br />
*Mamizou is the first female character in the [[Windows]] series to wear glasses. The first in the entire series is [[Rikako Asakura]] from the [[PC-98]].<br />
*In ''[[Ten Desires]]'', whenever she launches an attack her leaf playfully flaps on top of her head.<br />
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==Fandom==<br />
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==Official Profiles==<br />
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| image =[[File:Th13Mamizou.png|200px|Mamizou Futatsuiwa TD]]<br />
| text =○エキストラボス 化け狸 十変化<br />
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二ッ岩 マミゾウ(ふたついわ まみぞう)<br /><br />
Hutatsuiwa Mamizou<br />
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種族:化け狸<br /><br />
能力:化けさせる程度の能力<br />
<br />
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由緒正しき化け狸。<br /><br />
幻想郷の外に住んでいた、珍しい妖怪である。<br /><br />
今回は、旧友のピンチと言う事でわざわざやってきたのだ。<br />
<br />
狸は人を化かして戸惑う姿を見るのが大好物で、直接被害を与えたりする事は余りない。満月の夜になると力が増す。<br />
<br />
化けさせるという意味では鵺とは似たもの同士である。結局お互い、直接戦闘に役に立つ妖怪ではないようだ。<br />
<br />
こんな妖怪を呼んたところで、神子に対抗できるのだろうか。<br /><br />
結局、妖怪達は自分勝手であり、統率を取ろうとしないのでいくら単体が強かろうとも、負けるときは負けるのである。<br />
<br />
<br />
彼女は地元(佐渡)では人間と共に暮していたようである。<br /><br />
時には騙したりしていたが、貧しい人にはお金を貸したり、仕事を依頼されれば遂行したりと、ちゃんと人間社会に溶け込んでいたようだ。<br />
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しかし、狐とは仲が悪く、その為佐渡には狐が棲んでいないという噂だ。<br /><br />
幻想郷の狐達と一悶着起こすことになるのだが、それはまた別のお話。<br />
| translation =○'''Extra Boss Bake-Tanuki with Ten Transformations'''<br />
<br />
<br /><br />
'''Mamizou Futatsuiwa'''<br />
<br />
Species: Bake-danuki<br /><br />
Ability: Disguising things and herself<br />
<br />
A bake-danuki of proper upbringing.<br /><br />
An unusual youkai that lived outside of Gensokyo.<br /><br />
She's made her way inside this time to help out an old friend in a pinch.<br />
<br />
Tanuki take great pleasure in watching the reactions of humans<br />
that they trick, so they seldom do direct damage. They are<br />
more powerful on the night of a full moon.<br />
<br />
Their ability to shapeshift makes them similar to the nue in a way.<br />
Neither of them seem to be terribly effective youkai when it<br />
comes to close combat.<br />
<br />
Can this kind of youkai really hold her own against Miko?<br />
After all, youkai are fairly self-centered and don't take or<br />
give orders easily, so no matter how strong each one of them may be,<br />
they'd still lose in the end.<br />
<br />
<br />
It seems she'd lived together with humans in her home town (Sado).<br />
Sometimes she'd trick them, but she'd also lend money to the<br />
poor and worked diligently on any task she was given, so she<br />
integrated well into human society.<br />
<br />
<br />
However, She doesn't get along with foxes, so it is rumored that<br />
no foxes live in Sado.<br /><br />
She would end up causing trouble with the foxes of Gensokyo, but that's a story for another day.<br />
}}<br />
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| image =[[File:Th135_Mamizou1.png|200px|Mamizou Futatsuiwa HM]]<br />
| text = 丑三つ時になると無感情になる人間達。<br /><br />
その原因は、面霊気の持つ六十六の面の内の一つ、希望の面が失われた事にあった。<br />
<br />
いくつかの解決策は進行しているらしい。<br /><br />
その事を小耳に挟んだ彼女は、宗教家達にその後どうなったのかを聞きに行った。<br />
| translation = Humans turn emotionless when it became the dead of night .<br/><br />
The cause for this was that out of the sixty-six masks of the menreiki, one of them, the Mask of Hope, had been lost.<br />
<br />
It seemed there were several solution strategies being advanced.<br/><br />
When she heard about them, she went to the religionists to ask about what happened afterwards.<br />
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{{Profile Quote<br />
| image = [[File:Th145Mamizou.png|200px|Mamizou Futatsuiwa ULiL]]<br />
| text ='''侵略せよ!宇宙妖怪狸'''<br />
<br />
'''二ッ岩マミゾウ'''<br />
<br />
'''オカルト名 「M.I.B」'''<br />
<br />
手下の化け狸を引きつれ圧殺する <br/><br />
ただ、化け狸は攻撃を受けるとリタイヤしてしまうため <br/><br />
手下は適度に荒く丁寧に活用して戦いを進めよう <br/><br />
<br />
オカルトアタックは「エイリアンカプセル」 <br/><br />
カプセルに入った手下を配置し、<br/><br />
自由なタイミングで奇襲させるぞ <br/><br />
| translation ='''Invade! The Youkai Tanuki from Space'''<br />
<br />
'''Mamizou Futatsuiwa'''<br />
<br />
'''Occult name "M.I.B"'''<br />
<br />
She’ll crush you together with her bake-danuki underlings.<br><br />
The bake-danuki will retire as they get hit though, so as you fight please use them roughly only in moderation.<br><br />
<br />
Her Occult Attack is “Alien Capsule”.<br><br />
By carefully arranging underlings who’ve been put into capsules, you can freely counter-attack at any time!<br />
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| image = [[File:Th145Mamizou.png|200px|Mamizou Futatsuiwa AoCF]]<br />
| text =変幻自在で喰えない化け狸<br />
<br />
二ツ岩マミゾウ<br/><br />
<br />
「儂がマスターじゃ<br/><br />
利害が一致してこうなった」<br/><br />
<br />
外からやってきた妖怪狸の大将<br/><br />
<br />
憑依バトルを制する者が異変を制す<br/><br />
利害の一致した相方と最強の完全憑依使いを目指す<br/><br />
<br />
妖怪狸を駆使した多人数戦は圧巻なものの<br/><br />
手下は大事に使わないとやられて孤立する羽目に<br/><br />
| translation ='''Phantasmagoric and Shrewd Bake-Danuki'''<br />
<br />
'''Mamizou Futatsuiwa'''<br/><br />
<br />
''"I'll be the master.''<br/><br />
''It's in both of our best interests."''<br/><br />
<br />
A youkai tanuki general who came from the Outside World.<br/><br />
<br />
Those who master the possession battles will master the incident itself.<br/><br />
She aims for the title of the strongest Perfect Possessor, with a partner whose interests align with hers.<br/><br />
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Her "strength in numbers" fighting style using her youkai tanuki is superb, but if you don't take care of her minions, they'll get knocked out and she'll be left all alone.<br/><br />
}}<br />
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==Official Sources==<br />
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*2011/08/13 '''[[Ten Desires]]''' - Extra Stage dialogue; Settings and Extra Story.txt (official profile)<br />
*2011/11/25 '''[[Wild and Horned Hermit]]''' - Chapter 9<br />
*2012/04/27 '''[[Symposium of Post-mysticism]]''' - [[Symposium of Post-mysticism/Mamizou Futatsuiwa|Mamizou Futatsuiwa]]<br />
*2013/01/26 '''[[Forbidden Scrollery]]''' - Chapter 4<br />
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{{Infobox Character<br />
| nameJp = {{ruby-ja|射命丸|しゃめいまる}} {{ruby-ja|文|あや}}<br />
| nameEn = Aya Shameimaru<br />
| nameIPA = ɕʲa̠me̞ːma̠ɾ̠ɯᵝ a̠ja̠ [[Media:Pronunciation_AyaShameimaru.ogg|(♫)]]<br />
| nameAlt = Aya Syameimaru<br />
| image =[[File:Th16Aya.png|x325px|Aya Shameimaru]]<br />
| caption = Aya Shameimaru in [[Hidden Star in Four Seasons]]<br />
| chartitle = {{H:title|Traditional Reporter of Fantasy|伝統の幻想ブン屋}}<br />
| species = [[Karasu Tengu|Crow Tengu]]<br />
| abilities = Manipulation of wind<br />
| age = Over 1000 years<br />
| occupation = Newspaper writer, reporter.<br />
| location = [[Youkai Mountain]]<br />
| MusicThemes = *{{H:title|{{lang|ja|風神少女}} (Short Version)|Wind God Girl (Short Version)}} ([[Phantasmagoria of Flower View]])<br />
*{{H:title|{{lang|ja|風神少女}}|Wind God Girl}} ([[Shoot the Bullet]])<br />
*{{H:title|{{lang|ja|妖怪の山 ~}} Mysterious Mountain|The Youkai Mountain ~ Mysterious Mountain}} ([[Mountain of Faith]])<br />
| appOfficialgames = *''[[Phantasmagoria of Flower View]]'' (Playable Character, Possible Opponent)<br />
*''[[Shoot the Bullet]]'' (Cover, Title Screen, Main Character)<br />
*''[[Mountain of Faith]]'' (Stage 4 Boss)<br />
*''[[Scarlet Weather Rhapsody]]'' (Playable Character, Possible Opponent)<br />
*''[[Subterranean Animism]]'' (Playable Partner)<br />
*''[[Touhou Hisoutensoku]]'' (Playable character in arcade mode)<br />
*''[[Double Spoiler]]'' (Title Screen, Main Character, Spoiler Boss)<br />
*''[[Fairy Wars]]'' (Route C1 ending)<br />
*''[[Hopeless Masquerade]]'' (Background Character)<br />
*''[[Impossible Spell Card]]'' (6th Day Boss)<br />
*''[[Hidden Star in Four Seasons]]'' (Playable character)<br />
*''[[Unconnected Marketeers]]'' (All bad endings)<br />
| appPrintworks = *''[[Curiosities of Lotus Asia]]'' (Cameo)<br />
*''[[Bohemian Archive in Japanese Red]]'' (Main Character)<br />
**''[[Extra of the Wind]]'' (Main Character)<br />
*''[[Perfect Memento in Strict Sense]]''<br />
*''[[Strange and Bright Nature Deity]]'' (Minor Character)<br />
*''[[Silent Sinner in Blue]]'' (Secondary Character)<br />
*''[[The Grimoire of Marisa]]''<br />
*''[[Inaba of the Moon and Inaba of the Earth]]'' (Secondary Character)<br />
*''[[Oriental Sacred Place]]'' (Chapter 1 cameo, chapter 9, chapter 12, 14 and 18 cameo)<br />
*''[[Wild and Horned Hermit]]'' (Chapter 1 cameo, 2 cameo, 5 cameo, 8 cameo, 12 cameo, 15 cameo, 16 cameo, 18 cameo, 19 cameo, 20 cameo, 22 cameo, 23 cameo, 40 cameo, chapter 42, 48 cameo)<br />
*''[[Symposium of Post-mysticism]]''<br />
*''[[Forbidden Scrollery]] (Chapter 6 cameo, chapter 32, chapter 33, chapter 35, chapter 45)<br />
*''[[Strange Creators of Outer World]]'' Vol. 3 (Profile Section)<br />
*''[[Visionary Fairies in Shrine]]'' (Chapter 2 Cameo, 6 cameo, 7 cameo, 9.5 cameo, 10 cameo, 11.5 cameo)<br />
*''[[Alternative Facts in Eastern Utopia]]'' (Main Character)<br />
*''[[The Grimoire of Usami]]'' (Section 1-7)<br />
*''[[Lotus Eaters]]'' (Chapters 8, 9, 10, Chapter 15 cameo, 16, 21) <br />
| appMiscworks = *[[Miscellaneous illustrations by ZUN#Circle Cut|Circle Cut]] (C69)<br />
}}<br />
{{nihongo|'''Aya Shameimaru'''|射命丸 文|Shameimaru Aya}} is the main protagonist of [[Shoot the Bullet]] and [[Double Spoiler]]. She is [[Gensokyo]]'s resident reporter, known for writing "slightly" exaggerated news articles about anything that happens in [[Gensokyo]]. She's very strong and is probably stronger than she shows since she sometimes "accidentally wins" battles while only meaning to cover a news story.<br />
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==General Information==<br />
Aya first appeared in ''[[Bohemian Archive in Japanese Red]]'' official book as the reporter of its articles and made her first game debut in ''[[Phantasmagoria of Flower View]]''. She is the main protagonist of the spin-off games ''[[Shoot the Bullet]]'' and ''[[Double Spoiler]]'' where she fights against various characters while taking pictures of them. She appears again in the mainline games as the Stage 4 Boss in ''[[Mountain of Faith]]'' and as a playable partner with [[Reimu Hakurei]] in ''[[Subterranean Animism]]''. She is also a playable character in [[Scarlet Weather Rhapsody]], made an appearance as a background character in ''[[Hopeless Masquerade]]'' and appeared as a Day 6 Boss in ''[[Impossible Spell Card]]''. ''[[Hidden Star in Four Seasons]]'' reintroduces her as a playable character. Like in ''[[Bohemian Archive in Japanese Red]]'', Aya appears as the main character in ''[[Alternative Facts in Eastern Utopia]]'', and once again fills the role of reporter for the articles of the book.<br />
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===Personality===<br />
Aya is unrelenting when it comes to getting sensationalist news stories, and she frequently twists the truth in her writing to her own advantage. Although her stated policy is to report only the truth, she has often written blatant lies. It is said that she will come politely asking interviews of humans and youkai alike if she sees them as worth writing an article about, but will forcefully drive away any who interfere. <br />
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However, Aya has shown a serious side as well. She can be thoughtful about the effect her stories will have on those who read them. She resents the rigid tengu caste system, as even though she works hard, she is unable to advance in rank due to being a crow tengu. [[Hieda no Akyuu]] writes that she is generally the sort of youkai one does not wish to oppose, but if one somehow manages to cross her, her strength is practically unrivaled.<br />
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===Ability===<br />
;Manipulating wind<br />
With this ability, Aya can cause wind of incredible strength whenever she pleases. Somehow, this also allows Aya to "listen" to the wind to collect rumors, aiding her in the journalism business. Many of her [[spell card]]s in the fighting games show this ability a lot. Her powers are among the top class in [[Gensokyo]], and not many can challenge her with a real chance of winning. However, she doesn't like fighting much, nor does she show off her power a lot. This seems to be a common characteristic among Tengu.<br />
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;Speed<br />
While Tengu as a whole are known for their incredible speed that few can match, Aya prides herself of being ''"the fastest"'' in Gensokyo, and has been refered to as such by ZUN.<ref>[[Chara☆Mel/Mountain of Faith interview with ZUN]]</ref> According to [[Marisa Kirisame]] not even [[Remilia Scarlet]], that was apparently able to fly around the [[Moon]] in an extremely short amount of time, can compare to Aya's speed.<ref>[[Silent Sinner in Blue]] - Chapter 16</ref> [[Mountain of Faith/Spell Cards/Stage 4#Spell Card 51|One of her spell cards]] shows some extent of her speed, but her actual limits are unknown.<br />
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===Occupation===<br />
Aya runs the [[Bunbunmaru Newspaper]], which is viewed by most [[human]]s and [[youkai]] in [[Gensokyo]] as a mildly popular gossip or tabloid paper. She has a shameless reporting style, tends to exaggerate events, and expresses her own personal opinions in her articles. As a result, many don't want to see themselves in her newspaper, and she is on less than good terms with some of the other characters. Still, she does have ethics, and is more interested in pursuing the truth (sometimes to a fault) than ruining other peoples' reputation for the sake of it.<br />
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Her depiction in [[Strange and Bright Nature Deity]] and [[Curiosities of Lotus Asia]] suggest that her newspaper isn't well received, and she is willing to jokingly trick Reimu into believing in a fictional type of ghost to boost its popularity.<br />
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==Background Information==<br />
===Origin===<br />
[[ZUN]] once commented that the gaming concept of ''[[Shoot the Bullet]]'' was around since the same time he created ''[[Embodiment of Scarlet Devil]]''. Since such a game required a camera-using character, Aya was created specifically to fit that purpose.<br />
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===Name===<br />
[[File:BAiJRAya.jpg|thumb|190px|Aya's appearance in ''[[BAiJR]]'']]<br />
Her full name is {{nihongo|''Aya Shameimaru''|射命丸 文}}. The characters for {{nihongo||射命丸|Shameimaru}} literally means, in sequence, "to shoot (an arrow)" (or "to shine into/onto"), "command", "decree", "order" or "life" (or "hit/target" in the word ''meichuu'' {{nihongo||命中|meichuu}}), and "circle" (common name ending, usually seen in names of crafts and swords or similar weapons, and is also a very common suffix for the names of ships). {{nihongo||文|Aya}} means "text", "sentence" or "literature", and it's also the first character of "Bunkachou". The name {{nihongo||射命丸|Shameimaru}} is derived from [[Wikipedia:Sha-Mail|Sha-Mail]] (Shamēru → Shameimaru), which is text messages with photos, very appropriate for a fast-traveling journalist who takes pictures.<br />
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Aya owns the {{nihongo|''Bunkachou''|文花帖}}, a [[tengu]] notebook gathering innumerable photographs and handwritten notes. {{nihongo||文|Bun|also pronounced as ''aya''}} means "sentence, text", {{nihongo||花|ka}} means "flower", "blossom" (or "pretty", "cute thing" in a figurative sense) and {{nihongo||帖|chou}} means "notebook": therefore ''Bunkachou'' literally means "notebook of flowering sentences": her record of interesting observations for [[Bunbunmaru Newspaper]] articles and pictures of beautiful ''[[danmaku]]'' or cute girls living in Gensokyo.<br />
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===Design===<br />
Aya has red eyes and semi-long black hair. She wears a white blouse, black short skirt, and a [[Wikipedia:Tokin (headwear)|tokin]]. From ''[[Phantasmagoria of Flower View]]'' to ''[[Scarlet Weather Rhapsody]]'' she can be seen holding a hauchiwa fan. In ''[[Bohemian Archive in Japanese Red]]'', ''Phantasmagoria of Flower View'', and ''Scarlet Weather Rhapsody'', Aya is shown holding a notebook and being accompanied by a crow. She was depicted with black wings for the first time in Bohemian Archive in Japanese Red.<br />
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In ''[[Double Spoiler]]'', Aya now carries a camera and wears an orange armband reading {{nihongo||「取材中」|Shuzaichuu|lit. "collecting material/the scoop"}}. She is also notably depicted with pointed ears, compared to the normal-looking ears that were visible in her ''[[Mountain of Faith]]'' portrait. In ''[[Hidden Star in Four Seasons]]'' her skirt is based on Hanafuda October suit.<br />
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==Aya's Appearances==<br />
===Games===<br />
;''Phantasmagoria of Flower View''<br />
[[File:Th09AyaBackSprite.png|frame|left|Aya's back sprite in ''PoFV'']]<br />
[[File:Th09AyaSprite.png|frame|Aya's sprite in ''PoFV'']]<br />
:{{Main|Phantasmagoria of Flower View/Story#Aya's Story|l1=Phantasmagoria of Flower View Story}}<br />
During the events of ''[[Phantasmagoria of Flower View]]'', she sets out to cover what promises to be an interesting news story, apparently having had completely forgotten that the exact same event had occurred 60 years ago. Even though she was alive and around during the previous flower incident, perhaps her memory is clouded by the thousands of facts and rumors she hears every day.<br />
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;''Mountain of Faith''<br />
[[File:Th10AyaSprite.png|frame|Aya's sprite in ''MoF'']]<br />
:{{Main|Mountain of Faith/Translation/Reimu's Scenario#Stage 4|l1=Reimu's Arc|Mountain of Faith/Translation/Marisa's Scenario#Stage 4|l2=Marisa's Arc}}<br />
When Aya was sent by the other [[Tengu]] to see who the intruder on [[Youkai Mountain]] was during ''[[Mountain of Faith]]'' she was surprised to see it was the heroine. Although Aya doesn't want to fight the heroine, she prioritizes her bosses' orders. She decides to "go easy" on the heroine and leads her to the new shrine, believing that the heroine could get rid of a large nuisance to the [[Tengu]].<br />
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;''Subterranean Animism''<br />
:{{Main|Subterranean Animism/Translation/Reimu and Aya's Scenario|l1=Reimu and Aya's Scenario}}<br />
During the events of ''[[Subterranean Animism]]'', Aya assists [[Hakurei Reimu|Reimu]] using a device given to them by [[Yukari Yakumo]] to stay in contact between the surface and the underground to solve the incident regarding the earth spirit's sudden eruption from a newly formed geyser. Aya's secondary objective throughout the story is to gain exclusive scoops and interviews through Reimu's journey deeper in the underground.<br />
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;''Hidden Star in Four Seasons''<br />
[[File:Th16AyaSprite.png|frame|Aya's back sprite in ''HSiFS'']]<br />
:{{Main|Hidden Star in Four Seasons/Story/Aya's Scenario|l1=Aya's Scenario}}<br />
Aya goes off to investigate an incident regarding the abnormal weather in the different areas of [[Gensokyo]] to write an article asking anyone who appears if they know anything about the cause of it. She then comes to the realization that this incident might be more than meets the eye.<br />
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;''Unconnected Marketeers''<br />
She appears as a cameo in the bad endings in [[Unconnected Marketeers]], creating an article mocking the protagonists for losing.<br />
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===Spin-offs===<br />
;''Shoot the Bullet''<br />
[[File:Th095AyaBackSprite.png|frame|left|Aya's back sprite in ''StB'']]<br />
:{{Main|Shoot the Bullet#Story|l1=Shoot the Bullet Story}}<br />
Aya is the main protagonist and the only playable character in ''[[Shoot the Bullet]]''. She sets out to take photographs of various Touhou [[boss]]es for reasons only she knows. Aya has three different speeds, and has a unite screen that can be used to take photos of [[danmaku]], as well as cancelling bullets within the shot. She doesn't shoot bullets as she's no intention in defeating her opponents and that she doesn't want her own bullets in the photos.<br />
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;''Scarlet Weather Rhapsody''<br />
:{{Main|Scarlet Weather Rhapsody/Story#Aya's Story|l1=Scarlet Weather Rhapsody Story}}<br />
During the events of ''[[Scarlet Weather Rhapsody]]'', Aya goes around doing her job, and after an encounter with [[Reimu Hakurei|Reimu]] and [[Marisa Kirisame|Marisa]] she decides to infiltrate the [[Scarlet Devil Mansion]] to report on the [[Remilia Scarlet|Scarlet Devil]] and write an article about her. Remilia mentions something about the weather incident, and Aya goes back to the Youkai Mountain. There she meets an infuriated Reimu complaining about an earthquake destroying her shrine. In spite of the situation, Aya defeats her as an intruder.<br />
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;''Touhou Hisoutensoku''<br />
:{{Main|Touhou Hisoutensoku/Translation/Aya's Script|l1=Touhou Hisoutensoku Story}}<br />
If connecting ''Scarlet Weather Rhapsody'' with ''[[Touhou Hisoutensoku]]'', then Aya can become a selectable character to play with, although she appears in no scenarios.<br />
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;''Double Spoiler''<br />
:{{Main|Double Spoiler#Story|l1=Double Spoiler Story}}<br />
Aya once again appears in ''[[Double Spoiler]]'' as a sequel to ''[[Shoot the Bullet]]'', been the main protagonist and one of the two playable characters. She competes with [[Hatate Himekaidou]] for the best newspaper, who is the other playable character. She even appears as a Spoiler stage boss if the player is using Hatate.<br />
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;''Fairy Wars''<br />
Aya appeared as a cameo on the Route C1 ending of ''[[Fairy Wars]]''. After [[Cirno]] defeated the [[Three Mischievous Fairies]], she wanted to keep her status as the strongest by defeating a [[youkai]]. She finds Aya who can't be bothered to fight because she hasn't got time, but she suggested that she ought to fight a [[human]] first. It turns out to be [[Marisa Kirisame]], to which this story extends onto the Extra stage.<br />
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;''Hopeless Masquerade''<br />
[[File:Th135Aya.png|frame|Aya in ''HM'']]<br />
Aya made a background cameo appearance in ''[[Hopeless Masquerade]]'' on the [[Myouren Temple]] and [[Genbu Ravine]] stage. She is seen standing on top of the temple in the former and on pipe in the latter, taking photographs. She also produces [[Bunbunmaru Newspaper]]s that are shown after each fight.<br />
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;''Impossible Spell Card''<br />
In ''[[Impossible Spell Card]]'', Aya (been one of the [[tengu]] mentioned by [[Mamizou Futatsuiwa]]) takes notice of minorities trying to capture the mischief-making [[amanojaku]] [[Seija Kijin]], who also appears to be one of the many [[youkai]] that tries to capture her on day 6. She uses [[spell card]]s that are considered impossible to dodge. She apparently writes up an article about this, which makes stronger [[human]]s and [[youkai]] try to capture Seija.<br />
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===Literature===<br />
;''Bohemian Archive in Japanese Red''<br />
Aya appears as the main character, interviewing many other characters and asking them to give information about themselves, or about various events in which they were involved.<br />
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;Silent Sinner in Blue<br />
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;Alternative Facts in Eastern Utopia<br />
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In this book, Aya attempts to write and publish a weekly periodical in the style of western "clickbait/outrage" political journalism. In it, she includes many overt and verbatim references to real-world political slogans and talking points associated with populism and nationalism, casting suspicion on or willfully misrepresenting the residents or visitors of Gensokyo she considers "immigrants" (those who live at [[Eientei]], [[Hecatia Lapislazuli]], and [[Sumireko Usami]] in particular), as well as chiding those responsible for maintaining "Gensokyo's isolation" ([[Reimu Hakurei]] and [[Yukari Yakumo]] in particular) as being inadequate in their positions. There are also some advertisements for local small businesses such as the [[Marisa Kirisame|Kirisame Magic Shop]].<br />
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As she interviews many of the residents and visitors of Gensokyo with increasingly leading and accusatory questions, she is eventually cautioned by [[Hecatia Lapislazuli]] that spreading an ideology of isolationism and suspicion among Gensokyo's residents will only lead to Gensokyo's eventual decay and downfall, since the nature of Gensokyo is one that relies on forgotten youkai "immigrating" to Gensokyo. Aya decides, after some thought, to come clean about the way she manipulated the facts of her interviews and articles, and to not publish that edition of her newspaper.<br />
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==Relationships==<br />
Aya has presumably met most of the Windows-era characters at least once for [[Bunbunmaru Newspaper|Bunbunmaru News]] material.<br />
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;[[Mamizou Futatsuiwa]]<br />
Mamizou and Aya are shown as being quite underhanded with each other in a fiercely competitive rivalry, although they still find ways to call truces on occasion.<br />
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In ''Forbidden Scrollery'', Mamizou and Aya compete in the sphere of social influence of the [[Human Village]] bit pitting the tengu's "traditional" media against Mamizou's "social network" of [[tsukumogami]]. <br />
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In ''Lotus Eaters'', they're seen setting aside their differences, at least temporarily, to work towards the greater good of protecting the [[Human Village]] from immediate danger.<br />
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;[[Momiji Inubashiri]]<br />
Fellow tengu of Youkai Mountain.<br />
Whenever she meets her they get in a fight, so they don't get along very well. According to Aya, it seems like Momiji looks down on all crow tengu, but Hatate's comments suggest it's just something personal between Aya and Momiji.<br />
<br />
;[[Hatate Himekaidou]]<br />
Fellow tengu and rival of Youkai Mountain.<br />
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;[[Reimu Hakurei]]<br />
Ally and potential source of interesting new articles.<br />
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;[[Kosuzu Motoori]]<br />
Aya and Kosuzu have become business partners in the selling of the Bunbunmaru Newspaper for the [[Human Village]].<br />
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==Minor Relationships==<br />
;[[Tenma]]<br />
Chief tengu of Youkai Mountain.<br />
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;[[Megumu Iizunamaru]]<br />
Megumu is the Chief of the Crow Tengu, which makes her Aya's superior.<br />
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==Gallery==<br />
===Covers===<br />
<gallery><br />
File:Th095cover.jpg|Cover of ''[[Shoot the Bullet]]'', featuring Aya's silhouette<br />
File:ThGI3Cover.jpg|Aya in the cover of ''[[Strange Creators of Outer World]]'' 3<br />
File:CoLA30Pag1.jpg|Aya in the cover of ''[[Curiosities of Lotus Asia]]'' 30<br />
File:FS06Cover.jpg|Aya on the Vol. 6 cover of ''[[Forbidden Scrollery]]''<br />
File:ForbiddenScrolleryVol6Cover.jpeg|Aya on the Vol. 6 special cover of ''Forbidden Scrollery''<br />
File:AFiEUcover.jpg|Aya on the cover of ''[[Alternative Facts in Eastern Utopia]]''<br />
</gallery><br />
<br />
===Artworks===<br />
<gallery><br />
File:Th09AyaShameimaru.png|Aya artwork from ''[[Phantasmagoria of Flower View]]''<br />
File:Th09FullAya.png|Aya artwork from ''Phantasmagoria of Flower View''<br />
File:Th09AyaAlt.png|Alternate outfit from ''Phantasmagoria of Flower View''<br />
File:Th10Aya.png|Aya artwork from ''[[Mountain of Faith]]''<br />
File:Th105Aya.png|Aya artwork from ''[[Scarlet Weather Rhapsody]]''<br />
File:10Aya1.png|Aya artwork from ''[[Touhou Hisoutensoku]]''<br />
File:Th125Aya.png|Aya artwork from ''[[Double Spoiler]]''<br />
</gallery><br />
<br />
===Sprites===<br />
<gallery><br />
File:Th123AyaColors.png|Aya's colors from ''Touhou Hisoutensoku''. Middle top refers to her 2P palette from SWR.<br />
</gallery><br />
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===Illustrations===<br />
<gallery><br />
File:GoMIllus-Aya.jpg|Aya illustration in ''[[the Grimoire of Marisa]]''<br />
</gallery><br />
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===Screenshots===<br />
<gallery><br />
File:EotWAya.jpg|Aya in ''[[Extra of the Wind]]''<br />
File:PMiSS aya.jpg|Aya despicted in ''[[Perfect Memento in Strict Sense]]''<br />
File:SSIBAya2.jpg|Aya in ''[[Silent Sinner in Blue]]''<br />
File:IMIEAya.png|Aya in ''[[Inaba of the Moon & Inaba of the Earth]]''<br />
File:OSPChapter9Art.jpg|Aya as seen in ''[[Oriental Sacred Place]]''<br />
File:AyaHumanDisguise.png|Aya in her human disguise in Chapter 32 of ''Forbidden Scrollery''<br />
</gallery><br />
<br />
===Others===<br />
<gallery><br />
File:BAiJRAyaSketch.jpg||Aya rough sketch by [[ZUN]] alongside ''[[Bohemian Archive in Japanese Red]]''<br />
File:AyaSketchDesign.jpg|Aya sketch design<br />
File:GoMSigil-Aya.jpg|Aya's Sigil in ''the Grimoire of Marisa''<br />
File:Th123AyaSigil.png|Aya's sigil from ''Touhou Hisoutensoku''<br />
File:AyaCardTH18.png|A depiction of Aya in one of the ability cards seen in ''[[Unconnected Marketeers]]''<br />
</gallery><br />
<br />
==Skills==<br />
{{hidden begin|title = Skills|titlestyle = background:paleturquoise; text-align:center;}}<br />
{{#lsth:List of Skills|[[Aya Shameimaru]]}}<br />
{{hidden end}}<br />
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==Spell Cards==<br />
{{hidden begin|title = Spell cards|titlestyle = background:palegreen; text-align:center;}}<br />
{{#lsth:List_of Spell Cards/Touhou Project 1|[[Aya Shameimaru]]}}<br />
{{hidden end}}<br />
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==Additional Information==<br />
*Aya is the first character in the ''[[Touhou Project]]'' to originally appear in an artbook, then later in a game.<br />
*A silhouette of Aya occupies the front of the jewel case for ''[[Shoot the Bullet]]''.<br />
*In ''[[Mountain of Faith]]'', Aya is the first stage 4 boss in a [[Windows]] game not to have some sort of gimmick/variation based on the playable character (i.e. [[Patchouli Knowledge]]'s different spell cards in ''[[Embodiment of Scarlet Devil]]'', [[Reimu Hakurei]] or [[Marisa Kirisame]] in ''[[Imperishable Night]]'', etc.).<br />
*In ''[[Touhou Hisoutensoku]]'', she has a palette that resembles Ranka Lee from Macross Frontier.<br />
*She is the only character introduced in ''[[Phantasmagoria of Flower View]]'' to return in a later main game, which is [[Mountain of Faith]].<br />
*Aya has appeared, even as far as mention or reference, in every game in the second generation of the [[Windows]] era up until ''[[Ten Desires]]'', from ''Mountain of Faith'' to ''[[Fairy Wars]]''.<br />
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==Fandom==<br />
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==Official Profiles==<br />
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| text = ・本書オリジナル、幻想郷一の情報通?射命丸 文(しゃめいまる あや)が登場!!<br />
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大人気キャラクター32人を、文の視点から徹底解剖!<br />
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もちろん文章は原作者ZUN氏による書き下ろし!<br />
| translation = Original to this book: The No.1 information specialist of the Gensokyo, Shameimaru Aya is here!<br />
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With Aya's original insight, the 32 hugely popular characters are taken apart and examined.<br />
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Of course, the text is written anew exclusively by the original creator, ZUN.<br />
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{{hidden begin|title = [[Phantasmagoria of Flower View]] - キャラ設定.txt|titlestyle = background:lightblue; text-align:center}}<br />
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| text = ○伝統の幻想ブン屋<br /><br />
射命丸 文(しゃめいまる あや)<br /><br />
Syameimaru Aya<br />
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種族:鴉天狗<br /><br />
能力:風を操る程度の能力<br />
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鬼が幻想郷にいた、千年ほど前から住み着く天狗。<br /><br />
元は鴉。風を操る程度の能力を持つ。<br /><br />
性格は真面目で融通が利かない。強い者には礼儀正しく、弱い者には強気に出る。ただ、取材の相手となれば常に礼儀正しい。<br /><br />
彼女の持つ力は、幻想郷の中でも最高クラスではあるが、決して力を見せびらかせようとはしない。これは、彼女に限らず天狗の特性でもある。<br />
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普段は山に住み、風と同じ速度同じ向きに移動する。噂好きで、いつも情報を仕入れては、天狗仲間で情報交換する。交換するたびに情報は変化し、殆どの噂は大げさな物となっている。<br />
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天狗の中でも彼女は幻想郷の女の子達の噂が好き。自分で観察したり、仲間から仕入れたりと新しい情報が入ってこない時などほとんど無い。ただ、どの情報も多分に嘘が混じっているものである。<br />
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彼女は「文々。新聞」(ぶんぶんまるしんぶん)という不定期新聞を作り、天狗内で配っている。嘘だらけの新聞である。<br />
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今回の様な異変が起きる事で、天狗達は大喜びである。こういう時は色んな新しい情報が入ってくるからであり、その情報を元に新聞が書けるからである。<br />
| translation = '''Traditional Reporter of Fantasy'''<br /><br />
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'''Aya Shameimaru'''<br />
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Species: Crow [[Tengu]]<br /><br />
Ability: Manipulating wind<br />
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A tengu who has been in Gensokyo for over 1000 years, when oni were still around.<br /><br />
Her origin is a crow. She has the ability to manipulate wind.<br /><br />
Her character is honest but not rigid. She is polite to strong people, and deals more firmly with weak people. However, she is always polite when conducting an interview.<br /><br />
Although her powers are among the top class in Gensokyo, she never uses them just to show off. This isn't only a characteristic of hers, but of tengu in general.<br />
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She usually lives on a mountain where the wind always moves at the same speed and the same direction. She loves gossip and is always gathering information exchanged with her fellow tengu. During any exchange, information is warped, and almost all of their stories end up exaggerated.<br />
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She is the biggest connoisseur of rumors about the girls of Gensokyo among the tengu. Through observing for herself and collecting information from colleagues, barely a moment passes when she isn't obtaining material. However, much of her material is mingled with rumor.<br />
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She writes up her non-periodical newspaper, [[Bunbunmaru Newspaper]], and distributes it among the tengu. It's a newspaper chock-full of rumors.<br />
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As the current disaster started up, the tengu were overjoyed. There was much new material to be obtained, based on which they can write up their newspapers.<br />
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{{hidden begin|title = [[Mountain of Faith]] - キャラ設定.txt|titlestyle = background:lightblue; text-align:center}}<br />
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| text = ○4面ボス 里に最も近い天狗<br /><br />
射命丸 文(しゃめいまる あや)<br /><br />
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Syameimaru Aya<br />
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種族:鴉天狗<br /><br />
能力:風を操る程度の能力<br />
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妖怪の山の新聞記者。主に幻想郷の少女達のローカルニュースを新聞にする天狗である。<br />
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今回は、白狼天狗から侵入者ありとの報告があった。こういう場合、普段は自警隊リーダーの大天狗の総指揮の元、白狼天狗が交渉、及び警備に当たる。<br />
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しかし、何故か大天狗は報道機関である彼女を呼び出し交渉を命じた。<br /><br />
彼女は首を傾げながら現場に向かうと、その疑問はすぐに氷解した。<br />
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侵入者は、彼女がいつも新聞のネタにしている人間だったのである。<br />
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つまり大天狗は、文が侵入者の事を一番理解していると判断して、目的は何なのか聞き出せると判断したのだ。<br />
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彼女は手加減して戦った振りを見せ、わざと負けた。戦いもしないで山に入れてしまうと、彼女が人間と繋がっていると疑われる可能性があったからである。<br />
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文は人間に屈した振りをして、最近現れた謎の神社に案内した。大天狗には『侵入者の目的は山から迷惑な来客があったとの事でしたので、天狗社会に矛先が向かないように、最近現れた謎の神社の様子を見に行かせました』と報告した。<br /><br />
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大天狗はその報告を聞き、ピンチをチャンスに変える働きをした文を褒めた。<br /><br />
そして、下っ端である犬走に引き続き人間の監視を命令し、その謎の神様の様子も探る事にした。<br />
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犬走の報告によると謎の神様は人間と戦闘になったが、遊んでいる様子であり、遊びを楽しんでいるようだった。性格は極めて明るく、頭脳は明晰。危険性は少なく、むしろ友好を築く事で、山の妖怪の生活はより良くなるのではないか、との報告であった。<br />
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それから、天狗の頭領である天魔様と、山の神様の間で秘密の交渉が行われる事になった。<br /><br />
何を話し合ったのかは公開される事はなかったが、結果はお互い山に住む者として友好関係を築く事になった、と知らされた。<br />
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それ以来、天狗や河童は新しい神様を信仰するようになった。<br /><br />
信仰といっても、一緒に宴会をする程度の事だったが。<br />
| translation = '''Tengu Closest to the Village'''<br /><br />
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Aya Shameimaru<br />
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Species: Crow [[Tengu]]<br /><br />
Ability: Manipulating wind<br />
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A news reporter on the [[Youkai Mountain]]. A tengu who typically writes local news stories about the girls of [[Gensokyo]].<br />
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This time around, she got word from the white wolf tengu that an intruder had entered the mountain. Normally, the white wolf tengu are charged by the great tengu with patrolling the mountain, and conducting negotiations and defensive operations.<br />
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However, in this case, the great tengu decided to call on this member of the information media to conduct negotiations. Cocking her head to one side in doubt, she headed to the scene of the event, where her confusion was immediately dispelled.<br />
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The intruder was one of the girls she was always covering in her newspaper.<br />
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In other words, the great tengu understood that Aya had the most in-depth knowledge of the intruder, and had the best chance of being told outright what the intruder's aim was.<br />
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Aya went easy on the intruder, put on a show of vigorously defending herself, and purposefully lost. After all, if she let the intruder enter the mountain without putting up a fight, she would likely be suspected of being an accomplice to the humans.<br />
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Aya pretended to lose to the humans, and guided them to the mysterious shrine that had appeared recently. She reported to her superiors that the intruders had no business with the tengu society, but were instead interested in the troublesome, enigmatic shrine that had appeared of late.<br />
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The great tengu took in her report, and then commended Aya for turning around a potential threat into an opportunity.<br /><br />
They then ordered the underling [[Momiji Inubashiri|Inubashiri]] to continue her observation of the humans, and go to investigate the shrine of the mysterious god.<br />
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According to Inubashiri's report, the mysterious god and the humans had waged battle, but it was truly a playful event where the two parties seemed to be enjoying themselves. Their respective personalities were bright, and their heads kept level. There was little, if any, real danger - rather, by pursuing a friendly relationship with the shrine, the youkai of the mountain might be better off in the end.<br />
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After that, the chief of the tengu, Lord [[Tenma]], entered into secret negotiations with the mountain god.<br /><br />
The details of their discussions were not made public, but it was made known that they had agreed to share the mountain with each other and pursue friendly relations.<br />
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Since then, the tengu and the [[kappa]] came to have faith in their new god.<br /><br />
Though, it was really more of an agreement to all celebrate together than a matter of faith.<br />
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{{hidden begin|title = [[Scarlet Weather Rhapsody]] - おまけ.txt|titlestyle = background:lightblue; text-align:center}}<br />
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| image = [[File:Th105Aya.png|200px|Aya Shameimaru SWR]]<br />
| text = ○伝統の幻想ブン屋<br /><br />
射命丸 文(しゃめいまるあや)<br />
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種族:天狗(鴉)<br /><br />
住家:妖怪の山<br /><br />
能力:風を操る程度の能力<br />
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むしろ、動くことがその物が風と言ったところ。<br /><br />
風に乗って飛び、風の声を聴き、自在に風を起こす。<br />
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風の噂を掴む事も得意。<br />
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性格:頭脳明晰、人前では丁寧な態度を見せる。非好戦的。<br />
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彼女の思考能力は非常に高く、それが真実かどうかはともかく、人の何倍ものスピードで考えを巡らす。<br /><br />
何を考えているのか予想することは非常に困難。その上、表面上は相手のレベルに合わせてくるため、一緒にいる誰もが居心地の悪い気分になる。<br />
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戦うことは余り好きではないが、喧嘩を売って歩いている。ただ元々敵う相手ではないのでその喧嘩を買う者は少なく、泣き寝入りするばかりである。<br />
| translation = '''Traditional Reporter of Fantasy'''<br /><br />
Aya Shameimaru <!-- \射命丸/ --><br />
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Race: tengu (crow)<br /><br />
Place of residence: the Youkai Mountain<br /><br />
Ability: Manipulating wind<br />
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Or, perhaps it would be better to say her movement ''is'' the wind.<br /><br />
She rides the wind, listens to the wind, and can cause wind whenever she pleases.<br />
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She's also good at collecting the wind's rumors.<br />
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Personality: very intelligent, and courteous towards others. Non-combative.<br />
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Her mental faculties are extremely sharp, and turns thoughts about in her head much more quickly than humans.<br /><br />
It's very difficult to tell what she's thinking. On top of that, she changes her mannerisms to match whoever she's with, so nobody feels entirely comfortable around her.<br />
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She doesn't particularly like to fight, but she tends to pick fights a lot. However, not many can really challenge her, so few take her up on it, and she has to just let them be.<br />
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{{hidden begin|title = [[Subterranean Animism]] - キャラ設定.txt|titlestyle = background:lightblue; text-align:center}}<br />
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| text = ○伝統の幻想ブン屋<br /><br />
射命丸 文(しゃめいまる あや)<br /><br />
Shameimaru Aya<br />
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種族:天狗<br /><br />
能力:風を操る程度の能力<br />
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山に住んでいる天狗で新聞記者。<br />
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山の神様と河童が何か不穏な行動を取っていたので潜入取材していたら、謎が地底世界に繋がった。<br />
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これを取材して記事にすれば部数増大のチャンスと踏んで、霊夢を利用した。<br /><br />
天狗にとって地底に入る事は避けたかったからである。<br />
| translation = '''Traditional Reporter of Fantasy'''<br /><br />
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Aya Shameimaru<br />
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Species: tengu<br /><br />
Ability: Manipulating wind<br />
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A tengu reporter who lives on the mountain.<br />
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She heard that the kappa and the gods of the mountain were up to something, so she went off to report on it, it turned out that the mystery was connected to the underground world.<br />
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She figured she could greatly increase her circulation if she wrote a story about it, so she used Reimu to investigate.<br /><br />
As a tengu, she wanted to avoid actually going underground.<br />
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| image = [[File:Th16Aya.png|200px|Aya HSiFS]]<br />
| text = ○紅葉を散らす天狗<br /><br />
射命丸 文<br /><br />
Shameimaru Aya<br />
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種族:天狗<br /><br />
能力:風を操る程度の能力<br />
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天狗の新聞記者。<br />
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あちこちを取材しているので、いち早く気候の異常に気が付いた。<br /><br />
ただの冷夏や猛暑ではないが、全てにおいて原因が隠されている。<br /><br />
その異常さに人為的なものを見たが、果たしてその勘は当たっているのだろうか。<br />
| translation ='''The Tengu who Scatters Autumn Leaves'''<br/><br />
'''Aya Shameimaru'''<br />
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Species: Tengu<br/><br />
Ability: Capable of manipulating wind<br />
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A tengu newspaper reporter.<br />
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She's been doing news reporting in various places, so she clued in to the strange weather right away.<br/><br />
These clearly aren't your average cool summers or heat waves, but in every case, the cause is concealed.<br/><br />
She perceived something artificial about this abnormalcy-- but will that intuition prove true in the end?<br />
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==Official Sources==<br />
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*2005/08/11 '''[[Bohemian Archive in Japanese Red]]''' - 本書について<br />
*2005/08/14 '''[[Phantasmagoria of Flower View]]''' - キャラ設定.txt (official profile)<br />
*2005/12/30 '''[[Shoot the Bullet]]''' - Playable Character<br />
*2006/12/27 '''[[Perfect Memento in Strict Sense]]''' - [[Perfect Memento in Strict Sense/Aya Shameimaru|Traditional Reporter of Fantasy: Aya Shameimaru]]<br />
*2007/08/17 '''[[Mountain of Faith]]''' - Stage 4 dialogue; キャラ設定.txt (official profile)<br />
*2007/10/22 '''[[Inaba of the Moon and Inaba of the Earth]]''' - Chapter 5<br />
*2008/05/25 '''[[Scarlet Weather Rhapsody]]''' - おまけ.txt (official profile)<br />
*2008/05/26 ~ 2008/06/26 '''[[Strange and Bright Nature Deity]]''' - Chapters 19-20<br />
*2008/08/16 '''[[Subterranean Animism]]''' - Reimu/Aya's Scenario; Reimu/Aya Extra Stage dialogue; キャラ設定.txt<br />
*2008/12/22 '''[[Inaba of the Moon and Inaba of the Earth]]''' - Chapter 19<br />
*2009/03/09 ~ 2009/04/09 '''[[Silent Sinner in Blue]]''' - Chapters 20-21<br />
*2009/04/22 '''[[Inaba of the Moon and Inaba of the Earth]]''' - Chapter 23<br />
*2009/05/26 '''[[Oriental Sacred Place]]''' - Chapter 1 (cameo)<br />
*2009/07/28 '''[[The Grimoire of Marisa]]''' - [[The Grimoire of Marisa/Aya Shameimaru's Spell Cards|Aya Shameimaru's Spell Cards]]<br />
*2010/03/14 '''[[Double Spoiler]]''' - Playable Character; Hatate's Spoiler Stage Spell Card comments<br />
*2010/06/26 '''[[Oriental Sacred Place]]''' - Chapter 9<br />
*2010/09/25 '''[[Wild and Horned Hermit]]''' - Chapter 2<br />
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[[Category:Characters in Double Spoiler]]</div>AliceDhttps://en.touhouwiki.net/index.php?title=Sanae_Kochiya&diff=434149Sanae Kochiya2021-09-13T20:45:58Z<p>AliceD: </p>
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<div>{{Infobox Character<br />
| nameJp = {{ruby-ja|東風谷|こちや}} {{ruby-ja|早苗|さなえ}}<br />
| nameEn = Sanae Kochiya<br />
| nameIPA = kot͡ɕija sanae [[Media:Pronunciaiton_SanaeKochiya.ogg|(♫)]]<br />
| nameAlt = Sanae Kotiya<br />
| image = [[File:Th18Sanae.png|x340px|Sanae]]<br />
| caption= Sanae as she appears in [[Unconnected Marketeers]].<br />
| chartitle = {{H:title|Newbie Goddess of the Mountain|山の新人神様}}<br />
| species = [[Human]] ''(not native to [[Gensokyo]])'', descendant of a goddess, [[Arahitogami]]<br />
| abilities = Causing miracles to occur<br />
| occupation = [[Wind Priestess]], [[Shrine Maiden]]<br />
| location = [[Moriya Shrine]]. Originally from [[Outside World|Suwa in the Shinano Province, Japan]].<br />
| MusicThemes = *{{H:title|{{lang|ja|信仰は儚き人間の為に}}|Faith Is for the Transient People}} ([[Mountain of Faith]], [[Touhou Hisoutensoku]])<br />
| appOfficialgames = *[[Mountain of Faith]] (Stage 5 Midboss, Stage 5 Boss)<br />
*[[Subterranean Animism]] (Extra Stage Midboss)<br />
*[[Undefined Fantastic Object]] (Playable Character)<br />
*[[Touhou Hisoutensoku]] (Playable Character, Possible Opponent)<br />
*[[Double Spoiler]] (Scene EX-3, EX-6, EX-9 Boss)<br />
*[[Ten Desires]] (Playable Character)<br />
*[[Hopeless Masquerade]] (Background Character)<br />
*[[Impossible Spell Card]] (7th Day Boss)<br />
*[[Legacy of Lunatic Kingdom]] (Playable Character)<br />
*[[Unconnected Marketeers]] (Playable Character)<br />
| appPrintworks = *[[Silent Sinner in Blue]] (Chapter 9 Cameo)<br />
*[[Strange and Bright Nature Deity]] (Chapter 22 cameo)<br />
*[[The Grimoire of Marisa]]<br />
*[[Wild and Horned Hermit]] (Secondary Character)<br />
*[[Symposium of Post-mysticism]]<br />
*[[Forbidden Scrollery]] (Chapter 22, chapter 42 cameo, chapter 52, chapter 53)<br />
*[[Strange Creators of Outer World]]'' Vol. 1 (Profile Section)<br />
*[[Visionary Fairies in Shrine]] (Chapter 2 Cameo, 6 cameo, 7 cameo, 9.5 cameo, 11.5 cameo)<br />
*''[[The Grimoire of Usami]]'' (Supporting Character, Section 1-10)<br />
*''[[Lotus Eaters]]'' (Chapter 13, 14, 15)<br />
| appMusicCDs = *[[Touhou Hisoutensoku OST]] (CD cover)<br />
}}<br />
{{nihongo|'''Sanae Kochiya'''|東風谷 早苗|Kochiya Sanae}} is a [[human]], but is also a distant descendant of the [[god]]dess [[Suwako Moriya]]. Her role at the [[Moriya Shrine]] is similar to a [[shrine maiden]], but with her inherited power Sanae has also become a minor deity herself. Originally from the [[Outside World]], Sanae migrated to [[Gensokyo]] with the shrine and its two resident goddesses, [[Kanako Yasaka]] and [[Suwako Moriya]]. As a result, she is rather knowledgeable about the outside world and modern living, although her attempts to explain scientific concepts usually just confuse the locals. Her knowledge on things like the youkai of Gensokyo, on the other hand, seems a bit lacking for a shrine maiden.<br />
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==General Information==<br />
Sanae was first introduced in ''[[Mountain of Faith]]'' as the stage 5 boss, reappeared as the extra stage midboss of ''[[Subterranean Animism]]'' and later became a playable character in ''[[Undefined Fantastic Object]]'', ''[[Touhou Hisoutensoku]]'', ''[[Ten Desires]]'' and ''[[Legacy of Lunatic Kingdom]]''. She is a secondary character in the comic ''[[Wild and Horned Hermit]]''.<br />
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===Personality===<br />
Sanae is confident, energetic and dutiful, sometimes too much so, and tends to get carried away easily or have trouble thinking for herself. She also appears to be something of a geek, making references to popular culture and having knowledge of advanced scientific concepts. As someone who grew up in the [[Outside World]], much of [[Gensokyo]] seems strange and novel to her; she finds great fun in "exterminating" [[youkai]] and solving incidents. She also may have somewhat of a complex about herself as an incident resolver, thinking foes won't take her as seriously as the other experienced youkai exterminators. The simple fact that she is adjusting to life in [[Gensokyo]] makes her an extremely rare case.<br />
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===Occupation===<br />
Sanae's occupation as a [[Wind Priestess]] means to be the priest to worship the god of wind. However, while causing miracles of wind and rain to come about through a secret technique with many secrets, since she herself is treated to the same level as [[god]]s, and has become one who gathers faith, she is also a living god. In ''[[Mountain of Faith]]'', just in front of [[Reimu Hakurei]], she said about herself, "I guess you could call me something like a [[Shrine Maiden]]", indicating that there's a chance that she's different from a Shrine Maiden, but in the works, she is fundamentally treated as a Shrine Maiden the same way Reimu is. Furthermore, since Sanae is a "god" while at the same time being a "[[human]]", even if she loses all her faith, she can continue to live as a human.<br />
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===Abilities===<br />
;Ability to cause miracles<br />
Sanae is capable of invoking miracles through her godly heritage, and many of her [[spell card]]s are themed after miracles of various religions or odd events. It's mainly the manipulation of weather, and also seems to use it in prayers for rain. The "miracles" that she can invoke are not related to good or bad fortune – they are merely events that have a very low chance of occurring. Before invoking a miracle, she needs time to prepare it proportional to how unlikely the miracle is. Simple ones can be invoked with a single word, while the most complex can take days.<br />
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;Abilities as a shrine maiden<br />
Sanae is a [[shrine maiden]], but of a different type to [[Reimu Hakurei]]. Like Reimu she is capable of summoning gods, granting her some of their powers; while she relies on this ability much more than Reimu, she is only capable of summoning her patrons: [[Kanako Yasaka]] and [[Suwako Moriya]].<br />
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==Character Design==<br />
[[File:ThGKSanae.png|thumb|200px|Sanae, as illustrated in ''[[Symposium of Post-mysticism]]'']]<br />
===Name and Origin===<br />
Her full name is {{nihongo|''Sanae Kochiya''|東風谷 早苗}}. {{nihongo|''Sanae''|早苗}} can mean "rice seedling" or "early seedling", and {{nihongo|''Kochiya''|東風谷}} "eastern wind valley". The same "east" ({{lang|ja|東}}) appears in {{nihongo|Touhou|東方}}, and the same "wind" ({{lang|ja|風}}) in the title of {{nihongo|''[[Mountain of Faith]]''|風神録}}.<br />
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Unusual amongst Touhou characters, both are real names used in modern Japan. Presumably Sanae's name is derived from the real world person {{nihongo|"Sanae Moriya"|守矢早苗}}, the 78th head of the Moriya family which claims descent from {{nihongo|the god Moreya|洩矢神|Moreyashin|"Moreya" is an archaic pronunciation of "Moriya"}}. This family were supposed to succeed one of the priests of the [[wikipedia:Suwa Taisha|Suwa Grand Shrine]], {{nihongo|Jin Choukan|神長官||"God Director"}}.<br />
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===Design===<br />
In her first appearance in ''[[Mountain of Faith]]'' she wears a blue and white outfit similar to a [[shrine maiden]]'s, with the blue areas covered in light blue polka dots and stripes. She has long light green hair, and yellow eyes (green in ''[[Undefined Fantastic Object]]'' and ''[[Ten Desires]]'', blue in ''[[Touhou Hisoutensoku]]'' portraits). In ''Mountain of Faith'', she wears a snake-shaped hair accessory wrapped around her hair on one side, and a blue headband with a frog's head on it<ref>''https://i.imgur.com/G52b2Dr.png''</ref> (both probably meant to represent [[Kanako Yasaka]] and [[Suwako Moriya]]), however, in every subsequent appearance after MoF, she has instead worn a hair clip shaped like a frog's head. She carries a gohei with straight paper decorations as opposed to the typical gohei.<br />
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In ''[[Ten Desires]]'' her hair color is slightly paler, and she wears a shorter skirt with maroon-colored boots instead of aquamarine-colored shoes.<br />
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==Story==<br />
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;''Mountain of Faith''<br />
[[File:Th10SanaeSprite.png|frame|Sanae's sprite in ''MoF'']]<br />
When [[human]]s on the [[Outside World]] began losing their faith in her and [[Kanako Yasaka]], the shrine's actual deity, Kanako decided to move the shrine to [[Gensokyo]] where at least [[youkai]] might have faith in them. During the events of ''[[Mountain of Faith]]'' Sanae tried threatening the [[Hakurei Shrine]] in order to establish the [[Moriya Shrine]] as the dominant one, not realizing how powerful humans like [[Reimu Hakurei]] and [[Marisa Kirisame]] were. In response to the threats Sanae was defeated by the heroine followed shortly after by Kanako and [[Suwako Moriya]]'s defeat. However, the residents of the Moriya Shrine have since come to an understanding with their new neighbors and live in peace with the other residents of [[Youkai Mountain]].<br />
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;''Subterranean Animism''<br />
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Following the extra scenario as the player heads through the [[Moriya Shrine]] to look for the two goddesses, Sanae appears as the midboss of the [[stage]]. She believes that the traditional greetings in [[Gensokyo]] is by attacking with [[danmaku]] because you can't be trapped by common sense. She attacks the heroine with three [[spell card]]s, but was defeated. Specifically on Reimu/Suika's scenario, she returns stating that Kanako was creating a kappa industrial revolution by using the old [[Remains of Blazing Hell]]. She was unaware of the incident that occurred in the game, making Reimu unhappy.<br />
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;''Undefined Fantastic Object''<br />
[[File:Th12SanaebackSprite.png|frame|left|Sanae's back sprite in ''UFO'']]<br />
In each scenario of ''[[Undefined Fantastic Object]]'', Sanae is ordered with a different task. Depending on this, her secondary bullet will become a snake or a frog. <br />
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[[Kanako Yasaka]]'s task is to to train her own abilities by hunting [[Youkai]].<br />
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[[Suwako Moriya]]'s task is to to find the [[Myouren Temple|Treasure Ship]].<br />
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;''Ten Desires''<br />
:{{Main|Ten Desires/Story/Sanae's Scenario|l1=Ten Desires Story}}<br />
Sanae notices the strange spirit at the [[Moriya Shrine]] in ''[[Ten Desires]]'' and knows what they are: [[Divine spirit|divine spirit]]s, born from [[human]]s due to powerful fears, desires and feelings. She takes the opportunity to gather the divine spirits, as it is the same as gathering faith from humans. She can't, however, figure out why all these divine spirits have appeared in the first place.<br />
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;''Legacy of Lunatic Kingdom''<br />
:{{Main|Legacy of Lunatic Kingdom/Story/Sanae's Scenario|l1=Legacy of Lunatic Kingdom Story}}<br />
The [[Wikipedia:Curiosity_(rover)|Curiosity Mars rover]] appears in Gensokyo, causing all life around it to become petrified and turn to stone when it gets too close. Left unchecked, Curiosity would eventually purge all life from Gensokyo. Kanako and Suwako send Sanae to investigate it, which eventually leads Sanae to outer space and to the [[Lunar Kingdom]], where she learns that Curiosity was sent to "purify" Gensokyo and make it inhabitable to the Lunarians, due to an external threat the Lunarians are facing. Sanae is forced to save the Lunarians, lest Curiosity continue its destructive path.<br />
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;''Unconnected Marketeers''<br />
:{{Main|Unconnected Marketeers/Story/Sanae's Scenario|l1=Unconnected Marketeers Story}}<br />
At the request of [[Kanako]], Sanae is sent to investigate the proliferation of Ability Cards on Youkai Mountain.<br />
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===Spin-offs===<br />
;''Touhou Hisoutensoku''<br />
:{{Main|Touhou Hisoutensoku/Translation/Sanae's Scenario|l1=Touhou Hisoutensoku Story}}<br />
In ''[[Touhou Hisoutensoku]]'', thinking that a gigantic robot appeared in [[Gensokyo]], Sanae is in pursuit of the giant figure, when she stumbles into a giant pit to the nuclear reactor run by [[Utsuho Reiuji]] and learns that [[Suwako Moriya]] is responsible for creating the "[[robot]]" figure, [[Hisoutensoku]].<br />
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;''Double Spoiler''<br />
In ''[[Double Spoiler]]'', Sanae appeared as an Extra stage target, where she uses a few [[spell card]]s and had [[Aya Shameimaru]] and [[Hatate Himekaidou]] take photos of her and her [[danmaku]].<br />
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;''Hopeless Masquerade''<br />
[[File:Th135Sanae.png|frame|Sanae in ''HM'']]<br />
Sanae made a background cameo appearance in ''[[Hopeless Masquerade]]'' on the [[Genbu Ravine]] and [[Youkai Tanuki Forest]] stage. She is seen standing next to [[Suwako Moriya]] waving her onusa.<br />
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;''Impossible Spell Card''<br />
:{{Main|Impossible Spell Card#Story|l1=Impossible Spell Card: Story}}<br />
After apparently reading the newspaper by the [[tengu]] about a mischief-making [[amanojaku]], she becomes one of the many strong [[youkai]] and [[human]]s to try and stop [[Seija Kijin]]. She uses [[spell card]]s that are considered impossible to dodge.<br />
===Literature===<br />
;''Wild and Horned Hermit''<br />
Sanae demands [[Reimu]]’s help with her mission of transforming the inefficient netherworld reactor, powered by [[Okuu]]’s nuclear powers. Her idea was to obtain nuclear reactions using [[wikipedia:cold fusion|cold fusion]]<ref> Chapter 2 [[Wild and Horned Hermit]]</ref>. For that, she need Reimu to contact the metals god, Kanayamabiko no Mikoto, to obtain a paladium alloy. After obtaining it, [[Kanako Yasaka]] and Sanae made a succesful public demostration.<br />
After that, in chapter 4 a landslide in the foot of the [[Youkai Mountain]], near the river. Sanae didn’t lose the opportunity to sell souvenirs, although the dam construction (which was in reality a plan to create a new base for the [[Moriya Shrine]]), had to be canceled.<br />
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Afterwards, whenever Reimu heard noticies about Sanae, it was because she wanted to make some festival to gain followers, as she made in chapter 25 taking advantage of the shooting star.<br />
However, Sanae is also cooperative with Reimu, as it is showed in chapters like the 23rd, where she takes care of the [[Hakurei Shrine]] while Reimu was busy being a fortuneteller.<br />
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==Relationships==<br />
;[[Suwako Moriya]] & [[Kanako Yasaka]]<br />
Sanae serves as the [[shrine maiden]] of [[Kanako Yasaka]] and [[Suwako Moriya]], and moved with them to [[Gensokyo]]. Sanae is also Suwako's distant descendant. During the events of ''[[Mountain of Faith]]'', Kanako sends Sanae out to collect faith. Much like [[Yukari Yakumo]]'s use of [[Ran]] and [[Chen]], Sanae can summon Kanako and Suwako in her spell and skill cards in ''[[Touhou Hisoutensoku]]''.<br />
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;[[Reimu Hakurei]]<br />
Sanae appears to have a friendly relationship with Reimu Hakurei, as she has been seen visiting the [[Hakurei Shrine]] on numerous occasions, both in the [[Undefined Fantastic Object/Story/Prologue|Prologue]] of ''[[Undefined Fantastic Object]]'' and in ''[[Wild and Horned Hermit]]''; Sanae is even tasked with minding the shrine while Reimu is training with [[Kasen Ibaraki]].<br />
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;[[Marisa Kirisame]]<br />
Sanae frequently meets Marisa on her visits to the Hakurei Shrine, and they seem reasonably friendly.<br />
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==Gallery==<br />
===Covers===<br />
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File:TFM-004.jpg|Cover of ''[[Touhou Hisoutensoku OST]]'', featuring Sanae<br />
File:WaHH 3 cover.jpg|Sanae on the Vol. 3 cover of ''[[Wild and Horned Hermit]]''<br />
File:ThGI4Cover.jpg|Sanae on the Vol. 4 cover of ''[[Strange Creators of Outer World]]''<br />
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===Artworks===<br />
<gallery><br />
File:Th10Sanae.png|Sanae artwork from ''[[Mountain of Faith]]''<br />
File:Th12Sanae.png|Sanae artwork from ''[[Undefined Fantastic Object]]''<br />
File:Th123Sanae.png|Sanae artwork from ''[[Touhou Hisoutensoku]]''<br />
File:Th13Sanae.png|Sanae artwork from ''[[Ten Desires]]''<br />
File:Th15Sanae.png|Sanae in ''[[Legacy of Lunatic Kingdom]]''<br />
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===Sprites===<br />
<gallery><br />
File:Th123SanaeColors.png|Sanae's colors from ''Touhou Hisoutensoku''<br />
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===Illustrations===<br />
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File:Alphes Promotional Art UFO.jpg|Sanae in a promotional flyer by [[alphes]]<br />
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===Others===<br />
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File:GoMSigil-Sanae.jpg|Sanae's sigil as seen in ''[[The Grimoire of Marisa]]''<br />
File:Th123SanaeSigil.png|Sanae's sigil from ''Touhou Hisoutensoku''<br />
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==Skills==<br />
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==Spell Cards==<br />
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{{#lsth:List of Spell Cards/Touhou Project 2|[[Sanae Kochiya]]}}<br />
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==Additional Information==<br />
*Sanae seems to have a relatively low alcohol tolerance compared to other characters. In one of the endings of ''[[Mountain of Faith]]'', she gets extremely nervous when informed of the constant drinking parties the [[tengu]] will hold, with the narrator commenting she'll just have to put up with it, and in ''[[Wild and Horned Hermit]]'' chapter 19, she's constantly distressed about being made to drink.<br />
*In ''Mountain of Faith'', her [[spell card]] ''[[Mountain of Faith/Spell Cards/Stage 5#Spell Card 66|Sea Opening "The Day the Sea Split"]]'' is extremely similar to [[Alice Margatroid]]'s second attack in ''[[Mystic Square]]'''s Extra Stage.<br />
*[[Touhou Hisoutensoku/Spell Cards/Sanae Kochiya#Spell Card 8|One of Sanae's Spell Cards]] in ''[[Touhou Hisoutensoku]]'' strongly resembles [[wikipedia:Akuma (Street Fighter)|Shin Akuma]]'s "Misogi" from ''Capcom vs. SNK''.<br />
*In her last stage of ''[[Touhou Hisoutensoku]]'', despite the fact that Sanae is fighting against [[Suwako Moriya]], Sanae can still use skills summoning Suwako to her aid (e.g. Using ''[[Touhou Hisoutensoku/Spell Cards/Sanae Kochiya#Skill Card 8|Summon Earth's God: Metal Ring]]''), to attack Suwako.<br />
*In ''Touhou Hisoutensoku'' Sanae's character portrait shows her having blue eyes, but her sprite has yellow eyes.<br />
*Also in ''Touhou Hisoutensoku'', Sanae has alternate colors that resemble [[Rumia]]'s, [[Fujiwara no Mokou]]'s and [[Mystia Lorelei]]'s outfits. Conversely, one of Reimu's alternate colors resembles Sanae.<br />
*Sanae appears in a promotional flyer wearing a school uniform.<br />
*When in ''[[Wild and Horned Hermit]]'' a conversation occurred about a "electric rat", a thought bubble showed up with a censored Pikachu from ''[[Wikipedia:Pokémon|Pokémon]]''.<br />
*Sanae's absences in ''[[Hopeless Masquerade]]'' and ''[[Double Dealing Character]]'' were not anticipated by fans, in spite of her many appearances in previous games and manga: ''[[Undefined Fantastic Object]]'', ''Touhou Hisoutensoku'', ''[[Ten Desires]]'' and ''Wild and Horned Hermit''. [[ZUN]] directly stated that he hasn't included the [[Moriya Shrine]] cast in recent games without reason.<ref name="ZUNAWA">[[ZUN's AWA Q&A Panel]]</ref> However, there'd be explanatory descriptions about the absences through official works:<br />
*Sanae complains that [[Kanako Yasaka]] (or possibly them) not taking action in those two incidents in ''Wild and Horned Hermit'' chapter 19. Kanako replies kindly that she must calm down, and in another scene, tells her the settlement of negotiation with the [[tengu]] about the installation of an aerial tramway; she remarks that she or they've been always busy for completing it. Along with Sanae also knowing the negotiation has been very long, it should be implied that Kanako stopped Sanae from taking action on the incidents for some reason: for example, because Kanako wanted to concentrate her mind on the negotiation, because Kanako couldn't find it worth doing to take action in the incidents, or something else.<br />
**To add the reason of her absence of ''Double Dealing Character'', Marisa points out to Sanae, in ''Wild and Horned Hermit'' chapter 19, that Sanae hasn't used [[Wikipedia:Ōnusa|her tool]] regularly; in other words, it isn't so well-used as to build its own ego and to get in rampage.<br />
*Her sigil resembles the Star of David from [[Judaism]].<br />
*According to Kanako in ''Symposium of Post-Mysticism'', Sanae hails from Lake Suwa of Shinano Province.<br />
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==Fandom==<br />
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==Official Profiles==<br />
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| text = ○5面ボス 祀られる風の人間<br /><br />
東風谷 早苗(こちや さなえ)<br /><br />
Kotiya Sanae<br />
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種族:人間<br /><br />
職業:風祝<br /><br />
能力:奇跡を起こす程度の能力<br />
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一子相伝の秘術を持つ人間である。<br /><br />
性格はいたって真面目で、自分の力に自信を持っている。時には過信しすぎる事もある。<br />
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元々は、風の神様を祀る人間だったらしいのだが、秘密の多い秘術で雨や風を降らす奇跡を起こしているうちに、周りの人間は秘術を行う人間自体を信仰するようになっていった。<br />
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つまり、風の神様が起こしていた奇跡を、いつの間にか人間が起こしていると勘違いし始めたのだ。<br />
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それにより、彼女ら秘術を扱う人間は人間でありながら信仰を集め、神と同等の扱いを受けるようになった。現人神である。<br />
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早苗は幼い頃から、口伝でしか伝えられていない奇跡を呼ぶ秘術をマスターしていた。子供でありながら奇跡を呼ぶ彼女は、多くの信仰を集められる――筈であった。<br />
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しかし、外の世界は大きく様変わりしていた。神徳の多い神様でさえ信仰する人間が激減していた。当然、人間でありながら神となった現<人神など、信仰する人間は殆ど存在しなかったのだ。<br />
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早苗は別に信仰がなくても、普通の人間として生活できるから問題はなかったのだが、早苗が祀っている神様、神奈子はそうはいかなかった。<br />
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神様は信仰を失うと力も失う。神徳も出せなくなる。<br /><br />
それは神の死に等しい。<br />
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神奈子は決断した。人間から信仰を集めるには限界がある。これからは妖怪の信仰を集める事も考えないといけない、と。<br />
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早苗はその具体的な計画を聞き驚いた。我が国には昔から『幻想郷』という世界があった。その世界は今でもひっそりと存在しているのだという。幻想郷では外の世界で失われた(幻想になった)物が集まる。<br /><br />
つまり神への信仰も、幻想郷に移りつつあると考えられる。<br /><br />
そこで神奈子は、幻想郷に神社ごと移動すると言うのである。人間の世界との決別であった。<br />
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人間の世界との別れは恐怖であったが、それ以上に奇跡を起こす力を持っていた彼女にとって、奇跡の世界へ行く事は楽しみであった。<br />
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彼女は幻想郷の人間を正直なめていた。唯一の博麗神社を脅せば幻想郷自体、自分達の思い通りになると考えていたのである。彼女は霊夢に脅しを入れに行き、そして今回のように逆に痛い目にあってしまったのだ。<br />
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幻想郷に住む人間は、彼女が思う以上に厄介であり、そして力を持っている事を彼女は思い知らされた。<br />
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ここでは、彼女は特別な存在ではない。現人神なんかではなく、ただの人間となっている事に気付いたのだ。<br /><br />
これからは幻想郷の人間として普通に生きていくしかないのである。<br />
| translation = '''Deified Human of the Wind'''<br /><br />
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'''Sanae Kochiya'''<br />
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Species: [[Human]]<br /><br />
Occupation: [[Wind Priestess]]<br /><br />
Ability: Causing miracles<br />
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A human who possesses the knowledge of a secretly inherited art.<br /><br />
She has a very straightforward personality, so she has a lot of confidence in her own abilities.<br /><br />
Sometimes, perhaps a bit too much confidence.<br />
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Wind Priestesses were originally a devotees of the wind god, but as they used their secret abilities to create miracles such as summoning the wind and rain, the people around them began to believe in these humans with mysterious abilities.<br />
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In short, over time, people began to mistake the miracles caused by the wind god as being caused by them.<br />
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In addition, as keepers of secrets, they began to accrue faith and be treated as gods, even though they were humans. They became living gods.<br />
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When she was young, Sanae had mastered the secrets to call upon miracles that had been passed down through an oral tradition only. A young girl that could call upon the power of miracles would certainly collect great amounts of faith --- one would expect.<br />
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However, the outside world had changed a great deal. Faith in even gods with many divine virtues had been decreasing rapidly. There were few who would worship even a living god who had attained divinity during their life as a human.<br /><br />
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Though she didn't really have much faith, Sanae was able to live as a normal human without any real problems, but this would not do for the god she worshiped, [[Kanako Yasaka|Kanako]].<br />
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When people lose faith in gods, the gods lose their power. They can't manifest their divine virtues. This is the same as death, for a god.<br />
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Kanako came to a decision. There were limits to the amount of faith that could come from humans. From now on, she would have to also look to youkai as a source of her faith.<br />
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Sanae was surprised to hear the details of her plan: a world called "[[Gensokyo]]" has existed within our nation since time immemorial. It is said that this world still exists, hidden.<br />
Gensokyo has collected a number of things that have become lost - or, become fantasy - in the outside world. One could say that even people's faith in gods is in the process of moving to Gensokyo.<br /><br />
And so, Kanako decided to move her [[Moriya Shrine|shrine]] into Gensokyo. She would say farewell to the world of humans.<br /><br />
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Sanae was afraid of leaving the world of humans, but as a person with the power to call on miracles, going to a world of miracles was one of the fun parts.<br />
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She did not take the humans of Gensokyo seriously. She thought that if they threatened the only shrine in Gensokyo, the [[Hakurei Shrine]], Gensokyo itself would submit to their every wish. She went to deliver her ominous message to Reimu, and then was in turn defeated.<br />
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The humans who lived in Gensokyo were more troublesome than she'd imagined, and in time she learned of the power they held, as well.<br />
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Here, she was nothing special.<br /><br />
She realized she had gone from being a god incarnate to just a normal human being.<br /><br />
All she could do now was to live a normal, peaceful life as a human of Gensokyo.<br />
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{{Profile Quote<br />
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| text = ○山の新人神様<br /><br />
東風谷 早苗(こちや さなえ)<br /><br />
Kotiya Sanae<br />
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種族:人間<br /><br />
能力:奇跡を起こす程度の能力<br />
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妖怪の山にある守矢神社に住む巫女さん。妖怪退治は不慣れ。<br />
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普段は神様と妖怪達に囲まれて暮している為、人間の話し相手が欲しいと思っているが、麓の人間は妖怪染みた人間ばかり。<br /><br />
そのうち、自分のああなるのかと少しだけ心配している。<br /><br />
でも、現人神と慕われただけあって妖怪にも劣らないが、少々惚けた所もある。<br />
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神奈子に言われて妖怪退治の真似事をしてみたり……幻想郷に慣れようとしている。<br />
| translation = '''The Newbie Goddess of the Mountain'''<br /><br />
<br /><br />
Sanae Kochiya<br />
<br />
Species: [[Human]]<br /><br />
Ability: Causing miracles<br />
<br />
The [[Shrine Maiden]] living in [[Moriya Shrine]] in [[Youkai Mountain]]. She is not used to youkai hunting.<br />
<br />
She wishes to talk to humans more, because she lives with gods and youkai, but most of humans living around the foot of the mountain are youkai-like humans. She is worried about becoming like them. As may be expected of a living god, she is as strong as youkai, but she is also somewhat of an airhead.<br />
<br />
She tries to do something like youkai hunting on [[Kanako Yasaka|Kanako]]'s recommendation, and... she makes an effort to get used to [[Gensokyo]].<br />
}}<br />
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{{Profile Quote<br />
| image = [[File:Th123Sanae.png|200px|Sanae Kochiya HSTS]]<br />
| text = ○祀られる風の人間<br /><br />
東風谷 早苗(こちや さなえ)<br />
<br />
幻想郷に来てから早二年経とうとしていた。<br /><br />
初めは異形なる者に対して畏怖から、まともに儀式も行えなかったが、今ではすっかり馴染み、違和感なく通常の仕事を行う事が出来た。<br />
<br />
もう、多少の事では驚かないと思っていた。<br /><br />
勿論、そう思ってしまったら必ず驚かされるのが幻想郷である。<br /><br />
そこが外の世界にはない幻想郷の長所であった。<br />
<br />
彼女は、守矢神社から見える巨大な人影を見ていた。<br /><br />
人影は神社よりも遥かにでかい、彼女にとっての古典的な表現では十階建ての高層ビル位はあるだろうか。<br />
<br />
その人影は、彼女には昔アニメで見た巨大人型ロボットに見えた。<br />
<br />
しかし、ロボットと言うには動きが滑らかすぎた。<br /><br />
まるで生きているかの様に動く人影は、時には山に望み、時には里を睨みそして突然霧に包まれたあと、不気味なほど静かに消えた。<br />
<br />
その事を神奈子に報告すると、それは「ブロッケンの妖怪」だと教えてくれた。<br /><br />
ブロッケンの妖怪とは、自分の影が霧に映り巨人に見える気象現象である。<br />
<br />
実際何らかの気象現象かなんかであろう、そう考えてしまう自分の思考回路が面白くなかった。<br /><br />
だから彼女は、あの影は里を襲う巨大ロボだと思う事にした。<br /><br />
そう考えると調査が楽しいからである。<br />
<br />
そう、アレは決して霧に映った影などではない。<br /><br />
霧が出てきたのは人影が出た後だったし、何より、ここは何が起こってもおかしくない場所、幻想郷なのだから。<br />
| translation = '''Deified Human of the Wind'''<br /><br />
Sanae Kochiya<br />
<br />
It had already been two years since she came to Gensokyo. At first, she was so frightened by the bizarre monsters that she simply couldn't perform the rituals of a shrine maiden, but now she had become familiar with them, and carried out her daily jobs without any discomfort.<br />
<br />
She thought that she wouldn't be surprised by some things any more. Of course, thinking like that in Gensokyo ensures that you will be surprised. That is Gensokyo's strong point, not present in the outside world.<br />
<br />
She saw the huge figure from the Moriya Shrine. The figure was far bigger than the shrine. She guessed that, to use a classical comparison, it was about as big as a ten-story building.<br />
<br />
The figure seemed to her like a giant robot from some [[Wikipedia:Gundam|old anime]] she had watched.<br />
<br />
But its movements were too smooth to be a robot's. The figure moved as if it were alive, occasionally overlooking the mountain, occasionally shooting a glare at the village. Then, it was suddenly shrouded in mist, and disappeared with an uncanny silence.<br />
<br />
When she reported it to Kanako, she told her it was the [[Wikipedia:Brocken_spectre|"Brocken specter."]] The Brocken specter is a meteorological phenomenon caused by a reflection of your own shadow on mist that seems to the observer to be a giant.<br />
<br />
In reality, be it a meteorological phenomenon or something else, thinking like that wasn't interesting. So she decided to think of that shadow as a giant robot attacking the village. Because that would make thinking about it more fun.<br />
<br />
That's right, that definitely wasn't a shadow reflected in mist. After all, the mist hadn't appeared until after the figure was already there. More than anything, though, because this was a place where nothing was too strange to happen: Gensokyo.<br />
}}<br />
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{{Profile Quote<br />
| image = [[File:WaHHSanae.jpg|Sanae Kochiya WaHH]]<br />
| text = 東風谷早苗<br /><br />
皮相浅薄な人間<br />
<br />
少し前にできた、山の神社の巫女<br /><br />
さん。幻想郷歴が浅いこともあり、<br />かなり現代っ子な一面がある。山<br /><br />
の神社に祭られている神様は神奈<br /><br />
子と諏訪子。<br />
| translation = Sanae Kochiya<br /><br />
'''Superficial and Shallow Human'''<br />
<br />
The [[shrine maiden]] of the shrine that was recently built on the [[Youkai Mountain]].<br /><br />
It may be because she's new to [[Gensokyo]], but she tends to show characteristics of youth.<br /><br />
The gods worshiped at the shrine are [[Kanako Yasaka|Kanako]] and [[Suwako Moriya|Suwako]].<br />
}}<br />
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{{Profile Quote<br />
| image = [[File:Th13Sanae.png|200px|Sanae Kochiya TD]]<br />
| text = ○山の新人神様<br /><br />
東風谷 早苗(こちや さなえ)<br /><br />
Kochiya Sanae<br />
<br />
種族:人間<br /><br />
能力:奇跡を起こす程度の能力<br />
<br />
妖怪の山にある守矢神社に住む巫女さん。妖怪退治は不慣れ。<br />
<br />
普段は神様と妖怪達に囲まれて暮している為、人間の話し相手が欲しいと思っているが、麓の人間は妖怪染みた人間ばかり。<br /><br />
そのうち、自分のああなるのかと少しだけ心配している。<br /><br />
でも、現人神と慕われただけあって妖怪にも劣らないが、少々惚けた所もある。<br />
<br />
神霊は神社にとって重要な霊。人間の信仰心を煽るにはこういった神霊を集める事が重要だと考えている。<br />
| translation = '''The Newbie Goddess of the Mountain'''<br /><br />
<br /><br />
Sanae Kochiya<br />
<br />
Species: [[Human]]<br /><br />
Ability: Causing miracles<br />
<br />
The [[Shrine Maiden]] living in [[Moriya Shrine]] in [[Youkai Mountain]]. She is not used to youkai hunting.<br />
<br />
She wish to have human friends to keep her company, since she lives constantly surrounded by gods and youkai, but most of humans living around the foot of the mountain are youkai-like humans. The thought of becoming like one of them eventually, is somewhat disconcerting to her. As may be expected of a living god, she is as strong as youkai, but she is also somewhat of an airhead.<br />
<br />
Divine spirits are very important spirits for a shrine. She thinks that in order to stir up the faith among humans, it is imperative that she must collect these spirits.<br />
}}<br />
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{{Profile Quote<br />
| image = [[File:Th15Sanae.png|200px|Sanae Kochiya LoLK]]<br />
| text = ○山に住む奇跡の現人神<br><br />
東風谷 早苗<br><br />
Kochiya Sanae<br />
<br />
種族:人間<br><br />
能力:奇跡を起こす程度の能力<br />
<br />
山の神社に住む巫女さん。<br />
<br />
どうも妖怪の山に異変が起こっていることに気が付いていた。<br><br />
しかし、妖怪達にはそれが見えないのか反応する物は居なかった。<br><br />
不気味に感じた彼女は霊夢に相談する。 <br />
| translation = '''Mountain-Dwelling Living God of Miracles'''<br /><br />
<br /><br />
Sanae Kochiya<br />
<br />
Species: [[Human]]<br /><br />
Ability: Causing miracles<br />
<br />
The [[Shrine Maiden]] living in the [[Moriya Shrine|shrine on the mountain]].<br />
<br />
She realized that there was some kind of incident occurring on the Youkai Mountain.<br><br />
However, perhaps because the youkai hadn't noticed anything yet, nobody reacted to what was going on.<br><br />
Feeling a sense of unease, she went to consult with Reimu.<br />
}}<br />
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{{Profile Quote<br />
| image = [[File:Th18Sanae.png|200px|Sanae UM]]<br />
| text = ○奇跡の現人神<br><br />
東風谷 早苗(こちや さなえ)<br><br />
Kochiya Sanae<br />
<br />
種族:人間<br><br />
能力:奇跡を起こす程度の能力<br />
<br />
カードの売人は妖怪の山を中心に活動していた。<br><br />
推測するにカードの生産元も近くにあるのではないか。<br><br />
山にある守矢神社はそれを看過できなかった。<br><br />
放って置けば、また博麗神社に持って行かれてしまうのではないか、と。<br />
| translation ='''Miraculous Living God'''<br><br />
'''Sanae Kochiya'''<br />
<br />
Species: Human<br><br />
Ability: Capable of causing miracles<br />
<br />
The card merchants' activity was centered around the Youkai Mountain.<br><br />
One could theorize that the cards' manufacturer was somewhere nearby, no?<br><br />
Given their position on the mountain, the Moriya Shrine couldn't turn a blind eye to this.<br><br />
If they left the situation alone, they thought, then the Hakurei Shrine would get ahead of them again.<br />
}}<br />
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==Official Sources==<br />
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*2007/08/17 '''[[Mountain of Faith]]''' - [[Mountain of Faith/Translation|Stage 5 dialogue]]; Character Settings.txt (official profile)<br />
*2008/02/09 '''[[Silent Sinner in Blue]]''' - Chapter 9<br />
*2008/08/16 '''[[Subterranean Animism]]''' - [[Subterranean Animism/Translation|Extra Stage dialogue]]<br />
*2008/08/26 '''[[Strange and Bright Nature Deity]]''' - Chapter 22 (appearance only)<br />
*2009/07/28 '''[[The Grimoire of Marisa]]''' - [[The Grimoire of Marisa/Sanae Kochiya's Spell Cards|Sanae Kochiya's Spell Cards]]<br />
*2009/08/15 '''[[Undefined Fantastic Object]]''' - [[Undefined Fantastic Object/Story/Prologue|Prologue]]; Sanae's scenario dialogue ([[Undefined Fantastic Object/Story/Sanae A's Scenario|A]], [[Undefined Fantastic Object/Story/Sanae B's Scenario|B]], [[Undefined Fantastic Object/Story/Sanae A's Extra|A Extra]], [[Undefined Fantastic Object/Story/Sanae B's Extra|B Extra]]); Character Settings.txt (official profile)<br />
*2009/08/15 '''[[Touhou Hisoutensoku]]''' - [[Touhou Hisoutensoku/Translation/Sanae's Scenario|Sanae's scenario dialogue]]; [[Touhou Hisoutensoku/Translation/Sanae's Script|Sanae's Vs. dialogue]]; official profile<br />
*2009/12/30 '''[[Touhou Hisoutensoku OST]] - Cover<br />
*2010/03/14 '''[[Double Spoiler]]''' - [[Double Spoiler/Spell Cards/Stage EX|Stage EX spell card comments]]<br />
*2010/09/25 ~ current '''[[Wild and Horned Hermit]]''' - Chapter 2 ~ current<br />
*2011/08/13 '''[[Ten Desires]]''' - [[Ten Desires/Story/Prologue|Prologue]]; [[Ten Desires/Story/Sanae's Scenario|Sanae's scenario dialogue]]; [[Ten Desires/Story/Sanae's Extra|Extra Stage dialogue]]; Character Settings.txt (official profile)<br />
*2012/04/27 '''[[Symposium of Post-mysticism]]'''<br />
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| nameEn = Misumaru Tamatsukuri<br />
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| nameAlt = Misumaru Tamatukuri<br />
| image = [[File:Th18Misumaru.png|x300px|Misumaru Tamatsukuri]]<br />
| caption = Misumaru Tamatsukuri in [[Unconnected Marketeers]]<br />
| chartitle = {{H:title|Genuine Magatama-Producing Craftsman|本物の勾玉制作職人}}<br />
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| species = [[God]]<br />
| abilities = Making magatama<br />
| occupation = Magatama crafter<br />
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{{nihongo|'''Misumaru Tamatsukuri'''|玉造 魅須丸|Tamatsukuri Misumaru}} is a [[god]] who initially appeared as the Stage 4 [[Boss|boss]] in ''[[Unconnected Marketeers]]''. She is also said to have crafted [[Reimu Hakurei]]'s [[Yin-Yang Orb|yin-yang orb]]s.<br />
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==General Information==<br />
<br />
===Personality===<br />
Misumaru has a stern, commanding presence, speaking somewhat formally but with authority. However, despite her stern appearance, her role in ''Unconnected Marketeers'' is entirely that of a benefactor; she created the Hakurei yin-yang orbs, stops the protagonist from entering the [[Wikipedia:Anoxia|anoxic]] depths of the Rainbow Dragon Cave, advises her where to find the mastermind of the incident, and finally helps her in the Extra stage by selling her a card before her battle with [[Momoyo Himemushi]].<br />
<br />
===Abilities===<br />
She has the ability to craft various objects such as [[wikipedia:Magatama|magatama]] from ancient minerals that hold divine power. In the world of [[Touhou Project]], magatama have the power to copy and store parts of people's souls, including their abilities and memories. Misumaru is mainly shown using the power of her magatama to analyze information on people she encounters, as well as their thoughts.<br />
<br />
According to her dialogue in [[Reimu Hakurei]]'s main scenario and hidden ending in ''[[Unconnected Marketeers]]'', she is also the one who crafted Reimu's [[Yin-Yang Orb]] from similar ancient materials.<br />
<br />
==Background Information==<br />
===Origin===<br />
<br />
She's based on Ame no Akarutama, one of the amatsukami from the [[wikipedia:Kojiki|Kojiki]] who took part in luring Amaterasu out of the cave she was hiding in and later in the descent of Ninigi and conquest of the kunitsukami. Akarutama was the ancestral deity of the Tamatsukuri clan, who was associated with the production of jewelry, including magatama. Tamatsukuri is also the name of Akuratama's shrine.<br />
<br />
===Name===<br />
In addition to the connection to the Tamatsukuri clan mentioned above, Tamatsukuri (玉造) also means jewel-maker.<br />
<br />
In ancient times, Misumaru written 御統 referred to a chain or loop of threaded beads (often magatama), usually worn as a necklace.<br />
<br />
===Design===<br />
Misumaru has dark blonde, roughly shoulder-length hair that parts over her face and has reddish eyes. She wears a red top with white sleeves and a black ribbon around the waist and a yellow skirt. A few strands of hair left and right are tied together with a spherical ornament and she wears a similar ornament on her head. <ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.mildom.com/10922924|title=東方ステーション #27 東方虹龍洞特集 |trans-title=Touhou Station #27: Touhou Kouryuudou Edition|people=[[ZUN]]|type=Livestream|date=2021-07-17|website=Mildon|access-date=2021-07-17|language =Japanese|quote=「玉だよ。弾の神様、弾幕の神様?」}}</ref> She is barefoot.<br />
<br />
Magatama are incorporated throughout her clothing, for example, a magatama-shaped green pattern on the skirt and a dark red on the top, and magatama in rainbow colors adorn the hem of her skirt, the ends of the shawl around her waist, and a chain that runs across her wear over the upper body.<br />
<br />
==Story==<br />
===Games===<br />
;''Unconnected Marketeers''<br />
The protagonist encounters Misumaru deep in the mine, where she warns that there is no oxygen further in the cave and that the protagonist should turn around or she will die. When the protagonist ignores this warning, Misumaru fights her. The protagonist wins the spell card battle, but is exhausted by it and finally notices the effects of the low oxygen. Misumaru sells the protagonist a card and advises her to leave the mine and seek the true culprit at the top of the mountain, which she does.<br />
<br />
In Reimu's good ending, Misumaru explains to her that she had nothing to do with the incident and that she was in the mine for the same reason as Reimu: she was concerned about the mining of Izanagi objects and was there to investigate it.<br />
<br />
==Relationships==<br />
;[[Reimu Hakurei]]<br />
Although Reimu never met her before the Ability Card Incident, she was responsible for creating the Hakurei [[Yin-Yang Orb]]s.<br />
<br />
;[[Momoyo Himemushi]]<br />
Misumaru is very critical of the mining in the Youkai Mountain and sent the protagonist to defeat [[Momoyo Himemushi]] during [[Unconnected Marketeers]]<br />
<br />
==Spell Cards==<br />
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{{#lsth:List of Spell Cards/Touhou Project 3|[[Misumaru Tamatsukuri]]}}<br />
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==Additional Information==<br />
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==Fandom==<br />
{{main|Fandom/Unconnected Marketeers#Misumaru Tamatsukuri|l1=Fandom: Misumaru Tamatsukuri}}<br />
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==Official Profiles==<br />
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{{Profile Quote<br />
| image =[[File:Th18Misumaru.png|200px|Misumaru Tamatsukuri]]<br />
| text = ○4面ボス<br><br />
本物の勾玉制作職人<br><br><br />
<br />
玉造 魅須丸(たまつくり みすまる)<br><br />
Tamatsukuri Misumaru<br><br><br />
<br />
種族:神様<br><br />
能力:勾玉を作る程度の能力<br><br><br />
<br />
古の鉱物から勾玉を作り出す神様。<br><br />
勾玉は生き物の魂を込める事が出来るマジックアイテムである。<br><br />
僅かだが、能力や気質、記憶までもコピーして収めることが出来るのである。<br><br />
勾玉の力を使えば、能力をコピーしたり、相手の情報を読み取ったりする事は容易い。<br><br><br />
<br />
虹龍洞で採掘されている龍珠は勾玉を作るのに向いている鉱物だ。<br><br />
大天狗が山に穴を開けまくって掘り出していると知り、彼女は慌てて現地調査に来ていた。<br><br />
龍珠が悪の手に渡ると危険だからである。更に言うと、山の環境破壊も気になっていた。<br><br />
欲望のままに山を切り崩し、資源が尽きると共にうち捨てられた鉱山跡を沢山見てきたからだ。<br><br><br />
<br />
虹龍洞は複雑に入り組んでいて、全貌はようと知れなかった。<br><br />
調査中に、人間が乗り込んできた。<br><br />
勾玉の力を使って目的を調べると、どうやらアビリティカードの調査をしているらしい。<br><br />
この先は人間が入れる場所ではないと追い返した。<br><br><br />
<br />
彼女は虹龍洞の調査を続けた。<br><br />
奥にいたのは山を掘り続ける危険な妖怪、大ムカデだった……。<br />
| translation =Stage 4 Boss<br><br />
Genuine Master Artisan of Magatama<br><br><br />
<br />
Misumaru Tamatsukuri<br><br><br />
<br />
Species: God<br><br />
Ability: Capable of making magatama<br><br><br />
<br />
A god who produces magatama from ancient minerals.<br><br />
Magatama are magic items that can contain the souls of living things inside of them.<br><br />
While only to a slight extent, they can copy and store people's abilities, temperaments, and even memories.<br><br />
By using the power of a magatama, it's easy to do things like copy abilities, read information from a subject, and so on.<br><br><br />
<br />
The Dragon Gems being excavated in the Rainbow Dragon Cave are minerals that are well-suited to being made into magatama.<br><br />
She learned that [[Megumu Iizunamaru|a Great Tengu]] was boring tons of holes in the mountain to excavate them, and hurriedly set out ot investigate the site.<br><br />
This was because it'd be dangerous for the Dragon Gems to fall into the hands of evil. On top of that, she was concerned about the mountain's environmental destruction.<br><br />
She had, after all, seen countless old mines that had been carved out of mountains due to sheer greed, then tossed aside when their resources ran out.<br><br><br />
<br />
The Rainbow Dragon Cave's structure was labyrinthine, with its full layout still unknown.<br><br />
While she was investigating, a human came and delved inside.<br><br />
Upon using her magatama's power to see what their motive was, it appeared that they were investigating the Ability Cards.<br><br />
She turned them away, telling them that the caverns beyond were no place for humans to enter.<br><br><br />
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After that, she continued investigating the Rainbow Dragon Cave.<br><br />
In its far reaches, she found a dangerous youkai that was continually digging away at the mountain: [[Momoyo Himemushi|a giant centipede]]...<br />
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| developer =Team Shanghai Alice<br />
| publisher =Kadokawa<br />
| released =2017-03-30<br />
| genre =Official Book<br />
| writers =[[ZUN]]<br />
| illustrators =[[Aoi Aioi]]<br />[[Genji Asai]]<br />[[Aya Azuma]]<br />[[Toshihira Arata]]<br />[[ALISON]]<br />[[Amamiya Tokuhisa]]<br />[[Suichuu Hanabi]]<br />[[TOKIAME]]<br />[[nyanya]]<br />[[Haniwa]]<br />[[Hiiragi Akio]]<br />[[Hitori]]<br />[[Masakichi]]<br />[[Mizutaki]]<br />
| pages =<br />
| comes with =<br />
| ISBN = 9784048928625<br />
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{{thtitle|Touhou |Bunka Shinpou|ruby=Word's End True Report|&nbsp;~ Alternative Facts in Eastern Utopia|東方文果真報 ~ Alternative Facts in Eastern Utopia}} is an official Touhou book released on March 30, 2017. It is presented as [[Aya Shameimaru]]'s attempt to create a tabloid magazine in the style of those from the [[Outside World]],<ref>''[[Curiosities of Lotus Asia]]'' - [[Curiosities of Lotus Asia/Chapter 30|Chapter 30]]</ref> which she eventually cancelled and left unpublished.<ref>''[[Forbidden Scrollery]]'' - Chapter 49</ref> The book features in-universe articles, interviews and advertisements similar to the earlier ''[[Bohemian Archive in Japanese Red]]'', but in a significantly more chaotic and haphazard format. In fact, the magazine ''Bunbunharu Weekly'' or "{{nihongo|文々春新報|Bunbunharu Shinpou|lit. "Aya's Periodical News Report"}} follows the name and design of {{nihongo|週刊文春|Shuukan Bunshun|lit. "Weekly Magazine of Literature Periodical"}}, a notorious high-circulation tabloid published weekly in Japan.<br />
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==Plot==<br />
[[Aya Shameimaru]], a [[tengu]] reporter, decides to change her reporting style to more closely match examples of [[Wikipedia:Clickbait|clickbait]] magazines from the [[Outside World]] in an attempt to further her publication's appeal. To that end, she imports the topical rhetoric of the [[Wikipedia:2016_United_States_presidential_election|2016 United States Presidential Election]], and other hot-button political, social, and "[[Wikipedia:moral panic|moral panic]]" issues into her newspaper.<ref>[[Alternative Facts in Eastern Utopia]] - [[Alternative_Facts_in_Eastern_Utopia/Afterword|ZUN's Afterword]]</ref> Additionally, there are several advertisements for local businesses present within the newspaper, such as [[Kourindou]] and the [[Marisa_Kirisame#Occupation|Kirisame Magic Shop]].<br />
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In keeping with the 'tabloid' theme, she relies heavily on [[Wikipedia:loaded_questions|loaded questions]] to manufacture a narrative that [[Gensokyo]] is at risk of invasion from "foreign threats", going so far as to imply [[Yukari Yakumo]] and [[Reimu Hakurei]] are collaborators with these alleged conspiring outsiders, such as [[Clownpiece]] and [[Sumireko Usami]], as well as painting "immigrants" such as the residents of [[Eientei]] as "foreign drug dealers."<ref>''[[Alternative Facts in Eastern Utopia]]'' - [[Alternative_Facts_in_Eastern_Utopia/Article_and_Interview/Reisen_Udongein_Inaba#Article_2|Reisen Udongein Inaba Article]]</ref> Despite Aya's determination to steer various conversations to that end, neither of Reimu nor Yukari appear concerned about the new "immigrants", with Reimu rejecting the idea that she "defends" the [[Hakurei Barrier]] from outsiders,<ref>''[[Alternative Facts in Eastern Utopia]]'' - [[Alternative_Facts_in_Eastern_Utopia/Article_and_Interview/Sumireko_Usami|Sumireko Usami's Interview]]</ref> and Yukari stating that Gensokyo is "accepting of everyone."<ref>''[[Alternative Facts in Eastern Utopia]]'' - [[Alternative_Facts_in_Eastern_Utopia/Article_and_Interview/Yukari_Yakumo|Yukari Yakumo's Interview]]</ref><br />
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During a particularly in-depth and intense conversation with [[Hecatia Lapislazuli]], in which the Goddess harshly chides Aya for her [[Wikipedia:Yellow_journalism|yellow journalism]], Hecatia warns Aya that [[Wikipedia:Isolationism|isolationism]] would result in the stagnation and eventual decay of Gensokyo, comparing such an ideology to one held by the antagonistic and elitist [[Lunar Kingdom]]. Hecatia also suggests that the surge in isolationist attitudes that might result from Aya's publication would be advantageous to the [[Lunarians]] by limiting Gensokyo's cultural evolution. This interview in particular seems to convince Aya to ultimately not publish the current iteration of ''Bunbunharu Shinpou'', becoming similarly concerned about aiding the Lunarians.<ref>''[[Alternative Facts in Eastern Utopia]]'' - [[Alternative Facts in Eastern Utopia/Article and Interview/Clownpiece and Hecatia Lapislazuli|Hecatia Lapislazuli's Interview]]</ref><br />
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In a journal-style afterword, Aya explains the rationale for many of her loaded questions and outright fabrications, viewing it as a way to make her publication "more exciting and attractive" for potential readers rather than being a true believer of any specific ideology herself. Additionally, she felt pressure to compete with [[Hatate Himekaidou]]'s ''Kakashi Spirit News'' publication, or face irrelevance in Gensokyo's sphere of journalism.<br />
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==Press==<br />
Details regarding the book, including its release date, were announced in the 3rd volume of [[Strange Creators of Outer World]]. Preorders opened shortly after. <br />
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==Read online (complete)==<br />
MangaDex: '''[https://mangadex.org/title/841524ee-2a99-47a6-a71c-1fc61236812f Touhou Bunka Shinpou ~ Alternative Facts in Eastern Utopia.]'''<br />
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Released by '''Reality Dreamers'''.<br />
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==Contents==<br />
*pg. 1: [[/Memo|Memo]]<br />
*pg. 3: [[/Foreword|Foreword]]<br />
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===Bunbunharu Weekly===<br />
*pg. 5: Cover<br />
*pg. 7-9: [[/Article and Interview/Sumireko Usami#Article|Article: Sumireko Usami (with Kasen Ibaraki)]] &mdash; A female student who can cross over the barrier!<br />
*pg. 10-11: [[/Article and Interview/Prismriver Sisters and Raiko Horikawa#Article_1|Article: Prismriver Sisters 1]] &mdash; The Prismriver Ensemble's break-up!<br />
*pg. 12-13: [[/Article and Interview/Clownpiece and Hecatia Lapislazuli#Article|Article: Clownpiece and Hecatia Lapislazuli]] &mdash; A shocking photo of the invaders' secret talk!<br />
*pg. 14-15: [[/Article and Interview/Hatate Himekaidou#Article_1|Article: Hatate Himekaidou 1 (about Sumireko Usami)]] &mdash; More fake news from Kakashi Spirit News!<br />
*pg. 16: [[/Article and Interview/Shinmyoumaru Sukuna#Article_1|Article: Shinmyoumaru Sukuna 1]] &mdash; A Small Challenger to White-Water Rafting!<br />
*pg. 17: [[/Index|Index]]<br />
*pg. 18-21: [[/Article and Interview/Yukari Yakumo|Article: Yukari Yakumo]] &mdash; Gensokyo's crisis was calculated!?<br />
*pg. 22-25: [[/Article and Interview/Reimu Hakurei|Article: Reimu Hakurei]] &mdash; The Hakurei Shrine: Ally to the Outside World<ref>On the book, the number of page is misprinted as it starts from pg. 20.</ref><br />
*pg. 26-27: [[/Article and Interview/Rinnosuke Morichika|Article: Rinnosuke Morichika]] &mdash; Kourindou's Junk Restocked<br />
*pg. 28-29: [[/Article and Interview/Tsukumo Sisters|Article: Tsukumo Sisters]] &mdash; The Birth of Future Stars! The healing "Two Girls Band"<br />
*pg. 30-31: [[/Article and Interview/Dangerous Things#Front_Pages|Dangerous Things]] &mdash; DANGEROUS Things Keep Eating Away at Gensokyo!<br />
**pg. 32-33: [[/Article and Interview/Dangerous Things#Article_1|Article: Eirin Yagokoro]] &mdash; The inconvenient “true effects” of overly effective medicine<br />
**pg. 34-35: [[/Article and Interview/Dangerous Things#Article_2|Article: Nitori Kawashiro]] &mdash; "Kappa-Approved Hydrogenous Spring Water” and the Maximum Danger that Lurks Within!<br />
*pg. 36-37: [[/Article and Interview/Sekibanki|Article: Sekibanki]] &mdash; Stange "Smartphone Neck" Disease in Gensokyo!<br />
* Exclusive Bamboo Forest Scoops<br />
**pg. 38-39: [[/Article and Interview/Reisen Udongein Inaba#Article_1|Article: Reisen Udongein Inaba 1]] &mdash; The dangerous "addictiveness" of the moon's dango and their terrifying "side effects"!"<ref>On the book, the number of page is misprinted as it starts from pg. 36.</ref><br />
**pg. 40-41: [[/Article and Interview/Reisen Udongein Inaba#Article_2|Article: Reisen Udongein Inaba 2 (with Tewi Inaba)]] &mdash; Drug seller turns out to be an immigrant!<br />
*pg. 42-43: [[/Article and Interview/Aya Shameimaru|Article: Aya Shameimaru]] &mdash; “Bunbunmaru News” is HOT!<br />
*pg. 44-45: [[/Article and Interview/Toyosatomimi no Miko#Article_1|Article: Toyosatomimi no Miko 1 (with Yoshika Miyako, Soga no Tojiko, and Mononobe no Futo)]] &mdash; Is she President of the Human Village!?<br />
*pg. 46-47: [[/Article and Interview/Toyosatomimi no Miko#Article 2|Article: Toyosatomimi no Miko 2 (with Byakuren Hijiri, Seiga Kaku, and Hata no Kokoro)]] &mdash; "MAKE HUMANS GREAT AGAIN!"<br />
*pg. 48-49: [[/Article and Interview/Various Youkai|Article: Various Youkai]] &mdash; A serious food supply issue is inevitable<br />
*pg. 50-51: [[/Article and Interview/Prismriver Sisters and Raiko Horikawa#Article_2|Article: Prismriver Sisters 2 (featuring Raiko Horikawa)]] &mdash; From break-up to reformation in just three days<br />
*pg. 52: [[/Article and Interview/Prismriver Sisters and Raiko Horikawa#Interview|Interview: Raiko Horikawa]] &mdash; Becoming the Horismriver Ensemble while as a group of four<br />
*pg. 54-55: [[/Article and Interview/Hatate Himekaidou#Article_2|Article: Hatate Himekaidou 2 (about Seija Kijin)]] &mdash; The impossible "Discovery of the Real Miracle Mallet"<br />
*pg. 56-57: Tengu Quarrel - Toshihira Arata<br />
*pg. 58-63: [[/Novel/Hieda no Akyuu|Novel: Hieda no Akyuu]] &mdash; "M Dies of M" by Agatha Chris Q<br />
*pg. 65-72: Double Page: "When the Tengu Rest Their Wings"<br />
**pg. 66-69: Illustration by nyanya<br />
**pg. 70-71: [[/Article and Interview/Three Tengu|Meeting: Three Tengu]] &mdash; Urgent Meeting! Anonymous Tengu hold a Symposium<br />
*pg. 73-80: Newbie Tengu Shinmyoumaru - Haniwa<br />
*pg. 82-83: [[/Article and Interview/Doremy Sweet|Article: Doremy Sweet]] &mdash; The Ominous “Rumors” Surrounding a Popular Pillow<br />
*pg. 84-85: [[/Article and Interview/Sagume Kishin#Article_1|Article: Sagume Kishin 1 (Single)]] &mdash; SUSPICIOUS SHADY CHARACTER is frequenting pharmaceutical facility<br />
*pg. 86-87: [[/Article and Interview/Sagume Kishin#Article_2|Article: Sagume Kishin 2 (with Tewi Inaba, Reisen Udongein Inaba, and Eirin Yagokoro)]] &mdash; A Secret Conversation Sending The World Into Panic - Is this the "Yagokoro Incident"!?<br />
*pg. 88-89: [[/Article and Interview/Seiran and Ringo|Article: Seiran and Ringo]] &mdash; Even the dango business isn't always cushy?<br />
*pg. 90-91: [[/Article and Interview/Shinmyoumaru Sukuna#Article_2|Article: Shinmyoumaru Sukuna 2 (with Wakasagihime)]] &mdash; Shinmyoumaru's Still At It!<br />
*pg. 92-93: [[/Article and Interview/Kagerou Imaizumi|Article: Kagerou Imaizumi]] &mdash; A "guess the human" game has started<br />
*pg. 94-95: [[/Article and Interview/Hata no Kokoro|Article: Hata no Kokoro]] &mdash; "Ningyo-yaki In Love" is published<br />
*pg. 96-97: [[/Article and Interview/Momiji Inubashiri|Article: Momiji Inubashiri]] &mdash; At last: The countdown to the Aerial Ropeway<br />
*pg. 98: [[/Essay/Tenshi Hinanawi|Essay: Tenshi Hinanawi]] &mdash; Luxurious Heavenly Cuisine for the Needy - Tenshi Hinanawi<br />
*pg. 99: [[/Essay/Komachi Onozuka|Essay: Komachi Onozuka]] &mdash; Next Week's Deaths - Komachi Onozuka<br />
*pg. 100-101: [[/Essay/Marisa Kirisame|Essay: Marisa Kirisame]] &mdash; Marisa's Lucky Danmaku Horoscope - Marisa Kirisame<br />
*pg. 104-105: [[/Article and Interview/Kyouko Kasodani|Article: Kyouko Kasodani]] &mdash; The Reality of the Sweatshop World of Religion<br />
*pg. 106-107: [[/Article and Interview/Kogasa Tatara, Yoshika Miyako, and Seiga Kaku|Article: Kogasa Tatara, Yoshika Miyako, and Seiga Kaku]] &mdash; The Dread of the Urban Legend Incident!<br />
*pg. 108-111: [[/Article and Interview/Sumireko Usami#Interview|Interview: Sumireko Usami]] &mdash; Whose Side Is The Outsider On? - Sumireko Usami<br />
*pg. 112-117: [[/Article and Interview/Clownpiece and Hecatia Lapislazuli#Interview|Interview: Hecatia Lapislazuli]] &mdash; World-Crossing Discourse - Hecatia Lapislazuli<br />
*pg. 118: [[/Colophon|Colophon]]<br />
*pg. 120-121: [[/Essay/Aya Shameimaru#Essay_1|Essay: Aya Shameimaru 1]] &mdash; Top 100 Famous Hot Springs of Gensokyo - Aya Shameimaru<br />
*pg. 122-123: [[/Essay/Yuyuko Saigyouji|Essay: Yuyuko Saigyouji]] &mdash; Yuyuko's One Dish One Bite - Yuyuko Saigyouji<br />
*pg. 124-125: [[/Essay/Rinnosuke Morichika|Essay: Rinnosuke Morichika]] &mdash; Useless Modern Tools - Rinnosuke Morichika<br />
*pg. 126: [[/Essay/Aya Shameimaru#Essay_2|Essay: Aya Shameimaru 2]] &mdash; The secret stores that only Tengu know of - Aya Shameimaru<br />
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====Advertisement==== <br />
*pg. 25: [[/Advertisement#Marisa Kirisame 1|Marisa Kirisame 1]]<br />
*pg. 53: [[/Advertisement#Doremy Sweet|Doremy Sweet]]<br />
*pg. 64: [[/Advertisement#Marisa Kirisame 2|Marisa Kirisame 2]]<br />
*pg. 81: [[/Advertisement#Keine Kamishirasawa and Hieda no Akyuu|Keine Kamishirasawa and Hieda no Akyuu]]<br />
*pg. 102: [[/Advertisement#Nitori Kawashiro|Nitori Kawashiro]]<br />
*pg. 103: [[/Advertisement#Sakuya Izayoi|Sakuya Izayoi]]<br />
*pg. 119: [[/Advertisement#Rin Kaenbyou|Rin Kaenbyou]]<br />
*pg. 127: [[/Advertisement#Bunbunshun News Report|Bunbunharu Weekly]]<br />
*pg. 128: [[/Advertisement#Bunbunmaru Newspaper|Bunbunmaru Newspaper]]<br />
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===Self Reflection===<br />
*pg. 130-131: [[/Article and Interview/Clownpiece and Hecatia Lapislazuli#Fact_Check_to_Article|Fact Check: Clownpiece and Hecatia Lapislazuli]] &mdash; 12-13 <br />
*pg. 132-133: [[/Article and Interview/Toyosatomimi no Miko#Fact_Check_to_Article_1|Fact Check: Toyosatomimi no Miko 1 (with Yoshika Miyako, Soga no Tojiko, and Mononobe no Futo)]] &mdash; 44-45 <br />
*pg. 134-135: [[/Article and Interview/Dangerous Things#Fact_Check_to_Article_2|Fact Check: Nitori Kawashiro]] &mdash; 34-35<br />
*pg. 136-137: [[/Article and Interview/Hatate Himekaidou#Fact_Check_to_Article_1|Fact Check: Hatate Himekaidou 1 (about Sumireko Usami)]] &mdash; 14-15<br />
*pg. 138-140: [[/Report of Release Cancel|Report that Bunbunharu Weekly Is Released to Be Cancelled]] &mdash;<br />
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===Afterword by ZUN===<br />
*pg. 142-143: [[/Afterword|Afterword]]<br />
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| image = [[File:AFiEUcover.jpg|250px|Alternative Facts in Eastern Utopia]]<br />
| developer =Team Shanghai Alice<br />
| publisher =Kadokawa<br />
| released =2017-03-30<br />
| genre =Official Book<br />
| writers =[[ZUN]]<br />
| illustrators =[[Aoi Aioi]]<br />[[Genji Asai]]<br />[[Aya Azuma]]<br />[[Toshihira Arata]]<br />[[ALISON]]<br />[[Amamiya Tokuhisa]]<br />[[Suichuu Hanabi]]<br />[[TOKIAME]]<br />[[nyanya]]<br />[[Haniwa]]<br />[[Hiiragi Akio]]<br />[[Hitori]]<br />[[Masakichi]]<br />[[Mizutaki]]<br />
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{{thtitle|Touhou |Bunka Shinpou|ruby=Word's End True Report|&nbsp;~ Alternative Facts in Eastern Utopia|東方文果真報 ~ Alternative Facts in Eastern Utopia}} is an official Touhou book released on March 30, 2017. It is presented as [[Aya Shameimaru]]'s attempt to create a tabloid magazine in the style of those from the [[Outside World]],<ref>''[[Curiosities of Lotus Asia]]'' - [[Curiosities of Lotus Asia/Chapter 30|Chapter 30]]</ref> which she eventually cancelled and left unpublished.<ref>''[[Forbidden Scrollery]]'' - Chapter 49</ref> The book features in-universe articles, interviews and advertisements similar to the earlier ''[[Bohemian Archive in Japanese Red]]'', but in a significantly more chaotic and haphazard format. In fact, the magazine ''Bunbunharu Weekly'' or "{{nihongo|文々春新報|Bunbunharu Shinpou|lit. "Aya's Periodical News Report"}} follows the name and design of {{nihongo|週刊文春|Shuukan Bunshun|lit. "Weekly Magazine of Literature Periodical"}}, a notorious high-circulation tabloid published weekly in Japan.<br />
<br />
==Plot==<br />
[[Aya Shameimaru]], a [[tengu]] reporter, decides to change her reporting style to more closely match examples of [[Wikipedia:Clickbait|clickbait]] magazines from the [[Outside World]] in an attempt to further her publication's appeal. To that end, she adopts the topical rhetoric of the [[Wikipedia:2016_United_States_presidential_election|2016 United States Presidential Election]], and other hot-button political, social, and "[[Wikipedia:moral panic|moral panic]]" issues into Gensokyo.<ref>[[Alternative Facts in Eastern Utopia]] - [[Alternative_Facts_in_Eastern_Utopia/Afterword|ZUN's Afterword]]</ref> Additionally, there are several advertisements for local businesses present within the newspaper, such as [[Kourindou]] and the [[Marisa_Kirisame#Occupation|Kirisame Magic Shop]].<br />
<br />
In keeping with the 'tabloid' theme, she relies heavily on [[Wikipedia:loaded_questions|loaded questions]] to manufacture a narrative that Gensokyo is at risk of invasion from "foreign threats", going so far as to imply [[Yukari Yakumo]] and [[Reimu Hakurei]] are collaborators with these alleged conspiring outsiders, such as [[Clownpiece]] and [[Sumireko Usami]], as well as painting "immigrants" such as the residents of [[Eientei]] as "foreign drug dealers."<ref>''[[Alternative Facts in Eastern Utopia]]'' - [[Alternative_Facts_in_Eastern_Utopia/Article_and_Interview/Reisen_Udongein_Inaba#Article_2|Reisen Udongein Inaba Article]]</ref> Despite Aya's determination to steer various conversations to that end, neither of Reimu nor Yukari appear concerned about the new "immigrants", with Reimu rejecting the idea that she "defends" the [[Hakurei Barrier]] from outsiders,<ref>''[[Alternative Facts in Eastern Utopia]]'' - [[Alternative_Facts_in_Eastern_Utopia/Article_and_Interview/Sumireko_Usami|Sumireko Usami's Interview]]</ref> and Yukari stating that Gensokyo is "accepting of everyone."<ref>''[[Alternative Facts in Eastern Utopia]]'' - [[Alternative_Facts_in_Eastern_Utopia/Article_and_Interview/Yukari_Yakumo|Yukari Yakumo's Interview]]</ref><br />
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During a particularly in-depth and intense conversation with [[Hecatia Lapislazuli]], in which the Goddess harshly chides Aya for her [[Wikipedia:Yellow_journalism|yellow journalism]], Hecatia warns Aya that [[Wikipedia:Isolationism|isolationism]] would result in the stagnation and eventual decay of Gensokyo, comparing such an ideology to one held by the antagonistic and elitist [[Lunar Kingdom]]. Hecatia also suggests that the surge in isolationist attitudes that might result from Aya's publication would be advantageous to the [[Lunarians]] by limiting Gensokyo's cultural evolution. This interview in particular seems to convince Aya to ultimately not publish the current iteration of ''Bunbunharu Shinpou'', becoming similarly concerned about aiding the Lunarians.<ref>''[[Alternative Facts in Eastern Utopia]]'' - [[Alternative Facts in Eastern Utopia/Article and Interview/Clownpiece and Hecatia Lapislazuli|Hecatia Lapislazuli's Interview]]</ref><br />
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In a journal-style afterword, Aya explains the rationale for many of her loaded questions and outright fabrications, viewing it as a way to make her publication "more exciting and attractive" for potential readers rather than being a true believer of any specific ideology herself. Additionally, she felt pressure to compete with [[Hatate Himekaidou]]'s ''Kakashi Spirit News'' publication, or face irrelevance in Gensokyo's sphere of journalism.<br />
<br />
==Press==<br />
Details regarding the book, including its release date, were announced in the 3rd volume of [[Strange Creators of Outer World]]. Preorders opened shortly after. <br />
<br />
==Read online (complete)==<br />
MangaDex: '''[https://mangadex.org/title/841524ee-2a99-47a6-a71c-1fc61236812f Touhou Bunka Shinpou ~ Alternative Facts in Eastern Utopia.]'''<br />
<br />
Released by '''Reality Dreamers'''.<br />
<br />
==Direct Download==<br />
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==Contents==<br />
*pg. 1: [[/Memo|Memo]]<br />
*pg. 3: [[/Foreword|Foreword]]<br />
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===Bunbunharu Weekly===<br />
*pg. 5: Cover<br />
*pg. 7-9: [[/Article and Interview/Sumireko Usami#Article|Article: Sumireko Usami (with Kasen Ibaraki)]] &mdash; A female student who can cross over the barrier!<br />
*pg. 10-11: [[/Article and Interview/Prismriver Sisters and Raiko Horikawa#Article_1|Article: Prismriver Sisters 1]] &mdash; The Prismriver Ensemble's break-up!<br />
*pg. 12-13: [[/Article and Interview/Clownpiece and Hecatia Lapislazuli#Article|Article: Clownpiece and Hecatia Lapislazuli]] &mdash; A shocking photo of the invaders' secret talk!<br />
*pg. 14-15: [[/Article and Interview/Hatate Himekaidou#Article_1|Article: Hatate Himekaidou 1 (about Sumireko Usami)]] &mdash; More fake news from Kakashi Spirit News!<br />
*pg. 16: [[/Article and Interview/Shinmyoumaru Sukuna#Article_1|Article: Shinmyoumaru Sukuna 1]] &mdash; A Small Challenger to White-Water Rafting!<br />
*pg. 17: [[/Index|Index]]<br />
*pg. 18-21: [[/Article and Interview/Yukari Yakumo|Article: Yukari Yakumo]] &mdash; Gensokyo's crisis was calculated!?<br />
*pg. 22-25: [[/Article and Interview/Reimu Hakurei|Article: Reimu Hakurei]] &mdash; The Hakurei Shrine: Ally to the Outside World<ref>On the book, the number of page is misprinted as it starts from pg. 20.</ref><br />
*pg. 26-27: [[/Article and Interview/Rinnosuke Morichika|Article: Rinnosuke Morichika]] &mdash; Kourindou's Junk Restocked<br />
*pg. 28-29: [[/Article and Interview/Tsukumo Sisters|Article: Tsukumo Sisters]] &mdash; The Birth of Future Stars! The healing "Two Girls Band"<br />
*pg. 30-31: [[/Article and Interview/Dangerous Things#Front_Pages|Dangerous Things]] &mdash; DANGEROUS Things Keep Eating Away at Gensokyo!<br />
**pg. 32-33: [[/Article and Interview/Dangerous Things#Article_1|Article: Eirin Yagokoro]] &mdash; The inconvenient “true effects” of overly effective medicine<br />
**pg. 34-35: [[/Article and Interview/Dangerous Things#Article_2|Article: Nitori Kawashiro]] &mdash; "Kappa-Approved Hydrogenous Spring Water” and the Maximum Danger that Lurks Within!<br />
*pg. 36-37: [[/Article and Interview/Sekibanki|Article: Sekibanki]] &mdash; Stange "Smartphone Neck" Disease in Gensokyo!<br />
* Exclusive Bamboo Forest Scoops<br />
**pg. 38-39: [[/Article and Interview/Reisen Udongein Inaba#Article_1|Article: Reisen Udongein Inaba 1]] &mdash; The dangerous "addictiveness" of the moon's dango and their terrifying "side effects"!"<ref>On the book, the number of page is misprinted as it starts from pg. 36.</ref><br />
**pg. 40-41: [[/Article and Interview/Reisen Udongein Inaba#Article_2|Article: Reisen Udongein Inaba 2 (with Tewi Inaba)]] &mdash; Drug seller turns out to be an immigrant!<br />
*pg. 42-43: [[/Article and Interview/Aya Shameimaru|Article: Aya Shameimaru]] &mdash; “Bunbunmaru News” is HOT!<br />
*pg. 44-45: [[/Article and Interview/Toyosatomimi no Miko#Article_1|Article: Toyosatomimi no Miko 1 (with Yoshika Miyako, Soga no Tojiko, and Mononobe no Futo)]] &mdash; Is she President of the Human Village!?<br />
*pg. 46-47: [[/Article and Interview/Toyosatomimi no Miko#Article 2|Article: Toyosatomimi no Miko 2 (with Byakuren Hijiri, Seiga Kaku, and Hata no Kokoro)]] &mdash; "MAKE HUMANS GREAT AGAIN!"<br />
*pg. 48-49: [[/Article and Interview/Various Youkai|Article: Various Youkai]] &mdash; A serious food supply issue is inevitable<br />
*pg. 50-51: [[/Article and Interview/Prismriver Sisters and Raiko Horikawa#Article_2|Article: Prismriver Sisters 2 (featuring Raiko Horikawa)]] &mdash; From break-up to reformation in just three days<br />
*pg. 52: [[/Article and Interview/Prismriver Sisters and Raiko Horikawa#Interview|Interview: Raiko Horikawa]] &mdash; Becoming the Horismriver Ensemble while as a group of four<br />
*pg. 54-55: [[/Article and Interview/Hatate Himekaidou#Article_2|Article: Hatate Himekaidou 2 (about Seija Kijin)]] &mdash; The impossible "Discovery of the Real Miracle Mallet"<br />
*pg. 56-57: Tengu Quarrel - Toshihira Arata<br />
*pg. 58-63: [[/Novel/Hieda no Akyuu|Novel: Hieda no Akyuu]] &mdash; "M Dies of M" by Agatha Chris Q<br />
*pg. 65-72: Double Page: "When the Tengu Rest Their Wings"<br />
**pg. 66-69: Illustration by nyanya<br />
**pg. 70-71: [[/Article and Interview/Three Tengu|Meeting: Three Tengu]] &mdash; Urgent Meeting! Anonymous Tengu hold a Symposium<br />
*pg. 73-80: Newbie Tengu Shinmyoumaru - Haniwa<br />
*pg. 82-83: [[/Article and Interview/Doremy Sweet|Article: Doremy Sweet]] &mdash; The Ominous “Rumors” Surrounding a Popular Pillow<br />
*pg. 84-85: [[/Article and Interview/Sagume Kishin#Article_1|Article: Sagume Kishin 1 (Single)]] &mdash; SUSPICIOUS SHADY CHARACTER is frequenting pharmaceutical facility<br />
*pg. 86-87: [[/Article and Interview/Sagume Kishin#Article_2|Article: Sagume Kishin 2 (with Tewi Inaba, Reisen Udongein Inaba, and Eirin Yagokoro)]] &mdash; A Secret Conversation Sending The World Into Panic - Is this the "Yagokoro Incident"!?<br />
*pg. 88-89: [[/Article and Interview/Seiran and Ringo|Article: Seiran and Ringo]] &mdash; Even the dango business isn't always cushy?<br />
*pg. 90-91: [[/Article and Interview/Shinmyoumaru Sukuna#Article_2|Article: Shinmyoumaru Sukuna 2 (with Wakasagihime)]] &mdash; Shinmyoumaru's Still At It!<br />
*pg. 92-93: [[/Article and Interview/Kagerou Imaizumi|Article: Kagerou Imaizumi]] &mdash; A "guess the human" game has started<br />
*pg. 94-95: [[/Article and Interview/Hata no Kokoro|Article: Hata no Kokoro]] &mdash; "Ningyo-yaki In Love" is published<br />
*pg. 96-97: [[/Article and Interview/Momiji Inubashiri|Article: Momiji Inubashiri]] &mdash; At last: The countdown to the Aerial Ropeway<br />
*pg. 98: [[/Essay/Tenshi Hinanawi|Essay: Tenshi Hinanawi]] &mdash; Luxurious Heavenly Cuisine for the Needy - Tenshi Hinanawi<br />
*pg. 99: [[/Essay/Komachi Onozuka|Essay: Komachi Onozuka]] &mdash; Next Week's Deaths - Komachi Onozuka<br />
*pg. 100-101: [[/Essay/Marisa Kirisame|Essay: Marisa Kirisame]] &mdash; Marisa's Lucky Danmaku Horoscope - Marisa Kirisame<br />
*pg. 104-105: [[/Article and Interview/Kyouko Kasodani|Article: Kyouko Kasodani]] &mdash; The Reality of the Sweatshop World of Religion<br />
*pg. 106-107: [[/Article and Interview/Kogasa Tatara, Yoshika Miyako, and Seiga Kaku|Article: Kogasa Tatara, Yoshika Miyako, and Seiga Kaku]] &mdash; The Dread of the Urban Legend Incident!<br />
*pg. 108-111: [[/Article and Interview/Sumireko Usami#Interview|Interview: Sumireko Usami]] &mdash; Whose Side Is The Outsider On? - Sumireko Usami<br />
*pg. 112-117: [[/Article and Interview/Clownpiece and Hecatia Lapislazuli#Interview|Interview: Hecatia Lapislazuli]] &mdash; World-Crossing Discourse - Hecatia Lapislazuli<br />
*pg. 118: [[/Colophon|Colophon]]<br />
*pg. 120-121: [[/Essay/Aya Shameimaru#Essay_1|Essay: Aya Shameimaru 1]] &mdash; Top 100 Famous Hot Springs of Gensokyo - Aya Shameimaru<br />
*pg. 122-123: [[/Essay/Yuyuko Saigyouji|Essay: Yuyuko Saigyouji]] &mdash; Yuyuko's One Dish One Bite - Yuyuko Saigyouji<br />
*pg. 124-125: [[/Essay/Rinnosuke Morichika|Essay: Rinnosuke Morichika]] &mdash; Useless Modern Tools - Rinnosuke Morichika<br />
*pg. 126: [[/Essay/Aya Shameimaru#Essay_2|Essay: Aya Shameimaru 2]] &mdash; The secret stores that only Tengu know of - Aya Shameimaru<br />
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====Advertisement==== <br />
*pg. 25: [[/Advertisement#Marisa Kirisame 1|Marisa Kirisame 1]]<br />
*pg. 53: [[/Advertisement#Doremy Sweet|Doremy Sweet]]<br />
*pg. 64: [[/Advertisement#Marisa Kirisame 2|Marisa Kirisame 2]]<br />
*pg. 81: [[/Advertisement#Keine Kamishirasawa and Hieda no Akyuu|Keine Kamishirasawa and Hieda no Akyuu]]<br />
*pg. 102: [[/Advertisement#Nitori Kawashiro|Nitori Kawashiro]]<br />
*pg. 103: [[/Advertisement#Sakuya Izayoi|Sakuya Izayoi]]<br />
*pg. 119: [[/Advertisement#Rin Kaenbyou|Rin Kaenbyou]]<br />
*pg. 127: [[/Advertisement#Bunbunshun News Report|Bunbunharu Weekly]]<br />
*pg. 128: [[/Advertisement#Bunbunmaru Newspaper|Bunbunmaru Newspaper]]<br />
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===Self Reflection===<br />
*pg. 130-131: [[/Article and Interview/Clownpiece and Hecatia Lapislazuli#Fact_Check_to_Article|Fact Check: Clownpiece and Hecatia Lapislazuli]] &mdash; 12-13 <br />
*pg. 132-133: [[/Article and Interview/Toyosatomimi no Miko#Fact_Check_to_Article_1|Fact Check: Toyosatomimi no Miko 1 (with Yoshika Miyako, Soga no Tojiko, and Mononobe no Futo)]] &mdash; 44-45 <br />
*pg. 134-135: [[/Article and Interview/Dangerous Things#Fact_Check_to_Article_2|Fact Check: Nitori Kawashiro]] &mdash; 34-35<br />
*pg. 136-137: [[/Article and Interview/Hatate Himekaidou#Fact_Check_to_Article_1|Fact Check: Hatate Himekaidou 1 (about Sumireko Usami)]] &mdash; 14-15<br />
*pg. 138-140: [[/Report of Release Cancel|Report that Bunbunharu Weekly Is Released to Be Cancelled]] &mdash;<br />
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===Afterword by ZUN===<br />
*pg. 142-143: [[/Afterword|Afterword]]<br />
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==Gallery==<br />
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File:AFiEUpreview.jpg|Promotional image featured in [[Strange Creators of Outer World]], with [[Sagume Kishin]]. Tagline reads: "''I wonder what kind of book it is...''"<br />
File:AFiEUBack.jpg|Back cover featuring [[Hecatia Lapislazuli]] and [[Clownpiece]]<br />
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<div>{{Infobox Character<br />
| nameJp = ヘカーティア・ラピスラズリ<br />
| nameEn = Hecatia Lapislazuli<br />
| nameIPA = he̞ka̠ːtia̠ ɾ̠a̠pisɯᵝɾ̠a̠zɯᵝɾi<br />
| image = [[File:TH15Hecatia.png|x340px|Hecatia Lapislazuli]]<br />
| caption = Hecatia Lapislazuli in [[Legacy of Lunatic Kingdom]]<br />
| chartitle = {{H:title|Goddess of Hell|地獄の女神}}<br />
| species = [[God|Goddess]]<br />
| abilities = To have three bodies<br />
| age =<br />
| occupation =<br />
| location = [[Hell]]<br />
| MusicThemes = *{{H:title|{{lang|ja|パンデモニックプラネット}}|Pandemonic Planet}} (''[[Legacy of Lunatic Kingdom]]'')<br />
| appOfficialgames = *''[[Legacy of Lunatic Kingdom]]'' (Extra Stage Boss)<br />
*''[[Violet Detector]] (Wrong Thursday Boss, Nightmare Friday Boss)<br />
| appPrintworks = *''[[Forbidden Scrollery]]'' (Chapter 34 cameo)<br />
*''[[Visionary Fairies in Shrine]]'' (Chapter 2 Cameo, Chapter 4, Chapter 5 cameo, Chapter 10, Chapter 13, Chapter 14, Chapter 15)<br />
*''[[Wild and Horned Hermit]]'' (Chapter 34 Cameo)<br />
*''[[Alternative Facts in Eastern Utopia]]'' (Article)<br />
*''[[The Grimoire of Usami]]'' (Section 2-6)<br />
}}<br />
{{nihongo|'''Hecatia Lapislazuli'''|ヘカーティア・ラピスラズリ|Hekātia Rapisurazuri}} is a [[God|Goddess]] of [[Hell]]. She first appeared as an Extra Stage Boss in ''[[Legacy of Lunatic Kingdom]]'', and has made further appearances in the print works ''[[Alternative Facts in Eastern Utopia]]'', ''[[Grimoire of Usami]]'', and ''[[Visionary Fairies in Shrine]]''.<br />
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==General Information==<br />
===Personality===<br />
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According to [[Eiki Shiki]], Hecatia is eccentric but relatively not evil compared to most denizens of [[Hell]].<ref name="Fairy5">{{cite web |title=Reimu's Tour of Hell|author=ZUN|publisher=Comp Ace|date=26 January 2017|work=東方三月精 ~ Visionary Fairies in Shrine.第5話|accessdate=27 January 2017 }}</ref> She seems capable of being caring and compassionate, especially towards her underlings (namely [[Clownpiece]]). Additionally, it might be possible that her personality changes when she switches between her three bodies.<ref name="SCoOW1">[[Strange Creators of Outer World/Legacy of Lunatic Kingdom interview with ZUN|Strange Creators of Outer World - Legacy of Lunatic Kingdom interview with ZUN]]</ref><br />
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Hecatia has an unwavering desire for personal freedom and dislikes authoritarians of any sort (somewhat matching her "unconventional" appearance). In particular, she has a strong distaste for the [[Lunarians]], considering them to be the antithesis to her ideology.<ref name="AFiEU1">[[Alternative Facts in Eastern Utopia]] - Interview with Hecatia Lapislazuli</ref> However, it's not known whether this specific dislike of them was due to her own personal motivations, or if she was convinced to hate them due to her close relationship with [[Junko]].<br />
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===Abilities and Possessions===<br />
;Ability to have three bodies<br />
Hecatia's ability allows her to exist on Earth, the [[Moon]], and the Otherworlds all at once with different bodies, while her core soul resides in [[Hell]]. As places like Gensokyo and the [[Dream World]] are Otherworlds, Hecatia can access these as well.<br />
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==Background Information==<br />
Her full name is {{nihongo|''Hecatia Lapislazuli''|ヘカーティア・ラピスラズリ}}. Her given name, Hecatia, is derived from [[wikipedia:Hecate|Hecate]] ({{lang|el|Ἑκάτη}}, Hekátē), the Greek goddess, whom Hecatia is believed to be based on. Her last name, Lapislazuli, is the name of [[wikipedia:Lapis lazuli|a stone]] prized since antiquity for its rich, deep-blue color.<br />
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| caption2 = Hecatia's Earth body<br />
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| caption3 = Hecatia's Moon body<br />
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===Origin===<br />
She seems to be based on [[wikipedia:Hecate|Hecate]], who was associated with the underworld in myth through forms of magic, like witchcraft, necromancy, and sorcery, ghosts, thresholds and crossroads, and the border between worlds. She was also associated with dogs, light, the Moon, and knowledge of herbs and poisonous plants. Her Roman depiction, [[wikipedia:Trivia (mythology)|Trivia]], was similar, along with being associated with graveyards. Hecate is also commonly depicted with three heads or bodies, representing crossroads.<br />
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===Design===<br />
Hecatia appears within the Dream World with red eyes and hair. She is fairly modern looking, wearing a short, three-colored, plaid skirt, and a black t-shirt with ''"Welcome ❤ Hell"'' written on the front, worn off her shoulders. She also wears a collar, with chains attached, each one leading to an orb of the [[Moon]], the [[wikipedia:Earth|Earth]], and an orb representing the Otherworlds, the last of which sits in her hat atop her head. During the course of her fight, her hair and eyes turn blue or blonde as she switches the Otherworld orb with the Earth or Moon orbs respectively. As it mentioned in the liner notes to her theme, her outfit is inspired by Death Metal. ZUN thought of the process "[[Hell]] -> [[Shinigami]] (death gods) -> Death -> Death Metal".<ref name="LoLK">''[[Legacy of Lunatic Kingdom]]'' : [[Legacy of Lunatic Kingdom/Music|Music Room]]</ref> Although she is shown barefoot in her in-game portraits and various manga appearances, she is seen wearing boots in Chapter 13 of [[Visionary Fairies in Shrine]].<br />
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==Hecatia's Appearances==<br />
===Games===<br />
;''Legacy of Lunatic Kingdom''<br />
Hecatia appears as the main Extra Stage boss of Legacy of Lunatic Kingdom. It's explained that she joined forces with [[Junko]] to bring an end to the hegemony of the [[Lunarians]] in the [[Lunar Capital]]. Her trump card, if [[Clownpiece]] and Junko had failed in their invasion of the Lunar Capital, was to trap the Lunarians in the Dream World and hold them hostage, hoping that it would provoke an attack of some kind, which she could use to her advantage. She did not know that the Lunarians had threatened to wipe out all life on Earth, including [[Gensokyo]], forcing the protagonist to begrudgingly fight for the Lunarians. <br />
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In the final battle, Hecatia and Junko joined forces to fight the protagonist together side-by-side.<br />
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During [[Marisa Kirisame]]'s route, she mentions that she hates the leader of the moon rabbits, [[Chang'e]], because "''she is the wife of the guy who killed one of my stars"<ref>[[Legacy of Lunatic Kingdom/Story/Marisa's Extra|Legacy of Lunatic Kingdom Extra Stage (Marisa Run)]]</ref>''. Said star, namely Apollo,<ref>[[Legacy of Lunatic Kingdom]] - Hecatia's profile</ref>, seems to be one of the suns shot down by Hou Yi. If the sun is weakened, Hell would also be affected as shadows would become weaker as well.<br />
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===Literature===<br />
;''Visionary Fairies in Shrine''<br />
Shortly after the events of [[Legacy of Lunatic Kingdom]], Hecatia brought [[Clownpiece]] to [[Gensokyo]] and asked her to stay there and get used to the place.<ref>[[Visionary Fairies in Shrine]] - Chapter 4</ref> In Chapter 10, Hecatia appears in Gensokyo again to check on Clownpiece, and assigns her a new task asking her to encounter more lifeforce, especially from things that aren't often seen in [[Hell]]. In Chapter 13, she meets [[Reimu Hakurei]] and [[Marisa Kirisame]], and talks with them about the stone cherries that are appearing in Gensokyo, affirming that those stones are nothing but the crystallization of the missing fairies' lifeforce, and saying that she wants to take them with her to Hell.<br />
;''Alternative Facts in Eastern Utopia''<br />
In ''Alternative Facts in Eastern Utopia'', [[Aya Shameimaru]] interviewed Hecatia about the recent arrival of denizens of Hell, such as [[Clownpiece]], in [[Gensokyo]].<ref name="AFiEU1">[[Alternative Facts in Eastern Utopia]] - Interview with Hecatia Lapislazuli</ref> In the interview, Aya expressed cynical views towards Hecatia and her cohort, wondering if they weren't planning some sort of invasion into Gensokyo to take it over and destroy its "charming atmosphere." Hecatia rebuked Aya and told her that maintaining an isolationist attitude would make Gensokyo no better than the [[Lunar Capital]], and that Gensokyo had always relied on new youkai to ensure its culture didn't become stagnate and stale, echoing sentiments from an earlier interview with [[Yukari Yakumo]]. Hecatia also harshly chided Aya for frequently stretching and abusing the truth to gain attention and newspaper sales through [[Wikipedia:Clickbait|manufactured outrage]]. Aya was apparently so disturbed by the interview that she decided not to publish it, and ended up cancelling that edition of her newspaper entirely.<br />
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==Relationships==<br />
;[[Junko]]<br />
Hecatia, like her would-be friend Junko, has a grudge with [[Chang'e]]. It was Chang'e's husband who shot down the suns, weakening the shadows of Hell as a consequence. However, it mostly seems to be through Junko's influence that her grudge exists. Because she sympathized with Junko, she decides to side with her in ''Legacy of Lunatic Kingdom''.<br />
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;[[Clownpiece]]<br />
Clownpiece is a subordinate of Hecatia, who allows Junko to use Clownpiece in her scheme against the [[Lunar Capital]]. Hecatia seems especially fond of her, letting her have a "vacation" in Gensokyo as a reward for finishing her "big job" in [[Legacy of Lunatic Kingdom]].<br />
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;[[Eiki Shiki]]<br />
She has only heard of her and her eccentricities and has yet to meet her personally.<ref name="[[Visionary Fairies in Shrine]]">"Reimu's Tour of Hell" (Chapter 5), [[Visionary Fairies in Shrine]]</ref><ref>https://clarste.tumblr.com/post/190235227621</ref><br />
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==Gallery==<br />
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===Screenshots===<br />
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File:VFiS_Hecatia.png|Hecatia as portrayed in ''[[Visionary Fairies in Shrine]]''<br />
File:VFiS_Hecatia_with_boots.png|Hecatia wearing boots, from ''[[Visionary Fairies in Shrine]]'', Chapter 13<br />
</gallery><br />
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===Covers===<br />
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File:AFiEUBack.jpg|Hecatia on the back cover of ''[[Alternative Facts in Eastern Utopia]]''<br />
File:VFiS_Vol.1_back_cover.jpg|Hecatia's Earth body depicted on the back cover of ''[[Visionary Fairies in Shrine]]'' Volume 1<br />
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==Spell Cards==<br />
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{{#lsth:List of Spell Cards/Touhou Project 3|[[Hecatia Lapislazuli]]}}<br />
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==Additional Information==<br />
*Due to Junko sometimes jumping in during the fight, Hecatia has the lowest number of [[spell card]]s as an extra stage [[boss]]. Most extra bosses will have ten, but Hecatia has eight.<br />
*According to ZUN, Hecatia is "completely past the level of anyone in [[Gensokyo]] or the [[Lunar Capital]]."<ref name="SCoOW1"/><br />
*One of her portraits has text that reads "ゴゴゴゴゴ" (which can mean "rumble" or "menacing"), a sound effect that's often used in [[wikipedia:JoJo's Bizarre Adventure|JoJo's Bizarre Adventure]] to portray something threatening or dramatic.<br />
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==Fandom==<br />
{{main|Fandom/Legacy of Lunatic Kingdom#Hecatia Lapislazuli|l1=Fandom: Hecatia Lapislazuli}}<br />
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==Official Profiles==<br />
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{{Profile Quote<br />
| image =[[File:TH15Hecatia.png|200px|Hecatia Lapislazuli]]<br />
| text =○EXボス 地獄の女神<br><br />
ヘカーティア・ラピスラズリ<br><br />
Hecatia Lapislazuli<br><br><br />
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種族:神様<br><br />
能力:三つの身体を持つ程度の能力<br><br><br />
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月、地球、異界それぞれの地獄を司る謎の神様。<br><br />
三つの世界に同時に身体を持っていて、それぞれ自由に行き来出来る。<br><br><br />
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また、月、地球、異界には地獄も存在し、コアとなる魂は地獄にある為、<br><br />
敵としてみると中々まともに手が出せない厄介な神様。<br><br />
ちなみに夢の世界は異界に相当する。<br><br><br />
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彼女も嫦娥に怨みを持つ神様である。<br><br />
何故なら、嫦娥の夫は、太陽(アポロ)を撃ち落とした人物だからだ。<br><br />
本来なら、太陽無くしては存在しえない地獄。<br><br />
強い光を失った事で、地獄も闇を弱めた。<br><br><br />
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といっても、彼女が嫦娥を恨む理由は、純狐の影響が大きい。<br><br />
純狐の今回の計画には、妖精を自由に扱える立場の者と、<br><br />
夢の世界を自由に行き来出来る者が必要だった。<br><br />
まさに彼女がピッタリだったのだ。<br><br><br />
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純狐と彼女はすぐに意気投合した。<br><br />
もともと好戦的な性格も功を制したのだろう。<br><br><br />
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部下であるクラウンピースも自由に純狐に使わせた。<br><br><br />
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月の民が逃げ込んだ夢の世界。<br><br />
彼女はその夢の世界にある偽月の都の周りも、生命力で満たしたのだ。<br><br />
これにより、月の民は完全に封殺された。<br><br><br />
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あとは、嫦娥を討つだけだ――<br><br><br />
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と言うところで、純狐の方から負け宣言を出されてしまう。<br><br />
どうやら、純狐の策を上回る奇策を月の民が打ってきたというのだ。<br><br><br />
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それが、死が消えて浄化された人間。<br><br />
「紺珠の人間」を月に送り込んでくるという作戦だった。 <br />
| translation ='''EX Boss: Goddess of Hell'''<br><br />
Hecatia Lapislazuli<br><br><br />
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Species: God<br><br />
Ability: Capable of having three bodies<br><br><br />
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A mysterious god who governs the Hells of the moon, the Earth, and Otherworlds.<br><br />
She has a separate body in each of the three worlds, and can act independently with each of them.<br><br><br />
<br />
Also, since the Moon, Earth, and Otherworlds each have their own Hell, and her core soul resides in Hell,<br><br />
she's a rather troublesome god who can't easily be retaliated against if viewed as an enemy.<br><br />
The Dream World falls under 'Otherworlds', by the way.<br><br><br />
<br />
She too is a god who hates Chang'e.<br><br />
Because, you see, Chang'e's husband was the person who shot down the suns (ie. Apollo).<br><br />
In the first place, Hell would be unable to exist without the sun.<br><br />
Without strong light, the darkness of Hell would weaken too.<br><br><br />
<br />
...that said, though, her hatred of Chang'e is mostly due to Junko's influence anyway.<br><br />
Junko's current plan required someone who could freely control fairies, as well as someone<br><br />
who could freely move to and from the Dream World.<br><br />
Those conditions fit her perfectly.<br><br><br />
<br />
She and Junko hit it off immediately.<br><br />
It was to her merit that she greatly enjoyed fighting to begin with.<br><br><br />
<br />
She also allowed Junko to freely use her subordinate, Clownpiece.<br><br><br />
<br />
And so, the moon's people escaped into the Dream World.<br><br />
She filled the surroundings of the Dream World's fake Lunar Capital with life.<br><br />
Thus, the People of the Moon were completely suppressed.<br><br><br />
<br />
All that was left was to shoot down Chang'e...<br><br><br />
<br />
but, all of a sudden she received a notice of defeat from Junko.<br><br />
It seemed that the People of the Moon came up with a strategy that ran circles around hers.<br><br><br />
<br />
Namely: a purified human who had become free from death.<br><br />
The strategy to send a "Human of the Ultramarine Orb" to the moon.<br />
}}<br />
{{hidden end}}<br />
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==Official Sources==<br />
{{hidden begin|title = Official sources|titlestyle = background:pink; text-align:center;}}<br />
* 2015/08/14 '''[[Legacy of Lunatic Kingdom]]''' - omake.txt (profile, Extra Stage dialogue)<br />
{{hidden end}}<br />
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<div>{{Infobox Game<br />
| type =fangame<br />
| titleN ={{ruby-ja|泰西プロジェクト|たいせいぷろじぇくと}}<br />
| titleEn =Taisei Project<br />
| image =[[File:TaiseiBox.png|300px]]<br />
| caption =<br />
| developer1 =<br />
| publisher1 =<br />
| publisher2 =<br />
| publisher1Cat =<br />
| publisher2Cat =<br />
| released =v1.0: 9 August 2012<br />v1.1: 25 September 2017<br />v1.2: 26 January 2018<br />v1.3: 27 April 2019<br />v1.3.1: 29 September 2019<br />v1.3.2: 2 May 2021<br />
| convention =<br />
| genre1 =Vertical Danmaku Shooting<br />
| genre2 =<br />
| genre3 =<br />
| gameplay =Single-player story mode<br />
| platforms = [[wikipedia:Microsoft Windows|Windows]]<br>[[wikipedia:Linux|Linux]]<br>[[wikipedia:macOS|macOS]]<br>[[wikipedia:browser game|web browser]]<br>[[wikipedia:Nintendo Switch|switch]]<br />
| requirements =<br />
| website =https://taisei-project.org/<br />
}}<br />
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{{nihongo|'''''Taisei Project'''''|泰西プロジェクト|}} is an open-source ''[[Touhou Project]]'' fangame. Its development was started in 2011 by Laochailan, under the tentative title "OpenTH". Akaricchi, another programmer, became involved with the project starting in 2012, and the game saw its full first release later that year.<br />
<br />
After a five-year hiatus, development on ''Taisei'' resumed in 2017, during which the project received many more contributors. Since then, the story was rewritten and a full soundtrack was composed, and various other improvements have taken place.<br />
<br />
==Gameplay==<br />
{{Main|/Gameplay|l1=Gameplay|/Strategy|l2=Strategy|/Spell Cards|l3=Spell Cards}}<br />
The current build features three playable characters: [[Reimu Hakurei]], [[Marisa Kirisame]] and [[Youmu Konpaku]], each with two shots.<br />
<br />
==Name and Concept==<br />
The Japanese word ''taisei'' (泰西) literally means "the West" or "the Occident", in a similar vein to the ''[[Seihou Project]]''. However, the two series are not related.<br />
<br />
==Story==<br />
{{Main|/Story|l1=Story|/Characters|l2=Characters}}<br />
;''v1.3''<br />
Another villain threatens to turn the land of dreams into a place of terror. The barrier is disrupted, and a strange tunnel that leads to an unknown land opens on Youkai Mountain. Gensokyo is thrown into chaos as humans and youkai alike flock to this rift, where they will discover forces both new and old that have changed beyond recognition.<br />
<br />
;''v1.4 (alpha)''<br />
Many residents of [[Youkai Mountain]] become overwhelmed with maniacal feelings of intellectual superiority, seemingly without warning. Worse yet, it seems to slowly affect others who so much as get close to the Mountain itself. The protagonists are sent to investigate the source of this "madness," lest Gensokyo be thrown into intellectual chaos.<br />
<br />
==Music==<br />
{{Main|/Music|l1=Music}}<br />
''Taisei Project'' features original music in the style of [[ZUN]], composed by Tuck V and Jneen Collective.<br />
<br />
==External Links==<br />
[https://tuckv.bandcamp.com/album/taisei-project-ost Official soundtrack]<br />
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{{Navbox Taisei}}<br />
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<div>{{Infobox Character<br />
| nameJp = ヘカーティア・ラピスラズリ<br />
| nameEn = Hecatia Lapislazuli<br />
| nameIPA = he̞ka̠ːtia̠ ɾ̠a̠pisɯᵝɾ̠a̠zɯᵝɾi<br />
| image = [[File:TH15Hecatia.png|x340px|Hecatia Lapislazuli]]<br />
| caption = Hecatia Lapislazuli in [[Legacy of Lunatic Kingdom]]<br />
| chartitle = {{H:title|Goddess of Hell|地獄の女神}}<br />
| species = [[God|Goddess]]<br />
| abilities = To have three bodies<br />
| age =<br />
| occupation =<br />
| location = [[Hell]]<br />
| MusicThemes = *{{H:title|{{lang|ja|パンデモニックプラネット}}|Pandemonic Planet}} (''[[Legacy of Lunatic Kingdom]]'')<br />
| appOfficialgames = *''[[Legacy of Lunatic Kingdom]]'' (Extra Stage Boss)<br />
*''[[Violet Detector]] (Wrong Thursday Boss, Nightmare Friday Boss)<br />
| appPrintworks = *''[[Forbidden Scrollery]]'' (Chapter 34 cameo)<br />
*''[[Visionary Fairies in Shrine]]'' (Chapter 2 Cameo, Chapter 4, Chapter 5 cameo, Chapter 10, Chapter 13, Chapter 14, Chapter 15)<br />
*''[[Wild and Horned Hermit]]'' (Chapter 34 Cameo)<br />
*''[[Alternative Facts in Eastern Utopia]]'' (Article)<br />
*''[[The Grimoire of Usami]]'' (Section 2-6)<br />
}}<br />
{{nihongo|'''Hecatia Lapislazuli'''|ヘカーティア・ラピスラズリ|Hekātia Rapisurazuri}} is a [[God|Goddess]] of [[Hell]]. She first appeared as an Extra Stage Boss in ''[[Legacy of Lunatic Kingdom]]'', and has made further appearances in the print works ''[[Alternative Facts in Eastern Utopia]]'', ''[[Grimoire of Usami]]'', and ''[[Visionary Fairies in Shrine]]''.<br />
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==General Information==<br />
===Personality===<br />
<br />
According to [[Eiki Shiki]], Hecatia is eccentric but relatively not evil compared to most denizens of [[Hell]].<ref name="Fairy5">{{cite web |title=Reimu's Tour of Hell|author=ZUN|publisher=Comp Ace|date=26 January 2017|work=東方三月精 ~ Visionary Fairies in Shrine.第5話|accessdate=27 January 2017 }}</ref> She seems capable of being caring and compassionate, especially towards her underlings (namely [[Clownpiece]]). Additionally, it might be possible that her personality changes when she switches between her three bodies.<ref name="SCoOW1">[[Strange Creators of Outer World/Legacy of Lunatic Kingdom interview with ZUN|Strange Creators of Outer World - Legacy of Lunatic Kingdom interview with ZUN]]</ref><br />
<br />
Hecatia has an unwavering desire for personal freedom and dislikes authoritarians of any sort (somewhat matching her "unconventional" appearance). In particular, she has a strong distaste for the [[Lunarians]], considering them to be the antithesis to her ideology.<ref name="AFiEU1">[[Alternative Facts in Eastern Utopia]] - Interview with Hecatia Lapislazuli</ref> However, it's not known whether this specific dislike of them was due to her own personal motivations, or if she was convinced to hate them due to her close relationship with [[Junko]].<br />
<br />
===Abilities and Possessions===<br />
;Ability to have three bodies<br />
Hecatia's ability allows her to exist on Earth, the [[Moon]], and the Otherworlds all at once with different bodies, while her core soul resides in [[Hell]]. As places like Gensokyo and the [[Dream World]] are Otherworlds, Hecatia can access these as well.<br />
<br />
==Background Information==<br />
Her full name is {{nihongo|''Hecatia Lapislazuli''|ヘカーティア・ラピスラズリ}}. Her given name, Hecatia, is derived from [[wikipedia:Hecate|Hecate]] ({{lang|el|Ἑκάτη}}, Hekátē), the Greek goddess, whom Hecatia is believed to be based on. Her last name, Lapislazuli, is the name of [[wikipedia:Lapis lazuli|a stone]] prized since antiquity for its rich, deep-blue color.<br />
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| caption1 = Hecatia's Otherworld body<br />
| image2 = Th15HecatiaBlueSprite.png<br />
| caption2 = Hecatia's Earth body<br />
| image3 = Th15HecatiaYellowSprite.png<br />
| caption3 = Hecatia's Moon body<br />
}}<br />
===Origin===<br />
She seems to be based on [[wikipedia:Hecate|Hecate]], who was associated with the underworld in myth through forms of magic, like witchcraft, necromancy, and sorcery, ghosts, thresholds and crossroads, and the border between worlds. She was also associated with dogs, light, the Moon, and knowledge of herbs and poisonous plants. Her Roman depiction, [[wikipedia:Trivia (mythology)|Trivia]], was similar, along with being associated with graveyards. Hecate is also commonly depicted with three heads or bodies, representing crossroads.<br />
<br />
===Design===<br />
Hecatia appears within the Dream World with red eyes and hair. She is fairly modern looking, wearing a short, three-colored, plaid skirt, and a black t-shirt with ''"Welcome ❤ Hell"'' written on the front, worn off her shoulders. She also wears a collar, with chains attached, each one leading to an orb of the [[Moon]], the [[wikipedia:Earth|Earth]], and an orb representing the Otherworlds, the last of which sits in her hat atop her head. During the course of her fight, her hair and eyes turn blue or blonde as she switches the Otherworld orb with the Earth or Moon orbs respectively. As it mentioned in the liner notes to her theme, her outfit is inspired by Death Metal. ZUN thought of the process "[[Hell]] -> [[Shinigami]] (death gods) -> Death -> Death Metal".<ref name="LoLK">''[[Legacy of Lunatic Kingdom]]'' : [[Legacy of Lunatic Kingdom/Music|Music Room]]</ref> Although she is shown barefoot in her in-game portraits and various manga appearances, she is seen wearing boots in Chapter 13 of [[Visionary Fairies in Shrine]].<br />
<br />
==Hecatia's Appearances==<br />
===Games===<br />
;''Legacy of Lunatic Kingdom''<br />
Hecatia appears as the main Extra Stage boss of Legacy of Lunatic Kingdom. It's explained that she joined forces with [[Junko]] to bring an end to the hegemony of the [[Lunarians]] in the [[Lunar Capital]]. Her trump card, if [[Clownpiece]] and Junko had failed in their invasion of the Lunar Capital, was to trap the Lunarians in the Dream World and hold them hostage, hoping that it would provoke an attack of some kind, which she could use to her advantage. She did not know that the Lunarians had threatened to wipe out all life on Earth, including [[Gensokyo]], forcing the protagonist to begrudgingly fight for the Lunarians. <br />
<br />
In the final battle, Hecatia and Junko joined forces to fight the protagonist together side-by-side.<br />
<br />
During [[Marisa Kirisame]]'s route, she mentions that she hates the leader of the moon rabbits, [[Chang'e]], because "''she is the wife of the guy who killed one of my stars"<ref>[[Legacy of Lunatic Kingdom/Story/Marisa's Extra|Legacy of Lunatic Kingdom Extra Stage (Marisa Run)]]</ref>''. Said star, namely Apollo,<ref>[[Legacy of Lunatic Kingdom]] - Hecatia's profile</ref>, seems to be one of the suns shot down by Hou Yi. If the sun is weakened, Hell would also be affected as shadows would become weaker as well.<br />
<br />
===Literature===<br />
;''Visionary Fairies in Shrine''<br />
Shortly after the events of [[Legacy of Lunatic Kingdom]], Hecatia brought [[Clownpiece]] to [[Gensokyo]] and asked her to stay there and get used to the place.<ref>[[Visionary Fairies in Shrine]] - Chapter 4</ref> In Chapter 10, Hecatia appears in Gensokyo again to check on Clownpiece, and assigns her a new task asking her to encounter more lifeforce, especially from things that aren't often seen in [[Hell]]. In Chapter 13, she meets [[Reimu Hakurei]] and [[Marisa Kirisame]], and talks with them about the stone cherries that are appearing in Gensokyo, affirming that those stones are nothing but the crystallization of the missing fairies' lifeforce, and saying that she wants to take them with her to Hell.<br />
;''Alternative Facts in Eastern Utopia''<br />
[[Aya Shameimaru]] interviewed Hecatia about the recent arrival of denizens of Hell, such as [[Clownpiece]], in [[Gensokyo]].<ref name="AFiEU1">[[Alternative Facts in Eastern Utopia]] - Interview with Hecatia Lapislazuli</ref> In the interview, Aya expressed cynical views towards Hecatia and her cohort, wondering if they weren't planning some sort of invasion into Gensokyo to take it over and destroy its "charming atmosphere." Hecatia rebuked Aya and told her that maintaining an isolationist attitude would make Gensokyo no better than the [[Lunar Capital]], and that Gensokyo had always relied on new youkai to ensure its culture didn't become stagnate and stale. Hecatia also chided Aya for frequently stretching and abusing the truth to gain attention and newspaper sales through manufactured outrage. Aya was apparently so disturbed by the interview that she decided not to publish it, and ended up cancelling that edition of her newspaper entirely.<br />
<br />
==Relationships==<br />
;[[Junko]]<br />
Hecatia, like her would-be friend Junko, has a grudge with [[Chang'e]]. It was Chang'e's husband who shot down the suns, weakening the shadows of Hell as a consequence. However, it mostly seems to be through Junko's influence that her grudge exists. Because she sympathized with Junko, she decides to side with her in ''Legacy of Lunatic Kingdom''.<br />
<br />
;[[Clownpiece]]<br />
Clownpiece is a subordinate of Hecatia, who allows Junko to use Clownpiece in her scheme against the [[Lunar Capital]]. Hecatia seems especially fond of her, letting her have a "vacation" in Gensokyo as a reward for finishing her "big job" in [[Legacy of Lunatic Kingdom]].<br />
<br />
;[[Eiki Shiki]]<br />
Eiki tells Reimu that Hecatia is one of the leaders of her organization. She has only heard of her and her eccentricities and has yet to meet her personally. <ref name="Fairy5"></ref><br />
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==Gallery==<br />
<br />
===Screenshots===<br />
<gallery widths="200"><br />
File:VFiS_Hecatia.png|Hecatia as portrayed in ''[[Visionary Fairies in Shrine]]''<br />
File:VFiS_Hecatia_with_boots.png|Hecatia wearing boots, from ''[[Visionary Fairies in Shrine]]'', Chapter 13<br />
</gallery><br />
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===Covers===<br />
<gallery widths="200"><br />
File:AFiEUBack.jpg|Hecatia on the back cover of ''[[Alternative Facts in Eastern Utopia]]''<br />
File:VFiS_Vol.1_back_cover.jpg|Hecatia's Earth body depicted on the back cover of ''[[Visionary Fairies in Shrine]]'' Volume 1<br />
</gallery><br />
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==Spell Cards==<br />
{{hidden begin|title = Spell Cards|titlestyle = background:palegreen; text-align:center;}}<br />
{{#lsth:List of Spell Cards/Touhou Project 3|[[Hecatia Lapislazuli]]}}<br />
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==Additional Information==<br />
*Due to Junko sometimes jumping in during the fight, Hecatia has the lowest number of [[spell card]]s as an extra stage [[boss]]. Most extra bosses will have ten, but Hecatia has eight.<br />
*According to ZUN, Hecatia is "completely past the level of anyone in [[Gensokyo]] or the [[Lunar Capital]]."<ref name="SCoOW1"/><br />
*One of her portraits has text that reads "ゴゴゴゴゴ" (which can mean "rumble" or "menacing"), a sound effect that's often used in [[wikipedia:JoJo's Bizarre Adventure|JoJo's Bizarre Adventure]] to portray something threatening or dramatic.<br />
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==Fandom==<br />
{{main|Fandom/Legacy of Lunatic Kingdom#Hecatia Lapislazuli|l1=Fandom: Hecatia Lapislazuli}}<br />
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==Official Profiles==<br />
{{hidden begin|title = ''[[Legacy of Lunatic Kingdom]]'' - omake.txt|titlestyle = background:lightblue;text-align:center}}<br />
{{Profile Quote<br />
| image =[[File:TH15Hecatia.png|200px|Hecatia Lapislazuli]]<br />
| text =○EXボス 地獄の女神<br><br />
ヘカーティア・ラピスラズリ<br><br />
Hecatia Lapislazuli<br><br><br />
<br />
種族:神様<br><br />
能力:三つの身体を持つ程度の能力<br><br><br />
<br />
月、地球、異界それぞれの地獄を司る謎の神様。<br><br />
三つの世界に同時に身体を持っていて、それぞれ自由に行き来出来る。<br><br><br />
<br />
また、月、地球、異界には地獄も存在し、コアとなる魂は地獄にある為、<br><br />
敵としてみると中々まともに手が出せない厄介な神様。<br><br />
ちなみに夢の世界は異界に相当する。<br><br><br />
<br />
<br />
彼女も嫦娥に怨みを持つ神様である。<br><br />
何故なら、嫦娥の夫は、太陽(アポロ)を撃ち落とした人物だからだ。<br><br />
本来なら、太陽無くしては存在しえない地獄。<br><br />
強い光を失った事で、地獄も闇を弱めた。<br><br><br />
<br />
<br />
といっても、彼女が嫦娥を恨む理由は、純狐の影響が大きい。<br><br />
純狐の今回の計画には、妖精を自由に扱える立場の者と、<br><br />
夢の世界を自由に行き来出来る者が必要だった。<br><br />
まさに彼女がピッタリだったのだ。<br><br><br />
<br />
純狐と彼女はすぐに意気投合した。<br><br />
もともと好戦的な性格も功を制したのだろう。<br><br><br />
<br />
部下であるクラウンピースも自由に純狐に使わせた。<br><br><br />
<br />
<br />
月の民が逃げ込んだ夢の世界。<br><br />
彼女はその夢の世界にある偽月の都の周りも、生命力で満たしたのだ。<br><br />
これにより、月の民は完全に封殺された。<br><br><br />
<br />
あとは、嫦娥を討つだけだ――<br><br><br />
<br />
と言うところで、純狐の方から負け宣言を出されてしまう。<br><br />
どうやら、純狐の策を上回る奇策を月の民が打ってきたというのだ。<br><br><br />
<br />
<br />
それが、死が消えて浄化された人間。<br><br />
「紺珠の人間」を月に送り込んでくるという作戦だった。 <br />
| translation ='''EX Boss: Goddess of Hell'''<br><br />
Hecatia Lapislazuli<br><br><br />
<br />
Species: God<br><br />
Ability: Capable of having three bodies<br><br><br />
<br />
A mysterious god who governs the Hells of the moon, the Earth, and Otherworlds.<br><br />
She has a separate body in each of the three worlds, and can act independently with each of them.<br><br><br />
<br />
Also, since the Moon, Earth, and Otherworlds each have their own Hell, and her core soul resides in Hell,<br><br />
she's a rather troublesome god who can't easily be retaliated against if viewed as an enemy.<br><br />
The Dream World falls under 'Otherworlds', by the way.<br><br><br />
<br />
She too is a god who hates Chang'e.<br><br />
Because, you see, Chang'e's husband was the person who shot down the suns (ie. Apollo).<br><br />
In the first place, Hell would be unable to exist without the sun.<br><br />
Without strong light, the darkness of Hell would weaken too.<br><br><br />
<br />
...that said, though, her hatred of Chang'e is mostly due to Junko's influence anyway.<br><br />
Junko's current plan required someone who could freely control fairies, as well as someone<br><br />
who could freely move to and from the Dream World.<br><br />
Those conditions fit her perfectly.<br><br><br />
<br />
She and Junko hit it off immediately.<br><br />
It was to her merit that she greatly enjoyed fighting to begin with.<br><br><br />
<br />
She also allowed Junko to freely use her subordinate, Clownpiece.<br><br><br />
<br />
And so, the moon's people escaped into the Dream World.<br><br />
She filled the surroundings of the Dream World's fake Lunar Capital with life.<br><br />
Thus, the People of the Moon were completely suppressed.<br><br><br />
<br />
All that was left was to shoot down Chang'e...<br><br><br />
<br />
but, all of a sudden she received a notice of defeat from Junko.<br><br />
It seemed that the People of the Moon came up with a strategy that ran circles around hers.<br><br><br />
<br />
Namely: a purified human who had become free from death.<br><br />
The strategy to send a "Human of the Ultramarine Orb" to the moon.<br />
}}<br />
{{hidden end}}<br />
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==Official Sources==<br />
{{hidden begin|title = Official sources|titlestyle = background:pink; text-align:center;}}<br />
* 2015/08/14 '''[[Legacy of Lunatic Kingdom]]''' - omake.txt (profile, Extra Stage dialogue)<br />
{{hidden end}}<br />
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==References==<br />
{{smallrefs}}<br />
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{{Project Characters Notice}}<br />
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[[fr:Hecatia Lapislazuli]]<br />
[[ru:Гекатия Лапислазули]]<br />
[[vi:Hecatia Lapislazuli]]<br />
[[es:Hecatia Lapislazuli]]<br />
[[Category:Characters]]<br />
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<div>{{Infobox Character<br />
| nameJp = ヘカーティア・ラピスラズリ<br />
| nameEn = Hecatia Lapislazuli<br />
| nameIPA = he̞ka̠ːtia̠ ɾ̠a̠pisɯᵝɾ̠a̠zɯᵝɾi<br />
| image = [[File:TH15Hecatia.png|x340px|Hecatia Lapislazuli]]<br />
| caption = Hecatia Lapislazuli in [[Legacy of Lunatic Kingdom]]<br />
| chartitle = {{H:title|Goddess of Hell|地獄の女神}}<br />
| species = [[God|Goddess]]<br />
| abilities = To have three bodies<br />
| age =<br />
| occupation =<br />
| location = [[Hell]]<br />
| MusicThemes = *{{H:title|{{lang|ja|パンデモニックプラネット}}|Pandemonic Planet}} (''[[Legacy of Lunatic Kingdom]]'')<br />
| appOfficialgames = *''[[Legacy of Lunatic Kingdom]]'' (Extra Stage Boss)<br />
*''[[Violet Detector]] (Wrong Thursday Boss, Nightmare Friday Boss)<br />
| appPrintworks = *''[[Forbidden Scrollery]]'' (Chapter 34 cameo)<br />
*''[[Visionary Fairies in Shrine]]'' (Chapter 2 Cameo, Chapter 4, Chapter 5 cameo, Chapter 10, Chapter 13, Chapter 14, Chapter 15)<br />
*''[[Wild and Horned Hermit]]'' (Chapter 34 Cameo)<br />
*''[[Alternative Facts in Eastern Utopia]]'' (Article)<br />
*''[[The Grimoire of Usami]]'' (Section 2-6)<br />
}}<br />
{{nihongo|'''Hecatia Lapislazuli'''|ヘカーティア・ラピスラズリ|Hekātia Rapisurazuri}} is a [[God|Goddess]] of [[Hell]]. She first appeared as an Extra Stage Boss in ''[[Legacy of Lunatic Kingdom]]'', and has made further appearances in the print works ''[[Alternative Facts in Eastern Utopia]]'', ''[[Grimoire of Usami]]'', and ''[[Visionary Fairies in Shrine]]''.<br />
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==General Information==<br />
===Personality===<br />
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According to [[Eiki Shiki]], Hecatia is eccentric but relatively not evil compared to most denizens of [[Hell]].<ref name="Fairy5">{{cite web |title=Reimu's Tour of Hell|author=ZUN|publisher=Comp Ace|date=26 January 2017|work=東方三月精 ~ Visionary Fairies in Shrine.第5話|accessdate=27 January 2017 }}</ref> She seems capable of being caring and compassionate, especially towards her underlings. Additionally, it might be possible that her personality changes when she switches between her three bodies.<ref name="SCoOW1">[[Strange Creators of Outer World/Legacy of Lunatic Kingdom interview with ZUN|Strange Creators of Outer World - Legacy of Lunatic Kingdom interview with ZUN]]</ref><br />
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Hecatia has an unwavering desire for personal freedom and dislikes authoritarians of any sort (somewhat matching her "unconventional" appearance). In particular, she has a strong distaste for the [[Lunarians]], considering them to be the antithesis to her ideology.<ref name="AFiEU1">[[Alternative Facts in Eastern Utopia]] - Interview with Hecatia Lapislazuli</ref> However, it's not known whether this specific dislike of them was due yo her own personal motivations, or if she was convinced to hate them due to her close relationship with [[Junko]].<br />
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===Abilities and Possessions===<br />
;Ability to have three bodies<br />
Hecatia's ability allows her to exist on Earth, the [[Moon]], and the Otherworlds all at once with different bodies, while her core soul resides in [[Hell]]. As places like Gensokyo and the [[Dream World]] are Otherworlds, Hecatia can access these as well.<br />
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==Background Information==<br />
Her full name is {{nihongo|''Hecatia Lapislazuli''|ヘカーティア・ラピスラズリ}}. Her given name, Hecatia, is derived from [[wikipedia:Hecate|Hecate]] ({{lang|el|Ἑκάτη}}, Hekátē), the Greek goddess, whom Hecatia is believed to be based on. Her last name, Lapislazuli, is the name of [[wikipedia:Lapis lazuli|a stone]] prized since antiquity for its rich, deep-blue color.<br />
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===Origin===<br />
She seems to be based on [[wikipedia:Hecate|Hecate]], who was associated with the underworld in myth through forms of magic, like witchcraft, necromancy, and sorcery, ghosts, thresholds and crossroads, and the border between worlds. She was also associated with dogs, light, the Moon, and knowledge of herbs and poisonous plants. Her Roman depiction, [[wikipedia:Trivia (mythology)|Trivia]], was similar, along with being associated with graveyards. Hecate is also commonly depicted with three heads or bodies, representing crossroads.<br />
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===Design===<br />
Hecatia appears within the Dream World with red eyes and hair. She is fairly modern looking, wearing a short, three-colored, plaid skirt, and a black t-shirt with ''"Welcome ❤ Hell"'' written on the front, worn off her shoulders. She also wears a collar, with chains attached, each one leading to an orb of the [[Moon]], the [[wikipedia:Earth|Earth]], and an orb representing the Otherworlds, the last of which sits in her hat atop her head. During the course of her fight, her hair and eyes turn blue or blonde as she switches the Otherworld orb with the Earth or Moon orbs respectively. As it mentioned in the liner notes to her theme, her outfit is inspired by Death Metal. ZUN thought of the process "[[Hell]] -> [[Shinigami]] (death gods) -> Death -> Death Metal".<ref name="LoLK">''[[Legacy of Lunatic Kingdom]]'' : [[Legacy of Lunatic Kingdom/Music|Music Room]]</ref> Although she is shown barefoot in her in-game portraits and various manga appearances, she is seen wearing boots in Chapter 13 of [[Visionary Fairies in Shrine]].<br />
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==Hecatia's Appearances==<br />
===Games===<br />
;''Legacy of Lunatic Kingdom''<br />
Hecatia appears as the main Extra Stage boss of Legacy of Lunatic Kingdom. It's explained that she joined forces with [[Junko]] to bring an end to the hegemony of the [[Lunarians]] in the [[Lunar Capital]]. Her trump card, if [[Clownpiece]] and Junko had failed in their invasion of the Lunar Capital, was to trap the Lunarians in the Dream World and hold them hostage, hoping that it would provoke an attack of some kind, which she could use to her advantage. She did not know that the Lunarians had threatened to wipe out all life on Earth, including [[Gensokyo]], forcing the protagonist to begrudgingly fight for the Lunarians. <br />
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In the final battle, Hecatia and Junko joined forces to fight the protagonist together side-by-side.<br />
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During [[Marisa Kirisame]]'s route, she mentions that she hates the leader of the moon rabbits, [[Chang'e]], because "''she is the wife of the guy who killed one of my stars"<ref>[[Legacy of Lunatic Kingdom/Story/Marisa's Extra|Legacy of Lunatic Kingdom Extra Stage (Marisa Run)]]</ref>''. Said star, namely Apollo,<ref>[[Legacy of Lunatic Kingdom]] - Hecatia's profile</ref>, seems to be one of the suns shot down by Hou Yi. If the sun is weakened, Hell would also be affected as shadows would become weaker as well.<br />
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===Literature===<br />
;''Visionary Fairies in Shrine''<br />
Shortly after the events of [[Legacy of Lunatic Kingdom]], Hecatia brought [[Clownpiece]] to [[Gensokyo]] and asked her to stay there and get used to the place.<ref>[[Visionary Fairies in Shrine]] - Chapter 4</ref> In Chapter 10, Hecatia appears in Gensokyo again to check on Clownpiece, and assigns her a new task asking her to encounter more lifeforce, especially from things that aren't often seen in [[Hell]]. In Chapter 13, she meets [[Reimu Hakurei]] and [[Marisa Kirisame]], and talks with them about the stone cherries that are appearing in Gensokyo, affirming that those stones are nothing but the crystallization of the missing fairies' lifeforce, and saying that she wants to take them with her to Hell.<br />
;''Alternative Facts in Eastern Utopia''<br />
[[Aya Shameimaru]] interviewed Hecatia about the recent arrival of denizens of Hell, such as [[Clownpiece]], in [[Gensokyo]].<ref name="AFiEU1">[[Alternative Facts in Eastern Utopia]] - Interview with Hecatia Lapislazuli</ref> In the interview, Aya expressed cynical views towards Hecatia and her cohort, wondering if they weren't planning some sort of invasion into Gensokyo to take it over and destroy its "charming atmosphere." Hecatia rebuked Aya and told her that maintaining an isolationist attitude would make Gensokyo no better than the [[Lunar Capital]], and that Gensokyo had always relied on new youkai to ensure its culture didn't become stagnate and stale. Hecatia also chided Aya for frequently stretching and abusing the truth to gain attention and newspaper sales through manufactured outrage. Aya was apparently so disturbed by the interview that she decided not to publish it, and ended up cancelling that edition of her newspaper entirely.<br />
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==Relationships==<br />
;[[Junko]]<br />
Hecatia, like her would-be friend Junko, has a grudge with [[Chang'e]]. It was Chang'e's husband who shot down the suns, weakening the shadows of Hell as a consequence. However, it mostly seems to be through Junko's influence that her grudge exists. Because she sympathized with Junko, she decides to side with her in ''Legacy of Lunatic Kingdom''.<br />
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;[[Clownpiece]]<br />
Clownpiece is a subordinate of Hecatia, who allows Junko to use Clownpiece in her scheme against the [[Lunar Capital]]. Hecatia seems especially fond of her, letting her have a "vacation" in Gensokyo as a reward for finishing her "big job" in [[Legacy of Lunatic Kingdom]].<br />
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;[[Eiki Shiki]]<br />
Eiki tells Reimu that Hecatia is one of the leaders of her organization. She has only heard of her and her eccentricities and has yet to meet her personally. <ref name="Fairy5"></ref><br />
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==Gallery==<br />
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===Screenshots===<br />
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File:VFiS_Hecatia.png|Hecatia as portrayed in ''[[Visionary Fairies in Shrine]]''<br />
File:VFiS_Hecatia_with_boots.png|Hecatia wearing boots, from ''[[Visionary Fairies in Shrine]]'', Chapter 13<br />
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===Covers===<br />
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File:AFiEUBack.jpg|Hecatia on the back cover of ''[[Alternative Facts in Eastern Utopia]]''<br />
File:VFiS_Vol.1_back_cover.jpg|Hecatia's Earth body depicted on the back cover of ''[[Visionary Fairies in Shrine]]'' Volume 1<br />
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==Spell Cards==<br />
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==Additional Information==<br />
*Due to Junko sometimes jumping in during the fight, Hecatia has the lowest number of [[spell card]]s as an extra stage [[boss]]. Most extra bosses will have ten, but Hecatia has eight.<br />
*According to ZUN, Hecatia is "completely past the level of anyone in [[Gensokyo]] or the [[Lunar Capital]]."<ref name="SCoOW1"/><br />
*One of her portraits has text that reads "ゴゴゴゴゴ" (which can mean "rumble" or "menacing"), a sound effect that's often used in [[wikipedia:JoJo's Bizarre Adventure|JoJo's Bizarre Adventure]] to portray something threatening or dramatic.<br />
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==Fandom==<br />
{{main|Fandom/Legacy of Lunatic Kingdom#Hecatia Lapislazuli|l1=Fandom: Hecatia Lapislazuli}}<br />
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==Official Profiles==<br />
{{hidden begin|title = ''[[Legacy of Lunatic Kingdom]]'' - omake.txt|titlestyle = background:lightblue;text-align:center}}<br />
{{Profile Quote<br />
| image =[[File:TH15Hecatia.png|200px|Hecatia Lapislazuli]]<br />
| text =○EXボス 地獄の女神<br><br />
ヘカーティア・ラピスラズリ<br><br />
Hecatia Lapislazuli<br><br><br />
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種族:神様<br><br />
能力:三つの身体を持つ程度の能力<br><br><br />
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月、地球、異界それぞれの地獄を司る謎の神様。<br><br />
三つの世界に同時に身体を持っていて、それぞれ自由に行き来出来る。<br><br><br />
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また、月、地球、異界には地獄も存在し、コアとなる魂は地獄にある為、<br><br />
敵としてみると中々まともに手が出せない厄介な神様。<br><br />
ちなみに夢の世界は異界に相当する。<br><br><br />
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彼女も嫦娥に怨みを持つ神様である。<br><br />
何故なら、嫦娥の夫は、太陽(アポロ)を撃ち落とした人物だからだ。<br><br />
本来なら、太陽無くしては存在しえない地獄。<br><br />
強い光を失った事で、地獄も闇を弱めた。<br><br><br />
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といっても、彼女が嫦娥を恨む理由は、純狐の影響が大きい。<br><br />
純狐の今回の計画には、妖精を自由に扱える立場の者と、<br><br />
夢の世界を自由に行き来出来る者が必要だった。<br><br />
まさに彼女がピッタリだったのだ。<br><br><br />
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純狐と彼女はすぐに意気投合した。<br><br />
もともと好戦的な性格も功を制したのだろう。<br><br><br />
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部下であるクラウンピースも自由に純狐に使わせた。<br><br><br />
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月の民が逃げ込んだ夢の世界。<br><br />
彼女はその夢の世界にある偽月の都の周りも、生命力で満たしたのだ。<br><br />
これにより、月の民は完全に封殺された。<br><br><br />
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あとは、嫦娥を討つだけだ――<br><br><br />
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と言うところで、純狐の方から負け宣言を出されてしまう。<br><br />
どうやら、純狐の策を上回る奇策を月の民が打ってきたというのだ。<br><br><br />
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それが、死が消えて浄化された人間。<br><br />
「紺珠の人間」を月に送り込んでくるという作戦だった。 <br />
| translation ='''EX Boss: Goddess of Hell'''<br><br />
Hecatia Lapislazuli<br><br><br />
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Species: God<br><br />
Ability: Capable of having three bodies<br><br><br />
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A mysterious god who governs the Hells of the moon, the Earth, and Otherworlds.<br><br />
She has a separate body in each of the three worlds, and can act independently with each of them.<br><br><br />
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Also, since the Moon, Earth, and Otherworlds each have their own Hell, and her core soul resides in Hell,<br><br />
she's a rather troublesome god who can't easily be retaliated against if viewed as an enemy.<br><br />
The Dream World falls under 'Otherworlds', by the way.<br><br><br />
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She too is a god who hates Chang'e.<br><br />
Because, you see, Chang'e's husband was the person who shot down the suns (ie. Apollo).<br><br />
In the first place, Hell would be unable to exist without the sun.<br><br />
Without strong light, the darkness of Hell would weaken too.<br><br><br />
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...that said, though, her hatred of Chang'e is mostly due to Junko's influence anyway.<br><br />
Junko's current plan required someone who could freely control fairies, as well as someone<br><br />
who could freely move to and from the Dream World.<br><br />
Those conditions fit her perfectly.<br><br><br />
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She and Junko hit it off immediately.<br><br />
It was to her merit that she greatly enjoyed fighting to begin with.<br><br><br />
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She also allowed Junko to freely use her subordinate, Clownpiece.<br><br><br />
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And so, the moon's people escaped into the Dream World.<br><br />
She filled the surroundings of the Dream World's fake Lunar Capital with life.<br><br />
Thus, the People of the Moon were completely suppressed.<br><br><br />
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All that was left was to shoot down Chang'e...<br><br><br />
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but, all of a sudden she received a notice of defeat from Junko.<br><br />
It seemed that the People of the Moon came up with a strategy that ran circles around hers.<br><br><br />
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Namely: a purified human who had become free from death.<br><br />
The strategy to send a "Human of the Ultramarine Orb" to the moon.<br />
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==Official Sources==<br />
{{hidden begin|title = Official sources|titlestyle = background:pink; text-align:center;}}<br />
* 2015/08/14 '''[[Legacy of Lunatic Kingdom]]''' - omake.txt (profile, Extra Stage dialogue)<br />
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<div>{{Infobox Print Work<br />
| title ={{ruby-ja|東方文果真報|とうほぶんかしんぽう}}<br />''Alternative Facts in Eastern Utopia''<br />
| image = [[File:AFiEUcover.jpg|250px|Alternative Facts in Eastern Utopia]]<br />
| developer =Team Shanghai Alice<br />
| publisher =Kadokawa<br />
| released =2017-03-30<br />
| genre =Official Book<br />
| writers =[[ZUN]]<br />
| illustrators =[[Aoi Aioi]]<br />[[Genji Asai]]<br />[[Aya Azuma]]<br />[[Toshihira Arata]]<br />[[ALISON]]<br />[[Amamiya Tokuhisa]]<br />[[Suichuu Hanabi]]<br />[[TOKIAME]]<br />[[nyanya]]<br />[[Haniwa]]<br />[[Hiiragi Akio]]<br />[[Hitori]]<br />[[Masakichi]]<br />[[Mizutaki]]<br />
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| ISBN = 9784048928625<br />
}}<br />
{{thtitle|Touhou |Bunka Shinpou|ruby=Word's End True Report|&nbsp;~ Alternative Facts in Eastern Utopia|東方文果真報 ~ Alternative Facts in Eastern Utopia}} is an official Touhou book released on March 30, 2017. It is presented as [[Aya Shameimaru]]'s attempt to create a tabloid magazine in the style of those from the [[Outside World]],<ref>''[[Curiosities of Lotus Asia]]'' - [[Curiosities of Lotus Asia/Chapter 30|Chapter 30]]</ref> which she eventually cancelled and left unpublished.<ref>''[[Forbidden Scrollery]]'' - Chapter 49</ref> The book features in-universe articles, interviews and advertisements similar to the earlier ''[[Bohemian Archive in Japanese Red]]'', but in a significantly more chaotic and haphazard format. In fact, the magazine ''Bunbunharu Weekly'' or "{{nihongo|文々春新報|Bunbunharu Shinpou|lit. "Aya's Periodical News Report"}} follows the name and design of {{nihongo|週刊文春|Shuukan Bunshun|lit. "Weekly Magazine of Literature Periodical"}}, a notorious high-circulation tabloid published weekly in Japan.<br />
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==Plot==<br />
[[Aya Shameimaru]], a [[tengu]] reporter, decides to change her reporting style to more closely match examples of [[Wikipedia:Clickbait|clickbait]] magazines from the [[Outside World]] in an attempt to further her publication's appeal. To that end, she adopts the topical rhetoric of the [[Wikipedia:2016_United_States_presidential_election|2016 United States Presidential Election]], and other hot-button political and social issues into Gensokyo.<ref>[[Alternative Facts in Eastern Utopia]] - [[Alternative_Facts_in_Eastern_Utopia/Afterword|ZUN's Afterword]]</ref><br />
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In keeping with the 'tabloid' theme, she relies heavily on [[Wikipedia:loaded_questions|loaded questions]] to manufacture a narrative that Gensokyo is at risk of invasion from "foreign threats", going so far as to imply [[Yukari Yakumo]] and [[Reimu Hakurei]] are collaborators with these alleged conspiring outsiders, such as [[Clownpiece]] and [[Sumireko Usami]]. Despite Aya's determination to steer the conversation to that end, neither of them appear concerned about the new "immigrants", with Reimu rejecting the idea that she "defends" the [[Hakurei Barrier]] from outsiders,<ref>''[[Alternative Facts in Eastern Utopia]]'' - [[Alternative_Facts_in_Eastern_Utopia/Article_and_Interview/Sumireko_Usami|Sumireko Usami's Interview]]</ref> and Yukari stating that Gensokyo is "accepting of everyone."<ref>''[[Alternative Facts in Eastern Utopia]]'' - [[Alternative_Facts_in_Eastern_Utopia/Article_and_Interview/Yukari_Yakumo|Yukari Yakumo's Interview]]</ref><br />
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During a particularly in-depth and intense conversation with [[Hecatia Lapislazuli]], in which the Goddess harshly chides Aya for her [[Wikipedia:Yellow_journalism|yellow journalism]], Hecatia warns Aya that [[Wikipedia:Isolationism|isolationism]] would result in the stagnation and eventual decay of Gensokyo, comparing such an ideology to one held by the antagonistic and elitist [[Lunar Kingdom]]. Hecatia also suggests that the surge in isolationist attitudes that might result from Aya's publication would be advantageous to the [[Lunarians]] by limiting Gensokyo's cultural evolution. This interview in particular seems to convince Aya to ultimately not publish the current iteration of ''Bunbunharu Shinpou'', becoming similarly concerned about aiding the Lunarians.<ref>''[[Alternative Facts in Eastern Utopia]]'' - [[Alternative Facts in Eastern Utopia/Article and Interview/Clownpiece and Hecatia Lapislazuli|Hecatia Lapislazuli's Interview]]</ref><br />
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In a journal-style afterword, Aya explains the rationale for many of her loaded questions and outright fabrications, viewing it as a way to make her publication "more exciting and attractive" for potential readers rather than being a true believer of any specific ideology herself. Additionally, she felt pressure to compete with [[Hatate Himekaidou]]'s ''Kakashi Spirit News'' publication, or face irrelevance in Gensokyo's sphere of journalism.<br />
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==Press==<br />
Details regarding the book, including its release date, were announced in the 3rd volume of [[Strange Creators of Outer World]]. Preorders opened shortly after. <br />
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==Read online (complete)==<br />
MangaDex: '''[https://mangadex.org/title/841524ee-2a99-47a6-a71c-1fc61236812f Touhou Bunka Shinpou ~ Alternative Facts in Eastern Utopia.]'''<br />
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Released by '''Reality Dreamers'''.<br />
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==Direct Download==<br />
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==Contents==<br />
*pg. 1: [[/Memo|Memo]]<br />
*pg. 3: [[/Foreword|Foreword]]<br />
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===Bunbunharu Weekly===<br />
*pg. 5: Cover<br />
*pg. 7-9: [[/Article and Interview/Sumireko Usami#Article|Article: Sumireko Usami (with Kasen Ibaraki)]] &mdash; A female student who can cross over the barrier!<br />
*pg. 10-11: [[/Article and Interview/Prismriver Sisters and Raiko Horikawa#Article_1|Article: Prismriver Sisters 1]] &mdash; The Prismriver Ensemble's break-up!<br />
*pg. 12-13: [[/Article and Interview/Clownpiece and Hecatia Lapislazuli#Article|Article: Clownpiece and Hecatia Lapislazuli]] &mdash; A shocking photo of the invaders' secret talk!<br />
*pg. 14-15: [[/Article and Interview/Hatate Himekaidou#Article_1|Article: Hatate Himekaidou 1 (about Sumireko Usami)]] &mdash; More fake news from Kakashi Spirit News!<br />
*pg. 16: [[/Article and Interview/Shinmyoumaru Sukuna#Article_1|Article: Shinmyoumaru Sukuna 1]] &mdash; A Small Challenger to White-Water Rafting!<br />
*pg. 17: [[/Index|Index]]<br />
*pg. 18-21: [[/Article and Interview/Yukari Yakumo|Article: Yukari Yakumo]] &mdash; Gensokyo's crisis was calculated!?<br />
*pg. 22-25: [[/Article and Interview/Reimu Hakurei|Article: Reimu Hakurei]] &mdash; The Hakurei Shrine: Ally to the Outside World<ref>On the book, the number of page is misprinted as it starts from pg. 20.</ref><br />
*pg. 26-27: [[/Article and Interview/Rinnosuke Morichika|Article: Rinnosuke Morichika]] &mdash; Kourindou's Junk Restocked<br />
*pg. 28-29: [[/Article and Interview/Tsukumo Sisters|Article: Tsukumo Sisters]] &mdash; The Birth of Future Stars! The healing "Two Girls Band"<br />
*pg. 30-31: [[/Article and Interview/Dangerous Things#Front_Pages|Dangerous Things]] &mdash; DANGEROUS Things Keep Eating Away at Gensokyo!<br />
**pg. 32-33: [[/Article and Interview/Dangerous Things#Article_1|Article: Eirin Yagokoro]] &mdash; The inconvenient “true effects” of overly effective medicine<br />
**pg. 34-35: [[/Article and Interview/Dangerous Things#Article_2|Article: Nitori Kawashiro]] &mdash; "Kappa-Approved Hydrogenous Spring Water” and the Maximum Danger that Lurks Within!<br />
*pg. 36-37: [[/Article and Interview/Sekibanki|Article: Sekibanki]] &mdash; Stange "Smartphone Neck" Disease in Gensokyo!<br />
* Exclusive Bamboo Forest Scoops<br />
**pg. 38-39: [[/Article and Interview/Reisen Udongein Inaba#Article_1|Article: Reisen Udongein Inaba 1]] &mdash; The dangerous "addictiveness" of the moon's dango and their terrifying "side effects"!"<ref>On the book, the number of page is misprinted as it starts from pg. 36.</ref><br />
**pg. 40-41: [[/Article and Interview/Reisen Udongein Inaba#Article_2|Article: Reisen Udongein Inaba 2 (with Tewi Inaba)]] &mdash; Drug seller turns out to be an immigrant!<br />
*pg. 42-43: [[/Article and Interview/Aya Shameimaru|Article: Aya Shameimaru]] &mdash; “Bunbunmaru News” is HOT!<br />
*pg. 44-45: [[/Article and Interview/Toyosatomimi no Miko#Article_1|Article: Toyosatomimi no Miko 1 (with Yoshika Miyako, Soga no Tojiko, and Mononobe no Futo)]] &mdash; Is she President of the Human Village!?<br />
*pg. 46-47: [[/Article and Interview/Toyosatomimi no Miko#Article 2|Article: Toyosatomimi no Miko 2 (with Byakuren Hijiri, Seiga Kaku, and Hata no Kokoro)]] &mdash; "MAKE HUMANS GREAT AGAIN!"<br />
*pg. 48-49: [[/Article and Interview/Various Youkai|Article: Various Youkai]] &mdash; A serious food supply issue is inevitable<br />
*pg. 50-51: [[/Article and Interview/Prismriver Sisters and Raiko Horikawa#Article_2|Article: Prismriver Sisters 2 (featuring Raiko Horikawa)]] &mdash; From break-up to reformation in just three days<br />
*pg. 52: [[/Article and Interview/Prismriver Sisters and Raiko Horikawa#Interview|Interview: Raiko Horikawa]] &mdash; Becoming the Horismriver Ensemble while as a group of four<br />
*pg. 54-55: [[/Article and Interview/Hatate Himekaidou#Article_2|Article: Hatate Himekaidou 2 (about Seija Kijin)]] &mdash; The impossible "Discovery of the Real Miracle Mallet"<br />
*pg. 56-57: Tengu Quarrel - Toshihira Arata<br />
*pg. 58-63: [[/Novel/Hieda no Akyuu|Novel: Hieda no Akyuu]] &mdash; "M Dies of M" by Agatha Chris Q<br />
*pg. 65-72: Double Page: "When the Tengu Rest Their Wings"<br />
**pg. 66-69: Illustration by nyanya<br />
**pg. 70-71: [[/Article and Interview/Three Tengu|Meeting: Three Tengu]] &mdash; Urgent Meeting! Anonymous Tengu hold a Symposium<br />
*pg. 73-80: Newbie Tengu Shinmyoumaru - Haniwa<br />
*pg. 82-83: [[/Article and Interview/Doremy Sweet|Article: Doremy Sweet]] &mdash; The Ominous “Rumors” Surrounding a Popular Pillow<br />
*pg. 84-85: [[/Article and Interview/Sagume Kishin#Article_1|Article: Sagume Kishin 1 (Single)]] &mdash; SUSPICIOUS SHADY CHARACTER is frequenting pharmaceutical facility<br />
*pg. 86-87: [[/Article and Interview/Sagume Kishin#Article_2|Article: Sagume Kishin 2 (with Tewi Inaba, Reisen Udongein Inaba, and Eirin Yagokoro)]] &mdash; A Secret Conversation Sending The World Into Panic - Is this the "Yagokoro Incident"!?<br />
*pg. 88-89: [[/Article and Interview/Seiran and Ringo|Article: Seiran and Ringo]] &mdash; Even the dango business isn't always cushy?<br />
*pg. 90-91: [[/Article and Interview/Shinmyoumaru Sukuna#Article_2|Article: Shinmyoumaru Sukuna 2 (with Wakasagihime)]] &mdash; Shinmyoumaru's Still At It!<br />
*pg. 92-93: [[/Article and Interview/Kagerou Imaizumi|Article: Kagerou Imaizumi]] &mdash; A "guess the human" game has started<br />
*pg. 94-95: [[/Article and Interview/Hata no Kokoro|Article: Hata no Kokoro]] &mdash; "Ningyo-yaki In Love" is published<br />
*pg. 96-97: [[/Article and Interview/Momiji Inubashiri|Article: Momiji Inubashiri]] &mdash; At last: The countdown to the Aerial Ropeway<br />
*pg. 98: [[/Essay/Tenshi Hinanawi|Essay: Tenshi Hinanawi]] &mdash; Luxurious Heavenly Cuisine for the Needy - Tenshi Hinanawi<br />
*pg. 99: [[/Essay/Komachi Onozuka|Essay: Komachi Onozuka]] &mdash; Next Week's Deaths - Komachi Onozuka<br />
*pg. 100-101: [[/Essay/Marisa Kirisame|Essay: Marisa Kirisame]] &mdash; Marisa's Lucky Danmaku Horoscope - Marisa Kirisame<br />
*pg. 104-105: [[/Article and Interview/Kyouko Kasodani|Article: Kyouko Kasodani]] &mdash; The Reality of the Sweatshop World of Religion<br />
*pg. 106-107: [[/Article and Interview/Kogasa Tatara, Yoshika Miyako, and Seiga Kaku|Article: Kogasa Tatara, Yoshika Miyako, and Seiga Kaku]] &mdash; The Dread of the Urban Legend Incident!<br />
*pg. 108-111: [[/Article and Interview/Sumireko Usami#Interview|Interview: Sumireko Usami]] &mdash; Whose Side Is The Outsider On? - Sumireko Usami<br />
*pg. 112-117: [[/Article and Interview/Clownpiece and Hecatia Lapislazuli#Interview|Interview: Hecatia Lapislazuli]] &mdash; World-Crossing Discourse - Hecatia Lapislazuli<br />
*pg. 118: [[/Colophon|Colophon]]<br />
*pg. 120-121: [[/Essay/Aya Shameimaru#Essay_1|Essay: Aya Shameimaru 1]] &mdash; Top 100 Famous Hot Springs of Gensokyo - Aya Shameimaru<br />
*pg. 122-123: [[/Essay/Yuyuko Saigyouji|Essay: Yuyuko Saigyouji]] &mdash; Yuyuko's One Dish One Bite - Yuyuko Saigyouji<br />
*pg. 124-125: [[/Essay/Rinnosuke Morichika|Essay: Rinnosuke Morichika]] &mdash; Useless Modern Tools - Rinnosuke Morichika<br />
*pg. 126: [[/Essay/Aya Shameimaru#Essay_2|Essay: Aya Shameimaru 2]] &mdash; The secret stores that only Tengu know of - Aya Shameimaru<br />
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====Advertisement==== <br />
*pg. 25: [[/Advertisement#Marisa Kirisame 1|Marisa Kirisame 1]]<br />
*pg. 53: [[/Advertisement#Doremy Sweet|Doremy Sweet]]<br />
*pg. 64: [[/Advertisement#Marisa Kirisame 2|Marisa Kirisame 2]]<br />
*pg. 81: [[/Advertisement#Keine Kamishirasawa and Hieda no Akyuu|Keine Kamishirasawa and Hieda no Akyuu]]<br />
*pg. 102: [[/Advertisement#Nitori Kawashiro|Nitori Kawashiro]]<br />
*pg. 103: [[/Advertisement#Sakuya Izayoi|Sakuya Izayoi]]<br />
*pg. 119: [[/Advertisement#Rin Kaenbyou|Rin Kaenbyou]]<br />
*pg. 127: [[/Advertisement#Bunbunshun News Report|Bunbunharu Weekly]]<br />
*pg. 128: [[/Advertisement#Bunbunmaru Newspaper|Bunbunmaru Newspaper]]<br />
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===Self Reflection===<br />
*pg. 130-131: [[/Article and Interview/Clownpiece and Hecatia Lapislazuli#Fact_Check_to_Article|Fact Check: Clownpiece and Hecatia Lapislazuli]] &mdash; 12-13 <br />
*pg. 132-133: [[/Article and Interview/Toyosatomimi no Miko#Fact_Check_to_Article_1|Fact Check: Toyosatomimi no Miko 1 (with Yoshika Miyako, Soga no Tojiko, and Mononobe no Futo)]] &mdash; 44-45 <br />
*pg. 134-135: [[/Article and Interview/Dangerous Things#Fact_Check_to_Article_2|Fact Check: Nitori Kawashiro]] &mdash; 34-35<br />
*pg. 136-137: [[/Article and Interview/Hatate Himekaidou#Fact_Check_to_Article_1|Fact Check: Hatate Himekaidou 1 (about Sumireko Usami)]] &mdash; 14-15<br />
*pg. 138-140: [[/Report of Release Cancel|Report that Bunbunharu Weekly Is Released to Be Cancelled]] &mdash;<br />
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===Afterword by ZUN===<br />
*pg. 142-143: [[/Afterword|Afterword]]<br />
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==Gallery==<br />
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File:AFiEUpreview.jpg|Promotional image featured in [[Strange Creators of Outer World]], with [[Sagume Kishin]]. Tagline reads: "''I wonder what kind of book it is...''"<br />
File:AFiEUBack.jpg|Back cover featuring [[Hecatia Lapislazuli]] and [[Clownpiece]]<br />
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| title ={{ruby-ja|東方文果真報|とうほぶんかしんぽう}}<br />''Alternative Facts in Eastern Utopia''<br />
| image = [[File:AFiEUcover.jpg|250px|Alternative Facts in Eastern Utopia]]<br />
| developer =Team Shanghai Alice<br />
| publisher =Kadokawa<br />
| released =2017-03-30<br />
| genre =Official Book<br />
| writers =[[ZUN]]<br />
| illustrators =[[Aoi Aioi]]<br />[[Genji Asai]]<br />[[Aya Azuma]]<br />[[Toshihira Arata]]<br />[[ALISON]]<br />[[Amamiya Tokuhisa]]<br />[[Suichuu Hanabi]]<br />[[TOKIAME]]<br />[[nyanya]]<br />[[Haniwa]]<br />[[Hiiragi Akio]]<br />[[Hitori]]<br />[[Masakichi]]<br />[[Mizutaki]]<br />
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| ISBN = 9784048928625<br />
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{{thtitle|Touhou |Bunka Shinpou|ruby=Word's End True Report|&nbsp;~ Alternative Facts in Eastern Utopia|東方文果真報 ~ Alternative Facts in Eastern Utopia}} is an official Touhou book released on March 30, 2017. It is presented as [[Aya Shameimaru]]'s attempt to create a tabloid magazine in the style of those from the [[Outside World]],<ref>''[[Curiosities of Lotus Asia]]'' - [[Curiosities of Lotus Asia/Chapter 30|Chapter 30]]</ref> which she eventually cancelled and left unpublished.<ref>''[[Forbidden Scrollery]]'' - Chapter 49</ref> The book features in-universe articles, interviews and advertisements similar to the earlier ''[[Bohemian Archive in Japanese Red]]'', but in a significantly more chaotic and haphazard format. In fact, the magazine ''Bunbunharu Weekly'' or "{{nihongo|文々春新報|Bunbunharu Shinpou|lit. "Aya's Periodical News Report"}} follows the name and design of {{nihongo|週刊文春|Shuukan Bunshun|lit. "Weekly Magazine of Literature Periodical"}}, a notorious high-circulation tabloid published weekly in Japan.<br />
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==Plot==<br />
[[Aya Shameimaru]], a [[tengu]] reporter, decides to change her reporting style to more closely match examples of [[Wikipedia:Clickbait|clickbait]] magazines from the [[Outside World]] in an attempt to further her publication's appeal. To that end, adopts the topical rhetoric of the [[Wikipedia:2016_United_States_presidential_election|2016 United States Presidential Election]], and other hot-button political and social issues into Gensokyo.<ref>[[Alternative Facts in Eastern Utopia]] - [[Alternative_Facts_in_Eastern_Utopia/Afterword|ZUN's Afterword]]</ref><br />
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In keeping with the 'tabloid' theme, she relies heavily on [[Wikipedia:loaded_questions|loaded questions]] to manufacture a narrative that Gensokyo is at risk of invasion from "foreign threats", going so far as to imply [[Yukari Yakumo]] and [[Reimu Hakurei]] are collaborators with these alleged conspiring outsiders, such as [[Clownpiece]] and [[Sumireko Usami]]. Despite Aya's determination to steer the conversation to that end, neither of them appear concerned about the new "immigrants", with Reimu rejecting the idea that she "defends" the [[Hakurei Barrier]] from outsiders,<ref>''[[Alternative Facts in Eastern Utopia]]'' - [[Alternative_Facts_in_Eastern_Utopia/Article_and_Interview/Sumireko_Usami|Sumireko Usami's Interview]]</ref> and Yukari stating that Gensokyo is "accepting of everyone."<ref>''[[Alternative Facts in Eastern Utopia]]'' - [[Alternative_Facts_in_Eastern_Utopia/Article_and_Interview/Yukari_Yakumo|Yukari Yakumo's Interview]]</ref><br />
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During a particularly in-depth and intense conversation with [[Hecatia Lapislazuli]], in which the Goddess harshly chides Aya for her [[Wikipedia:Yellow_journalism|yellow journalism]], Hecatia warns Aya that [[Wikipedia:Isolationism|isolationism]] would result in the stagnation and eventual decay of Gensokyo, comparing such an ideology to one held by the antagonistic and elitist [[Lunar Kingdom]]. Hecatia also suggests that the surge in isolationist attitudes that might result from Aya's publication would be advantageous to the [[Lunarians]] by limiting Gensokyo's cultural evolution. This interview in particular seems to convince Aya to ultimately not publish the current iteration of ''Bunbunharu Shinpou'', becoming similarly concerned about aiding the Lunarians.<ref>''[[Alternative Facts in Eastern Utopia]]'' - [[Alternative Facts in Eastern Utopia/Article and Interview/Clownpiece and Hecatia Lapislazuli|Hecatia Lapislazuli's Interview]]</ref><br />
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In a journal-style afterword, Aya explains the rationale for many of her loaded questions and outright fabrications, viewing it as a way to make her publication "more exciting and attractive" for potential readers rather than being a true believer of any specific ideology herself. Additionally, she felt pressure to compete with [[Hatate Himekaidou]]'s ''Kakashi Spirit News'' publication, or face irrelevance in Gensokyo's sphere of journalism.<br />
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==Press==<br />
Details regarding the book, including its release date, were announced in the 3rd volume of [[Strange Creators of Outer World]]. Preorders opened shortly after. <br />
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==Read online (complete)==<br />
MangaDex: '''[https://mangadex.org/title/841524ee-2a99-47a6-a71c-1fc61236812f Touhou Bunka Shinpou ~ Alternative Facts in Eastern Utopia.]'''<br />
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Released by '''Reality Dreamers'''.<br />
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==Contents==<br />
*pg. 1: [[/Memo|Memo]]<br />
*pg. 3: [[/Foreword|Foreword]]<br />
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===Bunbunharu Weekly===<br />
*pg. 5: Cover<br />
*pg. 7-9: [[/Article and Interview/Sumireko Usami#Article|Article: Sumireko Usami (with Kasen Ibaraki)]] &mdash; A female student who can cross over the barrier!<br />
*pg. 10-11: [[/Article and Interview/Prismriver Sisters and Raiko Horikawa#Article_1|Article: Prismriver Sisters 1]] &mdash; The Prismriver Ensemble's break-up!<br />
*pg. 12-13: [[/Article and Interview/Clownpiece and Hecatia Lapislazuli#Article|Article: Clownpiece and Hecatia Lapislazuli]] &mdash; A shocking photo of the invaders' secret talk!<br />
*pg. 14-15: [[/Article and Interview/Hatate Himekaidou#Article_1|Article: Hatate Himekaidou 1 (about Sumireko Usami)]] &mdash; More fake news from Kakashi Spirit News!<br />
*pg. 16: [[/Article and Interview/Shinmyoumaru Sukuna#Article_1|Article: Shinmyoumaru Sukuna 1]] &mdash; A Small Challenger to White-Water Rafting!<br />
*pg. 17: [[/Index|Index]]<br />
*pg. 18-21: [[/Article and Interview/Yukari Yakumo|Article: Yukari Yakumo]] &mdash; Gensokyo's crisis was calculated!?<br />
*pg. 22-25: [[/Article and Interview/Reimu Hakurei|Article: Reimu Hakurei]] &mdash; The Hakurei Shrine: Ally to the Outside World<ref>On the book, the number of page is misprinted as it starts from pg. 20.</ref><br />
*pg. 26-27: [[/Article and Interview/Rinnosuke Morichika|Article: Rinnosuke Morichika]] &mdash; Kourindou's Junk Restocked<br />
*pg. 28-29: [[/Article and Interview/Tsukumo Sisters|Article: Tsukumo Sisters]] &mdash; The Birth of Future Stars! The healing "Two Girls Band"<br />
*pg. 30-31: [[/Article and Interview/Dangerous Things#Front_Pages|Dangerous Things]] &mdash; DANGEROUS Things Keep Eating Away at Gensokyo!<br />
**pg. 32-33: [[/Article and Interview/Dangerous Things#Article_1|Article: Eirin Yagokoro]] &mdash; The inconvenient “true effects” of overly effective medicine<br />
**pg. 34-35: [[/Article and Interview/Dangerous Things#Article_2|Article: Nitori Kawashiro]] &mdash; "Kappa-Approved Hydrogenous Spring Water” and the Maximum Danger that Lurks Within!<br />
*pg. 36-37: [[/Article and Interview/Sekibanki|Article: Sekibanki]] &mdash; Stange "Smartphone Neck" Disease in Gensokyo!<br />
* Exclusive Bamboo Forest Scoops<br />
**pg. 38-39: [[/Article and Interview/Reisen Udongein Inaba#Article_1|Article: Reisen Udongein Inaba 1]] &mdash; The dangerous "addictiveness" of the moon's dango and their terrifying "side effects"!"<ref>On the book, the number of page is misprinted as it starts from pg. 36.</ref><br />
**pg. 40-41: [[/Article and Interview/Reisen Udongein Inaba#Article_2|Article: Reisen Udongein Inaba 2 (with Tewi Inaba)]] &mdash; Drug seller turns out to be an immigrant!<br />
*pg. 42-43: [[/Article and Interview/Aya Shameimaru|Article: Aya Shameimaru]] &mdash; “Bunbunmaru News” is HOT!<br />
*pg. 44-45: [[/Article and Interview/Toyosatomimi no Miko#Article_1|Article: Toyosatomimi no Miko 1 (with Yoshika Miyako, Soga no Tojiko, and Mononobe no Futo)]] &mdash; Is she President of the Human Village!?<br />
*pg. 46-47: [[/Article and Interview/Toyosatomimi no Miko#Article 2|Article: Toyosatomimi no Miko 2 (with Byakuren Hijiri, Seiga Kaku, and Hata no Kokoro)]] &mdash; "MAKE HUMANS GREAT AGAIN!"<br />
*pg. 48-49: [[/Article and Interview/Various Youkai|Article: Various Youkai]] &mdash; A serious food supply issue is inevitable<br />
*pg. 50-51: [[/Article and Interview/Prismriver Sisters and Raiko Horikawa#Article_2|Article: Prismriver Sisters 2 (featuring Raiko Horikawa)]] &mdash; From break-up to reformation in just three days<br />
*pg. 52: [[/Article and Interview/Prismriver Sisters and Raiko Horikawa#Interview|Interview: Raiko Horikawa]] &mdash; Becoming the Horismriver Ensemble while as a group of four<br />
*pg. 54-55: [[/Article and Interview/Hatate Himekaidou#Article_2|Article: Hatate Himekaidou 2 (about Seija Kijin)]] &mdash; The impossible "Discovery of the Real Miracle Mallet"<br />
*pg. 56-57: Tengu Quarrel - Toshihira Arata<br />
*pg. 58-63: [[/Novel/Hieda no Akyuu|Novel: Hieda no Akyuu]] &mdash; "M Dies of M" by Agatha Chris Q<br />
*pg. 65-72: Double Page: "When the Tengu Rest Their Wings"<br />
**pg. 66-69: Illustration by nyanya<br />
**pg. 70-71: [[/Article and Interview/Three Tengu|Meeting: Three Tengu]] &mdash; Urgent Meeting! Anonymous Tengu hold a Symposium<br />
*pg. 73-80: Newbie Tengu Shinmyoumaru - Haniwa<br />
*pg. 82-83: [[/Article and Interview/Doremy Sweet|Article: Doremy Sweet]] &mdash; The Ominous “Rumors” Surrounding a Popular Pillow<br />
*pg. 84-85: [[/Article and Interview/Sagume Kishin#Article_1|Article: Sagume Kishin 1 (Single)]] &mdash; SUSPICIOUS SHADY CHARACTER is frequenting pharmaceutical facility<br />
*pg. 86-87: [[/Article and Interview/Sagume Kishin#Article_2|Article: Sagume Kishin 2 (with Tewi Inaba, Reisen Udongein Inaba, and Eirin Yagokoro)]] &mdash; A Secret Conversation Sending The World Into Panic - Is this the "Yagokoro Incident"!?<br />
*pg. 88-89: [[/Article and Interview/Seiran and Ringo|Article: Seiran and Ringo]] &mdash; Even the dango business isn't always cushy?<br />
*pg. 90-91: [[/Article and Interview/Shinmyoumaru Sukuna#Article_2|Article: Shinmyoumaru Sukuna 2 (with Wakasagihime)]] &mdash; Shinmyoumaru's Still At It!<br />
*pg. 92-93: [[/Article and Interview/Kagerou Imaizumi|Article: Kagerou Imaizumi]] &mdash; A "guess the human" game has started<br />
*pg. 94-95: [[/Article and Interview/Hata no Kokoro|Article: Hata no Kokoro]] &mdash; "Ningyo-yaki In Love" is published<br />
*pg. 96-97: [[/Article and Interview/Momiji Inubashiri|Article: Momiji Inubashiri]] &mdash; At last: The countdown to the Aerial Ropeway<br />
*pg. 98: [[/Essay/Tenshi Hinanawi|Essay: Tenshi Hinanawi]] &mdash; Luxurious Heavenly Cuisine for the Needy - Tenshi Hinanawi<br />
*pg. 99: [[/Essay/Komachi Onozuka|Essay: Komachi Onozuka]] &mdash; Next Week's Deaths - Komachi Onozuka<br />
*pg. 100-101: [[/Essay/Marisa Kirisame|Essay: Marisa Kirisame]] &mdash; Marisa's Lucky Danmaku Horoscope - Marisa Kirisame<br />
*pg. 104-105: [[/Article and Interview/Kyouko Kasodani|Article: Kyouko Kasodani]] &mdash; The Reality of the Sweatshop World of Religion<br />
*pg. 106-107: [[/Article and Interview/Kogasa Tatara, Yoshika Miyako, and Seiga Kaku|Article: Kogasa Tatara, Yoshika Miyako, and Seiga Kaku]] &mdash; The Dread of the Urban Legend Incident!<br />
*pg. 108-111: [[/Article and Interview/Sumireko Usami#Interview|Interview: Sumireko Usami]] &mdash; Whose Side Is The Outsider On? - Sumireko Usami<br />
*pg. 112-117: [[/Article and Interview/Clownpiece and Hecatia Lapislazuli#Interview|Interview: Hecatia Lapislazuli]] &mdash; World-Crossing Discourse - Hecatia Lapislazuli<br />
*pg. 118: [[/Colophon|Colophon]]<br />
*pg. 120-121: [[/Essay/Aya Shameimaru#Essay_1|Essay: Aya Shameimaru 1]] &mdash; Top 100 Famous Hot Springs of Gensokyo - Aya Shameimaru<br />
*pg. 122-123: [[/Essay/Yuyuko Saigyouji|Essay: Yuyuko Saigyouji]] &mdash; Yuyuko's One Dish One Bite - Yuyuko Saigyouji<br />
*pg. 124-125: [[/Essay/Rinnosuke Morichika|Essay: Rinnosuke Morichika]] &mdash; Useless Modern Tools - Rinnosuke Morichika<br />
*pg. 126: [[/Essay/Aya Shameimaru#Essay_2|Essay: Aya Shameimaru 2]] &mdash; The secret stores that only Tengu know of - Aya Shameimaru<br />
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====Advertisement==== <br />
*pg. 25: [[/Advertisement#Marisa Kirisame 1|Marisa Kirisame 1]]<br />
*pg. 53: [[/Advertisement#Doremy Sweet|Doremy Sweet]]<br />
*pg. 64: [[/Advertisement#Marisa Kirisame 2|Marisa Kirisame 2]]<br />
*pg. 81: [[/Advertisement#Keine Kamishirasawa and Hieda no Akyuu|Keine Kamishirasawa and Hieda no Akyuu]]<br />
*pg. 102: [[/Advertisement#Nitori Kawashiro|Nitori Kawashiro]]<br />
*pg. 103: [[/Advertisement#Sakuya Izayoi|Sakuya Izayoi]]<br />
*pg. 119: [[/Advertisement#Rin Kaenbyou|Rin Kaenbyou]]<br />
*pg. 127: [[/Advertisement#Bunbunshun News Report|Bunbunharu Weekly]]<br />
*pg. 128: [[/Advertisement#Bunbunmaru Newspaper|Bunbunmaru Newspaper]]<br />
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===Self Reflection===<br />
*pg. 130-131: [[/Article and Interview/Clownpiece and Hecatia Lapislazuli#Fact_Check_to_Article|Fact Check: Clownpiece and Hecatia Lapislazuli]] &mdash; 12-13 <br />
*pg. 132-133: [[/Article and Interview/Toyosatomimi no Miko#Fact_Check_to_Article_1|Fact Check: Toyosatomimi no Miko 1 (with Yoshika Miyako, Soga no Tojiko, and Mononobe no Futo)]] &mdash; 44-45 <br />
*pg. 134-135: [[/Article and Interview/Dangerous Things#Fact_Check_to_Article_2|Fact Check: Nitori Kawashiro]] &mdash; 34-35<br />
*pg. 136-137: [[/Article and Interview/Hatate Himekaidou#Fact_Check_to_Article_1|Fact Check: Hatate Himekaidou 1 (about Sumireko Usami)]] &mdash; 14-15<br />
*pg. 138-140: [[/Report of Release Cancel|Report that Bunbunharu Weekly Is Released to Be Cancelled]] &mdash;<br />
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===Afterword by ZUN===<br />
*pg. 142-143: [[/Afterword|Afterword]]<br />
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==Gallery==<br />
<gallery perrow="7"><br />
File:AFiEUpreview.jpg|Promotional image featured in [[Strange Creators of Outer World]], with [[Sagume Kishin]]. Tagline reads: "''I wonder what kind of book it is...''"<br />
File:AFiEUBack.jpg|Back cover featuring [[Hecatia Lapislazuli]] and [[Clownpiece]]<br />
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==References==<br />
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<div>{{Infobox Character<br />
| nameJp = {{ruby-ja|宇佐見|うさみ}} {{ruby-ja|菫子|すみれこ}}<br />
| nameEn = Sumireko Usami<br />
| nameIPA = ɯᵝsa̠mi sɯᵝmiɺ̠e̞ko̞<br />
| image = [[File:Th165Sumireko.png|x300px|Sumireko Usami]]<br />
| caption = Sumireko Usami in [[Violet Detector]]<br />
| chartitle = {{H:title|Expose the Esoteric! The Secret Sealing Club's First President|深秘を曝け!秘封倶楽部 初代会長}}<br />
| species = [[Human]]/Doppelganger<br />
| abilities = Assorted psychic powers (ESP)<br />
| age =15−16 years old (as of ''Urban Legend in Limbo'')<br />
| occupation = High school student at Higashifukami High School, part-timer at [[Kourindou]]<ref>Curiosities of Lotus Asia, Chapter 36</ref><br />
| location = [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kant%C5%8D_region Kanto Region], [[Outside World]]<br />
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{{nihongo|'''Sumireko Usami'''|宇佐見 菫子|Usami Sumireko}} is the main antagonist of [[Urban Legend in Limbo]] and is the main protagonist of [[Violet Detector]]. She's a [[human]] from the [[Outside World]] with psychic powers (ESP). She is the first president of the [[Secret Sealing Club]].<br />
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==General Information==<br />
Sumireko first appeared as the Final Boss of ''[[Urban Legend in Limbo]]'', and eventually becomes a playable character of the same game.<br />
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===Personality===<br />
Sumireko has shown herself to be extremely intelligent, determined, passionate, and [[Wikipedia:hubris|hubristic]] in equal parts. At her best, she is friendly and passionate about life and learning about the world around her. At her worst, she can devolve into stubbornness and outright obstinance, going so far as to put herself in grave danger to achieve her goals.<br />
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Despite her apparent superiority complex, she has grown to have a deep respect and admiration for the inhabitants of Gensokyo, referring to many of them as her friends, and looking up to them for mentorship and guidance. She describes herself as having been a bit of a loner prior to her arrival in Gensokyo, and she considers her discovery of Gensokyo to be the best thing to have happened in her life due to the friendships she's made there.<br />
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She also describes herself as being [[Wikipedia:Chūnibyō|chuunibyou]],<ref>[[The Grimoire of Usami]] - [[The Grimoire of Usami/Section 1-9|Section 1-9]]</ref> a term usually used mockingly, with a sense of personal pride, alluding to her psychic powers and other magical abilities. In spite of that pride, she does lament that nobody in the Outside World seems to be able to understand her or her passion about the occult and Gensokyo. This may also be in part due to how highly opinionated she is, espousing her beliefs about the "phoniness" of the [[Outside World]]'s dominant consumerist culture at the slightest provocation.<ref>[[Alternative Facts in Eastern Utopia]] - [[Alternative Facts in Eastern Utopia/Article and Interview/Sumireko Usami|Sumireko Usami Interview]]</ref> <br />
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Sumireko seems to hold several contradictory opinions, although it comes off less as hypocrisy, and more as though she hasn't been able to fully make up her mind about certain subjects due to her inexperience of being a teenager.<br />
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===Abilities===<br />
;Esper<br />
She is a strong [[Wikipedia:Psychic|psychic]], capable of various powers associated with the [[Wikipedia:Occult|occult]], including but seemingly not limited to levitation, pyrokinesis, hydrokinesis, telekinesis, psychokinesis, and teleportation.<br />
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;Doppelgänger<br />
After the events of ''[[Urban Legend in Limbo]]'', she unwittingly develops a [[Wikipedia:Doppelgänger|doppelgänger]] which maintains her "permanent" presence in Gensokyo.<ref>[[Curiosities of Lotus Asia]] - [[Curiosities_of_Lotus_Asia/Chapter_33|Chapter 33]]</ref> She is able to recall the memories of both the doppelgänger as well as those from her "normal" life in the [[Outside World]], allowing her to live a double-life in both worlds.<br />
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==Background Information==<br />
===Name===<br />
Her full name is {{nihongo|''Sumireko Usami''|宇佐見 菫子|Usami Sumireko}}. {{nihongo|''Usami''|宇佐見}} uses the same writing as [[Renko Usami]]'s surname and it is known to be an actual name in Japanese. {{nihongo|''Sumireko''|菫子}} literally means "violet child" and is also similar to how Renko's name means "lotus child", as both take their names from flowers.<br />
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===Design===<br />
Sumireko has brown eyes and shoulder-length brown hair tied in pigtails. On her head is a black hat with a white bow along with red-framed glasses. She wears a purple plaid skirt and matching sleeveless top (resembling a jumper dress), over a long-sleeved white blouse and a black bolo tie with a clasp shaped like a [[wikipedia:Quimbaya artifacts|"Quimbaya airplane"]]. Along with this, she wears white socks with bows and black shoes. Sumireko generally carries [[wikipedia:Zener cards|Zener cards]], a tablet computer marked with a hexagram on the back, a smartphone in a white case with various blue shapes on it and a light-blue [[wikipedia:Liberator_(gun)|liberator]]. She also wears white gloves, and a black, high-collared cloak with a red interior inscribed with pinkish-white runes and a series of white lines at the bottom rim of the backside.<br />
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Her summer uniform appears nearly identical to her winter one, but with shorter and looser sleeves, no gloves, and a skull in place of the Quimbaya airplane.<br />
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==Sumireko's Appearances==<br />
===Games===<br />
;''Urban Legend in Limbo''<br />
Sumireko is the main antagonist of ''Urban Legend in Limbo'' and the final boss in most of the characters' scenarios in story mode.<br />
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Sumireko manages to go through the [[Great Hakurei Barrier]] by using the [[Occult Ball]]s, which are special stones gathered from [[Mystery Spot]]s in the [[Outside World]]. However, after a short period, she is suddenly ejected from Gensokyo. Learning from this, Sumireko starts with brief excursions into Gensokyo to learn more about it, appearing to anyone who catches sight of her as an ominous black shadow.<br />
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Sumireko soon devises a plan to spread rumors of the Occult Ball's powers and scatters them around Gensokyo for its residents to find. Once the balls are gathered, they warp back to the Outside World along with whoever gathered them all, just for enough time for Sumireko to learn about them before they are transported back. She then re-enters Gensokyo and scatters the balls again, thus beginning the incident of ''Urban Legend in Limbo''. Her plan works for a while, and although she is baffled at why everyone who comes out of Gensokyo ends up fighting her, she enjoys it nonetheless. <br />
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Soon enough, [[Mamizou Futatsuiwa]] is made aware of the incident and devises her own plan: she claims to have Gensokyo's own Occult Ball in her possession when challenging Sumireko, claiming it would allow her limitless travel between Gensokyo and the Outside World. Mamizou instead tricks Sumireko into entering Gensokyo the ''proper'' way, which does let her stay there, but as Sumireko does not know how to get back ''out'', she is trapped in Gensokyo.<br />
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Sumireko's story mode in ''Urban Legend in Limbo'' follows her as she is trapped in Gensokyo, whose residents attempt to scare her to teach her a lesson. In the end, she is confronted by [[Toyosatomimi no Miko]], who reminds Sumireko that she can use the Occult Balls to escape Gensokyo temporarily. She returns to the Outside World, and believing she will eventually be killed by the youkai of Gensokyo, she decides that when her time in the Outside World runs out, she will sacrifice herself to, purportedly, unleash the full power of the Occult Balls and destroy the Great Hakurei Barrier.<br />
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Before being brought back to Gensokyo, she is confronted by Reimu in her own story mode, who realized that one of Sumireko's Occult Balls was swapped for a [[Lunar Capital]] ball, which if activated would link Gensokyo with the Lunar Capital instead. Although Reimu defeats Sumireko and saves the Great Hakurei Barrier, the Lunar Capital ball was activated, setting up the events of ''[[Legacy of Lunatic Kingdom]]''. Upon returning to Gensokyo, Sumireko is detained by Reimu, Mamizou and [[Kasen Ibaraki]]. Deciding Sumireko was no longer a threat, they return her to the Outside World through the proper method.<br />
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A few days later, Sumireko reappears at the [[Hakurei Shrine]], as she had discovered that ever since leaving Gensokyo, she could travel back there in her dreams. No longer antagonistic, she befriends Gensokyo's residents in earnest, and her tales of the Outside World turn her into a brief celebrity.<br />
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;''Antinomy of Common Flowers''<br />
Sumireko is a playable character with an unlockable story mode in [[Antinomy of Common Flowers]]. In her story mode, she visited Gensokyo at a bad time as the [[Dream World]] has been thrown into chaos by the [[Joon Yorigami|Yorigami]] [[Shion Yorigami|Sisters]]' incident, and she ends up trapped there as a result.<br />
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She teams up with [[Doremy Sweet]] to traverse through the Dream World and reach Gensokyo, whereupon they are tasked by [[Yukari Yakumo]] to dispatch Sumireko's own Dream Soul that has been released into the Outside World by the incident. Curiously Sumireko somehow encounters ''two'' of her own Dream Souls, but defeats them with Doremy's help. She awakes in the Outside World afterward, greeted by Doremy to confirm that she is the real Sumireko.<br />
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;''Violet Detector'' <br />
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Sumireko is the main protagonist of ''Violet Detector''. For some time, she has been having the same weird dream, in which she is constantly attacked by the residents of the dream world for no reason.<br />
She finally discovers that the dream dwellers hold a grudge against her for having a flesh body allowing her to go in the real world, and [[Doremy Sweet]] tells her that she can only expect the situation to worsen.<br />
After some time, she encounters and fight against [[Okina Matara]]. Okina is impressed by Sumireko who has been able to fend off the dream dwellers for quite some time. She offers her some help, in order to make the dream dwellers recognize her strength and make them stop attacking her. But in order to achieve that, she has to defeat even more powerful nightmares, so Okina lends Sumireko some powers on top of her psychic abilities, allowing her to cheat death in certain situations.<br />
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Sumireko then goes on and fights powerful nightmares, in the form of strong dream dwellers teaming up against her. <br />
After a week of fighting, she encounters another Sumireko. During that confrontation, she realizes that she was actually the [[Phantom#Dream Soul|Dream Soul]] of the real Sumireko, the other one, who is trying to get her body back. But at this point, Dream Sumireko has become stronger than the real Sumireko and is able to defeat her.<br />
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Okina, not willing to take any side in the confrontation between the two Sumirekos, decides to take back the power she lent Dream Sumireko to make things fair. The real Sumireko challenges her dream self once again and eventually defeats her.<br />
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The next day, Sumireko wakes up in the real world as if nothing happened, having no recollection of what transpired in her mind. She stopped having those nightmares, but the photos of danmaku battles still lie in the memory of her smartphone.<br />
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===Print Works===<br />
Sumireko makes appearances in [[Grimoire of Usami]], [[Curiosities of Lotus Asia]], and [[Wild and Horned Hermit]].<br />
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Grimoire of Usami is a book of spellcards, similar to [[Grimoire of Marisa]], in which her and many other characters attend a danmaku fireworks festival, cataloging and critiquing danmaku patterns.<br />
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In Curiosities of Lotus Asia, [[Rinnosuke Morichika]] catalogs Sumireko's trials and tribulations as she integrates herself into Gensokyo life, with the development of her occult doppelganger, and her disappearance during [[Violet Detector]].<br />
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in Wild and Horned Hermit, she makes a small cameo appearance for "World UFO Day," and accidentally summons a UFO to the main courtyard of the [[Hakurei Shrine]].<br />
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==Relationships==<br />
===[[Reimu Hakurei]] & [[Marisa Kirisame]]===<br />
In [[Urban Legend in Limbo]] and [[Curiosities of Lotus Asia]], Reimu and Marisa are frequently seen doting on her, making sure she's safe and trying to keep her from getting into trouble. In an interview with [[Aya Shameimaru]] in [[Alternative Facts in Eastern Utopia]], Sumireko refers to both Reimu and Marisa as friends she's made since coming to Gensokyo.<br />
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Reimu admits that although she's worried about Sumireko's appearance in Gensokyo and its implications for more [[Outside World]] humans passing through the barrier, Sumireko has made things "fun" in Gensokyo again. Marisa also tries to give advice on how to talk to the local residents.<br />
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In [[Violet Detector]], Sumireko refers to both of them with friendly informal names like "Reimu-icchi" and "Marisa-icchi," typically used between close friends.<br />
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===[[Rinnosuke Morichika]]===<br />
In [[Curiosities of Lotus Asia]], which is primarily told through Rinnosuke's perspective, Rinnosuke and Sumireko often talk about the Outside World and the various items that filter in through the [[Great Hakurei Barrier]]. Rinnosuke shows a great deal of care towards Sumireko, worrying about her safety, while Sumireko seems to regard him as a nag, and goes so far as to criticize him for his habits, such as smoking cigarettes. Despite that, they seem to be good friends, with Sumireko recently beginning to work as a "part-timer" at [[Kourindou]].<ref>[[Curiosities of Lotus Asia]] - [[Curiosities_of_Lotus_Asia/Chapter_36|Chapter 36]]</ref><br />
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===[[Mamizou Futatsuiwa]]===<br />
In [[Alternative Facts in Eastern Utopia]], Sumireko mentions that Mamizou often visits her in the [[Outside World]]. The exact details of this aren't known, but Sumireko implies that they're friends, and that Sumireko respects her as an elder.<br />
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===[[Kasen Ibaraki]]===<br />
In [[Alternative Facts in Eastern Utopia]], Sumireko mentions that her and Kasen are also friends, and says that they hang out a lot in Gensokyo, calling her "Kasen-chan."<br />
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In [[Urban Legend in Limbo]], Kasen expresses resentment that Sumireko views youkai with such a casual and playful attitude, feeling that Sumireko should show youkai more respect. Despite that, it's shown in [[Wild and Horned Hermit]] that Kasen has grown a bit softer on her in more recent times.<br />
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===[[Fujiwara no Mokou]]===<br />
Initially annoyed by Sumireko, Mokou challenged Sumireko to a duel. The two were able to match each other's strength. Mokou extended an invitation to have a rematch sometime in the future, admiring the young girl's fighting spirit and passion, and thanking her for giving her a tough challenge. It appears the two have become friendly rivals.<br />
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===[[Renko Usami]]===<br />
Due to her name, similar appearance and involvement in the creation of the [[Secret Sealing Club]], she may have some kind of relation to Renko. However, the specifics of this connection is as yet unknown. Her profile suggests she is an ancestor of Renko, from the present time.<br />
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===[[Okina Matara]]===<br />
In [[Violet Detector]], Okina ultimately assists Sumireko with resolving her real-self/dream-self/doppelganger mix-up situation, but not before toying with her for a little bit. As (real) Sumireko loses her memories of the incident, it's unknown if she remembers Okina at all. <br />
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===[[Doremy Sweet]]===<br />
In [[Antimony of Common Flowers]], Doremy teams up with Sumireko. During the incident, Sumireko is faced with fighting both her dream-self and her occult doppelganger, who have also teamed up to take down the "real" Sumireko. Doremy expresses confusion over how there can possibly be three Sumirekos at the same time in Gensokyo, but ultimately helps Sumireko resolve her issue at the time.<br />
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===[[Shinmyoumaru Sukuna]]===<br />
Sumireko finds Shinmyoumaru adorable, claiming to want to somehow take her home as a pet, much to her annoyance.<br />
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==Skills==<br />
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==Spell Cards==<br />
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==Gallery==<br />
===Covers===<br />
<gallery><br />
File:Th145front.jpg|Cover of ''[[Urban Legend in Limbo]]'', featuring Sumireko's silhouette<br />
File:TFM-07.jpg|Cover of ''[[Urban Legend in Limbo OST]]'', featuring Sumireko<br />
File:Th165cover.jpg|Cover of ''[[Violet Detector]]'', featuring Sumireko's silhouette<br />
File:WaHH 6 Cover.jpg|Sumireko on the Vol. 6 cover of ''[[Wild and Horned Hermit]]''<br />
File:CoLA28CleanCover.jpg|Sumireko in ''[[Curiosities of Lotus Asia]]''<br />
File:CoLA29CleanCover.jpg|Sumireko in ''[[Curiosities of Lotus Asia]]''<br />
File:GoU_cover.jpg|Sumireko in ''[[The Grimoire of Usami]]''<br />
</gallery><br />
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===Artworks===<br />
<gallery><br />
File:Th155Sumireko.png|Sumireko's artwork from ''[[Urban Legend in Limbo]]'' and ''[[Antinomy of Common Flowers]]''<br />
File:Th145Sumireko2.png|Sumireko's pre-battle artwork from ''[[Urban Legend in Limbo]]'' and ''[[Antinomy of Common Flowers]]''<br />
</gallery><br />
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===Sprites===<br />
<gallery><br />
File:Th155SumirekoColors.png|Sumireko's different color palettes from ''[[Antinomy of Common Flowers|AoCF]]'' and ''[[Urban Legend in Limbo|ULiL]]'', the last two were added in AoCF v1.10<br />
</gallery><br />
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==Additional Information==<br />
*Sumireko's silhouette occupies the front of ''[[Urban Legend in Limbo]]'' and ''[[Violet Detector]]'''s jewel case. Along with [[Cirno]], she's the only character to appear as the silhouette for two games' jewel cases in the Windows games.<br />
*Sumireko is the first final [[boss]] to be a [[human]] from outside [[Gensokyo]] since the [[PC-98]] game ''[[Phantasmagoria of Dim.Dream]]'', who was [[Yumemi Okazaki]]. Sumireko also has similarities to Yumemi besides this; both have an interest in magic, they tried to take an inhabitant of Gensokyo and had traps provided to lurk them into their area.<br />
*She is the first fighting game final boss whose story mode scenario is not the last to be unlocked.<br />
*The runes on her cloak do not appear to form any meaningful words, and some are even drawn from different runic alphabets (e.g. the old-form "sowilo" rune as written in Elder Futhark and the "stan" rune used by [[Wiktionary:Anglo-Saxons|Anglo-Saxon]] writers hundreds of years later).<br />
*Inside the game data for Urban Legend in Limbo, a folder named "Hanako" can be found that contains three sprites of a silhouetted Sumireko holding her cell phone. It's possible that Hanako was a working name for her, or was intended to be her name.<br />
** The 菫 (Sumire) part of her name is the name of a flower, from which the word for flower in Japanese is 花 (Hana). It could also be a codename. <br />
*[[Antinomy of Common Flowers]] confirms her to be a citizen of the Kantou Region. Incidentally, [[Renko]]'s parents also live in Tokyo.<br />
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==Fandom==<br />
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==Official Profiles==<br />
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{{Profile Quote<br />
| image =[[File:Th145Sumireko.png|200px|Sumireko Usami ULiL]]<br />
| text = ○深秘を曝け!秘封倶楽部 初代会長<br><br />
宇佐見 菫子(うさみ すみれこ)<br />
<br />
種族:女子高生<br><br />
能力:超能力を操る程度の能力<br />
<br />
彼女は本物の超能力者であった。<br />
<br />
ネットで知識を深めた若者にありがちの全能感と、生まれ持った才能に<br><br />
より、特に中学の頃は『自分は他の人間より優れている』と思っていた。<br />
<br />
友達という物が無駄であるとは言わない。<br><br />
但しそれは知識の上での有用性であり、本当の心情は<br><br />
「友達を必要とする人種にとっては有益だ。<br><br />
群れたがる奴らにとってな」<br><br />
と心底馬鹿にしていたようである。<br />
<br />
そんなわけで友達が出来る訳も無く<br><br />
(彼女からしてみたら『必要が無かったので友達を作らなかった』、となる)<br><br />
他の人から見たら無惨な、だが本人は充実した学生生活を送っていた。<br />
<br />
この頃から、彼女は独自の研究を始めた。<br><br />
超能力を使える理由や、オカルト、都市伝説と呼ばれる物、等々。<br><br />
その中でも特に、この世界とは違う何処か異世界への憧れが強かった。<br />
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<br />
そんな生活も高校に入ると一変する。<br><br />
彼女は(この手の人間にありがちだが)成績優秀だった。その為少し<br><br />
離れた私立の進学校に進学した。<br><br />
生徒はアチコチから集まっていた。それまでの人間関係は断たれ、新<br><br />
たに構築されようとしている。すると成績優秀な彼女の元にも関係を<br><br />
築こうと人が集まるようになっていた。硬化させた態度も逆に魅力で<br><br />
あったのかも知れない。<br />
<br />
<br />
だが、彼女は自分が他の人間とは違う種族である筈だと思い込んでいた。<br><br />
他の人間は『自分と普通の人間関係を築き、同レベルに引きずり込もう』<br><br />
と企む悪魔のような物だと言い聞かせた。<br />
<br />
聡明な彼女は人を追い払う為に『あえて』人を集めた。<br><br />
それが、非公認オカルトサークル『秘封倶楽部』であった。<br><br />
彼女の目論見通り、もう友達になろうと言う人は現われなかった。<br />
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秘封倶楽部とは、異世界の秘密を自分の足で曝くサークルである。<br><br />
結果、彼女は世界の深秘に触れた。<br />
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――はてさてそれから色々な出来事が起こり、<br><br />
結果、夢の世界に入れる様になる。<br />
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そこでは自分の知識は上辺だけの物であると思い知らされた。経験<br><br />
こそがこの世界の真実であり、知識はそれを覆い隠す為にあるのだと。<br />
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そして夢の中には、彼女が見下すことの出来ない人間達がいた。<br><br />
夢の中、いや幻想郷のお陰で、友達を作るのも悪くないと思うようになった。<br />
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:<br><br />
:<br><br />
:<br />
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……しかし、最後まで不可解な事があった。<br><br />
彼女が仕掛けた、異世界の扉を開くはずのパワーストーンだが、<br><br />
一つだけ別の物にすり替わっていたらしい。<br />
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それは誰の仕業だろうか。<br><br />
そもそも幻想郷に実現する都市伝説が蔓延していたのも<br><br />
自分が仕掛けたのでは無いのだ。<br><br />
都市伝説は結界を破るために良いように働いたのだが、<br><br />
それも全て偶然、だったのだろうか?<br />
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もしかしたら、内側から誰かが結界を破ろうとしているのではないか。<br><br />
自分のパワーストーンは逆に利用されたのではないか。<br><br />
彼女には最後まで判らなかった。<br />
| translation ='''Expose the Esoteric! The [[Secret Sealing Club]]'s First President'''<br><br />
Sumireko Usami<br />
<br />
Species: High-school girl<br><br />
Ability: Capable of manipulating psychic powers<br />
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She was a genuine psychic.<br />
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Thanks to the sense of omnipotence common to youths who furthered their knowledge via the internet, and to the talents she was born with, she began to think that "she was superior to other people," particularly around the time when she was in middle school.<br />
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It wasn't to say that friends were ''useless'' or anything.<br><br />
It was just that they were useful to have from a simple knowledge standpoint.<br><br />
What she really thought was that "friends are beneficial for the sort of people who actually ''need'' them. Like, the sort of people who want others to flock around them."<br><br />
In the back of her mind, she mocked them.<br />
<br />
Thus, unable to make any friends, (although she herself would frame it as "I didn't make any because I just didn't need any",) she lived a school life that others would view as tragic, but she herself was enriched by.<br />
<br />
It was around that time that she began research of her own.<br><br />
Why she could use psychic powers, occult phenomena, that which we call 'urban legends', et cetera.<br><br />
In particular, she developed a strong interest in worlds separate from our own.<br />
<br />
When she entered high school, her lifestyle instantly changed.<br><br />
She was a model student (not uncommon for people such as her), and as a result, she advanced to a somewhat isolated private prep school. The school gathered students from all over; having been separated from their previous relationships, they strove to construct those relationships anew. As such, many people tried to strike up friendships with her, model student that she was. Her stiff attitude may have actually contributed to her appeal.<br />
<br />
However, she was convinced that she was of a different sort than the other humans around her. Other people, as far as she was concerned, may as well have been demons plotting to form regular relationships with her in order to drag her down to their level.<br />
<br />
In a smart move, she ''deliberately'' gathered people around her so as to drive them away.<br><br />
She formed an unauthorized occult circle: the "Secret Sealing Club".<br><br />
Just as she expected, nobody came up to her saying they wanted to be friends anymore.<br />
<br />
The Secret Sealing Club was a circle dedicated to exposing the secrets of other worlds with their own power.<br><br />
As a result, she made contact with the deep secrets of the world.<br />
<br />
---and so, various things occurred from there,<br><br />
and as a result, she became able to enter the world of dreams.<br />
<br />
There, she was made to realize that all her knowledge was only superficial. ''Experience'' is the real truth of this world, and her pursuit of factual knowledge was only something to cover for this.<br />
<br />
And in that dream, she at last met people who she couldn't look down on.<br><br />
Thanks to that dream--- no, thanks to Gensokyo, she found herself starting to think that maybe making some friends wouldn't be so bad after all.<br />
<br />
....<br />
<br />
....<br />
<br />
....<br />
<br />
...however, there was one thing that remained incomprehensible in the end.<br><br />
Out of all the power stones that she set up in order to open the door to the other world,<br><br />
one single stone seemed to have been switched with another.<br />
<br />
Whose doing was this?<br><br />
In the first place, the urban legends manifesting and spreading through Gensokyo were not something that she had planned. The urban legends had taken action such that a hole would be broken in the barrier, in the end, but was that really just a coincidence...?<br />
<br />
Perhaps [[Sagume Kishin|someone]] had been attempting to break the barrier from the inside.<br><br />
Had her power stones been used for [[Legacy of Lunatic Kingdom|someone else's purposes?]]<br><br />
She never did figure it out.<br />
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| text =神秘主義で扱いに困る女学生<br />
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宇佐見菫子<br/><br />
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「なんか変なレイムね<br/><br />
今日は香霖堂に行きたいんだけどー」<br/><br />
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今時の超能力女子高生<br/><br />
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夢の中で幻想郷に訪れる事ができる彼女、<br/><br />
だが、この日の幻想郷はいつもと全く違う景色を見せていた<br/><br />
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動かずどこからでも捉える超能力を駆使して戦う要塞タイプ<br/><br />
相手を前後左右から襲い掛かる瓦礫の山に埋めてしまおう<br/><br />
| translation ='''Mystic and Troublesome Female Student'''<br />
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'''Sumireko Usami'''<br/><br />
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''"Well, you sure are acting weird, Reimu.''<br/><br />
''I'd like to go to Kourindou today, if you don't mind...?"''<br/><br />
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A modern high-school girl with psychic powers.<br/><br />
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She has the ability to visit Gensokyo in her dreams, but the Gensokyo she saw today was utterly different from usual.<br/><br />
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A zoning character who fights with her ESP, able to catch opponents anywhere without moving.<br/><br />
Bury your opponent in mountains of rubble that rain down from all sides!<br/><br />
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| nameJp = {{ruby-ja|宇佐見|うさみ}} {{ruby-ja|菫子|すみれこ}}<br />
| nameEn = Sumireko Usami<br />
| nameIPA = ɯᵝsa̠mi sɯᵝmiɺ̠e̞ko̞<br />
| image = [[File:Th165Sumireko.png|x300px|Sumireko Usami]]<br />
| caption = Sumireko Usami in [[Violet Detector]]<br />
| chartitle = {{H:title|Expose the Esoteric! The Secret Sealing Club's First President|深秘を曝け!秘封倶楽部 初代会長}}<br />
| species = [[Human]]/Doppelganger<br />
| abilities = Assorted psychic powers (ESP)<br />
| age =15−16 years old (as of ''Urban Legend in Limbo'')<br />
| occupation = High school student at Higashifukami High School, part-timer at [[Kourindou]]<ref>Curiosities of Lotus Asia, Chapter 36</ref><br />
| location = [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kant%C5%8D_region Kanto Region], [[Outside World]]<br />
| MusicThemes = *{{H:title|{{lang|ja|ラストオカルティズム ~ 現し世の秘術師}}|Last Occultism ~ Esotericist of the Present World}} ([[Urban Legend in Limbo]], [[Antinomy of Common Flowers]]) <br />
*{{H:title|{{lang|ja|燕石博物誌が連れてきた闇}}|The Darkness Brought In by Swallowstone Naturalis Historia}} ([[Violet Detector]], as Real World Sumireko)<br />
*{{H:title|{{lang|ja|秘匿されたフォーシーズンズ}}|The Concealed Four Seasons}} ([[Violet Detector]], as Dream Soul Sumireko)<br />
| appOfficialgames = *''[[Urban Legend in Limbo]]'' (Final Boss, Playable Character)<br />
*''[[Antinomy of Common Flowers]]'' (Playable Character, Possible Opponent)<br />
*''[[Violet Detector]]'' (Main Character, Cover, Nightmare Diary Boss)<br />
| appPrintworks = *''[[Wild and Horned Hermit]]'' (Chapter 29, 31 cameo, 34, 35 cameo)<br />
*''[[Forbidden Scrollery]]'' (Chapter 34 cameo)<br />
*''[[Visionary Fairies in Shrine]]'' (Chapters 2, 7 Cameo)<br />
*''[[Curiosities of Lotus Asia]]'' (Secondary Character)<br />
*''[[Alternative Facts in Eastern Utopia]]'' (Interviews)<br />
* ''[[The Grimoire of Usami]]'' (Main Character)<br />
* ''[[Strange Creators of Outer World/Who's Who of Humans & Youkai - Dusk Edition|Who's Who of Humans & Youkai - Dusk Edition]]''<br />
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{{nihongo|'''Sumireko Usami'''|宇佐見 菫子|Usami Sumireko}} is the main antagonist of [[Urban Legend in Limbo]] and is the main protagonist of [[Violet Detector]]. She's a [[human]] from the [[Outside World]] with psychic powers (ESP). She is the first president of the [[Secret Sealing Club]].<br />
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==General Information==<br />
Sumireko first appeared as the Final Boss of ''[[Urban Legend in Limbo]]'', and eventually becomes a playable character of the same game.<br />
<br />
===Personality===<br />
Sumireko has shown herself to be extremely intelligent, determined, passionate, and [[Wikipedia:hubris|hubristic]] in equal parts. At her best, she is friendly and passionate about life and learning about the world around her. At her worst, she can devolve into stubbornness and outright obstinance, going so far as to put herself in grave danger to achieve her goals.<br />
<br />
Despite her apparent superiority complex, she has grown to have a deep respect and admiration for the inhabitants of Gensokyo, referring to many of them as her friends, and looking up to them for mentorship and guidance. She describes herself as having been a bit of a loner prior to her arrival in Gensokyo, and she considers her discovery of Gensokyo to be the best thing to have happened in her life due to the friendships she's made there.<br />
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She also describes herself as being [[Wikipedia:Chūnibyō|chuunibyou]],<ref>[[The Grimoire of Usami]] - [[The Grimoire of Usami/Section 1-9|Section 1-9]]</ref> a term usually used mockingly, with a sense of personal pride, alluding to her psychic powers and other magical abilities. In spite of that pride, she does lament that nobody in the Outside World seems to be able to understand her or her passion about the occult and Gensokyo. This may also be in part due to how highly opinionated she is, espousing her beliefs about the "phoniness" of the [[Outside World]]'s dominant consumerist culture at the slightest provocation.<ref>[[Alternative Facts in Eastern Utopia]] - [[Alternative Facts in Eastern Utopia/Article and Interview/Sumireko Usami|Sumireko Usami Interview]]</ref> <br />
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Sumireko seems to hold several contradictory opinions, although it comes off less as hypocrisy, and more as though she hasn't been able to fully make up her mind about certain subjects due to her inexperience of being a teenager.<br />
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===Abilities===<br />
;Esper<br />
She is a strong [[Wikipedia:Psychic|psychic]], capable of various powers associated with the [[Wikipedia:Occult|occult]], including but seemingly not limited to levitation, pyrokinesis, hydrokinesis, telekinesis, psychokinesis, and teleportation.<br />
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;Doppelgänger<br />
After the events of ''[[Urban Legend in Limbo]]'', she unwittingly develops a [[Wikipedia:Doppelgänger|doppelgänger]] which maintains her "permanent" presence in Gensokyo.<ref>[[Curiosities of Lotus Asia]] - [[Curiosities_of_Lotus_Asia/Chapter_33|Chapter 33]]</ref> She is able to recall the memories of both the doppelgänger as well as those from her "normal" life in the [[Outside World]], allowing her to live a double-life in both worlds.<br />
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==Background Information==<br />
===Name===<br />
Her full name is {{nihongo|''Sumireko Usami''|宇佐見 菫子|Usami Sumireko}}. {{nihongo|''Usami''|宇佐見}} uses the same writing as [[Renko Usami]]'s surname and it is known to be an actual name in Japanese. {{nihongo|''Sumireko''|菫子}} literally means "violet child" and is also similar to how Renko's name means "lotus child", as both take their names from flowers.<br />
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===Design===<br />
Sumireko has brown eyes and shoulder-length brown hair tied in pigtails. On her head is a black hat with a white bow along with red-framed glasses. She wears a purple plaid skirt and matching sleeveless top (resembling a jumper dress), over a long-sleeved white blouse and a black bolo tie with a clasp shaped like a [[wikipedia:Quimbaya artifacts|"Quimbaya airplane"]]. Along with this, she wears white socks with bows and black shoes. Sumireko generally carries [[wikipedia:Zener cards|Zener cards]], a tablet computer marked with a hexagram on the back, a smartphone in a white case with various blue shapes on it and a light-blue [[wikipedia:Liberator_(gun)|liberator]]. She also wears white gloves, and a black, high-collared cloak with a red interior inscribed with pinkish-white runes and a series of white lines at the bottom rim of the backside.<br />
<br />
Her summer uniform appears nearly identical to her winter one, but with shorter and looser sleeves, no gloves, and a skull in place of the Quimbaya airplane.<br />
<br />
==Sumireko's Appearances==<br />
===Games===<br />
;''Urban Legend in Limbo''<br />
Sumireko is the main antagonist of ''Urban Legend in Limbo'' and the final boss in most of the characters' scenarios in story mode.<br />
<br />
Sumireko manages to go through the [[Great Hakurei Barrier]] by using the [[Occult Ball]]s, which are special stones gathered from [[Mystery Spot]]s in the [[Outside World]]. However, after a short period, she is suddenly ejected from Gensokyo. Learning from this, Sumireko starts with brief excursions into Gensokyo to learn more about it, appearing to anyone who catches sight of her as an ominous black shadow.<br />
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Sumireko soon devises a plan to spread rumors of the Occult Ball's powers and scatters them around Gensokyo for its residents to find. Once the balls are gathered, they warp back to the Outside World along with whoever gathered them all, just for enough time for Sumireko to learn about them before they are transported back. She then re-enters Gensokyo and scatters the balls again, thus beginning the incident of ''Urban Legend in Limbo''. Her plan works for a while, and although she is baffled at why everyone who comes out of Gensokyo ends up fighting her, she enjoys it nonetheless. <br />
<br />
Soon enough, [[Mamizou Futatsuiwa]] is made aware of the incident and devises her own plan: she claims to have Gensokyo's own Occult Ball in her possession when challenging Sumireko, claiming it would allow her limitless travel between Gensokyo and the Outside World. Mamizou instead tricks Sumireko into entering Gensokyo the ''proper'' way, which does let her stay there, but as Sumireko does not know how to get back ''out'', she is trapped in Gensokyo.<br />
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Sumireko's story mode in ''Urban Legend in Limbo'' follows her as she is trapped in Gensokyo, whose residents attempt to scare her to teach her a lesson. In the end, she is confronted by [[Toyosatomimi no Miko]], who reminds Sumireko that she can use the Occult Balls to escape Gensokyo temporarily. She returns to the Outside World, and believing she will eventually be killed by the youkai of Gensokyo, she decides that when her time in the Outside World runs out, she will sacrifice herself to, purportedly, unleash the full power of the Occult Balls and destroy the Great Hakurei Barrier.<br />
<br />
Before being brought back to Gensokyo, she is confronted by Reimu in her own story mode, who realized that one of Sumireko's Occult Balls was swapped for a [[Lunar Capital]] ball, which if activated would link Gensokyo with the Lunar Capital instead. Although Reimu defeats Sumireko and saves the Great Hakurei Barrier, the Lunar Capital ball was activated, setting up the events of ''[[Legacy of Lunatic Kingdom]]''. Upon returning to Gensokyo, Sumireko is detained by Reimu, Mamizou and [[Kasen Ibaraki]]. Deciding Sumireko was no longer a threat, they return her to the Outside World through the proper method.<br />
<br />
A few days later, Sumireko reappears at the [[Hakurei Shrine]], as she had discovered that ever since leaving Gensokyo, she could travel back there in her dreams. No longer antagonistic, she befriends Gensokyo's residents in earnest, and her tales of the Outside World turn her into a brief celebrity.<br />
<br />
;''Antinomy of Common Flowers''<br />
Sumireko is a playable character with an unlockable story mode in [[Antinomy of Common Flowers]]. In her story mode, she visited Gensokyo at a bad time as the [[Dream World]] has been thrown into chaos by the [[Joon Yorigami|Yorigami]] [[Shion Yorigami|Sisters]]' incident, and she ends up trapped there as a result.<br />
<br />
She teams up with [[Doremy Sweet]] to traverse through the Dream World and reach Gensokyo, whereupon they are tasked by [[Yukari Yakumo]] to dispatch Sumireko's own Dream Soul that has been released into the Outside World by the incident. Curiously Sumireko somehow encounters ''two'' of her own Dream Souls, but defeats them with Doremy's help. She awakes in the Outside World afterward, greeted by Doremy to confirm that she is the real Sumireko.<br />
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;''Violet Detector'' <br />
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Sumireko is the main protagonist of ''Violet Detector''. For some time, she has been having the same weird dream, in which she is constantly attacked by the residents of the dream world for no reason.<br />
She finally discovers that the dream dwellers hold a grudge against her for having a flesh body allowing her to go in the real world, and [[Doremy Sweet]] tells her that she can only expect the situation to worsen.<br />
After some time, she encounters and fight against [[Okina Matara]]. Okina is impressed by Sumireko who has been able to fend off the dream dwellers for quite some time. She offers her some help, in order to make the dream dwellers recognize her strength and make them stop attacking her. But in order to achieve that, she has to defeat even more powerful nightmares, so Okina lends Sumireko some powers on top of her psychic abilities, allowing her to cheat death in certain situations.<br />
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Sumireko then goes on and fights powerful nightmares, in the form of strong dream dwellers teaming up against her. <br />
After a week of fighting, she encounters another Sumireko. During that confrontation, she realizes that she was actually the [[Phantom#Dream Soul|Dream Soul]] of the real Sumireko, the other one, who is trying to get her body back. But at this point, Dream Sumireko has become stronger than the real Sumireko and is able to defeat her.<br />
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Okina, not willing to take any side in the confrontation between the two Sumirekos, decides to take back the power she lent Dream Sumireko to make things fair. The real Sumireko challenges her dream self once again and eventually defeats her.<br />
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The next day, Sumireko wakes up in the real world as if nothing happened, having no recollection of what transpired in her mind. She stopped having those nightmares, but the photos of danmaku battles still lie in the memory of her smartphone.<br />
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===Print Works===<br />
Sumireko makes appearances in [[Grimoire of Usami]], [[Curiosities of Lotus Asia]], and [[Wild and Horned Hermit]].<br />
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Grimoire of Usami is a book of spellcards, similar to [[Grimoire of Marisa]], in which her and many other characters attend a danmaku fireworks festival, cataloging and critiquing danmaku patterns.<br />
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In Curiosities of Lotus Asia, [[Rinnosuke Morichika]] catalogs Sumireko's trials and tribulations as she integrates herself into Gensokyo life, with the development of her occult doppelganger, and her disappearance during [[Violet Detector]].<br />
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in Wild and Horned Hermit, she makes a small cameo appearance for "World UFO Day," and accidentally summons a UFO to the main courtyard of the [[Hakurei Shrine]].<br />
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==Relationships==<br />
===[[Reimu Hakurei]] & [[Marisa Kirisame]]===<br />
In [[Urban Legend in Limbo]] and [[Curiosities of Lotus Asia]], Reimu and Marisa are frequently seen doting on her, making sure she's safe and trying to keep her from getting into trouble. In an interview with [[Aya Shameimaru]] in [[Alternative Facts in Eastern Utopia]], Sumireko refers to both Reimu and Marisa as friends she's made since coming to Gensokyo.<br />
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Reimu admits that although she's worried about Sumireko's appearance in Gensokyo and its implications for more [[Outside World]] humans passing through the barrier, Sumireko has made things "fun" in Gensokyo again. Marisa also tries to give advice on how to talk to the local residents.<br />
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In [[Violet Detector]], Sumireko refers to both of them with friendly informal names like "Reimu-icchi" and "Marisa-icchi," typically used between close friends.<br />
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===[[Rinnosuke Morichika]]===<br />
In [[Curiosities of Lotus Asia]], which is primarily told through Rinnosuke's perspective, Rinnosuke and Sumireko often talk about the Outside World and the various items that filter in through the [[Great Hakurei Barrier]]. Rinnosuke shows a great deal of care towards Sumireko, worrying about her safety, while Sumireko seems to regard him as a nag, and goes so far as to criticize him for smoking cigarettes. Despite that, they seem to be good friends, and despite Rinnosuke's tendency to tell tall tales, they do seem to get along well enough.<br />
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===[[Mamizou Futatsuiwa]]===<br />
In [[Alternative Facts in Eastern Utopia]], Sumireko mentions that Mamizou often visits her in the [[Outside World]]. The exact details of this aren't known, but Sumireko implies that they're friends, and that Sumireko respects her as an elder.<br />
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===[[Kasen Ibaraki]]===<br />
In [[Alternative Facts in Eastern Utopia]], Sumireko mentions that her and Kasen are also friends, and says that they hang out a lot in Gensokyo, calling her "Kasen-chan."<br />
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In [[Urban Legend in Limbo]], Kasen expresses resentment that Sumireko views youkai with such a casual and playful attitude, feeling that Sumireko should show youkai more respect. Despite that, it's shown in [[Wild and Horned Hermit]] that Kasen has grown a bit softer on her in more recent times.<br />
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===[[Fujiwara no Mokou]]===<br />
Initially annoyed by Sumireko, Mokou challenged Sumireko to a duel. The two were able to match each other's strength. Mokou extended an invitation to have a rematch sometime in the future, admiring the young girl's fighting spirit and passion, and thanking her for giving her a tough challenge. It appears the two have become friendly rivals.<br />
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===[[Renko Usami]]===<br />
Due to her name, similar appearance and involvement in the creation of the [[Secret Sealing Club]], she may have some kind of relation to Renko. However, the specifics of this connection is as yet unknown. Her profile suggests she is an ancestor of Renko, from the present time.<br />
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===[[Okina Matara]]===<br />
In [[Violet Detector]], Okina ultimately assists Sumireko with resolving her real-self/dream-self/doppelganger mix-up situation, but not before toying with her for a little bit. As (real) Sumireko loses her memories of the incident, it's unknown if she remembers Okina at all. <br />
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===[[Doremy Sweet]]===<br />
In [[Antimony of Common Flowers]], Doremy teams up with Sumireko. During the incident, Sumireko is faced with fighting both her dream-self and her occult doppelganger, who have also teamed up to take down the "real" Sumireko. Doremy expresses confusion over how there can possibly be three Sumirekos at the same time in Gensokyo, but ultimately helps Sumireko resolve her issue at the time.<br />
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===[[Shinmyoumaru Sukuna]]===<br />
Sumireko finds Shinmyoumaru adorable, claiming to want to somehow take her home as a pet, much to her annoyance.<br />
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==Skills==<br />
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==Spell Cards==<br />
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==Gallery==<br />
===Covers===<br />
<gallery><br />
File:Th145front.jpg|Cover of ''[[Urban Legend in Limbo]]'', featuring Sumireko's silhouette<br />
File:TFM-07.jpg|Cover of ''[[Urban Legend in Limbo OST]]'', featuring Sumireko<br />
File:Th165cover.jpg|Cover of ''[[Violet Detector]]'', featuring Sumireko's silhouette<br />
File:WaHH 6 Cover.jpg|Sumireko on the Vol. 6 cover of ''[[Wild and Horned Hermit]]''<br />
File:CoLA28CleanCover.jpg|Sumireko in ''[[Curiosities of Lotus Asia]]''<br />
File:CoLA29CleanCover.jpg|Sumireko in ''[[Curiosities of Lotus Asia]]''<br />
File:GoU_cover.jpg|Sumireko in ''[[The Grimoire of Usami]]''<br />
</gallery><br />
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===Artworks===<br />
<gallery><br />
File:Th155Sumireko.png|Sumireko's artwork from ''[[Urban Legend in Limbo]]'' and ''[[Antinomy of Common Flowers]]''<br />
File:Th145Sumireko2.png|Sumireko's pre-battle artwork from ''[[Urban Legend in Limbo]]'' and ''[[Antinomy of Common Flowers]]''<br />
</gallery><br />
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===Sprites===<br />
<gallery><br />
File:Th155SumirekoColors.png|Sumireko's different color palettes from ''[[Antinomy of Common Flowers|AoCF]]'' and ''[[Urban Legend in Limbo|ULiL]]'', the last two were added in AoCF v1.10<br />
</gallery><br />
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==Additional Information==<br />
*Sumireko's silhouette occupies the front of ''[[Urban Legend in Limbo]]'' and ''[[Violet Detector]]'''s jewel case. Along with [[Cirno]], she's the only character to appear as the silhouette for two games' jewel cases in the Windows games.<br />
*Sumireko is the first final [[boss]] to be a [[human]] from outside [[Gensokyo]] since the [[PC-98]] game ''[[Phantasmagoria of Dim.Dream]]'', who was [[Yumemi Okazaki]]. Sumireko also has similarities to Yumemi besides this; both have an interest in magic, they tried to take an inhabitant of Gensokyo and had traps provided to lurk them into their area.<br />
*She is the first fighting game final boss whose story mode scenario is not the last to be unlocked.<br />
*The runes on her cloak do not appear to form any meaningful words, and some are even drawn from different runic alphabets (e.g. the old-form "sowilo" rune as written in Elder Futhark and the "stan" rune used by [[Wiktionary:Anglo-Saxons|Anglo-Saxon]] writers hundreds of years later).<br />
*Inside the game data for Urban Legend in Limbo, a folder named "Hanako" can be found that contains three sprites of a silhouetted Sumireko holding her cell phone. It's possible that Hanako was a working name for her, or was intended to be her name.<br />
** The 菫 (Sumire) part of her name is the name of a flower, from which the word for flower in Japanese is 花 (Hana). It could also be a codename. <br />
*[[Antinomy of Common Flowers]] confirms her to be a citizen of the Kantou Region. Incidentally, [[Renko]]'s parents also live in Tokyo.<br />
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==Fandom==<br />
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==Official Profiles==<br />
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{{Profile Quote<br />
| image =[[File:Th145Sumireko.png|200px|Sumireko Usami ULiL]]<br />
| text = ○深秘を曝け!秘封倶楽部 初代会長<br><br />
宇佐見 菫子(うさみ すみれこ)<br />
<br />
種族:女子高生<br><br />
能力:超能力を操る程度の能力<br />
<br />
彼女は本物の超能力者であった。<br />
<br />
ネットで知識を深めた若者にありがちの全能感と、生まれ持った才能に<br><br />
より、特に中学の頃は『自分は他の人間より優れている』と思っていた。<br />
<br />
友達という物が無駄であるとは言わない。<br><br />
但しそれは知識の上での有用性であり、本当の心情は<br><br />
「友達を必要とする人種にとっては有益だ。<br><br />
群れたがる奴らにとってな」<br><br />
と心底馬鹿にしていたようである。<br />
<br />
そんなわけで友達が出来る訳も無く<br><br />
(彼女からしてみたら『必要が無かったので友達を作らなかった』、となる)<br><br />
他の人から見たら無惨な、だが本人は充実した学生生活を送っていた。<br />
<br />
この頃から、彼女は独自の研究を始めた。<br><br />
超能力を使える理由や、オカルト、都市伝説と呼ばれる物、等々。<br><br />
その中でも特に、この世界とは違う何処か異世界への憧れが強かった。<br />
<br />
<br />
そんな生活も高校に入ると一変する。<br><br />
彼女は(この手の人間にありがちだが)成績優秀だった。その為少し<br><br />
離れた私立の進学校に進学した。<br><br />
生徒はアチコチから集まっていた。それまでの人間関係は断たれ、新<br><br />
たに構築されようとしている。すると成績優秀な彼女の元にも関係を<br><br />
築こうと人が集まるようになっていた。硬化させた態度も逆に魅力で<br><br />
あったのかも知れない。<br />
<br />
<br />
だが、彼女は自分が他の人間とは違う種族である筈だと思い込んでいた。<br><br />
他の人間は『自分と普通の人間関係を築き、同レベルに引きずり込もう』<br><br />
と企む悪魔のような物だと言い聞かせた。<br />
<br />
聡明な彼女は人を追い払う為に『あえて』人を集めた。<br><br />
それが、非公認オカルトサークル『秘封倶楽部』であった。<br><br />
彼女の目論見通り、もう友達になろうと言う人は現われなかった。<br />
<br />
<br />
秘封倶楽部とは、異世界の秘密を自分の足で曝くサークルである。<br><br />
結果、彼女は世界の深秘に触れた。<br />
<br />
<br />
――はてさてそれから色々な出来事が起こり、<br><br />
結果、夢の世界に入れる様になる。<br />
<br />
そこでは自分の知識は上辺だけの物であると思い知らされた。経験<br><br />
こそがこの世界の真実であり、知識はそれを覆い隠す為にあるのだと。<br />
<br />
そして夢の中には、彼女が見下すことの出来ない人間達がいた。<br><br />
夢の中、いや幻想郷のお陰で、友達を作るのも悪くないと思うようになった。<br />
<br />
:<br><br />
:<br><br />
:<br />
<br />
……しかし、最後まで不可解な事があった。<br><br />
彼女が仕掛けた、異世界の扉を開くはずのパワーストーンだが、<br><br />
一つだけ別の物にすり替わっていたらしい。<br />
<br />
それは誰の仕業だろうか。<br><br />
そもそも幻想郷に実現する都市伝説が蔓延していたのも<br><br />
自分が仕掛けたのでは無いのだ。<br><br />
都市伝説は結界を破るために良いように働いたのだが、<br><br />
それも全て偶然、だったのだろうか?<br />
<br />
<br />
もしかしたら、内側から誰かが結界を破ろうとしているのではないか。<br><br />
自分のパワーストーンは逆に利用されたのではないか。<br><br />
彼女には最後まで判らなかった。<br />
| translation ='''Expose the Esoteric! The [[Secret Sealing Club]]'s First President'''<br><br />
Sumireko Usami<br />
<br />
Species: High-school girl<br><br />
Ability: Capable of manipulating psychic powers<br />
<br />
She was a genuine psychic.<br />
<br />
Thanks to the sense of omnipotence common to youths who furthered their knowledge via the internet, and to the talents she was born with, she began to think that "she was superior to other people," particularly around the time when she was in middle school.<br />
<br />
It wasn't to say that friends were ''useless'' or anything.<br><br />
It was just that they were useful to have from a simple knowledge standpoint.<br><br />
What she really thought was that "friends are beneficial for the sort of people who actually ''need'' them. Like, the sort of people who want others to flock around them."<br><br />
In the back of her mind, she mocked them.<br />
<br />
Thus, unable to make any friends, (although she herself would frame it as "I didn't make any because I just didn't need any",) she lived a school life that others would view as tragic, but she herself was enriched by.<br />
<br />
It was around that time that she began research of her own.<br><br />
Why she could use psychic powers, occult phenomena, that which we call 'urban legends', et cetera.<br><br />
In particular, she developed a strong interest in worlds separate from our own.<br />
<br />
When she entered high school, her lifestyle instantly changed.<br><br />
She was a model student (not uncommon for people such as her), and as a result, she advanced to a somewhat isolated private prep school. The school gathered students from all over; having been separated from their previous relationships, they strove to construct those relationships anew. As such, many people tried to strike up friendships with her, model student that she was. Her stiff attitude may have actually contributed to her appeal.<br />
<br />
However, she was convinced that she was of a different sort than the other humans around her. Other people, as far as she was concerned, may as well have been demons plotting to form regular relationships with her in order to drag her down to their level.<br />
<br />
In a smart move, she ''deliberately'' gathered people around her so as to drive them away.<br><br />
She formed an unauthorized occult circle: the "Secret Sealing Club".<br><br />
Just as she expected, nobody came up to her saying they wanted to be friends anymore.<br />
<br />
The Secret Sealing Club was a circle dedicated to exposing the secrets of other worlds with their own power.<br><br />
As a result, she made contact with the deep secrets of the world.<br />
<br />
---and so, various things occurred from there,<br><br />
and as a result, she became able to enter the world of dreams.<br />
<br />
There, she was made to realize that all her knowledge was only superficial. ''Experience'' is the real truth of this world, and her pursuit of factual knowledge was only something to cover for this.<br />
<br />
And in that dream, she at last met people who she couldn't look down on.<br><br />
Thanks to that dream--- no, thanks to Gensokyo, she found herself starting to think that maybe making some friends wouldn't be so bad after all.<br />
<br />
....<br />
<br />
....<br />
<br />
....<br />
<br />
...however, there was one thing that remained incomprehensible in the end.<br><br />
Out of all the power stones that she set up in order to open the door to the other world,<br><br />
one single stone seemed to have been switched with another.<br />
<br />
Whose doing was this?<br><br />
In the first place, the urban legends manifesting and spreading through Gensokyo were not something that she had planned. The urban legends had taken action such that a hole would be broken in the barrier, in the end, but was that really just a coincidence...?<br />
<br />
Perhaps [[Sagume Kishin|someone]] had been attempting to break the barrier from the inside.<br><br />
Had her power stones been used for [[Legacy of Lunatic Kingdom|someone else's purposes?]]<br><br />
She never did figure it out.<br />
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| text =神秘主義で扱いに困る女学生<br />
<br />
宇佐見菫子<br/><br />
<br />
「なんか変なレイムね<br/><br />
今日は香霖堂に行きたいんだけどー」<br/><br />
<br />
今時の超能力女子高生<br/><br />
<br />
夢の中で幻想郷に訪れる事ができる彼女、<br/><br />
だが、この日の幻想郷はいつもと全く違う景色を見せていた<br/><br />
<br />
動かずどこからでも捉える超能力を駆使して戦う要塞タイプ<br/><br />
相手を前後左右から襲い掛かる瓦礫の山に埋めてしまおう<br/><br />
| translation ='''Mystic and Troublesome Female Student'''<br />
<br />
'''Sumireko Usami'''<br/><br />
<br />
''"Well, you sure are acting weird, Reimu.''<br/><br />
''I'd like to go to Kourindou today, if you don't mind...?"''<br/><br />
<br />
A modern high-school girl with psychic powers.<br/><br />
<br />
She has the ability to visit Gensokyo in her dreams, but the Gensokyo she saw today was utterly different from usual.<br/><br />
<br />
A zoning character who fights with her ESP, able to catch opponents anywhere without moving.<br/><br />
Bury your opponent in mountains of rubble that rain down from all sides!<br/><br />
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| nameJp = {{ruby-ja|宇佐見|うさみ}} {{ruby-ja|菫子|すみれこ}}<br />
| nameEn = Sumireko Usami<br />
| nameIPA = ɯᵝsa̠mi sɯᵝmiɺ̠e̞ko̞<br />
| image = [[File:Th165Sumireko.png|x300px|Sumireko Usami]]<br />
| caption = Sumireko Usami in [[Violet Detector]]<br />
| chartitle = {{H:title|Expose the Esoteric! The Secret Sealing Club's First President|深秘を曝け!秘封倶楽部 初代会長}}<br />
| species = [[Human]]/Doppelganger<br />
| abilities = Assorted psychic powers (ESP)<br />
| age =15−16 years old (as of ''Urban Legend in Limbo'')<br />
| occupation = High school student at Higashifukami High School, part-timer at [[Kourindou]]<ref>Curiosities of Lotus Asia, Chapter 36</ref><br />
| location = [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kant%C5%8D_region Kanto Region], [[Outside World]]<br />
| MusicThemes = *{{H:title|{{lang|ja|ラストオカルティズム ~ 現し世の秘術師}}|Last Occultism ~ Esotericist of the Present World}} ([[Urban Legend in Limbo]], [[Antinomy of Common Flowers]]) <br />
*{{H:title|{{lang|ja|燕石博物誌が連れてきた闇}}|The Darkness Brought In by Swallowstone Naturalis Historia}} ([[Violet Detector]], as Real World Sumireko)<br />
*{{H:title|{{lang|ja|秘匿されたフォーシーズンズ}}|The Concealed Four Seasons}} ([[Violet Detector]], as Dream Soul Sumireko)<br />
| appOfficialgames = *''[[Urban Legend in Limbo]]'' (Final Boss, Playable Character)<br />
*''[[Antinomy of Common Flowers]]'' (Playable Character, Possible Opponent)<br />
*''[[Violet Detector]]'' (Main Character, Cover, Nightmare Diary Boss)<br />
| appPrintworks = *''[[Wild and Horned Hermit]]'' (Chapter 29, 31 cameo, 34, 35 cameo)<br />
*''[[Forbidden Scrollery]]'' (Chapter 34 cameo)<br />
*''[[Visionary Fairies in Shrine]]'' (Chapters 2, 7 Cameo)<br />
*''[[Curiosities of Lotus Asia]]'' (Secondary Character)<br />
*''[[Alternative Facts in Eastern Utopia]]'' (Interviews)<br />
* ''[[The Grimoire of Usami]]'' (Main Character)<br />
* ''[[Strange Creators of Outer World/Who's Who of Humans & Youkai - Dusk Edition|Who's Who of Humans & Youkai - Dusk Edition]]''<br />
| appMusicCDs = *''[[Urban Legend in Limbo OST]]'' (CD cover)<br />
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{{nihongo|'''Sumireko Usami'''|宇佐見 菫子|Usami Sumireko}} is the main antagonist of [[Urban Legend in Limbo]] and is the main protagonist of [[Violet Detector]]. She's a [[human]] from the [[Outside World]] with psychic powers (ESP). She is the first president of the [[Secret Sealing Club]].<br />
<br />
==General Information==<br />
Sumireko first appeared as the Final Boss of ''[[Urban Legend in Limbo]]'', and eventually becomes a playable character of the same game.<br />
<br />
===Personality===<br />
Sumireko has shown herself to be extremely intelligent, determined, passionate, and [[Wikipedia:hubris|hubristic]] in equal parts. At her best, she is friendly and passionate about life and learning about the world around her. At her worst, she can devolve into stubbornness and outright obstinance, going so far as to put herself in grave danger to achieve her goals.<br />
<br />
Despite her apparent superiority complex, she has grown to have a deep respect and admiration for the inhabitants of Gensokyo, referring to many of them as her friends, and looking up to them for mentorship and guidance. She describes herself as having been a bit of a loner prior to her arrival in Gensokyo, and she considers her discovery of Gensokyo to be the best thing to have happened in her life due to the friendships she's made there.<br />
<br />
She also describes herself as being [[Wikipedia:Chūnibyō|chuunibyou]],<ref>[[The Grimoire of Usami]] - [[The Grimoire of Usami/Section 1-9|Section 1-9]]</ref> a term usually used mockingly, with a sense of personal pride, alluding to her psychic powers and other magical abilities. In spite of that pride, she does lament that nobody in the Outside World seems to be able to understand her or her passion about the occult and Gensokyo. This may also be in part due to how highly opinionated she is, espousing her beliefs about the "phoniness" of the [[Outside World]]'s dominant consumerist culture at the slightest provocation.<ref>[[Alternative Facts in Eastern Utopia]] - [[Alternative Facts in Eastern Utopia/Article and Interview/Sumireko Usami|Sumireko Usami Interview]]</ref> <br />
<br />
Sumireko seems to hold several contradictory opinions, although it comes off less as hypocrisy, and more as though she hasn't been able to fully make up her mind about certain subjects due to her inexperience of being a teenager.<br />
<br />
===Abilities===<br />
;Esper<br />
She is a strong [[Wikipedia:Psychic|psychic]], capable of various powers associated with the [[Wikipedia:Occult|occult]], including but seemingly not limited to levitation, pyrokinesis, hydrokinesis, telekinesis, psychokinesis, and teleportation.<br />
<br />
;Doppelgänger<br />
After the events of ''[[Urban Legend in Limbo]]'', she unwittingly develops a [[Wikipedia:Doppelgänger|doppelgänger]] which maintains her "permanent" presence in Gensokyo.<ref>[[Curiosities of Lotus Asia]] - [[Curiosities_of_Lotus_Asia/Chapter_33|Chapter 33]]</ref> It's said that she is able to remember both the memories of the doppelgänger as well as those from her "normal" life in the [[Outside World]], allowing her to live a double-life in both worlds.<br />
<br />
==Background Information==<br />
===Name===<br />
Her full name is {{nihongo|''Sumireko Usami''|宇佐見 菫子|Usami Sumireko}}. {{nihongo|''Usami''|宇佐見}} uses the same writing as [[Renko Usami]]'s surname and it is known to be an actual name in Japanese. {{nihongo|''Sumireko''|菫子}} literally means "violet child" and is also similar to how Renko's name means "lotus child", as both take their names from flowers.<br />
<br />
===Design===<br />
Sumireko has brown eyes and shoulder-length brown hair tied in pigtails. On her head is a black hat with a white bow along with red-framed glasses. She wears a purple plaid skirt and matching sleeveless top (resembling a jumper dress), over a long-sleeved white blouse and a black bolo tie with a clasp shaped like a [[wikipedia:Quimbaya artifacts|"Quimbaya airplane"]]. Along with this, she wears white socks with bows and black shoes. Sumireko generally carries [[wikipedia:Zener cards|Zener cards]], a tablet computer marked with a hexagram on the back, a smartphone in a white case with various blue shapes on it and a light-blue [[wikipedia:Liberator_(gun)|liberator]]. She also wears white gloves, and a black, high-collared cloak with a red interior inscribed with pinkish-white runes and a series of white lines at the bottom rim of the backside.<br />
<br />
Her summer uniform appears nearly identical to her winter one, but with shorter and looser sleeves, no gloves, and a skull in place of the Quimbaya airplane.<br />
<br />
==Sumireko's Appearances==<br />
===Games===<br />
;''Urban Legend in Limbo''<br />
Sumireko is the main antagonist of ''Urban Legend in Limbo'' and the final boss in most of the characters' scenarios in story mode.<br />
<br />
Sumireko manages to go through the [[Great Hakurei Barrier]] by using the [[Occult Ball]]s, which are special stones gathered from [[Mystery Spot]]s in the [[Outside World]]. However, after a short period, she is suddenly ejected from Gensokyo. Learning from this, Sumireko starts with brief excursions into Gensokyo to learn more about it, appearing to anyone who catches sight of her as an ominous black shadow.<br />
<br />
Sumireko soon devises a plan to spread rumors of the Occult Ball's powers and scatters them around Gensokyo for its residents to find. Once the balls are gathered, they warp back to the Outside World along with whoever gathered them all, just for enough time for Sumireko to learn about them before they are transported back. She then re-enters Gensokyo and scatters the balls again, thus beginning the incident of ''Urban Legend in Limbo''. Her plan works for a while, and although she is baffled at why everyone who comes out of Gensokyo ends up fighting her, she enjoys it nonetheless. <br />
<br />
Soon enough, [[Mamizou Futatsuiwa]] is made aware of the incident and devises her own plan: she claims to have Gensokyo's own Occult Ball in her possession when challenging Sumireko, claiming it would allow her limitless travel between Gensokyo and the Outside World. Mamizou instead tricks Sumireko into entering Gensokyo the ''proper'' way, which does let her stay there, but as Sumireko does not know how to get back ''out'', she is trapped in Gensokyo.<br />
<br />
Sumireko's story mode in ''Urban Legend in Limbo'' follows her as she is trapped in Gensokyo, whose residents attempt to scare her to teach her a lesson. In the end, she is confronted by [[Toyosatomimi no Miko]], who reminds Sumireko that she can use the Occult Balls to escape Gensokyo temporarily. She returns to the Outside World, and believing she will eventually be killed by the youkai of Gensokyo, she decides that when her time in the Outside World runs out, she will sacrifice herself to, purportedly, unleash the full power of the Occult Balls and destroy the Great Hakurei Barrier.<br />
<br />
Before being brought back to Gensokyo, she is confronted by Reimu in her own story mode, who realized that one of Sumireko's Occult Balls was swapped for a [[Lunar Capital]] ball, which if activated would link Gensokyo with the Lunar Capital instead. Although Reimu defeats Sumireko and saves the Great Hakurei Barrier, the Lunar Capital ball was activated, setting up the events of ''[[Legacy of Lunatic Kingdom]]''. Upon returning to Gensokyo, Sumireko is detained by Reimu, Mamizou and [[Kasen Ibaraki]]. Deciding Sumireko was no longer a threat, they return her to the Outside World through the proper method.<br />
<br />
A few days later, Sumireko reappears at the [[Hakurei Shrine]], as she had discovered that ever since leaving Gensokyo, she could travel back there in her dreams. No longer antagonistic, she befriends Gensokyo's residents in earnest, and her tales of the Outside World turn her into a brief celebrity.<br />
<br />
;''Antinomy of Common Flowers''<br />
Sumireko is a playable character with an unlockable story mode in [[Antinomy of Common Flowers]]. In her story mode, she visited Gensokyo at a bad time as the [[Dream World]] has been thrown into chaos by the [[Joon Yorigami|Yorigami]] [[Shion Yorigami|Sisters]]' incident, and she ends up trapped there as a result.<br />
<br />
She teams up with [[Doremy Sweet]] to traverse through the Dream World and reach Gensokyo, whereupon they are tasked by [[Yukari Yakumo]] to dispatch Sumireko's own Dream Soul that has been released into the Outside World by the incident. Curiously Sumireko somehow encounters ''two'' of her own Dream Souls, but defeats them with Doremy's help. She awakes in the Outside World afterward, greeted by Doremy to confirm that she is the real Sumireko.<br />
<br />
;''Violet Detector'' <br />
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Sumireko is the main protagonist of ''Violet Detector''. For some time, she has been having the same weird dream, in which she is constantly attacked by the residents of the dream world for no reason.<br />
She finally discovers that the dream dwellers hold a grudge against her for having a flesh body allowing her to go in the real world, and [[Doremy Sweet]] tells her that she can only expect the situation to worsen.<br />
After some time, she encounters and fight against [[Okina Matara]]. Okina is impressed by Sumireko who has been able to fend off the dream dwellers for quite some time. She offers her some help, in order to make the dream dwellers recognize her strength and make them stop attacking her. But in order to achieve that, she has to defeat even more powerful nightmares, so Okina lends Sumireko some powers on top of her psychic abilities, allowing her to cheat death in certain situations.<br />
<br />
Sumireko then goes on and fights powerful nightmares, in the form of strong dream dwellers teaming up against her. <br />
After a week of fighting, she encounters another Sumireko. During that confrontation, she realizes that she was actually the [[Phantom#Dream Soul|Dream Soul]] of the real Sumireko, the other one, who is trying to get her body back. But at this point, Dream Sumireko has become stronger than the real Sumireko and is able to defeat her.<br />
<br />
Okina, not willing to take any side in the confrontation between the two Sumirekos, decides to take back the power she lent Dream Sumireko to make things fair. The real Sumireko challenges her dream self once again and eventually defeats her.<br />
<br />
The next day, Sumireko wakes up in the real world as if nothing happened, having no recollection of what transpired in her mind. She stopped having those nightmares, but the photos of danmaku battles still lie in the memory of her smartphone.<br />
<br />
===Print Works===<br />
Sumireko makes appearances in [[Grimoire of Usami]], [[Curiosities of Lotus Asia]], and [[Wild and Horned Hermit]].<br />
<br />
Grimoire of Usami is a book of spellcards, similar to [[Grimoire of Marisa]], in which her and many other characters attend a danmaku fireworks festival, cataloging and critiquing danmaku patterns.<br />
<br />
In Curiosities of Lotus Asia, [[Rinnosuke Morichika]] catalogs Sumireko's trials and tribulations as she integrates herself into Gensokyo life, with the development of her occult doppelganger, and her disappearance during [[Violet Detector]].<br />
<br />
in Wild and Horned Hermit, she makes a small cameo appearance for "World UFO Day," and accidentally summons a UFO to the main courtyard of the [[Hakurei Shrine]].<br />
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==Relationships==<br />
===[[Reimu Hakurei]] & [[Marisa Kirisame]]===<br />
In [[Urban Legend in Limbo]] and [[Curiosities of Lotus Asia]], Reimu and Marisa are frequently seen doting on her, making sure she's safe and trying to keep her from getting into trouble. In an interview with [[Aya Shameimaru]] in [[Alternative Facts in Eastern Utopia]], Sumireko refers to both Reimu and Marisa as friends she's made since coming to Gensokyo.<br />
<br />
Reimu admits that although she's worried about Sumireko's appearance in Gensokyo and its implications for more [[Outside World]] humans passing through the barrier, Sumireko has made things "fun" in Gensokyo again. Marisa also tries to give advice on how to talk to the local residents.<br />
<br />
In [[Violet Detector]], Sumireko refers to both of them with friendly informal names like "Reimu-icchi" and "Marisa-icchi," typically used between close friends.<br />
<br />
===[[Rinnosuke Morichika]]===<br />
In [[Curiosities of Lotus Asia]], which is primarily told through Rinnosuke's perspective, Rinnosuke and Sumireko often talk about the Outside World and the various items that filter in through the [[Great Hakurei Barrier]]. Rinnosuke shows a great deal of care towards Sumireko, worrying about her safety, while Sumireko seems to regard him as a nag, and goes so far as to criticize him for smoking cigarettes. Despite that, they seem to be good friends, and despite Rinnosuke's tendency to tell tall tales, they do seem to get along well enough.<br />
<br />
===[[Mamizou Futatsuiwa]]===<br />
In [[Alternative Facts in Eastern Utopia]], Sumireko mentions that Mamizou often visits her in the [[Outside World]]. The exact details of this aren't known, but Sumireko implies that they're friends, and that Sumireko respects her as an elder.<br />
<br />
===[[Kasen Ibaraki]]===<br />
In [[Alternative Facts in Eastern Utopia]], Sumireko mentions that her and Kasen are also friends, and says that they hang out a lot in Gensokyo, calling her "Kasen-chan."<br />
<br />
In [[Urban Legend in Limbo]], Kasen expresses resentment that Sumireko views youkai with such a casual and playful attitude, feeling that Sumireko should show youkai more respect. Despite that, it's shown in [[Wild and Horned Hermit]] that Kasen has grown a bit softer on her in more recent times.<br />
<br />
===[[Fujiwara no Mokou]]===<br />
Initially annoyed by Sumireko, Mokou challenged Sumireko to a duel. The two were able to match each other's strength. Mokou extended an invitation to have a rematch sometime in the future, admiring the young girl's fighting spirit and passion, and thanking her for giving her a tough challenge. It appears the two have become friendly rivals.<br />
<br />
===[[Renko Usami]]===<br />
Due to her name, similar appearance and involvement in the creation of the [[Secret Sealing Club]], she may have some kind of relation to Renko. However, the specifics of this connection is as yet unknown. Her profile suggests she is an ancestor of Renko, from the present time.<br />
<br />
===[[Okina Matara]]===<br />
In [[Violet Detector]], Okina ultimately assists Sumireko with resolving her real-self/dream-self/doppelganger mix-up situation, but not before toying with her for a little bit. As (real) Sumireko loses her memories of the incident, it's unknown if she remembers Okina at all. <br />
<br />
===[[Doremy Sweet]]===<br />
In [[Antimony of Common Flowers]], Doremy teams up with Sumireko. During the incident, Sumireko is faced with fighting both her dream-self and her occult doppelganger, who have also teamed up to take down the "real" Sumireko. Doremy expresses confusion over how there can possibly be three Sumirekos at the same time in Gensokyo, but ultimately helps Sumireko resolve her issue at the time.<br />
<br />
===[[Shinmyoumaru Sukuna]]===<br />
Sumireko finds Shinmyoumaru adorable, claiming to want to somehow take her home as a pet, much to her annoyance.<br />
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==Skills==<br />
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{{#lsth:List of Skills|[[Sumireko Usami]]}}<br />
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==Spell Cards==<br />
{{hidden begin|title = Spell Cards|titlestyle = background:palegreen; text-align:center;}} {{#lsth:List of Spell Cards/Touhou Project 3|[[Sumireko Usami]]}} {{hidden end}}<br />
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==Gallery==<br />
===Covers===<br />
<gallery><br />
File:Th145front.jpg|Cover of ''[[Urban Legend in Limbo]]'', featuring Sumireko's silhouette<br />
File:TFM-07.jpg|Cover of ''[[Urban Legend in Limbo OST]]'', featuring Sumireko<br />
File:Th165cover.jpg|Cover of ''[[Violet Detector]]'', featuring Sumireko's silhouette<br />
File:WaHH 6 Cover.jpg|Sumireko on the Vol. 6 cover of ''[[Wild and Horned Hermit]]''<br />
File:CoLA28CleanCover.jpg|Sumireko in ''[[Curiosities of Lotus Asia]]''<br />
File:CoLA29CleanCover.jpg|Sumireko in ''[[Curiosities of Lotus Asia]]''<br />
File:GoU_cover.jpg|Sumireko in ''[[The Grimoire of Usami]]''<br />
</gallery><br />
<br />
===Artworks===<br />
<gallery><br />
File:Th155Sumireko.png|Sumireko's artwork from ''[[Urban Legend in Limbo]]'' and ''[[Antinomy of Common Flowers]]''<br />
File:Th145Sumireko2.png|Sumireko's pre-battle artwork from ''[[Urban Legend in Limbo]]'' and ''[[Antinomy of Common Flowers]]''<br />
</gallery><br />
<br />
===Sprites===<br />
<gallery><br />
File:Th155SumirekoColors.png|Sumireko's different color palettes from ''[[Antinomy of Common Flowers|AoCF]]'' and ''[[Urban Legend in Limbo|ULiL]]'', the last two were added in AoCF v1.10<br />
</gallery><br />
<br />
==Additional Information==<br />
*Sumireko's silhouette occupies the front of ''[[Urban Legend in Limbo]]'' and ''[[Violet Detector]]'''s jewel case. Along with [[Cirno]], she's the only character to appear as the silhouette for two games' jewel cases in the Windows games.<br />
*Sumireko is the first final [[boss]] to be a [[human]] from outside [[Gensokyo]] since the [[PC-98]] game ''[[Phantasmagoria of Dim.Dream]]'', who was [[Yumemi Okazaki]]. Sumireko also has similarities to Yumemi besides this; both have an interest in magic, they tried to take an inhabitant of Gensokyo and had traps provided to lurk them into their area.<br />
*She is the first fighting game final boss whose story mode scenario is not the last to be unlocked.<br />
*The runes on her cloak do not appear to form any meaningful words, and some are even drawn from different runic alphabets (e.g. the old-form "sowilo" rune as written in Elder Futhark and the "stan" rune used by [[Wiktionary:Anglo-Saxons|Anglo-Saxon]] writers hundreds of years later).<br />
*Inside the game data for Urban Legend in Limbo, a folder named "Hanako" can be found that contains three sprites of a silhouetted Sumireko holding her cell phone. It's possible that Hanako was a working name for her, or was intended to be her name.<br />
** The 菫 (Sumire) part of her name is the name of a flower, from which the word for flower in Japanese is 花 (Hana). It could also be a codename. <br />
*[[Antinomy of Common Flowers]] confirms her to be a citizen of the Kantou Region. Incidentally, [[Renko]]'s parents also live in Tokyo.<br />
<br />
==Fandom==<br />
{{main|Fandom/Spin-offs#Sumireko Usami|l1=Fandom: Sumireko Usami}}<br />
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==Official Profiles==<br />
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{{Profile Quote<br />
| image =[[File:Th145Sumireko.png|200px|Sumireko Usami ULiL]]<br />
| text = ○深秘を曝け!秘封倶楽部 初代会長<br><br />
宇佐見 菫子(うさみ すみれこ)<br />
<br />
種族:女子高生<br><br />
能力:超能力を操る程度の能力<br />
<br />
彼女は本物の超能力者であった。<br />
<br />
ネットで知識を深めた若者にありがちの全能感と、生まれ持った才能に<br><br />
より、特に中学の頃は『自分は他の人間より優れている』と思っていた。<br />
<br />
友達という物が無駄であるとは言わない。<br><br />
但しそれは知識の上での有用性であり、本当の心情は<br><br />
「友達を必要とする人種にとっては有益だ。<br><br />
群れたがる奴らにとってな」<br><br />
と心底馬鹿にしていたようである。<br />
<br />
そんなわけで友達が出来る訳も無く<br><br />
(彼女からしてみたら『必要が無かったので友達を作らなかった』、となる)<br><br />
他の人から見たら無惨な、だが本人は充実した学生生活を送っていた。<br />
<br />
この頃から、彼女は独自の研究を始めた。<br><br />
超能力を使える理由や、オカルト、都市伝説と呼ばれる物、等々。<br><br />
その中でも特に、この世界とは違う何処か異世界への憧れが強かった。<br />
<br />
<br />
そんな生活も高校に入ると一変する。<br><br />
彼女は(この手の人間にありがちだが)成績優秀だった。その為少し<br><br />
離れた私立の進学校に進学した。<br><br />
生徒はアチコチから集まっていた。それまでの人間関係は断たれ、新<br><br />
たに構築されようとしている。すると成績優秀な彼女の元にも関係を<br><br />
築こうと人が集まるようになっていた。硬化させた態度も逆に魅力で<br><br />
あったのかも知れない。<br />
<br />
<br />
だが、彼女は自分が他の人間とは違う種族である筈だと思い込んでいた。<br><br />
他の人間は『自分と普通の人間関係を築き、同レベルに引きずり込もう』<br><br />
と企む悪魔のような物だと言い聞かせた。<br />
<br />
聡明な彼女は人を追い払う為に『あえて』人を集めた。<br><br />
それが、非公認オカルトサークル『秘封倶楽部』であった。<br><br />
彼女の目論見通り、もう友達になろうと言う人は現われなかった。<br />
<br />
<br />
秘封倶楽部とは、異世界の秘密を自分の足で曝くサークルである。<br><br />
結果、彼女は世界の深秘に触れた。<br />
<br />
<br />
――はてさてそれから色々な出来事が起こり、<br><br />
結果、夢の世界に入れる様になる。<br />
<br />
そこでは自分の知識は上辺だけの物であると思い知らされた。経験<br><br />
こそがこの世界の真実であり、知識はそれを覆い隠す為にあるのだと。<br />
<br />
そして夢の中には、彼女が見下すことの出来ない人間達がいた。<br><br />
夢の中、いや幻想郷のお陰で、友達を作るのも悪くないと思うようになった。<br />
<br />
:<br><br />
:<br><br />
:<br />
<br />
……しかし、最後まで不可解な事があった。<br><br />
彼女が仕掛けた、異世界の扉を開くはずのパワーストーンだが、<br><br />
一つだけ別の物にすり替わっていたらしい。<br />
<br />
それは誰の仕業だろうか。<br><br />
そもそも幻想郷に実現する都市伝説が蔓延していたのも<br><br />
自分が仕掛けたのでは無いのだ。<br><br />
都市伝説は結界を破るために良いように働いたのだが、<br><br />
それも全て偶然、だったのだろうか?<br />
<br />
<br />
もしかしたら、内側から誰かが結界を破ろうとしているのではないか。<br><br />
自分のパワーストーンは逆に利用されたのではないか。<br><br />
彼女には最後まで判らなかった。<br />
| translation ='''Expose the Esoteric! The [[Secret Sealing Club]]'s First President'''<br><br />
Sumireko Usami<br />
<br />
Species: High-school girl<br><br />
Ability: Capable of manipulating psychic powers<br />
<br />
She was a genuine psychic.<br />
<br />
Thanks to the sense of omnipotence common to youths who furthered their knowledge via the internet, and to the talents she was born with, she began to think that "she was superior to other people," particularly around the time when she was in middle school.<br />
<br />
It wasn't to say that friends were ''useless'' or anything.<br><br />
It was just that they were useful to have from a simple knowledge standpoint.<br><br />
What she really thought was that "friends are beneficial for the sort of people who actually ''need'' them. Like, the sort of people who want others to flock around them."<br><br />
In the back of her mind, she mocked them.<br />
<br />
Thus, unable to make any friends, (although she herself would frame it as "I didn't make any because I just didn't need any",) she lived a school life that others would view as tragic, but she herself was enriched by.<br />
<br />
It was around that time that she began research of her own.<br><br />
Why she could use psychic powers, occult phenomena, that which we call 'urban legends', et cetera.<br><br />
In particular, she developed a strong interest in worlds separate from our own.<br />
<br />
When she entered high school, her lifestyle instantly changed.<br><br />
She was a model student (not uncommon for people such as her), and as a result, she advanced to a somewhat isolated private prep school. The school gathered students from all over; having been separated from their previous relationships, they strove to construct those relationships anew. As such, many people tried to strike up friendships with her, model student that she was. Her stiff attitude may have actually contributed to her appeal.<br />
<br />
However, she was convinced that she was of a different sort than the other humans around her. Other people, as far as she was concerned, may as well have been demons plotting to form regular relationships with her in order to drag her down to their level.<br />
<br />
In a smart move, she ''deliberately'' gathered people around her so as to drive them away.<br><br />
She formed an unauthorized occult circle: the "Secret Sealing Club".<br><br />
Just as she expected, nobody came up to her saying they wanted to be friends anymore.<br />
<br />
The Secret Sealing Club was a circle dedicated to exposing the secrets of other worlds with their own power.<br><br />
As a result, she made contact with the deep secrets of the world.<br />
<br />
---and so, various things occurred from there,<br><br />
and as a result, she became able to enter the world of dreams.<br />
<br />
There, she was made to realize that all her knowledge was only superficial. ''Experience'' is the real truth of this world, and her pursuit of factual knowledge was only something to cover for this.<br />
<br />
And in that dream, she at last met people who she couldn't look down on.<br><br />
Thanks to that dream--- no, thanks to Gensokyo, she found herself starting to think that maybe making some friends wouldn't be so bad after all.<br />
<br />
....<br />
<br />
....<br />
<br />
....<br />
<br />
...however, there was one thing that remained incomprehensible in the end.<br><br />
Out of all the power stones that she set up in order to open the door to the other world,<br><br />
one single stone seemed to have been switched with another.<br />
<br />
Whose doing was this?<br><br />
In the first place, the urban legends manifesting and spreading through Gensokyo were not something that she had planned. The urban legends had taken action such that a hole would be broken in the barrier, in the end, but was that really just a coincidence...?<br />
<br />
Perhaps [[Sagume Kishin|someone]] had been attempting to break the barrier from the inside.<br><br />
Had her power stones been used for [[Legacy of Lunatic Kingdom|someone else's purposes?]]<br><br />
She never did figure it out.<br />
}}<br />
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{{Profile Quote<br />
| image =[[File:Th145Sumireko.png|200px|Sumireko Usami AoCF]]<br />
| text =神秘主義で扱いに困る女学生<br />
<br />
宇佐見菫子<br/><br />
<br />
「なんか変なレイムね<br/><br />
今日は香霖堂に行きたいんだけどー」<br/><br />
<br />
今時の超能力女子高生<br/><br />
<br />
夢の中で幻想郷に訪れる事ができる彼女、<br/><br />
だが、この日の幻想郷はいつもと全く違う景色を見せていた<br/><br />
<br />
動かずどこからでも捉える超能力を駆使して戦う要塞タイプ<br/><br />
相手を前後左右から襲い掛かる瓦礫の山に埋めてしまおう<br/><br />
| translation ='''Mystic and Troublesome Female Student'''<br />
<br />
'''Sumireko Usami'''<br/><br />
<br />
''"Well, you sure are acting weird, Reimu.''<br/><br />
''I'd like to go to Kourindou today, if you don't mind...?"''<br/><br />
<br />
A modern high-school girl with psychic powers.<br/><br />
<br />
She has the ability to visit Gensokyo in her dreams, but the Gensokyo she saw today was utterly different from usual.<br/><br />
<br />
A zoning character who fights with her ESP, able to catch opponents anywhere without moving.<br/><br />
Bury your opponent in mountains of rubble that rain down from all sides!<br/><br />
}}<br />
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==Official Sources==<br />
{{hidden begin|title = Official sources|titlestyle = background:pink; text-align:center;}}<br />
*2015/05/10 '''[[Urban Legend in Limbo]]''' - Final boss and playable character<br />
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{{Infobox Character<br />
| nameJp = {{ruby-ja|驪駒|くろこま}} {{ruby-ja|早鬼|さき}}<br />
| nameEn = Saki Kurokoma <br />
| nameIPA = <br />
| image = [[File:Th17Saki.png|x300px|Saki Kurokoma]]<br />
| caption = Saki Kurokama in [[Wily Beast and Weakest Creature]]<br />
| chartitle = {{H:title|Matriarch of the Keiga Family|勁牙組 組長}}<br />
| species = Kurokoma<br />
| abilities = Having unmatched leg strength <br />
| occupation = Matriarch of the Keiga Family<br />
| location = <br />
| MusicThemes = {{H:title|{{lang|ja|聖徳太子のペガサス 〜}} Dark Pegasus|Prince Shoutoku's Pegasus ~ Dark Pegasus}} (''[[Wily Beast and Weakest Creature]]'')<br />
| appOfficialgames = *''[[Wily Beast and Weakest Creature]]'' (EX stage boss)<br />
}}<br />
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'''Saki Kurokoma''' (驪駒 早鬼 Kurokoma Saki) is the extra boss of ''[[Wily Beast and Weakest Creature]]''. She runs the Keiga Family, a major organization of beast spirits in the Animal Realm of hell. <br />
<br />
==General Information==<br />
<br />
Saki first appears as the extra boss of ''[[Wily Beast and Weakest Creature]]'' and is the leader of the wolf spirits.<br />
<br />
===Personality===<br />
<br />
Saki has a casual (but not rude) personality. She was quite pumped to fight the heroine. She also respects others' strength even if they are an enemy. She is quite ambitious and does not hesitate to act, quickly planning on conquering hell and the surface when seeing a chance to.<br />
<br />
===Abilities=== <br />
{{stub|section}}<br />
<br />
'''Ability to have unmatched leg strength'''<br />
<br />
While not directly stated, most of her spell cards seemingly correspond to her ability. Especially the "Agile Skill" spell cards.<br />
==Character Basis==<br />
{{stub|section}}<br />
<br />
===Origin===<br />
Saki is based on ''Kai-no-Kurokoma'' (甲斐の黒駒, lit. Black-coated Horse from Kai), a legendary horse said to be owned and cherished by [[wikipedia:Prince_Shōtoku|Prince]] [[Toyosatomimi no Miko|Shoutoku]] that could fly through the sky. It was a horse that Shoutoku rode to various localities to spread the word of Buddhism. It was also said the Prince often rode this horse to Ikaruga (Hōryū-ji) and that the horse had miraculous powers on top of the ability to fly.<br />
<br />
===Name===<br />
Saki's full name is ''Saki Kurokoma'' (早鬼 驪駒). Her name consists of characters meaning ''speed'' (早 ''Sa'') and ''demon'' (鬼 ''Ki''). Her name might be a reference to her ability. The second character also appears in Japanese title of [https://en.touhouwiki.net/wiki/Wily_Beast_and_Weakest_Creature Wily Beast and Weakest Creature] (鬼形獣).<br />
<br />
Kurokoma is taken from what she is inspired by ''Kurokoma'' (黒駒) a legendary horse said to be owned by [[wikipedia:Prince_Shōtoku|Prince]] [[Toyosatomimi no Miko|Shoutoku]] that could fly through the sky. Although the kanji in her last name is different. First character means ''black horse'' (驪 ''Kuro'') and second meaning ''horse'' (駒 ''Koma'').<br />
<br />
The name of her family, the ''Keiga'' (勁牙), translates to "strong fang". The character 勁 ''kei'' ("strong" or "agile") also appears in the prefix of most of her Spell Cards.<br />
<br />
===Design===<br />
<br />
Saki has red eyes and black hair. She has black wings and a black horse tail. Her outfit is reminiscent of cowboys, where she wears a brown cowboy hat, a light turquoise bandanna, and diagonal-plaid patterned clothes.<br />
<br />
==Story== <br />
===Games=== <br />
;''Wily Beast and Weakest Creature'' <br />
<br />
She teamed up with the other groups to stage the Hell invasion to overthrow [[Keiki Haniyasushin]]. In the extra stage, she once again invades Hell after hearing of Keiki's defeat and plans to do the same to the surface world, this time to try and take them over for herself.<br />
<br />
==Relationships==<br />
;[[Yachie Kicchou]] and [[Keiki Haniyasushin]]<br />
<br />
Saki gets along very poorly with both Yachie and Keiki, but respects their strength.<br />
<br />
;[[Toyosatomimi no Miko]]<br />
Given the legend that Saki was the horse of Prince Shoutoku, which is Toyosatomimi no Miko's former name, there is a high likelihood that the pair of them know each other, although this is not yet confirmed.<br />
<br />
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==Gallery==<br />
===Covers===<br />
<gallery perrow="3" widths="200"><br />
File:Th17cover.jpg|Cover of ''[[Wily Beast and Weakest Creature]]'', featuring [[Yachie]], [[Keiki]], and Saki's silhouette.<br />
</gallery><br />
<br />
==Spell Cards==<br />
{{hidden begin|title = Spell Cards|titlestyle = background:palegreen; text-align:center;}}<br />
{{#lsth:List of Spell Cards/Touhou Project 3|[[Saki Kurokoma]]}}<br />
{{hidden end}}<br />
<br />
==Additional Information==<br />
*Saki appears on the jewel case of [[Wily Beast and Weakest Creature]] along with [[Yachie Kicchou]] and [[Keiki Haniyasushin]].<br />
<br />
==Fandom==<br />
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{{main|Fandom/Wily Beast and Weakest Creature#Saki Kurokoma|l1=Fandom: Saki Kurokoma}}<br />
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{{clear}}<br />
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==Official Profiles==<br />
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{{Profile Quote<br />
| image =[[File:Th17Saki.png|200px|Saki Kurokoma]]<br />
| text = ○エキストラボス<br><br />
勁牙組(けいがぐみ)組長<br><br><br />
<br />
驪駒 早鬼(くろこま さき)<br><br />
Kurokoma Saki<br><br><br />
<br />
種族:驪駒(くろこま)<br><br />
能力:比類無き脚力を持つ程度の能力<br><br><br />
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勁牙組の組長。<br><br />
手も足も出せなかった霊長園の袿姫を倒した、という情報が畜生界を駆け巡るやいなや、最速で次の手に出た。<br><br />
袿姫さえいなければ、畜生界の支配は時間の問題だと考え、それより先に人間界を視察して、可能ならば<br><br />
支配してしまおうと考えた。<br><br><br />
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思い立ったらすぐに行動する。<br><br />
部下の考えや手柄を尊重する、等、組織の上司としては人気がある方である(但し、仕事はブラック)<br><br><br />
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実力のある者が好きで、敵であろうとそれは変わらない。<br><br />
吉弔とも袿姫とも相性が悪いが、その強さには敬意を払っている。<br />
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'''Matriarch of the Keiga Family'''<br/><br />
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Saki Kurokoma<br/><br />
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Species: Kurokoma<br/><br />
Ability: Capable of having unmatched leg strength<br/><br/><br />
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The matriarch of the Keiga Family.<br><br />
When word spread through the Animal Realm that the previously-invincible Keiki of the Primate Spirit Garden had been defeated, she made her next move in a flash.<br><br />
She thought that with Keiki out of the picture, it'd only be a matter of time before the Animal Realm fell under her own control, so she went to inspect the Human Realm in advance-- and take control of it too, if at all possible.<br><br><br />
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As soon as she thinks to do something, she does it without a second's hesitation.<br><br />
Because she values her underlings' opinions and achievements, among other reasons, she's one of the more popular organization heads. (Though all the work she does is unbelievably dirty.)<br><br><br />
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She likes strong people, even if they're an enemy.<br><br />
She gets along terribly with both Kicchou and Keiki, but she does respect their strength.<br />
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<div>{{Infobox Character<br />
| nameJp = {{ruby-ja|宇佐見|うさみ}} {{ruby-ja|菫子|すみれこ}}<br />
| nameEn = Sumireko Usami<br />
| nameIPA = ɯᵝsa̠mi sɯᵝmiɺ̠e̞ko̞<br />
| image = [[File:Th165Sumireko.png|x300px|Sumireko Usami]]<br />
| caption = Sumireko Usami in [[Violet Detector]]<br />
| chartitle = {{H:title|Expose the Esoteric! The Secret Sealing Club's First President|深秘を曝け!秘封倶楽部 初代会長}}<br />
| species = [[Human]]/Doppelganger<br />
| abilities = Assorted psychic powers (ESP)<br />
| age =15−16 years old (as of ''Urban Legend in Limbo'')<br />
| occupation = High school student at Higashifukami High School, part-timer at [[Kourindou]]<ref>Curiosities of Lotus Asia, Chapter 36</ref><br />
| location = [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kant%C5%8D_region Kanto Region], [[Outside World]]<br />
| MusicThemes = *{{H:title|{{lang|ja|ラストオカルティズム ~ 現し世の秘術師}}|Last Occultism ~ Esotericist of the Present World}} ([[Urban Legend in Limbo]], [[Antinomy of Common Flowers]]) <br />
*{{H:title|{{lang|ja|燕石博物誌が連れてきた闇}}|The Darkness Brought In by Swallowstone Naturalis Historia}} ([[Violet Detector]], as Real World Sumireko)<br />
*{{H:title|{{lang|ja|秘匿されたフォーシーズンズ}}|The Concealed Four Seasons}} ([[Violet Detector]], as Dream Soul Sumireko)<br />
| appOfficialgames = *''[[Urban Legend in Limbo]]'' (Final Boss, Playable Character)<br />
*''[[Antinomy of Common Flowers]]'' (Playable Character, Possible Opponent)<br />
*''[[Violet Detector]]'' (Main Character, Cover, Nightmare Diary Boss)<br />
| appPrintworks = *''[[Wild and Horned Hermit]]'' (Chapter 29, 31 cameo, 34, 35 cameo)<br />
*''[[Forbidden Scrollery]]'' (Chapter 34 cameo)<br />
*''[[Visionary Fairies in Shrine]]'' (Chapters 2, 7 Cameo)<br />
*''[[Curiosities of Lotus Asia]]'' (Secondary Character)<br />
*''[[Alternative Facts in Eastern Utopia]]'' (Interviews)<br />
* ''[[The Grimoire of Usami]]'' (Main Character)<br />
* ''[[Strange Creators of Outer World/Who's Who of Humans & Youkai - Dusk Edition|Who's Who of Humans & Youkai - Dusk Edition]]''<br />
| appMusicCDs = *''[[Urban Legend in Limbo OST]]'' (CD cover)<br />
| appMiscworks = <br />
| appOther = <br />
}}<br />
{{nihongo|'''Sumireko Usami'''|宇佐見 菫子|Usami Sumireko}} is the main antagonist of [[Urban Legend in Limbo]] and is the main protagonist of [[Violet Detector]]. She's a [[human]] from the [[Outside World]] with psychic powers (ESP). She is the first president of the [[Secret Sealing Club]].<br />
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==General Information==<br />
Sumireko first appeared as the Final Boss of ''[[Urban Legend in Limbo]]'', and eventually becomes a playable character of the same game.<br />
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===Personality===<br />
Sumireko has shown herself to be extremely intelligent, determined, passionate, and [[Wikipedia:hubris|hubristic]] in equal parts. At her best, she is friendly and passionate about life and learning about the world around her. At her worst, she can devolve into stubbornness and outright obstinance, going so far as to put herself in grave danger to achieve her goals.<br />
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Despite her apparent superiority complex, she has grown to have a deep respect and admiration for the inhabitants of Gensokyo, referring to many of them as her friends, and looking up to them for mentorship and guidance. She describes herself as having been a bit of a loner prior to her arrival in Gensokyo, and she considers her discovery of Gensokyo to be the best thing to have happened in her life due to the friendships she's made there.<br />
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She also describes herself as being [[Wikipedia:Chūnibyō|chuunibyou]],<ref>[[The Grimoire of Usami]] - [[The Grimoire of Usami/Section 1-9|Section 1-9]]</ref> a term usually used mockingly, with a sense of personal pride, alluding to her psychic powers and other magical abilities. In spite of that pride, she does lament that nobody in the Outside World seems to be able to understand her or her passion about the occult and Gensokyo. This may also be in part due to how highly opinionated she is, espousing her beliefs about the "phoniness" of the [[Outside World]]'s dominant consumerist culture at the slightest provocation.<ref>[[Alternative Facts in Eastern Utopia]] - [[Alternative Facts in Eastern Utopia/Article and Interview/Sumireko Usami|Sumireko Usami Interview]]</ref> <br />
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Sumireko seems to hold several contradictory opinions, although it comes off less as hypocrisy, and more as though she hasn't been able to fully make up her mind about certain subjects due to her inexperience of being a teenager.<br />
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===Abilities===<br />
;Esper<br />
She is a strong psychic, an individual capable of various powers associated with the paranormal, including but seemingly not limited to levitation, pyrokinesis, hydrokinesis, telekinesis, psychokinesis and teleportation.<br />
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==Background Information==<br />
===Name===<br />
Her full name is {{nihongo|''Sumireko Usami''|宇佐見 菫子|Usami Sumireko}}. {{nihongo|''Usami''|宇佐見}} uses the same writing as [[Renko Usami]]'s surname and it is known to be an actual name in Japanese. {{nihongo|''Sumireko''|菫子}} literally means "violet child" and is also similar to how Renko's name means "lotus child", as both take their names from flowers.<br />
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===Design===<br />
Sumireko has brown eyes and shoulder-length brown hair tied in pigtails. On her head is a black hat with a white bow along with red-framed glasses. She wears a purple plaid skirt and matching sleeveless top (resembling a jumper dress), over a long-sleeved white blouse and a black bolo tie with a clasp shaped like a [[wikipedia:Quimbaya artifacts|"Quimbaya airplane"]]. Along with this, she wears white socks with bows and black shoes. Sumireko generally carries [[wikipedia:Zener cards|Zener cards]], a tablet computer marked with a hexagram on the back, a smartphone in a white case with various blue shapes on it and a light-blue [[wikipedia:Liberator_(gun)|liberator]]. She also wears white gloves, and a black, high-collared cloak with a red interior inscribed with pinkish-white runes and a series of white lines at the bottom rim of the backside.<br />
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Her summer uniform appears nearly identical to her winter one, but with shorter and looser sleeves, no gloves, and a skull in place of the Quimbaya airplane.<br />
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==Sumireko's Appearances==<br />
===Games===<br />
;''Urban Legend in Limbo''<br />
Sumireko is the main antagonist of ''Urban Legend in Limbo'' and the final boss in most of the characters' scenarios in story mode.<br />
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Sumireko manages to go through the [[Great Hakurei Barrier]] by using the [[Occult Ball]]s, which are special stones gathered from [[Mystery Spot]]s in the [[Outside World]]. However, after a short period, she is suddenly ejected from Gensokyo. Learning from this, Sumireko starts with brief excursions into Gensokyo to learn more about it, appearing to anyone who catches sight of her as an ominous black shadow.<br />
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Sumireko soon devises a plan to spread rumors of the Occult Ball's powers and scatters them around Gensokyo for its residents to find. Once the balls are gathered, they warp back to the Outside World along with whoever gathered them all, just for enough time for Sumireko to learn about them before they are transported back. She then re-enters Gensokyo and scatters the balls again, thus beginning the incident of ''Urban Legend in Limbo''. Her plan works for a while, and although she is baffled at why everyone who comes out of Gensokyo ends up fighting her, she enjoys it nonetheless. <br />
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Soon enough, [[Mamizou Futatsuiwa]] is made aware of the incident and devises her own plan: she claims to have Gensokyo's own Occult Ball in her possession when challenging Sumireko, claiming it would allow her limitless travel between Gensokyo and the Outside World. Mamizou instead tricks Sumireko into entering Gensokyo the ''proper'' way, which does let her stay there, but as Sumireko does not know how to get back ''out'', she is trapped in Gensokyo.<br />
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Sumireko's story mode in ''Urban Legend in Limbo'' follows her as she is trapped in Gensokyo, whose residents attempt to scare her to teach her a lesson. In the end, she is confronted by [[Toyosatomimi no Miko]], who reminds Sumireko that she can use the Occult Balls to escape Gensokyo temporarily. She returns to the Outside World, and believing she will eventually be killed by the youkai of Gensokyo, she decides that when her time in the Outside World runs out, she will sacrifice herself to, purportedly, unleash the full power of the Occult Balls and destroy the Great Hakurei Barrier.<br />
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Before being brought back to Gensokyo, she is confronted by Reimu in her own story mode, who realized that one of Sumireko's Occult Balls was swapped for a [[Lunar Capital]] ball, which if activated would link Gensokyo with the Lunar Capital instead. Although Reimu defeats Sumireko and saves the Great Hakurei Barrier, the Lunar Capital ball was activated, setting up the events of ''[[Legacy of Lunatic Kingdom]]''. Upon returning to Gensokyo, Sumireko is detained by Reimu, Mamizou and [[Kasen Ibaraki]]. Deciding Sumireko was no longer a threat, they return her to the Outside World through the proper method.<br />
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A few days later, Sumireko reappears at the [[Hakurei Shrine]], as she had discovered that ever since leaving Gensokyo, she could travel back there in her dreams. No longer antagonistic, she befriends Gensokyo's residents in earnest, and her tales of the Outside World turn her into a brief celebrity.<br />
<br />
;''Antinomy of Common Flowers''<br />
Sumireko is a playable character with an unlockable story mode in [[Antinomy of Common Flowers]]. In her story mode, she visited Gensokyo at a bad time as the [[Dream World]] has been thrown into chaos by the [[Joon Yorigami|Yorigami]] [[Shion Yorigami|Sisters]]' incident, and she ends up trapped there as a result.<br />
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She teams up with [[Doremy Sweet]] to traverse through the Dream World and reach Gensokyo, whereupon they are tasked by [[Yukari Yakumo]] to dispatch Sumireko's own Dream Soul that has been released into the Outside World by the incident. Curiously Sumireko somehow encounters ''two'' of her own Dream Souls, but defeats them with Doremy's help. She awakes in the Outside World afterward, greeted by Doremy to confirm that she is the real Sumireko.<br />
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;''Violet Detector'' <br />
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Sumireko is the main protagonist of ''Violet Detector''. For some time, she has been having the same weird dream, in which she is constantly attacked by the residents of the dream world for no reason.<br />
She finally discovers that the dream dwellers hold a grudge against her for having a flesh body allowing her to go in the real world, and [[Doremy Sweet]] tells her that she can only expect the situation to worsen.<br />
After some time, she encounters and fight against [[Okina Matara]]. Okina is impressed by Sumireko who has been able to fend off the dream dwellers for quite some time. She offers her some help, in order to make the dream dwellers recognize her strength and make them stop attacking her. But in order to achieve that, she has to defeat even more powerful nightmares, so Okina lends Sumireko some powers on top of her psychic abilities, allowing her to cheat death in certain situations.<br />
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Sumireko then goes on and fights powerful nightmares, in the form of strong dream dwellers teaming up against her. <br />
After a week of fighting, she encounters another Sumireko. During that confrontation, she realizes that she was actually the [[Phantom#Dream Soul|Dream Soul]] of the real Sumireko, the other one, who is trying to get her body back. But at this point, Dream Sumireko has become stronger than the real Sumireko and is able to defeat her.<br />
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Okina, not willing to take any side in the confrontation between the two Sumirekos, decides to take back the power she lent Dream Sumireko to make things fair. The real Sumireko challenges her dream self once again and eventually defeats her.<br />
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The next day, Sumireko wakes up in the real world as if nothing happened, having no recollection of what transpired in her mind. She stopped having those nightmares, but the photos of danmaku battles still lie in the memory of her smartphone.<br />
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===Print Works===<br />
Sumireko makes appearances in [[Grimoire of Usami]], [[Curiosities of Lotus Asia]], and [[Wild and Horned Hermit]].<br />
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Grimoire of Usami is a book of spellcards, similar to [[Grimoire of Marisa]], in which her and many other characters attend a danmaku fireworks festival, cataloging and critiquing danmaku patterns.<br />
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In Curiosities of Lotus Asia, [[Rinnosuke Morichika]] catalogs Sumireko's trials and tribulations as she integrates herself into Gensokyo life, with the development of her occult doppelganger, and her disappearance during [[Violet Detector]].<br />
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in Wild and Horned Hermit, she makes a small cameo appearance for "World UFO Day," and accidentally summons a UFO to the main courtyard of the [[Hakurei Shrine]].<br />
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==Relationships==<br />
===[[Reimu Hakurei]] & [[Marisa Kirisame]]===<br />
In [[Urban Legend in Limbo]] and [[Curiosities of Lotus Asia]], Reimu and Marisa are frequently seen doting on her, making sure she's safe and trying to keep her from getting into trouble. In an interview with [[Aya Shameimaru]] in [[Alternative Facts in Eastern Utopia]], Sumireko refers to both Reimu and Marisa as friends she's made since coming to Gensokyo.<br />
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Reimu admits that although she's worried about Sumireko's appearance in Gensokyo and its implications for more [[Outside World]] humans passing through the barrier, Sumireko has made things "fun" in Gensokyo again. Marisa also tries to give advice on how to talk to the local residents.<br />
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In [[Violet Detector]], Sumireko refers to both of them with friendly informal names like "Reimu-icchi" and "Marisa-icchi," typically used between close friends.<br />
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===[[Rinnosuke Morichika]]===<br />
In [[Curiosities of Lotus Asia]], which is primarily told through Rinnosuke's perspective, Rinnosuke and Sumireko often talk about the Outside World and the various items that filter in through the [[Great Hakurei Barrier]]. Rinnosuke shows a great deal of care towards Sumireko, worrying about her safety, while Sumireko seems to regard him as a nag, and goes so far as to criticize him for smoking cigarettes. Despite that, they seem to be good friends, and despite Rinnosuke's tendency to tell tall tales, they do seem to get along well enough.<br />
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===[[Mamizou Futatsuiwa]]===<br />
In [[Alternative Facts in Eastern Utopia]], Sumireko mentions that Mamizou often visits her in the [[Outside World]]. The exact details of this aren't known, but Sumireko implies that they're friends, and that Sumireko respects her as an elder.<br />
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===[[Kasen Ibaraki]]===<br />
In [[Alternative Facts in Eastern Utopia]], Sumireko mentions that her and Kasen are also friends, and says that they hang out a lot in Gensokyo, calling her "Kasen-chan."<br />
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In [[Urban Legend in Limbo]], Kasen expresses resentment that Sumireko views youkai with such a casual and playful attitude, feeling that Sumireko should show youkai more respect. Despite that, it's shown in [[Wild and Horned Hermit]] that Kasen has grown a bit softer on her in more recent times.<br />
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===[[Fujiwara no Mokou]]===<br />
Initially annoyed by Sumireko, Mokou challenged Sumireko to a duel. The two were able to match each other's strength. Mokou extended an invitation to have a rematch sometime in the future, admiring the young girl's fighting spirit and passion, and thanking her for giving her a tough challenge. It appears the two have become friendly rivals.<br />
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===[[Renko Usami]]===<br />
Due to her name, similar appearance and involvement in the creation of the [[Secret Sealing Club]], she may have some kind of relation to Renko. However, the specifics of this connection is as yet unknown. Her profile suggests she is an ancestor of Renko, from the present time.<br />
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===[[Okina Matara]]===<br />
In [[Violet Detector]], Okina ultimately assists Sumireko with resolving her real-self/dream-self/doppelganger mix-up situation, but not before toying with her for a little bit. As (real) Sumireko loses her memories of the incident, it's unknown if she remembers Okina at all. <br />
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===[[Doremy Sweet]]===<br />
In [[Antimony of Common Flowers]], Doremy teams up with Sumireko. During the incident, Sumireko is faced with fighting both her dream-self and her occult doppelganger, who have also teamed up to take down the "real" Sumireko. Doremy expresses confusion over how there can possibly be three Sumirekos at the same time in Gensokyo, but ultimately helps Sumireko resolve her issue at the time.<br />
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===[[Shinmyoumaru Sukuna]]===<br />
Sumireko finds Shinmyoumaru adorable, claiming to want to somehow take her home as a pet, much to her annoyance.<br />
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==Skills==<br />
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{{#lsth:List of Skills|[[Sumireko Usami]]}}<br />
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==Spell Cards==<br />
{{hidden begin|title = Spell Cards|titlestyle = background:palegreen; text-align:center;}} {{#lsth:List of Spell Cards/Touhou Project 3|[[Sumireko Usami]]}} {{hidden end}}<br />
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==Gallery==<br />
===Covers===<br />
<gallery><br />
File:Th145front.jpg|Cover of ''[[Urban Legend in Limbo]]'', featuring Sumireko's silhouette<br />
File:TFM-07.jpg|Cover of ''[[Urban Legend in Limbo OST]]'', featuring Sumireko<br />
File:Th165cover.jpg|Cover of ''[[Violet Detector]]'', featuring Sumireko's silhouette<br />
File:WaHH 6 Cover.jpg|Sumireko on the Vol. 6 cover of ''[[Wild and Horned Hermit]]''<br />
File:CoLA28CleanCover.jpg|Sumireko in ''[[Curiosities of Lotus Asia]]''<br />
File:CoLA29CleanCover.jpg|Sumireko in ''[[Curiosities of Lotus Asia]]''<br />
File:GoU_cover.jpg|Sumireko in ''[[The Grimoire of Usami]]''<br />
</gallery><br />
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===Artworks===<br />
<gallery><br />
File:Th155Sumireko.png|Sumireko's artwork from ''[[Urban Legend in Limbo]]'' and ''[[Antinomy of Common Flowers]]''<br />
File:Th145Sumireko2.png|Sumireko's pre-battle artwork from ''[[Urban Legend in Limbo]]'' and ''[[Antinomy of Common Flowers]]''<br />
</gallery><br />
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===Sprites===<br />
<gallery><br />
File:Th155SumirekoColors.png|Sumireko's different color palettes from ''[[Antinomy of Common Flowers|AoCF]]'' and ''[[Urban Legend in Limbo|ULiL]]'', the last two were added in AoCF v1.10<br />
</gallery><br />
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==Additional Information==<br />
*Sumireko's silhouette occupies the front of ''[[Urban Legend in Limbo]]'' and ''[[Violet Detector]]'''s jewel case. Along with [[Cirno]], she's the only character to appear as the silhouette for two games' jewel cases in the Windows games.<br />
*Sumireko is the first final [[boss]] to be a [[human]] from outside [[Gensokyo]] since the [[PC-98]] game ''[[Phantasmagoria of Dim.Dream]]'', who was [[Yumemi Okazaki]]. Sumireko also has similarities to Yumemi besides this; both have an interest in magic, they tried to take an inhabitant of Gensokyo and had traps provided to lurk them into their area.<br />
*She is the first fighting game final boss whose story mode scenario is not the last to be unlocked.<br />
*The runes on her cloak do not appear to form any meaningful words, and some are even drawn from different runic alphabets (e.g. the old-form "sowilo" rune as written in Elder Futhark and the "stan" rune used by [[Wiktionary:Anglo-Saxons|Anglo-Saxon]] writers hundreds of years later).<br />
*Inside the game data for Urban Legend in Limbo, a folder named "Hanako" can be found that contains three sprites of a silhouetted Sumireko holding her cell phone. It's possible that Hanako was a working name for her, or was intended to be her name.<br />
** The 菫 (Sumire) part of her name is the name of a flower, from which the word for flower in Japanese is 花 (Hana). It could also be a codename. <br />
*[[Antinomy of Common Flowers]] confirms her to be a citizen of the Kantou Region. Incidentally, [[Renko]]'s parents also live in Tokyo.<br />
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==Fandom==<br />
{{main|Fandom/Spin-offs#Sumireko Usami|l1=Fandom: Sumireko Usami}}<br />
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==Official Profiles==<br />
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{{Profile Quote<br />
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| text = ○深秘を曝け!秘封倶楽部 初代会長<br><br />
宇佐見 菫子(うさみ すみれこ)<br />
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種族:女子高生<br><br />
能力:超能力を操る程度の能力<br />
<br />
彼女は本物の超能力者であった。<br />
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ネットで知識を深めた若者にありがちの全能感と、生まれ持った才能に<br><br />
より、特に中学の頃は『自分は他の人間より優れている』と思っていた。<br />
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友達という物が無駄であるとは言わない。<br><br />
但しそれは知識の上での有用性であり、本当の心情は<br><br />
「友達を必要とする人種にとっては有益だ。<br><br />
群れたがる奴らにとってな」<br><br />
と心底馬鹿にしていたようである。<br />
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そんなわけで友達が出来る訳も無く<br><br />
(彼女からしてみたら『必要が無かったので友達を作らなかった』、となる)<br><br />
他の人から見たら無惨な、だが本人は充実した学生生活を送っていた。<br />
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この頃から、彼女は独自の研究を始めた。<br><br />
超能力を使える理由や、オカルト、都市伝説と呼ばれる物、等々。<br><br />
その中でも特に、この世界とは違う何処か異世界への憧れが強かった。<br />
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そんな生活も高校に入ると一変する。<br><br />
彼女は(この手の人間にありがちだが)成績優秀だった。その為少し<br><br />
離れた私立の進学校に進学した。<br><br />
生徒はアチコチから集まっていた。それまでの人間関係は断たれ、新<br><br />
たに構築されようとしている。すると成績優秀な彼女の元にも関係を<br><br />
築こうと人が集まるようになっていた。硬化させた態度も逆に魅力で<br><br />
あったのかも知れない。<br />
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だが、彼女は自分が他の人間とは違う種族である筈だと思い込んでいた。<br><br />
他の人間は『自分と普通の人間関係を築き、同レベルに引きずり込もう』<br><br />
と企む悪魔のような物だと言い聞かせた。<br />
<br />
聡明な彼女は人を追い払う為に『あえて』人を集めた。<br><br />
それが、非公認オカルトサークル『秘封倶楽部』であった。<br><br />
彼女の目論見通り、もう友達になろうと言う人は現われなかった。<br />
<br />
<br />
秘封倶楽部とは、異世界の秘密を自分の足で曝くサークルである。<br><br />
結果、彼女は世界の深秘に触れた。<br />
<br />
<br />
――はてさてそれから色々な出来事が起こり、<br><br />
結果、夢の世界に入れる様になる。<br />
<br />
そこでは自分の知識は上辺だけの物であると思い知らされた。経験<br><br />
こそがこの世界の真実であり、知識はそれを覆い隠す為にあるのだと。<br />
<br />
そして夢の中には、彼女が見下すことの出来ない人間達がいた。<br><br />
夢の中、いや幻想郷のお陰で、友達を作るのも悪くないと思うようになった。<br />
<br />
:<br><br />
:<br><br />
:<br />
<br />
……しかし、最後まで不可解な事があった。<br><br />
彼女が仕掛けた、異世界の扉を開くはずのパワーストーンだが、<br><br />
一つだけ別の物にすり替わっていたらしい。<br />
<br />
それは誰の仕業だろうか。<br><br />
そもそも幻想郷に実現する都市伝説が蔓延していたのも<br><br />
自分が仕掛けたのでは無いのだ。<br><br />
都市伝説は結界を破るために良いように働いたのだが、<br><br />
それも全て偶然、だったのだろうか?<br />
<br />
<br />
もしかしたら、内側から誰かが結界を破ろうとしているのではないか。<br><br />
自分のパワーストーンは逆に利用されたのではないか。<br><br />
彼女には最後まで判らなかった。<br />
| translation ='''Expose the Esoteric! The [[Secret Sealing Club]]'s First President'''<br><br />
Sumireko Usami<br />
<br />
Species: High-school girl<br><br />
Ability: Capable of manipulating psychic powers<br />
<br />
She was a genuine psychic.<br />
<br />
Thanks to the sense of omnipotence common to youths who furthered their knowledge via the internet, and to the talents she was born with, she began to think that "she was superior to other people," particularly around the time when she was in middle school.<br />
<br />
It wasn't to say that friends were ''useless'' or anything.<br><br />
It was just that they were useful to have from a simple knowledge standpoint.<br><br />
What she really thought was that "friends are beneficial for the sort of people who actually ''need'' them. Like, the sort of people who want others to flock around them."<br><br />
In the back of her mind, she mocked them.<br />
<br />
Thus, unable to make any friends, (although she herself would frame it as "I didn't make any because I just didn't need any",) she lived a school life that others would view as tragic, but she herself was enriched by.<br />
<br />
It was around that time that she began research of her own.<br><br />
Why she could use psychic powers, occult phenomena, that which we call 'urban legends', et cetera.<br><br />
In particular, she developed a strong interest in worlds separate from our own.<br />
<br />
When she entered high school, her lifestyle instantly changed.<br><br />
She was a model student (not uncommon for people such as her), and as a result, she advanced to a somewhat isolated private prep school. The school gathered students from all over; having been separated from their previous relationships, they strove to construct those relationships anew. As such, many people tried to strike up friendships with her, model student that she was. Her stiff attitude may have actually contributed to her appeal.<br />
<br />
However, she was convinced that she was of a different sort than the other humans around her. Other people, as far as she was concerned, may as well have been demons plotting to form regular relationships with her in order to drag her down to their level.<br />
<br />
In a smart move, she ''deliberately'' gathered people around her so as to drive them away.<br><br />
She formed an unauthorized occult circle: the "Secret Sealing Club".<br><br />
Just as she expected, nobody came up to her saying they wanted to be friends anymore.<br />
<br />
The Secret Sealing Club was a circle dedicated to exposing the secrets of other worlds with their own power.<br><br />
As a result, she made contact with the deep secrets of the world.<br />
<br />
---and so, various things occurred from there,<br><br />
and as a result, she became able to enter the world of dreams.<br />
<br />
There, she was made to realize that all her knowledge was only superficial. ''Experience'' is the real truth of this world, and her pursuit of factual knowledge was only something to cover for this.<br />
<br />
And in that dream, she at last met people who she couldn't look down on.<br><br />
Thanks to that dream--- no, thanks to Gensokyo, she found herself starting to think that maybe making some friends wouldn't be so bad after all.<br />
<br />
....<br />
<br />
....<br />
<br />
....<br />
<br />
...however, there was one thing that remained incomprehensible in the end.<br><br />
Out of all the power stones that she set up in order to open the door to the other world,<br><br />
one single stone seemed to have been switched with another.<br />
<br />
Whose doing was this?<br><br />
In the first place, the urban legends manifesting and spreading through Gensokyo were not something that she had planned. The urban legends had taken action such that a hole would be broken in the barrier, in the end, but was that really just a coincidence...?<br />
<br />
Perhaps [[Sagume Kishin|someone]] had been attempting to break the barrier from the inside.<br><br />
Had her power stones been used for [[Legacy of Lunatic Kingdom|someone else's purposes?]]<br><br />
She never did figure it out.<br />
}}<br />
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{{Profile Quote<br />
| image =[[File:Th145Sumireko.png|200px|Sumireko Usami AoCF]]<br />
| text =神秘主義で扱いに困る女学生<br />
<br />
宇佐見菫子<br/><br />
<br />
「なんか変なレイムね<br/><br />
今日は香霖堂に行きたいんだけどー」<br/><br />
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今時の超能力女子高生<br/><br />
<br />
夢の中で幻想郷に訪れる事ができる彼女、<br/><br />
だが、この日の幻想郷はいつもと全く違う景色を見せていた<br/><br />
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動かずどこからでも捉える超能力を駆使して戦う要塞タイプ<br/><br />
相手を前後左右から襲い掛かる瓦礫の山に埋めてしまおう<br/><br />
| translation ='''Mystic and Troublesome Female Student'''<br />
<br />
'''Sumireko Usami'''<br/><br />
<br />
''"Well, you sure are acting weird, Reimu.''<br/><br />
''I'd like to go to Kourindou today, if you don't mind...?"''<br/><br />
<br />
A modern high-school girl with psychic powers.<br/><br />
<br />
She has the ability to visit Gensokyo in her dreams, but the Gensokyo she saw today was utterly different from usual.<br/><br />
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A zoning character who fights with her ESP, able to catch opponents anywhere without moving.<br/><br />
Bury your opponent in mountains of rubble that rain down from all sides!<br/><br />
}}<br />
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<div>{{Infobox Character<br />
| nameJp = {{ruby-ja|宇佐見|うさみ}} {{ruby-ja|菫子|すみれこ}}<br />
| nameEn = Sumireko Usami<br />
| nameIPA = ɯᵝsa̠mi sɯᵝmiɺ̠e̞ko̞<br />
| image = [[File:Th165Sumireko.png|x300px|Sumireko Usami]]<br />
| caption = Sumireko Usami in [[Violet Detector]]<br />
| chartitle = {{H:title|Expose the Esoteric! The Secret Sealing Club's First President|深秘を曝け!秘封倶楽部 初代会長}}<br />
| species = [[Human]]/Doppelganger<br />
| abilities = Assorted psychic powers (ESP)<br />
| age =15−16 years old (as of ''Urban Legend in Limbo'')<br />
| occupation = High school student at Higashifukami High School, part-timer at [[Kourindou]]<ref>Curiosities of Lotus Asia, Chapter 36</ref><br />
| location = [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kant%C5%8D_region Kanto Region], [[Outside World]]<br />
| MusicThemes = *{{H:title|{{lang|ja|ラストオカルティズム ~ 現し世の秘術師}}|Last Occultism ~ Esotericist of the Present World}} ([[Urban Legend in Limbo]], [[Antinomy of Common Flowers]]) <br />
*{{H:title|{{lang|ja|燕石博物誌が連れてきた闇}}|The Darkness Brought In by Swallowstone Naturalis Historia}} ([[Violet Detector]], as Real World Sumireko)<br />
*{{H:title|{{lang|ja|秘匿されたフォーシーズンズ}}|The Concealed Four Seasons}} ([[Violet Detector]], as Dream Soul Sumireko)<br />
| appOfficialgames = *''[[Urban Legend in Limbo]]'' (Final Boss, Playable Character)<br />
*''[[Antinomy of Common Flowers]]'' (Playable Character, Possible Opponent)<br />
*''[[Violet Detector]]'' (Main Character, Cover, Nightmare Diary Boss)<br />
| appPrintworks = *''[[Wild and Horned Hermit]]'' (Chapter 29, 31 cameo, 34, 35 cameo)<br />
*''[[Forbidden Scrollery]]'' (Chapter 34 cameo)<br />
*''[[Visionary Fairies in Shrine]]'' (Chapters 2, 7 Cameo)<br />
*''[[Curiosities of Lotus Asia]]'' (Secondary Character)<br />
*''[[Alternative Facts in Eastern Utopia]]'' (Interviews)<br />
* ''[[The Grimoire of Usami]]'' (Main Character)<br />
* ''[[Strange Creators of Outer World/Who's Who of Humans & Youkai - Dusk Edition|Who's Who of Humans & Youkai - Dusk Edition]]''<br />
| appMusicCDs = *''[[Urban Legend in Limbo OST]]'' (CD cover)<br />
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{{nihongo|'''Sumireko Usami'''|宇佐見 菫子|Usami Sumireko}} is the main antagonist of [[Urban Legend in Limbo]] and is the main protagonist of [[Violet Detector]]. She's a [[human]] from the [[Outside World]] with psychic powers (ESP). She is the first president of the [[Secret Sealing Club]].<br />
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==General Information==<br />
Sumireko first appeared as the Final Boss of ''[[Urban Legend in Limbo]]'', and eventually becomes a playable character of the same game.<br />
<br />
===Personality===<br />
Sumireko has shown herself to be extremely intelligent, determined, passionate, and [[Wikipedia:hubris|hubristic]] in equal parts. At her best, she is friendly and passionate about life and learning about the world around her. At her worst, she can devolve into stubbornness and outright obstinance, going so far as to put herself in grave danger to achieve her goals.<br />
<br />
Despite her apparent superiority complex, she has grown to have a deep respect and admiration for the inhabitants of Gensokyo, referring to many of them as her friends, and looking up to them for mentorship and guidance. She describes herself as having been a bit of a loner prior to her arrival in Gensokyo, and she considers her discovery of Gensokyo to be the best thing to have happened in her life due to the friendships she's made there.<br />
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She also describes herself as being [[Wikipedia:Chūnibyō|chuunibyou]],<ref>[[The Grimoire of Usami]] - [[The Grimoire of Usami/Section 1-9|Section 1-9]]</ref> a term usually used mockingly, with a sense of personal pride, alluding to her psychic powers and other magical abilities. In spite of that pride, she does lament that nobody in the Outside World seems to be able to understand her or her passion about the occult and Gensokyo. This may also be in part due to how highly opinionated she is, espousing her beliefs about the "phoniness" of the [[Outside World]]'s dominant consumerist culture at the slightest provocation.<ref>[[Alternative Facts in Eastern Utopia]] - [[Alternative Facts in Eastern Utopia/Article and Interview/Sumireko Usami|Sumireko Usami Interview]]</ref> <br />
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Sumireko seems to hold several contradictory opinions, although it comes off less as hypocrisy, and more as though she hasn't been able to fully make up her mind about certain subjects due to her inexperience of being a teenager.<br />
<br />
===Abilities===<br />
;Esper<br />
She is a strong psychic, an individual capable of various powers associated with the paranormal, including but seemingly not limited to levitation, pyrokinesis, hydrokinesis, telekinesis, psychokinesis and teleportation.<br />
<br />
==Background Information==<br />
===Name===<br />
Her full name is {{nihongo|''Sumireko Usami''|宇佐見 菫子|Usami Sumireko}}. {{nihongo|''Usami''|宇佐見}} uses the same writing as [[Renko Usami]]'s surname and it is known to be an actual name in Japanese. {{nihongo|''Sumireko''|菫子}} literally means "violet child" and is also similar to how Renko's name means "lotus child", as both take their names from flowers.<br />
<br />
===Design===<br />
Sumireko has brown eyes and shoulder-length brown hair tied in pigtails. On her head is a black hat with a white bow along with red-framed glasses. She wears a purple plaid skirt and matching sleeveless top (resembling a jumper dress), over a long-sleeved white blouse and a black bolo tie with a clasp shaped like a [[wikipedia:Quimbaya artifacts|"Quimbaya airplane"]]. Along with this, she wears white socks with bows and black shoes. Sumireko generally carries [[wikipedia:Zener cards|Zener cards]], a tablet computer marked with a hexagram on the back, a smartphone in a white case with various blue shapes on it and a light-blue [[wikipedia:Liberator_(gun)|liberator]]. She also wears white gloves, and a black, high-collared cloak with a red interior inscribed with pinkish-white runes and a series of white lines at the bottom rim of the backside.<br />
<br />
Her summer uniform appears nearly identical to her winter one, but with shorter and looser sleeves, no gloves, and a skull in place of the Quimbaya airplane.<br />
<br />
==Sumireko's Appearances==<br />
===Games===<br />
;''Urban Legend in Limbo''<br />
Sumireko is the main antagonist of ''Urban Legend in Limbo'' and the final boss in most of the characters' scenarios in story mode.<br />
<br />
Sumireko manages to go through the [[Great Hakurei Barrier]] by using the [[Occult Ball]]s, which are special stones gathered from [[Mystery Spot]]s in the [[Outside World]]. However, after a short period, she is suddenly ejected from Gensokyo. Learning from this, Sumireko starts with brief excursions into Gensokyo to learn more about it, appearing to anyone who catches sight of her as an ominous black shadow.<br />
<br />
Sumireko soon devises a plan to spread rumors of the Occult Ball's powers and scatters them around Gensokyo for its residents to find. Once the balls are gathered, they warp back to the Outside World along with whoever gathered them all, just for enough time for Sumireko to learn about them before they are transported back. She then re-enters Gensokyo and scatters the balls again, thus beginning the incident of ''Urban Legend in Limbo''. Her plan works for a while, and although she is baffled at why everyone who comes out of Gensokyo ends up fighting her, she enjoys it nonetheless. <br />
<br />
Soon enough, [[Mamizou Futatsuiwa]] is made aware of the incident and devises her own plan: she claims to have Gensokyo's own Occult Ball in her possession when challenging Sumireko, claiming it would allow her limitless travel between Gensokyo and the Outside World. Mamizou instead tricks Sumireko into entering Gensokyo the ''proper'' way, which does let her stay there, but as Sumireko does not know how to get back ''out'', she is trapped in Gensokyo.<br />
<br />
Sumireko's story mode in ''Urban Legend in Limbo'' follows her as she is trapped in Gensokyo, whose residents attempt to scare her to teach her a lesson. In the end, she is confronted by [[Toyosatomimi no Miko]], who reminds Sumireko that she can use the Occult Balls to escape Gensokyo temporarily. She returns to the Outside World, and believing she will eventually be killed by the youkai of Gensokyo, she decides that when her time in the Outside World runs out, she will sacrifice herself to, purportedly, unleash the full power of the Occult Balls and destroy the Great Hakurei Barrier.<br />
<br />
Before being brought back to Gensokyo, she is confronted by Reimu in her own story mode, who realized that one of Sumireko's Occult Balls was swapped for a [[Lunar Capital]] ball, which if activated would link Gensokyo with the Lunar Capital instead. Although Reimu defeats Sumireko and saves the Great Hakurei Barrier, the Lunar Capital ball was activated, setting up the events of ''[[Legacy of Lunatic Kingdom]]''. Upon returning to Gensokyo, Sumireko is detained by Reimu, Mamizou and [[Kasen Ibaraki]]. Deciding Sumireko was no longer a threat, they return her to the Outside World through the proper method.<br />
<br />
A few days later, Sumireko reappears at the [[Hakurei Shrine]], as she had discovered that ever since leaving Gensokyo, she could travel back there in her dreams. No longer antagonistic, she befriends Gensokyo's residents in earnest, and her tales of the Outside World turn her into a brief celebrity.<br />
<br />
;''Antinomy of Common Flowers''<br />
Sumireko is a playable character with an unlockable story mode in [[Antinomy of Common Flowers]]. In her story mode, she visited Gensokyo at a bad time as the [[Dream World]] has been thrown into chaos by the [[Joon Yorigami|Yorigami]] [[Shion Yorigami|Sisters]]' incident, and she ends up trapped there as a result.<br />
<br />
She teams up with [[Doremy Sweet]] to traverse through the Dream World and reach Gensokyo, whereupon they are tasked by [[Yukari Yakumo]] to dispatch Sumireko's own Dream Soul that has been released into the Outside World by the incident. Curiously Sumireko somehow encounters ''two'' of her own Dream Souls, but defeats them with Doremy's help. She awakes in the Outside World afterward, greeted by Doremy to confirm that she is the real Sumireko.<br />
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;''Violet Detector'' <br />
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Sumireko is the main protagonist of ''Violet Detector''. For some time, she has been having the same weird dream, in which she is constantly attacked by the residents of the dream world for no reason.<br />
She finally discovers that the dream dwellers hold a grudge against her for having a flesh body allowing her to go in the real world, and [[Doremy Sweet]] tells her that she can only expect the situation to worsen.<br />
After some time, she encounters and fight against [[Okina Matara]]. Okina is impressed by Sumireko who has been able to fend off the dream dwellers for quite some time. She offers her some help, in order to make the dream dwellers recognize her strength and make them stop attacking her. But in order to achieve that, she has to defeat even more powerful nightmares, so Okina lends Sumireko some powers on top of her psychic abilities, allowing her to cheat death in certain situations.<br />
<br />
Sumireko then goes on and fights powerful nightmares, in the form of strong dream dwellers teaming up against her. <br />
After a week of fighting, she encounters another Sumireko. During that confrontation, she realizes that she was actually the [[Phantom#Dream Soul|Dream Soul]] of the real Sumireko, the other one, who is trying to get her body back. But at this point, Dream Sumireko has become stronger than the real Sumireko and is able to defeat her.<br />
<br />
Okina, not willing to take any side in the confrontation between the two Sumirekos, decides to take back the power she lent Dream Sumireko to make things fair. The real Sumireko challenges her dream self once again and eventually defeats her.<br />
<br />
The next day, Sumireko wakes up in the real world as if nothing happened, having no recollection of what transpired in her mind. She stopped having those nightmares, but the photos of danmaku battles still lie in the memory of her smartphone.<br />
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===Print Works===<br />
Sumireko makes appearances in [[Grimoire of Usami]], [[Curiosities of Lotus Asia]], and [[Wild and Horned Hermit]].<br />
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Grimoire of Usami is a book of spellcards, similar to [[Grimoire of Marisa]], in which her and many other characters attend a danmaku fireworks festival, cataloging and critiquing danmaku patterns.<br />
<br />
In Curiosities of Lotus Asia, [[Rinnosuke Morichika]] catalogs Sumireko's trials and tribulations as she integrates herself into Gensokyo life, with the development of her occult doppelganger, and her disappearance during [[Violet Detector]].<br />
<br />
in Wild and Horned Hermit, she makes a small cameo appearance for "World UFO Day," and accidentally summons a UFO to the main courtyard of the [[Hakurei Shrine]].<br />
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==Relationships==<br />
===[[Reimu Hakurei]] & [[Marisa Kirisame]]===<br />
In [[Urban Legend in Limbo]] and [[Curiosities of Lotus Asia]], Reimu and Marisa are frequently seen doting on her, making sure she's safe and trying to keep her from getting into trouble. In an interview with [[Aya Shameimaru]] in [[Alternative Facts in Eastern Utopia]], Sumireko refers to both Reimu and Marisa as friends she's made since coming to Gensokyo.<br />
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Reimu admits that although she's worried about Sumireko's appearance in Gensokyo and its implications for more [[Outside World]] humans passing through the barrier, Sumireko has made things "fun" in Gensokyo again. Marisa also tries to give advice on how to talk to the local residents.<br />
<br />
In [[Violet Detector]], Sumireko refers to both of them with friendly informal names like "Reimu-icchi" and "Marisa-icchi," typically used between close friends.<br />
<br />
===[[Rinnosuke Morichika]]===<br />
In [[Curiosities of Lotus Asia]], which is primarily told through Rinnosuke's perspective, Rinnosuke and Sumireko often talk about the Outside World and the various items that filter in through the [[Great Hakurei Barrier]]. Rinnosuke shows a great deal of care towards Sumireko, worrying about her safety, while Sumireko seems to regard him as a nag, and goes so far as to criticize him for smoking cigarettes. Despite that, they seem to be good friends, and despite Rinnosuke's tendency to tell tall tales, they do seem to get along well enough.<br />
<br />
===[[Mamizou Futatsuiwa]]===<br />
In [[Alternative Facts in Eastern Utopia]], Sumireko mentions that Mamizou often visits her in the [[Outside World]]. The exact details of this aren't known, but Sumireko implies that they're friends, and that Sumireko respects her as an elder.<br />
<br />
===[[Kasen Ibaraki]]===<br />
In [[Alternative Facts in Eastern Utopia]], Sumireko mentions that her and Kasen are also friends, and says that they hang out a lot in Gensokyo, calling her "Kasen-chan."<br />
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In [[Urban Legend in Limbo]], Kasen expresses resentment that Sumireko views youkai with such a casual and playful attitude, feeling that Sumireko should show youkai more respect. Despite that, it's shown in [[Wild and Horned Hermit]] that Kasen has grown a bit softer on her in more recent times.<br />
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===[[Fujiwara no Mokou]]===<br />
Initially annoyed by Sumireko, Mokou challenged Sumireko to a duel. The two found each other's strength admirable, and Mokou extended an invitation to have a rematch sometime in the future, admiring the young girl's fighting spirit and passion, and thanking her for giving her a tough challenge. It appears the two have become friendly rivals.<br />
<br />
===[[Renko Usami]]===<br />
Due to her name, similar appearance and involvement in the creation of the [[Secret Sealing Club]], she may have some kind of relation to Renko. However, the specifics of this connection is as yet unknown. Her profile suggests she is an ancestor of Renko, from the present time.<br />
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===[[Okina Matara]]===<br />
In [[Violet Detector]], Okina ultimately assists Sumireko with resolving her real-self/dream-self/doppelganger mix-up situation, but not before toying with her for a little bit. As (real) Sumireko loses her memories of the incident, it's unknown if she remembers Okina at all. <br />
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===[[Doremy Sweet]]===<br />
In [[Antimony of Common Flowers]], Doremy teams up with Sumireko. During the incident, Sumireko is faced with fighting both her dream-self and her occult doppelganger, who have also teamed up to take down the "real" Sumireko. Doremy expresses confusion over how there can possibly be three Sumirekos at the same time in Gensokyo, but ultimately helps Sumireko resolve her issue at the time.<br />
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===[[Shinmyoumaru Sukuna]]===<br />
Sumireko finds Shinmyoumaru adorable, claiming to want to somehow take her home as a pet, much to her annoyance.<br />
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==Skills==<br />
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{{#lsth:List of Skills|[[Sumireko Usami]]}}<br />
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==Spell Cards==<br />
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==Gallery==<br />
===Covers===<br />
<gallery><br />
File:Th145front.jpg|Cover of ''[[Urban Legend in Limbo]]'', featuring Sumireko's silhouette<br />
File:TFM-07.jpg|Cover of ''[[Urban Legend in Limbo OST]]'', featuring Sumireko<br />
File:Th165cover.jpg|Cover of ''[[Violet Detector]]'', featuring Sumireko's silhouette<br />
File:WaHH 6 Cover.jpg|Sumireko on the Vol. 6 cover of ''[[Wild and Horned Hermit]]''<br />
File:CoLA28CleanCover.jpg|Sumireko in ''[[Curiosities of Lotus Asia]]''<br />
File:CoLA29CleanCover.jpg|Sumireko in ''[[Curiosities of Lotus Asia]]''<br />
File:GoU_cover.jpg|Sumireko in ''[[The Grimoire of Usami]]''<br />
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===Artworks===<br />
<gallery><br />
File:Th155Sumireko.png|Sumireko's artwork from ''[[Urban Legend in Limbo]]'' and ''[[Antinomy of Common Flowers]]''<br />
File:Th145Sumireko2.png|Sumireko's pre-battle artwork from ''[[Urban Legend in Limbo]]'' and ''[[Antinomy of Common Flowers]]''<br />
</gallery><br />
<br />
===Sprites===<br />
<gallery><br />
File:Th155SumirekoColors.png|Sumireko's different color palettes from ''[[Antinomy of Common Flowers|AoCF]]'' and ''[[Urban Legend in Limbo|ULiL]]'', the last two were added in AoCF v1.10<br />
</gallery><br />
<br />
==Additional Information==<br />
*Sumireko's silhouette occupies the front of ''[[Urban Legend in Limbo]]'' and ''[[Violet Detector]]'''s jewel case. Along with [[Cirno]], she's the only character to appear as the silhouette for two games' jewel cases in the Windows games.<br />
*Sumireko is the first final [[boss]] to be a [[human]] from outside [[Gensokyo]] since the [[PC-98]] game ''[[Phantasmagoria of Dim.Dream]]'', who was [[Yumemi Okazaki]]. Sumireko also has similarities to Yumemi besides this; both have an interest in magic, they tried to take an inhabitant of Gensokyo and had traps provided to lurk them into their area.<br />
*She is the first fighting game final boss whose story mode scenario is not the last to be unlocked.<br />
*The runes on her cloak do not appear to form any meaningful words, and some are even drawn from different runic alphabets (e.g. the old-form "sowilo" rune as written in Elder Futhark and the "stan" rune used by [[Wiktionary:Anglo-Saxons|Anglo-Saxon]] writers hundreds of years later).<br />
*Inside the game data for Urban Legend in Limbo, a folder named "Hanako" can be found that contains three sprites of a silhouetted Sumireko holding her cell phone. It's possible that Hanako was a working name for her, or was intended to be her name.<br />
** The 菫 (Sumire) part of her name is the name of a flower, from which the word for flower in Japanese is 花 (Hana). It could also be a codename. <br />
*[[Antinomy of Common Flowers]] confirms her to be a citizen of the Kantou Region. Incidentally, [[Renko]]'s parents also live in Tokyo.<br />
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==Fandom==<br />
{{main|Fandom/Spin-offs#Sumireko Usami|l1=Fandom: Sumireko Usami}}<br />
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==Official Profiles==<br />
{{hidden begin|title = [[Urban Legend in Limbo]] - <tt>{{H:title|{{lang|ja|キャラ設定とエキストラストーリー}}|Settings and Extra Story}}.txt</tt>|titlestyle = background:lightblue; text-align:center}}<br />
{{Profile Quote<br />
| image =[[File:Th145Sumireko.png|200px|Sumireko Usami ULiL]]<br />
| text = ○深秘を曝け!秘封倶楽部 初代会長<br><br />
宇佐見 菫子(うさみ すみれこ)<br />
<br />
種族:女子高生<br><br />
能力:超能力を操る程度の能力<br />
<br />
彼女は本物の超能力者であった。<br />
<br />
ネットで知識を深めた若者にありがちの全能感と、生まれ持った才能に<br><br />
より、特に中学の頃は『自分は他の人間より優れている』と思っていた。<br />
<br />
友達という物が無駄であるとは言わない。<br><br />
但しそれは知識の上での有用性であり、本当の心情は<br><br />
「友達を必要とする人種にとっては有益だ。<br><br />
群れたがる奴らにとってな」<br><br />
と心底馬鹿にしていたようである。<br />
<br />
そんなわけで友達が出来る訳も無く<br><br />
(彼女からしてみたら『必要が無かったので友達を作らなかった』、となる)<br><br />
他の人から見たら無惨な、だが本人は充実した学生生活を送っていた。<br />
<br />
この頃から、彼女は独自の研究を始めた。<br><br />
超能力を使える理由や、オカルト、都市伝説と呼ばれる物、等々。<br><br />
その中でも特に、この世界とは違う何処か異世界への憧れが強かった。<br />
<br />
<br />
そんな生活も高校に入ると一変する。<br><br />
彼女は(この手の人間にありがちだが)成績優秀だった。その為少し<br><br />
離れた私立の進学校に進学した。<br><br />
生徒はアチコチから集まっていた。それまでの人間関係は断たれ、新<br><br />
たに構築されようとしている。すると成績優秀な彼女の元にも関係を<br><br />
築こうと人が集まるようになっていた。硬化させた態度も逆に魅力で<br><br />
あったのかも知れない。<br />
<br />
<br />
だが、彼女は自分が他の人間とは違う種族である筈だと思い込んでいた。<br><br />
他の人間は『自分と普通の人間関係を築き、同レベルに引きずり込もう』<br><br />
と企む悪魔のような物だと言い聞かせた。<br />
<br />
聡明な彼女は人を追い払う為に『あえて』人を集めた。<br><br />
それが、非公認オカルトサークル『秘封倶楽部』であった。<br><br />
彼女の目論見通り、もう友達になろうと言う人は現われなかった。<br />
<br />
<br />
秘封倶楽部とは、異世界の秘密を自分の足で曝くサークルである。<br><br />
結果、彼女は世界の深秘に触れた。<br />
<br />
<br />
――はてさてそれから色々な出来事が起こり、<br><br />
結果、夢の世界に入れる様になる。<br />
<br />
そこでは自分の知識は上辺だけの物であると思い知らされた。経験<br><br />
こそがこの世界の真実であり、知識はそれを覆い隠す為にあるのだと。<br />
<br />
そして夢の中には、彼女が見下すことの出来ない人間達がいた。<br><br />
夢の中、いや幻想郷のお陰で、友達を作るのも悪くないと思うようになった。<br />
<br />
:<br><br />
:<br><br />
:<br />
<br />
……しかし、最後まで不可解な事があった。<br><br />
彼女が仕掛けた、異世界の扉を開くはずのパワーストーンだが、<br><br />
一つだけ別の物にすり替わっていたらしい。<br />
<br />
それは誰の仕業だろうか。<br><br />
そもそも幻想郷に実現する都市伝説が蔓延していたのも<br><br />
自分が仕掛けたのでは無いのだ。<br><br />
都市伝説は結界を破るために良いように働いたのだが、<br><br />
それも全て偶然、だったのだろうか?<br />
<br />
<br />
もしかしたら、内側から誰かが結界を破ろうとしているのではないか。<br><br />
自分のパワーストーンは逆に利用されたのではないか。<br><br />
彼女には最後まで判らなかった。<br />
| translation ='''Expose the Esoteric! The [[Secret Sealing Club]]'s First President'''<br><br />
Sumireko Usami<br />
<br />
Species: High-school girl<br><br />
Ability: Capable of manipulating psychic powers<br />
<br />
She was a genuine psychic.<br />
<br />
Thanks to the sense of omnipotence common to youths who furthered their knowledge via the internet, and to the talents she was born with, she began to think that "she was superior to other people," particularly around the time when she was in middle school.<br />
<br />
It wasn't to say that friends were ''useless'' or anything.<br><br />
It was just that they were useful to have from a simple knowledge standpoint.<br><br />
What she really thought was that "friends are beneficial for the sort of people who actually ''need'' them. Like, the sort of people who want others to flock around them."<br><br />
In the back of her mind, she mocked them.<br />
<br />
Thus, unable to make any friends, (although she herself would frame it as "I didn't make any because I just didn't need any",) she lived a school life that others would view as tragic, but she herself was enriched by.<br />
<br />
It was around that time that she began research of her own.<br><br />
Why she could use psychic powers, occult phenomena, that which we call 'urban legends', et cetera.<br><br />
In particular, she developed a strong interest in worlds separate from our own.<br />
<br />
When she entered high school, her lifestyle instantly changed.<br><br />
She was a model student (not uncommon for people such as her), and as a result, she advanced to a somewhat isolated private prep school. The school gathered students from all over; having been separated from their previous relationships, they strove to construct those relationships anew. As such, many people tried to strike up friendships with her, model student that she was. Her stiff attitude may have actually contributed to her appeal.<br />
<br />
However, she was convinced that she was of a different sort than the other humans around her. Other people, as far as she was concerned, may as well have been demons plotting to form regular relationships with her in order to drag her down to their level.<br />
<br />
In a smart move, she ''deliberately'' gathered people around her so as to drive them away.<br><br />
She formed an unauthorized occult circle: the "Secret Sealing Club".<br><br />
Just as she expected, nobody came up to her saying they wanted to be friends anymore.<br />
<br />
The Secret Sealing Club was a circle dedicated to exposing the secrets of other worlds with their own power.<br><br />
As a result, she made contact with the deep secrets of the world.<br />
<br />
---and so, various things occurred from there,<br><br />
and as a result, she became able to enter the world of dreams.<br />
<br />
There, she was made to realize that all her knowledge was only superficial. ''Experience'' is the real truth of this world, and her pursuit of factual knowledge was only something to cover for this.<br />
<br />
And in that dream, she at last met people who she couldn't look down on.<br><br />
Thanks to that dream--- no, thanks to Gensokyo, she found herself starting to think that maybe making some friends wouldn't be so bad after all.<br />
<br />
....<br />
<br />
....<br />
<br />
....<br />
<br />
...however, there was one thing that remained incomprehensible in the end.<br><br />
Out of all the power stones that she set up in order to open the door to the other world,<br><br />
one single stone seemed to have been switched with another.<br />
<br />
Whose doing was this?<br><br />
In the first place, the urban legends manifesting and spreading through Gensokyo were not something that she had planned. The urban legends had taken action such that a hole would be broken in the barrier, in the end, but was that really just a coincidence...?<br />
<br />
Perhaps [[Sagume Kishin|someone]] had been attempting to break the barrier from the inside.<br><br />
Had her power stones been used for [[Legacy of Lunatic Kingdom|someone else's purposes?]]<br><br />
She never did figure it out.<br />
}}<br />
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{{Profile Quote<br />
| image =[[File:Th145Sumireko.png|200px|Sumireko Usami AoCF]]<br />
| text =神秘主義で扱いに困る女学生<br />
<br />
宇佐見菫子<br/><br />
<br />
「なんか変なレイムね<br/><br />
今日は香霖堂に行きたいんだけどー」<br/><br />
<br />
今時の超能力女子高生<br/><br />
<br />
夢の中で幻想郷に訪れる事ができる彼女、<br/><br />
だが、この日の幻想郷はいつもと全く違う景色を見せていた<br/><br />
<br />
動かずどこからでも捉える超能力を駆使して戦う要塞タイプ<br/><br />
相手を前後左右から襲い掛かる瓦礫の山に埋めてしまおう<br/><br />
| translation ='''Mystic and Troublesome Female Student'''<br />
<br />
'''Sumireko Usami'''<br/><br />
<br />
''"Well, you sure are acting weird, Reimu.''<br/><br />
''I'd like to go to Kourindou today, if you don't mind...?"''<br/><br />
<br />
A modern high-school girl with psychic powers.<br/><br />
<br />
She has the ability to visit Gensokyo in her dreams, but the Gensokyo she saw today was utterly different from usual.<br/><br />
<br />
A zoning character who fights with her ESP, able to catch opponents anywhere without moving.<br/><br />
Bury your opponent in mountains of rubble that rain down from all sides!<br/><br />
}}<br />
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==Official Sources==<br />
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*2015/05/10 '''[[Urban Legend in Limbo]]''' - Final boss and playable character<br />
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<div>{{Infobox Character<br />
| nameJp = {{ruby-ja|宇佐見|うさみ}} {{ruby-ja|菫子|すみれこ}}<br />
| nameEn = Sumireko Usami<br />
| nameIPA = ɯᵝsa̠mi sɯᵝmiɺ̠e̞ko̞<br />
| image = [[File:Th165Sumireko.png|x300px|Sumireko Usami]]<br />
| caption = Sumireko Usami in [[Violet Detector]]<br />
| chartitle = {{H:title|Expose the Esoteric! The Secret Sealing Club's First President|深秘を曝け!秘封倶楽部 初代会長}}<br />
| species = [[Human]]/Doppelganger<br />
| abilities = Assorted psychic powers (ESP)<br />
| age =15−16 years old (as of ''Urban Legend in Limbo'')<br />
| occupation = High school student at Higashifukami High School, part-timer at [[Kourindou]]<ref>Curiosities of Lotus Asia, Chapter 36</ref><br />
| location = [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kant%C5%8D_region Kanto Region], [[Outside World]]<br />
| MusicThemes = *{{H:title|{{lang|ja|ラストオカルティズム ~ 現し世の秘術師}}|Last Occultism ~ Esotericist of the Present World}} ([[Urban Legend in Limbo]], [[Antinomy of Common Flowers]]) <br />
*{{H:title|{{lang|ja|燕石博物誌が連れてきた闇}}|The Darkness Brought In by Swallowstone Naturalis Historia}} ([[Violet Detector]], as Real World Sumireko)<br />
*{{H:title|{{lang|ja|秘匿されたフォーシーズンズ}}|The Concealed Four Seasons}} ([[Violet Detector]], as Dream Soul Sumireko)<br />
| appOfficialgames = *''[[Urban Legend in Limbo]]'' (Final Boss, Playable Character)<br />
*''[[Antinomy of Common Flowers]]'' (Playable Character, Possible Opponent)<br />
*''[[Violet Detector]]'' (Main Character, Cover, Nightmare Diary Boss)<br />
| appPrintworks = *''[[Wild and Horned Hermit]]'' (Chapter 29, 31 cameo, 34, 35 cameo)<br />
*''[[Forbidden Scrollery]]'' (Chapter 34 cameo)<br />
*''[[Visionary Fairies in Shrine]]'' (Chapters 2, 7 Cameo)<br />
*''[[Curiosities of Lotus Asia]]'' (Secondary Character)<br />
*''[[Alternative Facts in Eastern Utopia]]'' (Interviews)<br />
* ''[[The Grimoire of Usami]]'' (Main Character)<br />
* ''[[Strange Creators of Outer World/Who's Who of Humans & Youkai - Dusk Edition|Who's Who of Humans & Youkai - Dusk Edition]]''<br />
| appMusicCDs = *''[[Urban Legend in Limbo OST]]'' (CD cover)<br />
| appMiscworks = <br />
| appOther = <br />
}}<br />
{{nihongo|'''Sumireko Usami'''|宇佐見 菫子|Usami Sumireko}} is the main antagonist of [[Urban Legend in Limbo]] and is the main protagonist of [[Violet Detector]]. She's a [[human]] from the [[Outside World]] with psychic powers (ESP). She is the first president of the [[Secret Sealing Club]].<br />
<br />
==General Information==<br />
Sumireko first appeared as the Final Boss of ''[[Urban Legend in Limbo]]'', and eventually becomes a playable character of the same game.<br />
<br />
===Personality===<br />
Sumireko has shown herself to be extremely intelligent, determined, passionate, and [[Wikipedia:hubris|hubristic]] in equal parts. At her best, she is friendly and passionate about life and learning about the world around her. At her worst, she can devolve into stubbornness and outright obstinance, going so far as to put herself in grave danger to achieve her goals.<br />
<br />
Despite her apparent superiority complex, she has grown to have a deep respect and admiration for the inhabitants of Gensokyo, referring to many of them as her friends, and looking up to them for mentorship and guidance. She describes herself as having been a bit of a loner prior to her arrival in Gensokyo, and she considers her discovery of Gensokyo to be the best thing to have happened in her life due to the friendships she's made there.<br />
<br />
She also describes herself as being [[Wikipedia:Chūnibyō|chuunibyou]],<ref>[[The Grimoire of Usami]] - [[The Grimoire of Usami/Section 1-9|Section 1-9]]</ref> a term usually used mockingly, with a sense of personal pride, alluding to her psychic powers and other magical abilities. In spite of that pride, she does lament that nobody in the Outside World seems to be able to understand her or her passion about the occult and Gensokyo. This may also be in part due to how highly opinionated she is, espousing her beliefs about the "phoniness" of the [[Outside World]]'s dominant consumerist culture at the slightest provocation.<ref>[[Alternative Facts in Eastern Utopia]] - [[Alternative Facts in Eastern Utopia/Article and Interview/Sumireko Usami|Sumireko Usami Interview]]</ref> <br />
<br />
Sumireko seems to hold several contradictory opinions, although it comes off less as hypocrisy, and more as though she hasn't been able to fully make up her mind about certain subjects due to her inexperience of being a teenager.<br />
<br />
===Abilities===<br />
;Esper<br />
She is a strong psychic, an individual capable of various powers associated with the paranormal, including but seemingly not limited to levitation, pyrokinesis, hydrokinesis, telekinesis, psychokinesis and teleportation.<br />
<br />
==Background Information==<br />
===Name===<br />
Her full name is {{nihongo|''Sumireko Usami''|宇佐見 菫子|Usami Sumireko}}. {{nihongo|''Usami''|宇佐見}} uses the same writing as [[Renko Usami]]'s surname and it is known to be an actual name in Japanese. {{nihongo|''Sumireko''|菫子}} literally means "violet child" and is also similar to how Renko's name means "lotus child", as both take their names from flowers.<br />
<br />
===Design===<br />
Sumireko has brown eyes and shoulder-length brown hair tied in pigtails. On her head is a black hat with a white bow along with red-framed glasses. She wears a purple plaid skirt and matching sleeveless top (resembling a jumper dress), over a long-sleeved white blouse and a black bolo tie with a clasp shaped like a [[wikipedia:Quimbaya artifacts|"Quimbaya airplane"]]. Along with this, she wears white socks with bows and black shoes. Sumireko generally carries [[wikipedia:Zener cards|Zener cards]], a tablet computer marked with a hexagram on the back, a smartphone in a white case with various blue shapes on it and a light-blue [[wikipedia:Liberator_(gun)|liberator]]. She also wears white gloves, and a black, high-collared cloak with a red interior inscribed with pinkish-white runes and a series of white lines at the bottom rim of the backside.<br />
<br />
Her summer uniform appears nearly identical to her winter one, but with shorter and looser sleeves, no gloves, and a skull in place of the Quimbaya airplane.<br />
<br />
==Sumireko's Appearances==<br />
===Games===<br />
;''Urban Legend in Limbo''<br />
Sumireko is the main antagonist of ''Urban Legend in Limbo'' and the final boss in most of the characters' scenarios in story mode.<br />
<br />
Sumireko manages to go through the [[Great Hakurei Barrier]] by using the [[Occult Ball]]s, which are special stones gathered from [[Mystery Spot]]s in the [[Outside World]]. However, after a short period, she is suddenly ejected from Gensokyo. Learning from this, Sumireko starts with brief excursions into Gensokyo to learn more about it, appearing to anyone who catches sight of her as an ominous black shadow.<br />
<br />
Sumireko soon devises a plan to spread rumors of the Occult Ball's powers and scatters them around Gensokyo for its residents to find. Once the balls are gathered, they warp back to the Outside World along with whoever gathered them all, just for enough time for Sumireko to learn about them before they are transported back. She then re-enters Gensokyo and scatters the balls again, thus beginning the incident of ''Urban Legend in Limbo''. Her plan works for a while, and although she is baffled at why everyone who comes out of Gensokyo ends up fighting her, she enjoys it nonetheless. <br />
<br />
Soon enough, [[Mamizou Futatsuiwa]] is made aware of the incident and devises her own plan: she claims to have Gensokyo's own Occult Ball in her possession when challenging Sumireko, claiming it would allow her limitless travel between Gensokyo and the Outside World. Mamizou instead tricks Sumireko into entering Gensokyo the ''proper'' way, which does let her stay there, but as Sumireko does not know how to get back ''out'', she is trapped in Gensokyo.<br />
<br />
Sumireko's story mode in ''Urban Legend in Limbo'' follows her as she is trapped in Gensokyo, whose residents attempt to scare her to teach her a lesson. In the end, she is confronted by [[Toyosatomimi no Miko]], who reminds Sumireko that she can use the Occult Balls to escape Gensokyo temporarily. She returns to the Outside World, and believing she will eventually be killed by the youkai of Gensokyo, she decides that when her time in the Outside World runs out, she will sacrifice herself to, purportedly, unleash the full power of the Occult Balls and destroy the Great Hakurei Barrier.<br />
<br />
Before being brought back to Gensokyo, she is confronted by Reimu in her own story mode, who realized that one of Sumireko's Occult Balls was swapped for a [[Lunar Capital]] ball, which if activated would link Gensokyo with the Lunar Capital instead. Although Reimu defeats Sumireko and saves the Great Hakurei Barrier, the Lunar Capital ball was activated, setting up the events of ''[[Legacy of Lunatic Kingdom]]''. Upon returning to Gensokyo, Sumireko is detained by Reimu, Mamizou and [[Kasen Ibaraki]]. Deciding Sumireko was no longer a threat, they return her to the Outside World through the proper method.<br />
<br />
A few days later, Sumireko reappears at the [[Hakurei Shrine]], as she had discovered that ever since leaving Gensokyo, she could travel back there in her dreams. No longer antagonistic, she befriends Gensokyo's residents in earnest, and her tales of the Outside World turn her into a brief celebrity.<br />
<br />
;''Antinomy of Common Flowers''<br />
Sumireko is a playable character with an unlockable story mode in [[Antinomy of Common Flowers]]. In her story mode, she visited Gensokyo at a bad time as the [[Dream World]] has been thrown into chaos by the [[Joon Yorigami|Yorigami]] [[Shion Yorigami|Sisters]]' incident, and she ends up trapped there as a result.<br />
<br />
She teams up with [[Doremy Sweet]] to traverse through the Dream World and reach Gensokyo, whereupon they are tasked by [[Yukari Yakumo]] to dispatch Sumireko's own Dream Soul that has been released into the Outside World by the incident. Curiously Sumireko somehow encounters ''two'' of her own Dream Souls, but defeats them with Doremy's help. She awakes in the Outside World afterward, greeted by Doremy to confirm that she is the real Sumireko.<br />
<br />
;''Violet Detector'' <br />
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Sumireko is the main protagonist of ''Violet Detector''. For some time, she has been having the same weird dream, in which she is constantly attacked by the residents of the dream world for no reason.<br />
She finally discovers that the dream dwellers hold a grudge against her for having a flesh body allowing her to go in the real world, and [[Doremy Sweet]] tells her that she can only expect the situation to worsen.<br />
After some time, she encounters and fight against [[Okina Matara]]. Okina is impressed by Sumireko who has been able to fend off the dream dwellers for quite some time. She offers her some help, in order to make the dream dwellers recognize her strength and make them stop attacking her. But in order to achieve that, she has to defeat even more powerful nightmares, so Okina lends Sumireko some powers on top of her psychic abilities, allowing her to cheat death in certain situations.<br />
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Sumireko then goes on and fights powerful nightmares, in the form of strong dream dwellers teaming up against her. <br />
After a week of fighting, she encounters another Sumireko. During that confrontation, she realizes that she was actually the [[Phantom#Dream Soul|Dream Soul]] of the real Sumireko, the other one, who is trying to get her body back. But at this point, Dream Sumireko has become stronger than the real Sumireko and is able to defeat her.<br />
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Okina, not willing to take any side in the confrontation between the two Sumirekos, decides to take back the power she lent Dream Sumireko to make things fair. The real Sumireko challenges her dream self once again and eventually defeats her.<br />
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The next day, Sumireko wakes up in the real world as if nothing happened, having no recollection of what transpired in her mind. She stopped having those nightmares, but the photos of danmaku battles still lie in the memory of her smartphone.<br />
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===Print Works===<br />
Sumireko makes appearances in [[Grimoire of Usami]], [[Curiosities of Lotus Asia]], and [[Wild and Horned Hermit]].<br />
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Grimoire of Usami is a book of spellcards, similar to [[Grimoire of Marisa]], in which her and many other characters attend a danmaku fireworks festival, cataloging and critiquing danmaku patterns.<br />
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In Curiosities of Lotus Asia, [[Rinnosuke Morichika]] catalogs Sumireko's trials and tribulations as she integrates herself into Gensokyo life, with the development of her occult doppelganger, and her disappearance during [[Violet Detector]].<br />
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in Wild and Horned Hermit, she makes a small cameo appearance for "World UFO Day," and accidentally summons a UFO to the main courtyard of the [[Hakurei Shrine]].<br />
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==Relationships==<br />
===[[Reimu Hakurei]] & [[Marisa Kirisame]]===<br />
In [[Urban Legend in Limbo]] and [[Curiosities of Lotus Asia]], Reimu and Marisa are frequently seen doting on her, making sure she's safe and trying to keep her from getting into trouble. In an interview with [[Aya Shameimaru]] in [[Alternative Facts in Eastern Utopia]], Sumireko refers to both Reimu and Marisa as friends she's made since coming to Gensokyo.<br />
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Reimu admits that although she's worried about Sumireko's appearance in Gensokyo and its implications for more [[Outside World]] humans passing through the barrier, Sumireko has made things "fun" in Gensokyo again. Marisa also tries to give advice on how to talk to the local residents.<br />
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In [[Violet Detector]], Sumireko refers to both of them with friendly informal names like "Reimu-icchi" and "Marisa-icchi," typically used between close friends.<br />
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===[[Rinnosuke Morichika]]===<br />
In [[Curiosities of Lotus Asia]], which is primarily told through Rinnosuke's perspective, Rinnosuke and Sumireko often talk about the Outside World and the various items that filter in through the [[Great Hakurei Barrier]]. Rinnosuke shows a great deal of care towards Sumireko, worrying about her safety, while Sumireko seems to regard him as a nag, and goes so far as to criticize him for smoking cigarettes. Despite that, they seem to be good friends, and despite Rinnosuke's tendency to tell tall tales, they do seem to get along well enough.<br />
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===[[Mamizou Futatsuiwa]]===<br />
In [[Alternative Facts in Eastern Utopia]], Sumireko mentions that Mamizou often visits her in the [[Outside World]]. The exact details of this aren't known, but Sumireko implies that they're friends, and that Sumireko respects her as an elder.<br />
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===[[Kasen Ibaraki]]===<br />
In [[Alternative Facts in Eastern Utopia]], Sumireko mentions that her and Kasen are also friends, and says that they hang out a lot in Gensokyo, calling her "Kasen-chan."<br />
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In [[Urban Legend in Limbo]], Kasen expresses resentment that Sumireko views youkai with such a casual and playful attitude, feeling that Sumireko should show youkai more respect.<br />
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===[[Fujiwara no Mokou]]===<br />
Initially annoyed by Sumireko, Mokou challenged Sumireko to a duel. The two found each other's strength admirable, and Mokou extended an invitation to have a rematch sometime in the future, admiring the young girl's fighting spirit and passion, and thanking her for giving her a tough challenge. It appears the two have become friendly rivals.<br />
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===[[Renko Usami]]===<br />
Due to her name, similar appearance and involvement in the creation of the [[Secret Sealing Club]], she may have some kind of relation to Renko. However, the specifics of this connection is as yet unknown. Her profile suggests she is an ancestor of Renko, from the present time.<br />
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===[[Okina Matara]]===<br />
In [[Violet Detector]], Okina ultimately assists Sumireko with resolving her real-self/dream-self/doppelganger mix-up situation, but not before toying with her for a little bit. As (real) Sumireko loses her memories of the incident, it's unknown if she remembers Okina at all. <br />
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===[[Doremy Sweet]]===<br />
In [[Antimony of Common Flowers]], Doremy teams up with Sumireko. During the incident, Sumireko is faced with fighting both her dream-self and her occult doppelganger, who have also teamed up to take down the "real" Sumireko. Doremy expresses confusion over how there can possibly be three Sumirekos at the same time in Gensokyo, but ultimately helps Sumireko resolve her issue at the time.<br />
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===[[Shinmyoumaru Sukuna]]===<br />
Sumireko finds Shinmyoumaru adorable, claiming to want to somehow take her home as a pet, much to her annoyance.<br />
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==Skills==<br />
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{{#lsth:List of Skills|[[Sumireko Usami]]}}<br />
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==Spell Cards==<br />
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==Gallery==<br />
===Covers===<br />
<gallery><br />
File:Th145front.jpg|Cover of ''[[Urban Legend in Limbo]]'', featuring Sumireko's silhouette<br />
File:TFM-07.jpg|Cover of ''[[Urban Legend in Limbo OST]]'', featuring Sumireko<br />
File:Th165cover.jpg|Cover of ''[[Violet Detector]]'', featuring Sumireko's silhouette<br />
File:WaHH 6 Cover.jpg|Sumireko on the Vol. 6 cover of ''[[Wild and Horned Hermit]]''<br />
File:CoLA28CleanCover.jpg|Sumireko in ''[[Curiosities of Lotus Asia]]''<br />
File:CoLA29CleanCover.jpg|Sumireko in ''[[Curiosities of Lotus Asia]]''<br />
File:GoU_cover.jpg|Sumireko in ''[[The Grimoire of Usami]]''<br />
</gallery><br />
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===Artworks===<br />
<gallery><br />
File:Th155Sumireko.png|Sumireko's artwork from ''[[Urban Legend in Limbo]]'' and ''[[Antinomy of Common Flowers]]''<br />
File:Th145Sumireko2.png|Sumireko's pre-battle artwork from ''[[Urban Legend in Limbo]]'' and ''[[Antinomy of Common Flowers]]''<br />
</gallery><br />
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===Sprites===<br />
<gallery><br />
File:Th155SumirekoColors.png|Sumireko's different color palettes from ''[[Antinomy of Common Flowers|AoCF]]'' and ''[[Urban Legend in Limbo|ULiL]]'', the last two were added in AoCF v1.10<br />
</gallery><br />
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==Additional Information==<br />
*Sumireko's silhouette occupies the front of ''[[Urban Legend in Limbo]]'' and ''[[Violet Detector]]'''s jewel case. Along with [[Cirno]], she's the only character to appear as the silhouette for two games' jewel cases in the Windows games.<br />
*Sumireko is the first final [[boss]] to be a [[human]] from outside [[Gensokyo]] since the [[PC-98]] game ''[[Phantasmagoria of Dim.Dream]]'', who was [[Yumemi Okazaki]]. Sumireko also has similarities to Yumemi besides this; both have an interest in magic, they tried to take an inhabitant of Gensokyo and had traps provided to lurk them into their area.<br />
*She is the first fighting game final boss whose story mode scenario is not the last to be unlocked.<br />
*The runes on her cloak do not appear to form any meaningful words, and some are even drawn from different runic alphabets (e.g. the old-form "sowilo" rune as written in Elder Futhark and the "stan" rune used by [[Wiktionary:Anglo-Saxons|Anglo-Saxon]] writers hundreds of years later).<br />
*Inside the game data for Urban Legend in Limbo, a folder named "Hanako" can be found that contains three sprites of a silhouetted Sumireko holding her cell phone. It's possible that Hanako was a working name for her, or was intended to be her name.<br />
** The 菫 (Sumire) part of her name is the name of a flower, from which the word for flower in Japanese is 花 (Hana). It could also be a codename. <br />
*[[Antinomy of Common Flowers]] confirms her to be a citizen of the Kantou Region. Incidentally, [[Renko]]'s parents also live in Tokyo.<br />
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==Fandom==<br />
{{main|Fandom/Spin-offs#Sumireko Usami|l1=Fandom: Sumireko Usami}}<br />
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==Official Profiles==<br />
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{{Profile Quote<br />
| image =[[File:Th145Sumireko.png|200px|Sumireko Usami ULiL]]<br />
| text = ○深秘を曝け!秘封倶楽部 初代会長<br><br />
宇佐見 菫子(うさみ すみれこ)<br />
<br />
種族:女子高生<br><br />
能力:超能力を操る程度の能力<br />
<br />
彼女は本物の超能力者であった。<br />
<br />
ネットで知識を深めた若者にありがちの全能感と、生まれ持った才能に<br><br />
より、特に中学の頃は『自分は他の人間より優れている』と思っていた。<br />
<br />
友達という物が無駄であるとは言わない。<br><br />
但しそれは知識の上での有用性であり、本当の心情は<br><br />
「友達を必要とする人種にとっては有益だ。<br><br />
群れたがる奴らにとってな」<br><br />
と心底馬鹿にしていたようである。<br />
<br />
そんなわけで友達が出来る訳も無く<br><br />
(彼女からしてみたら『必要が無かったので友達を作らなかった』、となる)<br><br />
他の人から見たら無惨な、だが本人は充実した学生生活を送っていた。<br />
<br />
この頃から、彼女は独自の研究を始めた。<br><br />
超能力を使える理由や、オカルト、都市伝説と呼ばれる物、等々。<br><br />
その中でも特に、この世界とは違う何処か異世界への憧れが強かった。<br />
<br />
<br />
そんな生活も高校に入ると一変する。<br><br />
彼女は(この手の人間にありがちだが)成績優秀だった。その為少し<br><br />
離れた私立の進学校に進学した。<br><br />
生徒はアチコチから集まっていた。それまでの人間関係は断たれ、新<br><br />
たに構築されようとしている。すると成績優秀な彼女の元にも関係を<br><br />
築こうと人が集まるようになっていた。硬化させた態度も逆に魅力で<br><br />
あったのかも知れない。<br />
<br />
<br />
だが、彼女は自分が他の人間とは違う種族である筈だと思い込んでいた。<br><br />
他の人間は『自分と普通の人間関係を築き、同レベルに引きずり込もう』<br><br />
と企む悪魔のような物だと言い聞かせた。<br />
<br />
聡明な彼女は人を追い払う為に『あえて』人を集めた。<br><br />
それが、非公認オカルトサークル『秘封倶楽部』であった。<br><br />
彼女の目論見通り、もう友達になろうと言う人は現われなかった。<br />
<br />
<br />
秘封倶楽部とは、異世界の秘密を自分の足で曝くサークルである。<br><br />
結果、彼女は世界の深秘に触れた。<br />
<br />
<br />
――はてさてそれから色々な出来事が起こり、<br><br />
結果、夢の世界に入れる様になる。<br />
<br />
そこでは自分の知識は上辺だけの物であると思い知らされた。経験<br><br />
こそがこの世界の真実であり、知識はそれを覆い隠す為にあるのだと。<br />
<br />
そして夢の中には、彼女が見下すことの出来ない人間達がいた。<br><br />
夢の中、いや幻想郷のお陰で、友達を作るのも悪くないと思うようになった。<br />
<br />
:<br><br />
:<br><br />
:<br />
<br />
……しかし、最後まで不可解な事があった。<br><br />
彼女が仕掛けた、異世界の扉を開くはずのパワーストーンだが、<br><br />
一つだけ別の物にすり替わっていたらしい。<br />
<br />
それは誰の仕業だろうか。<br><br />
そもそも幻想郷に実現する都市伝説が蔓延していたのも<br><br />
自分が仕掛けたのでは無いのだ。<br><br />
都市伝説は結界を破るために良いように働いたのだが、<br><br />
それも全て偶然、だったのだろうか?<br />
<br />
<br />
もしかしたら、内側から誰かが結界を破ろうとしているのではないか。<br><br />
自分のパワーストーンは逆に利用されたのではないか。<br><br />
彼女には最後まで判らなかった。<br />
| translation ='''Expose the Esoteric! The [[Secret Sealing Club]]'s First President'''<br><br />
Sumireko Usami<br />
<br />
Species: High-school girl<br><br />
Ability: Capable of manipulating psychic powers<br />
<br />
She was a genuine psychic.<br />
<br />
Thanks to the sense of omnipotence common to youths who furthered their knowledge via the internet, and to the talents she was born with, she began to think that "she was superior to other people," particularly around the time when she was in middle school.<br />
<br />
It wasn't to say that friends were ''useless'' or anything.<br><br />
It was just that they were useful to have from a simple knowledge standpoint.<br><br />
What she really thought was that "friends are beneficial for the sort of people who actually ''need'' them. Like, the sort of people who want others to flock around them."<br><br />
In the back of her mind, she mocked them.<br />
<br />
Thus, unable to make any friends, (although she herself would frame it as "I didn't make any because I just didn't need any",) she lived a school life that others would view as tragic, but she herself was enriched by.<br />
<br />
It was around that time that she began research of her own.<br><br />
Why she could use psychic powers, occult phenomena, that which we call 'urban legends', et cetera.<br><br />
In particular, she developed a strong interest in worlds separate from our own.<br />
<br />
When she entered high school, her lifestyle instantly changed.<br><br />
She was a model student (not uncommon for people such as her), and as a result, she advanced to a somewhat isolated private prep school. The school gathered students from all over; having been separated from their previous relationships, they strove to construct those relationships anew. As such, many people tried to strike up friendships with her, model student that she was. Her stiff attitude may have actually contributed to her appeal.<br />
<br />
However, she was convinced that she was of a different sort than the other humans around her. Other people, as far as she was concerned, may as well have been demons plotting to form regular relationships with her in order to drag her down to their level.<br />
<br />
In a smart move, she ''deliberately'' gathered people around her so as to drive them away.<br><br />
She formed an unauthorized occult circle: the "Secret Sealing Club".<br><br />
Just as she expected, nobody came up to her saying they wanted to be friends anymore.<br />
<br />
The Secret Sealing Club was a circle dedicated to exposing the secrets of other worlds with their own power.<br><br />
As a result, she made contact with the deep secrets of the world.<br />
<br />
---and so, various things occurred from there,<br><br />
and as a result, she became able to enter the world of dreams.<br />
<br />
There, she was made to realize that all her knowledge was only superficial. ''Experience'' is the real truth of this world, and her pursuit of factual knowledge was only something to cover for this.<br />
<br />
And in that dream, she at last met people who she couldn't look down on.<br><br />
Thanks to that dream--- no, thanks to Gensokyo, she found herself starting to think that maybe making some friends wouldn't be so bad after all.<br />
<br />
....<br />
<br />
....<br />
<br />
....<br />
<br />
...however, there was one thing that remained incomprehensible in the end.<br><br />
Out of all the power stones that she set up in order to open the door to the other world,<br><br />
one single stone seemed to have been switched with another.<br />
<br />
Whose doing was this?<br><br />
In the first place, the urban legends manifesting and spreading through Gensokyo were not something that she had planned. The urban legends had taken action such that a hole would be broken in the barrier, in the end, but was that really just a coincidence...?<br />
<br />
Perhaps [[Sagume Kishin|someone]] had been attempting to break the barrier from the inside.<br><br />
Had her power stones been used for [[Legacy of Lunatic Kingdom|someone else's purposes?]]<br><br />
She never did figure it out.<br />
}}<br />
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{{Profile Quote<br />
| image =[[File:Th145Sumireko.png|200px|Sumireko Usami AoCF]]<br />
| text =神秘主義で扱いに困る女学生<br />
<br />
宇佐見菫子<br/><br />
<br />
「なんか変なレイムね<br/><br />
今日は香霖堂に行きたいんだけどー」<br/><br />
<br />
今時の超能力女子高生<br/><br />
<br />
夢の中で幻想郷に訪れる事ができる彼女、<br/><br />
だが、この日の幻想郷はいつもと全く違う景色を見せていた<br/><br />
<br />
動かずどこからでも捉える超能力を駆使して戦う要塞タイプ<br/><br />
相手を前後左右から襲い掛かる瓦礫の山に埋めてしまおう<br/><br />
| translation ='''Mystic and Troublesome Female Student'''<br />
<br />
'''Sumireko Usami'''<br/><br />
<br />
''"Well, you sure are acting weird, Reimu.''<br/><br />
''I'd like to go to Kourindou today, if you don't mind...?"''<br/><br />
<br />
A modern high-school girl with psychic powers.<br/><br />
<br />
She has the ability to visit Gensokyo in her dreams, but the Gensokyo she saw today was utterly different from usual.<br/><br />
<br />
A zoning character who fights with her ESP, able to catch opponents anywhere without moving.<br/><br />
Bury your opponent in mountains of rubble that rain down from all sides!<br/><br />
}}<br />
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==Official Sources==<br />
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*2015/05/10 '''[[Urban Legend in Limbo]]''' - Final boss and playable character<br />
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<div>{{Infobox Character<br />
| nameJp = {{ruby-ja|宇佐見|うさみ}} {{ruby-ja|菫子|すみれこ}}<br />
| nameEn = Sumireko Usami<br />
| nameIPA = ɯᵝsa̠mi sɯᵝmiɺ̠e̞ko̞<br />
| image = [[File:Th165Sumireko.png|x300px|Sumireko Usami]]<br />
| caption = Sumireko Usami in [[Violet Detector]]<br />
| chartitle = {{H:title|Expose the Esoteric! The Secret Sealing Club's First President|深秘を曝け!秘封倶楽部 初代会長}}<br />
| species = [[Human]]/Doppelganger<br />
| abilities = Assorted psychic powers (ESP)<br />
| age =15−16 years old (as of ''Urban Legend in Limbo'')<br />
| occupation = High school student at Higashifukami High School, part-timer at [[Kourindou]]<ref>Curiosities of Lotus Asia, Chapter 36</ref><br />
| location = [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kant%C5%8D_region Kanto Region], [[Outside World]]<br />
| MusicThemes = *{{H:title|{{lang|ja|ラストオカルティズム ~ 現し世の秘術師}}|Last Occultism ~ Esotericist of the Present World}} ([[Urban Legend in Limbo]], [[Antinomy of Common Flowers]]) <br />
*{{H:title|{{lang|ja|燕石博物誌が連れてきた闇}}|The Darkness Brought In by Swallowstone Naturalis Historia}} ([[Violet Detector]], as Real World Sumireko)<br />
*{{H:title|{{lang|ja|秘匿されたフォーシーズンズ}}|The Concealed Four Seasons}} ([[Violet Detector]], as Dream Soul Sumireko)<br />
| appOfficialgames = *''[[Urban Legend in Limbo]]'' (Final Boss, Playable Character)<br />
*''[[Antinomy of Common Flowers]]'' (Playable Character, Possible Opponent)<br />
*''[[Violet Detector]]'' (Main Character, Cover, Nightmare Diary Boss)<br />
| appPrintworks = *''[[Wild and Horned Hermit]]'' (Chapter 29, 31 cameo, 34, 35 cameo)<br />
*''[[Forbidden Scrollery]]'' (Chapter 34 cameo)<br />
*''[[Visionary Fairies in Shrine]]'' (Chapters 2, 7 Cameo)<br />
*''[[Curiosities of Lotus Asia]]'' (Secondary Character)<br />
*''[[Alternative Facts in Eastern Utopia]]'' (Interviews)<br />
* ''[[The Grimoire of Usami]]'' (Main Character)<br />
* ''[[Strange Creators of Outer World/Who's Who of Humans & Youkai - Dusk Edition|Who's Who of Humans & Youkai - Dusk Edition]]''<br />
| appMusicCDs = *''[[Urban Legend in Limbo OST]]'' (CD cover)<br />
| appMiscworks = <br />
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}}<br />
{{nihongo|'''Sumireko Usami'''|宇佐見 菫子|Usami Sumireko}} is the main antagonist of [[Urban Legend in Limbo]] and is the main protagonist of [[Violet Detector]]. She's a [[human]] from the [[Outside World]] with psychic powers (ESP). She is the first president of the [[Secret Sealing Club]].<br />
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==General Information==<br />
Sumireko first appeared as the Final Boss of ''[[Urban Legend in Limbo]]'', and eventually becomes a playable character of the same game.<br />
<br />
===Personality===<br />
Sumireko has shown herself to be extremely intelligent, determined, passionate, and [[Wikipedia:hubris|hubristic]] in equal parts. At her worst, she can devolve into stubbornness and outright obstinance, going so far as to put herself in grave danger to achieve her goals.<br />
<br />
Despite her apparent superiority complex, she has grown to have a deep respect and admiration for the inhabitants of Gensokyo, referring to many of them as her friends, and looking up to them for mentorship and guidance. She describes herself as having been a bit of a loner prior to her arrival in Gensokyo, and she considers her discovery of Gensokyo to be the best thing to have happened in her life due to the friendships she's made there.<br />
<br />
She also describes herself as being [[Wikipedia:Chūnibyō|chuunibyou]],<ref>[[The Grimoire of Usami]] - [[The Grimoire of Usami/Section 1-9|Section 1-9]]</ref> a term usually used mockingly, with a sense of personal pride, alluding to her psychic powers and other magical abilities. In spite of that pride, she does lament that nobody in the Outside World seems to be able to understand her or her passion about the occult and Gensokyo. This may also be in part due to how highly opinionated she is, espousing her beliefs about the "phoniness" of the [[Outside World]]'s dominant consumerist culture at the slightest provocation.<ref>[[Alternative Facts in Eastern Utopia]] - [[Alternative Facts in Eastern Utopia/Article and Interview/Sumireko Usami|Sumireko Usami Interview]]</ref> <br />
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Sumireko seems to hold several contradictory opinions, although it comes off less as hypocrisy, and more as though she hasn't been able to fully make up her mind about certain subjects due to her inexperience of being a teenager.<br />
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===Abilities===<br />
;Esper<br />
She is a strong psychic, an individual capable of various powers associated with the paranormal, including but seemingly not limited to levitation, pyrokinesis, hydrokinesis, telekinesis, psychokinesis and teleportation.<br />
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==Background Information==<br />
===Name===<br />
Her full name is {{nihongo|''Sumireko Usami''|宇佐見 菫子|Usami Sumireko}}. {{nihongo|''Usami''|宇佐見}} uses the same writing as [[Renko Usami]]'s surname and it is known to be an actual name in Japanese. {{nihongo|''Sumireko''|菫子}} literally means "violet child" and is also similar to how Renko's name means "lotus child", as both take their names from flowers.<br />
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===Design===<br />
Sumireko has brown eyes and shoulder-length brown hair tied in pigtails. On her head is a black hat with a white bow along with red-framed glasses. She wears a purple plaid skirt and matching sleeveless top (resembling a jumper dress), over a long-sleeved white blouse and a black bolo tie with a clasp shaped like a [[wikipedia:Quimbaya artifacts|"Quimbaya airplane"]]. Along with this, she wears white socks with bows and black shoes. Sumireko generally carries [[wikipedia:Zener cards|Zener cards]], a tablet computer marked with a hexagram on the back, a smartphone in a white case with various blue shapes on it and a light-blue [[wikipedia:Liberator_(gun)|liberator]]. She also wears white gloves, and a black, high-collared cloak with a red interior inscribed with pinkish-white runes and a series of white lines at the bottom rim of the backside.<br />
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Her summer uniform appears nearly identical to her winter one, but with shorter and looser sleeves, no gloves, and a skull in place of the Quimbaya airplane.<br />
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==Sumireko's Appearances==<br />
===Games===<br />
;''Urban Legend in Limbo''<br />
Sumireko is the main antagonist of ''Urban Legend in Limbo'' and the final boss in most of the characters' scenarios in story mode.<br />
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Sumireko manages to go through the [[Great Hakurei Barrier]] by using the [[Occult Ball]]s, which are special stones gathered from [[Mystery Spot]]s in the [[Outside World]]. However, after a short period, she is suddenly ejected from Gensokyo. Learning from this, Sumireko starts with brief excursions into Gensokyo to learn more about it, appearing to anyone who catches sight of her as an ominous black shadow.<br />
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Sumireko soon devises a plan to spread rumors of the Occult Ball's powers and scatters them around Gensokyo for its residents to find. Once the balls are gathered, they warp back to the Outside World along with whoever gathered them all, just for enough time for Sumireko to learn about them before they are transported back. She then re-enters Gensokyo and scatters the balls again, thus beginning the incident of ''Urban Legend in Limbo''. Her plan works for a while, and although she is baffled at why everyone who comes out of Gensokyo ends up fighting her, she enjoys it nonetheless. <br />
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Soon enough, [[Mamizou Futatsuiwa]] is made aware of the incident and devises her own plan: she claims to have Gensokyo's own Occult Ball in her possession when challenging Sumireko, claiming it would allow her limitless travel between Gensokyo and the Outside World. Mamizou instead tricks Sumireko into entering Gensokyo the ''proper'' way, which does let her stay there, but as Sumireko does not know how to get back ''out'', she is trapped in Gensokyo.<br />
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Sumireko's story mode in ''Urban Legend in Limbo'' follows her as she is trapped in Gensokyo, whose residents attempt to scare her to teach her a lesson. In the end, she is confronted by [[Toyosatomimi no Miko]], who reminds Sumireko that she can use the Occult Balls to escape Gensokyo temporarily. She returns to the Outside World, and believing she will eventually be killed by the youkai of Gensokyo, she decides that when her time in the Outside World runs out, she will sacrifice herself to, purportedly, unleash the full power of the Occult Balls and destroy the Great Hakurei Barrier.<br />
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Before being brought back to Gensokyo, she is confronted by Reimu in her own story mode, who realized that one of Sumireko's Occult Balls was swapped for a [[Lunar Capital]] ball, which if activated would link Gensokyo with the Lunar Capital instead. Although Reimu defeats Sumireko and saves the Great Hakurei Barrier, the Lunar Capital ball was activated, setting up the events of ''[[Legacy of Lunatic Kingdom]]''. Upon returning to Gensokyo, Sumireko is detained by Reimu, Mamizou and [[Kasen Ibaraki]]. Deciding Sumireko was no longer a threat, they return her to the Outside World through the proper method.<br />
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A few days later, Sumireko reappears at the [[Hakurei Shrine]], as she had discovered that ever since leaving Gensokyo, she could travel back there in her dreams. No longer antagonistic, she befriends Gensokyo's residents in earnest, and her tales of the Outside World turn her into a brief celebrity.<br />
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;''Antinomy of Common Flowers''<br />
Sumireko is a playable character with an unlockable story mode in [[Antinomy of Common Flowers]]. In her story mode, she visited Gensokyo at a bad time as the [[Dream World]] has been thrown into chaos by the [[Joon Yorigami|Yorigami]] [[Shion Yorigami|Sisters]]' incident, and she ends up trapped there as a result.<br />
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She teams up with [[Doremy Sweet]] to traverse through the Dream World and reach Gensokyo, whereupon they are tasked by [[Yukari Yakumo]] to dispatch Sumireko's own Dream Soul that has been released into the Outside World by the incident. Curiously Sumireko somehow encounters ''two'' of her own Dream Souls, but defeats them with Doremy's help. She awakes in the Outside World afterward, greeted by Doremy to confirm that she is the real Sumireko.<br />
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;''Violet Detector'' <br />
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Sumireko is the main protagonist of ''Violet Detector''. For some time, she has been having the same weird dream, in which she is constantly attacked by the residents of the dream world for no reason.<br />
She finally discovers that the dream dwellers hold a grudge against her for having a flesh body allowing her to go in the real world, and [[Doremy Sweet]] tells her that she can only expect the situation to worsen.<br />
After some time, she encounters and fight against [[Okina Matara]]. Okina is impressed by Sumireko who has been able to fend off the dream dwellers for quite some time. She offers her some help, in order to make the dream dwellers recognize her strength and make them stop attacking her. But in order to achieve that, she has to defeat even more powerful nightmares, so Okina lends Sumireko some powers on top of her psychic abilities, allowing her to cheat death in certain situations.<br />
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Sumireko then goes on and fights powerful nightmares, in the form of strong dream dwellers teaming up against her. <br />
After a week of fighting, she encounters another Sumireko. During that confrontation, she realizes that she was actually the [[Phantom#Dream Soul|Dream Soul]] of the real Sumireko, the other one, who is trying to get her body back. But at this point, Dream Sumireko has become stronger than the real Sumireko and is able to defeat her.<br />
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Okina, not willing to take any side in the confrontation between the two Sumirekos, decides to take back the power she lent Dream Sumireko to make things fair. The real Sumireko challenges her dream self once again and eventually defeats her.<br />
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The next day, Sumireko wakes up in the real world as if nothing happened, having no recollection of what transpired in her mind. She stopped having those nightmares, but the photos of danmaku battles still lie in the memory of her smartphone.<br />
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===Print Works===<br />
Sumireko makes appearances in [[Grimoire of Usami]], [[Curiosities of Lotus Asia]], and [[Wild and Horned Hermit]].<br />
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Grimoire of Usami is a book of spellcards, similar to [[Grimoire of Marisa]], in which her and many other characters attend a danmaku fireworks festival, cataloging and critiquing danmaku patterns.<br />
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In Curiosities of Lotus Asia, [[Rinnosuke Morichika]] catalogs Sumireko's trials and tribulations as she integrates herself into Gensokyo life, with the development of her occult doppelganger, and her disappearance during [[Violet Detector]].<br />
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in Wild and Horned Hermit, she makes a small cameo appearance for "World UFO Day," and accidentally summons a UFO to the main courtyard of the [[Hakurei Shrine]].<br />
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==Relationships==<br />
===[[Reimu Hakurei]] & [[Marisa Kirisame]]===<br />
In [[Urban Legend in Limbo]] and [[Curiosities of Lotus Asia]], Reimu and Marisa are frequently seen doting on her, making sure she's safe and trying to keep her from getting into trouble. In an interview with [[Aya Shameimaru]] in [[Alternative Facts in Eastern Utopia]], Sumireko refers to both Reimu and Marisa as friends she's made since coming to Gensokyo.<br />
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Reimu admits that although she's worried about Sumireko's appearance in Gensokyo and its implications for more [[Outside World]] humans passing through the barrier, Sumireko has made things "fun" in Gensokyo again. Marisa also tries to give advice on how to talk to the local residents.<br />
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In [[Violet Detector]], Sumireko refers to both of them with friendly informal names like "Reimu-icchi" and "Marisa-icchi," typically used between close friends.<br />
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===[[Rinnosuke Morichika]]===<br />
In [[Curiosities of Lotus Asia]], which is primarily told through Rinnosuke's perspective, Rinnosuke and Sumireko often talk about the Outside World and the various items that filter in through the [[Great Hakurei Barrier]]. Rinnosuke shows a great deal of care towards Sumireko, worrying about her safety, while Sumireko seems to regard him as a nag, and goes so far as to criticize him for smoking cigarettes. Despite that, they seem to be good friends, and despite Rinnosuke's tendency to tell tall tales, they do seem to get along well enough.<br />
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===[[Mamizou Futatsuiwa]]===<br />
In [[Alternative Facts in Eastern Utopia]], Sumireko mentions that Mamizou often visits her in the [[Outside World]]. The exact details of this aren't known, but Sumireko implies that they're friends, and that Sumireko respects her as an elder.<br />
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===[[Kasen Ibaraki]]===<br />
In [[Alternative Facts in Eastern Utopia]], Sumireko mentions that her and Kasen are also friends, and says that they hang out a lot in Gensokyo, calling her "Kasen-chan."<br />
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In [[Urban Legend in Limbo]], Kasen expresses resentment that Sumireko views youkai with such a casual and playful attitude, feeling that Sumireko should show youkai more respect.<br />
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===[[Fujiwara no Mokou]]===<br />
Initially annoyed by Sumireko, Mokou challenged Sumireko to a duel. The two found each other's strength admirable, and Mokou extended an invitation to have a rematch sometime in the future, admiring the young girl's fighting spirit and passion, and thanking her for giving her a tough challenge. It appears the two have become friendly rivals.<br />
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===[[Renko Usami]]===<br />
Due to her name, similar appearance and involvement in the creation of the [[Secret Sealing Club]], she may have some kind of relation to Renko. However, the specifics of this connection is as yet unknown. Her profile suggests she is an ancestor of Renko, from the present time.<br />
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===[[Okina Matara]]===<br />
In [[Violet Detector]], Okina ultimately assists Sumireko with resolving her real-self/dream-self/doppelganger mix-up situation, but not before toying with her for a little bit. As (real) Sumireko loses her memories of the incident, it's unknown if she remembers Okina at all. <br />
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===[[Doremy Sweet]]===<br />
In [[Antimony of Common Flowers]], Doremy teams up with Sumireko. During the incident, Sumireko is faced with fighting both her dream-self and her occult doppelganger, who have also teamed up to take down the "real" Sumireko. Doremy expresses confusion over how there can possibly be three Sumirekos at the same time in Gensokyo, but ultimately helps Sumireko resolve her issue at the time.<br />
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===[[Shinmyoumaru Sukuna]]===<br />
Sumireko finds Shinmyoumaru adorable, claiming to want to somehow take her home as a pet, much to her annoyance.<br />
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==Skills==<br />
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==Spell Cards==<br />
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==Gallery==<br />
===Covers===<br />
<gallery><br />
File:Th145front.jpg|Cover of ''[[Urban Legend in Limbo]]'', featuring Sumireko's silhouette<br />
File:TFM-07.jpg|Cover of ''[[Urban Legend in Limbo OST]]'', featuring Sumireko<br />
File:Th165cover.jpg|Cover of ''[[Violet Detector]]'', featuring Sumireko's silhouette<br />
File:WaHH 6 Cover.jpg|Sumireko on the Vol. 6 cover of ''[[Wild and Horned Hermit]]''<br />
File:CoLA28CleanCover.jpg|Sumireko in ''[[Curiosities of Lotus Asia]]''<br />
File:CoLA29CleanCover.jpg|Sumireko in ''[[Curiosities of Lotus Asia]]''<br />
File:GoU_cover.jpg|Sumireko in ''[[The Grimoire of Usami]]''<br />
</gallery><br />
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===Artworks===<br />
<gallery><br />
File:Th155Sumireko.png|Sumireko's artwork from ''[[Urban Legend in Limbo]]'' and ''[[Antinomy of Common Flowers]]''<br />
File:Th145Sumireko2.png|Sumireko's pre-battle artwork from ''[[Urban Legend in Limbo]]'' and ''[[Antinomy of Common Flowers]]''<br />
</gallery><br />
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===Sprites===<br />
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File:Th155SumirekoColors.png|Sumireko's different color palettes from ''[[Antinomy of Common Flowers|AoCF]]'' and ''[[Urban Legend in Limbo|ULiL]]'', the last two were added in AoCF v1.10<br />
</gallery><br />
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==Additional Information==<br />
*Sumireko's silhouette occupies the front of ''[[Urban Legend in Limbo]]'' and ''[[Violet Detector]]'''s jewel case. Along with [[Cirno]], she's the only character to appear as the silhouette for two games' jewel cases in the Windows games.<br />
*Sumireko is the first final [[boss]] to be a [[human]] from outside [[Gensokyo]] since the [[PC-98]] game ''[[Phantasmagoria of Dim.Dream]]'', who was [[Yumemi Okazaki]]. Sumireko also has similarities to Yumemi besides this; both have an interest in magic, they tried to take an inhabitant of Gensokyo and had traps provided to lurk them into their area.<br />
*She is the first fighting game final boss whose story mode scenario is not the last to be unlocked.<br />
*The runes on her cloak do not appear to form any meaningful words, and some are even drawn from different runic alphabets (e.g. the old-form "sowilo" rune as written in Elder Futhark and the "stan" rune used by [[Wiktionary:Anglo-Saxons|Anglo-Saxon]] writers hundreds of years later).<br />
*Inside the game data for Urban Legend in Limbo, a folder named "Hanako" can be found that contains three sprites of a silhouetted Sumireko holding her cell phone. It's possible that Hanako was a working name for her, or was intended to be her name.<br />
** The 菫 (Sumire) part of her name is the name of a flower, from which the word for flower in Japanese is 花 (Hana). It could also be a codename. <br />
*[[Antinomy of Common Flowers]] confirms her to be a citizen of the Kantou Region. Incidentally, [[Renko]]'s parents also live in Tokyo.<br />
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==Fandom==<br />
{{main|Fandom/Spin-offs#Sumireko Usami|l1=Fandom: Sumireko Usami}}<br />
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==Official Profiles==<br />
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{{Profile Quote<br />
| image =[[File:Th145Sumireko.png|200px|Sumireko Usami ULiL]]<br />
| text = ○深秘を曝け!秘封倶楽部 初代会長<br><br />
宇佐見 菫子(うさみ すみれこ)<br />
<br />
種族:女子高生<br><br />
能力:超能力を操る程度の能力<br />
<br />
彼女は本物の超能力者であった。<br />
<br />
ネットで知識を深めた若者にありがちの全能感と、生まれ持った才能に<br><br />
より、特に中学の頃は『自分は他の人間より優れている』と思っていた。<br />
<br />
友達という物が無駄であるとは言わない。<br><br />
但しそれは知識の上での有用性であり、本当の心情は<br><br />
「友達を必要とする人種にとっては有益だ。<br><br />
群れたがる奴らにとってな」<br><br />
と心底馬鹿にしていたようである。<br />
<br />
そんなわけで友達が出来る訳も無く<br><br />
(彼女からしてみたら『必要が無かったので友達を作らなかった』、となる)<br><br />
他の人から見たら無惨な、だが本人は充実した学生生活を送っていた。<br />
<br />
この頃から、彼女は独自の研究を始めた。<br><br />
超能力を使える理由や、オカルト、都市伝説と呼ばれる物、等々。<br><br />
その中でも特に、この世界とは違う何処か異世界への憧れが強かった。<br />
<br />
<br />
そんな生活も高校に入ると一変する。<br><br />
彼女は(この手の人間にありがちだが)成績優秀だった。その為少し<br><br />
離れた私立の進学校に進学した。<br><br />
生徒はアチコチから集まっていた。それまでの人間関係は断たれ、新<br><br />
たに構築されようとしている。すると成績優秀な彼女の元にも関係を<br><br />
築こうと人が集まるようになっていた。硬化させた態度も逆に魅力で<br><br />
あったのかも知れない。<br />
<br />
<br />
だが、彼女は自分が他の人間とは違う種族である筈だと思い込んでいた。<br><br />
他の人間は『自分と普通の人間関係を築き、同レベルに引きずり込もう』<br><br />
と企む悪魔のような物だと言い聞かせた。<br />
<br />
聡明な彼女は人を追い払う為に『あえて』人を集めた。<br><br />
それが、非公認オカルトサークル『秘封倶楽部』であった。<br><br />
彼女の目論見通り、もう友達になろうと言う人は現われなかった。<br />
<br />
<br />
秘封倶楽部とは、異世界の秘密を自分の足で曝くサークルである。<br><br />
結果、彼女は世界の深秘に触れた。<br />
<br />
<br />
――はてさてそれから色々な出来事が起こり、<br><br />
結果、夢の世界に入れる様になる。<br />
<br />
そこでは自分の知識は上辺だけの物であると思い知らされた。経験<br><br />
こそがこの世界の真実であり、知識はそれを覆い隠す為にあるのだと。<br />
<br />
そして夢の中には、彼女が見下すことの出来ない人間達がいた。<br><br />
夢の中、いや幻想郷のお陰で、友達を作るのも悪くないと思うようになった。<br />
<br />
:<br><br />
:<br><br />
:<br />
<br />
……しかし、最後まで不可解な事があった。<br><br />
彼女が仕掛けた、異世界の扉を開くはずのパワーストーンだが、<br><br />
一つだけ別の物にすり替わっていたらしい。<br />
<br />
それは誰の仕業だろうか。<br><br />
そもそも幻想郷に実現する都市伝説が蔓延していたのも<br><br />
自分が仕掛けたのでは無いのだ。<br><br />
都市伝説は結界を破るために良いように働いたのだが、<br><br />
それも全て偶然、だったのだろうか?<br />
<br />
<br />
もしかしたら、内側から誰かが結界を破ろうとしているのではないか。<br><br />
自分のパワーストーンは逆に利用されたのではないか。<br><br />
彼女には最後まで判らなかった。<br />
| translation ='''Expose the Esoteric! The [[Secret Sealing Club]]'s First President'''<br><br />
Sumireko Usami<br />
<br />
Species: High-school girl<br><br />
Ability: Capable of manipulating psychic powers<br />
<br />
She was a genuine psychic.<br />
<br />
Thanks to the sense of omnipotence common to youths who furthered their knowledge via the internet, and to the talents she was born with, she began to think that "she was superior to other people," particularly around the time when she was in middle school.<br />
<br />
It wasn't to say that friends were ''useless'' or anything.<br><br />
It was just that they were useful to have from a simple knowledge standpoint.<br><br />
What she really thought was that "friends are beneficial for the sort of people who actually ''need'' them. Like, the sort of people who want others to flock around them."<br><br />
In the back of her mind, she mocked them.<br />
<br />
Thus, unable to make any friends, (although she herself would frame it as "I didn't make any because I just didn't need any",) she lived a school life that others would view as tragic, but she herself was enriched by.<br />
<br />
It was around that time that she began research of her own.<br><br />
Why she could use psychic powers, occult phenomena, that which we call 'urban legends', et cetera.<br><br />
In particular, she developed a strong interest in worlds separate from our own.<br />
<br />
When she entered high school, her lifestyle instantly changed.<br><br />
She was a model student (not uncommon for people such as her), and as a result, she advanced to a somewhat isolated private prep school. The school gathered students from all over; having been separated from their previous relationships, they strove to construct those relationships anew. As such, many people tried to strike up friendships with her, model student that she was. Her stiff attitude may have actually contributed to her appeal.<br />
<br />
However, she was convinced that she was of a different sort than the other humans around her. Other people, as far as she was concerned, may as well have been demons plotting to form regular relationships with her in order to drag her down to their level.<br />
<br />
In a smart move, she ''deliberately'' gathered people around her so as to drive them away.<br><br />
She formed an unauthorized occult circle: the "Secret Sealing Club".<br><br />
Just as she expected, nobody came up to her saying they wanted to be friends anymore.<br />
<br />
The Secret Sealing Club was a circle dedicated to exposing the secrets of other worlds with their own power.<br><br />
As a result, she made contact with the deep secrets of the world.<br />
<br />
---and so, various things occurred from there,<br><br />
and as a result, she became able to enter the world of dreams.<br />
<br />
There, she was made to realize that all her knowledge was only superficial. ''Experience'' is the real truth of this world, and her pursuit of factual knowledge was only something to cover for this.<br />
<br />
And in that dream, she at last met people who she couldn't look down on.<br><br />
Thanks to that dream--- no, thanks to Gensokyo, she found herself starting to think that maybe making some friends wouldn't be so bad after all.<br />
<br />
....<br />
<br />
....<br />
<br />
....<br />
<br />
...however, there was one thing that remained incomprehensible in the end.<br><br />
Out of all the power stones that she set up in order to open the door to the other world,<br><br />
one single stone seemed to have been switched with another.<br />
<br />
Whose doing was this?<br><br />
In the first place, the urban legends manifesting and spreading through Gensokyo were not something that she had planned. The urban legends had taken action such that a hole would be broken in the barrier, in the end, but was that really just a coincidence...?<br />
<br />
Perhaps [[Sagume Kishin|someone]] had been attempting to break the barrier from the inside.<br><br />
Had her power stones been used for [[Legacy of Lunatic Kingdom|someone else's purposes?]]<br><br />
She never did figure it out.<br />
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| text =神秘主義で扱いに困る女学生<br />
<br />
宇佐見菫子<br/><br />
<br />
「なんか変なレイムね<br/><br />
今日は香霖堂に行きたいんだけどー」<br/><br />
<br />
今時の超能力女子高生<br/><br />
<br />
夢の中で幻想郷に訪れる事ができる彼女、<br/><br />
だが、この日の幻想郷はいつもと全く違う景色を見せていた<br/><br />
<br />
動かずどこからでも捉える超能力を駆使して戦う要塞タイプ<br/><br />
相手を前後左右から襲い掛かる瓦礫の山に埋めてしまおう<br/><br />
| translation ='''Mystic and Troublesome Female Student'''<br />
<br />
'''Sumireko Usami'''<br/><br />
<br />
''"Well, you sure are acting weird, Reimu.''<br/><br />
''I'd like to go to Kourindou today, if you don't mind...?"''<br/><br />
<br />
A modern high-school girl with psychic powers.<br/><br />
<br />
She has the ability to visit Gensokyo in her dreams, but the Gensokyo she saw today was utterly different from usual.<br/><br />
<br />
A zoning character who fights with her ESP, able to catch opponents anywhere without moving.<br/><br />
Bury your opponent in mountains of rubble that rain down from all sides!<br/><br />
}}<br />
{{hidden end}}<br />
<br />
==Official Sources==<br />
{{hidden begin|title = Official sources|titlestyle = background:pink; text-align:center;}}<br />
*2015/05/10 '''[[Urban Legend in Limbo]]''' - Final boss and playable character<br />
{{hidden end}}<br />
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[[Category:Characters in Urban Legend in Limbo]]<br />
[[Category:Characters in Antinomy of Common Flowers]]<br />
[[Category:Characters playable in Touhou]]<br />
[[de:Sumireko Usami]]<br />
[[ru:Сумиреко Усами]]<br />
[[fr:Sumireko Usami]]<br />
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==Copyright status/Terms of Use of the Touhou Project==<br />
The following includes translations of the Touhou copyright and usage guidelines in various chronological stages. Entries go from the top down, and the lower newer ones supersede the upper older ones. Older entries are retained for historical and referential reasons, and are still considered valid by ZUN.<br />
<br />
===Original text===<br />
[[Wikipedia:User talk:Deadkid dk/Archive08#List of Touhou Project characters|Deadkid dk's and Solamarle's translation]] of [http://www.geocities.co.jp/Playtown-Yoyo/1736/t-081-2.html ZUN's terms of use] <small>([https://web.archive.org/web/20080724144606/http://www.geocities.co.jp/Playtown-Yoyo/1736/t-081-2.html Wayback Machine Archive])</small> is reproduced below.<br />
<br />
<u>Q: I want to make derivative work based on the Touhou series's characters and settings.</u><br />
<br />
The copyright of the Touhou series, including its characters, content, quotes and music belong<br />
to my circle. That said, this series is supported by many [[Wikipedia:doujin|doujin]] creators. (Thank you)<br />
<br />
For the usual activities in doujin (uploading material on a homepage, selling them in a convention<br />
or in [[Wikipedia:vanity press|a shop at your own expense]]), or doujin material (derivative comics, stories,<br />
games, CGs, goods, [[Wikipedia:cosplay|cosplay]]), you do not need to notify me or request my permission. The<br />
copyright of derivative works belong to the creators of said derivatives. If there is trouble<br />
regarding the derivatives of my work, I cannot take responsibility. <br />
<br />
To avoid trouble, please satisfy the following conditions.<br />
<br />
1. Using game data other than screenshots is forbidden.<br />
2. If you need data other than screenshots, please make them yourself.<br />
3. Content that includes inflammatory material towards us or other copyright owners is forbidden.<br />
4. If possible, please attribute us. (recommended)<br />
5. If possible, please include our contact information in the colophon. (recommended)<br />
6. Please do not mistake the names of the games or the characters.<br />
7. Do not reproduce or reprint ending material, including the text.<br />
8. For the commercial production of derivative material, or the mass circulation of derivative<br />
material outside of doujin shops, you must seek my permission. <br />
To publish on commercial magazines and books, you must notify me.<br />
(You do not need to do so for magazines that describe doujin and derivatives.)<br />
9. If you did not satisfy the above conditions but received my permission, please make clear that<br />
you have received my permission.<br />
<br />
Otherwise, decisions like for sale or for free, how many to print, the price to sell them at, adult<br />
only or not, original settings or not, is entirely free for you to choose. <br />
However, if I see material that I decide to not fulfil the above conditions, I have the right to<br />
stop its distribution.<br />
<br />
<u>Q. I want to use snapshots on my webpage (for a walkthrough, etc.)</u><br />
<br />
Of course I don't mind. You don't even have to notify me beforehand.<br />
As long as you follow the rules below, I won't mind.<br />
<br />
1. Don't post endings.<br />
2. Rescaling is okay, but please preserve the images' aspect ratio.<br />
3. Don't make image content edits that are indistinguishable from the<br />
original images.<br />
This includes things like changing the spell card names, recoloring the<br />
images, or add extra bullets that weren't originally there.<br />
* However, this is okay if it's done as a joke and it's clearly stated<br />
that it's a joke.<br />
4. Things like cropping the images or overlaying them with text are no problem.<br />
<br />
If you have any doubts, just ask me and I'll respond.<br />
<br />
===2011 Update===<br />
Gensokyo.org (now defunct) produced this translation of [http://kourindou.exblog.jp/14218252/ ZUN's 2011 addendum to the terms of use]. Note: The guidelines have been updated as of February 18th, 2011, and the translation below does not reflect these changes.<br />
<br />
Lately the numbers of derivative works explode when commercial works are<br />
released, so I wanted to update the guidelines with that in mind.<br />
<br />
I hope things can work something like this.<br />
<br />
The basic rules for derivatives by doujin circles aren't really that<br />
different.<br />
<br />
------------------------------------------------------------------------<br />
Guidelines for using the Touhou Project setting - ver. 2011<br />
<br />
This is a revision to the Touhou Project guidelines, updated for the<br />
state of affairs in 2011.<br />
<br />
<br />
<u>Use in doujin activities</u><br />
[n.b. - things doujin circles should do when making Touhou stuff, like<br />
having contact information visible, attribution, etc.]<br />
<br />
Basically, just follow the guidelines as they've been up 'til now.<br />
<br />
Detailed information is in the questions and answers collected on this<br />
page, so please have a look.<br />
http://www.geocities.co.jp/Playtown-Yoyo/1736/t-081-2.html<br />
<br />
Selling doujin works in commercial channels is generally not allowed.<br />
<br />
I don't generally review or veto the contents of independent works, so please use<br />
your own personal judgement in and take responsibility for your works.<br />
<br />
<u>Applications for commercial goods</u><br />
<br />
You need my permission to sell commercial goods.<br />
<br />
A friend of mine has graciously offered to serve as the point of<br />
contact for inquiries about works derived from Touhou.<br />
<br />
We'll promptly address inquiries from commercial outfits, so please use the following<br />
form to contact us.<br />
https://spreadsheets.google.com/viewform?formkey=dFBiWldmOUlCYWpWZm9IWFAxVmJpU0E6MQ<br />
<br />
In addition, please refrain from making commercial goods of a sexualized<br />
nature (such as dakimakura covers with sexual imagery).<br />
<br />
<br />
<u>Restrictions on derivative works</u><br />
<br />
I'd like to place the following restrictions on all<br />
derivative works, regardless of whether they're commercial or independent:<br />
<br />
・ For-profit development of works whose main element is animation(*)<br />
<br />
・ Sale of software on the XBox 360 Indies channel<br />
<br />
・ Sale of software via the App Store, Android Market, etc. (for commercial<br />
parties, please get in contact with me)<br />
<br />
・ Sale of works in channels that are further reaching than the distribution channels<br />
used by the original works. The original works are primarily sold in general doujin<br />
channels. So, please refrain from using download sales sites primarily oriented for<br />
overseas customers, etc.<br />
<br />
・ Other works (e.g. works of excessive sexual depictions and works that would slander<br />
a particular person, group or race) when we determine that such works are extremely<br />
inappropriate given societal norms.<br />
<br />
<br />
I'll leave the question of what to do with works released before this update<br />
to the guidelines that may fall astray of one of its provisions up to the<br />
judgement of their creators.<br />
<br />
* By this I mean so-called "traditional cell animation"; computer-generated 3D<br />
animation and 2D illustrations with special effects processing aren't included<br />
in this restriction.<br />
<br />
===2011 Update commentary===<br />
Gensokyo.org (not defunct) produced translations from the comments of the previous post of ZUN's Twitter and blog update. <br />
<br />
Twitter:<br />
“[Don't make] Excessive sexual depictions” basically means don’t run afoul of the law. <br />
Naturally, I’d like all creators to respect the laws of Japan.<br />
<br />
I’ve never before authorized commercial porn before, and I’ve never really been that <br />
bothered by the contents of any doujin I’ve seen, so don’t worry. I just had to make the <br />
stipulation.<br />
<br />
I’ve been asked this question a lot, but I’ve never been officially involved in an anime <br />
production before! And I’m not planning on it! Not like I have the time.<br />
<br />
Summary of Blog Update:<br />
Reproductions of individual commissions are explicitly exempted from the restrictions on <br />
commercial work (i.e. if someone commissions you to do something, it’s okay to then sell <br />
reproductions of it in limited quantities as a doujin work)<br />
<br />
The contact info for commercial endeavours is not intended for use by individuals or doujin <br />
circles<br />
<br />
The animation bullet was changed to just “Commercial production of animation works”<br />
<br />
A note at the bottom was added saying that any works in progress for Reitaisai or Summer <br />
Comiket that might run afoul of the new guidelines may be treated under the old guidelines<br />
<br />
===2020 Update===<br />
Unofficial translation of summarized Touhou Project creator guidelines posted on [https://touhou-project.news/guideline/ Touhou Yomoyama News], an organization licensed by ZUN to host official Touhou Project news.<br />
This version of the guideline is simply a summary of the previous guidelines written in slightly different wordings. The summary itself has extremely unclear wording such as "prohibitions on expressing personal beliefs," while the spirit of making fan content is to express our personal views of Gensokyo. There are also self-conflicting statements such as "please ask us directly" while they do not accept any questions from individuals.<br />
<br />
'''The only additions compared to previous guidelines are:<br />
# Browser games and mobile games can now be released as free-to-play games with ads and ad-removal in-app purchases.<br />
# Prohibitions on the use of photos of ZUN himself.<br />
'''<br />
The Chinese version of the guideline linked on the site also does not match the original at all. This means that it is possible that they will release an English guideline targeting English-speaking creators in the future. <br />
<br />
The purpose of this unofficial translation is to provide you a rather practical view of dos and don'ts within Japanese territory. The guideline itself has never been a legal-binding document, thus the translation should never be treated as legal-binding as well. For a more comprehensive, well-written Fan Content Policy, please read [https://company.wizards.com/fancontentpolicy Wizard of the Coast's Fan Content Policy] as a comparison. They share identical ideas on dos and don'ts except that Touhou is lenient on monetization without aggressive lawyers.<br />
<br />
<pre><br />
Guidelines for Touhou Project Fan Creators<br />
<br />
In short, you may simply use your common senses if you're a natural person (as opposed to a legal person) creating Fan Content (stuff you make based on Touhou Project) just for fun.<br />
However, your Fan Content has to comply with the following rules:<br />
<br />
Your Fan Content should always have:<br />
* A clear note that your Fan Content is a fan work based on Touhou Project.<br />
<br />
Your Fan Content should NEVER have:<br />
* Anything that means to harm Touhou Project's reputation.<br />
* Anything that infringes other intellectual property.<br />
* Anything that means to mistake your Fan Content as one of the official Touhou Project titles.<br />
* Anything that is extracted from official Touhou Project games.<br />
* Ending scenes from official Touhou Project games.<br />
* Anything that means to advertise personal beliefs beyond the bounds of fiction.<br />
* Other Touhou Fan Content without creator's permission.<br />
* Excessive sexual content that is considered unlawful.<br />
* Anything that promotes hatred against individuals or groups.<br />
<br />
Though not relevant to Fan Content, posting or modifying photos of ZUN himself without ZUN's permission is prohibited.<br />
<br />
---<br />
<br />
Distribution<br />
<br />
In general, your Fan Content may only be distributed through platforms where:<br />
* you can find Touhou Project official contents<br />
* they are licensed or permitted by ZUN<br />
Examples (includes but not limited to):<br />
* Local doujin events in Japan<br />
* Local doujin shops in Japan<br />
* Events are explicitly permitted by ZUN<br />
* Small home business (physical media only)<br />
* BOOK☆WALKER<br />
* Touhou Digital Music Distribution<br />
* Local events with admission fees on an individual scale<br />
<br />
Browser games and mobile games can only be released as free-to-play games. Other forms of monetizations such as in-app advertisement and ad removal as an in-app purchase are allowed.<br />
<br />
Fan-made videos contents, including let's play videos, may be uploaded through video-sharing platforms alike.<br />
<br />
If you have obtained an explicit license from Team Shanghai Alice, please clarify such an association in your Fan Content.<br />
<br />
You are solely responsible for any troubles caused by your Fan Content. Under no circumstances will Team Shanghai Alice be held responsible for any damages.<br />
<br />
If you are a legal person creating Fan Content as a business activity, please contact us.<br />
<br />
---<br />
<br />
Disclaimer<br />
<br />
The intention of this guideline is to provide fan creators with a brief understanding of do's and don'ts in a lenient manner.<br />
We do not answer any questions from natural persons regarding this guideline and Fan Content policy.<br />
We may contact you directly if we consider your Fan Content to be a serious violation of our guidelines.<br />
We reserve the right to update this guideline without any notices.<br />
<br />
---<br />
<br />
About previous guidelines<br />
<br />
Previous guidelines provided by ZUN are still considered as effective. For details that are not included in this guideline, please consult previous guidelines linked below.<br />
<br />
Relevant Pages of Team Shanghai Alice's Fan Content Policy (Mr. Takker's website)<br />
Details regarding "One-day Permission" and business activity (published on Dec. 10th, 2008)<br />
Contact Form for Legal Person (published on Feb. 14th, 2011)<br />
<br />
Special thanks to Mr. Takker for hosting Touhou Project creator guidelines ever since.<br />
</pre><br />
<br />
=== See also ===<br />
*[[Touhou Wiki:Simplified ruleset|Simplified ruleset]]<br />
*[[Touhou Wiki:Guidelines|Guidelines]]<br />
*[[Touhou Wiki:Policy|Policy]]<br />
[[Category:Organisation]]<br />
[[es:Touhou Wiki:Derechos de autor]]<br />
[[ru:Справка:Авторское право]]<br />
[[zh:东方维基:著作权]]</div>AliceDhttps://en.touhouwiki.net/index.php?title=Chimata_Tenkyuu&diff=431643Chimata Tenkyuu2021-06-16T00:03:52Z<p>AliceD: </p>
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<div>{{stub}}<br />
{{Infobox Character<br />
| nameJp = {{ruby-ja|天弓|てんきゅう}} {{ruby-ja|千亦|ちまた}}<br />
| nameEn = Chimata Tenkyuu<br />
| nameIPA =<br />
| nameAlt =Chimata Tenkyu<br />
| image = [[File:Th18Chimata.png|x300px|Chimata Tenkyuu]]<br />
| caption = Chimata Tenkyuu in [[Unconnected Marketeers]]<br />
| chartitle = {{H:title|The God of the Unowned|無主物の神}}<br />
| species = [[God]]<br />
| abilities = Capable of letting one relinquish ownership<br />
| occupation = <br />
| location = <br />
| MusicThemes = {{H:title|{{lang|ja|あの賑やかな市場は今どこに 〜}} Immemorial Marketeers|Where Is That Bustling Marketplace Now ~ Immemorial Marketeers}} (''[[Unconnected Marketeers]]'') <br />
| appOfficialgames = *''[[Unconnected Marketeers]]'' (Stage 6 Boss, Reimu Good Ending, Sakuya Alternate Ending, Sanae Alternate Ending)<br />
| appMusicCDs = <br />
| appPrintworks =<br />
| appMiscworks = <br />
| appOther = <br />
}}<br />
{{nihongo|'''Chimata Tenkyuu'''|天弓 千亦|Tenkyuu Chimata}} is the Stage 6 [[Boss|boss]] and secondary antagonist of ''[[Unconnected Marketeers]]''.<br />
==General Information==<br />
<br />
===Personality===<br />
In ''Unconnected Marketeers'', Chimata appears to be polite but somewhat full of herself and dramatic, making bold claims such as humanity being "unable to survive" without her, announcing the beginning of her boss fight as "the end," and immediately jumping to the conclusion that those who don't wish to trade must be criminals of some kind.<br />
<br />
She seems to be singularly concerned with the rules and regulations governing marketplaces, and is highly irritated when they are broken. She accuses the protagonist of wanting to steal and monopolize the cards after she refuses to trade with her, and detests those that place the pursuit of profit over the rituals and regulations she favours.<br />
<br />
===Abilities===<br />
;Capable of letting one relinquish ownership<br />
<br />
Chimata's ability is to allow others relinquish ownership of an item. Without this ritual, a given object remains connected to the original owner, such is the case when someone loses, throws away, or gives away something. Only in a barter where both participants are willing to engage in an exchange of equitable value does a proper transfer of rights take place.<br />
<br />
As her power is directly tied to the existence of physical marketplaces, it has been steadily diminishing due to the emergence of things like online trade in the [[Outside World]], which prompted Chimata to find a way to establish her own marketplace in Gensokyo.<br />
<br />
In ''Unconnected Marketeers'', [[Megumu Iizunamaru]] abuses this ability to successfully transfer the special abilities of the residents of Gensokyo into Ability Cards, granting the wielder the powers of those depicted in the cards. While this did help Chimata recover her strength, it also served to concentrate power and wealth into the hands of the [[tengu]].<br />
<br />
==Background Information==<br />
===Origin===<br />
Chimata may be based on ''ichigami'' (市神), or the ''gods of marketplaces'' in Japanese folklore. Rather than gods of money or economics, they were more akin to gods of physical marketplaces, or barter and trade. Ichigami were worshipped as the gods who protect the commercial activities and security of marketplaces. When traditional marketplaces went into decline in modern-day Japan, belief in ichigami also declined.<br />
<br />
Specifically, she is the god of "special event" marketplaces (as opposed to something like a regular farmer's market), which in ''Unconnected Marketeers'' is signified by the [[Wikipedia:Moonbow|lunar rainbow]]. Because of this, she may also be based on a long-forgotten medieval Japanese custom of holding markets when there's a rainbow. It was believed, that the boundary between the human world and the world of Gods is beneath rainbows, so holding a market during a rainbow would please the Gods, because they temporarily receive everything that is being sold there.<br />
<br />
===Name===<br />
Her family name, {{nihongo|Tenkyuu|天弓}}, is written with characters meaning "heaven" and "bow" (as in "bow and arrow"). It is written the same way as a literary and dialectal Chinese word for "rainbow".<br />
<br />
Her given name, {{nihongo|Chimata|千亦}}, is written with characters meaning "thousand" and "again". "Chimata" can also be written as {{lang|ja|巷}}, which means "the public", "streets" or "crossroads". It was likely chosen due to her status as a god of markets, which are public places where all sorts of people gather.<br />
<br />
===Design===<br />
Chimata's design very closely reflects her lunar rainbow powers, with her dress appearing to be a patchwork of multicoloured fabrics held together with golden buckles and zippers, resembling modernist [[Wikipedia:Stained glass|stained glass]], magenta boots with white bows, and the headband in her hair glowing with bright rainbow colours. She also wears a long white cape, white on one side, and a bright blue sky with scattered clouds on its inner lining. On her belt, she carries a coin purse.<br />
<br />
==Story==<br />
===Games===<br />
;''Unconnected Marketeers''<br />
<br />
Concerned about her dwindling strength, she accepted [[Megumu Iizunamaru]]'s offer to open a special event marketplace under the lunar rainbow. Using materials unearthed by [[Momoyo Himemushi]] that could mimic the abilities of others, Ability Cards were created that could be exchanged for currency under Megumu, with profit for all involved. However, both Chimata and Megumu were aware from the beginning that their own lust for power would sooner or later mean that they would betray the other party. The goddess took advantage of the brisk trade under the rules she had set to build up her strength until Megumu's inevitable betrayal.<br />
<br />
In the wake of [[Unconnected Marketeers]], and under manipulation by [[Tsukasa Kudamaki]], their partnership finally collapsed.<br />
<br />
==Relationships==<br />
;[[Megumu Iizunamaru]]<br />
Megumu was Chimata's would-be business partner in the creation of the Ability Card marketplace. Their relationship had always been strained, as Megumu had sought to only use Chimata's powers to further the interests of tengu society, and had dissolved into outright hostilities by the end of the Ability Card Incident.<br />
<br />
;[[Tsukasa Kudamaki]]<br />
Tsukasa is seemingly subordinate to Chimata, with Tsukasa addressing her politely. Tsukasa reports Megumu's betrayal to Chimara, but it appears likely that Tsukasa was [[Wikipedia:double agent|playing both sides]]. Chimata seems to be somewhat aware of this, rudely dismissing Tsukasa from her service when she comes to realize Tsukasa's true motivations.<br />
<br />
==Minor Relationships==<br />
;[[Momoyo Himemushi]]<br />
The two were also partners, although not much is known about their relationship. Since Momoyo and Megumu Iizunamaru are friends and neither Chimata nor Momoyo mention the other, they don't seem to be close and may have a similarly strained relationship.<br />
<br />
==Spell Cards==<br />
{{hidden begin|title = Spell Cards|titlestyle = background:palegreen; text-align:center;}}<br />
{{#lsth:List of Spell Cards/Touhou Project 3|[[Chimata Tenkyuu]]}}<br />
{{hidden end}}<br />
<br />
==Additional Information==<br />
* Her pose in ''[[Unconnected Marketeers]]'' suggests a dollar sign, with her arms creating the S shape and her fingers approximating the vertical stroke.<br />
* Her silhouette can be seen on the cover of the game. Interestingly, there she holds her right hand clenched as a fist, while in the game she points upwards with her index finger.<br />
<br />
==Fandom==<br />
{{main|Fandom/Unconnected Marketeers#Chimata Tenkyuu|l1=Fandom: Chimata Tenkyuu}}<br />
<br />
==Official Profiles==<br />
{{hidden begin|title = [[Unconnected Marketeers]] - omake.txt|titlestyle = background:lightblue;text-align:center}}<br />
{{Profile Quote<br />
| image =[[File:Th18Chimata.png|200px|Chimata Tenkyuu]]<br />
| text = ○6面ボス<br><br />
無主物の神<br><br><br />
<br />
天弓 千亦(てんきゅう ちまた)<br><br />
Tenkyu Chimata<br><br><br />
<br />
種族:神様<br><br />
能力:所有権を失わせる程度の能力<br><br><br />
<br />
人間にとって、物を手放すことは難しい。<br><br />
誰かにあげたとしても、その人からの頂き物という情報が残り続ける。<br><br />
ゴミ箱に捨てたとしても、山に不法投棄したとしても、誰が捨てたという情報が残り続ける。<br><br />
所有権を失うことは容易ではないのだ。<br><br><br />
<br />
しかし完全にそれが行える場所がある。<br><br />
人が唯一物を交換できる場所、それが市場だ。<br><br />
市場で売る事によって、完全に所有権を失うことが出来る。<br><br><br />
<br />
彼女はそれを司る神様である。<br><br><br />
<br />
最近は市場を介さないで物の売買を行う事が増え、結果所有権が氾濫している事を嘆いていた。<br><br><br />
<br />
飯綱丸から市場を開いて欲しいと持ちかけられたとき、このチャンスを逃す物かと、<br><br />
本来の市場のように、厳しい条件を付けて売買するのなら協力すると答えた。<br><br><br />
<br />
彼女は飯綱丸のビジネスに利用されている事ぐらい重々承知の上だった。<br><br />
ビジネスが成功する頃には、神様としての力も取り戻し、大天狗ごとき恐れるに足らずだと<br><br />
思っていたからである。<br><br><br />
<br />
<br />
最初の市場は、月に虹が架かったとき、山の頂上で開かれた。<br><br />
参加者は千亦、飯綱丸、管狐の典、大ムカデの百々世だけだった。<br><br><br />
<br />
初めての市場では、自らの能力を封じ込めたカードを売買した。<br><br />
彼女達は月虹の下、カードを交換しあった。<br><br />
目論見通り、カードに込められた複製の能力は、複製元の所有者から<br><br />
完全に切り離されて新たな所有者の能力の一部となった。<br><br />
その結果に、飯綱丸も百々世も大興奮したのである。<br><br><br />
<br />
その後は幾度となく市場が開かれ、山を中心にカードは広く流通した。<br><br />
カードの能力を使うには、ルールに則って購入しなければいけない。<br><br />
奪ったり捨てたり、拾ったり貰ったり、では駄目なのだ。<br><br><br />
<br />
それは、市場の神である千亦が力を得るためのルールだった。<br><br />
飯綱丸は市場をビジネスだと思っているが、千亦にとっては神の力を取り戻す為の祭事だったのだ。<br><br><br />
<br />
二人の軋轢が表に出始めた頃、全てを終わらす破壊者がやってくる。<br><br />
その破壊者は暴力で物を解決しようとする、いわゆる市場の破壊者『賊』と呼ばれた。<br><br><br />
<br />
<br />
奇しくも人間の『賊』がやってきたのは、最初の市場と同じ、月に虹が架かった夜だった。<br />
| translation =Stage 6 Boss<br><br />
God of the Unowned<br><br><br />
<br />
Chimata Tenkyuu<br><br><br />
<br />
Species: God<br><br />
Ability: Capable of letting one relinquish ownership<br><br><br />
<br />
For humans, letting go of things is difficult.<br><br />
Even if you give it to someone, the information that it was a gift from you will remain.<br><br />
Even if you throw it in the trash, or illegally dump it on a mountain, the information that someone left it there will remain.<br><br />
Relinquishing ownership is no easy feat.<br><br><br />
<br />
However, there exists a place where that act can be perfectly carried out.<br><br />
The one place where people can exchange objects: the market.<br><br />
By selling something at a market, you can completely give up possession of it.<br><br><br />
<br />
She's a god who governs that act.<br><br><br />
<br />
These days, the buying and selling of things has come to occur without a market's involvement much more often, and as a result, there is an utter glut of ownership rights. She lamented this fact.<br><br><br />
<br />
When [[Megumu Iizunamaru|Iizunamaru]] came to her and asked her to open a marketplace, she knew there was no way she'd let this chance slip by.<br><br />
She replied that she'd cooperate with her if, and only if, the transactions took place under strict conditions, like those of the original marketplaces.<br><br><br />
<br />
She understood full well that Iizunamaru was taking advantage of her for a business endeavor.<br><br />
She was fine with this, because she thought that once the endeavor succeeded, she'd have already regained her power as a god and would have nothing to fear from a mere Great Tengu.<br><br><br />
<br />
The first market was held on the mountain's peak, as a rainbow encircled the moon.<br><br />
The only participants were Chimata, Iizunamaru, [[Tsukasa Kudamaki|Tsukasa]] the ''kuda-gitsune'', and [[Momoyo Himemushi|Momoyo]] the ''oomukade''.<br><br><br />
<br />
In that first market, they bought and sold cards with their own abilities sealed inside.<br><br />
Beneath the lunar rainbow, the four of them exchanged cards back and forth.<br><br />
Just as they'd planned, the replica abilities sealed in the cards completely detached<br><br />
from their original owners, and became part of their new owners' abilities.<br><br />
Both Iizunamaru and Momoyo were greatly excited by this result.<br><br><br />
<br />
Many more markets were held after that, and the cards spread far and wide out from the mountain.<br><br />
In order to use the cards' abilities, they had to be purchased according to the rules.<br><br />
Stealing, discarding, picking up, or receiving them wouldn't work.<br><br><br />
<br />
Those were the rules put in place so that Chimata, the market god, could obtain power.<br><br />
Iizunamaru thought of the markets as pure business, but for Chimata, they were a ritual of worship for her to regain her divine strength.<br><br><br />
<br />
When friction began to openly develop between the two of them, a force of destruction that would end it all arrived.<br><br />
She called that force of destruction a "robber"-- the so-called destroyer of the market, who tried to solve things through violence.<br><br><br />
<br />
Strangely enough, that human "robber" arrived on a night when a rainbow encircled the moon, just like their first market had.<br />
}}<br />
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==Official Sources==<br />
* 2021/05/04 '''[[Unconnected Marketeers]]''' - omake.txt (profile, stage 6 dialogue, Reimu and Marisa's endings, Sanae and Sakuya's hidden endings)<br />
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| title ={{lang|ja|東方鈴奈庵}}<br />Forbidden Scrollery<br />
| image =[[File:FS01.jpg|300px|Volume 1 Cover]]<br />
| publisher =Comp Ace<br />
| publisher2 =Kadokawa<br />
| released =October 2012 - July 2017<br />
| genre =<br />
| writers =[[ZUN]]<br />
| illustrators =[[Moe Harukawa]]<br />
| pages =<br />
| chapters =53<br />
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{{thtitle|Touhou |Suzunaan|ruby=Bell Hermitage|&nbsp;~ Forbidden Scrollery|東方鈴奈庵 ~ Forbidden Scrollery}} is a Touhou official comic published by [[wikipedia:Kadokawa|Kadokawa]] in [[wikipedia:Comp Ace|Comp Ace]] from October 26, 2012 to July 26, 2017. The story is written by [[ZUN]], with illustrations by {{nihongo|[[Moe Harukawa]]|春河もえ}}. <br />
<br />
==Plot==<br />
The plot follows [[Kosuzu Motoori]], a cheerful and naive librarian, as the protagonist, as she goes about her daily life as the proprietor of her bookstore, [[Suzunaan]]. Throughout the story, she comes into contact with various [[demon books]] and otherwise old tomes from varying and unknown sources, leading to the slow reintroduction of "traditional-style" youkai into Gensokyo, juxtaposed with the relatively modern-minded and agreeable youkai typically seen in modern-day Gensokyo. Due to the various issues this causes, she attracts the attention of various "incident solvers" such as [[Reimu Hakurei]], [[Marisa Kirisame]], and [[Mamizou Futatsuiwa]], as they attempt to investigate and sometimes contain the various youkai found in her mysterious demon books.<br />
<br />
==Name==<br />
The Japanese title refers to the name of the library Kosuzu works at, ''Suzunaan'' (鈴奈庵). The ''suzu'' (鈴) from the title is the same ''suzu'' in ''Kosuzu'' (小鈴), the protagonist's name. This is a similar naming convention used in [[Wild and Horned Hermit]].<br />
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==Read it!==<br />
===Read online (complete)===<br />
MangaDex: '''[https://mangadex.org/title/dbae4cf5-27de-40eb-b9e1-346c4f2cf8aa Touhou Suzunaan ~ Forbidden Scrollery.]'''<br />
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Released by '''Alpha Beta Kappa''' (Clarste, ''et al.''), last 2 chapters by '''Etarnity Lurvers'''.<br />
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===Authorized translation===<br />
In 2017 Forbidden Scrollery was licensed for an English translation by YenPress LLC, making it the first official ZUN work to receive this kind of treatment. It is translated by Alethea Nibley and Athena Nibley, and lettered by Alexis Eckerman. The series is available as retail and digital versions from most major book outlets, such as [https://www.barnesandnoble.com/s/Forbidden+Scrollery?_requestid=2322464 Barnes and Noble], [https://global.bookwalker.jp/search/?word=Forbidden%20Scrollery Bookwalker] and [https://www.comixology.com/search?search=Forbidden%20Scrollery Comixology].<br />
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Release list:<br />
* [http://www.b2c.hachettebookgroup.com/titles/none/forbidden-scrollery-vol-1/9780316511971/?yen Forbidden Scrollery, Vol 1.]: Nov. 21, 2017<br />
* [http://www.b2c.hachettebookgroup.com/titles/none/forbidden-scrollery-vol-2/9780316512008/?yen Forbidden Scrollery, Vol 2.]: March 27, 2018<br />
* [http://www.b2c.hachettebookgroup.com/titles/none/forbidden-scrollery-vol-3/9780316512015/?yen Forbidden Scrollery, Vol 3.]: May 22, 2018<br />
* [http://www.b2c.hachettebookgroup.com/titles/none/forbidden-scrollery-vol-4/9780316512039/?yen Forbidden Scrollery, Vol 4.]: Aug. 21, 2018<br />
* [http://www.b2c.hachettebookgroup.com/titles/none/forbidden-scrollery-vol-5/9780316512084/?yen Forbidden Scrollery, Vol 5.]: Nov. 13, 2018<br />
* [http://www.b2c.hachettebookgroup.com/titles/none/forbidden-scrollery-vol-6/9780316512091/?yen Forbidden Scrollery, Vol 6.]: Feb. 19, 2019<br />
* [http://www.b2c.hachettebookgroup.com/titles/none/forbidden-scrollery-vol-7/9781975303525/?yen Forbidden Scrollery, Vol 7.]: May 21, 2019<br />
<br />
==Forbidden Scrollery Vol. 1 ''(March 26, 2013)''==<br />
:''[[Forbidden Scrollery/Volume 1|Main article]]''<br />
* Chapter One: The Rare Book of Illusion ''(October 26, 2012)''<br />
* Chapter Two: December Youkai Extermination (Part 1) ''(November 26, 2012)''<br />
* Chapter Three: December Youkai Extermination (Part 2) ''(December 26, 2012)''<br />
* Chapter Four: Privately Published Night Parade Scroll (Part 1) ''(January 26, 2013)''<br />
* Chapter Five: Privately Published Night Parade Scroll (Part 2) ''(February 26, 2013)''<br />
* Vol. 1 Bonus Chapter - A Youkai Fairy Tale<br />
<br />
==Forbidden Scrollery Vol. 2 ''(February 20, 2014)''==<br />
:''[[Forbidden Scrollery/Volume 2|Main article]]''<br />
* Chapter Six: The Requirements for Raising a Rare Beast (Part 1) ''(April 26, 2013)''<br />
* Chapter Seven: The Requirements for Raising a Rare Beast (Part 2) ''(May 25, 2013)''<br />
* Chapter Eight: The Inari's Hood (Part 1) ''(June 26, 2013)''<br />
* Chapter Nine: The Inari's Hood (Part 2) ''(July 26, 2013)''<br />
* Chapter Ten: Traditional Performing Arts of Darkness (Part 1) ''(August 26, 2013)''<br />
* Chapter Eleven: Traditional Performing Arts of Darkness (Part 2) ''(September 26, 2013)''<br />
* Chapter Twelve: The Aftermath of the Miracle Mallet (Part 1) ''(October 26, 2013)''<br />
* Chapter Thirteen: The Aftermath of the Miracle Mallet (Part 2) ''(November 26, 2013)''<br />
* Vol. 2 Bonus Material<br />
<br />
==Forbidden Scrollery Vol. 3 ''(December 26, 2014)''==<br />
:''[[Forbidden Scrollery/Volume 3|Main article]]''<br />
* Chapter Fourteen: The Short-Lived Seven Wonders (Part 1) ''(December 26, 2013)''<br />
* Chapter Fifteen: The Short-Lived Seven Wonders (Part 2) ''(February 26, 2014)''<br />
* Chapter Sixteen: The Shady Love Letter (Part 1) ''(March 26, 2014)''<br />
* Chapter Seventeen: The Shady Love Letter (Part 2) ''(April 26, 2014)''<br />
* Chapter Eighteen: The Skeptical Book Renter (Part 1) ''(May 26, 2014)''<br />
* Chapter Nineteen: The Skeptical Book Renter (Part 2) ''(June 26, 2014)''<br />
* Chapter Twenty: Rodent-Infested Summer (Part 1) ''(July 26, 2014)''<br />
* Chapter Twenty One: Rodent-Infested Summer (Part 2) ''(August 26, 2014)''<br />
* Vol. 3 Bonus Material<br />
<br />
==Forbidden Scrollery Vol. 4 ''(August 10, 2015)''==<br />
:''[[Forbidden Scrollery/Volume 4|Main article]]''<br />
* Chapter Twenty Two: Tobacco, the Tanuki, and the Dine-and-Dasher (Part 1) ''(October 26, 2014)<br />
* Chapter Twenty Three: Tobacco, the Tanuki, and the Dine-and-Dasher (Part 2) ''(December 26, 2014)''<br />
* Chapter Twenty Four: Unattributed Words Are Easily Stolen (Part 1) ''(January 26, 2015)''<br />
* Chapter Twenty Five: Unattributed Words Are Easily Stolen (Part 2) ''(February 26, 2015)''<br />
* Chapter Twenty Six: Kokkuri Scatters with the Cherry Blossoms (Part 1) ''(March 26, 2015)''<br />
* Chapter Twenty Seven: Kokkuri Scatters with the Cherry Blossoms (Part 2) ''(April 26, 2015)''<br />
* Chapter Twenty Eight: The Kappa's Grimoire (Part 1) ''(May 26, 2015)''<br />
* Chapter Twenty Nine: The Kappa's Grimoire (Part 2) ''(June 26, 2015)''<br />
* Vol. 4 Bonus Material<br />
<br />
==Forbidden Scrollery Vol. 5 ''(April 26, 2016)''==<br />
:''[[Forbidden Scrollery/Volume 5|Main article]]''<br />
* Chapter Thirty: Is the Bull's Head Somewhere Out There? (Part 1) ''(July 26, 2015)''<br />
* Chapter Thirty One: Is the Bull's Head Somewhere Out There? (Part 2) ''(August 26, 2015)''<br />
*Chapter Thirty Two: Rulers of the Truth (Part 1) ''(September 26, 2015)''<br />
* Chapter Thirty Three: Rulers of the Truth (Part 2) ''(October 26, 2015)''<br />
* Chapter Thirty Four: Who's Spreading Demagogy? (Part 1) ''(November 26, 2015)''<br />
* Chapter Thirty Five: Who's Spreading Demagogy? (Part 2) ''(December 26, 2015)''<br />
* Chapter Thirty Six: The Drunken Horse Bush Appearing in the Human Village (Part 1) ''(January 26, 2016)''<br />
* Chapter Thirty Seven: The Drunken Horse Bush Appearing in the Human Village (Part 2) ''(February 26, 2016)''<br />
* Vol. 5 Bonus Material<br />
<br />
==Forbidden Scrollery Vol. 6 ''(December 10, 2016)''==<br />
:''[[Forbidden Scrollery/Volume 6|Main article]]''<br />
* Chapter Thirty Eight: Are the Lords of Information Gathered? Or Scattered? (Part 1) ''(March 26, 2016)''<br />
* Chapter Thirty Nine: Are the Lords of Information Gathered? Or Scattered? (Part 2) ''(April 26, 2016)''<br />
* Chapter Forty: Is This All the Work of Youkai Too? (Part 1) ''(May 26, 2016)''<br />
* Chapter Forty One: Is This All the Work of Youkai Too? (Part 2) ''(June 26, 2016)''<br />
* Chapter Forty Two: One Hundred Ghost Stories for Humans and Youkai (Part 1) ''(July 26, 2016)''<br />
* Chapter Forty Three: One Hundred Ghost Stories for Humans and Youkai (Part 2) ''(August 26, 2016)''<br />
* Chapter Forty Four: Let's Not Go Out On Purple Days (Part 1) ''(September 26, 2016)''<br />
* Chapter Forty Five: Let's Not Go Out On Purple Days (Part 2) ''(October 26, 2016)''<br />
* Special Edition Artbook<br />
* [[Forbidden Scrollery (CD)|Music CD]]<br />
<br />
==Forbidden Scrollery Vol. 7 ''(September 25, 2017)'' ==<br />
:''[[Forbidden Scrollery/Volume 7|Main article]]''<br />
* Chapter Forty Six: Hieda no Akyu's Philosophy (Part 1) ''(December 26, 2016)''<br />
* Chapter Forty Seven: Hieda no Akyu's Philosophy (Part 2) ''(January 26, 2017)''<br />
* Chapter Forty Eight: Kosuzu Motoori's Conflict (Part 1) ''(February 25, 2017)''<br />
* Chapter Forty Nine: Kosuzu Motoori's Conflict (Part 2) ''(March 26, 2017)''<br />
* Chapter Fifty: Reimu Hakurei's Miscalculation (Part 1) ''(April 26, 2017)''<br />
* Chapter Fifty One: Reimu Hakurei's Miscalculation (Part 2) ''(May 26, 2017)''<br />
* Chapter Fifty Two: Yukari Yakumo's Peace (Part 1) ''(June 26, 2017)''<br />
* Chapter Fifty Three: Yukari Yakumo's Peace (Part 2) ''(July 26, 2017)''<br />
<br />
==Press==<br />
<br />
A preview for the manga was announced in the November issue of Comp Ace, stating that Forbidden Scrollery would begin serialization in the upcoming December issue. ZUN posted a small picture of the page on his Twitter account on September 25, along with an announcement that the story would be new.<br />
<br />
Chapter 4's title page revealed that the first tankobon volume of Forbidden Scrollery would be released on March 26, 2013.<br />
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==External Links==<br />
*[http://www.kadokawa.co.jp/ca/ Comp Ace official website]<br />
*[http://www.b2c.hachettebookgroup.com/series/forbidden-scrollery/?yen Yen Press official website, for English translations]<br />
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<div>{{Infobox Character<br />
| nameJp = {{ruby-ja|橙|チェン}}<br />
| nameEn = Chen<br />
| nameIPA = [[Media:Pronunciation_Chen.ogg|(♫)]]<br />
| image = [[File:Th07Chen.png|x325px|Chen]]<br />
| caption = Chen in [[Perfect Cherry Blossom]]<br />
| chartitle = {{H:title|Black Cat of Bad Omens|凶兆の黒猫}}<br />
| species = [[Bakeneko]]<br />
| occupation = [[Shikigami]]<br />
| abilities = Use of sorcery (possessed as shikigami), Surprising People (as bakeneko)<br />
| location = [[Youkai Mountain]]<br />
| MusicThemes = *{{H:title|{{lang|ja|ティアオイエツォン}}(withered leaf)|Diao ye zong (Withered Leaf)}} ([[Perfect Cherry Blossom]])<br />
| appOfficialgames = *''[[Perfect Cherry Blossom]]'' (Stage 2 Midboss, Stage 2 Boss, Extra Midboss, Ran's Spell Card attack)<br />
*''[[Immaterial and Missing Power]]'' (Yukari's Spell Card attack, Yukari's ending)<br />
*''[[Imperishable Night]]'' (Ending No. 1)<br />
*''[[Shoot the Bullet]]'' (Stage 6-1, 6-3, 6-5, 6-7 Boss)<br />
*''[[Scarlet Weather Rhapsody]]'' (Yukari's Spell Card attack)<br />
*''[[Hopeless Masquerade]]'' (Background Character)<br />
*''[[Antinomy of Common Flowers]]'' (Yukari's Spell Card attack, Yukari's victory animation)<br />
| appPrintworks = *''[[Bohemian Archive in Japanese Red]]''<br />
**''[[Extra of the Wind]]'' (Cameo)<br />
*''[[Silent Sinner in Blue]]'' (Prologue cameo, Chapter 9 cameo)<br />
*''[[Perfect Memento in Strict Sense]]''<br />
*''[[Oriental Sacred Place]]'' (Chapter 12 cameo)<br />
*''[[The Grimoire of Marisa]]''<br />
*''[[Wild and Horned Hermit]]'' (Chapter 20 cameo, 23 cameo)<br />
*''[[Forbidden Scrollery]]'' (Chapter 2, 10 cameo)<br />
*''[[Strange Creators of Outer World]]'' (Vol. 2: Profile Section, Cross Review Section)<br />
*''[[Visionary Fairies in Shrine]]'' (Chapter 7 cameo, 9.5 cameo) <br />
*''[[Alternative Facts in Eastern Utopia]]'' (Cameo)<br />
*''[[Cheating Detective Satori]]'' (Chapter 5, 6 cameo, chapter 8, 10 cameo)<br />
}}<br />
{{nihongo|'''Chen'''|橙}} is [[Ran Yakumo]]'s [[shikigami]], who was guarding the village of [[Mayohiga]] during the events of ''[[Perfect Cherry Blossom]]''. Unfortunately, she could put up little resistance due to being far away from her master.<br />
<br />
==General Information==<br />
[[File:Th105Chen.png|thumb|left|Chen in ''[[Scarlet Weather Rhapsody]]'']]<br />
Chen first appeared as the second [[stage]] midboss and [[boss]] of ''[[Perfect Cherry Blossom]]'', along with being the extra stage midboss and [[Ran Yakumo]]'s familiar in one of her [[spell card]]s. She was also [[Yukari Yakumo]]'s familiar in ''[[Immaterial and Missing Power]]'', ''[[Scarlet Weather Rhapsody]]'', and ''[[Antinomy of Common Flowers]]'', and was a target on Stage 6 of ''[[Shoot the Bullet]]''. Additionally, she made a background appearance in ''[[Hopeless Masquerade]]''.<br />
<br />
She is a [[bakeneko]] [[youkai]] that Ran Yakumo uses as [[shikigami]], but since Ran herself is Yukari's shikigami, she is a "shikigami of a shikigami". When possessed as a shikigami, Chen aquires the fearsome power of a [[kishin]], but since her master is also a shikigami, her ability is fairly low.<ref name="PCB profile">[[Perfect Cherry Blossom]] - Chen's profile</ref> The possession is removed when she is soaked in water, and since she also hates water as a cat, she is in any case weak to water. Her height is "low"<ref name="mail">[[ZUN's E-mails]]</ref> and is capable of [[human]] speech. She can use impressive black arts, but only possesses the intellect of a human child. Whether she is possessed or not, her personality and appearance don't change.<ref name="PCB profile" /><br />
<br />
She ordinarily lives on [[Youkai Mountain]].<ref name="PMiSSChen">[[Perfect Memento in Strict Sense]]: [[Perfect Memento in Strict Sense/Chen|Chen]]</ref> In ''[[Bohemian Archive in Japanese Red]]'', she made the village of cats and tried to stand as the leader, but the progress has been unfavorable.<br />
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===Ability===<br />
The way her abilities show up in the game itself is that she runs around the screen so freely in a way that is not expected of a boss of a shooting game, which is characteristic of her (as one would expect of a cat). This could be considered cute if she were an ordinary cat, but it also makes her slightly more tricky to deal with due to her speed and deceptive movement, which can confuse her opponent. Another characteristic of her is how she spins around and around while attacking, somewhat like her master.<br />
<br />
;Use of sorcery (while possessed as shikigami)<br />
In shikigami state, Chen becomes extremely dangerous and is able to use various kinds of sorcery. She uses techniques that focus on speed and precise, tricky movements to confuse her opponents, making it very similar to sleight of hand. For example, she could make it appear as if she is dashing to the left, but will then attack from the right instead, moving so quickly that to humans it appears like instant teleportation.<ref name="PMiSSChen" /><br />
<br />
;Surprising people (as bakeneko)<br />
When she becomes a regular [[bakeneko]], she becomes more feral and will resort to more physical attacks like biting and clawing with her long nails. Rather than saying she possesses a special ability to surprise accompanying humans, it is more strongly an implication that she's not able to do anything other than things of this extent. (However, even so, for ordinary humans it is dangerous enough). This is the same ability that [[Kogasa Tatara]] has - thus in this aspect, they have mutuality.<br />
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===Occupation===<br />
Chen serves as a [[shikigami]] to [[Ran Yakumo]], and becomes much stronger when her master is present. However, she hates water, and splashing her will dispel the shikigami possession, making her resort to physical attacks. She is also very fond of catnip, and will lose the will to fight if some is scattered to distract her.<br />
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==Character Basis==<br />
[[File:PMiSS chen.jpg|thumb|120px|Chen as seen in ''[[Perfect Memento in Strict Sense]]'']]<br />
===Name===<br />
Her full name is {{nihongo|''Chen''|橙}}. The kanji in her name can be literally translated as the color "bitter orange" in the Japanese Language, or simply "orange" in Chinese. All of the Yakumo family are named after the names of color. Why Chen appears before Ran and [[Yukari]] comes from the fact that the orange light has physically lower energy than the indigo, Ran, and the violet, Yukari. The pronunciation of her name "Chen" is an obsolete Chinese reading of {{lang|zh|橙}}. In Japanese, the character would be read as "tou" or "daidai"; in Mandarin, "chéng".<br />
<br />
===Design===<br />
In her first appearance, Chen has dark brown eyes, brown hair and wears a green mob cap. She has black cat ears, with a gold earring in the left one, and two tails. Her dress is red with a white bow on the collar, with gold trimming and light pink frills at the bottom. The dress has light pink sleeves. She wears socks and has long hot pink fingernails.<br />
<br />
==Story==<br />
{{stub|section}}<br />
;''Perfect Cherry Blossom''<br />
[[File:Th07ChenSprite.png|frame|Chen's sprite in ''PCB'']]<br />
Chen first appears in the second stage guarding the village of [[Mayohiga]], but she is promptly defeated by the heroine. Later in the extra stage, she guards the path to Ran Yakumo, and is much more powerful due to her master's proximity, but was again defeated.<br />
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<br />
;''Imperishable Night''<br />
<br />
===Spin-offs===<br />
;Fighters<br />
Chen appeared in ''[[Immaterial and Missing Power]]'', ''[[Scarlet Weather Rhapsody]]'', and ''[[Touhou Hisoutensoku]]'' as a projectile in Yukari's [[spell card]] ''Shikigami "Chen"''. In [[Antinomy of Common Flowers]] she gets used in the same way, this time in a combined move with her master [[Ran Yakumo]].<br />
<br />
;''Shoot the Bullet''<br />
[[File:Th135Chen.png|frame|Chen in ''HM'']]<br />
In ''[[Shoot the Bullet]]'', [[Aya Shameimaru]] encountered Chen on [[stage]] 6 and took photos of her [[danmaku]].<br />
<br />
;''Hopeless Masquerade''<br />
Chen made a background cameo appearance in ''[[Hopeless Masquerade]]'' on the [[Hakurei Shrine]] stage. She is seen standing with [[Ran Yakumo]] cheering (as a little animation).<br />
<br />
===Literature===<br />
;''Bohemian Archive in Japanese Red''<br />
:{{Main|Bohemian Archive in Japanese Red/Chen|l1=Bohemian Archive in Japanese Red Article and Interview: Chen}}<br />
Aya investigates an abandoned village inhabited entirely by cats. When she arrives, she finds Chen and cat anarchy. Chen explains that she gathered the cats there in search of a servant to call her own.<br />
<br />
By the time Aya returns for an interview, Chen still has not managed to establish a solid leadership role for herself. Aya tells her that she lacks power and that she should reflect on the nature of the relationship between her and her master Ran. She recommends using a mouse (which Chen objects to).<br />
<br />
==Relationships==<br />
===Ran and Yukari===<br />
[[Ran Yakumo]] is her master and [[Yukari Yakumo]] is her master's master.<br />
<br />
===[[Rin Kaenbyou]]===<br />
In [[Foul Detective Satori]], Chen and Rin appear to be very friendly and physically affectionate with each other, implying a close relationship between the two.<ref name="fds1">[[Foul Detective Satori]] - Chapter 8</ref><br />
<br />
==Gallery==<br />
===Sprites===<br />
<gallery><br />
<br />
File:Th155ChenColors.png|Chen's different color palettes from ''[[Antinomy of Common Flowers]]'', followed by [[Yukari Yakumo]]'s palettes. The last two palettes were added in v1.10<br />
</gallery><br />
<br />
===Illustrations===<br />
<gallery><br />
File:PMiSS chuuuroad.jpg|Chen at the [[Road of Liminality]] in ''[[Perfect Memento in Strict Sense]]''<br />
File:044BAiJRChen.jpg|Illustration of Chen in ''[[Bohemian Archive in Japanese Red]]''<br />
File:045BAiJRChen.jpg|Another illustration of Chen from ''Bohemian Archive in Japanese Red''<br />
</gallery><br />
<br />
===Screenshots===<br />
<gallery><br />
File:EotWRanChen.jpg|Chen and Ran cameo in ''[[Extra of the Wind]]''<br />
</gallery><br />
<br />
===Others===<br />
<gallery><br />
File:GoMSigil-Chen.jpg|Chen's Sigil in ''[[the Grimoire of Marisa]]''<br />
</gallery><br />
<br />
==Spell Cards==<br />
{{hidden begin|title = Spell Cards|titlestyle = background:palegreen; text-align:center;}}<br />
{{#lsth:List of Spell Cards/Touhou Project 1|[[Chen]]}}<br />
{{hidden end}}<br />
<br />
==Additional Information==<br />
*Chen is one of the few ''[[Touhou Project]]'' characters in the [[Windows]] series to not have a last name (Others being [[Cirno]], [[Kisume]], [[Wakasagihime]] for example).<br />
*Chen is the only character to only have one kanji in her name.<br />
*Chen's fifth color palette in ''Antinomy of Common Flowers'' resembles [[Remilia Scarlet]], her sixth is based on [[Youmu Konpaku]] and her seventh one is based on [[Lyrica Prismriver]].<br />
<br />
==Fandom==<br />
{{main|Fandom/Perfect Cherry Blossom#Chen|l1=Fandom: Chen}}<br />
<br />
==Official Profiles==<br />
{{hidden begin|title = [[Perfect Cherry Blossom]] - キャラ設定.txt|titlestyle = background:lightblue; text-align:center}}<br />
{{Profile Quote |<br />
| image = [[File:Th07Chen.png|Chen]]<br />
| text =<br />
○凶兆の黒猫<br />
<br />
橙(チェン)<br />
<br />
<br />
2面のボス、山に棲む化け猫に憑く式神<br />
<br />
主に妖術を扱う程度の能力を持つ<br />
<br />
<br />
その正体は、藍の式神。つまり、橙が妖怪の式神の式神である。<br />
<br />
式神だからといって普段は御札とかではなく、普段も同じ姿をしていて、区別は付かない。<br />
<br />
式神を付けていない普段も人語を話し、普通に飛び回るが、せいぜい人を驚かす程度の能力しか持たない。あと、見た目や性格は変らないが、冬は炬燵で丸くなる。<br />
<br />
<br />
化け猫に鬼神を憑かせて高い妖力を得ているが、橙を使う者も式神であるため、その能力はやや低い。<br />
<br />
<br />
また水に触れると式は離れてしまう。式の憑いて居ない化け猫状態の橙も普通に水に弱いので、常に水に弱い。<br />
<br />
| translation =<br />
'''Black Cat of Bad Omens'''<br />
<br />
'''Chen'''<br />
<br />
Stage 2 Boss, a bakeneko living in a mountain possessed as a [[shikigami]]. She possesses the ability to handle sorcery.<br />
<br />
Her true form is Ran's shikigami, which makes her a shikigami of a shikigami of a [[youkai]]. Although she's a shikigami, her normal form is not always in a form of a charm, she can remains in her human-like form in normal situation so it won't be bothersome to classify her types. Even without being in shikigami possession she can speak the human language and fly around, but she would merely have the ability to the extent of surprising people. Also, while not being possessed, neither her appearance nor personality changes, but she still curls up by a [[wikipedia:Kotatsu|kotatsu]] in the winter.<br />
<br />
Bakeneko acquire fearsome power when possessed by a [[kishin]], but since Chen's user is also a [[shikigami]], her ability is fairly low.<br />
<br />
Getting touched by water dispels her shikigami possession. As a bakeneko her normal form also hates water, so she is always weak against water.<br />
}}<br />
{{Profile Quote |<br />
| image = [[Image:Th07Chen.png|Chen]]<br />
| text =<br />
○すきま妖怪の式の式<br />
<br />
橙(チェン)<br />
<br />
<br />
エキストラステージの中ボス。<br />
<br />
前の怪我が完治して間も無いのに、再び闘う事となるとは。<br />
<br />
今度は主の近くで、一段と強い妖力を持っているが、その力は、目の前の人間に通用するのだろうか?<br />
| translation =<br />
'''Shikigami of the Shikigami of the Gap Youkai'''<br />
<br />
'''Chen'''<br />
<br />
Extra Stage midboss.<br />
<br />
While in the middle of fully recovering from the injuries of her previous defeat, Chen is set for a second round of combat.<br />
<br />
Her master is in the vicinity this time around, so her power has been amplified considerably. Would that power work on the [[human]] before her?<br />
}}<br />
{{hidden end}}<br />
<br />
==Official Sources==<br />
{{hidden begin|title = Official sources|titlestyle = background:pink; text-align:center;}}<br />
*2003/08/17 '''[[Perfect Cherry Blossom]]''' - Stage 2 dialogue; Extra Stage dialogue; キャラ設定.txt (Official profile)<br />
*2005/12/30 '''[[Shoot the Bullet]]''' - [[Shoot the Bullet/Spell Cards/Level 6|Stage 6 Spell Card comments]]<br />
*2005/08/17 '''[[Bohemian Archive in Japanese Red]]''' - [[Bohemian Archive in Japanese Red/Chen|Article and Interview: Chen]]<br />
*2006/12/27 '''[[Perfect Memento in Strict Sense]]''' - [[Perfect Memento in Strict Sense/Chen|Pefect Memento in Strict Sense: Chen]]<br />
*2009/07/28 '''[[The Grimoire of Marisa]]''' - [[The Grimoire of Marisa/Chen's Spell Cards|Chen's Spell Cards]]<br />
*2011/03/26 '''[[Oriental Sacred Place]]''' - Chapter 12 (cameo)<br />
{{hidden end}}<br />
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<div>{{Infobox Character<br />
| nameJp = {{ruby-ja|橙|チェン}}<br />
| nameEn = Chen<br />
| nameIPA = [[Media:Pronunciation_Chen.ogg|(♫)]]<br />
| image = [[File:Th07Chen.png|x325px|Chen]]<br />
| caption = Chen in [[Perfect Cherry Blossom]]<br />
| chartitle = {{H:title|Black Cat of Bad Omens|凶兆の黒猫}}<br />
| species = [[Bakeneko]]<br />
| occupation = [[Shikigami]]<br />
| abilities = Use of sorcery (possessed as shikigami), Surprising People (as bakeneko)<br />
| location = [[Youkai Mountain]]<br />
| MusicThemes = *{{H:title|{{lang|ja|ティアオイエツォン}}(withered leaf)|Diao ye zong (Withered Leaf)}} ([[Perfect Cherry Blossom]])<br />
| appOfficialgames = *''[[Perfect Cherry Blossom]]'' (Stage 2 Midboss, Stage 2 Boss, Extra Midboss, Ran's Spell Card attack)<br />
*''[[Immaterial and Missing Power]]'' (Yukari's Spell Card attack, Yukari's ending)<br />
*''[[Imperishable Night]]'' (Ending No. 1)<br />
*''[[Shoot the Bullet]]'' (Stage 6-1, 6-3, 6-5, 6-7 Boss)<br />
*''[[Scarlet Weather Rhapsody]]'' (Yukari's Spell Card attack)<br />
*''[[Hopeless Masquerade]]'' (Background Character)<br />
*''[[Antinomy of Common Flowers]]'' (Yukari's Spell Card attack, Yukari's victory animation)<br />
| appPrintworks = *''[[Bohemian Archive in Japanese Red]]''<br />
**''[[Extra of the Wind]]'' (Cameo)<br />
*''[[Silent Sinner in Blue]]'' (Prologue cameo, Chapter 9 cameo)<br />
*''[[Perfect Memento in Strict Sense]]''<br />
*''[[Oriental Sacred Place]]'' (Chapter 12 cameo)<br />
*''[[The Grimoire of Marisa]]''<br />
*''[[Wild and Horned Hermit]]'' (Chapter 20 cameo, 23 cameo)<br />
*''[[Forbidden Scrollery]]'' (Chapter 2, 10 cameo)<br />
*''[[Strange Creators of Outer World]]'' (Vol. 2: Profile Section, Cross Review Section)<br />
*''[[Visionary Fairies in Shrine]]'' (Chapter 7 cameo, 9.5 cameo) <br />
*''[[Alternative Facts in Eastern Utopia]]'' (Cameo)<br />
*''[[Cheating Detective Satori]]'' (Chapter 5, 6 cameo, chapter 8, 10 cameo)<br />
}}<br />
{{nihongo|'''Chen'''|橙}} is [[Ran Yakumo]]'s [[shikigami]], who was guarding the village of [[Mayohiga]] during the events of ''[[Perfect Cherry Blossom]]''. Unfortunately, she could put up little resistance due to being far away from her master.<br />
<br />
==General Information==<br />
[[File:Th105Chen.png|thumb|left|Chen in ''[[Scarlet Weather Rhapsody]]'']]<br />
Chen first appeared as the second [[stage]] midboss and [[boss]] of ''[[Perfect Cherry Blossom]]'', along with being the extra stage midboss and [[Ran Yakumo]]'s familiar in one of her [[spell card]]s. She was also [[Yukari Yakumo]]'s familiar in ''[[Immaterial and Missing Power]]'', ''[[Scarlet Weather Rhapsody]]'', and ''[[Antinomy of Common Flowers]]'', and was a target on Stage 6 of ''[[Shoot the Bullet]]''. Additionally, she made a background appearance in ''[[Hopeless Masquerade]]''.<br />
<br />
She is a [[bakeneko]] [[youkai]] that Ran Yakumo uses as [[shikigami]], but since Ran herself is Yukari's shikigami, she is a "shikigami of a shikigami". When possessed as a shikigami, Chen aquires the fearsome power of a [[kishin]], but since her master is also a shikigami, her ability is fairly low.<ref name="PCB profile">[[Perfect Cherry Blossom]] - Chen's profile</ref> The possession is removed when she is soaked in water, and since she also hates water as a cat, she is in any case weak to water. Her height is "low"<ref name="mail">[[ZUN's E-mails]]</ref> and is capable of [[human]] speech. She can use impressive black arts, but only possesses the intellect of a human child. Whether she is possessed or not, her personality and appearance don't change.<ref name="PCB profile" /><br />
<br />
She ordinarily lives on [[Youkai Mountain]].<ref name="PMiSSChen">[[Perfect Memento in Strict Sense]]: [[Perfect Memento in Strict Sense/Chen|Chen]]</ref> In ''[[Bohemian Archive in Japanese Red]]'', she made the village of cats and tried to stand as the leader, but the progress has been unfavorable.<br />
<br />
===Ability===<br />
The way her abilities show up in the game itself is that she runs around the screen so freely in a way that is not expected of a boss of a shooting game, which is characteristic of her (as one would expect of a cat). This could be considered cute if she were an ordinary cat, but it also makes her slightly more tricky to deal with due to her speed and deceptive movement, which can confuse her opponent. Another characteristic of her is how she spins around and around while attacking, somewhat like her master.<br />
<br />
;Use of sorcery (while possessed as shikigami)<br />
In shikigami state, Chen becomes extremely dangerous and is able to use various kinds of sorcery. She uses techniques that focus on speed and precise, tricky movements to confuse her opponents, making it very similar to sleight of hand. For example, she could make it appear as if she is dashing to the left, but will then attack from the right instead, moving so quickly that to humans it appears like instant teleportation.<ref name="PMiSSChen" /><br />
<br />
;Surprising people (as bakeneko)<br />
When she becomes a regular [[bakeneko]], she becomes more feral and will resort to more physical attacks like biting and clawing with her long nails. Rather than saying she possesses a special ability to surprise accompanying humans, it is more strongly an implication that she's not able to do anything other than things of this extent. (However, even so, for ordinary humans it is dangerous enough). This is the same ability that [[Kogasa Tatara]] has - thus in this aspect, they have mutuality.<br />
<br />
===Occupation===<br />
Chen serves as a [[shikigami]] to [[Ran Yakumo]], and becomes much stronger when her master is present. However, she hates water, and splashing her will dispel the shikigami possession, making her resort to physical attacks. She is also very fond of catnip, and will lose the will to fight if some is scattered to distract her.<br />
<br />
==Character Basis==<br />
[[File:PMiSS chen.jpg|thumb|120px|Chen as seen in ''[[Perfect Memento in Strict Sense]]'']]<br />
===Name===<br />
Her full name is {{nihongo|''Chen''|橙}}. The kanji in her name can be literally translated as the color "bitter orange" in the Japanese Language, or simply "orange" in Chinese. All of the Yakumo family are named after the names of color. Why Chen appears before Ran and [[Yukari]] comes from the fact that the orange light has physically lower energy than the indigo, Ran, and the violet, Yukari. The pronunciation of her name "Chen" is an obsolete Chinese reading of {{lang|zh|橙}}. In Japanese, the character would be read as "tou" or "daidai"; in Mandarin, "chéng".<br />
<br />
===Design===<br />
In her first appearance, Chen has dark brown eyes, brown hair and wears a green mob cap. She has black cat ears, with a gold earring in the left one, and two tails. Her dress is red with a white bow on the collar, with gold trimming and light pink frills at the bottom. The dress has light pink sleeves. She wears socks and has long hot pink fingernails.<br />
<br />
==Story==<br />
{{stub|section}}<br />
;''Perfect Cherry Blossom''<br />
[[File:Th07ChenSprite.png|frame|Chen's sprite in ''PCB'']]<br />
Chen first appears in the second stage guarding the village of [[Mayohiga]], but she is promptly defeated by the heroine. Later in the extra stage, she guards the path to Ran Yakumo, and is much more powerful due to her master's proximity, but was again defeated.<br />
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<br />
;''Imperishable Night''<br />
<br />
===Spin-offs===<br />
;Fighters<br />
Chen appeared in ''[[Immaterial and Missing Power]]'', ''[[Scarlet Weather Rhapsody]]'', and ''[[Touhou Hisoutensoku]]'' as a projectile in Yukari's [[spell card]] ''Shikigami "Chen"''. In [[Antinomy of Common Flowers]] she gets used in the same way, this time in a combined move with her master [[Ran Yakumo]].<br />
<br />
;''Shoot the Bullet''<br />
[[File:Th135Chen.png|frame|Chen in ''HM'']]<br />
In ''[[Shoot the Bullet]]'', [[Aya Shameimaru]] encountered Chen on [[stage]] 6 and took photos of her [[danmaku]].<br />
<br />
;''Hopeless Masquerade''<br />
Chen made a background cameo appearance in ''[[Hopeless Masquerade]]'' on the [[Hakurei Shrine]] stage. She is seen standing with [[Ran Yakumo]] cheering (as a little animation).<br />
<br />
===Literature===<br />
;''Bohemian Archive in Japanese Red''<br />
:{{Main|Bohemian Archive in Japanese Red/Chen|l1=Bohemian Archive in Japanese Red Article and Interview: Chen}}<br />
Aya investigates an abandoned village inhabited entirely by cats. When she arrives, she finds Chen and cat anarchy. Chen explains that she gathered the cats there in search of a servant to call her own.<br />
<br />
By the time Aya returns for an interview, Chen still has not managed to establish a solid leadership role for herself. Aya tells her that she lacks power and that she should reflect on the nature of the relationship between her and her master Ran. She recommends using a mouse (which Chen objects to).<br />
<br />
==Relationships==<br />
===Ran and Yukari===<br />
[[Ran Yakumo]] is her master and [[Yukari Yakumo]] is her master's master.<br />
<br />
===[[Rin Kaenbyou]]==<br />
In [[Foul Detective Satori]], Chen and Rin appear to be very friendly and physically affectionate with each other, implying a close relationship between the two.<ref name="fds1">[[Foul Detective Satori]] - Chapter 8</ref><br />
<br />
==Gallery==<br />
===Sprites===<br />
<gallery><br />
<br />
File:Th155ChenColors.png|Chen's different color palettes from ''[[Antinomy of Common Flowers]]'', followed by [[Yukari Yakumo]]'s palettes. The last two palettes were added in v1.10<br />
</gallery><br />
<br />
===Illustrations===<br />
<gallery><br />
File:PMiSS chuuuroad.jpg|Chen at the [[Road of Liminality]] in ''[[Perfect Memento in Strict Sense]]''<br />
File:044BAiJRChen.jpg|Illustration of Chen in ''[[Bohemian Archive in Japanese Red]]''<br />
File:045BAiJRChen.jpg|Another illustration of Chen from ''Bohemian Archive in Japanese Red''<br />
</gallery><br />
<br />
===Screenshots===<br />
<gallery><br />
File:EotWRanChen.jpg|Chen and Ran cameo in ''[[Extra of the Wind]]''<br />
</gallery><br />
<br />
===Others===<br />
<gallery><br />
File:GoMSigil-Chen.jpg|Chen's Sigil in ''[[the Grimoire of Marisa]]''<br />
</gallery><br />
<br />
==Spell Cards==<br />
{{hidden begin|title = Spell Cards|titlestyle = background:palegreen; text-align:center;}}<br />
{{#lsth:List of Spell Cards/Touhou Project 1|[[Chen]]}}<br />
{{hidden end}}<br />
<br />
==Additional Information==<br />
*Chen is one of the few ''[[Touhou Project]]'' characters in the [[Windows]] series to not have a last name (Others being [[Cirno]], [[Kisume]], [[Wakasagihime]] for example).<br />
*Chen is the only character to only have one kanji in her name.<br />
*Chen's fifth color palette in ''Antinomy of Common Flowers'' resembles [[Remilia Scarlet]], her sixth is based on [[Youmu Konpaku]] and her seventh one is based on [[Lyrica Prismriver]].<br />
<br />
==Fandom==<br />
{{main|Fandom/Perfect Cherry Blossom#Chen|l1=Fandom: Chen}}<br />
<br />
==Official Profiles==<br />
{{hidden begin|title = [[Perfect Cherry Blossom]] - キャラ設定.txt|titlestyle = background:lightblue; text-align:center}}<br />
{{Profile Quote |<br />
| image = [[File:Th07Chen.png|Chen]]<br />
| text =<br />
○凶兆の黒猫<br />
<br />
橙(チェン)<br />
<br />
<br />
2面のボス、山に棲む化け猫に憑く式神<br />
<br />
主に妖術を扱う程度の能力を持つ<br />
<br />
<br />
その正体は、藍の式神。つまり、橙が妖怪の式神の式神である。<br />
<br />
式神だからといって普段は御札とかではなく、普段も同じ姿をしていて、区別は付かない。<br />
<br />
式神を付けていない普段も人語を話し、普通に飛び回るが、せいぜい人を驚かす程度の能力しか持たない。あと、見た目や性格は変らないが、冬は炬燵で丸くなる。<br />
<br />
<br />
化け猫に鬼神を憑かせて高い妖力を得ているが、橙を使う者も式神であるため、その能力はやや低い。<br />
<br />
<br />
また水に触れると式は離れてしまう。式の憑いて居ない化け猫状態の橙も普通に水に弱いので、常に水に弱い。<br />
<br />
| translation =<br />
'''Black Cat of Bad Omens'''<br />
<br />
'''Chen'''<br />
<br />
Stage 2 Boss, a bakeneko living in a mountain possessed as a [[shikigami]]. She possesses the ability to handle sorcery.<br />
<br />
Her true form is Ran's shikigami, which makes her a shikigami of a shikigami of a [[youkai]]. Although she's a shikigami, her normal form is not always in a form of a charm, she can remains in her human-like form in normal situation so it won't be bothersome to classify her types. Even without being in shikigami possession she can speak the human language and fly around, but she would merely have the ability to the extent of surprising people. Also, while not being possessed, neither her appearance nor personality changes, but she still curls up by a [[wikipedia:Kotatsu|kotatsu]] in the winter.<br />
<br />
Bakeneko acquire fearsome power when possessed by a [[kishin]], but since Chen's user is also a [[shikigami]], her ability is fairly low.<br />
<br />
Getting touched by water dispels her shikigami possession. As a bakeneko her normal form also hates water, so she is always weak against water.<br />
}}<br />
{{Profile Quote |<br />
| image = [[Image:Th07Chen.png|Chen]]<br />
| text =<br />
○すきま妖怪の式の式<br />
<br />
橙(チェン)<br />
<br />
<br />
エキストラステージの中ボス。<br />
<br />
前の怪我が完治して間も無いのに、再び闘う事となるとは。<br />
<br />
今度は主の近くで、一段と強い妖力を持っているが、その力は、目の前の人間に通用するのだろうか?<br />
| translation =<br />
'''Shikigami of the Shikigami of the Gap Youkai'''<br />
<br />
'''Chen'''<br />
<br />
Extra Stage midboss.<br />
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While in the middle of fully recovering from the injuries of her previous defeat, Chen is set for a second round of combat.<br />
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Her master is in the vicinity this time around, so her power has been amplified considerably. Would that power work on the [[human]] before her?<br />
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==Official Sources==<br />
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*2003/08/17 '''[[Perfect Cherry Blossom]]''' - Stage 2 dialogue; Extra Stage dialogue; キャラ設定.txt (Official profile)<br />
*2005/12/30 '''[[Shoot the Bullet]]''' - [[Shoot the Bullet/Spell Cards/Level 6|Stage 6 Spell Card comments]]<br />
*2005/08/17 '''[[Bohemian Archive in Japanese Red]]''' - [[Bohemian Archive in Japanese Red/Chen|Article and Interview: Chen]]<br />
*2006/12/27 '''[[Perfect Memento in Strict Sense]]''' - [[Perfect Memento in Strict Sense/Chen|Pefect Memento in Strict Sense: Chen]]<br />
*2009/07/28 '''[[The Grimoire of Marisa]]''' - [[The Grimoire of Marisa/Chen's Spell Cards|Chen's Spell Cards]]<br />
*2011/03/26 '''[[Oriental Sacred Place]]''' - Chapter 12 (cameo)<br />
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| title ={{lang|ja|東方鈴奈庵}}<br />Forbidden Scrollery<br />
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| publisher2 =Kadokawa<br />
| released =October 2012 - July 2017<br />
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{{thtitle|Touhou |Suzunaan|ruby=Bell Hermitage|&nbsp;~ Forbidden Scrollery|東方鈴奈庵 ~ Forbidden Scrollery}} is a Touhou official comic published by [[wikipedia:Kadokawa|Kadokawa]] in [[wikipedia:Comp Ace|Comp Ace]] from October 26, 2012 to July 26, 2017. The story is written by [[ZUN]], with illustrations by {{nihongo|[[Moe Harukawa]]|春河もえ}}. <br />
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==Plot==<br />
The plot follows [[Kosuzu Motoori]], a cheerful and naive librarian, as the protagonist, as she goes about her daily life as the proprietor of her bookstore, [[Suzunaan]]. Throughout the story, she comes into contact with various [[demon books]] and otherwise old tomes from varying and unknown sources, leading to the slow reintroduction of "traditional-style" youkai into Gensokyo, juxtaposed with the relatively modern-minded and agreeable youkai typically seen in modern-day Gensokyo. Due to the various issues this causes, she's introduced to various characters such as [[Reimu Hakurei]], [[Marisa Kirisame]], and [[Mamizou Futatsuiwa]], as they attempt to investigate and sometimes contain the various youkai found in her mysterious demon books.<br />
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==Name==<br />
The Japanese title refers to the name of the library Kosuzu works at, ''Suzunaan'' (鈴奈庵). The ''suzu'' (鈴) from the title is the same ''suzu'' in ''Kosuzu'' (小鈴), the protagonist's name. This is a similar naming convention used in [[Wild and Horned Hermit]].<br />
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==Read it!==<br />
===Read online (complete)===<br />
MangaDex: '''[https://mangadex.org/title/dbae4cf5-27de-40eb-b9e1-346c4f2cf8aa Touhou Suzunaan ~ Forbidden Scrollery.]'''<br />
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Released by '''Alpha Beta Kappa''' (Clarste, ''et al.''), last 2 chapters by '''Etarnity Lurvers'''.<br />
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===Authorized translation===<br />
In 2017 Forbidden Scrollery was licensed for an English translation by YenPress LLC, making it the first official ZUN work to receive this kind of treatment. It is translated by Alethea Nibley and Athena Nibley, and lettered by Alexis Eckerman. The series is available as retail and digital versions from most major book outlets, such as [https://www.barnesandnoble.com/s/Forbidden+Scrollery?_requestid=2322464 Barnes and Noble], [https://global.bookwalker.jp/search/?word=Forbidden%20Scrollery Bookwalker] and [https://www.comixology.com/search?search=Forbidden%20Scrollery Comixology].<br />
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Release list:<br />
* [http://www.b2c.hachettebookgroup.com/titles/none/forbidden-scrollery-vol-1/9780316511971/?yen Forbidden Scrollery, Vol 1.]: Nov. 21, 2017<br />
* [http://www.b2c.hachettebookgroup.com/titles/none/forbidden-scrollery-vol-2/9780316512008/?yen Forbidden Scrollery, Vol 2.]: March 27, 2018<br />
* [http://www.b2c.hachettebookgroup.com/titles/none/forbidden-scrollery-vol-3/9780316512015/?yen Forbidden Scrollery, Vol 3.]: May 22, 2018<br />
* [http://www.b2c.hachettebookgroup.com/titles/none/forbidden-scrollery-vol-4/9780316512039/?yen Forbidden Scrollery, Vol 4.]: Aug. 21, 2018<br />
* [http://www.b2c.hachettebookgroup.com/titles/none/forbidden-scrollery-vol-5/9780316512084/?yen Forbidden Scrollery, Vol 5.]: Nov. 13, 2018<br />
* [http://www.b2c.hachettebookgroup.com/titles/none/forbidden-scrollery-vol-6/9780316512091/?yen Forbidden Scrollery, Vol 6.]: Feb. 19, 2019<br />
* [http://www.b2c.hachettebookgroup.com/titles/none/forbidden-scrollery-vol-7/9781975303525/?yen Forbidden Scrollery, Vol 7.]: May 21, 2019<br />
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==Forbidden Scrollery Vol. 1 ''(March 26, 2013)''==<br />
:''[[Forbidden Scrollery/Volume 1|Main article]]''<br />
* Chapter One: The Rare Book of Illusion ''(October 26, 2012)''<br />
* Chapter Two: December Youkai Extermination (Part 1) ''(November 26, 2012)''<br />
* Chapter Three: December Youkai Extermination (Part 2) ''(December 26, 2012)''<br />
* Chapter Four: Privately Published Night Parade Scroll (Part 1) ''(January 26, 2013)''<br />
* Chapter Five: Privately Published Night Parade Scroll (Part 2) ''(February 26, 2013)''<br />
* Vol. 1 Bonus Chapter - A Youkai Fairy Tale<br />
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==Forbidden Scrollery Vol. 2 ''(February 20, 2014)''==<br />
:''[[Forbidden Scrollery/Volume 2|Main article]]''<br />
* Chapter Six: The Requirements for Raising a Rare Beast (Part 1) ''(April 26, 2013)''<br />
* Chapter Seven: The Requirements for Raising a Rare Beast (Part 2) ''(May 25, 2013)''<br />
* Chapter Eight: The Inari's Hood (Part 1) ''(June 26, 2013)''<br />
* Chapter Nine: The Inari's Hood (Part 2) ''(July 26, 2013)''<br />
* Chapter Ten: Traditional Performing Arts of Darkness (Part 1) ''(August 26, 2013)''<br />
* Chapter Eleven: Traditional Performing Arts of Darkness (Part 2) ''(September 26, 2013)''<br />
* Chapter Twelve: The Aftermath of the Miracle Mallet (Part 1) ''(October 26, 2013)''<br />
* Chapter Thirteen: The Aftermath of the Miracle Mallet (Part 2) ''(November 26, 2013)''<br />
* Vol. 2 Bonus Material<br />
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==Forbidden Scrollery Vol. 3 ''(December 26, 2014)''==<br />
:''[[Forbidden Scrollery/Volume 3|Main article]]''<br />
* Chapter Fourteen: The Short-Lived Seven Wonders (Part 1) ''(December 26, 2013)''<br />
* Chapter Fifteen: The Short-Lived Seven Wonders (Part 2) ''(February 26, 2014)''<br />
* Chapter Sixteen: The Shady Love Letter (Part 1) ''(March 26, 2014)''<br />
* Chapter Seventeen: The Shady Love Letter (Part 2) ''(April 26, 2014)''<br />
* Chapter Eighteen: The Skeptical Book Renter (Part 1) ''(May 26, 2014)''<br />
* Chapter Nineteen: The Skeptical Book Renter (Part 2) ''(June 26, 2014)''<br />
* Chapter Twenty: Rodent-Infested Summer (Part 1) ''(July 26, 2014)''<br />
* Chapter Twenty One: Rodent-Infested Summer (Part 2) ''(August 26, 2014)''<br />
* Vol. 3 Bonus Material<br />
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==Forbidden Scrollery Vol. 4 ''(August 10, 2015)''==<br />
:''[[Forbidden Scrollery/Volume 4|Main article]]''<br />
* Chapter Twenty Two: Tobacco, the Tanuki, and the Dine-and-Dasher (Part 1) ''(October 26, 2014)<br />
* Chapter Twenty Three: Tobacco, the Tanuki, and the Dine-and-Dasher (Part 2) ''(December 26, 2014)''<br />
* Chapter Twenty Four: Unattributed Words Are Easily Stolen (Part 1) ''(January 26, 2015)''<br />
* Chapter Twenty Five: Unattributed Words Are Easily Stolen (Part 2) ''(February 26, 2015)''<br />
* Chapter Twenty Six: Kokkuri Scatters with the Cherry Blossoms (Part 1) ''(March 26, 2015)''<br />
* Chapter Twenty Seven: Kokkuri Scatters with the Cherry Blossoms (Part 2) ''(April 26, 2015)''<br />
* Chapter Twenty Eight: The Kappa's Grimoire (Part 1) ''(May 26, 2015)''<br />
* Chapter Twenty Nine: The Kappa's Grimoire (Part 2) ''(June 26, 2015)''<br />
* Vol. 4 Bonus Material<br />
<br />
==Forbidden Scrollery Vol. 5 ''(April 26, 2016)''==<br />
:''[[Forbidden Scrollery/Volume 5|Main article]]''<br />
* Chapter Thirty: Is the Bull's Head Somewhere Out There? (Part 1) ''(July 26, 2015)''<br />
* Chapter Thirty One: Is the Bull's Head Somewhere Out There? (Part 2) ''(August 26, 2015)''<br />
*Chapter Thirty Two: Rulers of the Truth (Part 1) ''(September 26, 2015)''<br />
* Chapter Thirty Three: Rulers of the Truth (Part 2) ''(October 26, 2015)''<br />
* Chapter Thirty Four: Who's Spreading Demagogy? (Part 1) ''(November 26, 2015)''<br />
* Chapter Thirty Five: Who's Spreading Demagogy? (Part 2) ''(December 26, 2015)''<br />
* Chapter Thirty Six: The Drunken Horse Bush Appearing in the Human Village (Part 1) ''(January 26, 2016)''<br />
* Chapter Thirty Seven: The Drunken Horse Bush Appearing in the Human Village (Part 2) ''(February 26, 2016)''<br />
* Vol. 5 Bonus Material<br />
<br />
==Forbidden Scrollery Vol. 6 ''(December 10, 2016)''==<br />
:''[[Forbidden Scrollery/Volume 6|Main article]]''<br />
* Chapter Thirty Eight: Are the Lords of Information Gathered? Or Scattered? (Part 1) ''(March 26, 2016)''<br />
* Chapter Thirty Nine: Are the Lords of Information Gathered? Or Scattered? (Part 2) ''(April 26, 2016)''<br />
* Chapter Forty: Is This All the Work of Youkai Too? (Part 1) ''(May 26, 2016)''<br />
* Chapter Forty One: Is This All the Work of Youkai Too? (Part 2) ''(June 26, 2016)''<br />
* Chapter Forty Two: One Hundred Ghost Stories for Humans and Youkai (Part 1) ''(July 26, 2016)''<br />
* Chapter Forty Three: One Hundred Ghost Stories for Humans and Youkai (Part 2) ''(August 26, 2016)''<br />
* Chapter Forty Four: Let's Not Go Out On Purple Days (Part 1) ''(September 26, 2016)''<br />
* Chapter Forty Five: Let's Not Go Out On Purple Days (Part 2) ''(October 26, 2016)''<br />
* Special Edition Artbook<br />
* [[Forbidden Scrollery (CD)|Music CD]]<br />
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==Forbidden Scrollery Vol. 7 ''(September 25, 2017)'' ==<br />
:''[[Forbidden Scrollery/Volume 7|Main article]]''<br />
* Chapter Forty Six: Hieda no Akyu's Philosophy (Part 1) ''(December 26, 2016)''<br />
* Chapter Forty Seven: Hieda no Akyu's Philosophy (Part 2) ''(January 26, 2017)''<br />
* Chapter Forty Eight: Kosuzu Motoori's Conflict (Part 1) ''(February 25, 2017)''<br />
* Chapter Forty Nine: Kosuzu Motoori's Conflict (Part 2) ''(March 26, 2017)''<br />
* Chapter Fifty: Reimu Hakurei's Miscalculation (Part 1) ''(April 26, 2017)''<br />
* Chapter Fifty One: Reimu Hakurei's Miscalculation (Part 2) ''(May 26, 2017)''<br />
* Chapter Fifty Two: Yukari Yakumo's Peace (Part 1) ''(June 26, 2017)''<br />
* Chapter Fifty Three: Yukari Yakumo's Peace (Part 2) ''(July 26, 2017)''<br />
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==Press==<br />
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A preview for the manga was announced in the November issue of Comp Ace, stating that Forbidden Scrollery would begin serialization in the upcoming December issue. ZUN posted a small picture of the page on his Twitter account on September 25, along with an announcement that the story would be new.<br />
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Chapter 4's title page revealed that the first tankobon volume of Forbidden Scrollery would be released on March 26, 2013.<br />
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==External Links==<br />
*[http://www.kadokawa.co.jp/ca/ Comp Ace official website]<br />
*[http://www.b2c.hachettebookgroup.com/series/forbidden-scrollery/?yen Yen Press official website, for English translations]<br />
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<div>:''"Rin" redirects here. For the character cut from Embodiment of Scarlet Devil, see [[Rin Satsuki]].''<br />
{{Infobox Character<br />
| nameJp = {{ruby-ja|火焔猫|かえんびょう}} {{ruby-ja|燐|りん}}<br />
| nameEn = Rin Kaenbyou<br />
| nameIPA = kaembʲoː ɽiɴ [[Media:Pronunciation_RinKaenbyou.ogg|(♫)]]<br />
| image = [[File:Th11Rin.png|x325px|Rin Kaenbyou]]<br />
| caption = Rin Kaenbyou in [[Subterranean Animism]]<br />
| chartitle = {{H:title|Hell's Traffic Accident|地獄の輪禍}}<br />
| nickname = Orin ({{lang|ja|お}}{{ruby-ja|燐|りん}})<br />
| species = [[Kasha]]<br />
| abilities = Carrying away corpses, controlling and communicating with spirits<br />
| occupation = Controller of spirits in the remnants of the Hell of Blazing Fires<br />
| location = [[Hell of Blazing Fires]], [[Palace of the Earth Spirits]]<br />
| MusicThemes = *{{H:title|{{lang|ja|死体旅行 ~}} Be of good cheer!|Corpse Voyage ~ Be of good cheer!}} ([[Subterranean Animism]])<br />
| appOfficialgames = *''[[Subterranean Animism]]'' (Stage 4 Midboss, Stage 5 Midboss, Stage 5 Boss, Stage 6 Midboss)<br />
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*''[[Hopeless Masquerade]]'' (Background Character)<br />
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*''[[Wild and Horned Hermit]]'' (Chapter 2, 20 and 23 cameo; 28)<br />
*''[[Visionary Fairies in Shrine]]'' (Chapter 2 Cameo, 6 cameo, 7 cameo, 9.5 cameo)<br />
*''[[Alternative Facts in Eastern Utopia]]'' (Advertisement)<br />
*''[[The Grimoire of Usami]]'' (Section 2-5)<br />
*''[[Cheating Detective Satori]]'' (Secondary Character)<br />
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{{nihongo|'''Rin Kaenbyou'''|火焔猫 燐|Kaenbyou Rin}} is one of [[Satori Komeiji]]'s pets. Her job is to carry corpses to the former [[Hell of Blazing Fires]] to regulate its heat.<br />
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==General Information==<br />
===Personality===<br />
Rin has an energetic, positive personality; she prefers to be called Orin, since she doesn't like long names. She claims that while it is more fun to take on a pure [[cat]] form, she can't talk to [[human]]s that way - nor does it seem she can do her job, carting corpses away, which she seems to take great pleasure in. She appears to have challenged the main character in ''[[Subterranean Animism]]'' partly because she wanted their corpse, but also partly to test their strength to see if they would be able to stop [[Utsuho Reiuji]] for her, and appears to bear no ill will towards them for her defeat. ''[[Symposium of Post-mysticism]]'' states that she has no interest in killing humans herself to gain their corpses; she prefers to hunt for those on the verge of death, supposedly because it makes for more interesting conversation. If a corpse is properly buried, she'll lose interest.<br />
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===Ability===<br />
;Carrying away corpses<br />
Rin's official profile lists her ability as "carrying away corpses". As an ability that comes from her species, it is as it sounds like. The carried-away corpses burn as fuel for the [[Hell of Blazing Fires]], although it is a mystery why the abandoned Hell of Blazing Fires needs to be fuelled in the first place. Incidentally, the spirits of the corpses carried away by [[kasha]] become [[onryou]] and become unable to achieve nirvana. She can also shift between cat form and human form at will. [[Hieda no Akyu]] states in ''[[Symposium of Post-mysticism]]'' that her corpse-carrying ability is not really a [[youkai]]-like one, but she is very good at it, using various tricks.<br />
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;Controlling and communicating with spirits<br />
She is able to communicate with corpses and control all kinds of [[spirit]]s; she appears to enjoy the conversations of the freshly dead, because they may not realize they're dead. In combat, she can briefly reanimate corpses so that they "act" like zombies.<br />
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However, prior to the events of ''[[Subterranean Animism]]'', she displays the ability to drive [[vengeful spirit]]s above-ground, which is what causes the heroines to dive underground in the first place. ''[[Symposium of Post-mysticism]]'' does not mention this.<br />
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===Occupation===<br />
Rin is a [[kasha]] living in the [[Palace of the Earth Spirits]]; her master is [[Satori Komeiji]]. Essentially, she lives day-to-day by stealing corpses from funerals to cart them to the former [[Hell of Blazing Fires]]. She will not kill humans herself, though she (quite efficiently) pursues humans that are close to death, hiding stolen corpses in her wheelbarrow using a straw mat, or just generally collecting corpses she happens to run across. Humans do not usually think that she would be carting corpses out in the open like she does, so she has a degree of freedom even in places with lots of people. In addition to maintaining the energy influx for the power source, she also controls vengeful spirits, at least in the vicinity.<br />
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===Possessions===<br />
Rin's only possession is her wheelbarrow, often referred to as "Orin's Cat Cart". It has no special properties, but ''[[Symposium of Post-mysticism]]'' describes it as the pushcart that has likely carried the most corpses in all of history.<br />
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==Backstory==<br />
When the [[Underground]] separated from [[Hell]], becoming known as [[Former Hell]], both Rin and [[Utsuho Reiuji]] became pets to [[Satori Komeiji]]. Her job is to cart corpses into the fires generating heat for the Underground. One day, she noticed that the flames were extremely strong - much stronger than usual - and, worried, forced evil spirits above-ground to try and signal [[youkai]] to come help. She did not tell Satori about the possibly gigantic power Utsuho had obtained, however, and decides to figure things out for herself.<br />
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==Background Information==<br />
[[File:ThGKRin.png|thumb|220px|Rin's illustration in ''[[Symposium of Post-mysticism]]'']]<br />
===Origin===<br />
Rin's concept is taken from the [[kasha]], a type of [[youkai]] that appears during stormy weather to bring the bodies of sinners to Hell. They are said to be cats that have turned into youkai through various circumstances such as long life. Sometimes temples near places where kasha are said to live will hold two funerals for the dead: in the first, the coffin is filled with rocks so that the kasha won't disrupt the funeral to carry off the deceased. Rin is said to steal corpses from funerals while no one is looking.<br />
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===Name===<br />
Her full name is {{nihongo|''Rin Kaenbyou''|火焔猫 燐|Kaenbyou Rin}}. The characters for {{nihongo||火焔猫|Kaenbyou}} literally mean "blazing cat". The one for {{nihongo||燐|Rin}} means "phosphorus". Rin is shown pushing a wheelbarrow, which is also known in Japanese as a {{nihongo||猫車|Nekoguruma}}, which means "cat cart".<br />
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===Design===<br />
Rin has black cat ears and dark red eyes, with fiery red hair styled into twin braids and adorned by black ribbons at the top and bottom of the braids. She wears a black decorated dress with green frills. She's pushing a wheelbarrow in one hand and holding a vengeful spirit in the other. Surrounding her are several more of these spirits.<br />
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==Rin's Appearances==<br />
===Games===<br />
;Subterranean Animism<br />
[[File:Th11OrinSprite.png|frame|Rin's sprite in ''SA'']]<br />
[[File:Th11OrinCatSprite.png|frame|Rin's cat form sprite in ''SA'']]<br />
Rin's story in ''[[Subterranean Animism]]'' is similar no matter what player character you pick. she appears as the [[stage]] 4, 5 and 6 midboss, while appearing as the [[boss]] for stage 5. When a human arrives underground instead of a youkai like she was expecting, she challenges the heroine, wanting to take her corpse. However, she is defeated, and upon witnessing the heroine's strength, asks her to go deeper into the Hell of Blazing Fires in order to stop [[Utsuho Reiuji]]. During her boss battle, she is seen summoning [[Zombie Fairy|Zombie Fairies]] and [[Vengeful spirit]]s.<br />
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===Spin-offs===<br />
;Double Spoiler<br />
In ''[[Double Spoiler]]'', Rin appeared as a [[stage]] 8 [[boss]] and uses [[spell card]]s that involves [[Zombie Fairy|Zombie Fairies]] when [[Aya Shameimaru]] and [[Hatate Himekaidou]] take photos of her and her [[danmaku]]. When taking a picture of Rin in her cat form, the player is awarded the "Cat bonus", which gives a bonus of [[Wikipedia:666 (number)|666]] points, the mark of the beast. This is somewhat fitting considering that Rin is located in [[Hell]].<br />
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;Hopeless Masquerade<br />
[[File:Th135RinDancing.gif|frame|Anigif of Rin dancing in ''HM'']]<br />
Rin appears as a background cameo in ''[[Hopeless Masquerade]]'' on the [[Palace of Earth Spirits]] and [[Youkai Tanuki Forest]] stage. She is seen doing a rally cheer.<br />
[[File:WaHHOrin.png|thumb|220px|Rin appearance in Wild and Horned Hermit]]<br />
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===Literature===<br />
;[[Symposium of Post-mysticism]]<br />
In her [[Symposium of Post-mysticism/Bunbunmaru Newspaper 2|article]] in the [[Bunbunmaru Newspaper]], Rin was brought in to the [[Myouren Temple]] by [[Byakuren Hijiri]] and the others to talk to the zombie guarding part of the cemetery, [[Yoshika Miyako]]. After explaining to them that the reanimated corpse doesn't want to hurt anyone, she takes a few other corpses as payment and returns to the Underground with them.<br />
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In addition, Byakuren mentions that Rin once came up from the [[Underworld]] because she wanted to join the temple. The monk turned her away as Rin really only wanted access to the vast amount of graves in the graveyard.<br />
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;Wild and Horned Hermit<br />
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;[[Foul Detective Satori]]<br />
In ''Foul Detective Satori'', she appears as [[Satori Komeiji]]'s assistant, acting as a kind of "[[Wikipedia:Dr._Watson|Dr. Watson]]" to Satori's "[[Wikipedia:Sherlock_Holmes|Sherlock Holmes]]".<br />
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==Relationships==<br />
[[File:ThGK_Bunbunmaru2.jpg|thumb|200px|right|Rin with [[Yoshika Miyako]] in ''SoPm'']]<br />
;[[Satori Komeiji]]<br />
Satori is Rin and Utsuho's master. Apparently she keeps them as pets, but they have their own jobs to do, and are not seen together very often in the games or in books.<br />
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;[[Utsuho Reiuji]]<br />
Utsuho is described as Rin's old friend from when the [[yama]] split Hell out of the Underground. She is on good enough terms with her to not tell Satori about the trouble she causes in ''[[Subterranean Animism]]''.<br />
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;[[Chen]]<br />
In ''Foul Detective Satori'', Chen and Rin appear to be very friendly and physically affectionate with each other, implying a close relationship between the two.<ref name="fds1">[[Foul Detective Satori]] - Chapter 8</ref><br />
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===Minor Relationships===<br />
;[[Yoshika Miyako]]<br />
In ''[[Symposium of Post-mysticism]]'', Rin is brought in to communicate with Yoshika, as her ability is being able to talk to corpses.<br />
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==Gallery==<br />
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===Illustrations===<br />
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File:GoMIllus-Satori.jpg|Rin with Satori and Utsuho from the Grimoire of Marisa<br />
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===Others===<br />
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File:GoMSigil-Orin.jpg|Rin's sigil from the [[Grimoire of Marisa]]<br />
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==Spell Cards==<br />
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{{#lsth:List of Spell Cards/Touhou Project 2|[[Rin Kaenbyou]]}}<br />
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==Additional Information==<br />
*Rin may be the most persistent ''[[Touhou Project]]'' [[boss]]es, appearing as a midboss in three [[stage]]s, and as a stage boss all in one game.<br />
*Rin and [[Mayumi]] are the only [[Windows]] Stage 6 midbosses that, when defeated, don't directly lead to the final boss. A few [[stage enemies]] of [[vengeful spirit]]s leads to Utsuho instead, similar to ''[[Mountain of Faith]]'''s Stage 6, except than in ''Mountain of Faith'' there isn't a midboss.<br />
*Some of her attacks resemble attacks used by the second boss of ''[[Samidare]]'' from ''[[Project Blank]]'', [[Anareta]].<br />
*In ancient Aztec culture, each household had a small red dog called the Techihi who was said to guide lost souls to the underworld, and would often be sacrificed along with its master. Strangely, Rin has both red hair and performs a similar duty.<br />
*Rin's dancing pose in ''[[Hopeless Masquerade]]'' may be a reference to how she dances in [[Twilight Frontier]]'s ''[[Komeiji Satori no Jousou Kyouiku]]'', where Rin, or [[Koishi Komeiji]], will do a similar dance if she manages to get to a gift-box first.<br />
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==Fandom==<br />
{{main|Fandom/Subterranean Animism#Rin Kaenbyou|l1=Fandom: Rin Kaenbyou}}<br />
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==Official Profiles==<br />
{{hidden begin|title = [[Subterranean Animism]] - おまけ.txt|titlestyle = background:lightblue; text-align:center}}<br />
{{Profile Quote<br />
| image = [[File:Th11Rin.png|200px|Rin Kaenbyou SA]]<br />
| text = ○5面ボス 地獄の輪禍<br/><br />
火焔猫 燐(かえんびょう りん)(通称:お燐)<br/><br />
Kaenbyou Rin<br />
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種族:火車<br/><br />
能力:死体を持ち去る程度の能力<br />
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本当の名前は火焔猫 燐(かえんびょう りん)<br/><br />
本人は長い名前が嫌いで、誰にでもお燐と呼ばせている。<br />
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火の中に棲む猫で、さとりのペットである。口が上手く、死体や霊と自由に会話が出来る為、灼熱地獄跡で怨霊の管理を任されている。<br />
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彼女の古い友人に霊烏路空が居る。彼女とはさとりに飼われ始めた頃、則ち地底が地獄でなくなった頃以来の親友である。<br/><br />
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ある日、彼女は灼熱地獄跡に異変を感じ取った。<br/><br />
いつもよりも火力が強かったのだ。<br />
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火力の管理は空の管轄である。お燐はすぐに空の元を訪ねて驚いた。<br/><br />
誰から貰ったのか、恐ろしいまでの強力な力を手に入れていたのだ。<br />
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それ以来、空は増長し始め、力を見せつけるようになっていった。<br/><br />
終いには地上を灼熱地獄にして支配するとまで言い始めた。<br />
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そんなこと出来る筈もない。さとり様が許す筈もない。<br/><br />
その企みを地底の誰かに知られてしまえば、空は鬼達に始末されてしまうかも知れないのに。<br/><br />
お燐は友人の変貌に呆れ、彼女は禁断の技を使う。<br/><br />
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それは怨霊を地上に送り込む事。それにより地上の妖怪達に異変を知らしめる事が出来れば、何かが変わる筈だと。<br/><br />
彼女は地上の妖怪達に助けを求めたのだが、彼女の前の現れたのは地上の人間だった。<br />
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その人間は思いの外強く、妖怪退治の専門家といううってつけの人間だったのである。<br/><br />
その人間の腕が確かなら、増長した空を懲らしめる事が出来るかも知れない、そう考えた。<br/><br />
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最初からさとり様に相談すれば良かったのだが、お燐は何となく空の異変を隠した方がいいと思っていた。もし空の異変に気付けば、さとり様は容赦なく空を始末するだろう、そう考えていた。<br/><br />
勿論そんな筈も無いのだが、子供が親に秘密がばれるのを恐れる様に、お燐も秘密がばれる事を恐れていた。<br/><br />
お燐は彼女に畏怖の念を抱いていたのである。<br />
| translation = Stage 5 Boss '''Hell's Traffic Accident'''<br/><br />
Rin Kaenbyou (nickname: Orin)<br />
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Species: kasha<br/><br />
Ability: Carrying away corpses<br />
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Her real name is Rin Kaenbyou.<br/><br />
She doesn't like long names, though, so she has everyone call her Orin.<br />
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A cat that lives among the flames, and Satori's pet. Since she's well-spoken and can converse freely with corpses and spirits, she was left in charge of controlling the spirits in what was once the Hell of Blazing Fires.<br />
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She has an old friend named Reiuji Utsuho. They've been close friends since before the time Satori began taking care of her, that is, the time when the underground separated from Hell.<br />
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One day, she felt a disturbance in what was left of the Hell of Blazing Fires.<br/><br />
The flames were much stronger than usual.<br />
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Regulating the flames was Utsuho's job. Orin went to visit Utsuho and was surprised by what she found.<br/><br />
She had discovered a frighteningly strong power, or had been given it by someone.<br />
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Since then, Utsuho began to grow stronger, and to seek out power.<br/><br />
Eventually, she started talking about conquering the above ground and turning it into a scorching hell.<br />
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There's no way she should have been able to do that. There's no way Satori would allow it.<br/><br />
If anybody underground found out about this plan, the oni would probably take care of Utsuho.<br/><br />
Amazed by the transformation her friend had undergone, Orin began to delve into a forbidden art.<br />
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That forbidden art was how to drive the vengeful spirits above ground. If she could force some sort of incident with the youkai above ground, something would surely change.<br/><br />
She was trying to get the youkai above ground to help her, but what finally appeared before her was a human from above ground.<br />
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That human was unexpectedly strong, and what is more, she specialized in youkai extermination.<br/><br />
If she's really that strong, Orin thought, she might be able to deal with Utsuho.<br />
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Everything would have turned out fine if Orin had just gone to Satori in the first place, but she thought it would be better if she tried to hide what Utsuho was doing. If Satori had found out about Utsuho's plan, she thought, she'd waste no time dealing with Utsuho in a ruthless fashion. Of course, that wasn't true, but just as children are afraid of their parents finding out their secrets, Orin was afraid of Satori finding out about hers. Orin was somewhat in awe of Satori.<br />
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==Official Sources==<br />
{{hidden begin|title = Official sources|titlestyle = background:pink; text-align:center;}}<br />
*2008/08/16 - '''[[Subterranean Animism]]''' - Settings.txt (official profile)<br />
*2009/07/28 - '''[[The Grimoire of Marisa]]''' - [[The Grimoire of Marisa/Orin's Spell Cards|Orin's Spell Cards]]<br />
*2010/03/14 - '''[[Double Spoiler]]''' - [[Double Spoiler/Spell Cards/Stage 8|Stage 8 Spell Cards]]<br />
*2010/08/26 - '''[[Oriental Sacred Place]]''' - Chapter 10 (cameo)<br />
*2012/04/27 - '''[[Symposium of Post-mysticism]]'''<br />
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<div>{{Infobox Character<br />
| nameJp = {{ruby-ja|宇佐見|うさみ}} {{ruby-ja|菫子|すみれこ}}<br />
| nameEn = Sumireko Usami<br />
| nameIPA = ɯᵝsa̠mi sɯᵝmiɺ̠e̞ko̞<br />
| image = [[File:Th165Sumireko.png|x300px|Sumireko Usami]]<br />
| caption = Sumireko Usami in [[Violet Detector]]<br />
| chartitle = {{H:title|Expose the Esoteric! The Secret Sealing Club's First President|深秘を曝け!秘封倶楽部 初代会長}}<br />
| species = [[Human]]/Doppelganger<br />
| abilities = Assorted psychic powers (ESP)<br />
| age =15−16 years old (as of ''Urban Legend in Limbo'')<br />
| occupation = High school student at Higashifukami High School, part-timer at [[Kourindou]]<ref>Curiosities of Lotus Asia, Chapter 36</ref><br />
| location = [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kant%C5%8D_region Kanto Region], [[Outside World]]<br />
| MusicThemes = *{{H:title|{{lang|ja|ラストオカルティズム ~ 現し世の秘術師}}|Last Occultism ~ Esotericist of the Present World}} ([[Urban Legend in Limbo]], [[Antinomy of Common Flowers]]) <br />
*{{H:title|{{lang|ja|燕石博物誌が連れてきた闇}}|The Darkness Brought In by Swallowstone Naturalis Historia}} ([[Violet Detector]], as Real World Sumireko)<br />
*{{H:title|{{lang|ja|秘匿されたフォーシーズンズ}}|The Concealed Four Seasons}} ([[Violet Detector]], as Dream Soul Sumireko)<br />
| appOfficialgames = *''[[Urban Legend in Limbo]]'' (Final Boss, Playable Character)<br />
*''[[Antinomy of Common Flowers]]'' (Playable Character, Possible Opponent)<br />
*''[[Violet Detector]]'' (Main Character, Cover, Nightmare Diary Boss)<br />
| appPrintworks = *''[[Wild and Horned Hermit]]'' (Chapter 29, 31 cameo, 34, 35 cameo)<br />
*''[[Forbidden Scrollery]]'' (Chapter 34 cameo)<br />
*''[[Visionary Fairies in Shrine]]'' (Chapters 2, 7 Cameo)<br />
*''[[Curiosities of Lotus Asia]]'' (Secondary Character)<br />
*''[[Alternative Facts in Eastern Utopia]]'' (Interviews)<br />
* ''[[The Grimoire of Usami]]'' (Main Character)<br />
* ''[[Strange Creators of Outer World/Who's Who of Humans & Youkai - Dusk Edition|Who's Who of Humans & Youkai - Dusk Edition]]''<br />
| appMusicCDs = *''[[Urban Legend in Limbo OST]]'' (CD cover)<br />
| appMiscworks = <br />
| appOther = <br />
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{{nihongo|'''Sumireko Usami'''|宇佐見 菫子|Usami Sumireko}} is the main antagonist of [[Urban Legend in Limbo]] and is the main protagonist of [[Violet Detector]]. She's a [[human]] from the [[Outside World]] with psychic powers (ESP). She is the first president of the [[Secret Sealing Club]].<br />
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==General Information==<br />
Sumireko first appeared as the Final Boss of ''[[Urban Legend in Limbo]]'', and eventually becomes a playable character of the same game.<br />
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===Personality===<br />
Sumireko has shown herself to be extremely intelligent, determined, passionate, and [[Wikipedia:hubris|hubristic]] in equal parts. At her worst, she can devolve into stubbornness and outright obstinance, going so far as to put herself in grave danger to achieve her goals.<br />
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Despite her apparent superiority complex, she has grown to have a deep respect and admiration for the inhabitants of Gensokyo, referring to many of them as her friends, and looking up to them for mentorship and guidance. She describes herself as having been a bit of a loner prior to her arrival in Gensokyo, and she considers her discovery of Gensokyo to be the best thing to have happened in her life due to the friendships she's made there.<br />
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She also describes herself as being [[Wikipedia:Chūnibyō|chuunibyou]], a term usually used mockingly, with a sense of personal pride, alluding to her psychic powers and other magical abilities. In spite of that pride, she does lament that nobody in the Outside World seems to be able to understand her or her passion about the occult and Gensokyo. This may also be in part due to how highly opinionated she is, espousing her beliefs about the "phoniness" of the [[Outside World]]'s dominant consumerist culture at the slightest provocation.<ref>[[Alternative Facts in Eastern Utopia]] - [[Alternative Facts in Eastern Utopia/Article and Interview/Sumireko Usami|Sumireko Usami Interview]]</ref> <br />
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Sumireko seems to hold several contradictory opinions, although it comes off less as hypocrisy, and more as though she hasn't been able to fully make up her mind about certain subjects due to her inexperience of being a teenager.<br />
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===Abilities===<br />
;Esper<br />
She is a strong psychic, an individual capable of various powers associated with the paranormal, including but seemingly not limited to levitation, pyrokinesis, hydrokinesis, telekinesis, psychokinesis and teleportation.<br />
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==Background Information==<br />
===Name===<br />
Her full name is {{nihongo|''Sumireko Usami''|宇佐見 菫子|Usami Sumireko}}. {{nihongo|''Usami''|宇佐見}} uses the same writing as [[Renko Usami]]'s surname and it is known to be an actual name in Japanese. {{nihongo|''Sumireko''|菫子}} literally means "violet child" and is also similar to how Renko's name means "lotus child", as both take their names from flowers.<br />
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===Design===<br />
Sumireko has brown eyes and shoulder-length brown hair tied in pigtails. On her head is a black hat with a white bow along with red-framed glasses. She wears a purple plaid skirt and matching sleeveless top (resembling a jumper dress), over a long-sleeved white blouse and a black bolo tie with a clasp shaped like a [[wikipedia:Quimbaya artifacts|"Quimbaya airplane"]]. Along with this, she wears white socks with bows and black shoes. Sumireko generally carries [[wikipedia:Zener cards|Zener cards]], a tablet computer marked with a hexagram on the back, a smartphone in a white case with various blue shapes on it and a light-blue [[wikipedia:Liberator_(gun)|liberator]]. She also wears white gloves, and a black, high-collared cloak with a red interior inscribed with pinkish-white runes and a series of white lines at the bottom rim of the backside.<br />
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Her summer uniform appears nearly identical to her winter one, but with shorter and looser sleeves, no gloves, and a skull in place of the Quimbaya airplane.<br />
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==Sumireko's Appearances==<br />
===Games===<br />
;''Urban Legend in Limbo''<br />
Sumireko is the main antagonist of ''Urban Legend in Limbo'' and the final boss in most of the characters' scenarios in story mode.<br />
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Sumireko manages to go through the [[Great Hakurei Barrier]] by using the [[Occult Ball]]s, which are special stones gathered from [[Mystery Spot]]s in the [[Outside World]]. However, after a short period, she is suddenly ejected from Gensokyo. Learning from this, Sumireko starts with brief excursions into Gensokyo to learn more about it, appearing to anyone who catches sight of her as an ominous black shadow.<br />
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Sumireko soon devises a plan to spread rumors of the Occult Ball's powers and scatters them around Gensokyo for its residents to find. Once the balls are gathered, they warp back to the Outside World along with whoever gathered them all, just for enough time for Sumireko to learn about them before they are transported back. She then re-enters Gensokyo and scatters the balls again, thus beginning the incident of ''Urban Legend in Limbo''. Her plan works for a while, and although she is baffled at why everyone who comes out of Gensokyo ends up fighting her, she enjoys it nonetheless. <br />
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Soon enough, [[Mamizou Futatsuiwa]] is made aware of the incident and devises her own plan: she claims to have Gensokyo's own Occult Ball in her possession when challenging Sumireko, claiming it would allow her limitless travel between Gensokyo and the Outside World. Mamizou instead tricks Sumireko into entering Gensokyo the ''proper'' way, which does let her stay there, but as Sumireko does not know how to get back ''out'', she is trapped in Gensokyo.<br />
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Sumireko's story mode in ''Urban Legend in Limbo'' follows her as she is trapped in Gensokyo, whose residents attempt to scare her to teach her a lesson. In the end, she is confronted by [[Toyosatomimi no Miko]], who reminds Sumireko that she can use the Occult Balls to escape Gensokyo temporarily. She returns to the Outside World, and believing she will eventually be killed by the youkai of Gensokyo, she decides that when her time in the Outside World runs out, she will sacrifice herself to, purportedly, unleash the full power of the Occult Balls and destroy the Great Hakurei Barrier.<br />
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Before being brought back to Gensokyo, she is confronted by Reimu in her own story mode, who realized that one of Sumireko's Occult Balls was swapped for a [[Lunar Capital]] ball, which if activated would link Gensokyo with the Lunar Capital instead. Although Reimu defeats Sumireko and saves the Great Hakurei Barrier, the Lunar Capital ball was activated, setting up the events of ''[[Legacy of Lunatic Kingdom]]''. Upon returning to Gensokyo, Sumireko is detained by Reimu, Mamizou and [[Kasen Ibaraki]]. Deciding Sumireko was no longer a threat, they return her to the Outside World through the proper method.<br />
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A few days later, Sumireko reappears at the [[Hakurei Shrine]], as she had discovered that ever since leaving Gensokyo, she could travel back there in her dreams. No longer antagonistic, she befriends Gensokyo's residents in earnest, and her tales of the Outside World turn her into a brief celebrity.<br />
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;''Antinomy of Common Flowers''<br />
Sumireko is a playable character with an unlockable story mode in [[Antinomy of Common Flowers]]. In her story mode, she visited Gensokyo at a bad time as the [[Dream World]] has been thrown into chaos by the [[Joon Yorigami|Yorigami]] [[Shion Yorigami|Sisters]]' incident, and she ends up trapped there as a result.<br />
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She teams up with [[Doremy Sweet]] to traverse through the Dream World and reach Gensokyo, whereupon they are tasked by [[Yukari Yakumo]] to dispatch Sumireko's own Dream Soul that has been released into the Outside World by the incident. Curiously Sumireko somehow encounters ''two'' of her own Dream Souls, but defeats them with Doremy's help. She awakes in the Outside World afterward, greeted by Doremy to confirm that she is the real Sumireko.<br />
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;''Violet Detector'' <br />
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Sumireko is the main protagonist of ''Violet Detector''. For some time, she has been having the same weird dream, in which she is constantly attacked by the residents of the dream world for no reason.<br />
She finally discovers that the dream dwellers hold a grudge against her for having a flesh body allowing her to go in the real world, and [[Doremy Sweet]] tells her that she can only expect the situation to worsen.<br />
After some time, she encounters and fight against [[Okina Matara]]. Okina is impressed by Sumireko who has been able to fend off the dream dwellers for quite some time. She offers her some help, in order to make the dream dwellers recognize her strength and make them stop attacking her. But in order to achieve that, she has to defeat even more powerful nightmares, so Okina lends Sumireko some powers on top of her psychic abilities, allowing her to cheat death in certain situations.<br />
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Sumireko then goes on and fights powerful nightmares, in the form of strong dream dwellers teaming up against her. <br />
After a week of fighting, she encounters another Sumireko. During that confrontation, she realizes that she was actually the [[Phantom#Dream Soul|Dream Soul]] of the real Sumireko, the other one, who is trying to get her body back. But at this point, Dream Sumireko has become stronger than the real Sumireko and is able to defeat her.<br />
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Okina, not willing to take any side in the confrontation between the two Sumirekos, decides to take back the power she lent Dream Sumireko to make things fair. The real Sumireko challenges her dream self once again and eventually defeats her.<br />
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The next day, Sumireko wakes up in the real world as if nothing happened, having no recollection of what transpired in her mind. She stopped having those nightmares, but the photos of danmaku battles still lie in the memory of her smartphone.<br />
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===Print Works===<br />
Sumireko makes appearances in [[Grimoire of Usami]], [[Curiosities of Lotus Asia]], and [[Wild and Horned Hermit]].<br />
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Grimoire of Usami is a book of spellcards, similar to [[Grimoire of Marisa]], in which her and many other characters attend a danmaku fireworks festival, cataloging and critiquing danmaku patterns.<br />
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In Curiosities of Lotus Asia, [[Rinnosuke Morichika]] catalogs Sumireko's trials and tribulations as she integrates herself into Gensokyo life, with the development of her occult doppelganger, and her disappearance during [[Violet Detector]].<br />
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in Wild and Horned Hermit, she makes a small cameo appearance for "World UFO Day," and accidentally summons a UFO to the main courtyard of the [[Hakurei Shrine]].<br />
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==Relationships==<br />
===[[Reimu Hakurei]] & [[Marisa Kirisame]]===<br />
In [[Urban Legend in Limbo]] and [[Curiosities of Lotus Asia]], Reimu and Marisa are frequently seen doting on her, making sure she's safe and trying to keep her from getting into trouble. In an interview with [[Aya Shameimaru]] in [[Alternative Facts in Eastern Utopia]], Sumireko refers to both Reimu and Marisa as friends she's made since coming to Gensokyo.<br />
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Reimu admits that although she's worried about Sumireko's appearance in Gensokyo and its implications for more [[Outside World]] humans passing through the barrier, Sumireko has made things "fun" in Gensokyo again. Marisa also tries to give advice on how to talk to the local residents.<br />
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In [[Violet Detector]], Sumireko refers to both of them with friendly informal names like "Reimu-icchi" and "Marisa-icchi," typically used between close friends.<br />
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===[[Rinnosuke Morichika]]===<br />
In [[Curiosities of Lotus Asia]], which is primarily told through Rinnosuke's perspective, Rinnosuke and Sumireko often talk about the Outside World and the various items that filter in through the [[Great Hakurei Barrier]]. Rinnosuke shows a great deal of care towards Sumireko, worrying about her safety, while Sumireko seems to regard him as a nag, and goes so far as to criticize him for smoking cigarettes. Despite that, they seem to be good friends, and despite Rinnosuke's tendency to tell tall tales, they do seem to get along well enough.<br />
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===[[Mamizou Futatsuiwa]]===<br />
In [[Alternative Facts in Eastern Utopia]], Sumireko mentions that Mamizou often visits her in the [[Outside World]]. The exact details of this aren't known, but Sumireko implies that they're friends, and that Sumireko respects her as an elder.<br />
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===[[Kasen Ibaraki]]===<br />
In [[Alternative Facts in Eastern Utopia]], Sumireko mentions that her and Kasen are also friends, and says that they hang out a lot in Gensokyo, calling her "Kasen-chan."<br />
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In [[Urban Legend in Limbo]], Kasen expresses resentment that Sumireko views youkai with such a casual and playful attitude, feeling that Sumireko should show youkai more respect.<br />
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===[[Fujiwara no Mokou]]===<br />
Initially annoyed by Sumireko, Mokou challenged Sumireko to a duel. The two found each other's strength admirable, and Mokou extended an invitation to have a rematch sometime in the future, admiring the young girl's fighting spirit and passion, and thanking her for giving her a tough challenge. It appears the two have become friendly rivals.<br />
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===[[Renko Usami]]===<br />
Due to her name, similar appearance and involvement in the creation of the [[Secret Sealing Club]], she may have some kind of relation to Renko. However, the specifics of this connection is as yet unknown. Her profile suggests she is an ancestor of Renko, from the present time.<br />
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===[[Okina Matara]]===<br />
In [[Violet Detector]], Okina ultimately assists Sumireko with resolving her real-self/dream-self/doppelganger mix-up situation, but not before toying with her for a little bit. As (real) Sumireko loses her memories of the incident, it's unknown if she remembers Okina at all. <br />
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===[[Doremy Sweet]]===<br />
In [[Antimony of Common Flowers]], Doremy teams up with Sumireko. During the incident, Sumireko is faced with fighting both her dream-self and her occult doppelganger, who have also teamed up to take down the "real" Sumireko. Doremy expresses confusion over how there can possibly be three Sumirekos at the same time in Gensokyo, but ultimately helps Sumireko resolve her issue at the time.<br />
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===[[Shinmyoumaru Sukuna]]===<br />
Sumireko finds Shinmyoumaru adorable, claiming to want to somehow take her home as a pet, much to her annoyance.<br />
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==Skills==<br />
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{{#lsth:List of Skills|[[Sumireko Usami]]}}<br />
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==Spell Cards==<br />
{{hidden begin|title = Spell Cards|titlestyle = background:palegreen; text-align:center;}} {{#lsth:List of Spell Cards/Touhou Project 3|[[Sumireko Usami]]}} {{hidden end}}<br />
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==Gallery==<br />
===Covers===<br />
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File:Th145front.jpg|Cover of ''[[Urban Legend in Limbo]]'', featuring Sumireko's silhouette<br />
File:TFM-07.jpg|Cover of ''[[Urban Legend in Limbo OST]]'', featuring Sumireko<br />
File:Th165cover.jpg|Cover of ''[[Violet Detector]]'', featuring Sumireko's silhouette<br />
File:WaHH 6 Cover.jpg|Sumireko on the Vol. 6 cover of ''[[Wild and Horned Hermit]]''<br />
File:CoLA28CleanCover.jpg|Sumireko in ''[[Curiosities of Lotus Asia]]''<br />
File:CoLA29CleanCover.jpg|Sumireko in ''[[Curiosities of Lotus Asia]]''<br />
File:GoU_cover.jpg|Sumireko in ''[[The Grimoire of Usami]]''<br />
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===Artworks===<br />
<gallery><br />
File:Th155Sumireko.png|Sumireko's artwork from ''[[Urban Legend in Limbo]]'' and ''[[Antinomy of Common Flowers]]''<br />
File:Th145Sumireko2.png|Sumireko's pre-battle artwork from ''[[Urban Legend in Limbo]]'' and ''[[Antinomy of Common Flowers]]''<br />
</gallery><br />
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===Sprites===<br />
<gallery><br />
File:Th155SumirekoColors.png|Sumireko's different color palettes from ''[[Antinomy of Common Flowers|AoCF]]'' and ''[[Urban Legend in Limbo|ULiL]]'', the last two were added in AoCF v1.10<br />
</gallery><br />
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==Additional Information==<br />
*Sumireko's silhouette occupies the front of ''[[Urban Legend in Limbo]]'' and ''[[Violet Detector]]'''s jewel case. Along with [[Cirno]], she's the only character to appear as the silhouette for two games' jewel cases in the Windows games.<br />
*Sumireko is the first final [[boss]] to be a [[human]] from outside [[Gensokyo]] since the [[PC-98]] game ''[[Phantasmagoria of Dim.Dream]]'', who was [[Yumemi Okazaki]]. Sumireko also has similarities to Yumemi besides this; both have an interest in magic, they tried to take an inhabitant of Gensokyo and had traps provided to lurk them into their area.<br />
*She is the first fighting game final boss whose story mode scenario is not the last to be unlocked.<br />
*The runes on her cloak do not appear to form any meaningful words, and some are even drawn from different runic alphabets (e.g. the old-form "sowilo" rune as written in Elder Futhark and the "stan" rune used by [[Wiktionary:Anglo-Saxons|Anglo-Saxon]] writers hundreds of years later).<br />
*Inside the game data for Urban Legend in Limbo, a folder named "Hanako" can be found that contains three sprites of a silhouetted Sumireko holding her cell phone. It's possible that Hanako was a working name for her, or was intended to be her name.<br />
** The 菫 (Sumire) part of her name is the name of a flower, from which the word for flower in Japanese is 花 (Hana). It could also be a codename. <br />
*[[Antinomy of Common Flowers]] confirms her to be a citizen of the Kantou Region. Incidentally, [[Renko]]'s parents also live in Tokyo.<br />
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==Fandom==<br />
{{main|Fandom/Spin-offs#Sumireko Usami|l1=Fandom: Sumireko Usami}}<br />
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==Official Profiles==<br />
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{{Profile Quote<br />
| image =[[File:Th145Sumireko.png|200px|Sumireko Usami ULiL]]<br />
| text = ○深秘を曝け!秘封倶楽部 初代会長<br><br />
宇佐見 菫子(うさみ すみれこ)<br />
<br />
種族:女子高生<br><br />
能力:超能力を操る程度の能力<br />
<br />
彼女は本物の超能力者であった。<br />
<br />
ネットで知識を深めた若者にありがちの全能感と、生まれ持った才能に<br><br />
より、特に中学の頃は『自分は他の人間より優れている』と思っていた。<br />
<br />
友達という物が無駄であるとは言わない。<br><br />
但しそれは知識の上での有用性であり、本当の心情は<br><br />
「友達を必要とする人種にとっては有益だ。<br><br />
群れたがる奴らにとってな」<br><br />
と心底馬鹿にしていたようである。<br />
<br />
そんなわけで友達が出来る訳も無く<br><br />
(彼女からしてみたら『必要が無かったので友達を作らなかった』、となる)<br><br />
他の人から見たら無惨な、だが本人は充実した学生生活を送っていた。<br />
<br />
この頃から、彼女は独自の研究を始めた。<br><br />
超能力を使える理由や、オカルト、都市伝説と呼ばれる物、等々。<br><br />
その中でも特に、この世界とは違う何処か異世界への憧れが強かった。<br />
<br />
<br />
そんな生活も高校に入ると一変する。<br><br />
彼女は(この手の人間にありがちだが)成績優秀だった。その為少し<br><br />
離れた私立の進学校に進学した。<br><br />
生徒はアチコチから集まっていた。それまでの人間関係は断たれ、新<br><br />
たに構築されようとしている。すると成績優秀な彼女の元にも関係を<br><br />
築こうと人が集まるようになっていた。硬化させた態度も逆に魅力で<br><br />
あったのかも知れない。<br />
<br />
<br />
だが、彼女は自分が他の人間とは違う種族である筈だと思い込んでいた。<br><br />
他の人間は『自分と普通の人間関係を築き、同レベルに引きずり込もう』<br><br />
と企む悪魔のような物だと言い聞かせた。<br />
<br />
聡明な彼女は人を追い払う為に『あえて』人を集めた。<br><br />
それが、非公認オカルトサークル『秘封倶楽部』であった。<br><br />
彼女の目論見通り、もう友達になろうと言う人は現われなかった。<br />
<br />
<br />
秘封倶楽部とは、異世界の秘密を自分の足で曝くサークルである。<br><br />
結果、彼女は世界の深秘に触れた。<br />
<br />
<br />
――はてさてそれから色々な出来事が起こり、<br><br />
結果、夢の世界に入れる様になる。<br />
<br />
そこでは自分の知識は上辺だけの物であると思い知らされた。経験<br><br />
こそがこの世界の真実であり、知識はそれを覆い隠す為にあるのだと。<br />
<br />
そして夢の中には、彼女が見下すことの出来ない人間達がいた。<br><br />
夢の中、いや幻想郷のお陰で、友達を作るのも悪くないと思うようになった。<br />
<br />
:<br><br />
:<br><br />
:<br />
<br />
……しかし、最後まで不可解な事があった。<br><br />
彼女が仕掛けた、異世界の扉を開くはずのパワーストーンだが、<br><br />
一つだけ別の物にすり替わっていたらしい。<br />
<br />
それは誰の仕業だろうか。<br><br />
そもそも幻想郷に実現する都市伝説が蔓延していたのも<br><br />
自分が仕掛けたのでは無いのだ。<br><br />
都市伝説は結界を破るために良いように働いたのだが、<br><br />
それも全て偶然、だったのだろうか?<br />
<br />
<br />
もしかしたら、内側から誰かが結界を破ろうとしているのではないか。<br><br />
自分のパワーストーンは逆に利用されたのではないか。<br><br />
彼女には最後まで判らなかった。<br />
| translation ='''Expose the Esoteric! The [[Secret Sealing Club]]'s First President'''<br><br />
Sumireko Usami<br />
<br />
Species: High-school girl<br><br />
Ability: Capable of manipulating psychic powers<br />
<br />
She was a genuine psychic.<br />
<br />
Thanks to the sense of omnipotence common to youths who furthered their knowledge via the internet, and to the talents she was born with, she began to think that "she was superior to other people," particularly around the time when she was in middle school.<br />
<br />
It wasn't to say that friends were ''useless'' or anything.<br><br />
It was just that they were useful to have from a simple knowledge standpoint.<br><br />
What she really thought was that "friends are beneficial for the sort of people who actually ''need'' them. Like, the sort of people who want others to flock around them."<br><br />
In the back of her mind, she mocked them.<br />
<br />
Thus, unable to make any friends, (although she herself would frame it as "I didn't make any because I just didn't need any",) she lived a school life that others would view as tragic, but she herself was enriched by.<br />
<br />
It was around that time that she began research of her own.<br><br />
Why she could use psychic powers, occult phenomena, that which we call 'urban legends', et cetera.<br><br />
In particular, she developed a strong interest in worlds separate from our own.<br />
<br />
When she entered high school, her lifestyle instantly changed.<br><br />
She was a model student (not uncommon for people such as her), and as a result, she advanced to a somewhat isolated private prep school. The school gathered students from all over; having been separated from their previous relationships, they strove to construct those relationships anew. As such, many people tried to strike up friendships with her, model student that she was. Her stiff attitude may have actually contributed to her appeal.<br />
<br />
However, she was convinced that she was of a different sort than the other humans around her. Other people, as far as she was concerned, may as well have been demons plotting to form regular relationships with her in order to drag her down to their level.<br />
<br />
In a smart move, she ''deliberately'' gathered people around her so as to drive them away.<br><br />
She formed an unauthorized occult circle: the "Secret Sealing Club".<br><br />
Just as she expected, nobody came up to her saying they wanted to be friends anymore.<br />
<br />
The Secret Sealing Club was a circle dedicated to exposing the secrets of other worlds with their own power.<br><br />
As a result, she made contact with the deep secrets of the world.<br />
<br />
---and so, various things occurred from there,<br><br />
and as a result, she became able to enter the world of dreams.<br />
<br />
There, she was made to realize that all her knowledge was only superficial. ''Experience'' is the real truth of this world, and her pursuit of factual knowledge was only something to cover for this.<br />
<br />
And in that dream, she at last met people who she couldn't look down on.<br><br />
Thanks to that dream--- no, thanks to Gensokyo, she found herself starting to think that maybe making some friends wouldn't be so bad after all.<br />
<br />
....<br />
<br />
....<br />
<br />
....<br />
<br />
...however, there was one thing that remained incomprehensible in the end.<br><br />
Out of all the power stones that she set up in order to open the door to the other world,<br><br />
one single stone seemed to have been switched with another.<br />
<br />
Whose doing was this?<br><br />
In the first place, the urban legends manifesting and spreading through Gensokyo were not something that she had planned. The urban legends had taken action such that a hole would be broken in the barrier, in the end, but was that really just a coincidence...?<br />
<br />
Perhaps [[Sagume Kishin|someone]] had been attempting to break the barrier from the inside.<br><br />
Had her power stones been used for [[Legacy of Lunatic Kingdom|someone else's purposes?]]<br><br />
She never did figure it out.<br />
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{{Profile Quote<br />
| image =[[File:Th145Sumireko.png|200px|Sumireko Usami AoCF]]<br />
| text =神秘主義で扱いに困る女学生<br />
<br />
宇佐見菫子<br/><br />
<br />
「なんか変なレイムね<br/><br />
今日は香霖堂に行きたいんだけどー」<br/><br />
<br />
今時の超能力女子高生<br/><br />
<br />
夢の中で幻想郷に訪れる事ができる彼女、<br/><br />
だが、この日の幻想郷はいつもと全く違う景色を見せていた<br/><br />
<br />
動かずどこからでも捉える超能力を駆使して戦う要塞タイプ<br/><br />
相手を前後左右から襲い掛かる瓦礫の山に埋めてしまおう<br/><br />
| translation ='''Mystic and Troublesome Female Student'''<br />
<br />
'''Sumireko Usami'''<br/><br />
<br />
''"Well, you sure are acting weird, Reimu.''<br/><br />
''I'd like to go to Kourindou today, if you don't mind...?"''<br/><br />
<br />
A modern high-school girl with psychic powers.<br/><br />
<br />
She has the ability to visit Gensokyo in her dreams, but the Gensokyo she saw today was utterly different from usual.<br/><br />
<br />
A zoning character who fights with her ESP, able to catch opponents anywhere without moving.<br/><br />
Bury your opponent in mountains of rubble that rain down from all sides!<br/><br />
}}<br />
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==Official Sources==<br />
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*2015/05/10 '''[[Urban Legend in Limbo]]''' - Final boss and playable character<br />
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<div>{{Infobox Character<br />
| nameJp = {{ruby-ja|宇佐見|うさみ}} {{ruby-ja|菫子|すみれこ}}<br />
| nameEn = Sumireko Usami<br />
| nameIPA = ɯᵝsa̠mi sɯᵝmiɺ̠e̞ko̞<br />
| image = [[File:Th165Sumireko.png|x300px|Sumireko Usami]]<br />
| caption = Sumireko Usami in [[Violet Detector]]<br />
| chartitle = {{H:title|Expose the Esoteric! The Secret Sealing Club's First President|深秘を曝け!秘封倶楽部 初代会長}}<br />
| species = [[Human]]/Doppelganger<br />
| abilities = Assorted psychic powers (ESP)<br />
| age =15−16 years old (as of ''Urban Legend in Limbo'')<br />
| occupation = High school student at Higashifukami High School, part-timer at [[Kourindou]]<ref>Curiosities of Lotus Asia, Chapter 36</ref><br />
| location = [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kant%C5%8D_region Kanto Region], [[Outside World]]<br />
| MusicThemes = *{{H:title|{{lang|ja|ラストオカルティズム ~ 現し世の秘術師}}|Last Occultism ~ Esotericist of the Present World}} ([[Urban Legend in Limbo]], [[Antinomy of Common Flowers]]) <br />
*{{H:title|{{lang|ja|燕石博物誌が連れてきた闇}}|The Darkness Brought In by Swallowstone Naturalis Historia}} ([[Violet Detector]], as Real World Sumireko)<br />
*{{H:title|{{lang|ja|秘匿されたフォーシーズンズ}}|The Concealed Four Seasons}} ([[Violet Detector]], as Dream Soul Sumireko)<br />
| appOfficialgames = *''[[Urban Legend in Limbo]]'' (Final Boss, Playable Character)<br />
*''[[Antinomy of Common Flowers]]'' (Playable Character, Possible Opponent)<br />
*''[[Violet Detector]]'' (Main Character, Cover, Nightmare Diary Boss)<br />
| appPrintworks = *''[[Wild and Horned Hermit]]'' (Chapter 29, 31 cameo, 34, 35 cameo)<br />
*''[[Forbidden Scrollery]]'' (Chapter 34 cameo)<br />
*''[[Visionary Fairies in Shrine]]'' (Chapters 2, 7 Cameo)<br />
*''[[Curiosities of Lotus Asia]]'' (Secondary Character)<br />
*''[[Alternative Facts in Eastern Utopia]]'' (Interviews)<br />
* ''[[The Grimoire of Usami]]'' (Main Character)<br />
* ''[[Strange Creators of Outer World/Who's Who of Humans & Youkai - Dusk Edition|Who's Who of Humans & Youkai - Dusk Edition]]''<br />
| appMusicCDs = *''[[Urban Legend in Limbo OST]]'' (CD cover)<br />
| appMiscworks = <br />
| appOther = <br />
}}<br />
{{nihongo|'''Sumireko Usami'''|宇佐見 菫子|Usami Sumireko}} is the main antagonist of [[Urban Legend in Limbo]] and is the main protagonist of [[Violet Detector]]. She's a [[human]] from the [[Outside World]] with psychic powers (ESP). She is the first president of the [[Secret Sealing Club]].<br />
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==General Information==<br />
Sumireko first appeared as the Final Boss of ''[[Urban Legend in Limbo]]'', and eventually becomes a playable character of the same game.<br />
<br />
===Personality===<br />
Sumireko has shown herself to be extremely intelligent, determined, passionate, and [[Wikipedia:hubris|hubristic]] in equal parts. At her worst, she can devolve into stubbornness and outright obstinance, going so far as to put herself in grave danger to achieve her goals.<br />
<br />
Despite her apparent superiority complex, she has grown to have a deep respect and admiration for the inhabitants of Gensokyo, referring to many of them as her friends, and looking up to them for mentorship and guidance. She describes herself as having been a bit of a loner prior to her arrival in Gensokyo, and she considers her discovery of Gensokyo to be the best thing to have happened in her life due to the friendships she's made there.<br />
<br />
She also describes herself as being [[Wikipedia:Chūnibyō|chuunibyou]], a term usually used mockingly, with a sense of personal pride, alluding to her psychic powers and other magical abilities. In spite of that pride, she does lament that nobody in the Outside World seems to be able to understand her or her passion about the occult and Gensokyo. This may also be in part due to how highly opinionated she is, espousing her beliefs about the "phoniness" of the [[Outside World]]'s dominant consumerist culture at the slightest provocation.<ref>[[Alternative Facts in Eastern Utopia]] - [[Alternative Facts in Eastern Utopia/Article and Interview/Sumireko Usami|Sumireko Usami Interview]]</ref> <br />
<br />
Sumireko seems to hold several contradictory opinions, although it comes off less as hypocrisy, and more as though she hasn't been able to fully make up her mind about certain subjects due to her inexperience of being a teenager.<br />
<br />
===Abilities===<br />
;Esper<br />
She is a strong psychic, an individual capable of various powers associated with the paranormal, including but seemingly not limited to levitation, pyrokinesis, hydrokinesis, telekinesis, psychokinesis and teleportation.<br />
<br />
==Background Information==<br />
===Name===<br />
Her full name is {{nihongo|''Sumireko Usami''|宇佐見 菫子|Usami Sumireko}}. {{nihongo|''Usami''|宇佐見}} uses the same writing as [[Renko Usami]]'s surname and it is known to be an actual name in Japanese. {{nihongo|''Sumireko''|菫子}} literally means "violet child" and is also similar to how Renko's name means "lotus child", as both take their names from flowers.<br />
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===Design===<br />
Sumireko has brown eyes and shoulder-length brown hair tied in pigtails. On her head is a black hat with a white bow along with red-framed glasses. She wears a purple plaid skirt and matching sleeveless top (resembling a jumper dress), over a long-sleeved white blouse and a black bolo tie with a clasp shaped like a [[wikipedia:Quimbaya artifacts|"Quimbaya airplane"]]. Along with this, she wears white socks with bows and black shoes. Sumireko generally carries [[wikipedia:Zener cards|Zener cards]], a tablet computer marked with a hexagram on the back, a smartphone in a white case with various blue shapes on it and a light-blue [[wikipedia:Liberator_(gun)|liberator]]. She also wears white gloves, and a black, high-collared cloak with a red interior inscribed with pinkish-white runes and a series of white lines at the bottom rim of the backside.<br />
<br />
Her summer uniform appears nearly identical to her winter one, but with shorter and looser sleeves, no gloves, and a skull in place of the Quimbaya airplane.<br />
<br />
==Sumireko's Appearances==<br />
===Games===<br />
;''Urban Legend in Limbo''<br />
Sumireko is the main antagonist of ''Urban Legend in Limbo'' and the final boss in most of the characters' scenarios in story mode.<br />
<br />
Sumireko manages to go through the [[Great Hakurei Barrier]] by using the [[Occult Ball]]s, which are special stones gathered from [[Mystery Spot]]s in the [[Outside World]]. However, after a short period, she is suddenly ejected from Gensokyo. Learning from this, Sumireko starts with brief excursions into Gensokyo to learn more about it, appearing to anyone who catches sight of her as an ominous black shadow.<br />
<br />
Sumireko soon devises a plan to spread rumors of the Occult Ball's powers and scatters them around Gensokyo for its residents to find. Once the balls are gathered, they warp back to the Outside World along with whoever gathered them all, just for enough time for Sumireko to learn about them before they are transported back. She then re-enters Gensokyo and scatters the balls again, thus beginning the incident of ''Urban Legend in Limbo''. Her plan works for a while, and although she is baffled at why everyone who comes out of Gensokyo ends up fighting her, she enjoys it nonetheless. <br />
<br />
Soon enough, [[Mamizou Futatsuiwa]] is made aware of the incident and devises her own plan: she claims to have Gensokyo's own Occult Ball in her possession when challenging Sumireko, claiming it would allow her limitless travel between Gensokyo and the Outside World. Mamizou instead tricks Sumireko into entering Gensokyo the ''proper'' way, which does let her stay there, but as Sumireko does not know how to get back ''out'', she is trapped in Gensokyo.<br />
<br />
Sumireko's story mode in ''Urban Legend in Limbo'' follows her as she is trapped in Gensokyo, whose residents attempt to scare her to teach her a lesson. In the end, she is confronted by [[Toyosatomimi no Miko]], who reminds Sumireko that she can use the Occult Balls to escape Gensokyo temporarily. She returns to the Outside World, and believing she will eventually be killed by the youkai of Gensokyo, she decides that when her time in the Outside World runs out, she will sacrifice herself to, purportedly, unleash the full power of the Occult Balls and destroy the Great Hakurei Barrier.<br />
<br />
Before being brought back to Gensokyo, she is confronted by Reimu in her own story mode, who realized that one of Sumireko's Occult Balls was swapped for a [[Lunar Capital]] ball, which if activated would link Gensokyo with the Lunar Capital instead. Although Reimu defeats Sumireko and saves the Great Hakurei Barrier, the Lunar Capital ball was activated, setting up the events of ''[[Legacy of Lunatic Kingdom]]''. Upon returning to Gensokyo, Sumireko is detained by Reimu, Mamizou and [[Kasen Ibaraki]]. Deciding Sumireko was no longer a threat, they return her to the Outside World through the proper method.<br />
<br />
A few days later, Sumireko reappears at the [[Hakurei Shrine]], as she had discovered that ever since leaving Gensokyo, she could travel back there in her dreams. No longer antagonistic, she befriends Gensokyo's residents in earnest, and her tales of the Outside World turn her into a brief celebrity.<br />
<br />
;''Antinomy of Common Flowers''<br />
Sumireko is a playable character with an unlockable story mode in [[Antinomy of Common Flowers]]. In her story mode, she visited Gensokyo at a bad time as the [[Dream World]] has been thrown into chaos by the [[Joon Yorigami|Yorigami]] [[Shion Yorigami|Sisters]]' incident, and she ends up trapped there as a result.<br />
<br />
She teams up with [[Doremy Sweet]] to traverse through the Dream World and reach Gensokyo, whereupon they are tasked by [[Yukari Yakumo]] to dispatch Sumireko's own Dream Soul that has been released into the Outside World by the incident. Curiously Sumireko somehow encounters ''two'' of her own Dream Souls, but defeats them with Doremy's help. She awakes in the Outside World afterward, greeted by Doremy to confirm that she is the real Sumireko.<br />
<br />
;''Violet Detector'' <br />
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Sumireko is the main protagonist of ''Violet Detector''. For some time, she has been having the same weird dream, in which she is constantly attacked by the residents of the dream world for no reason.<br />
She finally discovers that the dream dwellers hold a grudge against her for having a flesh body allowing her to go in the real world, and [[Doremy Sweet]] tells her that she can only expect the situation to worsen.<br />
After some time, she encounters and fight against [[Okina Matara]]. Okina is impressed by Sumireko who has been able to fend off the dream dwellers for quite some time. She offers her some help, in order to make the dream dwellers recognize her strength and make them stop attacking her. But in order to achieve that, she has to defeat even more powerful nightmares, so Okina lends Sumireko some powers on top of her psychic abilities, allowing her to cheat death in certain situations.<br />
<br />
Sumireko then goes on and fights powerful nightmares, in the form of strong dream dwellers teaming up against her. <br />
After a week of fighting, she encounters another Sumireko. During that confrontation, she realizes that she was actually the [[Phantom#Dream Soul|Dream Soul]] of the real Sumireko, the other one, who is trying to get her body back. But at this point, Dream Sumireko has become stronger than the real Sumireko and is able to defeat her.<br />
<br />
Okina, not willing to take any side in the confrontation between the two Sumirekos, decides to take back the power she lent Dream Sumireko to make things fair. The real Sumireko challenges her dream self once again and eventually defeats her.<br />
<br />
The next day, Sumireko wakes up in the real world as if nothing happened, having no recollection of what transpired in her mind. She stopped having those nightmares, but the photos of danmaku battles still lie in the memory of her smartphone.<br />
<br />
===Print Works===<br />
Sumireko makes appearances in [[Grimoire of Usami]], [[Curiosities of Lotus Asia]], and [[Wild and Horned Hermit]].<br />
<br />
Grimoire of Usami is a book of spellcards, similar to [[Grimoire of Marisa]], in which her and many other characters attend a danmaku fireworks festival, cataloging and critiquing danmaku patterns.<br />
<br />
In Curiosities of Lotus Asia, [[Rinnosuke Morichika]] catalogs Sumireko's trials and tribulations as she integrates herself into Gensokyo life, with the development of her occult doppelganger, and her disappearance during [[Violet Detector]].<br />
<br />
in Wild and Horned Hermit, she makes a small cameo appearance for "World UFO Day," and accidentally summons a UFO to the main courtyard of the [[Hakurei Shrine]].<br />
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==Relationships==<br />
===[[Reimu Hakurei]] & [[Marisa Kirisame]]===<br />
In [[Urban Legend in Limbo]] and [[Curiosities of Lotus Asia]], Reimu and Marisa are frequently seen doting on her, making sure she's safe and trying to keep her from getting into trouble. In an interview with [[Aya Shameimaru]] in [[Alternative Facts in Eastern Utopia]], Sumireko refers to both Reimu and Marisa as friends she's made since coming to Gensokyo.<br />
<br />
Reimu admits that although she's worried about Sumireko's appearance in Gensokyo and its implications for more [[Outside World]] humans passing through the barrier, Sumireko has made things "fun" in Gensokyo again. Marisa also tries to give advice on how to talk to the local residents.<br />
<br />
In [[Violet Detector]], Sumireko refers to both of them with friendly informal names like "Reimu-icchi" and "Marisa-icchi," typically used between close friends.<br />
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===[[Rinnosuke Morichika]]===<br />
In [[Curiosities of Lotus Asia]], which is primarily told through Rinnosuke's perspective, Rinnosuke and Sumireko often talk about the Outside World and the various items that filter in through the [[Great Hakurei Barrier]]. Rinnosuke shows a great deal of care towards Sumireko, worrying about her safety, while Sumireko seems to regard him as a nag, and goes so far as to criticize him for smoking cigarettes. Despite that, they seem to be good friends, and despite Rinnosuke's tendency to tell tall tales, they do seem to get along well enough.<br />
<br />
===[[Mamizou Futatsuiwa]]===<br />
In [[Alternative Facts in Eastern Utopia]], Sumireko mentions that Mamizou often visits her in the [[Outside World]]. The exact details of this aren't known, but Sumireko implies that they're friends, and that Sumireko respects her as an elder.<br />
<br />
===[[Kasen Ibaraki]]===<br />
In [[Alternative Facts in Eastern Utopia]], Sumireko mentions that her and Kasen are also friends, and says that they hang out a lot in Gensokyo, calling her "Kasen-chan."<br />
<br />
In [[Urban Legend in Limbo]], Kasen expresses resentment that Sumireko views youkai with such a casual and playful attitude, feeling that Sumireko should show youkai more respect.<br />
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===[[Fujiwara no Mokou]]===<br />
Initially annoyed by Sumireko, Mokou challenged Sumireko to a duel. The two found each other's strength admirable, and Mokou extended an invitation to have a rematch sometime in the future, apparently taking a shining to the young girl, and thanking her for giving her a tough challenge. It appears the two have become friendly rivals.<br />
<br />
===[[Renko Usami]]===<br />
Due to her name, similar appearance and involvement in the creation of the [[Secret Sealing Club]], she may have some kind of relation to Renko. However, the specifics of this connection is as yet unknown. Her profile suggests she is an ancestor of Renko, from the present time.<br />
<br />
===[[Okina Matara]]===<br />
In [[Violet Detector]], Okina ultimately assists Sumireko with resolving her real-self/dream-self/doppelganger mix-up situation, but not before toying with her for a little bit. As (real) Sumireko loses her memories of the incident, it's unknown if she remembers Okina at all. <br />
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===[[Doremy Sweet]]===<br />
In [[Antimony of Common Flowers]], Doremy teams up with Sumireko. During the incident, Sumireko is faced with fighting both her dream-self and her occult doppelganger, who have also teamed up to take down the "real" Sumireko. Doremy expresses confusion over how there can possibly be three Sumirekos at the same time in Gensokyo, but ultimately helps Sumireko resolve her issue at the time.<br />
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===[[Shinmyoumaru Sukuna]]===<br />
Sumireko finds Shinmyoumaru adorable, claiming to want to somehow take her home as a pet, much to her annoyance.<br />
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==Skills==<br />
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{{#lsth:List of Skills|[[Sumireko Usami]]}}<br />
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==Spell Cards==<br />
{{hidden begin|title = Spell Cards|titlestyle = background:palegreen; text-align:center;}} {{#lsth:List of Spell Cards/Touhou Project 3|[[Sumireko Usami]]}} {{hidden end}}<br />
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==Gallery==<br />
===Covers===<br />
<gallery><br />
File:Th145front.jpg|Cover of ''[[Urban Legend in Limbo]]'', featuring Sumireko's silhouette<br />
File:TFM-07.jpg|Cover of ''[[Urban Legend in Limbo OST]]'', featuring Sumireko<br />
File:Th165cover.jpg|Cover of ''[[Violet Detector]]'', featuring Sumireko's silhouette<br />
File:WaHH 6 Cover.jpg|Sumireko on the Vol. 6 cover of ''[[Wild and Horned Hermit]]''<br />
File:CoLA28CleanCover.jpg|Sumireko in ''[[Curiosities of Lotus Asia]]''<br />
File:CoLA29CleanCover.jpg|Sumireko in ''[[Curiosities of Lotus Asia]]''<br />
File:GoU_cover.jpg|Sumireko in ''[[The Grimoire of Usami]]''<br />
</gallery><br />
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===Artworks===<br />
<gallery><br />
File:Th155Sumireko.png|Sumireko's artwork from ''[[Urban Legend in Limbo]]'' and ''[[Antinomy of Common Flowers]]''<br />
File:Th145Sumireko2.png|Sumireko's pre-battle artwork from ''[[Urban Legend in Limbo]]'' and ''[[Antinomy of Common Flowers]]''<br />
</gallery><br />
<br />
===Sprites===<br />
<gallery><br />
File:Th155SumirekoColors.png|Sumireko's different color palettes from ''[[Antinomy of Common Flowers|AoCF]]'' and ''[[Urban Legend in Limbo|ULiL]]'', the last two were added in AoCF v1.10<br />
</gallery><br />
<br />
==Additional Information==<br />
*Sumireko's silhouette occupies the front of ''[[Urban Legend in Limbo]]'' and ''[[Violet Detector]]'''s jewel case. Along with [[Cirno]], she's the only character to appear as the silhouette for two games' jewel cases in the Windows games.<br />
*Sumireko is the first final [[boss]] to be a [[human]] from outside [[Gensokyo]] since the [[PC-98]] game ''[[Phantasmagoria of Dim.Dream]]'', who was [[Yumemi Okazaki]]. Sumireko also has similarities to Yumemi besides this; both have an interest in magic, they tried to take an inhabitant of Gensokyo and had traps provided to lurk them into their area.<br />
*She is the first fighting game final boss whose story mode scenario is not the last to be unlocked.<br />
*The runes on her cloak do not appear to form any meaningful words, and some are even drawn from different runic alphabets (e.g. the old-form "sowilo" rune as written in Elder Futhark and the "stan" rune used by [[Wiktionary:Anglo-Saxons|Anglo-Saxon]] writers hundreds of years later).<br />
*Inside the game data for Urban Legend in Limbo, a folder named "Hanako" can be found that contains three sprites of a silhouetted Sumireko holding her cell phone. It's possible that Hanako was a working name for her, or was intended to be her name.<br />
** The 菫 (Sumire) part of her name is the name of a flower, from which the word for flower in Japanese is 花 (Hana). It could also be a codename. <br />
*[[Antinomy of Common Flowers]] confirms her to be a citizen of the Kantou Region. Incidentally, [[Renko]]'s parents also live in Tokyo.<br />
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==Fandom==<br />
{{main|Fandom/Spin-offs#Sumireko Usami|l1=Fandom: Sumireko Usami}}<br />
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==Official Profiles==<br />
{{hidden begin|title = [[Urban Legend in Limbo]] - <tt>{{H:title|{{lang|ja|キャラ設定とエキストラストーリー}}|Settings and Extra Story}}.txt</tt>|titlestyle = background:lightblue; text-align:center}}<br />
{{Profile Quote<br />
| image =[[File:Th145Sumireko.png|200px|Sumireko Usami ULiL]]<br />
| text = ○深秘を曝け!秘封倶楽部 初代会長<br><br />
宇佐見 菫子(うさみ すみれこ)<br />
<br />
種族:女子高生<br><br />
能力:超能力を操る程度の能力<br />
<br />
彼女は本物の超能力者であった。<br />
<br />
ネットで知識を深めた若者にありがちの全能感と、生まれ持った才能に<br><br />
より、特に中学の頃は『自分は他の人間より優れている』と思っていた。<br />
<br />
友達という物が無駄であるとは言わない。<br><br />
但しそれは知識の上での有用性であり、本当の心情は<br><br />
「友達を必要とする人種にとっては有益だ。<br><br />
群れたがる奴らにとってな」<br><br />
と心底馬鹿にしていたようである。<br />
<br />
そんなわけで友達が出来る訳も無く<br><br />
(彼女からしてみたら『必要が無かったので友達を作らなかった』、となる)<br><br />
他の人から見たら無惨な、だが本人は充実した学生生活を送っていた。<br />
<br />
この頃から、彼女は独自の研究を始めた。<br><br />
超能力を使える理由や、オカルト、都市伝説と呼ばれる物、等々。<br><br />
その中でも特に、この世界とは違う何処か異世界への憧れが強かった。<br />
<br />
<br />
そんな生活も高校に入ると一変する。<br><br />
彼女は(この手の人間にありがちだが)成績優秀だった。その為少し<br><br />
離れた私立の進学校に進学した。<br><br />
生徒はアチコチから集まっていた。それまでの人間関係は断たれ、新<br><br />
たに構築されようとしている。すると成績優秀な彼女の元にも関係を<br><br />
築こうと人が集まるようになっていた。硬化させた態度も逆に魅力で<br><br />
あったのかも知れない。<br />
<br />
<br />
だが、彼女は自分が他の人間とは違う種族である筈だと思い込んでいた。<br><br />
他の人間は『自分と普通の人間関係を築き、同レベルに引きずり込もう』<br><br />
と企む悪魔のような物だと言い聞かせた。<br />
<br />
聡明な彼女は人を追い払う為に『あえて』人を集めた。<br><br />
それが、非公認オカルトサークル『秘封倶楽部』であった。<br><br />
彼女の目論見通り、もう友達になろうと言う人は現われなかった。<br />
<br />
<br />
秘封倶楽部とは、異世界の秘密を自分の足で曝くサークルである。<br><br />
結果、彼女は世界の深秘に触れた。<br />
<br />
<br />
――はてさてそれから色々な出来事が起こり、<br><br />
結果、夢の世界に入れる様になる。<br />
<br />
そこでは自分の知識は上辺だけの物であると思い知らされた。経験<br><br />
こそがこの世界の真実であり、知識はそれを覆い隠す為にあるのだと。<br />
<br />
そして夢の中には、彼女が見下すことの出来ない人間達がいた。<br><br />
夢の中、いや幻想郷のお陰で、友達を作るのも悪くないと思うようになった。<br />
<br />
:<br><br />
:<br><br />
:<br />
<br />
……しかし、最後まで不可解な事があった。<br><br />
彼女が仕掛けた、異世界の扉を開くはずのパワーストーンだが、<br><br />
一つだけ別の物にすり替わっていたらしい。<br />
<br />
それは誰の仕業だろうか。<br><br />
そもそも幻想郷に実現する都市伝説が蔓延していたのも<br><br />
自分が仕掛けたのでは無いのだ。<br><br />
都市伝説は結界を破るために良いように働いたのだが、<br><br />
それも全て偶然、だったのだろうか?<br />
<br />
<br />
もしかしたら、内側から誰かが結界を破ろうとしているのではないか。<br><br />
自分のパワーストーンは逆に利用されたのではないか。<br><br />
彼女には最後まで判らなかった。<br />
| translation ='''Expose the Esoteric! The [[Secret Sealing Club]]'s First President'''<br><br />
Sumireko Usami<br />
<br />
Species: High-school girl<br><br />
Ability: Capable of manipulating psychic powers<br />
<br />
She was a genuine psychic.<br />
<br />
Thanks to the sense of omnipotence common to youths who furthered their knowledge via the internet, and to the talents she was born with, she began to think that "she was superior to other people," particularly around the time when she was in middle school.<br />
<br />
It wasn't to say that friends were ''useless'' or anything.<br><br />
It was just that they were useful to have from a simple knowledge standpoint.<br><br />
What she really thought was that "friends are beneficial for the sort of people who actually ''need'' them. Like, the sort of people who want others to flock around them."<br><br />
In the back of her mind, she mocked them.<br />
<br />
Thus, unable to make any friends, (although she herself would frame it as "I didn't make any because I just didn't need any",) she lived a school life that others would view as tragic, but she herself was enriched by.<br />
<br />
It was around that time that she began research of her own.<br><br />
Why she could use psychic powers, occult phenomena, that which we call 'urban legends', et cetera.<br><br />
In particular, she developed a strong interest in worlds separate from our own.<br />
<br />
When she entered high school, her lifestyle instantly changed.<br><br />
She was a model student (not uncommon for people such as her), and as a result, she advanced to a somewhat isolated private prep school. The school gathered students from all over; having been separated from their previous relationships, they strove to construct those relationships anew. As such, many people tried to strike up friendships with her, model student that she was. Her stiff attitude may have actually contributed to her appeal.<br />
<br />
However, she was convinced that she was of a different sort than the other humans around her. Other people, as far as she was concerned, may as well have been demons plotting to form regular relationships with her in order to drag her down to their level.<br />
<br />
In a smart move, she ''deliberately'' gathered people around her so as to drive them away.<br><br />
She formed an unauthorized occult circle: the "Secret Sealing Club".<br><br />
Just as she expected, nobody came up to her saying they wanted to be friends anymore.<br />
<br />
The Secret Sealing Club was a circle dedicated to exposing the secrets of other worlds with their own power.<br><br />
As a result, she made contact with the deep secrets of the world.<br />
<br />
---and so, various things occurred from there,<br><br />
and as a result, she became able to enter the world of dreams.<br />
<br />
There, she was made to realize that all her knowledge was only superficial. ''Experience'' is the real truth of this world, and her pursuit of factual knowledge was only something to cover for this.<br />
<br />
And in that dream, she at last met people who she couldn't look down on.<br><br />
Thanks to that dream--- no, thanks to Gensokyo, she found herself starting to think that maybe making some friends wouldn't be so bad after all.<br />
<br />
....<br />
<br />
....<br />
<br />
....<br />
<br />
...however, there was one thing that remained incomprehensible in the end.<br><br />
Out of all the power stones that she set up in order to open the door to the other world,<br><br />
one single stone seemed to have been switched with another.<br />
<br />
Whose doing was this?<br><br />
In the first place, the urban legends manifesting and spreading through Gensokyo were not something that she had planned. The urban legends had taken action such that a hole would be broken in the barrier, in the end, but was that really just a coincidence...?<br />
<br />
Perhaps [[Sagume Kishin|someone]] had been attempting to break the barrier from the inside.<br><br />
Had her power stones been used for [[Legacy of Lunatic Kingdom|someone else's purposes?]]<br><br />
She never did figure it out.<br />
}}<br />
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{{Profile Quote<br />
| image =[[File:Th145Sumireko.png|200px|Sumireko Usami AoCF]]<br />
| text =神秘主義で扱いに困る女学生<br />
<br />
宇佐見菫子<br/><br />
<br />
「なんか変なレイムね<br/><br />
今日は香霖堂に行きたいんだけどー」<br/><br />
<br />
今時の超能力女子高生<br/><br />
<br />
夢の中で幻想郷に訪れる事ができる彼女、<br/><br />
だが、この日の幻想郷はいつもと全く違う景色を見せていた<br/><br />
<br />
動かずどこからでも捉える超能力を駆使して戦う要塞タイプ<br/><br />
相手を前後左右から襲い掛かる瓦礫の山に埋めてしまおう<br/><br />
| translation ='''Mystic and Troublesome Female Student'''<br />
<br />
'''Sumireko Usami'''<br/><br />
<br />
''"Well, you sure are acting weird, Reimu.''<br/><br />
''I'd like to go to Kourindou today, if you don't mind...?"''<br/><br />
<br />
A modern high-school girl with psychic powers.<br/><br />
<br />
She has the ability to visit Gensokyo in her dreams, but the Gensokyo she saw today was utterly different from usual.<br/><br />
<br />
A zoning character who fights with her ESP, able to catch opponents anywhere without moving.<br/><br />
Bury your opponent in mountains of rubble that rain down from all sides!<br/><br />
}}<br />
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==Official Sources==<br />
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*2015/05/10 '''[[Urban Legend in Limbo]]''' - Final boss and playable character<br />
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<div>{{Infobox Character<br />
| nameJp = {{ruby-ja|宇佐見|うさみ}} {{ruby-ja|菫子|すみれこ}}<br />
| nameEn = Sumireko Usami<br />
| nameIPA = ɯᵝsa̠mi sɯᵝmiɺ̠e̞ko̞<br />
| image = [[File:Th165Sumireko.png|x300px|Sumireko Usami]]<br />
| caption = Sumireko Usami in [[Violet Detector]]<br />
| chartitle = {{H:title|Expose the Esoteric! The Secret Sealing Club's First President|深秘を曝け!秘封倶楽部 初代会長}}<br />
| species = [[Human]]/Doppelganger<br />
| abilities = Assorted psychic powers (ESP)<br />
| age =15−16 years old (as of ''Urban Legend in Limbo'')<br />
| occupation = High school student at Higashifukami High School, part-timer at [[Kourindou]]<ref>Curiosities of Lotus Asia, Chapter 36</ref><br />
| location = [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kant%C5%8D_region Kanto Region], [[Outside World]]<br />
| MusicThemes = *{{H:title|{{lang|ja|ラストオカルティズム ~ 現し世の秘術師}}|Last Occultism ~ Esotericist of the Present World}} ([[Urban Legend in Limbo]], [[Antinomy of Common Flowers]]) <br />
*{{H:title|{{lang|ja|燕石博物誌が連れてきた闇}}|The Darkness Brought In by Swallowstone Naturalis Historia}} ([[Violet Detector]], as Real World Sumireko)<br />
*{{H:title|{{lang|ja|秘匿されたフォーシーズンズ}}|The Concealed Four Seasons}} ([[Violet Detector]], as Dream Soul Sumireko)<br />
| appOfficialgames = *''[[Urban Legend in Limbo]]'' (Final Boss, Playable Character)<br />
*''[[Antinomy of Common Flowers]]'' (Playable Character, Possible Opponent)<br />
*''[[Violet Detector]]'' (Main Character, Cover, Nightmare Diary Boss)<br />
| appPrintworks = *''[[Wild and Horned Hermit]]'' (Chapter 29, 31 cameo, 34, 35 cameo)<br />
*''[[Forbidden Scrollery]]'' (Chapter 34 cameo)<br />
*''[[Visionary Fairies in Shrine]]'' (Chapters 2, 7 Cameo)<br />
*''[[Curiosities of Lotus Asia]]'' (Secondary Character)<br />
*''[[Alternative Facts in Eastern Utopia]]'' (Interviews)<br />
* ''[[The Grimoire of Usami]]'' (Main Character)<br />
* ''[[Strange Creators of Outer World/Who's Who of Humans & Youkai - Dusk Edition|Who's Who of Humans & Youkai - Dusk Edition]]''<br />
| appMusicCDs = *''[[Urban Legend in Limbo OST]]'' (CD cover)<br />
| appMiscworks = <br />
| appOther = <br />
}}<br />
{{nihongo|'''Sumireko Usami'''|宇佐見 菫子|Usami Sumireko}} is the main antagonist of [[Urban Legend in Limbo]] and is the main protagonist of [[Violet Detector]]. She's a [[human]] from the [[Outside World]] with psychic powers (ESP). She is the first president of the [[Secret Sealing Club]].<br />
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==General Information==<br />
Sumireko first appeared as the Final Boss of ''[[Urban Legend in Limbo]]'', and eventually becomes a playable character of the same game.<br />
<br />
===Personality===<br />
Sumireko has shown herself to be extremely intelligent, determined, passionate, and [[Wikipedia:hubris|hubristic]] in equal parts. At her worst, she can devolve into stubbornness and outright obstinance, going so far as to put herself in grave danger to achieve her goals.<br />
<br />
Despite her apparent superiority complex, she has grown to have a deep respect and admiration for the inhabitants of Gensokyo, referring to many of them as her friends, and looking up to them for mentorship and guidance. She describes herself as having been a bit of a loner prior to her arrival in Gensokyo, and she considers her discovery of Gensokyo to be the best thing to have happened in her life due to the friendships she's made there.<br />
<br />
She also describes herself as being [[Wikipedia:Chūnibyō|chuunibyou]], a term usually used mockingly, with a sense of personal pride, alluding to her psychic powers and other magical abilities. In spite of that pride, she does lament that nobody in the Outside World seems to be able to understand her or her passion about the occult and Gensokyo. This may also be in part due to how highly opinionated she is, espousing her beliefs about the "phoniness" of the [[Outside World]]'s dominant consumerist culture at the slightest provocation.<ref>[[Alternative Facts in Eastern Utopia]] - [[Alternative Facts in Eastern Utopia/Article and Interview/Sumireko Usami|Sumireko Usami Interview]]</ref> <br />
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Sumireko seems to hold several contradictory opinions, although it comes off less as hypocrisy, and more as though she hasn't been able to fully make up her mind about certain subjects due to her inexperience of being a teenager.<br />
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===Abilities===<br />
;Esper<br />
She is a strong psychic, an individual capable of various powers associated with the paranormal, including but seemingly not limited to levitation, pyrokinesis, hydrokinesis, telekinesis, psychokinesis and teleportation.<br />
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==Background Information==<br />
===Name===<br />
Her full name is {{nihongo|''Sumireko Usami''|宇佐見 菫子|Usami Sumireko}}. {{nihongo|''Usami''|宇佐見}} uses the same writing as [[Renko Usami]]'s surname and it is known to be an actual name in Japanese. {{nihongo|''Sumireko''|菫子}} literally means "violet child" and is also similar to how Renko's name means "lotus child", as both take their names from flowers.<br />
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===Design===<br />
Sumireko has brown eyes and shoulder-length brown hair tied in pigtails. On her head is a black hat with a white bow along with red-framed glasses. She wears a purple plaid skirt and matching sleeveless top (resembling a jumper dress), over a long-sleeved white blouse and a black bolo tie with a clasp shaped like a [[wikipedia:Quimbaya artifacts|"Quimbaya airplane"]]. Along with this, she wears white socks with bows and black shoes. Sumireko generally carries [[wikipedia:Zener cards|Zener cards]], a tablet computer marked with a hexagram on the back, a smartphone in a white case with various blue shapes on it and a light-blue [[wikipedia:Liberator_(gun)|liberator]]. She also wears white gloves, and a black, high-collared cloak with a red interior inscribed with pinkish-white runes and a series of white lines at the bottom rim of the backside.<br />
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Her summer uniform appears nearly identical to her winter one, but with shorter and looser sleeves, no gloves, and a skull in place of the Quimbaya airplane.<br />
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==Sumireko's Appearances==<br />
===Games===<br />
;''Urban Legend in Limbo''<br />
Sumireko is the main antagonist of ''Urban Legend in Limbo'' and the final boss in most of the characters' scenarios in story mode.<br />
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Sumireko manages to go through the [[Great Hakurei Barrier]] by using the [[Occult Ball]]s, which are special stones gathered from [[Mystery Spot]]s in the [[Outside World]]. However, after a short period, she is suddenly ejected from Gensokyo. Learning from this, Sumireko starts with brief excursions into Gensokyo to learn more about it, appearing to anyone who catches sight of her as an ominous black shadow.<br />
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Sumireko soon devises a plan to spread rumors of the Occult Ball's powers and scatters them around Gensokyo for its residents to find. Once the balls are gathered, they warp back to the Outside World along with whoever gathered them all, just for enough time for Sumireko to learn about them before they are transported back. She then re-enters Gensokyo and scatters the balls again, thus beginning the incident of ''Urban Legend in Limbo''. Her plan works for a while, and although she is baffled at why everyone who comes out of Gensokyo ends up fighting her, she enjoys it nonetheless. <br />
<br />
Soon enough, [[Mamizou Futatsuiwa]] is made aware of the incident and devises her own plan: she claims to have Gensokyo's own Occult Ball in her possession when challenging Sumireko, claiming it would allow her limitless travel between Gensokyo and the Outside World. Mamizou instead tricks Sumireko into entering Gensokyo the ''proper'' way, which does let her stay there, but as Sumireko does not know how to get back ''out'', she is trapped in Gensokyo.<br />
<br />
Sumireko's story mode in ''Urban Legend in Limbo'' follows her as she is trapped in Gensokyo, whose residents attempt to scare her to teach her a lesson. In the end, she is confronted by [[Toyosatomimi no Miko]], who reminds Sumireko that she can use the Occult Balls to escape Gensokyo temporarily. She returns to the Outside World, and believing she will eventually be killed by the youkai of Gensokyo, she decides that when her time in the Outside World runs out, she will sacrifice herself to, purportedly, unleash the full power of the Occult Balls and destroy the Great Hakurei Barrier.<br />
<br />
Before being brought back to Gensokyo, she is confronted by Reimu in her own story mode, who realized that one of Sumireko's Occult Balls was swapped for a [[Lunar Capital]] ball, which if activated would link Gensokyo with the Lunar Capital instead. Although Reimu defeats Sumireko and saves the Great Hakurei Barrier, the Lunar Capital ball was activated, setting up the events of ''[[Legacy of Lunatic Kingdom]]''. Upon returning to Gensokyo, Sumireko is detained by Reimu, Mamizou and [[Kasen Ibaraki]]. Deciding Sumireko was no longer a threat, they return her to the Outside World through the proper method.<br />
<br />
A few days later, Sumireko reappears at the [[Hakurei Shrine]], as she had discovered that ever since leaving Gensokyo, she could travel back there in her dreams. No longer antagonistic, she befriends Gensokyo's residents in earnest, and her tales of the Outside World turn her into a brief celebrity.<br />
<br />
;''Antinomy of Common Flowers''<br />
Sumireko is a playable character with an unlockable story mode in [[Antinomy of Common Flowers]]. In her story mode, she visited Gensokyo at a bad time as the [[Dream World]] has been thrown into chaos by the [[Joon Yorigami|Yorigami]] [[Shion Yorigami|Sisters]]' incident, and she ends up trapped there as a result.<br />
<br />
She teams up with [[Doremy Sweet]] to traverse through the Dream World and reach Gensokyo, whereupon they are tasked by [[Yukari Yakumo]] to dispatch Sumireko's own Dream Soul that has been released into the Outside World by the incident. Curiously Sumireko somehow encounters ''two'' of her own Dream Souls, but defeats them with Doremy's help. She awakes in the Outside World afterward, greeted by Doremy to confirm that she is the real Sumireko.<br />
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;''Violet Detector'' <br />
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Sumireko is the main protagonist of ''Violet Detector''. For some time, she has been having the same weird dream, in which she is constantly attacked by the residents of the dream world for no reason.<br />
She finally discovers that the dream dwellers hold a grudge against her for having a flesh body allowing her to go in the real world, and [[Doremy Sweet]] tells her that she can only expect the situation to worsen.<br />
After some time, she encounters and fight against [[Okina Matara]]. Okina is impressed by Sumireko who has been able to fend off the dream dwellers for quite some time. She offers her some help, in order to make the dream dwellers recognize her strength and make them stop attacking her. But in order to achieve that, she has to defeat even more powerful nightmares, so Okina lends Sumireko some powers on top of her psychic abilities, allowing her to cheat death in certain situations.<br />
<br />
Sumireko then goes on and fights powerful nightmares, in the form of strong dream dwellers teaming up against her. <br />
After a week of fighting, she encounters another Sumireko. During that confrontation, she realizes that she was actually the [[Phantom#Dream Soul|Dream Soul]] of the real Sumireko, the other one, who is trying to get her body back. But at this point, Dream Sumireko has become stronger than the real Sumireko and is able to defeat her.<br />
<br />
Okina, not willing to take any side in the confrontation between the two Sumirekos, decides to take back the power she lent Dream Sumireko to make things fair. The real Sumireko challenges her dream self once again and eventually defeats her.<br />
<br />
The next day, Sumireko wakes up in the real world as if nothing happened, having no recollection of what transpired in her mind. She stopped having those nightmares, but the photos of danmaku battles still lie in the memory of her smartphone.<br />
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===Print Works===<br />
Sumireko makes appearances in [[Grimoire of Usami]], [[Curiosities of Lotus Asia]], and [[Wild and Horned Hermit]].<br />
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Grimoire of Usami is a book of spellcards, similar to [[Grimoire of Marisa]], in which her and many other characters attend a danmaku fireworks festival, cataloging and critiquing danmaku patterns.<br />
<br />
In Curiosities of Lotus Asia, [[Rinnosuke Morichika]] catalogs Sumireko's trials and tribulations as she integrates herself into Gensokyo life, with the development of her occult doppelganger, and her disappearance during [[Violet Detector]].<br />
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in Wild and Horned Hermit, she makes a small cameo appearance for "World UFO Day," and accidentally summons a UFO to the main courtyard of the [[Hakurei Shrine]].<br />
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==Relationships==<br />
===[[Reimu Hakurei]] & [[Marisa Kirisame]]===<br />
In [[Urban Legend in Limbo]] and [[Curiosities of Lotus Asia]], Reimu and Marisa are frequently seen doting on her, making sure she's safe and trying to keep her from getting into trouble. In an interview with [[Aya Shameimaru]] in [[Alternative Facts in Eastern Utopia]], Sumireko refers to both Reimu and Marisa as friends she's made since coming to Gensokyo.<br />
<br />
Reimu admits that although she's worried about Sumireko's appearance in Gensokyo and its implications for more [[Outside World]] humans passing through the barrier, Sumireko has made things "fun" in Gensokyo again. Marisa also tries to give advice on how to talk to the local residents.<br />
<br />
In [[Violet Detector]], Sumireko refers to both of them with friendly informal names like "Reimu-icchi" and "Marisa-icchi," typically used between close friends.<br />
<br />
===[[Rinnosuke Morichika]]===<br />
In [[Curiosities of Lotus Asia]], which is primarily told through Rinnosuke's perspective, Rinnosuke and Sumireko often talk about the Outside World and the various items that filter in through the [[Great Hakurei Barrier]]. Rinnosuke shows a great deal of care towards Sumireko, worrying about her safety, while Sumireko seems to regard him as a nag, and goes so far as to criticize him for smoking cigarettes. Despite that, they seem to be good friends, and despite Rinnosuke's tendency to tell tall tales, they do seem to get along well enough.<br />
<br />
===[[Mamizou Futatsuiwa]]===<br />
In [[Alternative Facts in Eastern Utopia]], Sumireko mentions that Mamizou often visits her in the [[Outside World]]. The exact details of this aren't known, but Sumireko implies that they're friends, and that Sumireko respects her as an elder.<br />
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===[[Kasen Ibaraki]]===<br />
In [[Alternative Facts in Eastern Utopia]], Sumireko mentions that her and Kasen are also friends, and says that they hang out a lot in Gensokyo, calling her "Kasen-chan."<br />
<br />
In [[Urban Legend in Limbo]], Kasen expresses resentment that Sumireko views youkai with such a casual and playful attitude, feeling that Sumireko should show youkai more respect.<br />
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===[[Fujiwara no Mokou]]===<br />
Initially annoyed, Mokou challenged Sumireko to a duel. The two found each other's strength admirable, and once Mokou's time Outside is over, they parted ways in a dramatic fashion. Later, Mokou met Sumireko again in Gensokyo, and guided her out of the Bamboo Forest, notably not as silently as the former usually would. It seems the two of them have become fast friends.<br />
<br />
===[[Renko Usami]]===<br />
Due to her name, similar appearance and involvement in the creation of the [[Secret Sealing Club]], she may have some kind of relation to Renko. However, the specifics of this connection is as yet unknown. Her profile suggests she is an ancestor of Renko, from the present time.<br />
<br />
===[[Okina Matara]]===<br />
In [[Violet Detector]], Okina ultimately assists Sumireko with resolving her real-self/dream-self/doppelganger mix-up situation, but not before toying with her for a little bit. As (real) Sumireko loses her memories of the incident, it's unknown if she remembers Okina at all. <br />
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===[[Doremy Sweet]]===<br />
In [[Antimony of Common Flowers]], Doremy teams up with Sumireko. During the incident, Sumireko is faced with fighting both her dream-self and her occult doppelganger, who have also teamed up to take down the "real" Sumireko. Doremy expresses confusion over how there can possibly be three Sumirekos at the same time in Gensokyo, but ultimately helps Sumireko resolve her issue at the time.<br />
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===[[Shinmyoumaru Sukuna]]===<br />
Sumireko finds Shinmyoumaru adorable, claiming to want to somehow take her home as a pet, much to her annoyance.<br />
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==Skills==<br />
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==Spell Cards==<br />
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==Gallery==<br />
===Covers===<br />
<gallery><br />
File:Th145front.jpg|Cover of ''[[Urban Legend in Limbo]]'', featuring Sumireko's silhouette<br />
File:TFM-07.jpg|Cover of ''[[Urban Legend in Limbo OST]]'', featuring Sumireko<br />
File:Th165cover.jpg|Cover of ''[[Violet Detector]]'', featuring Sumireko's silhouette<br />
File:WaHH 6 Cover.jpg|Sumireko on the Vol. 6 cover of ''[[Wild and Horned Hermit]]''<br />
File:CoLA28CleanCover.jpg|Sumireko in ''[[Curiosities of Lotus Asia]]''<br />
File:CoLA29CleanCover.jpg|Sumireko in ''[[Curiosities of Lotus Asia]]''<br />
File:GoU_cover.jpg|Sumireko in ''[[The Grimoire of Usami]]''<br />
</gallery><br />
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===Artworks===<br />
<gallery><br />
File:Th155Sumireko.png|Sumireko's artwork from ''[[Urban Legend in Limbo]]'' and ''[[Antinomy of Common Flowers]]''<br />
File:Th145Sumireko2.png|Sumireko's pre-battle artwork from ''[[Urban Legend in Limbo]]'' and ''[[Antinomy of Common Flowers]]''<br />
</gallery><br />
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===Sprites===<br />
<gallery><br />
File:Th155SumirekoColors.png|Sumireko's different color palettes from ''[[Antinomy of Common Flowers|AoCF]]'' and ''[[Urban Legend in Limbo|ULiL]]'', the last two were added in AoCF v1.10<br />
</gallery><br />
<br />
==Additional Information==<br />
*Sumireko's silhouette occupies the front of ''[[Urban Legend in Limbo]]'' and ''[[Violet Detector]]'''s jewel case. Along with [[Cirno]], she's the only character to appear as the silhouette for two games' jewel cases in the Windows games.<br />
*Sumireko is the first final [[boss]] to be a [[human]] from outside [[Gensokyo]] since the [[PC-98]] game ''[[Phantasmagoria of Dim.Dream]]'', who was [[Yumemi Okazaki]]. Sumireko also has similarities to Yumemi besides this; both have an interest in magic, they tried to take an inhabitant of Gensokyo and had traps provided to lurk them into their area.<br />
*She is the first fighting game final boss whose story mode scenario is not the last to be unlocked.<br />
*The runes on her cloak do not appear to form any meaningful words, and some are even drawn from different runic alphabets (e.g. the old-form "sowilo" rune as written in Elder Futhark and the "stan" rune used by [[Wiktionary:Anglo-Saxons|Anglo-Saxon]] writers hundreds of years later).<br />
*Inside the game data for Urban Legend in Limbo, a folder named "Hanako" can be found that contains three sprites of a silhouetted Sumireko holding her cell phone. It's possible that Hanako was a working name for her, or was intended to be her name.<br />
** The 菫 (Sumire) part of her name is the name of a flower, from which the word for flower in Japanese is 花 (Hana). It could also be a codename. <br />
*[[Antinomy of Common Flowers]] confirms her to be a citizen of the Kantou Region. Incidentally, [[Renko]]'s parents also live in Tokyo.<br />
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==Fandom==<br />
{{main|Fandom/Spin-offs#Sumireko Usami|l1=Fandom: Sumireko Usami}}<br />
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==Official Profiles==<br />
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{{Profile Quote<br />
| image =[[File:Th145Sumireko.png|200px|Sumireko Usami ULiL]]<br />
| text = ○深秘を曝け!秘封倶楽部 初代会長<br><br />
宇佐見 菫子(うさみ すみれこ)<br />
<br />
種族:女子高生<br><br />
能力:超能力を操る程度の能力<br />
<br />
彼女は本物の超能力者であった。<br />
<br />
ネットで知識を深めた若者にありがちの全能感と、生まれ持った才能に<br><br />
より、特に中学の頃は『自分は他の人間より優れている』と思っていた。<br />
<br />
友達という物が無駄であるとは言わない。<br><br />
但しそれは知識の上での有用性であり、本当の心情は<br><br />
「友達を必要とする人種にとっては有益だ。<br><br />
群れたがる奴らにとってな」<br><br />
と心底馬鹿にしていたようである。<br />
<br />
そんなわけで友達が出来る訳も無く<br><br />
(彼女からしてみたら『必要が無かったので友達を作らなかった』、となる)<br><br />
他の人から見たら無惨な、だが本人は充実した学生生活を送っていた。<br />
<br />
この頃から、彼女は独自の研究を始めた。<br><br />
超能力を使える理由や、オカルト、都市伝説と呼ばれる物、等々。<br><br />
その中でも特に、この世界とは違う何処か異世界への憧れが強かった。<br />
<br />
<br />
そんな生活も高校に入ると一変する。<br><br />
彼女は(この手の人間にありがちだが)成績優秀だった。その為少し<br><br />
離れた私立の進学校に進学した。<br><br />
生徒はアチコチから集まっていた。それまでの人間関係は断たれ、新<br><br />
たに構築されようとしている。すると成績優秀な彼女の元にも関係を<br><br />
築こうと人が集まるようになっていた。硬化させた態度も逆に魅力で<br><br />
あったのかも知れない。<br />
<br />
<br />
だが、彼女は自分が他の人間とは違う種族である筈だと思い込んでいた。<br><br />
他の人間は『自分と普通の人間関係を築き、同レベルに引きずり込もう』<br><br />
と企む悪魔のような物だと言い聞かせた。<br />
<br />
聡明な彼女は人を追い払う為に『あえて』人を集めた。<br><br />
それが、非公認オカルトサークル『秘封倶楽部』であった。<br><br />
彼女の目論見通り、もう友達になろうと言う人は現われなかった。<br />
<br />
<br />
秘封倶楽部とは、異世界の秘密を自分の足で曝くサークルである。<br><br />
結果、彼女は世界の深秘に触れた。<br />
<br />
<br />
――はてさてそれから色々な出来事が起こり、<br><br />
結果、夢の世界に入れる様になる。<br />
<br />
そこでは自分の知識は上辺だけの物であると思い知らされた。経験<br><br />
こそがこの世界の真実であり、知識はそれを覆い隠す為にあるのだと。<br />
<br />
そして夢の中には、彼女が見下すことの出来ない人間達がいた。<br><br />
夢の中、いや幻想郷のお陰で、友達を作るのも悪くないと思うようになった。<br />
<br />
:<br><br />
:<br><br />
:<br />
<br />
……しかし、最後まで不可解な事があった。<br><br />
彼女が仕掛けた、異世界の扉を開くはずのパワーストーンだが、<br><br />
一つだけ別の物にすり替わっていたらしい。<br />
<br />
それは誰の仕業だろうか。<br><br />
そもそも幻想郷に実現する都市伝説が蔓延していたのも<br><br />
自分が仕掛けたのでは無いのだ。<br><br />
都市伝説は結界を破るために良いように働いたのだが、<br><br />
それも全て偶然、だったのだろうか?<br />
<br />
<br />
もしかしたら、内側から誰かが結界を破ろうとしているのではないか。<br><br />
自分のパワーストーンは逆に利用されたのではないか。<br><br />
彼女には最後まで判らなかった。<br />
| translation ='''Expose the Esoteric! The [[Secret Sealing Club]]'s First President'''<br><br />
Sumireko Usami<br />
<br />
Species: High-school girl<br><br />
Ability: Capable of manipulating psychic powers<br />
<br />
She was a genuine psychic.<br />
<br />
Thanks to the sense of omnipotence common to youths who furthered their knowledge via the internet, and to the talents she was born with, she began to think that "she was superior to other people," particularly around the time when she was in middle school.<br />
<br />
It wasn't to say that friends were ''useless'' or anything.<br><br />
It was just that they were useful to have from a simple knowledge standpoint.<br><br />
What she really thought was that "friends are beneficial for the sort of people who actually ''need'' them. Like, the sort of people who want others to flock around them."<br><br />
In the back of her mind, she mocked them.<br />
<br />
Thus, unable to make any friends, (although she herself would frame it as "I didn't make any because I just didn't need any",) she lived a school life that others would view as tragic, but she herself was enriched by.<br />
<br />
It was around that time that she began research of her own.<br><br />
Why she could use psychic powers, occult phenomena, that which we call 'urban legends', et cetera.<br><br />
In particular, she developed a strong interest in worlds separate from our own.<br />
<br />
When she entered high school, her lifestyle instantly changed.<br><br />
She was a model student (not uncommon for people such as her), and as a result, she advanced to a somewhat isolated private prep school. The school gathered students from all over; having been separated from their previous relationships, they strove to construct those relationships anew. As such, many people tried to strike up friendships with her, model student that she was. Her stiff attitude may have actually contributed to her appeal.<br />
<br />
However, she was convinced that she was of a different sort than the other humans around her. Other people, as far as she was concerned, may as well have been demons plotting to form regular relationships with her in order to drag her down to their level.<br />
<br />
In a smart move, she ''deliberately'' gathered people around her so as to drive them away.<br><br />
She formed an unauthorized occult circle: the "Secret Sealing Club".<br><br />
Just as she expected, nobody came up to her saying they wanted to be friends anymore.<br />
<br />
The Secret Sealing Club was a circle dedicated to exposing the secrets of other worlds with their own power.<br><br />
As a result, she made contact with the deep secrets of the world.<br />
<br />
---and so, various things occurred from there,<br><br />
and as a result, she became able to enter the world of dreams.<br />
<br />
There, she was made to realize that all her knowledge was only superficial. ''Experience'' is the real truth of this world, and her pursuit of factual knowledge was only something to cover for this.<br />
<br />
And in that dream, she at last met people who she couldn't look down on.<br><br />
Thanks to that dream--- no, thanks to Gensokyo, she found herself starting to think that maybe making some friends wouldn't be so bad after all.<br />
<br />
....<br />
<br />
....<br />
<br />
....<br />
<br />
...however, there was one thing that remained incomprehensible in the end.<br><br />
Out of all the power stones that she set up in order to open the door to the other world,<br><br />
one single stone seemed to have been switched with another.<br />
<br />
Whose doing was this?<br><br />
In the first place, the urban legends manifesting and spreading through Gensokyo were not something that she had planned. The urban legends had taken action such that a hole would be broken in the barrier, in the end, but was that really just a coincidence...?<br />
<br />
Perhaps [[Sagume Kishin|someone]] had been attempting to break the barrier from the inside.<br><br />
Had her power stones been used for [[Legacy of Lunatic Kingdom|someone else's purposes?]]<br><br />
She never did figure it out.<br />
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| text =神秘主義で扱いに困る女学生<br />
<br />
宇佐見菫子<br/><br />
<br />
「なんか変なレイムね<br/><br />
今日は香霖堂に行きたいんだけどー」<br/><br />
<br />
今時の超能力女子高生<br/><br />
<br />
夢の中で幻想郷に訪れる事ができる彼女、<br/><br />
だが、この日の幻想郷はいつもと全く違う景色を見せていた<br/><br />
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動かずどこからでも捉える超能力を駆使して戦う要塞タイプ<br/><br />
相手を前後左右から襲い掛かる瓦礫の山に埋めてしまおう<br/><br />
| translation ='''Mystic and Troublesome Female Student'''<br />
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'''Sumireko Usami'''<br/><br />
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''"Well, you sure are acting weird, Reimu.''<br/><br />
''I'd like to go to Kourindou today, if you don't mind...?"''<br/><br />
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A modern high-school girl with psychic powers.<br/><br />
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She has the ability to visit Gensokyo in her dreams, but the Gensokyo she saw today was utterly different from usual.<br/><br />
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A zoning character who fights with her ESP, able to catch opponents anywhere without moving.<br/><br />
Bury your opponent in mountains of rubble that rain down from all sides!<br/><br />
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==Official Sources==<br />
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*2015/05/10 '''[[Urban Legend in Limbo]]''' - Final boss and playable character<br />
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| nameJp = {{ruby-ja|宇佐見|うさみ}} {{ruby-ja|菫子|すみれこ}}<br />
| nameEn = Sumireko Usami<br />
| nameIPA = ɯᵝsa̠mi sɯᵝmiɺ̠e̞ko̞<br />
| image = [[File:Th165Sumireko.png|x300px|Sumireko Usami]]<br />
| caption = Sumireko Usami in [[Violet Detector]]<br />
| chartitle = {{H:title|Expose the Esoteric! The Secret Sealing Club's First President|深秘を曝け!秘封倶楽部 初代会長}}<br />
| species = [[Human]]/Doppelganger<br />
| abilities = Assorted psychic powers (ESP)<br />
| age =15−16 years old (as of ''Urban Legend in Limbo'')<br />
| occupation = High school student at Higashifukami High School, part-timer at [[Kourindou]]<ref>Curiosities of Lotus Asia, Chapter 36</ref><br />
| location = [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kant%C5%8D_region Kanto Region], [[Outside World]]<br />
| MusicThemes = *{{H:title|{{lang|ja|ラストオカルティズム ~ 現し世の秘術師}}|Last Occultism ~ Esotericist of the Present World}} ([[Urban Legend in Limbo]], [[Antinomy of Common Flowers]]) <br />
*{{H:title|{{lang|ja|燕石博物誌が連れてきた闇}}|The Darkness Brought In by Swallowstone Naturalis Historia}} ([[Violet Detector]], as Real World Sumireko)<br />
*{{H:title|{{lang|ja|秘匿されたフォーシーズンズ}}|The Concealed Four Seasons}} ([[Violet Detector]], as Dream Soul Sumireko)<br />
| appOfficialgames = *''[[Urban Legend in Limbo]]'' (Final Boss, Playable Character)<br />
*''[[Antinomy of Common Flowers]]'' (Playable Character, Possible Opponent)<br />
*''[[Violet Detector]]'' (Main Character, Cover, Nightmare Diary Boss)<br />
| appPrintworks = *''[[Wild and Horned Hermit]]'' (Chapter 29, 31 cameo, 34, 35 cameo)<br />
*''[[Forbidden Scrollery]]'' (Chapter 34 cameo)<br />
*''[[Visionary Fairies in Shrine]]'' (Chapters 2, 7 Cameo)<br />
*''[[Curiosities of Lotus Asia]]'' (Secondary Character)<br />
*''[[Alternative Facts in Eastern Utopia]]'' (Interviews)<br />
* ''[[The Grimoire of Usami]]'' (Main Character)<br />
* ''[[Strange Creators of Outer World/Who's Who of Humans & Youkai - Dusk Edition|Who's Who of Humans & Youkai - Dusk Edition]]''<br />
| appMusicCDs = *''[[Urban Legend in Limbo OST]]'' (CD cover)<br />
| appMiscworks = <br />
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{{nihongo|'''Sumireko Usami'''|宇佐見 菫子|Usami Sumireko}} is the main antagonist of [[Urban Legend in Limbo]] and is the main protagonist of [[Violet Detector]]. She's a [[human]] from the [[Outside World]] with psychic powers (ESP). She is the first president of the [[Secret Sealing Club]].<br />
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==General Information==<br />
Sumireko first appeared as the Final Boss of ''[[Urban Legend in Limbo]]'', and eventually becomes a playable character of the same game.<br />
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===Personality===<br />
Sumireko has shown herself to be extremely intelligent, determined, passionate, and [[Wikipedia:hubris|hubristic]] in equal parts. At her worst, she can devolve into stubbornness and outright obstinance, going so far as to put herself in grave danger to achieve her goals.<br />
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Despite her apparent superiority complex, she has grown to have a deep respect and admiration for the inhabitants of Gensokyo, referring to many of them as her friends, and looking up to them for mentorship and guidance. She described herself as a bit of a loner prior to her arrival in Gensokyo, and she considers her discovery of Gensokyo to be the best thing to have happened in her life due to the friendships she's made there.<br />
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She describes herself as being [[Wikipedia:Chūnibyō|chuunibyou]], a term usually used mockingly, with a sense of personal pride, alluding to her psychic powers and other magical abilities. In spite of that pride, she does lament that nobody in the Outside World seems to be able to understand her or her passion about the occult and Gensokyo. This may also be in part due to how highly opinionated she is, espousing her beliefs about the "phoniness" of the [[Outside World]]'s dominant consumerist culture at the slightest provocation.<ref>[[Alternative Facts in Eastern Utopia]] - [[Alternative Facts in Eastern Utopia/Article and Interview/Sumireko Usami|Sumireko Usami Interview]]</ref> <br />
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Sumireko does seem to hold several contradictory opinions, although it comes off less as hypocrisy, and more as though she hasn't been able to fully make up her mind about certain subjects due to her inexperience of being a teenager.<br />
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===Abilities===<br />
;Esper<br />
She is a strong psychic, an individual capable of various powers associated with the paranormal, including but seemingly not limited to levitation, pyrokinesis, hydrokinesis, telekinesis, psychokinesis and teleportation.<br />
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==Background Information==<br />
===Name===<br />
Her full name is {{nihongo|''Sumireko Usami''|宇佐見 菫子|Usami Sumireko}}. {{nihongo|''Usami''|宇佐見}} uses the same writing as [[Renko Usami]]'s surname and it is known to be an actual name in Japanese. {{nihongo|''Sumireko''|菫子}} literally means "violet child" and is also similar to how Renko's name means "lotus child", as both take their names from flowers.<br />
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===Design===<br />
Sumireko has brown eyes and shoulder-length brown hair tied in pigtails. On her head is a black hat with a white bow along with red-framed glasses. She wears a purple plaid skirt and matching sleeveless top (resembling a jumper dress), over a long-sleeved white blouse and a black bolo tie with a clasp shaped like a [[wikipedia:Quimbaya artifacts|"Quimbaya airplane"]]. Along with this, she wears white socks with bows and black shoes. Sumireko generally carries [[wikipedia:Zener cards|Zener cards]], a tablet computer marked with a hexagram on the back, a smartphone in a white case with various blue shapes on it and a light-blue [[wikipedia:Liberator_(gun)|liberator]]. She also wears white gloves, and a black, high-collared cloak with a red interior inscribed with pinkish-white runes and a series of white lines at the bottom rim of the backside.<br />
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Her summer uniform appears nearly identical to her winter one, but with shorter and looser sleeves, no gloves, and a skull in place of the Quimbaya airplane.<br />
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==Sumireko's Appearances==<br />
===Games===<br />
;''Urban Legend in Limbo''<br />
Sumireko is the main antagonist of ''Urban Legend in Limbo'' and the final boss in most of the characters' scenarios in story mode.<br />
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Sumireko manages to go through the [[Great Hakurei Barrier]] by using the [[Occult Ball]]s, which are special stones gathered from [[Mystery Spot]]s in the [[Outside World]]. However, after a short period, she is suddenly ejected from Gensokyo. Learning from this, Sumireko starts with brief excursions into Gensokyo to learn more about it, appearing to anyone who catches sight of her as an ominous black shadow.<br />
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Sumireko soon devises a plan to spread rumors of the Occult Ball's powers and scatters them around Gensokyo for its residents to find. Once the balls are gathered, they warp back to the Outside World along with whoever gathered them all, just for enough time for Sumireko to learn about them before they are transported back. She then re-enters Gensokyo and scatters the balls again, thus beginning the incident of ''Urban Legend in Limbo''. Her plan works for a while, and although she is baffled at why everyone who comes out of Gensokyo ends up fighting her, she enjoys it nonetheless. <br />
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Soon enough, [[Mamizou Futatsuiwa]] is made aware of the incident and devises her own plan: she claims to have Gensokyo's own Occult Ball in her possession when challenging Sumireko, claiming it would allow her limitless travel between Gensokyo and the Outside World. Mamizou instead tricks Sumireko into entering Gensokyo the ''proper'' way, which does let her stay there, but as Sumireko does not know how to get back ''out'', she is trapped in Gensokyo.<br />
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Sumireko's story mode in ''Urban Legend in Limbo'' follows her as she is trapped in Gensokyo, whose residents attempt to scare her to teach her a lesson. In the end, she is confronted by [[Toyosatomimi no Miko]], who reminds Sumireko that she can use the Occult Balls to escape Gensokyo temporarily. She returns to the Outside World, and believing she will eventually be killed by the youkai of Gensokyo, she decides that when her time in the Outside World runs out, she will sacrifice herself to, purportedly, unleash the full power of the Occult Balls and destroy the Great Hakurei Barrier.<br />
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Before being brought back to Gensokyo, she is confronted by Reimu in her own story mode, who realized that one of Sumireko's Occult Balls was swapped for a [[Lunar Capital]] ball, which if activated would link Gensokyo with the Lunar Capital instead. Although Reimu defeats Sumireko and saves the Great Hakurei Barrier, the Lunar Capital ball was activated, setting up the events of ''[[Legacy of Lunatic Kingdom]]''. Upon returning to Gensokyo, Sumireko is detained by Reimu, Mamizou and [[Kasen Ibaraki]]. Deciding Sumireko was no longer a threat, they return her to the Outside World through the proper method.<br />
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A few days later, Sumireko reappears at the [[Hakurei Shrine]], as she had discovered that ever since leaving Gensokyo, she could travel back there in her dreams. No longer antagonistic, she befriends Gensokyo's residents in earnest, and her tales of the Outside World turn her into a brief celebrity.<br />
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;''Antinomy of Common Flowers''<br />
Sumireko is a playable character with an unlockable story mode in [[Antinomy of Common Flowers]]. In her story mode, she visited Gensokyo at a bad time as the [[Dream World]] has been thrown into chaos by the [[Joon Yorigami|Yorigami]] [[Shion Yorigami|Sisters]]' incident, and she ends up trapped there as a result.<br />
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She teams up with [[Doremy Sweet]] to traverse through the Dream World and reach Gensokyo, whereupon they are tasked by [[Yukari Yakumo]] to dispatch Sumireko's own Dream Soul that has been released into the Outside World by the incident. Curiously Sumireko somehow encounters ''two'' of her own Dream Souls, but defeats them with Doremy's help. She awakes in the Outside World afterward, greeted by Doremy to confirm that she is the real Sumireko.<br />
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;''Violet Detector'' <br />
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Sumireko is the main protagonist of ''Violet Detector''. For some time, she has been having the same weird dream, in which she is constantly attacked by the residents of the dream world for no reason.<br />
She finally discovers that the dream dwellers hold a grudge against her for having a flesh body allowing her to go in the real world, and [[Doremy Sweet]] tells her that she can only expect the situation to worsen.<br />
After some time, she encounters and fight against [[Okina Matara]]. Okina is impressed by Sumireko who has been able to fend off the dream dwellers for quite some time. She offers her some help, in order to make the dream dwellers recognize her strength and make them stop attacking her. But in order to achieve that, she has to defeat even more powerful nightmares, so Okina lends Sumireko some powers on top of her psychic abilities, allowing her to cheat death in certain situations.<br />
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Sumireko then goes on and fights powerful nightmares, in the form of strong dream dwellers teaming up against her. <br />
After a week of fighting, she encounters another Sumireko. During that confrontation, she realizes that she was actually the [[Phantom#Dream Soul|Dream Soul]] of the real Sumireko, the other one, who is trying to get her body back. But at this point, Dream Sumireko has become stronger than the real Sumireko and is able to defeat her.<br />
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Okina, not willing to take any side in the confrontation between the two Sumirekos, decides to take back the power she lent Dream Sumireko to make things fair. The real Sumireko challenges her dream self once again and eventually defeats her.<br />
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The next day, Sumireko wakes up in the real world as if nothing happened, having no recollection of what transpired in her mind. She stopped having those nightmares, but the photos of danmaku battles still lie in the memory of her smartphone.<br />
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===Print Works===<br />
Sumireko makes appearances in [[Grimoire of Usami]], [[Curiosities of Lotus Asia]], and [[Wild and Horned Hermit]].<br />
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Grimoire of Usami is a book of spellcards, similar to [[Grimoire of Marisa]], in which her and many other characters attend a danmaku fireworks festival, cataloging and critiquing danmaku patterns.<br />
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In Curiosities of Lotus Asia, [[Rinnosuke Morichika]] catalogs Sumireko's trials and tribulations as she integrates herself into Gensokyo life, with the development of her occult doppelganger, and her disappearance during [[Violet Detector]].<br />
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in Wild and Horned Hermit, she makes a small cameo appearance for "World UFO Day," and accidentally summons a UFO to the main courtyard of the [[Hakurei Shrine]].<br />
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==Relationships==<br />
===[[Reimu Hakurei]] & [[Marisa Kirisame]]===<br />
In [[Urban Legend in Limbo]] and [[Curiosities of Lotus Asia]], Reimu and Marisa are frequently seen doting on her, making sure she's safe and trying to keep her from getting into trouble. In an interview with [[Aya Shameimaru]] in [[Alternative Facts in Eastern Utopia]], Sumireko refers to both Reimu and Marisa as friends she's made since coming to Gensokyo.<br />
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Reimu admits that although she's worried about Sumireko's appearance in Gensokyo and its implications for more [[Outside World]] humans passing through the barrier, Sumireko has made things "fun" in Gensokyo again. Marisa also tries to give advice on how to talk to the local residents.<br />
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In [[Violet Detector]], Sumireko refers to both of them with friendly informal names like "Reimu-icchi" and "Marisa-icchi," typically used between close friends.<br />
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===[[Rinnosuke Morichika]]===<br />
In [[Curiosities of Lotus Asia]], which is primarily told through Rinnosuke's perspective, Rinnosuke and Sumireko often talk about the Outside World and the various items that filter in through the [[Great Hakurei Barrier]]. Rinnosuke shows a great deal of care towards Sumireko, worrying about her safety, while Sumireko seems to regard him as a nag, and goes so far as to criticize him for smoking cigarettes. Despite that, they seem to be good friends, and despite Rinnosuke's tendency to tell tall tales, they do seem to get along well enough.<br />
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===[[Mamizou Futatsuiwa]]===<br />
In [[Alternative Facts in Eastern Utopia]], Sumireko mentions that Mamizou often visits her in the [[Outside World]]. The exact details of this aren't known, but Sumireko implies that they're friends, and that Sumireko respects her as an elder.<br />
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===[[Kasen Ibaraki]]===<br />
In [[Alternative Facts in Eastern Utopia]], Sumireko mentions that her and Kasen are also friends, and says that they hang out a lot in Gensokyo, calling her "Kasen-chan."<br />
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In [[Urban Legend in Limbo]], Kasen expresses resentment that Sumireko views youkai with such a casual and playful attitude, feeling that Sumireko should show youkai more respect.<br />
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===[[Fujiwara no Mokou]]===<br />
Initially annoyed, Mokou challenged Sumireko to a duel. The two found each other's strength admirable, and once Mokou's time Outside is over, they parted ways in a dramatic fashion. Later, Mokou met Sumireko again in Gensokyo, and guided her out of the Bamboo Forest, notably not as silently as the former usually would. It seems the two of them have become fast friends.<br />
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===[[Renko Usami]]===<br />
Due to her name, similar appearance and involvement in the creation of the [[Secret Sealing Club]], she may have some kind of relation to Renko. However, the specifics of this connection is as yet unknown. Her profile suggests she is an ancestor of Renko, from the present time.<br />
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===[[Okina Matara]]===<br />
In [[Violet Detector]], Okina ultimately assists Sumireko with resolving her real-self/dream-self/doppelganger mix-up situation, but not before toying with her for a little bit. As (real) Sumireko loses her memories of the incident, it's unknown if she remembers Okina at all. <br />
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===[[Doremy Sweet]]===<br />
In [[Antimony of Common Flowers]], Doremy teams up with Sumireko. During the incident, Sumireko is faced with fighting both her dream-self and her occult doppelganger, who have also teamed up to take down the "real" Sumireko. Doremy expresses confusion over how there can possibly be three Sumirekos at the same time in Gensokyo, but ultimately helps Sumireko resolve her issue at the time.<br />
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===[[Shinmyoumaru Sukuna]]===<br />
Sumireko finds Shinmyoumaru adorable, claiming to want to somehow take her home as a pet, much to her annoyance.<br />
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==Skills==<br />
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{{#lsth:List of Skills|[[Sumireko Usami]]}}<br />
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==Spell Cards==<br />
{{hidden begin|title = Spell Cards|titlestyle = background:palegreen; text-align:center;}} {{#lsth:List of Spell Cards/Touhou Project 3|[[Sumireko Usami]]}} {{hidden end}}<br />
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==Gallery==<br />
===Covers===<br />
<gallery><br />
File:Th145front.jpg|Cover of ''[[Urban Legend in Limbo]]'', featuring Sumireko's silhouette<br />
File:TFM-07.jpg|Cover of ''[[Urban Legend in Limbo OST]]'', featuring Sumireko<br />
File:Th165cover.jpg|Cover of ''[[Violet Detector]]'', featuring Sumireko's silhouette<br />
File:WaHH 6 Cover.jpg|Sumireko on the Vol. 6 cover of ''[[Wild and Horned Hermit]]''<br />
File:CoLA28CleanCover.jpg|Sumireko in ''[[Curiosities of Lotus Asia]]''<br />
File:CoLA29CleanCover.jpg|Sumireko in ''[[Curiosities of Lotus Asia]]''<br />
File:GoU_cover.jpg|Sumireko in ''[[The Grimoire of Usami]]''<br />
</gallery><br />
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===Artworks===<br />
<gallery><br />
File:Th155Sumireko.png|Sumireko's artwork from ''[[Urban Legend in Limbo]]'' and ''[[Antinomy of Common Flowers]]''<br />
File:Th145Sumireko2.png|Sumireko's pre-battle artwork from ''[[Urban Legend in Limbo]]'' and ''[[Antinomy of Common Flowers]]''<br />
</gallery><br />
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===Sprites===<br />
<gallery><br />
File:Th155SumirekoColors.png|Sumireko's different color palettes from ''[[Antinomy of Common Flowers|AoCF]]'' and ''[[Urban Legend in Limbo|ULiL]]'', the last two were added in AoCF v1.10<br />
</gallery><br />
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==Additional Information==<br />
*Sumireko's silhouette occupies the front of ''[[Urban Legend in Limbo]]'' and ''[[Violet Detector]]'''s jewel case. Along with [[Cirno]], she's the only character to appear as the silhouette for two games' jewel cases in the Windows games.<br />
*Sumireko is the first final [[boss]] to be a [[human]] from outside [[Gensokyo]] since the [[PC-98]] game ''[[Phantasmagoria of Dim.Dream]]'', who was [[Yumemi Okazaki]]. Sumireko also has similarities to Yumemi besides this; both have an interest in magic, they tried to take an inhabitant of Gensokyo and had traps provided to lurk them into their area.<br />
*She is the first fighting game final boss whose story mode scenario is not the last to be unlocked.<br />
*The runes on her cloak do not appear to form any meaningful words, and some are even drawn from different runic alphabets (e.g. the old-form "sowilo" rune as written in Elder Futhark and the "stan" rune used by [[Wiktionary:Anglo-Saxons|Anglo-Saxon]] writers hundreds of years later).<br />
*Inside the game data for Urban Legend in Limbo, a folder named "Hanako" can be found that contains three sprites of a silhouetted Sumireko holding her cell phone. It's possible that Hanako was a working name for her, or was intended to be her name.<br />
** The 菫 (Sumire) part of her name is the name of a flower, from which the word for flower in Japanese is 花 (Hana). It could also be a codename. <br />
*[[Antinomy of Common Flowers]] confirms her to be a citizen of the Kantou Region. Incidentally, [[Renko]]'s parents also live in Tokyo.<br />
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==Fandom==<br />
{{main|Fandom/Spin-offs#Sumireko Usami|l1=Fandom: Sumireko Usami}}<br />
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==Official Profiles==<br />
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{{Profile Quote<br />
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| text = ○深秘を曝け!秘封倶楽部 初代会長<br><br />
宇佐見 菫子(うさみ すみれこ)<br />
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種族:女子高生<br><br />
能力:超能力を操る程度の能力<br />
<br />
彼女は本物の超能力者であった。<br />
<br />
ネットで知識を深めた若者にありがちの全能感と、生まれ持った才能に<br><br />
より、特に中学の頃は『自分は他の人間より優れている』と思っていた。<br />
<br />
友達という物が無駄であるとは言わない。<br><br />
但しそれは知識の上での有用性であり、本当の心情は<br><br />
「友達を必要とする人種にとっては有益だ。<br><br />
群れたがる奴らにとってな」<br><br />
と心底馬鹿にしていたようである。<br />
<br />
そんなわけで友達が出来る訳も無く<br><br />
(彼女からしてみたら『必要が無かったので友達を作らなかった』、となる)<br><br />
他の人から見たら無惨な、だが本人は充実した学生生活を送っていた。<br />
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この頃から、彼女は独自の研究を始めた。<br><br />
超能力を使える理由や、オカルト、都市伝説と呼ばれる物、等々。<br><br />
その中でも特に、この世界とは違う何処か異世界への憧れが強かった。<br />
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<br />
そんな生活も高校に入ると一変する。<br><br />
彼女は(この手の人間にありがちだが)成績優秀だった。その為少し<br><br />
離れた私立の進学校に進学した。<br><br />
生徒はアチコチから集まっていた。それまでの人間関係は断たれ、新<br><br />
たに構築されようとしている。すると成績優秀な彼女の元にも関係を<br><br />
築こうと人が集まるようになっていた。硬化させた態度も逆に魅力で<br><br />
あったのかも知れない。<br />
<br />
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だが、彼女は自分が他の人間とは違う種族である筈だと思い込んでいた。<br><br />
他の人間は『自分と普通の人間関係を築き、同レベルに引きずり込もう』<br><br />
と企む悪魔のような物だと言い聞かせた。<br />
<br />
聡明な彼女は人を追い払う為に『あえて』人を集めた。<br><br />
それが、非公認オカルトサークル『秘封倶楽部』であった。<br><br />
彼女の目論見通り、もう友達になろうと言う人は現われなかった。<br />
<br />
<br />
秘封倶楽部とは、異世界の秘密を自分の足で曝くサークルである。<br><br />
結果、彼女は世界の深秘に触れた。<br />
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――はてさてそれから色々な出来事が起こり、<br><br />
結果、夢の世界に入れる様になる。<br />
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そこでは自分の知識は上辺だけの物であると思い知らされた。経験<br><br />
こそがこの世界の真実であり、知識はそれを覆い隠す為にあるのだと。<br />
<br />
そして夢の中には、彼女が見下すことの出来ない人間達がいた。<br><br />
夢の中、いや幻想郷のお陰で、友達を作るのも悪くないと思うようになった。<br />
<br />
:<br><br />
:<br><br />
:<br />
<br />
……しかし、最後まで不可解な事があった。<br><br />
彼女が仕掛けた、異世界の扉を開くはずのパワーストーンだが、<br><br />
一つだけ別の物にすり替わっていたらしい。<br />
<br />
それは誰の仕業だろうか。<br><br />
そもそも幻想郷に実現する都市伝説が蔓延していたのも<br><br />
自分が仕掛けたのでは無いのだ。<br><br />
都市伝説は結界を破るために良いように働いたのだが、<br><br />
それも全て偶然、だったのだろうか?<br />
<br />
<br />
もしかしたら、内側から誰かが結界を破ろうとしているのではないか。<br><br />
自分のパワーストーンは逆に利用されたのではないか。<br><br />
彼女には最後まで判らなかった。<br />
| translation ='''Expose the Esoteric! The [[Secret Sealing Club]]'s First President'''<br><br />
Sumireko Usami<br />
<br />
Species: High-school girl<br><br />
Ability: Capable of manipulating psychic powers<br />
<br />
She was a genuine psychic.<br />
<br />
Thanks to the sense of omnipotence common to youths who furthered their knowledge via the internet, and to the talents she was born with, she began to think that "she was superior to other people," particularly around the time when she was in middle school.<br />
<br />
It wasn't to say that friends were ''useless'' or anything.<br><br />
It was just that they were useful to have from a simple knowledge standpoint.<br><br />
What she really thought was that "friends are beneficial for the sort of people who actually ''need'' them. Like, the sort of people who want others to flock around them."<br><br />
In the back of her mind, she mocked them.<br />
<br />
Thus, unable to make any friends, (although she herself would frame it as "I didn't make any because I just didn't need any",) she lived a school life that others would view as tragic, but she herself was enriched by.<br />
<br />
It was around that time that she began research of her own.<br><br />
Why she could use psychic powers, occult phenomena, that which we call 'urban legends', et cetera.<br><br />
In particular, she developed a strong interest in worlds separate from our own.<br />
<br />
When she entered high school, her lifestyle instantly changed.<br><br />
She was a model student (not uncommon for people such as her), and as a result, she advanced to a somewhat isolated private prep school. The school gathered students from all over; having been separated from their previous relationships, they strove to construct those relationships anew. As such, many people tried to strike up friendships with her, model student that she was. Her stiff attitude may have actually contributed to her appeal.<br />
<br />
However, she was convinced that she was of a different sort than the other humans around her. Other people, as far as she was concerned, may as well have been demons plotting to form regular relationships with her in order to drag her down to their level.<br />
<br />
In a smart move, she ''deliberately'' gathered people around her so as to drive them away.<br><br />
She formed an unauthorized occult circle: the "Secret Sealing Club".<br><br />
Just as she expected, nobody came up to her saying they wanted to be friends anymore.<br />
<br />
The Secret Sealing Club was a circle dedicated to exposing the secrets of other worlds with their own power.<br><br />
As a result, she made contact with the deep secrets of the world.<br />
<br />
---and so, various things occurred from there,<br><br />
and as a result, she became able to enter the world of dreams.<br />
<br />
There, she was made to realize that all her knowledge was only superficial. ''Experience'' is the real truth of this world, and her pursuit of factual knowledge was only something to cover for this.<br />
<br />
And in that dream, she at last met people who she couldn't look down on.<br><br />
Thanks to that dream--- no, thanks to Gensokyo, she found herself starting to think that maybe making some friends wouldn't be so bad after all.<br />
<br />
....<br />
<br />
....<br />
<br />
....<br />
<br />
...however, there was one thing that remained incomprehensible in the end.<br><br />
Out of all the power stones that she set up in order to open the door to the other world,<br><br />
one single stone seemed to have been switched with another.<br />
<br />
Whose doing was this?<br><br />
In the first place, the urban legends manifesting and spreading through Gensokyo were not something that she had planned. The urban legends had taken action such that a hole would be broken in the barrier, in the end, but was that really just a coincidence...?<br />
<br />
Perhaps [[Sagume Kishin|someone]] had been attempting to break the barrier from the inside.<br><br />
Had her power stones been used for [[Legacy of Lunatic Kingdom|someone else's purposes?]]<br><br />
She never did figure it out.<br />
}}<br />
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{{Profile Quote<br />
| image =[[File:Th145Sumireko.png|200px|Sumireko Usami AoCF]]<br />
| text =神秘主義で扱いに困る女学生<br />
<br />
宇佐見菫子<br/><br />
<br />
「なんか変なレイムね<br/><br />
今日は香霖堂に行きたいんだけどー」<br/><br />
<br />
今時の超能力女子高生<br/><br />
<br />
夢の中で幻想郷に訪れる事ができる彼女、<br/><br />
だが、この日の幻想郷はいつもと全く違う景色を見せていた<br/><br />
<br />
動かずどこからでも捉える超能力を駆使して戦う要塞タイプ<br/><br />
相手を前後左右から襲い掛かる瓦礫の山に埋めてしまおう<br/><br />
| translation ='''Mystic and Troublesome Female Student'''<br />
<br />
'''Sumireko Usami'''<br/><br />
<br />
''"Well, you sure are acting weird, Reimu.''<br/><br />
''I'd like to go to Kourindou today, if you don't mind...?"''<br/><br />
<br />
A modern high-school girl with psychic powers.<br/><br />
<br />
She has the ability to visit Gensokyo in her dreams, but the Gensokyo she saw today was utterly different from usual.<br/><br />
<br />
A zoning character who fights with her ESP, able to catch opponents anywhere without moving.<br/><br />
Bury your opponent in mountains of rubble that rain down from all sides!<br/><br />
}}<br />
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| nameJp = {{ruby-ja|宇佐見|うさみ}} {{ruby-ja|菫子|すみれこ}}<br />
| nameEn = Sumireko Usami<br />
| nameIPA = ɯᵝsa̠mi sɯᵝmiɺ̠e̞ko̞<br />
| image = [[File:Th165Sumireko.png|x300px|Sumireko Usami]]<br />
| caption = Sumireko Usami in [[Violet Detector]]<br />
| chartitle = {{H:title|Expose the Esoteric! The Secret Sealing Club's First President|深秘を曝け!秘封倶楽部 初代会長}}<br />
| species = [[Human]]/Doppelganger<br />
| abilities = Assorted psychic powers (ESP)<br />
| age =15−16 years old (as of ''Urban Legend in Limbo'')<br />
| occupation = High school student at Higashifukami High School, part-timer at [[Kourindou]]<ref>Curiosities of Lotus Asia, Chapter 36</ref><br />
| location = [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kant%C5%8D_region Kanto Region], [[Outside World]]<br />
| MusicThemes = *{{H:title|{{lang|ja|ラストオカルティズム ~ 現し世の秘術師}}|Last Occultism ~ Esotericist of the Present World}} ([[Urban Legend in Limbo]], [[Antinomy of Common Flowers]]) <br />
*{{H:title|{{lang|ja|燕石博物誌が連れてきた闇}}|The Darkness Brought In by Swallowstone Naturalis Historia}} ([[Violet Detector]], as Real World Sumireko)<br />
*{{H:title|{{lang|ja|秘匿されたフォーシーズンズ}}|The Concealed Four Seasons}} ([[Violet Detector]], as Dream Soul Sumireko)<br />
| appOfficialgames = *''[[Urban Legend in Limbo]]'' (Final Boss, Playable Character)<br />
*''[[Antinomy of Common Flowers]]'' (Playable Character, Possible Opponent)<br />
*''[[Violet Detector]]'' (Main Character, Cover, Nightmare Diary Boss)<br />
| appPrintworks = *''[[Wild and Horned Hermit]]'' (Chapter 29, 31 cameo, 34, 35 cameo)<br />
*''[[Forbidden Scrollery]]'' (Chapter 34 cameo)<br />
*''[[Visionary Fairies in Shrine]]'' (Chapters 2, 7 Cameo)<br />
*''[[Curiosities of Lotus Asia]]'' (Secondary Character)<br />
*''[[Alternative Facts in Eastern Utopia]]'' (Interviews)<br />
* ''[[The Grimoire of Usami]]'' (Main Character)<br />
* ''[[Strange Creators of Outer World/Who's Who of Humans & Youkai - Dusk Edition|Who's Who of Humans & Youkai - Dusk Edition]]''<br />
| appMusicCDs = *''[[Urban Legend in Limbo OST]]'' (CD cover)<br />
| appMiscworks = <br />
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{{nihongo|'''Sumireko Usami'''|宇佐見 菫子|Usami Sumireko}} is the main antagonist of [[Urban Legend in Limbo]] and is the main protagonist of [[Violet Detector]]. She's a [[human]] from the [[Outside World]] with psychic powers (ESP). She is the first president of the [[Secret Sealing Club]].<br />
<br />
==General Information==<br />
Sumireko first appeared as the Final Boss of ''[[Urban Legend in Limbo]]'', and eventually becomes a playable character of the same game.<br />
<br />
===Personality===<br />
Sumireko has shown herself to be both extremely intelligent, determined, passionate, and [[Wikipedia:hubris|hubristic]] in equal parts. At her worst, she can devolve into stubbornness and outright obstinance, going so far as to put herself in grave danger to achieve her goals.<br />
<br />
Despite her apparent superiority complex, she has grown to have a deep respect and admiration for the inhabitants of Gensokyo, referring to many of them as her friends, and looking up to them for mentorship and guidance. She described herself as a bit of a loner prior to her arrival in Gensokyo, and she considers her discovery of Gensokyo to be the best thing to have happened in her life due to the friendships she's made there.<br />
<br />
She describes herself as being [[Wikipedia:Chūnibyō|chuunibyou]], a term usually used mockingly, with a sense of personal pride, alluding to her psychic powers and other magical abilities. In spite of that pride, she does lament that nobody in the Outside World seems to be able to understand her or her passion about the occult and Gensokyo. This may also be in part due to how highly opinionated she is, espousing her beliefs about the "phoniness" of the [[Outside World]]'s dominant consumerist culture at the slightest provocation.<ref>[[Alternative Facts in Eastern Utopia]] - [[Alternative Facts in Eastern Utopia/Article and Interview/Sumireko Usami|Sumireko Usami Interview]]</ref> <br />
<br />
Sumireko does seem to hold several contradictory opinions, although it comes off less as hypocrisy, and more as though she hasn't been able to fully make up her mind about certain subjects due to her inexperience of being a teenager.<br />
<br />
===Abilities===<br />
;Esper<br />
She is a strong psychic, an individual capable of various powers associated with the paranormal, including but seemingly not limited to levitation, pyrokinesis, hydrokinesis, telekinesis, psychokinesis and teleportation.<br />
<br />
==Background Information==<br />
===Name===<br />
Her full name is {{nihongo|''Sumireko Usami''|宇佐見 菫子|Usami Sumireko}}. {{nihongo|''Usami''|宇佐見}} uses the same writing as [[Renko Usami]]'s surname and it is known to be an actual name in Japanese. {{nihongo|''Sumireko''|菫子}} literally means "violet child" and is also similar to how Renko's name means "lotus child", as both take their names from flowers.<br />
<br />
===Design===<br />
Sumireko has brown eyes and shoulder-length brown hair tied in pigtails. On her head is a black hat with a white bow along with red-framed glasses. She wears a purple plaid skirt and matching sleeveless top (resembling a jumper dress), over a long-sleeved white blouse and a black bolo tie with a clasp shaped like a [[wikipedia:Quimbaya artifacts|"Quimbaya airplane"]]. Along with this, she wears white socks with bows and black shoes. Sumireko generally carries [[wikipedia:Zener cards|Zener cards]], a tablet computer marked with a hexagram on the back, a smartphone in a white case with various blue shapes on it and a light-blue [[wikipedia:Liberator_(gun)|liberator]]. She also wears white gloves, and a black, high-collared cloak with a red interior inscribed with pinkish-white runes and a series of white lines at the bottom rim of the backside.<br />
<br />
Her summer uniform appears nearly identical to her winter one, but with shorter and looser sleeves, no gloves, and a skull in place of the Quimbaya airplane.<br />
<br />
==Sumireko's Appearances==<br />
===Games===<br />
;''Urban Legend in Limbo''<br />
Sumireko is the main antagonist of ''Urban Legend in Limbo'' and the final boss in most of the characters' scenarios in story mode.<br />
<br />
Sumireko manages to go through the [[Great Hakurei Barrier]] by using the [[Occult Ball]]s, which are special stones gathered from [[Mystery Spot]]s in the [[Outside World]]. However, after a short period, she is suddenly ejected from Gensokyo. Learning from this, Sumireko starts with brief excursions into Gensokyo to learn more about it, appearing to anyone who catches sight of her as an ominous black shadow.<br />
<br />
Sumireko soon devises a plan to spread rumors of the Occult Ball's powers and scatters them around Gensokyo for its residents to find. Once the balls are gathered, they warp back to the Outside World along with whoever gathered them all, just for enough time for Sumireko to learn about them before they are transported back. She then re-enters Gensokyo and scatters the balls again, thus beginning the incident of ''Urban Legend in Limbo''. Her plan works for a while, and although she is baffled at why everyone who comes out of Gensokyo ends up fighting her, she enjoys it nonetheless. <br />
<br />
Soon enough, [[Mamizou Futatsuiwa]] is made aware of the incident and devises her own plan: she claims to have Gensokyo's own Occult Ball in her possession when challenging Sumireko, claiming it would allow her limitless travel between Gensokyo and the Outside World. Mamizou instead tricks Sumireko into entering Gensokyo the ''proper'' way, which does let her stay there, but as Sumireko does not know how to get back ''out'', she is trapped in Gensokyo.<br />
<br />
Sumireko's story mode in ''Urban Legend in Limbo'' follows her as she is trapped in Gensokyo, whose residents attempt to scare her to teach her a lesson. In the end, she is confronted by [[Toyosatomimi no Miko]], who reminds Sumireko that she can use the Occult Balls to escape Gensokyo temporarily. She returns to the Outside World, and believing she will eventually be killed by the youkai of Gensokyo, she decides that when her time in the Outside World runs out, she will sacrifice herself to, purportedly, unleash the full power of the Occult Balls and destroy the Great Hakurei Barrier.<br />
<br />
Before being brought back to Gensokyo, she is confronted by Reimu in her own story mode, who realized that one of Sumireko's Occult Balls was swapped for a [[Lunar Capital]] ball, which if activated would link Gensokyo with the Lunar Capital instead. Although Reimu defeats Sumireko and saves the Great Hakurei Barrier, the Lunar Capital ball was activated, setting up the events of ''[[Legacy of Lunatic Kingdom]]''. Upon returning to Gensokyo, Sumireko is detained by Reimu, Mamizou and [[Kasen Ibaraki]]. Deciding Sumireko was no longer a threat, they return her to the Outside World through the proper method.<br />
<br />
A few days later, Sumireko reappears at the [[Hakurei Shrine]], as she had discovered that ever since leaving Gensokyo, she could travel back there in her dreams. No longer antagonistic, she befriends Gensokyo's residents in earnest, and her tales of the Outside World turn her into a brief celebrity.<br />
<br />
;''Antinomy of Common Flowers''<br />
Sumireko is a playable character with an unlockable story mode in [[Antinomy of Common Flowers]]. In her story mode, she visited Gensokyo at a bad time as the [[Dream World]] has been thrown into chaos by the [[Joon Yorigami|Yorigami]] [[Shion Yorigami|Sisters]]' incident, and she ends up trapped there as a result.<br />
<br />
She teams up with [[Doremy Sweet]] to traverse through the Dream World and reach Gensokyo, whereupon they are tasked by [[Yukari Yakumo]] to dispatch Sumireko's own Dream Soul that has been released into the Outside World by the incident. Curiously Sumireko somehow encounters ''two'' of her own Dream Souls, but defeats them with Doremy's help. She awakes in the Outside World afterward, greeted by Doremy to confirm that she is the real Sumireko.<br />
<br />
;''Violet Detector'' <br />
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Sumireko is the main protagonist of ''Violet Detector''. For some time, she has been having the same weird dream, in which she is constantly attacked by the residents of the dream world for no reason.<br />
She finally discovers that the dream dwellers hold a grudge against her for having a flesh body allowing her to go in the real world, and [[Doremy Sweet]] tells her that she can only expect the situation to worsen.<br />
After some time, she encounters and fight against [[Okina Matara]]. Okina is impressed by Sumireko who has been able to fend off the dream dwellers for quite some time. She offers her some help, in order to make the dream dwellers recognize her strength and make them stop attacking her. But in order to achieve that, she has to defeat even more powerful nightmares, so Okina lends Sumireko some powers on top of her psychic abilities, allowing her to cheat death in certain situations.<br />
<br />
Sumireko then goes on and fights powerful nightmares, in the form of strong dream dwellers teaming up against her. <br />
After a week of fighting, she encounters another Sumireko. During that confrontation, she realizes that she was actually the [[Phantom#Dream Soul|Dream Soul]] of the real Sumireko, the other one, who is trying to get her body back. But at this point, Dream Sumireko has become stronger than the real Sumireko and is able to defeat her.<br />
<br />
Okina, not willing to take any side in the confrontation between the two Sumirekos, decides to take back the power she lent Dream Sumireko to make things fair. The real Sumireko challenges her dream self once again and eventually defeats her.<br />
<br />
The next day, Sumireko wakes up in the real world as if nothing happened, having no recollection of what transpired in her mind. She stopped having those nightmares, but the photos of danmaku battles still lie in the memory of her smartphone.<br />
<br />
===Print Works===<br />
Sumireko makes appearances in [[Grimoire of Usami]], [[Curiosities of Lotus Asia]], and [[Wild and Horned Hermit]].<br />
<br />
Grimoire of Usami is a book of spellcards, similar to [[Grimoire of Marisa]], in which her and many other characters attend a danmaku fireworks festival, cataloging and critiquing danmaku patterns.<br />
<br />
In Curiosities of Lotus Asia, [[Rinnosuke Morichika]] catalogs Sumireko's trials and tribulations as she integrates herself into Gensokyo life, with the development of her occult doppelganger, and her disappearance during [[Violet Detector]].<br />
<br />
in Wild and Horned Hermit, she makes a small cameo appearance for "World UFO Day," and accidentally summons a UFO to the main courtyard of the [[Hakurei Shrine]].<br />
<br />
==Relationships==<br />
===[[Reimu Hakurei]] & [[Marisa Kirisame]]===<br />
In [[Urban Legend in Limbo]] and [[Curiosities of Lotus Asia]], Reimu and Marisa are frequently seen doting on her, making sure she's safe and trying to keep her from getting into trouble. In an interview with [[Aya Shameimaru]] in [[Alternative Facts in Eastern Utopia]], Sumireko refers to both Reimu and Marisa as friends she's made since coming to Gensokyo.<br />
<br />
Reimu admits that although she's worried about Sumireko's appearance in Gensokyo and its implications for more [[Outside World]] humans passing through the barrier, Sumireko has made things "fun" in Gensokyo again. Marisa also tries to give advice on how to talk to the local residents.<br />
<br />
In [[Violet Detector]], Sumireko refers to both of them with friendly informal names like "Reimu-icchi" and "Marisa-icchi," typically used between close friends.<br />
<br />
===[[Rinnosuke Morichika]]===<br />
In [[Curiosities of Lotus Asia]], which is primarily told through Rinnosuke's perspective, Rinnosuke and Sumireko often talk about the Outside World and the various items that filter in through the [[Great Hakurei Barrier]]. Rinnosuke shows a great deal of care towards Sumireko, worrying about her safety, while Sumireko seems to regard him as a nag, and goes so far as to criticize him for smoking cigarettes. Despite that, they seem to be good friends, and despite Rinnosuke's tendency to tell tall tales, they do seem to get along well enough.<br />
<br />
===[[Mamizou Futatsuiwa]]===<br />
In [[Alternative Facts in Eastern Utopia]], Sumireko mentions that Mamizou often visits her in the [[Outside World]]. The exact details of this aren't known, but Sumireko implies that they're friends, and that Sumireko respects her as an elder.<br />
<br />
===[[Kasen Ibaraki]]===<br />
In [[Alternative Facts in Eastern Utopia]], Sumireko mentions that her and Kasen are also friends, and says that they hang out a lot in Gensokyo, calling her "Kasen-chan."<br />
<br />
In [[Urban Legend in Limbo]], Kasen expresses resentment that Sumireko views youkai with such a casual and playful attitude, feeling that Sumireko should show youkai more respect.<br />
<br />
===[[Fujiwara no Mokou]]===<br />
Initially annoyed, Mokou challenged Sumireko to a duel. The two found each other's strength admirable, and once Mokou's time Outside is over, they parted ways in a dramatic fashion. Later, Mokou met Sumireko again in Gensokyo, and guided her out of the Bamboo Forest, notably not as silently as the former usually would. It seems the two of them have become fast friends.<br />
<br />
===[[Renko Usami]]===<br />
Due to her name, similar appearance and involvement in the creation of the [[Secret Sealing Club]], she may have some kind of relation to Renko. However, the specifics of this connection is as yet unknown. Her profile suggests she is an ancestor of Renko, from the present time.<br />
<br />
===[[Okina Matara]]===<br />
In [[Violet Detector]], Okina ultimately assists Sumireko with resolving her real-self/dream-self/doppelganger mix-up situation, but not before toying with her for a little bit. As (real) Sumireko loses her memories of the incident, it's unknown if she remembers Okina at all. <br />
<br />
===[[Doremy Sweet]]===<br />
In [[Antimony of Common Flowers]], Doremy teams up with Sumireko. During the incident, Sumireko is faced with fighting both her dream-self and her occult doppelganger, who have also teamed up to take down the "real" Sumireko. Doremy expresses confusion over how there can possibly be three Sumirekos at the same time in Gensokyo, but ultimately helps Sumireko resolve her issue at the time.<br />
<br />
===[[Shinmyoumaru Sukuna]]===<br />
Sumireko finds Shinmyoumaru adorable, claiming to want to somehow take her home as a pet, much to her annoyance.<br />
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==Skills==<br />
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{{#lsth:List of Skills|[[Sumireko Usami]]}}<br />
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==Spell Cards==<br />
{{hidden begin|title = Spell Cards|titlestyle = background:palegreen; text-align:center;}} {{#lsth:List of Spell Cards/Touhou Project 3|[[Sumireko Usami]]}} {{hidden end}}<br />
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==Gallery==<br />
===Covers===<br />
<gallery><br />
File:Th145front.jpg|Cover of ''[[Urban Legend in Limbo]]'', featuring Sumireko's silhouette<br />
File:TFM-07.jpg|Cover of ''[[Urban Legend in Limbo OST]]'', featuring Sumireko<br />
File:Th165cover.jpg|Cover of ''[[Violet Detector]]'', featuring Sumireko's silhouette<br />
File:WaHH 6 Cover.jpg|Sumireko on the Vol. 6 cover of ''[[Wild and Horned Hermit]]''<br />
File:CoLA28CleanCover.jpg|Sumireko in ''[[Curiosities of Lotus Asia]]''<br />
File:CoLA29CleanCover.jpg|Sumireko in ''[[Curiosities of Lotus Asia]]''<br />
File:GoU_cover.jpg|Sumireko in ''[[The Grimoire of Usami]]''<br />
</gallery><br />
<br />
===Artworks===<br />
<gallery><br />
File:Th155Sumireko.png|Sumireko's artwork from ''[[Urban Legend in Limbo]]'' and ''[[Antinomy of Common Flowers]]''<br />
File:Th145Sumireko2.png|Sumireko's pre-battle artwork from ''[[Urban Legend in Limbo]]'' and ''[[Antinomy of Common Flowers]]''<br />
</gallery><br />
<br />
===Sprites===<br />
<gallery><br />
File:Th155SumirekoColors.png|Sumireko's different color palettes from ''[[Antinomy of Common Flowers|AoCF]]'' and ''[[Urban Legend in Limbo|ULiL]]'', the last two were added in AoCF v1.10<br />
</gallery><br />
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==Additional Information==<br />
*Sumireko's silhouette occupies the front of ''[[Urban Legend in Limbo]]'' and ''[[Violet Detector]]'''s jewel case. Along with [[Cirno]], she's the only character to appear as the silhouette for two games' jewel cases in the Windows games.<br />
*Sumireko is the first final [[boss]] to be a [[human]] from outside [[Gensokyo]] since the [[PC-98]] game ''[[Phantasmagoria of Dim.Dream]]'', who was [[Yumemi Okazaki]]. Sumireko also has similarities to Yumemi besides this; both have an interest in magic, they tried to take an inhabitant of Gensokyo and had traps provided to lurk them into their area.<br />
*She is the first fighting game final boss whose story mode scenario is not the last to be unlocked.<br />
*The runes on her cloak do not appear to form any meaningful words, and some are even drawn from different runic alphabets (e.g. the old-form "sowilo" rune as written in Elder Futhark and the "stan" rune used by [[Wiktionary:Anglo-Saxons|Anglo-Saxon]] writers hundreds of years later).<br />
*Inside the game data for Urban Legend in Limbo, a folder named "Hanako" can be found that contains three sprites of a silhouetted Sumireko holding her cell phone. It's possible that Hanako was a working name for her, or was intended to be her name.<br />
** The 菫 (Sumire) part of her name is the name of a flower, from which the word for flower in Japanese is 花 (Hana). It could also be a codename. <br />
*[[Antinomy of Common Flowers]] confirms her to be a citizen of the Kantou Region. Incidentally, [[Renko]]'s parents also live in Tokyo.<br />
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==Fandom==<br />
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==Official Profiles==<br />
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{{Profile Quote<br />
| image =[[File:Th145Sumireko.png|200px|Sumireko Usami ULiL]]<br />
| text = ○深秘を曝け!秘封倶楽部 初代会長<br><br />
宇佐見 菫子(うさみ すみれこ)<br />
<br />
種族:女子高生<br><br />
能力:超能力を操る程度の能力<br />
<br />
彼女は本物の超能力者であった。<br />
<br />
ネットで知識を深めた若者にありがちの全能感と、生まれ持った才能に<br><br />
より、特に中学の頃は『自分は他の人間より優れている』と思っていた。<br />
<br />
友達という物が無駄であるとは言わない。<br><br />
但しそれは知識の上での有用性であり、本当の心情は<br><br />
「友達を必要とする人種にとっては有益だ。<br><br />
群れたがる奴らにとってな」<br><br />
と心底馬鹿にしていたようである。<br />
<br />
そんなわけで友達が出来る訳も無く<br><br />
(彼女からしてみたら『必要が無かったので友達を作らなかった』、となる)<br><br />
他の人から見たら無惨な、だが本人は充実した学生生活を送っていた。<br />
<br />
この頃から、彼女は独自の研究を始めた。<br><br />
超能力を使える理由や、オカルト、都市伝説と呼ばれる物、等々。<br><br />
その中でも特に、この世界とは違う何処か異世界への憧れが強かった。<br />
<br />
<br />
そんな生活も高校に入ると一変する。<br><br />
彼女は(この手の人間にありがちだが)成績優秀だった。その為少し<br><br />
離れた私立の進学校に進学した。<br><br />
生徒はアチコチから集まっていた。それまでの人間関係は断たれ、新<br><br />
たに構築されようとしている。すると成績優秀な彼女の元にも関係を<br><br />
築こうと人が集まるようになっていた。硬化させた態度も逆に魅力で<br><br />
あったのかも知れない。<br />
<br />
<br />
だが、彼女は自分が他の人間とは違う種族である筈だと思い込んでいた。<br><br />
他の人間は『自分と普通の人間関係を築き、同レベルに引きずり込もう』<br><br />
と企む悪魔のような物だと言い聞かせた。<br />
<br />
聡明な彼女は人を追い払う為に『あえて』人を集めた。<br><br />
それが、非公認オカルトサークル『秘封倶楽部』であった。<br><br />
彼女の目論見通り、もう友達になろうと言う人は現われなかった。<br />
<br />
<br />
秘封倶楽部とは、異世界の秘密を自分の足で曝くサークルである。<br><br />
結果、彼女は世界の深秘に触れた。<br />
<br />
<br />
――はてさてそれから色々な出来事が起こり、<br><br />
結果、夢の世界に入れる様になる。<br />
<br />
そこでは自分の知識は上辺だけの物であると思い知らされた。経験<br><br />
こそがこの世界の真実であり、知識はそれを覆い隠す為にあるのだと。<br />
<br />
そして夢の中には、彼女が見下すことの出来ない人間達がいた。<br><br />
夢の中、いや幻想郷のお陰で、友達を作るのも悪くないと思うようになった。<br />
<br />
:<br><br />
:<br><br />
:<br />
<br />
……しかし、最後まで不可解な事があった。<br><br />
彼女が仕掛けた、異世界の扉を開くはずのパワーストーンだが、<br><br />
一つだけ別の物にすり替わっていたらしい。<br />
<br />
それは誰の仕業だろうか。<br><br />
そもそも幻想郷に実現する都市伝説が蔓延していたのも<br><br />
自分が仕掛けたのでは無いのだ。<br><br />
都市伝説は結界を破るために良いように働いたのだが、<br><br />
それも全て偶然、だったのだろうか?<br />
<br />
<br />
もしかしたら、内側から誰かが結界を破ろうとしているのではないか。<br><br />
自分のパワーストーンは逆に利用されたのではないか。<br><br />
彼女には最後まで判らなかった。<br />
| translation ='''Expose the Esoteric! The [[Secret Sealing Club]]'s First President'''<br><br />
Sumireko Usami<br />
<br />
Species: High-school girl<br><br />
Ability: Capable of manipulating psychic powers<br />
<br />
She was a genuine psychic.<br />
<br />
Thanks to the sense of omnipotence common to youths who furthered their knowledge via the internet, and to the talents she was born with, she began to think that "she was superior to other people," particularly around the time when she was in middle school.<br />
<br />
It wasn't to say that friends were ''useless'' or anything.<br><br />
It was just that they were useful to have from a simple knowledge standpoint.<br><br />
What she really thought was that "friends are beneficial for the sort of people who actually ''need'' them. Like, the sort of people who want others to flock around them."<br><br />
In the back of her mind, she mocked them.<br />
<br />
Thus, unable to make any friends, (although she herself would frame it as "I didn't make any because I just didn't need any",) she lived a school life that others would view as tragic, but she herself was enriched by.<br />
<br />
It was around that time that she began research of her own.<br><br />
Why she could use psychic powers, occult phenomena, that which we call 'urban legends', et cetera.<br><br />
In particular, she developed a strong interest in worlds separate from our own.<br />
<br />
When she entered high school, her lifestyle instantly changed.<br><br />
She was a model student (not uncommon for people such as her), and as a result, she advanced to a somewhat isolated private prep school. The school gathered students from all over; having been separated from their previous relationships, they strove to construct those relationships anew. As such, many people tried to strike up friendships with her, model student that she was. Her stiff attitude may have actually contributed to her appeal.<br />
<br />
However, she was convinced that she was of a different sort than the other humans around her. Other people, as far as she was concerned, may as well have been demons plotting to form regular relationships with her in order to drag her down to their level.<br />
<br />
In a smart move, she ''deliberately'' gathered people around her so as to drive them away.<br><br />
She formed an unauthorized occult circle: the "Secret Sealing Club".<br><br />
Just as she expected, nobody came up to her saying they wanted to be friends anymore.<br />
<br />
The Secret Sealing Club was a circle dedicated to exposing the secrets of other worlds with their own power.<br><br />
As a result, she made contact with the deep secrets of the world.<br />
<br />
---and so, various things occurred from there,<br><br />
and as a result, she became able to enter the world of dreams.<br />
<br />
There, she was made to realize that all her knowledge was only superficial. ''Experience'' is the real truth of this world, and her pursuit of factual knowledge was only something to cover for this.<br />
<br />
And in that dream, she at last met people who she couldn't look down on.<br><br />
Thanks to that dream--- no, thanks to Gensokyo, she found herself starting to think that maybe making some friends wouldn't be so bad after all.<br />
<br />
....<br />
<br />
....<br />
<br />
....<br />
<br />
...however, there was one thing that remained incomprehensible in the end.<br><br />
Out of all the power stones that she set up in order to open the door to the other world,<br><br />
one single stone seemed to have been switched with another.<br />
<br />
Whose doing was this?<br><br />
In the first place, the urban legends manifesting and spreading through Gensokyo were not something that she had planned. The urban legends had taken action such that a hole would be broken in the barrier, in the end, but was that really just a coincidence...?<br />
<br />
Perhaps [[Sagume Kishin|someone]] had been attempting to break the barrier from the inside.<br><br />
Had her power stones been used for [[Legacy of Lunatic Kingdom|someone else's purposes?]]<br><br />
She never did figure it out.<br />
}}<br />
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{{Profile Quote<br />
| image =[[File:Th145Sumireko.png|200px|Sumireko Usami AoCF]]<br />
| text =神秘主義で扱いに困る女学生<br />
<br />
宇佐見菫子<br/><br />
<br />
「なんか変なレイムね<br/><br />
今日は香霖堂に行きたいんだけどー」<br/><br />
<br />
今時の超能力女子高生<br/><br />
<br />
夢の中で幻想郷に訪れる事ができる彼女、<br/><br />
だが、この日の幻想郷はいつもと全く違う景色を見せていた<br/><br />
<br />
動かずどこからでも捉える超能力を駆使して戦う要塞タイプ<br/><br />
相手を前後左右から襲い掛かる瓦礫の山に埋めてしまおう<br/><br />
| translation ='''Mystic and Troublesome Female Student'''<br />
<br />
'''Sumireko Usami'''<br/><br />
<br />
''"Well, you sure are acting weird, Reimu.''<br/><br />
''I'd like to go to Kourindou today, if you don't mind...?"''<br/><br />
<br />
A modern high-school girl with psychic powers.<br/><br />
<br />
She has the ability to visit Gensokyo in her dreams, but the Gensokyo she saw today was utterly different from usual.<br/><br />
<br />
A zoning character who fights with her ESP, able to catch opponents anywhere without moving.<br/><br />
Bury your opponent in mountains of rubble that rain down from all sides!<br/><br />
}}<br />
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==Official Sources==<br />
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*2015/05/10 '''[[Urban Legend in Limbo]]''' - Final boss and playable character<br />
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[[vi:Usami Sumireko]]</div>AliceDhttps://en.touhouwiki.net/index.php?title=Rin_Kaenbyou&diff=431382Rin Kaenbyou2021-06-12T04:40:01Z<p>AliceD: /* Relationships */</p>
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<div>:''"Rin" redirects here. For the character cut from Embodiment of Scarlet Devil, see [[Rin Satsuki]].''<br />
{{Infobox Character<br />
| nameJp = {{ruby-ja|火焔猫|かえんびょう}} {{ruby-ja|燐|りん}}<br />
| nameEn = Rin Kaenbyou<br />
| nameIPA = kaembʲoː ɽiɴ [[Media:Pronunciation_RinKaenbyou.ogg|(♫)]]<br />
| image = [[File:Th11Rin.png|x325px|Rin Kaenbyou]]<br />
| caption = Rin Kaenbyou in [[Subterranean Animism]]<br />
| chartitle = {{H:title|Hell's Traffic Accident|地獄の輪禍}}<br />
| nickname = Orin ({{lang|ja|お}}{{ruby-ja|燐|りん}})<br />
| species = [[Kasha]]<br />
| abilities = Carrying away corpses, controlling and communicating with spirits<br />
| occupation = Controller of spirits in the remnants of the Hell of Blazing Fires<br />
| location = [[Hell of Blazing Fires]], [[Palace of the Earth Spirits]]<br />
| MusicThemes = *{{H:title|{{lang|ja|死体旅行 ~}} Be of good cheer!|Corpse Voyage ~ Be of good cheer!}} ([[Subterranean Animism]])<br />
| appOfficialgames = *''[[Subterranean Animism]]'' (Stage 4 Midboss, Stage 5 Midboss, Stage 5 Boss, Stage 6 Midboss)<br />
*''[[Double Spoiler]]'' (Level 8-1, 8-3, 8-5, 8-7 Boss)<br />
*''[[Hopeless Masquerade]]'' (Background Character)<br />
| appPrintworks = *''[[Oriental Sacred Place]]'' (Chapter 10, 12 and 18 cameo)<br />
*''[[Symposium of Post-mysticism]]''<br />
*''[[Forbidden Scrollery]]'' (Chapter 4 cameo)<br />
*''[[Wild and Horned Hermit]]'' (Chapter 2, 20 and 23 cameo; 28)<br />
*''[[Visionary Fairies in Shrine]]'' (Chapter 2 Cameo, 6 cameo, 7 cameo, 9.5 cameo)<br />
*''[[Alternative Facts in Eastern Utopia]]'' (Advertisement)<br />
*''[[The Grimoire of Usami]]'' (Section 2-5)<br />
*''[[Cheating Detective Satori]]'' (Secondary Character)<br />
}}<br />
{{nihongo|'''Rin Kaenbyou'''|火焔猫 燐|Kaenbyou Rin}} is one of [[Satori Komeiji]]'s pets. Her job is to carry corpses to the former [[Hell of Blazing Fires]] to regulate its heat.<br />
<br />
==General Information==<br />
===Personality===<br />
Rin has an energetic, positive personality; she prefers to be called Orin, since she doesn't like long names. She claims that while it is more fun to take on a pure [[cat]] form, she can't talk to [[human]]s that way - nor does it seem she can do her job, carting corpses away, which she seems to take great pleasure in. She appears to have challenged the main character in ''[[Subterranean Animism]]'' partly because she wanted their corpse, but also partly to test their strength to see if they would be able to stop [[Utsuho Reiuji]] for her, and appears to bear no ill will towards them for her defeat. ''[[Symposium of Post-mysticism]]'' states that she has no interest in killing humans herself to gain their corpses; she prefers to hunt for those on the verge of death, supposedly because it makes for more interesting conversation. If a corpse is properly buried, she'll lose interest.<br />
<br />
===Ability===<br />
;Carrying away corpses<br />
Rin's official profile lists her ability as "carrying away corpses". As an ability that comes from her species, it is as it sounds like. The carried-away corpses burn as fuel for the [[Hell of Blazing Fires]], although it is a mystery why the abandoned Hell of Blazing Fires needs to be fuelled in the first place. Incidentally, the spirits of the corpses carried away by [[kasha]] become [[onryou]] and become unable to achieve nirvana. She can also shift between cat form and human form at will. [[Hieda no Akyu]] states in ''[[Symposium of Post-mysticism]]'' that her corpse-carrying ability is not really a [[youkai]]-like one, but she is very good at it, using various tricks.<br />
<br />
;Controlling and communicating with spirits<br />
She is able to communicate with corpses and control all kinds of [[spirit]]s; she appears to enjoy the conversations of the freshly dead, because they may not realize they're dead. In combat, she can briefly reanimate corpses so that they "act" like zombies.<br />
<br />
However, prior to the events of ''[[Subterranean Animism]]'', she displays the ability to drive [[vengeful spirit]]s above-ground, which is what causes the heroines to dive underground in the first place. ''[[Symposium of Post-mysticism]]'' does not mention this.<br />
<br />
===Occupation===<br />
Rin is a [[kasha]] living in the [[Palace of the Earth Spirits]]; her master is [[Satori Komeiji]]. Essentially, she lives day-to-day by stealing corpses from funerals to cart them to the former [[Hell of Blazing Fires]]. She will not kill humans herself, though she (quite efficiently) pursues humans that are close to death, hiding stolen corpses in her wheelbarrow using a straw mat, or just generally collecting corpses she happens to run across. Humans do not usually think that she would be carting corpses out in the open like she does, so she has a degree of freedom even in places with lots of people. In addition to maintaining the energy influx for the power source, she also controls vengeful spirits, at least in the vicinity.<br />
<br />
===Possessions===<br />
Rin's only possession is her wheelbarrow, often referred to as "Orin's Cat Cart". It has no special properties, but ''[[Symposium of Post-mysticism]]'' describes it as the pushcart that has likely carried the most corpses in all of history.<br />
<br />
==Backstory==<br />
When the [[Underground]] separated from [[Hell]], becoming known as [[Former Hell]], both Rin and [[Utsuho Reiuji]] became pets to [[Satori Komeiji]]. Her job is to cart corpses into the fires generating heat for the Underground. One day, she noticed that the flames were extremely strong - much stronger than usual - and, worried, forced evil spirits above-ground to try and signal [[youkai]] to come help. She did not tell Satori about the possibly gigantic power Utsuho had obtained, however, and decides to figure things out for herself.<br />
<br />
==Background Information==<br />
[[File:ThGKRin.png|thumb|220px|Rin's illustration in ''[[Symposium of Post-mysticism]]'']]<br />
===Origin===<br />
Rin's concept is taken from the [[kasha]], a type of [[youkai]] that appears during stormy weather to bring the bodies of sinners to Hell. They are said to be cats that have turned into youkai through various circumstances such as long life. Sometimes temples near places where kasha are said to live will hold two funerals for the dead: in the first, the coffin is filled with rocks so that the kasha won't disrupt the funeral to carry off the deceased. Rin is said to steal corpses from funerals while no one is looking.<br />
<br />
===Name===<br />
Her full name is {{nihongo|''Rin Kaenbyou''|火焔猫 燐|Kaenbyou Rin}}. The characters for {{nihongo||火焔猫|Kaenbyou}} literally mean "blazing cat". The one for {{nihongo||燐|Rin}} means "phosphorus". Rin is shown pushing a wheelbarrow, which is also known in Japanese as a {{nihongo||猫車|Nekoguruma}}, which means "cat cart".<br />
<br />
===Design===<br />
Rin has black cat ears and dark red eyes, with fiery red hair styled into twin braids and adorned by black ribbons at the top and bottom of the braids. She wears a black decorated dress with green frills. She's pushing a wheelbarrow in one hand and holding a vengeful spirit in the other. Surrounding her are several more of these spirits.<br />
<br />
==Rin's Appearances==<br />
===Games===<br />
;Subterranean Animism<br />
[[File:Th11OrinSprite.png|frame|Rin's sprite in ''SA'']]<br />
[[File:Th11OrinCatSprite.png|frame|Rin's cat form sprite in ''SA'']]<br />
Rin's story in ''[[Subterranean Animism]]'' is similar no matter what player character you pick. she appears as the [[stage]] 4, 5 and 6 midboss, while appearing as the [[boss]] for stage 5. When a human arrives underground instead of a youkai like she was expecting, she challenges the heroine, wanting to take her corpse. However, she is defeated, and upon witnessing the heroine's strength, asks her to go deeper into the Hell of Blazing Fires in order to stop [[Utsuho Reiuji]]. During her boss battle, she is seen summoning [[Zombie Fairy|Zombie Fairies]] and [[Vengeful spirit]]s.<br />
<br />
===Spin-offs===<br />
;Double Spoiler<br />
In ''[[Double Spoiler]]'', Rin appeared as a [[stage]] 8 [[boss]] and uses [[spell card]]s that involves [[Zombie Fairy|Zombie Fairies]] when [[Aya Shameimaru]] and [[Hatate Himekaidou]] take photos of her and her [[danmaku]]. When taking a picture of Rin in her cat form, the player is awarded the "Cat bonus", which gives a bonus of [[Wikipedia:666 (number)|666]] points, the mark of the beast. This is somewhat fitting considering that Rin is located in [[Hell]].<br />
<br />
;Hopeless Masquerade<br />
[[File:Th135RinDancing.gif|frame|Anigif of Rin dancing in ''HM'']]<br />
Rin appears as a background cameo in ''[[Hopeless Masquerade]]'' on the [[Palace of Earth Spirits]] and [[Youkai Tanuki Forest]] stage. She is seen doing a rally cheer.<br />
[[File:WaHHOrin.png|thumb|220px|Rin appearance in Wild and Horned Hermit]]<br />
<br />
===Literature===<br />
;[[Symposium of Post-mysticism]]<br />
In her [[Symposium of Post-mysticism/Bunbunmaru Newspaper 2|article]] in the [[Bunbunmaru Newspaper]], Rin was brought in to the [[Myouren Temple]] by [[Byakuren Hijiri]] and the others to talk to the zombie guarding part of the cemetery, [[Yoshika Miyako]]. After explaining to them that the reanimated corpse doesn't want to hurt anyone, she takes a few other corpses as payment and returns to the Underground with them.<br />
<br />
In addition, Byakuren mentions that Rin once came up from the [[Underworld]] because she wanted to join the temple. The monk turned her away as Rin really only wanted access to the vast amount of graves in the graveyard.<br />
<br />
;Wild and Horned Hermit<br />
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<br />
;[[Foul Detective Satori]]<br />
In ''Foul Detective Satori'', she appears as [[Satori Komeiji]]'s assistant, acting as a kind of "[[Wikipedia:Dr._Watson|Dr. Watson]]" to Satori's "[[Wikipedia:Sherlock_Holmes|Sherlock Holmes]]".<br />
<br />
==Relationships==<br />
[[File:ThGK_Bunbunmaru2.jpg|thumb|200px|right|Rin with [[Yoshika Miyako]] in ''SoPm'']]<br />
;[[Satori Komeiji]]<br />
Satori is Rin and Utsuho's master. Apparently she keeps them as pets, but they have their own jobs to do, and are not seen together very often in the games or in books.<br />
<br />
;[[Utsuho Reiuji]]<br />
Utsuho is described as Rin's old friend from when the [[yama]] split Hell out of the Underground. She is on good enough terms with her to not tell Satori about the trouble she causes in ''[[Subterranean Animism]]''.<br />
<br />
;[[Chen]]<br />
In ''Foul Detective Satori'', Chen and Orin appear to be very close and affectionate, possibly to the point of romantic involvement.<ref name="fds1">[[Foul Detective Satori]] - Chapter 8</ref><br />
<br />
===Minor Relationships===<br />
;[[Yoshika Miyako]]<br />
In ''[[Symposium of Post-mysticism]]'', Rin is brought in to communicate with Yoshika, as her ability is being able to talk to corpses.<br />
<br />
==Gallery==<br />
<br />
===Illustrations===<br />
<gallery><br />
File:GoMIllus-Satori.jpg|Rin with Satori and Utsuho from the Grimoire of Marisa<br />
</gallery><br />
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===Others===<br />
<gallery perrow="3" widths="200"><br />
File:GoMSigil-Orin.jpg|Rin's sigil from the [[Grimoire of Marisa]]<br />
</gallery><br />
<br />
==Spell Cards==<br />
{{hidden begin|title = Spell Cards|titlestyle = background:palegreen; text-align:center;}}<br />
{{#lsth:List of Spell Cards/Touhou Project 2|[[Rin Kaenbyou]]}}<br />
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==Additional Information==<br />
*Rin may be the most persistent ''[[Touhou Project]]'' [[boss]]es, appearing as a midboss in three [[stage]]s, and as a stage boss all in one game.<br />
*Rin and [[Mayumi]] are the only [[Windows]] Stage 6 midbosses that, when defeated, don't directly lead to the final boss. A few [[stage enemies]] of [[vengeful spirit]]s leads to Utsuho instead, similar to ''[[Mountain of Faith]]'''s Stage 6, except than in ''Mountain of Faith'' there isn't a midboss.<br />
*Some of her attacks resemble attacks used by the second boss of ''[[Samidare]]'' from ''[[Project Blank]]'', [[Anareta]].<br />
*In ancient Aztec culture, each household had a small red dog called the Techihi who was said to guide lost souls to the underworld, and would often be sacrificed along with its master. Strangely, Rin has both red hair and performs a similar duty.<br />
*Rin's dancing pose in ''[[Hopeless Masquerade]]'' may be a reference to how she dances in [[Twilight Frontier]]'s ''[[Komeiji Satori no Jousou Kyouiku]]'', where Rin, or [[Koishi Komeiji]], will do a similar dance if she manages to get to a gift-box first.<br />
<br />
==Fandom==<br />
{{main|Fandom/Subterranean Animism#Rin Kaenbyou|l1=Fandom: Rin Kaenbyou}}<br />
<br />
==Official Profiles==<br />
{{hidden begin|title = [[Subterranean Animism]] - おまけ.txt|titlestyle = background:lightblue; text-align:center}}<br />
{{Profile Quote<br />
| image = [[File:Th11Rin.png|200px|Rin Kaenbyou SA]]<br />
| text = ○5面ボス 地獄の輪禍<br/><br />
火焔猫 燐(かえんびょう りん)(通称:お燐)<br/><br />
Kaenbyou Rin<br />
<br />
種族:火車<br/><br />
能力:死体を持ち去る程度の能力<br />
<br />
本当の名前は火焔猫 燐(かえんびょう りん)<br/><br />
本人は長い名前が嫌いで、誰にでもお燐と呼ばせている。<br />
<br />
火の中に棲む猫で、さとりのペットである。口が上手く、死体や霊と自由に会話が出来る為、灼熱地獄跡で怨霊の管理を任されている。<br />
<br />
彼女の古い友人に霊烏路空が居る。彼女とはさとりに飼われ始めた頃、則ち地底が地獄でなくなった頃以来の親友である。<br/><br />
<br/><br />
<br />
ある日、彼女は灼熱地獄跡に異変を感じ取った。<br/><br />
いつもよりも火力が強かったのだ。<br />
<br />
火力の管理は空の管轄である。お燐はすぐに空の元を訪ねて驚いた。<br/><br />
誰から貰ったのか、恐ろしいまでの強力な力を手に入れていたのだ。<br />
<br />
それ以来、空は増長し始め、力を見せつけるようになっていった。<br/><br />
終いには地上を灼熱地獄にして支配するとまで言い始めた。<br />
<br />
そんなこと出来る筈もない。さとり様が許す筈もない。<br/><br />
その企みを地底の誰かに知られてしまえば、空は鬼達に始末されてしまうかも知れないのに。<br/><br />
お燐は友人の変貌に呆れ、彼女は禁断の技を使う。<br/><br />
<br/><br />
<br />
それは怨霊を地上に送り込む事。それにより地上の妖怪達に異変を知らしめる事が出来れば、何かが変わる筈だと。<br/><br />
彼女は地上の妖怪達に助けを求めたのだが、彼女の前の現れたのは地上の人間だった。<br />
<br />
その人間は思いの外強く、妖怪退治の専門家といううってつけの人間だったのである。<br/><br />
その人間の腕が確かなら、増長した空を懲らしめる事が出来るかも知れない、そう考えた。<br/><br />
<br/><br />
<br />
最初からさとり様に相談すれば良かったのだが、お燐は何となく空の異変を隠した方がいいと思っていた。もし空の異変に気付けば、さとり様は容赦なく空を始末するだろう、そう考えていた。<br/><br />
勿論そんな筈も無いのだが、子供が親に秘密がばれるのを恐れる様に、お燐も秘密がばれる事を恐れていた。<br/><br />
お燐は彼女に畏怖の念を抱いていたのである。<br />
| translation = Stage 5 Boss '''Hell's Traffic Accident'''<br/><br />
Rin Kaenbyou (nickname: Orin)<br />
<br />
Species: kasha<br/><br />
Ability: Carrying away corpses<br />
<br />
Her real name is Rin Kaenbyou.<br/><br />
She doesn't like long names, though, so she has everyone call her Orin.<br />
<br />
A cat that lives among the flames, and Satori's pet. Since she's well-spoken and can converse freely with corpses and spirits, she was left in charge of controlling the spirits in what was once the Hell of Blazing Fires.<br />
<br />
She has an old friend named Reiuji Utsuho. They've been close friends since before the time Satori began taking care of her, that is, the time when the underground separated from Hell.<br />
<br />
<br />
One day, she felt a disturbance in what was left of the Hell of Blazing Fires.<br/><br />
The flames were much stronger than usual.<br />
<br />
Regulating the flames was Utsuho's job. Orin went to visit Utsuho and was surprised by what she found.<br/><br />
She had discovered a frighteningly strong power, or had been given it by someone.<br />
<br />
Since then, Utsuho began to grow stronger, and to seek out power.<br/><br />
Eventually, she started talking about conquering the above ground and turning it into a scorching hell.<br />
<br />
There's no way she should have been able to do that. There's no way Satori would allow it.<br/><br />
If anybody underground found out about this plan, the oni would probably take care of Utsuho.<br/><br />
Amazed by the transformation her friend had undergone, Orin began to delve into a forbidden art.<br />
<br />
<br />
That forbidden art was how to drive the vengeful spirits above ground. If she could force some sort of incident with the youkai above ground, something would surely change.<br/><br />
She was trying to get the youkai above ground to help her, but what finally appeared before her was a human from above ground.<br />
<br />
That human was unexpectedly strong, and what is more, she specialized in youkai extermination.<br/><br />
If she's really that strong, Orin thought, she might be able to deal with Utsuho.<br />
<br />
<br />
Everything would have turned out fine if Orin had just gone to Satori in the first place, but she thought it would be better if she tried to hide what Utsuho was doing. If Satori had found out about Utsuho's plan, she thought, she'd waste no time dealing with Utsuho in a ruthless fashion. Of course, that wasn't true, but just as children are afraid of their parents finding out their secrets, Orin was afraid of Satori finding out about hers. Orin was somewhat in awe of Satori.<br />
}}<br />
{{hidden end}}<br />
<br />
==Official Sources==<br />
{{hidden begin|title = Official sources|titlestyle = background:pink; text-align:center;}}<br />
*2008/08/16 - '''[[Subterranean Animism]]''' - Settings.txt (official profile)<br />
*2009/07/28 - '''[[The Grimoire of Marisa]]''' - [[The Grimoire of Marisa/Orin's Spell Cards|Orin's Spell Cards]]<br />
*2010/03/14 - '''[[Double Spoiler]]''' - [[Double Spoiler/Spell Cards/Stage 8|Stage 8 Spell Cards]]<br />
*2010/08/26 - '''[[Oriental Sacred Place]]''' - Chapter 10 (cameo)<br />
*2012/04/27 - '''[[Symposium of Post-mysticism]]'''<br />
{{hidden end}}<br />
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<div>:''"Rin" redirects here. For the character cut from Embodiment of Scarlet Devil, see [[Rin Satsuki]].''<br />
{{Infobox Character<br />
| nameJp = {{ruby-ja|火焔猫|かえんびょう}} {{ruby-ja|燐|りん}}<br />
| nameEn = Rin Kaenbyou<br />
| nameIPA = kaembʲoː ɽiɴ [[Media:Pronunciation_RinKaenbyou.ogg|(♫)]]<br />
| image = [[File:Th11Rin.png|x325px|Rin Kaenbyou]]<br />
| caption = Rin Kaenbyou in [[Subterranean Animism]]<br />
| chartitle = {{H:title|Hell's Traffic Accident|地獄の輪禍}}<br />
| nickname = Orin ({{lang|ja|お}}{{ruby-ja|燐|りん}})<br />
| species = [[Kasha]]<br />
| abilities = Carrying away corpses, controlling and communicating with spirits<br />
| occupation = Controller of spirits in the remnants of the Hell of Blazing Fires<br />
| location = [[Hell of Blazing Fires]], [[Palace of the Earth Spirits]]<br />
| MusicThemes = *{{H:title|{{lang|ja|死体旅行 ~}} Be of good cheer!|Corpse Voyage ~ Be of good cheer!}} ([[Subterranean Animism]])<br />
| appOfficialgames = *''[[Subterranean Animism]]'' (Stage 4 Midboss, Stage 5 Midboss, Stage 5 Boss, Stage 6 Midboss)<br />
*''[[Double Spoiler]]'' (Level 8-1, 8-3, 8-5, 8-7 Boss)<br />
*''[[Hopeless Masquerade]]'' (Background Character)<br />
| appPrintworks = *''[[Oriental Sacred Place]]'' (Chapter 10, 12 and 18 cameo)<br />
*''[[Symposium of Post-mysticism]]''<br />
*''[[Forbidden Scrollery]]'' (Chapter 4 cameo)<br />
*''[[Wild and Horned Hermit]]'' (Chapter 2, 20 and 23 cameo; 28)<br />
*''[[Visionary Fairies in Shrine]]'' (Chapter 2 Cameo, 6 cameo, 7 cameo, 9.5 cameo)<br />
*''[[Alternative Facts in Eastern Utopia]]'' (Advertisement)<br />
*''[[The Grimoire of Usami]]'' (Section 2-5)<br />
*''[[Cheating Detective Satori]]'' (Secondary Character)<br />
}}<br />
{{nihongo|'''Rin Kaenbyou'''|火焔猫 燐|Kaenbyou Rin}} is one of [[Satori Komeiji]]'s pets. Her job is to carry corpses to the former [[Hell of Blazing Fires]] to regulate its heat.<br />
<br />
==General Information==<br />
===Personality===<br />
Rin has an energetic, positive personality; she prefers to be called Orin, since she doesn't like long names. She claims that while it is more fun to take on a pure [[cat]] form, she can't talk to [[human]]s that way - nor does it seem she can do her job, carting corpses away, which she seems to take great pleasure in. She appears to have challenged the main character in ''[[Subterranean Animism]]'' partly because she wanted their corpse, but also partly to test their strength to see if they would be able to stop [[Utsuho Reiuji]] for her, and appears to bear no ill will towards them for her defeat. ''[[Symposium of Post-mysticism]]'' states that she has no interest in killing humans herself to gain their corpses; she prefers to hunt for those on the verge of death, supposedly because it makes for more interesting conversation. If a corpse is properly buried, she'll lose interest.<br />
<br />
===Ability===<br />
;Carrying away corpses<br />
Rin's official profile lists her ability as "carrying away corpses". As an ability that comes from her species, it is as it sounds like. The carried-away corpses burn as fuel for the [[Hell of Blazing Fires]], although it is a mystery why the abandoned Hell of Blazing Fires needs to be fuelled in the first place. Incidentally, the spirits of the corpses carried away by [[kasha]] become [[onryou]] and become unable to achieve nirvana. She can also shift between cat form and human form at will. [[Hieda no Akyu]] states in ''[[Symposium of Post-mysticism]]'' that her corpse-carrying ability is not really a [[youkai]]-like one, but she is very good at it, using various tricks.<br />
<br />
;Controlling and communicating with spirits<br />
She is able to communicate with corpses and control all kinds of [[spirit]]s; she appears to enjoy the conversations of the freshly dead, because they may not realize they're dead. In combat, she can briefly reanimate corpses so that they "act" like zombies.<br />
<br />
However, prior to the events of ''[[Subterranean Animism]]'', she displays the ability to drive [[vengeful spirit]]s above-ground, which is what causes the heroines to dive underground in the first place. ''[[Symposium of Post-mysticism]]'' does not mention this.<br />
<br />
===Occupation===<br />
Rin is a [[kasha]] living in the [[Palace of the Earth Spirits]]; her master is [[Satori Komeiji]]. Essentially, she lives day-to-day by stealing corpses from funerals to cart them to the former [[Hell of Blazing Fires]]. She will not kill humans herself, though she (quite efficiently) pursues humans that are close to death, hiding stolen corpses in her wheelbarrow using a straw mat, or just generally collecting corpses she happens to run across. Humans do not usually think that she would be carting corpses out in the open like she does, so she has a degree of freedom even in places with lots of people. In addition to maintaining the energy influx for the power source, she also controls vengeful spirits, at least in the vicinity.<br />
<br />
===Possessions===<br />
Rin's only possession is her wheelbarrow, often referred to as "Orin's Cat Cart". It has no special properties, but ''[[Symposium of Post-mysticism]]'' describes it as the pushcart that has likely carried the most corpses in all of history.<br />
<br />
==Backstory==<br />
When the [[Underground]] separated from [[Hell]], becoming known as [[Former Hell]], both Rin and [[Utsuho Reiuji]] became pets to [[Satori Komeiji]]. Her job is to cart corpses into the fires generating heat for the Underground. One day, she noticed that the flames were extremely strong - much stronger than usual - and, worried, forced evil spirits above-ground to try and signal [[youkai]] to come help. She did not tell Satori about the possibly gigantic power Utsuho had obtained, however, and decides to figure things out for herself.<br />
<br />
==Background Information==<br />
[[File:ThGKRin.png|thumb|220px|Rin's illustration in ''[[Symposium of Post-mysticism]]'']]<br />
===Origin===<br />
Rin's concept is taken from the [[kasha]], a type of [[youkai]] that appears during stormy weather to bring the bodies of sinners to Hell. They are said to be cats that have turned into youkai through various circumstances such as long life. Sometimes temples near places where kasha are said to live will hold two funerals for the dead: in the first, the coffin is filled with rocks so that the kasha won't disrupt the funeral to carry off the deceased. Rin is said to steal corpses from funerals while no one is looking.<br />
<br />
===Name===<br />
Her full name is {{nihongo|''Rin Kaenbyou''|火焔猫 燐|Kaenbyou Rin}}. The characters for {{nihongo||火焔猫|Kaenbyou}} literally mean "blazing cat". The one for {{nihongo||燐|Rin}} means "phosphorus". Rin is shown pushing a wheelbarrow, which is also known in Japanese as a {{nihongo||猫車|Nekoguruma}}, which means "cat cart".<br />
<br />
===Design===<br />
Rin has black cat ears and dark red eyes, with fiery red hair styled into twin braids and adorned by black ribbons at the top and bottom of the braids. She wears a black decorated dress with green frills. She's pushing a wheelbarrow in one hand and holding a vengeful spirit in the other. Surrounding her are several more of these spirits.<br />
<br />
==Rin's Appearances==<br />
===Games===<br />
;Subterranean Animism<br />
[[File:Th11OrinSprite.png|frame|Rin's sprite in ''SA'']]<br />
[[File:Th11OrinCatSprite.png|frame|Rin's cat form sprite in ''SA'']]<br />
Rin's story in ''[[Subterranean Animism]]'' is similar no matter what player character you pick. she appears as the [[stage]] 4, 5 and 6 midboss, while appearing as the [[boss]] for stage 5. When a human arrives underground instead of a youkai like she was expecting, she challenges the heroine, wanting to take her corpse. However, she is defeated, and upon witnessing the heroine's strength, asks her to go deeper into the Hell of Blazing Fires in order to stop [[Utsuho Reiuji]]. During her boss battle, she is seen summoning [[Zombie Fairy|Zombie Fairies]] and [[Vengeful spirit]]s.<br />
<br />
===Spin-offs===<br />
;Double Spoiler<br />
In ''[[Double Spoiler]]'', Rin appeared as a [[stage]] 8 [[boss]] and uses [[spell card]]s that involves [[Zombie Fairy|Zombie Fairies]] when [[Aya Shameimaru]] and [[Hatate Himekaidou]] take photos of her and her [[danmaku]]. When taking a picture of Rin in her cat form, the player is awarded the "Cat bonus", which gives a bonus of [[Wikipedia:666 (number)|666]] points, the mark of the beast. This is somewhat fitting considering that Rin is located in [[Hell]].<br />
<br />
;Hopeless Masquerade<br />
[[File:Th135RinDancing.gif|frame|Anigif of Rin dancing in ''HM'']]<br />
Rin appears as a background cameo in ''[[Hopeless Masquerade]]'' on the [[Palace of Earth Spirits]] and [[Youkai Tanuki Forest]] stage. She is seen doing a rally cheer.<br />
[[File:WaHHOrin.png|thumb|220px|Rin appearance in Wild and Horned Hermit]]<br />
<br />
===Literature===<br />
;[[Symposium of Post-mysticism]]<br />
In her [[Symposium of Post-mysticism/Bunbunmaru Newspaper 2|article]] in the [[Bunbunmaru Newspaper]], Rin was brought in to the [[Myouren Temple]] by [[Byakuren Hijiri]] and the others to talk to the zombie guarding part of the cemetery, [[Yoshika Miyako]]. After explaining to them that the reanimated corpse doesn't want to hurt anyone, she takes a few other corpses as payment and returns to the Underground with them.<br />
<br />
In addition, Byakuren mentions that Rin once came up from the [[Underworld]] because she wanted to join the temple. The monk turned her away as Rin really only wanted access to the vast amount of graves in the graveyard.<br />
<br />
;Wild and Horned Hermit<br />
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<br />
;[[Foul Detective Satori]]<br />
In ''Foul Detective Satori'', she appears as [[Satori Komeiji]]'s assistant, acting as a kind of "[[Wikipedia:Dr._Watson|Dr. Watson]]" to Satori's "[[Wikipedia:Sherlock_Holmes|Sherlock Holmes]]".<br />
<br />
==Relationships==<br />
[[File:ThGK_Bunbunmaru2.jpg|thumb|200px|right|Rin with [[Yoshika Miyako]] in ''SoPm'']]<br />
;[[Satori Komeiji]]<br />
Satori is Rin and Utsuho's master. Apparently she keeps them as pets, but they have their own jobs to do, and are not seen together very often in the games or in books.<br />
<br />
;[[Utsuho Reiuji]]<br />
Utsuho is described as Rin's old friend from when the [[yama]] split Hell out of the Underground. She is on good enough terms with her to not tell Satori about the trouble she causes in ''[[Subterranean Animism]]''.<br />
<br />
===Minor Relationships===<br />
;[[Yoshika Miyako]]<br />
In ''[[Symposium of Post-mysticism]]'', Rin is brought in to communicate with Yoshika, as her ability is being able to talk to corpses.<br />
<br />
==Gallery==<br />
<br />
===Illustrations===<br />
<gallery><br />
File:GoMIllus-Satori.jpg|Rin with Satori and Utsuho from the Grimoire of Marisa<br />
</gallery><br />
<br />
===Others===<br />
<gallery perrow="3" widths="200"><br />
File:GoMSigil-Orin.jpg|Rin's sigil from the [[Grimoire of Marisa]]<br />
</gallery><br />
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==Spell Cards==<br />
{{hidden begin|title = Spell Cards|titlestyle = background:palegreen; text-align:center;}}<br />
{{#lsth:List of Spell Cards/Touhou Project 2|[[Rin Kaenbyou]]}}<br />
{{hidden end}}<br />
<br />
==Additional Information==<br />
*Rin may be the most persistent ''[[Touhou Project]]'' [[boss]]es, appearing as a midboss in three [[stage]]s, and as a stage boss all in one game.<br />
*Rin and [[Mayumi]] are the only [[Windows]] Stage 6 midbosses that, when defeated, don't directly lead to the final boss. A few [[stage enemies]] of [[vengeful spirit]]s leads to Utsuho instead, similar to ''[[Mountain of Faith]]'''s Stage 6, except than in ''Mountain of Faith'' there isn't a midboss.<br />
*Some of her attacks resemble attacks used by the second boss of ''[[Samidare]]'' from ''[[Project Blank]]'', [[Anareta]].<br />
*In ancient Aztec culture, each household had a small red dog called the Techihi who was said to guide lost souls to the underworld, and would often be sacrificed along with its master. Strangely, Rin has both red hair and performs a similar duty.<br />
*Rin's dancing pose in ''[[Hopeless Masquerade]]'' may be a reference to how she dances in [[Twilight Frontier]]'s ''[[Komeiji Satori no Jousou Kyouiku]]'', where Rin, or [[Koishi Komeiji]], will do a similar dance if she manages to get to a gift-box first.<br />
<br />
==Fandom==<br />
{{main|Fandom/Subterranean Animism#Rin Kaenbyou|l1=Fandom: Rin Kaenbyou}}<br />
<br />
==Official Profiles==<br />
{{hidden begin|title = [[Subterranean Animism]] - おまけ.txt|titlestyle = background:lightblue; text-align:center}}<br />
{{Profile Quote<br />
| image = [[File:Th11Rin.png|200px|Rin Kaenbyou SA]]<br />
| text = ○5面ボス 地獄の輪禍<br/><br />
火焔猫 燐(かえんびょう りん)(通称:お燐)<br/><br />
Kaenbyou Rin<br />
<br />
種族:火車<br/><br />
能力:死体を持ち去る程度の能力<br />
<br />
本当の名前は火焔猫 燐(かえんびょう りん)<br/><br />
本人は長い名前が嫌いで、誰にでもお燐と呼ばせている。<br />
<br />
火の中に棲む猫で、さとりのペットである。口が上手く、死体や霊と自由に会話が出来る為、灼熱地獄跡で怨霊の管理を任されている。<br />
<br />
彼女の古い友人に霊烏路空が居る。彼女とはさとりに飼われ始めた頃、則ち地底が地獄でなくなった頃以来の親友である。<br/><br />
<br/><br />
<br />
ある日、彼女は灼熱地獄跡に異変を感じ取った。<br/><br />
いつもよりも火力が強かったのだ。<br />
<br />
火力の管理は空の管轄である。お燐はすぐに空の元を訪ねて驚いた。<br/><br />
誰から貰ったのか、恐ろしいまでの強力な力を手に入れていたのだ。<br />
<br />
それ以来、空は増長し始め、力を見せつけるようになっていった。<br/><br />
終いには地上を灼熱地獄にして支配するとまで言い始めた。<br />
<br />
そんなこと出来る筈もない。さとり様が許す筈もない。<br/><br />
その企みを地底の誰かに知られてしまえば、空は鬼達に始末されてしまうかも知れないのに。<br/><br />
お燐は友人の変貌に呆れ、彼女は禁断の技を使う。<br/><br />
<br/><br />
<br />
それは怨霊を地上に送り込む事。それにより地上の妖怪達に異変を知らしめる事が出来れば、何かが変わる筈だと。<br/><br />
彼女は地上の妖怪達に助けを求めたのだが、彼女の前の現れたのは地上の人間だった。<br />
<br />
その人間は思いの外強く、妖怪退治の専門家といううってつけの人間だったのである。<br/><br />
その人間の腕が確かなら、増長した空を懲らしめる事が出来るかも知れない、そう考えた。<br/><br />
<br/><br />
<br />
最初からさとり様に相談すれば良かったのだが、お燐は何となく空の異変を隠した方がいいと思っていた。もし空の異変に気付けば、さとり様は容赦なく空を始末するだろう、そう考えていた。<br/><br />
勿論そんな筈も無いのだが、子供が親に秘密がばれるのを恐れる様に、お燐も秘密がばれる事を恐れていた。<br/><br />
お燐は彼女に畏怖の念を抱いていたのである。<br />
| translation = Stage 5 Boss '''Hell's Traffic Accident'''<br/><br />
Rin Kaenbyou (nickname: Orin)<br />
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Species: kasha<br/><br />
Ability: Carrying away corpses<br />
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Her real name is Rin Kaenbyou.<br/><br />
She doesn't like long names, though, so she has everyone call her Orin.<br />
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A cat that lives among the flames, and Satori's pet. Since she's well-spoken and can converse freely with corpses and spirits, she was left in charge of controlling the spirits in what was once the Hell of Blazing Fires.<br />
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She has an old friend named Reiuji Utsuho. They've been close friends since before the time Satori began taking care of her, that is, the time when the underground separated from Hell.<br />
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One day, she felt a disturbance in what was left of the Hell of Blazing Fires.<br/><br />
The flames were much stronger than usual.<br />
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Regulating the flames was Utsuho's job. Orin went to visit Utsuho and was surprised by what she found.<br/><br />
She had discovered a frighteningly strong power, or had been given it by someone.<br />
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Since then, Utsuho began to grow stronger, and to seek out power.<br/><br />
Eventually, she started talking about conquering the above ground and turning it into a scorching hell.<br />
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There's no way she should have been able to do that. There's no way Satori would allow it.<br/><br />
If anybody underground found out about this plan, the oni would probably take care of Utsuho.<br/><br />
Amazed by the transformation her friend had undergone, Orin began to delve into a forbidden art.<br />
<br />
<br />
That forbidden art was how to drive the vengeful spirits above ground. If she could force some sort of incident with the youkai above ground, something would surely change.<br/><br />
She was trying to get the youkai above ground to help her, but what finally appeared before her was a human from above ground.<br />
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That human was unexpectedly strong, and what is more, she specialized in youkai extermination.<br/><br />
If she's really that strong, Orin thought, she might be able to deal with Utsuho.<br />
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<br />
Everything would have turned out fine if Orin had just gone to Satori in the first place, but she thought it would be better if she tried to hide what Utsuho was doing. If Satori had found out about Utsuho's plan, she thought, she'd waste no time dealing with Utsuho in a ruthless fashion. Of course, that wasn't true, but just as children are afraid of their parents finding out their secrets, Orin was afraid of Satori finding out about hers. Orin was somewhat in awe of Satori.<br />
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==Official Sources==<br />
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*2008/08/16 - '''[[Subterranean Animism]]''' - Settings.txt (official profile)<br />
*2009/07/28 - '''[[The Grimoire of Marisa]]''' - [[The Grimoire of Marisa/Orin's Spell Cards|Orin's Spell Cards]]<br />
*2010/03/14 - '''[[Double Spoiler]]''' - [[Double Spoiler/Spell Cards/Stage 8|Stage 8 Spell Cards]]<br />
*2010/08/26 - '''[[Oriental Sacred Place]]''' - Chapter 10 (cameo)<br />
*2012/04/27 - '''[[Symposium of Post-mysticism]]'''<br />
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| title ={{ruby-ja|東方文果真報|とうほぶんかしんぽう}}<br />''Alternative Facts in Eastern Utopia''<br />
| image = [[File:AFiEUcover.jpg|250px|Alternative Facts in Eastern Utopia]]<br />
| developer =Team Shanghai Alice<br />
| publisher =Kadokawa<br />
| released =2017-03-30<br />
| genre =Official Book<br />
| writers =[[ZUN]]<br />
| illustrators =[[Aoi Aioi]]<br />[[Genji Asai]]<br />[[Aya Azuma]]<br />[[Toshihira Arata]]<br />[[ALISON]]<br />[[Amamiya Tokuhisa]]<br />[[Suichuu Hanabi]]<br />[[TOKIAME]]<br />[[nyanya]]<br />[[Haniwa]]<br />[[Hiiragi Akio]]<br />[[Hitori]]<br />[[Masakichi]]<br />[[Mizutaki]]<br />
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| ISBN = 9784048928625<br />
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{{thtitle|Touhou |Bunka Shinpou|ruby=Word's End True Report|&nbsp;~ Alternative Facts in Eastern Utopia|東方文果真報 ~ Alternative Facts in Eastern Utopia}} is an official Touhou book released on March 30, 2017. It is presented as [[Aya Shameimaru]]'s attempt to create a tabloid magazine in the style of those from the [[Outside World]],<ref>''[[Curiosities of Lotus Asia]]'' - [[Curiosities of Lotus Asia/Chapter 30|Chapter 30]]</ref> which she eventually cancelled and left unpublished.<ref>''[[Forbidden Scrollery]]'' - Chapter 49</ref> The book features in-universe articles, interviews and advertisements similar to the earlier ''[[Bohemian Archive in Japanese Red]]'', but in a significantly more chaotic and haphazard format. In fact, the magazine ''Bunbunharu Weekly'' or "{{nihongo|文々春新報|Bunbunharu Shinpou|lit. "Aya's Periodical News Report"}} follows the name and design of {{nihongo|週刊文春|Shuukan Bunshun|lit. "Weekly Magazine of Literature Periodical"}}, a notorious high-circulation tabloid published weekly in Japan.<br />
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==Plot==<br />
[[Aya Shameimaru]], a [[tengu]] reporter, decides to change her reporting style to more closely match examples of [[Wikipedia:Clickbait|clickbait]] magazines from the [[Outside World]] in an attempt to further her publication's appeal. To that end, she attempts to import the topical rhetoric of the [[Wikipedia:2016_United_States_presidential_election|2016 United States Presidential Election]] and other hot-button political issues into Gensokyo.<ref>[[Alternative Facts in Eastern Utopia]] - [[Alternative_Facts_in_Eastern_Utopia/Afterword|ZUN's Afterword]]</ref><br />
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In keeping with the 'tabloid' theme, she relies heavily on [[Wikipedia:loaded_questions|loaded questions]] in an attempt to manufacture a narrative that Gensokyo is at risk of invasion from "foreign threats", going so far as to imply [[Yukari Yakumo]] and [[Reimu Hakurei]] are collaborators with these alleged conspiring outsiders, such as [[Clownpiece]] and [[Sumireko Usami]]. Despite Aya's determined attempts to steer the conversation to that end, neither of them appear concerned about the new "immigrants", with Reimu rejecting the idea that she "defends" the [[Hakurei Barrier]] from outsiders,<ref>''[[Alternative Facts in Eastern Utopia]]'' - [[Alternative_Facts_in_Eastern_Utopia/Article_and_Interview/Sumireko_Usami|Sumireko Usami's Interview]]</ref> and Yukari stating that Gensokyo is "accepting of everyone."<ref>''[[Alternative Facts in Eastern Utopia]]'' - [[Alternative_Facts_in_Eastern_Utopia/Article_and_Interview/Yukari_Yakumo|Yukari Yakumo's Interview]]</ref><br />
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During a particularly in-depth and intense conversation with [[Hecatia Lapislazuli]], in which the Goddess harshly chides Aya for her [[Wikipedia:Yellow_journalism|yellow journalism]], Hecatia warns Aya that [[Wikipedia:Isolationism|isolationism]] would result in the stagnation and eventual decay of Gensokyo, comparing such an ideology to one held by the antagonistic and elitist [[Lunar Kingdom]]. Hecatia also suggests that the surge in isolationist attitudes that might result from Aya's publication would be advantageous to the [[Lunarians]] by limiting Gensokyo's cultural evolution. This interview in particular seems to convince Aya to ultimately not publish the current iteration of ''Bunbunharu Shinpou'', becoming similarly concerned about aiding the Lunarians.<ref>''[[Alternative Facts in Eastern Utopia]]'' - [[Alternative Facts in Eastern Utopia/Article and Interview/Clownpiece and Hecatia Lapislazuli|Hecatia Lapislazuli's Interview]]</ref><br />
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In a journal-style afterword, Aya explains the rationale for many of her loaded questions and outright fabrications, viewing it as a way to make her publication "more exciting and attractive" for potential readers rather than being a true believer of any specific ideology herself. Additionally, she felt pressure to compete with [[Hatate Himekaidou]]'s ''Kakashi Spirit News'' publication, or face irrelevance in Gensokyo's sphere of journalism.<br />
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==Press==<br />
Details regarding the book, including its release date, were announced in the 3rd volume of [[Strange Creators of Outer World]]. Preorders opened shortly after. <br />
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==Read online (complete)==<br />
MangaDex: '''[https://mangadex.org/title/24250/touhou-bunka-shinpou-alternative-facts-in-eastern-utopia Touhou Bunka Shinpou ~ Alternative Facts in Eastern Utopia.]'''<br />
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Released by '''Reality Dreamers'''.<br />
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==Contents==<br />
*pg. 1: [[/Memo|Memo]]<br />
*pg. 3: [[/Foreword|Foreword]]<br />
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===Bunbunharu Weekly===<br />
*pg. 5: Cover<br />
*pg. 7-9: [[/Article and Interview/Sumireko Usami#Article|Article: Sumireko Usami (with Kasen Ibaraki)]] &mdash; A female student who can cross over the barrier!<br />
*pg. 10-11: [[/Article and Interview/Prismriver Sisters and Raiko Horikawa#Article_1|Article: Prismriver Sisters 1]] &mdash; The Prismriver Ensemble's break-up!<br />
*pg. 12-13: [[/Article and Interview/Clownpiece and Hecatia Lapislazuli#Article|Article: Clownpiece and Hecatia Lapislazuli]] &mdash; A shocking photo of the invaders' secret talk!<br />
*pg. 14-15: [[/Article and Interview/Hatate Himekaidou#Article_1|Article: Hatate Himekaidou 1 (about Sumireko Usami)]] &mdash; More fake news from Kakashi Spirit News!<br />
*pg. 16: [[/Article and Interview/Shinmyoumaru Sukuna#Article_1|Article: Shinmyoumaru Sukuna 1]] &mdash; A Small Challenger to White-Water Rafting!<br />
*pg. 17: [[/Index|Index]]<br />
*pg. 18-21: [[/Article and Interview/Yukari Yakumo|Article: Yukari Yakumo]] &mdash; Gensokyo's crisis was calculated!?<br />
*pg. 22-25: [[/Article and Interview/Reimu Hakurei|Article: Reimu Hakurei]] &mdash; The Hakurei Shrine: Ally to the Outside World<ref>On the book, the number of page is misprinted as it starts from pg. 20.</ref><br />
*pg. 26-27: [[/Article and Interview/Rinnosuke Morichika|Article: Rinnosuke Morichika]] &mdash; Kourindou's Junk Restocked<br />
*pg. 28-29: [[/Article and Interview/Tsukumo Sisters|Article: Tsukumo Sisters]] &mdash; The Birth of Future Stars! The healing "Two Girls Band"<br />
*pg. 30-31: [[/Article and Interview/Dangerous Things#Front_Pages|Dangerous Things]] &mdash; DANGEROUS Things Keep Eating Away at Gensokyo!<br />
**pg. 32-33: [[/Article and Interview/Dangerous Things#Article_1|Article: Eirin Yagokoro]] &mdash; The inconvenient “true effects” of overly effective medicine<br />
**pg. 34-35: [[/Article and Interview/Dangerous Things#Article_2|Article: Nitori Kawashiro]] &mdash; "Kappa-Approved Hydrogenous Spring Water” and the Maximum Danger that Lurks Within!<br />
*pg. 36-37: [[/Article and Interview/Sekibanki|Article: Sekibanki]] &mdash; Stange "Smartphone Neck" Disease in Gensokyo!<br />
* Exclusive Bamboo Forest Scoops<br />
**pg. 38-39: [[/Article and Interview/Reisen Udongein Inaba#Article_1|Article: Reisen Udongein Inaba 1]] &mdash; The dangerous "addictiveness" of the moon's dango and their terrifying "side effects"!"<ref>On the book, the number of page is misprinted as it starts from pg. 36.</ref><br />
**pg. 40-41: [[/Article and Interview/Reisen Udongein Inaba#Article_2|Article: Reisen Udongein Inaba 2 (with Tewi Inaba)]] &mdash; Drug seller turns out to be an immigrant!<br />
*pg. 42-43: [[/Article and Interview/Aya Shameimaru|Article: Aya Shameimaru]] &mdash; “Bunbunmaru News” is HOT!<br />
*pg. 44-45: [[/Article and Interview/Toyosatomimi no Miko#Article_1|Article: Toyosatomimi no Miko 1 (with Yoshika Miyako, Soga no Tojiko, and Mononobe no Futo)]] &mdash; Is she President of the Human Village!?<br />
*pg. 46-47: [[/Article and Interview/Toyosatomimi no Miko#Article 2|Article: Toyosatomimi no Miko 2 (with Byakuren Hijiri, Seiga Kaku, and Hata no Kokoro)]] &mdash; "MAKE HUMANS GREAT AGAIN!"<br />
*pg. 48-49: [[/Article and Interview/Various Youkai|Article: Various Youkai]] &mdash; A serious food supply issue is inevitable<br />
*pg. 50-51: [[/Article and Interview/Prismriver Sisters and Raiko Horikawa#Article_2|Article: Prismriver Sisters 2 (featuring Raiko Horikawa)]] &mdash; From break-up to reformation in just three days<br />
*pg. 52: [[/Article and Interview/Prismriver Sisters and Raiko Horikawa#Interview|Interview: Raiko Horikawa]] &mdash; Becoming the Horismriver Ensemble while as a group of four<br />
*pg. 54-55: [[/Article and Interview/Hatate Himekaidou#Article_2|Article: Hatate Himekaidou 2 (about Seija Kijin)]] &mdash; The impossible "Discovery of the Real Miracle Mallet"<br />
*pg. 56-57: Tengu Quarrel - Toshihira Arata<br />
*pg. 58-63: [[/Novel/Hieda no Akyuu|Novel: Hieda no Akyuu]] &mdash; "M Dies of M" by Agatha Chris Q<br />
*pg. 65-72: Double Page: "When the Tengu Rest Their Wings"<br />
**pg. 66-69: Illustration by nyanya<br />
**pg. 70-71: [[/Article and Interview/Three Tengu|Meeting: Three Tengu]] &mdash; Urgent Meeting! Anonymous Tengu hold a Symposium<br />
*pg. 73-80: Newbie Tengu Shinmyoumaru - Haniwa<br />
*pg. 82-83: [[/Article and Interview/Doremy Sweet|Article: Doremy Sweet]] &mdash; The Ominous “Rumors” Surrounding a Popular Pillow<br />
*pg. 84-85: [[/Article and Interview/Sagume Kishin#Article_1|Article: Sagume Kishin 1 (Single)]] &mdash; SUSPICIOUS SHADY CHARACTER is frequenting pharmaceutical facility<br />
*pg. 86-87: [[/Article and Interview/Sagume Kishin#Article_2|Article: Sagume Kishin 2 (with Tewi Inaba, Reisen Udongein Inaba, and Eirin Yagokoro)]] &mdash; A Secret Conversation Sending The World Into Panic - Is this the "Yagokoro Incident"!?<br />
*pg. 88-89: [[/Article and Interview/Seiran and Ringo|Article: Seiran and Ringo]] &mdash; Even the dango business isn't always cushy?<br />
*pg. 90-91: [[/Article and Interview/Shinmyoumaru Sukuna#Article_2|Article: Shinmyoumaru Sukuna 2 (with Wakasagihime)]] &mdash; Shinmyoumaru's Still At It!<br />
*pg. 92-93: [[/Article and Interview/Kagerou Imaizumi|Article: Kagerou Imaizumi]] &mdash; A "guess the human" game has started<br />
*pg. 94-95: [[/Article and Interview/Hata no Kokoro|Article: Hata no Kokoro]] &mdash; "Ningyo-yaki In Love" is published<br />
*pg. 96-97: [[/Article and Interview/Momiji Inubashiri|Article: Momiji Inubashiri]] &mdash; At last: The countdown to the Aerial Ropeway<br />
*pg. 98: [[/Essay/Tenshi Hinanawi|Essay: Tenshi Hinanawi]] &mdash; Luxurious Heavenly Cuisine for the Needy - Tenshi Hinanawi<br />
*pg. 99: [[/Essay/Komachi Onozuka|Essay: Komachi Onozuka]] &mdash; Next Week's Deaths - Komachi Onozuka<br />
*pg. 100-101: [[/Essay/Marisa Kirisame|Essay: Marisa Kirisame]] &mdash; Marisa's Lucky Danmaku Horoscope - Marisa Kirisame<br />
*pg. 104-105: [[/Article and Interview/Kyouko Kasodani|Article: Kyouko Kasodani]] &mdash; The Reality of the Sweatshop World of Religion<br />
*pg. 106-107: [[/Article and Interview/Kogasa Tatara, Yoshika Miyako, and Seiga Kaku|Article: Kogasa Tatara, Yoshika Miyako, and Seiga Kaku]] &mdash; The Dread of the Urban Legend Incident!<br />
*pg. 108-111: [[/Article and Interview/Sumireko Usami#Interview|Interview: Sumireko Usami]] &mdash; Whose Side Is The Outsider On? - Sumireko Usami<br />
*pg. 112-117: [[/Article and Interview/Clownpiece and Hecatia Lapislazuli#Interview|Interview: Hecatia Lapislazuli]] &mdash; World-Crossing Discourse - Hecatia Lapislazuli<br />
*pg. 118: [[/Colophon|Colophon]]<br />
*pg. 120-121: [[/Essay/Aya Shameimaru#Essay_1|Essay: Aya Shameimaru 1]] &mdash; Top 100 Famous Hot Springs of Gensokyo - Aya Shameimaru<br />
*pg. 122-123: [[/Essay/Yuyuko Saigyouji|Essay: Yuyuko Saigyouji]] &mdash; Yuyuko's One Dish One Bite - Yuyuko Saigyouji<br />
*pg. 124-125: [[/Essay/Rinnosuke Morichika|Essay: Rinnosuke Morichika]] &mdash; Useless Modern Tools - Rinnosuke Morichika<br />
*pg. 126: [[/Essay/Aya Shameimaru#Essay_2|Essay: Aya Shameimaru 2]] &mdash; The secret stores that only Tengu know of - Aya Shameimaru<br />
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====Advertisement==== <br />
*pg. 25: [[/Advertisement#Marisa Kirisame 1|Marisa Kirisame 1]]<br />
*pg. 53: [[/Advertisement#Doremy Sweet|Doremy Sweet]]<br />
*pg. 64: [[/Advertisement#Marisa Kirisame 2|Marisa Kirisame 2]]<br />
*pg. 81: [[/Advertisement#Keine Kamishirasawa and Hieda no Akyuu|Keine Kamishirasawa and Hieda no Akyuu]]<br />
*pg. 102: [[/Advertisement#Nitori Kawashiro|Nitori Kawashiro]]<br />
*pg. 103: [[/Advertisement#Sakuya Izayoi|Sakuya Izayoi]]<br />
*pg. 119: [[/Advertisement#Rin Kaenbyou|Rin Kaenbyou]]<br />
*pg. 127: [[/Advertisement#Bunbunshun News Report|Bunbunharu Weekly]]<br />
*pg. 128: [[/Advertisement#Bunbunmaru Newspaper|Bunbunmaru Newspaper]]<br />
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===Self Reflection===<br />
*pg. 130-131: [[/Article and Interview/Clownpiece and Hecatia Lapislazuli#Fact_Check_to_Article|Fact Check: Clownpiece and Hecatia Lapislazuli]] &mdash; 12-13 <br />
*pg. 132-133: [[/Article and Interview/Toyosatomimi no Miko#Fact_Check_to_Article_1|Fact Check: Toyosatomimi no Miko 1 (with Yoshika Miyako, Soga no Tojiko, and Mononobe no Futo)]] &mdash; 44-45 <br />
*pg. 134-135: [[/Article and Interview/Dangerous Things#Fact_Check_to_Article_2|Fact Check: Nitori Kawashiro]] &mdash; 34-35<br />
*pg. 136-137: [[/Article and Interview/Hatate Himekaidou#Fact_Check_to_Article_1|Fact Check: Hatate Himekaidou 1 (about Sumireko Usami)]] &mdash; 14-15<br />
*pg. 138-140: [[/Report of Release Cancel|Report that Bunbunharu Weekly Is Released to Be Cancelled]] &mdash;<br />
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===Afterword by ZUN===<br />
*pg. 142-143: [[/Afterword|Afterword]]<br />
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==Gallery==<br />
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File:AFiEUpreview.jpg|Promotional image featured in [[Strange Creators of Outer World]], with [[Sagume Kishin]]. Tagline reads: "''I wonder what kind of book it is...''"<br />
File:AFiEUBack.jpg|Back cover featuring [[Hecatia Lapislazuli]] and [[Clownpiece]]<br />
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[[ru:Alternative Facts in Eastern Utopia]]</div>AliceDhttps://en.touhouwiki.net/index.php?title=Tsukasa_Kudamaki&diff=431308Tsukasa Kudamaki2021-06-10T01:18:38Z<p>AliceD: /* General Information */</p>
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| nameEn = Tsukasa Kudamaki<br />
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| caption = Tsukasa Kudamaki in [[Unconnected Marketeers]]<br />
| chartitle = {{H:title|Wicked White Fox Who Whispers in Ears|耳元で囁く邪悪な白狐}}<br />
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{{nihongo|'''Tsukasa Kudamaki'''|菅牧 典|Kudamaki Tsukasa}} is the Stage 5, 6, and Extra Stage [[Midboss|midboss]] of ''[[Unconnected Marketeers]]''.<br />
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==General Information==<br />
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===Personality===<br />
Tsukasa is a sly [[kuda-gitsune]] who talks out of both sides of her mouth, acting as a "loyal" confidant to her mistress, [[Megumu Iizunamaru]]. Although she presents herself to be Megumu's faithful servant, she seems primarily interested in her own goals. Tsukasa's willingness to manipulate high-class youkai like Megumu, Gods like [[Chimata Tenkyuu]], and even extremely powerful and dangerous youkai like [[Momoyo Himemushi]], demonstrates a high degree of pride and confidence in her skills as a manipulator. Despite this, it's shown that Megumu, Chimata, and Momoyo trust her advice, even when they have good reason to be suspicious of her. When challenged, however, she can get quite vicious and mean-spirited, showing her malicious and disparaging side to the protagonist in ''Unconnected Marketeers''.<br />
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===Abilities===<br />
;Capable of slipping into places where one's soul is weak<br />
Tsukasa senses weak points in the souls of those around her, and can exploit them in order to get what she wants. She demonstrates this ability against Megumu, Chimata, and Momoyo in ''Unconnected Marketeers''.<br />
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;Kuda-gitsune's wealth-bringing<br />
''Kuda-gitsune'' are capable of bringing people great wealth, but can somewhat ironically also cause financial ruin in the long-run.<br />
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==Background Information==<br />
===Origin===<br />
''Kuda-gitsune'' are mythological beings associated with foxes, weasels, or larval rollers. According to tradition, they answer questions to those who conjure them up, or take possession of people. In Touhou, however, the main interpretation shown is that ''kuda-gitsune'' first bring wealth, but over time multiply in such a way that they harm their owners, whether through high financial costs as in traditional mythology, or by stealing their life force as in Touhou Project. For example, in Chapter 8 of [[Wild and Horned Hermit]], [[Reimu Hakurei]] temporarily falls victim to a trick by a kuda-gitsune who steals Reimu's life force.<br />
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''Kuda-gitsune'' are also called ''iizuna'' (飯綱, 'fox spirit'). This is the same ''iizuna'' from [[Megumu Iizunamaru|Megumu ''Iizuna''maru]]'s surname.<br />
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===Name===<br />
Her given name, Tsukasa (典), typically read ''ten'' (てん), means "law" or "ceremony." Alternate meanings for the kana ''tsukasa'' (つかさ) also include ''chief'' (官) and ''hill'' (阜), which may be of more significance.<br />
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Her surname, Kudamaki (菅牧), means ''[[Wikipedia:Sedge|sedge]] pasture''.<br />
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===Design===<br />
Tsukasa has blonde, shoulder-length hair, that partially covers her face and has light-brown to yellow eyes. She has big fox ears with white points and a fluffy foxtail. She wears plain white, one-piece clothing, with green bands at the hemming. On the left thigh is a turquoise flower pattern. Besides that, she wears white socks and is holding some sort of test tube vial in her hand.<br />
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She holds her right hand in a pose that is supposed to represent a fox.<br />
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==Story==<br />
===Games===<br />
;''[[Unconnected Marketeers]]''<br />
From stage 5 onwards, Tsukasa appears in every stage, i.e. 5, 6 and extra, as a mid-boss and in dialogue with the stage boss in order to manipulate them. The protagonist beats her every time, but is drawn into another fight each time by Tsukasa's lies and tricks. As Megumu Iizunamaru's consultant, she was also involved in building the company that triggered the Unconnected Marketeers incident and, despite her seemingly small role in the background, she can be seen as one of the central antagonists.<br />
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==Relationships==<br />
;[[Megumu Iizunamaru]]<br />
She is Megumu Iizunamaru's right-hand and seems loyal to her, addressing her in very polite tones. However, Tsukasa is shown to manipulate Megumu all the same. Megumu trusts her without hesitation and seems to appreciate her presence, sending her away before her boss fight, apparently out of concern that Tsukasa might be injured.<br />
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;[[Momoyo Himemushi]]<br />
As a messenger for Megumu, Tsukasa brings her messages from Megumu to Momoyo, and vice versa. Tsukasa uses this by announcing that she will report Momoyo's apparent 'failure' to Megumu when the protagonist and [[Misumaru Tamatsukuri]] enter the cave, falsely branding them 'thieves'. Momoyo fights the protagonist, apparently more concerned with having a good fight than upholding any sense of honour with her 'employers'. Momoyo is also able to threaten Tsukasa and blackmail her into silence. While Tsukasa also addresses Momoyo with polite tones, it seems that this is mostly for appearances, as Tsukasa does not seem to respect Momoyo's intelligence very much.<br />
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;[[Chimata Tenkyuu]]<br />
Like with the other antagonists of ''Unconnected Marketeers'', Tsukasa addresses Chimata in polite tones, but for her own gain. Chimata seems to recognize this double-sidedness in Tsukasa, refusing Tsukasa's requests and sending her away at the end of ''Unconnected Marketeers'', considering bargaining with the kuda-gitsune to be a worthless endeavour.<br />
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;[[Misumaru Tamatsukuri]]<br />
Misumaru does not seem particularly enthralled by Tsukasa's manipulations, considering her a nuisance as Tsukasa disrupts Misumaru's attempts at a conflict-free resolution to the incident.<br />
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==Spell Cards==<br />
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{{#lsth:List of Spell Cards/Touhou Project 3|[[Tsukasa Kudamaki]]}}<br />
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==Additional Information==<br />
*Tsukasa is the only midboss-only character to have dialogue portraits and an in-game name and title introduction.<br />
**She is technically not the only midboss-only character to have dialogue, though, as [[Soga no Tojiko]] says a few lines during [[Toyosatomimi no Miko]]'s spell card, [[Ten_Desires/Spell_Cards/Stage_6#Boss Spell Card #3|Summon "Royal Clan's Chaotic Dance"]].<br />
*Tsukasa and [[Rin Kaenbyou]] are the only ''Touhou'' characters to appear as midbosses in three consecutive stages.<br />
**Unlike Rin, Tsukasa keeps the same appearance throughout all of her encounters, and was never the main boss in any stage.<br />
*Tsukasa is the only enemy character who uses [[spell card|spell cards]] but never with a spell background.<br />
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==Fandom==<br />
{{main|Fandom/Unconnected Marketeers#Tsukasa Kudamaki|l1=Fandom: Tsukasa Kudamaki}}<br />
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==Official Profiles==<br />
{{hidden begin|title = [[Unconnected Marketeers]] - omake.txt|titlestyle = background:lightblue;text-align:center}}<br />
{{Profile Quote<br />
| image =[[File:Th18Tsukasa.png|200px|Tsukasa Kudamaki]]<br />
| text = ○5面中ボス<br><br />
耳元で囁く邪悪な白狐<br><br><br />
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菅牧 典(くだまき つかさ)<br><br />
Kudamaki Tsukasa<br><br><br />
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種族:管狐<br><br />
能力:魂の弱い所に入り込む程度の能力<br><br><br />
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飯綱丸龍の頼りになる右腕で、命令以上の結果を出す……と思われている。<br><br />
実際には相手の心の隙間に忍び込み、混乱を引き起こす元凶である。<br><br><br />
<br />
大天狗と市場の神の間を取り持ったり、大ムカデに指示したりと、何かと忙しいようである。<br><br />
大天狗からも市場の神からも、大ムカデからも信頼されおり何かと相談を受けたりしている。<br><br><br />
<br />
しかし彼女の正体は管狐だ。<br><br><br />
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彼女の助言を聞いた者は金銭的に恩恵を受けるだろう。<br><br />
その代わり破滅的な結果が待っていることも忘れてはいけない。<br><br><br />
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市場の神も大ムカデも、霊夢達と戦うはめになった元凶は、結局は彼女の囁きなのだ。<br />
| translation =Stage 5 Midboss<br><br />
Wicked White Fox Who Whispers in Ears<br><br><br />
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Tsukasa Kudamaki<br><br><br />
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Species: Kuda-gitsune<br><br />
Ability: Capable of slipping into places where one's soul is weak<br><br><br />
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Megumu Iizunamaru's reliable right-hand woman, who gets far better results than she's ordered to... or so people think.<br><br />
In reality, she's a troublemaker who brings about chaos by slipping into the cracks in a target's heart.<br><br><br />
<br />
She seems rather busy, being tasked with ferrying messages between the Great Tengu and the market god, giving instructions to the oomukade, and so on.<br><br />
She's trusted by the Great Tengu, the market god, and even the oomukade, and they each consult with her in various ways.<br><br><br />
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But her true nature is that of a kuda-gitsune.<br><br><br />
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Those who listen to her advice will surely receive financial benefits,<br><br />
but you mustn't forget that a destructive result awaits you in return.<br><br><br />
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In the end, her whispers were the source of trouble that roped both the market god and the oomukade into fighting Reimu and co.<br />
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}}<br />
{{hidden end}}<br />
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==Official Sources==<br />
* 2021/05/04 '''[[Unconnected Marketeers]]''' - omake.txt (profile, stage 5/6/EX dialogue, Marisa's hidden ending, Sanae's ending)<br />
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==References==<br />
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[[Category:Characters in Unconnected Marketeers]]</div>AliceDhttps://en.touhouwiki.net/index.php?title=Sakuya_Izayoi&diff=431051Sakuya Izayoi2021-06-04T02:00:44Z<p>AliceD: /* Personality & Age */</p>
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<div>{{Infobox Character<br />
| nameJp = {{ruby-ja|十六夜|いざよい}} {{ruby-ja|咲夜|さくや}}<br />
| nameEn = Sakuya Izayoi<br />
| nameIPA = izajoi sakɯja [[Media:Pronunciation_SakuyaIzayoi.ogg|(♫)]]<br />
| image = [[File:Th18Sakuya.png|x380px|Sakuya Izayoi]]<br />
| caption = Sakuya Izayoi in [[Unconnected Marketeers]]<br />
| chartitle = {{H:title|Maid of the Scarlet Devil Mansion|紅魔館のメイド}}<br />
| species = [[Human]]<br />
| abilities = Time manipulation<br />
| occupation = [[Maid]]<br />
| location = [[Scarlet Devil Mansion]]<br />
| MusicThemes = *{{H:title|月時計 ~ ルナ・ダイアル|Lunar Clock ~ Luna Dial}} ([[Embodiment of Scarlet Devil]], [[Immaterial and Missing Power]])<br />
*{{H:title|メイドと血の懐中時計|The Maid and the Pocket Watch of Blood}} ([[Immaterial and Missing Power]])<br />
*{{H:title|フラワリングナイト|Flowering Night}} ([[Phantasmagoria of Flower View]], [[Scarlet Weather Rhapsody]])<br />
| appOfficialgames = *''[[Embodiment of Scarlet Devil]]'' (Stage 5 Midboss, Stage 5 Boss, Stage 6 Midboss)<br />
*''[[Perfect Cherry Blossom]]'' (Playable Character)<br />
*''[[Immaterial and Missing Power]]'' (Playable Character, Possible Opponent)<br />
*''[[Imperishable Night]]'' (Playable Character)<br />
*''[[Phantasmagoria of Flower View]]'' (Playable Character, Possible Opponent)<br />
*''[[Shoot the Bullet]]'' (Stage 7-1, 7-3, 7-5, 7-7 Boss)<br />
*''[[Scarlet Weather Rhapsody]]'' (Playable Character, Possible Opponent)<br />
*''[[Touhou Hisoutensoku]]'' (Hong Meiling Ending, Playable character in arcade mode)<br />
*''[[Hopeless Masquerade]]'' (Background Character)<br />
*''[[Double Dealing Character]]'' (Playable Character)<br />
*''[[Impossible Spell Card]]'' (7th Day Boss)<br />
*''[[Unconnected Marketeers]]'' (Playable Character)<br />
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*''[[Perfect Memento in Strict Sense]]'' (Article)<br />
*''[[Eastern and Little Nature Deity]]'' (Chapter 1 cameo)<br />
*''[[Strange and Bright Nature Deity]]'' (Secondary Character)<br />
*''[[Silent Sinner in Blue]]'' (Secondary Character)<br />
*''[[Inaba of the Moon and Inaba of the Earth]]'' (Secondary Character)<br />
*''[[Oriental Sacred Place]]'' (Secondary Character)<br />
*''[[Wild and Horned Hermit]]'' (Secondary Character)<br />
*''[[Forbidden Scrollery]]'' (Chapter 3, 6, 42 cameo, 52 cameo)<br />
*''[[Strange Creators of Outer World]]'' Vol. 1 (Profile Section) and Vol. 2 (Cross Review Section)<br />
*''[[Visionary Fairies in Shrine]]'' (Chapter 2 Cameo, 6 cameo, 7 cameo, 9.5 cameo)<br />
*''[[Alternative Facts in Eastern Utopia]]'' (Advertisement)<br />
*''[[Cheating Detective Satori]]'' (Chapters 1-4.5, 11)<br />
*''[[Lotus Eaters]]'' (Chapters 1-5, chapter 6 cameo)<br />
| appMiscworks = *''[[Miscellaneous illustrations by ZUN#top040830.jpg|top040830.jpg]]''<br />
}}<br />
{{nihongo|'''Sakuya Izayoi'''|十六夜 咲夜|Izayoi Sakuya}} is the Chief [[Maid]] who serves [[Remilia Scarlet]], the head of the [[Scarlet Devil Mansion]]. She is the only [[human]] living in the Scarlet Devil Mansion.<ref name="PMiSSSakuya">[[Perfect Memento in Strict Sense]]: [[Perfect Memento in Strict Sense/Sakuya Izayoi|Sakuya Izayoi]]</ref><ref>『三月精 第2部』「上海アリス通信 三精版 第5号」(『月刊コンプエース』Vol.7 p.275。実質的には「第6号」なのだが誤植で「第5号」になっている。単行本未収録)</ref><br />
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==General Information==<br />
Sakuya first appeared as the Stage 5 [[boss]] in ''[[Embodiment of Scarlet Devil]]''. She appeared in ''[[Perfect Cherry Blossom]]'' as a playable character and in ''[[Imperishable Night]]'' as [[Remilia]]'s partner along with being in the new fighting game ''[[Immaterial and Missing Power]]''. Later, she appeared again as a playable character in ''[[Phantasmagoria of Flower View]]'', ''[[Scarlet Weather Rhapsody]]'' and in ''[[Touhou Hisoutensoku]]''. She was a playable character once again in ''[[Double Dealing Character]]''.<br />
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She essentially takes the position of managing the Scarlet Devil Mansion. Her height is "tall"; she is taller than [[Reimu Hakurei]] and [[Alice Margatroid]] but about the same height as [[Yukari Yakumo]] and [[Hong Meiling]].<ref name="email">[[ZUN's E-mails]]</ref> She was not born in Gensokyo, and the name "Sakuya Izayoi" was given to her by Remilia Scarlet.<ref name="email" /> In ''Perfect Memento in Strict Sense'', Akyuu guessed that she might have originally been a [[#Vampire Hunter|vampire hunter]]. <br />
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===Personality & Age===<br />
Sakuya tends to be a little spacey, but it's unknown if its just an act. She's polite and pleasant towards to her mistress [[Remilia Scarlet]] and those she's close with, such as Patchouli Knowledge, while being less formal with other people. With those she's frequently annoyed with, such as [[Marisa Kirisame]], she can be somewhat harsh and direct with her insults and smack-talk, especially during duels.<br />
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Sakuya seems to lack knowledge of basic scientific concepts, such as "humans need oxygen to breathe," such as in [[Silent Sinner in Blue]], and her route in [[Unconnected Marketeers]]. She has also stated that she is an "atheist" on multiple occasions, such as in [[Wild and Horned Hermit]], despite living in a land where Gods are real.<br />
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As for her age, ZUN directly stated that "she plays the role of a human maid about 10 to 20 years old"<ref>[[Embodiment of Scarlet Devil]]: {{lang|ja|おまけ}}.txt</ref> and "perhaps she is a character in her early teens<ref>インターネットラジオ「萎えラジDNA コミケット72直前スペシャル」(2007年8月11日放送)でのZUNの発言</ref>, and in ''Perfect Memento in Strict Sense'', according to Hieda no Akyuu, "she claims to be in her late teens", but acts with the mannerisms of someone and the level of her ability seems like that of a human that's been living for more than a hundred years. According to a quote from [[Remilia Scarlet]] and Sakuya's ending in ''[[Imperishable Night]]'' (Good Ending #3), Sakuya has been working at the [[Scarlet Devil Mansion]] for so long, Remilia doesn't feel it fitting to call her human. With a comment like that, it seems safe enough to assume she has been at the Scarlet Devil Mansion for an extremely long time.<br />
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===Ability===<br />
;Manipulating time<br />
[[File:SSIBSakuya.jpg|thumb|192px|Sakuya stopping time in ''[[Silent Sinner in Blue]]'']]<br />
Sakuya possesses the ability to manipulate time, where she's able to control the flow of time, such as speeding up time, slowing it down, erasing it, and stopping time altogether. She can also compress the flow of time to make both past and future to exist at the same time, making the same object from different timelines be in many places simultaneously<ref>[[Imperishable_Night/Spell_Cards/Last_Word#Spell_Card_217|Imperishable Night - "Deflation World"]]</ref><ref>[[The_Grimoire_of_Marisa/Sakuya_Izayoi's_Spell_Cards|The Grimoire of Marisa - Sakuya Izayoi's Spell Cards]]</ref>. The extent of her ability lets her not only control the time of the place in which she is, but influence the flow of time of a person, a specific object or even a small zone if she so desires, such as stopping the time of an object and thus affecting the space, making it stand still on thin air or creating time suspension fields where everything inside them will be affected by her ability; she can also accelerate or decelerate the movement of objects from slowed down speed to incredibly high speed, to even reaching the speed of light, making it move at tremendous speed. However, as it is difficult to reverse events that have already occurred, and since she is not able to return broken things to how they were originally even if she reversed time, in reality, it is not possible to reverse time.<ref name="PMiSSSakuya"/><ref name="k04-05">[[Curiosities of Lotus Asia]]: Chapter 4–5</ref> However, she is able to do things to the extent of moving things back to where they were originally.<ref name="PMiSSSakuya"/> She has shown the ability to erase time of an object from a respective timeline; such as erasing bullets of the present and then the future, making them non-existent. <ref>[[Double Dealing Character]]</ref><br />
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She is also able to manipulate space,<ref name="PMiSSSakuya"/><ref name="GBB2">[[ZUN's reply to messages on the former Gensou Bulletin Board 2]]</ref> and can narrow or lengthen it: she made the [[Scarlet Devil Mansion]], which was originally spacious, even more abundantly spacious, and furthermore just like this she cleans alone. [[ZUN]] also said that "Manipulation of Time" is synonymous with "Manipulation of Space" (as it's well-known space and time are related as a 4-dimensional Lorentzian space within a pseudo-Riemannian manifold). By manipulating space-time, Sakuya is able to create parallel universes to some degree of extent, allowing her to make another Sakuya appear in front of her, which will execute a different action to that of the original, and thus creating a time paradox.<ref name=''[[Touhou Hisoutensoku]]''> "[[Touhou Hisoutensoku/Spell Cards/Sakuya Izayoi|Alternate Skill Cards - Time Paradox]]"</ref><br />
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According to ''[[Perfect Memento in Strict Sense]]'', the power to control time is a power that a [[human]] can possibly have, but isn't acquired just from just training. In the games, using this ability, she scatters an infinite quantity of knives. To disclose the secret of this trick, she stops time and assiduously collects the knives.<br />
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[[Hieda no Akyuu]] believes Sakuya has managed to live so long while still looking like a teenager by manipulating time. It's true that Sakuya can increase the speed at which something ages, such as making bamboo flowers bloom instantly in Marisa's A ending of ''[[Embodiment of Scarlet Devil]]'', even though this would normally take sixty years. It seems safe enough to assume she can decelerate aging for a specific object, too.<br />
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Despite the seemingly reality bending effects of her time manipulation, by Sakuya's own admission her ability to stop time is actually her moving at extremely high speeds with no mass and that she lacks the ability to stop someone else's time. This could very well be an effort to have Reimu leave and rid the Scarlet Devil Mansion suspicion of kidnappings.<ref>[[Wild and Horned Hermit]]: Chapter 35</ref><br />
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===Occupation===<br />
As the head [[maid]], she oversees all the [[Fairy Maid|fairy maid]]s as the only [[human]] maid. The other maids have many perks to their jobs and rarely choose to leave (even though they are not paid or given vacations); however, they are nearly useless and most of the work is done by Sakuya alone, which would be impossible if she didn't stop or slow time. She shops at the [[Human Village]], but she is cold toward other humans and has no friends there. However, ever since [[Remilia Scarlet]] was beaten by the heroine of ''[[Embodiment of Scarlet Devil]]'', Sakuya has begun opening herself up more.<br />
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At the time of ''Embodiment of Scarlet Devil'', she merely worked at the Scarlet Devil Mansion in return for food. Continuing in ''Imperishable Night'', she did not worry at all about the clothing, food or housing and felt satisfied.<ref name="th08_txt">[[Imperishable Night]]: {{lang|ja|キャラ設定}}.txt</ref> Meanwhile, she is utterly devoted to her mistress.<ref name="th08_manual"/> She's constantly seeking out new varieties of tea flavours for Remilia to try, as shown in several official works. For example, she mentions in ''[[Phantasmagoria of Flower View]]'' that with so many flowers around, she can make as much tea and as many pastries as she wants. (Flowers have often been used to provide flavouring for tea, especially in the past, and are still the basis of jasmine tea.)<br />
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Theoretically, Sakuya is the fifth character to serve as a [[maid]] in the ''[[Touhou Project]]''. The other maid characters are [[Ruukoto]], [[Mugetsu]], [[Yumeko]] and [[Alice Margatroid]]. However, due to the fact that Mugetsu is probably not a maid, Sakuya would be the fourth maid in the Touhou Project.<br />
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===Possessions===<br />
[[File:GoMIllus-Sakuya.jpg|thumb|192px|Sakuya placing her knives, as illustrated in ''[[The Grimoire of Marisa]]''.]]<br />
She possesses a great amount of silver<ref name="PMiSSSakuya"/><ref name="th08_manual">[[Imperishable Night]]: Manual</ref> throwing knives and is skilled at handling them, and with only her ability to manipulate time<ref name="GBB1">[[ZUN's reply to messages on the former Gensou Bulletin Board 1]]</ref>, she is skilled in conjuring knives from nowhere.<ref name="PMiSSSakuya"/><ref name="th07_manual">[[Perfect Cherry Blossom]]: Manual</ref><ref name="th075_txt">[[Immaterial and Missing Power]]: {{lang|ja|上海アリス通信}}.txt</ref><br />
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Her throwing range is said to be 20 [[wikipedia:Ken (architecture)|ken]] (about 36 meters or 39.8 yards) and has the accuracy such that she is able to strike an apple on the forehead of a [[fairy]]. A portion of her throwing-knife ability is within her cooking ability and therefore is very skilled at cooking as well.<ref name="th07_manual"/> She also is able to conjure knives in battle as [[danmaku]] as well. In the games, despite Sakuya showing to make knives appear mysteriously when time is stopped, her artwork in ''[[The Grimoire of Marisa]]'' shows that she's placing the knives physically.<br />
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==Backstory==<br />
ZUN has stated in [[ZUN's E-mails|his e-mails]] that Sakuya is not her real name and that she is not from [[Gensokyo]]. According to her profile in ''[[Embodiment of Scarlet Devil]]'', her power to control time distanced her from [[human]]s, and she eventually gave up trying to be friendly with them.<br />
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It is unknown how she came to work for the [[Scarlet Devil Mansion]].<br />
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==Character Basis==<br />
===Name===<br />
Her full name is {{nihongo|''Sakuya Izayoi''|十六夜 咲夜}}, which was given to her by [[Remilia Scarlet]]. The characters for {{nihongo||十六夜|Izayoi}} literally means "Sixteenth night" (the night just after that of the full moon), and {{nihongo||咲夜|Sakuya}} literally means "Flowering night". The Japanese word for {{nihongo|"last night"|昨夜}} can also read as ''Sakuya'', which would point towards the night of the full moon. The word for {{nihongo|"night of the new moon"|朔夜}} can also read as ''Sakuya'', which is possibly related to the ability to manipulate time. The word {{nihongo||十六夜|Izayoi}} has come to mean "sixteenth night" from the expression {{nihongo|"izayou tsuki"|いざよう月}}, where "izayou" means "not to progress/proceed forward at all", which might have a deep connection to her ability as well.<br />
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===Design===<br />
[[File:PMiSS sakuya.jpg|thumb|right|150px|Sakuya in ''[[Perfect Memento in Strict Sense]]''.]]<br />
Sakuya was first seen in ''[[Embodiment of Scarlet Devil]]''. In this game, she was seen with bright red eyes, silver hair worn in long braids on both sides of her face with green bows at the ends and a white [[maid]] headband. She wears a pink/white and dark blue French maid's outfit with an apron, short sleeves and a green ribbon. She is also seen carrying three knives and the phrase "Red Magic" appears to be embroidered on her left sleeve.<br />
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Later in ''[[Perfect Cherry Blossom]]'', when choosing a player, Sakuya appears to have grey eyes, blue colored long sleeves and a red scarf. She also has red shoes and two knives, one blue and one red. However, her appearance in-game shows her having blue eyes. She's wearing such clothing because it was effectively winter during the game.<br />
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Her appearances in ''[[Immaterial and Missing Power]]'', ''[[Imperishable Night]]'' and ''[[Scarlet Weather Rhapsody]]'' are very similar. Sakuya is seen with grey eyes and once again wearing short sleeves. She appears to the have a thin black ribbon on the maids outfit. However in ''Imperishable Night'' she holds a knife and an old stopwatch, where as in ''Scarlet Weather Rhapsody'', she has three knives and a plate with cups and a teapot on it. The colour of her eyes changes with each work.<br />
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In ''[[Phantasmagoria of Flower View]]'', she has dark blue eyes and long sleeves. The Roman numerals for I (1) through XII (12) line the bottom of her apron. <br />
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====Alternative Outfits====<br />
Her alternative outfit in ''[[Immaterial and Missing Power]]'' and ''[[Scarlet Weather Rhapsody]]'' is mainly light blue with a white apron and her hair is light green. In ''[[Phantasmagoria of Flower View]]'', her outfit is mainly dark red instead of dark blue.<br />
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==Mystery and Theory==<br />
{{Theories Summary}} [[Hieda no Akyuu]] states there are several theories regarding Sakuya's origins and/or behaviour (including she is a homunculus, a zombie, or an [[wikipedia:Eccentricity (behavior)|eccentric]]).<ref name="PMiSSSakuya" /><br />
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===Sakuya's Species===<br />
[[ZUN's E-mails]] has referred to her as [[human]], as do most of her official profiles. In ''Perfect Memento in Strict Sense'', [[Hieda no Akyuu]] considers Sakuya as a human, but wonders if she is not actually from Gensokyo, but perhaps one of many other worlds including Higan, the Netherworld, the Lunar Capital, and the outside world. [[Reimu Hakurei]] questions her humanity in ''[[Embodiment of Scarlet Devil]]'', but throughout the series Sakuya insists and refers to herself as a [[human]] very often. ''Perfect Memento in Strict Sense'' states her ability to control time is an extremely powerful ability for a human to possess. Sakuya doesn't seem to react [[wiktionary:abnormally|abnormally]] regarding to either the Lunarians from the [[Moon]] or the Moon itself in any official work, nor does any "alien" in regards to Sakuya. For example, [[Watatsuki no Yorihime]] doesn't show any recognition of her.<br />
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;In relation to Sakuya's eyes been red<br />
In ''[[Embodiment of Scarlet Devil]]'', and possibly ''[[Immaterial and Missing Power]]'' and ''[[Scarlet Weather Rhapsody]]''<nowiki>'</nowiki>s [[spell card]]s, there are parts when her eyes become red. In ''Embodiment of Scarlet Devil'', it may possibly be due to the Scarlet Mist Incident, but it was inferred that those were to manipulate the eyes of insanity. In ''Imperishable Night'', at the scene where [[Remilia Scarlet]] worried that Sakuya might become insane at the time Kaguya cast the light of the true full moon, even when Sakuya looked at the true full moon there did not seem to be any abnormality caused by the full moon. However, ''[[Imperishable Night]]'''s Good Ending #3 indicates Sakuya went a bit mad. Additionally, ZUN [http://www16.big.or.jp/~zun/pic/top/top040830.jpg drew Sakuya with red eyes] shortly after the release of IN, and [http://web.archive.org/web/20040905235851/http://www16.big.or.jp/~zun/cgi-bin/bbs/minibbs.cgi answered a fan's question] about her red eyes in the picture, stating that they should play through the game to understand. The implication here is that Sakuya did indeed go mad. That being said, [[Reimu Hakurei]] and [[Marisa Kirisame]] passed through seeing the moon just fine, although they had their own reasons as to why they don't become insane.<br />
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;In relation to Konohana-Sakuyahime<br />
[[ZUN]] has said that the contents of ''[[Touhou Bougetsushou]]'' contained a hint as for the reason why [[Eirin Yagokoro]] was surprised at seeing Sakuya. In ''[[Cage in Lunatic Runagate]]'', there appeared another character with the same first name, [[Konohana-Sakuyahime]]. If Eirin is indeed Yagokoro Omoikane no Kami, she would know Konohana-Sakuyahime since the latter is the wife of Ninigi-no-Mikoto, Omoikane's nephew. Thus, the fact that Sakuya shares the same name as her nephew's wife would be a reason why Eirin was surprised.<br />
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Since the two share the same first name though, there's a possibility that Sakuya is based off of Konohana-Sakuyahime or at least in some other way related. In the Kojiki, Konohana-Sakuyahime was written as "{{lang|ja|木花之佐久夜}}", where the "{{lang|ja|夜}}" corresponds to the "ya", therefore making every part of the name "Sakuya" with a basis in Konohana-Sakuyahime. Furthermore, there were tales related to Konohana-Sakuyahime where she can be seen to be controlling time like Sakuya, like the tale of the one-night pregnancy and the delivery in the middle of fire.<br />
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===Vampire Hunter===<br />
Sakuya being a vampire hunter is a theory that's the widely accepted by Akyuu, based on the fact that her [[wikipedia:Silver|silver]] knives are the same kind used to slay [[vampire]]s and other [[demon]]s. Silver is one of the prime weaknesses of vampires.<br />
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The theory that was said by Akyuu claims that long ago, a young vampire hunter was training herself, defeating smaller [[demon]]s in an unknown location, but never had the chance to fight a vampire. Confident in her abilities, she decided to set out on a journey to slay vampires and ended up at the [[Scarlet Devil Mansion]]. There she saw [[Remilia Scarlet]], who was surprisingly strong, and Remilia easily defeated her. However, Remilia wanted the girl's power for herself, so she spared her life and gave her a new name, which also gave her a completely opposite fate: Sakuya Izayoi. Sakuya then became the head [[maid]] of the Scarlet Devil Mansion before it was moved to [[Gensokyo]]. This may also have some relation to her species theory.<br />
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===Human Cuisine===<br />
[[File:OSP15Sakuya.jpg|thumb|192px|Sakuya shown cooking in ''[[Oriental Sacred Place]]'' Chapter 15.]]<br />
Sakuya's involvement in the [[human]] cuisine of the [[Scarlet Devil Mansion]] is unknown. All official details regarding this topic can be interpreted both ways. In other words, there exists neither confirmation nor denial that Sakuya prepares humans. The Scarlet Devil Mansion has humans to eat. While Sakuya has never been shown preparing humans, it's stated that all other maids in the mansion are practically useless and Sakuya is the one who does all the work. This heavily implies that she is involved in cooking as well since it's one of the biggest duties in a household.<br />
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[[Flandre Scarlet]] confesses to [[Reimu Hakurei]] in ''Embodiment of Scarlet Devil'' that she has no idea who prepares her human food, but doesn't think it's Remilia. Her profile confirms the pastries she eats are made from humans, but doesn't say who prepares the pastries. In ''[[Wild and Horned Hermit]]'' Chapter 11, Sakuya comments at the flower viewing party, "It's been a while since I've seen such seedy-looking food. I usually see steaks dripping with blood."<br />
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[[Embodiment of Scarlet Devil/Translation/Afterword|Music comments]] in ''Embodiment of Scarlet Devil'' by [[ZUN]] state that Remilia's tea is blood. In ''[[Strange and Bright Nature Deity]]'', Sakuya asked Remilia if she thought her latest (not humans) tea tasted like blood. Also, Sakuya's ending in ''Immaterial and Missing Power'' mentions that tea time is usually "red tea".<br />
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In chapter 35 of ''[[Wild and Horned Hermit]]'', faced with Reimu's accusation that she's the one behind the sudden disappearances of the Human Village people because of Remilia's need for blood, Sakuya jokes that it didn't occur to her to kidnap people that way and then denies her involvement in the case on the basis that the kidnapped people come back unharmed the next day with no recollection of what they were doing during that time, stating that her time manipulation powers cannot stop the flow of time for people other than herself.<br />
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===Performing a Jack-the-Ripper-like act===<br />
Sakuya's [[spell card]] names are all mostly like ''[[Immaterial and Missing Power/Spell Cards/Sakuya Izayoi#Spell Card Story Mode 1|Illusion Sign "Killing Doll"]]'' that are dangerous and disturbing without limit. Moreover, in the preparing of tea and cake for [[Flandre Scarlet]], humans are normally eaten, and since Sakuya does most of the cooking for the [[Scarlet Devil Mansion]], it can be perceived as [[Remilia Scarlet]] having employed a Sakuya who has become accustomed to murdering people. There do seem to be things that are surely related to a character modelled off of [[wikipedia:Jack the Ripper|Jack the Ripper]]. <br />
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Her cut-in image in ''[[Embodiment of Scarlet Devil]]'' has a knife holster attached above her left knee, that looks like it is most likely for a dagger than a throwing knife. This is probably a depiction from which one could guess that Sakuya is left-handed. However, there has been no official statement about her handedness so far. There are also theories for why the unidentified Jack the Ripper might be female (in which case, she would be called Jill the Ripper)<ref>[http://www.casebook.org/suspects/jill.html Jill the Ripper]</ref><ref>[http://www.independent.co.uk/news/science/was-jack-the-ripper-a-woman-478597.html Was Jack the Ripper a Woman?]</ref>.<br />
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==Story==<br />
===Games===<br />
;''the Embodiment of the Scarlet Devil''<br />
[[File:Th06SakuyaSprite.png|frame|Sakuya's sprite in ''EoSD'']]<br />
During ''[[Embodiment of Scarlet Devil]]'' Sakuya attempts to prevent the heroine from reaching her mistress, but fails.<br />
:{{Main|Embodiment of Scarlet Devil/Story/Reimu's Scenario#Stage 5|l1=Reimu Arc}}<br />
Sakuya is cleaning when Reimu interrupts her and demands Sakuya to bring her to her mistress. Sakuya refuses to put Remilia in danger and faces against Reimu.<br />
:{{Main|Embodiment of Scarlet Devil/Story/Marisa's Scenario#Stage 5|l1=Marisa Arc}}<br />
Sakuya is cleaning when Marisa comes in and muses at Sakuya's maid position. Sakuya deadpans about Marisa's magician class and after a rather amusing discussion on Marisa "application", the ruse is uncovered and they fight.<br />
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;''Perfect Cherry Blossom''<br />
[[File:Th07SakuyaBackSprite.png|frame|left|Sakuya's back sprite in ''PCB'']]<br />
:{{Main|Perfect Cherry Blossom/Story/Sakuya's Scenario|l1=Perfect Cherry Blossom Sakuya's Scenario}}<br />
Later, during ''[[Perfect Cherry Blossom]]'', Sakuya is able to show more of her true character, even if her main reason for trying to solve the problem is that the delayed Spring will affect her too. Sakuya wants no distractions and to quickly find the culprit, unfortunately for her, she gets into a full fledged adventure.<br />
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;''Imperishable Night''<br />
[[File:Th08SakuyaBackSprite.png|frame|left|Sakuya's back sprite in ''IN'']]<br />
[[File:Th08SakuyaSprite.png|frame|Sakuya's sprite in ''IN'']]<br />
:{{Main|Imperishable Night/Story/Scarlet Team's Scenario 1|l1=Imperishable Night Scarlet Team's Scenario}}<br />
Remilia gets fed up at Sakuya's inability to catch her subtle hints to fix the Moon. Sakuya faithfully follows her disgruntled mistress into the night.<br />
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;''Phantasmagoria of Flower View''<br />
[[File:Th09SakuyaBackSprite.png|frame|left|Sakuya's back sprite in ''PoFV'']]<br />
:{{Main|Phantasmagoria of Flower View/Story#Sakuya's Story|l1=Phantasmagoria of Flower View Sakuya's Scenario}}<br />
Sakuya wanders about but this time more for her inquiring nature rather than actually solving the incident.<br />
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;''Double Dealing Character''<br />
[[File:Th14SakuyaBackSprite.png|frame|left|Sakuya's back sprite in ''DDC'']]<br />
:{{Main|Double Dealing Character/Story/Sakuya A's Scenario|l1=Sakuya A Scenario|Double Dealing Character/Story/Sakuya A's Scenario|l2=Sakuya B Scenario}}<br />
Sakuya discovers that some of her silver knives started acting up and have become independent. Meanwhile, [[youkai]] at the [[Misty Lake]] have been running a rampage, so Sakuya goes out to test her new knives.<br />
[[File:Th18SakuyaSprite.png|frame|right|Sakuya's back sprite in ''UM'']]<br />
;''Unconnected Marketeers''<br />
In [[Unconnected Marketeers]], Sakuya was ordered by [[Patchouli]] to investigate the ability cards in order to purchase some for her mistress, Remilia. Eventually, she invites [[Chimata Tenkyuu]] to the Scarlet Devil Mansion, where she holds a special market in Remilia's honour.<br />
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===Spin-off===<br />
;''Immaterial and Missing Power''<br />
:{{Main|Immaterial and Missing Power/Story#Sakuya's Story|l1=Immaterial and Missing Power Sakuya's Scenario}}<br />
Sakuya realizes the air is charged with some strange power and investigates on what could it be.<br />
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;''Shoot the Bullet''<br />
In ''[[Shoot the Bullet]]'', [[Aya Shameimaru]] encountered Sakuya on [[stage]] 7 and took photos of her [[danmaku]].<br />
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;''Scarlet Weather Rhapsody''<br />
:{{Main|Scarlet Weather Rhapsody/Story#Sakuya's Story|l1=Scarlet Weather Rhapsody Sakuya's Scenario}}<br />
During the events of ''[[Scarlet Weather Rhapsody]]'', she is initially commanded by [[Remilia Scarlet]] to find possible suspects behind the strange weather. After Remilia grows tired of "questioning" suspects, she orders Sakuya to personally find and deal with the culprit. After doing so, Sakuya tells Reimu where to find [[Tenshi Hinanawi|the culprit]], and latter helps to rebuild the [[Hakurei Shrine]] after it is destroyed for the second time.<br />
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;''Touhou Hisoutensoku''<br />
:{{Main|Touhou Hisoutensoku/Translation/Sakuya's Script|l1=Touhou Hisoutensoku Story}}<br />
If connecting ''SWR'' with ''[[Touhou Hisoutensoku]]'', then Sakuya can become a selectable character to play with, although she appears in no scenarios.<br />
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;''Hopeless Masquerade''<br />
[[File:Th135Sakuya.png|frame|Sakuya in ''HM'']]<br />
Sakuya appears as a background cameo in ''[[Hopeless Masquerade]]'' on the [[Hakurei Shrine]] [[stage]]. She standing with [[Remilia Scarlet]] and [[Patchouli Knowledge]] holding a tray with tea on it. <br />
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;''Impossible Spell Card''<br />
:{{Main|Impossible Spell Card#Story|l1=Impossible Spell Card: Story}}<br />
After apparently reading the newspaper by the [[tengu]] about a mischief-making [[amanojaku]], she becomes one of the many strong [[youkai]] and [[human]]s to try and stop [[Seija Kijin]]. She uses [[spell card]]s that are considered impossible to dodge.<br />
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===Literature===<br />
;''Bohemian Archive in Japanese Red''<br />
:''Main article: [[Bohemian Archive in Japanese Red/Sakuya]]''<br />
[[File:WaHHSakuya.png|thumb|170px|Sakuya as seen in [[Wild and Horned Hermit]] chapter 21]]<br />
The article reports of Sakuya sneaking into [[Marisa Kirisame]]'s house and stealing various objects with the intent of building a rocketship to travel to the [[moon]]. Sakuya explains her odd behavior by claiming she is only carrying out Remilia's request.<br />
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In the interview, [[Aya Shameimaru]] asks to speak to Remilia to find out why she wanted those items, but in stalling Sakuya, she is late in delivering tea to [[Patchouli Knowledge]], who arrives to see what the hold-up is. Patchouli explains that they were going to use the items for a magic spell which would send them to the moon, but it ultimately proved useless in the end. The interview ends with Sakuya inviting Aya to join them for tea-time.<br />
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;''Silent Sinner in Blue''<br />
Sakuya is ordered by Patchouli to gather information on how to construct a "[[Wikipedia:Saturn_V|Saturn V Rocket]]" that would be able to bring Remilia to go to the Moon. After receiving information from [[Rinnosuke Morichika]] on its construction, she visited the [[Hakurei Shrine]] to convince [[Reimu Hakurei]] to help "fuel" the "rocket" by lending a God's strength. <br />
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Sakuya joins Reimu, [[Marisa Kirisame]], and Remilia in their adventure to the moon, where she is the first to fight (and lose) against [[Watatsuki no Yorihime]].<br />
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;''Wild and Horned Hermit''<br />
Remilia reacts to Reimu's new event of ''Mamemaki for Setsubun'' (an event where people throw beans to drive away the [[oni]]s) and decides to make her own festival without the beanthrowing in which Sakuya aids with the preparation. Kasen learns that the vampire is also weak against beans and decides to pay them a visit in which Sakuya kindly welcomes her and tell her about the festival. After Reimu's change of mind, the Scarlet Devil Mansion cancels its own festival and sets up a sushi stand at the [[Hakurei Shrine]].<br />
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;''Forbidden Scrollery''<br />
Sakuya goes to the Hakurei Shrine looking for Remilia's new pet, a supposed Tupai, which seems to have disappeared. Later, she goes along with Reimu to [[Suzunaan]] to research about the creature. After Hieda manages to capture it and reveal it was actually a Chupacabra, Sakuya returns it to the [[Scarlet Devil Mansion]].<br />
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==Relationships==<br />
As a playable character in several games, Sakuya has met a large number of characters. Generally, she treats everyone with professional politeness fitting of a perfect and elegant [[maid]], but youkai that get in her way while she is resolving incidents are coldly exterminated.<br />
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===Residents of the Scarlet Devil Mansion===<br />
Sakuya is loyal to [[Remilia Scarlet]] and serves her as the Head [[Maid]] without question, a servitude in which no one knows why either trust each other so much. She follows Remilia's requests even when she knows it won't work, such as catching [[Lily White]] to restore Spring in ''[[Strange and Bright Nature Deity]]'', as requested by her mistress. When Remilia playfully criticizes Sakuya for her failure to catch spring, she takes it in good stride and doesn't disagree. She will also do things for Remilia which she won't even ask, like accompanying her in ''[[Imperishable Night]]'' and ''[[Immaterial and Missing Power]]'' (or trying to, in the latter case), or putting on a sleight-of-hand magic show for Remilia without warning in ''[[Curiosities of Lotus Asia]]''. Remilia has said that Sakuya is an excellent cleaner, though not before contrarily stating that humans are useless. On occasion, she's more a babysitter than a maid. She chastises Remilia in her ''[[Scarlet Weather Rhapsody]]'' and ''Immaterial and Missing Power'' victory quotes for sneaking out food or playing around too much.<br />
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[[Hong Meiling]] is a fellow employee who she pesters about her work productivity as shown in ''[[Immaterial and Missing Power]]'' and ''[[Touhou Hisoutensoku]]'' victory quotes. Meiling seems easily frightened when Sakuya shows even a slight bit of anger as shown in ''[[Strange and Bright Nature Deity]]''. However, in Meiling's ''Touhou Hisoutensoku'' ending, when Meiling is found passed out and asleep, Sakuya takes Meiling inside because she is worried Meiling will get heatstroke.<br />
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She also serves [[Patchouli Knowledge]] since Patchouli rarely leaves her room. Sakuya has the highest authority as chief maid<ref name="PMiSSSakuya" />, yet Patchouli's rank is noticeably higher within the Scarlet Devil Mansion. Sakuya may also be serving her because Patchouli is Remilia's friend, though she does care for Patchouli personally. In ''[[Silent Sinner in Blue]]'', she takes a private moment to watch and smile at Patchouli, who's blissfully unaware as she's researching a new magical breakthrough.<br />
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[[Koakuma]] is simply a fellow employee of the [[Scarlet Devil Mansion]] and presumably nothing more.<br />
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On top of serving Remilia, she presumably serves her younger sister [[Flandre Scarlet]], who is usually not allowed out of [[Scarlet Devil Mansion]] due to her emotional instability. However, this is not stated, implied, or depicted in any official work. Someone prepares Flandre's food, which are [[human]]s prepared in the shape of pastries and other pleasant things, but it is never stated to be Sakuya.<br />
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As the head maid, Sakuya has precedence over all the other [[Fairy Maid]]s of the [[Scarlet Devil Mansion]]. She is familiar with every each one and notices any abnormality such as the [[Three Fairies of Light]] dressing up as three [[maid]]s. Due to the poor work productivity of the fairies, Sakuya presumably does most of the work. An advertisement in ''[[Bohemian Archive in Japanese Red]]'' states that Sakuya interviews for recruiting, so she may have interviewed the majority (if not every) of fairy maids herself.<br />
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===Marisa Kirisame===<br />
Despite [[Marisa Kirisame]]'s tendency to "borrow" books from the library, Sakuya has shown on a few occasions (mainly endings) to be quite friendly with Marisa, going so far as to serve her snacks and tea and hiding her from Patchouli. This may explain Patchouli's low "catness" rating in ''[[Immaterial and Missing Power]]''.<br />
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===Residents of [[Eientei]]===<br />
From the events of ''[[Imperishable Night]]'', Sakuya is one of the few people who know that [[Eirin Yagokoro]] and [[Kaguya Houraisan]] are from the [[moon]], and presumably keeping it a secret. Eirin's profile states Eirin is surprised to see Sakuya, but only Eirin knows why. Sakuya has not shown any abnormal interactions or familiarity with Eirin that could hint at what this is (she was suspicious of Eirin during the rocket party in ''[[Inaba of the Moon and Inaba of the Earth]]'', but so was everyone who knew Eirin was from the moon).<br />
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ZUN's only hint in regards to this can be seen above in the section about [[Sakuya_Izayoi#Sakuya's_Species|Konohana-Sakuyahime]].<br />
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===Minor Relationships===<br />
;[[Three Fairies of Light]]<br />
Sakuya met them in an omake in ''[[Eastern and Little Nature Deity]]'', where she stops their prank by throwing some knives at them. In ''[[Strange and Bright Nature Deity]]'', at the mansion, she saw through their [[maid]] disguises but didn't say a word and let them stay. She eventually kicked them out (according to the fairies' conversation) or frightened them out by telling them if they don't work, they don't eat. Sakuya was smiling, so she may have been speaking as-a-matter-of-factly.{{Reference needed|Employees in the Scarlet Devil Mansion are paid with food}} Later, when they're spying on Sakuya and others at the [[Hakurei Shrine]], she sees them, revealing she can see through their abilities to hide themselves even though [[Reimu Hakurei]] and [[Marisa Kirisame]] cannot. She cheerfully invites them to join, but this only scares them into running away, which disappoints her.<br />
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;[[Alice Margatroid]]<br />
Ever since ''[[Perfect Cherry Blossom]]'', Sakuya attacks Alice whenever either visit each other's house, and for no good reason. Sakuya says she's attacking in ''[[Immaterial and Missing Power]]'' to release stress. In ''[[Scarlet Weather Rhapsody]]'', she says it's to punish Alice for intruding even after Alice has already left. In both cases, Alice thought it was a poor reason. In comparison, [[Marisa Kirisame]] and [[Youmu Konpaku]] don't even get into trouble when caught intruding in the mansion (in fact, they usually get tea, instead)<ref>[[Cage in Lunatic Runagate/Seventh_Chapter|''Cage in Lunatic Runagate'' Chapter 7]]</ref>.<br />
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;[[Cirno]]<br />
Sakuya has trouble understanding why Cirno finds freezing frogs or flowers fun in ''[[Phantasmagoria of Flower View]]'', but at least came to understand [[Fairy|fairies]]' recklessness from watching Cirno fight in ''[[Touhou Hisoutensoku]]''. Cirno does not want to be a fairy [[maid]].<br />
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==Gallery==<br />
===Covers===<br />
<gallery><br />
File:Curiosities of lotus asia 04 01.jpg|Sakuya in ''[[Curiosities of Lotus Asia]]''<br />
File:Curiosities of lotus asia 05 01.jpg|Sakuya in ''[[Curiosities of Lotus Asia]]''<br />
File:WaHH5Cover.jpg|Sakuya on the Vol. 5 cover of ''[[Wild and Horned Hermit]]''<br />
File:ThGI2cover.jpg|Sakuya in the ''[[Strange Creators of Outer World]]'' Vol. 2 cover<br />
</gallery><br />
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===Artworks===<br />
<gallery><br />
File:Th06SakuyaFull.jpg|Sakuya full artwork from ''[[Embodiment of Scarlet Devil]]''<br />
File:Th06Sakuya.png|Sakuya artwork from ''[[Embodiment of Scarlet Devil]]''<br />
File:Th07Sakuya3.png|Sakuya artwork from ''[[Perfect Cherry Blossom]]''<br />
File:Th075sakuya01.png|Sakuya artwork from ''[[Immaterial and Missing Power]]''<br />
File:SakuyaIN.png|Sakuya artwork from ''[[Imperishable Night]]''<br />
File:Th09Sakuya.png|Sakuya artwork from ''[[Phantasmagoria of Flower View]]''<br />
File:Th09FullSakuya.png|Sakuya artwork from ''Phantasmagoria of Flower View''<br />
File:Th09SakuyaAlt.png|Alternate outfit from ''Phantasmagoria of Flower View''<br />
File:Th105Sakuya.png|Sakuya artwork from ''[[Scarlet Weather Rhapsody]]''<br />
File:02Sakuya2.png|Sakuya artwork from ''[[Touhou Hisoutensoku]]''<br />
File:Th14Sakuya.png|Sakuya artwork from ''[[Double Dealing Character]]''<br />
File:Th18Sakuya.png|Sakuya artwork from ''[[Unconnected Marketeers]]''<br />
</gallery><br />
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===Sprites===<br />
<gallery><br />
File:Th123SakuyaColors.png|Sakuya's different color palettes from ''[[Touhou Hisoutensoku]]''. The middle top corresponds to her second color palette in ''[[Scarlet Weather Rhapsody]]'', while the right top corresponds to her ''[[Immaterial and Missing Power]]'' palette<br />
</gallery><br />
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===Illustrations===<br />
<gallery><br />
File:020Sakuya.JPG|Illustration of Sakuya in ''[[Bohemian Archive in Japanese Red]]''<br />
File:021Sakuya.JPG|Another illustration of Sakuya from ''[[Bohemian Archive in Japanese Red]]''<br />
File:SSiBArtWallpaper2.jpg|Sakuya in ''[[Silent Sinner in Blue]]''<br />
File:Top040830.jpg|Sakuya's illustration by ZUN<br />
</gallery><br />
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===Screenshots===<br />
<gallery><br />
File:SBND01Sakuya.jpg|Sakuya in ''[[Strange and Bright Nature Deity]]''<br />
File:EotWSakuyaRemilia.jpg|Sakuya and Remilia cameo in ''[[Extra of the Wind]]''<br />
File:SSIBSakuya2.jpg|Sakuya in ''[[Silent Sinner in Blue]]''<br />
File:IMIESakuya.png|Sakuya in ''[[Inaba of the Moon and Inaba of the Earth]]''<br />
File:OSPCH4SakuyaCostume.jpg|Sakuya mummy costume in ''[[Oriental Sacred Place]]''<br />
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===Others===<br />
<gallery><br />
File:GoMSigil-Sakuya.jpg|Sakuya's sigil in ''[[The Grimoire of Marisa]]''<br />
File:Th123SakuyaSigil.png|Sakuya's sigil from ''[[Touhou Hisoutensoku]]''<br />
File:Sakuya_omikuji.jpg|Omikuji with Sakuya's portrait made by ZUN for [[Reitaisai]] 15<br />
</gallery><br />
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==Skills==<br />
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{{#lsth:List of Skills|[[Sakuya Izayoi]]}}<br />
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==Spell Cards==<br />
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{{#lsth:List of Spell Cards/Touhou Project 1|[[Sakuya Izayoi]]}}<br />
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==Additional Information==<br />
*Despite helping rebuild the [[Hakurei Shrine]] later in ''[[Scarlet Weather Rhapsody]]'', Sakuya casually ignores [[Reimu Hakurei]]'s donation requests for shrine upkeep in ''[[Immaterial and Missing Power]]'', saying she [[Irreligion|doesn't believe in gods]] anyway.<ref>''[[Immaterial and Missing Power]]'' [[Immaterial and Missing Power/Story/Sakuya's Scenario|Sakuya's Scenario]]: "Too bad. I don't believe in gods."</ref> She also self-describes as an athiest when Reimu asks her about disappearances in the Human Village in [[Wild and Horned Hermit]].<br />
*Her alternate outfit in ''Immaterial and Missing Power'' and ''[[Scarlet Weather Rhapsody]]'' is a homage to [[Ruukoto]], the first [[maid]] of the [[Touhou Project]]. In ''[[Touhou Hisoutensoku]]'' more alternate outfits were added, including a [[wikipedia:List of Rozen Maiden characters#Suigintou|Suigintou]] palette and a [[wikipedia:Dio Brando|Dio Brando]] palette.<br />
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==Fandom==<br />
{{main|Fandom/Embodiment of Scarlet Devil#Sakuya Izayoi|l1=Fandom: Sakuya Izayoi}}<br />
Sakuya is one of the most popular characters in the ''[[Touhou Project]]''. She sometimes appears to be an icon for the ''Touhou Project'' and has appeared in many fangames, mostly as a playable character or a [[boss]], and in other fan-made anime and artwork. She is also a target for various memes and jokes.<br />
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==Official Profiles==<br />
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{{Profile Quote<br />
| image = [[File:Th06Sakuya.png|Sakuya Izayoi]]<br />
| text = ○紅魔館のメイド<br/><br />
十六夜 咲夜(いざよい・さくや)<br/><br />
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能力:時間を操る程度の能力<br/><br />
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5面ボスです。メイドで、10〜20年程人間をやっています。<br/><br />
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彼女はその能力により人間から煙たがられてしまいます。すでに普通の人間と仲良くやっていくのをあきらめています。<br/><br />
これといった名誉欲や支配欲などはなく、飯さえ食えればそれでいいと思い、紅魔館でメイドをやっています。<br/><br />
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紅魔館では清掃係兼メイド長を担当していて、常に時間を止める能力を活かして仕事をしています。<br/><br />
(時間止めて掃除をすると埃が舞わないとか)<br/><br />
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この家の主人がアレなので、実質、メイドというか子守り役というか、この家を仕切っています。<br/><br />
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カードアタック 全9種<br/><br />
| translation = '''Maid of the Scarlet Devil Mansion'''<br/><br />
'''Sakuya Izayoi'''<br/><br />
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Ability: Time manipulation<br/><br />
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5th stage boss. Plays the role of a human maid about 10 to 20 years old.<br /><br />
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That power of hers distances her from the human race. She has given up trying to be friendly to ordinary people.<br/><br />
She does not care about honor or power; she thinks so long as it earns her dinner, being the Scarlet Devil Mansion's maid is fine.<br/><br />
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She is the chief of the Scarlet Devil Mansion's maids and cleaning staff, and always takes advantage of her ability to stop time when working.<br/><br />
(If she cleans when time is stopped, it won't raise dust.)<br/><br />
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Due to the nature of the mistress of the house, it is arguable whether she serves the role of maid or babysitter, but in any case, she is in charge of most of the affairs of the household.<br/><br />
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Total of nine card attacks.<br />
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| text = ○紅魔館のメイド 十六夜 咲夜(いざよいさくや)<br/><br />
とあるお屋敷の瀟洒なメイド。時を操る程度の能力を持つ。<br/><br />
頭も切れ、腕もたち、弱点は無い様だが猫舌。<br/><br />
投げナイフの技術は料理の腕に比例する為、咲夜は料理が大変上手。<br/><br />
最近は貴重な食材を使用した創作中華にはまっている。<br/><br />
なおナイフは、節約と環境保護のために投げた後に回収する。<br/><br />
もし、戦闘中にナイフが尽きた場合は、時間を止めて回収にあたる。<br/><br />
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武器は投げナイフ。タネ無し手品を得意とする。<br/><br />
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なんと言っても、ボム数が4である。クリアだけなら楽勝。<br/><br />
「ジャック・ザ・リッパー」は、前方ある程度の角度範囲内の敵をロックして狙い撃ちをする。<br/><br />
威力は低めだが、非常に使い勝手の良い武器。<br/><br />
一方、時符は全ての武器が不思議な挙動をする。<br/><br />
「ミスディレクション」は、移動方向にショットが傾く。この状態で「パワーディレクション」に移行すると、ショット方向がロックされる。<br/><br />
ボムは、「パーフェクトスクウェア」「プライベートスクウェア」共に、威力が皆無で無敵時間はゲーム中最長である。また、このボムだけ使用中に移動速度が上がる。<br/><br />
最大の特徴は、ボム中は敵弾を停止させ、「その敵弾にかすることが出来る」+「ボム終了後にボーナスアイテムになるため、ボーナスアイテムの得点が通常の得点になる」事である。<br/><br />
かすり数によっては、大きく稼げる武器になっている。<br/><br />
| translation = '''Maid of the Scarlet Devil Mansion'''<br/><br />
'''Sakuya Izayoi'''<br/><br />
<br/><br />
The elegant maid of a certain mansion. She possess the ability to manipulate time.<br/><br />
Sharp and able, she has no real weak points but can't eat hot (temperature) foods.<br/><br />
Since she wants her knife-throwing skills to be comparable to her cooking skills, Sakuya is incredibly good at cooking.<br/><br />
Her is currently addicted to creating Chinese delicacies using expensive ingredients.<br/><br />
In order to save money and the planet, she reuses knives she's already thrown.<br/><br />
If she were to run out of knives during a battle, she'd just stop time and pick them up again.<br/><br />
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Throwing knives are her weapon. Deceitless sleight-of-hand is her specialty.<br /><br />
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In any case, she starts out with 4 bombs. It makes it easier to clear the game.<br/><br />
"Jack the Ripper" locks onto enemies at certain angles in front of you.<br/><br />
It has low power, but it's a very easy to use weapon.<br/><br />
On the other hand, all of the "Time Sign" weapons have very unusual movement.<br/><br />
"Misdirection" angles its shots in the direction you're moving. If you switch to "Power Direction" when it's angled, the shot direction will lock in its current position.<br/><br />
The bombs, "Perfect Square" and "Private Square" are both very weak, but they have the longest invincibility time in the game. Also, these are the only bombs that make you move faster when you use them.<br/><br />
The biggest distinguishing point is: enemy bullets stop during bombs, so the fact that you can graze them like this + the fact that they become bonus items when the bomb is finished (and normal point items then get the bonus item value) mean that the more you graze, the higher you will score with her weapons.<br />
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| text = ○紅魔館のメイド<br/><br />
十六夜 咲夜(いざよい さくや)<br/><br />
<br/><br />
主に時間を操る程度の能力を持つ。<br/><br />
<br/><br />
幻想郷にある湖のほとりに、その紅いお屋敷はある。そこで働くメイドである。給金は無い。<br/><br />
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この館で掃除したり、指示したり、料理したり、お嬢様の世話したりで、普通に忙しい。<br/><br />
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館は無駄に広く、それでいて単調な色調のため、全体像はなかなか掴めない。迷い込んだ招かざるお客様が何処かに落ちていても、分からない。先に誰かに発見されて消されていても、分からない。<br/><br />
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紅い建物は、緑の多い幻想郷に在っても何故か違和感を感じられない。<br/><br />
あたかもそこに在るのが当たり前かの様に、建っていた。<br/><br />
<br/><br />
咲夜も、ここに暮らしていると時間が停止しているかのように感じるのだった。もちろん、咲夜が時を止めているわけではない。<br/><br />
| translation = '''Maid of the Scarlet Devil Mansion'''<br /><br />
'''Izayoi Sakuya'''<br />
<br />
Mainly she possesses the ability to manipulate time.<br />
<br />
She is a [[maid]] who works at the [[Scarlet Devil Mansion]] on the banks of a lake in [[Gensokyo]] for no salary.<br /><br />
<br />
She's kept quite busy in this mansion cleaning, commanding the other maids, cooking, and taking care of her mistress.<br />
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The mansion is unnecessarily large and has monotonous colors, so it's hard to tell things apart inside. Nobody would notice if an uninvited guest wandered inside and fell into a hole somewhere, undiscovered. Nobody would know if they were discovered and gotten rid of, either.<br />
<br />
Somehow, this scarlet building doesn't seem out of place surrounded by the green of Gensokyo. It simply stands there as if it were always meant to be there.<br />
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Living here, even Sakuya feels as if time has stopped. Of course, that's not because Sakuya has stopped time.<br />
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| text = ○紅魔館のメイド<br /><br />
十六夜 咲夜(いざよいさくや)<br/><br />
<br/><br />
種族:人間<br/><br />
住処:紅魔館<br/><br />
能力:時を操る程度の能力<br/><br />
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紅魔館の住み込みで働くメイドさん。炊事、掃除、洗濯、子守にナイフ投げと、メイドがやりそうな事は全て完璧にこなす。メイド長。<br/><br />
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性格は、瀟洒で完璧そうに見えるが、たまに抜けている所も見せる。<br/><br />
仕事が完璧で速いのは、時間を止めて仕事をしているいるからだと思うが……。<br/><br />
<br/><br />
体術も得意とする。むしろ弾幕のような怪しげな術よりも得意な位。<br/><br />
弾幕にも投げナイフを使うのはその為である。それにタネの無い手品が好きで、戦闘にも積極的に取り入れる。そういう所が抜けている所の様な気がしてならないが。<br/><br />
| translation = '''Maid of the Scarlet Devil Mansion'''<br />'''Izayoi Sakuya'''<br />
<br /><br />
Species: [[Human]]<br /><br />
Location: [[Scarlet Devil Mansion]]<br /><br />
Ability: Ability to manipulate time<br />
<br />
A [[maid]] who works and lives in the Scarlet Devil Mansion . She does a maid's duty perfectly: cooking, cleaning, washing, babysitting, knife throwing, etc. Her position is chief maid.<br />
<br />
Her personality seems perfect and elegant, but sometimes she shows a more spaced-out side. The reason she works so quickly is probably because she stops time to do it, though ...<br />
<br />
She also specializes in melee attacks. Probably even more so than at suspicious tricks like danmaku.<br />
This is why she uses throwing knives in her danmaku. In addition, she likes magic that doesn't have tricks to it, so she proactively adopts it into battle. I can't help feeling this point is the odd acts.<br /><br />
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| text = ○紅魔館のメイド 十六夜 咲夜(いざよいさくや)<br/><br />
悪魔に仕えるメイドさん。<br/><br />
紅魔館に住む人間。時を操る程度の能力を持つ。<br/><br />
紅魔館ではメイド長を勤めていて、ご主人様がアレなので実質、紅魔館の顔である。<br/><br />
心からご主人様に忠誠を誓うが、従事という言葉から感じるじめじめした暗い嫌な感じは全くせず、サバサバとしていて見てて気持ちがいい。<br/><br />
時折、惚けた事もするのだが、わざとか真剣なのか判りづらい。<br/><br />
本人は言うまでも無く、真剣である。<br/><br />
<br/><br />
武器は投げナイフ。銀が手に入り難くなってきたので別の材料を検討中。<br/><br />
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備考<br/><br />
今回はレミリアと組む。<br/><br />
低速移動は単独使用時のみの性能である。<br/><br />
全く癖の無いオーソドックスなショットで使い<br/><br />
やすい。<br/><br />
アイテムは俺のもんだ。という人にお奨め。<br/><br />
| translation = '''Maid of the Scarlet Devil Mansion'''<br /><br />
'''Izayoi Sakuya'''<br />
<br />
A [[maid]] who serves a devil.<br /><br />
She lives in [[Scarlet Devil Mansion]]. She can manipulate time.<br /><br />
She is the head maid of the Scarlet Devil Mansion, but due to her mistress's nature she's practically head of the household.<br/><br />
She is utterly devoted to her mistress, and she feels no shame in being a "servant";<br/><br />
on the contrary, she's so easy-going it feels nice to watch her.<br/><br />
Sometimes she's a little spacy, but it's hard to tell if she's serious or faking it.<br/><br />
In either case, she's a fairly serious person.<br />
<br />
Her weapon is throwing knives. Since silver is hard to come by, she's looking for other materials to use, too.<br />
<br />
Notes:<br/><br />
She's teamed up with Remilia this time.<br/><br />
She can only use focused movement when alone.<br/><br />
She has a very orthodox, straightforward shot, so she's easy to use.<br/><br />
Recommended for people who must get every item.<br />
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| text = ○紅魔館のメイド<br/><br />
十六夜 咲夜(いざよい さくや)<br/><br />
Sakuya Izayoi<br/><br />
<br/><br />
種族:人間<br/><br />
能力:時間を操る程度の能力<br/><br />
<br/><br />
幻想郷にある湖のほとりに、その紅いお屋敷はある。そこで働くメイドである。<br/><br />
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メイドをしていると、こんな辺鄙な山奥でも衣食住に困らず快適である。彼女は人間だが、悪魔達と一緒にいる為人間からも妖怪からも余り良い目で見られない。でも一部の人間達はそんなことを一切気にしないで接してくれるし、何より食う寝る処に住む処に困らない。これほど快適な暮らしは他に考えられなかった。<br/><br />
| translation = '''Maid of the Scarlet Devil Mansion'''<br/><br />
'''Sakuya Izayoi'''<br />
<br />
Species: [[Human]]<br/><br />
Abilities: Manipulating time<br />
<br />
There's a scarlet mansion on the banks of a certain lake in Gensokyo. She works there as a maid.<br />
<br />
When you're a maid, you don't have to worry about clothing, food or housing, even when you live this deep in the mountains. She's human, but both humans and youkai don't look too well on her since she lives with devils. Still, some humans will overlook this, and she never has to worry about her living conditions. She can't imagine a life better than this.<br />
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| text = ○完全で瀟洒なメイド 十六夜 咲夜(いざよいさくや)<br/><br />
悪魔に仕えるメイドさん。<br/><br />
紅魔館に住む人間。時を操る程度の能力を持つ。<br/><br />
あか抜けた性格だが、余裕なのか惚けているのかちょっとずれた面も見せる。<br/><br />
花の異変に関しては、さほど危険を感じていない。<br/><br />
| translation = '''Perfect and Elegant Maid'''<br />'''Izayoi Sakuya'''<br />
<br /><br />
A [[maid]] who serves a devil.<br /><br />
She's a [[human]] who lives in the [[Scarlet Devil Mansion]]. She possess the ability to the extent of manipulating time.<br /><br />
Though her character is refined, sometimes she acts like she's being careless or just spacing out.<br/><br />
She doesn't think the flower incident is anything terribly dangerous.<br />
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| text = ○完全で瀟洒なメイド<br/><br />
十六夜 咲夜(いざよい さくや)<br/><br />
Izayoi Sakuya<br/><br />
<br/><br />
種族:人間<br/><br />
能力:時間を操る程度の能力<br/><br />
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<br/><br />
幻想郷にある湖のほとりに、その紅いお屋敷はある。そこで働くメイドである。<br/><br />
<br/><br />
今回は、一応異変と言うことで様子を見に出てきた物の、特に危険は無いと感じていた。それは紅魔館の者の様子も、特に慌てた物では無かったからでもある。<br/><br />
| translation = '''Perfect and Elegant Maid'''<br />'''Izayoi Sakuya'''<br />
<br /><br />
Species: [[Human]]<br /><br />
Ability: Manipulating time<br /><br />
<br /><br />
<br /><br />
There's a scarlet mansion on the edge of a lake in [[Gensokyo]]. She's a [[maid]] working there.<br /><br />
<br /><br />
She heard something was going on, so she just thought she'd go out and have a look; she didn't particularly think something dangerous was happening. This is also why nobody in the [[Scarlet Devil Mansion]] was particularly upset about the flower incident.<br />
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| text = ○完全で瀟洒な従者<br />
<br />
十六夜 咲夜(いざよい さくや)<br />
<br />
<br />
種族:人間<br />
<br />
職業:メイド<br />
<br />
住家:紅魔館<br />
<br />
能力:時を操る程度の能力<br />
<br />
性格:瀟洒で知的、垢抜けている。<br />
<br />
でも案外うっかりした行動をとる事もある。<br />
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| translation = '''Perfect and Elegant Servant'''<br/><br />
Sakuya Izayoi<br />
<br />
<br />
Race: Human<br />
<br />
Occupation: Maid<br />
<br />
Place of residence: [[Scarlet Devil Mansion]]<br />
<br />
Ability: Manipulating time<br />
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Personality: Elegant, knowledgeable, and refined.<br />
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However, can be surprisingly careless from time to time.<br />
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| text = '''十六夜 咲夜(いざよい さくや)'''<br/>''人間/時間を操る程度の能力''<br /><br />
<br />
紅魔館に住むただ1人の人間。多くの妖精メイドたちを束<br/><br />
ねるメイド長である。ちなみにメイドに給金や休暇は無い。<br/><br />
代わりに自由と食事と紅茶が与えられる。<br/><br />
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時間を操る能力を持ち、レミリアからの信頼も厚い。だが、<br/><br />
人間である咲夜がなぜ紅魔館で働いているのかは謎に包<br/>まれている。<br />
| translation = '''Sakuya Izayoi'''<br />''Human / Ability to manipulate time''<br /><br />
<br />
Only one human lives in [[Scarlet Devil Mansion]].<br /><br />
She is the chief maid who leads many [[Fairy Maid|fairy maids]].<br /><br />
By the way, the maid is awarded liberty, meal and tea instead of no salary and no recess.<br /><br />
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She possesses the ability to manipulate time and got deep trust from [[Remilia Scarlet|Remilia]]. But the reason why Sakuya, a human, is working at the [[Scarlet Devil Mansion]] is wrapped in mystery.<br />
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| text = ○悪魔のメイド<br /><br />
十六夜 咲夜(いざよい さくや)<br /><br />
Izayoi Sakuya<br />
<br />
種族:人間<br /><br />
能力:時を操る程度の能力<br />
<br />
紅魔館にすむ、人間のメイド長。<br />
<br />
最近、勝手に敵に向かっていく短剣を手に入れた。<br /><br />
自分で投げるよりもずっと簡単で、気持ちの良い物だった。<br />
<br />
そんな時、紅魔館の近くの霧の湖で妖怪が暴れているという<br /><br />
噂が立った。<br /><br />
咲夜は短剣を試すべく戦いに出る。 <br />
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| translation = '''Maid of the Devil'''<br/><br />
Sakuya Izayoi<br />
<br />
<br />
Species: [[Human]]<br />
<br />
Ability: Capable of manipulating time<br />
<br />
The human head maid that lives in the [[Scarlet Devil Mansion]].<br />
<br />
Recently, she has obtained knives that will aim towards enemies by themselves.<br/><br />
Since this is much easier than throwing them herself, they're quite enjoyable.<br />
<br />
Not long afterwards, rumors surfaced that youkai were acting rowdy at the [[Misty Lake]] near the Scarlet Devil Mansion.<br />
Sakuya goes to fight to try out her new knives.<br />
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| text = ○瀟洒なメイド<br><br />
十六夜 咲夜(いざよい さくや)<br><br />
Izayoi Sakuya<br />
<br />
種族:人間<br><br />
能力:時間を止める程度の能力<br />
<br />
紅魔館でメイド長をしている。すましているので分かりにくいが、実は少し天然。<br />
<br />
ちまたに不思議なカードが流通していた。<br><br />
そのカードにパチュリー様が非常に興味を持たれ、全てを回収するように命じられた。<br><br />
確かに興味深いカードだった。中にはお嬢様の魔力が込められたカードもあるという。<br><br />
しかし、お嬢様はピンピンしている。これは一体何を意味しているのか……。<br />
| translation ='''Elegant Maid'''<br><br />
'''Sakuya Izayoi'''<br />
<br />
Species: Human<br><br />
Ability: Capable of stopping time<br />
<br />
Works as the head maid of the Scarlet Devil Mansion. Her cool demeanor makes it hard to tell, but she actually acts slightly airheaded.<br />
<br />
Mysterious cards were circulating in the streets.<br><br />
Lady Patchouli gained an extreme interest in the cards, and ordered her to collect every last one of them.<br><br />
The cards certainly were intriguing. Apparently, some of them even contained her mistress's magic power.<br><br />
However, her mistress was fit as a fiddle. Just what exactly could this mean...?<br />
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==Official Sources==<br />
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*2002/08/11 '''[[Embodiment of Scarlet Devil]]''' - Stage 5 dialogue; Stage 6 dialogue; おまけ.txt<br />
*2003/08/17 '''[[Perfect Cherry Blossom]]''' - Sakuya's Scenario; キャラ設定.txt; Manual<br />
*2004/04/03-2004/05/01 '''[[Curiosities of Lotus Asia]]''' - Chapters 4, 5<br />
*2004/08/15 '''[[Imperishable Night]]''' - Scarlet Team's Scenario; Scarlet Team Extra Stage; キャラ設定.txt; Manual<br />
*2005/08/11 '''[[Bohemian Archive in Japanese Red]]''' - Article and Interview: Sakuya<br />
*2005/08/14 '''[[Phantasmagoria of Flower View]]''' - キャラ設定.txt<br />
*2005/10/01 '''[[Seasonal Dream Vision/A Beautiful Flower Blooming Violet Every Sixty Years]]'''<br />
*2006/02/10 '''[[Curiosities of Lotus Asia]]''' - Chapter 18<br />
*2006/05/26 '''[[Strange and Bright Nature Deity]]''' - Chapter 1<br />
*2006/12/27 '''[[Perfect Memento in Strict Sense]]''' - Sakuya Izayoi<br />
*2007/03/25 ~ 2007/04/26 '''[[Strange and Bright Nature Deity]]''' - Chapters 7-8<br />
*2007/06/08 ~ 2009/04/09 '''[[Silent Sinner in Blue]]'''<br />
*2007/12/26 ~ 2008/01/26 '''[[Strange and Bright Nature Deity]]''' - Chapters 15-16<br />
*2008/05/25 '''[[Scarlet Weather Rhapsody]]''' - chara.html<br />
*2009/07/28 '''[[The Grimoire of Marisa]]''' - Sakuya Izayoi's Spell Cards<br />
*2009/08/26 '''[[Oriental Sacred Place]]''' - Chapter 4<br />
*2012/12/26 '''[[Forbidden Scrollery]]''' - Chapter 3<br />
*2012/04/26 '''[[Forbidden Scrollery]]''' - Chapter 6<br />
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| nameEn = Saki Kurokoma <br />
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| image = [[File:Th17Saki.png|x300px|Saki Kurokoma]]<br />
| caption = Saki Kurokama in [[Wily Beast and Weakest Creature]]<br />
| chartitle = {{H:title|Matriarch of the Keiga Family|勁牙組 組長}}<br />
| species = Kurokoma<br />
| abilities = Having unmatched leg strength <br />
| occupation = Matriarch of the Keiga Family<br />
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'''Saki Kurokoma''' (驪駒 早鬼 Kurokoma Saki) is the extra boss of ''[[Wily Beast and Weakest Creature]]''. She runs the Keiga Family, a major organization of beast spirits in the Animal Realm of hell. <br />
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==General Information==<br />
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Saki first appears as the extra boss of ''[[Wily Beast and Weakest Creature]]'' and is the leader of the wolf spirits.<br />
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===Personality===<br />
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Saki has a casual (but not rude) personality. She was quite pumped to fight the heroine. She also respects others' strength even if they are an enemy. She is quite ambitious and does not hesitate to act, quickly planning on conquering hell and the surface when seeing a chance to.<br />
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===Abilities=== <br />
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'''Ability to have unmatched leg strength'''<br />
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While not directly stated, most of her spell cards seemingly correspond to her ability. Especially the "Agile Skill" spell cards.<br />
==Character Basis==<br />
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===Origin===<br />
Saki is based on ''Kai-no-Kurokoma'' (甲斐の黒駒, lit. Black-coated Horse from Kai), a legendary horse said to be owned and cherished by [[wikipedia:Prince_Shōtoku|Prince]] [[Toyosatomimi no Miko|Shoutoku]] that could fly through the sky. It was a horse that Shoutoku rode to various localities to spread the word of Buddhism. It was also said the Prince often rode this horse to Ikaruga (Hōryū-ji) and that the horse had miraculous powers on top of the ability to fly.<br />
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===Name===<br />
Saki's full name is ''Saki Kurokoma'' (早鬼 驪駒). Her name consists of characters meaning ''speed'' (早 ''Sa'') and ''demon'' (鬼 ''Ki''). Her name might be a reference to her ability. The second character also appears in Japanese title of [https://en.touhouwiki.net/wiki/Wily_Beast_and_Weakest_Creature Wily Beast and Weakest Creature] (鬼形獣).<br />
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Kurokoma is taken from what she is inspired by ''Kurokoma'' (黒駒) a legendary horse said to be owned by [[wikipedia:Prince_Shōtoku|Prince]] [[Toyosatomimi no Miko|Shoutoku]] that could fly through the sky. Although the kanji in her last name is different. First character means ''black horse'' (驪 ''Kuro'') and second meaning ''horse'' (駒 ''Koma'').<br />
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The name of her family, the ''Keiga'' (勁牙), translates to "strong fang". The character 勁 ''kei'' ("strong" or "agile") also appears in the prefix of most of her Spell Cards.<br />
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===Design===<br />
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Saki has red eyes and black hair. She has black wings and a black horse tail. Her outfit is reminiscent of cowboys, where she wears a brown cowboy hat, a light turquoise bandanna, and diagonal-plaid patterned clothes.<br />
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==Story== <br />
===Games=== <br />
;''Wily Beast and Weakest Creature'' <br />
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She teamed up with the other groups to stage the Hell invasion to overthrow [[Keiki Haniyasushin]]. In the extra stage, she once again invades Hell after hearing of Keiki's defeat and plans to do the same to the surface world, this time to try and take them over for herself.<br />
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==Relationships==<br />
;[[Yachie Kicchou]] and [[Keiki Haniyasushin]]<br />
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Saki gets along very poorly with both Yachie and Keiki, but respects their strength.<br />
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;[[Toyosatomimi no Miko]]<br />
Given the legend that Saki was the horse of Prince Shoutoku, which is Toyosatomimi no Miko's former name, it's is quite possible that the pair of them know each other, although this is not yet confirmed in any games or print works.<br />
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===Covers===<br />
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File:Th17cover.jpg|Cover of ''[[Wily Beast and Weakest Creature]]'', featuring [[Yachie]], [[Keiki]], and Saki's silhouette.<br />
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==Spell Cards==<br />
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{{#lsth:List of Spell Cards/Touhou Project 3|[[Saki Kurokoma]]}}<br />
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==Additional Information==<br />
*Saki appears on the jewel case of [[Wily Beast and Weakest Creature]] along with [[Yachie Kicchou]] and [[Keiki Haniyasushin]].<br />
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==Fandom==<br />
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==Official Profiles==<br />
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{{Profile Quote<br />
| image =[[File:Th17Saki.png|200px|Saki Kurokoma]]<br />
| text = ○エキストラボス<br><br />
勁牙組(けいがぐみ)組長<br><br><br />
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驪駒 早鬼(くろこま さき)<br><br />
Kurokoma Saki<br><br><br />
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種族:驪駒(くろこま)<br><br />
能力:比類無き脚力を持つ程度の能力<br><br><br />
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勁牙組の組長。<br><br />
手も足も出せなかった霊長園の袿姫を倒した、という情報が畜生界を駆け巡るやいなや、最速で次の手に出た。<br><br />
袿姫さえいなければ、畜生界の支配は時間の問題だと考え、それより先に人間界を視察して、可能ならば<br><br />
支配してしまおうと考えた。<br><br><br />
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思い立ったらすぐに行動する。<br><br />
部下の考えや手柄を尊重する、等、組織の上司としては人気がある方である(但し、仕事はブラック)<br><br><br />
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実力のある者が好きで、敵であろうとそれは変わらない。<br><br />
吉弔とも袿姫とも相性が悪いが、その強さには敬意を払っている。<br />
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'''Stage EX Boss'''<br/><br />
'''Matriarch of the Keiga Family'''<br/><br />
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Saki Kurokoma<br/><br />
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Species: Kurokoma<br/><br />
Ability: Capable of having unmatched leg strength<br/><br/><br />
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The matriarch of the Keiga Family.<br><br />
When word spread through the Animal Realm that the previously-invincible Keiki of the Primate Spirit Garden had been defeated, she made her next move in a flash.<br><br />
She thought that with Keiki out of the picture, it'd only be a matter of time before the Animal Realm fell under her own control, so she went to inspect the Human Realm in advance-- and take control of it too, if at all possible.<br><br><br />
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As soon as she thinks to do something, she does it without a second's hesitation.<br><br />
Because she values her underlings' opinions and achievements, among other reasons, she's one of the more popular organization heads. (Though all the work she does is unbelievably dirty.)<br><br><br />
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She likes strong people, even if they're an enemy.<br><br />
She gets along terribly with both Kicchou and Keiki, but she does respect their strength.<br />
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[[Category:Characters in Wily Beast and Weakest Creature]]</div>AliceDhttps://en.touhouwiki.net/index.php?title=Megumu_Iizunamaru&diff=430741Megumu Iizunamaru2021-05-28T15:08:16Z<p>AliceD: summarization</p>
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| caption = Megumu Iizunamaru in [[Unconnected Marketeers]]<br />
| chartitle = {{H:title|Chief of the Crow Tengu|鴉天狗の大将}}<br />
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| abilities = Capable of manipulating the starry sky<br />
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{{nihongo|'''Megumu Iizunamaru'''|飯綱丸 龍|Iizunamaru Megumu}} is the Stage 5 [[Boss|boss]] and primary antagonist of ''[[Unconnected Marketeers]]''.<br />
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==General Information==<br />
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===Personality===<br />
In ''Unconnected Marketeers'', Megumu is initially polite yet cunningly deceitful, willing to set different factions against each other to achieve her goals. She lies through omission to the protagonist and convinces them to battle her former business partner, [[Chimata Tenkyuu]], when Chimata eventually grows powerful enough to not require her assistance. She is singularly concerned with concentrating power into the hands of the [[tengu]], and is obsessed with the pursuit of profit to that end.<br />
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===Abilities===<br />
;Capable of manipulating the starry sky<br />
The exact meaning of this is unknown, her powers over the ''starry sky'' are seen in her in-game danmaku patterns in ''Unconnected Marketeers'', as she mostly uses star-shaped bullets.<br />
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;High ranking tengu<br />
Being a great tengu, she can give orders to [[tengu]] of lower rank, and it's mentioned the great tengu's orders are "absolute." However, she is still not as highly-ranked as [[Tenma]]. According to her in-game profile, she can also give orders to other [[Youkai Mountain|mountain]]-dwelling youkai as well, although some choose to disobey her as they are not so strictly bound to the hierarchy of tengu society.<br />
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==Background Information==<br />
===Origin===<br />
''Great Tengu'' are high-ranking [[tengu]].<br />
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===Name===<br />
Her given name, ''Megumu'' (龍), is an alternate reading of ''dragon'' (龍, ''ryū''), and is the same ''dragon'' as seen in ''Kouryuudou'' (虹龍洞), or ''Rainbow Dragon Cave'', the Japanese title of ''Unconnected Marketeers''. It is also likely a pun on ''megumu'' (恵む), which means "to give money to." Given the name of the ''Rainbow Dragon Cave'', and [[Momoyo Himemushi]]'s stated ability to ''eat dragons'', it's unclear what plot significance this has. <br />
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Her surname, ''Iizunamaru'' (飯綱丸), is a combination of ''fox spirit'' (飯綱, ''iizuna''), and ''round'' (丸, ''maru''). ''Maru'' (丸) in particular is typically seen in other names of [[tengu]] characters, such as [[Aya Shameimaru|Aya Shamei''maru'']]. It's unclear how her name relates to [[Tsukasa Kudamaki]], who is also a fox spirit and her loyal confidant.<br />
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===Design===<br />
In ''Unconnected Marketeers'', Megumu appears wearing a modern dark blue dress with white trim and belts, and a golden [[Wikipedia:pauldron|pauldron]] on her left shoulder with a large blue inset gemstone. She wears a black cape with white fur tufts lining the bottom, a blue [[Wikipedia:Tokin_(headwear)|tokin]], and dark violet [[Wikipedia:Geta_(footwear)|geta]], all typical clothing choices for tengu. She also carries what appears to be a tripod over her right shoulder, as well as a test tube similar to the one carried by [[Tsukasa Kudamaki]] strapped to her belt. She has blue hair and red eyes.<br />
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==Story==<br />
===Games===<br />
;''Unconnected Marketeers''<br />
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In ''Unconnected Marketeers'', Megumu forms an alliance with [[Chimata Tenkyuu]] for the purposes of distributing Ability Cards. It's described as a somewhat self-serving and one-sided alliance on Megumu's side, where Chimata was in a weakened state and required help to regain her divine power. Megumu had Chimata use her ''marketplace abilities'' to further her own goals, which was to introduce centralized currency into [[Gensokyo]] by backing it on the speculative value of the Ability Cards. Until Megumu's scheme was put into motion, the concept of currency having an ''inherent value'' or being centralized was not something that existed in Gensokyo,<ref>[[Curiosities_of_Lotus_Asia/Chapter_36|Chapter 36]] of [[Curiosities of Lotus Asia]]</ref> and Megumu saw this as an opportunity to seize power for herself by distorting people's sense of value beyond the inherent value of labour.<br />
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At end of the Ability Card Incident in ''Unconnected Marketeers'', she decides to willingly cease distribution of the tengu's currency due to losing her alliance with Chimata, but not without first attempting to manipulate the protagonist into defeating Chimata for her.<br />
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==Relationships==<br />
;[[Chimata Tenkyuu]]<br />
In ''Unconnected Marketeers'', Chimata was initially Megumu's business partner for the distribution of Ability Cards, to further the tengu's goal of introducing centralized currency into Gensokyo. They had strong ideological differences with how this new "Ability Card marketplace" ought to be run, with Chimata preferring a more ritualistic and regulated exchange of goods, and Megumu preferring a place with a few rules as possible, just so long as the tengu's interests could be served and furthered. <br />
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While Chimata entered into the "business arrangement" under duress and in a severely weakened state, she had always planned to gain enough power so that Megumu could no longer keep her under her thumb. By the end of the Ability Card Incident, their relationship had finally descended into outright hostilities when the protagonist arrived and ordered them to cease operations, and when Megumu had realized Chimata had rapidly recovered and become a threat to her plans.<br />
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;[[Tsukasa Kudamaki]]<br />
The fox is an assistant and advisor to Megumu. However, her loyalty is doubtful, as she pits all sides off against each other for her own benefit. Megumu doesn't seem to be aware of this and is evidently concerned about her; as she forbids her to intervene in the fight with the protagonist, fearing that she might be injured.<br />
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;[[Momoyo Himemushi]]<br />
Megumu hired Momoyo to dig up gems in the Rainbow Dragon Cave. Momoyo doesn't seem terribly loyal to Megumu, however, and only mines for the "fun" of it. Ultimately, Momoyo doesn't seem to care if anyone steals gems from the cave so long as she gets a good fight out of it.<br />
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===Minor Relationships===<br />
;[[Aya Shameimaru]]<br />
Megumu is the Chief of the Crow Tengu, which makes her Aya's superior, nothing is known about their personal relation though.<br />
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;[[Hatate Himekaidou]]<br />
Megumu is the Chief of the Crow Tengu, which makes her Hatate's superior, nothing is known about their personal relation though.<br />
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;[[Tenma]]<br />
Megumus's chief is ''[[Tenma]]''.<br />
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==Spell Cards==<br />
{{hidden begin|title = Spell Cards|titlestyle = background:palegreen; text-align:center;}}<br />
{{#lsth:List of Spell Cards/Touhou Project 3|[[Megumu Iizunamaru]]}}<br />
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==Additional Information==<br />
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==Fandom==<br />
{{main|Fandom/Unconnected Marketeers#Megumu Iizunamaru|l1=Fandom: Megumu Iizunamaru}}<br />
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==Official Profiles==<br />
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{{Profile Quote<br />
| image =[[File:Th18Megumu2.png|200px|Megumu Iizunamaru]]<br />
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鴉天狗の大将<br><br><br />
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飯綱丸 龍(いいずなまる めぐむ)<br><br />
Iizunamaru Megumu<br><br><br />
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種族:大天狗<br><br />
能力:星空を操る程度の能力<br><br><br />
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山の頂上付近にすむ大天狗の一人。<br><br />
天狗の社会は縦社会で、大天狗は天狗社会の中のボスに相当する存在である。<br><br />
なので普通の天狗に命令を出すことも出来る。大天狗の命令は絶対だ。<br><br />
山に棲む他の妖怪にも命令を出すこともあるが。こちらは逆らう者もいる。<br><br><br />
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命令する権利があるからといって、私利私欲の為に命令することはほぼ無い。<br><br />
大天狗には天狗の社会を成長、維持させる義務があるのである。<br><br><br />
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彼女は山に眠っていた龍珠に目を付けた。<br><br />
龍珠には勾玉に加工しなくても、ほんの僅か魂を込める効果がある。<br><br />
これを使って交換したくなる娯楽品を作れば、一儲け出来るだろう。<br><br><br />
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しかし、ただ作って売るだけでは儲けも一時的でたかが知れているだろう。<br><br><br />
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そこで彼女は、広く流通させて、交換専用の通貨システムを構築する事にした。<br><br />
カードの売人が交換する度に、通貨システムが広まりそれで儲けられると言う訳だ。<br><br />
物を作って売るより、大儲けできる事が判っていた。<br><br><br />
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しかし、その為に必要なのは、独自の通貨システムで交換しなければいけない理由である。<br><br />
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そこで目を付けたのが、行き場を失って今にも消え入りそうだった『市場の神』だった。<br><br />
市場の神の力で売買を成立させた場合のみ、カードの魔力が補充されて、アビリティカードの<br><br />
能力が発現する仕掛けである。それ以外ではただの紙切れに過ぎない。<br><br><br />
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大天狗の目論見どおり、アビリティカードは自由に流通し、十分な利益を上げた。<br><br><br />
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しかしそこで問題が発生した。<br><br />
カードの流通が活性化した結果、市場の神が本来の力を取り戻し、天狗の社会を<br><br />
脅かしかねないところまで来ていたのだ。<br />
| translation =Stage 5 Boss<br><br />
Chief of the Crow Tengu<br><br><br />
<br />
Megumu Iizunamaru<br><br><br />
<br />
Species: Great Tengu<br><br />
Ability: Capable of manipulating the starry sky<br><br><br />
<br />
One of the Great Tengu who live near the mountain's peak.<br><br />
Tengu society is vertically-oriented, with Great Tengu corresponding to a mid-ranking boss.<br><br />
As such, they can give orders to regular tengu as well. The Great Tengu's orders are absolute.<br><br />
They can give orders to other mountain-dwelling youkai as well... but in that case, some tend to disobey the orders.<br><br><br />
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While they have the right to issue orders, they rarely (if ever) give orders for the sake of personal gain.<br><br />
Great Tengu bear the responsibility of growing and maintaining tengu society.<br><br><br />
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She took notice of the dragon gems sleeping within the mountain.<br><br />
Dragon gems have a very slight soul-capturing effect, even without being refined into magatama.<br><br />
If she used them to make an entertainment product that people would want to trade, she could probably make a fair profit.<br><br><br />
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However, if she simply made and sold them, there'd be a limit to both how long and how much she could profit.<br><br><br />
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Therefore, she decided to put the products into wide circulation, and construct a currency system specifically for exchanging them.<br><br />
Whenever a card merchant made an exchange, the currency system would spread further, and she'd be able to profit off of that.<br><br />
She knew that this would earn her a far greater turnout than making and selling things directly.<br><br><br />
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This, however, meant that she needed a reason as to why the cards could only be exchanged via that unique currency system.<br><br><br />
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It was then that she took notice of a ''[[Chimata Tenkyuu|marketplace god]]'' who no longer had any place to go, and who seemed like she was about to vanish any moment.<br><br />
They designed the Ability Cards such that the cards would only be supplied with magic-- thus activating their ability-- when a successful transaction was made with the marketplace god's power. If used in any other way, they'd simply be scraps of paper.<br><br><br />
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Just as the Great Tengu planned, the Ability Cards began circulating freely, and she made a fine profit indeed.<br><br><br />
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But that was where a problem arose.<br><br />
As a result of the cards' active circulation, the marketplace god regained her original power, growing strong enough to threaten tengu society.<br />
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==Official Sources==<br />
* 2021/05/04 '''[[Unconnected Marketeers]]''' - omake.txt (profile, stage 5 dialogue, Marisa and Sanae's endings)<br />
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| nameEn = Tsukasa Kudamaki<br />
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| caption = Tsukasa Kudamaki in [[Unconnected Marketeers]]<br />
| chartitle = {{H:title|Wicked White Fox Who Whispers in Ears|耳元で囁く邪悪な白狐}}<br />
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{{nihongo|'''Tsukasa Kudamaki'''|菅牧 典|Kudamaki Tsukasa}} is the Stage 5, 6, and Extra Stage [[Midboss|midboss]] of ''[[Unconnected Marketeers]]''.<br />
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==General Information==<br />
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===Personality===<br />
Tsukasa is a sly [[kuda-gitsune]] who talks out of both sides of her mouth, acting as a loyal confidant to her mistress, [[Megumu Iizunamaru]]. Although she shows herself to be Megumu's faithful servant, she is primarily only interested in her own goals. Tsukasa's willingness to manipulate high-class youkai like [[Megumu Iizunamaru]], Gods like [[Chimata Tenkyuu]], and even extremely powerful and dangerous youkai like [[Momoyo Himemushi]], demonstrates a high degree of pride and confidence in her skills as a manipulator. Despite this, it's shown that Megumu, Chimata, and Momoyo trust her advice without hesitation. When challenged, however, she can get quite vicious and mean-spirited, showing her malicious and disparaging side to the protagonist in ''Unconnected Marketeers''.<br />
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===Abilities===<br />
;Capable of slipping into places where one's soul is weak<br />
Tsukasa senses weak points in the souls of those around her, and can penetrate them in order to get what she wants. She demonstrates this ability against Megumu, Chimata, and Momoyo in ''Unconnected Marketeers''.<br />
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;Kuda-gitsune's wealth-bringing<br />
''Kuda-gitsune'' are capable of bringing people great wealth, but can somewhat ironically also cause financial ruin in the long-run.<br />
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==Background Information==<br />
===Origin===<br />
''Kuda-gitsune'' are mythological beings associated with foxes, weasels, or larval rollers. According to tradition, they answer questions to those who conjure them up, or take possession of people. In Touhou, however, the main interpretation shown is that ''kuda-gitsune'' first bring wealth, but over time multiply in such a way that they harm their owners, whether through high financial costs as in traditional mythology, or by stealing their life force as in Touhou Project. For example, in Chapter 8 of [[Wild and Horned Hermit]], [[Reimu Hakurei]] temporarily falls victim to a trick by a kuda-gitsune who steals Reimu's life force.<br />
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''Kuda-gitsune'' are also called ''iizuna'' (飯綱, 'fox spirit'). This is the same ''iizuna'' from [[Megumu Iizunamaru|Megumum ''Iizuna''maru]]'s surname.<br />
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===Name===<br />
Her given name, Tsukasa (典), typically read ''ten'' (てん), means "law" or "ceremony." Alternate meanings for the kana ''tsukasa'' (つかさ) also include ''chief'' (官) and ''hill'' (阜), which may be of more significance.<br />
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Her surname, Kudamaki (菅牧), means ''[[Wikipedia:Sedge|sedge]] pasture''.<br />
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===Design===<br />
Tsukasa has blonde, shoulder-length hair, that partially covers her face and has light-brown to yellow eyes. She has big fox ears with white points and a fluffy foxtail. She wears plain white, one-piece clothing, with green bands at the hemming. On the left thigh is a turquoise flower pattern. Besides that, she wears white socks and is holding some sort of test tube vial in her hand.<br />
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She holds her right hand in a pose that is supposed to represent a fox.<br />
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==Story==<br />
===Games===<br />
;''[[Unconnected Marketeers]]''<br />
From stage 5 onwards, Tsukasa appears in every stage, i.e. 5, 6 and extra, as a mid-boss and in dialogue with the stage boss in order to manipulate them. The protagonist beats her every time, but is drawn into another fight each time by Tsukasa's lies and tricks. As Megumu Iizunamaru's consultant, she was also involved in building the company that triggered the Unconnected Marketeers incident and, despite her seemingly small role in the background, she can be seen as one of the central antagonists.<br />
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==Relationships==<br />
;[[Megumu Iizunamaru]]<br />
She is Megumu Iizunamaru's right-hand and seems loyal to her, addressing her in very polite tones. However, Tsukasa is shown to manipulate Megumu all the same. Megumu trusts her without hesitation and seems to appreciate her presence, sending her away before her boss fight, apparently out of concern that Tsukasa might be injured.<br />
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;[[Momoyo Himemushi]]<br />
As a messenger for Megumu, Tsukasa brings her messages from Megumu to Momoyo, and vice versa. Tsukasa uses this by announcing that she will report Momoyo's apparent 'failure' to Megumu when the protagonist and [[Misumaru Tamatsukuri]] enter the cave, falsely branding them 'thieves'. Momoyo fights the protagonist, apparently more concerned with having a good fight than upholding any sense of honour with her 'employers'. Momoyo is also able to threaten Tsukasa and blackmail her into silence. While Tsukasa also addresses Momoyo with polite tones, it seems that this is mostly for appearances, as Tsukasa does not seem to respect Momoyo's intelligence very much.<br />
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;[[Chimata Tenkyuu]]<br />
Like with the other antagonists of ''Unconnected Marketeers'', Tsukasa addresses Chimata in polite tones, but for her own gain. Chimata seems to recognize this double-sidedness in Tsukasa, refusing Tsukasa's requests and sending her away at the end of ''Unconnected Marketeers'', considering bargaining with the kuda-gitsune to be a worthless endeavour.<br />
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;[[Misumaru Tamatsukuri]]<br />
Misumaru does not seem particularly enthralled by Tsukasa's manipulations, considering her a nuisance as Tsukasa disrupts Misumaru's attempts at a conflict-free resolution to the incident.<br />
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==Spell Cards==<br />
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{{#lsth:List of Spell Cards/Touhou Project 3|[[Tsukasa Kudamaki]]}}<br />
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==Additional Information==<br />
*Tsukasa is the only midboss-only character to have dialogue portraits and an in-game name and title introduction.<br />
**She is technically not the only midboss-only character to have dialogue, though, as [[Soga no Tojiko]] says a few lines during [[Toyosatomimi no Miko]]'s spell card, [[Ten_Desires/Spell_Cards/Stage_6#Boss Spell Card #3|Summon "Royal Clan's Chaotic Dance"]].<br />
*Tsukasa and [[Rin Kaenbyou]] are the only ''Touhou'' characters to appear as midbosses in three consecutive stages.<br />
**Unlike Rin, Tsukasa keeps the same appearance throughout all of her encounters, and was never the main boss in any stage.<br />
*Tsukasa is the only enemy character who uses [[spell card|spell cards]] but never with a spell background.<br />
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==Fandom==<br />
{{main|Fandom/Unconnected Marketeers#Tsukasa Kudamaki|l1=Fandom: Tsukasa Kudamaki}}<br />
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==Official Profiles==<br />
{{hidden begin|title = [[Unconnected Marketeers]] - omake.txt|titlestyle = background:lightblue;text-align:center}}<br />
{{Profile Quote<br />
| image =[[File:Th18Tsukasa.png|200px|Tsukasa Kudamaki]]<br />
| text = ○5面中ボス<br><br />
耳元で囁く邪悪な白狐<br><br><br />
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菅牧 典(くだまき つかさ)<br><br />
Kudamaki Tsukasa<br><br><br />
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種族:管狐<br><br />
能力:魂の弱い所に入り込む程度の能力<br><br><br />
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飯綱丸龍の頼りになる右腕で、命令以上の結果を出す……と思われている。<br><br />
実際には相手の心の隙間に忍び込み、混乱を引き起こす元凶である。<br><br><br />
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大天狗と市場の神の間を取り持ったり、大ムカデに指示したりと、何かと忙しいようである。<br><br />
大天狗からも市場の神からも、大ムカデからも信頼されおり何かと相談を受けたりしている。<br><br><br />
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しかし彼女の正体は管狐だ。<br><br><br />
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彼女の助言を聞いた者は金銭的に恩恵を受けるだろう。<br><br />
その代わり破滅的な結果が待っていることも忘れてはいけない。<br><br><br />
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市場の神も大ムカデも、霊夢達と戦うはめになった元凶は、結局は彼女の囁きなのだ。<br />
| translation =Stage 5 Midboss<br><br />
Wicked White Fox Who Whispers in Ears<br><br><br />
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Tsukasa Kudamaki<br><br><br />
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Species: Kuda-gitsune<br><br />
Ability: Capable of slipping into places where one's soul is weak<br><br><br />
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Megumu Iizunamaru's reliable right-hand woman, who gets far better results than she's ordered to... or so people think.<br><br />
In reality, she's a troublemaker who brings about chaos by slipping into the cracks in a target's heart.<br><br><br />
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She seems rather busy, being tasked with ferrying messages between the Great Tengu and the market god, giving instructions to the giant centipede, and so on.<br><br />
She's trusted by the Great Tengu, the market god, and even the giant centipede, and they each consult with her in various ways.<br><br><br />
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But her true nature is that of a kuda-gitsune.<br><br><br />
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Those who listen to her advice will surely receive financial benefits,<br><br />
but you mustn't forget that a destructive result awaits you in return.<br><br><br />
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In the end, her whispers were the source of trouble that roped both the market god and the giant centipede into fighting Reimu and co.<br />
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==Official Sources==<br />
* 2021/05/04 '''[[Unconnected Marketeers]]''' - omake.txt (profile, stage 5/6/EX dialogue, Marisa's hidden ending, Sanae's ending)<br />
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