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Aya Shameimaru Name: 射命丸 文(しゃめいまる あや)

Aya Shameimaru

Alternate spellings: Aya Syameimaru
Species: Tengu
Abilities: Able to see/hear things from great distance, manipulation of wind
Age: Over 1000 years
Occupation: Newspaper writer
Location: Youkai Mountain
Description:
  • (Touhou 10) Red eyes, semi-long black hair. Wears a white blouse with brown leaf-print sides, a black short skirt with brown leaf-print portions, and a Tokin with several white puffs of feathers hanging from it. Carries a hauchiwa fan.
  • (Touhou 9, 10.5) Red eyes, semi-long black hair, with a crow perched on her shoulder. Wears a white blouse, a black short skirt, and a Tokin. Carries a journal of some sort. She is no longer shown with wings.
  • (Touhou 10.5, alternate outfit) Hair and dress are gray, blouse is dark gray, fan is orange instead of yellow, and Tokin is blue instead of red.
  • (Bohemian Archive in Japanese Red) Red eyes, semi-long black hair, usually seen with a crow following her. Wears a white blouse, a black short skirt, and a Tokin. She is sometimes shown with black wings.
Relationships:
  • Momizi Inubashiri (Subordinate)
  • Has also interviewed most of the characters from TH06 to TH09 once or more.
Appearances:
Titles: See Character Titles

Aya Shameimaru 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.

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.

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. Aya tried to chase off the heroine, but when she couldn't win she instead complained about the very events that the heroine had come to investigate.

Fun Facts

  • The characters for Shameimaru literally mean, in sequence, "to shoot (an arrow)" (or "to shine into/onto"), "command, decree, order", and "circle" (common name ending, usually seen in names of crafts and swords or similar weapons). Aya means "text, sentence, literature", and it's also the first character of "Bunkachou".
  • A silhouette of Aya occupies the front of Shoot the Bullet's jewel case.
  • Aya runs the Bunbunmaru Newspaper.
  • Aya owns the Bunkachou (文花帖), a tengu notebook gathering innumerable photographs and handwritten notes. Bun (文 - can also be pronounced as "aya") means "sentence, text", ka (花) means "flower, blossom" (or "pretty, cute thing" in a figurative sense) and chou (帖) means "notebook": therefore Bunkachou literally means "notebook of sentences and flowers" - her record of interesting observations for Bunbunmaru Newspaper articles and pictures of beautiful danmaku or cute girls living in Gensokyo.
  • The name Shameimaru is derived from Sha-Mail. (Shamēru → Shamēmaru)
  • Aside from Reimu, she's the only other character to ever have the solo lead role in an official Touhou game (Shoot the Bullet) so far.
  • Aya is on less than good terms with some of the other characters. This is not necessarily because of her personality, but rather because of the news articles she writes about them, which are filled with as much of her own personal opinions as actual news. When she publishes things like "Reimu just seems to be a laid-back drunkard" in her newspaper, it's no wonder many other Gensokyo residents are less than thrilled to see themselves in the news. Nonetheless, that comes from her very inquisitive nature and a tendency to exaggerate events, rather than the desire to corrode other people's reputation for the sake of it. In fact, she has developed ethics and goes out of her way to pursue the truth, sometimes to a fault.
  • Due to Aya including photos of various characters in her news articles, some fan comics portray her as having a habit of taking embarrassing or risque photos as well. Thus she is sometimes a joke character that's shown as a pervert.
  • 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's different spell cards in Embodiment of Scarlet Devil, Reimu or Marisa in Imperishable Night, etc.)
  • She has been portrayed resembling Haruhi Suzumiya, due to her voice actress being Aya Hirano. There's no actual connection between the two though, also since the series first aired later in time than the issuing of Bohemian Archive in Japanese Red.

Official Profiles

Bohemian Archive in Japanese Red - 本書について

Aya Shameimaru  ・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!!

  大人気キャラクター32人を、文の視点から徹底解剖!

  もちろん文章は原作者ZUN氏による書き下ろし!

Original to this book: The No.1 information specialist of the Gensokyo, Shameimaru Aya is here!

With Aya's original insight, the 32 hugely popular characters are taken apart and examined.

Of course, the text is written anew exclusively by the original creator, ZUN.

Phantasmagoria of Flower View - キャラ設定.txt

Aya Shameimaru  ○伝統の幻想ブン屋

  射命丸 文(しゃめいまる あや)

  Syameimaru Aya

  種族:鴉天狗

  能力:風を操る程度の能力

   鬼が幻想郷にいた、千年ほど前から住み着く天狗。

   元は鴉。風を操る程度の能力を持つ。

   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。

   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。


   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。


   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。


   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。


   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。

Traditional Genso Reporter

Aya Shameimaru

Species: Crow Tengu

Ability: Manipulation of wind

A tengu who has been in Gensokyo for over 1000 years, when oni were still around.
Her origin is a crow. She has the ability to manipulate wind.
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.
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.

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.

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.

She writes up her non-periodical newspaper, Bunbunmaru News, and distributes it among the tengu. It's a newspaper chock-full of rumors.

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.

Mountain of Faith - キャラ設定.txt

Aya Shameimaru ○4面ボス 里に最も近い天狗

  射命丸 文(しゃめいまる あや)

  Syameimaru Aya

  種族:鴉天狗
  能力:風を操る程度の能力

  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。

  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。

  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。
  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。

  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。

  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。

  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。

  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。

  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。
  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。

  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。

  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。
  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。

  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。
  信仰といっても、一緒に宴会をする程度の事だったが。

The Tengu Closest to the Village

Aya Shameimaru

Species: Crow Tengu
Ability: Power to Control Wind

A news reporter on the Youkai Mountain. A tengu who typically writes local news stories about the girls of Gensokyo.

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.

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.

The intruder was one of the girls she was always covering in her newspaper.

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.

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.

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.

Her superiors took in her report, and then commended Aya for turning around a potential threat into an opportunity.
They then ordered her subordinate Inubashiri to supplement her ceaseless observation of the humans by going to investigate the mysterious shrine.

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.

After that, the chief of the tengu, Lord Tenma, entered into secret negotiations with the mountain god.
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.

Since then, the tengu and the kappa came to have faith in their new god.
Though, it was really more of an agreement to all celebrate together than a matter of faith.

Scarlet Weather Rhapsody - おまけ.txt

Aya Shameimaru   ○伝統の幻想ブン屋

  射命丸 文(しゃめいまるあや)

  種族:天狗(鴉)
  住家:妖怪の山
  能力:風を操る程度の能力

   むしろ、動くことがその物が風と言ったところ。
   風に乗って飛び、風の声を聴き、自在に風を起こす。

   風の噂を掴む事も得意。

 性格:頭脳明晰、人前では丁寧な態度を見せる。非好戦的。

   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。
   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。

   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。

The Traditional Fantastic Reporter

Aya Shameimaru


Race: tengu (crow)
Place of residence: the Youkai Mountain
Ability: the power to control the wind

   Or, perhaps it would be better to say her movement is the wind.
   She rides the wind, listens to the wind, and can cause wind whenever she pleases.

She's also good at collecting the wind's rumors.

Personality: very intelligent, and courteous towards others. Non-combative.


   Her mental faculties are extremely sharp, and turns thoughts about in her
   head much more quickly than humans.
   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.

   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.

Subterranean Animism - キャラ設定.txt

 

 ○伝統の幻想ブン屋
  射命丸 文(しゃめいまる あや)
  Shameimaru Aya

  種族:天狗
  能力:風を操る程度の能力

  山に住んでいる天狗で新聞記者。

  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。

  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。
  天狗にとって地底に入る事は避けたかったからである。

The traditional reporter of fantasy

Aya Shameimaru

Species: tengu
Ability: power to control wind

A tengu reporter who lives on the mountain.

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.

She figured she could greatly increase her circulation if she wrote a story about it, so she used Reimu to investigate.
As a tengu, she wanted to avoid actually going underground.

Book Synopsis

Perfect Memento in Strict Sense

Main article: Perfect Memento: Aya Shameimaru
  • Aya is extremely fast, even among the tengu.
  • She always carries a fan that allows her to summon enormous winds, a camera, and a notebook full of her observations and pictures.
  • Her newspaper, the Bunbunmaru Newspaper, is a gossip rag that's popular among humans and youkai alike.
  • Many fear her as a result of her shameless reporting style, and don't want to be written up in her newspaper.
  • Though Aya is extremely strong, she's not usually combative unless someone gets in her way.