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File:PMiSS chuuuroad.jpg|Chen at the [[Road of Liminality]] in ''[[Perfect Memento in Strict Sense]]''
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Revision as of 20:42, 6 August 2015

(チェン)
(♫)
Chen
Chen
Black Cat of Bad Omens
More Character Titles
Species

Bakeneko

Abilities

Use of sorcery (possessed as shikigami), Surprising People (as bakeneko)

Occupation

Shikigami

Location

Youkai Mountain

Music Themes
Appearances
Official Games
Print Works

Chen () 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.

General Information

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 cards. She was also Yukari Yakumo's familiar in both Immaterial and Missing Power and Scarlet Weather Rhapsody, and was a target on Stage 6 of Shoot the Bullet. Additionally, she made a background appearance in Hopeless Masquerade.

She has two tails and is a bakeneko youkai. She is Ran Yakumo's shikigami, but since Ran herself is a shikigami of Yukari Yakumo, she is a "shikigami of a shikigami" from Yukari's viewpoint. Chen, as a bakeneko, acquires powers of a wrathful god while possessed, but since the one of whom she is a shikigami of, Ran, is also a shikigami, her ability is fairly low. This shikigami 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"[1] and is capable of human speech. She can use impressive black arts, but only possesses the intellect of a human child.

She ordinarily lives at the Youkai Mountain.[2] 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.

Ability

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.

Use of sorcery (while possessed as shikigami)

She is able to handle simple sorcery. However, even when speaking of sorcery, the usage of this youkai power doesn't bend and distort natural phenomena, and it seems to be close to a kind of sleight of hand.[2] Concretely, by a constant rhythm, while moving to the left, she would immediately switch to moving towards the right, so that to the humans that she faces, it would seem like she disappeared, and things like that. To put it simply, since it is a trick that uses the limits of human abilities, and it would completely not work the same for youkai and others who have excellent kinetic vision.

Surprising people (as bakeneko)

When she becomes a regular bakeneko, she's not able to take up any course of action except primitive ones - like biting and scratching. Rather than saying she possesses a special ability to 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.

Occupation

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.

Character Basis

Name

Her full name is Chen (). 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 . In Japanese, the character would be read as "tou" or "daidai"; in Mandarin, "chéng".

Design

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.

Story

Perfect Cherry Blossom

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.

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Spin-offs

Fighters

Chen appeared in Immaterial and Missing Power and Scarlet Weather Rhapsody as a projectile in Yukari's spell card Shikigami "Chen", as well as Touhou Hisoutensoku.

Shoot the Bullet
Chen in HM

In Shoot the Bullet, Aya Shameimaru encountered Chen on stage 6 and took photos of her danmaku.

Hopeless Masquerade

Chen made a background cameo appearance in Hopeless Masquerade on the Hakurei Shrine stage. She is seen standing with Ran Yakumo cheering.

Literature

Bohemian Archive in Japanese Red

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.

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).

Relationships

Ran and Yukari

Ran Yakumo is her master and Yukari Yakumo is her master's master.

Gallery

Spell Cards

Spell Cards
Name Translated Comments Games Stage
Total: 16
仙符「鳳凰卵」 Hermit Sign "Fenghuang Egg" PCB
GoM
St. 2: E/N
仙符「鳳凰展翅」 Hermit Sign "Fenghuang's Spread Wings" PCB St. 2: H/L
式符「飛翔晴明」 Shikigami Sign "Soaring Seiman" PCB St. 2: E/N
陰陽「道満晴明」 Yin Yang "Douman-Seiman" PCB St. 2: H
陰陽「晴明大紋」 Yin Yang "Seiman-Daimon" PCB St. 2: L
天符「天仙鳴動」 Heaven Sign "Tianxian's Rumbling" PCB St. 2: E/N
翔符「飛翔韋駄天」
(鬼神「飛翔韋駄天」)
Flight Sign "Soaring Idaten"
(Kishin "Soaring Idaten")
GoM's version is a misprint of PCB's version PCB
GoM
St. 2: H
童符「護法天童乱舞」 Servant Sign "Gouhou-Tendou's Wild Dance" PCB St. 2: L
仙符「屍解永遠」 Hermit Sign "Shikai Immortality" PCB St. 2: E/N
鬼符「鬼門金神」 Oni Sign "Kimon Konjin" PCB St. 2: H
方符「奇門遁甲」 Direction Sign "Kimontonkou" PCB St. 2: L
鬼符「青鬼赤鬼」 Oni Sign "Blue Oni Red Oni" PCB St. Ex
鬼神「飛翔毘沙門天」 Kishin "Soaring Bishamonten" PCB St. Ex
星符「飛び重ね鱗」 Star Sign "Leaping Kasane-Uroko Star" StB St. 6
鬼神「鳴動持国天」 Kishin "Rumbling Jikokuten" StB
GoM
St. 6
化猫「橙」 Bakeneko "Chen" StB St. 6

Additional Information

Fandom

Official Profiles

Perfect Cherry Blossom - キャラ設定.txt
Chen  ○凶兆の黒猫

  橙(チェン)


  2面のボス、山に棲む化け猫に憑く式神

  主に妖術を扱う程度の能力を持つ


  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。

  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。

  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。


  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。


  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。

Black Cat of Bad Omens

Chen

Stage 2 Boss, a bakeneko living in a mountain possessed as a shikigami. She possesses the ability to handle sorcery.

She 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 a charm or anything like that; she always remains in her human-like form. 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 kotatsu in the winter.

In shikigami form, this bakeneko-figure acquires the fearsome power of a wrathful god. But because her master is a shikigami as well, her power is fairly low.

Getting touched by water dispels her shikigami possession. As a bakeneko her normal form also hates water, so she is always weak against water.

Chen  ○すきま妖怪の式の式

  橙(チェン)


  エキストラステージの中ボス。

  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。

  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?

A shikigami of a shikigami of the Gap Youkai

Chen

Extra Stage midboss.

Following a quick and complete recovery from the injuries of her previous defeat, Chen is set for a second round of combat.

Her master is in the vicinity this time around, so her power has been amplified considerably. Might she spend that power generously on the human before her?

Official Sources

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