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(チェン)
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Chen
Chen
Black Cat of Bad Omens
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Species

Bakeneko

Abilities

Handling Black Magic (possessed as shikigami), Surprising People (as bakeneko)

Occupation

Shikigami

Location

Youkai Mountain

Music Themes
Appearances
Official Games
Print Works

Chen () is Ran'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.

Later, she guards the path to Ran Yakumo, and is much more powerful due to her master's proximity.

General Information

She has two tails and is a bakeneko youkai. She is also 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.

Her height is "low."[1]

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.

She ordinarily lives in Youkai Mountain. 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.

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.

Chen is capable of human speech and can use impressive black arts, but only possesses the intellect of a human child. Her attacks rely on speed and deceptive movement to confuse her opponent.

Character Basis

Name

The kanji in Chen's 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. They meet and battle again in the extra stage.

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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 Yakumo (Master)
Yukari Yakumo (Master's master)

Spell Cards

Spellcards
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

Trivia

Chen's Sigil in the Grimoire of Marisa.
  • She is one of the few Touhou characters in the Windows series to not have a last name (Others being Cirno and Kisume, for example).

Fandom

  • A famous meme regarding Chen is: Ran often yelling "CHEEEEEEEEEN" (ちぇえええええええん, the number of え/E is not determined but mostly more than seven) whenever Chen does something wrong or does something cute that attracts Ran. Derived by this, many fans comment "CHEEEEEEEEN" whenever a Chen-related event happens, mostly occurred on NicoNico Video (in fact, this reaction has become so popular that nowadays, it's considered as trolling outside and sometimes inside Nico). The origin of this meme comes from the line in the 2nd Touhou M-1 Grand Prix.
  • Yet another meme featuring Chen known in the English community is "Honk Honk". A comic strip make by bkub, showing Chen riding a bicycle, stopping in the road because Suika Ibuki is laying there drunk, and Chen honking the bicycle horn. [2] This comic was translated to English and posted on 4chan. Soon, people began rearranging the panels to create new stories from it, editing panels, and the like.
  • Rin, being the only known other cat character in the series, is sometimes depicted in fanart fighting with Chen.
  • Due to her intellect and personality, Chen is often depicted as a child and about the size of one, with Ran being taller than her.
    • She's also shown to have a cutesy personality often with her being a daughter figure to Ran.
  • Because Chen doesn't have a surname while the other Yakumo family member have one, some fans adopt theories such as "because she's not a direct shikigami of Yukari" or "she hasn't yet fully grown to receive the name" to answer the reason of this case.

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

Official sources

References

  1. ZUN's answer to a fan's inquiry in an e-mail. These e-mails have been published by the inquirer, and can be confirmed within "game_1522.lzh" in the 旧うpろだ観測 of the fansite "Coolier." The date of the file is 2 March 2004. (ZUNによれば、「game_1522.lzh」で説明されている登場人物に関して「身長は大体成長期の10代前半の少女達となります」とのことである。「高」は人間でいえば「10代後半以降程度の身長」、「低」は「10代前半の人間だとしたらかなり低い部類」となる。)
  2. http://www.kyon.pl/static/img/remiq.net_16153.jpg