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Cirno Name: チルノ (♫)

Cirno

Alternate spellings: Chirno, Chiruno
Species: Fairy
Abilities: Manipulation of cold
Age: Implied to be over 60, though she is a child in youkai terms
Occupation: Unknown
Location: Cold areas, Misty Lake near Scarlet Devil Mansion
Description:
  • (Touhou 6,7) Aqua-colored eyes, hair and icicle-shaped wings. Wears a blue ribbon, light pink blouse and blue jumper dress.
  • (Touhou 9, 12.3) Same as above, except her ribbon is green instead of blue (however her sprite in 9 still keeps the blue ribbon).
  • (Touhou 9, alternative outfit) Same as above, except her bow is a darker shade of green, her blouse appears light purple, and her dress is purple as well.
  • (Touhou 12.8) Cirno's bow is once again blue. Her blouse has been changed to white. Has bigger eyebrows.
Relationships:
Appearances:

Official Games

Print Works

Miscellaneous Illustrations

Titles: See Character Titles

General Information

Cirno is an ice fairy. While she is described as a weak boss in the Touhou series, if we consider the power of average fairies - who appear often as regular enemies - we can certainly say she is exceptionally strong for her kind. Her personality is childish, as you might expect from her appearance, and she is sometimes considered stupid.

Story

During the events of Embodiment of Scarlet Devil, she attacked the player, who was just passing by, out of instinctive aggression. She was helplessly shot down.

In Perfect Cherry Blossom, she returned to take revenge for her previous fight, but was only a mid-boss and was easily defeated like one...

In Phantasmagoria of Flower View, Cirno aimlessly wanders about, apparently unconcerned by the flower incident for any reason other than the flowers being something else for her to freeze and play with. Through her dialog, her true childish nature is revealed, leaving no doubt that she really isn't smart at all. She really wasn't meaning to do anything but play games.

In Touhou Hisoutensoku, Cirno is intrigued by what she believes to be the great Daidarabotchi, hoping to tame it so that she won't be afraid of anything anymore. She shows more intelligence than in the previous game, as she has lost her habit of starting fights and admits that she is incapable of defeating the Daidarabotchi if it lives in the hot spring's boiler, since it is too hot for her.

She is the main character of Fairy Wars. After the Three Mischievous Fairies destroy her home, she charges off for vengeance on them... and anyone else who happens to wander by.

Other Information

Trivia

File:PoFV Layout.jpg
How Cirno became a .
  • Cirno is known for her childishness (read: stupidity), so the term "Cirno" is often used instead of "baka"(バカ, fool) as a joke in the Japanese Touhou community. Apparently, even ZUN himself isn't an exception; in the manual for Phantasmagoria of Flower View, she is labeled as "9. Moron" in an explanation of the game screen's layout.
  • However, Cirno can read, unlike some of her peers, such as Mystia Lorelei. Perhaps she isn't the top idiot in Gensokyo. She can also count (she shows knowledge of rounding and fractions in Fairy Wars).
  • Cirno's favorite hobby is freezing a frog instantly, then watching it revive as it thaws in the water. She tends to fail one out of every 3 attempts, however, and the poor amphibian shatters to pieces.
  • Cirno may be over 60 years old, as she was one of the only characters in Phantasmagoria of Flower View to know instantly what was happening, declaring, "It's the festival that happens once every sixty years!" Although she was too naive to know it wasn't a festival, she appears to have been the very first character to recognize this as the year of the 60-year cycle. Even the ancient flower youkai Yuuka took until stage 6 of her own scenario to realize what year it was, while Cirno knew it from stage 1 of Reisen's scenario.
  • She appears as the silhouette on the jewel case of Touhou Hisoutensoku and Fairy Wars. She is not the final boss in either of them.
    • She is the only character to appear as the silhouette for two games' jewel cases in the Windows games
  • A palette in Touhou Hisoutensoku resembles Alice Margatroid during the PC-98 era.

Fandom

  • Due to the infamous manual screenshot, Cirno has been nicknamed "Nine-ball" or simply "".
  • The date "09-09-09" (Wednesday September 9 2009 09:09:09, more specifically) has been named "Cirno Day" for obvious reasons. For some reason, numerous aspects of this day everything could be translated into or connected with nine. For example: September 9 is the 252nd day of the year and 2 + 5 + 2 = 9, you need 9 letters to type "Wednesday" or "September", and Japan's timezone is +9. Other names for this day include "The Strongest Day" and " Day".
  • Due to becoming a meme, Cirno is now one of the most popular characters of the Touhou Project. Many fans now portray her, jokingly or seriously, as a misunderstood child or even as an outright genius in disguise, or as a bumbling idiot who messes up what everyone else is doing.
  • Because she likes freezing, many fans consider Suwako Moriya to have a rivalry with Cirno, owing to Suwako's affinity with frogs.
  • In fan works, she is often seen with other lower-level, childish characters such as Daiyousei, Rumia, Mystia, and Wriggle. This group is often known as "Team " in fandom, and are usually led by Cirno herself. Without Daiyousei, that group is often called the "bakartet", a combination of "baka" and "quartet".
    • In the 東方三月精 series, Cirno is seen with this group (Excluding Daiyousei) during gatherings involving the Three Mischievous Fairies. (Whether they know each other or just coincidentally end up within the same gathering is unknown.)
  • In other fan works, she is shown with Letty Whiterock, who is considered as a close friend, guardian, or mentor series. This is partly due to the fact that she appears as a midboss in Letty's stage in Perfect Cherry Blossom, and partly because they share similar abilities, the manipulation of cold temperature and ice.
    • However, Letty makes remark about a "certain fairy" in her interview that could be interpreted as somewhat derogatory towards Cirno or her abilities.
  • Cirno's catchphrase in doujin works, "I'm the strongest!", comes from her dialogue in PoFV, in which she announces this in her scenario, while being everyone else's stage one boss. She also says it when winning against herself in Phantasmagoria of Flower View and in Hisoutensoku.
  • Some fans have made connections between her and Mai due to their similar fairy-like appearances and their manipulation of ice. She even as a palette in Touhou Hisoutensoku that resembles Mai.
  • Ever since CNN featured the shadow art video Bad Apple!! together with its stop motion counterpart, it has been renamed "Cirno News Network" by some of the Touhou community. This is because of one reporter's incorrect assessment of the stop-motion video as depicting how the CG shadow art video was made.
  • Other fan-made versions of Cirno are Achi Cirno (Fire Cirno), Ikazu Cirno (Lighning Cirno), Mizu Cirno (Water Cirno), Cirno-nee and Advent Cirno (parody of Cloud Strife).

Spell Cards

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Name Translated Comments Games Stage
Total: 22
氷符「アイシクルフォール」 Ice Sign "Icicle Fall" Her Easy version of this Spell Card is commonly mocked.
Related: Hail Sign "Hailstorm"
EoSD
Soku
St. 2: E/N
Story
雹符「ヘイルストーム」 Hail Sign "Hailstorm" EoSD St. 2: H/L
凍符「パーフェクトフリーズ」
「パーフェクトフリィィィズ!」
Freeze Sign "Perfect Freeze"
"Perfect Freeeeeeeeze!"
Signature move EoSD
PoFV
Soku
GoM
100BM
St. 2: E/N/H/L
Use
Use

2nd Market
雪符「ダイアモンドブリザード」 Snow Sign "Diamond Blizzard" EoSD
StB
St. 2: N/H/L
St. 2
凍符「フリーズアクトレス」 Freeze Sign "Freeze Actress" Used only in the earliest demo version; not present in subsequent demos or full release PCB St. 1: H/L
霜符「フロストコラムス」 Frost Sign "Frost Columns" PCB
Soku
St. 1: H/L
Use
凍符「コールドディヴィニティー」 Freeze Sign "Cold Divinity" PoFV Use
凍符「マイナスK」 Freeze Sign "Minus K" StB
Soku
GoM
St. 2
Story
氷符「アイシクルマシンガン」 Ice Sign "Icicle Machine Gun" Soku Use
氷符「フェアリースピン」 Ice Sign "Fairy Spin" Soku Use
氷塊「コールドスプリンクラー」 Ice Clump "Cold Sprinkler" Soku Use
冷体「スーパーアイスキック」 Cold Body "Super Ice Kick" Soku Use
氷符「ソードフリーザー」 Ice Sign "Sword Freezer" Soku Use
凍符「フリーズアトモスフェア」 Freeze Sign "Freeze Atmosphere" Soku Use
冷符「瞬間冷凍ビーム」 Cold Sign "Insta-Freeze Beam" Soku Use
吹氷「アイストルネード」 Blowing Ice "Ice Tornado" Soku Use
氷塊「グレートクラッシャー」 Ice Clump "Great Crusher" Soku Use
「パーフェクトフリーズ」 "Perfect Freeze" Related: Freeze Sign "Perfect Freeze" FW Use
氷符「アルティメットブリザード」 Ice Sign "Ultimate Blizzard" DDC St. 1: H/L
氷符「パーフェクトグレーシャリスト」 Ice Sign "Perfect Glacialist" ISC St. 1
氷王「フロストキング」 Ice King "Frost King" ISC
GoU
St. 1
氷符「クールサンフラワー」 Ice Sign "Cool Sunflower" HSiFS Use

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Official Profiles

Embodiment of Scarlet Devil - おまけ.txt

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Cirno  ○湖上の氷精

  チルノ


  能力:冷気を操る程度の能力


  2面ボスです。雪ん娘です。


  頭のほうはあまり良くありません。そもそも子供です。霊夢や魔理沙に取ってあの程度の妖怪は軽くあしらわれるのです。

  いたずら好きで、いつもは蛙を瞬間で凍らせては、水につけて生き返らして遊んでいます。3回に1回は失敗して蛙は無残にも砕け散ります。

Ice Fairy of the Lake

Cirno

Ability: Manipulation of cold

Stage 2 boss. A girl of snow.

Her intellect is not very developed. She's just a child. To Reimu and Marisa, she's nothing more than a plain idiot.

She likes playing tricks and often toys with frogs. She freezes them instantly, then watches them revive as they thaw in the water. She tends to fail one out of every 3 attempts, however, and the poor amphibian shatters to pieces.

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Perfect Cherry Blossom - キャラ設定.txt

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Cirno PCB  ○氷の妖怪

  チルノ


  一面の中ボス、寒いところ大好きな氷の妖怪。

  主に冷気を操る程度の能力を持つ


  特に目的があって霊夢たちを攻撃しているわけではなく、ただそこに居たから攻撃しただけである。


  夏でも冬でもチルノから冷気を出しているため、チルノの周りは寒い。

  当然春でも寒い。秋でも。

Youkai of the Ice

Cirno

Stage 1 midboss, a youkai of ice that likes cold places.

Her main ability is the manifestation and manipulation of cold.

She didn't have any specific reason for attacking Reimu and company, so she attacked them just for being there.

Cirno radiates chilling air from herself, so the air around her is always cold. Even in spring. And autumn as well.

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Phantasmagoria of Flower View - Demo Manual

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Cirno  ○氷の小さな妖精 チルノ

  悪戯好きな妖精。冷気を操る程度の能力を持つ。

  自分の力量を考えないで悪戯をしかけその都度痛い目に遭う。

  妖精全般に言えることだが、痛い目に遭っても何にも反省せず、次から次へと悪戯を仕掛けるのである。

  今回の異変では妖精達が大騒ぎしているので、彼女も多分に漏れず

Small Ice Fairy, Cirno

A fairy who likes pranks. She has the ability to manipulate cold.
Without thinking of her own strength, she sets up pranks and ends up having a painful experience every time.
That can be said of most fairies, but without reflecting on her past painful experiences at all Cirno sets up pranks one after another.
The disaster this time has all of the fairies in an uproar, so she'll probably show up too.

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Phantasmagoria of Flower View - キャラ設定.txt

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Cirno  ○氷の小さな妖精

  チルノ

  Cirno


  種族:妖精

  能力:冷気を操る程度の能力


   普段は湖を根城としている氷の妖精。

   基本的に妖精なので、悪戯好きで馬鹿。


   花が咲き乱れてからというもの、様々な者が湖を通り、さらに妖精達もいつもにもまして騒いでいたので、自分も一緒に騒ぐことにした。

Small Ice Fairy, Cirno

Species: Fairy

Ability: Manipulation of Cold

An ice fairy who usually stays at the lake, which is like her headquarters. She's basically just a fairy, so she's an idiot who loves pranks.

Since the flowers are blooming so much, lots of people are coming to the lake; this leads to the fairies being even more troublesome than usual, so she decided to join them and be a bother as well.

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Touhou Hisoutensoku

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Cirno  ○氷の妖精 チルノ

  小さな妖精はいつものように興奮していた。 今日は山よりも大きいアレを見たからである。

勿論、実際には山よりも遥かに小さいのだが、 視覚から感じる印象は大差はない。 すぐに霧に包まれ見えなくなってしまったが、彼女は確信していた。 アレは、大妖怪「だいだらぼっち」に違いない。

普段はどこに住んでいるのか判らないが、 珍しい妖怪を見たと興奮したのもつかの間 妖怪の山から巫女が下りてきた。

「この辺で巨大ロ……、大きな動く物を見たりしていない?」

巫女はそういうと、霧の中探し始めたのである。

小さな妖精は何故か焦燥感に駆られ、 自分が先に見たんだから自分の物だと思う様になった。

「だいだらぼっちなんて見てないよ」

そう答え、巫女を牽制した。 彼女はただの好奇心から自分で大妖怪を探そうと思ったのである。

Ice Fairy, Cirno

The small fairy was as agitated as usual. Because today, she had seen something bigger than the mountain.

Of course, in reality, it was much smaller than the mountain, but from her impression, there wasn't that big of a difference. It was soon hidden in mist and disappeared from sight, but she was certain. It was definitely the great youkai "Daidarabocchi".

She didn't know where it normally lived, but a moment after she became excited by seeing a rare youkai, the shrine maiden descended from the Youkai Mountain.

"Have you seen any giant robo... anything big moving around here?"

Asking that, the shrine maiden started searching in the mist.

The small fairy found itself driven on by an odd irritation, thinking that she saw it first, so it was her thing.

"I didn't see any Daidarabocchi."

Saying that, she diverted the shrine maiden. From nothing more than simple curiosity, she decided to search for the great youkai here.

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Book Synopsis

Bohemian Archive in Japanese Red

Main article: Article and Interview: Cirno

Cirno's hobby of freezing amphibians goes too far when she encounters a giant toad out for revenge (also see Perfect Memento: Giant Toad's Pond.) She is swallowed whole, but manages to escape when she freezes the giant toad's insides. In a statement to the newspaper, she claims that she doesn't freeze frogs for fun, but for "ice training"; Aya doesn't buy it.

The interview consists mostly of Cirno complaining about the contemptuous tone of the article.

Perfect Memento in Strict Sense

PMiSS cirno.jpg
Main article: Perfect Memento in Strict Sense: Cirno
  • It is unknown where Cirno lives, but it is assumed that it is around the Misty Lake, since she is often sighted there.
  • There are several accounts of people finding frozen frogs and fish by the lake.
  • If one is attacked by Cirno, the best defense is to talk calmly to her, and ask her a riddle.
  • No matter how easy the riddle, there will be enough time to flee while she tries to figure out the answer.

The Grimoire of Marisa

GoMSigil-Cirno.jpg
Main article: The Grimoire of Marisa: Cirno's Spell Cards
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