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Eiki's role was to judge the souls that managed to cross the [[Sanzu River]], but unfortunately couldn't do any major work due to [[Komachi Onozuka]] slacking off in the face of the sheer mass of ghosts that were coming through to [[Gensokyo]]. Meanwhile, Eiki's interrupted by various residents because they were curious about the huge number of flowers blooming, and Eiki started lecturing them on what negative personalities they've got. She also later researches how many of those people have taken her advice on doing good deeds, in which many of them haven't. | Eiki's role was to judge the souls that managed to cross the [[Sanzu River]], but unfortunately couldn't do any major work due to [[Komachi Onozuka]] slacking off in the face of the sheer mass of ghosts that were coming through to [[Gensokyo]]. Meanwhile, Eiki's interrupted by various residents because they were curious about the huge number of flowers blooming, and Eiki started lecturing them on what negative personalities they've got. She also later researches how many of those people have taken her advice on doing good deeds, in which many of them haven't. | ||
;''Wily Beast and Weakest Creature;'' | |||
===Spin-offs=== | ===Spin-offs=== |
Revision as of 19:21, 24 February 2020
ɕikie̞ːki ja̠ma̠za̠na̠dɯᵝ (♫) Eiki Shiki, Yamaxanadu Sikieiki Yamaxanadu; Shikieiki Yamaxanadu More Alternative Spellings | |
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Immortal (Age is presently unknown) |
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Eiki Shiki, Yamaxanadu (四季映姫・ヤマザナドゥ Shiki Eiki Yamazanadu, given name "Eiki", surname "Shiki") is one of the Yama who judge the dead and decide whether they go to Heaven, Hell, the Netherworld, or get reincarnated. She currently resides in Hell. Whether it's because she simply has a habit of lecturing or because she genuinely wants others to change for the better, she's become well known in Gensokyo for lecturing anyone and everyone about their faults. The souls of the dead are brought to her by Komachi Onozuka, who ferries them over the Sanzu River to Higan. However, not every soul makes it all the way across without being tired out from the journey or being extinguished by Komachi.
General Information
She first appeared in Phantasmagoria of Flower View, where she served as final boss for most of the Story Mode scenarios and could be unlocked as a playable character. She later re-appeared as one of the stage 10 targets in Shoot the Bullet.
Occupation
Eiki is a yama who belongs to the Ministry of Right and Wrong located at Hell.[1] Although there are many yamas, Eiki is the one in charge of Gensokyo. She, like the other yamas, holds the Cleansed Crystal Mirror that lets them look into a person's past, learn anything they want to know about him/her, and then use that knowledge to make fair judgements.
Eiki does have work breaks, but even during these she doesn't pass up chances to lecture people in the hope that they will change for the better and so she won't have to send them to Hell. For people with particularly bad karma, she will go directly to that person to warn them, sometimes by exaggerating the punishment that they would receive. It's implied that youkai tend to avoid her because of this habit.
Eiki was not always the Yamaxanadu. According to Komachi in Oriental Sacred Place, she was originally a jizou statue, who received enough faith to gain divine powers, and was promoted.
Ability
- Establishing as clear good and evil (black and white)
This is as literally stated. With this power, in order to hand down judgements, the charges that have been established once as clear good and evil cannot, no matter what measures the judged person takes, be overturned. The reason why Yukari Yakumo is not good at dealing with Eiki[2] is probably not just because she dislikes preaching, but also because the Yukari that loves chaos and disorder can be said to dislike things to be established as clear good and evil.
Possessions
Always in Eiki's possession, it can be said to be a rod or a piece of wood. Upon writing the charges on this rod, the weight of the rod changes according to the weight of the sins, and the number of times to beat the sinner is also decided, after which Eiki proceeds to do the beating. This is one of the necessary items for use by Yama for punishment. As explained in Perfect Memento in Strict Sense, she carries this rod with her everywhere.
In the past, each rod was used for one person, and thrown away after its usage was finished. However, for the sake of the environment, it seems that they've been changed to use new material that can be erased and reused.
This is also an item meant for Yama to perform judgement. When a sinner is reflected in the mirror, it reflects all of the sinner's past deeds, though it is tiring to use. It is a dreadful tool for which privacy is even less than worthless, but perhaps because it does not show up in Eiki's sprite, it has a tendency to be forgotten. It can be said that the mirror of the Yama can change shape as they please, but Eiki's mirror takes the form of a hand mirror.
It can even turn these deeds against the person in question, as shown in Shoot the Bullet when Eiki uses the spell card Judgement "Cleansed Crystal Judgement -Aya Shameimaru-" to pit Aya against herself. The "-Aya Shameimaru-" subscript in the card's name suggests that she can create other versions of this card for use against other characters.
Background Information
Name
Her full name is Eiki Shiki (四季映姫); Eiki Shiki (using Western name order) would be her romanized name. The kanji for Eiki (映姫) literally means "reflection/projection/casting princess", while Shiki (四季) is the Japanese word for "the four seasons". Her Yamaxanadu (ヤマザナドゥ) title is considered to be a combination of Xanadu (an ancient palace of the Mongol warlord Kublai Khan, which was later used as meaning a "Pleasure Palace" in a poem by Samuel Taylor Coleridge) and her status as Yama, and can mean something along the lines of "Yama of Paradise". This title can be read as "
In the data files for Hopeless Masquerade, Eiki (映姫) was misspelt with the kanji "映季"; the latter kanji means "season". This is a common mistake in the fanbase because the reading of "ki" in 姫 is rarely used, so IME commonly converts it into the former one.
Design
In Phantasmagoria of Flower View's official art, Eiki has blue eyes and green hair that is longer on the right side. She wears a dark blue, black and white dress with gold decorations and one ribbon on both sleeves. She wears a blue and white hat with a gold emblem in front and a red and white bow on the back; the emblem and bow are balanced equally. She also wears black shoes with a red bow on them, and frilly socks. Furthermore, there seems to be a pattern on her uniform that seems balanced and she carries the Rod of Remorse, described above.
Her alternative outfit in Phantasmagoria of Flower View is the same as her usual outfit, but her hat and dress are red, and her white shirt is purple.
Eiki's Appearances
Game
- Phantasmagoria of Flower View
- Main article: Phantasmagoria of Flower View Story
Eiki's role was to judge the souls that managed to cross the Sanzu River, but unfortunately couldn't do any major work due to Komachi Onozuka slacking off in the face of the sheer mass of ghosts that were coming through to Gensokyo. Meanwhile, Eiki's interrupted by various residents because they were curious about the huge number of flowers blooming, and Eiki started lecturing them on what negative personalities they've got. She also later researches how many of those people have taken her advice on doing good deeds, in which many of them haven't.
- Wily Beast and Weakest Creature;
Spin-offs
- Shoot the Bullet
In Shoot the Bullet, Aya Shameimaru encountered Eiki on stage 10 and took photos of her danmaku.
- Hopeless Masquerade
Eiki made a background cameo appearance in Hopeless Masquerade on the Divine Spirit Mausoleum stage. She is seen standing still on top of the mausoleum.
- Violet Detector
Litterature
- Perfect Memento in Strict Sense
- Silent Sinner in Blue
- Oriental Sacred Place
- The Grimoire of Marisa
- Strange Creators of Outer World
- Visionary Fairies in Shrine
- Wild and Horned Hermit
Relationships
She is known and feared among humans and youkai alike for her lectures.
She has Komachi Onozuka as her subordinate, who she regularly scolds for slacking off.
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.[3]
According to Perfect Memento in Strict Sense, Yuyuko was appointed her position by the yama, therefore it can be assumed that Eiki outranks her (Yuyuko also refers to Eiki as "Eiki-Sama" in Phantasmagoria of Flower View). Yuyuko knows Eiki personally, as Eiki dropped by to push her to teach Youmu more in Youmu's ending in Phantasmagoria of Flower View, which also seems to be the first time Youmu and Eiki met in person.
Gallery
Cover of Phantasmagoria of Flower View, featuring Eiki's silhouette.
Eiki artwork from Phantasmagoria of Flower View
Eiki's sigil in The Grimoire of Marisa
Eiki cameo in Oriental Sacred Place
Skills
Spell Cards
Name | Translated | Comments | Games | Stage | ||
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罪符「彷徨える大罪」 | Guilt Sign "Wandering Sin" | PoFV | Use | |||
審判「ラストジャッジメント」 | Judgement "Last Judgement" | PoFV | Use | |||
虚言「タン・オブ・ウルフ」 | Lie "Tongue of Wolf" | StB | St. 10 | |||
審判「十王裁判」 | Judgement "Trial of the Ten Kings" | StB GoM |
St. 10 — | |||
審判「ギルティ・オワ・ノットギルティ」 | Judgement "Guilty or Not Guilty" | StB GoM |
St. 10 — | |||
審判「浄頗梨審判 -射命丸文-」 | Judgement "Cleansed Crystal Judgement -Aya Shameimaru-" | StB | St. 10 | |||
妖花符「バタフライストーム閻魔笏」 | Ghostly Flower Sign "Butterfly Storm Yama Scepter" | Co-owner with Yuyuko | VD | Nightmare Monday - 1 | ||
風花符「ミシャグジ様の是非」 | Wind Flower Sign "Mishaguji-sama's Right and Wrong" | Co-owner with Suwako | VD | Nightmare Monday - 4 | ||
風花符「オンバシラ裁判」 | Wind Flower Sign "Onbashira Trial" | Co-owner with Kanako | VD | Nightmare Monday - 6 |
Additional Information
- The fairies in Eiki's stage in Phantasmagoria of Flower View are dressed in dark blue uniforms and wear similar hats; and Lily White's normally white dress and hat are colored black. ZUN has said that these fairies and "Lily Black" are all cosplaying as Eiki.[4]
- A silhouette of Eiki occupies the front of Phantasmagoria of Flower View's jewel case.
- In Eiki's spell cards, the background is The Last Judgment by Michelangelo.
- Based on her conversations with the many playable characters in Phantasmagoria of Flower View, she is seen as a compassionate individual, though her conversations with Komachi Onozuka can seem quite harsh. Despite all this scolding, however, Komachi remains a slacker.
- She tells Yuuka Kazami to "scare humans" like a regular youkai and tells Reimu Hakurei to "exterminate youkai more." Both of these cases can be simplified to "do your job" and it showed she does not discriminate youkai and human.
- The phrase "Eastern Judgement", touhou saiban (東方裁判), in the title of Eiki's music theme is very similar to a Japanese term for the Tokyo Tribunal, Tokyo saiban (東京裁判). The end of World War II and the start of the ensuing tribunal took place 60 years before the events of Phantasmagoria of Flower View, and this similarity in pronunciation is likely intentional.
Fandom
Official Profiles
Eiki Shiki, Yamaxanadu PoFV | ○楽園の最高裁判長 四季映姫・ヤマザナドゥ(しきえいき) 種族:閻魔様
彼女に嘘を吐くことは、ばれない事が自分を善人に見せる絶対条件 彼女は普段、死者の罪を咎め、地獄か天界かそれとも別の所の何処
彼女が幻想郷の異変に気がついたのは、小町がなかなか死者を運ん 彼岸花、向日葵、鈴蘭、蓮、そして桜と、あらゆる花が同時に咲い その姿を見てすぐに事態を理解した。 これらの花は全て死者の魂が宿った物であり、魂が処理されていな 彼女が花で埋め尽くされた幻想郷を元に戻れせる訳ではないが、時 それよりも、目の前に罪を負った人間がいる。彼女の性格上、それ |
Supreme Judge of Paradise Eiki Shiki, Yamaxanadu Species: Yama
The minimum requirement of lying to her, in order to appear as a good person, is not letting her discover that lie. If discovered it is a huge deduction. Her usual routine is to find faults of the deceased and decide where they will be sent to: Hell, Heaven, or somewhere else. Due to her job, she tends to be somewhat moralistic.
It was when Komachi did not ferry the deceased to her that she noticed something was wrong in Gensokyo. Suspicious, she looked at Gensokyo only to find out that it was blanketed by flowers. All kinds of flowers were blooming at the same time - spider lilies, sunflowers, lilies of the valley, lotus blossoms, and cherry blossoms. As she was digesting this, both living humans and youkai attacked her, seething with anger. These assaults immediately made her realize what was going on. All these flowers were possessed by spirits of the deceased, and the reason they weren't processed properly was because Komachi was being lazy. It's not like she can restore the flower-covered Gensokyo, but time will eventually bring it back to normal. There was little to no harm. However, a human who's been charged with a crime is before her. With her pride, she couldn't let her pass through her place. |
Official Sources
- 2005/08/14 Phantasmagoria of Flower View - various stage dialogue; キャラ設定.txt (official profile)
- 2005/12/30 Shoot the Bullet - Stage 10 spell card comments
- 2006/12/27 Perfect Memento in Strict Sense - Supreme Judge of Hell: Eiki Shiki, Yamaxanadu
- 2008/02/09 Silent Sinner in Blue - Chapter 9
- 2009/07/28 The Grimoire of Marisa - Eiki Shiki, Yamaxanadu's Spell Cards
- 2009/12/26 Oriental Sacred Place - Chapter 6
References
- ↑ Perfect Memento in Strict Sense: Yama's article.
- ↑ Seasonal Dream Vision/A Beautiful Flower Blooming Violet Every Sixty Years
- ↑ ZUN (26 January 2017). "Reimu's Tour of Hell". 東方三月精 ~ Visionary Fairies in Shrine.第5話. Comp Ace. Missing or empty
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