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| species = [[Doll]]
| species = [[Doll]]
| abilities = Unknown (Destructive magic?)
| abilities = Unknown (Destructive magic?)
| age = Unknown/non-living
| age = Unknown/non-living (possibly around alice's age...?)
| occupation = A doll used in one of [[Alice Margatroid|Alice]]'s spell cards
| occupation = A doll used in one of [[Alice Margatroid|Alice]]'s spell cards
| location = [[Forest of Magic]]
| location = [[Forest of Magic]]

Revision as of 01:02, 27 October 2010

Main Profile


File:HouraiTH75.jpg Name: 蓬莱

Hourai


Species: Doll
Abilities: Unknown (Destructive magic?)
Age: Unknown/non-living (possibly around alice's age...?)
Occupation: A doll used in one of Alice's spell cards
Location: Forest of Magic
Description:
  • (Touhou 7.5) (While part of Alice's portrait during conversation, being defeated.) She has blond hair. She wears a long dark purple dress with a white apron and white shoulders, and matching dark purple shoes. There is a large red bow in her hair and a smaller matching bow around her neck. Very similar to Shanghai in the game, only her eyes aren't seen and her neck is hanged by a rope.
Relationships:
Appearances:
Titles: See Character Titles

This is one of Alice Margatroid's dolls. She's theoretically more powerful than Shanghai due to Shanghai being used by Alice while playing on the hard difficulty setting of Perfect Cherry Blossom and Hourai being used while playing on lunatic. Hourai appears in Alice's spell card Curse "Hanged Hourai Dolls".

In Immaterial and Missing Power Hourai was one of Alice's 2nd level spell cards. She had the exact same sprite and effect as Shanghai (the 1st level spell card of the same type), only much stronger.

Fun Facts

  • Hourai is a legendary island paradise in East Asian folklore, which was said to be inhabited by immortals who had special powers, and possessed rare treasures as well as the elixir of immortality.
  • Due to the name of her spell card, "Hanged Hourai Dolls," Hourai is often portrayed in fan comics hanging herself for various reasons.
  • While official sprites indicate that Hourai's appearance is identical to that of Shanghai, fan comics tend to differentiate it, frequently by giving her a bonnet instead of a hair ribbon, and/or by giving her an elegant red dress instead of the maid outfit worn by Shanghai.
  • Even though she has no official profile and has only made two appearances during gameplay (and even then only as a spell card that's not often seen by most players), she's somehow become a very well known character.
  • She so far has no known relation to either the Hourai Elixir or Kaguya Houraisan, nor even to Mokou, who also has a spellcard called "Hourai Doll". It is most likely a reference to the aforementioned island paradise of Hourai, since Alice's other spell cards (such as Foggy London Dolls or Red-haired Dutch Dolls) are references to countries or cities.
  • As with Shanghai, Hourai is canonically a class of doll rather than a name for one individual doll, and multiple Hourai dolls are seen during its spell card in PCB.
  • 蓬莱, the kanji for Hourai, is another name in Japanese for Taiwan, Penglai. Meaning both of Alice's dolls are named after Chinese locations, Shanghai and Penglai.

Official Profiles

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