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*2011/11/25 '''[[Wild and Horned Hermit]]''' - Chapter 9 (cameo) | *2011/11/25 '''[[Wild and Horned Hermit]]''' - Chapter 9 (cameo) | ||
*2012/04/27 '''[[Symposium of Post-mysticism]]''' - [[Symposium of Post-mysticism/Ichirin Kumoi & Unzan|Ichirin Kumoi & Unzan Profile]] | *2012/04/27 '''[[Symposium of Post-mysticism]]''' - [[Symposium of Post-mysticism/Ichirin Kumoi & Unzan|Ichirin Kumoi & Unzan Profile]] | ||
*2013/05/26 - '''[[Hopeless Masquerade]]''' - Playable character | |||
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Revision as of 04:18, 26 May 2013
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Ichirin Kumoi in Hopeless Masquerade The Overwhelming Youkai AsceticMore Character Titles | |
Species | |
Abilities |
Using nyuudou |
Age |
At least 1000 years |
Occupation |
Guardian of the Palanquin Ship |
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Appearances | |
Official Games | |
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Ichirin Kumoi (雲居 一輪 Kumoi Ichirin) is a former human turned nyuudou user that the heroine encounters on their arrival at the flying object. Along with Unzan, she guards the Palanquin Ship of her own accord in order to assist in the revival of Byakuren.
General Information
As part of a team with Unzan, they work together to face their challenges.
Personality
Ichirin is described as having a pleasant personality, but can also be tenacious at times.
Occupation
As a member of the Myouren Temple, Ichirin lives there and trains as a priest. Because of Unzan's physical strength, the two of them are tasked with doing physical labor, especially in high places.
Backstory
Long ago, Ichirin was a young, human girl, out picking flowers. She then met Unzan, a foreseeing-type nyuudou. Originally monks unable to see anything but their own feet, they hang their heads and hide their face, which you can't tell has grown large. Finally, when they raise their head, they decapitate you. However, before he could raise his head, she shouted, "The foreseeing nyuudou was foreseen!" This repelled him. Though normally it would be enough to make him fade away, the shock of his defeat prompted Unzan to devote the rest of his life to protecting her. Although she no longer had a need to fear youkai, this caused humans to hate her, instead. Then before she knew it, she too had become a youkai.
Finally, because of her acceptance of youkai, such as nyuudou, and her understanding of the human heart, she and Unzan were converted by Hijiri Byakuren and joined her.
Character Design
Ichirin's inspiration may come from the second volume of Shigi san Engi. In the story, Daigo Tennou becomes dangerously ill one day, so his subjects visited Myouren after hearing of his miracles to beg him to come and pray for the emperor's health. Myouren rejected their request, but proposed that he would pray at his temple and he would inform them when he finished. After approximately three days passed, Ken no Gohou (剣の護法), a flying messenger of Bishamonten, appeared near the court, who implied the end of Myouren's praying. After that, the emperor recovered very soon. This messenger had a sword in one hand, numerous blades around his neck, and he flew on the wheel very similar to a dharmacakra, followed by wind or clouds.
Name
Ichirin Kumoi (雲居 一輪) is her full name. The characters for Ichirin (一輪) mean "One Wheel". It is possible that Ichirin's name is partly inspired from the aforementioned Dharmacakra: It is called "Hourin" (法輪) in Japanese, a noun which shares one kanji with Ichirin's name. The characters for Kumoi (雲居) mean "Residence in the Clouds".
Another possible source of inspiration for the Ichirin and Unzan character is an old Japanese tale about tsukumogami (youkai born from an old object attaining a spirit of its own after being around for 100 years). This story features a tsukumogami born from a Buddhist rosary called Ichiren Nyuudou.
Design
Ichirin has light purple wavy hair, and dark purple eyes. She carries a medium-sized yellow ring in her right hand. On her head, she wears a headdress similar to a Hijab or a nun's headdress. She wears a white dress with a blue trim at the bottom, and wears black shoes. She is also always seen with Unzan.
In Hopeless Masquerade, her hair is shown to be shoulder-length in a shade of cyan. Her black shoes are white, her top is a button-up blouse, and she has a red orb around her neck. She also carries two rings, one in each hand. Over her blouse and skirt, she also has a black and gold Japanese-style kesa, which she wears around her waist in her selection screen and cut-in art, but can be seen being worn over her shoulder in her game sprites.
Story
- Undefined Fantastic Object
In Undefined Fantastic Object, she stands guard at the palanquin ship in order to keep those who would prevent Byakuren's revival away. Initially she attacks the heroine under the assumption that they were there to stop her, but upon realizing they had some parts of the treasure needed to unseal Byakuren, she assumed they were on her side and happily let them through.
Relationships
As the Guarded, she is Unzan's handler, and he is her protector. He is devoted to watching over her. As he is very shy, he will speak very quietly and only to her.
Not much is known about Ichirin's relationships with other characters, save for Byakuren Hijiri. She is a devout follower of Byakuren, who showed kindness not only towards her but towards Unzan as well.
She is also part of Minamitsu Murasa's group of youkai.
Spell Cards
Name | Translated | Comments | Games | Stage | ||
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Total: 29 | ||||||
鉄拳「問答無用の妖怪拳」 | Iron Fist "An Unarguable Youkai Punch" | UFO | St. 3: E/N | |||
神拳「雲上地獄突き」 | Divine Fist "Hell Thrust from Above the Clouds" | UFO | St. 3: H | |||
神拳「天海地獄突き」 | Divine Fist "Hell Thrust from the Heavenly Seas" | UFO | St. 3: L | |||
拳符「天網サンドバッグ」 | Fist Sign "Heavenly Net Sandbag" | UFO | St. 3: E/N | |||
連打「雲界クラーケン殴り」 | Barrage "Cloud World Kraken Strike" | UFO | St. 3: H | |||
連打「キングクラーケン殴り」 | Barrage "King Kraken Strike" | UFO GoU |
St. 3: L — | |||
拳打「げんこつスマッシュ」 | Hand Strike "Fist Smash" | UFO | St. 3: E/N | |||
潰滅「天上天下連続フック」 | Annihilation "Consecutive Hooks Throughout Heaven and Earth" | UFO | St. 3: H/L | |||
大喝「時代親父大目玉」 | Thunderous Yell "A Scolding from a Traditional Old Man" | UFO | St. 3: E/N | |||
忿怒「天変大目玉焼き」 | Rage "Calamity Scolding Scorch" | UFO | St. 3: H | |||
忿怒「空前絶後大目玉焼き」 | Rage "First and Last of Its Kind Scolding Scorch" | UFO GoU |
St. 3: L — | |||
拳骨「天空鉄槌落とし」 | Fist "Falling Sky Hammer" | DS | St. 5 | |||
稲妻「帯電入道」 | Lightning "Electrified Nyuudou" | DS | St. 5 | |||
鉄拳「入道にょき」 | Iron Fist "Nyuudou Nyoki" | DS | St. 5 | |||
嵐符「仏罰の野分雲」 | Storm Sign "Autumn Storm Clouds of Buddhist Retribution" | HM ULiL AoCF |
Use Use Use | |||
積乱「見越し入道雲」 | Cumulonimbus "Foreseeing Nyuudou Cloud" | HM ULiL AoCF |
Use Use Use | |||
拳固「懺悔の殺風」 | Clenched Fist "Deadly Wind of Penitence" | HM ULiL AoCF |
Use Use Use | |||
「華麗なる親父時代」 | "Traditional Era of a Splendid Old Man" | HM | Use-LW | |||
拳符「怒りの大雲塊」 | Fist Sign "Great Cumulus of Rage" | HM | Story | |||
入道「夏の幻想太郎」 | Nyuudou "Genso-Tarou Cloud in Summer" | HM | Story | |||
*265センチの魔人現る!* | *A 265-Centimeter Fiend Appears!* | ULiL AoCF |
Use-LW Use-LW | |||
悪符「八尺のオカルト柱」 | Evil Sign "Eight-Shaku Occult Pillar" | ULiL | Story | |||
*謎の女に囚われた真夏の夜* | *A Midsummer Night Trapped by a Mysterious Woman* | ULiL | Story | |||
拳風符「入道叢雲風水拳」 | Fist Wind Sign "Nyuudou Murakumo Feng Shui Fist" | Co-owner with Futo | AoCF | Story | ||
拳星符「入道叢雲スレイブスパーク」 | Fist Star Sign "Nyuudou Murakumo Slave Spark" | Co-owner with Marisa | AoCF | Story | ||
撃拳符「スカンダの怪雲拳」 | Strike Fist Sign "Skanda's Strange Cloud Fist" | Co-owner with Byakuren | AoCF | Story | ||
恋拳符「ローズカプリチオ怪雲拳」 | Love Fist Sign "Rose Capriccio Strange Cloud Fist" | Co-owner with Koishi | AoCF | Story | ||
光拳符「インドラのヴァジュラ怪雲拳」 | Light Fist Sign "Indra's Vajra Strange Cloud Fist" | Co-owner with Byakuren | AoCF | Story | ||
拳水符「入道叢雲ミズバク拳」 | Fist Water Sign "Nyuudou Murakumo Water Bomb Fist" | Co-owner with Nitori | AoCF | Story |
Additional Information
- Ichirin's outfit closely resembles that of a Buddhist nun's, which was a component ZUN thought appropriate for the Buddhist-themed story. [1]
- During Stage 3, Ichirin refers to Byakuren using the words as 姐御 (anego) and 姐さん (ane-san or nee-san). Both terms are variants on "elder sister", but these versions usually mean a female superior who is not one's real sister, such as a female gang boss.
- Essentially, Unzan is the Stage 3 boss of Undefined Fantastic Object, not Ichirin; Ichirin herself came as a way to have an actual character on the screen for an hit box according to ZUN. When trying to think of what type of youkai to call Ichirin in Part 3 of Symposium of Post-mysticism, even Byakuren, who calls herself an expert on youkai, could only hesitantly refer to her as "um... a controller of a giant nyuudou."
Fandom
- Some fans have begun calling her Ichirin Kujo, a reference to Jotaro Kujo of JoJo's Bizarre Adventure, from Unzan's appearance with Ichirin and fights with her (emphasis on fists).
- With her appearance in 13.5, it has only intensified with her fighting style (or at least, appearance of Unzan in fights)
- Within the fandom, Ichirin's presence tends to be overshadowed by Unzan. Even ZUN himself says she's nothing more than "Unzan's hit box".
- This is a shift from the popularity she enjoyed when the demo first came out.
- Some people interpret her title of UFO as Ichirin's origin — look at the word "大輪" (Big Flower: lit. "Big Wheel"), the part of her title "守り守られし大輪" (The Big Wheel That Guards and is Guarded). When it loses "人 (human), it becomes "一輪" (Ichirin): 大輪 − 人 = 一輪. When she abandoned being human, she was reborn from the moment as youkai, as what Ichirin is now.
Official Profiles
Official Sources
- 2009/03/08 Undefined Fantastic Object Demo - Stage 3 dialogue; Omake.txt (pre-official profile)
- 2009/08/15 Undefined Fantastic Object - Stage 3 dialogue; Settings and Extra Story.txt (official profile)
- 2010/03/14 Double Spoiler - Stage 5 spellcard comments
- 2010/12/25 Oriental Sacred Place - Chapter 12
- 2011/11/25 Wild and Horned Hermit - Chapter 9 (cameo)
- 2012/04/27 Symposium of Post-mysticism - Ichirin Kumoi & Unzan Profile
- 2013/05/26 - Hopeless Masquerade - Playable character
References
- ↑ Chara☆Mel. "Interview with Chara☆Mel" (in Japanese). Unknown parameter
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