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Revision as of 22:02, 15 April 2011
Main Profile
Kogasa Tatara | Name: | Kogasa Tatara
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Species: | Karakasa | |
Abilities: | Power to surprise humans | |
Age: | Unknown | |
Occupation: | Scaring Humans | |
Location: | Skies of Gensokyo | |
Description: |
Turquoise hair, one turquoise eye and one red eye. Wears a blue-green vest with white sleeves and a light blue skirt. Uses a purple umbrella with an eye and a tongue protruding from it. | |
Relationships: |
None | |
Appearances: |
Official Games
Print Works
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Titles: | See Character Titles |
General Information
Kogasa Tatara is a karakasa whose sole purpose is to surprise people. She hasn't been very successful so far. She encounters the heroine on their way to catch up with the flying object on a mission to scare her, but it doesn't work.
She was once a normal umbrella in the human world; her owner forgot her, and no one else picked her up because the color was unpopular at the time. As time went on, the wind swept her away to Gensokyo and she became a youkai. According to her profile, she is currently reading up on classic ghost stories in order to improve her scaring technique.
Story
Kogasa is first introduced in Undefined Fantastic Object. However, her role is rather limited. In Stage 2, she appears twice, trying to surprise the heroine, who doesn't particularly want anything to do with her, as she is slowing her pursuit of the flying object. They engage in a high-speed aerial battle that inevitably ends with Kogasa's defeat and the heroine's arrival at the flying object. Also inevitably, she misinterprets what the heroine says as the answer to how to surprise humans. She does threaten to wreck Sanae's shrine in Sanae B's story, but is threatened right back.
She returns in the extra stage under the assumption that it being night is enough to scare humans, and is defeated once again by the heroine. As such, she is the only character that is completely unrelated to the story in Undefined Fantastic Object, as well as the only unrelated character to be in an Extra Stage.
After the events of Undefined Fantastic Object, she has been plotting to go scare Byakuren at her newly-built temple.
Other Information
Name and Concept
- The characters for Kogasa mean "little umbrella".
- Tatara is the traditional Japanese method of smelting iron. Many workers lost an eye checking the color of the fire to measure its temperature and/or a leg pushing the tatara furnaces, and they wore geta to avoid the heat of floor. This brought about the tale of the Ippon Datara, a one-eyed, one-legged youkai that somewhat resembles a karakasa.
- Her overall design is mainly blue, but has one bright red eye that distinguish it from the rest of her. It gives the effect of her having one eye, like the Karakasa.
- It is possible, although not likely, that the idea for Kogasa came from the umbrella which the Vaisravana holds in his right hand; however, because she doesn't have any relationship to the other characters(and that umbrella is said to bring peace and protect the Vaisravana's treasure, not surprise people), this seems like a stretch.
Trivia
- She is the only character in Undefined Fantastic Object that has no role in the story.
- She is the only Touhou character so far to have two different eye colors.
- Her surprise appearance as the Extra stage midboss was, well...a surprise to humans, us! She even appears on the Undefined Fantastic Object disc with a small caption above her that reads 'おどろけー' (Surprise~), making Kogasa one of the few characters to indirectly muddle with the 4th wall, another example being, coincidentally, Sanae.
- In Undefined Fantastic Object, she says "Urameshiya". "Urameshii" means to hate or be bitter, while "ya" is similar to saying desu or da. It's often translated as "I hate you," or simply "Boo," which has become her catchphrase in fandom.
- Ghosts, youkai, and possessed objects (such as karakasa) are said to belong to a lower realm in the Six Realms of Buddhist belief. "Urameshiya" is often said by such creatures to express envy towards humans, whose place in the Human Realm affords them less suffering. Thus, "I envy your life!" would be a more appropriate translation, although it tends to be used in the same context as "Boo!"
Fandom
- Due to Reimu A's scenario, where Kogasa utters the word "sadism" (even though Reimu points out that it should be the opposite) the phrase 「さでずむ」 or "sadism" has become a meme associated with Kogasa.
- She is also often depicted as bullied by Sanae, possibly because of Sanae's cold words in her dialogue in UFO(although Reimu's dialogue with her was a lot colder in comparison).
- Fans have noticed she looks similar to Yuuka in style. Both have short hair, and also wield umbrellas...
- Since that, most fans think she is the new youkai moe.
- There has been some question as to which is the actual Kogasa, the girl or the umbrella. A number of people have expressed their opinion that the girl is merely a spiritual extension of the true Karakasa.
- She's similar to Chen in Perfect Cherry Blossom in that she appears as both bosses of stage two and an extra stage mid boss. But unlike Chen, she has no relation to the boss of the extra stage.
- Because she is the only character who is not involved in the main plot of UFO, many fanworks include her with Nue because of her appearance in the extra stage. Sometimes she is simply seen as part of the entire UFO cast.
Spell Cards
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Official Profiles
Undefined Fantastic Object - Settings and Extra Story.txt
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Kogasa Tatara UFO | ○2面ボス 愉快な忘れ傘
多々良 小傘(たたら こがさ) Tatara Kogasa 種族:からかさお化け 能力:人間を驚かす程度の能力 使われなくなった傘が化けた者。 人間に実害を与えることは少なく、ただ驚く人間を見て気分がすっと |
Stage 2 boss The Cheery Forgotten Umbrella Kogasa Tatara Race: karakasa ghost An umbrella that was left unused and became a youkai. She rarely really hurts anyone, she just likes watching people be surprised. |
Kogasa Tatara | ○エキストラ中ボス 愉快な忘れ傘
多々良 小傘(たたら こがさ) 人を脅かすなら夜じゃなきゃいけないんだ |
Extra stage midboss The Cheery, Forgotten Umbrella
Kogasa Tatara She figured you'd be best off trying to surprise people at night, |
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Ten Desires - Omake.txt
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Kogasa Tatara TD | ○3面中ボス お困りの忘れ物
多々良 小傘(たたら こがさ) Tatara Kogasa 種族:唐傘お化け
能力:人間を驚かす程度の能力
しかし、そんな幸せ絶頂の彼女にも事件が起きた。 墓地の奥で見た事もない妖怪が現れ、我が物顔で近寄らせないようにし
始めたのだ。
しかし暖簾に腕押し。糠に釘。
いくら攻撃しても手応えが感じられず、結局逃げ帰ってきてしまった。
「きっとあの妖怪を倒しに来たんだわ」そう思った彼女は、思い切って
お願いする事にした。
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Stage 3 midboss The Cheery Forgotten Umbrella Kogasa Tatara Race: karakasa ghost A youkai umbrella that wanders around the sky above the temple. She found her place in the cemetery, and found herself living in the cemetery most of the time. This is because while humans that are rarely surprised in the middle of the road, they are easily scared when they are in the cemetery. You finally did it. Amazing. But an incident has crept to disrupt her truly happy time. A youkai who was never seen before has been appearing from the inside of the cemetary, and has been moving around like it was its home ever since. She tried to get in contact with that youkai, but she couldn't communicate with the youkai at all. Feeling threatened, she wanted to shoo away the youkai forcefully. But that ended up as futility. No matter how she attacked, she couldn't get a response out of it, so she escaped. While she was considering whether she should ask for help of the members of the temple, she saw those humans that she saw before. They were those, whom she encountered and fought several times before. "They must have come to defeat that youkai!" And so she thought, and decided to ask boldly. And she ended up like this. |
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Official Sources
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- 2009/03/08 Undefined Fantastic Object Demo - Stage 2 dialogue; Omake.txt (pre-official profile)
- 2009/08/15 Undefined Fantastic Object - Stage 2 dialogue; Extra Stage dialogue; Settings and Extra Story.txt (official profile)
- 2009/12/25 Interview on Undefined Fantastic Object with Kyara☆Mel
- 2010/03/14 Double Spoiler - Stage 3 spellcard comments
- 2010/12/25 Oriental Sacred Place - Chapter 12
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