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;''Undefined Fantastic Object'' | |||
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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 Kochiya|Sanae]]'s shrine in [[Undefined Fantastic Object/Translation/Sanae B's Scenario|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. | 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 Kochiya|Sanae]]'s shrine in [[Undefined Fantastic Object/Translation/Sanae B's Scenario|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. | ||
;''Ten Desires'' | |||
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After the events of ''Undefined Fantastic Object', she has been plotting to go scare [[Byakuren Hijiri|Byakuren]] at her newly-built temple. In ''[[Ten Desires]]'', she takes to the cemetery adjacent to the [[Myouren Temple]] and the surrounding sky, but runs afoul of newcomer [[Yoshika Miyako]]. However, after asking the heroine to help her banish Yoshika, she also receives a beating. | After the events of ''Undefined Fantastic Object', she has been plotting to go scare [[Byakuren Hijiri|Byakuren]] at her newly-built temple. In ''[[Ten Desires]]'', she takes to the cemetery adjacent to the [[Myouren Temple]] and the surrounding sky, but runs afoul of newcomer [[Yoshika Miyako]]. However, after asking the heroine to help her banish Yoshika, she also receives a beating. | ||
Revision as of 01:09, 8 September 2011
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Kogasa Tatara in Ten Desires 愉快な忘れ傘More Character Titles | |
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Power to surprise humans |
Occupation |
Scaring Humans |
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Myouren Temple Graveyard |
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Kogasa Tatara (多々良 小傘 Tatara Kogasa) 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 colour 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.
Concept
Name
The characters for Kogasa (小傘) mean "little umbrella". Tatara (踏鞴) is the traditional Japanese method of smelting iron. Many workers lost an eye checking the colour 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. [1]
Appearance
Kogasa has 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.
Story
- Undefined Fantastic Object
- Main articles: Undefined Fantastic Object Reimu A Arc, Reimu B Arc, Marisa A Arc, Marisa B Arc, Sanae A Arc, and Sanae B Arc
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.
- Ten Desires
After the events of Undefined Fantastic Object', she has been plotting to go scare Byakuren at her newly-built temple. In Ten Desires, she takes to the cemetery adjacent to the Myouren Temple and the surrounding sky, but runs afoul of newcomer Yoshika Miyako. However, after asking the heroine to help her banish Yoshika, she also receives a beating.
Additional Information
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 colours.
- 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!"
- 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.
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 Undefined Fantastic Object (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. This opinion is supported by the fact that her unbrella has Geta at the bottom.
- 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 Undefined Fantastic Object, 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.
- In Oriental Sacred Place Chapter 12, Kogasa is not grouped with the Myouren Temple with the rest of the UFO cast but appears in a later page as a cameo at the festival in the Hakurei Shrine which was rivaling the Myouren Temple for publicity.
- Some fanart has Kogasa be "surprisingly" shapely under her clothes, playing on the surprise aspect of Kogasa's nature. In such a regard, she's quite successful in surprising others with her figure.
Spell Cards
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大輪「からかさ後光」 | Large Ring "Umbrella Halo" | UFO | St. 2: E/N | |||
大輪「ハロウフォゴットンワールド」 | Large Ring "Hello Forgotten World" | UFO GoU |
St. 2: H/L — | |||
傘符「パラソルスターシンフォニー」 | Umbrella Sign "Parasol Star Symphony" | Reference to the game Parasol Stars | UFO | St. 2: E/N | ||
傘符「パラソルスターメモリーズ」 | Umbrella Sign "Parasol Star Memories" | Reference to the game Parasol Stars | UFO | St. 2: H/L | ||
雨符「雨夜の怪談」 | Rain Sign "A Rainy Night's Ghost Story" | UFO | St. 2: E/N | |||
雨傘「超撥水かさかさお化け」 | Umbrella "Super Water-Repelling Bone-Dry Monster" | UFO | St. 2: H/L | |||
化符「忘れ傘の夜行列車」 | Monster Sign "A Forgotten Umbrella's Night Train" | Based off of people leaving their umbrellas behind on trains[2] | UFO | St. 2: E/N | ||
化鉄「置き傘特急ナイトカーニバル」 | Monster Train "Spare Umbrella Express Night Carnival" | UFO | St. 2: H/L | |||
傘符「大粒の涙雨」 | Umbrella Sign "Lightly Falling Large Raindrops" | UFO | St. Ex | |||
驚雨「ゲリラ台風」 | Surprising Rain "Guerrilla Typhoon" | UFO | St. Ex | |||
後光「からかさ驚きフラッシュ」 | Halo "Karakasa Surprising Flash" | UFO | St. Ex | |||
傘符「一本足ピッチャー返し」 | Umbrella Sign "One-Legged Return Hit" | DS | St. 3 | |||
虹符「オーバー・ザ・レインボー」 | Rainbow Sign "Over The Rainbow" | DS GoU |
St. 3 — | |||
傘符「細雪の過客」 | Umbrella Sign "Flurry Travelers" | DS | St. 3 | |||
虹符「アンブレラサイクロン」 | Rainbow Sign "Umbrella Cyclone" | TD | St. 3: H/L | |||
雨洞「レイニーケイブ」 | Rain Cavern "Rainy Cave" | SFW | Story | |||
水砲「グラウンドウォーターストリーム」 | Water Cannon "Ground Water Stream" | SFW | Story | |||
跳傘「大時化サプライズ」 | Leaping Umbrella "Stormy Weather Surprise" | SFW | Story |
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Official Profiles
Undefined Fantastic Object - Settings and Extra Story.txt
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Ten Desires - Omake.txt
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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)
- 2010/03/14 Double Spoiler - Stage 3 spellcard comments
- 2010/12/25 Oriental Sacred Place - Chapter 12
- 2011/08/13 Ten Desires - Stage 3 dialogue; Omake.txt (official profile)
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References
- ↑ http://www.obakemono.com/obake/ippondatara/
- ↑ ZUN's talks on Undefined Fantastic Object interview