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Kogasa Tatara
Main Profile
Kogasa Tatara | Name: | 多々良小傘 (たたら こがさ)
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 (Heterochromia). Wears a blue-green vest with white sleeves and a light blue skirt. Uses a purple umbrella with an eye and a tongue protruding out of it. | |
Relationships: |
None | |
Appearances: |
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Titles: | See Character Titles |
A karakasa who wants to surprise people. She hasn't been very successful so far. She tried to scare the heroine just for fun, but she was beaten easily. Later on, she decided to go to Byakuren's Temple to try and scare her, but instead, she met the same person and got beaten again.
Fun Facts
- 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 have one bright red eye that distinguish it from the rest of her. It gives the effect of her having one eye, like the Karakasa.
- She is the only Touhou character so far to have two different eye colors.
- 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 Yuka 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.
- 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.
- 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 fans see her being the only lonely character in the game.
- However, due to her appearence in the Extra Stage, she is often seen with Nue, as seen here.
- And sometimes she is depicted as staying with the rest of the UFO cast.
- 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.
- 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.
Official Profiles
Undefined Fantastic Object demo - オマケ.txt
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. |
Undefined Fantastic Object - Settings and extra story.txt
Kogasa Tatara UFO | ○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, |