Koishi Komeiji

古明地 (こめいじ)  こいし
(♫)
Koishi Komeiji
Koishi Komeiji
Koishi Komeiji in Hopeless Masquerade
The Closed Eyes of Love
More Character Titles
Species

Satori

Abilities

Manipulation of the Subconscious

Occupation

None

Location

Palace of the Earth Spirits, Myouren Temple

Music Themes
Appearances
Official Games
Print Works

Koishi Komeiji (古明地 こいし Komeiji Koishi) is Satori Komeiji's younger sister. To escape the fear and hatred which other beings feel towards satori, she attempted to destroy her mind-reading ability by closing her Third Eye. However, this had the side effect of sealing away her own conscious mind, causing her to lose all thoughts and motives; she could no longer be hated, but neither could she be loved, or even remembered by people who saw her.

General Information

Koishi's presence cannot be "felt" by anyone unless she has entered their direct field of vision, and is forgotten as soon as she leaves it. In general, she doesn't have a personality. However, children enjoy her presence as one of an imaginary friend, whom they forget about once they grow up. However, as Satori's presence has been made known, even Koishi has begun to be recognized as of late.

Ability

Ability to take action unconsciously

As her actions are controlled entirely by her subconscious, Koishi's presence cannot be noticed by other beings unless she allows it, even while standing in plain view. Likewise her older sister cannot read her mind, as she does not technically have a mind to read. Even someone who manages to communicate with Koishi will forget about her after she leaves, unless they already knew of her as Satori's sister.

Some children are immune to this effect due to their still-developing minds, leading Koishi to become their "imaginary friend", though they will forget about her when they grow up.[1]

Manipulation of the Subconscious

She can manipulate the subconsciousness of every living thing around her, allowing her to make them see everything she desires[2] [3] and make them confront their own weaknesses hidden inside their hearts, as seen in lot of her Spell Cards.

Occupation

Koishi currently resides at the Palace of the Earth Spirits, but she is also a laywoman in regards to the Myouren Temple as a recent convert to Buddhism, at Byakuren Hijiri's request.

Possessions

Koishi wanted to receive the blessing of Kanako Yasaka so she could give her own pets power like Satori's pets were given, so Koishi does apparently have pets.

Character Design

Name

Her surname Komeiji (古明地, lit. "ancient-bright earth") is an actual Japanese surname, seen mainly in the Yamanashi prefecture. There are two common ways to interpret her given name Koishi, based on which kanji are used. The kanji in "恋思", though not a Japanese word as a compound, mean "will/thought of love." The second writing, "小石", means "little rock." This could be connected to her ability, indicating her lack of presence, as she is often compared to a little rock sitting on the side of the road in official texts.

Design

Has wavy, grey-greenish, short hair and dark green eyes, wears a black hat with a yellow ribbon around it. A closed, dark blue "third eye" is positioned over her heart, with cords wrapped around her torso and attached to each of her ankles. Wears an orange shirt with diamond-like blue buttons and dark green collar. The skirt is also green with a faint flowery pattern, but a lot lighter. Her socks are black.

Story

Subterranean Animism

After the events of the main story in Subterranean Animism, Koishi heard that her sister and pets fought a human from above ground, and also heard about Utsuho's new power. Desiring that kind of power for her own pets, she decided to go to Gensokyo to pray for divine blessings. Thanks to her subconscious ability, she managed to reach the Moriya Shrine atop of Youkai Mountain around the same time the Heroine decides to pay a visit to the Gods in the Mountain in the game's Extra Stage. Koishi provokes a fight, and is defeated. After this encounter, however, Koishi somewhat regretted having closed her third eye and became curious enough to want to start actually meeting people.

Symposium of Post-mysticism

While talking about the underground youkai, Byakuren becomes interested in Koishi, as she thinks her state of mind - one of emptiness - is quite close to enlightenment. At the monk's request, Koishi converted to the Buddhist faith.

Hopeless Masquerade

Stumbles across Hata no Kokoro's lost mask of hope and picks it up. This bit of hope added to her otherwise emotionless state allows her to gather popularity when she would otherwise be invisible. She ends up so attached to the mask (subconsciously) that she refuses to return it to Kokoro and ends up keeping it after the conclusion of the story.

Relationships

Satori Komeiji

Koishi's most important relationship is her older sister, Satori Komeiji. Despite Koishi closing her mind and seemingly whimsical wandering, as well as the fact that even Satori has trouble "seeing" her, Satori does worry about her.

Rin Kaenbyou & Utsuho Reiuji

Koishi is also acquainted with Satori's pets, which include Rin Kaenbyou and Utsuho Reiuji.

Byakuren Hijiri

Byakuren has an optimistic view of Koishi's condition, believing that she is close to enlightenment, invited her to join the Myouren Temple. Koishi accepted, but as a laywoman rather than a priest.[4]

Gallery

Spell Cards

Spellcards
Name Translated Comments Games Stage
Total: 26
表象「夢枕にご先祖総立ち」 Representation "All Ancestors Standing Beside Your Bed" SA
GoM
St. Ex
表象「弾幕パラノイア」 Representation "Danmaku Paranoia" SA
GoM
St. Ex
本能「イドの開放」 Instinct "Release of the Id" SA
GoM
HM
ULiL
AoCF
St. Ex

Use
Use
Use
抑制「スーパーエゴ」 Suppression "Super-Ego" SA
GoM
HM
ULiL
AoCF
St. Ex

Use
Use
Use
反応「妖怪ポリグラフ」 Response "Youkai Polygraph" SA
GoM
St. Ex
無意識「弾幕のロールシャッハ」 Unconscious "Rorschach in Danmaku" SA
GoM
St. Ex
復燃「恋の埋火」 Rekindled "The Embers of Love" SA St. Ex
深層「無意識の遺伝子」 Depths "Genetics of the Unconscious" SA St. Ex
「嫌われ者のフィロソフィ」 "Philosophy of the Despised" SA
GoM
St. Ex
「サブタレイニアンローズ」 "Subterranean Rose" SA St. Ex
心符「没我の愛」 Heart Sign "Selfless Love" DS St. 9
記憶「DNAの瑕」 Memory "DNA's Flaw" DS
GoU
St. 9
「胎児の夢」 "Embryo's Dream" DS
GoU
St. 9
「ローズ地獄」 "Rose Hell" DS St. 9
夢符「ご先祖様が見ているぞ」 Dream Sign "Ancestors are Watching You" HM
ULiL
AoCF
Use
Use
Use
「ブランブリーローズガーデン」 "Brambly Rose Garden" HM Use-LW
本能「フロウディアン」 Instinct "Freudian" HM Story
茨符「コンファインドイノセント」 Thorn Sign "Confined Innocent" HM Story
*今から電話をするから出てね* *I'm Going to Call You Now, So Answer the Phone!* ULiL
AoCF
Use-LW
Use-LW
*呪われたワン切り電話* *Cursed Dial-and-Drop Phone* ULiL Story
星恋符「スプリンクルスター&ハート」 Star Love Sign "Sprinkle Star & Heart" Co-owner with Marisa AoCF Story
恋拳符「ローズカプリチオ怪雲拳」 Love Fist Sign "Rose Capriccio's Strange Cloud Fist" Co-owner with Ichirin AoCF Story
槌恋符「大判小判ザックザクハート」 Mallet Love Sign "Rolling-in-Riches Heart" Co-owner with Shinmyoumaru AoCF Story
地妖符「イドの式神」 Earth Ghostly Sign "Shikigami of the Id" Co-owner with Ran VD Nightmare Wednesday - 2
「パーフェクトマインドコントロール」 "Perfect Mind Control" Co-owner with Satori VD Nightmare Wednesday - 3
地霊符「マインドステラリリーフ」 Earth Spirit Sign "Mind Stellar Relief" Co-owner with Utsuho VD Nightmare Wednesday - 6

Additional Information

  • Koishi's musical theme, Hartmann's Youkai Girl, may refer to Eduard von Hartmann (whose most famous work is entitled The Philosophy of the Unconscious) or Heinz Hartmann (as many of Koishi's spellcards seem to make references to ego psychology.) The track itself is also arranged so that it has symmetrical parts, making it sound remarkably similar to itself even when played reversed, possibly as a reference to the practice of backmasking.
  • Satori and Koishi's design may have been inspired by the 1939 painting by Kahlo titled "The Two Fridas". The subject is essentially two identical women (sisters/clones/twins...) with visible hearts and external arteries that seem to connect and wrap around their shoulders and arms, where one of them has a cut artery and a pair of scissors in hands (resembling Koishi, who has closed her third eye).
  • Since many aspects of Koishi are references to psychology, there's a running joke that her "Embers of Love" spellcard is a reference to the phallic obsession of Freudian psychology. For those that do not get the hint, look closely at the shape of the bullets. Of course if you think that, maybe Freud was right.
  • Koishi's design can also be referenced to all the bosses in Ibara, as both Koishi and the Rose sisters have white hair and has a lot of reference to roses (although roses in Ibara are point items instead of bullets)
  • If her's and Satori's color schemes are inverted, they will both somewhat resemble each other.
    • One of her colors in Hopeless Masquerade is her sister's color scheme.
  • Some fans believe that her name and her are references to Doraemon's gadgets Ishikoro Boushi (石ころぼうし, lit. "rock hat"), which by wearing, the user's existence faints out making him/her "unnoticeable", very similar to Koishi's ability.
  • The ending of Koishi's storyline in Hopeless Masquerade suggests the origin for the name of Koishi. "Once hope is lost no one will be able to see her (Koishi) again, just like a small rock (小石, pronounced koishi as well) on the roadside."

Fandom

  • Koishi is occasionally drawn with some sort of connection to Flandre Scarlet, since both are extra-bosses who are the younger sisters of the owner of a mansion from the same game, as well as being explicitly noted as being stronger than their siblings and isolated from them.
  • Koishi in fanon is usually kooky, sometimes overly affectionate kooky (particularly to her sister), just zany, or an utterly unrepentant mind-rapist (most infamously so in the "Koishi Komeiji's Heart-Throbbing Adventure" video series).
  • Some jokes were made about the Hartmann in her theme title being the infamous drill sergeant of Full Metal Jacket fame.
  • Her ability to manipulate the sub-consciousness of those around her (masking herself and thus becoming essentially invisible) have been described as a Somebody Else's Problem Field.
  • Similar to Kahlo's painting mentioned above (The Two Fridas), some fan works display the cord(s) to her third eye being of having already been cut, while Satori's remains intact.

Official Profiles

Subterranean Animism - おまけ.txt
    ○EX面ボス 閉じた恋の瞳

  古明地こいし(こめいじ こいし)
  Komeiji Koishi

  種族:さとり
  能力:無意識を操る程度の能力

  古明地さとりの妹。
  彼女もさとり同様、心を読む妖怪であった。
  しかし心を読む事で嫌われる事を知り、こいしは心を読む第三の眼を閉ざしてしまった。

  それにより心を読む能力を失ったが、代わりに無意識で行動する事が出来る様になった。
  地底の住人からは嫌われる事は無くなったが、同時に恐れられる事も動物たちに好かれる事も無くなった。

  心を読む力は、自らの心の強さでもある。
  それを嫌われるからと言って閉ざしてしまう事は、ただの逃げであり、結局は自らの心を閉ざしたのと変わらない。他人の心を受け入れないで完全にシャットダウンする事なのだ。


  彼女は大した目的もなく、あちこちをフラフラ放浪するだけの妖怪となってしまった。彼女としては別にそれが楽しいのだから、何の問題もないのだが。周りから見ると少し可哀想にも見える。

  姉のさとりも閉ざされたこいしの心だけは読む事は出来ず、いつも何処で何をしているのかよく判っていない。
  ペットの猫のように遊んで帰ってきては、また遊びに出て行ってしまう。

  さとりはそんなこいしを不憫に思い、最近ペットにこいしと遊ぶようにと命令し、何匹か専属のペットを与えた。
  ペットを飼う事で少しずつ目的が生まれ、他の人の心を受け入れる事も出来る様になると考えていた。
  少しずつだが、ペットを飼い始めてからこいしも変わってきた様だった。


  今回は、地上から人間が降りてきて姉やおくう達と一悶着あったと聞き、中でもおくうの驚異的な能力アップが気になり、地上を目指す事にした。

  無意識で行動する彼女は、誰にも気付かれることが無い。
  地上に出ようと、寝ている巫女の脇を通り抜けようと、天狗が警備する山を通ろうと、誰一人彼女の気配に気付かないだろう。

  それは都合の良い事もあるが、やはり少し寂しく見える。
  しかし、寂しいと思う心も持ち合わせていなかったのである。


  目的である山の上の神社で偶然出会った人間。その未知なる人間との出会いが彼女の心境に小さな変化をもたらした。
  こんな面白い生き物が居るなんて、と思い、もっと目の前の生き物の事を知りたいと思った。このとき初めて、第三の眼を閉ざした事を後悔した。


   まず手始めに地底の地霊殿に招待しよう。
   お姉ちゃんやおくう、お燐とどんな戦いをしたのだろうか。
   今まで、どんな妖怪と戦ってきたのだろうか。
   尽きることのない話題を聞きたい。


  そう思った時、こいしの第三の瞼が少し柔らかくなるのを感じた。

Extra Stage boss The Closed Eyes of Love

Komeiji Koishi

Species: Satori
Ability: Manipulating the Subconscious

Satori Komeiji's younger sister.
Like Satori, she was a youkai who has the ability to read others' minds.
However, knowing that people don't like having their minds read, Koishi closed the third eye that gave her the ability to manipulate the subconscious.

As a result, she lost her ability to read others' minds, but in return she gained the ability to take action unconsciously. The denizens of the underground no longer hated her, but at the same time, they never feared her and animals no longer loved her.

The ability to read people's mind also makes one's own mind stronger.
Closing off that ability because it's hated is just running away, and is no different from closing off one's own mind. It's effectively pushing away others' feelings and shutting down.


She became a youkai who wandered to and fro aimlessly. Personally, she thought it was fun, so it wasn't really a problem. People around her felt a little sorry for her.

Even her older sister, Satori, is unable to read Koishi's sealed-away mind, and doesn't really know where she goes or what she does there.
Just like a pet cat, she leaves and returns and leaves again according to her own whims.

Satori took pity on Koishi, ordering her pets to play with her and giving her some pets to keep as her own. She thought that taking care of the pets might give her a purpose, and it might enable her to begin opening her mind to others again. Indeed, it seemed that Koishi began to change, ever so slightly, after she began to raise her pets.


She heard that a human had come from above ground and had fought with her sister, Okuu, and the other pets, and was amazed at the incredible power-up Okuu had gotten, so she decided to go see the above ground world herself.

Because she could act unconsciously, she remained unnoticed. She could go above ground, sneak past sleeping shrine maidens, or go into the mountain the tengu guarded, and nobody would take notice of her.

In a way, it was convenient, but she was also lonely.
However, she had no mind capable of feeling this loneliness.


At her destination, the shrine atop the mountain, she happened to meet a human. Her meeting with this stranger changed her mental state ever so slightly.
She thought, how amazing it is to meet such an interesting person, and wanted to know more about her. For the first time, she regretted having closed her third eye.


 I'll start by inviting her underground to the Palace of the Earth Spirits.
 I wonder what kind of fight she had with my sister, Okuu, and Orin.
 I wonder what kind of youkai she's fought with.
 I want to hear her endless stories.


When she thought this, Koishi felt the lid of her third eye begin to shift a little.

Hopeless Masquerade official website
  空想上の人格保持者 古明地こいし

彼女は何も覚えていなかった。
気が付くと人混みに紛れていた。
その事に気付く者もいない。
夢も希望も無い、毎日がそんな生活だった。
しかしひょんな事から挑んだ決闘が、
彼女 の日常を僅かに変化させた。

特技 超反応センス

強打撃、強射撃、必殺技を入力すると
ポーズを取ると同時に 攻撃がセットされ、
相手の位置関係や時間の経過など、
発動条件を満たしたときに強制的に発動します。
セットできるのは強打撃、強射撃、必殺技
それぞれ一つずつで、 攻撃をセットすると
ゲージ内の対応したアイコンが点灯します。

ラストワード ブランブリーローズガーデン

相手をバラ弾幕の海に引きずりこんで捕まえます。
バラ弾幕はガードで防ぐことができず、
触れた相手を緩やかに引き寄せるため、
ある程度の距離であれば問答無用で相手を引きずりこみます。

Imaginary Personality Holder, Komeiji Koishi

She remembered nothing.
When she came to, she was blended into the crowd.
Not a soul noticed it.
Every day, she lived like that - without dreams, and without hopes.
But after unexpectedly being challenged to a fight,
her daily life changed, just a little bit.

Special Skill: Super-Responsive Senses

When you input a heavy melee, heavy ranged, or a special attack,
she strikes a pose while setting an attack,
and depending on certain conditions like where the opponent is or how much time has elapsed,
they will forcibly activate.
Attacks that can be set are heavy melee, heavy ranged, and special attacks.
One by one as you set the different attacks,
the reactive icon in the gauge will light up.

Last Word: Brambly Rose Garden

Draws the opponent in to a sea of random danmaku and captures them.
They cannot guard against the random danmaku,
and because touching it draws the opponent slowly towards you,
even if there is a bit of distance, it will ensnare the opponent without question.

Official Sources

Official sources

References

  1. Symposium of Post-mysticism: Koishi Komeiji article - "A youkai invisible to adults, and only visible to certain children. However, even those who played with them in their childhood will completely forget that they existed once they grow up. Has anything like that ever happened to you? They are often referred to as 'imaginary friends'. Koishi is, no doubt, an imaginary friend."
  2. Subterranean Animism: Symbol "All Ancestors Standing Beside Your Bed" - "Koishi calls your ancestors to guide you to the next life."
  3. Double Spoiler: Embryo's Dream - "They say the human embryo dreams in the mother's womb. What a scoop! The dreams' contents are...microbes, fish, and dinosaurs...they say."
  4. Symposium of Post-mysticism: Part 4