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Mamizou Futatsuiwa
--Samidare (talk) 23:06, 13 December 2013 (UTC)
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Mamizou Futatsuiwa in Hopeless Masquerade The Bake-danuki with Ten TransformationsMore Character Titles | |
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Mamizou Futatsuiwa (二ッ岩 マミゾウ Futatsuiwa Mamizou) is a Bake-danuki, first appearing in Ten Desires as the Extra Stage boss. She is an extremely strong monster tanuki, summoned by Nue Houjuu during the events of Ten Desires in order to act as the Myouren Temple's trump card against the newly-arrived residents of the Hall of Dreams' Great Mausoleum, particularly Toyosatomimi no Miko. She is able to morph both herself and other creatures into different forms.
General Information
Personality
Mamizou, proud of her race's esteem, is good natured, albeit with a mischievous streak. She speaks the way an old lady might, and occasionally squints as if she was nearsighted. She isn't one to take a grudge, but as Marisa in her extra stage shows she has her limits of niceness. She does enjoy pulling pranks on humans and watching them be confused and flustered.
Despite being brought in as a 'trump card', she is noted to being friendly with humans, and has been seen taking on the form of a human while in the Human Village. Though she is seen in the Human Village often in human form, Symposium of Post-mysticism has stated that she does not make an effort to hide her tail, considering it a mark of her high status.
Ability
- Ability to disguise herself
Mamizou is able to completely disguise herself save for her large tail and her ears, which appears to be a commonality among all bake-danuki. In order to get around this, she can shrink them or camouflage them, but if she is surprised or excited her ears and tail will twitch, making it a dead giveaway. Another give away would be her smell.[2] Her disguising abilities gain power on nights of the full moon.
- Ability to disguise other things
She is also able to disguise other objects. However, if there is no resemblance between the base object and the disguised one, it will probably be seen through immediately, especially in regard to creatures.
Occupation
Her role is to become a strong ally in the youkai forces. She did provide loans and other assistance to humans in her pre-Gensokyo days.
Character Design
Origin
Based on danzaburou danuki of Sado Island, one of the most famous tanuki in Japanese folklore, along with Hage Danuki of Yashima and Shibaemon Tanuki of Awaji Island. He was the boss of tanuki on Sado, who drove off the foxes from the island. [3] In another, Danzaburo was a money lender, who freely loaned money to the people. He was also said to be responsible for mirages at Futatsu-iwa, a rock formation in Aikawa, Sado. [4]
Name
Futatsuiwa (二ッ岩) literally translates to "two stones", perhaps a reference to the bake-danuki's inflatable testicles, but also a location in Sado where bake-danuki were prevalent. Mami (マミ) may have been a reference to mami (魔魅) which means "deceiving spirit" or mami (猯) which means "badger" or "racoon dog".
Design
Mamizou has brown eyes and light-brown, shoulder length hair. She is featured with raccoon ears and a tail. On her head there lays a green leaf and she has glasses. She has a ecru shirt and her skirt is red-grey with some patterns on it. As with most bake-danuki from Japanese myths, Mamizou carries a bottle of sake and a booklet of promissory notes. In Hopeless Masquerade, when she gets hit or performs certain attacks, she can be seen wearing grey bloomers.
When visiting the Human Village she uses a human disguise, without her raccoon ears or tail. In this form she has long hair and wears a leaf-shaped hair clip.
Story
- Ten Desires
Mamizou is secretly called in by Nue Houjuu from the outside world to become a strong ally on the youkai side against Toyosatomimi no Miko and her faction. She arrives late however and Miko had already been defeated by the heroines. She later takes up residence at Myouren Temple.
- Main article: Reimu Arc
In Reimu's story, Mamizou reveals that she crossed the sea of Sado in order to reach Gensokyo and criticizes Reimu for underestimating the vastness of the sea.
- Main article: Marisa Arc
Mamizou sees through all of Marisa's lies. She also notes that her power is strong enough to be "within the top three" of the transforming tanuki in Japan.
- Main article: Sanae Arc
Despite Sanae's mission to exterminate youkai, the two appear to have a friendly duel. Sanae, though, assumes that the bake-danuki is fairly old due to her language—many of the inflections and word choices used by older people in Japan resemble those used decades, even centuries, ago—and in this misunderstanding gives the youkai some encouragement. Mamizou tells her that her old language is merely a habit.
- Main article: Youmu Arc
Mamizou tells Youmu that she came to give the youkai there some encouragement in their fight against Toyosatomimi no Miko. She offers to train Youmu, and after she is defeated, jokes that the half-ghost is worthy to be her apprentice. Mamizou does not appear to know about the Myouren Temple itself until Youmu explains, and finds the presence of both a youkai temple and a youkai-exterminating shrine (the Hakurei Shrine) in Gensokyo quite interesting. Mamizou invites her into the temple to rest and to talk about Sado.
- Wild and Horned Hermit, chapter 9
After a strange 'black mist' assails the residents of the Myouren Temple and others, Mamizou pays a visit to the Hakurei Shrine accompanied by Kogasa Tatara and Kyouko Kasodani, suspecting Reimu Hakurei as the culprit. However, Suika Ibuki soon reveals herself as the true attacker, and the three youkai appear to leave during the chaos.
- Forbidden Scrollery
She appears in each chapter in some sort of role (usually disguised as a human), taking an interest in youkai books and in some of the recent incidents that came about as a result of them. Her reasons for her interest and disguising herself are currently unknown.
- Hopeless Masquerade
She plays a key role in helping all of the characters. As the penultimate boss of each character's route except her own, she directs each character to the source of the problems. Before her route, she directs each character to Hata no Kokoro. During her own route, she helps Kokoro by steering her in the right direction for creating her own unique personality. In Kokoro's route, Mamizou directs Kokoro to the final four-way fight with Reimu, Byakuren, and Miko.
Relationships
Nue Houjuu was the one to call Mamizou to Gensokyo, and they are described as being friends.
She is currently living at Byakuren Hijiri's temple.
At the end of Mamizou's storyline in Hopeless Masquerade, she urged Kokoro to, through battle with other characters in the game, learn how to control her emotions and to "discover herself" instead of becoming a mere tsukumogami for Sarugaku masks.
In Forbidden Scrollery, Mamizou (disguised) has become a regular customer with an interest in the Demon books and talks with Kosuzu warmly. While friendly, her true reasons are currently unknown.
Other residents of the Myouren Temple
Kyouko claims that Mamizou will listen to the problems and concerns of those living at the temple with open ears.
Spell Cards
Name | Translated | Comments | Games | Stage | ||
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Total: 35 | ||||||
壱番勝負「霊長化弾幕変化」 | First Duel "Primate Danmaku Transformation" | TD | St. Ex | |||
弐番勝負「肉食化弾幕変化」 | Second Duel "Carnivorous Danmaku Transformation" | TD | St. Ex | |||
参番勝負「延羽化弾幕変化」 | Third Duel "Avian Danmaku Transformation" | TD | St. Ex | |||
四番勝負「両生化弾幕変化」 | Fourth Duel "Amphibian Danmaku Transformation" | TD | St. Ex | |||
伍番勝負「鳥獣戯画」 変化「鳥獣戯画」 |
Fifth Duel "Scrolls of Frolicking Animals" Transformation "Scrolls of Frolicking Animals" |
TD HM |
St. Ex Story | |||
六番勝負「狸の化け学校」 | Sixth Duel "Tanuki's Monstrous School" | TD GoU |
St. Ex — | |||
七番勝負「野生の離島」 | Seventh Duel "Wild Deserted Island" | TD | St. Ex | |||
変化「まぬけ巫女の偽調伏」 | Transformation "Pseudo-Exorcism of the Stupid Shrine Maiden" | TD | St. Ex | |||
「マミゾウ化弾幕十変化」 | "Mamizou Danmaku in Ten Transformations" | TD | St. Ex | |||
狢符「満月のポンポコリン」 | Mujina Sign "Full Moon Pompokolin" | TD GoU |
St. Ex — | |||
「ワイルドカーペット」 | "Wild Carpet" | TD GoU |
Ov — | |||
変化「分福熱湯風呂」 | Transformation "Bunbuku Hot Soup Bathtub" | HM ULiL AoCF |
Use Use Use | |||
変化「百鬼妖界の門」 | Transformation "Youkai World Gate of One Hundred Demons" | HM HM ULiL AoCF |
Use Story Use Use | |||
変化「二ッ岩家の裁き」 | Transformation "Futatsuiwa Clan's Curse" | HM ULiL AoCF |
Use Use Use | |||
「八百八狸囃子」 | "Belly-Drumming of Infinitely Infinite Tanuki" | HM | Use-LW | |||
変化「満月の花鳥園」 | Transformation "Garden of Flowers and Birds on a Full Moon" | HM | Story | |||
「神社のお釈迦様」 | "Gautama Buddha At the Shinto Shrine" | Disguised as Reimu | HM | Story | ||
「ベンテンの琵琶法師」 | "Benten Lute Priest" | Disguised as Byakuren | HM | Story | ||
「たわむれはおわりじゃ」 | "Playtime's Over" | Disguised as Miko | HM | Story | ||
「鳴かぬなら泣くまで待とう時鳥」 | "If the Cuckoo Does Not Call, Wait For It to Cry" | ISC | St. 8 | |||
「にんげんって良いな」 | "Humans Are Nice!" | ISC | St. 8 | |||
*宇宙機密漏洩!直ちに処置せよ* | *Space Security Leak! Deal With the Situation Promptly* | ULiL AoCF |
Use-LW Use-LW | |||
未確認「遊抱戯画」 | Unidentified "Scrolls of Flying Objects" | ULiL | Story | |||
*満員のエイリアンボール* | *Crowded Alien Ball* | ULiL | Story | |||
*そろそろ帰ろうエイリアン達よ* | *Let's Go Home Soon, Aliens!* | ULiL | Story | |||
化火符「妖怪弾幕変化 葉っぱ発破」 | Transformation Fire Sign "Youkai Danmaku Transformation: Dry Leaf Detonation" | Co-owner with Mokou | AoCF | Story | ||
槌化符「大判小判弾幕変化」 | Mallet Transformation Sign "Wild Riches Danmaku Transformation" | Co-owner with Shinmyoumaru | AoCF | Story | ||
雷化符「務光と葉っぱの弾幕変化」 | Thunder Transformation Sign "Mukou and Leaf Danmaku Transformation" | Co-owner with Kasen | AoCF | Story | ||
龍化符「ドラゴンズエイリアンカプセル」 | Dragon Transformation Sign "Dragon's Alien Capsule" | Co-owner with Kasen | AoCF | Story | ||
化符「妖怪弾幕変化 夢見心地」 | Transformation Sign "Youkai Danmaku Transformation: Dreamy State of Mind" | Used by Mamizou's Dream World self | AoCF | Story | ||
神星符「正体不明の怪光人だかり」 | Divine Star Sign "Unidentified Ghost-Light Crowd" | Co-owner with Nue | VD GoU |
Nightmare Thursday - 1 — | ||
輝神符「謎のドンドコ人だかり」 | Shining Divine Sign "Mysterious Dondoko Crowd" | Co-owner with Raiko | VD | Nightmare Thursday - 3 | ||
神緋符「雷雨の中のストーカー」 | Divine Scarlet Sign "Stalker in a Thunderstorm" | Co-owner with Iku | VD | Nightmare Thursday - 5 | ||
「空前絶後 大行列の闇市場」 | "First and Last of Its Kind: Black Market with a Giant Queue" | 100BM | 6th Market | |||
弾幕変化「妖怪生物群集」 | Danmaku Transformation "Youkai Biome Encyclopedia Collection" | 100BM | 6th Market |
Additional Information
Trivia
- She is the first female character in the Windows series to wear glasses. The first in the entire series is Rikako.
- In Ten Desires, whenever she launches an attack her leaf playfully flaps on top of her head.
Fanon
- Many fans have depicted her in situations similar to those experienced by Mami Tomoe from Puella Magi Madoka Magica. This is due to both series' popularity, similar character names, and Mami's own association with tanuki from her line about the "Law of Cycles" (the kanji resembles "Tanuki of Cycles").
- Some fans depict her as Mamio, referencing Mario, who could wear a Tanooki suit in Super Mario Bros. 3.
- Since her profile says she dislikes foxes and may cause trouble with the foxes of Gensokyo, fans depict her as having an antagonistic relationship with the kitsune Ran Yakumo.
- Bake-danuki are famous for having large testicles, and they are often depicted in art prominently. Since Mamizou is a female, many fans depict her with large breasts to compensate for that, aside from a few artists who have drawn Mamizou as a male.
- There have been various fanart of her using her transformations to tease the original person, sometimes with an obvious chest difference (which often leads to breast envy in the original girl)
- She has been shown to be an older sister figure to Nue and some other characters in fanart.
- Since she was shown to be an increasingly regular customer in Forbidden Scrollery, she has been paired with Kosuzu in some fanart with Mamizou in her disguise.
- This raises the question of if the bells on her leaf hat in Hopeless Masquerade came from Kosuzu or reference her.
Official Profiles
Official Sources
- 2011/08/13 Ten Desires - Extra Stage dialogue; Settings and Extra Story.txt (official profile)
- 2011/11/25 Wild and Horned Hermit - Chapter 9
- 2012/04/27 Symposium of Post-mysticism - Mamizou Futatsuiwa
- 2013/01/26 Forbidden Scrollery - Chapter 4
References
- ↑ Symposium of Post-mysticism: Mamizou
- ↑ Nitori and Marisa's story modes in Hopeless Masquerade
- ↑ eyamaki (5 April 2010). "Secret Sado #2 - Aikawa Yamaki Hotel Blog". Retrieved 15 August 2011.
- ↑ Asiatic Society of Japan (1908). "Transactions of the Asiatic Society of Japan, Volume 36". The Society. Retrieved 15 August 2011.
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