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Marisa Kirisame
kʲiɽʲisame maɽʲisa (♫) Marisa Kirisame | |
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Marisa Kirisame in Hopeless Masquerade Ordinary MagicianMore Character Titles | |
Species | |
Abilities |
Using magic (Specialized in light and heat magic) |
Age |
A child in PC-98 canon; about the same age as Reimu in Windows canon [1] |
Occupation |
Magician, Kirisame Magic Shop owner, burglar, part-time youkai hunter |
Location |
The Kirisame household in the Forest of Magic |
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Marisa Kirisame (霧雨 魔理沙 Kirisame Marisa) is an ordinary human magician who specializes in light and heat magic and currently resides in the Forest of Magic. Her motto is "danmaku's all about firepower" and she has a compulsive mania for collecting things.
General Information
Abilities
Using magic (Specialized in light and heat magic)
Marisa is a normal human with no innate abilities, but she has trained herself in magic, using exotic mushrooms as ingredients and her Mini-Hakkero as a power source. The majority of her spells rely on power over finesse, and are themed after stars and other astronomical phenomena. Despite her best spiritual affinity being with water[2], her preferences lead her to rely mostly on light and heat magic. As a result of her research, Marisa is also knowledgeable in explosives. Marisa is an Eastern magician who takes a Western approach to magic, the opposite of Patchouli Knowledge.
Many of Marisa's best-known spells are replicas of spells used by other characters which fit her tastes, though she has also experimented with them to create improved versions (e.g. Master Spark -> Final Spark, Orreries Sun -> Orreries Solar System, and Non-directional Laser -> Starlight Typhoon).
Like most important characters, Marisa can fly under her own power, but most of the time she uses a broom to go with her witch theme.
Occupation
It isn't directly stated how Marisa makes a living. She does state in Strange and Bright Nature Deity Chapter 9 that she regularly goes to the Hakurei Shrine to take away Reimu's youkai extermination jobs and Perfect Memento in Strict Sense implies it as well, making it a likely source of income. She's also shown a desire to sell her book The Grimoire of Marisa. [3][4] The Three Fairies of Light were her first customers to her shop, but Perfect Memento in Strict Sense implies she's had other customers since then, albeit not many. She's also a well-known thief, but is only stated to steal books, so she might not be the kind who steals money.
Character Design
Name
Her surname Kirisame (霧雨, lit. "mist rain") means "drizzle" in Japanese. The kanji used in her given name "ma" (魔) is highly likely to come from the "ma" in mahou (魔法, "magic") and with ri (理) able to be interpreted as "logic/law/theory" (理 kotowari), it can be said that they deliver the idea of her being a magician/witch. In addition, the kanji 沙 (sa lit. "small sand") doesn't have an actual meaning but often used in Japanese given names to get the sound/look of "girlishness" (different kanji, but the same idea is used in Minamitsu Murasa's name too). Marisa is also a female given name with origins in the Romance languages, and if her name was based on this, then it's very likely to indicate Marisa's character being a mix of both Eastern and Western cultures.
In the Story of Eastern Wonderland's gameplay, her name was written as 魔梨沙, but in that game's attached text files and bad endings it was written as 魔理沙. Since then, her name is still written as 魔理沙, so 魔梨沙 was probably a typo.
Design
Appearance in the PC-98 canon
In Story of Eastern Wonderland, Marisa is depicted as having red eyes and red hair, wearing a purple witch's outfit with a white bow on her hat. However, her appearance quickly changes with Phantasmagoria of Dim.Dream, where she has yellow eyes and blonde hair, which stay with her for the rest of the series. In Mystic Square, her outfit changes from purple to black, which also stays with her for the rest of the series, and her hat gains faint pink frills.
Appearance in the Windows canon
In Embodiment of Scarlet Devil onwards, she wears a faint pink apron on top of her clothes. In Perfect Cherry Blossom, she gains a faint pink shirt under her black clothing. Marisa's appearance changes slightly with each release, such as a change in her hat bow's colour, a change in her ribbon's colour tied to her braid or a change in hair style.
In most of the games, she carries a broom with her; according to her, it is essential for a magician.
As of Ten Desires, her hat's bow is purple, she has a purple ribbon tied to the braid on the left side of her hair, her shoes are maroon coloured with small purple ribbons on them, and she has a red ribbon tied to her neck. In Hopeless Masquerade, she uses dark blue clothes instead of her normal black clothes, she now uses dark blue boots instead of dark shoes, her hat's bow is white and she doesn't have her usual braid on the left side of her hair.
Story
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- Story of Eastern Wonderland
- Main article: Story of Eastern Wonderland Story
Marisa made her first appearance as a minion of Mima, tasked with keeping Reimu from reaching Mima, but was defeated.
- Phantasmagoria of Dim.Dream
- Main article: Phantasmagoria of Dim.Dream Story
Marisa followed Mima and found Reimu at some old ruins, which promise a fantastic prize for whoever enters. A battle with 6 others for the prize ensues!
- Lotus Land Story
- Main article: Lotus Land Story
Marisa senses a great magic power and wishes to make it hers. She heads towards to the lake without Reimu's knowledge, not letting anyone stand in her quest for power!
- Mystic Square
- Main article: Mystic Square Story
Marisa watches Reimu ram into a gate and decides to follow behind her, her primary motivation being boredom.
- Embodiment of the Scarlet Devil
- Main article: Embodiment of the Scarlet Devil Story
While flying through the sky, Marisa notices she suddenly cannot see the lake. She swoops in to check out the situation.
- Perfect Cherry Blossom
- Main article: Perfect Cherry Blossom Story
During the May of a seemingly endless winter, cherry blossom petals land outside Marisa's house. She follows these petals in search of spring.
- Immaterial and Missing Power
- Main article: Immaterial and Missing Power Story
A strange feast catches Marisa's attention, so she goes to look for clues.
- Imperishable Night
- Main article: Imperishable Night Story
Alice is perturbed about the Moon, so she decides to bribe Marisa into coming along with her to find out who is responsible for the fake Moon.
- Phantasmagoria of Flower View
- Main article: Phantasmagoria of Flower View Story
The flowers are blooming out of season, but this doesn't bother Marisa much at first. She simply wants to find out who's responsible for it and will be the first to know why.
- Mountain of Faith
- Main article: Mountain of Faith Story
Marisa sees that something is bothering Reimu and finds out that a rival shrine wants to take over. Marisa isn't going to sit back and let that happen, so if Reimu isn't going to do something about it, she certainly will!
- Scarlet Weather Rhapsody
- Main article: Scarlet Weather Rhapsody Story
Marisa is unable to dry her laundry because of the constant drizzle. Deducing something is wrong, she sets out to find the perpetrator.
- Subterranean Animism
- Main article: Marisa and Alice Arc
- Main article: Marisa and Patchouli Arc
- Main article: Marisa and Nitori Arc
A geyser appears behind the Hakurei Shrine, and Reimu and Marisa are ecstatic about their newfound hot spring. The youkai, however, are less than pleased as Earth spirits begin to spew out of the geyser. Patchouli and Yukari suspect it was an attempt to lure youkai into the geyser and decide to send Marisa instead to investigate.
- Undefined Fantastic Object
- Main article: Marisa A Arc
- Main article: Marisa B Arc
Marisa notices a ship flying through the sky and hopes to be able to plunder it for its riches.
- Touhou Hisoutensoku
A humanoid giant is trampling about Gensokyo. A few residents have a few theories on what that could be...
- Main article: Cirno Arc
Marisa is sitting in a hot spring when Cirno appears and asks her if she saw a Daidarabocchi. Marisa decides to give her a hard time and fights her.
- Main article: Meiling Arc
Taisui Xingjun has come disguised as Marisa but Meiling sees through this ruse and takes him on!
- Fairy Wars
- Main article: Fairy Wars Marisa Arc
While Marisa is returning from a flower-viewing session, Cirno shows up and asks for a fight. Marisa doesn't take the request very seriously at first, but she decides to fight using her non-deadly lasers. Surprisingly, Cirno puts up a good fight and actually manages to defeat Marisa. Marisa just heads back home after the fight.
- Ten Desires
- Main article: Ten Desires Marisa Arc
An influx of Divine Spirits will block the flower-viewing, so Marisa wants to be the first to solve it!
- Bohemian Archive in Japanese Red
- Symposium of Post-mysticism
Marisa acts as the moderator for the forum held involving Kanako, Byakuren, and Miko.
Relationships
Reimu Hakurei
Marisa is good friends with Reimu and often hangs out at the Hakurei Shrine.
Minor Relationships
- Mimi-chan
In the PC-98 canon, Marisa is Mimi-chan's owner, and thinks Mimi is cute. She knows that Mimi-chan is a weapon from Yumemi Okazaki's world, but has no idea how to use her, and thus rides on Mimi. If she knew anything about how intercontinental ballistic missiles worked, she probably wouldn't be doing so.
After the events of Subterranean Animism in her scenarios with Nitori Kawashiro and Patchouli Knowledge, Marisa impressed Koishi enough with her strength that she is allowed to come and play at the Palace of Earth Spirits at any time. She may say she's a friend of Satori to get everyone down there to leave her alone, because all the underground youkai hate Satori. Although Marisa and Satori tend to put each other at unease at times, Marisa looks forward to being able to go underground whenever she wants to.
Marisa took in Tsuchinoko as a pet in Strange and Bright Nature Deity chapter 10. She thinks he's too cute to exterminate, and doesn't see why a human couldn't keep youkai as pets.
Byakuren is a magician, much like Marisa, although is much more experienced and has become a youkai while Marisa has yet to do so. Despite an initial disagreement and misunderstanding over the status of youkai and humans in the Marisa A ending of Undefined Fantastic Object, Byakuren liked Marisa's direct personality, and in thanks for Marisa's help in breaking the seal, instructed Minamitsu Murasa to take Marisa to and from Makai whenever Marisa wanted. She also told Marisa that, as a magician, she could come see Byakuren if she ever had any trouble. It is unknown if the Palanquin Ship's conversion into a temple affected the arrangement.
- Residents of the Scarlet Devil Mansion
The residents of the mansion are fully aware of Marisa sneaking into the magic library, but generally look the other way, although various incidents and win quotes from the fighting games show they will sometimes fight Marisa in a duel if they actually catch her in the act. At other times, they'll simply leave her be, such as the mansion's private moon viewing party, or Marisa's endings in Embodiment of Scarlet Devil, where Sakuya even plays along with her, either serving her food or helping to conceal her from Remilia Scarlet. It's hinted Remilia already knows Marisa's there too, though, and both are just using the opportunity to playfully insult Marisa as a rat. Though she's on friendly enough terms that these days she can walk in without any issue from most most of the residents, even if she takes books.
Spell Cards
Name | Translated | Comments | Games | Stage | ||
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Total: 67 | ||||||
魔符「スターダストレヴァリエ」 | Magic Sign "Stardust Reverie" | Related: Sign I "Stardust Reverie" Comet "Blazing Star" Black Magic "Event Horizon" |
EoSD PCB IaMP IN PoFV SWR SSiB |
Use Use Use St. 4B: E/N Use Use Ch.15 | ||
恋符「マスタースパーク」 | Love Sign "Master Spark" | Possibly inspired by Yuuka Kazami (LLS) Related: Sign III "Master Spark" Magicannon "Final Spark" Loving Heart "Double Spark" Love Sign "Master Spark-like Flashlight" |
EoSD PCB IaMP IN IN SWR UFO TD GoM HM ULiL LoLK AoCF WBaWC |
Use Use Use Use St. 4B: E/N Use Use Use — Use Use Use Use Use | ||
魔符「ミルキーウェイ」 | Magic Sign "Milky Way" | Related: Magic Space "Asteroid Belt" | PCB IN GoM |
Use St. 4B: E/N — | ||
恋符「ノンディレクショナルレーザー」 | Love Sign "Non-Directional Laser" | Inspired by Patchouli (EoSD See IN comments) Related: Patchouli's non-SC; Love Storm "Starlight Typhoon" |
PCB IN Soku |
Use St. 4B: E/N Use | ||
魔砲「ファイナルスパーク」 | Magicannon "Final Spark" | IaMP IN IN SWR SSiB |
Use Use St. 4B: N/H Use Ch.15 | |||
彗星「ブレイジングスター」 | Comet "Blazing Star" | Related: "Blazing Star" "Blazing Star-like Tag" |
IaMP SWR DS HM ULiL AoCF |
Use Use St. Ex Use Use Use | ||
儀符「オーレリーズサン」 | Astrologic Sign "Orrery's Sun" | Inspired by Mima (SoEW) Related: Celestial Apparatus "Orrery's Solar System", Celestial Apparatus "Orrery's Universe", Star Sign "Satellite Illusion" |
IaMP SWR |
Use Use | ||
天儀「オーレリーズソーラーシステム」 | Celestial Apparatus "Orrery's Solar System" | Inspired by Mima (SoEW) | IaMP DS |
Use St. Ex | ||
符の壱「スターダストレヴァリエ」 | Sign I "Stardust Reverie" | IaMP | Story | |||
符の弐「アステロイドベルト」 | Sign II "Asteroid Belt" | IaMP | Story | |||
符の参「マスタースパーク」 | Sign III "Master Spark" | IaMP | Story | |||
星符「ドラゴンメテオ」 | Star Sign "Dragon Meteor" | IaMP SWR GoM |
Story Use — | |||
魔空「アステロイドベルト」 | Magic Space "Asteroid Belt" | Related: Sign II "Asteroid Belt" | IN | St. 4B: H/L | ||
黒魔「イベントホライズン」 | Black Magic "Event Horizon" | IN GoM SSiB |
St. 4B: H/L — Ch.15 | |||
恋風「スターライトタイフーン」 | Love Storm "Starlight Typhoon" | IN | St. 4B: H/L | |||
恋心「ダブルスパーク」 | Loving Heart "Double Spark" | IN SSiB |
St. 4B: H/L Ch.15 | |||
光符「アースライトレイ」 | Light Sign "Earthlight Ray" | Related: Light Blast "Shoot the Moon" | IN Soku |
St. 4B: E/N Use | ||
光撃「シュート・ザ・ムーン」 | Light Blast "Shoot the Moon" | Related: Light Blast "Shoot the Little Moon" | IN GoM |
St. 4B: H/L — | ||
魔砲「ファイナルマスタースパーク」 | Magicannon "Final Master Spark" | IN | St. 4B: L | |||
「ブレイジングスター」 | "Blazing Star" | IN GoM |
LW — | |||
魔符「スターダスト」 | Magic Sign "Stardust" | PoFV | Use | |||
魔符「イリュージョンスター」 | Magic Sign "Illusion Star" | PoFV | Use | |||
星符「エスケープベロシティ」 | Star Sign "Escape Velocity" | SWR | Use | |||
星符「メテオニックシャワー」 | Star Sign "Meteonic Shower" | SWR | Use | |||
光符「ルミネスストライク」 | Light Sign "Luminous Strike" | SWR | Use | |||
邪恋「実りやすいマスタースパーク」 | Perverse Love "Easily-Fruitful Master Spark" | SWR SWR |
Use Story | |||
星符「ポラリスユニーク」 | Star Sign "Polaris Unique" | SWR | Story | |||
天儀「オーレリーズユニバース」 | Celestial Apparatus "Orrery's Universe" | SWR | Story | |||
魔符「アルティメットショートウェーブ」 | Magic Sign "Ultimate Shortwave" | Magic Sign is a guess. | UFO | Use | ||
星符「グラビティービート」 | Star Sign "Gravity Beat" | Soku | Use | |||
魔廃「ディープエコロジカルボム」 | Magic Waste "Deep Ecological Bomb" | Soku | Use | |||
星符「エキセントリックアステロイド」 | Star Sign "Eccentric Asteroid" | Soku | Story | |||
流光「シューティングエコー」 | Light Flow "Shooting Echo" | Soku | Story | |||
魔符「マジカルR360」 | Magic Sign "Magical R360" | Soku | Story | |||
星符「オールトクラウド」 | Star Sign "Oort Cloud" | DS | St. Ex | |||
光符「ミステリアスビーム」 | Light Sign "Mysterious Beam" | FW | St. Ex | |||
光撃「シュート・ザ・リトルムーン」 | Light Blast "Shoot the Little Moon" | FW | St. Ex | |||
魔弾「テストスレイブ」 | Magic Bullet "Test Slave" | FW | St. Ex | |||
閉符「ビッグクランチ」 | Closure Sign "Big Crunch" | FW | St. Ex | |||
恋符「マスタースパークのような懐中電灯」 | Love Sign "Master Spark-like Flashlight" | FW GoU |
St. Ex — | |||
魔開「オープンユニバース」 | Unsealed Magic "Open Universe" | FW | St. Ex | |||
魔十字「グランドクロス」 | Magic Cross "Grand Cross" | FW | St. Ex | |||
流星「スーパーペルセイド」 | Shooting Star "Super Perseid" | FW | St. Ex | |||
「ブレイジングスターのような鬼ごっこ」 | "Blazing Star-like Tag" | FW | St. Ex | |||
「妖精尽滅光」 | "Fairy Destruction Ray" | FW | St. Ex | |||
星符「サテライトイリュージョン」 | Star Sign "Satellite Illusion" | HM ULiL AoCF |
Use Use Use | |||
「サングレイザー」 | "Sungrazer" | HM | Use-LW | |||
星符「ミリ秒パルサー」 | Star Sign "Millisecond Pulsar" | HM | Story | |||
魔符「ブレイズアウェイ」 | Magic Sign "Blaze Away" | HM | Story | |||
妖器「ダークスパーク」 | Bewitched Weapon "Dark Spark" | DDC | Use | |||
マジックアブソーバー | Magic Absorber | No quotation marks in name | DDC | Use | ||
恋符「ワイドマスター」 | Love Sign "Wide Master" | ISC | St. 7 | |||
恋符「マシンガンスパーク」 | Love Sign "Machine Gun Spark" | ISC GoU |
St. 7 — | |||
*ステキ!厠の花子さん!* | *Lovely! Ms. Hanako of the Toilet!* | ULiL AoCF |
Use-LW Use-LW | |||
星符「オカルテイション」 | Star Sign "Occultation" | ULiL | Story | |||
*呪われた歴代校長の肖像* | *Cursed Portraits of Past Principals* | ULiL | Story | |||
*夜の学校怪談行脚* | *Nighttime School Horror Story Pilgrimage* | 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 Koishi | AoCF | Story | ||
拳星符「入道叢雲スレイブスパーク」 | Fist Star Sign "Nyuudou Murakumo Slave Spark" | Co-owner with Ichirin | AoCF | Story | ||
星霊符「スプリンクルスター封印」 | Star Spirit Sign "Sprinkle Star Seal" | Co-owner with Reimu | AoCF | Story | ||
針星符「月卿を封じる針スパーク」 | Needle Star Sign "Needle Spark to Seal the Lunar Nobles" | Co-owner with Reimu | AoCF | Story | ||
星符「アステロイドベルトナイトメア」 | Star Sign "Asteroid Belt Nightmare" | Used by Marisa's Dream World self | AoCF | Story | ||
恋符「マスタースパークフローズン」 | Love Sign "Master Spark Frozen" | Related: Love Sign "Master Spark" | HSiFS | Use | ||
「盗撮者調伏マスタースパーク」 | "Sneak-Photographer's Exorcism Master Spark" | Co-owner with Reimu | VD | Nightmare Saturday - 2 | ||
「弾幕結界を撃ち抜け!」 | "Shoot the Danmaku Barrier!" | Co-owner with Yukari | VD | Nightmare Saturday - 4 | ||
「卑怯者マスタースパーク」 | "Coward's Master Spark" | Co-owner with Okina | VD | Nightmare Saturday - 5 | ||
森符「バイオレントトリコローマ」 | Forest Sign "Violent Tricholoma" | SFW | Story | |||
火符「バイオレントカエンタケ」 | Fire Sign "Violent Cornu-Damae" | SFW | Story |
Additional Information
- Marisa is one of the most frequent characters to appear in the Touhou Project series, only second to Reimu after the release of Fairy Wars.
- Marisa has six theme songs (excluding remixes), making her the character with the most theme songs.
- Including spin-off games and Shuusou Gyoku, Marisa has appeared as an EX boss two times more than any other EX boss.
- Marisa has appeared on the covers of Story of Eastern Wonderland, Phantasmagoria of Dim.Dream, and Lotus Land Story.
- Unlike most of the Touhou characters, Marisa is known to speak in a distinct speech tone. The most typical and known example of this is the use of the sentence ending particle "ze" (ぜ). "Ze" used at the end of the verb stems, delivers "mannish" and "impoliteness" sound to the listener/reader, and because most girls don't speak in this manner normally, it has become a notable characteristic of her.
- Do note that while she does speak in a rather "manly" tone, she doesn't speak in a "rough" and "masculine" language, but in an "impolite/casual" and "boyish" one.
- According to Rinnosuke, Marisa was inspired to use star-themed magic after a meteor shower viewing party around 2001 to 2002. Marisa's strategy guide in Story of Eastern Wonderland's omake says her third attack uses star magic, although that is just one attack. However, by the time Phantasmagoria of Dim.Dream takes place, many of her attacks use stars. Her apparent mentor Mima also had an astronomy theme in her attacks. Due to the PC-98/Windows canon split, there may be inconsistencies like this between them, although attempts could be made to fit them together (like saying that she trained under Mima after seeing the shooting stars).
- It is unknown how Marisa got her home in the Forest of Magic, but she tells Tenshi Hinanawi that her "house wasn't built for earthquakes", and says in her Scarlet Weather Rhapsody ending that if her house is destroyed, she can always build a new one. There doesn't seem to be anything particularly special about her house, and she was probably around when it was originally built. At the time of Curiosities of Lotus Asia Chapter 7, it was still new enough that Marisa referred to it as "my new house", at least in comparison to living with her parents.
- Marisa may be somewhat of a math genius; in Mountain of Faith she utters the line "I could recite all the digits in pi before I got there." However, considering that pi has a literally infinite number of digits which never end or repeat in any pattern (really, it's endless), it's likely just an expression to say "at this rate I'll never get there."
- Marisa holds the distinction of being one of the very few characters in any Touhou game who is known to have a living family. They've never been mentioned by name, or even within any of the game dialogues, but it is implied in Perfect Memento in Strict Sense she is the only daughter. Also according to 19th chapter of Curiosities of Lotus Asia, her father, at least, is alive and is living at the Human Village.
- In Imperishable Night, Marisa survives looking at the full moon, which should drive normal humans insane. When Alice asks if she is all right, she says that it's all right since she is insane to begin with. She might well be joking, since Reimu and Sakuya maintain their sanity looking at the full moon too. It could be that humans who are strong-willed enough can overcome that influence.
- In both Mountain of Faith and Subterranean Animism, Marisa lacks her signature bomb move, Master Spark. She regains her Master Spark as a bomb in the following game Undefined Fantastic Object.
- Marisa often refers to herself as "just an ordinary witch". This is often her character title in the games (i.e. Imperishable Night). Deneb the witch of the Ogre Battle games refers to herself in a similar, yet opposite manner: "I am a witch, but not just an ordinary witch!" She appears to make a reference to this in Perfect Cherry Blossom's third stage, when questioning whether or not Alice is an ordinary human.
- In Touhou Hisoutensoku one of her alternative color palettes gives Marisa a blue outfit and red hair similar to her appearance in Story of Eastern Wonderland. Another alternate color resembles Ellen from Phantasmagoria of Dim.Dream. There is also another palette that gives her a purple outfit and purple hair, somewhat resembling Patchouli.
- Excluding the fighting spin-offs, Double Spoiler, and Fairy Wars, Marisa's face has appeared on the icons for all of the Windows games so far. This includes Shoot the Bullet, in which she doesn't technically appear.
- Marisa was first seen using a wand in Story of Eastern Wonderland, Phantasmagoria of Dim.Dream, and Lotus Land Story. She is not seen with a wand again until Undefined Fantastic Object, which is so far the only Windows game where she is seen with one.
- Marisa seems knowledgeable about species not native to Japan such as the beaver in Chapter 4 of Wild and Horned Hermit and the rafflesia in Chapter 14 of Oriental Sacred Place.
Fandom
Despite her self-indulgent personality and lack of concern for others (or more likely because of these things), Marisa happens to be one of the most popular characters within fanbase, winning the Touhou popularity contests of 2004 and 2005.
- Popularity with females
Marisa has a large number of fan pairings. She has been paired with Reimu Hakurei, Alice Margatroid, Nitori Kawashiro, Flandre Scarlet, Sakuya Izayoi, Patchouli Knowledge, and Rinnosuke Morichika. Sometimes, she is the center of a harem or the cause for fights. Of course, there is nothing in the canon that would suggest this, and it has even caused some dislike for Marisa in the fanbase. Since in canon, things like "being an annoyance wherever she is" and "she does not like youkai who use magic" have been stated, there is also a tendency for her to be treated as an intrusion in fanon. However, it has also been stated that it is "enjoyable to be with her." (see also: Relationshipping)
At the time when the video Marisa Stole the Precious Thing became popular as a Marisa and Alice pairing meme, many related videos were made, and among them were severe memes that tended toward perverted actions. However, due to adverse reactions and the passage of time, this has somewhat decreased in popularity.
- Stealing anything, anywhere, anytime
Due to her burglary in canon, Marisa is depicted to be a thief in many fanworks. Aside from stealing books from the Scarlet Devil Mansion library, she would also steal Alice Margatroid's dolls, the Hakurei Shrine's offertory box, Kourindou's goods, the kappa's tools etc. Without waiting or turning back, she would use a wide Master Spark to blow apart the door, saying "I'll borrow till death ze!" while taking things away right from in front of the person, threatening violence when detected. While her burglary is canon, her being bothersome to this extreme is not. In Subterranean Animism, she backed down from the thought of doing house-searching when challenged by Satori Komeiji.
- Jojo's association
Because of Marisa's affinity with stars, fans sometimes parody her by crossing over with Jotaro Kujo of Jojo's Bizarre Adventure, although to a much lesser extent than that of Sakuya or Youmu. This seems to be a result of Jotaro's stand being called "Star Platinum", along with ZUN's rather heavy amount of references to that series already. Marisa, in some works, even quotes Jotaro's catchphrase "Yare yare da ze".
- The "ZE~" description
Due to her popular use of "ze" (ぜ) in her speech style, many fans tend to depict it into their fanworks in various ways: Such as frequently or always adding "ze" at the end of her lines (which is very unnatural), putting "ze" in speech or notes where the speaker/writer is suppose to be unknown but obviously identifying herself as a joke, forcibly trying to put "ze" in her line even if it breaks the grammar (e.g. "nannandaze!?" [なんなんだぜ!?, "what is this!?"]. The ze cannot be put here to be grammarly correct), using "ze!" for a response "yes", writing the "ze" in a special manner: Like in all caps English alphabet "ZE" or with stars "ぜ☆", and so on.
- Similarly, many fans in the English community put "ze" or "da ze" in the end of her line too, even if it's grammatically incorrect and doesn't make any sense in English.
- Although she speaks in a boyish tone, she's never seen to use ore - a masculine first-person pronoun commonly used by male in Japanese. In regard to this, some fans who aren't careful with canon details make Marisa to use ore in their fanworks and end up getting criticized.
- Because the use of ze in her speech is a bit unordinary - ze is mostly used in a context to express one's will to act (similar to "let's" English), and using it in other cases sound somewhat unnatural, perhaps "phony" or "showy" - some fans take this as she's intentionally "acting", paradoxically seeing a "girlish" expression underneath it.
- Lux Crownguard reference
In the Western multiplayer game League of Legends, there is a character named Lux Crownguard who has a number of possible references to Marisa. She has an ultimate spell called "Final Spark". In the lore of the game, Lux is also known to have copied and used the spell "Dark Binding" from Morgana, another character in the game. She also has a skin that resembles a cross between Mima and Marisa. In one of her voice over lines she states "Light mage? I'm just an ordinary mage", which may also be a reference. Additionally, her designer, Shurelia, is known to be a Touhou fan.
- Miscellaneous
- Handsomeness: Since she has a manly speaking style, she is typically fitted into the male role, and is sometimes depicted as handsome in a male form. One extreme example of Marisa being masculine would be the muscular Cho Marisa (超魔理沙).
- Super Marisa: Because of her love of mushrooms and the similarity in names, she has been compared to Mario from the Super Mario series. There are fanworks of Marisa putting on overalls, having hats with an "M" written on it and breaking blocks with her head.
- Black-white: As Reimu is often referred to as red-white or "the red-white", fans frequently call Marisa black-white or white-black in parallel.
- Jessica Ushiromiya's cosplay: In the visual novel Umineko no Naku Koro Ni, Jessica Ushiromiya performs in a concert dressed as Marisa. In episode 6 of the anime, her friends are also shown, dressed as Sakuya, Aya and Alice.
- Additionally, in the fighting game spinoff, Ougon Musou Kyoku, Jessica's "Meta Super" has her shoot a beam similar to the Master Spark while wearing her Marisa costume.
- TOUHOU HIJACK LOL: Marisa is the character pictured in the original "Touhou Hijack" image, a 4chan meme involving disrupting discussion in a thread by announcing a "hijack" with this image and then posting large amounts of Touhou fan-art.
- ufufu...: Marisa's laugh "Ufu, ufu, ufufufufufufufu..." (うふ、うふ、うふふふふふふふ) from Phantasmagoria of Dim. Dream is a well-known laugh that Marisa has been portrayed to say all the time. This is usually used on her appearance with red hair from the PC-98 game Story of Eastern Wonderland.
- Jealous of Reimu: In more serious fanworks, Marisa is often depicted as being secretly jealous of Reimu, frustrated that the miko wastes her full potential by not training and still manages to be stronger than Marisa herself, who needed to train heavily to have any power at all.
- Possible speaking style origin: Since Chiyuri Kitashirakawa was one possible source of Marisa's speaking style (as mentioned earlier), there is a theory that Marisa fully picked it up from Chiyuri.
Official Profiles
★ 魔法と紅夢からなる存在 ・・・ 霧雨 魔理沙
魅魔を「魅魔様」と慕う、天下無敵の魔法使い。(なにが無敵かはさておき)こちらは普通の人間である。ただ、ちょっとばかし強力な魔法が使えるごく普通の少女である。魔法使いなので、基本的にかなり頭が良い。が、世の中をひねた見方をしたり、「人間どもめが!!」ってコバルト爆弾を爆発させたりは、しません。 今回は、夢幻遺跡からもれてくる魔力にひかれている。 |
A Being made of Magic and Red Dream - Marisa Kirisame
The unstoppable magician that longs for Mima and calls her "Mima-sama" (Which part of her is unstoppable, don't ask.) She is quite an ordinary human girl, who can just control some devastating magic. As is the nature of a magician, she is very intelligent, but does NOT act cynically nor sets off a Cobalt Bomb while shouting "F**k you, Human!!" This time, she is interested in the magic power flowing out of the Fantastic Ruins. |
★ 魔法と紅夢からなる存在 ・・・ 霧雨 魔理沙
魔法使いだが普通の少女である。多少自信過剰ぎみっぽいが、その自信に合うだけの力もそれなりに持っている。 非常に頭が良く、強い力に執着するけど、まだまだ子供。普段なにやってるかは不明(笑) 靈夢よりみためが子供っぽいが(靈夢も子供っぽいが)、歳は同じ位。 二人とも、ちょっとどこかがずれている様な・・・ |
A Being made of Magic and Red Dream - Marisa Kirisame
She is an ordinary girl, even though she is a magician. Her personality is somewhat self-confident, but she has enough power to support her confidence too. She is very intelligent, and is looking for power, but is still a child. What she does in her daily life is unknown. She looks even younger than Reimu, but their ages are very close. I think they both are a bit off from average... |
霧雨 魔理沙(きりさめまりさ) ・・ 魔法使いさん
魔法使いだが普通の少女である。多少自信過剰ぎみっぽいが、その自信に合うだけの力もそれなりに持っている。 非常に頭が良く、強い力に執着するけど、まだまだ子供。普段なにやってるかは不明(笑)。実は努力家。 靈夢とは異なった行動原理をもっている様である。 |
Marisa Kirisame - A Magician
She is an ordinary girl, even though she is a magician. Her personality is somewhat self-confident, but has enough power to support her confidence too. She is very intelligent, and is looking for power, but is still a child. What she does in her daily life is unknown. In fact, she is a hard worker. Apparently she has different standards of behavior from Reimu. |
○奇妙な魔法使い 霧雨 魔理沙(キリサメマリサ)
魔法使いの宿命として、人々の生活から離れて暮らしている少女。 武器は魔法。人生全てが遊びなのである。 |
The Strange Magician, Marisa Kirisame
Abiding by the fate of a magician, Marisa isolates herself from other people. Although she possesses sharp wisdom, she normally doesn't use it to her benefit. As a being that humanity has left behind, she doesn't get involved with them. She's just satisfied being able to do whatever she wants. Among all, Reimu is the girl she loves (?), so she frequently visits the red shrine maiden to play. Her weapon is magic. She leads a self-indulgent life full of playing. |
○奇妙な魔法使い
霧雨 魔理沙(きりさめ・まりさ) 能力:魔法を操る程度の能力 こちらも主人公です。この二人は東方シリーズの主人公です。 魔理沙は、性格がひねくれてますが、ほんとの所も性格悪いです。 今回はエプロンのようなもの着けて、魔法使いだかなんだか分からなくなっていますね。 |
The Strange Magician
Marisa Kirisame Ability: Ability to use magic This girl is also one of the protagonists. These two (Marisa and Reimu) are the heroines of the Touhou series. Marisa has a very uncooperative personality, and she really has a pretty bad personality. Although she's human, she remains distant from other humans. It's questionable as to whether she really is human, but she is. This time, she's wearing something resembling an apron, so it's hard to tell if she's a magician or what. |
○普通の魔法使い 霧雨 魔理沙(きりさめまりさ)
普通の少女。寒いと(服を着込む為)若干能力が低下する。 魔法の力を世に役立たない方向で使用する事を生甲斐とする。環境にも易しい。 最近の一番の大魔法は、自宅の地下に温泉脈を召喚し床暖房の代わりにした事。 実は努力家であり、また蒐集家でもある。 霧雨邸には、どこからくすねて来たのか貴重なグリモワール(魔導書)や、マジックアイテムが所狭しと並んでいる。が、使おうとはしない。
「マジックナパーム」は動きの激しい敵 恋符の「イリュージョンレーザー」は なお、「マスタースパーク」は安定した |
Ordinary Magician, Marisa Kirisame
An ordinary girl. The cold weather (or rather, the extra layers of clothing) weakens her abilities somewhat. Her motivation in life is developing uses for magic that are not beneficial to society. Also eco-friendly, too. One of her recent great magic spells summoned a hot spring vein underneath her house to use as a floor-heating device. She is actually a hard worker, as well as an avid collector. There are many precious grimoires and other magic items she has collected from all sorts of places all around her house. However, she doesn't use them. Magic is her weapon. For the time being, her aim is to create the elixir of immortality.
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○普通の黒魔術師
霧雨 魔理沙(きりさめ まりさ) 主に魔法を使う程度の能力を持つ。 幻想郷に住む、ちょっと普通な魔法使い。蒐集癖を持つ。 滅多に人を招き入れる事の無い霧雨邸は、幻想郷の森(通称 魔法の森)の中にある。こぢんまりとした建物である。 マジックアイテムは一箇所に集めると、それぞれが干渉して性質を弱めたり強めたり、また、別の性質を持つ事がある。この家には魔理沙も知らない力を持ったアイテムが眠っているかもしれない。 ちなみに、冬にこもって製作していた丹は、ちょっと大きすぎて飲み込めなかったようである。要改良。 |
An Ordinary Black Magician
Marisa Kirisame Mainly she possesses the ability to use magic. A bit of an ordinary magician living in Gensokyo. She has a mania for collecting things. It looks like her mania for collecting things is getting more serious after each year. Her house, which she rarely invites anyone into by the way, is located in the forests of Gensokyo (a.k.a. Forest of Magic). It is a bit on the smallish side. The interior is extremely disordered, and would cause an avalanche of collected items if an earthquake hit. When magic items are gathered in one place they tend to interfere with each other, causing their powers to amplify, weaken, or in some cases even develop completely different powers. Due to this fact, this house may hide items that even Marisa herself never imagined possible. On another topic, the elixir of immortality she had been developing during the winter ended up being too large for consumption. More improvement is required. |
○普通の魔法使い
霧雨 魔理沙(きりさめまりさ) 種族:人間 普通の魔法使いさん。人が余り寄りつかない魔法の森にある家に籠もって、日々魔法の研究を続けている。 性格は、負けず嫌いで意地の悪い所もあるが、根は真っ直ぐ。何処に行っても迷惑がられるが、実際に迷惑な行動も多い。 森に籠もる理由の一つは、人が寄りつかないからである。研究中に邪魔が入って欲しくないし、人に会いたいときは自分から出掛ければいい。掛ける専用の携帯電話みたいな物である。でも、余所では色々と邪魔をする。何処に言ってもだ。 スピードとパワーはあるが、体術は余り得意ではない。移動は速くてもいかんせん技が重い。パワーは魔法を纏う事で必要以上にカバーしている。 |
Ordinary Magician
Marisa Kirisame Species: Human Location: The Kirisame household in the Forest of Magic Ability: Ability to use magic An ordinary magician. She usually cloisters herself in her house located at the Forest of Magic, where there are almost no visitors, and researches magic. Her personality is unyielding and obstinate, but deep down she has a straightforward personality. She is treated like an annoyance wherever she goes, but in fact she often causes the annoyance to begin with. One of the reasons she stays in the forest is because no one bothers to go there. She doesn't want to be disturbed while she's doing research, and when she wants to meet others she can always go there herself. She's like a send-only cell phone. However, she causes a disturbance at other places, wherever she goes. She has good speed and power, but poor melee technique. While her movement is fast, her attacks are slow. She covers for her lack of physical strength with magic, but the amount of enhancement is actually overkill. |
○普通の魔法使い 霧雨 魔理沙(きりさめまりさ)
魔法使いさん。 魔法の森に住む人間。魔法を使う程度の能力を持つ。 散らかった部屋を掃除するため、整理整頓に役立つ魔法を研究しようと家中のアイテムや本をひっくり返す毎日。言うまでも無く成果は上がらない。 彼女は努力家であり、また蒐集家でもある。 負けず嫌いであることがバレバレの負けず嫌いも嫌い、という困った負けず嫌いである。
今回はアリスと組む。 低速移動は単独使用時のみの性能 ミサイルは爆発に威力があり、 大抵の敵は瞬殺可能。 細かい事気にするな。という人に |
An Ordinary Magician, Marisa Kirisame
A magician. A human living in the Forest of Magic. She can use magic. She spends her days rummaging through the items and books in her house, trying to develop magic that would be useful for cleaning her disheveled room. Needless to say, she has not had any success. She is a hard worker, as well as a collector. Hates to come in second, though dislikes those who clearly hate to come in second. Her weapon is magic. When in the dark, she lights up the surroundings with magic.
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○普通の黒魔術師
霧雨 魔理沙(きりさめ まりさ) Marisa Kirisame
能力:魔法を使う程度の能力
人間が余り訪れる事の無い魔法の森に住み、魔法の研究をしながら自由気ままに暮らしている。
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An Ordinary Black Magician
Marisa Kirisame Species: Human Ability: Ability to use magic She is an ordinary magician living in Gensokyo. She also has a mania for collecting things. No one has any business in the Forest of Magic, so she lives there in comfortable solitude while studying to improve her magical ability. You might imagine witches as being indoor-type people, but Marisa is a rather active outdoor-type person. She prefers a lively atmosphere over silence, but still doesn't like to be disturbed when she's studying. The Forest of Magic is the perfect place for her because almost no one bothers to visit her there. Marisa would also like to point out that, "Concealing my half-finished works is NOT the reason I'm living in there." |
○4面ボス 普通の黒魔術師
霧雨 魔理沙(きりさめ まりさ) Marisa Kirisame
能力:魔法を使う程度の能力
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An Ordinary Black Magician
Marisa Kirisame Species: Human Ability: Ability to use magic An ordinary magician. A bit past midnight, she felt a disturbance ripple through the forest. She had a feeling that something bad was about to happen, and she was right. Many hours later, it was still as dark as midnight, long past the time for dawn, as though the night was everlasting. She left home to investigate this interesting night... and was very surprised when she met the people responsible for the unnaturally long night. |
○普通の魔法使い 霧雨 魔理沙(きりさめまりさ)
魔法使いさん。 魔法の森に住む人間。魔法を使う程度の能力を持つ。 幻想郷中を花で包んだ今回の異変も、魔法の森にはその効果が及ばなかった。 森にはそんな気の利いた植物など似合わないのである。 ただ、彼女は森の外で花を楽しんでいるのであまり関係はなかった。 |
Ordinary Magician Marisa Kirisame
A magician. A human living in the Forest of Magic. She has the ability to use magic. This disaster, which covered whole Gensokyo with flowers, didn't affect the forest. The forest doesn't need a pretty plant like that, after all. That had little effect on her, however, as she enjoys these flowers outside of the forest. |
○普通の魔法使い
霧雨 魔理沙(きりさめ まりさ) Kirisame Marisa
能力:魔法を使う程度の能力
幻想郷にすむ、ちょっと普通な魔法使い。蒐集癖を持つ。 人間が余り訪れる事の無い魔法の森に住み、魔法の研究をしながら自由気ままに暮らしている。
今回は幻想郷の何処に行ってもまんべんなく異変が及んでいたため片っ端から自分の足で回ってみることにした。 |
Ordinary Magician
Marisa Kirisame Species: Human Ability: Ability to use magic A somewhat ordinary magician living in Gensokyo. She also has a mania for collecting things. She lives in the Forest of Magic where humans rarely visit, and leads a carefree life while researching magic. Every action she takes is for herself, and she solves incidents just because she wants to do so. |
霧雨魔理沙 大胆小心な人間 森に住む普通の魔法使い。よく神 |
Kirisame Marisa
The bold, yet cautious human A normal magician that lives in the forest. She visits the shrine often, mainly to play along with Reimu's inspirations, or make Reimu play along with her's. If you were to call Reimu a brain, Marisa would be the hard worker, but she never shows her hard work to others. |
Official Sources
- 1997/08/15 Story of Eastern Wonderland
- 1997/12/29 Phantasmagoria of Dim. Dream - 夢時空.txt
- 1998/08/14 Lotus Land Story - 幻想郷.txt
- 1998/12/30 Mystic Square - 怪綺談.txt
- 2002/08/11 Embodiment of Scarlet Devil - Marisa's Scenario & Extra Stage; おまけ.txt; Manual
- 2003/08/17 Perfect Cherry Blossom - Marisa's Scenario & Extra Stage; キャラ設定.txt; Manual
- 2004/08/15 Imperishable Night - Magic Team's Scenario & Extra Stage; キャラ設定.txt; Manual
- 2004/12/30 Immaterial and Missing Power - 上海アリス通信.txt
- 2005/08/11 Bohemian Archive in Japanese Red - Article and Interview: Marisa
- 2005/08/14 Phantasmagoria of Flower View - Playable character; キャラ設定.txt; Manual
- 2005/08/25 ~ 2006/03/25 Eastern and Little Nature Deity
- 2005/10/01 Seasonal Dream Vision/A Beautiful Flower Blooming Violet Every Sixty Years
- 2006/05/26 ~ 2009/01/26 Strange and Bright Nature Deity
- 2006/12/27 Perfect Memento in Strict Sense - Ordinary Magician: Marisa Kirisame
- 2007/06/08 ~ 2009/04/09 Silent Sinner in Blue
- 2007/08/17 Mountain of Faith - Marisa's Scenario & Extra Stage; Manual
- 2008/05/25 Scarlet Weather Rhapsody; chara.html
- 2008/08/16 Subterranean Animism - Marisa & Alice/Patchouli/Nitori's Scenario & Extra Stage; キャラ設定.txt
- 2009/05/26 ~ present Oriental Sacred Place
- 2009/07/28 The Grimoire of Marisa - Marisa Kirisame's Spell Cards
- 2009/08/15 Undefined Fantastic Object - Marisa's Scenario & Extra Stage
- 2010/07/24 ~ present Wild and Horned Hermit
- 2010/08/14 Fairy Wars - Extra Stage dialogue
- 2011/08/13 Ten Desires - Marisa's Scenario & Extra Stage; キャラ設定とエキストラストーリー.txt
- 2012/10/26 ~ present Forbidden Scrollery
- 2013/05/26 - Hopeless Masquerade - Playable character
References
- ↑ Lotus Land Story: Manual — "She is very intelligent, and is looking for power, but is still a child." "She looks much more like a child than Reimu (though Reimu also looks like a child) but their ages are very close."
- ↑ Immaterial and Missing Power/Story/Patchouli's Script#Patchouli beats Marisa
- ↑ The Grimoire of Marisa: Foreword — "Well, if it doesn't, I'll just name it something grandiose like the Illusion Danmaku Artifact Encyclopedia and palm it off to a library for a high price, so it'd be OK either way..."
- ↑ Touhou Hisoutensoku: Marisa's Script — "Speaking of which, I wrote a book too! It's bad of me to keep borrowing books, so I'll put my book here at the library this time! How much will you pay for it?"
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