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Minamitsu Murasa
mɯɽasa mʲinamʲit͡sɯ (♫) Minamitsu Murasa Minamitu Murasa More Alternative Spellings | |
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Minamitsu Murasa in Touhou Gouyoku Ibun The Ghost Left From the Shipwreck AccidentMore Character Titles | |
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Captain Murasa (ムラサ船長) |
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Abilities |
Causing shipwrecks |
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Dead |
Occupation |
Captain |
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Palanquin Ship/Myouren Temple, Misty Lake[1], The Wind God's Lake[1], Genbu Ravine[1], Sanzu River[1] |
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Minamitsu Murasa (村紗 水蜜 Murasa Minamitsu) is the spirit of a young drowning victim who afterwards became a notorious threat due to her power to sink ships. She is currently the captain of the Palanquin Ship, searching for the fragments of the Flying Storehouse. She meets the heroine as she is completing the preparations to travel to Makai. Her unique weapons include the anchors she uses, as well as her ladle, which is apparently bottomless, according to an interview with ZUN and her spell card comments in Double Spoiler.
General Information
Minamitsu is a ghost who died long ago in a shipwreck. She first appeared as the Fourth stage boss of Undefined Fantastic Object. Because she was attached out in the sea, she couldn't cross the Sanzu River, so she stayed in Gensokyo.
Personality
While Minamitsu is a rather fearsome phantom, she is still kind-hearted with a bright personality. Mainly due to her ties with the Myouren Temple, she could empathize with humans and her victims, and thus chooses them more carefully. She also chats with the victims she capsizes.
Ability
- Causing shipwrecks
Minamitsu possesses the ability to cause shipwrecks. Her ability appears to be odd compared to a regular ghost, which is because she drowned at sea a long time ago. Due to a certain attachment to the ocean she kept capsizing passing ships. She can also drown anyone near water, which goes as far as drowning someone who is bathing in hot spring water, or sitting peacefully near a river's edge. This is also why she is seen around places with a lot of water. However, Gensokyo does not have any seas, so this ability seldom plays a major role.
Occupation
While she was alive she was the captain of a ship, but after she was drowned with it she did nothing but capsize other ships. When Byakuren Hijiri eventually arrived she was asked to steer her old ship, the eventual Palanquin Ship. Currently she is a follower of the Myouren Temple.
Possessions
She carries her own ladle, which she uses to flood the ships of her victims with water. In her early ghost years she used to ask for a ladle, though. She also carries an anchor which she uses in battle, but its significance aside from that is unknown.
Backstory
After her death, Minamitsu became a spirit, bound to the ocean due to her lingering attachment to the world. Because of her spite, she eventually became renowned far and wide for capsizing ships. Many feared her, and tried to think of ways to somehow restrict her actions, but it wasn't until the monk Byakuren Hijiri was asked to do something about it that the situation changed. Minamitsu, knowing how famous the monk was at the time, believed she would be able to extend her influence even farther by sinking her, as well, and perhaps even escape her connection to the ocean and attack humans on land.
However, when Byakuren did appear before her on the seas completely defenseless, Minamitsu sunk her ship easily, prompting the spirit to wonder why. Byakuren then reappeared on the surface atop a shining ship, which she had constructed using the ship Minamitsu had died on as a design. Moved by the monk's insight and her own sense of nostalgia, she accepted Byakuren's offer to captain the shining ship.
Eventually, after Byakuren was sealed away, Minamitsu was "buried" into the ground along with her ship. Having been long forgotten, Minamitsu and the rest of the youkai were pushed above ground in Gensokyo by a geyser - likely due to the events in Subterranean Animism - along with the palanquin ship and the fragments of the Flying Storehouse.
Character Design
Origin
She is a ship phantom (船幽霊 funa yuurei), the ghost of a girl who drowned at sea. These types of ghosts are famous in Japanese folklore for capsizing and sinking ships, which inspired her character background and spell cards. Her ladle goes with the folklore; the ghost would approach you and demand a ladle, and then you would save yourself by giving them a ladle with a hole in the bottom.
Name
Her full name is Minamitsu Murasa (村紗 水蜜 Murasa Minamitsu) Her given name "Minamitsu" (水蜜) is a word that usually refers to the type of peach suimitsu tou (水蜜桃) or the peach itself (literally, it means "water honey"). Her surname "Murasa" (村紗) is taken from the type of ship phantom called murasa (ムラサ) known in the Oki District, Shimane. Similar to Satori Komeiji and Nue Houjuu whose names also taken from their species' name, it's assumed that when she's referred by the name written in kanji, it's referring her by her own name, while using the name in katakata she is referred by her species.[2] She is more commonly known as "Captain Murasa".
Design
Minamitsu has short, black hair and a teal eyecolor. Her clothes are designed after a regular sailor's outfit, with a white shirt and skirt with blue lines. Around her neck she has a neckerchief. In some of her spell cards, she is seen with a green aura, most likely her ghost form. ZUN stated in an interview that the design for Minamitsu was the hardest to finish. He had much more sketches of Minamitsu with different hairstyles and haircolor in comparison to the other characters from Undefined Fantastic Object. He also couldn't decide whether a long or short skirt was better for Minamitsu. Fans got confused whether she wore a skirt or shorts, however, this varies from appearance to appearance.
In Touhou Gouyoku Ibun she wears shorts with a belt, in addition to that she has a black cape with gold trims and white gloves on her hands, her red tie also has an anchor on it.
Story
Games
- Undefined Fantastic Object
In Undefined Fantastic Object, Minamitsu meets the heroine as she is making preparations for the ship to go to Hokkai via Makai, where Byakuren Hijiri is being sealed. Along with Nazrin, Ichirin Kumoi, Unzan and Shou Toramaru, she is one of the youkai trying to unseal her. Unlike Ichirin, she learns that the heroine doesn't have any particular motive to help the group, and attacks in order to take the fragments of the treasure back. Though she loses out in the end, she had already placed the ship in auto-pilot, so it was too late for the heroine to escape.
Spin-offs
- Double Spoiler
In Double Spoiler, Murasa appeared as a stage 5 target, where she uses a few spell cards and had Aya Shameimaru and Hatate Himekaidou take photos of her and her danmaku.
- Hopeless Masquerade
Murasa made a background cameo appearance in Hopeless Masquerade on the Palanquin Ship stage. She is seen standing on the ship with an anchor.
- Gouyoku Ibun
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Relationships
Minamitsu has a very strong relationship with Byakuren, as she is pretty much the youkai captain's savior. After reappearing in Gensokyo, she swore to return favor and rescue Byakuren.
She is a colleague of both Shou and Ichirin, though it's unknown exactly how or when they met.
Gallery
Artwork
Illustrations
Minamitsu in Symposium of Post-mysticism
Screenshots
A picture from Wild and Horned Hermit
A picture from Lotus Eaters
Spell Cards
Name | Translated | Comments | Games | Stage | ||
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転覆「道連れアンカー」 | Capsize "Dragging Anchor" | UFO | St. 4: E/N | |||
転覆「沈没アンカー」 | Capsize "Foundering Anchor" | UFO | St. 4: H | |||
転覆「撃沈アンカー」 | Capsize "Sinking Anchor" | UFO | St. 4: L | |||
溺符「ディープヴォーテックス」 | Drowning Sign "Deep Vortex" | UFO | St. 4: E/N | |||
溺符「シンカブルヴォーテックス」 | Drowning Sign "Sinkable Vortex" | UFO | St. 4: H/L | |||
湊符「ファントムシップハーバー」 | Harbor Sign "Phantom Ship Harbor" | UFO | St. 4: E/N | |||
湊符「幽霊船の港」 | Harbor Sign "Phantom Ship's Port" | UFO | St. 4: H | |||
湊符「幽霊船永久停泊」 | Harbor Sign "Phantom Ship's Eternal Anchorage" | UFO GoU |
St. 4: L — | |||
幽霊「シンカーゴースト」 | Phantom "Sinker Ghost" | UFO | St. 4: N | |||
幽霊「忍び寄る柄杓」 | Phantom "Dipper Creeping Close" | UFO | St. 4: H/L | |||
錨符「幽霊船長期停泊」 | Anchor Sign "Phantom Ship's Long-Term Anchorage" | DS | St. 5 | |||
浸水「船底のヴィーナス」 | Flood "Venus of the Bilge" | DS GoU |
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「ディープシンカー」 | "Deep Sinker" | DS | St. 5 | |||
時化「ストーミーセーリング」 | Stormy Weather "Stormy Sailing" | SFW | ||||
沈没「強欲な亡者達の海域」 | Sinking "Ocean Region of the Greedy Dead" | SFW | ||||
「舟符「キャプテンムラサの不幸な出航」 | Boat Sign "Captain Murasa's Misfortunate Embarkation" | SFW |
Additional Information
- Her stage theme has a distinctive Windows XP balloon hint "pop" around 2:10, which probably got in the recording, as stated in ZUN's Twitter.
- Like Aya Shameimaru in Mountain of Faith, Minamitsu Murasa doesn't seem to have a gimmick/variation based on the playable character (which is something usual in stage 4 bosses). Though, both have a timeout spell card on Normal, Hard and Lunatic.
Fandom
Official Profiles
Official Sources
- 2009/08/15 Undefined Fantastic Object - Stage 4 dialogue; Reimu A ending; Settings and Extra Story.txt (official profile)
- 2009/08/15 Touhou Hisoutensoku - Marisa's VS. dialogue (not named)
- 2009/12/25 Interview on Undefined Fantastic Object with Chara☆Mel
- 2010/03/14 Double Spoiler - Stage 5 spell card comments
- 2010/12/25 Oriental Sacred Place - Chapter 12
- 2011/11/25 Wild and Horned Hermit - Chapter 9 (cameo)
- 2012/04/27 Symposium of Post-mysticism
References
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 1.2 1.3 Symposium of Post-mysticism: Minamitsu
- ↑ Undefined Fantastic Object — Captain Murasa's music comment.
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