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村紗 (むらさ) 水蜜 (みなみつ)
Minamitsu Murasa
Minamitu Murasa

More Alternative Spellings
Minamitsu Murasa
Minamitsu Murasa in Undefined Fantastic Object
Nickname

Captain Murasa (ムラサ船長)

Species

Funayuurei

Abilities

Power to cause shipwrecks

Age

Dead/Immortal (Existed for at least 1000 years)

Occupation

Captain

Location

Palanquin Ship

Relationships
Music Themes
Appearances
Official Games
Print Works

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 floating vault. 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.

Concept

She is a Funayuurei, 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 given name "Minamitsu" (水蜜) means either "White Peach" or "Water Honey", while her surname/species' name "Murasa" (村紗) means "Gossamer Village".

Appearance

Black hair, teal eyes, wears a white and teal sailor suit with a sailor hat and red neckerchief. Also carries a large anchor, along with a Hishaku (purification ladle). During some of her spellcards she turns all green with an "old film" effect on her, most likely her "ghost form".

Story

Undefined Fantastic Object

In Undefined Fantastic Object, Captain Murasa meets the heroine as she is making preparations for the ship to go to Hokkai, via Makai, where Hijiri is being sealed. Along with Nazrin, Ichirin, and Shou, 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.

Backstory

After her death, Murasa 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. Murasa, 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, Murasa 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 Murasa 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, Murasa was "buried" into the ground along with her ship. Having been long forgotten, Murasa 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 floating vault.

Relationships

Murasa has a very strong relationship with Byakuren, as she is pretty much the youkai captain's savior. After reappearing in Gensokyo, she made a pledge that she would return the favor and rescue Byakuren this time. She is a colleague of both Shou's and Ichirin's, though it's unknown exactly how or when they met.

Additional Information

Trivia

  • 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).
  • In addition to that, like Aya, she has a survival spell card (and she doesn't have it on Easy mode).
  • Strangely, "Murasa" is written in kanji in UFO's manual, but is written with katakana when she appears in the game itself. This is not the case with Double Spoiler, though, where her name is flashed in kanji.
  • Apparently, Murasa's design was one of the hardest for ZUN to finalize; he states in an interview that there were more rough drafts of her with different hairstyles and clothes than the rest of the cast of Undefined Fantastic Object.

Fandom

  • Due to her outfit, fans have made connections between her and Chiyuri Kitashirakawa.
  • Within hours of the game's release, crossover fanart surfaced with her appearing as Popeye.
  • According to fans, she has similarities to Kagome from the anime series "Inuyasha".
  • There is confusion among the fanbase whether she wears shorts or a skirt, due to the way her art is depicted. However, ZUN stated in an interview [1] that while designing the character, he didn't know which was better for Murasa's sailor outfit, a long skirt or a short skirt, which seems to indicate that he always intended her to have a skirt.
  • In some fanfics, she is fond of Japanese curry, because curry is said to have been eaten first and introduced into Japan by members of the Imperial Japanese Navy. Even the present-day Maritime Self-Defense Force has it for lunch every Friday in order to remember the day of the week even if they are at sea. (The Japanese Wikipedia even has a page about it: "海軍カレー".)
  • Some western fans call her "CAPTAIN MINAMITSU MOTHERFUCKING MURASA!". This is with an unknown reason except that it's epic.
  • She has been shown wielding her anchor as a weapon, and this has been the source of parody images comparing Murasa to May from the Guilty Gear series.

Spell Cards

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Name Translated Comments Games Stage
Total: 16
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
St. 5
「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

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Official Profiles

Undefined Fantastic Object - Settings and Extra Story.txt

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Minamitsu Murasa UFO  ○4面ボス  水難事故の念縛霊

  村紗 水蜜(むらさ みなみつ)

  種族:舟幽霊
  能力:水難事故を引き起こす程度の能力


  遥か昔、海で舟が転覆して亡くなった人間の霊。
  未練から海を離れることが出来ず、そこに通りかかった舟を転覆させる毎日を送っていた。

  彼女は人間から恐れられた。
  人間の恐怖の念が彼女を妖怪に変え、ますます自分の自由な行動が制限されるようになった。
  その妖怪は、彼女の名前からムラサと呼ばれた。

  そんなある日、彼女に転機が訪れる。
  彼女の元にムラサを退治して欲しい、と依頼された一人の僧侶がやってきたのだ。

  彼女にとっても願ったり叶ったりであった。
  もうただの人間を乗せた舟を沈めても、妖怪としての力(恐怖)は上がらないと思っていたからだ。
  その僧侶、聞けば大層名のある僧侶だと言う。そんな僧侶を乗せた舟を沈めれば、当然妖怪としての格が上がるだろう。
  それが成功すれば、私を縛る呪われた海から離れて人間を襲う事も出来るかも知れない。

  ――数日後、彼女を退治しにやってきた僧侶を乗せた舟が近づいた。
  舟には僧侶の他にも数人の人間が乗っていた。
  彼女はありったけの力で、脅してやろうと思った。
  ありったけの力で、僧侶の法力を破ってやろうと思った。

  しかし彼女の予想が外れ、僧侶は完全に無防備であった。
  ただの人間より手応えが無かったのだ。
  あっという間に舟は沈み、数名の人間は全て海に投げ出された。

  彼女は落胆した。
  こんな手応えの無い相手を倒したって何の自慢にもならない。
  そう思っていた彼女の眼に信じられない光景が映った。

  僧侶は海の上に居た。
  さっき転覆させた舟とは異なる、光り輝く舟に乗っていたのだ。
  しかもその舟は、遥か昔私が乗っていた物であった。

  「貴方はこの舟を探していたのでしょう?
   だから違う舟は全て転覆させてきた」

  僧侶は自分の法力で光の舟を創りだしていたのだ。

  「その舟は……!
   ああ懐かしい……なんで」

  妖怪となった彼女には、剣や矢よりも精神的な攻撃の方が怖かった。
  僧侶はその事を知っていた。

  「私達を乗せてきた舟は、不慮の水難事故で沈んでしまいました。
   私の法力で新しい舟を創りましたが、これは特殊な舟で操れる者が居ません」

  僧侶は、水から離れられない私に手をさしのべた。

  「この舟を操るのは貴方です」

  その言葉で、彼女は呪われた海を捨てる事が出来た。

  それから数十年後。
  妖怪を救う白蓮が、人間達に捕らわれ封印されてしまった。
  それと同時に、白蓮に関わる物品も、地底奥深くに埋められてしまった。
  村紗もまた、飛倉と共に埋められてしまったのである。

  まさか間欠泉と共に再び地上に現れる事になるとは、彼女自身も予想していなかった。
  そして誓う。
  今度は私が白蓮を救う番だ、と。そう、白蓮が生み出した舟に乗って。

○Stage 4 Boss  The Ghost of the Shipwreck Accident

Minamitsu Murasa

Species: Ship ghost
Ability: The power to cause shipwrecks

The spirit of a human who fell off a ship and drowned in the distant past; due to her lingering attachment to this world, she was bound to the ocean and spent her days capsizing passing ships.

Humans feared her.
Their fears turned her into a youkai, and over time, people wanted to restrict her ability to move about freely.
People called her Murasa, based on her original name.

And so one day she reached a turning point.
A Buddhist priest who'd been asked to vanquish Murasa appeared.

It was everything she'd wished for, too. She didn't think she could expand her power of fear as a youkai just by sinking ships with normal humans on them anymore. The monk that appeared was apparently very well known. Her status as a youkai would surely rise if she could sink the ship the monk was on. "If I succeed," she thought, "Maybe I can even free myself from this cursed ocean and attack the humans."

―― A few days later, the ship bearing the monk who'd come to defeat her approached.
There were a few other humans besides the monk on that ship.
She thought she'd use all her strength to threaten them.
She thought she'd use all her strength to destroy the monk's Buddhist powers.

But, contrary to her expectations, the monk was completely defenseless.
She got no response from her beyond that of a normal human.
Before she knew it, the ship was sunk, and all of the people on it were flung into the sea.

This discouraged her.
There was no pride to be taken in defeating someone so powerless.
As she thought that, an unbelievable spectacle unfolded before her.

The monk was floating above the ocean.
"She's riding a shining boat—and it's not the one I just capsized.
In fact, that's the ship that I rode in so long ago."

"You were looking for this ship, right?
That's why you sunk all of those other ships."

The monk had made the shining ship using her own powers.

"That ship ... ... !
Ah, how nostalgic ... ... but why?"

A youkai like her was much more afraid of spiritual attacks than swords or arrows.
The monk knew this well.

"The ship that brought us here was sunk in a shipwreck.
I've used my powers to make a new ship, but this is a very special ship, so there's no one that can captain it."

The monk extended her hand out to me, into the oceans to which I was bound.

"But you can captain this ship."

And with those words, she was able to leave these cursed oceans behind.

A few hundred years passed.
Byakuren, the youkai saviour, had been captured and sealed by humans.
At the same time, anything related to Byakuren was buried deep beneath the earth.
Murasa, too, had been buried deep beneath the earth with the Tobikura.

She never imagined she would be sent flying back above ground by a geyser.
And so, she made a pledge:
"This time, I'll be the one to save Byakuren. Yes, riding the ship that Byakuren created."

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Official Sources

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