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Ran Yakumo Name: 八雲 藍(やくも らん)(♫)

Ran Yakumo


Species: Kitsune
Abilities: Black magic, shikigami rituals
Age: Unknown (possibly older than 800 years)
Occupation: Yukari's shikigami
Location: Boundary of Gensokyo
Description:
  • Yellow eyes, short blonde hair, wears a pink two-tailed hat with many amulets. Has fox ears which are hidden under her hat, and nine fox tails. Wears a blue and white outfit similar to Yukari's in later series.
  • (SWR, alternative Yukari spell) Wears outfit similar to normal version, however her eyes, hair, and amulets on hat are green instead of yellow.
Relationships:
Appearances:
Titles: See Character Titles

During Perfect Cherry Blossom Ran is busy preparing for a banquet for her master Yukari, who was still asleep as usual, when Ran was suddenly interrupted by the heroine. Because she is actually a fox that became a youkai (Kitsune) and is a shikigami herself it's highly unusual that Ran has a shikigami of her own. Having nine tails, the highest number of tails a kitsune ever has, is a clear sign of Ran's power and experience. Since kitsune are said in many stories to grow an extra tail every hundred years to a maximum of nine, it's thought that Ran may be over 800 years old. Even though Ran looks similar to a human and has more than enough intelligence to speak she is still essentially an animal and is often regarded as such by other characters.

Fun Facts

  • The characters for Yakumo literally mean "eight clouds", and Ran "indigo". All of the Yakumo family are named after colors.
  • Ran Yakumo is apparently not her real name, according to Perfect Memento, and is only a name given to her by Yukari. Her real name is unknown.
  • Ran is sometime portrayed as a flasher in fan works due to the "Suppatenko" (literally, "Naked Heaven-Fox") meme spawned by this page (images on page defunct; archived here). [NSFW]
  • She's usually portrayed as a motherly figure, especially towards Chen.
  • In certain memetic fanworks, Ran is seen to suffer from excessive nosebleeding whenever she sees Chen.
  • Ran is supposed to be a 9-tailed fox (called a "Kyuubi") which, according to ancient Japanese folklore, would be at least 800 years old. Foxes start life with 1 tail and gain an extra tail once every hundred years. So at 100 years old they would have 2, and at 800 would have 9. At this point, assuming Ran follows traditional folklore, she will eventually start losing tails until she has 4 and will be considered a "Tenko" (heaven) type of fox and will then be one step away from divinity.
  • According to Ran's spellcard, "Princess Tenko", and the phrase on the first scene of EX stage of PCB, "A mysterious occurrence on the crossing to three countries", some fans of Ran think her as Tamamo no Mae, rather than White-faced Golden Fox of Nine Tails, or that being showed above.
  • Ran is the only stage mid-boss in any Touhou game that is immune to bombs.

Official Profiles

Perfect Cherry Blossom - キャラ設定.txt

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Ran Yakumo PCB  ○すきま妖怪の式

  八雲 藍(やくも・らん)

  エキストラボス。紫の式神。紫が寝ている間に代わりに活動している。
  主に式神を使う程度の能力を持つ。

  紫は1日12時間睡眠で、夕方から真夜中にかけてしか活動しない。
  しかも冬は冬眠する。その為、寝ている間はこの式神に働かさせてい
  る。

  藍は、かなり長い間式変化しているため、そんじょそこらの妖怪より
  強力な力を持つ。その為、藍は自分で式を打つことも出来る様になっ
  ていた。すでに自分が式神であることを忘れているのかも知れない。

  毎年、桜が咲く季節になると、冥界の花見の名所に行っていた。
  今年は心持ち桜の持ちが良い、と感じ始めてた頃、ちょっと変った生
  きた人間が紛れ込んできた。面白そうなので、しばらく様子を見てみ
  る事にした。

  後に、自分の式神である橙がこの人間にやられた事を聞き、ちょっと
  した報復してやろうと企んだ。

  実態は化け狐。橙同様、姿かたちは普段と代わりが無いが、性格は丸
  い。よく見なくても尻尾がある。
  実は実体時から、かなりの妖力を持つ。

  そうこうしている間も、自分のご主人様はずーっと寝ている。

Shikigami of the Youkai of Boundaries

Ran Yakumo

Extra Boss, and Yukari's shikigami. She does Yukari's work for her while her master sleeps. Her main ability is control of shikigami.

Yukari sleeps 12 hours per day and is only awake from sunset to midnight. On top of that, she hibernates through winter. Because of that, Ran takes care of Yukari's work while she's asleep.

Ran has been a shikigami for quite long time, so she's more powerful than ordinary youkai. For that matter, she has enough power to possess her own shikigami. Perhaps she has already forgotten that she herself is a shikigami.

Every year, when cherry blossoms are about to bloom, she visits the Netherworld for flower viewing. The cherry blossoms seemed to be lasting somewhat longer than usual this year. Just as she was considering that, some living humans dropped in. She watched them with interest for a few moments.

She later heard that her shikigami had been defeated by them, so she plotted a little revenge.

In truth, she is a fox turned youkai. Like Chen, her shape is unchanged and she has a well-rounded personality. Even without looking closely, it's obvious that she has several tails. As a matter of fact, when it matters, she has plenty of power even without support from a shikigami.

Through all these events, her master continues to sleep.

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Book Synopsis

Bohemian Archive in Japanese Red

Main article: Article and Interview: Ran'

Brief summary of the article goes here.

Perfect Memento in Strict Sense

PMiSS ran.jpg
Main article: Perfect Memento: Ran Yakumo
  • Ran is a fox youkai (kitsune) with nine tails.
  • The greater the number and length of tails that a fox has, the stronger and smarter it is.
  • Ran is considered the top class of animal youkai with a full nine long tails.
  • She's extremely intelligent and is much better at math than any human.
  • She is Yukari Yakumo's shikigami and must do whatever Yukari commands her to do, which means Yukari must be even stronger.
  • Although Ran lives in Yukari's house, she spends much of her time doing Yukari's chores for her because Yukari's too lazy to do them herself.
  • This includes checking the border around Gensokyo for problems.
  • Ran's own shikigami, Chen, is too unreliable to entrust with doing chores.
  • She shops in the Human Village for tofu, among other things.
  • Fortunately, her personality is mild and she's unlikely to cause trouble while around humans, so the villagers have nothing to fear.
  • She has no real weaknesses.

The Grimoire of Marisa

GoMSigil-Ran.jpg
Main article: The Grimoire of Marisa: Ran Yakumo's Spell Cards
  • Insert Summary Here

ja:八雲 藍