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Sakuya Izayoi Name: 十六夜 咲夜(いざよい さくや)

Sakuya Izayoi


Species: Human
Abilities: Time manipulation, knife proficiency
Age: Estimated to be between 16 to 20 years old
Occupation: Maid, Time mage
Location: Scarlet Devil Mansion
Description:
  • (Touhou 9) Dark blue eyes, silver hair, has a long braid on each side of the face, carries many knives. Wears a pink and dark blue French maid's outfit with long sleeves, and a white bonnet on her head. The Roman numerals for 1 through 12 line the bottom of her apron.
  • (Touhou 9, alternative outfit) Same as above, but her outfit is mainly dark red instead of dark blue.
  • (Touhou 7.5, 8, 10.5) Same as Touhou 9 outfit, except her apron has no text and is wearing short sleeves.
  • (Touhou 7.5 and 10.5, alternative outfit) Same as above, but her outfit is mainly light blue with a white apron and her hair is light green.
  • (Touhou 7) Same as Touhou 9 outfit, except her apron has no text and is wearing blue colored long sleeves and a red scarf.
  • (Touhou 6) Same as Touhou 9 outfit, except she had bright red eyes, short sleeves, and the phrase "Red Magic" embroidered on her left sleeve.
Relationships:
Appearances:
Titles: See Character Titles

Easily one of the most enigmatic characters, despite appearing in so many games, Sakuya is the Chief Maid at the Scarlet Devil Mansion. She works for her mistress, Remilia Scarlet, and is apparently the only human working at or living within the mansion. She has the power to stop time. She is known to then place knives in midair and resume time to allow these knives to fly towards her targets. Stopping time is also a handy way of doing large amounts of maid work in a short time. Because nearly everyone living or working at the mansion are maids, being the chief of them all means there are few people there with more authority within the mansion than Sakuya.

During Embodiment of Scarlet Devil Sakuya attempts to prevent the heroine from reaching her mistress to whom she is very loyal, but fails. Later, during Perfect Cherry Blossom, Sakuya is able to show more of her true character, even if her main reason for trying to solve the problem is that the delayed Spring will affect her too.

Fun Facts

  • The characters for Izayoi literally mean "Sixteenth night" (after the new moon - i.e., the night of the full moon), and Sakuya "Blossoming night."
  • Sakuya Izayoi is apparently not her real name, according to Perfect Memento, and is only a name given to her by Remilia. Her real name is unknown.
  • Since Sakuya has tremendous skill with handling knives, she is extremely good at cooking.
  • According to Sakuya, if she happens to run out of knives, she can freeze time and pick up the ones she threw previously.
  • According to ZUN, "Manipulation of Time" is synonymous to "Manipulation of Space". She takes advantage of this fact in several ways, from enlarging the space inside Scarlet Devil Mansion, to probably storing an immense amount of knives around. Maybe it's general relativity?
  • Sakuya can also use her powers to accelerate time, such as making bamboo flowers bloom instantly, even though this would normally take sixty years.
  • Sakuya may be a homage to Dio Brando, the main villain of the manga series "JoJo's Bizarre Adventure," a vampire who is known for stopping time and being skilled at throwing knives. (ZUN has also referenced JoJo's Bizarre Adventure in Remilia's dialogue, and Shoot the Bullet Scene 65. Sakuya also takes the same pose as Dio with one of her moves in Scarlet Weather Rhapsody )
  • Sakuya "prepares" food for Remilia and Flandre Scarlet. It's a mystery how this is done exactly, although she mentions in Phantasmagoria of Flower View that with so many flowers around, she can make as much tea and as many pastries as she wants. (Flowers have, especially in the past, often been used to provide flavoring for tea - which is still the basis of jasmine tea.)
  • In some fan-produced works, Sakuya is depicted with dog ears and a tail, probably a reflection of various characters referring to her as Remilia's dog. For example, in Sakuya's scenario of Perfect Cherry Blossom the three Prismriver Sisters offer to make her a part of the banquet by eating her. Lyrica starts singing "dog meat dog meat," implying that Sakuya is a dog. Sakuya is the only one of the three heroines available that the Prismrivers threaten to eat. In that game Yuyuko names Sakuya "devil's dog".
  • Another recurring joke with fans is the idea that Sakuya pads her chest to make it seem bigger than it is, and goes to great lengths to hide this secret, even from Remilia herself.
  • There have been several clues spread across the Touhou series that suggest that Sakuya may not actually be human. Most of these occur in Imperishable Night, where Eirin Yagokoro is surprised to see her (according to ZUN). In another scene, she survives staring at the full moon (which should drive humans insane), and she has silver hair just like Eirin. In Perfect Memento, Hieda no Akyu agrees that Sakuya probably does not come from Gensokyo, and the description of Kaguya Houraisan's powers are quite similar to Sakuya's time manipulation. These all seem to point to the possibility that Sakuya may in fact be Lunarian. (Some doujin artists have attempted to explain the relationship between Eirin and Sakuya in their stories. These range from the ideas that Eirin created Sakuya's Lunar Dial, but prolonged usage erased Sakuya's memory, to the two of them even being sisters.)

Official Profiles

Embodiment of Scarlet Devil - おまけ.txt

Sakuya Izayoi  ○紅魔館のメイド 

  十六夜 咲夜(いざよい・さくや)

  能力:時間を操る程度の能力

  5面ボスです。メイドで、10〜20年程人間をやっています。

  彼女はその能力により人間から煙たがられてしまいます。すでに普通
  の人間と仲良くやっていくのをあきらめています。
  これといった名誉欲や支配欲などはなく、飯さえ食えればそれでいい
  と思い、紅魔館でメイドをやっています。

  紅魔館では清掃係兼メイド長を担当していて、常に時間を止める能力
  を活かして仕事をしています。
  (時間止めて掃除をすると埃が舞わないとか)

  この家の主人がアレなので、実質、メイドというか子守り役というか、
  この家を仕切っています。

  カードアタック 全9種

Maid of the Scarlet Devil Mansion

Sakuya Izayoi

Ability: Manipulation of time

5th stage boss. Plays the role of a human maid about 10~20 years old.

That power of hers distances her from the human race. She has given up trying to relate to ordinary people.
She does not care about honor or power; she thinks so long as it earns her dinner, being the Scarlet Devil Mansion's maid is fine.

She is the chief of the Scarlet Devil Mansion's maids and cleaning staff, and always takes advantage of her ability to stop time when working.
(If she cleans when time stopped, it won't raise dust.)

Due to the nature of the mistress of the house, it is arguable whether she serves the role of maid or babysitter, but in any case, she is in charge of most of the affairs of the household.

Total of nine card attacks.

Perfect Cherry Blossom - Manual

Sakuya Izayoi  ○紅魔館のメイド 十六夜 咲夜(いざよいさくや)

  とあるお屋敷の瀟洒なメイド。時を操る程度の能力を持つ。
  頭も切れ、腕もたち、弱点は無い様だが猫舌。
  投げナイフの技術は料理の腕に比例する為、咲夜は料理が大変上手。
  最近は貴重な食材を使用した創作中華にはまっている。
  なおナイフは、節約と環境保護のために投げた後に回収する。
  もし、戦闘中にナイフが尽きた場合は、時間を止めて回収にあたる。

  武器は投げナイフ。タネ無し手品を得意とする。

   なんと言っても、ボム数が4である。クリアだけなら楽勝。
   「ジャック・ザ・リッパー」は、前方ある程度の角度範囲内の敵をロックして狙い撃ちをする。
   威力は低めだが、非常に使い勝手の良い武器。
   一方、時符は全ての武器が不思議な挙動をする。
   「ミスディレクション」は、移動方向にショットが傾く。この状態で「パワーディレクション」
   に移行すると、ショット方向がロックされる。
   ボムは、「パーフェクトスクウェア」「プライベートスクウェア」共に、威力が皆無で無敵時間は
   ゲーム中最長である。また、このボムだけ使用中に移動速度が上がる。
   最大の特徴は、ボム中は敵弾を停止させ、「その敵弾にかすることが出来る」+「ボム終了後にボーナス
   アイテムになるため、ボーナスアイテムの得点が通常の得点になる」事である。
   かすり数によっては、大きく稼げる武器になっている。

Maid of the Scarlet Devil Mansion

Sakuya Izayoi

The elegant maid of a certain mansion. Has the ability to control time.
Sharp and able, she has no real weak points but can't eat hot (temperature) foods.
Since the art of knife throwing requires similar skills to cooking, Sakuya is incredibly good at cooking.
Her current hobby is creating Chinese delicacies using exquisite ingredients.
In order to save money and the planet, she reuses knives she's already thrown.
If she were to run out of knives during a battle, she'd just stop time and pick them up again.

Throwing knives are her weapon. Deceitless sleight-of-hand is her pride.

In any case, she starts out with 4 bombs. It makes it easier to clear the game.
"Jack the Ripper" locks onto enemies at certain angles in front of you.
It's low power, but it's a very easy to use weapon.
On the other hand, all of the "Time Sign" weapons have very unusual movement.
"Misdirection" angles its shots in the direction you're moving. If you switch to "Power Direction" when it's
angled, the shot direction will lock in its current position.
The bombs, "Perfect Square" and "Private Square" are both very weak, but they have the longest invincibility
time in the game. Also, these are the only bombs that make you move faster when you use them.
The biggest distinguishing point is: enemy bullets stop during bombs, so the fact that you can graze them
like this + the fact that they become bonus items when the bomb is finished (and normal point items then get the bonus item value)
mean that the more you graze, the higher you will score with her weapons.

Perfect Cherry Blossom - キャラ設定.txt

Sakuya Izayoi  ○紅魔館のメイド

  十六夜 咲夜(いざよい さくや)

  主に時間を操る程度の能力を持つ。

  幻想郷にある湖のほとりに、その紅いお屋敷はある。そこで働くメイ
  ドである。給金は無い。

  この館で掃除したり、指示したり、料理したり、お嬢様の世話したり
  で、普通に忙しい。

  館は無駄に広く、それでいて単調な色調のため、全体像はなかなか掴
  めない。迷い込んだ招かざるお客様が何処かに落ちていても、分から
  ない。先に誰かに発見されて消されていても、分からない。

  紅い建物は、緑の多い幻想郷に在っても何故か違和感を感じられない。
  あたかもそこに在るのが当たり前かの様に、建っていた。

  咲夜も、ここに暮らしていると時間が停止しているかのように感じる
  のだった。もちろん、咲夜が時を止めているわけではない。

;Maid of the Scarlet Devil Mansion

Izayoi Sakuya

Her main ability is manipulating time.

On the banks of a lake in Gensokyo is a scarlet mansion. She is a maid who works there for no salary.

She's kept quite busy in this mansion cleaning, commanding the other maids, cooking, and taking care of her mistress.

The mansion is unnecessarily large and has monotonous colors, so it's hard to tell things apart inside. Nobody would notice if an uninvited guest wandered inside and fell into a hole somewhere, undiscovered. Nobody would know if they were discovered and gotten rid of, either.

Somehow, this scarlet building doesn't seem out of place surrounded by the green of Gensokyo. It simply stands there as if it were always meant to be there.

Living here, even Sakuya feels as if time has stopped. Of course, that's not because Sakuya has stopped time.

Immaterial and Missing Power - 上海アリス通信.txt

Sakuya Izayoi  ○完全で瀟洒な従者

  十六夜 咲夜(いざよいさくや)

  種族:人間
  住処:紅魔館
  能力:時を操る程度の能力

   紅魔館の住み込みで働くメイドさん。炊事、掃除、洗濯、子守にナイ
  フ投げと、メイドがやりそうな事は全て完璧にこなす。メイド長。

   性格は、瀟洒で完璧そうに見えるが、たまに抜けている所も見せる。
  仕事が完璧で速いのは、時間を止めて仕事をしているいるからだと思う
  が……。

   体術も得意とする。むしろ弾幕のような怪しげな術よりも得意な位。
  弾幕にも投げナイフを使うのはその為である。それにタネの無い手品が
  好きで、戦闘にも積極的に取り入れる。そういう所が抜けている所の様
  な気がしてならないが。

;Perfect and Elegant Servant
Izayoi Sakuya


Species: Human
Location: Scarlet Devil Mansion
Ability: Controlling time

A maid who works and lives in the Scarlet Devil Mansion . She does a maid's duty perfectly: cooking, cleaning, washing, babysitting, knife throwing, etc. Her position is chief maid.

Her personality seems perfect and elegant, but sometimes she shows a more spaced-out side. The reason she works so quickly is probably because she stops time to do it, though ...

She also specializes in physical attacks. Probably even more so than at suspicious tricks like danmaku. This is why she uses throwing knives in her danmaku. In addition, she likes magic that doesn't have tricks to it, so she proactively adopts it into battle. I can't help feeling this point is the odd acts.

Imperishable Night - Manual

Sakuya Izayoi  ○紅魔館のメイド 十六夜 咲夜(いざよいさくや)

  悪魔に仕えるメイドさん。
  紅魔館に住む人間。時を操る程度の能力を持つ。
  紅魔館ではメイド長を勤めていて、ご主人様がアレなので実質、紅魔館の顔である。
  心からご主人様に忠誠を誓うが、従事という言葉から感じるじめじめした暗い嫌な感じは
  全くせず、サバサバとしていて見てて気持ちがいい。
  時折、惚けた事もするのだが、わざとか真剣なのか判りづらい。
  本人は言うまでも無く、真剣である。

  武器は投げナイフ。銀が手に入り難くなってきたので別の材料を検討中。

    備考
    今回はレミリアと組む。
    低速移動は単独使用時のみの性能である。
    全く癖の無いオーソドックスなショットで使いやすい。
    アイテムは俺のもんだ。という人にお奨め。

;Maid of the Scarlet Devil Mansion

Izayoi Sakuya

A maid who serves a devil.
She lives in Scarlet Devil Mansion. She can manipulate time.
She is the head maid of the Scarlet Devil Mansion, but due to her master's nature she's practically head of the household.
She is utterly devoted to her master, and she feels no shame in being a "servant";
on the contrary, she's so easy-going it feels nice to watch her.
Sometimes she's a little spacy, but it's hard to tell if she's serious or faking it.
In either case, she's a fairly serious person.

Her weapon is throwing knives. Since silver is hard to come by, she's looking for other materials to use, too.

Notes:
She's teamed up with Remilia this time.
She can only use focused movement when alone.
She has a very orthodox, straightforward shot, so she's easy to use.
Recommended for people who must get every item.

Imperishable Night - キャラ設定.txt

Sakuya Izayoi  ○紅魔館のメイド

  十六夜 咲夜(いざよい さくや)
  Sakuya Izayoi

  種族:人間
  能力:時間を操る程度の能力

  幻想郷にある湖のほとりに、その紅いお屋敷はある。そこで働くメイ
  ドである。

  メイドをしていると、こんな辺鄙な山奥でも衣食住に困らず快適であ
  る。彼女は人間だが、悪魔達と一緒にいる為人間からも妖怪からも余
  り良い目で見られない。でも一部の人間達はそんなことを一切気にし
  ないで接してくれるし、何より食う寝る処に住む処に困らない。これ
  ほど快適な暮らしは他に考えられなかった。

Maid of the Scarlet Devil Mansion

Sakuya Izayoi

Species: Human
Abilities: Can control the flow of time

There's a scarlet mansion on the banks of a certain lake in Gensokyo. She works there as a maid.

When you're a maid, you don't have to worry about clothing, food or housing, even when you live this deep in the mountains. She's human, but both humans and youkai don't look too well on her since she lives with devils. Still, some humans will overlook this, and she never has to worry about her living conditions. She can't imagine a life better than this.

Phantasmagoria of Flower View - Manual

Sakuya Izayoi  ○完全で瀟洒なメイド 十六夜 咲夜(いざよいさくや)

  悪魔に仕えるメイドさん。
  紅魔館に住む人間。時を操る程度の能力を持つ。
  あか抜けた性格だが、余裕なのか惚けているのかちょっ
  とずれた面も見せる。
  花の異変に関しては、さほど危険を感じていない。

;Perfect and Elegant Maid
Izayoi Sakuya


A maid who serves a devil.
She's a human who lives in the Scarlet Devil Mansion. She has the ability to control time.
Though her character is refined, sometimes she acts like she's being careless or
just spacing out.
She doesn't think the flower incident is anything terribly dangerous.

Phantasmagoria of Flower View - キャラ設定.txt

Sakuya Izayoi  ○完全で瀟洒なメイド

  十六夜 咲夜(いざよい さくや)
  Izayoi Sakuya

  種族:人間
  能力:時間を操る程度の能力


   幻想郷にある湖のほとりに、その紅いお屋敷はある。そこで働くメ
  イドである。

   今回は、一応異変と言うことで様子を見に出てきた物の、特に危険
  は無いと感じていた。それは紅魔館の者の様子も、特に慌てた物では
  無かったからでもある。

;Perfect and Elegant Maid
Izayoi Sakuya


Species: Human
Ability: Manipulating time


There's a scarlet mansion on the edge of a lake in Gensokyo. She's a maid working there.

She heard something was going on, so she just thought she'd go out and have a look; she didn't particularly think something dangerous was happening. This is also why nobody in the Scarlet Devil Mansion was particularly upset about the flower incident.

Scarlet Weather Rhapsody - chara.html

Sakuya Izayoi  ○完全で瀟洒な従者

  十六夜 咲夜(いざよい さくや)


  種族:人間

  職業:メイド

  住家:紅魔館

  能力:時を操る程度の能力

  性格:瀟洒で知的、垢抜けている。

      でも案外うっかりした行動をとる事もある。

The Perfect and Elegant Servant

Sakuya Izayoi


Race: human

Occupation: maid

Place of residence: Scarlet Devil Manor

Ability: the power to control time

Personality: elegant, knowledgeable, and refined.

However, can be surprisingly careless from time to time.

Scarlet Weather Rhapsody - おまけ.txt

 

Book Synopsis

Bohemian Archive in Japanese Red

Main article: Article and Interview: Sakuya

Interview part is not translated yet.

Perfect Memento in Strict Sense

Main article: Perfect Memento: Sakuya Izayoi
  • Sakuya both lives and works at the Scarlet Devil Mansion as a maid and she's the only human there.
  • She's in charge of all the fairy maids there.
  • The other maids have many perks to their jobs and rarely choose to leave, but are not payed or given vacations.
  • The maids are nearly useless though and most of the work is done by Sakuya alone, which would be impossible if she didn't stop or slow time.
  • Sakuya's power to manipulate time is not something that could normally be learned.
  • Although she can speed or slow time it's difficult to change things that have already occurred, such as undoing damage.
  • She can also manipulate space, conjure things, and is a skilled knife thrower.
  • Sakuya joined the Scarlet Devil Mansion before it moved to Gensokyo, and since she had never been seen there before it's unlikely that she's from Gensokyo at all.
  • Her origins are mysterious and she may be from the world outside Gensokyo, some other world, or even the Moon's capital.
  • One theory is that she may have originally been a vampire hunter who tried to defeat Remilia Scarlet with her trademark silver knives and lost.
  • She works for Remilia willingly and it is not known what her motivations are or why Remilia has chosen to trust her so much.
  • Sakuya Izayoi is not her real name, and was supposedly the name Remilia gave to her after she lost to Remilia as way of controlling Sakuya's fate.
  • She shops at the Human Village, but she is cold toward other humans and has no friends there.
  • However, ever since Remilia was beaten by the heroine of Embodiment of Scarlet Devil, Sakuya has begun opening herself up more.
  • Remilia may have fated this to happen.
  • Although Sakuya claims to be in her late teens, many things about her suggest she may be much older and possibly even hundreds of years old.