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Seija Kijin
kʲid͡ʑʲiɴ seːd͡ʑa Seija Kijin | |
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Seija Kijin in Double Dealing Character Counterattacking AmanojakuMore Character Titles | |
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Turning anything upside-down |
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Seija Kijin (鬼人 正邪 Kijin Seija) is an amanojaku with the power to turn things upside-down. She appears as the fifth stage boss of Double Dealing Character, residing in the Shining Needle Castle.
General Information
Seija's main objective is to overthrow society, and to make the weak rule over the strong.
Personality
She thinks the opposite of what other people think, likes what others hate, and hates herself when she makes others happy. In general, no one liked her, and she liked that fact. She also tends to be talkative.
Backstory
Seija was the one who originally found the Miracle Mallet. Once she realized it contained the power to realize her ambition, she found an Inchling named Shinmyoumaru Sukuna, as inchlings are the only ones able to use it. In order to draw her to her own side, she made up a story about how the inchling race was humiliated for ages, blaming the youkai for their downfall, and got Shinmyoumaru to agree with her plan.
Character Design
Name
Her name is Seija Kijin (鬼人 正邪). Her first name Seija (正邪) can be loosely translated as "good and evil," or "right and wrong." Her last name Kijin (鬼人) is spelled with characters meaning "oni" and "human". "邪" and "鬼" are both characters that make up the name of her species, Amanojaku (天邪鬼). Although her given name has the character for "oni," and her species is often depicted as a type of oni in Japanese folklore, amanojaku in the Touhou Project are a separate species. Both her first and last names reference her ability, as each is composed of two kanji with opposite meanings (human/oni and right/wrong).
Design
Seija has red eyes and black hair with white highlights in the back and a single red highlight on her front bangs. Her hair reaches down to her shoulders. She has two small, light blue horns, and she wears a white dress that ends in a gray, red, and black spade patterns that may symbolize her ability, as they look like arrows pointing downward and upward depending on the perspective. The dress is wrapped at the waist with an upside-down blue bow. She wears traditional sandals with purple straps. She also wears a gold-colored bracelet on her right arm.
Story
- Double Dealing Character
Seija is the stage 5 boss, residing in the Shining Needle Castle. At first, she thinks the heroine is there to ally with them, and explains her plan to overthrow society. However, she quickly gets irritated with the heroine's perceived lack of empathy for the "plight of the weak", and attacks. After she is defeated, she guides the heroine deeper into the castle, but is beaten again in order to get to Shinmyoumaru.
Relationships
Shinmyoumaru Sukuna
Seija initially approached Shinmyoumaru to persuade her to use the Miracle Mallet for her own ends. She falsified a history of the inchlings in order to do it.
Minor Relationships
- Benben Tsukumo and Yatsuhashi Tsukumo
Though no dialogue is exchanged between them, Seija appears to understand the heroine when they mention that a koto or biwa tsukumogami told them about her plan. As they all have the same objective, it is likely that they know each other. However, Seija's reaction implies that she didn't realize the extent of the "payment" of the Miracle Mallet's power - that is, changing many objects into tsukumogami without the user intending to do so.
Spell Cards
Name | Translated | Comments | Games | Stage | ||
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欺符「逆針撃」 | Deceit Sign "Reverse Needle Attack" | DDC | St. 5: E/N/H/L | |||
逆符「鏡の国の弾幕」 | Reverse Sign "Danmaku Through the Looking-Glass" | DDC | St. 5: E/N | |||
逆符「イビルインザミラー」 | Reverse Sign "Evil in the Mirror" | DDC | St. 5: H/L | |||
逆符「天地有用」 | Reverse Sign "This Side Down" | DDC | St. 5: E/N | |||
逆符「天下転覆」 | Reverse Sign "Overturning All Under Heaven" | DDC | St. 5: H/L | |||
逆弓「天壌夢弓」 | Reverse Bow "Dream Bow of Heaven & Earth" | DDC | St. 5: E/N | |||
逆弓「天壌夢弓の詔勅」 | Reverse Bow "Decree of the Dream Bow of Heaven & Earth" | DDC GoU |
St. 5: H/L — | |||
逆転「リバースヒエラルキー」 | Turnabout "Reverse Hierarchy" | DDC GoU |
St. 5: E/N — | |||
逆転「チェンジエアブレイブ」 | Turnabout "Change Air Brave" | DDC | St. 5: /H/L |
Additional Information
- Some parts of Seija's theme are symmetrical making it sound similar to itself when played reversed (much like Koishi's theme); this is probably a reference to her ability to turn things over and to the theme name itself: Reverse Ideology.
Fandom
- Comments related to Seija written on Internet sites are sometimes shown be written upside down, where it references her ability.
- She's sometimes show causing troubles for others using her ability and being a general troublemaker.
- Fans tend to draw her upside-down due to her nature.
- Several fanworks like to play with the idea that she says the opposite of what she thinks. For example, if she says "This is not cute at all!", then she really believes it is cute.
- Some fanarts feature Seija with switched limbs - right hands and feet are on the left, and vice versa. That is suggested by the fact she appears in-game with her right hand flipped towards the player, an unnatural movement.
- Seija is commonly paired with C-Moon, the Stand of Enrico Pucci from JoJo's Bizarre Adventure, who's able to inverse the surface much like her ability.
- Ryuuko Matoi from Kill La Kill has a similar hairstyle.
Official Profiles
Official Sources
- 2013/08/12 Double Dealing Character - omake.txt (official profile), Stage 5 dialogue
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