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Seija Kijin

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鬼人 (きじん)  正邪 (せいじゃ)
kʲid͡ʑʲiɴ seːd͡ʑa
Seija Kijin
Seija Kijin
Counterattacking Amanojaku
More Character Titles
Species

Amanojaku

Abilities

Turning anything upside-down

Location

Shining Needle Castle

Music Themes
Appearances
Official Games
Print Works

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". "" and "" 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

Spell Cards
Name Translated Comments Games Stage
Total: 9
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

Seija DDC  ○5面ボス 逆襲のあまのじゃく

  鬼人 正邪(きじん せいじゃ)
  Kijin Seija

  種族:天邪鬼
  能力:何でもひっくり返す程度の能力

  下克上を企む天邪鬼。
  天邪鬼は鬼ではなく、ただの捻くれた妖怪である。

  彼女は常日頃から人とは逆の事を考えていた。
  人が嫌がることを好み、人を喜ばせると自己嫌悪に陥る。
  命令は絶対に聞かない。自分が得しても見返りは与えない。
  人間、妖怪に嫌われるのは当たり前だったが、彼女は嫌われると喜ぶのだった。

  そんな彼女の野望は、幻想郷をひっくり返すことだった。
  今の強者が支配する安定した幻想郷をぶちこわし、弱者が物を言う世界に
  変えたかったのだ。

  しかし、彼女にはそれだけの力が無かった。
  そこで目を付けたのが小人の秘宝『打ち出の小槌』だったのだ。

Stage 5 Boss - The Counterattacking Amanojaku

Kijin Seija

Species: Amanojaku
Ability: Capable of turning anything upside-down

An amanojaku who plots social upheaval.
Amanojaku aren't oni, but just a particularly twisted type of youkai.

She's always thinking the opposite of what other people think.
She likes what people hate, and falls into self-loathing when she makes them happy.
She never listens to orders. Even if she profits off something, she doesn't give anything in return.
It was only natural that humans and youkai disliked her, but she was happy to be disliked.

Her ambition was to turn Gensokyo upside-down.
She wanted to smash the current, stable Gensokyo where the strong ruled the land,
and change it into one where the weak had more value.

However, she didn't have the power to do that.
Then, she laid her eyes upon the treasure of the inchlings, the "Miracle Mallet".

Official Sources

Official sources