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Shizuha Aki

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(あき)  静葉 (しずは)
aki ɕizu͍ha (♫)
Shizuha Aki
Sizuha Aki

More Alternative Spellings
Shizuha Aki
Shizuha Aki in Mountain of Faith
Symbol of Loneliness and Demise
More Character Titles
Species

Goddess of autumn leaves

Abilities

Controlling the turning of leaves

Location

Near the Youkai Mountain, Forest of Magic[1]

Appearances
Official Games
Print Works

Shizuha Aki (秋 静葉 Aki Shizuha) is the goddess of autumn leaves and thus have to power to control the turning of the leaves. She is Minoriko Aki's older sister and together they have the ability to control autumn. She first appeared in Mountain of Faith being a stage 1 midboss.

General Information

Ability

Surprisingly, she doesn't use supernatural powers to turn the leaves red. Instead she "paints" them by hands, which is why the colors on the leaves get uneven and some turn into red yellow and dark brown.[1]
Fallen leaves are another part of her work. Instead of dropping leaves moderately, she simply kicks on the trees and scatters them roughly.[1][2]

Occupation

She is the goddess of autumn leaves and with her sister, who is the goddess of harvest, they control autumn. Together they are not the best at fighting, but when someone is disrupting autumn they punish that person.

It is difficult for her to gather faith, which makes her difficult to distinguish from a normal youkai. However, goddesses of autumn leaves appear to be pretty rare, so she doesn't have the problem of competition that her sister Minoriko faces.

Personality

She believes that the autumn colors of the turning leaves are the best thing about autumn, and is filled with a sense of superiority when she shows the beauty of the leaves to her sister. She becomes sorrowful when winter comes.

Character Basis

ThGKAki.png

Name

Her name is Shizuha Aki (秋 静葉). The character for Aki () means "Autumn", and Shizuha (静葉) means "quiet() leaves()".

Design

Shizuha has yellow-orange eyes and short blond hair with red autumn leaves in her Mountain of Faith official art. She wears a long red-orange dress with darker red at her middle and arms and more orange towards the bottom and ends with leaf-shaped cut-outs around. There is a white collar at the top of the dress. Under the white collar there is something what resembles a nametag, with three buttons next to it. She has white socks and black shoes.

Story

Mountain of Faith

Shizuha was under the impression that the heroine in Mountain of Faith was coming to disrupt autumn, which prompted her to attack. But she was easily defeated, however, being a mere first-stage midboss.

Relationships

Minoriko Aki

Minoriko is her younger sister. Together they control the season of fall.

Spell Cards

Spellcards
Name Translated Comments Games Stage
Total: 3
葉符「狂いの落葉」 Leaf Sign "Falling Leaves of Madness" MoF
GoM
St. 1: H/L
秋符「フォーリンブラスト」 Autumn Sign "Falling Blast" DS St. 1
枯道「ロストウィンドロウ」 Wilted Path "Lost Windrow" DS
GoU
St. 1

Additional Information

Trivia

  • It makes very much sense for Shizuha to be the older sister who is the goddess of turning leaves as the leaves change in autumn before the harvest.
Shizuha's sigil in the Grimoire of Marisa.

Fanon

  • Despite being older than her sister, Minoriko, she only appears as a mid-boss in her stage and has no dialogue in the game. This has lead most doujin authors to represent Shizuha as an immature and unreliable older sister who depends on her younger sister for everything.
    • She is sometimes shown to be jealous of her sister's greater popularity among humans and/or curvier figure.
  • Since Minoriko and Shizuha are the spirits of autumn and "disappear" during winter, and Letty is the spirit of winter, fans suggest a rivalry between them. This leads to depictions of Shizuha openly attacking Letty; after all, she is a spirit of autumn and despises winter.
  • Because she and her sister were ranked the lowest of the Windows characters in a year's annual Touhou Popularity Poll, there is a running joke in Japan that they are "original characters" with negligible presence in the games. There is a doujin anthology project dedicated to the Aki Sisters, perhaps to compensate for this.
  • On her character portrait, the leaves on her head roughly resembles a crab if they are seen as a single piece rather than two. This occasionally leads to her being associated with one, the leaves on her head being replaced by one, or herself replaced by one in fan works.
  • Aoneko (Nicovideo, Pixiv), noted to be one of the biggest fans of the Aki sisters, started an Aki sisters-only video website called AkiTube.
  • Even though her character portrait, her sprite, and each of her print work appearances show the bottom of her dress as being shaped like leaves, many fans omit the detail and instead draw her dress as having a straight edge.

Official Profiles

Mountain of Faith - キャラ設定.txt
Shizuha Aki in Mountain of Faith ○1面中ボス 寂しさと終焉の象徴

  秋 静葉(あき しずは)
  Aki Sizuha

  種族:紅葉の神
  能力:紅葉を司る程度の能力

  1面ボスの穣子の姉である。普段は姉妹で幻想郷の秋を司っている。
  彼女らは余り戦闘は得意ではないが、人間が秋を邪魔しに来たので、
  警告もかねて少々懲らしめてやろうと思った。

  秋の中でも紅葉が一番だと思っており、妹に対し美しい紅葉を見せて
  は、優越感に浸っている。
  冬が来ると暗くなる。

Symbol of Loneliness and Demise


Shizuha Aki

Species: Goddess of autumn leaves
Abilities: Governing autumn leaves

The older sister of the stage 1 boss, Minoriko. Normally they control autumn together as sisters. They're not terribly good at fighting, but they thought they'd come to warn and punish the humans who came to disrupt the autumn.

She believes that the autumn colors of the turning leaves are the best thing about autumn, and is filled with a sense of superiority when she can show her younger sister their beauty. When winter comes, she becomes sorrowful.

Official Sources

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