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Sumireko Usami
ɯᵝsa̠mi sɯᵝmiɺ̠e̞ko̞ Sumireko Usami | |
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Sumireko Usami in Violet Detector Expose the Esoteric! The Secret Sealing Club's First PresidentMore Character Titles | |
Species |
Human (native to the outside world) |
Abilities |
Manipulating psychic powers |
Age |
15-16 years old (as of Urban Legend in Limbo) |
Occupation |
High school student at Higashifukami High |
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Sumireko Usami (宇佐見 菫子 Usami Sumireko) is the main antagonist of Urban Legend in Limbo. She's a human from the Outside World with psychic powers (ESP). She is the first president of the Secret Sealing Club.
General Information
Sumireko first appeared as the Final Boss of Urban Legend in Limbo, and eventually becomes a playable character of the same game.
Personality
Sumireko is a high schooler with somewhat of a superiority complex. She considers herself above her peers and can't stand being near those she considers beneath her. Sometimes filled with unabashed bravado and confidence, a night in Gensokyo changes her tone to something a bit more humble. Following her defeat and the end of her Incident, Sumireko gains a sense of respect for the people of Gensokyo and decides to pursue friendship with them. Despite her somewhat naive personality, she is an intelligent and cunning young woman.
Abilities
- Using ESP
She is a strong psychic, an individual capable of various powers associated with the paranormal, including but seemingly not limited to levitation, pyrokinesis, hydrokinesis, telekinesis, psychokinesis, teleportation and astral projection.
Background Information
Name
Her full name is Sumireko Usami (宇佐見 菫子 Usami Sumireko). Usami (宇佐見) uses the same writing as Renko Usami's surname and it is known to be an actual name in Japanese. Sumireko (菫子) literally means "violet child", and is also similar to how Renko's name means "lotus child", as both take their names from flowers.
Design
Sumireko has brown eyes and shoulder-length brown hair tied in pigtails. On her head is a black hat with a white bow along with red framed glasses. She wears a school uniform consisting of a purple plaid skirt and matching sleeveless top (resembling a jumper dress), over a long-sleeved white blouse and a black bolo tie with a clasp shaped like a "Quimbaya airplane". Along with this, she wears white socks with bows and black shoes. Sumireko generally carries zener cards and a tablet computer marked with a hexagram on the back. During the events of Urban Legend in Limbo she also wears white gloves and a black, high-collared cloak with a red interior inscribed with runes.
In Wild and Horned Hermit it is shown that she brings her hat to school, where she hangs it at the side of her desk. Her summer uniform appears nearly identical to her winter one, but with shorter and looser sleeves.
Sumireko's Appearances
Games
- Urban Legend in Limbo
Sumireko is the main antagonist of Urban Legend in Limbo and the final boss in most of the characters' scenarios in story mode.
Sumireko manages to go through the Great Hakurei Barrier by using the Occult Balls, which are special stones gathered from Mystery Spots in the Outside World. However, after a short period she is suddenly ejected from Gensokyo. Learning from this, Sumireko starts with brief excursions into Gensokyo to learn more about it, appearing to anyone who catches sight of her as an ominous black shadow.
Sumireko soon devises a plan to spread rumors of the Occult Ball's powers and scatters them around Gensokyo for its residents to find. Once the balls are gathered, they warp back to the Outside World, just for enough time for Sumireko to learn about them before they are transported back. She then re-enters Gensokyo and scatters the balls again, thus beginning the incident of Urban Legend in Limbo. Her plan works for a while, and although she is baffled at why everyone who comes out of Gensokyo ends up fighting her, she enjoys it nonetheless.
Soon enough, Mamizou Futatsuiwa is made aware the incident, and devises her own plan: she claims to have Gensokyo's own Occult Ball in her possession when challenging Sumireko, claiming it would allow her limitless travel between Gensokyo and the Outside World. Mamizou instead tricks Sumireko into entering Gensokyo the proper way, which does let her stay there, but as Sumireko does not know how to get back out, she is trapped in Gensokyo.
Sumireko's story mode in Urban Legend in Limbo follows her as she is trapped in Gensokyo, whose residents attempt to scare her to teach her a lesson. In the end she is confronted by Toyosatomimi no Miko, who reminds Sumireko that she can use the Occult Balls to escape Gensokyo temporarily. She returns to the Outside World, and believing she will eventually be killed by the youkai of Gensokyo, she decides that when her time in the Outside World runs out, she will sacrifice herself to, purportedly, unleash the full power of the Occult Balls and destroy the Great Hakurei Barrier.
Before being brought back to Gensokyo, she is confronted by Reimu, who realized that one of Sumireko's Occult Balls was swapped for a Lunar Capital ball, which if activated would link Gensokyo with the Lunar Capital instead. Reimu defeats her and prevents the Orbs from activating, and upon returning to Gensokyo she is detained by Reimu, Mamizou and Kasen Ibaraki. Deciding Sumireko was no longer a threat, they return her to the Outside World. A few days later, Sumireko reappears at the Hakurei Shrine, as she had discovered that ever since leaving Gensokyo, she could travel back there in her dreams.
- Antinomy of Common Flowers
Sumireko is a playable character with an unlockable story mode in Antinomy of Common Flowers. In her story mode, she is stuck in the dream world and desperately tries to leave. She teams up with Doremy Sweet to traverse through the Dream World and then Gensokyo, eventually leaving to the outside world only to find that not only has her original dream world self has taken over her real-world place, another clone of her has challenged both other Sumirekos.
Relationships
Fujiwara no Mokou
Initially annoyed, Mokou challenged Sumireko to a duel. The two found each other's strength admirable, and once Mokou's time Outside is over, they parted ways in a dramatic fashion. Later, Mokou met Sumireko again in Gensokyo, and guided her out of the Bamboo Forest, notably not as silently as the former usually would. It seems the two of them have become fast friends.
Renko Usami
Due to her name, similar appearance, and involvement in the creation of the Secret Sealing Club, she may have some kind of relation to Renko. However, the specifics of this connection is as yet unknown. Her profile suggests she is an ancestor of Renko, from the present time.
Skills
Name | Translated | Comments | Games | Usage | ||
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Total: 12 | ||||||
アーバンサイコキネシス | Urban Psychokinesis | ULiL AoCF |
5C 5C | |||
テレポーテーション | Teleportation | ULiL AoCF VD |
6C 6C Lv2 | |||
テレキネシス 電柱 | Telekinesis: Telephone Pole | ULiL AoCF |
4C 4C | |||
テレキネシス 鉄骨 | Telekinesis: Iron Girder | ULiL AoCF |
8C 8C | |||
チェインメール | Chain Mail | ULiL AoCF |
2C (except at bottom of screen) 2C (except at bottom of screen) | |||
ハイドロキネシス マンホール | Hydrokinesis: Manhole | ULiL AoCF |
2C at bottom of screen 2C at bottom of screen | |||
オカルトボール | Occult Ball | Aided by Occult Ball | ULiL | A+B with Occult Ball | ||
サモンドッペルゲンガー | Summon Doppelganger | Aided by Occult effect | AoCF | A+B with Occult gauge | ||
バレットキャンセル | Bullet Cancel | Used by Dream Sumireko | VD | Lv1 | ||
テレフォトグラフィー | Telephotography | Used by Dream Sumireko | VD | Lv3 | ||
パイロキネシス | Pyrokinesis | VD | Lv4 | |||
デスキャンセル | Death Cancel | Used by Dream Sumireko (aided by Okina Matara) | VD | Lv5 |
Spell Cards
Name | Translated | Comments | Games | Stage | ||
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Total: 16 | ||||||
銃符「3Dプリンターガン」 | Gun Sign "3D Printer Gun" | ULiL AoCF |
Use Use | |||
念力「サイコキネシスアプリ」 | Psychokinesis "Psychokinesis App" | ULiL AoCF |
Use Use | |||
念力「テレキネシス 電波塔」 | Psychokinesis "Telekinesis: Radio Tower" | ULiL AoCF |
Use Use | |||
*幻視せよ!異世界の狂気を* | *See Visions of the Other World's Lunacy!* | ULiL AoCF |
Use-LW Use-LW | |||
念力「サイコプロージョン」 | Psychokinesis "Psychexplosion" | ULiL | Story | |||
念力「テレキネシス 不法投棄」 | Psychokinesis "Telekinesis: Illegal Dumping" | ULiL | Story | |||
*現し世のオカルティシャン* | *Occultician of the Present World* | ULiL | Story | |||
*深秘のエソテリックセブン* | *Esoteric Seven of Profound Secrets* | ULiL | Story | |||
超能力「サイコキネシスエンドレス」 | ESP "Psychokinesis Endless" | Used by Sumireko's Dream World self | AoCF | Story | ||
夢礫符「羊毛色のサイコキネシス」 | Dream Rubble Sign "Wool-Colored Psychokinesis" | Co-owner with Doremy | AoCF | Story | ||
W超能力「サイコキネシステレポーテーション」 | Double ESP "Psychokinesis Teleportation" | Co-owner with own doppelganger | AoCF | Story | ||
W超能力「絶体絶命メトロポリタン」 | Double ESP "Desperate Danger Metropolitan" | Co-owner with own doppelganger | AoCF | Story | ||
「世紀のダブルエスパー 宇佐見菫子」 | "Double ESPer of the Century, Sumireko Usami" | Co-owner with own doppelganger | AoCF | Story (Overdrive) | ||
槌礫符「大判小判ザックザクサイコキネシス」 | Mallet Rubble Sign "Rolling-in-Riches Psychokinesis" | Co-owner with Shinmyoumaru | AoCF | Story | ||
紙符「ESPカード手裏剣」 | Paper Sign "Zener Card Shuriken" | VD | Nightmare Diary - 2 | |||
紙符「結界中のESPカード手裏剣」 | Paper Sign "Barrier-Enclosed Zener Card Shuriken" | Co-owner with Yukari | VD | Nightmare Diary - 3 |
Gallery
Cover of Urban Legend in Limbo, featuring Sumireko's silhouette
Cover of Urban Legend in Limbo OST, featuring Sumireko
Sumireko in Urban Legend in Limbo
Sumireko art from Urban Legend in Limbo
Sumireko on the Vol. 6 cover of Wild and Horned Hermit
Sumireko in Curiosities of Lotus Asia
Sumireko in Curiosities of Lotus Asia
Additional Information
- The silhouette of Sumireko occupies the front of Urban Legend in Limbo's jewel case.
- Sumireko is the first final boss to be a human from outside Gensokyo since the PC-98 game Phantasmagoria of Dim.Dream, who was Yumemi Okazaki. Sumireko also has similarities to Yumemi besides this; both have an interest in magic, they tried to take an inhabitant of Gensokyo, they have a cape and had traps provided to lurk them into their area.
- She is also the first fighting game final boss whose story mode scenario is not the last to be unlocked.
- The runes on her cape do not appear to form any meaningful words, and some are even drawn from different runic alphabets (e.g. the old-form "sowilo" rune as written in Elder Futhark and the "stan" rune used by Anglo-Saxon writers hundreds of years later).
- Inside the game data for Urban Legend in Limbo, a folder named "Hanako" can be found that contains three sprites of a silhouetted Sumireko holding her cell phone. It's possible that Hanako was a working name for her, or was intended to be her name.
- Antinomy of Common Flowers confirms her to be a citizen of the Kanto Region. Incidentally, Renko's parents also live in Tokyo.
Fandom
Official Profiles
○深秘を曝け!秘封倶楽部 初代会長 宇佐見 菫子(うさみ すみれこ) 種族:女子高生 彼女は本物の超能力者であった。 ネットで知識を深めた若者にありがちの全能感と、生まれ持った才能に 友達という物が無駄であるとは言わない。 そんなわけで友達が出来る訳も無く この頃から、彼女は独自の研究を始めた。
聡明な彼女は人を追い払う為に『あえて』人を集めた。
そこでは自分の知識は上辺だけの物であると思い知らされた。経験 そして夢の中には、彼女が見下すことの出来ない人間達がいた。 : ……しかし、最後まで不可解な事があった。 それは誰の仕業だろうか。
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Expose the Esoteric! The Secret Sealing Club's First President Sumireko Usami Species: High-school girl She was a genuine psychic. Thanks to the sense of omnipotence common to youths who furthered their knowledge via the internet, and to the talents she was born with, she began to think that "she was superior to other people," particularly around the time when she was in middle school. It wasn't to say that friends were useless or anything. Thus, unable to make any friends, (although she herself would frame it as "I didn't make any because I just didn't need any",) she lived a school life that others would view as tragic, but she herself was enriched by. It was around that time that she began research of her own. When she entered high school, her lifestyle instantly changed. However, she was convinced that she was of a different sort than the other humans around her. Other people, as far as she was concerned, may as well have been demons plotting to form regular relationships with her in order to drag her down to their level. In a smart move, she deliberately gathered people around her so as to drive them away. The Secret Sealing Club was a circle dedicated to exposing the secrets of other worlds with their own power. ---and so, various things occurred from there, There, she was made to realize that all her knowledge was only superficial. Experience is the real truth of this world, and her pursuit of factual knowledge was only something to cover for this. And in that dream, she at last met people who she couldn't look down on. .... .... .... ...however, there was one thing that remained incomprehensible in the end. Whose doing was this? Perhaps someone had been attempting to break the barrier from the inside. |
Official Sources
- 2015/05/10 Urban Legend in Limbo - Final boss and playable character
References
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