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She gives instructions to Momoyo.
As a messenger, Tsukasa brings her messages from Megumu Iizunamaru and vice versa. The Kitsune uses this by announcing that she will report Momoyo's apparent failure to the Tengu when the protagonist and Misumaru Tamatsukuri have apparently entered the mines as thieves. In response to this threat, Momoyo attacks the two in order to eliminate the alleged thieves. However, Momoyo is again able to threaten Tsukasa and blackmail her into silence, although it is possible that this was also part of her plan. She also addresses the Oomukade with the ending -dono.


;[[Chimata Tenkyuu]]
;[[Chimata Tenkyuu]]

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菅牧 (くだまき) (つかさ)
Tsukasa Kudamaki
Tsukasa Kudamaki
Tsukasa Kudamaki in Unconnected Marketeers
Wicked White Fox Who Whispers in Ears
More Character Titles
Species

Kuda-gitsune

Abilities

Capable of slipping into places where one's soul is weak

Appearances
Official Games
  • Unconnected Marketeers (Stage 5 Midboss; Stage 6 Midboss; Marisa Endings; Sanae Good Ending; Extra Stage Midboss)

Tsukasa Kudamaki (菅牧 典 Kudamaki Tsukasa) is the Stage 5, 6, and Extra Stage midboss of Unconnected Marketeers.

General Information

Personality

Tsukasa embodies many of the tropes of being a fox spirit, talking out of both sides of her mouth, and generally attempting to manipulate people into doing her bidding through deceit or outright lies. In Unconnected Marketeers, she is generally playful and unassuming, until the protagonist gets too close to the truth, in which case she turns somewhat vicious.

Abilities

Capable of slipping into places where one's soul is weak

She can "slip into cracks in a target's heart". As a kuda-gitsune, this could possibly mean that she can possess one's mind: in her in-game dialogue, she uses this in order to rile up Momoyo Himemushi and Chimata Tenkyuu, causing them to fight you.

Background Information

Origin

She is a Kuda-gitsune, a type of youkai fox who can be kept in bamboo pipes as pets.

Name

Her given name, Tsukasa (典), typically read ten (てん), means "law" or "ceremony." Alternate meanings for the kana tsukasa (つかさ) also include chief (官) and hill (阜), which may be of more significance.

Her surname, Kudamaki (菅牧), means sedge pasture.

Design

Tsukasa has blonde, shoulder-length hair, that partially covers her face and has light-brown to yellow eyes. She has big fox ears with white points and a fluffy foxtail. She wears plainly white, one-part clothing, similar to a Onesie, with green bands at the Hemming. On the left thigh is a turquoise flower pattern. Besides that, she wears white socks and is holding some sort of test tube vial in her hand.

She holds her right hand in a pose that is supposed to represent a fox.

Story

Games

Unconnected Marketeers

Tsukasa is Megumu Iizunamaru's servant and was the one who gave advice to her, which started the whole ability card incident. She is also the direct cause of the protagonists fighting Chimata Tenkyuu and Momoyo Himemushi.

Relationships

Megumu Iizunamaru

She is Megumu Iizunamaru's right-hand man and seems loyal to her. She uses the suffix -sama for them. In fact, however, she plays her just like her allies, the goddess Chimata Tenkyuu and the Oomukade Momoyo Himemushi. Megumu trusts her without hesitation and seems to appreciate her, as she sends her away before her boss fight, apparently out of concern that Tsukasa might be injured.

Momoyo Himemushi

As a messenger, Tsukasa brings her messages from Megumu Iizunamaru and vice versa. The Kitsune uses this by announcing that she will report Momoyo's apparent failure to the Tengu when the protagonist and Misumaru Tamatsukuri have apparently entered the mines as thieves. In response to this threat, Momoyo attacks the two in order to eliminate the alleged thieves. However, Momoyo is again able to threaten Tsukasa and blackmail her into silence, although it is possible that this was also part of her plan. She also addresses the Oomukade with the ending -dono.

Chimata Tenkyuu

The goddess is also manipulated by the fox. It should be noted, however, that it is unclear whether, after Megumu Iizunamaru's betrayal, Chimata actually believes that the kitsune is more loyal to her than to her actual mistress. So Chimata sends her back to Megumu and titled her as her "pet animal". Tsukasa, on the other hand, is submissive and adds the very polite suffix -dono to Chimata's name.

Spell Cards

Spell Cards
Name Translated Comments Games Stage
Total: 5
狐符「フォックスワインダー」 Fox Sign "Fox Winder" UM St. Ex
管狐「シリンダーフォックス」 Kuda-gitsune "Cylinder Fox" UM
UDoALG
St. Ex
Use
星狐「天狐龍星の舞」 Stellar Fox "Dance of Heavenly Foxes and Dragon Stars" UM St. Ex
狐符「遅効性の管狐弾」 Fox Sign "Delayed Pipe Fox Bullet" 100BM 5th Market
狐符「管の中の邪悪」 Fox Sign "Wickedness Within the Pipe" 100BM 5th Market

Additional Information

  • Tsukasa is the only midboss-only character to have dialogue portraits and an in-game name and title introduction.
  • Tsukasa and Rin Kaenbyou are the only Touhou characters to appear as midbosses in three consecutive stages.
    • Unlike Rin, Tsukasa keeps the same appearance throughout all of her encounters, and was never the main boss in any stage.
  • Tsukasa is the only enemy character who uses spell cards but never with a spell background.

Fandom

Official Profiles

Tsukasa Kudamaki  ○5面中ボス

  耳元で囁く邪悪な白狐

     菅牧 典(くだまき つかさ)
  Kudamaki Tsukasa

  種族:管狐
  能力:魂の弱い所に入り込む程度の能力

  飯綱丸龍の頼りになる右腕で、命令以上の結果を出す……と思われている。
  実際には相手の心の隙間に忍び込み、混乱を引き起こす元凶である。

  大天狗と市場の神の間を取り持ったり、大ムカデに指示したりと、何かと忙しいようである。
  大天狗からも市場の神からも、大ムカデからも信頼されおり何かと相談を受けたりしている。

  しかし彼女の正体は管狐だ。

  彼女の助言を聞いた者は金銭的に恩恵を受けるだろう。
  その代わり破滅的な結果が待っていることも忘れてはいけない。

  市場の神も大ムカデも、霊夢達と戦うはめになった元凶は、結局は彼女の囁きなのだ。

Stage 5 Midboss

Wicked White Fox Who Whispers in Ears

Tsukasa Kudamaki

Species: Kuda-gitsune
Ability: Capable of slipping into places where one's soul is weak

Megumu Iizunamaru's reliable right-hand woman, who gets far better results than she's ordered to... or so people think.
In reality, she's a troublemaker who brings about chaos by slipping into the cracks in a target's heart.

She seems rather busy, being tasked with ferrying messages between the Great Tengu and the market god, giving instructions to the giant centipede, and so on.
She's trusted by the Great Tengu, the market god, and even the giant centipede, and they each consult with her in various ways.

But her true nature is that of a kuda-gitsune.

Those who listen to her advice will surely receive financial benefits,
but you mustn't forget that a destructive result awaits you in return.

In the end, her whispers were the source of trouble that roped both the market god and the giant centipede into fighting Reimu and co.

Official Sources

  • 2021/05/04 Unconnected Marketeers - omake.txt (profile, stage 5/6/EX dialogue, Marisa's hidden ending, Sanae's ending)

References