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Yamame Kurodani

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黒谷 (くろだに) ヤマメ
kɯɽodani jamame (♫)
Yamame Kurodani
Yamame Kurodani
Yamame Kurodani in Subterranean Animism
The Bright Net in the Dark Cave
More Character Titles
Species

Tsuchigumo

Abilities

Manipulation of illness (mainly infectious disease)

Location

Underworld

Music Themes
Appearances
Official Games
Print Works

Yamame Kurodani (黒谷 ヤマメ Kurodani Yamame) is the Stage 1 boss in Subterranean Animism, inhabiting the entrance to the underground.

General Information

Yamame is a tsuchigumo (an earth spider) whose ability is the power to manipulate diseases. She generally prefers not to use it, though, and she has an outgoing nature and a love of fighting. Other youkai like her for her bright personality, but humans stay away because of her ability. In addition, as a tsuchigumo, she is well-suited for building construction due to her physical strength and that of their string. However, she can apparently be reasoned with.

Ability

Yamame's ability is manipulation of illness and diseases, with a specialization in infectious ones. It is partially implied in Symposium of Post-mysticism that the main disease she manipulates is influenza, as the only identifiable common symptom is a high fever, and the symptoms themselves change from year to year. It is further implied by the footnote which says that the sickness is called different things each year and even given "types", such as Type A or Type B. As a side note, Eirin Yagokoro is apparently attempting to create a "miracle drug" to cure this specific disease.

Design

ThGKYamame.png

Name

In an interview released in Cara☆Mel‎, ZUN mentioned that he figured her name was particularly "spiderish", maybe because spiders are all about their eyes (me, in Japanese), and pointed out that the number of buttons on her outfit added up to give her the proper number of eyes for a spider. This means that another possible interpretation for her name would be "Yamame" or "八ま目", which roughly translates as "Eight Eyes". Also see Tsuchigumo.

The name "Kurodani" is written with characters that mean "black valley". Yamame may be written as "山女" (lit. mountain girl), which refers to a mythical demon in Japanese folklore.

Appearance

In Subterranean Animism's official art, Yamame has Brown eyes, blonde hair tied up in a bun with a ribbon. She wears a black and brown dress that's poofy under the waist, some black shoes with white socks, and a yellow ribbon tied around her lower body.

Story

Subterranean Animism

During the events of Subterranean Animism, she mistook the heroine as a youkai from the surface and attacked; she was defeated quickly.

Symposium of Post-mysticism

Byakuren Hijiri mentions that Yamame came to the surface at one point to try and enter the Myouren Temple, but the monk denied her entrance as Yamame's reasons were essentially because she thinks the worried people that come to the temple look delicious.

Spell Cards

Spellcards
Name Translated Comments Games Stage
Total: 10
罠符「キャプチャーウェブ」 Trap Sign "Capture Web" SA St. 1: E/N
蜘蛛「石窟の蜘蛛の巣」 Spider "Cave Spider's Nest" SA
GoM
St. 1: H/L
瘴符「フィルドミアズマ」 Miasma Sign "Filled Miasma" SA
GoM
St. 1: E/N
瘴気「原因不明の熱病」 Miasma "Unexplained Fever" SA St. 1: H/L
細綱「カンダタロープ」 Small Thread "Kandata's Rope" DS
GoU
St. 3
毒符「樺黄小町」 Poison Sign "Japanese Foliage Spider" DS St. 3
毒雨「アンサニタリーレイン」
毒水「アンサニタリーレイン」
Poison Rain "Unsanitary Rain"
Poison Water "Unsanitary Rain"
SFW (Demo)
SFW
Story
毒蜘蛛「ヴェノムウェブ」 Poison Spider "Venom Web" SFW Story
油水「オイルバーニングレイン」 Oily Water "Oil Burning Rain" SFW Story
血蜘蛛「インピュアブラッドリーウェブ」 Blood Spider "Impure Bloodly Web" SFW Story

Additional Information

Yamame, on the cover of the SA demo CD
  • Subterranean Animism's demo CD featured Yamame on the cover (upside down).

Fandom

  • Because of Yamame being upside-down on the demo CD, it didn't take long for fan-art of her hanging upside down to come up. Fans were disappointed when she didn't do this in the actual game.
  • Because she's a spider youkai, pairings of her with Wriggle Nightbug are common (see also Relationshipping). Spiders eat bugs, right?
  • Since Kisume has no known relationships, but appears as a mid-boss in Yamame's stage, the two, sometimes along with Parsee and Yuugi are often depicted as knowing one another in fanworks.

Official Profiles

Subterranean Animism - Character Settings.txt
Yamame Kurodani SA ○1面ボス 暗い洞窟の明るい網

  黒谷ヤマメ(くろだに やまめ)
  Kurodani Yamame

  種族:土蜘蛛
  能力:病気(主に感染症)を操る程度の能力

  旧都や洞窟の奥底で活動している妖怪。
  人間と戦う事に一切の抵抗感は無い。好戦的で性格は明るい。

  ただその能力から会う者全てに嫌がられる。しかし、本人は無闇に相手を病に冒したりはしない。よく話をしてみると明るく楽しい妖怪で、地下の妖怪達の人気者である。

Stage 1 boss The Shining Net in the Dark Cave

Yamame Kurodani

Species: Tsuchigumo
Ability: Manipulating illness (mainly infectious disease)

A youkai that lives primarily in abandoned cities and deep in caves.
She has no qualms about fighting humans. She has a bright, combative personality.

Her power makes everyone she meets hate her. However, she herself wouldn't inflict disease on someone without reason. She's a bright, fun-loving youkai if you get to know her, so she's popular among the youkai that live underground.

Official Sources

Official sources