Konngara

Konngara
Screenshot of Konngara in Highly Responsive to Prayers Astral Knight More Character Titles
Occupation	Astral Knight
Location	Silent Temple, somewhere in Hell
Music Themes
星幽剣士 (Highly Responsive to Prayers)
Appearances
Official Games
Highly Responsive to Prayers (Hell Route Final Boss)

Konngara is a being that Reimu Hakurei encounters at Hell's Silent Shrine in Highly Responsive to Prayers. Konngara is the final enemy Reimu confronts before returning to her shrine in the Hell route of the game. Due to Konngara's lack of dialogue, little is known about them. Like most other characters from Highly Responsive to Prayers, Konngara's gender is unknown.

Character Design

Name

There is no official kana for Konngara, but it can be unofficially written as "矜羯羅", which may be a reference to an attendant of the Fudoo Myoo-oo, the Japanese name for the Wisdom King Acala (Sanskrit: अचल) in Shingon Buddhism. Fudoo Myoo-oo is a violent figure who burns away material desire with his flames. He is often depicted with fire, a sword, and attendants "Konngara Dōji" and "Seitaka Dōji", who are sometimes considered part of Fudoo Myoo-oo's "Eight Great Youths". This relates to Konngara's pose.

Design

Konngara's appearance in The Highly Responsive to Prayers.

Konngara's sprite has red eyes, black hair, a red ribbon, and a large sword. They wear red robes with white trim and grey sleeves. They also have what seems to be either a horn or a spike impaled through their forehead. They appear to be holding a cup of some sort in their other hand. Konngara is also one of the only PC-98 characters whose hair and eyes are not the same color. The only other PC-98 characters with differently colored hair and eyes are Elis and SinGyoku's "male" form.

Gallery

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  Konngara's fight in green.

Additional Information

• At least one text refers to the figure Konngara Dōji as a yaksha, which are quasi-deities of a generally benevolent but sometimes malevolent character, explaining why one might be banished to Hell. See JAANUS link here.
• Meira and Konngara are similarly designed. They also share a single kanji in their names (羅), which means either "silk" or "gauze" or "Latin".
• Konngara is the only PC-98 character who shows different facial expressions during a boss fight.
• If the player repeatedly pauses and unpauses the game during Konngara's battle, anything red on-screen will occasionally become green.

Fandom

Main article: Fandom: Konngara

Official Sources

Official sources

• 1997/08/15 Highly Responsive to Prayers