Mei and Mai

めい＆まい me̞ː ã̠ndo̞ ma̠i Mei & Mai
Mei (left) and Mai (right) in Banshiryuu Death Twins More Character Titles
Species	Human
Age	Both 6 years old
Occupation	Soldiers, Assassins
Location	Seihou World (Earth)
Music Themes
ディザストラスジェミニ (Shuusou Gyoku) オルフェの詩　～ Pseudoclassic (Kioh Gyoku) Death Twins (Banshiryuu)
Appearances
Official Games
Shuusou Gyoku (Stage 2 Boss) Kioh Gyoku (Cover, Playable Character, Possible Opponent) Banshiryuu C74 (Extra Stage Boss #3) v3.000 (Extra Stage Boss #3)

Note: This article is part of the Seihou Project by the Doujin circle "Shunsatsu sare do?".

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Mei & Mai (めい＆まい) are 6-year-old identical twin sisters who were orphaned at birth. They are known as the "Death Twins" and they have appeared in all of the Seihou Project games. Their age as of Kioh Gyoku is 5, and in Banshiryuu they're a year older.

General Information

Mei and Mai first appeared in the second stage boss of Shuusou Gyoku, where after they appeared as a playable character in Kioh Gyoku. About 7 years later when Banshiryuu had C74 version release, they appeared as the 3rd Extra Stage boss in a boss rush.

Personality

Mei and Mai have a nonsensical feeling associated with them, and thus their speech is often fragmented. Since they perform actions without thinking of before-and-after consequences, they like to come plunging in with speed.

Machinery

Mei's aircraft is smaller than Mai's and it uses lasers. Among gameplay, the timing of the rapid-firing lasers seems to be a little fast. Mai's aircraft is larger than Mei's, and it does body slams. She performs kamikaze attacks without treating her aircraft as an important thing, so when she hits, her aircraft becomes worn out.

In Kioh Gyoku Mei and Mai have the speed-oriented-type vessel "Maelstrom", which can split into two.

Character Basis

Name

Theirs names are Mei and Mai. Mei (めい) could mean "niece" and Mai (まい) could mean "dance", although there's more meanings to these two readings; they're likely to just be ordinary Japanese given names. Mai has exactly the same name as Mai from the Touhou Project, except Seihou's Mai uses hiragana and Mai from Touhou uses katakana.

Design

There are two images of Mei and Mai in the information box left from Banshiryuu. The girl on the left is Mei and the girl on the right is Mai.

Mei

Mei's design in Shuusou Gyoku shows that she has dark blue eyes and green hair with a ponytail (with a white ribbon) to armpit-length. She wears black loose clothing with short sleeves and a short necklace. In Kioh Gyoku she has a pink ribbon tied in her hair instead, her ponytail is neck-length and has long sleeves. In her cut-in, she possesses a scythe.

In Banshiryuu, her hair is tied into a short ponytail which has grown to shoulder-length, has a yellow ribbon to hold her hair and has what appears to be white fur around the top and bottom of her dress. She possesses a purple box with a "?" written on it. It appears somewhat similar to the question block from the Mario Series.

Mai

Mai's design in Shuusou Gyoku shows that she has dark blue eyes and has green hair with twin pigtails. She wears loose black clothing that resembles a schoolgirl's outfit with shorter sleeves. In Kioh Gyoku, two pink ribbons are used to tie her hair and she now has long sleeves, and in Banshiryuu she has long yellow ribbons. Also in Banshiryuu, she possesses a thorned ball, has black shoes and has what appears to be white fur around the top and bottom of her dress.

Story

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Mei & Mai in SSG

Shuusou Gyoku

Main article: Shuusou Gyoku Story

In Shuusou Gyoku, in order to live, they undertook a request by the Cactus Company (an investigation of what is called the "Other Dimension"). Both were sent as a pair to assassinate VIVIT, but were easily defeated.

Banshiryuu

In the Extra Stage, Mei and Mai appear over a city in their aircrafts and appear as one of the many "evil beings". Their only expression is "I don't like you", or expressing hatred towards Gyoku.

Relationships

Mei and Mai are twin sisters. Due to the sensitivity of their single-digit ages, they fight with their breaths tightly matched in a careful play of good teamwork. They keep the alternatives of kamikaze attacks and lasers up their sleeves.

Minor Relationships

Muse

A relation with Muse is unclear. In the music comments of Banshiryuu, it was stated that Mei and Mai "don't have any direct relation to Muse".

Gyoku

Mei and Mai simply hate Gyoku. For why they do is unknown.

Fandom

Main article: Fandom: Mei & Mai

Official Profiles

Kioh Gyoku - Manual

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◆ デス・ツインズ "めい＆まい" ◆ ・双子の姉妹、５歳。実は孤児である。 ・前作では、カンパニーが「異空間を調査すれば金をだす」というので、生きていくためにこの依頼を引き受ける。 ・後先考えないで行動するため、とんでもないスピードで突っ込んでくる。 ☆ 機体名 ☆ ・メイルシュトロム ☆ 特徴 ☆ ・双子である。 ・息がぴったり合っている。 ・スピード特化型。

◆Death Twins "Mei & Mai"◆ ・5-year-old twin sisters. In fact, they are orphaned. ・In the earlier game, they were hired by the Company to earn their livings after receiving the promise that "money will be paid for investigating the Other Dimension". ・Since they don't think twice before moving, they charge at you at deadly speeds. ☆Aircraft name☆ ・Maelstrom ☆Characteristics☆ ・Twin sisters. ・Well synchronized (closely matched at their breaths). ・Speed specializing type.

Official Sources

Official sources

• 2000/12/30 Shuusou Gyoku
• 2001/12/30 Kioh Gyoku
• 2008/08/16 Banshiryuu