Strange Creators of Outer World/Who's Who of Humans & Youkai in Gensokyo/Okina Matara

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	摩 (ま) 多 (た) 羅 (ら) 隠 (お) 岐 (き) 奈 (な)	Okina Matara

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いろいろな神格を持つ彼女です。そのうちの一つ、障碍の神から、車椅子に乗っているイメージでデザインしました。悪の大ボスは豪華な椅子にふんぞり返っているもんだ、というステレオタイプなイメージも含んでいます。	Okina is one who possesses a variety of divinities. One of them being a god of disabilities, so I designed her with the impression of her being in a wheelchair. I also included that stereotypical image of an evil "big boss" leaning back in a luxurious chair.
摩多羅神の神格から表の信仰に出てくる事が少なくて、宗教の観光化が進んだ昨今、忘れられていくことが決められているような神様です。彼女自身が、忘れられた者が行くという幻想郷そのものを神格化したとも言えます。偉そうにふんぞり返っているのには理由があるんです（笑）。	Due to Matara-jin's divinity, he rarely appears in mainstream beliefs, and since religion has become a tourist attraction these days, he's a god that's been determined to have been forgotten. It can be said that Okina here has deified Gensokyo, a place where forgotten beings go. No wonder she's so arrogant (haha).
ちなみにエキストラになると立ち上がりますので、実際に足が不自由というわけではないです。彼女が障碍を負っているのではなく、彼女自身が障碍であり、その障碍こそがこの世界には必要な物だと、言っているのでしょう。	By the way, Okina is shown to be standing up in the Extra Stage, so it isn't that she actually has any leg impairments. Perhaps she isn't saying that she has a disability, but that she is a disability in of itself, and that such a disability is a necessary thing for this world.

Illustrator 匡吉

Illustrator Masakichi

最初は隠岐奈一人だけで煽り構図だったのですが、やっぱり二童子もいた方がセットで映えそうだということで追加して３人になりました。構図も見せる要素が増えたことで俯瞰視点に。二童子によって「秘されている」感を出しつつも、スポットライトを当てて「隠れる気がない」という、幻想郷賢者の得体の知れなさを表現したつもりです。

Initially, Okina was the only one who had influenced the image's composition, but I added her two Douji to the set because I felt it'd look better, so it ultimately ended up being three people. From a birds-eye view, the number of elements shown seem to increase. I intended to express the mystery of a "Sage of Gensokyo" who shines in the spotlight, while also using her Douji to give her the impression of being hidden.

Character Data 種族：秘神 活動場所：不明 主な能力：あらゆるものの背中に扉を作る程度の能力	Character Data Species: Secret God Place of Activity: Unknown Main Abilities: Ability to create back doors on anything
Spell Cards 秘儀「無縁の芸能者」 「背面の暗黒能楽」	Spell Cards Secret Ceremony "Performers Unattached to Society" "The Back Face's Dark Sarugaku"
Personality 隠岐奈は四季異変を起こした張本人で、「天空璋」６面及び Extra のボス。「里乃と舞の後継者を探すため」という表面的な言い訳で異変を起こしたが、真の目的は自らの存在を幻想郷に知らしめること、また現在の幻想郷の状態を確認することだった。主人公は隠岐奈に一矢報いることはできたものの、結局のところ彼女の目的は十分に達せられたといえる。	Personality Okina Matara is the perpetrator behind the Four Seasons Incident, and appears in Hidden Star in Four Seasons as the final and Extra stage boss. Although her excuse was that she was trying to find successors for Satono and Mai, her actual goal was to inform Gensokyo of her existence, and confirm its current status. Although the heroine was able to retaliate against Okina with a single retort, it can be said that Okina was able to achieve her goal after all.
隠岐奈は様々なものを司る神で、八雲紫とともに現在の幻想郷を作り上げた「賢者」の一人だという。彼女の主な能力として「あらゆるものの背中に扉を作る」ことが挙げられているが、その本質は扉を通じて対象の生命力や精神力を操る不思議なもの。その能力は幻想郷のバランスをとる役目を担っているのだとか。しばらく行方をくらませていたのか、静観を決め込んでいたのかは不明だが、「天空璋」で姿を現してからは幻想郷のいろいろな物事に影響を及ぼし始めている。それもまた狙い通りということなのだろう。	Okina is a god with control over various things, and is said to be one of the "Sages" who created modern-day Gensokyo alongside Yukari Yakumo. Her main ability is to create doors on the back of anything, but in essence, she is able to manipulate the mental strength and vitality of that thing via the door. That ability plays a role in maintaining the balance of Gensokyo. It's unclear on whether she's been missing for some time or was simply waiting for something, but since the events of Hidden Star in Four Seasons, she's begun to influence many things in Gensokyo.