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Reimu Hakurei (博麗 霊夢 Hakurei Reimu) is the main character of the Touhou Project. As the Miko of Hakurei, she manages the Hakurei Border of Gensokyo and exterminates youkai.
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General Information[edit]
Name[edit]
Reimu's full name is Reimu Hakurei (博麗 霊夢). The characters for Reimu's last name Hakurei (博麗) literally mean something along the lines of "esteemed companion". The first word Haku (博) means "wide" or "exposition" while Rei (麗) means "lovely", "graceful", and "beautiful". Hakurei (博麗) is also another name for sake. Her first name Reimu (霊夢) means "revelatory dream" or "a vision"; the first word, Rei (霊) means "spirit" or "soul" while Yume (夢) is read Mu and means "dream".
Reimu's name was different during the PC-98 era. Her name read as 博麗靈夢, and from Shuusou Gyoku onwards, it was changed to 博麗霊夢.
Appearance[edit]
She has a very large ribbon on her head, and a red hair ornament attached on both sides of her face. Her hair length is different depending on the work, but later works tend to have her hair longer. As she is called the "red-white miko"[2], she wears red and white miko clothing. She has a yellow ribbon, on her chest, although its color changes (it was red in Embodiment of Scarlet Devil, Perfect Cherry Blossom, blue in Phantasmagoria of Flower View, Subterranean Animism). Her miko clothing has detached sleeves, a unique design that exposes her armpits. Her miko clothing and her purification rod (お祓い棒, oharai-bou) come from Rinnosuke Morichika, but it is unknown who designs them. She is moderately tall. In chapter 7 of Strange and Bright Nature Deity, she had chopsticks with her left hand, and it stated that she was left-handed[3] but she held a pen with her right hand in Subterranean Animism. Therefore, she is actually ambidextrous, or she might just be used to writing words with her right hand.
Backstory[edit]
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Personality[edit]
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Story[edit]
- Highly Responsive to Prayers
- Main article: Highly Responsive to Prayers Story
A lone shrine sits Far East; the Hakurei Shrine. The powerful seal placed there has worn away and the shrine gets destroyed. Now Reimu, seeking revenge and armed with the Yin-Yang Orbs goes to the gate to face the non-human creatures inside. The gate either leads to Makai or Hell.
- Story of Eastern Wonderland
- Main article: Story of Eastern Wonderland Story
Reimu is training intensely in the harsh extremities of a mountain (or taking it easy, your pick), but when she comes back to her home, she learns her shrine is infested by youkai, ghosts and other non-human creatures. With her faithful turtle Genjii and her trusty Yin-Yang Orbs, she sets out to find the one who caused the trouble.
- Phantasmagoria of Dim.Dream
- Main article: Phantasmagoria of Dim.Dream Reimu's Scenario
Things have been peaceful lately so Reimu has time to kill. She discovers some old ruins with a promise of something good for whoever enters. However, six others also want the prize so they decided to fight for access.
- Lotus Land Story
- Main article: Lotus Land Story Story
Reimu mulls over on how quiet things have been and then spirits begin charging into her shrine. She starts to exterminate a few then realizes this must've been the work of something bigger, so she decides to go straight to the source of this.
- Mystic Square
- Main article: Mystic Square Reimu's Scenario
A large outpour of demons are appearing throughout the land and it's Reimu's duty to exterminate them! But this leaves no time for herself, so she heads towards the source, Makai. This also leaves three other characters to investigate.
- Embodiment of the Scarlet Devil
- Main article: Embodiment of the Scarlet Devil Reimu's Scenario
A scarlet mist covers the sky of Gensokyo. Reimu who is annoyed by the mist, sets out to stop the incident.
- Perfect Cherry Blossom
- Main article: Perfect Cherry Blossom Reimu's Scenario
Even though it is May, spring shows no signs of coming, leaving the inhabitants of Gensokyo in a cold winter weather that only got worse. Reimu, noticing cherry petals blowing from the Netherworld, decides to set out and stop the perpetrator from holding spring hostage.
- Immaterial and Missing Power
- Main article: Immaterial and Missing Power Reimu's Scenario
As Reimu makes preparations for an upcoming feast, both humans and youkai are drawn to the feast and are unable to stop partying. Reimu is suspicious of a strange mist that covers Gensokyo and goes to investigate.
- Imperishable Night
- Main article: Imperishable Night Boundary Team's Scenario
Yukari is not able to sleep and discovers the moon has been replaced by a fake moon. She manages to drag Reimu into investigating with her.
- Phantasmagoria of Flower View
- Main article: Phantasmagoria of Flower View Reimu's Scenario
Reimu, who is usually easy-going, is disturbed by the amount of flowers blooming and, not to be the one who shrugs off her duties, goes on to search for answers.
- Mountain of Faith
- Main article: Mountain of Faith Reimu's Scenario
Reimu's shrine has become a hotspot for youkai, so she doesn't get many human visitors to do patronage. She receives a foreboding threat from a mysterious visitor, who says that the Hakurei shrine has to shut down, and be taken over by another god. Reimu, always the optimist, decided to go to Youkai Mountain to face the goddess who is making these threats.
- Scarlet Weather Rhapsody
- Main article: Scarlet Weather Rhapsody Reimu's Scenario
Eccentric weather incidents were occurring in Gensokyo's summer. The Hakurei Shrine has been decimated by a mighty earthquake and pestered by a parching drought, so Reimu seeks to defeat the person responsible.
- Subterranean Animism
A geyser appears behind Hakurei Shrine and at first Reimu is happy, because its heat will alleviate the cold of winter. However, evil spirits emerge from the earth and loiter about Gensokyo. Reimu is sent to investigate with either Yukari Yakumo, Suika Ibuki, or Aya Shameimaru.
- Main article: Subterranean Animism Reimu and Yukari Arc
- Main article: Subterranean Animism Story Reimu and Suika Arc
- Main article: Subterranean Animism Story Reimu and Aya Arc
- Touhou Hisoutensoku
A humanoid giant is trampling about Gensokyo. Three residents have a few theories on what that could be...
- Main article: Sanae Arc
Reimu falls into a pitfall and sees Sanae Kochiya. She suspects her of causing mischief and attacks her.
- Main article: Meiling Arc
Taisui Xingjun has sent out minions to attack Hong Meiling, and one of them is a fake Reimu.
- Undefined Fantastic Object
- Main article: Reimu A Scenario
Reimu sees a flying ship and thinking it's filled with treasure, decides to pursue it.
- Main article: Reimu B Scenario
Reimu wants the treasure ship and nothing will stand in her way!
- Ten Desires
- Main article: Ten Desires Story
A large number of divine spirits appear, threatening the flower viewing, so it's up to Reimu, Marisa Kirisame, Sanae Kochiya and Youmu Konpaku to figure out what made the spirits appear.
- Bohemian Archive in Japanese Red
Shortly after the events of Perfect Cherry Blossom, Aya Shameimaru attends a flower viewing at the Hakurei Shrine, where she meets Reimu, who is in a foul mood because no one wants to help her clean up after event. Aya plies her with sake and questions her about the incident, commenting in the article that "Reimu just seems to be a laid-back drunkard". In the follow-up interview, Reimu claims Aya's paper is full of lies and insists her account of the incident is true, though Aya still doesn't recognize Reimu's deeds.
Relationships[edit]
Although Reimu often shows up as the main character, she does not participate in mundane activities to the extent Marisa Kirisame does, limiting her familiarity with most of Gensokyo's population. Nevertheless, she has interacted with almost every other character that has ever made a physical appearance, with the exception of the Unnamed Giant Catfish, Renko Usami, and Maribel Hearn.
- Marisa Kirisame
Reimu's best friend is likely Marisa Kirisame, who spends a lot of her time at the shrine. They are there together the majority of the time in various print works, prologues, and extra stage prologues, hanging out together and discussing or attending the latest events in Gensokyo. Reimu has known Marisa since Story of Eastern Wonderland, where Mima had Marisa fight Reimu. Their friendship may have started soon after that, as in all of the bad endings, Marisa decides she needs to train more, and drags Reimu along to train with her, much to Reimu's chagrin.
- Yukari Yakumo
Despite her antagonistic personality, Yukari Yakumo mentors Reimu by pushing her to increase her spiritual powers, such as learning how to invoke the gods in Silent Sinner in Blue. She also occasionally seeks Reimu's assistance in resolving incidents in Imperishable Night and Subterranean Animism.
- Rinnosuke Morichika;
Reimu is familiar with Rinnosuke Morichika, a shopkeeper who owns Kourindou, who she sometimes visits to hang out or for wares (and sometimes shoplifts).
- Sanae Kochiya
Despite being the priestess of a rival shrine, Sanae Kochiya is on friendly terms with Reimu and appears frequently in Wild and Horned Hermit alongside Reimu and Marisa. She came on a bit strongly when she and Reimu first met, but she really thought she was helping the Hakurei Shrine out by attempting to get it to switch gods to Kanako Yasaka. After Mountain of Faith, Sanae offered to help Reimu as a fellow miko to gather faith for the shrine, and appears to have been friends with Reimu since then.
- Genjii
In the PC-98 canon, Reimu used a turtle as a means for flight until the end of Mystic Square; that turtle was Genjii. Reimu calls him "gramps".
- Three Fairies of Light
Reimu is often the target of pranks by the Three Fairies of Light, and Reimu tends to exterminate them on sight whenever she catches them (unless Marisa is escorting them). As of Oriental Sacred Place, the three fairies moved into a tree near the Hakurei Shrine and become Reimu's neighbors, increasing the amount of pranks even more. Reimu aims to evict the fairies, but cannot find their treehouse, which is actually located on the Hakurei Border.
- Byakuren Hijiri
Reimu views Byakuren Hijiri and the Myouren Temple as a rival of sorts to herself and the Hakurei Shrine. In Ten Desires, Toyosatomimi no Miko points out that Reimu is friendly towards Byakuren. Although Reimu says they're religious rivals, she does not seem to deny it. In one of her Undefined Fantastic Object endings, Reimu is depressed at how quickly Byakuren's temple is picking up followers compared to her own shrine. By the time of Strange and Bright Nature Deity, Reimu is angry at the temple for stealing away her shrine's followers (ignoring that her shrine never had (m)any followers in the first place), but Byakuren seems unaware of this.
- Kasen Ibaraki
Kasen Ibaraki is a regular at the shrine and acts as a mentor (and sometimes guardian) of Reimu, whom she fears is too concerned with worldly desires.
- Unnamed kitsune & Unnamed kuda-gitsune
In Wild and Horned Hermit Chapter 8, The Unnamed kitsune offered to help Reimu gain worshipers after being caught disguised as Marisa during a party at Hakurei Shrine. She was, however, deceiving Reimu by letting her use the powers of her kuda-gitsune. Using her ability, they gathered worshipers. Kasen Ibaraki discovered that these fox youkai had been consuming Reimu's willpower and wealth as payment for their help. However, they managed to walk away from the Hakurei Shrine with all her wealth.
Other Minor or Unknown Meetings or Associations[edit]
- Ruukoto
In the PC-98 canon, she obtains a robotic maid named Ruukoto as a servant at the end of Phantasmagoria of Dim.Dream though no reference has been made to it since.
- Mima
In the PC-98 canon, Mima is an Akuryou who haunts the surroundings of the Hakurei Shrine, after many confrontations and being resealed by Reimu, she decides to spend her days making fun of the miko.
- Suika Ibuki
Suika Ibuki, who often freeloads her shrine after the events of Immaterial and Missing Power is also is her ally during Subterranean Animism.
- Aya Shameimaru
Aya Shameimaru, the tengu reporter was also her ally during the events of Subterranean Animism.
- VIVIT
- Note: This section is part of the Seihou Project by the Doujin circle "Shunsatsu sare do?".
VIVIT first met Reimu Hakurei at the Hakurei Shrine in Gensokyo during the Extra stage of Shuusou Gyoku. Reimu came to VIVIT with a rather aggressive voice, and VIVIT was somewhat confused to the way Reimu was speaking. She wouldn't let VIVIT speak up to what she was looking for and so she attacked VIVIT. After Reimu lost, VIVIT said to Reimu what she was looking for (the Holy Grail), and Reimu was confused and started asking questions. In Dolls in Pseudo Paradise, Reimu quotes "Oh, that girl... doesn't look like a human nor a youkai", where VIVIT is a robot. To add to this, later in Kioh Gyoku, VIVIT thought that Yuuka Kazami looked like Reimu.
Additional Information[edit]
- Reimu seems to be scared before and after the boss battle with the Five Magic Stones, thus making this the only ever time that Reimu was scared and/or afraid of a boss before and after the battle.
- Most of her theme from Lotus Land Story sounds similar to Elis and Kikuri's theme from Highly Responsive to Prayers, "Magic Mirror".
- It is originally stated that she lives alone at the shrine, but other rarely seen characters (Mima and SinGyoku) are known to stay there or near there as well.
- In Imperishable Night, Reimu is the only one whose partner doesn't mention the danger of the full moon.
- In Touhou Hisoutensoku, if you activate Fantasy Temperament successfully in a 3rd round, a remix of "Eastern Mystical Love Consultation" will play with the sounds of the Fatal KO theme from the Hokuto no Ken fighting game, fitting because activation of the said Spell Card means the opponent is certainly already dead! Because of this, it is now known as the Hakurei Hyakuretsu Ken to some extent to the fanbase.
- In Touhou Hisoutensoku, one of her alternative palettes looks similar to VIVIT, the heroine of the Seihou Project. Also, one of her palettes seems to be another maid homage, Ruukoto, or possibly Sanae Kochiya's colours. The palette also seems to resemble Mima from Highly Responsive to Prayers. Her white/light gray palette seems to resemble Toki from Hokuto no Ken.
- When playing Yukari's story mode in Scarlet Weather Rhapsody, Reimu breaks down in tears in the ending after Yukari defeats Tenshi and reduces the Hakurei Shrine to rubble for the second time, with Sakuya and Youmu looking on helplessly (although Suika offers to help rebuild it). This marks the first and only time where she is seen crying in a storyline scenario.
- The shrine maiden at the end of Dolls in Pseudo Paradise is probably Reimu. She has Reimu's title, "Shrine Maiden of Paradise" (and her personality), and according to Bohemian Archive in Japanese Red's Music Column, the shrine maiden in the song that accompanies the ending section is Reimu (so basically, this shrine maiden has Reimu's song and title). However, only the shrine maiden at the end is referred to as the shrine maiden of paradise. Thus it is possible that the shrine maiden seen in the first half of the story is a different person altogether.
- A "13th Shrine Maiden" signs off the Gensokyo Record in Perfect Cherry Blossom's prologue. ZUN has stated in an e-mail that the Gensokyo Record is unreliable (for one thing, the writing style of each section shows it was written by a different person each time), thus "there is a high possibility that Reimu is not the 13th Hakurei shrine maiden." (technically, this also means there is no proof that the person who wrote that section of the record is a shrine maiden at all).
- It is shown in Oriental Sacred Place that the shrine sometimes gets various donations (including wine) from unknown sources (implied to be from the outside world, as the Hakurei Shrine lies on the border) and Yukari is shown in Oriental Sacred Place to sneak yen donations into the offering box when Reimu isn't looking.
- Although Reimu has successfully resolved the incidents in each major Touhou game, it's possible that her win rate throughout the actual events of the games was not 100%. Perfect Memento in Strict Sense states that Reimu likes to request rematches until she finally wins (something which is allowed under the spell card rules). In essence, Reimu apparently has had to use a few continues every once in a while, but she still manages to get a good ending.
Fanon Culture[edit]
Reimu turns out to be a widely popular character among the fanbase. She is usually chosen as the playable character on a lot of fangames, or at least appears on a high number of fangames. Unlike most characters, Reimu has been compared to a lot of characters, especially some of the cast from the Seihou Project. Although Reimu is known to be the same character as her PC-98 form, some fans still depict both versions as different people, sometimes even been next to each other.
Reimu in most fangames is often a middling character better used for healing/buffing than offense, perhaps this is done in protest to her "overpowered heroine" status in the canon.
- Destitute
In Embodiment of Scarlet Devil, it has been said that pretty much nobody goes to the shrine. Thus, it has been a common interpretation that she gets 0 donations. Due to this, she is called 貧乏巫女 (Binbou miko, lit. "destitute shrine maiden").
- Armpits as a necessity
Because of how she dresses in the Windows Touhou games, her exposed armpits are sometimes a target for jokes and memes. Due to this, she is commonly called "waki miko" (腋巫女, lit. "armpit miko"). Upon hiding her armpits, anyone would notice at once, and before her back or chest or foot, her armpits are always the first thing appealed to.
- Heretic
Other than the idea that "money is dirty" related to the "destitute" meme, in canon her personality is comparatively severe (in youkai extermination, she has no mercy), so she is sometimes called "Yakuza miko". Furthermore, upon facing off with Watatsuki no Toyohime in Silent Sinner in Blue, she used the words "if one doesn't shoot down and slay without one remaining, if there is impurity on the moon, danmaku shall be scattered", said to be a little severe and without mercy, so she occasionally does not spare using unfair measures.
- Zombie Reimu
The drastic change in the color of Reimu's skin tone over the course of the Windows games (most noticeable in Mountain of Faith, in which her skin appears yellowish and almost jaundiced) raised eyebrows and led to a number of jokes and dubious theories, the most common of which is that she is actually an undead zombie.
- Miscellaneous
- Taoreimu, Dareimu, etc.: a defeated Reimu is sometimes called "Taoreimu" (from 倒れる), a hit Reimu is sometimes called "Dareimu" (from 打), and an angry Reimu is sometimes called "Buchigireimu (from ぶち切れる), thus giving her shiritori-like names.
- Concerning the god enshrined at the shrine: Rinnosuke knows who the god enshrined at the shrine is. However, since Reimu is completely uninterested in whatever god is enshrined, he did not say at all. Because of this, it has been fanon to interpret this to mean that the enshrined god is Mima or Gensokyo itself etc.
- Oni Miko: When she shows her true strength, she becomes "Oni Miko" (鬼巫女).
- Flight on Genji: Although Reimu is able to fly independently, she is still shown in a number of fanworks to still be sitting on Genjii, presumably either to be a show off or to have "extra power". The most notable fanwork to feature this is Touhou Soccer Moushuuden.
- JoJo association: In the trend of JoJo associations, it appears Reimu is paired with Josuke Higashikata, the reason here being that Josuke's name has the characters for Touhou in it (東方仗助 for Josuke, 東方 for Touhou). Although personality wise, he could be closer to Marisa.
- Silent Reimu: Sora No Amagumo has made a comic series most centered around Reimu with a few major changes: She's a silent, kind adorable girl, a contrast from the more common surly Reimus out there. And this rendition is pretty popular on both parts of the fandom.
Spell Cards[edit]
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| Name | Translated | Comments | Games | Stage | ||
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| 霊符「夢想封印」 | Spirit Sign "Fantasy Seal" | Related: Divine Spirit "Fantasy Seal" | EoSD PoFV UFO TD HM DDC ULiL LoLK AoCF WBaWC |
Use Use Use Use Use Use Use Use Use Use | ||
| 夢符「封魔陣」 | Dream Sign "Evil-Sealing Circle" | Related: Divine Arts "Omnidirectional Demon-Binding Circle" Divine Arts "Omnidirectional Dragon-Slaying Circle" |
EoSD PCB IN IaMP Soku GoM |
Use Use St. 4A: E/N Use Use — | ||
| 霊符「夢想封印 散」 | Spirit Sign "Fantasy Seal -Spread-" | Related: Scattered Spirit "Fantasy Seal -Worn-" | PCB IN |
Use St. 4A: E/N | ||
| 霊符「夢想封印 集」 | Spirit Sign "Fantasy Seal -Concentrate-" | Related: Migrating Spirit "Fantasy Seal -Marred-" | PCB IN |
Use St. 4A: E/N | ||
| 夢符「二重結界」 | Dream Sign "Duplex Barrier" | Related: Dream Land "Great Duplex Barrier" | PCB IN GoM |
Use St. 4A: E/N — | ||
| 霊符「夢想妙珠」 | Spirit Sign "Fantasy Orb" | Related: Divine Spirit "Fantasy Seal" | IaMP IN SWR |
Use Use Use | ||
| 神霊「夢想封印」 | Divine Spirit "Fantasy Seal" | IaMP SWR GoM |
Use Use — | |||
| 神技「八方鬼縛陣」 | Divine Arts "Omnidirectional Oni-Binding Circle" | IaMP IN SWR GoM |
Use St. 4A: H/L Use — | |||
| 宝符「陰陽宝玉」 | Treasure Sign "Yin-Yang Treasured Orb" | Related: Holy Relic "Yin-Yang Kishin Orb" | IaMP SWR |
Use Use | ||
| 宝具「陰陽鬼神玉」 | Holy Relic "Yin-Yang Kishin Orb" | IaMP SWR GoM |
Use Use — | |||
| 符の壱「夢想妙珠連」 | First Card "Fantasy Orb String" | IaMP | Story | |||
| 符の弐「陰陽散華」 | Second Card "Yin-Yang Scattering" | IaMP | Story | |||
| 符の参「魔浄閃結」 | Third Card "Exorcising Border" | IaMP | Story | |||
| 力符「陰陽玉将」 | Power Sign "Yin-Yang King Piece" | IaMP | Story | |||
| 夢戦「幻想之月」 | Dream Battle "Illusionary Moon" | IaMP | Story | |||
| 無題「空を飛ぶ不思議な巫女」 | Untitled "Flying Mysterious Shrine Maiden" | IaMP GoM |
Story — | |||
| 神霊「夢想封印 瞬」 | Divine Spirit "Fantasy Seal -Blink-" | IN IN Soku GoM |
Use St. 4A: N/H/L Story — | |||
| 夢境「二重大結界」 | Dream Land "Great Duplex Barrier" | IN SWR |
St. 4A: H/L Story | |||
| 散霊「夢想封印 寂」 | Scattered Spirit "Fantasy Seal -Worn-" | IN | St. 4A: H/L | |||
| 神技「八方龍殺陣」 | Divine Arts "Omnidirectional Dragon-Slaying Circle" | IN HM ULiL AoCF |
St. 4A: L Use Use Use | |||
| 回霊「夢想封印 侘」 | Migrating Spirit "Fantasy Seal -Marred-" | IN | St. 4A: H/L | |||
| 境界「二重弾幕結界」 | Boundary "Duplex Danmaku Barrier" | Related: Great Barrier "Hakurei Danmaku Barrier" | IN GoM |
St. 4A: E/N — | ||
| 大結界「博麗弾幕結界」 | Great Barrier "Hakurei Danmaku Barrier" | IN | St. 4A: H/L | |||
| 「夢想天生」 | "Fantasy Nature" | IN SWR GoM HM |
LW Use — Use-LW | |||
| 霊符「陰陽印」 | Spirit Sign "Yin-Yang Sign" | PoFV | Use | |||
| 夢符「幻想一重」 | Dream Sign "Fine Line Fantasy" | Not from a game, but contributed by ZUN to the doujin card collection "Touhou Last Word Collection" in 2004. | Touhou Last Word Collection | — | ||
| 霊符「博麗幻影」 | Spirit Sign "Hakurei Illusion" | PoFV | Use | |||
| 珠符「明珠暗投」 | Jewel Sign "Orbs of Light, Cast into Shade" | SWR | Use | |||
| 神技「天覇風神脚」 | Divine Arts "Sky-Conquering Wind God Kick" | Throwback to Highly Responsive to Prayers | SWR | Use | ||
| 祈願「厄除け祈願」 | Prayer "Disaster-Dispelling Prayer" | SWR | Story | |||
| 宝符「踊る陰陽玉」 | Treasure Sign "Dancing Yin-Yang Orbs" | SWR | Story | |||
| 光霊「神霊宝珠」 | Light Spirit "Divine Spirit Orbs" | SWR | Story | |||
| 「境界の内側に潜む霊と不思議な巫女」 | "Lurking Boundary Spirits and the Mysterious Shrine Maiden" | SWR | Story | |||
| 夢符「退魔符乱舞」 | Dream Sign "Wild Exorcism Dance" | Dream Sign inferred from Persuasion Needle/Evil-Sealing Circle | UFO | Use | ||
| 結界「拡散結界」 | Barrier "Expanding Barrier" | Soku | Use | |||
| 御守「妖怪足止め守り」 | Amulet "Youkai Repelling Charm" | Soku | Story | |||
| 霊符「夢想封印 円」 | Spirit Sign "Fantasy Seal -Circle-" | Soku | Story | |||
| 「最も凶悪なびっくり巫女玉」 | "Most Evil Surprise Miko Orbs" | Soku | Story | |||
| お札「新聞拡張団調伏」 | Talisman "Exorcism of the Newspaper Subscription Solicitors" | Only Spell Card with a character's portrait. | DS | St. Ex | ||
| 結界「パパラッチ撃退結界」 | Barrier "Paparazzi-Repelling Barrier" | DS | St. Ex | |||
| 夢符「夢想亜空穴」 | Dream Sign "Fantasy Dimensional Rift" | DS | St. Ex | |||
| 宝具「陰陽飛鳥井」 | Treasure "Yin-Yang Asuka'i" | HM ULiL AoCF |
Use Use Use | |||
| 御札「神社繁盛祈願札」 | Charm "Shrine Prosperity Prayer Talismans" | HM | Story | |||
| 御札「夢幻の高速祈願札」 | Charm "Fantastic High-Speed Prayer Talismans" | HM | Story | |||
| 御札「対妖怪方位除」 | Charm "Anti-Youkai Houi-Yoke Prayer" | HM | Story | |||
| 「信仰心増大祈願の儀」 | "Faith-Augmentation Prayer Ceremony" | Co-owner with Miko | HM | Story | ||
| 「二大宗教九字護身法」 | "Main Two Religions' Nine-Syllable Self-Defense" | Co-owner with Byakuren | HM | Story | ||
| 「面霊気大調伏」 | "Great Menreiki Expulsion" | Co-owner with Miko and Byakuren | HM | Story | ||
| 「最後のトリニティリリージョン」 | "Trinity Religion Finale" | Co-owner with Miko and Byakuren | HM | Story | ||
| 妖器「無慈悲なお祓い棒」 | Bewitched Weapon "Merciless Purification Rod" | DDC | Use | |||
| 神籤「反則結界」 「反則結界」 |
Mikuji "Rule Violation Barrier" "Rule Violation Barrier" |
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| 「パスウェイジョンニードル」 | "Persuasion Needle" | ISC | St. 8 | |||
| 「天国にいちばん近いお賽銭」 | "The Donation Closest to Heaven" | GR | "St. Ex" | |||
| 「だんまく長者」 | "Danmaku Millionaire" | GR | "St. Ex" | |||
| ＊あんな隙間に巫女がいるなんて！＊ | *To Think There'd be a Shrine Maiden in That Gap!* | ULiL AoCF |
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| 結界「至る所の青山」 | Barrier "The Home Where One Lays to Rest" | Related: Yukari Yakumo's Home is Where One Lays One's Head (SWR) | ULiL | Story | ||
| 針符「月卿を封じる針」 | Needle Sign "Needles to Seal the Lunar Nobles" | ULiL | Story (Extra) | |||
| 結界「乱暴な世界の裂け目」 | Barrier "Seams of the Tumultuous World" | ULiL | Story (Extra) | |||
| 結界「幻想バウンダリークラック」 | Barrier "Fantasy Boundary Crack" | ULiL | Story (Extra) | |||
| 霊鷹符「鷹による夢想封印ハンティング」 | Spirit Hawk Sign "Fantasy Seal Hunting Done by a Hawk" | Co-owner with Kasen | AoCF | Story | ||
| 風霊符「磐舟かわらけ封印」 | Wind Spirit Sign "Iwafune Kawarake Seal" | Co-owner with Futo | AoCF | Story | ||
| 星霊符「スプリンクルスター封印」 | Star Spirit Sign "Sprinkle Star Seal" | Co-owner with Marisa | AoCF | Story | ||
| 針星符「月卿を封じる針スパーク」 | Needle Spark Sign "Needle Spark to Seal the Lunar Nobles" | Co-owner with Marisa | AoCF | Story | ||
| 「この何度目かの命、夢想封印されるまで」 | "Until This Life, Repeated Countless Times, Gets Fantasy-Sealed Away" | Co-owner with Mokou | AoCF | Story | ||
| 雷霊符「務光の雷弾夢想封印」 | Thunder Spirit Sign "Mukou's Thunder Shot Fantasy Seal" | Co-owner with Kasen | AoCF | Story | ||
| 龍蹴符「ドラゴンズ飛鳥井キック」 | Dragon Kick Sign "Dragon's Asuka'i Kick" | Co-owner with Kasen | AoCF | Story | ||
| 霊符「夢想封印 夢限」 | Spirit Sign "Fantasy Seal -Dreamfinite-" | Used by Reimu's Dream World self | AoCF | Story | ||
| 「完全憑依と夢想封印」 | "Perfect Possession and Fantasy Seal" | Co-owner with Yukari | AoCF | Story | ||
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| 「最強最良の異変解決巫女」 | "The Most Powerful and Fortuitous Shrine Maiden of Incident Resolution" | AoCF | Use-Story Final | |||
| 霊符「夢想桜花封印」 | Spirit Sign "Fantasy Cherry Blossom Seal" | Related: Spirit Sign "Fantasy Seal" | HSiFS | Use | ||
| 「盗撮者調伏マスタースパーク」 | "Sneak-Photographer's Exorcism Master Spark" | Co-owner with Marisa | VD | Nightmare Saturday - 2 | ||
| 「背後からの盗撮者調伏」 | "Sneak-Photographer's Exorcism From the Back" | Co-owner with Okina | VD | Nightmare Saturday - 3 | ||
| 「許可無く弾幕は撮影禁止です」 | "Unauthorized Danmaku Photography is Strictly Prohibited" | Co-owner with Yukari | VD | Nightmare Saturday - 6 | ||
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Official Profiles[edit]
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★ 主人公 ・・・ 博麗 靈夢 博麗神社の巫女、生まれ付き霊力はあるが修業不足。武器は最強の 陰陽玉だが、思うように操れずよく振り回される。 それでも霊力があるので、かなりの腕前。 お札による攻撃と、霊力の放出による‘霊撃’、体術。など今回の敵 に対して無効だったので、ちょっと困りもん。 現在、この神社は彼女一人でもっている。 |
Heroine, Reimu Hakurei Shrine maiden of the Hakurei Shrine, She has some spirit-power by nature, but lacks training. Her weapon is the mighty Yin-Yang orb, but her control is somewhat unstable. |
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★ 主人公 ・・・ 博麗 靈夢 博麗神社の巫女、生まれ付き霊力はあるが修業不足。お札による攻撃と、霊力の放出による‘霊撃’。それに、‘陰陽玉’の力で妖怪を退治している。 性格は楽天家で、今回の様な非常時でも全然心配などしておらず、自分の霊力で何とかなると思っている。 |
Heroine Reimu Hakurei A shrine maiden of Hakurei Shrine, who possesses natural-born spiritual power but lacks training. She exterminates youkai by attacking with amulets, firing her spiritual power called Spiritual Attack and releasing the power of Yin-yang Orb. |
 
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★ 夢と伝統を保守する巫女 ・・・ 博麗 靈夢 博麗神社の巫女、生まれ付き霊力はあるが修業不足。お札による攻撃と、霊力の放出による‘霊撃’。それに、‘陰陽玉’の力で妖怪を退治している。 性格は楽天家である。靈夢の周りでは変なことが色々起こるが、本人はそれを楽しんでいる。 |
Shrine Maiden who Protects Dream and Tradition Reimu Hakurei A shrine maiden of Hakurei Shrine, who has the natural-born spiritual power and lacks training. She exterminates youkai by attacking with amulets, firing her spiritual power called Spiritual Attack and releasing the power of Yin-yang Orb. |
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★ 夢と伝統を保守する巫女 ・・・ 博麗 靈夢 博麗神社の巫女、生まれ付き霊力はあるが修業不足。お札による攻撃と、霊力の放出による‘霊撃’。それに、‘陰陽玉’の力で妖怪を退治している。 |
Shrine Maiden who Protects Dream and Tradition Reimu Hakurei The shrine maiden of Hakurei Shrine, who possesses natural-born spiritual power but lacks training. She exterminates youkai by attacking them with amulets, firing her spiritual power in a Spiritual Attack and releasing the power of the Yin-yang Orb. |
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博麗 靈夢（はくれいれいむ） ・・ 巫女さん 博麗神社の巫女、生まれ付き霊力はあるが修業不足。お札による攻撃と、霊力の放出による‘霊撃’。それに、‘陰陽玉’の力で妖怪を退治している。 性格は楽天家である。靈夢の周りでは変なことが色々起こるが、本人はそれを楽しんでいる。 |
Shrine Maiden Reimu Hakurei A shrine maiden of Hakurei Shrine, who possesses natural-born spiritual power but lacks training. She exterminates youkai by attacking them with amulets, firing her spiritual power in a Spiritual Attack and releasing the power of the Yin-yang Orb. |
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・永遠の巫女 博麗 霊夢（ハクレイ レイム）
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Eternal Shrine Maiden Reimu Hakurei The shrine maiden of Hakurei Shrine. Talented, but lacks training. Basically, she doesn't like to train. They say she has fought plenty of magicians, evil spirits, youkai and even gods with her strong spiritual power (for no particular reason). |
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○永遠の巫女 博麗 霊夢（ハクレイレイム） 博麗神社の巫女さんで主人公。のんびりしてるようで、実にのんびりしてる。 |
Eternal Shrine Maiden Reimu Hakurei Charms and the yin-yang orb are her weapons. Additionally, she has the ability to fly in the air. |
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○永遠の巫女 博麗 霊夢（はくれい・れいむ） 能力：空を飛ぶ程度の能力、霊気を操る程度の能力 主人公です。 時間的な流れでは前作から大して経ってなく、年齢も変化ありません。 意味も無く巫女さんです。というか東方は巫女さんＳＴＧなんで巫女さ んです。本末転倒気味。 今回の衣装は巫女さんらしいゴテゴテ感もなく、非常にシンプルな上に 巫女さんっぽくないです。本当に巫女さんなんでしょうか？ まさに「そこの紅白」って感じです。 |
Eternal Shrine Maiden Reimu Hakurei Abilities: Flying in the air, manipulating auras The protagonist. Chronologically, this title is not too far from the previous title, thus her age stays the same as before. Unintentionally, she is a shrine maiden. Or rather, she is a shrine maiden only because the Touhou series has become the "Shrine Maiden Shooting Game" series. It feels like the cart has been placed before the horse to me. This time, her outfit is not overly intricate like typical shrine maiden clothing, but has become quite simple and only remotely resembles that of a shrine maiden. Is she really a shrine maiden? She's more like "You, red-white!" in my opinion. |
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○楽園の素敵な巫女 博麗 霊夢（はくれいれいむ） 博麗神社の巫女さんで主人公。頭が普通そうだが、実は春満開。 |
Wonderful Shrine Maiden of Paradise, Reimu Hakurei Hakurei Shrine's shrine maiden, and the protagonist. Her mind might appear normal, but in fact it is full of spring thoughts. Charms and the yin-yang orb are her weapons. Additionally, she has the ability to fly in the air.
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Wonderful Shrine Maiden of Paradise Reimu Hakurei She possess the ability to mainly fly in the air. Basically, she is a shrine maiden. The shrine maiden of Hakurei Shrine, which is located on the boundary of Gensokyo. Only those of the Hakurei have rules to follow in Gensokyo. Therefore, Reimu always wears clothes that is apparently some kind of uniform (she is supposed to have many other rules too, though...). Her daily routine consists of wearing red-white, staring at Gensokyo's sky from the edge of Gensokyo, and drinking tea. By nature, Reimu can use various mysterious powers, but she does not use them to boast about them. Everything is, as is, after all. |
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Wonderful Shrine Maiden of Paradise Reimu Hakurei Species: Human A typical shrine maiden from Hakurei Shrine. She always lives on ideas off the top of her head, and doesn't consider something seriously. The only thing she does that actually resembles a shrine maiden's duties is enjoying tea and life on the veranda. She is quite simple-minded, thus when she's angry she's angry, and when she smiles she smiles. Her open personality makes her well-liked by both humans and youkai. Due to that, many people stay close to the shrine. She lacks training in both melee and spells (or rather, she rarely does them), but she covers that up with the numerous talents she's born with. So she's quite tough, enough to make you wonder if she's really a human. While she warps or uses guided shots, it's all straight from her perspective. What a mean shrine maiden. |
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○楽園の素敵な巫女 博麗 霊夢（はくれいれいむ） 博麗神社の巫女さん。 幻想郷の境にある（恐らく）由緒正しき博麗神社の巫女さん。 |
Wonderful Shrine Maiden of Paradise, Reimu Hakurei Hakurei Shrine's Shrine Maiden. She is the shrine maiden of the Hakurei Shrine, which is located at the edge of Gensokyo and (possibly) has ancient and honourable origins. Her weapons are amulets and a Yin-Yang orb. She is also preferred by mosquitoes.
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Wonderful Shrine Maiden of Paradise Reimu Hakurei Species: Human As usual, the shrine maiden you all know. She lives in the Hakurei Shrine located at the boundary that separates Gensokyo from the outer world. The shrine simultaneously exists in both worlds. She treats everyone fairly and equally, which makes her well-liked by even the most terrifying youkai. On the flip side, she does not anyone as a comrade. Since there are a great number of humans and youkai around her, there are instances where she works together with someone else, but even so, she usually does things by herself alone. She might just truly be a cold-hearted kind of human... |
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○４面ボス 楽園の素敵な巫女 博麗 霊夢（はくれい れいむ） |
Wonderful Shrine Maiden of Paradise Reimu Hakurei Species: Human As usual, the shrine maiden you all know. The morning that she was expecting to see after a full night's sleep did not greet her. She thought that something very strange was going on, so she left the shrine to investigate. It's not unusual for her to go out at night, but going out at midnight just after having taken a full night's rest was most unusual. Anyway, nights always make her sleepy, so she'll be going back to bed once the issue is resolved. She followed a trail of power into a bamboo forest, and what she found were very familiar faces... |
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○楽園の素敵な巫女 博麗 霊夢（はくれいれいむ） 博麗神社の巫女さん。 |
Wonderful Shrine Maiden of Paradise Reimu Hakurei The Shrine Maiden of Hakurei Shrine. |
| Reimu Hakurei | ○楽園の素敵な巫女 博麗 霊夢（はくれい れいむ） |
Wonderful Shrine Maiden of Paradise Hakurei Reimu |
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The Shrine Maiden of Paradise - Reimu Hakurei The now-familiar shrine maiden of the Hakurei Shrine. |
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博麗 霊夢 種族 ： 人間 職業 ： 巫女さん 住家 ： 博麗神社 能力 ： 空を飛ぶ程度の能力 性格 ： 呑気で感情豊か。浮世離れしている。 |
Shrine Maiden of Paradise Reimu Hakurei
Occupation: shrine maiden Place of residence: Hakurei Shrine Ability: Flying in the air. Personality: Carefree and sentimental. Not too attached to the world of the living. |
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The Shrine Maiden of Paradise Reimu Hakurei Species: Human The now-familiar shrine maiden of the Hakurei Shrine. She treats everyone the same. However, since her job is youkai-hunting, she acts particularly strict with youkai, but she doesn't really care much about humans or youkai. She prefers high places compared to the underground. |
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The Shrine Maiden of Paradise Reimu Hakurei Species: Human The now-familiar shrine maiden of the Hakurei Shrine. She treats everyone the same. However, since her job is youkai-hunting, she acts particularly strict with youkai, but she doesn't really care much about humans or youkai. Where there's a treasure ship, there's gotta be the seven gods of luck. She figures that where gods are involved, it's a job for her, but most of the seven gods of luck are not Japanese gods. Her true goal is all the riches. |
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博麗霊夢 自由奔放な人間 おなじみ博麗神社の巫女さん。神 |
Hakurei Reimu
The freewheeling human The shrine maiden of the Hakurei shrine. She appears pondering, like all the other days, of how to get more visitors of her shrine. It's not that she's a clump of greed, but she's only being natural. She doesn't differentiate between humans and Youkai. |
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博麗 霊夢（はくれい れいむ） Hakurei Reimu 種族：人間 能力：主に空を飛ぶ程度の能力 毎度お馴染みの巫女さん。博麗神社の巫女さん。 何者に対しても平等に見る性格である。ただ、仕事は妖怪退治である為、妖怪に対しては厳しいポーズを取っているが、実際は人間にも妖怪にもさほど興味はない。 神霊にしちゃあ随分とちゃちで雑多な霊に何らかの危機感を感じ、調査に出かける。放って置いて何か起きた時に神社の所為だと思われると困る。 |
The Shrine Maiden of Paradise Reimu Hakurei Species: Human The now-familiar shrine maiden of the Hakurei Shrine. She treats everyone the same. However, since her job is youkai-hunting, she acts particularly strict with youkai, but she doesn't really care much about humans or youkai. She goes off to investigate after being alerted by the odd divine spirits, that seemed far too shoddy and numerous than they should. It would be troublesome if she just left it alone and something happened, in which her shrine would be blamed. |
Official Sources[edit]
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- 1997/08/15 Highly Responsive to Prayers - 靈異伝.TXT
- 1997/08/15 Story of Eastern Wonderland - 封魔録.txt
- 1997/12/29 Phantasmagoria of Dim. Dream - 夢時空.TXT
- 1998/08/14 Lotus Land Story - 幻想郷.TXT
- 1998/12/30 Mystic Square - 怪綺談.TXT
- 2002/08/11 Embodiment of Scarlet Devil - Reimu's Scenario & Extra Stage; おまけ.txt (official profile); Manual
- 2003/08/17 Perfect Cherry Blossom - Reimu's Scenario & Extra Stage; キャラ設定.txt (official profile); Manual
- 2004/08/15 Imperishable Night - Border Team's Scenario & Extra Stage; キャラ設定.txt (official profile); Manual
- 2004/12/30 Immaterial and Missing Power - 上海アリス通信.txt
- 2005/08/11 Bohemian Archive in Japanese Red - Article and Interview: Reimu
- 2005/08/14 Phantasmagoria of Flower View - Playable Character; キャラ設定.txt (official profile); Manual
- 2005/08/25 ~ 2006/03/25 Eastern and Little Nature Deity
- 2005/10/01 Seasonal Dream Vision/A Beautiful Flower Blooming Violet Every Sixty Years
- 2006/05/26 ~ 2009/01/26 Strange and Bright Nature Deity
- 2006/12/27 Perfect Memento in Strict Sense - Shrine Maiden of Paradise: Reimu Hakurei
- 2007/06/08 ~ 2009/04/09 Silent Sinner in Blue
- 2007/08/17 Mountain of Faith - Reimu's Scenario & Extra Stage; Manual (official profile)
- 2007/10/22 Inaba of the Moon and Inaba of the Earth - Chapter 5
- 2008/05/25 Scarlet Weather Rhapsody - chara.html (official profile)
- 2008/08/16 Subterranean Animism - Reimu & Yukari/Suika/Aya's Scenario & Extra Stage; キャラ設定.txt (official profile)
- 2009/03/25 ~ 2009/06/25 Cage in Lunatic Runagate - Chapter 8
- 2009/05/26 ~ present Oriental Sacred Place
- 2009/07/28 The Grimoire of Marisa - Reimu Hakurei's Spell Cards
- 2009/08/15 Undefined Fantastic Object - Reimu's Scenario & Extra Stage; キャラ設定とエキストラストーリー.txt (official profile)
- 2010/07/24 ~ present Wild and Horned Hermit
- 2011/08/13 Ten Desires - Reimu's Scenario & Extra Stage; キャラ設定とエキストラストーリー.txt (official profile)
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