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People

Characters that are or are suspected to be youkai, demons or any other humanoid creature that is considered living.

Noroiko

呪い子 (のろいこ)
Noroiko
SoEW 2nd Stage Midboss
Sprite of Noroiko in Story of Eastern Wonderland
Species

Youkai?

Appearances
Official Games

Noroiko (呪い子) is a humanoid of some kind that seems to be cursed and is the stage 2 midboss of Story of Eastern Wonderland. With having no dialogue with Reimu, there is nothing known about her.

Character Design

Name

The name Noroiko (呪い子) is unofficial and is was taken from the Japanese fanbase, who notably uses the name to refer to this character. The "Noroi" (呪い) means "Cursed", referencing the kanji bullets she shoots, while "ko" (子) is a common general-purpose suffix in Japanese female names that literally means "child". There is also the western name "Kuroko" (黒子) which suppose to mean "Black Child", but has proved to not be as popular since the character hasn't got any form black. It may also be referred to as the "SoEW 2nd Stage Midboss" (封魔録二面中ボス).

Design

Her sprite shows that she has short, dark red hair tied with a red bow. She seems to wear a purple skirt and a purple shirt with white long sleeves. There is a jagged, red design along the hem of her dress and there appear to be some aura around her.

Appearances

Story of Eastern Wonderland

She appears as the stage 2 midboss attacking Reimu Hakurei and Genjii after they've flown passed some crows and Evil Eyes as they approached her. She shoots only one type of bullet that vaguely homes towards Reimu; her white bullets are the kanji character Noroi (呪, lit. "Curse").

Fandom

Main article: Fandom: Noroiko

Official Sources

Official sources

Matenshi

魔天使 (まてんし)
Matenshi
SoEW 4th Stage Midboss
Sprite of Matenshi in Story of Eastern Wonderland
Species

Angel? Demon? Devil?

Location

Reimaden

Appearances
Official Games

Matenshi (魔天使) is a humanoid of some kind that bares the resemblance of an angel and is the stage 4 midboss of Story of Eastern Wonderland twice. With having no dialogue with Reimu, there is nothing known about her.

Character Design

Name

The name Matenshi (魔天使) is unofficial and is was taken from the Japanese fanbase, who notably uses the name to refer to this character. The "Ma" (魔) can mean "evil", "magic" or "devil", while "tenshi" (天使) means "angel", both referencing her appearance. It is not to be confused with Tenshi Hinanawi which is 天子. It may also be referred to as the "SoEW 4th Stage Midboss" (封魔録四面中ボス).

Design

Her sprite shows that she has purple hair at medium length and wears a long blue dress. She has an apron with a cross on it, and also has white wings. Since she's got angel-like wings and a holy attire, she's possibly an Angel. However, Reimaden might be in Makai, which can therefore indicate that she's a demon with the fact that Gengetsu also has angel wings. Her design somewhat resembles Sariel's.

Appearances

Story of Eastern Wonderland

She attacks Reimu Hakurei and Genjii in stage 4 after they've flown passed some crows and other stage enemies as they approached her. She's got 5 different types of shots which are: single strand shots right below, random shot spread below, homing shots, some lasers and some 5 way bullets. The official strategy guide states that getting the former 3 is considered lucky. She does this again a while later after she was defeated the first time.

Fandom

Main article: Fandom: Matenshi

Official Sources

Official sources

Hikariko

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Species

Fairy?

Location

Mugenkan, but was also seen in Makai?

Appearances
Official Games

Hikariko is some kind of humanoid creature that's thought to be a fairy who attacks the heroines twice on stage 4 of Lotus Land Story and what appears to be the same character on stage 3 of Mystic Square. Since she's got no dialogue with the player on both games, nothing is known about her.

Character Design

Name

It may also be referred to as the "LLS 4th Stage Midboss" (幻想郷四面中ボス) or the "MS 3rd Stage Midboss" (怪綺談三面中ボス). Japanese fans tend to call this character "Child of Light" (光子 Hikariko).

Design

The sprite of her in Lotus Land Story shows that she has short purple hair, a yellow dress with a bow, green shoes, a big green bow on dress, and has very light transparent wings that might be attached to her arms. She has a pink hat with a long ribbon attached to it and has yellow sparkles around her. Her sprite in Mystic Square is just as same as Lotus Land Story's, but her hat with a long ribbon is now gone.

Appearances

Lotus Land Story

In Lotus Land Story, she appears in Mugenkan when Reimu Hakurei or Marisa Kirisame enter the mansion and attacks. She re-appears again later for a rematch, using the same danmaku techniques.

Mystic Square

She re-appears in the Mystic Square as soon as the heroine enters Makai and attacks her there. Once she's finished with firing her danmaku, she'll fade into the background and come back a second later directly above the player and shoot more bullets, but can only be defeated once.

Additional Information

  • The Western fanbase also sometimes refers to her as Rengeteki (蓮華的) (meaning "lotus flower -like"), and even the Japanese name 光子 is sometimes read alternatively as Koushi (光子) (meaning "photon"). The name 'Hikariko' sees the most consistent usage.

Fandom

Main article: Fandom: Hikariko

Official Sources

Official sources

Wheel Demon

MS 1st Stage Midboss
Sprite of the midboss in Mystic Square
Species

Demon

Location

Makai

Appearances
Official Games

This presumed-demon is the first stage midboss of Mystic Square character that appears on the road to Makai. She appears to be simply a stronger demon and that seems to be one of the many demons leaving Makai. Since she has no dialogue with the player, nothing is known about it.

Character Design

Name

Like any other midboss, this character is nameless. Japanese fans will usually refer to her as "MS 1st Stage Midboss" (怪綺談一面中ボス), while some of the western community would refer to her as "Hinamei". However, in relation to fan-names, various Japanese sources believe that this enemy, along with other demonic stage enemies, are in fact fairies. Hence, pixiv refers to her as "Wheel Fairy" (輪妖精 Rin'yousei) (referencing the electric ring around her) and Danbooru calls her "Wayousei", while this wiki took the liberty of changing this to "Wheel Demon". The fact that there's no evidence of fairies mentioned in the game along with the game being based on demons disproves this.

Design

Her sprite shows that she wears a red dress and blonde hair with a red ribbon. The sprite appears to be reused later on for general stage enemies on stages 5 and 6 with a lot of clones, suggesting to be a midboss-turned-common enemy, or that the midboss is just another mere enemy. However, demons from stages 1 and 3 also resemble this midboss, with a difference of having a blue dress and having arms not stretched out. Excluding the red dress, she somewhat looks similar to Rumia.

Appearances

Mystic Square

Once she appears on the screen, an electrified ring of some sort with four blue circles on it appears around her. Then, she starts spinning clockwise at a speed, attacking the heroines with danmaku spitting out as she orbits anti-clockwise around the screen. Once defeated, she drops an S power up item.

Additional Information

  • She is the first midboss to share the sprite of a stage enemy, where the next to do this is the first stage midboss of Ten Desires, which is a divine spirit.

Fandom

Main article: Fandom: Wheel Demon

Official Sources

Official sources

Ayana

MS 5nd Stage Midboss
Sprite of the midboss in Mystic Square
Species

Demon?

Location

Pandæmonium, inside Makai

Appearances
Official Games
"Nameless Midboss Demon" redirects here. For the other demon midboss, see Wheel Demon.

Ayana (妖奈) is a presumed-demon created by Shinki found in Makai's Pandæmonium who is the stage 5 midboss of Mystic Square. Since she has no dialogue with the player, nothing is known about her.

Character Design

Name

Like any other PC-98 midboss, this character is nameless. However, some Japanese fans have given her the name Ayana (妖奈), where aya (妖) means "bewitching", while na (奈) refers to the Nara prefecture in Japan (but in names is used phonetically, that is, it conveys the sound "na" but doesn't really mean anything). However, she's more notably referred to as "MS 5th Stage Midboss" (怪綺談五面中ボス).

Design

Her sprite shows that she has blonde hair with a red bow on the top of her head. She wears a red dress that's got long red sleeves with pink polka-dots and a pink bow in the centre with pink frills. She somewhat bears a resemblance to Hikariko, where the details are different and has no wings. Medicine Melancholy from the Windows era also has a striking resemblance to Ayana.

Appearances

Mystic Square

As she attacks the heroine, she shoots a barrage of danmaku as she raises both her arms and has three attack patterns. If defeated, she drops a 1-up, but the player is then left with stronger demons that are stage enemies that'll shoot random bullets; not defeating the midboss will minimize the amount of dodging from these enemies. She eventually self-destructs near to the boss fight.

Official Sources

Official sources

Unnamed Makai residents in Reimu's Ending of MS

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Unnamed Makai residents in Mystic Square
Species

Presumably demons

Location

Makai

Appearances
Official Games

These Makai residents appear in Reimu Hakurei's Good Ending in Mystic Square. The first one has blonde hair with a white dress, a ribbon, fairy-like wings and what appears to be a maid hat. The second looks more demonic, having long silver hair with a black ribbon, a black & white outfit and white devil wings.

Additional Information

Fandom

Main article: Fandom: Unnamed Makai residents in Reimu's Ending of MS

Official Sources

Animals & Plants

Sokrates

ソクラテス
Sokrates
Sokrates
Species

Cat

Occupation

Ellen's pet cat

Appearances
Official Games

Sokrates (ソクラテス Sokuratesu) is Ellen's average short-haired pet cat with light tan fur from the PC-98 era. In Phantasmagoria of Dim.Dream, he was always seen on top of Ellen's shoulder. The only time you see Ellen without him is when she casts a spell card.

Character Design

Name

Sokrates seems to share his name with a classic Greek philosopher called Socrates. ZUN notes that Ellen's clothing style and the "age" where cats were pets don't really match up,[1] so the cat should probably be named "Archimedes" instead.

Additional Information

  • Sokrates is one of the few mundane cats featured in the Touhou Project.
  • Sokrates is the second male to be introduced to the series, first being Genjii. (This excludes SinGyoku's ambiguous third form, which does look like a male priest)
  • In the Izumi Takemoto manga series Hatarakimono (はたらきもの, lit. "Hard Worker"), which Ellen is based on, the magical heroine owns several cats named after famous philosophers (such as Archimedes, Plato and Periandres) throughout various time periods. Sokrates, from the first chapter, is one of them. They also look the same.

Official Sources

Bewitching Lotus Flower

LLS 1st Stage Midboss
Sprite of the midboss in Lotus Land Story
Species

Youkai?

Location

A mountain path(?)

Appearances
Official Games

This flower-like creature is the first stage midboss of Lotus Land Story that attacked Reimu Hakurei and Marisa Kirisame on a mountain path. Since it's got no dialogue with the player, nothing is known about it.

Character Design

Name

The flower is nameless, but some Japanese fans may call it the "Bewitching Lotus Flower" (妖蓮花 yourenge). It may also be referred to as the "LLS 1st Stage Midboss" (幻想郷一面中ボス) or "Youkai Flower Midboss" by Westerners.

Design

Its sprite shows that it's a large lotus-like flower with two large aerials. Some kind of aura floats around the top of the aerials. After being defeated, there seem to be two creepy red dots 【・・】 peeping out of the ground that look like eyes. This doesn't hurt the player. It bears a resemblance to a Lotus Flower.

Appearances

Lotus Land Story

It first appears at the bottom of the screen and digs its way to the top underground, overtaking the player. It'll then pop out of the ground as though its blooming and shoot a barrage of danmaku, but its easily defeated. If the midboss is located at the centre of the screen, then it'll self-destruct.

Fandom

Main article: Fandom: Bewitching Lotus Flower

Official Sources

Official sources

Unnamed cat on MS cover

Cat on Mystic Square cover
The cat on the cover of Mystic Square
Species

Cat

Appearances
Official Games

This short-haired cat with light tan fur appears on the cover of Mystic Square. It is assumed to be owned by Alice Margatroid since it's sleeping on her skirt. It's one of the few mundane cats featured in the Touhou Project.

Official Sources

Objects & Unknown

Minor characters who are neither a living thing or whose form is completely unknown.

Shrine Tank

Sprite of the tank in SoEW
The Shrine Tank in Story of Eastern Wonderland
Location

A Bridge in a Purple Field

Appearances
Official Games

The Shrine Tank (神社戦車 Jinja sensha) is a tank created by Rika that only appears as the first stage midboss of Story of Eastern Wonderland.

Background Information

Name

The name "Shrine Tank" (神社戦車) is unofficial, but it's used amongst the Japanese fanbase, referencing its appearance. It's likely to follow the same naming scheme of the Flower-Tank (ふらわ～戦車). It may also be referred to as the "SoEW 1st Stage Midboss" (封魔録一面中ボス).

Design

The sprite of the tank shows it has large brown caterpillar tracks with a black square turret. The turret seems to have a red roof with a Shimenawa on it and a black gun. On top of the roof, it has four symbols and one of them is a taijitu symbol. It bears a resemblance to a Mikoshi (神輿), a portable shrine. However, for this to be the case is debatable because the Hakurei Shrine was the only shrine in Gensokyo before the Moriya Shrine occurred, according to non-PC-98 sources.

Appearances

Story of Eastern Wonderland

It attacks Reimu Hakurei and Genjii on a bridge before encountering Rika herself and the Flower-Tank, being the boss of the stage. It shoots small white danmaku, going in the pattern of 3 way, 4 way, 4 way, aiming directly at Reimu.

Additional Information

The results when the tank self-destructs
  • The tank is known to be the first ever midboss in the whole series.
  • Track marks will still remain on the bridge after its destroyed.
  • If the player doesn't destroy the Shrine Tank and lets it ride to the end of the bridge, then an extra layer of wood from the bridge with track marks will be placed on the path. This is likely a script error glitch as to when the tank should be destroyed by default.
  • Rika said that everything on the first stage was created by her, so this tank is obviously hers, along with the Flower-Tank, the Evil Eye Σ, the bakebake, some shining objects and a few cannons. However, it's unknown whether it is automatic or piloted by Rika.

Fandom

Main article: Fandom: Shrine Tank

Official Sources

Official sources

Two Red Dots

SoEW 3rd Stage Midboss
Sprite of the midboss in Story of Eastern Wonderland
Location

World of Fantasies

Appearances
Official Games

Two strange, magical, mysterious creatures seem to exist in the World of Fantasies that attacked Reimu Hakurei and Genjii on the third stage of Story of Eastern Wonderland. What they are, what they're called and who created them are completely unknown.

Character Design

Name

The name "Two Red Dots" or "The 2 Red Dots" is rarely used by the Japanese fans, who simply refer to them as SoEW 3rd Stage Mid-Boss (封魔録三面中ボス). If "Two Red Dots" was to be translated to Japanese literally, it could be translated to "２つの赤い点" (Futatsu no akai-ten), "２つの赤点" (Futatsu no akaten) or "二赤点" (NiAkaTen).

Design

The sprite shows that both of these creatures have a big red dot with a thin grey cross in the centre. They have grey material around the dot with red markings on one side with black markings on the other. They both appear to have something grey pointing out both sides at the top of the dot that resembles two aerials or two horns of some sort. They also have four grey auras sticking out (two big, two small) that strangely twirls on themselves. It's unknown whether they're flat or in a form of an actual body.

Appearances

Story of Eastern Wonderland

Being the midboss of the stage 3, both of them has its own health bar. They appear on the opposite of each side of the screen and that they both quickly swap positions by moving (float?) from side to side on their opposites and move down while shooting white bullets. They'll do this again, move upwards and do this repeatedly until self-destructing if they aren't defeated by the player on time.

Fandom

Main article: Fandom: Two Red Dots

Official Sources

Official sources

Five Magic Stones

Five Magic Stones
Sprite of the Five Magic Stones in Story of Eastern Wonderland.
Occupation

Gatekeepers?

Location

World of Fantasies

Music Themes
Appearances
Official Games

These mysterious group of spheres can be found in the World of Fantasies where they seem to have been blocking Reimu Hakurei's way in the Story of Eastern Wonderland, so she must fight them to get past. They are believed to be a gatekeeper of some sort and are able to change their physical appearance. Since they have no profile, no official names, and exchange no dialogue with Reimu, little is known about them. It is unclear if they are even living beings, a material made of stones, or some kind of machine.

Character Design

Name

The name "Five Magic Stones" or "The 5 Magic Stones" is often used by the western community, due to their appearance. The name maybe abbreviated to "FMS". However, the Japanese fans rarely use this name, simply referring to them as SoEW 3rd Stage Boss (封魔録三面ボス). If "Five Magic Stones" was to be translated to Japanese literally, it could be translated to "５つの魔法石" (Itsutsu no Mahou-seki), "５つの魔石" (Itsutsu no maseki) or "五魔石" (GoMaSeki).

Another notable name regarding the Five Magic Stones amongst the Japanese community is "Cannon" (砲台 Houdai), since it's able to use cannons.

Design
Five Magic Stones (1st, 2nd, and 3rd form from top to bottom.)

In the Story of Eastern Wonderland, the Five Magic Stones are 5 grey spherical orbs on stands which have red wiggly lines around them. They are on a grey platform, which is known to be on the same body of the spheres because it contains 24 laser cannons that can fire. There seems to be the hiragana character ro (ろ) on the covers that are visible when the laser cannons aren't in use. When the boss battle starts, their appearances change by the following:

Form #1: Sphere 2 and 4 turn white.
Form #2: 3 spheres remaining. Sphere 1 and 5 turn red.
Form #3: 1 remaining sphere. Lasers cannons are used. Its colour changes to ice-blue which bears the image of what appears to be a mountain.

Additional Information

  • The Five Magic Stones have the most hit boxes in the Touhou Project that affect individual health bars in the same boss fight, followed by the Three Fairies of Light in Fairy Wars.
  • They are the only boss in the whole series to not have a name, not even an identity; characters such as the Giant Toad and the Giant Catfish have a form of identity in canon, and therefore the latter is not included in this trivial fact. They are also the only nameless character in the series to have a theme song.
  • Their theme name "Bet on Death" would suggest that you are risking death when you come near them.
  • They're the first characters to use green coloured bullets.
  • It's the only character in the whole series that shoots constant bullets at the player when the player comes near the boss. More specifically, it's the middle sphere that shoots bullets at Reimu when she's in the region of the grey platform.
  • The books in Patchouli Knowledge's spell card, Five Elements Sign "Philosopher's Stone", are arranged in a similar way to the spheres.
  • Reimu Hakurei 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.

Fandom

Main article: Fandom: Five Magic Stones

Official Sources

Official sources

Multi

マルチ
Multi
Multi
Species

Robot

Age

Non-living

Occupation

Maid

Location

Outside World

Appearances
Official Games

Multi (マルチ Maruchi) is a robot from the To Heart visual novel series. She isn't a Touhou Project character, but an external character that makes an unofficial cameo appearance in Reimu's good ending in Phantasmagoria of Dim.Dream as a single throwaway joke.

Character Design

Name

Her original name is マルチ (Multi) but it was censored to Ma○chi (ま○ち, written in hiragana when officially it's in katakana) in Phantasmagoria of Dim.Dream.

Design

Similar to her official appearances, she has short green hair and wears a typical pink and white Japanese school uniform. Her large robotic "ears" enable her to be distinguished as a robot. In her official appearances she has emerald green eyes, but she appears with her eyes censored with a black rectangular box in Phantasmagoria of Dim.Dream because ZUN either couldn't or didn't get Leaf's permission to put her in the game.

Additional Information

  • Multi is the only known character that ZUN made a drawing of that wasn't created entirely by him.
  • Ruukoto's character design is thought to be a parody of Multi's since Multi is also not very good at cleaning.
  • Multi is one of the few characters in the entire series to have appeared in a game without ever having been a playable character or a boss character.
  • The hand seen when she's presented appears to be Doraemon's hand. The way the hand presents Multi to Reimu is also the same way Doraemon takes out or presents new gadgets to someone.

See Also

Official Sources

Ruukoto

るーこと
ɺ̺ɯᵝɯᵝko̞to̞
Ruukoto
Ruukoto
Species

Robot

Age

Non-living

Occupation

Maid

Location

Hakurei Shrine, was originally from the Outside World

Appearances
Official Games

Ruukoto (るーこと) is the nuclear powered robot maid that Reimu Hakurei requested in the ending of Phantasmagoria of Dim.Dream.

Character Basis

Origin

Ruukoto's character design is thought to be a parody of Multi's since, as well as being an android, Multi is also not very good at cleaning.

Name

Her name Ruukoto (るーこと) is named after the character Ruukoto Sanagawa from Izumi Takemoto's manga Sayori na Parallel.

Design

Seen in Reimu's ending in Phantasmagoria of Dim.Dream, Ruukoto wears a light-blue and white maid uniform with a red bow and a yellow radiation warning symbol on her back. She has light green hair.

Appearances

Phantasmagoria of Dim.Dream
Main article: Phantasmagoria of Dim.Dream Story

Reimu was granted a wish in her ending. She said she wanted something to clean the Hakurei Shrine, so Yumemi insisted on giving Ruukoto to Reimu.

Relationships

Yumemi Okazaki & Reimu Hakurei

Ruukoto used to be Yumemi Okazaki's maid, but during Reimu's ending in Phantasmagoria of Dim.Dream, Ruukoto becomes Reimu's maid. Because Ruukoto is from the PC-98 era, it is unknown if Reimu still has Ruukoto, but it is revealed that Reimu thinks she is useless as she had to do the work she commanded to Ruukoto herself.

Gallery

Additional Information

Official Sources

Official sources

Mimi-Chan

ミミちゃん
Mimi-chan
Mimi-chan
Location

Marisa's house in the Forest of Magic(?), originally from the Outside World

Appearances
Official Games

Mimi-chan (ミミちゃん Mimichan) is a sentient female intercontinental ballistic missile who only appears in Marisa's good ending of Phantasmagoria of Dim.Dream. She was formerly owned by Yumemi Okazaki and is now owned by Marisa Kirisame. It's unknown if Marisa still owns her.

Character Design

Design

Mimi-chan is a big white missile with black eyes, a red mouth and a red nosecone. She is based on the identical-looking missile from the 1986 manga series Don't Leave Me Alone, Daisy, where she is also named Mimi-chan.

Appearances

Phantasmagoria of Dim.Dream

Marisa wanted a weapon from the outside world and this is what Yumemi gave her. Unfortunately for Marisa, she doesn't know how to use her so she decided to just ride it.

Additional Information

  • Mimi-chan is one of the few characters in the entire series to have appeared in a game without ever having been a playable character or a boss character.

Fandom

Main article: Fandom: Mimi-Chan

Official Sources

Dark Mirror

LLS 3rd Stage Midboss
Sprite of the midboss in Lotus Land Story
Species

Ungaikyo?

Location

Fantasy World?

Appearances
Official Games

This mirror-like being was found in the Fantasy World and is the third stage midboss of Lotus Land Story. Since it's got no dialogue with the player, nothing is known about it.

Character Design

Name

This mirror is nameless, but "Dark Mirror" (闇鏡 Yamikagami) seems to be a notable name in the Japanese community, but more notably is just referred to as "LLS 3rd Stage Midboss" (幻想郷三面中ボス). Due to its looks however, some Western fans call this midboss the "Magic Mirror" or the "Magic Mirror Midboss", but due to the Spirit Mirror, it's better to refer to it as the "Magic Mirror (Demon)" or the "Magic Mirror Midboss (Demon)" to avoid confusion.

Design

The sprite shows that it looks like a black mirror outlined in a crystal blue frame with a "tail" at the bottom with spikes curving out of it in the resemblance of a bony chest with what appears to be two black "strings" on both sides. The mirror has devil wings and a small antenna at the top. When it spins while moving, it appears to be completely flat. It somewhat appears similar to the Evil Eye.

Appearances

Lotus Land Story

After Reimu Hakurei or Marisa Kirisame passes some bakebake, the mirror will attack the player early, who'll shoot danmaku with different kinds of patterns. The mirror will move diagonally or side to side around the screen. It'll drop a 1-up if it's defeated. If not killed, it'll eventually fly off the screen downwards before the background fully changes to the "outer space" scenery.

Additional Information

  • Its species could possibly be an Ungaikyo, a type of Tsukumogami, that are living mirrors that occasionally have occult powers. They are demons that come out of antique mirrors.
  • It might actually have come from Mugenkan.
  • It might have some relation to the Spirit Mirror of Mystic Square.
  • It seems to be the flattest character in the whole series, being the size of only one pixel.
  • In a broad sense, it is the first character to flip (i.e. not rotating like SinGyoku does).

Fandom

Main article: Fandom: Dark Mirror

Official Sources

Official sources

Mysterious Orb

LLS Extra Stage Midboss
Sprite of the midboss in Lotus Land Story
Location

Unnamed Dream World?

Appearances
Official Games

This mysterious ball of light that flashes with small sparkles around it is the Extra stage midboss of Lotus Land Story. Since it's got no dialogue with the heroine, what this ball of light really is has to be a complete mystery.

Character Design

Name

The unofficial English name "Mysterious Orb" could be literally translated to Japanese Shimpi-teki na Tama (神秘的な玉); however, as is the case with all unnamed PC-98 mid-bosses, the Japanese fanbase would simply refer to it as "LLS Extra Stage Midboss" (幻想郷EX面中ボス).

Appearances

Lotus Land Story

This mysterious orb appears in the extra stage out of the blue and attacks the heroines with danmaku within the Unnamed Dream World. It moves around the screen while having a set number of danmaku patterns, but it cannot be defeated because it hasn't got a hit box. However, it does provide the player items by dropping them, starting with 4 Dream Items, then 4 Super Power Items, then a 1up, all while shooting danmaku. It'll then fly of the screen to never be seen again.

Additional Information

  • It's the first character in the series to have no hit box for the player to hit. It disappears after a certain time.

Official Sources

Official sources

Spirit Mirror

MS 2nd Stage Midboss
Sprite of the midboss in Mystic Square
Species

Ungaikyo?

Location

Seen at the border between Gensokyo and Makai

Appearances
Official Games

This mirror-like being was found on the border between Gensokyo and Makai and is the second stage midboss of Mystic Square. Since it's got no dialogue with the player, nothing is known about it.

Character Design

Name

This mirror is nameless, but "Spirit Mirror" (神鏡 Shinkagami) seems to be a notable name in the Japanese community, but more notably is just referred to as "MS 2nd Stage Midboss" (怪綺談二面中ボス). Due to its looks however, some Western fans call this midboss the "Magic Mirror" or the "Magic Mirror Midboss", but due to the Dark Mirror, it's better to refer to it as the "Magic Mirror (Angel)" or the "Magic Mirror Midboss (Angel)" to avoid confusion.

Design

The sprite shows that it looks like a light crystal blue mirror with a cross in the centre and two stray lines from the sides of the cross connecting to the bottom of the centre (resembling a crucifix). It seems to have a frame with a dark blue and light blue pattern with angel wings.

Appearances

Mystic Square

After the heroine passes some ice falling, the mirror will attack the player while flying around the screen and shooting danmaku with two types of patterns. On its second attack, it'll freeze on one spot of the screen and dramatically change by loosing its wings and starts sparking, spitting danmaku.

Additional Information

  • Its species could possibly be an Ungaikyo, a type of Tsukumogami, that are living mirrors that occasionally have occult powers. They are demons that come out of antique mirrors.
  • It might have some relation to the Dark Mirror of Lotus Land Story.
  • The Spirit Mirror is one of the few midbosses in the whole series that changes its attack pattern of danmaku as its health bar decreases, being the first to do this. The next to do this is the Trump King.

Fandom

Main article: Fandom: Spirit Mirror

Official Sources

Official sources

Trump King

MS Extra Stage Midboss
Sprite of the Trump King in Mystic Square
Location

A Wonderland within Makai

Appearances
Official Games

The Trump King (トランプキング Toranpu Kingu) is some kind of creature in the appearance of a card and is the midboss of the Extra Stage of Mystic Square. Since it's got no dialogue with the player, nothing is known about it.

Character Design

Name

The card is unnamed, but it is commonly called the Trump King (トランプキング), taken from the Japanese fanbase, who notably uses the name to refer to this character. It's possibly written in katakana instead of kanji to give it a western feeling since the whole stage is westernised. It could've easily been written as Kirifuda Kokuou (切札国王). It's call the "king" because it's the strongest card on the stage and that it has a crown, but this is somewhat ambiguously incorrect because a Jack is in the 11th rank below the King and Queen, the lowest face card. It may also be referred to as the "MS Extra Stage Midboss" (怪綺談EX面中ボス) or the "Nameless Midboss Card" by Westerners.

Design

Its sprite shows that it's a playing card that is a Jack due to evidence of a "J", but with an unknown suit. It seems to have red hands, red feet, a red stick and a crown. It appears to be based on the cards seen in Alice's Adventures in Wonderland, since the whole stage is also based on this book and the stage theme is called "Alice in Wonderland".

Appearances

Mystic Square

It appears in a Wonderland out of the blue to attack the heroine after passing some card solders and fairies, sprinkling a barrage of danmaku at the player while moving around the screen. Once defeated, it drops a 1up.

Additional Information

  • The Trump King is one of the few midbosses in the whole series that changes its attack pattern of danmaku as its health bar decreases. Another is the Spirit Mirror.

Fandom

Main article: Fandom: Trump King

Official Sources

Official sources

References

  1. ↑ Phantasmagoria of Dim.Dream - 夢時空_1.TXT



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