風見 幽香
ka̠za̠mi jɯᵝːka̠ (♫)
Yuuka Kazami
Yuka Kazami
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Flower Master of the Four Seasons
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Youkai
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Manipulation of flowers
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At least over 80,[1] implied to be very old.[2]
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- Kioh Gyoku (Playable Character, Possible Opponent)
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"You know that we use the saying, 'make a beehive out of someone', when we want to mean 'completely screw someone up'. But a beehive has bees, and bees might attack in defense. That's why I'd like to say, 'make a sunflower out of someone'. A sunflower with all those seeds packed does look quite like a beehive, and you've got many shells shoved in too."
— Yuuka Kazami (Phantasmagoria of Flower View)
Yuuka Kazami (風見 幽香, Kazami Yuuka) is a long-lived youkai called the "Flower Master of the Four Seasons" whose main place of activity is the Garden of the Sun, a field completely covered in sunflowers. She first appeared as the Stage 5 and Stage 6 Boss in Lotus Land Story and later reappeared in Windows as a playable character in Phantasmagoria of Flower View.
General Information
Personality
Yuuka is a youkai who holds strength in high regard, ignoring other people unless they are strong youkai or humans with special abilities. However, it is also said she enjoys rubbing people the wrong way. [3] She does it either by teasing those who she sees as weaker than her [4] or even going around taking advantage of her link with flowers to joke claiming she is the culprit of the flower incident, just to see a reaction. [5] She also does not show mercy to those who disturbs her or her flowers, which Yuuka loves the most. Although Hieda no Akyuu claims that she has a threat level of "very high" and a human friendship level of "the worst", it has been also reported that she often appears in the Human Village, where she is very polite, [3] and it is known that she visited Reimu Hakurei to chat at least once. [6] She is also described as someone who is often smiling, [3] as seen for example in her cameo in Hopeless Masquerade, where she is smiling and waving.
Yuuka is shown to be rather dormant due to her age. It is said she is usually in the Garden of the Sun [3] moving only to where the flowers bloom, [7] and thus she usually doesn't actively seek opponents. However, there are exceptions to this when something catches her eye, as shown in her excursions in Mystic Square and Phantasmagoria of Flower View.
Abilities
- Ability to manipulate flowers
Yuuka is capable of manipulating flowers, making them bloom, shifting the faces of sunflowers towards the sun, or making withered flowers bloom again. As implied in her title, she can use it for flowers of all seasons. This ability is considered to be more of a small addition to her physical abilities, [3] but it can manifest in destructive ways, for example destroying the Hakurei Shrine using a giant flower.[8]
- Strength
Yuuka is said to be impressively strong. She is stated to be one of the strongest youkai in the vicinity of the Hakurei Shrine in Mystic Square.[9] She sports extremely high power and physical abilities, which she uses to mercilessly eliminate any disturbances. She is also compared to a manifestation of nature, akin to a Fairy, albeit far stronger.[3] ZUN has also stated her to be a very strong boss.[10] Komachi Onozuka and Medicine Melancholy are the only characters in Phantasmagoria of Flower View who trigger a defeated sprite for Yuuka after beating her.
However, despite her strength, she appears to move quite slowly in all of her appearances. As a boss, she slowly drifts across the screen, and when she's playable her movement speed is the slowest of all characters. On the other hand, she can move quite fast when using her ability of turning into a ball of light in Lotus Land Story.
- Turning into a ball of light, teleporting and cloning herself
In Lotus Land Story, Yuuka is shown to be capable of turning into a ball of light, allowing her to move at a speed much higher than usual. She also teleports around the screen in most Stage 6 attacks and she can clone herself to perform the same patterns twice.
Possessions
- Parasol
Yuuka always has a parasol with her, and she claims it is the only flower in Gensokyo that never withers. [11] According to Rinnosuke Morichika, it is a special parasol capable of cutting ultraviolet rays, as well as blocking both rain and danmaku. [3] Yuuka uses it to perform graceful attacks.
Official Profiles
Official Profiles
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幽香（ゆうか） ・・ 妖怪さん
神社の周りにすむ、数いる妖怪さんの中では最強クラスの妖怪さんなのだが、いつもなにを考えてるのか分からない性格は、そういったカリスマのかけらもない妖怪にしている。
ただ実際は、かなり頭もきれるようではあるのだが・・・
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Yuuka Youkai
One of the strongest youkai living around Hakurei Shrine, but her personality is such that one can never tell what she's thinking, so she's a very uncharismatic youkai.
However, she actually seems to be quite sharp-witted...
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■３．妖怪萌え
さてさて、関係ないですが（ありますが）１キャラだけ絵柄<が違う幽香と言うキャラは、実は昔私が創っていたＳＴＧ
の東方幻想郷のラスボスであり、東方怪綺談のプレイヤーキャラの一人です。
妖怪です。ええ。妖怪萌え～。
全然東洋風っぽくないのは、妖怪だからです。ええ。
妖怪萌。
ちなみに、レベル１溜打ちの萌風を１０人中１０人は「もえかぜ」と読むだろうなぁ、と思いつつ。
妖怪出ないかなぁ。うちの部屋とか、仕事場とかに。
巫女さんでも可。
ちなみに幽香は、怪綺談エキストラＥＤのあと、予定通り
究極の魔法と言う物を拾得しました。それが何なのかは
作者も知りません。
きっと萌える物に違いあるまい。萌ぇ～。
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3. Youkai Moe
Now then, with absolutely no relation (well, some relation) the only character with a slightly different feel, Yuuka, is actually the last boss I made a long time ago for the STG Touhou Lotus Land Story, and is a playable character of Touhou Mystic Square.
A youkai. Yes. Youkai moe~.
The reason she doesn't feel oriental at all is because she's a Youkai. Yes. Youkai moe.
By the way, I think that 10 out of 10 people would read the level 1 barrage 萌風 as "moekaze"
Wonder if a youkai would come out. Like in my room, or my workplace.
A shrine maiden is fine too.
Also, after Mystic Square's extra ending, as planned, Yuuka received the ultimate magic. The author himself doesn't know exactly what it is.
It's definitely something moe. Moe~.
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○四季のフラワーマスター
風見 幽香（かざみ ゆうか）
Kazami Yuka
種族：妖怪
能力：花を操る程度の能力
幻想郷に住む妖怪。花を操る程度の能力を持つ。
季節の花が大好きで、春は春の花、夏には夏の花、秋には秋の花、冬には少ないながらも冬の花を、一年中花が咲いているところを目指して移動する。
今回、花でいっぱいになってしまった幻想郷を見て彼女は、驚く事もなく事態を理解していた。
理解した上でずっとこのままだったら幸せなのに、と思っていた。
異変はいつかは必ず解決されてしまう。彼女はつかの間のこの異変を楽しむことにした。六十年に一度の異変、楽しまないと勿体ない。
これといって目的意識も無く、花を楽しみつつ寝たり起きたりを繰り返している。
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Flower Master of the Four Seasons
Kazami Yuuka
Species: Youkai
Ability: Manipulating flowers
A youkai that lives in Gensokyo. She has the ability to manipulate flowers.
She loves seasonal flowers, so throughout the year she moves to the respective places where the flowers grow: spring flowers for spring, summer flowers for summer, autumn flowers for autumn, and although there aren't many, winter flowers for winter.
This time, as she witnessed Gensokyo being overtaken by flowers, she wasn't surprised at all and very well understood the situation. Although she understood it, she thought that it'd be paradise if it was always this way.
The outbreak must eventually be resolved. She decided that she would enjoy this outbreak while she can. It'd be a waste to not enjoy this once-every-sixty-years outbreak.
Without a destination in mind, she enjoyed the flowers as she slept and awoke, as her pattern continued.
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Skills
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| 「フラワーシューティング」
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"Flower Shooting"
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Charge attack
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| 「幻想春花」
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"Fantastic Spring Flowers"
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EX attack
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| 花符「幻想郷の開花」
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Flower Sign "Blossoming of Gensokyo"
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| 幻想「花鳥風月、嘯風弄月」
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Fantasy "The Beauties of Nature"
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Character Design
Name
Her full name is Yuuka Kazami (風見 幽香). The characters for "Yuuka" (幽香) mean "dim scent" or "fragrance". "Kazami" (風見) literally means "wind watching" and is also the term for a weather vane. She had no surname in the PC-98 games and Kioh Gyoku.
Design
In Lotus Land Story's official art, Yuuka has green eyes and straight, waist-length hair which covers her right eye. In her first appearance at Stage 5, she wears light pink pajamas and a nightcap. She also carries a large pink pocket-watch with roman numerals. In the final stage, as well as in Mystic Square and Kioh Gyoku, Yuuka is wearing red plaid pants and a waistcoat of the same color and pattern over a plain white shirt with a yellow ribbon tied around the collar, in addition to carrying her signature parasol. Unusual among Touhou characters, Yuuka is not ornamented with any hair accessories or hats (her nightcap notwithstanding). In appearances after Lotus Land Story, her hair is wavy and cut to shoulder-length.
In Mystic Square, she is shown with a baton when she uses a bomb as a Ten Carat Torte reference.
As of Phantasmagoria of Flower View, she wears a red plaid skirt instead of plaid pants and, as in Kioh Gyoku, her eyes are red. In her alternative outfit, her dress is blue.
Her Hopeless Masquerade sprite shows her wearing stockings in addition to her normal outfit.
Yuuka's illustration in Kioh Gyoku was done by ZUN himself and was used as the basis for her current design.[10] Unlike in other appearances, her cut-in boss attack image shows her to have four green and purple wings, and her boss sprite has six wings of light.
Appearances
- Lotus Land Story
Yuuka as she first appeared in
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Yuuka as a ball of light; left from Stage 5 & right from Stage 6
Yuuka was the one behind the events of Lotus Land Story, where she sent youkai to destroy the Hakurei Shrine because she had "spare time". [citation needed] Since she was suddenly challenged to fight, she showed up with a pink negligee and nightcap, accepting the challenge. Given how Reimu Hakurei started out at day and Marisa Kirisame started out at night, [12] it is unknown just at which hour the stage is meant to take place. She used sparkly bullets, as well as a giant laser, potentially being the inspiration for Marisa's Master Spark.
Afterwards, when she was defeated, she ran off, only to be pursued into the sixth stage by the heroine, where she showed up with the appearance similar to her Windows outfit. Not affected at all by her sudden wake-up and fight, she once again fought with her opponent, but was ultimately defeated.
- Mystic Square
There was an incident caused by Makai, and Yuuka had free time, so therefore she went to Makai to play. She defeats all the people she found there, even Makai's creator, before leaving again.
At the end, she got interested in learning how to use magic and decided to follow Marisa Kirisame to know how to do it.
Yuuka arrives to some strange world where she has a rematch with Alice, who was confident after having her grimoire at hand, but gets defeated anyway. Later, Yuuka starts following Alice too to learn magic.
- Phantasmagoria of Flower View
Yuuka's back sprite in
PoFV
Yuuka's boss sprite in
PoFVYuuka, being a youkai that's been around for a long time, knew exactly what was happening when this incident started, but took time to realize it was 60 years ago the previous incident occurred. She ambulates fighting people for the sake of it or because they thought she was the culprit of the incident because she is a flower youkai. She eventually encounters Eiki Shiki, Yamaxanadu and gets lectured for living too long and teasing others. Afterwards, they fight to prove who's the strongest, with Yuuka winning.
- Hopeless Masquerade
Yuuka appeared in the fighter Hopeless Masquerade as a background cameo on the Hall of Dreams' Great Mausoleum stage. She's seen quietly waving and smiling.
- Perfect Memento in Strict Sense
Hieda no Akyuu writes an in-universe encyclopedic article on Yuuka as part of the Gensokyo Chronicle.
- Note: This section is part of the Seihou Project by the Doujin circle "Shunsatsu sare do?".
- Kioh Gyoku
Yuuka appeared in Seihou Project's second work Kioh Gyoku, a danmaku game by the junior doujin circle "Shunsatsu sare do?", to which ZUN contributed music and art. Her title was "Beauty of the Twilight" and her theme was "Lovely Mound of Cherry Blossoms ~ Flower of Japan". To add to this, Reimu Hakurei and Marisa Kirisame made guest appearances in the previous work, Shuusou Gyoku.
Like the other playable characters, Yuuka has no story mode. She was one of the few who fought without a spaceship, along with VIVIT and Muse (although Erich wasn't using a spaceship, but a high-performance mecha). As she came from another world, no one recognized her. She was merely referred to as "foreign" by Milia, who also boasted about her speed. VIVIT remarks that she feels familiar, referring to her encounter with Reimu and Marisa in Shuusou Gyoku. Gates said that Yuuka's fighting style was completely different and that he wanted her data, and Marie thought the battle between her and Yuuka was "eccentric". The last boss, Muse, felt a "different divinity" in Yuuka.
Relationships
- Reimu Hakurei and Marisa Kirisame
It appears that Yuuka has known Reimu Hakurei and Marisa Kirisame before the events of Phantasmagoria of Flower View through meeting them during Lotus Land Story. She describes Marisa as "grown up quite a bit" and tells Reimu that she's "still a poor shrine maiden". [Ref. Needed]
Yuuka was the one who sent youkai to destroy the Hakurei Shrine during Lotus Land Story. Marisa sees her as a "strange fellow". [Ref. Needed]
Minor Relationships
- Elly
In PC-98, Yuuka seems to have some kind of relationship with Elly, since she's the gatekeeper of Mugenkan.
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Additional Information
- In Mystic Square, Yuuka's player sprite is the only one outlined in blue. In Phantasmagoria of Flower View, the outline is gone.
- Yuuka, along with the Prismriver Sisters and Mystia Lorelei, is the only spell card-using character from the first generation of Windows games not to appear in Shoot the Bullet.
- Her attacks in Phantasmagoria of Flower View comparatively resemble attacks from Kioh Gyoku, where her shot and bomb was similar, her attack range was wide, and the shape and form of her danmaku had the theme of flowers.
- Her bad ending in Mystic Square has her breaking the fourth wall and kindly telling the player to rest, then try clearing the game again.
- If the Seihou Project canon were ever linked with the Touhou Project canon, Yuuka would be the only known Touhou character to have actually destroyed multiple, physical spaceships and aircrafts. UFOs appear in Undefined Fantastic Object where Reimu, Marisa and Sanae Kochiya appear to take them down, although these were fake because they were actually Seeds of Unknown Form.
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