Gyokumen Koushou
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Gyokuman Koushou is a fictional character in the manga and anime Saiyuki, one of the main enemies of Genjyo Sanzo and Sanzo-ikkou (Genjyo Sanzo's party) who wants to obtained the Heaven and Earth Scripture to revive her lover Gyumaoh. In the Japanese animes, she's voiced by Shinobu Satou.
Proclaiming herself as Lady Koushou and sometimes known as Princess Jade, she is a youkai mistress to Gyumaoh and is very determined to revive and marry him.
Lady Koushou's relationship with Gyumaoh has borne her a daughter called Lirin before Gensomaden Saiyuki. In later stories of Saiyuki, it is shown that Lady Koushou doesn’t seem to have the time and care to give motherly love to her daughter and only sees her daughter as a tool to serve her when she needs it.
In Gensomaden Saiyuki Lady Koushou is believed to be responsible for breaking the 500-year-old seal of Houtou castle, freeing almost all of its occupants except Ratsetsunyo and took steps to revive her lover.
To revive her lover, Lady Koushou has employed help from a twisted bioengineer Dr Ni Jianyi that enables her to use a forbidden mixture of youkai magic and human science to revive Gyumaoh. Gyumaoh's body is now stored in a special incubation chamber, and requires the Heavily and Earth Scriptures that comprises 5 sutras to complete the revival process. From the anime Saiyuki-Reload, it is believed that Lady Koushou has two sutras in her hand.
Since she was determined to have obtained the sutras, she and Ni Jianyi release the Minus wave to whole of Shangri-la, brainwashing the youkai, making them go berserk on their human companions and enabling youkai to do her bidding (including obtaining the sutras) in the name of Gyumaoh Revival.
She even manipulates Gyumoah's son Kougaiji to obtain the sutra for her from Genjyo Sanzo by promising him Ratsetsunyo's revival from the stone curse. Whether she will keep her promise remains to be seen.
She also invested her resources in many of Dr. Ni's inventions, a product of youkai magic and human science that were used to track down the sutras and on various occasions used to destroy Genjyo Sanzo and Sanzo-ikkou, which of course the four fighters have survived and escaped many times in the past.
