List of Touhou Project characters
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This is a list of the characters that belong to the Touhou Project, a series of games by ZUN from Team Shanghai Alice.
Most Touhou characters reside in a fictional realm called Gensokyo, where humans and yōkai coexist. Though the yōkai do often prey on the humans while the humans try to exorcise them, no racial animosity actually exists between the two. Many characters also have unique abilities.
Because of the relative obscurity of the PC-98 games (from Highly Responsive to Prayers to Mystic Square), the characters in and after Embodiment of Scarlet Devil are more widely recognized and popular.
[edit] Main characters
- Reimu Hakurei (博麗 霊夢 Hakurei Reimu)
- Species : Human
- Ability : Mainly able to fly in the sky
- Residence : Hakurei Shrine
Reimu is the main character of Touhou games 1-10. She is the shrine maiden of the Hakurei Shrine, a remote building far in the east where the boundaries of Gensōkyō and the human world overlap.
Reimu is very easygoing — some would say lazy — and hates to train. As such, even though she's naturally talented, her offensive and magical abilities are only average. However, she has a strong sense of duty, and if it's for the sake of Gensokyo she can overcome almost any obstacle through sheer perseverance.
Her main abilities are flying in the sky, good intuition, and getting along with everyone; even those who were once her enemies. In the games, she is characterized by her homing amulets and yin-yang orbs.
In addition to being in all of the Touhou games (save Touhou 9.5), she is featured in Graffiti Kingdom as "Flying Maiden".
- Marisa Kirisame (霧雨 魔理沙 Kirisame Marisa)
- Species : Human
- Ability : High-powered magic
- Residence : Forest of Magic
Secondary main character of Touhou games 3-10, although she makes her first appearance in the second game (Story of Eastern Wonderland) as an enemy. Marisa is a human magician who lives in a cluttered house in the Forest of Magic. She is friends with Reimu and visits her often, but otherwise is solitary and spends most of her time researching magic. She is also an avid collector stuffing her house with various items, and would go "borrowing" things from others without returning them.
She is selfish, sometimes violent, and has a disagreeable manner. Underneath, though, she is honest and a hard worker. This makes it strange that she is friends with Reimu, whose powers are purely from talent while she had to work very hard to get her own to the same level.
Her ability is high-level destructive magic. In the games, her attacks are characterized by stars and lasers. Consistent to her "borrowing", many of her spells are lifted from other characters, such as her signature "Master Spark" which was originally Yuka's.
[edit] Highly Responsive to Prayers
- Shingyoku (しんぎょく)
- The stage 5 boss. A gate keeper that has three forms: as a yin-yang orb, a female priestess, or a male priest.
- YuugenMagan (幽玄魔眼 Yūgenmagan)
- Elis (エリス Erisu)
- The innocent devil, stage 15 boss of the Makai route.
- Sariel (サリエル Sarieru)
- The Angel of Death, final boss of the Makai route.
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First appearing as the stage 10 boss of the Jigoku route, Mima returns in later PC-98 games with much greater roles. She is an evil spirit that previously resented against the Hakurei Shrine, but now she's stopped being evil and enjoys her days making fun of Reimu. She is more like the deity of the shrine by now, but her personality is more human than the average human. |
- Kikuri (キクリ)
- Stage 15 boss of the Jigoku route. Alternately named the "Hellish Moon", she is a moon-like orb surrounded by a sickly purple aura and engraved with the image of a young girl.
- Konngara (こんがら Kongara)
- The Astral Knight, final boss of the Jigoku route.
Also present:
- Reimu Hakurei (playable character)
[edit] Story of Eastern Wonderland
- Genjii (玄爺)
- Reimu's pet turtle that she caught during her training. As he had lived for a very long time, he gained many mystic powers, one of which is to fly. Reimu rides on him to fly, for Touhou 2 to 5, but after that she learnt to fly by herself, and Genjii hasn't been seen since then.
- Rika (里香)
- An engineer in Gensōkyō that is the boss of stage 1 and the extra stage. She pilots the "Flower Tank" on stage one and "Evil Eye Sigma" on the extra stage. Unlike many other scrolling shooters where mechs are the primary enemy, Rika is the only character in the series to pilot vehicles in a boss fight.
- Meira (明羅)
- A female samurai who seeks the power of the Hakurei family. Stage 2 boss.
Also present:
- Reimu Hakurei (playable character)
- Marisa Kirisame (Stage 4 boss)
- Mima (Final boss)
[edit] Phantasmagoria of Dim. Dream
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Ellen is a witch who is eternally young. In fact, she has lived so long she never remembers anything. She is a cameo from the manga Hatarakimono by Izumi Takemoto, who ZUN is a fan of. |
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A princess who claims to be a police officer. She doesn't act as befits her rank, and is known to be a collector in things where other people find no interest in. |
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A one-sided poltergeist created by a mentally unstable girl. As the inhabitants of her house have stopped taking any notice of her, she is looking for another place to haunt. |
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One of the few believers in science in Gensokyo. However, she is also a considerably powerful magic user. Though she doesn't like magic much, science alone won't get her anywhere, so she mixes both. May be the same as Rika from Touhou 2. Currently the only meganekko in the Touhou series. |
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Yumemi's assistant; acts overly familiar towards her. It seems theirs isn't simply a boss/subordinate relationship. Although she looks too young to be an assistant professor, it's because she earned her Ph.D. (in comparative physics) at the age of 15. Speaks rather strangely, especially for a young girl. Most of her mannerisms were later adopted by Marisa. |
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Professor of comparative physics at an unnamed university in a world beyond Gensokyo. In this world, a grand unification theory has been developed; when Yumemi presented an expanded theory that included magic to her academic society, she was laughed at. She came to Gensokyo to do research and make her case infallible. |
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[edit] Lotus Land Story
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A very minor yōkai who happened to be in the wrong place at the wrong time. In the game, her name appears as two question marks, and "Orange" is only revealed in the character profiles of the game. |
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Kurumi is a vampiress that lives on an island in the center of the lake of blood. She guards the lake and prevents others from passing by unhindered. |
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Elliy is the gate guard of Mugenkan. Though seemingly powerful, the mansion rarely has any visitors, and thus she's out of practice as far as danmaku is concerned. |
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Yuka is a powerful youkai who lives in a mansion, Mugenkan, on the boundary between the dream world and the real world. In Lotus Land Story, an unknown act of hers radiated magical power across the worlds, sending the evil spirits in Reimu's shrine into a frenzy and attracting Marisa's notice and curiosity. She is often seen carrying a parasol, which is capable of firing the "Kyokutai Laser". This laser is later adopted by Marisa as her signature "Master Spark". |
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A human-looking, blonde-haired girl in a maid uniform. Younger sister of Gengetu. Although she's dressed like a servant, she tells the player characters that the area in which they fight is her world; it doesn't seem she works for Yuka or anybody else. |
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A blonde girl in pink with red bows and white, insect-like wings. Older sister of Mugetu. Seems to be the stronger of the two. |
Also present:
- Reimu Hakurei (playable character, Stage 4 boss A)
- Marisa Kirisame (playable character, Stage 4 boss B)
[edit] Mystic Square
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The gatekeeper of Makai, but she was easily downed. |
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A resident of Makai, she attacks the main characters as they are intruding Makai. |
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A girl whose powers come from the forbidden "Grimoire of Alice" and is quite powerless without it. She first appears in stage 3, trying to stop the protagonists but fails eventually, she then returns in the extra stage. Her name is a reference to Alice in Wonderland. |
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A black witch who appears with Mai on the fourth stage, and is angered when Mai is defeated before she is. Specializes in fire magic. |
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A white witch who appears with Yuki on the fourth stage, and fights more seriously when Yuki is defeated before her. Specializes in ice magic. |
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A knife-throwing maid who serves Shinki, she is ranked in the top class in the Makai. |
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The creator of Makai. Because she is the maker of everything in Makai, the residents of Makai see her as God. As the final boss, she personally rains the punishment on the four intruders of Makai. |
Also present:
- Reimu Hakurei (playable character)
- Marisa Kirisame (playable character)
- Mima (playable character)
- Yuka (playable character)
[edit] Embodiment of Scarlet Devil
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Boss of Stage 1. A minor yōkai who has no importance to the story. She merely gets in the players' way as they travel to the Scarlet Devil Mansion. Her ability is to create a sphere of night around her, but as it doesn't impede vision significantly, it isn't useful in combat. It is rumored that her hair ribbon, an amulet which she can't touch, seals her true power. |
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Stage 2 mid-boss. An almost inconsequential character who received no character profile in the game; fans named her Daiyousei (lit. "Big Fairy".) ZUN later attributed her as bright, playful, and full of expressions. Sometimes appears in doujinshi with Cirno.[1] |
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Stage 2 boss. An ice fairy that lives on the lake surrounding the Scarlet Devil Mansion. Although she's weak from the players' perspective, she is one of the strongest of her kind in Gensokyo. However, she is not very bright, and is a joke character second only to Meiling. Her hobby is freezing frogs and watching them revive as they thaw, but she tends to shatter them instead by accident. Unlike Letty Whiterock, she radiates cold air year-round, and can stay awake even in spring and summer. |
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Stage 3 boss. A Chinese girl serving as the doorguard of the Scarlet Devil Mansion. Canonically, she is known to be a very humanoid yōkai who practices martial arts, but is generally friendly towards humans. However, as Japanese fans find it hard to remember her name, she is often referred to just as "Chūgoku" (meaning China) and became a very popular joke character. In doujinshi she is usually rather pitiful and abused by the other residents of the Scarlet Devil Mansion, especially Sakuya. In compense, she defeated all characters from TH6-8 to win the second Touhou Saimoe popularity contest, and was added as a playable character in a patch for Immaterial and Missing Power. Recurring joke themes with Hong Meirin in doujinshi usually involves her being impaled with Sakuya's knives. |
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Stage 4 mid-boss. Similar to Daiyousei, she received no character profile in the game and was named Koakuma (lit. "Little Devil") by fans. However, she is quite popular considering her status, more so than some of the lesser liked stage bosses. ZUN later described her to be like Daiyousei — whimsical, enjoys pranks, and doesn't think before doing. He also added that while devils are powerful as vampires and magicians, Koakuma is a rather weak one, therefore, she is a Koakuma (Little Devil).[1] |
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Stage 4 boss, and a playable character in Immaterial and Missing Power, and Scarlet Weather Rhapsody. A scholar who is a friend of Remilia Scarlet's. She resides in the library of the Scarlet Devil Mansion, and is the de-facto librarian. In fact, she rarely leaves it and is somewhat of a hikikomori. She has command over the seven elements (which the Japanese days of the week are named after, making her the "One-week Wizard") and is in theory an extremely powerful magician. However, her constitution is very poor and asthma often prevents her from reciting her spells. She has a tenuous relationship with Marisa, who tends to carry off her books without asking. |
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Stage 5 boss, and a playable character in Touhou games 7-9, and 10.5. Sakuya is the only human living in the Scarlet Devil Mansion, yet she is also the head maid. The official fanbook suggests she had been a vampire hunter before she began working in the mansion, but she was defeated by Remilia Scarlet who pitied her and gave Sakuya her current name. Though she looks about sixteen like the other girls, Sakuya has the ability to slow, stop and possibly reverse time. She seems to have been serving Remilia for a long time and may be far older then she looks. Socially, she interacts mainly with the others in the Scarlet Devil Mansion. Her talents are cooking, knife throwing and time manipulation. The latter two abilities characterize her appearances in-game. |
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Final boss, and a playable character in Touhou 7.5, 8, and 10.5. Remilia is the vampiric mistress of the Scarlet Devil Mansion who claims to be descended from Vlad III Dracula although she is not. She is known as the Scarlet Devil as when she feeds, the blood of her victims stains her dress red. Apart from her unpleasant needs, she's hardly malicious enough to deserve such a title; merely childish, even though she's over five hundred years old. Although being a vampire is normally a lonely life, she has a good relationship with her many employees (including Sakuya and Meiling) Reimu is one of the few humans who tolerates her, and Remilia seems quite fond of her in turn. Marisa also gets along with her in exchange for access to her library. Her power is the control of fate (which has never been overtly demonstrated in the games). She prefers melee fighting to danmaku, but when she does resort to the latter, she is fond of red round bullets. |
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Extra stage boss. Remilia's little sister, sealed away in the basement of the mansion for 495 years because of her destructive power. Despite this, she likes her sister and doesn't usually try to escape. Most vampires hold back somewhat when fighting humans, as they plan to keep them alive and feed from them later, but Flandle was always fed prepared dishes and doesn't know her food comes from humans. Thus, when fighting them, she doesn't hesitate and incinerates them without a second thought. In dōjin, she is very fond of Marisa. |
Also present:
- Reimu Hakurei (playable character)
- Marisa Kirisame (playable character)
[edit] Perfect Cherry Blossom
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Stage 1 boss. A yōkai who only appears during winter. In her own words, spring is for hibernation, summer is for sleeping, and autumn is for napping, thus winter is her only time for activity. She enjoys herself in the extended winter, and thus gets in the protagonists' way as they seek to end it; however, she seems to accept the fact that winter must end someday, and doesn't attack them seriously. |
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Stage 2 boss and extra stage midboss. She is a nekomata who was made Ran's shikigami, which makes her a shikigami of a shikigami. She is able to summon powerful Oni, but her powers are somewhat limited because of her secondary status. As a cat, she is afraid of the water and cuddles in a kotatsu during winter. She is often depicted as a childish catgirl. |
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Returning from Mystic Square, Alice is the first PC-98 character (besides the main characters) to make an appearance in the Windows games. She now lives in the Forest of Magic. She is superficially similar to Marisa; they live alone nearby one another, are both magicians, and both of them love to collect things. Alice, however, is quite different in personality. She is aloof, rarely caring much about others and often attacking them for her own amusement. However, Immaterial and Missing Power states that she is actually a coward at heart, which made her into the most abused character in doujin; there she is a fragile and oversensitive girl who desperately seeks Marisa's affection, nearly the inverse of her in-game character. Though she still carries the grimoire around, Alice now manipulates dolls to create her danmaku, and is perhaps the most skilled puppeteer in Gensokyo. Of special note is a doll named Shanghai, who is the most prominently featured doll among the games and derivative fanworks. In the official fanbook Perfect Memento of Strict Sense, it is stated that Alice was originally a human who became a magician through training. However, this seems to contradict her background from Mystic Square. |
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A fairy that heralds the arrival of spring. However, since she expresses herself with danmaku rather than words, her announcement is usually seen as a hostile attack. She is the first midboss to receive an official character profile. In the "Muenzuka" stage of Phantasmasgoria of Flower View, a black version of Lily White shows up instead of the normal version. Fans have named her Lily Black, and gave her a darker character as opposed to the cheerful Lily White. |
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Bosses of stage 4. They are poltergeists in the shape of three sisters. They were originally daughters of a human noble, but an unfortunate event caused his four daughters to separate. The fourth daughter, Layla Prismriver, was unable to leave the mansion that held so many of her memories. Using her power, she conjured poltergeists with the appearance of her older sisters, then slowly became forgotten along with the mansion and the poltergeists. Even though the humans died with the passage of time, the poltergeists continue their noisy lives in that mansion to this day. The three Prismriver Sisters, now musical performers of some note, were employed by Yuyuko Saigyouzi to provide entertainment for the upcoming flower-viewing. The protagonists encounter them at the gate to the netherworld.
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Stage 5 boss and stage 6 midboss, in addition, she is a playable character in Touhou 7.5-9, and 10.5 as well. Youmu is the gardener of the netherworld pagoda, Hakugyokurō. She comes from a very rare breed, the half-ghosts; in this strange combination, the human half and ghost half exist in physically separate bodies, but are always close by one another. Youmu is very young for a half-ghost, under 60 years; her exact age is unknown. While straightforward, focused and loyal to her mistress, Yuyuko, Youmu is still rather immature, and tends to be a target for teasing by the other girls of Gensokyo (particularly her mistress Yuyuko). Paradoxically, she is afraid of ghosts (the imaginary sort.) Her talents are swordsmanship and speed. In the games, she is characterized by creating powerful danmaku with her sword slashes, and slowing time (this is not due to magic as one might expect, but because of time slowing around her body as she goes past at unimaginable speeds.) |
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Final stage boss, also a playable character in Touhou 7.5, 8 and 10.5. Yuyuko is the princess of the netherworld pagoda, Hakugyokurō. She is a ghost, but unlike most of her kind, looks entirely human. Living in the netherworld, she doesn't socialize much with the rest of Gensokyo. Her only friend from outside is Yukari. Her family name Saigyozi suggests relations with the famed poet Saigyo. Yuyuko, at first appearance, is a ditz; her mental processes seem to be dedicated mainly to teasing her gardener and servant, Youmu, and anticipating her next meal. However, her usual manner conceals a sharp mind and an almost prenatural depth of insight. For instance, she was the only one to perceive what sort of being Fujiwara no Mokou was at first sight. Yuyuko has the power to invoke death in any mortal; however, she uses it rarely and with discretion. Her danmaku are characterized by butterfly-shaped bullets. |
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Extra stage boss and Phantasm stage midboss. A nine-tailed fox yōkai whom Yukari Yakumo made her shikigami. She is considerably powerful even without her master's support; among other things, she uses this power to maintain her own shikigami, Chen. Since Yukari sleeps twelve hours a day, she handles the work during these times. (In doujin she is often depicted as a harassed servant, doing all the work for her lazy master.) |
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Phantasm stage boss, and playable in Touhou 7.5, 8, and 10.5. Yukari is an elder yōkai who dwells on the border of Gensokyo, and may predate the existence of the realm itself. A good friend of Yuyuko's and an acquaintance of Reimu's. She is the self-appointed stewardess of the seal between Gensokyo and the outside world, but doesn't do a particularly good job of it... Most of the time, she is asleep, leaving all the work to her shikigami Ran and Ran's shikigami Chen. When she isn't, she tends to amuse herself by pulling in unprepared humans from the outside world and stranding them in Gensokyo. A very irresponsible yōkai. Her ability is the manipulation of boundaries, and such boundaries distinguish her spellcards. Often, though, she just summons her shikigami and various others to create her danmaku for her. |
Also present:
- Reimu Hakurei (playable character)
- Marisa Kirisame (playable character)
- Sakuya Izayoi (playable character)
- Cirno (Stage 1 midboss)
[edit] Immaterial and Missing Power
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A girl who insists that she is an oni, even though Gensokyo doesn't have any except Yugi Hoshiguma. As an oni, she loves drinks, feasts, and competition. Despite her small size, she is strong in strength, speed, and mystic powers; she is also several hundred years old. Using her ability to control density, she can gather people to form a banquet, or she can scatter herself to become mist. In Immaterial and Missing Power, she made the residents of Gensokyo have feasts one night after another, intending to draw the joyous oni from hiding. |
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[edit] Imperishable Night
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Stage 1 boss. Insects collect around her, and so she often can be seen in the middle of a swarm of insects. With her powers, she can manipulate the flickerings of fireflies with timed synchronicity, or summon swarms of poisonous insects to kill an enemy. Like insects, she is afraid of pesticides and the cold. |
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Stage 2 boss and playable character in Touhou 9. A night sparrow that dwells on a road near a human village. She conceals herself by blinding travelers who walk along the road at night, then lures them astray, upon which they disappear without a trace. She is carefree, innocent and loves to sing- considering her nightly activities nothing more than a game. An incident in Imperishable Night in which she was apparently eaten by Yuyuko made her a popular joke character. However, she returned in Phantasmagoria of Flower View. |
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Stage 3 boss. Although half-human and half-beast, she appears perfectly human except during the full moon, when she grows horns. She was not born with therianthropy, and only became a were-hakutaku due to an unknown incident. She loves humans, and considers it her duty to protect the human village, by consuming the village's history to hide it when malicious youkai pass by; her special ability. However, she is trigger-happy and sometimes mistakes ordinary travelers for such malicious yōkai. Keine opened a terakoya in the village and spends her time teaching children and compling historical records. She seems to have a special relationship with Huziwara no Mokou. |
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Stage 5 midboss and playable character in Touhou 9. Based upon the "White Hare of Inaba" story[1] of the Kojiki, she evolved into a yokai from a rabbit due to her longevity. She is the leader of the earthly bunnies of the Eientei, despite her deceitful personality. She is also a lucky charm — humans who get lost in the forest can always depend on her fortune to find their way, though the humans often don't realize they could've used her fortune for greater things. On the scale of luckiness, hers is worth 40 four-leaf clovers. |
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Stage 5 boss and playable character in Touhou 9. A moon rabbit, she came to Gensokyo about 30 years ago to escape a war between the Earth and the Moon. Since then, she has been an apprentice to Eirin, a pet to Kaguya, and a caretaker to Tewi. She has the power to drive people mad with her eyes — mainly in the form of hallucinations — as well as communicate telepathically with her kind. She also has control over waves of all kinds, such as light waves, brainwaves, and electromagnetic waves. "Udongein" and "Inaba" are both nicknames, the first given her by Eirin and the second Kaguya; the latter is what Kaguya calls all rabbits. Despite her power over insanity, Reisen is portrayed as one of the most level-headed and serious characters in the series. Some people think that her bullets look like suppositories, making her a minor joke character. |
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Boss of Final Stage A and midboss of Final Stage B. A genius pharmacist who once lived on the moon. Kaguya persuaded her to produce the forbidden Hourai Elixir — the elixir of life — and consumed it. They were found out, and Kaguya alone was punished and was sent to the Earth, a fact which Eirin always felt guilty about. Some time later, the moon court pardoned Kaguya's sins and summoned her back. Eirin and a handful of emissaries were sent to retrieve her, but Eirin found out that Kaguya didn't want to return to the moon. Acting out of her past guilt, Eirin betrayed and murdered all the other emissaries under the eyes of the earthlings who had fostered Kaguya. Eirin bribed the earthlings with the Hourai Elixir, in order to keep them silent, and went into hiding with Kaguya in Gensokyo. |
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Final boss of Imperisable Night, Kaguya is actually the Princess Kaguya from The Tale of the Bamboo Cutter. A princess of the moon, after consuming the forbidden Hourai Elixir and becoming immortal, she was punished by being exiled to live on the Earth. Later, she was pardoned and ordered to return to the moon. However, she preferred her common life on Earth to that as a princess on the moon. Eirin helped her escape the emissaries, and the two went into hiding in Gensokyo. Recently, she has been selling Yagokoro medicine and hosting exhibitions showing various items from the moon. In doujin and fanworks, she is often portrayed as a NEET or unemployed slacker who lays around Eientei all day. |
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Extra Stage boss. Mokou was the daughter of a nobleman (assumed to be Fujiwara no Fuhito), one of Kaguya's suitors during her initial exile on Earth. When he was humiliated by Kaguya's impossible request, Mokou came to hate her. She wanted to take revenge, but Kaguya disappeared before she was able, so she consoled herself by stealing the Hourai Elixir that Eirin had bribed the other humans with, and drinking it to become immortal. No longer able to fit into human society, she lived as a wanderer and eventually found her way to Gensokyo. There, she was amazed to find that Kaguya was also a fugitive. The two still detest each other, killing one another and reincarnating in a daily ritual. However, Mokou is ecstatic that her eternal enemy is a fugitive like her, and that one who can never die is not such an unspeakable abomination in Gensokyo (though she still leads a solitary life.) Indeed, she has found her paradise. Mokou is able to reincarnate indefinitely, even if her body is destroyed — though she still feels pain. She has control over the flames of the phoenix. |
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- Reimu Hakurei (playable character, stage 4 "Uncanny" boss)
- Marisa Kirisame (playable character, stage 4 "Powerful" boss)
- Sakuya Izayoi (playable character)
- Youmu Konpaku (playable character)
- Yukari Yakumo (playable character)
- Alice Margatroid (playable character)
- Remilia Scarlet (playable character)
- Yuyuko Saigyouzi (playable character)
[edit] Phantasmagoria of Flower View
Left column:
Reimu, Sakuya, Reisen, Lyrica, Lunasa, Tei, Medicine, Komachi.
Right column:
Marisa, Youmu, Cirno, Merlin, Mystia, Aya, Yuka, Sikieiki.
- Aya Syameimaru (射命丸 文 Shameimaru Aya) Alternate spelling Aya Shameimaru
- Species : Crow tengu
- Ability : Manipulation of wind
- Residence : Yōkai Mountain
Playable character in Touhou 9, main character of Touhou 9.5 (the only one to be the sole main character of a Touhou game other than Reimu.), main character of the fanbook Bohemian Archive of Japanese Red, stage 4 boss in Touhou 10, and playable character in Touhou 10.5. Aya is a reporter and photographer who runs Gensokyo's one-woman newspaper, the Bunbunmaru Shinbun.
She has a serious character, at odds with her reporting; she loves rumors and her newspaper is filled with gossip about the girls of Gensokyo, sometimes on the verge of being a tabloid. To Reimu's irritation, however, she rejects the stories of a certain miko saving Gensōkyō as unverifiable. Not one to show off, she rarely fights of her own volition, though she has contempt for those she thinks are weak.
As a tengu, she has power over the wind and is the most skilled flier in all of Gensokyo. Her bullets are extremely fast compared to most.
- Medicine Melancholy (メディスン・メランコリー Medisun Merankorī) Alternate spelling Medicin Melancory
- Species : Doll
- Ability : Manipulation of poison
- Residence : Nameless Hill
An abandoned doll who turned into a yōkai after years of exposure to the poisonous lily-of-the-valleys. She advocates for doll emancipation (despite the fact that she's the only one capable of free will) and dislikes humans because of their manipulation of dolls. For this, Sikieiki judged her to be "too narrow in outlook". Perhaps affected by this statement, she made friends with Eirin Yagokoro, though she still wishes for the liberation of dolls. Her name may originate from A Medicine for Melancholy by Ray Bradbury.
In addition to her attacks, she also spews poisonous mists on the battlefield, slowing the player's movement when the player comes in contact with the mists.
- Yuka Kazami (風見 幽香 Kazami Yūka)
- Species : Yōkai
- Ability : Manipulation of flowers
- Residence : Garden of the Sun
Returning from Lotus Land Story, she is the second PC-98 character to appear in the Windows Touhou games, after Alice Margatroid. She loves seasonal flowers, so throughout the year she moves to the respective places where the flowers grow. She has lived long enough to witness several major flower-blooming outbreaks, an event that only occurs once every sixty years, leading Sikieiki to comment that she "had lived a little too long". Similar to the PC-98 Yuka, she is the slowest playable character in the game.
- Komachi Onozuka (小野塚 小町 Onozuka Komachi) Alternate spelling Komachi Onoduka
- Species : Shinigami
- Ability : Manipulation of distance
- Residence : Sanzu River
A shinigami who provides passage across the Sanzu River, Komachi has a role akin to that of Charon of Greek mythology. Despite her rather important job, she doesn't always take it seriously and ends up being scolded by her boss, Sikieiki Yamaxanadu. Her name is thought to have originated from the famed beauty Ono no Komachi.
Her attacks come in the form of holed coins, in reference to the "price" one needs to pay to cross the Sanzu River.
- Sikieiki Yamaxanadu (四季映姫・ヤマザナドゥ Shikieiki Yamazanadu) Alternate spelling Shikieiki Yamaxanadu
Final boss of the game, Sikieiki is one of the judges of the underworld. It is her job to judge the deceased and decide whether they get sent to Heaven or Hell, or somewhere else. As a part of her job, she can be rather moralistic and would go on and on on her lectures on morals. The "Yamaxanadu" part of her name is actually her title, a combination of her status as "Yama" and "Xanadu", the place she is in charge of.
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Shoot the Bullet does not introduce any new characters.
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Middle row: Nitori, Momizi, Aya
Bottom row: Sanae, Kanako, Suwako
- Shizuha Aki (秋 静葉 Aki Shizuha)
- Species : God of red leaves
- Ability : Manipulation of red leaves
- Location : Foot of the Yōkai Mountain
Stage 1 midboss. She and her younger sister Minoriko control the season of autumn together. Of the opinion that red leaves are the best part of autumn, she feels tremendously proud when showing the beauty of her leaves to Minoriko. Disappears when winter comes.
- Minoriko Aki (秋 穣子 Aki Minoriko)
- Species : God of abundance
- Ability : Manipulation of abundance
- Location : Foot of the Yōkai Mountain
Stage 1 boss and the younger sister of Shizuha. As a harvest goddess, she is invited as a special guest to the harvest festival in the Human Village every year. If she isn't invited then a good harvest cannot be guaranteed for that year. The fragrance of the harvest is her perfume, and with it she feels superior to her elder sister . Like her sister, she disappears when winter comes.
- Hina Kagiyama (鍵山 雛 Kagiyama Hina)
- Species : Curse god
- Ability : Storing curses
- Location : Yōkai Sea of Trees
Stage 2 boss. Hina is the head of the Nagashihina army, where Nagashihina refers to the dolls being drifted down the river in a ritual to cast away one's sins and misfortunes. As such, Hina is surrounded by curses and those who encounter her will run into misfortune. Despite this, Hina has good intentions and does not wish to have misfortune befall humans again. She is often spinning and her attacks are characterized as spirals.
- Nitori Kawashiro (河城 にとり Kawashiro Nitori)
- Species : Kappa
- Ability : Manipulation of Water
- Location : Untrodden Valley
Stage 3 boss. An engineer with an interest in humans, she believes that the kappa and the humans were ancient allies. The kappa of the Touhou universe are described as a race with advanced technology, demonstrated when the shy Nitori uses optical camouflage to conceal herself from the humans. As an engineer, she likes to take things apart and reassemble them again, so her clothes are packed with tools for this purpose.
- Momizi Inubashiri (犬走 椛 Inubashiri Momiji)
- Species : White wolf tengu
- Ability : Seeing great distances
- Location : Waterfall of Nine Heavens
Stage 4 midboss. A loyal tengu who patrols the Yōkai Mountain and can see great distances. She attempts to scare intruders off with simple attacks before reporting them to her superiors. When not on duty, she plays dai shogi with the kappa who live nearby. During the events of Mountain of Faith, she failed to scare Reimu and Marisa away, so she was assigned under Aya Syameimaru to continue surveillance on the intruders. Her report led to the peaceful resolution of the tension between the tengu and the Moriya Shrine.
- Sanae Kotiya (東風谷 早苗 Kochiya Sanae)
- Species : Human
- Ability : Power to work miracles
- Location : Moriya Shrine
Stage 5 boss and priestess of the Moriya Shrine. Though she is human, she is Suwako's descendant and has the power to create miracles due to her divine blood. In the past, people began to worship her as a living god due to these miracles, despite the fact that she was the priestess of another god and most of the miracles were her god's. As the outside world changed, though, faith in both Sanae and her god Kanako declined and they chose to move their shrine to Gensokyo.
Wanting to gather the faith of Gensokyo's residents, she threatened to close down the Hakurei Shrine, which resulted in a resounding defeat for her and her gods. It was then she understood that she is no longer a living god in this land of miracles, but only a normal human being.
- Kanako Yasaka (八坂 神奈子 Yasaka Kanako)
- Species : God
- Ability : Power to create qian
- Location : Wind God's Lake
Stage 6 boss. A goddess of wind and rain who inhibits the Moriya Shrine, she is based on the Japanese god Takeminakata. As faith in gods in the outside world declined, she decided to move the Moriya Shrine to Gensokyo's Yōkai Mountain, rather than simply be forgotten and fade away. She quickly acquired faith from the youkai on the mountain — though some would just call it friendship. To acquire the faith of the humans and youkai living elsewhere in Gensokyo as well, she sent her priestess Sanae to the Hakurei Shrine. She wears a snake-patterned shimenawa as her trademark, symbolizing her victory over Suwako long ago.
- Suwako Moriya (洩矢 諏訪子 Moriya Suwako)
- Species : God
- Ability : Power to create kun
- Location : Moriya Shrine
Extra Stage boss, a girl with a frog motif. She is the true goddess of the Moriya Shrine, who long ago defeated the terrifying curse god Mishaguji to become a beloved goddess and ruler. In turn, she was later defeated by Kanako, but the people of her kingdom still feared Mishaguji and would not accept Kanako as their new goddess. The two created a false god, "Moriya", from which they could both gather faith. Already long forgotten in the outside world, Suwako was untroubled as her faith slowly declined, but accompanied Kanako to Gensokyo nonetheless - despite their history, and their frequent disagreements, the two are good friends.
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- Reimu Hakurei (playable character)
- Marisa Kirisame (playable character)
- Aya Syameimaru (Stage 4 boss)
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Rinnosuke is a half-human who runs an antique and collectibles shop known as Kourindou in the Forest of Magic. He is the main character of Curiosities of Lotus Asia, and the only active humanoid male character in the Touhou series. He is also one of the few characters who seem to have no fighting ability. Marisa calls him Kourin, and that is the name he is usually known as. Despite his ability, he does not know how to use the unknown gadgets. Hence, he makes many false theories of his own about the foreign objects from the outside world. For example, he called a Game Boy a device that allows the user to control humans and possibly destroy the whole world. Later, Yukari corrects him that it is a device that allows the user to control imaginary humans and possibly destroy the whole imaginary world in any place. With few customers, other than some persistent loiterers like Reimu and Marisa, Rinnosuke spends most of his time pursuing his hobby of researching the world beyond Gensokyo. Much of his stock comes from the outside world, and he seems to have a close business relationship with Yukari, who procures the items for him. |
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Tokiko is a minor youkai whom Reimu beat up and stole a set of books from. She tracked them to Kourindou, where Reimu had traded them to Rinnosuke, and became a standard fixture there as she argues daily with Rinnosuke, trying to recover her property. Despite appearing frequently in Curiosities of Lotus Asia, she has never been given an official name; Thus the fans gave her the name "Tokiko", which means Crested Ibis, because Tokiko has red wings similar to those of the bird. |
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Renko Usami is a physics student from Japan. She and Merry form the two-person occult circle, the Secret Seals Club, which investigates Gensokyo. She plays the role of skeptic, as Merry is the only one who's actually been inside Gensokyo, but sincerely believes Merry in the end. Although a normal human, with a glance of the sky, she is instantly able to determine her location and the current time to within a second; she has been described as "a human GPS." She is from the short stories that come with ZUN's music collections. |
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Maribel Hearn, nicknamed Merry, is a psychology student and friend of Renko's. She and Renko form the two-person occult circle, the Secret Seals Club, which investigates Gensokyo. Descended from a long line of magicians, she is one of the few humans who can perceive and cross Gensokyo's boundaries. Unused to this ability, she tends to wander through by accident, thinks she's merely dreaming and gets herself into dangerous situations. She is from the short stories that come with ZUN's music collections. There has been no official romanization of her name, so her English name here is an approximation. |
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A cheerful fairy who likes to play pranks, often called "Sunny" by her accomplices. She manipulates the power of the sun, and considers herself the smartest of the three, though she fails most often of the three. She is from the manga Eastern and Little Nature Deity and Strange and Bright Nature Deity. |
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A fairy who likes to play pranks, often called "Luna" by her accomplices. Her power comes from the moon, and she can use it to silence the sounds around her. She seems to be the most cruel of the three. She is from the manga Eastern and Little Nature Deity and Strange and Bright Nature Deity. |
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A fairy who likes to play pranks, often called "Star" by her accomplices and "Saphi" by the fans. Unlike the other two, her power does not wax and wane with the time of day. In reality, she seems to be the smartest of the three, and often escapes punishment while the other two are caught. She is from the manga Eastern and Little Nature Deity and Strange and Bright Nature Deity. |
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She is current the "Child of Miare" (御阿礼の子 Miare no Ko) who was born in the Hieda family once in every few hundred years with ability to "not forget anything she sees" and records Gensokyo's history. She seems to like black tea. Despite her young age, her memory goes back 1200 years. This is because every "Child of Miare" of the Hieda family is a reincarnation of previous "Child of Miare", who inherits the memories of the previous incarnates. She is the ninth reincarnation in the line, as reflected by her name — a pun of the Japanese word for "nine". Each time she reincarnates, her life span gets shorter and shorter. The "Miare" referred to is the real-life Hieda no Are, who compiled the Kojiki. Also, she is the first "Child of Miare" to be born after the sealing of Gensokyo. She is on the cover of Akyu's Untouched Score, the original soundtracks for the PC-98 Touhou games, and is also the narrator of the book Perfect Memento of Strict Sense. |
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A moon rabbit (not related to Reisen Udongein Inaba) tasked to make the elixir of life for Chang'e, she got tired of her work and fled to Gensokyo with a lunar veil that allows her to take flight. She met Eirin Yagokoro, who gave her a letter to deliver to the two princesses on the moon. She is now a pet of the two princesses, who named her "Reisen" after their previous pet that fled to earth some time ago. She is from the manga Silent Sinner in Blue. |
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One of the princesses of the moon, she and her younger sister Yorihime are the leaders of the lunar emissaries — the same ones who were in charge of bringing Kaguya back to the moon. As such, their stance should be that of enmity toward Eirin, who betrayed the emissaries; however, as Eirin was once their respected tutor, they harbour no ill feelings toward the exiled Lunarians in Eientei. She is from the manga Silent Sinner in Blue. She has an innocent demeanour and is quite happy-go-lucky. |
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The more serious counterpart to her elder sister Toyohime, and is also a princess of the moon. She seemed to absorb everything that Eirin said. She is from the manga Silent Sinner in Blue. |
[edit] References
- ZUN. Shanghai Alice Signpost. vol.1 2002/8/11 (Embodiment of Scarlet Devil readme file)
- ZUN. Perfect Cherry Blossom Character settings. 2003/8/17
- ZUN. Imperishable Night Character introductions and spoilers. 2004/8/15
- ZUN. Shanghai Alice Signpost. vol.5 2004/12/30 (Immaterial and Missing Power readme file)
- ZUN. Bohemian Archive of Japanese Red. Ichijinsha. 2005/8/11
- ZUN. Phantasmasgoria of Flower View Character introductions and spoilers. 2005/8/14
- ZUN. Perfect Memento of Strict Sense. Ichijinsha. 2006/12/29
- ZUN. Strange and Bright Nature Deity. Kadokawa Shoten.
[edit] External links
- Characters category on TouhouWiki for more detailed information.
