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Characters: Touhou Other Official Works
Ever since the Touhou series was rebooted for Windows-based computers, a number of characters have been introduced solely though side stories in the form of manga, prose fiction, and music CDs with liner notes.This page is for Touhou characters who debuted in these non-game spinoffs.
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Debuted in Ghostly Field Club
Maribel Hearn
- Maribel Hearn"Don't you get it yet? Dream and reality are the same thing. I said so all the time, didn't I? To me, talking to you now might be dream or reality, I don't quite know..."
Tropes associated with Maribel:
- Astral Projection or Teleporters and Transporters?: Mary can travel to other places in her dreams, though she doesn't have much control over the destination. It's unclear whether she actually teleports, or whether it's astral projection and Your Mind Makes It Real is in effect.
- In Trojan Green Asteroid, she's able to bring Renko with her by bringing her to a shrine gate that matches one at her destination.
- After her powers increase in Neo-traditionalism of Japan she can unambiguously teleport while awake; she can also see other worlds around her and show them to others.
- Captain Ersatz: That hat looks like Yukari's and they both wear a purple dress in the same fashion. Conveniently, Yukari is known for being a heavy sleeper during the day, a time when Maribel would most likely be awake. Renko believes that Maribel's ability to sense boundaries is somehow evolving into the ability to manipulate boundaries (the same ability as Yukari), while Yukari is often known for recognizing Outside World technology. She detests lycoris flowers (a plant that symbolizes death also known as "higan bana" in Japanese) and Yukari explicitly states that if she ever was in a fight against Eiki Shiki (the judge of death in Gensokyo whose stage was covered with these flowers), Yukari would lose. In Symposium of Post-mysticism, Yuyuko (Yukari's best friend) is depicted visiting the Outside World invisibly and teasing a confused Maribel. Finally, Maribel mentions wanting to visit the moon and thought of "another way to get there" while looking at its reflection; Yukari mentions that long ago she once travelled to the moon using its reflection, just to look around. Make of that what you will.
- Cassandra Truth: Between the events of Trojan Green Asteroid and Neo-traditionalism of Japan she's sent to hospital for her injuries. While she's there the doctors diagnose her with delirium.
- Leitmotif: "Mary, the Magician" and "Strange Bird of the Moon, Illusion of Mysterious Cat". In addition, fans sometimes associate the Sealing Club with "Kid's Festival ~ Innocent Treasures" (ZUN's personal theme).
- Meaningful Name: Lafcadio Hearn, a famous horror writer who translated tales of youkai into English, eventually became a Japanese citizen and took the name Koizumi Yakumo. As stated in the summary above, ZUN answered "Lafcadio Hearn" when asked about what the relationship was between Yukari Yakumo and Maribel Hearn. Hearn obviously corresponds to Maribel, while Yakumo could correspond to Yukari after her naturalization in Gensokyo (Of note, canonically "Yukari Yakumo" is a name Yukari chose for herself; her original name has not been given).
- In addition, it's been suggested that Mary's first name is a corruption of "mulberry", a fruit that turns dark purple when it's ripe. Yukari means "violet".
- Non-Specifically Foreign
- As Long as It Sounds Foreign: Reading her name as "Maribel" is a fan interpretation; even ZUN himself has no clue what kind of name would be rendered into katakana as "maeriberii".
- Ofuda: Sometimes depicted using these in fanart, presumably because of Yukari's mastery of Onmyodo.
- Schrödinger's Butterfly: Whether or not she's Yukari, Maribel does have a dual existence in Gensokyo in her dreams. She even uses the original Zhuangzi story to refer to herself.
- Recursive Reality: ...which could mean Yukari is dreaming about Maribel dreaming about her experiences in Gensokyo (if one believes Akyuu's speculation that the outside world is Yukari's dream). Wrap your mind around that for a moment.
- Spell My Name with an "S": Her first name is occasionally romanized as "Maryberry" or the like, and her last name is occasionally seen as "Han". Some places also spell Renko's nickname for her as "Merry".
- More specifically, the katakana for her name is "maeriberii haan". "Han" and "Hearn" are both reasonable transliterations for her last name, though "Hearn" is a bit closer and has the bonus of being an actual western name. "Maribel" is only sort of similar to how her first name is pronounced, but is an actual name. "Maryberry" is much closer, but not an actual name.
- Theme Naming: To support the Lafcadio = Maribel theory, The Wiki Rule even gives this for the first four CDs (Lafcadio —> Maribel):
- Ghostly Japan —> Ghostly Field Club (ZUN wanted the same feel as the source material);
- Exotics and Retrospectives —> Retrospective 53 Minutes (egregious number of references to paintings, Mount Fuji, and "the beauty of memory");
- Kwaidan: Stories and Studies of Strange Things —> Changeability of Strange Dream (youkai horror stories; "kaidan"/"kwaidan" itself literally means "ghost stories"); finally,
- The Romance of the Milky Way —> Magical Astronomy (a "mirror maiden" travels to the moon and has some fun; former is the last by Lafcadio, while the latter is the last one for almost six years).
- Time Travel: A message Maribel left behind on one of her trips to Gensokyo was discovered by the natives... hundreds of years ago. The running theory is that she will eventually become Trapped in the Past.
- The Unfrozen Caveman Lawyer: Maribel's personality seems kind of meek. Yukari on the other hand...
- The Unpronouncable: To Japanese speakers at least, leading Renko to just call her "Mary". Also extends out of universe somewhat - see As Long as It Sounds Foreign above.
- What Do You Mean, It's Not Symbolic?: Fanon has made many interpretations of the above "Maribel = Yukari" theory. It is also even harder to dismiss the fact that her appearance is practically Yukari but younger.
Renko Usami
- Renko Usami"Let's wake up! Dreams are things to be made into reality. The world of dreams can be made into reality!"
Tropes associated with Renko:
- Agent Scully: A notable subversion. Renko is the scientific, logical, objective one of the pair and shoots down some of Maribel's odder notions, but she's also much more enthusiastic about their occult activities, driving their investigations and efforts to find another world.
- Encyclopaedic Knowledge
- Info Dump: Unless she takes it easy, she likes to go nuts on anything she has learned.
- Family Theme Naming / Floral Theme Naming: Renko means "lotus child". The name of her apparent ancestor Sumireko, introduced in Urban Legend in Limbo, means "violet child".
- Fatal Flaw: Curiousity. Despite the fact she knows a lot about the real world and how it functions, she has an overpassionate desire to learn what she does not know or cannot comprehend by theories. For example, while in TORIFUNE, she has no fear of learning about it despite the fact of a threat, and this gets her in trouble. In many fanworks that feature her, this ends up being her undoing and getting her in even more trouble.
- Green-Eyed Monster: Renko is implied to be jealous of Maribel's dream adventures and fully hopes to come along with her. Her jealousy is pretty much confirmed in Neo-Traditionalism of Japan.While Renko felt a bit jealous, she hoped that somehow she too could see what Merry saw.
- Iconic Item: Typically seen with a book
- Leaning on the Fourth Wall: In Trojan Green Asteroid"Right now I'm almost like the protagonist of a shooting game!"
- Legacy Character: Urban Legend in Limbo establishes that Renko is following in the footsteps of Sumireko Usami, the original founder of the Sealing Club.
- Leitmotif: While she doesn't have an official one, "Kid's Festival ~ Innocent Treasures" (ZUN's personal theme) is associated with her and Maribel in fanworks.
- "Greenwich in the Sky" would probably be the closest to one, given her ability to tell the time from the stars.note
- Ludicrous Precision: Her power is to tell the current time and place down by ludicrous accuracy.
- Overshadowed by Awesome: Merry's powers have been getting stronger. Renko's? Not so much if at all. If they have changed we don't know about it.
- Required Secondary Powers: Played with. Renko claims her ability can only tell the time in Japanese Standard, but Maribel points out that she should only need basic math to get other timezones.
- Schedule Fanatic: She can be late, but she'll always tell Maribel down to the second how late she was.
- The Anti-Nihilist: She finds the idea of the human smallness comforting instead of distressing.
- Unusual Ears: As an Incredibly Lame Pun on her family name, Usami, Japanese fanartists sometimes draw her wearing bunny ears (usamimi).
Debuted in Curiosities of Lotus Asia
Rinnosuke Morichika
- Store Owner of Kourindou
- Rinnosuke Morichika"Business or not, a terrible waste is a terrible waste."
Tropes associated with Rinnosuke:
- Childhood Friends: With Marisa. Rinnosuke used to work in her father's shop.
- Clueless Chick Magnet: Sometimes treated as this in fanon, as an extension of his status as a Know-Nothing Know-It-All and The One Guy.
- Collector of the Strange: In addition to selling goods from the outside world, he also likes to collect them and is reluctant to part with his merchandise.
- Fan Disservice: Fanon only. Rinnosuke is sometimes portrayed as an excessively muscular pervert who wears nothing but fundoshi loincloths. This version of Rinnosuke is usually referred to as "MANnosuke". Just look up the two doujins "Another Dream" issues one and two... bring your own Brain Bleach.
- Another variation gives him the spell card Manly Sign: Sexy Beam, which a disturbed Marisa refers to as "neither sexy nor a beam".
- First-Person Smartass: In Curiosities Of Lotus Asia
- Half-Human Hybrid: Half-human, half-youkai.
- Idiot Hair
- Insane Troll Logic: Rinnosuke's thought processes frequently veer into this. Just take the first chapter, where he finds a set of 15 books on computers and decides this "proves" that computers are shikigami powered by the moon... because the moon is round and 13-14-15 is almost the same as the first few digits of pi.
- In-Series Nickname: As a result of the name of his shop, Marisa calls him Kourin.
- I Should Write a Book About This: Is currently writing his memoirs, and fantasises about it becoming Gensokyo's first history textbook (to the point where the introductory passage is "The history of Gensokyo has been born.").
- Know-Nothing Know-It-All: "By the way, Rinnosuke's supposed vast storage of knowledge comes almost entirely out of thin air. Indeed, he doesn't know nearly as much as he thinks he does."
- When a rainstorm appears localised on his shop, Rinnosuke's first thought is that the Sword of Kusanagi (which he added to his collection recently) must be declaring him the rightful Emperor of Japan, claiming that there can't be many beings around who are powerful enough to manipulate the weather. Turns out the rain was created by a fairy.
- He also seems convinced that once his memoirs are finished they'll become the official history textbook of Gensokyo, and make him rich and famous.
- According to Marisa, he knows a lot but as a result of that it leads to him guessing a lot to fill in the blanks. She thinks one should only listen to half of what he says.
- Leitmotif: "Curious old Shanghai tile" from his appearance in Touhou Unreal Mahjong (a fangame, but his theme was composed by ZUN).
- Magitek: Despite his poor understanding of Outside World technology and not (apparently) being capable of magic, he was able to create Marisa's Mini-Hakkero by combining both.
- Meaningful Name: Morichika means "near the forest" (the location of his shop) and Rinnosuke means "helps the long rain" (he has relationships with the Kirisame family, Kirisame meaning "drizzle"). Chapter 26 of Curiosities of Lotus Asia also has him discussing the possible meanings of Yukari Yakumo's name.
- Mr. Exposition: Or so he seems to fancy himself. He spends an awful lot of time explaining how things in Gensokyo work to Reimu and Marisa or else just narrating about it at length. ZUN, however, has mentioned that most of Rinnosuke's wisdom is his own speculation.
- Namedar: His ability is to recognize the name of an object and its purpose. This doesn't come with the instruction manual. For example, his ability tells him that an iPod is capable of "storing and playing a lot of music", but it doesn't tell him how to store or play anything, and he doesn't know how to use a computer correctly anyway.note And because it neglected to tell him that the people it controls and the worlds it can create or destroy are imaginary, he thought that a Game Boy was an Artifact of Doom.
- Non-Action Guy: Despite his half-human, half-youkai nature, he doesn't seem to be any tougher than a regular humannote , and he admits that he's unable to do anything rough. Lampshaded by Marisa and Reimu, who wonder how he managed to live so long without knowing how to handle himself. This has resulted in fanon holding that he's a Retired Badass.
- The One Guy: The only humanoid male character in the series to make an actual appearance... apart from a single-chapter character from Wild and Horned Hermit.
- Scary Shiny Glasses: Very shiny ones in HM.
- Shop Keeper
- Stoic Spectacles
- Stranger in a Familiar Land: According to some of his dialogue he used to live in the outside world, however when he visits the outside again in a dream it appears completely alien to him due to the time that has passed.
- Tokiko"I know the one in red is in there! She's the one that took my books!"
Tropes associated with Tokiko:
- No Name Given: Canonically, Tokiko has no actual name. If we were to get technical, she'd be listed here as "unnamed book-reading youkai", but that doesn't roll off the tongue as nicely. "Tokiko" translates to "little crested ibis", and was given to her after fans noted her resemblance to the bird in question.
- One-Scene Wonder: She appeared in one scene in one chapter of one series which half the fans don't bother to read, with no name and a small appearance in the background of the cover image. She spent that time getting beaten up twice and complaining about it. She's not incredibly popular, but yes, even Tokiko has a following. More than that, a whole Pool on Danbooru is dedicated to "The Morichika Family", which is a compilation of moments involving Rinnosuke, Tokiko and Keine (on the premise that Tokiko's two-tone hair looks sort of like Keine's, and Rinnosuke and Keine are a somewhat popular fanon pairing; yep, that's the entire basis of it).
- Winged Humanoid
Debuted in Eastern and Little Nature Deity
The Three Fairies of Light
- The Three Fairies of Light
Tropes associated with the Three Fairies of Light:
- The Alcoholic: There's been numberous cases where the trio drank liquor and a decent number of their hijinks go towards getting some to drink. This explains why their plots to cause major incidents never take off.
- Badass Boast: Parodied when the fairies introduce themselves to Cirno and brag about how their powers make them unbeatable... at hide-and-seek. Cirno is, of course, genuinely impressed.
- Big Bad Wannabe: Their ambition is to terrorise humankind and prove that fairies, like the other youkai, are not to be taken lightly. The most they manage is to mildly annoy people with their pranks.
- Blonde, Brunette, Redhead: Luna Child is blonde, Star Sapphire is a brunette and Sunny Milk is a redhead.
- Canon Immigrant: With Fairy Wars, they're the first expanded material characters to be put into a game.
- Chromatic Arrangement: Sunny is the leader and associated with the colour red, Star is blue and the most intelligent of the three, while Luna is yellow and the most laid-back.
- Defeat Means Friendship: Subjected to this twice - First in Great Fairy Wars where after being defeated by Cirno they either become subordinates or friends with her (depending on the route). In Oriental Sacred Place, they try to invoke this by challenging Reimu on reasoning that everyone that Reimu fights ends up becoming friends with her. It worked.
- Fisher King: By putting their home in a dead tree, they actually brought the tree back to life. This is actually pretty important, as the tree is part of the Gensokyo Border. Just as Yukari planned.
- Light 'em Up: All three fairies are connected to the light shed by a particular celestial body, hence the group's other name: The Three Fairies of Light.
- Nature Spirit
- New Year's Resolution: Every new year they plot to cause a major incident that will get Reimu's attention. Then they get drunk and forget all about it the next day.
- Power Nullifier: Reisen Udongein Inaba's abilities can cancel out all three of the fairies' powers.
- Resurrective Immortality: As embodiments of nature, they can't stay dead.
- Screwy Squirrel
- Spell My Name with an "S": "Starsaphire" was presumably just a misspelling, "Sunnymilk" isn't much of a difference, but "Lunarchild" is trickier, especially since all three fairies tend to call each other by the first part of their names.
- Theme Naming: All three are named after heavenly bodies.
- Winged Humanoid: All three of them have wings that do not appear to be directly attached to their bodies.
- Prank-loving Sunlight
- Sunny Milk"I'm the strongest of us three! I'm gonna go all out against you, so get ready!"
Tropes associated with Sunny:
- Cute Little Fangs
- Field Power Effect
- Genki Girl: the most cheerful and energetic of the three.
- Girlish Pigtails
- Heavy Sleeper
- Invisibility: She uses her light-refracting powers to conceal herself and the other fairies.
- Leitmotif: "Sunny Rutile Flection"
- Meaningful Name: Her powers rely on the presence of her namesake.
- No Sell: Her manipulation of light also extends to danmaku made of light, which she can refract and deflect with ease. Yukari, whom this was demonstrated to, is legitimately impressed by this. (Not that this stopped any of Yukari's other moves, which make short work of Sunny.)
- The Power of the Sun: She's got a number of spells in Fairy Wars that suggest using sunlight or solar fire, like Sunlight: "Sunshine Blast". She can also absorb sunlight to heal her injuries (creating an inverted rainbow in the process).
- Silent Moonlight
- Luna Child"Sorry to say, but the night is my specialty. This is where your advance ends!"
Tropes associated with Luna:
- Cute Clumsy Girl: Constantly falls on her face.
- A Day in the Limelight: The short story Fairy of the Moon.
- Character Tic: Tends to hold her mouth open in a small teardrop shape when she's focused on something.
- The Ditz: Perfect Memento in Strict Sense stated that she's the least smart of the three fairies.
- Elegant Gothic Lolita: The outfit she is wearing on one of the chapter covers screams of this.
- Field Power Effect
- Leitmotif: "Sleepless Due to the Night"
- Lunacy: Exposure to moonlight increases her powers and heals her injuries.
- Meaningful Name: Her powers rely on the presence of her namesake.
- Meganekko: Wears glasses when reading.
- Must Have Caffeine: She loves coffee to the extent that she steals coffee beans, to the annoyance of tea shops she steals them from. It's noted in Perfect Memento in Strict Sense that this is unusual, since most fairies prefer sweets. This doesn't mean that the other two doesn't like coffee, of course (they even played a prank on Cirno using coffee), but Luna especially loves them.
- Ojou Ringlets
- Perpetual Frowner: She is almost always seen with a frown on her mouth or similar. Her portrait in Fairy Wars being one of the exceptions.
- What Kind of Lame Power Is Heart, Anyway?: Luna doesn't think her power is useful for anything other than pranking and theft, and believes herself to be the weakest of the three fairies.
- As revealed by Fairy of the Moon, Yukari disagrees, as the moon is a potent source of energy for youkai. Indeed, she thinks Luna might be the strongest of the trio.
- When All You Have Is a Hammer: Akyuu writes, "When she is stealing stuff she erases sound, and that's it. She won't think of doing it any other way." Even if the sudden unnatural silence will easily give her away.
- Pouring Starlight
- Star Sapphire"The way you act is pitifully easy to sense. You're quite a fool for not noticing you've been lured here."
Tropes associated with Star:
- Forgot About Her Powers: Despite the fact that her power is supposed to always be on, Marisa manages to sneak up on the fairies multiple times.
- Jack-of-All-Stats: Relative to the other two Fairies, Luna's power and Healing Factor are static and fall in between Sunny's and Luna's depending on the weather they're in.
- Karma Houdini: She's smart enough to sometimes evade the punishments Sunny and Luna suffer.
- Leitmotif: "Like the Brilliance of Fairies"
- The Little Detecto
- Parasol of Prettiness: Often depicted with one in fanart.
- Rapunzel Hair: Except for the small ribbon in her hair, she looks like a miniature version of Kaguya. This has not gone unnoticed.
- The Slacker: Enjoys pulling pranks but puts no effort in it, leaving all the work to Sunny and Luna.
- Star Power: The clue is her name.
Debuted in Perfect Memento in Strict Sense
Hieda no Akyuu
- Memory of Gensoukyou
- Hieda no Akyuu"If there are any opinions you'd like to present, please visit the Hieda residence. If you come to help tidy the place up, then even youkai are most welcome."
Tropes associated with Akyuu:
- Author Appeal: Likes FM synthesis music - specifically the soundtracks of the PC-98 games, which apparently were produced in Gensokyo and distributed as vinyl records.
- Ax-Crazy: Thankfully not canon, but for reasons unknown, yukkuri fandom commonly portrays Akyuu as a sadistic murderer who tortures yukkuris for her own amusement.
- Big Fancy House: Forbidden Scrollery shows that she lives in one of these, complete with The Thing That Goes Doink. Akyuu just thinks the whole place is old and outdated.
- Brutal Honesty
- Captain Obvious: Various statements of her tend to be tautologies or things that are obvious to anyone living in a supposedly-dangerous world (or anyone else for that matter).
- Cast from Lifespan: How she pays for her incarnation-spanning memory.
- Deadpan Snarker: Evident in her writing style and especially her footnotes.
- Little Miss Snarker: In her earlier appearances. (Touhou seems to be averting Not Allowed to Grow Up when it comes to her.)
- Fantastic Racism: Doesn't particularly like youkai, though she has no problem working with them professionally."If there are any opinions you'd like to present, please stop by the Hieda residence. If you come to help tidy the place up, then even youkai are most welcome."
- Though the afterword (written by her) remarks that she might want to be friends with youkai in the future.
- Flower in Her Hair
- Footnote Fever: Has at least three footnotes per area. In some odd cases, there's also footnotes for the footnotes.
- Goroawase Number: "Kyuu" can mean "nine" (it's written with a different kanji in her name though), referring to her being the ninth reincarnation of Hieda no Are ("re" can similarly mean "zero"). Continuing the theme, the past eight Children of Miare were named Aichi, Ani, Ami, Ayo, Ago, Amu, Anana and Aya.
- Historical-Domain Character: sort of - implied to be a reincarnation of Hieda no Are, one of the authors of the Kojiki.
- Immortality Seeker: Downplayed example, she is searching for ways to fight her fate and live a little longer but despite that knows that she has maybe less than ten years left to live. She doesn't mind it to much since she will be reborn regardless.
- Leitmotif: "Child of Are".
- Meaningful Name: see above for the meaning of the "kyuu" part.
- Photographic Memory: Her ability of "Gumonji" means that she can't forget anything.
- Pungeon Master: Frequently makes puns in her books.
- Reincarnation: However, she usually only lives long enough to update her records, so she often only gets less than ten to twenty years per lifetime.
- Unreliable Narrator: All of her information comes from interviewing the other characters, who may be mistaken about events (such as Rinnosuke assuming that computers are "shikigami") or outright lie to her. She also notes that some asked her to exaggerate their powers. There's also half the profile on Sakuya, where she wonders about what exactly she was before she met Remilia.
- She continues this trend in Symposium of Post-Mysticism, even though there aren't any interviews involved (that we know of).
- Akyuu's standards of research are parodied in Inaba of the Moon and Inaba of the Earth, where she asks Reisen if it's true that youkai rabbits can only be killed by holy hand grenades.
- Might go into being a Troll at times — upon getting a request from Marisa (in a ZUN-written comic that came with PMiSS) to write her in a flattering way, she proceeds to do just the opposite.
- Vague Age: One of the few aversions for human characters. Her current incarnation was specifically said to be 10 years old when she was introduced in Perfect Memento in Strict Sense, and in the same book a Bunbunmaru article from 1994 announces her birth. In Forbidden Scrollery, she's clearly several years older than she was when first introduced, indicating that she's the only Touhou character who visibly ages more or less in real time.
- Wise Beyond Their Years: Her body may be young, but she has probably hundreds of years of knowledge and experience to draw upon.
- World Half Full: Her books, in which she classifies youkai according to "threat level" and "human friendship level", are the best sources of evidence that Gensokyo is a dangerous place for humans to live. However, this may all be part of the image that the youkai want her to depict them as, since they asked her to write them in this fashion, as well as the fact that she wants to make the book more entertaining (she admits this in the foreword of Perfect Memento in Strict Sense) or works from second- and third-hand rumors of some of the more elusive youkai.
Debuted in Silent Sinner in Blue
- Rei'sen"H-How rude! There's nothing wrong with me! I just hit a little space debris, that's all!"
Tropes associated with Rei'sen:
- Flash Step: In Chapter 2.
- Little Bit Beastly: Moon Rabbit.
- Magical Eye: While it hasn't been confirmed, fanworks often depict her (and other moon rabbits) as possessing weaker versions of the other Reisen's Lunatic Red Eyes.
- Moon Rabbit
- New Meat: Recently recruited into the Lunar Defense Corps.
- One Steve Limit: This Reisen's name is written phonetically in katakana (レイセン) as common for foreign names, whereas Reisen Udongein Inaba started writing her own name in kanji (鈴仙) after moving to Earth. Since they're "spelled" differently in Japanese, perhaps it might be appropriate to think of her as some homophone like "Rei'sen" or "Raysen".
- Replacement Goldfish: Literally the replacement for the old Reisen who ran away.
- Telepathy: An inherent power of all moon rabbits, allowing them to share rumours and gossip between each other.
- Unwitting Pawn: She unknowingly draws the Watatsuki sisters into Yukari's plan when Eirin convinces her to go back to the Moon and warn the Watatsukis that Yukari was about to invade them. Though if Eirin hadn't warned them, then they would have been caught even further off-guard. The only difference is that because they were forewarned, both of Yukari's decoys were needed, whereas if they hadn't been, Yukari herself might have been able to successfully invade instead of ending up as decoy #2 (it's unclear whether Yukari had any way to evade the moon's impurity-detecting trees). Eirin was sending Rei'sen to offer support against a rumored invasion that Eirin herself had spread the rumors for.
Watatsuki no Yorihime
- The Moon Princess Possessed by Divine Spirits
- Watatsuki no Yorihime"Without a slap on the wrist? You are mistaken. Living on Earth is the worst punishment you can receive."
Tropes associated with Yorihime:
- Absurdly Sharp Blade: Sharp enough to cut Marisa's Master Spark in two!
- Action Girl
- All of the Other Reindeer: It's vaguely implied that the other Lunarians distrust her due to her power. Helping Yorihime solve this problem, by showing Lunarians that other people like Reimu can also summon gods, seems to be one objective of Eirin's plan.
- It doesn't help that the sisters' mentor betrayed Lunarian society, and they put only token efforts into tracking her down.
- All Your Powers Combined / Summon Magic: Her fighting style relies on summoning gods into her body, letting her switch between powersets to fit the situation. She's shown the following:
- Attack Reflector
- Extra Ore Dinary: Channeling Kanayamakiho (god of metals) reduces Sakuya's knives to iron sand, recreates them and fires them back. Notably Reimu has also channeled this god in a chapter of Wild and Horned Hermit.
- Magic Mirror: Ishikoridome carries the Yata Mirror to literally reflect attacks.
- Dance Battler: With Ame-no-uzume.
- Good Hurts Evil / Healing Hands: Izunome, interpreted here as a miko-goddess who can purify corruption.
- Playing with Fire
- Elemental Shapeshifter / Hellfire: With Atago.
- Shock and Awe: Channeling Honoikazuchi lets her create a seven-headed dragon of fire and lightning.
- The Power of the Sun: From Amaterasu.
- Spontaneous Weapon Creation: Her katana is implied to be a result of this, tied to Gion.
- Field of Blades: Can generate an upside-down version to cage enemies by stabbing her sword into the ground.
- Star Power: From Amatsu-Mikaboshi.
- Attack Reflector
- Always Someone Better: She is this to Reimu, being what she could become should she train herself.
- Boring Invincible Hero Antagonist: The main criticism against her.
- According to ZUN, this was intentional, and the reason why she's only in the manga and not in any of the games.
- Evil Counterpart: To Reimu, though the "evil" part is debatable. They both have the power to channel the gods, and despite being tasked to defend their race are oddly friendly towards their supposed enemies (earthlings and youkai respectively). Also like Reimu she has reputation issues among her own people.
- Katanas Are Just Better: Uses a katana, somewhat anachronistically given the history of the moon.
- Lady of War: Calm, collected female soldier.
- Leitmotif: Shares "Watatsuki's Spell Card ~ Lunatic Blue" with her sister.
- New Powers as the Plot Demands: No matter what kind of attack the Gensokyo team throw at her, Yorihime is always able to summon a god from the Shinto pantheon with exactly the right kind of power to counteract it.
- Gameplay and Story Integration: If you think about it, she's like the protagonist of one of the shooters bombing her way through every enemy spellcard.
- Not So Invincible After All: In Inaba of the Moon and Inaba of the Earth Chapter 26, she gets knocked out by accidentally falling into one of Tewi's Pit Traps.
- OC Stand-in: Izunome, the goddess Yorihime summoned to defeat Reimu, is a character whose name is only mentioned once in the Kojiki, so nobody knows what kind of god she actually is. In this story, conveniently enough, she's the patron goddess of miko.
- Physical God: Based on Tamayori-hime, a dragon/shark/sea crocodile goddess said to be the mother of the first Emperor of Japan.
- Proud Scholar Race Girl
- Royal Inbreeding: As with their mythological inspirations, Yorihime is married to Toyohime's son. Whether she was also his foster mother in this version is unclear.
- Sibling Yin-Yang: Serious and short-tempered, compared to her laid-back sister.
- Space Elf: Lunarians look down on Earthlings as uncultured and primitive.
- Surrounded by Idiots: The "soldiers" she is in charge of are clueless teenage-like bunnygirls who run from the first sign of danger if the Watatsuki sisters are not present.
- Training from Hell: What she subjects Reisen and Reisen to during her visit to Eientei.
- Tsundere: Loudly insisted to Toyohime that she couldn't go to Earth to visit Eirin because she had to stay behind to defend the Moon, but ended up going anyway out of admiration for her former teacher.
- Unwitting Pawn: Despite her "winning", she got completely played by the parallel plans performed by Yukari and Eirin in Silent Sinner in Blue.
Watatsuki no Toyohime
- The Moon Princess Connecting Mountain and Sea
- Watatsuki no Toyohime"It's quite impossible for the creatures here to live without sin. Simply living and dying on earth is sin enough."
Tropes associated with Toyohime:
- Big Eater: When it comes to peaches, at least. In Inaba of the Moon and Inaba of the Earth she eats a whole bowl so fast that Reisen couldn't even see it!
- Evil Counterpart: Arguable case with Yukari, as Toyohime can also manipulate boundaries, although her ability may be restricted in scope to the lunar capital. The "evil" part is also debatable.
- Fantastic Racism: As she narrates to Yukari, Lunarians look down on the people of Earth for being "impure" and tainted by sin. While true, this doesn't really excuse that many of the deaths and struggles on Earth were by their own hands, from trying to control humanity with Youkai in past, to starting wars over prized treasure in the present.
- To put this in context, in Shinto belief impurity is the product and source of all evil and misfortune, and the greatest source of impurity is death. Taking this to its logical conclusion, humans are only mortal because of the earth's impurity slowly poisoning them, and as the moon has never been touched by death it acts as a Heaven-like realm that turns its inhabitants into ageless superbeings. Allowing normal humans in would eventually taint the moon until it lost this property. As she says, the crime is living on Earth and the punishment is living on Earth.
- On the other hand, Toyohime seems oddly okay with Earthlings on a personal level (at least, Earthlings who aren't Yukari), to the point where she once let a human live on the moon for three years in secret, and attempted to bring an Earth rabbit home as a pet.
- I'm Taking Her Home with Me!: Repeatedly tried to take an Earth rabbit back to the Moon with her when she visited Eientei.
- Leitmotif: Shares "Watatsuki's Spell Card ~ Lunatic Blue" with her sister.
- Paper Fan of Doom: One that can "instantly purify" things at the atomic level! ZUN says the reason it looks like a paper fan is "I didn't explain the weapons to Aki Eda, so the depiction was super sloppy (lol)."
- Physical God: Based on Toyotama-hime (better known as Otohime), mythical grandmother of the first Emperor of Japan.
- Royal Inbreeding: As with their mythological inspirations, Yorihime is married to Toyohime's son.
- Space Elf: Lunarians look down on Earthlings as uncultured and primitive.
- Supernormal Bindings: Carries around rope woven from "femtofiber" that can bind practically everything, up to and including gods.
- Teleporters and Transporters: Thanks to her ability she is able to move wherever she pleases.
- Trademark Favorite Food: Peaches, which leads to her sometimes being paired with Tenshi. The logic behind this is that peaches are the cliche "heavenly" food in Far Eastern cultures, much like harps are associated with angels in the West.
- Unwitting Pawn: Also got completely played by the parallel plans performed by Yukari and Eirin in Silent Sinner in Blue.
Debuted in Wild and Horned Hermit
Kasen Ibaraki
- The One-Armed, Horned Hermit
- Ibaraka-Sen/Ka-Sen (real name Kasen Ibaraki)"The only people who live on the surface are good men, saints... and True Villains."
Tropes associated with Kasen:
- The Alcoholic: Despite whatever stereotypes one might have about Hermit Gurus, she loves her sake, and is often bragging about its strength ("enough to drink even an oni under the table"). In chapter 16, she surprises Marisa by using a 2 liter drinking cup, and tells Sanae that she can't stop drinking, although she has her reasons...
- Like Suika and Yuugi, she owns an alcohol-related magic item named after her. In her case, it's the Ibaraki Box of a Hundred Medicines, which turns any sake poured into it into an elixir that cures any illness and heals any wound. At the cost of turning the drinker into an oni, either mentally or physically depending on what it heals. Was anyone still doubting that she's an oni?
- Ambiguously Human: Refers to herself as human, but her character takes a lot of inspiration from the oni general Ibaraki-douji, she wears shackles like the other oni characters in the series, her hairstyle covers where an oni would have horns, and she has some sort of past with Suika. Smaller hints that Kasen isn't what she claims appear fairly often, like having a Sneeze Cut to her when people start talking about youkai. There are enough hints that she's a youkai that having her turn out not to be would be a shocking twist at this point.
- This is further established by Suika in chapter 16 and 20 where she wonders why Kasen continues to pretend to be a hermit, and in chapter 18, Komachi, who certainly would know, outright says that she's pretending to be an hermit to Kasen's face, who doesn't deny it.
- Chapter 21 pretty much confirms it.
- Artificial Limbs: While she claims that her bandaged right arm is just scarred, when Reimu squeezes it there's nothing but black smoke underneath. She seems to be looking for her real arm so she can reattach it.
- Assist Character: Her specials in Urban Legend in Limbo consist of summoning her pets to attack enemies, including Kanda (eagle), Houso (tiger) and Mukou (raijuu).
- Bad Liar: Tends to become visibly nervous or agitated when she's hiding the truth, though most of the time the other characters either don't notice or assume she's offended.
- Bandage Babe: Her right arm isn't merely covered with bandages, her right arm is, for all intents and purposes, smoke covered in bandages.
- The Beastmaster: Her stated power is the ability to guide animals. This includes speaking to birds, obscure zoological knowledge (including poison remedies, and how to alter or reverse the transformation of animals into youkai), and keeping things like baby dragons, giant rocs and guard tigers as pets.
- Bishie Sparkle: Not her, but she's certainly affected by others', particularly Miko and Reimu.
- Blank White Eyes: She get's these when she finds out that Reimu is setting up a Setsubun festival.
- Blow You Away: Her attacks in Urban Legend in Limbo that don't focus on her arm are mostly wind-based magic.
- Blue and Orange Morality or White and Gray Morality: Despite almost certainly being a disguised youkai herself, she generally takes the side of humans. In fact, she protests more for humans and animals than she does for youkai throughout Wild and Horned Hermit. Both tropes are hinted by Yukari in Chapter 14.
- In Chapter 3 Kasen appears to taunt an evil spirit from Hell about how she is more evil than it is.
- Buxom Is Better: A lot of fanartists have been drawing her this way.
- Canon Immigrant: She's a playable character in Urban Legend in Limbo. At one point ZUN had considered making her the Extra Stage boss of Ten Desires, but that position went to Mamizou instead.
- Chained by Fashion: Has a manacle on her left wrist with a small chain attached, leading to speculation that she's a secret oni, because the other oni in the series both also have manacles on their arms. Obviously, she's missing the manacle on her right arm because she's missing her right arm.
- The Corruption: Chapter 16 introduces us to Kasen's Ibaraki Medicine Box. Any sake drunk from it will grant you Super Strength and cure your ailments, but it will also change your personality into that of an oni's. In addition, if you drink it while injured and it heals you, you will literally become an oni.
- Dark Secret: Heavily implied to be a youkai (most likely an oni) masquerading as a human.
- Deader Than Dead: Her smokey right arm doesn't just kill spirits, it removes them from the cycle of reincarnation entirely. Komachi is not happy about this.
- This is referred to as Nirvana-esque Enlightenment. Komachi is not happy because those evil souls don't deserve the short-cut off the Reincarnation Cycle. Specifically she says that evil souls need to suffer in hell before they can reincarnate and eventually exit the cycle naturally.
- Defeat Means Friendship: Notably averted. She is the only character who's friends with Reimu before fighting her. Her status as a hermit seems to have given Reimu an unusual amount of trust in her.
- Detachment Combat: She can detach her bandaged Artificial Arm and use it to grab things when it's separated. In addition, it's implied that her original arm is still alive somewhere and can move around on its own.
- In Urban Legend in Limbo, her gameplay focuses heavily on the use of her bandaged arm, with it often being detached from her as a result.
- Energy Ball: In Urban Legend in Limbo she can fire energy blasts from her palms, kung-fu-style.
- Enlightenment Superpowers: A more accurate description of what's meant by "hermit" in this setting.
- Flower Motifs: Strongly associated with roses, as evidenced by her clothing and the meaning of her name.
- Handicapped Badass: It's all but outright stated that she lost her arm. And being a hermit, she has to fight shinigami on a regular basis.
- Hair Decorations: She wears two cloth covers that would normally be worn on top of Odango Hair, despite not actually having said hairstyle herself. It's widely speculated that they're actually meant to cover where her horns would be, if she really is an oni.
- Hand Blast: One of her attacks in Urban Legend in Limbo.
- Hermit Guru: She's classified as a hermit, which means that she's supernaturally strong, long-lived and youthful, but is also often secluded and must do things like recite proper sutras each day and perform acts of piety, or instantly lose her abilities and her immortality.
- In practice, this involves Komachi the shinigami repeatedly popping in to tell her what she has to do. Although you might expect Komachi to hold a grudge against her for the improperly destroyed spirits and choose not to tell her, that hasn't happened and they maintain a mostly-friendly relationship, snarking aside.
- In Chapter 16, Suika claims that she's not actually a hermit and is only pretending to be one, and Komachi does the same on Kasen's presence in chapter 18. Kasen doesn't deny it. In Chapter 20, Suika tells Kasen directly that nobody has found out her true identity yet, and then tries to pin Kasen for using the festival as a way to weaken the Hakurei Border. However, when Kasen finds out the festival could start a fire and destroy the Hakurei Shrine, she puts a stop to it and saves the shrine.
- Holy Burns Evil: When she tried to grab one of the Hakurei Yin-Yang Orbs with her bandaged arm, it outright exploded into tatters and black mist.
- Leitmotif: "Battlefield of Hanahazama"
- Light 'em Up: Kasen has shown the ability to create balls of light that last for long periods of time.
- Meaningful Name: Apparently drawn from Ibaraki-douji, an oni who was either the lieutenant or wife of Shuten-douji (on whom Suika is based).
- Meaningful Rename: Her real name (in Eastern order) is Ibaraki Kasennote , but nowadays she goes by "Ibarakasen". Given that she's a hermit who dresses in a rose theme, Ibarakasen ("Wild Roseflower Hermit") arguably straddles the line between Meaningful Name and Red Baron.
- Her Name Really Is Kasen / Steven Ulysses Perhero: Her pseudonym is very close to her real name, and both can be shortened to "Kasen" (though spelled with different characters).
- My Species Doth Protest Too Much: She dislikes the status quo of "youkai attack humans and cause fear, humans exterminate youkai" (even if it's mostly non-lethal nowadays) and believes that youkai should be able to deny their original purpose and choose their own. This may sound good, but Eiki Shiki's concerns about the characters' sins in Phantasmagoria of Flower View seemed to be mostly about the minor ways in which they had drifted from their purposes...
- If she's an oni then Kasen's case is even stronger, given how much oni prize honesty.
- Mythology Gag/Leaning on the Fourth Wall: In her first appearance she recites Miyako no Yoshika's work, as her base character, Ibaraki-douji, was deeply impressed by said author's work. Yes, this is the same person who is the base for Yoshika Miyako in Ten Desires.
- Our Cryptids Are More Mysterious: Her Beastmaster abilities lead her to deal heavily with rare animals and cryptids, which are distinguished from animal-based Youkai.
- Pay Evil unto Evil: Prefers to destroy vengeful spirits rather than wait for them to repent. Possibly a case of Eviler Than Thou as well.
- Pinocchio Syndrome: Later chapters strongly hint that Kasen is not really a human or a hermit, yet she continues her hermit training, confesses to Miko in Chapter 18 that she wants to get closer to humans and animalsnote , and resolves incidents that Reimu and Marisa can't or refuse to solve. May also be The Atoner/Retired Monster if she is based on Ibaraki-doji, a dangerous oni that had its arm sliced off and went into hiding.
- Pocket Dimension: Her home can only be reached by following a highly-specific path, and has its own climate. She can even change the path if someone discovers it. Word of God says this is the same technique the Lunarians use to hide the Lunar Capital.
- Psycho Serum: The sake drunk from her Box of a Hundred Medicines (temporarily), depending on what it heals. Hilarity Ensues when it gets passed around in a flower-viewing party and pretty much everyone drinks from it for the Super Strength it imparts, from Shrinking Violet Youmu to Ax-Crazy Yuuka.
- Public Domain Character: It's very strongly implied that she's based on Ibaraki-douji, a famous oni who disguised themselves as a human as part of an attempt to reclaim their severed arm.
- Rocket Punch: Shown to be able to do this in one of the omake comics in the collected volumes. Used as her Occult attack in Urban Legend in Limbo, using the Monkey's Paw.
- Shout-Out: Her occult theme in Urban Legend in Limbo is the Monkey's Paw, which is of course a reference to the famous short story.
- Something About a Rose: Has a very prominent rose motif.
- Supernaturally Delicious and Nutritious: Hermits are the favorite food of youkai. Eating one can cause a youkai to ascend to a completely new level of power. And if an ordinary animal were to eat her, they'd become a youkai on the spot. Of course, that's not exactly easy to do, since she's extremely powerful due to being a Hermit.
- Sweet Tooth: Often seen snacking on sweets, puts an excessive amount of sugar in her tea, and pulls out some sweets for her win pose in Urban Legend In Limbo. The artist noted that she tried to include at least one scene of her eating sweet per volume.
- Theme Naming: Her pets are all named after famous Taoist figures.
- The Unfought: One of the few beings who hang around the Hakurei Shrine and consider themselves friends to Reimu without getting in a fight with her first. However, Reimu finally gets to fight her in Urban Legend in Limbo.
- Weaksauce Weakness: Beans, though Kasen mentions that it's mostly a psychological effect. When she mentions to Komachi how Reimu roped her in to participate in the Setsubun festivalnote by throwing these around, Komachi laughed at the irony.
- Weather Manipulation: Not directly, but she has a pet dragon that can cause thunderstorms at will.
- Willfully Weak: Her dialogue in Urban Legend in Limbo makes it clear that she is holding back, apparently cause she thinks using her full power presents several risks.
- Wound That Will Not Heal: According to Kasen, the miracle oni healing sake doesn't heal her arm; however, if she were to stop drinking it, her arm would "completely rot away."
- Which takes on a somewhat different meaning when you realize that her arm isn't even attached to her anymore. She's got a perfectly preserved arm sitting around somewhere.
- You Gotta Have Pink Hair: She has pink hair to go with the general rose motif. A possible case of Ascended Fanon — fanartists started drawing her with pink hair after the first chapter was released, and she wasn't confirmed to have pink hair until the second chapter was published with color pages.
Kappa Mob
A group of unnamed Kappa who show up frequently in Wild and Horned Hermit. Most of them seem rather shy around humans, and will leave the talking to Nitori if she's around.
Tropes associated with these kappa:
- Gadgeteer Genius
- Mauve Shirt
- No Name Given
- Planet of Copyhats: They're all loosely based on Nitori.
- You Gotta Have Blue Hair: All the kappa have hair in various shades of blue or cyan.
- Glasses Kappa
Tropes associated with Glasses Kappa:
- Laser Blade: Is shown clutching what appears to be a lightsaber in chapter 22.
- Meganekko
- Shrinking Violet
- Shy Blue-Haired Girl
- Dark-Haired Kappa
Tropes associated with Dark-Haired Kappa:
- Chekhov's Gunman: Possible example. A kappa who looks like her appears in Unshou's Flash Back in chapter 11, implying that she may have possessed Kasen's missing arm at some point.
- Hime Cut: The short version.
- Ninja: During the yamawaro war games she hides in a tree and throws shuriken.
- X Hairclip Kappa
Tropes associated with X Hairclip Kappa:
- Adaptation Dye-Job: In official art her hair is pale cyan, but fanart often makes her blonde.
- Hair Decorations
- Iconic Item: Fanart often shows her holding what looks like a pair of giant barbecue forks, based on her appearance in chapter 4.
- Katanas Are Just Better: During the yamawaro war games she fights with a katana.
- Tsurime Eyes
- Merchant Kappa
Tropes associated with Merchant Kappa:
- Bow Ties Are Cool: Wears a bow tie in many of her appearances, and is one of the kappa most willing to strike up a conversation with humans.
- Greed: Quick to leap on any opportunity to make a profit, even moreso than Nitori. In chapter 18, set during the events of Hopeless Masquerade, she was taking bets on the playable characters' duels. In chapter 22, the moment Nitori starts talking about money she already has an abacus in her hands.
- Youthful Freckles: Falls closest to the Bratty Half-Pint patterm.
Debuted in Forbidden Scrollery
Kosuzu Motoori
- Bibliophile with Deciphering Eyes
- Kosuzu Motoori"We'll cross that bridge when we come to it. And when that time comes, I'll come to you, Miss Reimu!"
Tropes associated with Kosuzu:
- Addictive Magic: She is getting more and more attracted to her books, summoning a low-level version of the Night Parade and creating tsukumogami. She's keeping it to one day per month to avoid summoning something too big or attracting unwanted attention, but she still is quite excited to do so because she can "feel the youkai energy."
- Why is this a bad idea? The Night Parade is the Japanese equivalent of The Wild Hunt. It's also Mamizou's Last Spell in Hopeless Masquerade, and an annoying one at that.
- Arbitrary Skepticism: Despite the number of strange things in Gensokyo, and her own poor knowledge of the Outside World, Kosuzu still finds the contents of an issue of "Fourteen Times" too hard to believe.
- Berserk Button: DO NOT DAMAGE THE BOOKS!
- Collector of the Strange: She collects Tomes of Eldritch Lore.
- Comically Missing the Point: Kosuzu tends to misinterpret what she hears about real world events, like how the fall of the Soviet Union and the Berlin Wall must mean that the outside world has a lot of construction defects.
- Cute Bookworm: She's very passionate about books, and thanks to Moe Harukawa's art style she's quite cute as well.
- Curtains Match the Window: Red hair and red eyes.
- Demonic Possession: In chapters 16 and 17, Kosuzu reads a set of letters which were sealing a ghost and accidentally gets possessed by it, causing it to take over her body at night.
- Face Fault: Causes an entire Face Fault Pile-up at the end of chapter 25. Marisa is surprised that Kosuzu is so willing to give up the evil book of the week, because she normally cries and objects because it's merchandise. Everyone thinks Kosuzu must have learned her lesson by now, but then Kosuzu remarks that since it's not a Youma Book, she couldn't care less. Cue Reimu, Marisa, and Akyuu all simultaneously falling on top of each other, complete with Instant Bandages on their heads.
- Fangirl: Of Mamizou, though she's unaware of her being a youkai.
- Fearless Fool: Has no concern that she might accidentally summon an antagonistic youkai or Eldritch Abomination because she's sure Reimu will save her.
- Friend to All Children: Reads stories to village children who are too poor to own books. Also a friend to a fox youkai disguising itself as a human child by giving it an empty book so it can take notes on that instead of on the walls of the school. Though she may be doing it so she can get a steady source of youkai written books, too.
- Girlish Pigtails: One of, if not the, the youngest human character in the series (notably younger than Reimu and Marisa), and has pigtails.
- Hair Decorations: Wears bells in her hair to fasten her pigtails, which also matches her name (Kosuzu meaning "little bell").
- Historical-Domain Character: She's most likely based on Norinaga Motoori, a prominent 18th-century scholar who is most notable for deciphering the Kojiki, the oldest extant chronicle in Japan. Kosuzu's given name means "little bell", which is probably a reference to Norinaga's hobby of collecting bells.
- Meganekko: She wears glasses for reading.
- Mook Maker: Her Night Parade book creates tsukumogami, and Mamizou encourages this because the Tanuki can recruit them.
- Omniglot: She has the magical ability to read any written language, including dead languages spoken by no one.
- Psychic Powers: Psychometry. In Chapter 16 she develops the ability to read the auras of books, giving her information about them beyond what's in the text.
- Pro-Human Transhuman: Not yet, but Akyuu warns her that her habits will likely turn her into a youkai. She laughs it off and says that would be even better for Akyuu, because then she would still be Akyuu's friend and tell her all about being a youkai.
- Mamizou, somewhat unexpectedly, gives her a warning about this as well in chapter 24. Kosuzu takes that one rather a bit more seriously. Not seriously enough to stop doing the thing Mamizou warned her she should stop doing, but still, she looked genuinely worried this time.
- This gets into a bit more Nightmare Fuel territory once we see Reimu actually kill the Jinyou in the next chapter, because in her words "A human villager becoming a youkai is the greatest sin there is." Might Reimu be willing to murder Kosuzu if she ends up turning?
- Sprouting Ears: Does this in a chapter of Forbidden Scrollery when she gets angry, invoking the image of a hissing cat.
- Squee: Reacts like this to Mamizou playing Mysterious Stranger.
- Summon Bigger Fish: In order to get rid of a youkai bookworm, Kosuzu summoned a smoke youkai to get rid of it, then got Reimu and Marisa to get rid of the smoke youkai (blaming its appearance on the bookworm).
- Summoning Ritual / Summoning Artifact: She is capable of releasing at least some of the youkai in her books, but not controlling them (other than tsukumogami, more or less). She can, however, direct Reimu and Marisa at them if things get out of hand.
- Tome of Eldritch Lore: "Youma Books". She collects them; some are merely books written by youkai or magicians (either to themselves or others of their kind), while others are reminders that they existed in hopes that Clap Your Hands If You Believe will apply when someone reads them, while others still are youkai or have youkai sealed inside them. She even has one of the original copies of the Necronomicon. Her ability allows her to read them regardless of what ancient forgotten language they may have been written in, but if she accidentally summons something unfriendly, she's sure Reimu can handle it.
- Unwitting Pawn: Mamizou manipulates her love of youma books and interest in youkai for her own mysterious ends.
- Vague Age: Like Reimu and Marisa, it's unclear exactly how old she is, but she seems to be a few years younger than both of them, or at least about the same age as Akyuu's current incarnation.
- Whole Costume Reference: Her "incognito" outfit in chapters 10-11 of Forbidden Scrollery is the same one worn by Kosuke Kindaichi.


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NEW YORK (MarketWatch) — U.S. financial stocks moved higher Wednesday, heartened by private payroll-data improvements, while analyst comments also influenced some shares.
The Financial Select Sector SPDR ETF XLF, +0.13% which tracks the financial stocks in the S&P 500 Index SPX, +1.43% rose 0.3% after the report from payroll-processing firm ADP showed that the U.S. economy added 162,000 private-sector jobs in September. See story on ADP data: Private payrolls add 162,000 in September.
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Comments (2)
a resident of Menlo Park: The Willows
on May 5, 2010 at 11:31 am
Congrats Hailey! I am so proud of you. I can say I knew her when... Do you know she could serenade the diners with her fabulous violin playing?
a resident of another community
on May 5, 2010 at 7:52 pm
Congratulations Hailey
I hope you will be the next Rachel Ray! I want to be in the audience when that happens!!! You go girl!!!!!
Love you sweetie!
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