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== Concerning the romanization of names ==
 
First, there are two principal methods for transcribing Japanese names into Latin letters: the [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hepburn_romanization Hepburn System] and the [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kunrei-shiki_romanization Kunrei-shiki System]. In general, [[Word of God|ZUN]] favored the Hepburn System before ''Phantasmagoria of Flower View'', but changed to the Kunrei-shiki System afterward. This page uses the Hepburn format for the sake of [[Spell My Name With an "S"|argument]], as it is the most widely recognized and makes the pronunciation obvious to English speakers.
 
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* [[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 [[Memetic Molester|pervert]] who wears nothing but ''fundoshi'' loincloths. This version of Rinnosuke [[Memetic Mutation|is usually referred to]] as "[[Testosterone Poisoning|MAN]][[Fan Nickname|nosuke]]". Just look up the two doujins "Another Dream" issues one and two... bring your own [[Brain Bleach]].
** Another variation gives him the spell card ''[[Rated M for Manly|Manly Sign]]: [[Full Frontal Assault|Sexy Beam]]'', which a disturbed Marisa refers to as [[Non -Indicative Name|"neither sexy nor a beam"]].
* [[Half -Human Hybrid]]: Half-human, half-youkai.
* [[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]]: [http://en.touhouwiki.net/wiki/Curiosities_of_Lotus_Asia/Afterword "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 [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kusanagi 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 ''[[Mook|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.
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* [[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. [[Word of God|ZUN]], however, has mentioned that most of Rinnosuke's wisdom is [[Unreliable Narrator|his own speculation]].
* [[My Name Is Not Durwood|My Name Is Not Kourin]]: As a result of the name of his shop, Marisa calls him Kourin.
* [[Name DarNameDar]]: His ability is to recognize the name of an object and its purpose. [[Required Secondary Powers|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.<ref>He thinks they are shikigami since they short out on water.</ref> 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 human, 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, who's had actual page time.
* [[Shop Keeper]]
* [[Stoic Spectacles]]
* [[White -Haired Pretty Boy]]
 
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==== Tropes associated with Tokiko: ====
 
* [[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.
* [[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.
* [[Winged Humanoid]]
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* [[Astral Projection]] or [[Teleporters and Transporters]]?: In the ''Trojan Green Asteroid'' CD liner notes, she begins seeing an abandoned space station at one of the Earth-Moon Lagrange points in her dreams, and also has the ability to take Renko there as well. She's attacked by a [[Mix and Match Critters|chimera]] and ends up with a wounded arm back on Earth. It's unclear whether she actually teleported there, or whether it's astral projection and [[Your Mind Makes It Real]] is in effect.
* [[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. In ''Symposium of Post-mysticism'', [[Cute Ghost Girl|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.
* [[Meaningful Name]]: Lafcadio Hearn, [[Does This Remind You of Anything?|a famous horror writer who translated tales of youkai into English]], eventually became a Japanese citizen and took the name Koizumi ''Yakumo''. Following the Yukari theory, Hearn would correspond to Maribel and Yakumo would correspond to Yukari after her naturalization in Gensokyo.
** 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".
* [[My Name Is Not Durwood|My Name Is Not Mary]]: Type D/F - Renko can't pronounce Maribel's full name and calls her "Mary".
* [[Non Specifically Foreign]]
* [[SchrodingersSchrodinger's Butterfly]]: Whether or not she's Yukari, Maribel ''does'' have a dual existence in Gensokyo in her dreams.
* [[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".
** 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.
* [[The Unfrozen Caveman Lawyer]]: Maribel's personality seems kind of meek. Yukari [[The Chessmaster|on the other hand]]...
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==== Tropes associated with the Three Mischievous Fairies: ====
 
* [[Badass Boast]]: Parodied when the fairies introduce themselves to Cirno and brag about how their powers make them unbeatable... [[What Do You Mean ItsIt's Not Awesome?|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 [[Harmless Villain|mildly annoy people with their pranks]].
* [[Canon Immigrant]]: With ''Fairy Wars'', they're the first expanded material characters to be put into a game.
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* [[Power Nullifier]]: {{spoiler|Reisen Udongein Inaba's}} abilities can cancel out all three of the fairies' powers.
* [[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.
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* [[Reincarnation]]: However, {{spoiler|[[Blessed With Suck|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 her information comes from interviewing the other characters, who may be mistaken about events or outright lie to her. She also notes that some asked her to exaggerate their powers.
** She continues this trend in ''Symposium of Post-Mysticism'', even though there aren't any interviews involved (that we know of). For instance, she labels [[Bad Powers, Good People|Yamame]] and [[Dark Is Not Evil|Hina]]'s threat levels as "High" and "Very High" respectively.
** Akyuu's standards of research are parodied in ''Inaba of the Moon and Inaba of the Earth'', [[Cultural Cross -Reference|where she asks if it's true that]] [[Monty Python and The Holy Grail|youkai rabbits can only be killed by holy hand grenades]].
* [[Wise Beyond Their Years]]: Her body may be ten years old, but she has probably hundreds of years of knowledge and experience to draw upon.
* [[World Half Empty]]: 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.
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** [[Word of God|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]]: Arguable case with Reimu, as they both have the power to channel the gods. The "evil" part is also debatable.
* [[EverythingsEverything's Better With Princesses]]
* [[Hot Chick With a Sword]]
* [[Lady of War]]
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* [[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]].
* [[Proud Scholar Race Girl]]
* [[Sibling Yin -Yang]]
* [[Surrounded By Idiots]]: The "[[Mooks|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.
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* [[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!
* [[EverythingsEverything's Better With Princesses]]
* [[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.
* [[Eyes of Gold]]
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* [[My Species Doth Protest Too Much]]: If Kasen is an oni, then she's the [[Blue and Orange Morality]] equivalent of a [[Complete Monster]]. 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 [[I Am Not a Gun|deny their original purpose]] and choose their own. This may sound good, but [[Psychopomp|Shikieiki]]'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...
* [[Pay Evil Unto Evil]]: Prefers to destroy vengeful spirits rather than wait for them to repent. [http://www.mangafox.com/manga/touhou_ibarakasen_wild_and_horned_hermit/v01/c003/5.html Possibly] a case of [[Eviler Than Thou]] as well.
* [[Rose -Haired Girl]]: To go with [[Something About a Rose|the general rose motif]]. A possible case of [[Sure Why Not]]. 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.
* [[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.
* [[The Unfought]]: One of the few beings who hang around the Hakurei Shrine and consider themselves friends to Reimu without [[Defeat Means Friendship|getting in a fight with her first.]]
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