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2006 was the only year since the beginning of the Windows series' publication in which ZUN didn't release any new ''[[Touhou]]'' games. His main project during this brief hiatus was the [[Universe Compendium]] ''Perfect Memento in Strict Sense''. This was also the period when ''Touhou'' seemed to reach a critical mass of popularity, becoming entrenched as a permanent fixture in Japanese "nerdcore" culture. Users of [[Image Boards]] and [[YouTube]] in the West also started gaining awareness of it around this time. With the release of ''Mountain of Faith'' in 2007, ''Touhou'' entered a new phase marked by [[Continuity Creep|more cohesive storytelling and the interconnection of plots between games and related works]].
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Please remember to only use examples that are either [[Word of God|canon]] or have undergone mass [[Memetic Mutation]] so that the page doesn't become overcrowded with tropes that only occur in one person/circle's works.
== Concerning the romanization of names ==
There are two principal methods for transcribing Japanese names into Latin letters: the [[wikipedia:Hepburn romanization|Hepburn System]], which is more common in the West because it yields something closer to English phonetic, and the [[wikipedia:Kunrei-shiki romanization|Kunrei-shiki System]], which is the official romanization method in Japan, even if it's not used much. 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. (It is also All The Tropes' [[All The Tropes:Style Guide|preferred romanization scheme]].)
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== Debuted in ''Mountain of Faith''==
===Shizuha Aki===
:''Symbol of Loneliness and Death''
[[File:shizuhaaki_8726.jpg|frame|''<small>(fanart)</small>'']]
The older of the Aki sisters, despite bearing the lowly position of midboss with no dialogue. [[Fanon]] thus has it that she's less reliable than Minoriko.
* [[Every Girl Is Cuter With Hair Decs]]: One made out of red autumn leaves. Some fanartist noticed it resembles a crab and started drawing it as such, sparking endless 'crab' jokes about her.
* [[Jade-Colored Glasses]]: As the "Symbol of Loneliness and Death," she is a pessimist who believes that "the end will always come."
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=== Minoriko Aki ===
:''Symbol of Harvest and Plenty''
[[File:Minoriko_Portrait_9814.jpg|frame|''<small>(fanart)</small>'']]
The younger of the Aki sisters, she is often portrayed as being more mature than Shizuha. Both of the Aki sisters love autumn, and get very disappointed when winter rolls around. This has led fans to came up with idea of a rivalry between them and Letty Whiterock, the youkai of winter. Minoriko also runs a sweet potato stand.
* [[Does Not Like Shoes]]
* [[Follow Your Nose]]: Reimu notices that she smells like roasting sweet potatoes all the time.
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* [[Stronger Sibling]]: But not by much. She's still ridiculously weak for a god and attacked Reimu out of fear that she would eat her.
===Hina Kagiyama===
:''Nagashi-hina of the Hidden God''
[[File:Hina_spin_794.jpg|frame|''<small>(fanart)</small>'']]
A curse goddess who can absorb misfortune. She's also known for [[Everything's Better with Spinning|spinning]], [[What Do You Mean It's Not Awesome?|which she does nonstop during a large chunk of her stage]]. [[Memetic Mutation|Spin Hina spin! Spin for all to enjoy!]]
* [[Bad Powers, Good People]]: Despite what Akyuu claims.
* [[Brought to You by The Letter "S"]]: The squiggle on her dress is a stylized kanji 厄 ''(yaku)'', meaning "misfortune".
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* [[What Do You Mean It's Not Awesome?]]: Her obsessive spinning both in-game and fan works has some incredible animation.
===Nitori Kawashiro===
:''Super Youkai Warhead''
[[File:Nitori_9366.jpg|frame|''<small>(fanart)</small>'']]
A river kappa with a knack for engineering and great love for humans. However, she's very shy, and attempts to scare the heroines away from Youkai Mountain for their own safety.
* [[Beehive Barrier]]: Her bomb in ''Subterranean Animism''.
* [[Catch Phrase]]: A fanon one. "Kappapappapappa" and variants.
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* [[Vague Age]]: One of the more extreme cases in fanon. Fan-artists just can't agree on how old she's supposed to appear.
===Momiji Inubashiri===
:''The Mountain's Telegnosis''
[[File:MomijiInubashiri_shorthair.jpg|frame|''<small>(fanart)</small>'']]
Another of the tengu folk, and another character with no dialogue. She's said to have a cooperative personality and executes her duties faithfully, and so is often portrayed as Aya's subordinate or junior. Or just the hapless straight man to her antics. It was later revealed that she rather dislikes Aya and won't take orders from her as they belong to different chains of command, but fans will often ignore that.
* [[Ascended Extra]]
* [[Cool Sword]]: Looks like a scimitar, from what we can tell by her sprite. May be drawn as a [[BFS]] [[Depending on the Artist]].
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* [[White-Haired Pretty Girl]]
===Sanae Kochiya===
:''Deified Human of the Wind''
[[File:sanaekotiya01.png|frame]]
A human wind priestess from outside of Gensoukyou, she runs the Moriya Shrine and serves both Kanako and Suwako dutifully. During her life before entering Gensoukyou, her power to channel Kanako's divine abilities earned her a reputation as an avatar of the goddess, and she has been having a bit of an identity crisis after moving from a world in which her abilities made her almost divine to one where they are mundane.
* [[Adorkable]]: [http://mangafox.me/manga/touhou_ibarakasen_wild_and_horned_hermit/v01/c002/13.html Able to recite how cold fusion works] with [[Genius Bonus|startling accuracy]], [http://mangafox.me/manga/touhou_ibarakasen_wild_and_horned_hermit/v01/c002/14.html while still looking cute].
* [[A God Am I]]: She won't waste any time in informing people that she is, in fact, a living god. It's practically her [[Catch Phrase]]. Of course, she can be excused for this because she really ''is'' one, what with her power to create miracles and {{spoiler|being descended directly from Suwako}} and all.
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* [[What Kind of Lame Power Is Heart, Anyway?|What Kind of Lame Power is Creating Miracles, Anyway?]]: The [[Mundane Utility]] she realizes after moving to Gensokyo.
===Kanako Yasaka===
:''Avatar of Mountains and Lakes''
[[File:Kanako_4998.jpg|frame|''<small>(fanart)</small>'']]
The current Goddess in charge of the Moriya Shrine, with dominion over wind and rain and an affection for snakes. The shrine was not originally hers, since she won it from Suwako after they fought each other in the Great Suwa War, though after complications arose they entered into a sort of dual-owner partnership. The two still have a reasonably good friendship despite their past rivalry and the occasional arguments. She moved the shrine to Gensoukyou because she could not gather enough faith from humans, and decided to gather faith from youkai as well. Despite clashing with the Hakurei Shrine she has obtained a significant amount of faith from the tengu and kappa, though nowhere near what she once possessed, and so she seeks ways to expand the numbers of her worshippers.
* [[Animal Motifs]]: Kanako uses the imagery of snakes in her symbols - the rope circle represents a curled-up snake (Ouroboros) that invokes reincarnation. She picked up the frog-eating snake motif and a sacrificial ritual where one sacrifices frogs to her after beating the frog-aspected Suwako and conquering her kingdom. Interestingly, this [[Rule of Symbolism|may or may not]] be the reason why Sanae officially wears a snake-like hair dec.
* [[Author Avatar]]: A fair amount of her dialogue in ''Symposium of Post-mysticism'' is pretty clearly ZUN expressing his worldview
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* [[Red Oni, Blue Oni]]: With Suwako. Kanako's the Blue Oni despite the colour of their clothes.
===Suwako Moriya===
:''The Epitome of Native Gods''
[[File:suwako_moriya_3772.jpg|frame]]
The original Goddess of Moriya Shrine, with dominion over earth and mountains and an affection for frogs, and one of the only beings able to tame the fierce Mishaguji (curse gods). Suwako lost control of her shrine to Kanako in a duel, where her steel weapons were rusted by a single counterattack by Kanako's divine vines, and only managed to retain the control that she did because of the refusal of her followers to to accept a deity that could not control the Mishaguji. Far less concerned about their dwindling faith than Kanako, she nonetheless agreed to her relocation plan and has found many things in Gensoukyou to amuse her. She's noted for a love of "danmaku festivals", willingly taking all comers.
* [[Absurdly Youthful Mother]]: She ''is'' an immortal goddess and many times great grandmother of {{spoiler|Sanae}}... and she looks about 10.
* [[Animal Motifs]]: Suwako is associated with [[Frogs and Toads|frogs]]. In canon, this led Kanako to adopt snakelike elements into her own symbols. In fanon, it just as often leads to bitter clashes with the frog-freezing Cirno. [[Foe Yay|Or to the two of them pairing up]].
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* [[Zettai Ryouiki]]: Arguably. In ''MoF'', her sprite has thigh-highs, while her portrait has thigh-highs folded down to her knees.
== Debuted in ''Scarlet Weather Rhapsody''==
===Iku Nagae===
:''Beautiful Scarlet Cloth''
[[File:ikunagae2.jpg|frame]]
A messenger of the Dragon Palace, she is said to be able to communicate with dragons. She is a [[Animal Motifs|youkai of oarfishes]], the shape of her shawl and scarf resembling an oarfish's long, narrow body with red fins, and she has "antenna" on her [[Nice Hat]] that look like the spines on an oarfish. Furthermore, the Japanese term for "oarfish" [[A Worldwide Punomenon|literally means]] "Messenger of the Dragon Palace".
* [[Cool Big Sis]]: Quite a few pieces of fanart and even some [[Doujinshi]] love to depict Iku as Tenshi's babysitter and sister figure, sometimes willingly caring for "Eldest Daughter" of the the Hinanai clan, sometimes very much against her will.
* [[Even the Girls Want Her]]: Fandom example. "Kyaa[[ Iku-sa]]n!" is a recurring line among Japanese fans.<ref>"Kyaa" being a girlish squeal.</ref>
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* [[This Is a Drill]]: Her scarf can turn into a drill.
===Tenshi Hinanawi/[[Spell My Name with an "S"|Hinanai]]===
:''Young Mistress of Bhava-Agra''
[[File:tenshihinanai.jpg|frame]]
Born as Chiko Hinanawi, she ascended alongside her parents when they became celestials, and chose to rename herself Tenshi. However, as she did not earn ascension herself she is considerably less enlightened than her peers, referred to as a delinquent celestial, quickly bored and frustrated with Bhava-Agra. This is what prompted her to cause chaos in Gensoukyou, having watched several of the incidents its inhabitants have caused and deciding they are lots of fun.
* [[Anticlimax Boss]]: Her final card in story mode doesn't require much effort to pass, even in the hardest difficulty.
* [[Ascend to a Higher Plane of Existence]]: Her parents did. She tagged along with them as a young child.
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* [[Weather Control Machine|Weather Control Artifact]]: Her weapon, the ''Hisou no Tsurugi'', has the power to alter the weather.
== Debuted in ''Subterranean Animism''==
===Kisume===
:''The Fearsome Well Spirit''
[[File:Kisume_3827.png|frame|''<small>(fanart)</small>'']]
Another midboss with no dialogue, Kisume is a tsurube-otoshi, a type of youkai which was sometimes said to drop buckets on people. She just spends most of her time in buckets herself [[Shrinking Violet|out of shyness]].
* [[Ax Crazy]]: According to the interview with ZUN in ''[[All There in the Manual|Symposium of Post-mysticism]]''. It's taken even further with Aya's article about her, in which she threw the remains of a (possibly fake) skeleton at some children while cackling madly.
* [[Girlish Pigtails]]
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* [[Shrinking Violet]]
===Yamame Kurodani===
:''The Bright Net In The Dark Cavern''
[[File:Yamame_Portrait_3250.jpg|frame|''<small>(fanart)</small>'']]
A tsuchigumo or spider youkai, and a bright, fun-loving girl who's popular among the youkai underground. One of the many youkai that moved to the underground due to fellow youkai distrusting them for their powers.
{{Tropelist|Tropes exhibited by include:}}* [[Animal Motifs]]: She still has six buttons down the front of her dress for spider eyes, and her skirt poofs out and in again to look like a spider's abdomen with a yellow ribbon tied around it that makes her look like an [[wikipedia:Argiope (spider)|argiope spider]]. She was even on the cover of the game's demo CD hanging upside-down (a pose fans were annoyed she didn't demonstrate in-game).
* [[Animal Stereotypes]]: Completely averted, she's a friendly socialite.
* [[Bad Powers, Good People]]: She has the power to manipulate infectious diseases, but she'd never use it on someone for no reason. She's actually a pretty nice person.
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* [["Wake-Up Call" Boss]]: Her spell card Small Thread "Kandata's Rope" in ''Double Spoiler'' has reached a level of notoriety for people who can't figure out what they're supposed to do.
===Parsee Mizuhashi===
:''The Jealousy Beneath the Earth's Crust''
[[File:Parsee_8918.jpg|frame|''<small>(fanart)</small>'']]
A bridge princess youkai who guarded the bridge between the underworld and the overworld, before the two were separated. After centuries of jealousy towards those who cross the bridge freely, she has developed the power to control jealousy in others.
* [[Anthropomorphic Personification]]: While she's technically a hashihime, she's basically become the embodiment of jealousy.
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* [[Puzzle Boss]]: She is much, much easier once you know what you need to do. In particular, "Greenf-Eyed Monster" becomes one of the easiest spell cards in the game. Leads to [[Hype Backlash]] from people who don't get the fuss over how hard she is.
* [[Pstandard Psychic Pstance]]: When using her spellcards.
* [[Sadly Mythtaken]]: Western fans tend to guess that she's a [[Cute Monster Girl]] troll, or that hashihime refers to certain characters from the ''Tale of Genji'' (who are called that as an insult). The hashihime youkai is a figure from Noh theatre, a human noblewoman who prayed to the gods for the power to [[Death by Woman Scorned|take revenge]] on her [[Your Cheating Heart|philandering husband]] (or cursed him, retellings vary), and was cursed into a bridge-haunting youkai as a [[
* [[Scarf of Asskicking]]: [[That One Boss|And how!]]
* [[Stealth Pun]]: She's a Persian (''hashihito'') bridge princess (''hashihime''). ZUN stated in an interview that this [[Visual Pun|influenced her design]], and the Marisa + Patchouli dialogue includes a joke about it.
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* [["Wake-Up Call" Boss]]: Stage 1 of SA is fairly ordinary. Parsee is the first boss to use the sort of unusual, puzzle-like mechanics that character the rest of the game.
===Yuugi Hoshiguma===
:''The Rumored Unnatural Phenomenon''
[[File:HoshigumaYuugi_9365.jpg|frame|''<small>(fanart)</small>'']]
A powerful oni and one of the four Devas of the Mountain, along with Suika Ibuki. She possesses great strength, and like most oni, loves competition with others. She agrees to help guide the heroines if they'd give her a good fight.
{{Tropelist|Tropes exhibited by Yuugi include:}}
* [[Boisterous Bruiser]]: Even more than Suika she loves fighting, drinking and partying, and the only reason she attacked the player character in the first place was because she wanted to see how strong humans had become while she was gone.
* [[Boobs of Steel]]: Possesses extraordinary strength befitting an oni, as well as the single largest pair of breasts of any ''Touhou'' character at least according to an official promotional piece (see [[Hello Boys]] below).
* [[Bottle Fairy]]: Though she can't quite reach Suika's "never sober" levels, keeping hold of her sake bowl while having a danmaku duel comes close.
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* [[Willfully Weak]]: She intentionally uses only a small amount of her power, more interested in having her first good fight with a human in centuries than actually winning.
===Satori Komeiji===
:''The Girl Even The Evil Spirits Fear''
[[File:Satori_Portrait_3117.jpg|frame|''<small>(fanart)</small>'']]
The mistress of the Palace of Earth Spirits, Satori is a youkai with the ability to read minds. Her power makes her embittered and feared by humans and youkai, but beloved by animals. She keeps many pets in her home, including Rin and Utsuho.
{{Tropelist|Tropes exhibited by Satori include:}}
* [[Affably Evil]]: Her in-game quotes give off shades of this.
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* [[Technical Pacifist]]
===Rin Kaenbyou (Orin)===
:''Corpse Tour Guide'' / ''[[Rule of Funny|Hell's Traffic Accident]]''
[[File:Orin_1060.png|frame|''<small>(fanart)</small>'']]
A kasha who can control evil spirits and carry them to the Hell of Blazing Fires. She dislikes long names, so she has everyone call her Orin instead of by her full name. She thinks highly of her mistress Satori, and is good friends with Utsuho, but becomes terrified once Utsuho starts going mad from her newfound power. Afraid that Satori may find out and punish Utsuho, Rin instead drives evil spirits above-ground, attempting to lure the powerful youkai living there down to help her out.
{{Tropelist|Tropes exhibited by Rin include:}}
* [[Animorphism]]: She is capable of shapeshifting into either a cat or a humanoid form.
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* [[What Kind of Lame Power Is Heart, Anyway?]]: Rin's stated ability - the power to carry off corpses. And from the looks of things she just uses a wheelbarrow anyway. A source of [[Fridge Horror]] when you realize that she is carrying off the soul along with the corpse, which will be used to fuel the former Hell of Blazing Fires.
===Utsuho Reiuji (Okuu)===
:''The Scorching, Troublesome, Divine Flame''
[[File:reiujiutsuho3.png|frame]]
A hell raven who manages the former Hell of Blazing Fires. Prior to the events of ''Subterranean Animism'', Utsuho was visited by Kanako and told to swallow the corpse of the sun god Yatagarasu, thus gaining the power of nuclear fusion. Kanako presumably wanted the power to bring electricity to Gensoukyou, but Utsuho instead goes mad from the immense power she gained, planning to torch Gensoukyou and turn it into hell on Earth, though she is currently using it to operate a power plant. She's based on a legend of a three-legged crow who prevented a monster from eating the sun. This being Gensoukyou, [[In Soviet Russia, Trope Mocks You|she was the one who ate the sun god]].
{{Tropelist|Tropes exhibited by Utsuho include:}}
* [[Arm Cannon]]: According to ''[[Gaiden Game|Hisoutensoku]]'', the control rod on her arm can function as one. Though the fans figured that out [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p2H8pL8gTXo well before it got released]. Fanon often ratchets it up to insane levels, some cannons being bigger than herself.
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** Also ''[[Darker and Edgier|inverted]]'' on occasion, the eye of Yatagarasu depicted as fused into her chest, with freaky scar tissue surrounding it.
* [[Shout-Out]]:
** Many of her moves in ''Hisoutensoku'' are similar to [[Fist of the North Star|Souther's]], even including [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LrgT9og49QQ a spell card], while some of her other moves bear a similarity to [[Mega Man X|X's attacks as well, most notably the Nova Strike]]. She also has two spell cards called [[Final Fantasy|"Giga Flare" and "Mega Flare"]], while that eye on her chest may be [[The Lord of the Rings|Sauron's]].
** With all of the [[Just for Pun|nuclear-powered references]], [[The Wiki Rule]] notes that she has some connection to the Chernobyl, specifically [http://www.unknownexplorers.com/blackbirdofchernobyl.php The Black Bird of Chernobyl].
* [[Spell My Name with an "S"]]: K-S Romanization of her last name - "Reiuzi".
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* [[With Great Power Comes Great Insanity]]: Her megalomania was explicitly caused by going [[From Nobody to Nightmare]] almost instantly, and after having some sense pounded into her is more than willing to abandon her fire-filled ambitions.
===Koishi Komeiji===
:''The Closed Eyes Of Love''
[[File:Koishi_Portrait_1482.jpg|frame|''<small>(fanart)</small>'']]
Extra stage boss and Satori's younger sister. She too was born was the power to read minds, but hated how it made everyone fear her, so she willingly sealed away her "third eye" that gave her the power. While this gave her a new ability to read and manipulate people's subconscious, it also resulted in her own heart being sealed away, and she becomes more distant and detached towards everyone as time passes.
* [[All Psychology Is Freudian]]: Almost all of Koishi's spell cards are themed around Freudian psychology, including the id and the superego.
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* [[Weirdness Censor]]: On herself - she can move around without being noticed by anyone. It's functionally [[Invisibility]], or a [[The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy|Somebody Else's Problem Field]].
== Debuted in ''Undefined Fantastic Object''==
===Nazrin===
:''The Little Dowser General''
[[File:Nazrin_1_6889.jpg|frame|''<small>(fanart)</small>'']]
A mouse youkai who was sent to hunt for the ship fragments and the jewelled pagoda of Vaisravana by Shou. She carries a pair of dowsing rods which appear to be a cross between bent coathangers and weather vanes, and can control field-mice to help her find lost objects.
* [[Big Eater]]: Being a mouse, which are known for the amount of damage they can cause by how much they eat, this isn't surprising. She's often responsible for grains being stolen, and damage to crops is especially severe whenever she uses a lot of field mice to help her with dowsing.
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* [[Tsundere]]: See [[Hypercompetent Sidekick]]. [[Word of God]] also states that despite having a big ego in contrast to [[The Napoleon|her short height]], she's actually very timid deep down and will run and hide as soon as she's frightened.
===Kogasa Tatara===
:''The Cheery Forgotten Umbrella''
[[File:Kogasa_Portrait_1188.jpg|frame|''<small>(fanart)</small>'']]
Kogasa is an umbrella that eventually came to life because she was unsold, becoming a youkai after she was swept off by the wind. Enjoys surprising people and watching their reactions, however as she isn't very good at it she's trying to improve her technique.
{{Tropelist|Tropes exhibited by Kogasa include:}}
* [[Brick Joke]]: {{spoiler|Surprise}}!
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* [[Throw the Dog a Bone]]: {{spoiler|As of ''Ten Desires'' she is now living in a cemetery near Myouren Temple, where it is [[Creepy Cemetery|much easier to surprise people]]. [[Lampshade Hanging|Lampshaded in her profile: "She finally did it. Amazing."]]}}
===Ichirin Kumoi===
:''The Great Wheel that Guards and Is Guarded''
[[File:Ichirin_Kumoi_8305.jpg|frame|''<small>(fanart)</small>'']]
Self-appointed guardian of the UFO that appeared over Gensoukyou, and the first of Byakuren's followers the player encounters. She possesses a "partner" entity named Unzan. Ichirin's [[Nice Hat|headdress]] is a nod to Buddhist nun gear, her being a nyuudo - a collective term for youkai that resemble monks.
{{Tropelist|Tropes exhibited by Ichirin include:}}
* [[And Then John Was a Zombie]]: Used to be a human, but spending all of her time with Unzan and being youkai-like turned her into a unique type of youkai.
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* [[Plucky Girl]]
===Unzan===
[[File:Unzan_1955.png|frame|''<small>(fanart)</small>'']]
Cloud-like "partner" entity to Ichirin. ''[[The One Guy|He]]'' is able to shapeshift into giant fists or a giant face and almost never speaks, preferring that Ichirin speaks for him.
* [[Badass Beard]]
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* [[Stealth Pun]]: "Nyuudo", his species, can be also read as the Japanese for "thundercloud".
===Captain Minamitsu Murasa===
:''The Ghost Left From The Shipwreck''
[[File:Murasa_459.jpg|frame|''<small>(fanart)</small>'']]
The ghost-turned-[[Youkai]] of a [[The Ophelia|drowned girl]] that spent a few years capsizing ships, until she was unbound from her place of death by Byakuren who offered her a new ship to captain. She and the Palanquin Ship ended up bound in the underworld with Byakuren's followers until Utsuho's geyser blew it off into the sky, kick-starting the game's plot.
{{Tropelist|Tropes exhibited by Minamitsu include:}}
* [[Affably Evil]]: Despite utilizing her power to cause people to drown and sinking ships, she is noted to have a bright personality, and is said to hold conversations with the captain of sinking vessels even as they're going down.
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* [[Token Evil Teammate]]: For the Buddhists.
===Shou Toramaru===
:''The Disciple Of Bishamonten''
[[File:Shou_Toramaru_5395.jpg|frame|''<small>(fanart)</small>'']]
An "honest and straightforward" [[Youkai]] in the form of a tiger representing good fortune who was turned into an avatar of [[wikipedia:Vaisravana|Vaisravana/Bishamonten]] through the intercession of Byakuren. She sought the fragments of the Tobikura and the pagoda of Bishamonten to finally release Byakuren.
{{Tropelist|Tropes exhibited by Shou include:}}
* [[Animal Motifs]]: Tiger-patterned clothes and hair.
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* [[Upgrade Artifact]]: The laser pagoda is more powerful than Shou herself and is the true source of the infamous lasers. At the very least it's powerful enough to boost Nazrin to a Stage 5 midboss.
===Byakuren Hijiri===
:''The Great Sealed Magician''
[[File:byakurenhijiri_6550.png|frame|''<small>(fanart)</small>'']]
A Buddhist nun turned magician. She pretended to specialize in [[Youkai]] extermination, but helped the youkai by relocating them far from human settlements, like Minamitsu, instead of killing them. When her eternal youth raised suspicion, she was sealed in Makai. Nazrin, Ichirin, Minamitsu and Shou were successful in freeing her, with some unintended help from the player character, and now she maintains her new temple in Gensoukyou.
{{Tropelist|Tropes exhibited by Byakuren include:}}
* [[And I Must Scream]]: A less-horrifying example. She was sealed in Hokkai for a thousand years, but was very much conscious and awake the whole time. She simply had nothing to do aside from reciting sutra.
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* [[What Could Have Been]]: See below. Byakuren wasn't the original intended final boss of UFO.
===Myouren Hijiri===
[[File:MyourenHijiri_8327.jpg|frame|''<small>(fanart, appearance is completely speculative)</small>'']]
Byakuren's little brother, a monk who taught Byakuren Buddhist magic. His death made her fear her own, and drove her to seek eternal youth.
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[[Word of God]] is that Myouren was originally intended to be the final boss, but, as amusing as it would have been to have an "old man" be the final boss of a ''Touhou game'', ZUN decided to [[Pandering to the Base|play it safe]] and made Byakuren instead.
* [[Death by Origin Story]]: Myouren's death is the catalyst that eventually put Byakuren where she is at the start of ''UFO''.
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* [[Shout-Out]]: Myouren is a reference to a famous Buddhist monk who was the star of 12th-century tales such as the ''[[wikipedia:Shigisan-engi|Shigisan-engi]].'' Byakuren may be a shout-out to the unnamed Buddhist priestess mentioned in the story.
===Nue Houjuu===
:''The Unidentified Fantastic Flying Girl''
[[File:Nue_Portrait_8891.jpg|frame|''<small>(fanart)</small>'']]
Nue is a youkai who has the ability to hide her true form, and thus all accounts of her appearance vary wildly. When she got tired of frightening humans, she hid away underground, although her dialogue indicates a human sealed her after discovering her true form. After getting caught up in the rising of Byakuren's ship she decided to tag along and attempt to cause trouble for them. Currently living in Byakuren's temple.
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* [[Berserk Button]]: As she's trying to get along with Byakuren's folks, she doesn't like to be called an "outcast".
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* [[Zettai Ryouiki]]: She is the first character to be seen with zettai ryouiki in official art. Although Suwako is commonly depicted as having zettai ryouiki in fanart and her ''Hisoutensoku'' portrait, her artwork in ''Mountain of Faith'' shows her with knee-high socks as opposed to thigh-highs.
== Debuted in ''Hisoutensoku''==
===Unnamed Giant Catfish===
[[File:namazu.jpg|frame]]
A [[Giant Space Flea From Nowhere|Big Freaking Catfish]] that appears as the final boss of Hong Meiling's story as an avatar of the "Taisui Xingjun", and Hong Meiling believes it is about to attack Gensoukyou. A likely referece to the belief that [[wikipedia:Namazu (Japanese mythology)|a giant catfish causes earthquakes]] in Japanese mythology.
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* [[All Just a Dream]]: Meiling dreams that every other character she fights in her story mode are minions of the Taisui Xingjun that took the form of familiar characters. It explains Reimu's freaky dark aura. In addition, the background to the fight is rendered in a cartoony, childish style, in comparison to the [[Scenery Porn]]-filled backdrops of the other stages.
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* [[Rock Steady]]: In traditional Japanese folklore, namazu were giant catfish that caused earthquakes by thrashing underground. So despite being a fish, it has earth-based powers, creating earthquakes and launching rocks into the air.
== Debuted in ''Double Spoiler''==
===Hatate Himekaidou===
:''Modern Day Spirit Photographer''
[[File:hatatehimekaidou_2624.png|frame|''<small>(fanart)</small>'']]
A tengu reporter, like Aya, who writes for her own newspaper: ''Kakashi Nenpo''. Her spirit camera gives her pictures and information without her having to go out to get it, but her news lacks the freshness of Aya's ''Bunbunmaru''. She decides to observe Aya to find the secret to her success.
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* [[Cell Phone]]: She has a cell phone camera. Rather out of place for [[Fantasy Kitchen Sink|Gensoukyou]], which is [[Anachronism Stew|supposed to be]] on the same level of technology as Feudal Japan. It's actually stated in-game by [https://web.archive.org/web/20120125061912/http://en.touhouwiki.net/wiki/Double_Spoiler:_Level_4_Spell_Cards Hatate] and [https://web.archive.org/web/20110126020116/http://en.touhouwiki.net/wiki/Double_Spoiler:_Level_Spoiler_Spell_Cards Aya] that Hatate's "spirit camera" was made by the kappa.
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* [[What Kind of Lame Power Is Heart, Anyway?]]: Her spirit photography works by punching in keywords and getting photos that match said keywords. Beyond the unfortunate similarities to Google Image Search, relying on it means that by that she can only start writing articles after they've already been reported on, which is a problem for a member of a journalist caste.
== Debuted in ''Ten Desires''==
===Kyouko Kasodani===
:''Sutra-Reciting Mountain Spirit''
[[File:kyouko_7069.jpg|frame|''<small>(fanart)</small>'']]
She is a yamabiko, a youkai responsible for creating echoes in the mountains. She's recently converted to Buddhism and joined the Myouren Temple, and enjoys reciting sutras.
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* [[A Little Something We Call "Rock and Roll"]]: According to ''Symposium of Post-mysticism'' she somehow learned what "punk rock" is and [http://en.touhouwiki.net/wiki/Symposium_of_Post-mysticism/Bunbunmaru_Newspaper_1 started holding concerts] (with Mystia on guitar).
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* [[Punk Rock]]: Seriously. Together with Mystia she becomes Choujuu Gigaku (''dance of bird and beast''), a punk group that hold 'guerrilla concerts' at the dead of night. It's her way of relieving stress.
===Yoshika Miyako===
:''A Faithful Undead''
[[File:Yoshika_1330.jpg|frame|''<small>(fanart)</small>'']]
Yoshika is a jiangshi, and a bodyguard of sorts for Seiga Kaku. She's not very good at her job.
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* [[Cloudcuckoolander]]: Very empty headed. Akyuu claims she's actually entirely mindless.
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* [[Zombie Gait]]: Has her arms in front in "sleepwalker" position at all times. In-game, she comments that she has to do stretches to prevent stiffening; fandom has her unable to bend at all.
===Seiga Kaku===
:''The Wicked Hermit Who Passes Through Walls''
[[File:Seiga_7039.png|frame|''<small>(fanart)</small>'']]
A Chinese hermit and the creator of Yoshika. She is the one that taught Miko Taoism, and the one to suggest using Buddhism to pacify Japan. She assists with Miko's resurrection in Gensokyo.
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* [[Bad Santa]]: Despite the fact that Gensoukyou doesn't celebrate Christmas. [http://en.touhouwiki.net/wiki/Symposium_of_Post-mysticism/Bunbunmaru_Newspaper_4 It's kind of complicated.]
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* [[You Gotta Have Blue Hair]]
===Soga no Tojiko===
:''Ghost of the Children of the Gods''
[[File:Soga_no_Tojiko_7972.jpg|frame|''<small>(fanart)</small>'']]
One of Miko's followers, she manipulated the events of the religious war as a member of the Buddhist faction. Exists as a bourei due to Futo sabotaging her attempt to become a shikaisen. In game, she's another midboss with no dialogue - though she speaks in one of Miko's spell cards.
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* [[Boss Banter]]: When she appears in Miko's spell card.
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* [[Shock and Awe]]: Those arrows she uses are supposed to be lightning.
===Mononobe no Futo===
:''A Shikaisen from Ancient Japan''
[[File:Mononobe_5666.png|frame|''<small>(fanart)</small>'']]
One of the Taoist followers of Miko, she manipulated the events of the religious war as a member of the anti-Buddhist faction. As part of her research into immortality, Miko put Futo in a state of suspended animation so she could be revived later as a shikaisen. This occurs when Miko's mausoleum moves to Gensokyo.
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* [[Ambiguously Human]]: Her profile describes her as "Human? (a taoist who self-identifies as a shikaisen)" - a [http://en.touhouwiki.net/wiki/Hermit#Xian Shikaisen] being a sort of semi-immortal. She's likely on the border.
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* [[Ye Olde Butcherede Englishe]]: In translation, to reflect her usage of a very archaic dialect of Japanese.
===Toyosatomimi no Miko===
:''Shoutoku Taoist''
[[File:Toyosatomimi_no_Miko_6932.jpg|frame|''<small>(fanart)</small>'']]
A former ruler of Japan, known in modern times as the legendary saint [[wikipedia:Prince Shotoku|Prince Shoutoku]] (apparently [[She Is the King|the part about her gender]] got lost over time). She publicly advanced Buddhism, and was highly influential in spreading it throughout the country, but she only used it to control the masses. In secret she studied Taoism under Seiga in an attempt to gain immortality. When her own research began to destroy her health, she performed a secret ritual on herself that was designed to put her in a state of suspended animation and then be revived later as a shikaisen. However, she was thwarted by her own manipulations: Buddhist monks placed seals on her mausoleum which prevented her resurrection. She remained sealed until the modern day, when people began to deny her existence. This caused her mausoleum to be moved to Gensokyo, allowing her resurrection to be completed.
* [[And I Must Scream]]: She was restless in her state of suspended animation, and the manual states that she vengefully awaits the day she will awaken... which is the day ''Ten Desires'' takes place.
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* [[Young Conqueror]]: Technically she already ruled Japan and was trying to stabilise it rather than take it over, but her methods fit this trope. She even briefly entertains the idea of [[Well-Intentioned Extremist|taking over Gensokyo in order to protect its human population]].
===Mamizou Futatsuiwa===
:''The Tanuki Youkai with Ten Transformations''
[[File:mamizou_2115.png|frame|''<small>(fanart)</small>'']]
A tanuki that had been living in the outside world. She was called to Gensokyo by her old friend Nue to help fight against Miko. Not that she had a chance to, coming in after everything was over. Now she's hanging out at the Myouren Temple.
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* [[Antiquated Linguistics]]: Which leads to Sanae assuming that she's very old.
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== Debuted in ''Hopeless Masquerade'' ==
===Hata no Kokoro===
:''The Expressive Poker Face''
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* [[Leitmotif]]: "The Lost Emotion"
== Debuted in ''Double Dealing Character'' ==
===Wakasagihime===
:''Mermaid Living in Fresh Water''
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* [[Leitmotif]]: Mermaid from the Uncharted Land
===Sekibanki===
:''The Rokurokubi Horror''
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* [[Leitmotif]]: "Youkai Coming and Going at the Canal"
===Kagerou Imaizumi===
:''The Bamboo Forest's Loup-Garou''
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* [[Leitmotif]]: "Lonesome Werewolf"
===Benben Tsukumo and Yatsuhashi Tsukumo===
::''Tsukumogami of an Aging Biwa'' (Benben)
::''Tsukumogami of an Aging Koto'' (Yatsuhashi)
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* [[Leitmotif]]: "Illusionary Joururi"
===Seija Kijin===
:''Counterattacking Amanojaku''
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* [[Leitmotif]]: "Reverse Ideology"
===Shinmyoumaru Sukuna===
:''Descendant of the Inchlings''
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* [[Leitmotif]]: "Kobito of the Shining Needle"
===Raiko Horikawa===
:''Phantasmal Percussionist''
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* [[Leitmotif]]: "Primordial Beat ~ Pristine Beat"
==Debuted in ''Urban Legend in Limbo''==
===Sumireko Usami===
:''Expose the Esoteric! The Secret Sealing Club's First President''
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* [[Leitmotif]]: "Last Occultism ~ Esotericist of the Present World"
==Debuted in ''Legacy of Lunatic Kingdom''==
===Seiran===
:''The Pale Blue Eagle Ravi''
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* [[Leitmotif]]: "The Rabbit Has Landed"
===Ringo===
:''The Orange Eagle Ravi''
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* [[Leitmotif]]: "September Pumpkin"
===Doremy Sweet===
:''Ruler of Dreams''
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* [[Leitmotif]]: "Eternal Spring Dream"
===Sagume Kishin===
:''Goddess Who Invites Unfortunate Slips of the Tongue''
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* [[Leitmotif]]: "The Reversed Wheel of Fortune"
===Clownpiece===
:''Fairy of Hell''
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* [[Leitmotif]]: "Pierrot of the Star-Spangled Banner"
===Junko===
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* [[Leitmotif]]: "Pure Furies ~ Whereabouts of the Heart"
==Debuted in ''Antinomy of Common Flowers''==
===Joon Yorigami and Shion Yorigami===
:''The Most-Despicable and Disastrous Younger Twin Sister''
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* [[Leitmotif]]: "Tonight Stars an Easygoing Egoist ~ Egoistic Flowers"
==Debuted in ''Hidden Star in Four Seasons''==
===Eternity Larva===
:''The Butterfly Fairy Who Approaches God''
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* [[Leitmotif]]: "A Midsummer Fairy's Dream"
===Nemuno Sakata===
:''The Yamanba who Surpasses This World's Floating Barriers''
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* [[Leitmotif]]: "A Deep Mountain Encounter"
===Aunn Komano===
:''The Guardian Beast Devoted to Shintoism and Buddhism''
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* [[Leitmotif]]: "A Pair of Divine Beasts"
===Narumi Yatadera===
:''The Magical Jizo who Manifested in the Forest''
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* [[Leitmotif]]: "The Magic Straw-Hat Jizo"
===Mai Teireida and Satono Nishida===
:''The All-Too Dangerous Backup Dancers''
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* [[Leitmotif]]: "Crazy Backup Dancers"
===Okina Matara===
:''The Ultimate, Absolute Secret God''
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* [[Leitmotif]]: "The Concealed Four Seasons" (stage 6 theme) and "Secret God Matara ~ Hidden Star in All Seasons" (extra stage theme)
==Debuted in ''Wily Beast and Weakest Creature''==
===Eika Ebisu===
:''Stillborn Idol of the Riverbed''
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* [[Leitmotif]]: "Jelly Stone"
===Urumi Ushizaki===
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* [[Leitmotif]]: "The Stone Baby and the Submerged Cow"
===Kutaka Niwatari===
:''Clerical God of Hell's Checkpoint''
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* [[Leitmotif]]: "Seraphic Chicken"
===Yachie Kicchou===
:''Matriarch of the Kiketsu Family''
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* [[Leitmotif]]: "Tortoise Dragon ~ Fortune and Misfortune"
===Mayumi Joutouguu===
:''Haniwa Lance Corporal''
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* [[Leitmotif]]: "Joutoujin of Ceramics"
===Keiki Haniyasushin===
:''The Sculptor God Crafted by Utter Isolation''
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* [[Leitmotif]]: "Entrust the World to Idols ~ Idolatrize World"
===Saki Kurokoma===
:''Matriarch of the Keiga Family''
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* [[Leitmotif]]: "Prince Shoutoku's Pegasus ~ Dark Pegasus"
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