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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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Wherever possible, character images come from portraits [[Let's See You Do Better|not drawn by ZUN]] used in official games and print works. Images of characters without quality official portraits are labeled "''<small>(fanart)</small>''".
 
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.
 
'''CONTAINS SPOILERS'''
 
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== 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 Withwith 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''==
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===Shizuha Aki===
== '''Debuted in ''Mountain of Faith''''' ==
:''Symbol of Loneliness and Death''
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[[File:shizuhaaki_8726.jpg|frame|''<small>(fanart)</small>'']]
 
 
::''Symbol of Loneliness and Death''
::'''Shizuha Aki'''
 
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.
 
==== {{Tropelist|Tropes associatedexhibited withby Shizuha include: ====}}
 
* [[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."
* [[Leitmotif]]: "A God That Loves People ~ Romantic Fall"
* [[Odd Job Gods]]: She is the goddess of ''dead leaves''.
* [[Painting the Frost Onon Windows|Painting The]] [[Department of Redundancy Department|Autumn Leaves Brown]]: She colors the leaves and makes them fall in the autumn.
* [[Physical God]]
* [[Real Is Brown]]: An [[Abstract Apotheosis]] of it, but for leaves.
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=== Minoriko Aki ===
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:''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.
 
{{Tropelist|Tropes exhibited by Minoriko include:}}
 
::''Symbol of Harvest and Plenty''
::'''Minoriko Aki'''
 
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.
 
==== Tropes associated with Minoriko: ====
 
* [[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===
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:''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!]]
 
{{Tropelist|Tropes exhibited by Hina include:}}
 
::''Nagashi-hina of the Hidden God''
::'''Hina Kagiyama'''
 
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!]]
 
==== Tropes associated with Hina: ====
 
* [[Bad Powers, Good People]]: Despite what Akyuu claims.
* [[Brought to You Byby The Letter "S"]]: The squiggle on her dress is a stylized kanji 厄 ''(yaku)'', meaning "misfortune".
* [[Curse]]: Not deliberately, but...
* [[Dark Is Not Evil]]: She's a yakubyougami - a curse god who would normally spread misfortune and illness - but she absorbs misfortune and curses so they won't affect humans, and in ''Mountain of Faith'' she tries to drive away the protagonists so the youkai above won't harm them. She is said to [[Power Incontinence|leak misfortune]] if you stay too long with her though.
* [[Elegant Gothic Lolita]]: [[Word of God|ZUN said]] the design of her costume is supposed to be in this style.
* [[Everything's Better Withwith Spinning]]: Fanon even has it that her other special ability is to never get dizzy when spinning.
* [[Leitmotif]]: "The Road of the Apotropaic God ~ Dark Road" and "The Dark Side of Fate".
* [[Physical God]]
* [[What Do You Mean It's Not Awesome?]]: Her obsessive spinning both in-game and fan works has some incredible animation.
 
===Nitori Kawashiro===
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:''Super Youkai Warhead''
[[File:Nitori_9366.jpg|frame|''<small>(fanart)</small>'']]
 
 
::''Super Youkai Warhead''
::'''Nitori Kawashiro'''
 
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.
 
==== {{Tropelist|Tropes associatedexhibited withby Nitori include: ====}}
 
* [[Beehive Barrier]]: Her bomb in ''Subterranean Animism''.
* [[Catch Phrase]]: A fanon one. "Kappapappapappa" and variants.
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* [[Shy Blue-Haired Girl]]
* [[Signature Move]]: Exteeending Aaarm, both in fanon and in canon. Describing it is pretty much the only part of her ''Symposium of Post-mysticism'' profile that talks about her in specific instead of kappa in general.
* [[Spell My Name Withwith an "S"]]: "Kawasiro" in Kunrei-Shiki romanization.
* [[Trademark Favorite Food]]: Cucumbers. Partly because Kappa traditionally like cucumbers. And partly due to [[IOSYS]]'s remix of her [[Leitmotif]], which [[Memetic Mutation|led to her being often shown]] with [[wikipedia:File:Pepsi cucumber.jpg|cucumber-flavored Pepsi]] and beer.
* [[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===
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:''The Mountain's Telegnosis''
[[File:MomijiInubashiri_shorthair.jpg|frame|''<small>(fanart)</small>'']]
 
 
::''The Mountain's Telegnosis''
::'''Momiji Inubashiri'''
 
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.
 
==== {{Tropelist|Tropes associatedexhibited withby Momiji include: ====}}
 
* [[Ascended Extra]]
* [[Cool Sword]]: Looks like a scimitar, from what we can tell by her sprite. May be drawn as a [[BFS]] [[Depending Onon the Artist]].
* [[Detached Sleeves]]: Generally, her default appearance in [[Fanon]] has them.
* [[Interservice Rivalry]]: There are some hints that within tengu society the wolf tengu (guardsman corps) don't really get along with the crow tengu (information gathering corps). Or maybe Momiji is just annoyed by Aya personally for whatever reason.
* [[Leitmotif]]: "Fall of Fall ~ Autumnal Waterfall" and the fanmade "Awaking Wolf's Instinct"
* [[Little Bit Beastly]]: She's a wolf tengu, but wolf features are restricted to [[Fanon]] and supplementary materials, as she has been seen only as a small sprite in the games.
* [[OC Stand -In]]: Lack of in-game dialogue and portrait art caused her physical appearance and personality to vary greatly early on. Both have been fairly standardized by now, though.
* [[Ship Sinking]]: Averted. The revelation that there is some bad blood between Aya and Momiji has done nothing to slow down the tide of fanart portraying them as a close couple. In fact, it may have only made it even ''[[Up to Eleven|more]]'' popular, since Momiji can now be portrayed as a [[Tsundere]] toward Aya.
* [[Shogi]]: She specifically plays [[wikipedia:Dai shogi|Dai Shogi]] with the kappa according [[All There in the Manual|to her profile]].
* [[Spell My Name Withwith an "S"]]: K-S Romanization of her name - "Momizi Inubasiri".
* [[Super Senses]]: Like Aya, she has the power to see great distances, but she also possesses an excellent sense of smell. Oddly, no particular mention is made of super-hearing. Rather than use these powers to snoop on people for news, Momiji acts as the captain of Youkai Mountain's patrol guards, with soldiers hiding behind a waterfall. She also spies on the heroine and the goddess of the new shrine when they do battle, without being noticed by either.
* [[Sure Why Not]]: Much like with Daiyousei and Koakuma receiving fan-names, Momiji makes a cameo appearance in one panel of ''Oriental Sacred Place'' Chapter 1, looking exactly the way fanon imagines her, with wolf ears and detached sleeves. The artist for ''SaBND'' and ''OSP'' was a ''Touhou'' fan doing doujinshi long before being recruited for the official project.
* [[White-Haired Pretty Girl]]
 
===Sanae Kochiya===
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:''Deified Human of the Wind''
[[File:sanaekotiya01.png|frame]]
 
::''Deified Human of the Wind''
::'''Sanae Kochiya'''
 
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.
 
==== {{Tropelist|Tropes associatedexhibited withby Sanae include: ====}}
 
* [[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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* [[Always Someone Better]]: Coming from a world that revered her as a living god, she had quite the confidence in her abilities when she first came to Gensokyo. And then she was quickly humbled by Reimu and Marisa.
* [[Animal Motifs]]: To represent her goddesses, she wears hair accessories shaped like a frog's head and a snake, and in ''Undefined Fantastic Object'' depending on which route she takes she can use either frog or snake-shaped bullets.
* [[Awesome but Impractical]]: [[In -Universe]]. Her miracles can do just about anything... but the truly impressive ones have cast times of ''days''.
* [[Beware the Nice Ones]]: In her A-scenario in ''Undefined Fantastic Object'', she begins her mission of "youkai hunting" with some degree of doubt in her abilities to do so. However, by halfway through the game, she has become particularly enthusiastic about it, something a noticeable number of fans [[Flanderization|have run away with]], with "darker" comics often turning her into a psychotic, hateful genocider. In all seriousness, this might be a particularly bad character flaw. In ''Hisoutensoku'', Marisa warns Sanae that she will "[[He Who Fights Monsters|become close to a youkai]]" if she gets too serious about hunting them. An entire pool in Danbooru is dedicated to this, but it has a NICE ENDING.
* [[Blow You Away]]
* [[Breaking the Fourth Wall]]: "Are you talking about those charms with "P" and "point" written on them?"
* [[Brought Down to Normal|Brought Down To]] [[Mundane Utility]]: In a fashion. In our world she was used to being considered the equivalent of a deity because of her powers. In Gensoukyou [[Everyone Is a Super]] (or enough people that she's not unusual, anyway), so she's had originally some trouble adjusting.
* [[Character Focus]]: She has been appearingappeared in almost every main series game since her debut as a heroine.
* [[Cloudcuckoolander]]: Has since embraced Gensokyo's "lack of sense" wholeheartedly.
* [[Detached Sleeves]]
* [[Dub -Induced Plot Hole]]: A long-standing mistranslation of ''Mountain of Faith'' lore involving Sanae and Suwako's relationship. The mistaken translation said that Sanae was unaware ''that'' two gods inhabited her shrine. The actual meaning is that Sanae's not sure ''why'' two gods are in the same shrine. The reason being Kanako defeated Suwako in battle but did not kick her out completely from the shrine.
* [[Fantastic Racism]]: She's not exactly comfortable about [[I'm a Humanitarian|the eating habits of youkai]], and sees the current status of humans living in Gensoukyou as oppression, which she makes clear to the youkai in ''UFO''.
* [[Fish Out of Water]]: She's had trouble adjusting to Gensokyo, at first.
* [[Genius Ditz]]: Her ''Wild and Horned Hermit'' title is "Shallow and Thoughtless Human", but she's shown to be quite knowledgeable about the process of cold fusion.
* [[Genre Savvy]]: Sanae might be more or less a special case as she's from the real world, thus probably knowing just about as much as any of us do.
** Her story mode for ''Hisoutensoku'' is a good example, where she sees the giant mysterious figure and immediately thinks "[[Humongous Mecha]]".
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* [[Making a Splash]]: Some of her spellcards, like "Sea Opening "The Day the Sea Split"" are this.
* [[Otaku Surrogate]]: We learn in ''Hisoutensoku'' that [[Megas XLR|she digs giant robots]], and she's also interested in nuclear physics as shown in ''Wild and Horned Hermit''.
* [[Pals Withwith Jesus]]: As odd as it sounds, Sanae lives with the deities she worships. What's more, Suwako is, [[Depending Onon the Artist]], often portrayed as a very young girl, in spite of being a [[Physical God|god]] [[Really Seven Hundred Years Old|who is several thousand years old]]. Sanae is also {{spoiler|her direct descendant, and}} the main priestess of her shrine. This means she lives with {{spoiler|her own great-great-great-great-great-etc. grandmother}}, who is ''also her God'', and is ''younger than her in appearance''. Many fanfictions even portray Sanae as something of a motherly figure ''to her own deity''.
* [[Physical God]]: She is both fully god and fully human at the same time. This is known as an Arahitogami, and happens to be what the Emperor of Japan used to be considered.
* [[Recurring Boss]]: After appearing as the stage five boss in ''Mountain of Faith'', she made a surprise appearance as the [[Bonus Boss|Bonus Midboss]] in ''Subterranean Animism''.
* [[Shout-Out]]: Most of her spellcards are shout outs to miracles from various religions. For example, Moses's parting of the red sea, or the original Kamikaze that repelled the Mongol invasion of Japan.
* [[Spell My Name Withwith an "S"]]: K-S Romanization of her last name - "Kotiya".
* [[Star Power]]: Some of her spellcards, like "Miracle "Mid-Day Supernova"" make use of this.
* [[Vague Age]]: Presumably a [[Joshikousei]], which makes her about the same age as Reimu or Marisa, if not slightly ''younger''. She hasn't been in enough games for us to know if she's [[Not Allowed to Grow Up]], but she probably won't be.
* [[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===
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:''Avatar of Mountains and Lakes''
[[File:Kanako_4998.jpg|frame|''<small>(fanart)</small>'']]
 
 
::''Avatar of Mountains and Lakes''
::'''Kanako Yasaka'''
 
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.
 
==== {{Tropelist|Tropes associatedexhibited withby Kanako include: ====}}
 
* [[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===
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:''The Epitome of Native Gods''
[[File:suwako_moriya_3772.jpg|frame]]
 
::''The Epitome of Native Gods''
::'''Suwako Moriya'''
 
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.
 
==== {{Tropelist|Tropes associatedexhibited withby Suwako include: ====}}
 
* [[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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* [[Red Oni, Blue Oni]]: With Kanako. Suwako's the Red Oni despite the colour of their clothes.
* [[Rings of Death]]
* [[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===
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== :'''DebutedBeautiful in ''Scarlet Weather RhapsodyCloth''''' ==
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[[File:ikunagae2.jpg|frame]]
 
::''Beautiful Scarlet Cloth''
::'''Iku Nagae'''
 
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".
 
==== {{Tropelist|Tropes associatedexhibited withby Iku include: ====}}
 
* [[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>
* [[Lady of War]]: Messenger of the Dragon Palace and she fights with a freaking frilly scarf. It doesn't get any classier than that.
* [[Leitmotif]]: "Crimson in the Black Sea ~ Legendary Fish"
* [[Mighty Glacier]]: Unless you give her the Dragonfish, Able Swimmer skill card to use, Iku sits next to Utsuho as being the slowest character in the fighting games. She can hit ''really'' hard, though.
* [[Psychic Powers]]: She has the power to "read the atmosphere". The term used in Japanese for "atmosphere" - just like the English word - can be read as either "weather" or "mood".
** Appropriate for the plot of Scarlet Weather Rhapsody, in which the strange weather patterns were created by the temperaments (moods and dispositions) of the various characters in the game.
* [[Scarf of Asskicking]]: Literally.
* [[Shock and Awe]]
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* [[This Is a Drill]]: Her scarf can turn into a drill.
 
===Tenshi Hinanawi/[[Spell My Name with an "S"|Hinanai]]===
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:''Young Mistress of Bhava-Agra''
[[File:tenshihinanai.jpg|frame]]
 
::''Young Mistress of Bhava-Agra''
::'''Tenshi Hinanawi/[[Spell My Name With an "S"|Hinanai]]'''
 
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.
 
==== {{Tropelist|Tropes associatedexhibited withby Tenshi include: ====}}
 
* [[Anticlimax Boss]]: Her final card in story mode doesn't require much effort to pass, even in the hardest difficulty.
* [[Ascend to Aa Higher Plane of Existence]]: Her parents did. She tagged along with them as a young child.
* [[Berserk Button]]: She easily takes offense if you belittle her abilities.
* [[Children Are Innocent]]: Believe it or not, but [[Word of God|ZUN]] ''defended'' her in the interview in ''Symposium of Post-mysticism''. This was also noted in her description in SWR: she was raised as a Celestial after her parents ascended to [[Fluffy Cloud Heaven]], but her personality stayed with her.
* [[Cool Sword]]: The ''Hisou no Tsurugi'', or the Sword of Scarlet Perceptions, which can absorb life force, control the weather, be stored in any form, shapeshift to exploit the opponent's weaknesses, and make the user look badass while holding it, too! She can even ''[[Throwing Your Sword Always Works|use it like a boomerang]]''.
* [[Designated Villain]]: The plot of ''Scarlet Weather Rhapsody'' was kicked off when she [[Invoked Trope|designated herself]] as the villain.
* [[Dishing Out Dirt]]: Other than [[Beam Spam|spamming beams]], she has a lot of rock-based attacks.
* [[Enemies Withwith Death]]: She is immortal by virtue of defeating every shinigami that comes to get her.
* [[Final Boss]]
* [[Ice Cream Koan]]: Tenshi has a habit of spouting Buddhism sayings without fully understanding their meaning.
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* [[Meaningful Name]]: Chiko, her name when she was human, means "earth child," while Tenshi means "heavenly child."
* [[Our Angels Are Different]]: About all she has in common with angels is the name and residence, really. That and the fact that if her name were written differently (天使 instead of 天子), it would mean "angel" in Japanese.
* [[Spell My Name Withwith an "S"]]:
** Her family name is more correctly rendered as "Hinanai" in modern Japanese. The official Japanese pronunciation retains the archaic kana ゐ ("wi"), as Tenshi was born long, long before it was legislated out of common usage.
** The Kanji in her given name can also be read as "Tenko". This has become another [[Fan Nickname]] for her and she is occasionally included in Ran's "Suppa Tenko" meme.
* [[Sword Plant]]: She does this to demonstrate her sword's powers in her pre-battle cutscene. And she does it to raise pillars of earth for her second-to-last boss spell card. Also part of her normal, playable moveset as a way to trigger earthquakes and such.
* [[Throwing Your Sword Always Works]]: One of her alternate special moves, Sword of Fate. Not only does it always work (if it hits), but it also returns [[Everything's Better Withwith Spinning|like a boomerang]], homing in on her. If she uses another sword attack before it ends, the sword returns instantly; if she catches it normally (and she always catches the hilt), she is rendered helpless for a split second.
* [[Too Kinky to Torture]]: As a result of Tenshi demanding you punish her in some of her quotes in ''SWR'', [[Flanderization|she has been portrayed]] as a ''masochist''.
* [[Weather Control Machine|Weather Control Artifact]]: Her weapon, the ''Hisou no Tsurugi'', has the power to alter the weather.
 
== Debuted in ''Subterranean Animism''==
 
===Kisume===
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:''The Fearsome Well Spirit''
== '''Debuted in ''Subterranean Animism''''' ==
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[[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]].
 
{{Tropelist|Tropes exhibited by Kisume include:}}
 
::''The Fearsome Well Spirit''
::'''Kisume'''
 
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]].
 
==== Tropes associated with Kisume: ====
 
* [[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]]
* [[Leitmotif]]: "The Dark Blowhole"
* [[Playing Withwith Fire]]: Her other ability is using youkai fire as a weapon.
* [[Shrinking Violet]]
 
===Yamame Kurodani===
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:''The Bright Net In The Dark Cavern''
[[File:Yamame_Portrait_3250.jpg|frame|''<small>(fanart)</small>'']]
 
 
::''The Bright Net In The Dark Cavern''
::'''Yamame Kurodani'''
 
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).
==== Tropes associated with Yamame: ====
 
* [[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 chr(28)spiderchr(29)|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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* [[Plaguemaster]]: Her claim to fame. [[Bad Powers, Good People|She doesn't like using it on people, though.]]
* [[Punny Name]]: ZUN commented in one interview that the name "Yamame" was appropriate for a spider because it could be written as "eight eyes".
* [["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===
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:''The Jealousy Beneath the Earth's Crust''
[[File:Parsee_8918.jpg|frame|''<small>(fanart)</small>'']]
 
 
::''The Jealousy Beneath the Earth's Crust''
::'''Parsee Mizuhashi'''
 
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.
 
==== {{Tropelist|Tropes associatedexhibited withby Parsee include: ====}}
 
* [[Anthropomorphic Personification]]: While she's technically a hashihime, she's basically become the embodiment of jealousy.
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* [[Clingy Jealous Girl]]: One of her fanon depictions, sometimes heading into [[Yandere]] territory, for obvious reasons.
* [[Doppelganger Attack]]: "Egotistic Animosity to the Humble Rich Man" and "Large Box and Small Box".
* [[Driven Byby Envy]]: [[Captain Obvious|Well, duh.]]
* [[Emotion Eater]]: Eats jealousy.
* [[Everything's Better Withwith Princesses|Everything's Better With Bridge Princesses]]
* [[Fairy Tale]]: A few of her spell cards reference Japanese fairy tales like "The Tongue-Cut Sparrow" and "Grandfather Cherry Blossom". This might play into her [[Genre Savvy]] aspects.
* [[Fan Nickname]]: Known in [[Image Boards|some circles]] as "Cave Alice," for her visual similarity to Alice Margatroid and for... well, living underground.
* [[Genre Savvy]]: She overhears Marisa and Alice bickering over whether the Underworld has floors like an RPG dungeon and butts in, to play along and mock Marisa. She apparently knows about RPG tropes, skyscrapers, and the [[Number of the Beast]].
{{quote| "You're now on floor B666. Welcome to the end of the underworld skyscraper."}}
* [[Green-Eyed Monster]]: Pretty much her schtick. She has a spell card named Green-Eyed Monster, her boss theme is called Green-Eyed Jealousy, and her ''Double Spoiler'' title is "Monster with Green Eyes".
* [[Hate Plague]]: The power of jealousy, as interpreted by most fanon.
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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 Byby 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 [[ThePromethean Punishment]].
* [[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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* [[Tsundere]]: How her jealousy is usually portrayed. "Y-you got me a present? To have money to buy something nice for me... I'm jealous."
* [[Visual Pun]]: The "Persian bridge princess" [[Stealth Pun]] noted above, and a literal [[Green-Eyed Monster]].
* [["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===
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:''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:}}
::''The Rumored Unnatural Phenomenon''
::'''Yuugi Hoshiguma'''
 
* [[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.
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.
 
==== Tropes associated with Yuugi: ====
 
* [[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.
* [[Chained Byby Fashion]]: Like Suika, she has shackles and short, broken chains on both ankles and wrists. Must be a common fashion trend among oni.
* [[Excuse Me While I Multitask]]: She doesn't even bother putting her drink down while fighting you.
* [[Hello Boys]]: An [http://en.touhouwiki.net/wiki/File:Th11PromotionalArt.jpg advertisement] for ''Subterranean Animism'' featured a drawing by alphes, the artist who drew the character portraits for the ''Touhou'' fighting games, showing Yuugi wearing a blue kimono [[Theiss Titillation Theory|pulled off]] [[Impossibly Low Neckline|her shoulders]]. Since it's from an official ad, the kimono is considered to be a canon alternate costume for her.
* [[Horned Humanoid]]: In traditional oni style, with a single horn.
* [[Leitmotif]]: "A Flower-Studded Sake Dish on Mount Ooe"
* [[Shout-Out]]: She fights without spilling a drop of sake, much like the character Johnathan Joestar fought without spilling a drop of wine from ''[[Jo JoJoJo's Bizarre Adventure (Manga)|Jo Jos Bizarre Adventure]]'' and has a star on her horn like Johnathan has the star birthmark. ZUN himself has even outright said he wants to make her seem awesome like JoJo.
* [[Superpower Lottery]]: She can manipulate supernatural phenomena, which is too vague to know ''what'' it actually does, but given that almost ''everything'' in Gensoukyou is supernatural...
* [[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===
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:''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:}}
::''The Girl Even The Evil Spirits Fear''
::'''Satori Komeiji'''
 
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.
 
==== Tropes associated with Satori: ====
 
* [[Affably Evil]]: Her in-game quotes give off shades of this.
* [[Badass Boast]]: "I can see it ... My mind-reading third eye will show me your very heart! The beautiful danmaku in your heart will make you suffer!"
* [[Blessed Withwith Suck]]: Everyone hates her, except for animals who can't talk, because of her mind-reading [[Evil Eye|third eye on her heart]].
* [[Cat Smile]]: One of Satori's very few expressions. Looks surprisingly cute on her though.
* [[Cosplay Fan Art]]: Due to how her power works in the game, some fanart likes to depict Satori cosplaying as other characters in the series.
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* [[Leitmotif]]: "Satori Maiden ~ Third Eye"
* [[Luckily, My Powers Will Protect Me]]: Has a really bad habit of constantly talking about how she can read minds, and has no sense of [[Mind Over Manners]]. Perhaps if she stopped telling everyone how she could read their every thought - and that one, and especially that one - there would have been less antagonism. This is apparently a trait of the entire satori race.
* [[Not Good Withwith People]]: Animals love her, because she can understand them, but humans and youkai are less thrilled with having their minds read all the time.
* [[Oh God, Did She Just Hear That?]]: In most scenarios, our heroines are just thinking about beating Satori up, which she finds rather off-putting, but is pretty much normal for them. She also catches Marisa thinking about what she's going to [[Sticky Fingers|steal from Satori's palace]] and shoos her off.
* [[Power Incontinence]]: Her mind reading is always on.
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* [[Technical Pacifist]]
 
===Rin Kaenbyou (Orin)===
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:''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:}}
 
::''Corpse Tour Guide'' / ''[[Rule of Funny|Hell's Traffic Accident]]''
::'''Rin Kaenbyou (Orin)'''
 
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.
 
==== Tropes associated with Rin: ====
 
* [[Animorphism]]: She is capable of shapeshifting into either a cat or a humanoid form.
* [[Bad Powers, Good People]]: Her job is to steal corpses and send them to Hell via her cart. However, she's regarded by Akyuu as an extremely friendly and outgoing, and is even interested in listening to the ghosts of the corpses.
* [[Catgirl]]: A [https://web.archive.org/web/20120220050704/http://www.catgirls.org.uk/mythology/japan.html#kasha kasha]. Considered to be older and somewhat more mature than Chen.
* [[Fiery Redhead]]
* [[Flunky Boss]]: She is accompanied by [[Night of the Living Mooks|zombie fairies]] during several of her attacks.
* [[Ghost Lights]]: Technically ''skull'' lights, but close.
* [[Girlish Pigtails]]: Among the ''Touhou'' characters who have them, only Orin's pigtails are braided.
* [[Grim Reaper]]: Those blue will-o'-wisps floating beside her? [[Captain Ersatz|They look like]] [[Pokémon|Duskull]] [http://bulbapedia.bulbgarden.net/wiki/Duskull and Bulbapedia even notes] this design is a traditional Grim Reaper portrayal. Maybe they also work for Komachi?
* [[I Love the Dead]]: Fanon likes making [[Black Humor]] out of her "pretty looking corpses" line.
* [[In-Series Nickname]]: Orin.
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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)===
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:''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:}}
::''The Scorching, Troublesome, Divine Flame''
::'''Utsuho Reiuji (Okuu)'''
 
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]].
 
==== Tropes associated with Utsuho: ====
 
* [[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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* [[Fashionable Asymmetry]]: Her right foot is encased in concrete, her left foot has electrons orbiting around it, and her right forearm is a control rod.
* [[Final Boss]]
* [[Foreshadowing]]: From ''Cage in Lunatic Runagate'', chapter three, released in 2007:
{{quote| '''Watatsuki no Toyohime:''' If that crow was an embodiment of the sun, it would have three feet and red eyes!}}
* [[From Nobody to Nightmare]]
* [[Genius Ditz]]: ''Hisoutensoku'' seems to suggest she has a good knowledge of nuclear physics. Beyond that, she's a total [[Incredibly Lame Pun|birdbrain]]. This could be a case of [[Required Secondary Powers]]. It's rather hard to control forces that you don't understand, after all.
* [[Glass Cannon]]: Her "Control Rod" system card in ''Hisoutensoku'' [[Invoked Trope|invokes this]] on its users, enhancing their damage output while weakening their defenses. It's small at first, [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pLvjXdhc_Kg but if both players use four and Drizzle is active...]
* [[Gravity Sucks]]: Her last spell-card definitvely falls into this.
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* [[Hitbox Dissonance]]: This makes her a little bit easier than other final bosses because, despite the size of her projectiles, their hitboxes allow you to easily weave between them... even when it looks like you shouldn't. Case in point: [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TQ3JxKr7gWE#t=06m12s this portion of her attack].
* [[Impossibly Cool Clothes]]: Her [[Pimped-Out Cape]] definitely falls under this.
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** The concrete on her right foot takes different forms in fanart. Sometimes it's a vaguely foot-shaped lump of concrete, sometimes it's a knee boot, sometimes, it's made out of metal plates...
** 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 Withwith an "S"]]: K-S Romanization of her last name - "Reiuzi".
* [[The Power of the Sun]]: Eating the sun god Yatagarasu gave her nuclear fusion sun powers.
* [[Touched Byby Vorlons]]
* [[Trademark Favorite Food]]: <ref> Unless they were fertilized raven eggs, this isn't cannibalism.</ref>, and [[To Serve Man|the corpses of dead sinners]]. Extra-crispy. She had a strong desire to roast and eat Reimu, apparently not caring that she's ''alive''.
{{quote| '''Utsuho:''' See, your body's getting burned up pretty nicely now. I want to eat you up right now, but it's not good to rush. You have to let it fry just the right amount for it to taste the best.}}
* [[Unmoving PlaidPattern]]: Played with - the inside of her cape has a galaxy pattern that ''scrolls independently'' of the cape's movements.
* [[Unskilled but Strong]]: After the long string of [[Trial and Error Gameplay]] and [[Puzzle Boss|Puzzle Bosses]] that is the rest ''Subterranean Animism'', Utsuho's patterns are remarkably straightforward. This should in no way imply that they're easy, since her bullets are ''huge''.
* [[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===
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[[File:Koishi_Portrait_1482.jpg|frame|''<small>(fanart)</small>'']]
 
:''The Closed Eyes Of Love''
 
[[File:Koishi_Portrait_1482.jpg|frame|''<small>(fanart)</small>'']]
::''The Closed Eyes Of Love''
::'''Koishi Komeiji'''
 
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.
 
==== {{Tropelist|Tropes associatedexhibited withby Koishi include: ====}}
 
* [[All Psychology Is Freudian]]: Almost all of Koishi's spell cards are themed around Freudian psychology, including the id and the superego.
** [[Freud Was Right]]: Koishi's "The Embers of Love" spell card is [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3NW4rqu2YhY infamous in the fandom].
* [[Alternate Character Interpretation]]: Some fanworks extend Koishi's inability to connect with people into making her [[Obliviously Evil]] or [[The Sociopath]], most infamously ''Koishi Komeiji's Heart-Throbbing Adventure''.
* [[Blessed Withwith Suck]]: Same reason with her sister Satori. Except that she got tired of being hated and closed her eye/heart, which removed her power, but also made her ''stop thinking''.
* [[Bonus Boss]]
* [[Break the Cutie]]: In her backstory.
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* [[Stronger Sibling]]: She also explicitly states that her sister isn't really that good at fighting.
* [[Walking the Earth]]: She wanders all over Gensokyo, in contrast to her sister Satori being a [[Hikkikomori]].
* [[Weirdness Censor]]: On herself - she can move around without being noticed by anyone. It's functionally [[Invisibility]], or a [[The HitchhikersHitchhiker's Guide to Thethe Galaxy|Somebody Else's Problem Field]].
 
== Debuted in ''Undefined Fantastic Object''==
 
===Nazrin===
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== '''Debuted in ''Undefined Fantastic Object''''' ==
:''The Little Dowser General''
 
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[[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.
 
{{Tropelist|Tropes exhibited by Nazrin include:}}
 
::''The Little Dowser General''
::'''Nazrin'''
 
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.
 
==== Tropes associated with Nazrin: ====
 
* [[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.
* [[Chew Toy]]: Fanon only. Since she's a mouse, she has practically become one for both Chen and [http://walfas.org/flash/nazrun.swf Orin], solely because cats eat mice. In the vein of ''[[Tom and Jerry (Animation)|Tom and Jerry]]'', this is sometimes reversed with Nazrin outwitting the cat, usually [[Cheerful Child|the much more guillible]] Chen.
** [[Shipping]]: ...and tends to get shipped with either (or both at once).
* [[Hypercompetent Sidekick]]: Fandom has her increasingly playing this role, either with Shou or the Myouren Temple crew as a whole. It makes a lot of sense when you remember that Nazrin was originally Shou's superior, acting as a sort of auditor, sent by Bishamonten, to keep an eye on Shou's work as Bishamonten's avatar.
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* [[Little Bit Beastly]]: Mouse. This ties into her role as Bishamonten's servant: Bishamonten is the guardian of the northern direction, and the mouse (or rat) represents the north in the Chinese zodiac.
* [[Recurring Boss]]: Shows up for all of stage 1, then doesn't come back until stage 5 as a midboss.
* [[Shrinking Violet]]: Apparently she'd be a lot [[Incredibly Lame Pun|mousier]] if not for Bishamonten being her boss.
* [[Trademark Favorite Food]]: She's a mouse. [[Blessed Are the Cheesemakers|Guess]].
* [[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===
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:''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:}}
::''The Cheery Forgotten Umbrella''
::'''Kogasa Tatara'''
 
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.
 
==== Tropes associated with Kogasa: ====
 
* [[Brick Joke]]: {{spoiler|Surprise}}!
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* [[Emotion Eater]]: Lives on human surprise.
* [[Everythings Better With Eggplants]]: Her umbrella has an eggplant motif.
* [[Everything's Better Withwith Rainbows]]: [http://en.touhouwiki.net/wiki/Double_Spoiler/Spell_Cards/Stage_3#Spell_Card_3_-_5 Rainbow Sign: "Over The Rainbow".]
* [[Friend to All Children]]: Although it seems to be unintentional.
* [[Harmless Villain]]: "Attacks" humans, but the greatest danger she poses is making people feel like a jerk by sulking after her efforts fail. Seriously. This is canon.
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* [[Painting the Fourth Wall]]:
** The demo sets Kogasa up to be a character with a seemingly weak special power -- the power to surprise people -- and appears as an early stage boss. Then, in the full game, she {{spoiler|appears as an Extra stage midboss}}. Her portrait in her second appearance even has "Surprise~" written above her in Japanese.
** {{spoiler|And then there's her reappearance in ''Ten Desires'' where she specifically refers to her problems always [[Stalked Byby the Bell|timing out Yoshika's attacks]]. Even though that's is a victory condition in ''Touhou'' and only affects your score. It could be that she meant that Yoshika was using her healing ability to time out ''Kogasa's'' attacks, and thus win.}}
** {{spoiler|Also in ''Ten Desires'', after you beat her, she drops the the first full power up item in the game as a pleasant surprise.}}
* [[Parasol of Pain]]: A youkai umbrella or ''karakasa''. Her accessory umbrella comes complete with an eggplant motif ''and'' a giant tongue. Although the umbrella is part of her, and she can't put it down.
* [[Peek a Bogey Man]]
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* [[Recurring Boss]]: Surprise, she's {{spoiler|the extra stage midboss! [[Hilarious in Hindsight|Imagine the looks on the faces of the fans that teased her for her power before.]] She's also the mid-boss of Stage 3 in Ten Desires.}}
* [[Shout-Out]]:
** A couple of her spell cards are named after games in the ''[[Bubble Bobble (Video Game)|Bubble Bobble]]'' series.
** And of course, [[The Wizard of Oz (Filmfilm)|Over the Rainbow]].
** Her article (not profile) in ''[[All There in the Manual|Symposium of Post-mysticism]]'' is about her thinking that [[Mary Poppins|babysitters fly on umbrellas]].
* [[Throw the Dog Aa 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===
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:''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.
 
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::''The Great Wheel that Guards and Is Guarded''
::'''Ichirin Kumoi'''
 
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.
 
==== Tropes associated with Ichirin: ====
 
* [[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===
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[[File:Unzan_1955.png|frame|''<small>(fanart)</small>'']]
 
 
[[File:Unzan_1955.png|frame|''<small>(fanart)</small>'']]
::'''Unzan'''
 
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.
 
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* [[Badass Beard]]
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* [[Stealth Pun]]: "Nyuudo", his species, can be also read as the Japanese for "thundercloud".
 
===Captain Minamitsu Murasa===
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:''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.
 
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::''The Ghost Left From The Shipwreck''
::'''Captain Minamitsu Murasa'''
 
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.
 
==== Tropes associated with Minamitsu: ====
 
* [[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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* [[Sailor Fuku]]: Wears the type of "sailor suit" the iconic Sailor Fuku is [[Older Than They Think|based on]].
* [[Serial Killer]]: Some of it is likely thanks to village gossip and/or Akyuu's fearmongering, but ''[[All There in the Manual|Symposium of Post-mysticism]]'' paints her as liable to kill anyone that gets near water while they're alone.
* [[Spell My Name Withwith an "S"]]: K-S romanization - "Minamitu".
* [[Token Evil Teammate]]: For the Buddhists.
 
===Shou Toramaru===
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:''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.
 
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::''The Disciple Of Bishamonten''
::'''Shou Toramaru'''
 
An "honest and straighforward" [[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.
 
==== Tropes associated with Shou: ====
 
* [[Animal Motifs]]: Tiger-patterned clothes and hair.
* [[Badass Boast]]: "But, if you've chosen the wrong path... then you'll have to bear witness to the light of dharma, which is even ''stronger'' here in Makai. And bow down, to this holy pagoda of Bishamonten!"
* [[Blade Onon a Stick]]: She carries a spear, just like the Buddhist god of warfare Bishamonten, on whom her character is based. She isn't actually any good with it, though, since she's purposefully mimicking statues of Bishamonten and thus the spear is purely decorative. She uses it like a walking stick.
* [[Bottle Fairy]]: While she's more gentle and reserved than most characters who fit this trope, she's still very fond of alcohol and will often become staggeringly drunk.
** Which might account for her [[Doctor Jekyll and Mister Jack Daniels|different attitude]] when amongst friends.
* [[Clap Your Hands If You Believe]]: How she came into being; she was born from stories of creatures called tigers on the continent.
* [[Creepy Cool Crosses]]: More like a giant spinning laser cross of death. It's actually a vajra/dorje, Hinduist/Buddhist scepter that represents the thunderbolt.
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* [[Frickin' Laser Beams]]: This is her gimmick - every attack she uses involves lasers in some way. And they ''curve'' in midair. Plus there's just [[Beam Spam|so many of them]]. And she's got spells, like Buddhist Art "Most Valuable Vajra" that put the Non-Directonal Laser to shame, [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NYqvDet61f4#t=2m25 as shown here.] As it turns out, her ''real'' [[Weapon of Choice]] is not her spear, but the Bishamonten Pagoda she holds, which is also known as the Laser Pagoda. If you get too close within its range, it will ''turn you to ash''.
* [[Gender Blender Name]]: 'Shou' is generally a male name.
* [[Hard-Drinking Party Girl]]: While she's more gentle and reserved than most characters who fit this trope, she's still very fond of alcohol and will often become staggeringly drunk.
** Which might account for her [[In Vino Veritas|different attitude]] when amongst friends.
* [[Leitmotif]]: "The Tiger-Patterned Vaisravana"
* [[Little Bit Beastly]]: Despite canonically not having any distinct tiger-like physical features, many artists portray Shou with tiger ears and tail.
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* [[Multicolored Hair]]: It looks like tiger stripes!
* [[Species Surname]]: 'Tora' means tiger.
* [[Spell My Name Withwith an "S"]]: K-S romanization - "Syou"
* [[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===
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:''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.
 
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::''The Great Sealed Magician''
::'''Byakuren Hijiri'''
 
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.
 
==== Tropes associated with Byakuren: ====
 
* [[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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* [[Dark Is Not Evil]]: Her powers and spells have roots in dark magic, yet she is a temple headmistress with a history of saving/redeeming youkai.
* [[Dead Little Brother]]: See Myouren below.
* [[Detect Evil]]: Can apparently sense that Seiga is ridiculously evil.
* [[Final Boss]]
* [[Flower Motifs]] [[Frickin' Laser Beams|That Shoot Lasers]]: Her name [[Meaningful Name|means "white lotus"]], to boot.
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* [[The Pollyanna]]: Some fanon turns her into this.
* [[Power Gives You Wings]]: Or in this case, a lotus petal.
* [[Sealed Badass in Aa Can]]: Whether she's good or evil actually gets debated in the game dialogue. Although this being Gensoukyou, of course the answer leans towards the former.
* [[Status Buff|Status Buffs]]: [[All There in the Manual|Her profile]] says Byakuren specialises in magic that enhances her physical abilities.
* [[Spell Book]]: Her "Sorcerer's Picture Scroll" is a magic construct she created using materials from Makai, containing the sutras she must recite to cast spells. It's at least somewhat intelligent, being able to recite spells by itself and prevent others from using it.
* [[Spell My Name Withwith an "S"]]: K-S romanization - "Hiziri".
* [[Thou Shalt Not Kill]]: For religious purposes. She won't even eat meat due to the animals having been killed.
* [[Vain Sorceress]]: Magic of youth and to improve her physical abilities are her speciality. In fact they were, initially, the reason she protected youkai.
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* [[What Could Have Been]]: See below. Byakuren wasn't the original intended final boss of UFO.
 
===Myouren Hijiri===
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[[File:MyourenHijiri_8327.jpg|frame|''<small>(fanart, appearance is completely speculative)</small>'']]
 
 
::'''Myouren Hijiri'''
 
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.
 
[[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 Thethe Base|play it safe]] and made Byakuren instead.
 
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* [[Death By Origin Story]]: Myouren's death is the catalyst that eventually put Byakuren where she is at the start of ''UFO''.
* [[Death by Origin Story]]: Myouren's death is the catalyst that eventually put Byakuren where she is at the start of ''UFO''.
* [[Public Domain Character]] / [[Historical Domain Character]]
* [[Self Fanservice]]: Myouren's appearance is never described in any canon source, but most fanart depicts him as a [[Bishounen]] with the same [[Multicolored Hair]] as his sister. Given that he was a Buddhist monk, it's more likely that he would have a completely shaved head.
* [[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===
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:''The Unidentified Fantastic Flying Girl''
[[File:Nue_Portrait_8891.jpg|frame|''<small>(fanart)</small>'']]
 
 
::''The Unidentified Fantastic Flying Girl''
::'''Nue Houjuu'''
 
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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* [[Screwy Squirrel]]: She enjoyed messing around with Byakuren and the other girls, tagging along and interfering every so often because she thought it would be funny if they failed in their goal. In fact, {{spoiler|1=she attached "Seed[s] of Non-Identification" to the ship and the Tobikura fragments, making them appear as UFOs to the untrained eye}}. When she found out that their mission would help her as well, [[My God, What Have I Done?|she felt guilty about it]].
* [[Snakes Are Sexy]]: Her official art contains a snake.
* [[Shout-Out]]: One of her spell cards in ''Double Spoiler'' makes danmaku in the shapes of [[Play StationPlayStation|green triangles, red circles, pink squares, and blue X-s]].
* [[Species Surname|Species Given Name]]: As you would expect, she's a nue - a Japanese chimera. And not just a nue, she's ''the'' nue, the one from the legends.
* [[Urban Legends]]: What most of her ''Double Spoiler'' spell cards are based on.
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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===
 
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== '''Debuted in ''Hisoutensoku''''' ==
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[[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.
::'''Unnamed Giant Catfish'''
 
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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 chr(28)Japanese mythologychr(29)|a giant catfish causes earthquakes]] in Japanese mythology.
 
==== Tropes associated with the catfish: ====
 
* [[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.
* [[All There in Thethe Script]]: The catfish's graphics assets have filenames beginning with "namazu*", so it's often referred to as "the Namazu" in fanon.
* [[Bullfight Boss]]: Its 3rd spell card.
* [[Continuity Nod]]: It's very possible that this thing is based on the giant catfish that Sakuya served as a meal in the end of Tenshi's ending in ''SWR''. Note that this was also a probable reference to the above folklore, as earthquakes were important to ''SWR'''s plot.
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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''
 
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== '''Debuted in ''Double Spoiler''''' ==
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[[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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::''Modern Day Spirit Photographer''
::'''Hatate Himekaidou'''
 
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.
 
==== Tropes associated with Hatate: ====
 
* [[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.
* [[Chuck Cunningham Syndrome]]: She doesn't have an entry or a newspaper article in ''Symposium.'' ZUN admitted that he simply forgot about her, and attributed her absence from the work to her having no friends.
* [[Crows and Ravens]]: A crow tengu.
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* [[Red Oni, Blue Oni]]: With Aya. Hatate's the red oni - she's [[Hot-Blooded|fired up]] about beating Aya and has a more childish personality and manner of speech.
* [[The Rival]]: To Aya.
* [[Shout-Out]]: Possibly yet another one to ''[[Jo JoJoJo's Bizarre Adventure (Manga)|Jo Jos Bizarre Adventure]]''. With her spirit photography and heavy purple theme in clothing Hatate is reminiscent of Joseph Joestar.
* [[Totally Radical]]: How her Nagoya dialect is rendered in English by some translators.
* [[Valley Girl]]: Her comments have been translated this way. Arguably a [[Woolseyism]] or rather, a mistake that caught on. With the release of the English patch it is now semi-official for the western fandom.
* [[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''
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== '''Debuted in ''Ten Desires''''' ==
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[[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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::''Sutra-Reciting Mountain Spirit''
::'''Kyouko Kasodani'''
 
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.
 
==== Tropes associated with Kyouko: ====
 
* [[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).
* [[Catch Phrase]]: The fandom gave her several catchphrases, usually in the form of exclamations. She has "Yahoo!"[[hottip:*:<ref>Comes from her description in the [http://en.touhouwiki.net/wiki/Kyouko#Ten_Desires_-_omake.txt demo's read-me]</ref>, "Ohayou Gozaimasu!"<ref>"Good Morning!"</ref> and "Gyate Gyate"[[hottip:*:<ref>It was rendered in one of her portrait sprites as "ぎゃーてー ぎゃーてー". Beginning part of the mantra in the [[wikipedia:Heart Sutra|Heart Sutra.]]</ref>
* [[Cute but Cacophonic]]
* [[Leitmotif]]: "Youkai Girl at the Gate"
* [[Little Bit Beastly]]: Visually, she has the ears of a [http://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E3%83%95%E3%82%A1%E3%82%A4%E3%83%AB:Suushi_Yama-biko.jpg Yamabiko]. While the kind of animal the Yamabiko is supposed to be [[Cartoon Creature|is ambiguous at best]], ''Symposium of Post-Mysticism'' has confirmed that she has a tail and a lot of fans make her to be a cute dog.
* [[Make Me Wanna Shout]]: Her power is to reflect sound waves, which she does by shouting according to her fight-posturing. However, it's hardly destructive. She uses it to reflect back her danmaku.
* [[Painting the Frost Onon Windows]]: Or create echoes, rather.
* [[Punk Rock (Music)|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===
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:''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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::''A Faithful Undead''
::'''Yoshika Miyako'''
 
Yoshika is a jiangshi, and a bodyguard of sorts for Seiga Kaku. She's not very good at her job.
 
==== Tropes associated with Yoshika: ====
 
* [[Cloudcuckoolander]]: Very empty headed. Akyuu claims she's actually entirely mindless.
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* [[Recurring Boss]]: Appears to assist Seiga in stage 4.
* [[Soulless Shell]]
* [[Spell My Name Withwith an "S"]]: Not her, but her species name, largely due to it being originally Chinese. Kyonshi, Jiangshi, and Geung si are merely the romanizations you're most likely to come across.
* [[Two First Names]]: The kanji for it are odd, but Miyako is normally a given name.
* [[The Undead]]: A [[Jiangshi]], to be exact. It is noted that she's gaining more and more qualities attributed to [[Our Zombies Are Different|zombies]] these days because in the outside world people rarely tell stories about jiang-shi anymore, but zombies are popular, and complains about getting compared to them.
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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===
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:''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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::''The Wicked Hermit Who Passes Through Walls''
::'''Seiga Kaku'''
 
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.
 
==== Tropes associated with Seiga: ====
 
* [[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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** [[Generation Xerox]]: She ended up running out on her own family to seek her father, as well as to further practice Taoism.
* [[Dual Boss]]/[[Flunky Boss]]: Fights alongside Yoshika, though you can only kill Yoshika temporarily and must empty Seiga's lifebar to proceed.
* [[Enemies Withwith Death]]: She's a fugitive from Hell due to her unsanctioned immortality, and has to routinely fight off [[Shinigami]] and Kishin sent to kill her.
* [[Evil Mentor]]: She taught Miko Taoism and she's a "wicked hermit." According to Miko herself, Seiga demonstrated through her actions that power is only as good or evil as the wielder.
* [[Faking the Dead]]: To run away from her family.
* [[Hair Decorations]]: While many other characters in this series have hair decorations, Seiga's hairpin is notable in that she can use it to pass through walls.
* [[Hermit Guru]]: She's a [http://en.touhouwiki.net/wiki/Perfect_Memento:_Hermits hermit], like Kasen Ibara...
** [[Nun-Too-Holy]]: ...but because of her personality and willingness to deceive others, she lacks divine grace and so is considered a "wicked hermit."
* [[Intangible Man]]: Sort of. She possesses the power to pass through walls, but does it by causing parts of the walls to temporarily disappear using the Wall-Removing Chisel that she keeps in her hair.
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* [[You Gotta Have Blue Hair]]
 
===Soga no Tojiko===
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:''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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::''Ghost of the Children of the Gods''
::'''Soga no Tojiko'''
 
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.
 
==== Tropes associated with Tojiko: ====
 
* [[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===
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:''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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::''A Shikaisen from Ancient Japan''
::'''Mononobe no Futo'''
 
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.
 
==== Tropes associated with Futo: ====
 
* [[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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* [[Together in Death]]: [[Faux Death]]; and only sort of. She underwent the shikaisen process before Miko did to see if it was safe.
* [[What Kind of Lame Power Is Heart, Anyway?]]: The manipulation of ''feng shui''? Making it either better or worse (depends on how you look at it) is that she's not actually using feng shui; it's her name for the mashup of shintou and taoist magic that she uses.
* [[Ye Olde Butcherede Englishe]]: In translation, to reflect her usage of a very archaic dialect of Japanese.
 
===Toyosatomimi no Miko===
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:''Shoutoku Taoist''
[[File:Toyosatomimi_no_Miko_6932.jpg|frame|''<small>(fanart)</small>'']]
 
 
::''Shoutoku Taoist''
::'''Toyosatomimi no Miko'''
 
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.
 
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* [[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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* [[Badass Boast]]: "This era, when humans deny my existence and I have become legend, is what I was waiting for! Now, try to defeat me! And spread the legend that I live!"
* [[Batman Gambit]]: She promoted the values of Buddhism in order to subjugate the population of Japan, while secretly practicing Taoism to attain immortality for herself.
* [[Blessed Withwith Suck]]: While her ability to hear the desires of ten people at once is useful, it can get grating to hear so many voices after a while. To deal with this she wears earmuffs, which lets her block out people's voices when she has to.
* [[Boss Banter]]: Actually speaks a line during battle without pausing the game.
* [[Came Back Strong]]
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* [[The Emperor]]: Was the Shadow Emperor variety while she was alive.
* [[Faux Death]]
** [[King in Thethe Mountain]]
* [[Final Boss]]
* [[Foil]]: She's pretty much set up as one to Byakuren.
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* [[Nice Job Breaking It, Hero]]: Byakuren found Miko's mausoleum without being sure what it was, and built Myouren Temple over it to keep it sealed. This just succeeded in waking her up.
* [[Off-Model]]: Her portrait in the game gives her two right hands.
** However some fans have started to speculate that it might be intentional as a [[Shout-Out]] to [[Jo JoJoJo's Bizarre Adventure (Manga)|Jo Jos Bizarre Adventure]] where J. Geil has two right hands.
** Another theory is that the "thumb" we see is actually a pinky, which would make her anatomically correct.
* [[Sealed Badass in Aa Can]]
* [[Title Drop]]: Her ultimate spell is named "Stars Falling on the Divine Spirit Mausoleum." "Eastern Divine Spirit Mausoleum" being the Japanese name of ''Ten Desires''.
* [[What Kind of Lame Power Is Heart, Anyway?]]: The ability to listen to ten people talking at once.
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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===
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:''The Tanuki Youkai with Ten Transformations''
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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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::''The Tanuki Youkai with Ten Transformations''
::'''Mamizou Futatsuiwa'''
 
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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* [[Doppleganger Attack]]: For her survival card, she generates two shikigami copies of herself. Those copies eventually summon two copies of ''themselves'' each, and then two ''more'' later on, so that by the end of the spell, you're facing down ten copies of Mamizou.
* [[Expecting Someone Taller]]: When the heroines heard that the youkai were calling a trump card against the resurrected saint, they were expecting some of the more fearsome sounding monsters of Japanese lore like the giant [[wikipedia:Gashadokuro|Gashadokuro]]. A tanuki wasn't exactly what they had in mind. Marisa, [[Deadpan Snarker|being Marisa]], couldn't resist mocking her on this.
{{quote| '''Marisa:''' Sure, but you're still a tanuki, right? The kind that drums on their bellies on the night of the full moon, right?}}
* [[Fantastic Racism]]: Doesn't like foxes. There were no foxes where she used to live, but her profile says that she may end up causing trouble with the foxes that live in Gensokyo, like Ran. Needless to say, she gets quite a bit of [[Foe Yay]] with Ran in fanart. Despite her hatred of foxes, though, she has nothing against humans; her profile says that she likes to play tricks on them occasionally, but she would also lend money to the poor and was able to live amongst them easily in her hometown of Sado.
** Interestingly, in a chapter of Wild And Horned Hermit, she seemed sympathetic towards a fox (not Ran) that Reimu had bound and gagged for the previous chapter's mischief. That, or she simply thought that Reimu was being [[Disproportionate Retribution|unfairly harsh]], fox or not.
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* [[Xtreme Kool Letterz]]: Or something like that. Her family name is spelled as two kanji with a katakana character in-between. This is very odd.
 
== 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''
 
:''The Most-Despicable and Disastrous Older 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===
 
:''Parental Guardian of Ancient Fish''
 
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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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