Article#28 : Yamame Kurodani, The Bright Net in the Dark Cave
黒谷ヤマメ (ãã‚ã ã« ã‚„ã¾ã‚)
[size=12]Yamame Kurodani [/h]
Age : Unknown
Species :
Tsuchigumo
Personalities : Bright, and combative personality. She is actually a fun-loving youkai despite her own power that makes other hate her.
Abilities : Power to manipulate illness (especially infectious diseases)
Occupation : Unknown
First Appearance : Subterranean Animism (Touhou 11.0)
Yamame is the Stage 1 boss in Subterranean Animism, inhabiting the entrance to the underground. During the events of Subterranean Animism, she mistook the heroine as a youkai from the surface and attacked; she was defeated quickly.
Bunbunmaru Trivia
# Unlike most boss characters in Touhou, Yamame has a rather bright personality and wouldn't carelessly misuse her ability. Being able to manipulate illness causes youkai and humans alike to despise her, and she is relatively well known in the underground. However, youkai who actually know her tend to like her a lot because of her personality.
# According to Aya, earth spiders in particular are quite strong and good at architecture. They accomplish this with their thin-but-strong string.
# The name Kurodani is written with characters that mean "black valley". Yamame may be written as "山女" (lit. mountain girl), which refers to a mythical demon in Japanese folklore.
# In an interview released in Cara☆mel with CiLR 7, ZUN mentioned that he figured her name was particularly "spiderish", maybe because spiders are all about their eyes (me), and pointed out that the number of buttons on her outfit added up to give her the proper number of eyes for a spider. (Yamame might also be written as å…«ã¾ç›®)
# She somewhat resembles an
Argiope spider, most closely looking like the bruennichi.
# Because of Yamame being upside-down on the demo CD, it didn't take long for fan-art of her hanging upside down to come up. Fans were disappointed when she didn't do this in the actual game.
# Because she's a spider youkai, pairings of her with
Wriggle Nightbug are common. Spiders eat bugs, right?
# Since
Kisume has no known relationships, but appears as a mid-boss in Yamame's stage, the two, sometimes along with Parsee and Yuugi are often depicted as knowing one another in fanworks.