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Article#29 : Parsee Mizuhashi, The Jealousy Beneath the Earth's Crust

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水橋 パルスィ　（みずはし　ぱるすぃ）
[size=12]Parsee Mizuhashi [/h]

Age : Unknown

Species : Bridge Princess

Personalities : * Envious *

Abilities : Power to manipulate jealousy

Occupation : Bridge Overseer

First Appearance : Subterranean Animism (Touhou 11.0)

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Parsee is a "hashihime", or bridge princess. Once, she was the protector, or guardian spirit, of the pit linking the underworld with the overworld. She watched over people to make sure that they could get to the underworld and back to the overworld safely.

However, as she is extremely jealous, she couldn't stand the people who looked like they were having fun going to and from. Whenever she saw someone like that, she would hinder their travel somehow.

Jealousy only begets further jealousy, so as she went mad from her own jealousy, she became able to fan the flames of jealousy in the hearts of others. She is able to control the jealousy in others.

In Subterranean Animism, Parsee appears as the stage 2 midboss and boss, and tries to keep the heroine from crossing out of jealousy of surface-dwellers.

Bunbunmaru Trivia

# There is actually a myth in japan considering "hashihime". It stated that
"Hashihime or the Bridge Princess is a youkai who was a jealous housewife when she's still alive. Her grudge against her unfaithful husband turned her into an evil youkai". Does this has anything to do with Parsee ?

# Suika appears to recognize her in Reimu and Suika's scenario of Subterranean Animism.

# According to ZUN in an interview in Cara☆mel released with CiLR7, the term 波斯人 (hashihito) refers to Persians, and he thought it would be interesting to try to make a Persian hashihime in old-style clothes...even if she doesn't really look like a hashihime.

# The name of Parsee's boss theme, "Green-eyed Jealousy", as well as her midboss spell card, "Green-eyed Monster", are both terms used in Shakespeare's works to poetically describe jealousy.

# Due to her picture in Subterranean Animism, she is often depicted having elfin-like ears. ZUN said in the interview of キャラ☆メル, that her appearance is designed to be suited to a little oriental, or foreign, image.

# While her character portrait in Subterranean Animism shows her as having green eyes, her sprite shows her as having blue eyes.

# Because of her jealous nature, Parsee has joined Alice as a fanon-designated tsundere.

# Sometimes, fans refer to her as "ParuParu" (sometimes with more "Paru"s added to it), such as in popular videos like ぱるぱるぱるぱるぱるぱるぱるぱるぱるぱるぱる.

ohai guys...

Busy night yesterday... >.>

Article#30 : Yuugi Hoshiguma, Rumored Unnatural Phenomenon

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星熊 勇儀（ほしぐま　ゆうぎ）
[size=12]Yuugi Hoshiguma [/h]

Age : Unknown

Species : Oni

Personalities : Hyper-Active, a bit eccentric, and love to raising a ruckus

Abilities : Power to control supernatural phenomena

Occupation : None

First Appearance : Subterranean Animism (Touhou 11.0)

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Yuugi is an oni currently living in the underground Ancient City. She happens to be one of the four Devas of the Mountain, along with Suika Ibuki, and lives alongside many other oni that were forced below ground.

As her official profile said,

In Subterranean Animism, Yuugi rushes out to meet the heroine. After her initial attack is repelled, she promises to lead the heroine to the Palace of the Earth Spirits in exchange for giving her a good fight.

Bunbunmaru Trivia

# Yuugi is old friends with Suika, and presumably the other two Devas of the Mountain

# Like other oni, Yuugi is ridiculously strong and, in turn, likes strong people. She also enjoys drinking heavily and raising a ruckus.

# Her power is never expressly stated in the game, nor does it have an in-game purpose. In her official profile, it is listed as the "ability to control supernatural spirits", which makes sense when one thinks about why the oni are living in the Ancient City - because they helped the youkai get rid of all the spirits there in the first place. Her main ability seems to be her monstrous strength.

# Yuugi Hoshiguma's name's characters mean Star (星) Bear (熊) Bravery (勇) Ritual (儀).

# In the legend of Shuten Douji, a particularly vicious oni who lived atop Mt. Ooeyama, one of Shuten Douji's four strongman demons was named Hoshiguma Douji. This may or may not be related to the character's concept.

# According to an interview in Cara☆mel for CiLR7, the theme behind Yuugi was to make an energetic, oni-like oni, since there would be lots of oni in hell.


# The JoJo in question is Jonathan Joestar, whom at one point has to defeat an undead adversary while being tasked by his master William Antonio Zeppeli to do so while holding a glass of wine, and to not spill a single drop. Marking Yuugi as yet another with a JoJo counterpart in ZUN's mind.

# In the same interview, he mentions that her clothes look kind of like a gym uniform, and it'd be easy to do exercises in. (Fans often depict her in a gym outfit that swaps her skirt for school gym shorts.)

# Yuugi Hoshiguma is thus far the only boss who stays around after her mid-boss defeat, and remains in front of the player throughout the end of the stage, unless you count Mystia Lorelei, who begins the end-of-stage battle immediately after the "mid-boss" fight.

# For some reason, she is commonly called 「姐さん」 ("nee-san" or "ane-san") by fans.

# There was once a post on the Touhou Imageboard explaining why one can't judge characters' power levels from how powerful they are in game. The whole post was quite humorous because of its fairly bad grammar and typos, but the most amusing and memorable line was "SA : Yuugi only playing around woth[sic] you, her sake NOT EVEN DROP". This became a meme among Western fans.

# Yuugi is frequently portrayed as having a large bust size, due to promotional art by alphes, of IaMP, SWR, and Hisoutensoku portrait fame, before the release of Subterranean Animism.

Awwwwww, cuuuuuute.


On the other side, all I have here are psychopaths, jerks and Blood Knights. I still love them though.

Article#31 : Rin Kaenbyou, Hell's Wheel Accident

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火焔猫　燐（かえんびょう　りん）（通称：お燐）
[size=12]Rin Kaenbyou (Orin) [/h]

Age : Unknown

Species : Kasha

Personalities : Loyal, Friendly, and Caring

Abilities : Power to carry away corpses

Occupation : Controller of spirits in the remnants of the Hell of Blazing Fires

First Appearance : Subterranean Animism (Touhou 11.0)

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Rin is one of Satori's pets, whose job is to carry corpses to the former Hell of Blazing Fires to regulate its heat. Before the events of Subterranean Animism, Rin learned of her old friend Utsuho's newly acquired power, and of her plans to conquer the above ground. She got terrified at the thought of her friend's future, and the punishment her mistress would impart on her (even though Satori would actually never have, and it was just Rin's thinking on her side). She decided to drive the evil spirits to above ground to lure the youkai in and get them to help her, but instead a human appears before her. Upon seeing that human is unexpectedly strong, though, she asks her to help Utsuho.

Bunbunmaru Trivia

# The characters for Kaenbyou literally mean "blazing cat". The one for Rin means "phosphorus".

# Kasha are a type of youkai that appear amidst stormy weather to bear the bodies of sinners to Hell. They are said to be cats that have turned into youkai (e.g. through long life). Sometimes temples near places where kasha are said to live will hold two funerals for the dead: in the first, the coffin is filled with rocks so that the kasha won't disrupt the funeral to carry off the deceased.

# In Buddhism, a Kasha is a fiery chariot which carries dead sinners to hell.

# Rin is shown pushing a wheelbarrow, which is also known in Japanese as a 猫車 (or literally, cat cart).

# Some of her attacks resemble attacks the second boss of Samidare, Anareta uses.

# Rin may be the most persistent Touhou boss, appearing as a mid-boss in three stages in addition to being a stage boss all in one game.

# Rin is the only Windows Stage 6 midboss that, when defeated, doesn't directly lead to the final boss. A generic "death fairy" leads to Utsuho instead, similar to MoF's Stage 6, except there is no midboss.

# In ancient Aztec culture, each household had a small red dog called the Techihi who was said to guide lost souls to the underworld, and would often be sacrificed along with its master. Strangely, Rin has both red hair and performs a similar duty.

# Rin is commonly referred to as just "Orin" instead of her full name because that's what shows as her boss title in SA. The name 「おりんりん」 or "OrinRin," has also been a standard fanon way of referring to her.

# Careful observers will notice that Rin has both human ears and cat ears. This has led to some fanart where she takes her cat ears off. Or in a few rare cases, the other way around.

# She is paired very often with Chen for obvious reasons.

# In Double Spoiler, when taking a picture of Rin in her cat form, the player is awarded the "Cat bonus", which gives a bonus of 666 points, the mark of the beast. This is somewhat fitting considering that she is located in a Hell.

Konnichiwa club =w=
i'm earlier aren't i? 3

Hell no! I can't even beat Captain Murasa... .-.

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I never see you at this time, Cirune.
Welcome.

Kona :
Haha, yeah.
The difficulty gotten harder from that point, but as expected from 5th boss.
Shou is the real tester in UFO.

Her?

Ahhh, not so much.

I prefer the hair to be longer, like this.

Article#32 : Utsuho Reiuji, Scorching, Troublesome Divine Flame

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火焔猫　燐（かえんびょう　りん）（通称：お燐）
[size=12]Utsuho Reiuji (Okuu) [/h]

Age : Unknown

Species : Hell Raven, Yatagarasu

Personalities : Simple and Boastful (more detail at her trivia)

Abilities : Manipulation of Nuclear Fusion

Occupation : Regulator of the flames in the former Hell of Blazing Fires

First Appearance : Subterranean Animism (Touhou 11.0)

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Utsuho is one of Satori's pets, a Hell raven who has lived in the underground world since before it was separated from Hell. Her job is to regulate the flames of the Hell of Blazing Fires. Before the events of Subterranean Animism, she was told by a voice (presumably Kanako Yasaka's) that she could swallow the god, Yatagarasu, that was hidden in the flames to gain a power that would fulfill the wishes of both the worlds below and above the surface. This power was nuclear fusion. Utsuho misunderstood what the voice had told her, and decided that, using these powers, she would take over Gensokyo. Her friend, Rin Kaenbyou, became worried about Utsuho, and drove evil spirits to the surface to cause an incident among the strong youkai above ground, in hope that they would come down to do something about it and, when they got there, defeat Utsuho and bring her back to her former self. What came, however, was not a strong youkai, but a strong human.

In Undefined Fantastic Object, it is revealed that the geyser she created with her newfound powers wound up blowing Byakuren Hijiri's ship out from the underground and into the sky, thus starting the plot of that game.

Bunbunmaru Trivia

# The characters for "Reiuji" literally mean, in succession, "soul/spirit", "crow/raven", and "path". "Utsuho" means "emptiness/empty-hole/cave" in old Japanese. The character for Utsuho also means "sky", and can be pronounced "kuu". Hence her nickname, Okuu.

# In ancient Chinese mythology, the three-legged crow is a mythical animal associated with the Sun, thought to be its guardian beast or, more often, the manifestation of the Sun's deity. This explains Utsuho's nuclear fusion power and association with heat.

# This myth of the three-legged crow and the fact that the crow tengu Aya Shameimaru calls her "hell crow" twice may be why people refer to her as a crow, even though she's a raven. (Actually, most Japanese don't distinguish raven from crow, except zoologists and curious people. The fact that both raven and crow are from the corvus genus doesn't help.)

# Utsuho appears to be the only final boss in a Windows game whose goal is explicitly conquering the world. A very common goal for villains in cartoons.

# Utsuho is also the only final boss in a Windows game who is a subordinate of an earlier boss (Satori).

# Utsuho's spell cards "Giga Flare" and "Mega Flare" share the name of the attacks used by the summon Bahamut of the Final Fantasy series.

# Her "Third Leg" resembles an arm cannon. In Touhou Hisoutensoku, it is used as one.

# "Unyu?" (うにゅ?) has become her trademark sound, ever since she said it in the Extra Stage back story.

# Because Utsuho is manipulated by Kanako, seems to have a simple and boastful personality, and is called a birdbrain by Orin, she's often considered an idiot by fans. ZUN also indirectly calls her an idiot in her theme song's description. This leads to comparisons (or pairings) with Cirno, and as the stage 6 boss, Utsuho is sometimes called ⑥ (which is an inverted ⑨).

# In Touhou Hisoutensoku, the idea of Utsuho being an idiot is corroborated. In Sanae Kochiya's story, she is called birdbrained by Sanae, forgot why she was fighting her in the first place, and then follows Sanae's orders after being told she was doing that. This was also stated in Reisen's script, who called her a moron.

# Utsuho is the only final boss in a Windows game that gives the player a warning before the spellcard begins. Two nuclear symbols appear, along with giant word "Caution" and Klaxons blaring in the background.

# Utsuho's spellcard background in Subterranean Animism and Double Spoiler has a real-world picture of a cat on it. One reason ZUN might have included this in the background could be because of the wild cats that have colonized the abandoned city of Pripyat'. Pripyat' was in close proximity to Chernobyl, and after the catastrophe there the population was evacuated. Recent excursions back into the ghost town lead to the discovery of a small community of irradiated wild cats that live comfortably in the foundations of abandoned homes.

# Furthering the Chernobyl links, Utsuho could be a reference to the so-called Black Bird of Chernobyl not only because of her massive black wings, but also because the red eye in her chest, which was another trait of the Black Bird.

# The red eye is proof that Utsuho obtained the power of fusion by absorbing the three-legged crow (Yatagarasu) because the three-legged crow's eyes are red, according to Chapter Three of Cage in Lunatic Runagate.

# And this "eye" in the center of her chest looks similar to one of J.R.R. Tolkien's creations, the Eye of Sauron.

# On the Interview of Caramel vol.8, ZUN mentioned that he tried to keep her from being indecent during the design process by adding a cannon on her arm instead of having an additional leg, thus solving the analogy of the third leg of the Yatagarasu.

# Her right foot is supposed to be encased in concrete (representing the concrete sarcophagus that was built to contain the Chernobyl reactor), but is often depicted in fan art as a gray ruffled legwarmer or an armored greave. The electrons orbiting her other leg are also often omitted in fanart, and sometimes the control rod on her arm is too.

# A silhouette of Utsuho occupies the front of Subterranean Animism's jewel case.

# Her sprite animations in Touhou Hisoutensoku greatly resemble and are most likely a homage to Souther of Hokuto no Ken fame, even having a spellcard attack similar to Souther's Fatal K.O., Nanto Hō-ōh Ken Ougi: Tenshou Juuji Hou. Because of this fans sometimes call that spellcard Nanto Hō-Ōkuu Ken Ougi: Tenshou Juuji Hou.

# In Story of Eastern Wonderland's Stage 4, in the second part of the background, there was an orange-like shine that was shaped like the orb that Utsuho points to in her Subterranean Animism portrait.

It's not that I don't like short hair.

I mean, just look at my today's avy.

I just like long hair more.

I thought there was Yuuka when she was still in PC-98 with long hair.

How ?

Mmmm? How what?

You need to be more precise than that.

It's such a nice day today, is a pity stay at bed to sleep...
So i rested a bit on the grass
So warm =w=
My lazy sunday

Sorry, multitasking while playing Touhou, lol.

Don't you think she looks better ?



So poetic.
I am so jelly.
Here you go, http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hxrr7tYkCg4

How about spending your sunday by playing Touhou, lol ? It's not sunday anymore to me :(

Oh yes, she looks much better now.

Well, some characters look better with long hairs, though some don't.

Article#33 : Satori Komeiji , The Girl Even the Evil Spirits Fear

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古明地さとり（こめいじ　さとり）
[size=12]Satori Komeiji [/h]

Age : Unknown

Species : Satori

Personalities : Strong-hearted girl with gentle and caring attitude

Abilities : Power to read people's hearts/minds

Occupation : Master of the Palace of the Earth Spirits.

First Appearance : Subterranean Animism (Touhou 11.0)

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Satori is the Mistress of the Palace of the Earth Spirits after the underground city was separated from Hell. Her ability to read "minds" makes various youkai and spirits fearful of her, while leaving her well-loved by the animals that normally can't be understood. With these animals as pets, she manages the ruins of inferno where her home stands. During the events of the Subterranean Animism, the Heroine (from above ground) invaded her home. After an encounter, she permitted the Heroine passage towards the Hell of Blazing Fires to ask her pets about their supposed problem.

Bunbunmaru Trivia

# The characters for Komeiji literally mean "ancient and pure/bright earth". Satori isn't written in kanji, but it's pronounced the same as "satori" (æ‚Ÿ), which means "enlightenment, profound understanding", as well as the name of her youkai species.

# With the exception of her first spell card, all of Satori's spell cards are based on, if not directly stolen from, those of the player's partner.

# Because of how her hands are coming out of her sleeves only at her waist in her portrait, some fans believe that Satori has really short arms, and often draw her with such.

# A common nickname for Satori is 「さとりん」 or "Satorin," similar to how Yukari is called "Yukarin."

# Since her ability enables her to read minds, and due to the similarity of her "third eye" badge to Backbeard of "You damned dirty lolicon!" fame, a growing joke among fan artists depicts Satori as cognizant of (and disgusted by) lolicon.

# Similarly, it has become common in fan art to break down the kanji of Satori (悟) into its component radicals (小五口) and add the katakana り, spelling out "shougorori", read as "fifth-grade elementary student loli". Her apparently small stature in her portrait seems to add to this. It is thus not uncommon to see her depicted wearing a Japanese elementary-schooler's book satchel on her back.

# Satori and Koishi's design may have been inspired by the 1939 painting by Kahlo titled "The Two Fridas". The subject is essentially two identical women (sisters/clones/twins...) with visible hearts and external arteries that seem to connect and wrap around their shoulders and arms.

# Satori is currently the only Touhou Windows character that appears before her subordinate is introduced.

# Western Touhou fans have noticed a similarity between Satori's design and an image making fun of ZUN's drawing style. It is unknown if this is a coincidence or if ZUN is aware of the image.

# If her and Koishi's color schemes are inverted, they will both somewhat resemble each other.

# At seventy-six cards total, Satori has more spell cards in a single title than any character in the series (one spell card of her own, plus three cards from the player's partner, across four difficulties). The only character who comes close is Kaguya Houraisan, with forty cards total.

# Satori's third eye is frequently portrayed in fan works as if it has a mind of its own, reflected by expressions that do not match Komeiji's facial expressions and body language.

Yeah, it's sitting on my hard-drive.

Article#34 : Koishi Komeiji, The Closed Eyes of Love

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古明地こいし（こめいじ　こいし）
[size=12]Koishi Komeiji [/h]

Age : Unknown

Species : Satori

Personalities : Carefree, and childish (self-centered and so on)

Abilities : Manipulation of the subconscious

Occupation : Unknown, it is said that she is wandering aimlessly

First Appearance : Subterranean Animism (Touhou 11.0)

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She is Satori Komeiji's younger sister. She wanted to avoid the hate and dislike which Satori experienced due to her mindreading abilities, so she sealed away her own Third Eye. This backfired, since she gained the ability to read and manipulate people's subconscious, an even greater ability. However, she also became much more carefree as a result, and didn't mind as much.

She now spends much of her time wandering the world aimlessly. After her encounter with the heroine in Subterranean Animism's Extra Stage, however, she became curious, and wanted to start actually meeting people.

Personal Story

Bunbunmaru Trivia

# The characters for Komeiji literally mean "ancient and pure/bright earth". Koishi is not written in Kanji, but it's supposed to mean "love" or "beloved".

# In Koishi's profile, it is said that she met a human at the shrine at the top of the mountain who made her regret closing her third eye and want to learn more about this human. Though it may seem like this was talking about Sanae, once put in to context by the extra stage of Subterranean Animism, it is clear that the human it was talking about is either Reimu or Marisa.

# Koishi's musical theme, Hartmann's Youkai Girl, may refer to Eduard von Hartmann (whose most famous work is entitled The Philosophy of the Unconscious) or Heinz Hartmann (as many of Koishi's spellcards seem to make references to ego psychology.) The track itself is also arranged so that it has symmetrical parts, making it sound remarkably similar to itself even when played reversed, possibly as a reference to the practice of backmasking.

# Satori and Koishi's design may have been inspired by the 1939 painting by Kahlo titled "The Two Fridas". The subject is essentially two identical women (sisters/clones/twins...) with visible hearts and external arteries that seem to connect and wrap around their shoulders and arms, where one of them has a cut artery and a pair of scissors in hands (Resembling Koishi, who has closed her third eye).

# Koishi is occasionally drawn with some sort of connection to Flandre Scarlet, since both are extra-bosses who are the younger sisters of the owner of a mansion from the same game.

# Since many aspects of Koishi are references to psychology, there's a running joke that her "Embers of Love" spellcard is a reference to the phallic obsession of Freudian psychology. For those that do not get the hint, look closely at the shape of the bullets. Of course if you think that, maybe Freud was right.
If her's and Satori's color schemes are inverted, they will both somewhat resemble each other.

# Satori's design can also be referenced to all the bosses in Ibara, as both Koishi and the Rose sisters have white hair and has a lot of reference to roses (although roses in Ibara are point items instead of bullets)

nice =w=
i was listening to this while i was rest


and nice thoughts came across my mind

Sunday is beautiful because there is one a week