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Since the characters from EOSD and later are
much more popular than those from 1-5 I will cover those characters in later videos.
Also as this is the first game in the windows series
I will introduce the windows version of Reimu and Marisa here.
Hakurei Reimu has been a playable character in almost every touhou
games since touhou 1,
in fact she is the default character so it is generally assumed
that the canon endings to the games are the ones where
Reimu resolves the incidents. She is a human and she has the ability to fly.
She is the current hakurei miko and this allows her to control the yin yang orbs.
She has amazing intuition and uses this to find the culprits behind
incidents.
She has a straightforward, lazy
and carefree personality but she still fulfills her duty to resolve incidents.
As a result she is acquainted with many youkai.
Because she is so friendly with youkai
and she rarely visits the human village her shrine has the reputation of being
a youkai shrine. Because of this reputation and the fact that
the path to the shrine is dangerous humans rarely visit
and she doesn't receive many donations. She uses yin yang orbs,
homing amulets, persuasion needles and a gohei as weapons.
In the fandom there are a lot of jokes revolving around her abject poverty
and her schemes to make money. Her outfit exposes her armpits
and there are many jokes about this.
Kirisame Marisa has been a playable character in almost every touhou game since touhou 3.
Marisa is a human magician so she spends a lot of her time studying magic.
she has a very straightforward and casual personality
and is good friends with reimu. Her personality shows in her magic which tends to be based
on immense firepower
or more simple patterns. She is a habitual liar
and a kleptomaniac. She lives in a house in the forest of magic
this is technically a magic shop but since no one actually comes here
it is basically just a storage room for all the stuff she steals.
She likes to go out and resolve incidents so she knows a lot of youkai.
She uses a giant laser attack called master spark
this is her signature move. Marisa uses stars and lasers in most of her attacks.
She also fly's around on a broom though she doesn't need it.
She uses a magic catalyst device called the mini-hakkero
this device was made by Rinnousuke. In the fandom
Marisa's kleptomania is legendary and is the basis for many stories and images.
Many fans also portray Alice or Patchouli
as being in love with Marisa.Now I will start with the characters introduced in
Touhou 6
Embodiment of the scarlet devil.
Rumia is a youkai. She has the ability to manipulate darkness.
She is a human eating youkai despite looking and acting like a small girl.
She is not very intelligent or powerful which is shown by the fact that she often
flies into trees when she surrounds herself with darkness
You can easily trick her into not eating you if you ever encounter her.
. She doesn't have any known residence.
In the fandom she is part of the team nine
which is fan created association of idiots consisting of rumia,
wriggle, cirno and mystia. Daiyousei and chen are also occasionally included in team nine.
She also uses the phrase "so nano ka"
which is a childish way to say "Is that so?" in Japanese.
Daiyousei is a fairy. She doesn't have an official name so everyone
just calls her daiyousei
which means great fairy. She lives somewhere near misty lake.
In the fandom she is often depicted as either
a close friend or an unrequited lover of cirno.
Cirno (Shear-no) which is how I choose to pronounce her name, is a fairy with the ability
to manipulate ice and cold.
Her attacks are all ice based and for a fairy she is actually quite strong
but she is still not very smart.
She is arrogant and confident. She lives near the misty lake and
likes to freeze frogs in her spare time. She was the only playable character in
touhou 12.8 Great fairy wars.
In the fandom her symbol is the ⑨.
This came from the manual to touhou 9 where she is labeled as 9 and
the description says idiot in
Japanese of course. She uses atai which is
a childish way to say I or me this is usually translated as you see on this shirt.
Hong Meiling is a youkai.
She is a guard for the scarlet devil mansion and is very skilled in martial arts.
Meiling has the ability to manipulate Qi (chi). She also manages a garden in the
mansion.
In the fandom she has a reputation among fans
for sleeping on the job which often results in her getting stabbed by sakuya's knives.
Her nickname is china because this is what most people called her for a while
after the games to release due to her being Chinese
and her name being difficult to pronounce. Koakuma
doesn't have an actual name so Koakuma
meaning little devil is just a name given to her by the fans
She is a demon technically an akuma
and she is believed to be a servant to patchouli. She probably lives in the
Scarlet Devil Mansion.
Patchouli Knowledge is a youkai magician with the ability to manipulate
the elements.
She lives in the library at the Scarlet Devil Mansion
She rarely leaves the mansion and is known to have asthma
and poor health. Marisa has stolen her books on several occasions.
In the fandom fans often portray her as being in love with marisa.
Her health problems and shut-in life style
are often exaggerated in fan works.
Izayoi sakuya is a human with the ability to manipulate time and space.
She is the chief maid of the scarlet devil mansion and
and serves the residents at the mansion she is very good at her job and
one of her titles is the perfect and elegant maid. She is basically responsible
for maintaining the Scarlet Devil Mansion
. In the fandom she is occasionally portrayed by fans as having an obsession or
unhealthy love for Remilia or Flandre.
because of the way her character portrait changed across the games
many people say she wears breast pads. Though if yousay this to her
she will knife you. There is speculation among fans that she may be a
lunarian
or vampire hunter but her actual history is still unknown.
Remilia scarlet
is a vampire with the ability to manipulate feet she was responsible for
the events of touhou 6.
when she attempted to spread a red mist so she could comfortably walk
outside. She is the owner of the Scarlet Devil Mansion
and claims to be a descendant of Vlad Dracula but this is probably not true
Her weapon has a large spear named Gungnir.
She is charismatic despite her small size.
In the fandom whenever she loses her composure
this is referred to as a charisma break. Flandre scarlet is the younger sister
of Remilia.
She has the ability to destroy anything because of this she was locked in the
basement of the mansion
for 495 years I was released after the events of touhou 6.
She is mentally unstable and uses a weapon called leviathan.
She also has the ability to temporarily make up to three clones of herself
Iy fandom she is sometimes portrayed as being in love with Marissa
her theme U.N. Owen wa kanojo nano ka
is one of the most well-known songs in touhou.
However you may know it as
U.N. Owen was her? Now I will cover the characters introduced in Touhou 7
Perfect Cherry Blossom. Letty Whiterock
is a yuki onna which is a type of youkai associated with blizzards.
No one knows where she lives.
She can manipulate cold and is rarely seen when it isn't winter
because if this many fans speculate that she hibernates when it isn't winter.
Alice Margatroid was a human magician
who has over time become a youkai. She has the ability to control dolls and
and lives in a house near the forest at Magic. She is a doll maker and
performs shows with her dolls. She has two dolls
named shanghai and hourai. She also made a giant doll called
the goliath doll but it collapsed and was destroyed. Alice fights with her dolls
often equipping them with lances, shields or explosives.
She is portrayed by fans as being in love with Marisa
often in a very unhealthy way. Lily White
is a fairy with the ability to sense the coming of spring.
she is known to fly around announcing the coming of spring
often with the phrase haru desu yo (spring is here)
She often does this while firing thousands of bullets.
That, is all she really does, actually.
In touhou 9 we seen alternatively card version of her called Lily black
While she even appears in several official print works
the consensus is that lily black is just lily-white
in a different outfit. The prismriver sisters are almost always seen together
they are poltergeists created by Layla PrismRiver
Layla is now dead but they still "live"
in the ruined mansion. The prismriver sisters perform concerts both impromptu and
by request. Lunasa the oldest sister plays the violin
and her music causes melancholy.
Merlin the middle child plays the trumpet and her music causes mania.
Lyrica is the youngest she plays the keyboard
and is capable of producing unique ghostly notes.
Because of the unique abilities of their music it is not a good idea to
listen to them do solos.
however when they play together it is perfectly safe.
Konpaku Youmu is half human half phantom.
she works as a gardener guard for Hakugyoukuro.
She is a skilled swordsman and uses two swords.
The short sword is named Hakurouken and can cut through confusion.
The longsword roukanken can cut through ten ghosts in a single strike.
she uses her swords and her ghost half in combat.
She is diligent and honest but not very flexible.
Youmu has a grandfather named youki but he has passed away.
In the fandom Youmu is often treated as yuyuko's cook
and is the butt of yuyuko's jokes. Her ghost half is called myon by
western fans. Myon is a sound that youmu makes in fan material whenever
she is sad or embarrassed.
Saigyouji Yuyuko is a ghost and is the owner of Hakugyokuro..
she has the ability to manipulate both death and the dead.
she's acquainted with Yukari and while she acts aloof
she often knows more than she lets on.
she's responsible for managing the netherworld.
Yuyuko is often associated with butterflies and
many of her projectiles look like butterflies.
She is largely responsible for the events of touhou 7
when she had youmu collect "spring" so she could make the saigyouji ayakashi bloom.
While it is often exaggerated by fans she does really like food.
In the fandom she is part of the fan made old maids alliance
along with Yukari, Byakuren, Kanako
Eirin and sometimes Yuuka.
Chen is a bakeneko which is a type of cat youkai.
She is Ran's shikigami. Shikgami are like familiar spirits in that they follow orders and
receive power from their master.
Yakumo Ran is a kitsune or technically a fox youkai.
She is yukari's shikigami. Many of her attacks incorporate Chen.
Fans often portray her as being inordinately fond of Chen.
This is embodied by her having a massive nosebleed and screaming Chen's name
whenever Chen does something cute.
Yakumo Yukari is a youkai with the ability to control gaps or boundaries.
She is possibly the oldest and strongest youkai in gensokyo.
She maintains the hakurei barrier and does a lot of scheming.
She lives somewhere on the boundary of gensokyo along with Ran and Chen.
In the fandom she is considered to be a troll and is also seen as lazy.
She also tends to use her gaps to conveniently teleport around
to wherever she wants to be.
There was only one new character introduced in touhou 7.5
Immaterial and missing power.
Ibuki Suika is an oni with the ability to manipulate density.
With this ability she is able increase or decrease her size
she can also make people gather. She loves sake
and her gourd is able to produce an unlimited supply of it.
As an oni she has immense physical strength despite her small size.