so far i've created a few Touhou character clubs. i wanted to make a club about EVERY Touhou character, but there's just way too many. so here's a list of the characters who still need their own club (P.S. Flandre, Remilia, Yuyuko, Patchouli, Sakuya, Alice, Reimu, Marisa, Cirno and Suika are already taken)

Rika (里香?)

Species: Human
Theme Song: She's in a Temper!!

An engineer in Gensokyo that is the boss of stage 1 and the extra stage. She pilots the "Flower Tank" on stage one and "Evil Eye Sigma" on the extra stage. Unlike many other scrolling shooters where mechs are the primary enemy, Rika is the only character in the series to pilot vehicles in a boss fight.

Meira (明羅?)

Species: Human
Location: Forest of Magic
Theme Song: Power of Darkness

A female samurai who seeks the power of the Hakurei family. Stage 2 boss.

Also present:

Reimu Hakurei (playable character)
Marisa Kirisame (Stage 4 boss)
Mima (Final boss)

[edit] Phantasmagoria of Dim. Dream

Ellen (エレン Eren?)

Species: Witch
Ability: Inability to grow old
Theme Song: Tabula rasa ~ The Empty Girl

Ellen is a witch who is eternally young. In fact, she has lived so long she never remembers anything. Has a cat named Socrates. She is a cameo from the manga Hatarakimono by Izumi Takemoto, who ZUN is a fan of.

Kotohime (小兎姫?)

Species: Human
Theme Song: Maniacal Princess

A princess who claims to be a police officer. She does not act as befits her rank, and is known to be a collector in things where other people find no interest in.

Kana Anaberal (カナ・アナベラル Kana Anaberaru?)

Species: Poltergeist
Theme Song: Vanishing Dream ~ Lost Dream

A one-sided poltergeist created by a mentally unstable girl. As the inhabitants of her house have stopped taking any notice of her, she is looking for another place to haunt.

Rikako Asakura (朝倉 理香子 Asakura Rikako?)

Species: Human
Theme Song: Visionary Game ~ Dream War

One of the few believers in science in Gensokyo. However, she is also a considerably powerful magic user. Though she does not like magic much, science alone won't get her anywhere, so she mixes both. She may be the same as Rika from Touhou 2. She is the only meganekko in the PC-98 series, but not the only in the whole Touhou series.

Chiyuri Kitashirakawa (北白河 ちゆり Kitashirakawa Chiyuri?, alternate spelling Tiyuri Kitashirakawa)

Species: Human
Ability: Artificial Magic
Residence: Dream Ruins
Theme Song: Sailor of Time

Yumemi's assistant who acts overly familiar towards her. It seems their relationship is not simply boss/subordinate. Although she looks too young to be an assistant professor, it's because she earned her Ph.D. (in comparative physics) at the age of 15. Speaks rather strangely, especially for a young girl. Most of her mannerisms were later adopted by Marisa.

Yumemi Okazaki (岡崎 夢美 Okazaki Yumemi?)

Species: Human
Ability: Artificial Magic
Residence: Dream Ruins
Theme Song: Strawberry Crisis!!

Professor of comparative physics at an unnamed university in a world beyond Gensokyo. In this world, a grand unification theory has been developed; when Yumemi presented an expanded theory that included magic to her academic society, she was laughed at. She came to Gensokyo to do research and make her case infallible.

Ruukoto (るーこと Rūkoto?)

Species: Robot
Residence: Hakurei Shrine

A nuclear-powered maid Reimu requested in the ending of Phantasmagoria of Dim. Dream. She is the only non-controllable and non-fightable Touhou character to have appeared in an official Touhou game.

Also playable:

Reimu Hakurei
Mima
Marisa Kirisame

[edit] Lotus Land Story

Orange (オレンジ Orenji?)

Species: Yōkai
Location: Mountain Path
Theme Song: Decoration Battle

A very minor yōkai who happened to be in the wrong place at the wrong time. In the game, her name appears as two question marks, and "Orange" is only revealed in the character profiles of the game.

Kurumi (くるみ?)

Species: Vampire
Residence: Lake of blood
Theme Song: Scarlet Symphony ~ Scarlet Phoneme

Kurumi is a vampiress that lives on an island in the center of the lake of blood. She guards the lake and prevents others from passing by unhindered.

Elly (エリー Erī?, alternate spelling Elliy)

Species: Unknown
Residence: Mugenkan
Theme Song: Spirit Battle ~ Perdition crisis

Elliy is the gate guard of Mugenkan. Though seemingly powerful, the mansion rarely has any visitors, and thus she is out of practice as far as danmaku is concerned.

Yuuka (幽香 Yūka?, alternate spelling Yuka)

Species: Yōkai
Residence: Mugenkan
Theme Song: Sleeping Terror, Faint Dream ~ Inanimate Dream, Lovely Mound of Cherry Blossoms ~ Flower of Japan~ (Seihou: Kioh Gyoku)

Yuka is a powerful yōkai who lives in a mansion, Mugenkan, on the boundary between the dream world and the real world. In Lotus Land Story, an unknown act of hers radiated magical power across the worlds, sending the evil spirits in Reimu's shrine into a frenzy and attracting Marisa's notice and curiosity. She is often seen carrying a parasol, which is capable of firing the "Kyokutai Laser". This laser is later adopted by Marisa as her signature "Master Spark". She later appears in Seihou: Kioh Gyoku as an unlockable character.

For her later appearance in Phantasmagoria of Flower View, see Yuka Kazami.

Mugetsu (夢月 Mugetsu?, alternate spelling Mugetu)

Species: Demon
Theme Song: Illusion of a Maid ~ Icemilk Magic

A human-looking, blonde-haired girl in a maid uniform. Younger sister of Gengetu. Although she is dressed like a servant, she tells the player characters that the area in which they fight is her world; it doesn't seem she works for Yuka or anybody else.

Gengetsu (幻月 Gengetsu?, alternate spelling Gengetu)

Species: Demon
Theme Song: Cute Devil ~ Innocence

A blonde girl in pink with red bows and white, insect-like wings. Older sister of Mugetu. Seems to be the stronger of the two.

Also present:

Reimu Hakurei (playable character, Stage 4 boss A)
Marisa Kirisame (playable character, Stage 4 boss B)

[edit] Mystic Square

Sara (サラ?)

Species: Yōkai
Residence: A mountain cave that holds a doorway to Makai
Theme Song: Magic Formation ~ Magic Square

The gatekeeper of Makai, but she was easily downed. Her name comes from the Sara from Izumi Takemoto's short manga Crystal Egg.[1]

Louise (ルイズ Ruizu?, alternate spelling Luize)

Species: Demon
Residence: Makai
Theme Song: Spiritual Heaven

A resident of Makai, she attacks the main characters as they are invading. Her name comes from the character in Izumi Takemoto's short manga Downtown Stories: Rooftop Serenade.[1]

Alice (アリス Arisu?)

Species: Unknown (Human or Magician)
Ability: Magic
Residence: Pandæmonium
Theme Song: Plastic Mind, the Grimoire of Alice

A girl whose powers come from the forbidden "Grimoire of Alice" and is quite powerless without it. She first appears in stage 3, trying to stop the protagonists but fails eventually, she then returns in the extra stage. She is a reference to the Alices of Shin Megami Tensei, Asura Blade: Sword of Dynasty, and Alice in Wonderland.[1]

For her later appearances in the Windows games, see Alice Margatroid.

Yuki (ユキ?)

Species: Magician
Residence: Makai
Theme Song: Crimson Maiden ~ Crimson Dead!!

A black witch who appears with Mai on the fourth stage, and is angered when Mai is defeated before she is. Specializes in fire magic.

Mai (マイ?)

Species: Magician
Residence: Makai
Theme Song: Treacherous Maiden ~ Judas Kiss

A white witch who appears with Yuki on the fourth stage, and fights more seriously when Yuki is defeated before her. Specializes in ice magic.

Yumeko (夢子?)

Species: Yōkai
Residence: Pandæmonium
Theme Song: Doll of Misery

A sword-throwing maid who serves Shinki, she is ranked in the top class in the Makai.

Shinki (神綺?)

Species: Yōkai
Residence: Pandæmonium
Theme Song:
Legendary Illusion ~ Infinite Being (Mystic Square)
An Ordeal From God (Magus in Mystic Geometries)

The creator of Makai. Because she is the maker of everything in Makai, the residents of Makai see her as God. As the final boss, she personally rains the punishment on the four intruders of Makai.

Also present:

Reimu Hakurei (playable character)
Marisa Kirisame (playable character)
Mima (playable character)
Yuka (playable character)

[edit] The Embodiment of Scarlet Devil

Rumia (ルーミア Rūmia?)

Species: Yōkai
Ability: Manipulation of darkness
Residence: Unknown
Theme Song: Apparitions Stalk the Night
Title: Yōkai of the Dusk

Boss of Stage 1. A minor yōkai who has the physical appearance of a young girl with blond hair and red eyes. She doesn't have a significant impact on the story. She merely gets in the players' way as they travel to the Scarlet Devil Mansion. Her ability is to create a sphere of night around her, but as it impedes her own vision significantly, it is not useful in combat. She usually spends her days fluttering around aimlessly. Fans speculate that her hair ribbon, an amulet which she can't touch, seals her true power.

Daiyousei (大妖精 Daiyōsei?)

Species: Fairy
Ability: N/A
Residence: Misty Lake

Stage 2 mid-boss. An almost inconsequential character who received no character profile in the game; fans named her Daiyousei (lit. "Big Fairy"). ZUN later attributed her as bright, playful, and full of expressions. Sometimes appears in dōjinshi with Cirno.[2]

Cirno (チルノ Chiruno?)

Species: Ice fairy
Ability: Manipulation of chills
Residence: Misty Lake
Theme Song:
Tomboyish Beloved Daughter
The Adventures of the Tomboyish Beloved Daughter (PoFV)
Title: Ice Fairy of the Lake

Stage 2 boss, and a playable in Touhou 12.3, and Fairy Wars. An ice fairy that lives on the lake surrounding the Scarlet Devil Mansion. Although she is weak from the players' perspective, she is one of the strongest of her kind in Gensokyo. However, she is not very bright, and is a joke character second only to Meirin. Her hobby is freezing frogs and watching them revive as they thaw, but she tends to shatter them instead by accident. Unlike Letty Whiterock, she radiates cold air year-round, and can stay awake even in spring and summer.

She is often called "⑨" (pronounced "nineball") by fans, and the character "⑨" is regarded as a symbol of "Baka" (Stupid), since ZUN labeled her as such in the manual of Phantasmagoria of Flower View.

Hong Meirin (紅 美鈴 Hon Meirin?, alternate spelling Hoan Meiling, Hong Meiling)

Species: Yōkai
Ability: Manipulation of qi
Residence: Scarlet Devil Mansion
Theme Song: Shanghai Alice of Year 17 of Meiji
Title: Chinese Girl

Stage 3 boss. A Chinese girl serving as the door guard of the Scarlet Devil Mansion. Canonically, she is known to be a very humanoid yōkai who practices martial arts, but is generally friendly towards humans. However, as Japanese fans find it hard to remember her name and it was initially unclear whether the kanji should be read as Japanese or Chinese, she is often referred to just as "Chūgoku" (meaning China) and became a very popular joke character. In dōjinshi, she is usually portrayed as a rather pitiful character, abused by the other residents of the Scarlet Devil Mansion. In terms of popularity, though, she defeated all characters from TH6-8 to win the second Touhou Saimoe popularity contest, and was added as a playable character in a patch for Immaterial and Missing Power, despite not having a story of her own. Recurring jokes with Hong Meirin in dōjinshi usually involve her being stabbed with Sakuya's knives, usually due to Meirin's clumsiness or inability to keep unwanted visitors, such as Marisa, out of the mansion. However, Sakuya does care for Meirin's well-being, as demonstrated in Eastern and Little Nature Deity / Strange and Bright Nature Deity. In Touhou 12.3, she is reintroduced as a playable character, this time with her own storyline.

Koakuma (小悪魔?)

Species: Devil
Ability: N/A
Residence: Scarlet Devil Mansion

Stage 4 mid-boss. Similar to Daiyousei, she received no character profile in the game and was named Koakuma (lit. "Little Devil") by fans. However, she is quite popular considering her status, more so than some of the lesser liked stage bosses. ZUN later described her to be like Daiyousei — whimsical, enjoys pranks, and doesn't think before doing. He also added that while devils are powerful as vampires and magicians, Koakuma is a rather weak one, therefore, she is a Koakuma (Little Devil).[2]

Patchouli Knowledge (パチュリー・ノーレッジ Pachurī Nōrejji?)

Species: Witch
Ability: Magic, especially elemental magic.
Residence: Scarlet Devil Mansion
Theme Song: Locked Girl ~ The Girl's Secret Room
Title: The Girl of Knowledge and Shadow

Stage 4 boss, and a playable character in Immaterial and Missing Power, and Scarlet Weather Rhapsody. A scholar who is a friend of Remilia Scarlet's. She resides in the library of the Scarlet Devil Mansion, and is the de facto librarian. In fact, she rarely leaves it and is somewhat of a hikikomori. She has command over the seven elements (which the Japanese days of the week are named after, making her the "One-week Wizard") and is in theory an extremely powerful magician. However, her constitution is very poor and asthma often prevents her from reciting her spells. She has a tenuous relationship with Marisa, who tends to carry off her books without asking.

Sakuya Izayoi (十六夜 咲夜 Izayoi Sakuya?)

Species: Human
Ability: Manipulation of time
Residence: Scarlet Devil Mansion
Theme Song:
Lunar Clock ~ Luna Dial
Flowering Night (PoFV)
Title: Maid of the Scarlet Devil Mansion

Stage 5 boss, and a playable character in Touhou games 7-9, 10.5 and 12.3. Sakuya is the only human living in the Scarlet Devil Mansion, yet she is also the head maid. The official fanbook suggests she had been a vampire hunter before she began working in the mansion, but she was defeated by Remilia Scarlet who pitied her and gave Sakuya her current name. Though she looks about sixteen like the other girls, Sakuya has the ability to slow, stop and possibly reverse time. She seems to have been serving Remilia for a long time and may be far older than she looks. Socially, she interacts mainly with the others in the Scarlet Devil Mansion. She uses her time abilities using a pocketwatch, named the Lunar/Luna Clock.

Her talents are cooking, knife throwing and time manipulation. The latter two abilities characterize her appearances in-game, and led to frequent parodies in reference to Dio Brando of JoJo's Bizarre Adventure, who also controls time and throws knives. This reference goes so far as Sakuya using some of his poses in a game. She is often associated with dogs by other characters because she is serving as a demon's "faithful guard dog" even though she is a full blood human. Due to the inconsistent artwork depicting her bust between games, dōjinshi often make fun of her by indicating that she pads her breasts.

Her name "Sakuya" literally means "Flowering Night", the same as her background music theme in Touhou 9 and later appearances.

Remilia Scarlet (レミリア・スカーレット Remiria Sukāretto?)

Species: Vampire
Ability: Manipulation of fate
Residence: Scarlet Devil Mansion
Theme Song: Septette for the Dead Princess/Queen
Title: Eternally Young Scarlet Moon

Final boss, and a playable character in Touhou 7.5, 8, 10.5 and 12.3. Remilia is the vampiric mistress of the Scarlet Devil Mansion who claims to be descended from Vlad III Dracula although she is not. She is known as the Scarlet Devil as when she feeds, the blood of her victims stains her dress red. Apart from her unpleasant needs, she is hardly malicious enough to deserve such a title; merely childish, even though she is over five hundred years old. Although being a vampire is normally a lonely life, she has a good relationship with her many employees (including Sakuya and Meirin). Reimu is one of the few humans who tolerates her, and Remilia seems quite fond of her in turn. Marisa also gets along with her in exchange for access to her library. Her power is the control of fate (which has never been overtly demonstrated in the games). She prefers melee fighting to danmaku, but when she does resort to the latter, she is fond of red round bullets and knives.

Flandre Scarlet[3] (フランドール・スカーレット Furandōru Sukāretto?, alternate spelling Frandre Scarlet,[4] Frandle Scarlet)

Species: Vampire
Ability: Destruction of any and everything
Residence: Scarlet Devil Mansion
Theme Song: U.N. Owen Was Her?
Title: The Devil's Little Sister

Extra stage boss. Remilia's little sister, sealed away in the basement of the mansion for 495 years because of her destructive power. Despite this, she likes her sister and doesn't usually try to escape. Most vampires hold back somewhat when fighting humans, as they plan to keep them alive and feed from them later, but Flandre was always fed prepared dishes and does not know her food comes from humans. Thus, when fighting them, she does not hesitate and incinerates them without a second thought. In dōjinshi, she is very fond of Marisa and is often portrayed as somewhat crazy for being locked up for so long.

Her theme music, "U.N. Owen Was Her?", is a popular Internet meme and has inspired hundreds of remixes, most notably a video which has Ronald McDonald sing the song using clips from Japanese McDonald's commercials.[citation needed]

Rin Satsuki (冴月 麟 Satsuki Rin?)

Species: Kirin
Ability: N/A
Residence: N/A

An unused character removed from the game before release, her name was found in the code, next to the other playable characters. A circle cut for The Embodiment of Scarlet Devil shows an unknown character, and sprites for the same character was found in the code; fans generally consider this to be what Rin Satsuki looks like. Her attack types, as found in the code, are Flower Sign and Wind Sign, and she holds an erhu in the circle cut. It is unsure whether she was supposed to be a playable character, or a stage boss/midboss.

Also present:

Reimu Hakurei (playable character)
Marisa Kirisame (playable character)

[edit] Perfect Cherry Blossom

Letty Whiterock (レティ・ホワイトロック Reti Howaitorokku?)

Species: Yuki-onna
Ability: Manipulation of the cold
Theme Song: Crystallized Silver
Title: What Winter Left Behind

Stage 1 boss. A yōkai who only appears during winter. In her own words, spring is for hibernation, summer is for sleeping, and autumn is for napping, thus winter is her only time for activity. She enjoys herself in the extended winter, and thus gets in the protagonists' way as they seek to end it; however, she seems to accept the fact that winter must end someday, and doesn't attack them seriously. In fanworks, she is considered fat, referred to as having a "wide hitbox".

Chen (橙?)

Species: Shikigami (Nekomata)
Ability: Sorcery
Residence: Mayohiga
Theme Song: Diao ye zong(withered leaf)
Title: Black Cat of Bad Omens

Stage 2 boss and extra stage midboss. She is a nekomata who was made Ran's shikigami, which makes her a shikigami of a shikigami. She is able to summon powerful oni, but her powers are somewhat limited because of her secondary status. As a cat, she is afraid of the water and cuddles in a kotatsu during winter. She is often depicted as a childish catgirl.

Alice Margatroid (アリス・マーガトロイド Arisu Māgatoroido?)

Species: Magician
Ability: Magic, especially puppetry
Residence: Forest of Magic
Theme Song: Doll Judgement ~ The Girl who Plays with Peoples' Shapes
Title: The Seven-Colored Puppeteer

Returning from Mystic Square, Alice is the first PC-98 character (besides the main characters) to make an appearance in the Windows games. She now lives in the Forest of Magic. She is superficially similar to Marisa; they live alone nearby one another, are both magicians, and both of them love to collect things. Alice, however, is quite different in personality. She is aloof, rarely caring much about others and often attacking them for her own amusement. However, Immaterial and Missing Power states that she is actually a coward at heart, which made her into the most abused character in dōjin; there she is a fragile and oversensitive girl who desperately seeks Marisa's affection, nearly the inverse of her in-game character.

Though she still carries the grimoire around, Alice now manipulates dolls to create her danmaku, and is perhaps the most skilled puppeteer in Gensokyo. Of special note are her "Eerily Luminous Shanghai Dolls", which are the most prominently featured type of doll within the games and derivative fanworks, usually referred to as a single doll named Shanghai, rather than just one of the many other varieties of dolls used by Alice (such as Foggy London Dolls, Red-Haired Dutch Dolls, Hanged Hourai Dolls, etc.). In the official fanbook Perfect Memento of Strict Sense, it is stated that Alice was originally a human who became a magician through training. However, this seems to contradict her background from Mystic Square.

Lily White (リリーホワイト Rirī Howaito?, alternate spelling Lilywhite)

Species: Fairy
Ability: Reporting spring's approach.
Title: Fairy Herald of Spring

A fairy that heralds the arrival of spring. However, since she expresses herself with danmaku rather than words, her announcement is usually seen as a hostile attack. She is the first midboss to receive an official character profile. In the "Muenzuka" stage of Phantasmasgoria of Flower View, a black version of Lily White shows up instead of the normal version. Fans have named her Lily Black, and gave her a darker character as opposed to the cheerful Lily White.

Prismriver Sisters (プリズムリバー三姉妹 Purizumuribā San-shimai?)

Species: Poltergeists
Ability: Playing musical instruments without physical contact
Residence: Poltergeist Mansion
Theme Song: Ghostly Band ~ Phantom Ensemble (also played in PoFV)
Title: Three Poltergeist Sisters

Bosses of stage 4. They are poltergeists in the shape of three sisters. They were originally daughters of a human noble, but an unfortunate event caused his four daughters to separate. The fourth daughter, Layla Prismriver, was unable to leave the mansion that held so many of her memories. Using her power, she conjured poltergeists with the appearance of her older sisters, then slowly became forgotten along with the mansion and the poltergeists. Even though the humans died with the passage of time, the poltergeists continue their noisy lives in that mansion to this day. The three Prismriver Sisters, now musical performers of some note, were employed by Yuyuko Saigyouji to provide entertainment for the upcoming flower-viewing. The protagonists encounter them at the gate to the netherworld.

Lunasa Prismriver (ルナサ・プリズムリバー Runasa Purizumuribā?)

Ability: Playing notes of melancholy

The eldest of the Prismriver Sisters. She plays the violin and prefers solo performances. Honest to a fault, she is perhaps the most well-adjusted of the sisters. The player fights her first if the player is playing as Reimu.

Merlin Prismriver (メルラン・プリズムリバー Meruran Purizumuribā?, alternate spelling Marlin Prismriver)

Ability: Playing notes of excitement

The middle child of the Prismriver Sisters. She plays the trumpet. Her magic is the strongest of the three sisters, but her technique is not very good. Despite this, she is cheerful and tends to obsess over things. The player fight her first if the player is playing as Sakuya.

Lyrica Prismriver (リリカ・プリズムリバー Ririka Purizumuribā?)

Ability: Playing notes of fantasia

The youngest of the poltergeist Prismriver Sisters. Although skilled with all instruments, she prefers keyboard and percussion. She is clever and manipulative, usually goading her older sisters into doing her fighting rather than engaging in battle herself. The player fights her first if the player is playing as Marisa.

Youmu Konpaku (魂魄 妖夢 Konpaku Yōmu?, alternate spelling Youmu Kompaku)

Species: Half-human half-phantom
Ability: Swordfighting
Residence: Hakugyokurō
Theme Song: Hiroari Shoots a Strange Bird ~ Till When?
Title: Ghostly Gardener

Stage 5 boss and stage 6 midboss, in addition, she is a playable character in Touhou 7.5-9, 10.5, 12.3 and 13 as well. Youmu is the gardener of the netherworld pagoda, Hakugyokurō. She comes from a very rare breed, the half-phantoms; in this strange combination, the human half and phantom half exist in physically separate bodies, but are always close by one another. Youmu is very young for a half-phantom, under 60 years; her exact age is unknown. While straightforward, focused and loyal to her mistress, Yuyuko, Youmu is still rather immature, and tends to be a target for teasing by the other girls of Gensokyo (particularly her mistress Yuyuko). Paradoxically, she is afraid of ghosts (the imaginary sort). Her talents are swordfighting and speed. In the games, she is characterized by creating powerful danmaku with her sword slashes, and slowing time (this is not due to magic as one might expect, but because of time slowing around her body as she goes past at unimaginable speeds).

Yuyuko Saigyouji (西行寺 幽々子 Saigyōji Yuyuko?, alternate spelling Yuyuko Saigyouzi)

Species: Ghost
Ability: Invoke death
Residence: Hakugyokurō
Theme Song: Bloom nobly, cherry blossoms of Sumizome ~ Border of Life, Ghost Lead
Title: Ghostly Girl in the Netherworld Tower

Final stage boss, also a playable character in Touhou 7.5, 8, 10.5 and 12.3 and Stage 1 boss of Ten Desires. Yuyuko is the princess of the netherworld pagoda, Hakugyokurō. She is a ghost, but unlike most of her kind, looks entirely human. She was a human, cursed with the power to bring death to others; this ability caused her to eventually commit suicide using her life to seal away an ancient evil residing in a youkai cherry blossom tree. Living in the netherworld, she doesn't socialize much with the rest of Gensokyo. Her only friend from outside is Yukari. Her family name Saigyouji suggests relations with the famed poet Saigyo. Yuyuko, at first appearance, is a ditz; her mental processes seem to be dedicated mainly to teasing her gardener and servant, Youmu, and anticipating her next meal. However, her usual manner conceals a sharp mind and an almost prenatural depth of insight. For instance, she was the only one to perceive what sort of being Huziwara no Mokou was at first sight. Yuyuko has the power to invoke death in any mortal; however, she uses it rarely and with discretion. Her danmaku are characterized by butterfly-shaped bullets.

Ran Yakumo (八雲 藍 Yakumo Ran?)

Species: Shikigami (Kitsune)
Ability: Control shikigami
Residence: The boundaries of Gensokyo
Theme Song: A Maiden's Illusionary Funeral ~ Necro-Fantasy
Title: Shikigami of the Sukima Youkai

Extra stage boss and Phantasm stage midboss. A nine-tailed fox yōkai whom Yukari Yakumo made her shikigami. She is considerably powerful even without her master's support; among other things, she uses this power to maintain her own shikigami, Chen. Since Yukari sleeps twelve hours a day, she handles the work during these times. In dōjinshi, she is often depicted as a harassed servant, doing all the work for her lazy master.

Yukari Yakumo (八雲 紫 Yakumo Yukari?)

Species: Yōkai
Ability: Manipulation of boundaries
Residence: The boundaries of Gensokyo
Theme Song:
Necrofantasia
Night Falls ~ Evening Star
Title: Mastermind behind the Spiriting Away

Phantasm stage boss, and playable in Touhou 7.5, 8, 10.5 and 12.3. Yukari is an elder yōkai who dwells on the border of Gensokyo, and may predate the existence of the realm itself. A good friend of Yuyuko's and an acquaintance of Reimu's. She is the self-appointed stewardess of the seal between Gensokyo and the outside world, but doesn't do a particularly good job of it. Most of the time, she is asleep, leaving all the work to her shikigami Ran and Ran's shikigami Chen. When she isn't, she tends to amuse herself by pulling in unprepared humans from the outside world and stranding them in Gensokyo. A very irresponsible yōkai. Her calculation and mathematical skills far exceeds that of Ran, being Ran's master. Her ability is the manipulation of boundaries, and this is in terms of the physical and metaphorical. And such boundaries distinguish her spell cards. Often, though, she just summons her shikigami and various others to create her danmaku for her.

Also present:

Reimu Hakurei (playable character)
Marisa Kirisame (playable character)
Sakuya Izayoi (playable character)
Cirno (Stage 1 midboss)

[edit] Immaterial and Missing Power

Suika Ibuki (伊吹 萃香 Ibuki Suika?)

Species: Oni
Ability: Manipulation of density
Residence: Unknown
Theme Song: Onigashima in the Fairyland ~ Missing Power

A girl who insists that she is an oni, even though Gensokyo supposedly doesn't have any. Suika and Yugi Hoshiguma were once part of the four devas of the mountains, long ago before the oni retreated underground. As an oni, she loves drinks, feasts, and competition. Despite her small size, she is strong in strength, speed, and mystic powers; she is also several hundred years old. Using her ability to control density, she can gather people to form a banquet, or she can scatter herself to become mist. In Immaterial and Missing Power, she made the residents of Gensokyo have feasts one night after another, intending to draw the joyous oni from hiding.
In Japanese, the pronunciation of her name is the same as watermelon, so this word becomes her common nickname.

Also playable:

Reimu Hakurei
Marisa Kirisame
Sakuya Izayoi
Youmu Konpaku
Alice Margatroid

    

Patchouli Knowledge
Remilia Scarlet
Yuyuko Saigyouji
Yukari Yakumo
Hong Meirin (version 1.10 onward)

[edit] Imperishable Night

Wriggle Nightbug (リグル・ナイトバグ Riguru Naitobagu?)

Species: Yōkai firefly
Ability: Manipulation of insects
Residence: Various thickets
Theme Song: Stirring an Autumn Moon ~ Mooned Insect

Stage 1 boss. Insects collect around her, and so she often can be seen in the middle of a swarm of insects. With her powers, she can manipulate the flickerings of fireflies with timed synchronicity, or summon swarms of poisonous insects to kill an enemy. Like insects, she is afraid of pesticides and the cold. In game she is seen wearing a cape and pant-like bloomers, which led fans to believe she was a boy. Also seen in fanworks with Yuka and other insect/flower characters.

Mystia Lorelei (ミスティア・ローレライ Misutia Rōrerai?)

Species: Night sparrow
Ability: Induce night blindness in humans or drive them berserk by singing
Residence: Road of Monsters
Theme Song: Deaf to all but the Song

Stage 2 boss and playable character in Touhou 9. A night sparrow that dwells on a road near a human village. She conceals herself by blinding travelers who walk along the road at night, then lures them astray, upon which they disappear without a trace. She is carefree, innocent and loves to sing- considering her nightly activities nothing more than a game. An incident in Imperishable Night in which she was apparently eaten by Yuyuko made her a popular joke character. However, she returned in Phantasmagoria of Flower View.

Keine Kamishirasawa (上白沢 慧音 Kamishirasawa Keine?)

Species: Were-hakutaku
Ability: In human form, can consume, or hide, history. In hakutaku form, can create and change history.
Residence: Human Village
Theme Song: Plain Asia

Stage 3 boss. Although half-human and half-beast, she appears perfectly human except during the full moon, when she grows horns. She was not born with therianthropy, and only became a were-hakutaku due to an unknown incident. She loves humans, and considers it her duty to protect the human village, by consuming the village's history to hide it when malicious yōkai pass by; her special ability. However, she is trigger-happy and sometimes mistakes ordinary travelers for such malicious yōkai. Keine opened a terakoya in the village and spends her time teaching children and compiling historical records. She seems to be good friends with Huziwara no Mokou. She has a very strong desire to protect humans, and is probably the safest person for anyone in Gensokyo to be around.

Tewi Inaba (因幡 てゐ Inaba Tei?, alternate spelling Tei Inaba)

Species: Yōkai rabbit
Ability: Bring fortune to humans
Residence: Eientei
Theme Song: Lord Usa's White Flag (PoFV)

Stage 5 midboss and playable character in Touhou 9. Based upon the "White Hare of Inaba" story of the Kojiki, she evolved into a yōkai from a rabbit due to her longevity. She is the leader of the earthly bunnies of the Eientei, despite her deceitful personality. She is also a lucky charm—humans who get lost in the forest can always depend on her fortune to find their way, though the humans often don't realize they could have used her fortune for greater things. On the scale of luckiness, hers is equivalent to a 40-leaf clover (compared with only a four-leaf clover).

Reisen Udongein Inaba (鈴仙・優曇華院・イナバ?)

Species: Moon rabbit
Ability: Manipulation of lunacy
Residence: Eientei
Theme Song: Lunatic Eyes ~ Invisible Full Moon

Stage 5 boss and playable character in Touhou 9, as well as 10.5 and 12.3. A moon rabbit, she came to Gensokyo about 30 years ago to escape a war between the Earth and the Moon. Since then, she has been an apprentice to Eirin, a pet to Kaguya, and a caretaker to Tewi. She has the power to drive people mad with her eyes — mainly in the form of hallucinations — as well as communicate telepathically with her kind. She also has control over waves of all kinds, such as light waves, brainwaves, electromagnetic waves, as well as sound waves, demonstrated during her story in Phantasmagoria of Flower View. "Udongein" and "Inaba" are both nicknames, the first given her by Eirin and the second Kaguya; the latter is what Kaguya calls all rabbits. Despite her power over insanity, Reisen is portrayed as one of the most level-headed and serious characters in the series.

Since her bullets look like suppositories, this makes her a minor joke character. Also according to a series of yonkoma comics approved by ZUN entitled Inaba of The Moon and Inaba of The Earth, despite the care she generally got, Reisen is often abused by her mistress Kaguya and teacher Eirin, mostly by knocking her out for a long time or subjecting her through 'punishment times'. She is also often the subject of many pranks made by Tewi.

Eirin Yagokoro (八意 永琳 Yagokoro Eirin?)

Species: Human (Lunarian)
Ability: Creation of any medicine, natural genius
Residence: Eientei
Theme Song: Gensokyo Millenium ~ History of the Moon

Boss of Final Stage A and midboss of Final Stage B. A genius pharmacist who once lived on the moon. Kaguya persuaded her to produce the forbidden Hourai Elixir—the elixir of life—and consumed it. They were found out, and Kaguya alone was punished and was sent to the Earth, a fact which Eirin always felt guilty about. Some time later, the moon court pardoned Kaguya's sins and summoned her back. Eirin and a handful of emissaries were sent to retrieve her, but Eirin found out that Kaguya didn't want to return to the moon. Acting out of her past guilt, Eirin betrayed and murdered all the other emissaries under the eyes of the earthlings who had fostered Kaguya. Eirin bribed the earthlings with the Hourai Elixir, in order to keep them silent, and went into hiding with Kaguya in Gensokyo. She is based on the Japanese goddess Omoikane.

Kaguya Houraisan (蓬萊山 輝夜 Hōraisan Kaguya?)

Species: Human (Lunarian)
Ability: Manipulation of eternity and temporality
Residence: Eientei
Theme Song: Flight of the Bamboo Cutter ~ Lunatic Princess

Final boss of Imperishable Night, Kaguya is actually the Princess Kaguya from The Tale of the Bamboo Cutter. A princess of the moon, after consuming the forbidden Hourai Elixir and becoming immortal, she was punished by being exiled to live on the Earth. Later, she was pardoned and ordered to return to the moon. However, she preferred her common life on Earth to that as a princess on the moon. Eirin helped her escape the emissaries, and the two went into hiding in Gensokyo. Recently, she has been selling Yagokoro medicine and hosting exhibitions showing various items from the moon. In dōjinshi and fanworks, she is often portrayed as a NEET or unemployed slacker who lays around Eientei all day.

Huziwara no Mokou (藤原 妹紅 Fujiwara no Mokō?, alternate spelling Fujiwara no Mokou)

Species: Human
Ability: Eternal youth and immortality; Manipulation of fire
Residence: Bamboo Forest of Lost
Theme Song: Reach for the Moon, Immortal Smoke

Extra Stage boss. Mokou was the daughter of a nobleman (assumed to be Fujiwara no Fuhito), one of Kaguya's suitors during her initial exile on Earth. When he was humiliated by Kaguya's impossible request, Mokou came to hate her. She wanted to take revenge, but Kaguya disappeared before she was able, so she consoled herself by stealing the Hourai Elixir that Eirin had bribed the other humans with, and drinking it to become immortal.

No longer able to fit into human society, she lived as a wanderer and eventually found her way to Gensokyo. There, she was amazed to find that Kaguya was also a fugitive. The two still detest each other, killing one another and reincarnating in a daily ritual. However, Mokou is ecstatic that her eternal enemy is a fugitive like her, and that one who can never die is not such an unspeakable abomination in Gensokyo (though she still leads a solitary life.) Indeed, she has found her paradise. Mokou is able to reincarnate indefinitely, even if her body is destroyed — though she still feels pain. She has control over the flames of the phoenix.

Also present:

Reimu Hakurei (playable character, stage 4 "Uncanny" boss)
Marisa Kirisame (playable character, stage 4 "Powerful" boss)
Sakuya Izayoi (playable character)
Youmu Konpaku (playable character)
Yukari Yakumo (playable character)
Alice Margatroid (playable character)
Remilia Scarlet (playable character)
Yuyuko Saigyouzi (playable character)

[edit] Phantasmagoria of Flower View
The characters of PoFV.
Left column:
Reimu, Sakuya, Reisen, Lyrica, Lunasa, Tei, Medicine, Komachi.
Right column:
Marisa, Youmu, Cirno, Marlin, Mystia, Aya, Yuka, Sikieiki.

Aya Syameimaru (射命丸 文 Shameimaru Aya?, alternate spelling Aya Shameimaru)

Species: Crow tengu
Ability: Manipulation of wind
Residence: Yōkai Mountain
Also known as: Traditional Genso Reporter
Theme:
Wind God Girl (There are two versions to this song. The version played in Phantasmagoria of Flower View is the short version. The full song is played in Shoot the Bullet)
Yokai Mountain ~ Mysterious Mountain (MoF, as well as Double Spoiler)

Playable character in Touhou 9, main character of Touhou 9.5 (the only one to be the sole main character of a Touhou game other than Reimu), main character of the fanbook Bohemian Archive in Japanese Red, stage 4 boss in Touhou 10, and playable character in Touhou 10.5, as well as 12.3. Aya is a reporter and photographer who runs Gensokyo's one-woman newspaper, the Bunbunmaru Shinbun. She has a serious character, at odds with her reporting; she loves rumors and her newspaper is filled with gossip about the girls of Gensokyo, sometimes on the verge of being a tabloid. To Reimu's irritation, however, she rejects the stories of a certain miko saving Gensokyo as unverifiable. Not one to show off, she rarely fights of her own volition, though she has contempt for those she thinks are weak. As a tengu, she has power over the wind and is the most skilled flier in all of Gensokyo. Her bullets are extremely fast compared to most.

Medicine Melancholy (メディスン・メランコリー Medisun Merankorī?, alternate spelling Medicin Melancory)

Species: Doll
Ability: Manipulation of poison
Residence: Nameless Hill
Also known as: Little Sweet Poison
Theme: Poison Body ~ Forsaken Doll

An abandoned doll who turned into a yōkai after years of exposure to the poisonous lily-of-the-valleys. She advocates for doll emancipation (despite the fact that she is the only one capable of free will) and dislikes humans because of their manipulation of dolls. For this, Sikieiki judged her to be "too narrow in outlook". Perhaps affected by this statement, she made friends with Eirin Yagokoro, though she still wishes for the liberation of dolls. Her name may originate from A Medicine for Melancholy by Ray Bradbury. In addition to her attacks, she also spews poisonous mists on the battlefield, slowing the player's movement when the player comes in contact with the mists.

Yuka Kazami (風見 幽香 Kazami Yūka?, alternate spelling Yuuka Kazami)

Species: Yōkai
Ability: Manipulation of flowers
Residence: Garden of the Sun
Also known as: Flower-master of the Four Seasons
Theme: Gensokyo, Past and Present ~ Flower Land

Returning from Lotus Land Story, she is the second PC-98 character to appear in the Windows Touhou games, after Alice Margatroid. She loves seasonal flowers, so throughout the year she moves to the respective places where the flowers grow. She has lived long enough to witness several major flower-blooming outbreaks, an event that only occurs once every sixty years, leading Sikieiki to comment that she "had lived a little too long". Similar to the PC-98 Yuka, she is the slowest playable character in the game. In her conversation with Tewi Inaba, it is said that her umbrella is the only flower in Gensokyo that never wilts.

Komachi Onozuka (小野塚 小町 Onozuka Komachi?, alternate spelling Komachi Onoduka)

Species: Shinigami
Ability: Manipulation of distance
Residence: Sanzu River
Also known as: Guide of the Sanzu River
Theme: Higan Retour ~ Riverside View

A shinigami who provides passage across the Sanzu River, Komachi has a role akin to that of Charon of Greek mythology. Despite her rather important job, she doesn't always take it seriously and ends up being scolded by her boss, Sikieiki Yamaxanadu. Her name is thought to have originated from the famed beauty Ono no Komachi. Her attacks come in the form of holed coins, in reference to the "price" one needs to pay to cross the Sanzu River. She re-appears as a playable character in Touhou 10.5 and 12.3.

Sikieiki Yamaxanadu (四季映姫・ヤマザナドゥ Shikieiki Yamazanadu?, alternate spelling Shikieiki Yamaxanadu)

Species: Yama
Ability: Judge clearly as black and white
Residence: Higan
Also known as: Highest Judge of Paradise
Theme: Touhou Judgement in the Sixtieth Year ~ Fate of Sixty Years

Final boss of the game, Sikieiki is one of the judges of the underworld. It is her job to judge the deceased and decide whether they get sent to Heaven or Hell, or somewhere else. As a part of her job, she can be rather moralistic and would go on and on on her lectures on morals. "Siki Eiki" is her real name; the "Yamaxanadu" part of her name is actually her title, a combination of her status as "Yama" and "Xanadu", the place she is in charge of. "Yama" means that she is a judge of the underworld, and "Xanadu" means paradise.

Also playable:

Reimu Hakurei
Marisa Kirisame
Sakuya Izayoi
Youmu Konpaku
Cirno
Lyrica Prismriver

    

Marlin Prismriver
Lunasa Prismriver
Mystia Lorelei
Tei Inaba
Reisen Udongein Inaba

Also present:

Lily White

[edit] Shoot the Bullet

Shoot the Bullet does not introduce any new characters.

Characters present:

Aya Shameimaru (playable character)
Rumia
Wriggle Nightbug
Cirno
Letty Whiterock
Alice Margatroid
Keine Kamishirasawa
Reisen Udongein Inaba
Medicine Melancholy
Tewi Inaba
Hong Meirin
Patchouli Knowledge
Chen

    

Youmu Konpaku
Sakuya Izayoi
Remilia Scarlet
Ran Yakumo
Yuyuko Saigyouji
Eirin Yagokoro
Kaguya Houraisan
Komachi Onozuka
Sikieiki Yamaxanadu
Flandre Scarlet
Yukari Yakumo
Huziwara no Mokou
Suika Ibuki

[edit] Mountain of Faith
Top row: Shizuha, Minoriko, Hina
Middle row: Nitori, Momizi, Aya
Bottom row: Sanae, Kanako, Suwako

Shizuha Aki (秋 静葉 Aki Shizuha?)

Species: God of red leaves
Ability: Manipulation of red leaves
Location: Foot of the Yōkai Mountain
Also known as: Symbol of Loneliness and Death

Stage 1 midboss. She and her younger sister Minoriko control the season of autumn together. Of the opinion that red leaves are the best part of autumn, she feels tremendously proud when showing the beauty of her leaves to Minoriko. Disappears when winter comes.

Minoriko Aki (秋 穣子 Aki Minoriko?)

Species: God of abundance
Ability: Manipulation of abundance
Location: Foot of the Yōkai Mountain
Also known as: Symbol of Wealth and Abundance
Theme: Because Princess Inada Will Scold Me

Stage 1 boss and the younger sister of Shizuha. As a harvest goddess, she is invited as a special guest to the harvest festival in the Human Village every year. If she isn't invited then a good harvest cannot be guaranteed for that year. The fragrance of the harvest is her perfume, and with it she feels superior to her elder sister . Like her sister, she disappears when winter comes.

Hina Kagiyama (鍵山 雛 Kagiyama Hina?)

Species: Curse god
Ability: Storing curses
Location: Yōkai Sea of Trees
Also known as: Nagashi-hina of the Hidden God
Theme: Dark Side of Fate

Stage 2 boss. Hina is the head of the Nagashihina army, where Nagashihina refers to the dolls being drifted down the river in a ritual to cast away one's sins and misfortunes. As such, Hina is surrounded by curses and those who encounter her will run into misfortune. Despite this, Hina has good intentions and does not wish to have misfortune befall humans again. She is often spinning and her attacks are characterized as spirals.

Nitori Kawashiro (河城 にとり Kawashiro Nitori?)

Species: Kappa
Ability: Manipulation of Water
Location: Untrodden Valley
Also known as: Super Youkai Warhead
Theme: Akutagawa Ryuunosuke's "Kappa" ~ Candid Friend

Stage 3 boss. An engineer with an interest in humans, she believes that the kappa and the humans were ancient allies. The kappa of the Touhou universe are described as a race with advanced technology, demonstrated when the shy Nitori uses optical camouflage to conceal herself from the humans. As an engineer, she likes to take things apart and reassemble them again, so her clothes are packed with tools for this purpose.

Momizi Inubashiri (犬走 椛 Inubashiri Momiji?, alternate spelling Momiji Inubashiri)

Species: White wolf tengu
Ability: Seeing great distances
Location: Waterfall of Nine Heavens
Also known as: Lowly Patrolling Tengu, Mountain's Telegnosis (Double Spoiler)

Stage 4 midboss. A loyal tengu who patrols the Yōkai Mountain and can see great distances. She attempts to scare intruders off with simple attacks before reporting them to her superiors. When not on duty, she plays dai shogi with the kappa who live nearby. During the events of Mountain of Faith, she failed to scare Reimu and Marisa away, so she was assigned under Aya Syameimaru to continue surveillance on the intruders. Her report led to the peaceful resolution of the tension between the tengu and the Moriya Shrine.

Sanae Kotiya (東風谷 早苗 Kochiya Sanae?, alternate spelling Sanae Kochiya)

Species: Human
Ability: Power to work miracles
Location: Moriya Shrine
Also known as: Deified Human of the Wind
Theme: Faith is for the Transient People

Stage 5 boss and priestess (miko) of the Moriya Shrine. Though she is human, she is Suwako's descendant and has the power to create miracles due to her divine blood. In the past, people began to worship her as a living god due to these miracles, despite the fact that she was the priestess of another god and most of the miracles were her god's. As the outside world changed, though, faith in both Sanae and her god Kanako declined and they chose to move their shrine to Gensokyo. Wanting to gather the faith of Gensokyo's residents, she threatened to close down the Hakurei Shrine, which resulted in a resounding defeat for her and her gods. It was then she understood that she is no longer a living god in this land of miracles, but only a normal human being.

Kanako Yasaka (八坂 神奈子 Yasaka Kanako?)

Species: God
Ability: Power to create qian
Location: Wind God's Lake
Also known as: Avatar of Mountains and Lakes
Theme: The Venerable Ancient Battlefield ~ Suwa Foughten Field

Stage 6 boss. Officially, a goddess of mountain who inhabits the Moriya Shrine. But in reality goddess of wind and rain. she is based on the Japanese god Yasakatome no Mikoto. As faith in gods in the outside world declined, she decided to move the Moriya Shrine to Gensokyo's Yōkai Mountain, rather than simply be forgotten and fade away. She quickly acquired faith from the yōkai on the mountain — though some would just call it friendship. To acquire the faith of the humans and yōkai living elsewhere in Gensokyo as well, she sent her priestess Sanae to the Hakurei Shrine. She wears a snake-patterned shimenawa as her trademark, symbolizing her victory over Suwako long ago, in addition to removable pillars on her back. In the events before Touhou 11, she was the one that sent the Yatagarasu to Utsuho Reiuzi so Kanako and Suwako could start their Mountain Industrial Revolution project using nuclear fusion power with the kappa. The project was a complete success.

Suwako Moriya (洩矢 諏訪子 Moriya Suwako?)

Species: God
Ability: Power to create kun
Location: Moriya Shrine
Also known as: Highest of Native Gods
Theme: Native Faith

Extra Stage boss, a girl with a frog motif. She is the true goddess of the Moriya Shrine, and was once the leader of Mishaguji, but was later defeated by Kanako. However, the people of her kingdom still feared Mishaguji and were unable to accept Kanako as their new goddess. The two created a false god, "Moriya", from which they could both gather faith. And thus Kanako borrowed Suwako's powers, and silently ruled as the goddess of mountain. Already long forgotten in the outside world, Suwako was untroubled as her faith slowly declined, but accompanied Kanako to Gensokyo nonetheless - despite their history, and their frequent disagreements, the two are good friends.

Also present:

Reimu Hakurei (playable character)
Marisa Kirisame (playable character)
Aya Syameimaru (Stage 4 boss)

[edit] Scarlet Weather Rhapsody

Iku Nagae (永江 衣玖 Nagae Iku?)

Species: Yōkai oarfish
Ability: Able to read the atmosphere
Location: Sea of Abstruse Clouds
Theme Song: Crimson in the Black Sea ~ Legendary Fish

Sub-boss of Scarlet Weather Rhapsody. An ambassador from the Dragon Palace who came to warn Gensokyo of an upcoming calamity. She is a lightning user, and most of her combat abilities center around lightning and her long scarf.

Tenshi Hinanai (比那名居 天子 Hinanai Tenshi?, alternate spelling Tensi Hinanawi)

Species: Celestial
Ability: Manipulation of the land
Location: Bhava-agra (Naivasaṃjñānāsaṃjñāyatana)
Theme Song: Catastrophe in Bhava-agra ~ Wonderful Heaven

Boss of Scarlet Weather Rhapsody. A girl who, through no virtue of her own, ascended to Heaven with her family. Having lived a sheltered life in Heaven, she became selfish and arrogant. Bored with her life in Heaven and envious of yōkai creating incidents on earth, she decides to create an incident in Gensokyo by using her powers, along with stealing the Hisou-no-Tsurugi ("Scarlet Disposition Sword"), which has the ability to excrete the disposition of others in the form of a mist, manipulating the weather. Shows masochist tendencies. She is adept at the manipulation of rock and earth: she can throw rocks like a projectile, and raise the earth around or in front of herself.

Also playable:

Reimu Hakurei
Marisa Kirisame
Alice Margatroid
Aya Syameimaru
Sakuya Izayoi
Youmu Konpaku
Patchouli Knowledge

    

Yuyuko Saigyouji
Remilia Scarlet
Yukari Yakumo
Komachi Onoduka
Reisen U. Inaba
Suika Ibuki

[edit] Subterranean Animism

Kisume (キスメ?)

Species: Tsurube-otoshi
Ability: Dropping ghostly fires
Location: Fantasy Wind Cave

Stage 1 midboss. A bashful yōkai who likes confined spaces, and suddenly drops from high places to attack.

Yamame Kurodani (黒谷ヤマメ Kurodani Yamame?)

Species: Tsuchigumo
Ability: Manipulation of illness
Location: Fantasy Wind Cave
Theme Song: The Sealed-Away Youkai ~ Lost Place

Stage 1 boss. A cave-dwelling spider yōkai who has a cheerful and combative personality despite her despised ability.

Parsee Mizuhashi (水橋パルスィ Mizuhashi Parusi?)

Species: Hashihime
Ability: Manipulation of jealousy
Location: Deep Road to Hell
Theme Song: Green-Eyed Jealousy

Stage 2 boss. A guardian of the link between the underground and the world above. Her jealous nature makes her try to hinder the people going to and fro the underworld and fan the flames of jealousy in others.

Yugi Hoshiguma (星熊 勇儀 Hoshiguma Yūgi?, alternate spelling Yuugi Hoshiguma)

Species: Oni
Ability: Control of the supernatural
Location: Former Streets of Hell (Ancient City)
Theme Song: A Flower-Studded Sake Dish on Mt. Ooe

Stage 3 boss. One of the "Four Devas of the Mountain" along with Suika Ibuki, she is referred to as "Yugi the Powerful" within the four. Originally from the Yōkai Mountain, she and the other oni moved underground when humans began to shun the oni. Yugi continues her cheerful sake-drinking life in the Ancient City of Former Hell.

Satori Komeiji (古明地 さとり Komeiji Satori?)

Species: Satori
Ability: Ability to read others' minds
Location: Palace of the Earth Spirits
Theme Song: Satori Maiden ~ 3rd eye
Also known as: The Girl Even Evil Spirits Fear

Stage 4 boss. Satori is the Mistress of the Palace of the Earth Spirits after the underground city was separate from Hell. Her ability to read "minds" makes various yōkai 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 ruin 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.

Rin Kaenbyou (火焔猫 燐 Kaenbyō Rin?, nickname: Orin)

Species: Kasha
Ability: Ability to carry off corpses
Location: Remains of the Blazing Hell
Theme Song: Corpse Voyage ~ Be of good cheer!
Also known as: Hell's Traffic Accident

A two-tailed cat who shows up as a midboss in stage 4 and 5, and turns into humanoid form when she is being the stage 5 boss and Final Stage midboss. 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 yōkai 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.

Utsuho Reiuzi (霊烏路 空 Reiuji Utsuho?, nickname: Okuu, alternate spelling Utsuho Reiuji)

Species: Hell raven with Yatagarasu
Ability: Manipulation of nuclear fusion
Location: Deepest sector of the Underground City
Theme Song: Solar Sect of Mystic Wisdom ~ Nuclear Fusion
Also known as: The Searing Divine Flame

Final Stage boss. 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 went mad with the abilities she had gained, 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 yōkai 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 yōkai, but a strong human.

She is sometimes called ⑥ (an inverted ⑨) because she seems to have a simple and boastful personality, and is called a birdbrain by Orin. Also, she is 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.

Koishi Komeiji (古明地 こいし Komeiji Koishi?)

Species: Satori
Ability: Manipulation of the subconscious
Location: Moriya Shrine
Theme Song: Hartmann's Youkai Maiden

Extra Stage boss. Like her elder sister Satori, she was born with the power to read other people's minds. However, Koishi knew this power of hers would make people feel uneasy around her, so she deliberately closed off this power (which dulled Satori's power as well). She sealed away her own heart to others in doing so, and even her sister would not be able to read her heart. Satori took pity on her, and gave some pets to Koishi, hoping that the animals would open Koishi's heart to others. The plan worked, and Koishi started to care for her pets, and would one day set out to seek the god who gave Utsuho that power so that her own pets could use it too.

Also present:

Reimu Hakurei (playable character)
Yukari Yakumo
Suika Ibuki
Aya Shameimaru
Marisa Kirisame (playable character)
Alice Margatroid
Patchouli Knowledge
Nitori Kawasiro
Sanae Kotiya (Extra stage midboss)
Suwako Moriya (cameo)
Kanako Yasaka (Backstory)

[edit] Undefined Fantastic Object

Nazrin (ナズーリン Nazūrin?)

Species: Mouse yōkai
Ability: Power to find lost objects
Location: The Road of Lingering Snow (Stage 1), Makai (Above Houkai, Stage 5)
Theme Song: A Tiny, Tiny, Clever Commander

Stage 1 boss and stage 5 mid-boss. Being a leader of mice and a natural dowser, Nazrin was commanded by Syou to search for the shards that fell from the sky and the Jeweled Pagoda of Bishamonten, but her dowsing rods brought her to the humans instead.

Kogasa Tatara (多々良 小傘 Tatara Kogasa?)

Species: Kasa-obake
Ability: Power to surprise humans
Location: Skies of Gensokyo (Undefined Fantastic Object), Myouren Temple Graveyard (Ten Desires)
Theme Song: Beware the Umbrella Left There Forever

Stage 2 boss and extra stage mid-boss of Undefined Fantastic Object and stage 3 mid-boss of Ten Desires. Kogasa was once an umbrella who was forgotten for a long time and thus became an obake. Being bored and lonely, she tries to perfect the art of scaring humans.

Ichirin Kumoi (雲居 一輪 Kumoi Ichirin?)

Species: Yōkai
Ability: Power to use nyūdō
Location: Palanquin Ship
Theme Song: The Traditional Old Man and the Stylish Girl

Ichirin is the stage 3 boss who is accompanied by Unzan, similar to Youmu Konpaku and her ghost-half in that Unzan can also participate in battle. Ichirin, by her own accord, is the guard of the large ship in the sky. She seems to be collecting UFO-shaped shards to revive Byakuren Hiziri, her master, whom she refers to as "sister."

Unzan (雲山?)

Species: Nyūdō
Ability: Power to shift size and form
Location: Palanquin Ship

Ichirin's companion in stage 3. Unzan is a nyūdō made out of clouds. He is a stubborn, quiet old man who is gentle at heart.

Minamitsu Murasa (村紗 水蜜 Murasa Minamitsu?, alternate spelling Minamitu Murasa)

Species: Ship ghost
Ability: Power to cause shipwrecks
Location: Inside the Palanquin Ship
Theme Song: Captain Murasa

Murasa is the stage 4 boss, who is the spirit of a human who fell off a ship and drowned in the past. As the humans feared her, their fears turned her into a yōkai. She pledged herself to saving Byakuren, riding the ship she created.

Syou Toramaru (寅丸 星 Toramaru Shō?, alternate spelling Shou Toramaru)

Species: Tiger yōkai
Ability: Power to attract treasures
Location: Makai (Above Houkai)
Theme Song: The Tiger-patterned Bishamonten

Syou is the stage 5 boss, representing good fortune and an avatar of Bishamonten. She was chosen by Byakuren to have the mountain yōkai gather faith in exchange. When Byakuren disappeared after a few hundred years, the temple was in great disarray, and all of her friends who were sealed into the Earth returned. Syou, not wanting to run away or have any regrets, told Murasa and the others how to lift the seal.

Byakuren Hiziri (聖 白蓮 Hijiri Byakuren?, alternate spelling Byakuren Hijiri)

Species: Magician
Ability: Magic
Location: Houkai
Theme Song: Emotional Skyscraper ~ Cosmic Mind

Byakuren is the stage 6 boss. She had a younger brother, Myouren Hiziri, who taught her Buddhist magic, but died earlier than her. This made Byakuren fear death greatly, and obtained the power to regain her youth. However, it was considered Black Magic rather than an art of Buddhism. Ichirin was her servant, while Murasa pledged herself to saving Byakuren. Fans think Byakuren is a thief-type like Marisa because of near duplication of spell cards used in previous Touhou games and completely copying Shinki's penultimate attack.

Nue Houjuu (封獣 ぬえ Hōjū Nue?)

Species: Nue
Ability: Power to hide her true form
Location: The Night Sky of Gensokyo
Theme Song: Heian Alien

Nue is the extra stage boss, also appearing as a sphere of light in stages 4 and 6. She is a very mysterious yōkai who flies through the night sky. Despite being non-human, she was defeated by humans many times in the past, but the accounts of her appearance vary. However, those were all made up, because her form is never seen to anybody but herself. She merely enjoys frightening humans and their imagining of strange things from afar.

Also present:

Reimu Hakurei (playable character)
Marisa Kirisame (playable character)
Sanae Kotiya (playable character)

[edit] Touhou Hisōtensoku

Master Big Catfish (大ナマズ様 Ō Namazu-sama?)

Species: Namazu
Location: Hong Meirin's Dream
Theme Song: Unknown X ~ Unfound Adventure

Final Boss in Hong Meirin's scenario. It is the villainous avatar of Taisui Xingjun, a God of Calamity, who, in a dream Hong Meirin has, sends assassins (disguised as familiar characters) to attack her. Its objective as it claims is to drain her of her power so that it can move the Earth and return to this world once again. It also speaks quite strongly of its plans to cause various disasters to Gensokyo.

According to NKZ's comment in the Nae Raji (radio broadcasting by D.N.A. Softwares) on September 21, 2009, the inspiration of the Giant Catfish is the Golden Statue of Catfish at Yoshikawa City in Saitama Prefecture, which is NKZ's hometown.

Playable char