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Reimu Hakurei
Ability : Mainly able to fly in the sky
Residence : Hakurei Shrine
Reimu is the main character of Touhou games 1-10. She is the miko of the Hakurei Shrine, a remote building far in the east where the boundaries of Gens%u014Dky%u014D and the human world overlap. It is believed that she is the 13th of her line.

Reimu is very easygoing - some would say lazy - and hates to train. As such, even though she's naturally talented, her offensive and magical abilities are only average. However, she has a strong sense of duty, and if it's for the sake of Gensokyo she can overcome almost any obstacle through sheer perseverance.

Her main abilities are flying in the sky, good intuition, and getting along with everyone; even those who were once her enemies. In the games, she is characterized by her homing amulets and yin-yang orbs.

Marisa Kirisame
Ability : High-powered magic
Residence : Forest of Magic
Secondary main character of Touhou games 3-10, although she makes her first appearance in the second game (Story of Eastern Wonderland) as an enemy. Marisa is a human magician who lives in a cluttered house in the Forest of Magic. She is friends with Reimu and visits her often, but otherwise is solitary and spends most of her time researching magic. She is also an avid collector stuffing her house with various items, and would go "borrowing" things from others without returning them.

She is selfish, sometimes violent, and has a disagreeable manner. Underneath, though, she is honest and a hard worker. This makes it strange that she is friends with Reimu, whose powers are purely from talent while she had to work very hard to get her own to the same level.

Her ability is high-level destructive magic. In the games, her attacks are characterized by stars and lasers.

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

Kotohime
Species : Human
A princess who claims to be a police officer. She doesn't act as befits her rank, and is known to be a collector in things where other people find no interest in.

Kana Anaberal
Species : Poltergeist
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
Species : Human
One of the few believers in science in Gensokyo. However, she is also a considerably powerful magic user. Though she doesn't like magic much, science alone won't get her anywhere, so she mixes both.

May be the same as Rika from Touhou 2. Currently the only meganekko in the Touhou series.

Chiyuri Kitashirakawa
Species : Human
Residence : Dream Ruins
Yumemi's assistant; acts overly familiar towards her. It seems theirs isn't simply a boss/subordinate relationship. 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
Species : Human
Residence : Dream Ruins
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.

Orange
Species : Youkai
A very minor youkai 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
Species : Vampire
Residence : Lake of blood
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.

Elliy -- Alternate spelling Elly
Species : Unknown
Residence : Mugenkan
Elliy is the gate guard of Mugenkan. Though seemingly powerful, the mansion rarely has any visitors, and thus she's out of practice as far as danmaku is concerned.

Yuka
Species : Youkai
Residence : Mugenkan
Yuka is a powerful youkai 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".

Mugetu
Species : Demon
A human-looking, blonde-haired girl in a maid uniform. Younger sister of Gengetu. Although she's 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.

Gengetu
Species : Demon
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.

Sara
Species : Youkai
Residence : A mountain cave that holds a doorway to Makai
The gatekeeper of Makai, but she was easily downed.

Luize
Species : Demon
Residence : Makai
A resident of Makai, she attacks the main characters as they are intruding Makai.

Alice
Species : Unknown (Human or Magician)
Ability : Magic
Residence : Pandaemonium
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. Her name is a reference to Alice in Wonderland.

Yuki
Species : Magician
Residence : Makai
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
Species : Magician
Residence : Makai
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
Species : Youkai
Residence : Pandaemonium
A knife-throwing maid who serves Shinki, she is ranked in the top class in the Makai.

Shinki
Species : Youkai
Residence : Pandaemonium
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.

Rumia
Species : Youkai
Ability : Manipulation of darkness
Residence : Unknown
Boss of Stage 1. A minor youkai who has no importance to 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 doesn't impede vision significantly, it isn't useful in combat. It is rumored that her hair ribbon, an amulet which she can't touch, seals her true power.

Daiyousei
Species : Fairy
Ability : N/A
Residence : Lake of Fog
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 doujinshi with Cirno.

Cirno
Species : Ice fairy
Ability : Manipulation of chills
Residence : Lake of Fog
Stage 2 boss. An ice fairy that lives on the lake surrounding the Scarlet Devil Mansion. Although she's 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 Meiling. Her hobby is freezing frogs and watching them revive as they thaw, but she tends to shatter them instead by accident.

Hong Meirin v-- Alternate spelling Hoan Meiling, Hong Meiling
Species : Youkai
Ability : Manipulation of qi
Residence : Scarlet Devil Mansion
Stage 3 boss. A Chinese girl serving as the doorguard of the Scarlet Devil Mansion. Canonically, she is known to be a very humanoid youkai who practices martial arts, but is generally friendly towards humans. However, as Japanese fans find it hard to remember her name, she is often referred to just as "Chugoku" (meaning China) and became a very popular joke character. In doujinshi she is usually rather pitiful and abused by the other residents of the Scarlet Devil Mansion, especially Sakuya.

Koakuma
Species : Youkai
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.

Patchouli Knowledge
Species : Witch
Ability : Magic, especially elemental magic
Residence : Scarlet Devil Mansion
Stage 4 boss, and a playable character in Immaterial and Missing Power. 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.

Sakuya Izayoi
Species : Human
Ability : Manipulation of time
Residence : Scarlet Devil Mansion
Stage 5 boss, and a playable character in Touhou games 7-9. 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.

Remilia Scarlet
Species : Vampire
Ability : Manipulation of fate
Residence : Scarlet Devil Mansion
Final boss, and a playable character in Touhou 7.5 and 8. 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.

Flandle Scarlet -- Alternate spelling Flandre Scarlet, Frandoll Scarlet
Species : Vampire
Ability : Wanton destruction
Residence : Scarlet Devil Mansion
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.

Letty Whiterock
Species : Youkai
Ability : Manipulation of the cold
Stage 1 boss. A youkai 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.


Chen
Species : Shikigami (Nekomata)
Ability : Sorcery
Residence : Mayoiga
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 somewhat because of her secondary status.


Alice Margatroid
Species : Magician
Ability : Magic, especially puppetry
Residence : Forest of Magic
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.


Lily White -- Alternate spelling Lilywhite
Species : Fairy
Ability : Reporting spring's approach.
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.


Prismriver Sisters
Species : Poltergeists
Ability : Playing musical instruments without physical contact
Residence : Poltergeist Mansion
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.


Lunasa Prismriver
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.


Merlin 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.


Lyrica Prismriver
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.


Youmu Konpaku
Species : Half-human half-ghost
Ability : Swordsmanship
Residence : Hakugyokuro
Stage 5 boss and stage 6 midboss, in addition, she is a playable character in Touhou 7.5-9 as well. Youmu is the gardener of the netherworld pagoda, Hakugyokuro. She comes from a very rare breed, the half-ghosts; in this strange combination, the human half and ghost half exist in physically separate bodies, but are always close by one another.


Yuyuko Saigyouzi -- Alternate spelling Yuyuko Saigyouji
Species : Ghost
Ability : Invoke death
Residence : Hakugyokuro
Final stage boss, also a playable character in Touhou 7.5 and 8. Yuyuko is the princess of the netherworld pagoda, Hakugyokuro. She is a ghost, but unlike most of her kind, looks entirely human. Living in the netherworld, she doesn't socialize much with the rest of Gensokyo. Her only friend from outside is Yukari. Her family name Saigyozi suggests relations with the famed poet Saigyo.


Species : Shikigami (Kitsune)
Ability : Control shikigami
Residence : The boundaries of Gensokyo
Extra stage boss and Phantasm stage midboss. A nine-tailed fox youkai 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.


Yukari Yakumo
Species : Youkai
Ability : Manipulation of boundaries
Residence : The boundaries of Gensokyo
Phantasm stage boss, and playable in Touhou 7.5 and 8. Yukari is an elder youkai 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.

Suika Ibuki
Species : Oni
Ability : Manipulation of density
Residence : Youkai Mountain
A girl who insists that she is an oni, even though Gensokyo doesn't have any, supposedly. 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 right after another, intending to draw the joyous oni from hiding.

Wriggle Nightbug
Species : Youkai firefly
Ability : Manipulation of insects
Residence : Various thickets
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.

Mystia Lorelei
Species : Night sparrow
Ability : Drive humans berserk by singing
Residence : Road of Monsters
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 then a game.

Keine Kamishirasawa
Species : Were-hakutaku
Ability : Consume, conceal, and create history
Residence : Human Village
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 youkai pass by; her special ability. However, she is trigger-happy and sometimes mistakes ordinary travelers for such malicious youkai.

Tewi Inaba -- Alternate spelling Tei Inaba
Species : Youkai rabbit
Ability : Bring fortune to humans
Residence : Eientei
Stage 5 midboss and playable character in Touhou 9. Based upon the "White Hare of Inaba" story of the Kojiki, she evolved into a yokai 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've used her fortune for greater things.

Reisen Udongein Inaba
Species : Moon rabbit
Ability : Manipulation of lunacy
Residence : Eientei
Stage 5 boss and playable character in Touhou 9. 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.

Eirin Yagokoro
Species : Human (Lunarian)
Ability : Creation of any medicine, natural genius
Residence : Eientei
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.

Kaguya Houraisan
Species : Human (Lunarian)
Ability : Manipulation of eternity and temporality
Residence : Eientei
Final boss of Imperisable 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.

Huziwara no Mokou -- Alternate spelling Fujiwara no Mokou
Species : Human
Ability : Eternal youth and immortality
Residence : Bamboo Forest of Lost
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.

Aya Syameimaru -- Alternate spelling Aya Shameimaru
Species : Crow tengu
Ability : Manipulation of wind
Residence : Youkai Mountain
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 of Japanese Red, stage 4 boss in Touhou 10, and playable character in Touhou 10.5. Aya is a reporter and photographer who runs Gensokyo's one-woman newspaper, the Bunbunmaru Shinbun.

Medicine Melancholy -- Alternate spelling Medicin Melancory
Species : Doll
Ability : Manipulation of poison
Residence : Nameless Hill
An abandoned doll who turned into a youkai after years of exposure to the poisonous lily-of-the-valleys. She advocates for doll emancipation (despite the fact that she's 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.

Yuka Kazami
Species : Youkai
Ability : Manipulation of flowers
Residence : Garden of the Sun
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.

Komachi Onozuka
Species : Shinigami
Ability : Manipulation of distance
Residence : Sanzu River
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.

Sikieiki Yamaxanadu -- Alternate spelling Shikieiki Yamaxanadu
Species : Yama
Ability : Judge clearly as black and white
Residence : Higan
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. 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.

Shizuha Aki
Species : God of red leaves
Ability : Manipulation of red leaves
Location : Foot of the Youkai Mountain
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
Species : God of abundance
Ability : Manipulation of abundance
Location : Foot of the Youkai Mountain
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
Species : Curse god
Ability : Storing curses
Location : Youkai Sea of Trees
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
Species : Kappa
Ability : Manipulation of Water
Location : Untrodden Valley
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
Species : White wolf tengu
Ability : Seeing great distances
Location : Waterfall of Nine Heavens
Stage 4 midboss. A loyal tengu who patrols the Y%u014Dkai 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
Species : Human
Ability : Power to work miracles
Location : Moriya Shrine
Stage 5 boss and priestess 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.

Kanako Yasaka
Species : God
Ability : Power to create qian
Location : Wind God's Lake
Stage 6 boss. A goddess of wind and rain who inhibits the Moriya Shrine, she is based on the Japanese god Takeminakata. As faith in gods in the outside world declined, she decided to move the Moriya Shrine to Gensokyo's Y%u014Dkai Mountain, rather than simply be forgotten and fade away. She quickly acquired faith from the youkai on the mountain - though some would just call it friendship.

Suwako Moriya
Species : God
Ability : Power to create kun
Location : Moriya Shrine
Extra Stage boss, a girl with a frog motif. She is the true goddess of the Moriya Shrine, who long ago defeated the terrifying curse god Mishaguji to become a beloved goddess and ruler. In turn, she was later defeated by Kanako, but the people of her kingdom still feared Mishaguji and would not accept Kanako as their new goddess. The two created a false god, "Moriya", from which they could both gather faith. 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.

Rinnosuke Morichika
Species : Hanyou
Ability : Determining the name and the purpose of unknown items
Residence : Kourindou
Rinnosuke is a hanyou who runs an antique and collectibles shop known as Kourindou in the Forest of Magic. He is the main character of Curiosities of Lotus Asia, and the only active humanoid male character in the Touhou series. He is also one of the few characters who seem to have no fighting ability. Marisa calls him Kourin, and that is the name he is usually known as.

Tokiko also known as Unnamed Book-Reading Youkai
Species : Youkai
Ability : Unknown
Residence : Unknown
Tokiko is a minor youkai whom Reimu beat up and stole a set of books from. She tracked them to Kourindou, where Reimu had traded them to Rinnosuke, and became a standard fixture there as she argues daily with Rinnosuke, trying to recover her property. Despite appearing frequently in Curiosities of Lotus Asia, she has never been given an official name; Thus the fans gave her the name "Tokiko", which means Crested Ibis, because Tokiko has red wings similar to those of the bird.

Renko Usami
Species : Human
Ability : Telling the time by seeing the stars, determining her location by watching the moon
Residence : Kyoto, originally from Tokyo
Renko Usami is a physics student from Japan. She and Merry form the two-person occult circle, the Secret Seals Club, which investigates Gensokyo. She plays the role of skeptic, as Merry is the only one who's actually been inside Gensokyo, but sincerely believes Merry in the end. Although a normal human, with a glance of the sky, she is instantly able to determine her location and the current time to within a second; she has been described as "a human GPS."

Maribel Han
Species : Human
Ability : See Gensokyo's boundaries
Residence : Kyoto, originally from outside Japan
Maribel Han, nicknamed Merry, is a psychology student and friend of Renko's. She and Renko form the two-person occult circle, the Secret Seals Club, which investigates Gensokyo. Descended from a long line of magicians, she is one of the few humans who can perceive and cross Gensokyo's boundaries. Unused to this ability, she tends to wander through by accident, thinks she's merely dreaming and gets herself into dangerous situations.

Sunnymilk
Species : Fairy
Ability : Control refractions of light
Residence : Forest of Magic
A cheerful fairy who likes to play pranks, often called "Sunny" by her accomplices. She manipulates the power of the sun, and considers herself the smartest of the three, though she fails most often of the three. She is from the manga Eastern and Little Nature Deity and Strange and Bright Nature Deity.

Lunarchild
Species : Fairy
Ability : Silence nearby sounds
Residence : Forest of Magic
A fairy who likes to play pranks, often called "Luna" by her accomplices. Her power comes from the moon, and she can use it to silence the sounds around her. She seems to be the most cruel of the three. She is from the manga Eastern and Little Nature Deity and Strange and Bright Nature Deity.

Starsaphire
Species : Fairy
Ability : Sense animate objects from far away
Residence : Forest of Magic
A fairy who likes to play pranks, often called "Star" by her accomplices and "Saphi" by the fans. Unlike the other two, her power does not wax and wane with the time of day. In reality, she seems to be the smartest of the three, and often escapes punishment while the other two are caught. She is from the manga Eastern and Little Nature Deity and Strange and Bright Nature Deity.

Hieda no Akyu
Species : Human
Ability : Never forgets anything she sees
Residence : Human Village
She is current the "Child of Miare" who was born in the Hieda family once in every few hundred years with ability to "not forget anything she sees" and records Gensokyo's history. She seems to like black tea.

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