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Yukari Yakumo
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Touhou Project/Yukari Yakumo
Yukari Yakumo (八雲 紫 Yakumo Yukari) is a recurring character in the Touhou Project series and a youkai sage living in Gensokyo. She possesses the power to manipulate boundaries and was one of the key figures involved in establishing Gensokyo's borders, as well as helping to maintain its society. She made her debut as the Phantasm Stage boss in Perfect Cherry Blossom and has since appeared as a playable character in several titles, beginning with Immaterial and Missing Power. Yukari also provides support to Reimu during the events of Imperishable Night and can serve as a partner in Subterranean Animism. The story A Beautiful Flower Blooming Violet Every Sixty Years is told from Yukari's perspective during the events of Phantasmagoria of Flower View.
| Yukari Yakumo | |
|---|---|
Lesbian
 
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| Origin | |
| Origin | Touhou |
| Creator | ZUN |
| First Appearance | Touhou 07: Perfect Cherry Blossom |
| Voiced by | Fan-Made Series: Kikuko Inoue, Shizuka Itō, Hitomi Ueda, Chihiro Ishiguro, Sakura Nakamura, Ayaka Shimizu, Mikoi Sasaki, Hina Yomiya, Juri Nagatsuma, Juri Kimura, Satomi Arai, Rina Honnizumi, Megumi Nakajima, Saku Mizuno, Minori Suzuki, Maki Kawase, Ayaka Ohnishi, Yukari Tamura, Aya Endō, Yoko Hikasa |
| Characteristics | |
| Species | Youkai |
| Gender | Female |
| Pronouns | She/Her |
| Sexuality | Homosexual |
| Age | Over 1,200 |
| Birthday | Unknown |
| Height | Tall |
| Weight | Unknown |
| Ethnicity | Japanese |
| Status | Alive |
| Alignment | Lawful Neutral |
| Archetype | Trickster, Strategist, Mentor, Wildcard |
| Occupation | Gensokyo Sage |
| Time Period | Non-linear |
| Language | Japanese |
| Combat Style | Boundary Fighting, Servant Fighting, Weapons Fighting |
| Homeworld | Gensokyo |
| Relationships | |
| Affiliations | Yuyuko Saigyouji, Youmu Konpaku, Suika Ibuki, Reimu Hakurei, Marisa Kirisame, Ran Yakumo, Chen |
| Enemies | Lunar Capital, Watatsuki no Toyohime, Watasuki no Yorihime, Reimu Hakurei (Formerly), Marisa Kirisame (Formerly) |
Background
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Perfect Cherry Blossom
Yukari appears as the Phantasm boss of Perfect Cherry Blossom. After Ran is defeated, Yukari is encountered and asked to repair the barrier. Once she is defeated, either she says she will simply go back to sleep, or Reimu/Marisa/Sakuya grows tired and leaves. Immaterial and Missing Power
Yukari becomes aware that someone is manipulating the feasts and gatherings across Gensokyo. Rather than directly confronting the culprit, she devises a plan to force them out into the open. She begins by visiting Remilia Scarlet at the Scarlet Devil Mansion, seeking to take her brandy. Remilia is annoyed by Yukari's sudden intrusion and refuses at first, but after being defeated, she reluctantly agrees to share. Yukari then travels to the Forest of Magic and confronts Alice Margatroid, taking her wine as well. Alice protests that she was already planning to bring it to the banquet, but Yukari insists and takes it anyway. Next, Yukari finds Youmu Konpaku at the graveyard and takes her unrefined sake, despite Youmu's reluctance to give it up. Youmu asks if Yukari will attend the banquet that night, and Yukari confirms that she will, though she was not invited. She also mentions that she plans to bring someone else along. Yukari then meets Marisa Kirisame in the Forest of Magic and takes her sake as well, warning that if Marisa refuses, she will not be able to leave the forest. Marisa asks if Yukari will attend the banquet, and Yukari assures her not to worry, stating that no one except herself and one other person will bring any sake. Yukari then visits the Hakurei Shrine and takes Reimu's sacred sake, which Reimu had left on the shrine's altar. Reimu protests, but Yukari insists that it is for drinking at the banquet. She remarks that the sake will be enjoyed that night. At the shrine, Yukari encounters Yuyuko Saigyouji and takes her extremely old sake. Yuyuko reveals that she had poisoned it beforehand, and Yukari responds that she intends to remove the poison. Yuyuko comments that Yukari saw through her plan from the start. After securing all the sake, Yukari notes that everyone who might have brought alcohol is now empty handed. Finally, Yukari confronts Suika Ibuki, the true culprit behind the strange feasts. Suika questions Yukari's intentions, and Yukari explains that if no sake appears at the banquet, suspicion will fall on Suika, who is known for her love of drinking. Yukari reveals that she has stolen all the sake and will claim that Suika drank it all. Suika accuses Yukari of using dirty tricks and suggests blaming everything on Yukari instead. The two fight, and after Suika is defeated, Yukari's plan succeeds in exposing Suika to everyone, ending the incident. Imperishable Night
Yukari teams up with Reimu to track down whoever is responsible for the Fake Moon incident. After making their way through several enemies, they are trapped by Reisen Udongein Inaba. Eirin explains that she is the one behind the incident. Yukari and Reimu defeat Reisen and then pursue Eirin through an endless corridor. Although Eirin promises to return the Moon to normal by the following morning, Yukari and Reimu grow impatient and fight her. They then encounter Kaguya and defeat her as well, recognizing that she was also involved in the incident. Scarlet Weather Rhapsody
Yukari notices that the Hakurei Shrine has yet to be repaired and comments on Reimu's relaxed attitude. Reimu explains that Tenshi has not come down to help, claiming that the day is meant for singing. Yukari remarks that celestials live in luxury without working, and she decides to take action herself. She begins her journey by climbing Youkai Mountain, a task she finds tiring for her age. Along the way, she encounters Komachi Onozuka, who has been neglecting her duties. Yukari chastises her for failing to ferry phantoms to Higan, which has contributed to the recent troubles. She forces Komachi to return to work. Next, Yukari meets Marisa Kirisame, who is also heading to the heavens in search of valuable items. Yukari warns her that celestials only have mundane possessions like peaches and fishing tools, and advises her to turn back before the tengu notice her. Marisa reluctantly agrees and retreats. Yukari continues her search for Tenshi but finds no trace of her in the heavens. She criticizes the celestials for using land wastefully and lying about their reasons for forbidding nirvana. She encounters Iku Nagae, who tells her that Tenshi has descended to Earth to insert a keystone at the shrine. Yukari announces that she intends to make Tenshi "deceased," but Iku is evasive about Tenshi's whereabouts and seems to support Yukari's plan. At the damaged shrine, Yukari meets Suika Ibuki, who suggests that they pass the time by playing while waiting for Tenshi to appear. Yukari agrees and fights Suika, though the match ends inconclusively. Yukari mentions that she has a favor to ask Suika but decides to postpone it. Finally, Yukari finds Tenshi conducting an inauguration ceremony for the newly rebuilt shrine. Tenshi claims that the shrine has been reborn stronger and more beautiful, and she plans to implement a periodic reconstruction tradition. Yukari interrupts the ceremony, declaring that the shrine should be destroyed. Tenshi protests, but Yukari accuses her of renovating the shrine to suit her own needs and increase her living space. The two fight, and Yukari defeats Tenshi, destroying the shrine again. She instead has Suika rebuild the shinre this time arond. Subterranean Animism
Yukari is one of the partners Reimu can choose, alongside Suika Ibuki and Aya Shameimaru. After modifying Reimu's Yin Yang Orbs so that she can communicate with her, Yukari instructs Reimu to defeat every youkai she encounters without exception. Following this advice, Reimu makes her way through the underground, defeats Rin Kaenbyou and Satori Komeiji, and gathers information from them. She eventually locates the true culprit, Utsuho Reiuji, and defeats her, resolving the incident. Hopelesss Masquerade Legacy of Lunatic Kingdom
Yukari appears in Marisa's Pointdevice and No Miss ending. She enters Marisa's house through a gap and congratulates her for saving the Lunar Capital, then asks to see the lunar occult ball. Marisa suspects that Yukari intends to destroy the power stone, fearing that it could throw Gensokyo into chaos. However, Yukari dismisses the idea, stating that the stone is not nearly powerful enough to cause such chaos. She remarks that Gensokyo is fortunate to have gained such a power, as it could bring about further change. Marisa is surprised to hear Yukari speak positively about change, but Yukari leaves without touching the stone, advising Marisa to value her connection with the one who created it. Impossible Spell Card Antinomy of Common Flowers Unfinished Dream of All Living Ghost Curiosities of Lotus Asia Bohemian Archive in Japanese Red  After hearing a fox's cry, Aya Shameimaru went to investigate. She found Yukari beating Ran Yakumo over the head with an umbrella. Yukari claimed it was only for the purpose of disciplining her. As a crow tengu, Aya felt strongly about animal rights and was upset by what she saw as animal abuse. During the interview, Yukari insisted that it was not abuse because Ran is a shikigami, which Yukari argued meant she no longer counted as an animal. She explained that a shikigami is as strong as its master as long as it follows the master's will. Ran had apparently disobeyed Yukari by doing something she had not been ordered to do. As a result, Ran was not as strong as she could have been and ended up putting herself in danger by relying only on her own strength. The discipline was meant to remind Ran who her master is so that she would not needlessly put herself at risk by fighting at less than full power. Aya did not accept this explanation. Yukari also called the Bunbunmaru Newspaper a shoddy publication and offered to make Aya her shikigami as well, but Aya refused. Seasonal Dream Vision - A Beautiful Flower Blooming Violet Every Sixty Years Perfect Memento in Strict Sense Strange and Bright Nature Deity In chapter 25, Yukari explains to Reimu and Marisa that the tree had appeared in Gensokyo as a replacement for another tree that had been part of the barrier. Since no fairy lived there and Reimu had briefly worshiped it as a god but then abandoned it, the tree began to deteriorate. This would have eventually created a hole in the barrier. However, now that Sunny, Luna, and Star had taken up residence there, the problem had been resolved. Silent Sinner in Blue The Grimoire of Marisa Wild and Horned Hermit In chapter 35, Kasen Ibaraki opens a hole in the barrier to investigate a distortion she noticed. She feels an arm and grabs it, thinking it belongs to a missing villager, but it turns out to be Yukari. Kasen asks about the spiriting away, and Yukari responds that while she does engage in such acts, the "humaning away" is connected to Sumireko Usami. She explains that every time Sumireko enters Gensokyo, the barrier must expel someone of similar power to lessen the shock. Initially, this only affected small objects, but it now seems to affect humans as well. Yukari suggests using dummies of similar weight as a solution. She also says she will wait as long as necessary for Kasen to come to "this side," but Kasen replies that it will not happen. Reimu then arrives and mistakes Yukari for the culprit, defeating her without noticing that Kasen had already fled. Symposium of Post-mysticism The bones disappeared while preparations were being made to bury them in Muenzuka. This led to speculation about whether an actual incident had occurred and who the bones originally belonged to. Yukari suggested that the youkai from the Underworld were responsible and that they intended to frighten humans, as their powers rely on negative human energy. However, it could have simply been a misunderstanding. A non intervention agreement existed between the underworld youkai and the surface, so any violation could have complicated matters. The incident was eventually resolved when the bones were dismissed as mistaken silver birch branches, and no ominous events took place in the Human Village. At a later date, the well was filled in with dirt, though it remains unknown who carried out this action. Forbidden Scrollery Alternative Facts in Eastern Utopia Aya accuses Yukari of allowing an outsider into Gensokyo and conspiring to "rebuild" the land. The Grimoire of Usami Foul Detective Satori Afterward, Yukari works alongside Satori and Flandre Scarlet to capture the vengeful spirit, Mizuchi Miyadeguchi, at the Myouren Temple. Once Mizuchi is sealed underground, Reimu descends to meet her while connecting to Yukari through a Yin Yang Orb. Yukari reminds Reimu to fight the youkai in the Underworld as flashily as possible. This leads to Reimu fighting Utsuho Reiuji atop Youkai Mountain before self destructing, and Yukari protects her with a barrier. Yukari urges Reimu to finish off Mizuchi, but Reimu refuses. Satori then intervenes with a new plan, leading Reimu to use an attack previously used by an earlier Hakurei shrine maiden, which convinces Mizuchi to agree to stay underground. Lotus Eaters Whispered Oracle of Hakurei Shrine |
Name Meaning
Yukari's full name is Yakumo Yukari (八雲 紫). The characters for Yakumo (八雲) translate literally to "eight clouds," though they can also carry the broader meaning of "countless clouds." Her given name, Yukari (紫), simply means "purple" or "violet." In everyday Japanese, these two colors are often treated as the same. Yukari is also a real given name in Japan, though it is usually written with different characters such as ゆかり, 由香里, or 友加里, rather than 紫.
According to chapter 26 of Curiosities of Lotus Asia, Yukari chose this name for herself and did not have it 1,200 years ago.
All members of the Yakumo family are named after colors. The frequencies and energies associated with these colors correspond to their relative power levels: Chen (orange) is the weakest, followed by Ran Yakumo (blue), with Yukari (violet) being the strongest. Violet light has the highest energy in the visible spectrum and also marks the boundary between visible light and invisible ultraviolet light. Red light, which is associated with Remilia Scarlet and Reimu Hakurei, represents the other boundary. Appropriately, when Reimu and Yukari team up in Imperishable Night, they are referred to as the "Boundary Team." Their colors form the two boundaries between visible and invisible light. Additionally, the word 縁, also pronounced "yukari," is sometimes used to mean "border" or "edge."
Occasionally, after rainfall, a double rainbow appears. The primary rainbow has red on top and violet on the bottom, while the secondary, fainter rainbow above it has the colors reversed, with violet on top and red on the bottom. This means that the outer edges of a rainbow are violet, making violet the boundary between the sky and the rainbow. This reinforces the idea that Yukari's given name symbolizes boundaries.
In Japan and many other cultures, purple and violet have historically been seen as noble colors, often associated with wealth and high status. This fits well with Yukari's position in Gensokyo. However, ZUN mentioned in Who's Who of Humans & Youkai in Gensokyo that this was simply a continuation of the red theme from Embodiment of Scarlet Devil, followed by Chen's orange and Ran's blue.
Some fans have noted that Yukari's surname, Yakumo, may be taken from the writer Lafcadio Hearn, who became a naturalized Japanese citizen and took the name Koizumi Yakumo (小泉 八雲). The characters 八雲 can also be read as "Haun." When fans asked about a possible connection between Yukari and Maribel Hearn during a high school open lecture, ZUN brought up Lafcadio Hearn but did not elaborate. Still, his response seemed to suggest a connection between the two.
Yakumo also appears in one of the earliest poems written in what would become the Japanese tanka form:
"Yakumo tatsu / Izumo yagegaki / Tsuma-gomini / Yaegaki tsukuro / Sono yaegaki wo"
This poem is attributed to the god Susanoo. A common English translation reads:
"Eightfold rising clouds / Build an eightfold fence / An eightfold Izumo fence / Wherein to keep my bride-- / Oh! splendid eightfold fence"
Interpretations of the poem's meaning vary. Yukari's name is analyzed in detail in chapter 26 of Curiosities of Lotus Asia by Rinnosuke Morichika. However, Rinnosuke suggests at the end that there may be even more meanings hidden within it.
Appearance
General Description: Yukari is a figure with long blonde hair. Her eye color varies between appearances: purple in Perfect Cherry Blossom, dark golden in Immaterial and Missing Power and Scarlet Weather Rhapsody. She carries a pink lace parasol and a paper fan and rides on a red gap.
Facial Features: She has long blonde hair. Ribbons are tied on her accessories and the tips of her hair in some appearances. A pale pink mob cap with a thin red ribbon is worn on her head.
- Perfect Cherry Blossom: Purple eyes.
- Immaterial and Missing Power / Scarlet Weather Rhapsody: Dark golden eyes.
- Imperishable Night: Hair is left loose (not coiled into the mob cap).
Clothing/Outfit:
- Perfect Cherry Blossom: Deep purple dress. Pale pink mob cap with a thin red ribbon. Smaller ribbons tied on accessories and hair tips. ZUN states this is her casual daywear.
- Immaterial and Missing Power / Scarlet Weather Rhapsody / Imperishable Night: Purple Chinese-style tabard with various trigrams over a pale pink Western-style dress (similar to Ran Yakumo's outfit). This outfit is known as the "Taoist outfit" (道士服) in the Japanese community. ZUN states this is her combat attire.
- Antinomy of Common Flowers: Black bands with a white design on her sleeves.
Special Features: The tabard features two trigrams on the front. The top trigram (☱) is "dui" or "tui" (open), associated with west and lake/marsh. The bottom trigram (☷) is "kūn" (field), associated with southwest and earth, as well as Yoni (divine passage). Together in that order, they form the hexagram "Ts'ui," meaning "clustering," "gathering together," and "finished." This hexagram signifies gathering together to persevere towards a destination and great wisdom necessary for leadership.
Personality
- Youkai-like and Hedonistic: Yukari is a very youkai-like youkai who sleeps all day and lives for enjoyment. She rarely leaves her house but is well-connected with powerful youkai and those involved with the Great Hakurei Barrier or the outside world. She rarely attacks humans.
- Tendency to Toy with Opponents: Yukari toys with her opponents rather than using her full power from the start.
- Superhuman Intellect: Yukari possesses superhuman intellect and excels at mathematics. She can determine the depths of Avici's darkness and calculate how long it would take for Ursa Major to devour the North Star in an instant. Even Ran cannot understand her abilities with numbers.
- Flaky but Involved When Necessary: Yukari seems flaky and unreliable most of the time, but she gets involved when Gensokyo's safety is at stake, even if it means using others to do the work. She treated Tenshi with hostility after finding out about the Heavens' plot.
- Manipulative and Indirect: Yukari deals with problems by manipulating others to resolve things for her. She rarely acts directly except in particularly egregious situations. She rarely lets anyone know her true aims or goals.
- Fickle, Whimsical, and Liar: Yukari has a reputation for being fickle, whimsical, and lying often. Many characters in Gensokyo dislike her. She takes these comments in stride and does not seriously deny them.
- Keeps Altruistic Actions Secret: Yukari actively tries to keep her altruistic actions secret, such as her donations to the Hakurei Shrine. She likely cultivates this image to ensure people continue to fear her as a youkai.
Goals
- Protect Gensokyo[1] (Ongoing)
Relationships
Yukari's ability to traverse Gensokyo via her gaps has brought her into contact with a wide array of youkai and humans over the years. Among Gensokyo's inhabitants, she is commonly referred to as the "gap youkai" (すきま妖怪) whenever she becomes the subject of conversation.
Reimu Hakurei and Marisa Kirisame
Yukari has long maintained a close connection to the shrine maidens of the Hakurei lineage—her very name carries implications of authority over Gensokyo's shrine maidens. Reimu Hakurei and Marisa Kirisame first formally encountered Yukari when she enlisted their aid in repairing the border between Gensokyo and the Netherworld during the events of Perfect Cherry Blossom. However, Yukari gave the impression that she was already acquainted with both of them to some degree. With Marisa, this familiarity manifested as a prank—keeping her awake well past her usual bedtime.
Yukari frequently visits Reimu at the Hakurei Shrine and drops by Marisa's home without warning, a habit Marisa complains about in Perfect Memento in Strict Sense, specifically noting that Yukari never uses the door. Her visits include stealing food from Reimu (as documented in Perfect Memento in Strict Sense), staying at the shrine for over a month during winter (in Curiosities of Lotus Asia), and appearing among the youkai Reimu complains about in Wild and Horned Hermit. Some visits take on a more philosophical tone, such as in Seasonal Dream Vision or when she gives Reimu out-of-season taro roots from the Outside World in Strange and Bright Nature Deity, prompting her to reflect on their significance.
As an employer, Yukari has assigned Reimu multiple missions, including those in Subterranean Animism, Imperishable Night, and Silent Sinner in Blue. A brief remark during the first stage of Imperishable Night indicates that she compensates Reimu for her efforts.
As a mentor, Yukari frequently instructs Reimu not only about Gensokyo itself—as seen multiple times in Oriental Sacred Place—but also about the proper execution of her shrine maiden duties. She confronts Reimu when she deliberately damages the barrier in Curiosities of Lotus Asia, reminds her of her youkai-extermination responsibilities in Imperishable Night's Extra stage, and puts her through rigorous training in preparation for Silent Sinner in Blue—a rarity, according to Curiosities of Lotus Asia. This training included attacking Reimu at unannounced moments.
Yukari also appears to look after Reimu in more subtle ways, such as secretly slipping yen donations into the shrine's offering box when Reimu is not looking, as shown in Chapter 23 of Strange and Bright Nature Deity. Like most characters, Reimu finds Yukari thoroughly exasperating. Yukari takes no offense, responding to Reimu's complaints with joking remarks like "How rude!" or "What a greeting!" In Seasonal Dream Vision, Marisa grew irritated by one of Yukari's unannounced visits, though Yukari's true motive was simply curiosity about Marisa's thoughts on the flower incident. Many of her visits to Marisa likely stem from similar amusement.
Ran Yakumo
Ran is Yukari's primary shikigami, a nine-tailed fox who received her current name and identity as part of their contract. An interview in Bohemian Archive in Japanese Red suggests that Ran entered the arrangement for the power it offered, and despite losing her freedom, she remains quite satisfied with the outcome. Ran was not yet born at the time of the Genso-Lunar War, so she must have become Yukari's shikigami sometime afterward.
Yukari maintains a strictly functional relationship with Ran, analogous to that of a user and a computer in the Outside World. She insists that Ran is not a fox but a tool to be utilized. In Chapter Five of Cage in Lunatic Runagate, Yukari's internal monologue refers to Ran using computer terminology such as "programming" and "debugging." While Ran is more advanced than an ordinary computer, Yukari occasionally attempts philosophical discussions with her, though she typically receives uninspired responses involving numbers and calculations. Yukari holds genuine affection for Ran—but in the manner one might love a favored tool.
Ran often acts independently of Yukari's orders, sometimes forgetting her status as a shikigami. This tendency is partly unavoidable, as Yukari spends much of her time sleeping. When this happens, Yukari physically disciplines Ran—typically by striking her with her umbrella. From Yukari's perspective, using a tool properly and maintaining it through discipline demonstrates care for one's shikigami. Ran accepts this treatment and appears content with the arrangement. She also shows concern for her master, attempting to offer encouragement after the failure of the second Genso-Lunar War. Still, she readily admits that Yukari can be annoying, often growing frustrated with her cryptic speech and secrecy.
Chen
Ran has her own shikigami named Chen. As Ran's shikigami, Chen follows the will of both Ran and Yukari, though her shikigami "programming" is less fully integrated with her original personality than Ran's is—and she is implied to be quite a handful as a result. Unlike Ran, Yukari views Chen as both Ran's shikigami and a pet, remarking in Subterranean Animism: "I wonder where our cat went off to? It's such a pain when she just suddenly disappears like that. I wish you'd take care to program your own familiar properly. Without any bugs."
Notably, Chen is never referred to as "Chen Yakumo," even when her name appears alongside "Ran Yakumo" in Perfect Memento in Strict Sense.
Yukari's Crows
Zenki and Goki are two crows that Yukari and Ran employ as shikigami. The names may be temporary designations, as one is killed by Watatsuki no Toyohime, yet three additional crows appear as spies for Yukari later in Chapter 20 of Silent Sinner in Blue.
Yuyuko Saigyouji
Yukari and Yuyuko have been friends since Yuyuko's lifetime over a thousand years ago, and their friendship continued after Yuyuko became a ghost. Notably, this bond does not extend to Yukari's shikigami Ran—Yuyuko has no qualms about others harming her.
Yuyuko appears to be the only individual who truly comprehends Yukari. Yukari recognizes this and often assumes that Yuyuko understands her intentions without explanation, as seen in their interactions and victory quotes. However, they do not always think alike, and Yuyuko occasionally surprises her. The two are willing to act on each other's requests simply because they asked.
Yukari believed the Saigyou Ayakashi had consumed too many human lives. She was always aware that Yuyuko's body was sealing it, and it is possible that Yukari herself was the one who used Yuyuko's body to perform the sealing.
Youmu Konpaku
As Yuyuko's servant, Youmu occasionally receives lessons and advice from Yukari, such as in Scarlet Weather Rhapsody.
Suika Ibuki
Yukari and Suika were friends before the oni retreated underground, though the circumstances of their meeting remain unknown. In Perfect Memento in Strict Sense Yuyuko and Suika are the two youkai noted to be people Yukari is friends with. Yukari looks out for Suika in Immaterial and Missing Power, and Suika reciprocates by performing favors for her, such as rebuilding the Hakurei Shrine in Scarlet Weather Rhapsody or assisting with investigations into the underground. The two engage in danmaku battles with each other, though they had not done so in some time prior to Scarlet Weather Rhapsody. In Oriental Sacred Place Chapter 12, they are seen together at the Hakurei Shrine's New Year's Festival.
Suika becomes annoyed with Yukari's "dirty tricks" but does not voice more than mild complaints about them. She may be privy to some of Yukari's secrets, having referred to Yukari's existence as "fraudulent" in Immaterial and Missing Power and noted that it was rare to see her "on this side of the world" in broad daylight.
Yuugi Hoshiguma
Yuugi is one of the oni—alongside Suika, presumably—with whom Yukari struck a deal. In exchange for keeping the evil spirits of Old Hell under control, Yukari promised them a territory in the Underworld and guaranteed that surface youkai would not intrude. Unlike Suika, Yukari does not appear to share any personal connection with Yuugi. In her Immaterial and Missing Power ending, Yukari expresses the belief that if the oni were to return to Gensokyo, it would have to happen gradually rather than all at once.
Kasen Ibaraki
The exact length of time Yukari and Kasen have known each other is unclear, but both are youkai sages. The monologue in Perfect Memento in Strict Sense states that the youkai sages proposed the Hakurei Barrier, suggesting the two have known each other since at least that era.
After Kasen descended from the mountain in the present day, Yukari assumed she was always aligned with her and that her actions were intended to further Yukari's ideals. By the time of Wild and Horned Hermit Chapter 35, Kasen had grown frustrated and bluntly informed Yukari that she was not on her side. This admission caused Yukari a brief moment of visible distress before she regained composure, though she stated she would wait as long as necessary for Kasen to come around.
Kasen's dream self in Antinomy of Common Flowers calls Yukari a coward who lets others do her work because she is afraid to do it herself. While dream selves are exaggerated representations of the real individual, Doremy's explanation in Reisen's scenario suggests that Kasen's normal feelings at least partially align with this sentiment.
Okina Matara
Okina is another of the youkai sages. It is implied in Reimu's Extra stage in Hidden Star in Four Seasons that the two are familiar with each other and that Yukari assisted Reimu in defeating Okina by suggesting she use the "boundary between seasons" as a countermeasure. Okina recognized Yukari's handiwork, while Reimu admitted she did not understand the logic behind it. During the fireworks festival documented in The Grimoire of Usami, the two banter with one another as equals.
Remilia Scarlet
Yukari employed Remilia as part of her scheme to collect the residence tax and retaliate against the Lunarians in Silent Sinner in Blue. Patchouli later reveals that Remilia was aware of the manipulation but did not object, simply out of boredom. Remilia harbors an unexplained rivalry with Yukari, wanting to reach the Moon in her own way before Yukari can and surprise her. This rivalry may stem from the power struggle mentioned in Perfect Memento in Strict Sense's Vampire article, potentially originating from the vampire incident. The rivalry appears to be largely one-sided, though Remilia has no issue with Yukari attending the party at the end of Silent Sinner in Blue or assisting her in Scarlet Weather Rhapsody.
Dialogue in Immaterial and Missing Power implies that the two already knew each other before that game. It is possible they first met during the vampire incident and that Yukari was the one who signed "the contract" with Remilia.
Patchouli Knowledge
Patchouli first encounters Yukari in her scenario in Immaterial and Missing Power. In Scarlet Weather Rhapsody, Yukari assigns her to monitor the underworld in her victory quote. Patchouli later urges Yukari to take action regarding the evil spirits emerging from underground in Subterranean Animism's prologue. Yukari ultimately agrees to act, stating she "can't let them all just do whatever they want again"—though it is unclear, even to Patchouli, which incident she is referring to. Patchouli continues collaborating with Yukari on underground matters, later informing her of the Palanquin Ship in a Touhou Hisoutensoku victory quote.
Eientei Residents (Eirin Yagokoro and Kaguya Houraisan)
Alongside Reimu, Yukari confronted Eirin Yagokoro and Kaguya Houraisan to restore the full moon in Imperishable Night, making her one of the few individuals aware of their lunar origins. After the incident was resolved, the group shared moon-viewing sake together.
Unbeknownst to each other, Yukari and Eirin share a deeper history. As Watatsuki no Toyohime mentions at the end of Chapter 17 of Silent Sinner in Blue, Eirin set a trap a thousand years ago to catch anyone attempting to invade the Moon. Yukari was fully aware of the trap and had apparently already triggered it before—assuming the "make-believe" story in Cage in Lunatic Runagate actually occurred. She appears to hold a grudge against the Lunarian sage who set it, referring to her as "the much-despised Lunarian sage."
However, Yukari has not realized that Eirin is that very individual. Neither character makes special note of the other during Imperishable Night, and they are amicable in the ending. Near the conclusion of Silent Sinner in Blue, Yukari remarks to Ran that she is uncertain whether "the Brain of the Moon" has actually settled on Earth, suspecting Eirin may be a spy.
The final chapter of Cage in Lunatic Runagate reveals that Yukari orchestrated the events primarily to teach Eirin to fear the unknown, likely because those who live as humans in Gensokyo are meant to fear youkai—as she explained to Ran in her lecture about aliens.
Maribel Hearn
When asked about Yukari's relationship with Maribel during a high school open lecture, series creator ZUN declined to elaborate beyond mentioning Lafcadio Hearn's name and laughing. Since then, fans have pointed out numerous connections and similarities between the two characters in official Touhou works, though the true nature of their relationship remains unconfirmed.
Rinnosuke Morichika
Yukari and Rinnosuke's interactions are mostly business-related. In exchange for fuel for his kerosene fan heater, Yukari takes merchandise she likes and occasionally shares information on items. While Rinnosuke is grateful, he is also uneasy around her and finds her ominous. Although he cannot remember it, Yukari once prevented him from being spirited away to the Outside World.
Eiki Shiki, Yamaxanadu
When Yukari senses Eiki approaching in Seasonal Dream Vision, she and Yuyuko take their leave immediately to avoid speaking with her. Perfect Memento in Strict Sense notes that most long-lived youkai have encountered Eiki at least once and tend to avoid her due to her lectures.
Alice Margatroid
For reasons unknown, Alice is willing to confront Yukari in Immaterial and Missing Power despite otherwise avoiding powerful youkai like Remilia and Yuyuko. Yukari also arranged for Alice's dolls to be used for long-range communication in Subterranean Animism. Dialogue between the two in Immaterial and Missing Power indicates they knew each other beforehand. Like most characters, Alice remains wary of Yukari by default. Alice is also familiar with the various youkai roles and agreements that Yukari frequently promotes. In Alice's second bad ending in Immaterial and Missing Power, Yukari harshly scolds her, much to the amusement of those present.
Keine Kamishirasawa
Yukari and Keine met and fought at the Human Village during Imperishable Night. Keine's ability to hide history has no effect on Yukari, who was not even aware she was using it. The reason for this immunity is unexplained, though the frequent association of Yukari with history and reality leaves many possible explanations. Yukari also expressed dislike for Keine as a "human-faced beast."
Three Fairies of Light
Yukari first encountered the Three Fairies of Light in a continuation of Chapter 0 in Eastern and Little Nature Deity Chapter 5, asking if she could join in their pranks—prompting them to flee. Later, in Strange and Bright Nature Deity, she needed to repair a tree that was part of the Great Hakurei Barrier. She accomplished this by relocating the three fairies into the tree, but only after testing that they were too weak to pose a serious threat. They failed the test spectacularly, so Yukari allowed them to move in. Sunny's ability to reflect some of Yukari's danmaku did, however, manage to impress her somewhat.
Sumireko Usami
Sumireko's ability to enter Gensokyo through her dreams remains a mystery even to Yukari. Yukari observes that the more frequently Sumireko visits, the more dream souls—and eventually sleeping villagers from the Human Village—would be transferred to the human world to reduce the strain on the barrier. Recognizing the considerable power this requires, Yukari suspects that someone else may be guiding Sumireko, initially suspecting Kasen—though Kasen denies this, insisting Sumireko is coming through her own power. Yukari eventually states she will create dummies infused with the dreams of villagers to mitigate the shock.[2] When Aya requests an interview about Sumireko's free travel between worlds, Yukari claims it does not concern her and presents no issue, yet also remarks—somewhat suspiciously—that Sumireko is inadvertently fulfilling a role in strengthening the barrier between Gensokyo and the human world. Yukari later assists Sumireko on other occasions, such as in Antinomy of Common Flowers[3] and Violet Detector[4] (assuming it is not a dream dweller of hers).
Watatsuki no Toyohime
In Silent Sinner in Blue, Toyohime kills one of Yukari's shikigami crows. She and Yukari also have a brief exchange where Yukari calls her a "fool who took rank out of obligation" while Toyohime says Yukari had "good timing".
General Information
Name: Yukari Yakumo[5]
Titles
- Mastermind behind the Spiritng Away[6]
- Border of Phantasm[7]
- Youkai of Boundaries[8]
- Youkai that lurks in the boundary[9]
- Elusive and Two-Faced Youkai[10]
Origin: Touhou
Overall Series: Touhou Project
First Appearance: Touhou 07: Perfect Cherry Blossom
Latest Appearance: Touhou 20: Fossilized Wonders
Company: Team Shanghai Alice
Creator: ZUN
Actor: The following voice acted roles are all from fan-made series not apart of any canonical Touhou works.
- Japanese Voice Actors: Kikuko Inoue (Musou Kakyou: A Summer Day's Dream, Hifuu Club Activity Record ~ The Sealed Esoteric History), Shizuka Itō (Touhou Spell Bubble), Hitomi Ueda (Touhou LostWord (Yukari Yakumo)), Chihiro Ishiguro (Touhou LostWord (Yukari Yakumo)), Sakura Nakamura (Touhou LostWord (Yukari Yakumo)), Ayaka Shimizu (Touhou LostWord (Yukari Yakumo (Boundary Of Sand And Sea))), Mikoi Sasaki (Touhou LostWord (Yukari Yakumo (Boundary Of Sand And Sea))), Hina Yomiya (Touhou LostWord (Yukari Yakumo (Boundary Of Sand And Sea))), Juri Nagatsuma (Touhou LostWord (Yukari Yakumo (Cherry Blossom))), Juri Kimura (Touhou LostWord (Yukari Yakumo (Cherry Blossom))), Satomi Arai (Touhou LostWord (Yukari Yakumo (Cherry Blossom))), Rina Honnizumi (Touhou LostWord (Yukari Yakumo (Scarlet))), Megumi Nakajima (Touhou LostWord (Yukari Yakumo (Scarlet))), Saku Mizuno (Touhou LostWord (Yukari Yakumo (Scarlet))), Minori Suzuki (Touhou LostWord (Yukari Yakumo (Wordsmith No. 50))), Maki Kawase (Touhou LostWord (Yukari Yakumo (Wordsmith No. 50))), Ayaka Ohnishi (Touhou LostWord (Yukari Yakumo (Wordsmith No. 50))), Yukari Tamura (Touhou Gensou Eclipse), Aya Endō (Koumajou Remilia II: Stranger's Requiem), Yoko Hikasa (Touhou Spell Carnival)
Gender: Female
Sexuality: Homosexual (Flirts with Yuyuko, calling her elegant wherever she goes while teasing her for snow-watching in the middle of summer[11])
Pronouns: She/Her
Handedness: Right-Handed
Age: Over 1,200 (There is an article in the Youkai Encyclopedia from Aichi's Gensokyo Chronicle that seems to describe Yukari[12], which is noted that the Gensokyo Chronicle written by the first member of the Hieda line was more than 1200 years ago[13]. Yukari's existence at the very least predates the history of Gensokyo itself[8]. Noted by Ran to want revenge on the Lunarians for 1000 years ago[14])
Birthday: Unknown
Time Period: The world of Gensokyo itself is in a non-linear time period
Timeline: Main Timeline
Homeworld: Gensokyo
Residence: "Remotest Outskirts of Gensokyo"[6]/House on the boundary between the outside world and Gensokyo[15]
Story Role
- Perfect Cherry Blossom: Phantasm Stage Boss
- Immaterial and Missing Power: Playable and Boss Fighter
- Imperishable Night: Playable Character
- Scarlet Weather Rhapsody: Playable and Boss Fighter
- Antinomy of Common Flower: Playable and Boss Fighter
Legacy: Global Legacy (Yukari is well-known throughout Gensokyo being commonly known as the "gap youkai" and one to not trust)
Influence: Event Influence
Language: Japanese
Ethnicity: Japanese
Religion: N/A (Youkais lack faith, not caring about religious related values[16])
Classification: Gensokyo Sage, Youkai of Boundaries[6]
Species: Youkai
State of Being: Regular
In-Universe Creator: Unknown
Occupation: Gensokyo Sage
Combat Style: Boundary Fighting/Servant Fighting/Weapons Fighting
Affiliations: Yuyuko Saigyouji, Youmu Konpaku, Suika Ibuki, Reimu Hakurei, Marisa Kirisame, Ran Yakumo, Chen
Enemies: Lunar Capital, Watatsuki no Toyohime, Watasuki no Yorihime, Reimu Hakurei (Formerly), Marisa Kirisame (Formerly)
Height: Tall (It's noted by ZUN that he does not have an official height listed for characters, though generally speaking they are about as tall as height of a human in her late teens or older)[17]
Weight: Unknown
Status: Alive
- Innate Youkai Nature: Neutral Evil (Youkai carry about one thing in common, that they attack and prey upon humans, they only think of themselves, and they are the most dangerous enemies to humans[18])
- Unique Nature: Lawful Netural (The goal of Yukari is to protect Gensokyo to where she potentially would even consider things such as invading other lands in order to keep Gensokyo safe[19]. It's noted that no one can match her in the sincerity of her care and love for Gensokyo[7])
Protection Level: Global Protector (The goal of Yukari is to protect Gensokyo[20])
Threat Level: Potential Global Threat (Yukari potentially considers invading other lands in order to keep Gensokyo safe[21])
- Type(s) of Potential: Limitless Potential
- Level of Potential: Limitless
- Description: It's noted that Yukari's abilities if put to full use can affect anything would make it where there's no game, so for the purposes of the narrative she fights within spellcard rules[22].
- Limitations: Nothing notable.
Archetype: Trickster / Strategist / Mentor / Wildcard
Codex Statistics
Grade: S
Tier: At least 8-C, Far Higher with Spiritual Power, Continually Increasing with Equations
Cardinality: Finite
Dimensionality: 3-D
Attack Potency: At least Building level (Potency) (Yukari is noted to be friends with the strongest class of youkai, including oni like Suika Ibuki[23]. Referred to as the strongest youkai in Gensokyo[24]. Suika views Yukari as a worthy opponent to fight, noting that they haven't fought in a long time, meaning they have fought before spell card rules were even established[25]. This makes Yukari comparable if not superior to Oni who are able to cause nearby buildings collapse with just a step[26]), Far Higher with Spiritual Power (Spiritual Power is the main power source for how characters are able to fight, all of their attacks normally drain spirit and even blocking attacks drains spirit[27], where if they're out of spirit they cannot use bullets, special moves, or spell cards[28], where spiritual power is in the same layer as magic[29]. Noted how even Yumemi Okazaki's scientific magic truly pales in comparison with the real thing[30], which Yumemi noted to not make light of the power of her science as she could blow up the planet at any moment[31]), Continually Increasing with Equations (Ran notes that equations themselves are naturally shikigami and just as equations that neither diverge nor converge produce an infinte number of solid objects, so do the equations Yukari uses to increase her power indefinetely which by extension applies to Yukari as no matter how fast, strong, or intelligent Ran is Yukari will always be leagues above her as she's Yukari's shikigami[32]). Can ignore covnentional durability with Magic (Magic exists outside of the Grand Unified Theory[33], a theory with any model that merges electromagnetic, weak, and strong forces into a single force at high energies, unifying gravity with the electronuclear interaction, providing a more comprehensive theory of everything. Yumemi explains that on her world, all power can be explained by the Grand Unified Theory, however she posits an existence of a power not covered by the Theory: the power of magic[34]. Yumemi also explains that in the world of Gensokyo, magic unifies everything[35]. Magic is noted by Yumemi to have close ties with religion[36]. The second layer of reality is spirit and magic, while the first layer is where all things within the laws of physics presides, putting attacks with magic outside of the conventional laws of physics[29]) & Boundary Manipulation (The ability to manipulate boundaries makes Yukari capable of fundamentally undermining reality, examples including "If there was no water surface, there could be no lake. If there was no sky line, neither mountain nor sky could exist. Were it not for the Great Barrier, even Gensokyo itself wouldn't exist. If there were no boundaries, everything would probably exist as a single enrmous object"; this ability is also likened to creation and destruction, logically creating a new existence or conversly negating an existence[37])
Durability: At least Building level, Far Higher with Spiritual Power (Spiritual Power is what protects fighters from other spiritual attacks[38], where if they're out of spirit they cannot use bullets, special moves, spell cards or block attacks[39], where spiritual power is in the same layer as magic[29]), Continually Increasing with Equations. Her existence as a Youkai makes her difficult to kill (Reimu realized that only the Yin-Yang Orb was effective against non-human creatures[40], with it being noted that Reimu using her ofuda, her spirit power, and her martial arts all prove to be useless against her enemies[41], meaning Youkai cannot really be harmed by regular or standard weaponry. It's noted that one cannot defeat spirits or devilish powers without a weapon with an unnatural amount of spiritual power such as the Yin-Yang Orb[42]. Physical attacks such as a whacking a sake bottle over the head are considered violent methods that wouldn't work on youkai[43], with it only being spiritual attacks that cause fatal wounds to youkai[18]. When attempting to exterminate a youkai, one does not use weapons that cause physical damage, instead weapons with an "origin" are more preferable[44]. In the world beyond (Gensokyo), physical form has no meaning for all non-human entities[45])
Striking Strength: At least Building Class (Potency) (Referred to as the strongest youkai in Gensokyo[24] making her superior to vampires who are strong enough to crush boulders[46])
Lifting Strength: At least Class 5 (Referred to as the strongest youkai in Gensokyo[24] making her superior to vampires who have tremendous physical abilities, being able to uproot a thousand-year-old tree single-handedly[47]), Continually Increasing with Equations
Travel Speed: At least Massively Hypersonic+ (Comparable to vampires like Remilia, who are able to fly around the moon[48]. Vampires are able to run through the human village within the blink of an eye[47], reaching these speeds. Vampires are noted to be faster than the eye can follow[46]), likely Speed of Light (Vampires are the only species that are noted to possibly be able to keep up with Tengu[49], this should make them relative to Aya Shameimaru, where her spell card has her move so fast she starts becoming a beam of light[50]), Continually Increasing with Equations (Ran notes that equations themselves are naturally shikigami and just as equations that neither diverge nor converge produce an infinte number of solid objects, so do the equations Yukari uses to increase her power indefinetely which by extension applies to Yukari as no matter how fast, strong, or intelligent Ran is Yukari will always be leagues above her as she's Yukari's shikigami[32])
Attack Speed: At least Massively Hypersonic+, likely Speed of Light, Continually Increasing with Equations. Speed of Light with Outer Force Infinite Speed Flying Object (Sends an object that appears instantly as a light beam requiring it to be aim dodged[51]). Magic Attacks lack a defined speed (Magic exists outside of the Grand Unified Theory[52], a theory with any model that merges electromagnetic, weak, and strong forces into a single force at high energies, unifying gravity with the electronuclear interaction, providing a more comprehensive theory of everything. Yumemi explains that on her world, all power can be explained by the Grand Unified Theory, however she posits an existence of a power not covered by the Theory: the power of magic[53]. Yumemi also explains that in the world of Gensokyo, magic unifies everything[54]. Magic is noted by Yumemi to have close ties with religion[55])
Reaction Speed: At least Massively Hypersonic+, likely Speed of Light, Continually Increasing with Equations
Stamina: Superhuman (Fought with Remilia[56] until the sun rised[57] without showing signs of tiring)
Range: Standard Melee, Extended Melee' with her Parasol, Multiversal with Boundary Manipulation (The ability to manipulate boundaries makes Yukari capable of fundamentally undermining reality[37]. Yukari's abilities to manipulate boundaires is noted that it can affect anything and if she put it to full use then there wouldn't even be a game[22]. It's noted that Yukari can manipulate the boundaries between anything and everything[10]. Noted by ZUN that Yukari's powers keep the games' world and the players' world separate[58])
Intelligence: At least Supergenius Intelligence (Yukari is noted to possess a superhuman intellect especially within mathematics[37]. Her shikigami, Ran Yakumo, just to kill time calculated the width of the Sanzu River, a river that separates this world and the next and having no fixed width and being famous for extending to extreme distances under certain circumstances, which made it believed to be that calculating the width of this river to be impossible[59], and is noted that her computational prowess is unbelievable, being able to solve complicated equations in an insant and decided to try and calculate the width fo the SAnzu River just to waste time[59], with it requiring some degree of specialized knowledged needed to understand the formulas involved[59] that require several thousand forumlae in order to solve the equation[59]. Ran while bored tries to calculate things like how many particles it would take to blanket Gensokyo with mist or how long it would take to reach the North Star[32]. Despite all of these achievements, Ran notes how Yukari is far better at her in equations and that she can never solve any of her equations, noting that Yukari would determine not only the Sanzu River's width bu talso the depth of the bottom of Avici, how long it would take Ursa Major to devour the North Star all in an instant[32]), Continually Increasing with Equations (Ran notes that equations themselves are naturally shikigami and just as equations that neither diverge nor converge produce an infinte number of solid objects, so do the equations Yukari uses to increase her power indefinetely which by extension applies to Yukari as no matter how fast, strong, or intelligent Ran is Yukari will always be leagues above her as she's Yukari's shikigami[32]. It is noted that Yukari's high intelligence with regard to manipulating numbers makes her excel at calculations and analysis[60])
Grandmaster level (Due to Yukari's long lifespan she has a wealth of knowledge and experience spanning over 1000 years[37]. Made yin-yang orbs that let her talk to Reimu during the events of Subterranean Animism[61])
Grandmaster level (Yukari is surprisingly talkative and will gladly tell someone all sorts of things about herself or Gensokyo, though it is impossible to confirm any of her stories[23]. She is also friends with youkai of the strongest class[23]. Yukari's notices allows her to do things like warn Patchouli to watch the underground for a while[62] with the plot in Subterranean Animism having Patchouli notice the issue with the underground[63].)
Grandmaster level (Yukari is always astute and calculating, preparing for ways to defeat opponents, she initially appeared before Reimu and Kasen[64] to stop them from fighting Shion anD Joon Yorigami[65] and had others go to fight Joon and Shion[66] to try and get information on how to defeat them[67] with her learning from Byakuren that when using compulsory possession the master can't get the slave out and the slave won't be hurt either[68], and learned how the ability for perfect possession worked from learning that the Shinmyoumaru Sukuna they were talking to was the dream world version having her realize one can switch slaves in the middle of a fight[69] which she used to counter Shion and Joon's Possession Exchange Absolute Loser[70]. Tricked the Lunarian Emissaries by pretending to be angry for an entire month and sending two decoys to distract them while in reality she sent Yuyuko to sneak in there and steal something from them[71], as she knew she stood no chance against Toyohime in a straight match and instead opted to weaponize her being inferior to make Toyohime believe she checkmated her[72], on top of outsmarting both of them she even outsmarted their teacher Eirin Yakogoro[73], who is the Japanese god of wisdom[74])
Grandmaster level
Powers and Techniques
- Air Dash (Can perform[75] dashes while in the air[76])
- Acrobatics (Every fighter has three high jumps they can use in combat to get around their opponent while fighting[77])
- Second Wind (All characters after their health bar is drained can recover with a second health bar for a second round[78])
- Counter (All characters have counter hits, which cause wall slams and ground slams[79])
- Guard Break (All characters have two Guard Crush attacks[80] that can break through guards if not blocked correctly[81], and cause the fighter to instantly lose all spirit[82])
- Aerial Recovery (Fighters can recover in the air while being combo'd in the air[83])
- Autopilot (All fighters can instantly bomb right after being time stopped by Sakuya to defend themselves[84])
- Invincibility Frames (Grazing allows the fighter to pass through all of the projectiles hitting them, taking no damage[85])
- Restoration (When a fighter loses spirit, they enter a state of Guard Crush where they need to wait for the spirit bar to refill[86])
- Transmutation (When fighters attack another fighter, they automatically turn all of their projectiles into points that refill their spirit bar[87])
- Invulnerability
- Spirit Manipulation (Special Attacks and techniques utilize the spirit bar[89])
- Vibration Manipulation (All fighters can use bombs in order to cause a massive shockwave that pushes the opponents back[91])
- Acrobatics (Fighters are able to jump high into the air and do somersaults and backflips[94]. Fights can also perform a super jump, to jump far higher into the air[95])
- Guard Break (Through Guard Crush, breaks the opponent's guard[96])
- Second Wind (Fighters can get back up and fight against for a second round even after their health has been depleted[97])
- Aerial Recovery (Fighters can recover from being launched through the air[98])
- Counter (Fighters can perform a Guard Reversal to parry an attack while guarding to send the opponent flying away[99])
- Invincibility Frames (Throgh grazing, allows fighters to dash through projectiles[100])
- Statistics Boost (With Spell Amplifier, grants 2 spell cards if uninterrupted[101])
- Healing (With Illness Recovery Charm, heals a small bit of health if uninterupted[102])
- Restoration (With Magic Potion, spirit recovers temporarily faster[103]. With Grimoire, spirit recovery is permanently faster[104])
- Damage Reduction (With Sacrificial Doll, a doll that absorbs some damage taken[105])
- Ability Optimization (With Ibuki Gourd, grants two cards if uninterupted[106])
- Nullification
- Statistics Boost (With Control Rod, deals more damage but also takes more damage[110])
- Super Armor (With Dragon Star, grants hyper-armour that breaks after 2 hits[111])
- Invulnerability
- Metaphysical Invulnerability: With Three Heavenly Drops, grants invulnerability after the third card[112].
- Summoning (With Catfish's Great Earthquake, summons a giant catfish to crash into the ground[113])
- Ice Manipulation (With Frozen Frog, creates an icy floor that causes anyone to trip over it by dashing or jumping into it[114])
- Air Manipulation
- Energy Manipulation
- Time Manipulation
- Forcefield Manipulation (With Custom Parasol, protects against most projectiles with a forcefield in front of the character[118])
- Spirit Manipulation
- Vibration Manipulation (All fighters can use bombs in order to cause a massive shockwave that pushes the opponents back[122])
- Weather Manipulation (With Temperment Manifestation, changes the weather[123]. With Sword of Scarlet Perception, changes the weather[124]. During story mode, all fighters have a mysterious mist around them and said mist changes the surrounding weather suited to each person's temperment[125]), which induces the following effects:
- Sunny: Statistics Boost & Ability Optimization (Let's one fly longer and turn quicker, Border Escapes also cost nothing[126])
- Drizzle: Statistics Boost (Spell Cards deal more damage[127])
- Cloudy: Ability Optimization (Spell Cards now cost 1 card less[128])
- Blue Sky: Ability Optimization (Special attacks can be cancelled into each other[129]. 4Special-Special cancels cost half an orb[130])
- Hail: Ability Optimization & Statistics Boost (Projectiles hurt more and spirit regenerates quicker[131])
- Spring Haze: Attack Nullification (Melee attacks are disabled[132]), Power Modification (In Hisoutensoku's Spring Haze, melee attacks can be used but now they can easily be grazed through[133]) Ability Optimization (Spirit regenerates faster[134])
- Heavy Fog: Damage Manipulation (Dealing damage gives health[135])
- Snow: Spell gauge decreases with damage taken[136]
- Sunshower: Guard Break (Incorrectly blocked melee attacks instantly guard crushes[137]. In Hisoutensoku's Sun Shower, no orbs are lost on guard breaks[138])
- Sprinkle: Statistics Boost (All special moves are upgraded to level 4[139])
- Tempest: Ability Optimization (Can fly 3 times in the air, all melee attacks can be jump cancelled[140]), Statistics Boost (Dash speed and distance increased[141])
- Mountain Vapor: Perception Manipulation (All spell cards are hidden[142]), Power Modification (The current deck is randomized[143])
- River Mist: Spatial Manipulation (Both fighters are kept a fixed distance from each other[144]. In Hisoutensoku's River Mist, the characters slide back and forth[145]), Space-Time Manipulation (Noted by ZUN that manipulating time also means manipulating space and vice versa[146])
- Typhoon: Nullification (Removes hitsun and removes the ability to block[147])
- Calm: Healing (A healing beacon on who hit last[148])
- Diamond Dust Technique Nullification (Disables the use of ground teching, damage is taken on wakeup[149])
- Dust Storm: Counter (Everything is a counter hit[150])
- Scorching Sun: Statistics Boost (More damage in the air but the air hurts[151])
- Monsoon: Wall and Ground bounce more[152]
- Aurora: Probability Manipulation (Any random weather effect can happen[153]).
- Resistance to
- Extreme Colds (Characters can fight while in a hail[154])
- Environmental Hazards (Characters can fight in Typhoons[155])
- Electricity Manipulation (Fighters can take electricity attacks and keep fighting[156])
- Energy Manipulation, Essence Manipulation, Soul Manipulation & Absorption (Fighters are unaffected by the scarlet mist of Tenshi, which are causing the number of phantoms to decrease, where those who died are not turning into ghost and seem to have simply vanished[157], with it being found out that the all living things temperaments are rising up and being sucked into the sky[158], with the scarlet mist being non-perceptive qi, the essence of living things' temperamnets[159])
- Flight (All characters within Urban Legend in Limbo and Antinomy in Common Flowers combat through flight)
- Air Dash (All fighters are able to dash through the air[160])
- Aura (All fighters have an occult aura around them[161])
- Possession (Fighters can use "Perfect Possession"[162] which allows them to swap out with their teammate during fights[163]. Perfect Possession is even achievable on those within the dream world[164])
- Charged Attack (Can charg their shots for far stronger attacks[168])
- Second Wind (Fighters can get back up and fight for multiple rounds[169])
- Erasure
- Rumor Manipulation (During the events of Urban Legend in Limbo[171], the cast is able to freely control the urban legends for attacks[172]. Taking the phenomenon and making the power their own[173])
- Forcefield Manipulation (Fighters automatically put up a forcefield when grounded[174]).
- Resistance to
- Erasure & Nullification (When fighters use a "Weird Spell", it works harder than a spell card, where a fighter's attacks barely have any effect on them[175])
- Possession, Body Swapping & Mind Manipulation (It's noted by Kasen that the Perfect Possession her and Reimu have is a consenual one, though there are cases where Perfect Possession could occur while bypassing the master's consciousness which could be abused to one-sidedly possess one's body[176], meaning that if one has their guard up[177] and do not consent, they cannot be possessed[178]. Fighters who are already perfect possessed cannot be possessed by another[179])
- Superhuman Physical Characteristics
- Superhuman Strength (Youkais can easily kill humans[182], with it being noted that if it came to open conflict between humans and youkai, they would probably wipe out the village in the blink of an eye[183]. Youkai have stronger bodies than humans[18]. Youkai are noted to be physically stronger than humans[44])
- Superhuman Durability
- Superhuman Speed
- Superhuman Reaction
- Superhuman Lifting
- Superhuman Energy Efficiency
- Enhanced Senses (Unlike humans, youkai can see in the dark to the point that it's a way for them to spot a human[184])
- Extrasensory Perception (Youkai are able to see the human village that Keine made essentially invisible from history from humans[185])
- Longevity (Marisa notes that youkai live a really long time, beyond even human years[186]. Youkais have longer lifespans than humans[18])
- Aura (Noted that Youkai possess an aura[187][188], along with an energy source called "Youkai Energy"[189])
- Invisibility (Youkai are noted to be life-forms that are invisible to humans, appearing to them via fluctuations[190]. Noted that all objects within Gensokyo were all hidden in the invisible gaps of the quantum world[191])
- Non-Standard Damage (Youkai's attacks are spiritual based whereas having standard durability against them does not help. When a youkai has injured someone, they need special recovery from youkai practitioners otherwise they cannot recover normally[192])
- Non-Standard Defenses (Reimu realized that only the Yin-Yang Orb was effective against non-human creatures[193], with it being noted that Reimu using her ofuda, her spirit power, and her martial arts all prove to be useless against her enemies[194], meaning Youkai cannot really be harmed by regular or standard weaponry. It's noted that one cannot defeat spirits or devilish powers without a weapon with an unnatural amount of spiritual power such as the Yin-Yang Orb[195]. Physical attacks such as a whacking a sake bottle over the head are considered violent methods that wouldn't work on youkai[196], with it only being spiritual attacks that cause fatal wounds to youkai[18]. When attempting to exterminate a youkai, one does not use weapons that cause physical damage, instead weapons with an "origin" are more preferable[44]. In the world beyond (Gensokyo), physical form has no meaning for all non-human entities[45])
- Absorption
- Regeneration
- Types: Passive
- Source: Metaphysical Regeneration
- Capabilities: Youkai have stronger bodies than humans, thus even if they're torn limb from limb they can heal right away[18]. Youkai can heal wounds like tiger slashes in no time at all[200]. Non-Humans within Gensokyo do not have much demand for medicine for physical illnesses as they are comprised mostly of spirit, thus they can always regenerate from their spirit[201].
- Transformation
- Acausality
- For Their Physiology
- For their Magic
- Reliance
- True Sight (It's noted by ZUN[211] that Youkai can see through illusions that humans can't[212])
- Propagation (Youkai are able to sever their heads from their body and multiply them[213])
- Incorporeality (Youkai's bodies in truth are just their souls[214]. Youkai's do not possess DNA, with the concept being foreign to them, noting how humans for some reason are under the control of them[215])
- Empowerment (Youkai are amplified by the power of the moon[216], Mima specifically reqested Yumemi in an ending to stop the moon so that she could always be empowered by its light[217])
- Battlefield Removal
- Application Based: Ordinary youkai[218], can send themself and their opponent to a different battlefield[219].
- Magic (Youkais have developed a civilization of magic, making it a common ability used by them[220]. Magic exists outside of the Grand Unified Theory[221], a theory with any model that merges electromagnetic, weak, and strong forces into a single force at high energies, unifying gravity with the electronuclear interaction, providing a more comprehensive theory of everything. Yumemi also explains that in the world of Gensokyo, magic unifies everything[222]. Magic is noted by Yumemi to have close ties with religion[223])
- Extrasensory Perception (Noted by Patchouli that those who use magic are sensitive to changes in temperment[224])
- Transferal (Magic users can transfer their magic into a tool, having the tool change depending on the user[225])
- Acausality
- For their Magic
- Irregular Causality
- Unknown: A youkai's magical power exists outside of the Grand Unified Theory[226], a theory with any model that merges electromagnetic, weak, and strong forces into a single force at high energies, unifying gravity with the electronuclear interaction, providing a more comprehensive theory of everything. It's further explained that magic is a force that cannot be explained by the Grand Unified Theory, with Yumemi even proposing a "Non-Unified Magic World" theory[227]. Yumemi explains that on her world, all power can be explained by the Grand Unified Theory, however she posits an existence of a power not covered by the Theory: the power of magic[228]. Magic does not exist in Yumemi's world, which is a Probability World, a different world, but in the same dimension[229].
- Irregular Causality
- For their Magic
- Holy Manipulation (Magic is noted by Yumemi to have close ties with religion[230])
- Temperature Manipulation (Youkai being released caused the room to get more cold[231])
- Emotion Manipulation (A youkai's Noh is able to take away people's emotions[232])
- Portal Manipulation (The denizens of Makai found out about the human world and managed to obtain the power to make a hole in the barrier[233])
- Forcefield Manipulation (Youkais use their magic in order to strengthen and reinforce the great barrier with an ever stronger power to prevent invasion by humans[234])
- Curse Manipulation (Youkai energy naturally curses people[235])
- Quantum Manipulation (Youkai are naturally in a state of lurking within quantum gaps, were they can exist in both the human world and Gensokyo freely while not being noticed in the human world and passing through objects, being compared to the idea of Schrödinger's Cat[236]).
- Spirit Manipulation (The bombs used are referred to as spiritual attacks[237], being directly called spiritual attacks[238])
- Explosion Manipulation (When bomb users are cornered from attacks they cannot repel with regular attacks they can release a massive spirit explosive that destroys all objects on screen[239], along with killing all enemies on screen[240])
- Magnetism Manipulation (When using a bomb[241], all items on screen will be attracted towards the user[242])
- Perception Manipulation (When using a bomb the screen flashes white and an image of the bomb user can be seen[243])
- Logic Manipulation (The Great Hakurei Barrier is a boundary of common sense, which things with high spiritual power in the cause to waver[244])
- Nullification & Erasure
- Projectile Nullification & Physical Erasure: Bomb users can use a bomb to nullify & erase all projectiles on screen[245]. This makes the enemy incapable of[246] shooting out any further projectiles until the bomb's duration is done[247].
- Invulnerability
- Link Manipulation (Strong Emotions can be contained in objects that can connect between the main world and the netherworld[249]).
- Resistance to
- Extreme Temperatures (Youkai are unaffected by things such as heatstrokes[250])
- Sealing (Youkais can overtime break out of seals[251]. Youkais use their magic in order to strengthen and reinforce the great barrier with an ever stronger power to prevent invasion by humans[252])
- Observation & Subjective Reality (Once a youkai/non-human enters Gensokyo or if a youkai/non-human is a native, they are liberated from the spell of human imagination and obtain true freedom, being able to develop their own characteristics, though the observations of the humans from within Gensokyo can have some effect on them to a degree[253])
- Probability Manipulation (Yumemi explains that on her world, all power can be explained by the Grand Unified Theory, however she posits an existence of a power not covered by the Theory: the power of magic[254]. Magic does not exist in Yumemi's world, which is a Probability World, a different world, but in the same dimension[255])
- Madness Manipulation (Unaffected from the affects of the Lunarian Full Moon, a hypnosis that drove the humans who came to the Moon insane[256], further being noted by Reisen that the moon drives people insane[257])
- Illusion Manipulation (Youkai are unaffected by illusions[211] as they can easily see through them[212])
- Disease Manipulation (Non-Humans within Gensokyo do not have much demand for medicine for physical illnesses as they are comprised mostly of spirit, thus they are always fit and robust with no diseases[201])
- Matter Manipulation & Physics Manipulation (Youkai are noted to be fluctuations that exist in worlds which are not dominated by concepts such as photons, but instead other types of particles not explored by humans in the Outside World[190], with the grand unified theory being the reason for all pheneomna in the human world, which does not apply to Gensokyo[258]. Gensokyo is a brane world dominated by particles with different properties, not following the standard physics of the real world[191])
- Gravity Manipulation (Noted by Maribel that in the world of Gensokyo, they the gravitons likely have a different structure and the world's properties are likely different too, likening it to being one of the brane worlds[259])
- Information Manipulation, Biological Manipulation & Disease Manipulation (Youkai's do not possess DNA[215], the hereditary material and information of DNA that is stored as a code made up of all things that make an organism[260], unique through biological instructions[261] and controls all cells in one's body[262], where normally one that lacks DNA would have adominal pain, nausea dizziness, rapid immune system collapse into systemic infection and system-wide organ failure leading to death[263])
- Life Manipulation & Death Manipulation (Youkai cannot be affected by the Hourai Elixir[264], which removes death from part of one's existence[265], where being without death is being without life[266], being free from the boundaries of life and death[267])
- Boundary Manipulation (Yukari's main ability is controlling boundaries. The ability to manipulate boundaries makes Yukari capable of fundamentally undermining reality, with everything built upon the existence of boundaries[37]. It's noted that Yukari can manipulate the boundaries between anything and everything[10]. Through controlling boundaries, she can send forth a variety of rule-breaking attacks[10]. Noted by ZUN that Yukari's powers keep the games' world and the players' world separate[58])
- Creation & Destruction (The ability to manipulate boundaries is an ability of creation and destruction, it logically creates a new existence, or conversely negates some existence[37])
- Severing (With Boundary of Intellect and Feet, runs a straight boundary, splitting anything in place, with it being noted that being able to draw a boundary on anything means that there is nothing that can't be cut in two[270])
- Absolute Access (Yukari is capable of moving to an entirely separate location between gaps in space, whether it be her entire body or only a part of her, this is not limited to physical space but also applies to inside of pictures, others' dreams, and even stories[37])
- Immersion
- Dimensional Travel (With Fantasy Maniacal Rift, retreats into a gap while moving, then appears from the exit while attacking[271])
- Clairvoyance (With Magic Eye "Laplace's Demon", a large number of eyes appear staring at the enemy, once they see an exploitable weakness, they attack, being noted to be how Yukari knows what's going on in all of Gensokyo at all times[272])
- Portal Manipulation (With Urashima's Box, Filled with Lament, opens a gap in the sky and drops debris from it directly onto the opponent[273]. With Home is Where One Lays to Rest, an attack that thrusts debris out from a gap, covering a wide, roughly fan-shaped area[274]. With Flesh Dismantler, sinks into a gap, then attacks while lunging out[275]. Can summon objects like trains to come out of her gaps[276])
- Unblockable Attack (With Abandoned Line "Aimless Journey to the Abandoned Station", a dramatic move that sends an abandoned train charging forth from a gap, the train cannot be grazed or guarded[277])
- Nullification (Yukari can use her gaps to split herself in half and should be proxy be able to do it to others[278])
- Energy Manipulation
- Vacuum Manipulation (With 'Rest on Stone', opens up a hole that sucks in projectiles and then the projectiles are shot out with 'Rinse with Stone'[280])
- Matter Manipulation & Antimatter Manipulation (With Universe of Matter and Antimatter, places two gaps that will be drawn together and react with each other on contact, creating a huge distortion attack[281])
- Door Manipulation (With Chimera's Wings, places a gap door instantly moving to it when needed[282])
- Invisibility (She lives somewhere on the boundary between Gensokyo and the outer world, which makes her unable to be found as most people can't see the border[9])
- Destruction
- Metaphysical Destruction: Her ability allows her the power to easily destroy Gensokyo[9].
- Battlefield Removal
- Animal Manipulation (With Sinister Spirits "Double Black Death Butterfly", Yukari shoots butterflies that gather around the scent of rotten flesh[283])
- Spirit Manipulation (With "Boundary of Spirit Medium and Divine Spirit"[284], Yukari controls the boundary between Spirit Mediums and Divine Spirits (master and slave)[285], where she flipped the border of master and slave[286])
- Size Manipulation (With Barrier "Curse of Dreams and Reality", a spell card that uses two types of danmaku: an eternally-expanding dream and a rapidly-shrinking reality[287])
- Law Manipulation (With Yukari's Arcanum "Danmaku Barrier", made a boundary line between "actual attacks" and "play" and made it into a barrier allowing her to shrink her danmaku space while the density increases, constricting one's space so they cannot escape[288])
- Light Manipulation (Noted by ZUN that Yukari sits at the boundary of the visible light spectrum, where the world beyond violet is invisible to human eyes[58]. Yukari manipulated the border between night and noon making the evening as bright as noon[289]. Holds the border between night and the moon in her hands[290])
- Spatial Manipulation (It's noted that Gensokyo's barrier can be seen as the boundary separating the inside and outside where despite the outside world and Gensokyo being physically contiguous, the boundary's existence is what creates the place called Gensokyo[291]. Threatened to make it to where Marisa could never get out of the Forest of Magic if she didn't stop complaining[292])
- Dimension Manipulation (With Border Sign "Boundary of 2D and 3D", controls the boundary between the 2nd and 3rd dimension[293], sending a boundary running along the screen edge, lingering on the screen as a damaging trap, changing directions several times[294]. Noted that anything can come out of her gaps, a mysterious detritus, a dimensional rift, or even Yukari herself[10])
- Form Manipulation & Nothingness Manipulation (With Border Sign "Boundary of Form and Emptiness", controls the boundary between form and emptiness[295])
- Quantum Manipulation (With Border Sign "Boundary of Wave and Particle" waves become particle sand back to waves with Yukari controlling the boundary between Wave and Particles effectively inducing wave-particle duality[296])
- Truth Manipulation (Yukari invaded the moon by modifying the boundary between truth and falsehood and plunging into the moon's reflection on the lake's surface[297])
- Forcefield Manipulation (With Border Sign "Quadruple Barrier", creates several overlapping boundaries, forming a barrier that can hit nearby opponents[298]. With Barrier "Objective Barrier", fires a set of four boundaries that traverse the edges of the screen, it attacks from every edge at once[299])
- Dream Manipulation & Reality Warping (With Barrier "Curse of Dreams and Reality", Yukari controls the boundary between dream and reality[301])
- Velocity Manipulation (With Barrier "Balance of Motion and Stillness", Yukari controls the boundary between motion and stilness[302])
- Light Manipulation & Darkness Manipulation (With Barrier "Mesh of Light and Darkness", controls the boundary between light and dark[303])
- Space-Time Manipulation (Yukari merely appearing[304] had her adjust the sky to enjoy both the night and day[305])
- Vector Manipulation (With Evil Spirits "Dreamland of Straight and Curve" controls the boundaries of directions such as straight and curve[306])
- Biological Manipulation (With Boundary of Humans and Youkaki, controls the boundary between humans and youaki[307])
- Life Manipulation & Death Manipulation (With Barrier "Boundary of Life and Death" controls the boundary between life and death[308]. Yukari was the one that weakened the the boundary between the world of the living and the world of the dead and considered it a trivial request to restore the boundary between both[6])
- Damage Manipulation (Hong Meiling notes that whenever she was attacking Yukari shoe felt some odd resistance, making her question if she was wearing something under her clothes[309], when Rinnosuke swiped at the mallet with all his might, Yukari's hand stopped it to which Rinnosuke noted it felt like hitting a pillow[310])
- Illusion Manipulation & Subjective Reality (Yukari set up Gensokyo by creating a boundary between illusion and reality around Gensokyo creating a new world, establishing Gensokyo as an illusionary world and the outside as the real world making the youkai no longer weakened by the outside world[311])
- Season Manipulation (Noted by Yukari it's easier for her to manipulate the border between Winter and Spring[312])
- Sleep Manipulation (Yukari notes that she's responsible for noctambulism as she manipulates the border between asleep and awake[313])
- Logic Manipulation (The Great Hakurei Barrier is a boundary of common sense, which things with high spiritual power in the cause to waver[314], which Yukari is noted to be the creator of such a barrier[315])
- Axiom Manipulation (As boundaries are axioms for why all things exist the way they do)
- Principle Manipulation
Should be able to replicate anything Maribel Hearn can do as Yukari has at least a thousand years of experience with her ability while Merry's ability was initially only able to see the borders of the boundaries between the worlds[316], and then eventually evolved into being able to manipulate boundaries[317], thus her abilities should still be novice in comparisson to Yukari, giving her:
- Boundary Manipulation (Maribel's abilities eventually evolve into being able to manipulate boundaries[317])
- Enhanced Senses (Merry's was already noted to have sharpened senses and after she came back from the sanitorium her sharpened senses seemed to be on a whole new level[318])
- Extrasensory Perception (Merry is able to see the borders of the boundaries between the worlds without needing to do a single thing[316], she describes this as memories of her family lineage having a special sort of spiritual sensitivity that allows her to see borders (in other words, boundaries) throughout the world[319]. Later her abilities have her be able to see not just the gaps but entire other worlds[320]. Maribel was able to feel the space change around the train, with Renko noting that they might've been put into a different space-time[321]. Noted that she's able to see multiple worlds at the same time[322])
- Bestowal (Maribel is able to share her power to see other worlds with Renko through covering her eyes[323])
- Transferal (Maribel is able to transfer her abilities into objects such as mirrors[324])
- Dimensional Travel (Maribel with her powers is able to control boundaries to travel to other worlds[317])
Okina notes that Reimu's border abilities are similar to Yukari's[325], thus Yukari should be able to replicate any border abilities Reimu can use, which includes:
- Boundary Manipulation (Okina notes that Reimu's border abilities are similar to Yukari's[326]. Reimu opened a gap in order to reach to where Yukari was[327]. With Dream Sign "Duplex Barrier", a spell card with a mysterious power that turns space inside-out, it widens the range of one's magic and, it was noted by Reimu that it is a barrier that is a boundary line between things and having two barriers on top of each other is equivalent to a world with no boundaries[328]. With Binding Border, sets two forcfields between the opponent[329], at level max it adds 2 extra borders above and below the opponent[330]. Yukari's boundary manipulation was able to have Reimu[331] wrap around to the opposite side of screen[332], which Reimu is able to use herself in Touhou 13.5[333]. Manipulated the Boundary Between Seasons so that there would be no location in existence she can be ejected[334])
- Intangibility
- Battlefield Removal
- Willpower Manipulation (Duplex Barrier is described as being barriers created from willpower[338])
- Abstract Manipulation
- Spatial Manipulation (With Boundary "Duplex Danmaku Barrier", a spell card that acts as a large-scale version of Duplex Barrier, trapping the opponent in part of the barrier too[339]. It's described that the bullets fly in straight lines, but the barrier distorts their path[340]. It's also noted that no matter how hard the opponent runs after Reimu, she just gets further away due to the power of Duplex Barrier[341])
- Perception Manipulation (The Duplex Barriers are noted to have one's own common sense get in the way as they rely too much on what they see while the bullets are being fired[343])
- Electricity Manipulation (With Boundary "Expanding Boundary", causes an expanding boundary of electricity outwards[344])
- Superhuman Physical Characteristics
- Genius Intelligence
- Weapon Mastery
- Social Influencing (Yukari is noted by Miko to be the one who rules Gensokyo from the shadows, being a master manipulator[346])
- Poker Face (Pretended to be angry for an entire month fooling the Lunarians despite being under their capture for an entire month[347])
- Preparation (Yukari is always astute and calculating, preparing for ways to defeat opponents, she initially appeared before Reimu and Kasen[348] to stop them from fighting Shion anD Joon Yorigami[349] and had others go to fight Joon and Shion[350] to try and get information on how to defeat them[351] with her learning from Byakuren that when using compulsory possession the master can't get the slave out and the slave won't be hurt either[352], and learned how the ability for perfect possession worked from learning that the Shinmyoumaru Sukuna they were talking to was the dream world version having her realize one can switch slaves in the middle of a fight[353] which she used to counter Shion and Joon's Possession Exchange Absolute Loser[354]. When facing against a mirror world version of herself, she decides to look into closley how it is reversed left and right but the up and down don't reverse[355]. Yukari's notices allows her to do things like warn Patchouli to watch the underground for a while[62] with the plot in Subterranean Animism having Patchouli notice the issue with the underground[63]. Tricked the Lunarian Emissaries by pretending to be angry for an entire month and sending two decoys to distract them while in reality she sent Yuyuko to sneak in there and steal something from them[356], as she knew she stood no chance against Toyohime in a straight match and instead opted to weaponize her being inferior to make Toyohime believe she checkmated her[357])
- Breaking the Fourth Wall (Touhou characters constantly acknowledge being a stage boss[358]. Noted by ZUN that Yukari's powers keep the games' world and the players' world separate[58])
- Cartoon Physics (Gensokyo is a world that lacks and defies common sense[359], where characters can explode[360], this is even acknowledged with ZUN roleplaying as the characters in-universe that they explode upon defeat[361]. Despite this they will still come back, even human characters that do not have regeneration)
- Power Modification (Spell Card Rules allows someone to apply meaning and a name to an attack to form it[362], allowing for people to use abilities like Sakuya's time stop[363])
- Nullification
- Helper Call (If an unbelievably powerful youkai is lurking about, they'll cause fairies to aggregate in large numbers[365])
- Non-Standard Interaction
- Metaphysical Interaction: As a non-human that can only be truly harmed from powerful spiritual attacks, they should also be able to harm other non-humans.
- Abstract Interaction: Yukari is able[366] to lean on gaps[367], and naturally sit on them[368], and attack with them while sitting on them[369].
- Formless Interaction: Can interact with Suika in her mist form[370], where in this state Suika exists in a state of borderless purity where Yukari cannot use her boundary powers on her[371].
- Flight (Flew into the battlefield[372]. One of her natural sprites has her floating in the air while hanging on nothing[373])
- Accelerated Development
- Other
- Physical Stats & Abilities: Ran notes that equations themselves are naturally shikigami and just as equations that neither diverge nor converge produce an infinte number of solid objects, so do the equations Yukari uses to increase her power indefinetely which by extension applies to Yukari as no matter how fast, strong, or intelligent Ran is Yukari will always be leagues above her as she's Yukari's shikigami[32].
- Mathematics Manipulation
- Other
- Familiar (Yukari's weapon is he Shikigami, Ran Yakumo, who will chase down and attack a target until Yukari either stops shooting or the target falls[8]. This ability is acknowledged as "Ability to Operate Shikigami" where the shiki resembles the computer program of the outside world and carries out their master's order exactly as commanded[60]. Her Shikigami Ran Yakumo can also employ their own shikigami due to how powerful they are who by proxy also works under Yukari[374])
- Familiar Summoning (With Shikigami "Ran Yakumo", summons Ran and comamnds her to attack[375]. With Shikigami "Chen", summons Ran's shikigami Chen to attack[376]. With Eyes that View Change, one of Yukari's familairs being an eye from the gap targets the enemy, it becomes a stationary platform that offers supporting fire and it follows a designated path[377])
- Pierce Resistance
- Standard Pierce Resistance: Notes that shooting cutting, stabbing, hitting, and killing are all useless against her[378])
- Pain Tolerance (Feels no pain from splitting her body in half through gaps[379])
- Reality Separation (Yukari resides in the boundary between Gensokyo and the outside world and only ever physically appears through gaps[23])
- Existence Grounding (After Reimu demanded to see the culprit behind the incident in Immaterial and Missing Power[380], Yukari revealed Suika in her physical form[381] where Suika was initially in a borderless form[382])
- Curtain Fire
- As a playable
- As a boss
- Multi-Directional & Rapid Fire: Fires out hundreds of bullets in all directions, filling the entire screen[384], and that adds an extra layer under the already hundreds of bullets being fired out[385]. Shoots out hundreds of bullets that move in a clock-wise pattern as they're getting shot out[386]. Shoots out two orbs that explode into dozens of projectiles shooting out in all directions and start tracking the opponent and shoots these out repeatedly[387]. Shoots out hundreds of bullets in a flower-like shape[388]. Shoots out several orbs in all directions while shooting out dozens of energy projectiles in a spiral pattern repeatedly that fills the screen[389]. Shoots out two orbs that folllow with dozens of energy projectiles while lasers are shot sporadically all across the screen[390]. Shoots out dozens of bullets from the left and right that curve and towards the opponent while she also shoots large energy orbs repeatedly[391]. Shoots lasers in 6 directions with energy bullets shooting out from all of those directions while she teleports around[392]. Shoots out dozens of energy projectiles and then makes a manji shaped laser that moves in a clockwise motion while shooting out energy bullets in all directions[393]. Shoots out dozens of bulelts sporadically and then all circle as they get pulled in[394]. Sends out her Shikigami Ran who spins around and shoots out energy projectiles in all directions she moves around in[395]. Traps the opponent in a border with lasers shooting out if they try to leave it and then shoots dozens of energy projectiles within it while the border moves around and closes in[396]. Shoots out bullets in a clockwise and counter-clockwise pattern with hundreds of bullets of differnet sizes filling the screen[397]. Makes a danmaku border that travels around the opponent and closes in on them while spinning around in a circle and shooting outwards repeatedly[398].
- Spirit Manipulation (With Fantasy Manji-Parasol, concentrates spirit aura into a manji shape on top of the umbrella which is then launched as a spinning projectile[399])
- Energy Manipulation (With Fantasy "Perpetual Motion Machine of the First Kind", Yukari intially adds energy to a spell card that emits danmaku automatically but partway through she doesn't need to add anymore through effectively making perpetual motion[400])
- Air Manipulation (Made air bubbles around her and Ran so they could go under the harsh waters of the Lunarian Capital[401])
- Smoke Manipulation (Yukari's attacks can have black smoke trails behind them[402]).
- Resistance to
- Extrasensory Perception (One cannot see or sense the edge of Yukari's borders[403])
- Mimicry (Marisa notes that Yukari's danmaku barrier is a bit too much for her to copy[288])
- Transmutation (Yukari is unaffected by the Forest of Magic[404], where the Forest of Magic has the power to change the very nature of the beings within it[405])
- Mind Manipulation (Yukari is unaffected by the Forest of Magic[406],a place with a wide number of hallucinogenic mushrooms where simply being near them will make hallucinations appear as if one was entranced by magic[407])
- Fungus Manipulation (Yukari is unaffected by the Forest of Magic[408], where it's noted that the forest's environment is extremely ill-suited to human life, with th espores of monster mushrooms dancing about in the air, even breathing there would be hazardous to the health of a normal human, having "noxious miasma"[407])
- Emotion Manipulation (Suika's ability allows her to make an attractive force that brings everyone together but she notes Yukari is able to resist it[409])
- Dimensional Travel & Portal Manipulation for her Gaps (Yukari cannot be followed through her gaps, despite there being several characters with the ability to travel between dimensions and quantum spaces[23])
- Boundary Manipulation (It's noted that to deal wtih the ability to manipulate boundaries one wold either need to be a somewhat unusual youkai like Yukari or be able to withstand the power's pressure[8])
- Mimicry (As one would need to withstand the pressure in order to mimic her ability)
- Resurrection
- Self-Resurrection
- Self-Resurrection
- Repeated Resurrection: With Phoenix's Tail, grants Fujiwara no Mokou's ability to increase the user's lives by 3[412].
- Power Manifestation (With Spell Card, gives one more Spell Card, essentially giving another ability[413]. With Fragmented Spell Card, a card that holds the most half-baked ability in the world[414])
- Supernatural Luck (With Money Comes and Goes on its Own[415], grants Nazrin's ability to give more money[416])
- Statistics Amplification (With Ringo-Brand Dango, grants Ringo's ability to increase the user's power[417])
- Transmutation (With No Problem for a Creator!, grants Keiki Haniyasushin's ability to convert funds into 3 times as much bullet money[418])
- Luck Manipulation (With Soot-covered Uchiwa, grants Shion Yorigami's ability to minimize the difficulty level from the next wave onward[419])
- Dream Manipulation (With Sheep You Want to Count, Doremy's ability to make everything a dream to instantly clear the stage[420])
- Throwing Objects (With Teacup Reimu, grants Reimu's ability to throw giant seat cushions[421]. With Teacup Marisa, grants Marisa's ability to throw giant star plushies[422])
- Body Control (With Stimulating Scales, grants Eternity Larva's ability to fling scales in all directions[423])
- Lock-On (With Yin-Yang Orb, grants Reimu's ability to shoot homing bullets at enemies[424])
- Non-Standard Damage (With Yin-Yang Orb (Needle), grants Reimu's ability to shoot youkai-vanquishing needles[425])
- Penetration Damage
- Erasure
- Familiar Summoning (With Half-Half Ghost, grants one Youmu Konpaku's phantom to attack while following right behind the user[429]. With Shanghai Doll, grants Alice's dolls, which automatically seeks out the enemies to defeat, they move as if they have a mind of their own[430]. With Freewheeling Severed Head, grants Sekibanki's ability to give one a severed head that collects items for them[431])
- Summoning (With Annoying UFO, grants Nue Houjuu's ability to summon a flying UFO around oneself, with the UFO acting like a shield[432]. With Laid-Back Invertebrate, grants Eika Ebisu's ability to summon a bullet-eating jellyfish that floats around[433])
- Shielding
- Erasure
- Metaphysical Erasure: The UFO erases bullets around its user[434].
- Energy Manipulation
- Energy Projection (With Mini-Hakkero, grants Marisa's ability to fire a laser, holding one of the highest-firepower for Equipment Cards[435]. With Quiet Twinkling, grants Star Sapphire's ability to shoot towards each side. With Lunatic Silence, grants Luna Child's ability to shoot forwards and backwards. With Exuberant Powerlessness, grants Sunny Milk's ability to shoot diagonally. With The Rabbit That Landed, grants Seiran's ability to provide support fire from behind[436]. With Offensive Jewel Pagoda, grants Shou Toramaru's ability to shoot lasers diagonally[437])
- Explosion Manipulation (With Mini-Hakkero (Missile), grants Marisa's ability to shoot missiles[438]. With Safe Return Amulet, grants the Moriya Shrine's popular amulet which can shoot exploding frog shots[439])
- Ricochet Manipulation (With Maid Knife (Ricochet), grants Sakuya's ability to throw ricocheting knives[440])
- Animal Manipulation (With Shed Snakeskin Amulet, grants Sanae's ability to shoot snake bullets that bite at the enemies[441])
- Ice Manipulation (With Ice Fairy, grants Cirno's ability to scatter ice shards everywhere[442])
- Door Manipulation (With Back Door, grants Okina's ability to unlock the door in one's back[443])
- Erasure
- Metaphysical Erasure: This allows one to erase bullets that are behind them.
- Erasure
- Forcefield Manipulation (With Idol Defense Corps, grants Keiki Haniyasushin's ability to deploy a bullet-erasing barrier[444])
- Erasure
- Metaphysical Erasure
- Erasure
- Superhuman Physical Characteristics
- Superhuman Speed (With Gale Geta, grants Aya Shameimaru's ability to enable super-fast speed, greatly shrinking one's hitbox[445])
- Invulnerability
- Metaphysical Invulnerability: One is briefly invincible when beginning to move.
- Invulnerability
- Superhuman Speed (With Gale Geta, grants Aya Shameimaru's ability to enable super-fast speed, greatly shrinking one's hitbox[445])
- Social Influencing (With Lucky Cat with Good Business Skills, grants Mike Goutokuji's ability to improve product lineups, increasing the variety of cards one can by from bosses[446]. With Yamawaro Shopping Technique, grants Takane Yamashiro's ability, allowing one to buy cards for slightly cheaper[447]. With Capitalist's Dilemma, grants Nitori Kawashiro's ability to randomly change prices in a Black Market[448])
- Alternate Breathing (With Sky-Blue Magatama, a magic item that lets one breathe even in low oxygen areas[449])
- Body Control (With Scam Rabbit's Foot, grants Tewi Inaba's ability to increase one's grazing range)
- Resurrection
- Self-Resurrection
- Repeated Resurrection: With Physical Enhancement Jizo, grants Narumi Yatadera's ability to gradually gain lives over time[450]. With Dragon Pipe, grants Sannyo Komakusa's ability to slowly increase one's stock of lives[451]. With Phoenix's Tail, grants Fujiwara no Mokou's ability to increase one's lives by three[452].
- Self-Resurrection
- Resurrection of the Deceased: With Life Explosion Elixir, grants Eirin Yagokoro's ability to grant one extra life and make one explode upon getting hit, deploying a Spirit Strike that changes nearby bullets into bullet money[453]. With Bumper Crop of Life, grants Minoriko Aki's ability to grant one extra life[454].
- Self-Resurrection
- Supernatural Luck (With Lucky Rabbit's Foot, grants Tewi Inaba's ability to give one a tiny bit of good luck upon getting hit, their window to use a Spell Card upon death gets longer, they won't lose any money upon dying, and they won't lose a life upon dying[455]. With Pebble Hat, grants Koishi Komeiji's ability to prevent one from crashing into enemies and less power is lost when getting hit[456]. With Kiketsu Matriarch's Threat, grants Yachie Kicchou's ability to make enemies produce extra money[457]. With Princess Kaguya's Secret Stash, grants Kaguya Houraisan's ability to increase the amount of Bullet Money produced[458])
- Reactive Power Level (With Indominable Meathead, grants Saki's ability to gain 1 life and become stronger each time they're hit[459])
- Power Manifestation (With Blank Card, grants Chimata Tenkyuu's ability where in exchange for all of the user's money, they immediately obtain only the rare cards that are available in the next shop[460]. With Princess Kaguya's Secret Stash, grants Kaguya Houraisan's ability to produce a Spell Card item whenever one gets hit[461]. With Spell Before The Fall, grants Patchouli Knowledge's ability to gain more Spell Cards[462])
- Statistics Amplification (With Law of the Survival of the Fittest, grants Saki Kurokoma's ability to increase the power of one's regular shot and make one's shots larger[463]. With Sutra of Dharmatic Power, grants Byakuren Hijiri's ability to massively buff one's Spell Cards & it increases the radius of one's magic circle[464]. With Reliable Tanuki Apprentice, grants Mammizou Futatsuiwa's ability to constantly keep one's Power high, +1.0 Power is recieved upon aquiring the card and even when one dies, they can only lose Power down to 3.0 at minimum and can increase main shots by 3[465]. With Gluttonous Centipede, grants Momoyo Himemushi's ability to make one stronger if they don't die or bomb, gradually getting stronger each time they defeat an enemy[466]. With Ringo-Brand Dango, grants Ringo's ability to increase the amount of main shots one can fire[467]. With Physical Enhancement Jizo, grants Narumi Yatadera's ability to increase one's shot power[468]. With Magician's Basic Study, grants Patchouli Knowledge's ability to increase one's magic circle attack power[469]. With Dragon's Passage, grants Mononobe no Futo's ability to extend one's magic circle's duration[470]. With Gale Geta, grants Aya Shameimaru's ability to increase one's movement speed by 1 level, moving around faster and their magic circle also moves faster too[471]. With Drunkenly Whimsical Ibuki Gourd, grants Suika Ibuki's ability to drastically boost one's attack power with the power of alcohol[472])
- Teleportation (With Pristine Self-Confidence, grants Junko's ability to skip straight to the end portion of a stage[473])
- Ability Optimization (With Unleash the Guardian Hounds, grants Aunn Komano's ability to reduce one's magical circle cooldown time. With Life-Burning Tourch, grants Clownpiece's ability to reduce one's cooldown times)
- Summoned Power (With Hundreth Black Market, grants Takane Yamashiro's ability to summon cards that haven't been obtained[474])
- Destruction
- Metaphysical Destruction: With Beauty of Destruction, grants Flandre's ability to destroy enemy bullets with one's magic circle[475].
- Stasis (With Drenched Giant Snake, grants Urumi Ushizaki's ability to stop bullets within one's magic circle[476])
- Erasure
- Nullification
- Abstract Nullification: With Blank Card, grants Chimata Tenkyuu's ability to prevent Black Markets from being held[479].
- Magnetism Manipulation (With Misers Advice, grants Nitori Kawashiro's ability to dramatically expand one's item collection radius[480]. With Offerings to a Sacred Mountain, grants Kanako Yasaka's ability to collect every last thing offered to the mountain[481])
- Luck Manipulation (With Irresistible Julie Fan, grants Joon Yorigami's ability to maximize the difficulty level from the next wave onward[482])
- Mortality Manipulation (With Death Avoidance Elixir, grants Eirin Yagokoro's ability to negate death in exchange for two Spell Cards[483]. With Money Is The Best Lawyer In Hell, grants Eiki Shiki, Yamaxanadu's ability to spend 200 of one's money and pretend a death never happened or they nullify one's death by spending one's Bullet Money[484])
- Explosion Manipulation (With Bursting Red Frog, grants Suwako Moriya's ability to make one's shot sometimes explode[485])
- Natural Weaponry (With Vampire Fang, grants Remilia Scarlet's ability to deal fatal damage with a fang at short range[486])
- Aura
- Shielding (With Keystone of Endurance, grants Tenshi Hinanawi's ability to throw a keystone, which acts as a shield and erases bullets[488])
- Summoning (With Item Season, an ability card that summons Lily White when used[490])
- Invulnerability
- Metaphysical Invulnerability: With Smelt Scales, grants Wakasagihime's ability to become briefly invincible[491].
- Transmutation (With Miracle Mallet, grants Shinmyoumaru Sukuna's ability to change enemy bullets into money[492])
- Attack Reflection (With Psychokinesis, grants Sumireko Usami's ability to reflect enemy bullets[493])
- Transferal (With Spirit Power Sample Bottle, grants Tsukasa Kudamaki's ability to fire a spell card in exchange for power, it can also be used to fire a Spirit Strike in exchange for power[494])
- Nullification
- Projectile Nullifcation: With Heavy Bass Drum, grants Raiko Horikawa's ability to wipe away enemy bullets at close range[495].
- Erasure
- Statistics Amplification (With Great Tengu's Barley Rice, grants Megumu Iizunamaru's ability to increase one's power any number of times[498])
- Boundary Manipulation (With Screen Border, grants Yukari Yakumo's ability to let one freely warp between screen edges[499])
- Madness Manipulation (With Moon of Madness, grants Clownpiece's ability to hurl a fake moon straight forward[500]; where this is in reference to the hypnosis that drove the humans who came to the Moon insane[501], further being noted by Reisen that the moon drives people insane[502])
- Heat Manipulation (With Underground Sun, grants Utsuho Reiuji's ability to burn everything to ash[503])
- Cloth Manipulation (With Nimble Fabric, grants Seija Kijin's ability to avoid attacks by hiding behind a cloth)
- Preparation (With Useful & Dangerous Bear Trap, grants Enoko Mitsugashira's ability to throw additional traps)
- Animal Taming (With Make Peace With Cats, grants Orin's ability to safely pass through quelled spirits)
- Statistics Amplification (With Physical Enhancement Jizo, grants Narumi Yatedera's ability to increase shot power. With Hoarder's Advice, grants Marisa Kirisame's ability to increase the spirit power item collection radius. With Unleash the Guardian Hounds, grants Aunn Komano's ability to increase one's charge speed. With Pendulum, grants Nazrin's ability to increase the number of spirit strikes by two. With Otterly Excited, grants Yachie Kicchou's ability to strengthen the Otter Spirits sent over. With Keiga Family's Pressure, grants Saki Kurokoma's ability to strengthen the Wolf Spirits sent over. With Full-Bellied Beast Spirits, grants Yuuma Toutetsu's ability to strengthen the Eagle Spirits sent over. With 24/7 Drunken Fist, grants Suika Ibuki's ability to increase firepower against nearby enemies. With Heartless Land, grants Zanmu Nippaku's ability to fire extra oni shots. With Aggression is the Spice of Hell, grants Zanmu Nippaku's ability gain extra bombs via Gauge Attacks)
- Statistics Reduction (With Otterly Nervous, grants Yachie Kicchou's ability to weaken the Otter Spirits on one's screen. With Keiga Family's Harsh Hierarchy, grants Saki Kurokoma's ability to weaken the Wolf Spirits on one's screen. With Prey Animal's Terror, grants Yuuma Toutetsu's ability to weaken the Eagle Spirits on one's screen)
- Ability Optimization (With Nazrin Rods, grants Nazrin's ability to make spirit strikes last longer)
- Power Modification (With Accompanying Gourd, grants Suika Ibuki's ability to add extra offensive options. With Poles Are For Throwing, grants Son Biten's ability to throw tons of extra poles. With Curse-Soaked Blood, grants Chiyari Tenkajin's ability to throw additional syringes)
- Lock-On (With Yin-Yang Orb, grants Reimu Hakurei's ability to shoot homing bullets at enemies. With Amur Grapes of Disgrace, grants Hisami Yomotsu's ability to have extra enemy-chasing options)
- Body Control (With Appreciated Talisman, grants Reimu Hakurei's ability to make one's hitbox smaller)
- Phasing Attacks (With Phantom Transport Cart, grants Orin's ability to fire penetrating phantom shots)
- Intangibility
- Phasing: With Kiketsu Family Title, grants Son Biten's ability to safely pass through Otter Spirits. With Keiga Family Member, grants Enoko Mitsugashira's ability to safely pass through Wolf Spirits. With Chupacabra Popularity, grants Chiyari Tenkajin's ability to safely pass through Eagle Spirits.
- Erasure
- Metaphysical Erasure: With Smoke Break, grants Mamizou Futatsuiwa's ability to erase enemy bullets when one's barrier is broken.
- Energy Manipulation
- Energy Projection (With Mini-Hakkero, grants Marisa Kirisame's ability to shoot a laser. With Fox-Filled Tube (Vertical), grants Tsukasa Kudamaki's ability to fire additional shots forward and back. With Fox-Filled Tube (Horizontal), grants Tsukasa Kudamaki's ability to fire additional shots left and right)
- Aura Manipulation (With Guardian Komainu, grants Aunn Komano's ability to increase one's exorcism aura size)
- Explosion Manipulation (With The Moon Rabbit That Landed, grants Seiran's ability to provide concentrated support fire from behind, with missile backup attacks. With The City Rabbit That Landed, grants Seiran's ability to provide wide-area support fire from behind, with missile backup attacks)
- Animal Manipulation (With Kanako Yasaka's Amulet, grants Sanae Kochiya's ability to fire snake shots that bite onto enemies)
- Spirit Manipulation (With Bakeneko's Shiki Paper (Front-Facing), grants Ran Yakumo's ability to set a shikigami on one's current position vertically. With Bakeneko's Shiki Paper (Side-Facing), grants Ran Yakumo's ability to set a shikigami on one's current position horizontally)
- Plant Manipulation (With Mobile Leaf, grants Mamizou Futatsuiwa's ability to fire additional leaf shots)
- Velocity Manipulation (With Loathsome Road to Yomi, grants Hisami Yomotsu's ability to slow down some enemy bullets)
Equipment
Parasol
- Description: Yukari owns a pink laced parasol with red ribbons like the ones on her outfit and a curvy and pointy ornament on top, similar to Yuuka Kazami's parasol.
- Appearance: A pink laced parasol with red ribbons and a curvy and pointy ornament on top.
- Usage: In the danmaku games, it's simply an accessory, but in the fighting games, she uses it as a melee weapon as well as a conduit for shooting danmaku.
- Function: Used as a melee weapon and a conduit for shooting danmaku in the fighting games.
Hand Fan
- Description: Yukari has a fan which she can use as a weapon and a way of shooting danmaku.
- Appearance: The fan has had multiple different patterns on it through the games.
- Usage: Used as a weapon and a way of shooting danmaku.
- Function: Used for shooting danmaku.
| Name | Translated | Comments | Works | Stage |
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| 結界「夢と現の呪」 | Barrier "Curse of Dreams and Reality" | PCB GoM |
St. Ph — | |
| 結界「動と静の均衡」 | Barrier "Balance of Motion and Stillness" | PCB | St. Ph | |
| 結界「光と闇の網目」 | Barrier "Mesh of Light and Darkness" | PCB GoM |
St. Ph — | |
| 罔両「ストレートとカーブの夢郷」 | Evil Spirits "Dreamland of Straight and Curve" | PCB | St. Ph | |
| 罔両「八雲紫の神隠し」 | Evil Spirits "Yukari Yakumo's Spiriting Away" | PCB | St. Ph | |
| 罔両「禅寺に棲む妖蝶」 | Evil Spirits "Bewitching Butterfly Living in the Zen Temple" | PCB | St. Ph | |
| 魍魎「二重黒死蝶」 | Sinister Spirits "Double Black Death Butterfly" | PCB GoM |
St. Ph — | |
| 式神「八雲藍」 | Shikigami "Ran Yakumo" | PCB IaMP SWR GoM |
St. Ph Use Use — | |
| 「人間と妖怪の境界」 | "Boundary of Humans and Youkai" | PCB | St. Ph | |
| 結界「生と死の境界」 | Barrier "Boundary of Life and Death" | PCB | St. Ph | |
| 紫奥義「弾幕結界」 | Yukari's Arcanum "Danmaku Barrier" | PCB GoM |
St. Ph — | |
| 境符「四重結界」 | Border Sign "Quadruple Barrier" | IaMP IN SWR |
Use Use Use | |
| 結界「魅力的な四重結界」 | Barrier "Charming Quadruple Barrier" | IaMP SWR |
Use Use | |
| 式神「八雲藍＋」 | Shikigami "Ran Yakumo +" | IaMP | Use | |
| 境符「二次元と三次元の境界」 | Border Sign "Boundary of 2D and 3D" | IaMP SWR |
Use Use | |
| 結界「客観結界」 | Barrier "Objective Barrier" | IaMP SWR |
Use Use | |
| 符の壱「四重結界」 | Sign I "Quadruple Barrier" | IaMP | Story | |
| 符の弐「八雲卍傘」 | Sign II "Manji-Parasol of Yakumo" | IaMP | Story | |
| 符の参「八雲藍」 | Sign III "Ran Yakumo" | IaMP | Story | |
| 外力「無限の超高速飛行体」 | Outer Force "Infinite Superspeed Flying Object" | IaMP | Story | |
| 幻想「第一種永久機関」 | Fantasy "Perpetual Motion Machine of the First Kind" | IaMP GoM |
Story — | |
| 境界「永夜四重結界」 | Boundary "Quadruple Barrier of the Imperishable Night" | IN | Use | |
| 「深弾幕結界 -夢幻泡影-」 | "Profound Danmaku Barrier -Phantasm, Foam and Shadow-" | IN | LW | |
| 境符「色と空の境界」 | Border Sign "Boundary of Form and Emptiness" | StB | St. Ex | |
| 境符「波と粒の境界」 | Border Sign "Boundary of Wave and Particle" | StB GoM |
St. Ex — | |
| 式神「橙」 | Shikigami "Chen" | SWR | Use | |
| 幻巣「飛光虫ネスト」 | Fantasy Nest "Flying Noctilucae's Nest" | SWR SWR |
Use Story | |
| 空餌「中毒性のあるエサ」 | Aerial Bait "Addictive Bait" | SWR | Use | |
| 廃線「ぶらり廃駅下車の旅」 | Abandoned Line "Aimless Journey to the Abandoned Station" | SWR | Use | |
| 光弾「ドップラーエフェクト」 | Photon "Doppler Effect" | SWR | Story | |
| 捌器「全てを二つに別ける物」 | Splitter "Thing That Splits All Into Two" | SWR | Story | |
| 空餌「狂躁高速飛行物体」 | Aerial Bait "Hyperactive High Speed Flying Object" | SWR | Story | |
| 「八雲の巣」 | "Yakumo's Nest" | SWR | Story | |
| 魔眼「ラプラスの魔」 | Magic Eye "Laplace's Demon" | Soku | Use | |
| 「不可能弾幕結界」 | "Impossible Danmaku Barrier" | ISC | St. 10 | |
| 「運鈍根の捕物帖」 | "Casebook of Luck, Resilience and Perseverance" | ISC | St. 10 | |
| 「無人廃線車両爆弾」 | "Unmanned Abandoned Railroad Car Bomb" | AoCF | Use | |
| 式神「八雲藍＆橙」 | Shikigami "Ran Yakumo & Chen" | AoCF | Use | |
| 境界「溢れ出る漂流物」 | Boundary "Overflowing Flotsam" | AoCF | Use | |
| ＊その綺麗な足をくれ！＊ | *Lend Me Those Beautiful Legs!* | AoCF | Use-LW | |
| 「 憑坐 マスター の憂鬱」 |
" Spirit Medium's Master's Melancholy" |
AoCF | Story | |
| 「完全憑依と夢想封印」 | "Perfect Possession and Dream Seal" | Co-owner with Reimu | AoCF | Story |
| 「 憑坐 マスター と 神霊 スレイブ の境界」 |
"Boundary of Spirit Medium Master and Divine Spirit Slave" |
Co-owner with Reimu | AoCF | Story |
| 「秘神結界」 | "Secret God Barrier" | Co-owner with Okina | VD | Nightmare Saturday - 1 |
| 「弾幕結界を撃ち抜け！」 | "Shoot the Danmaku Barrier!" | Co-owner with Marisa | VD | Nightmare Saturday - 4 |
| 「許可無く弾幕は撮影禁止です」 | "Unauthorized Danmaku Photography is Strictly Prohibited" | Co-owner with Reimu | VD GoU |
Nightmare Saturday - 6 — |
| 紙符「結界中のＥＳＰカード手裏剣」 | Paper Sign "Barrier-Enclosed Zener Card Shuriken" | Co-owner with Sumireko | VD | Nightmare Diary - 3 |
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命のカード |
Life Card |
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スペルのカード |
Spell Card |
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欠けた命のカード |
Fragmented Life Card |
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欠けたスペルのカード |
Fragmented Spell Card |
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勝手に天下の回り物 |
Money Comes and Goes On its Own[504] |
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鈴瑚印の団子 |
Ringo-Brand Dango |
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不死鳥の尾 |
Phoenix's Tail |
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陰陽玉 |
Yin-Yang Orb |
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陰陽玉（針） |
Yin-Yang Orb (Needle) |
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ミニ八卦炉 |
Mini-Hakkero |
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ミニ八卦炉（ミサイル） |
Mini-Hakkero (Missile) ...There was a time when I thought as much, too. |
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メイドナイフ |
Maid Knife You are not qualified to be a maid |
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メイドナイフ（跳弾） |
Maid Knife (Ricochet) Your shot becomes flashier, which feels great. |
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無事かえるお守り |
Safe Return Amulet[510] |
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蛇の抜け殻入りお守り |
Shed Snakeskin Amulet |
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半霊の半分 |
Half-Half Ghost |
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上海人形 |
Shanghai Doll |
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アイスフェアリー |
Ice Fairy |
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背中の扉 |
Back Door |
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鬱陶しいＵＦＯ |
Annoying UFO |
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太古の勾玉 |
Ancient Magatama |
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空白のカード |
Blank Card[513] |
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守銭奴の教訓 |
Miser's Advice |
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神山への供物 |
Offerings to a Sacred Mountain |
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死穢回避の薬 |
Death Avoidance Elixir |
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幸運うさぎの足 |
Lucky Rabbit's Foot |
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弱肉強食の理 |
Law of the Survival of the Fittest |
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法力経典 |
Sutra of Dharmatic Power |
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小石ころ帽子 |
Pebble Hat[518] |
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はじける赤蛙 |
Bursting Red Frog |
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疾風の下駄 |
Gale Geta |
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偶像防衛隊 |
Idol Defense Corps |
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かぐや姫の隠し箱 |
Princess Kaguya's Secret Stash |
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頼りになる弟子狸 |
Reliable Tanuki Apprentice |
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弾幕の亡霊 |
Danmaku Ghost |
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鬼傑組長の脅嚇 |
Kiketsu Matriarch's Threat |
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地獄の沙汰も金次第 |
Money Is The Best Lawyer In Hell[521] |
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肉体強化地蔵 |
Physical Enhancement Jizo |
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転ばぬ先のスペル[522] |
Spell Before The Fall |
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商売上手な招き猫 |
Lucky Cat with Good Business Skills |
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山童的買い物術 |
Yamawaro Shopping Technique |
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ドラゴンキセル |
Dragon Pipe |
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暴食のムカデ |
Gluttonous Centipede |
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空色の勾玉 |
Sky-Blue Magatama[529] |
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画面の境界 |
Screen Border |
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打ち出の小槌 |
Miracle Mallet |
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忍耐の要石 |
Keystone of Endurance |
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狂気の月 |
Moon of Madness |
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やんごとなき威光 |
Esteemed Authority |
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ヴァンパイアファング |
Vampire Fang |
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地底の太陽 |
Underground Sun |
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アイテムの季節 |
Item Season |
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重低音バスドラム |
Heavy Bass Drum |
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サイコキネシス |
Psychokinesis |
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霊力の標本瓶 |
Spirit Power Sample Bottle |
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大天狗の麦飯 |
Great Tengu's Barley Rice |
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勝手に天下の回り物 |
Money Comes and Goes On its Own |
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勝手に天下の回り物 |
Money Comes and Goes On its Own |
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命のカード |
Life Card |
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クリエイターなら容易な事 |
No Problem for a Creator! |
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煤けた団扇 |
Soot-covered Uchiwa |
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数えたくなる羊 |
Sheep You Want to Count |
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陰陽玉 |
Yin-Yang Orb |
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陰陽玉（針） |
Yin-Yang Orb (Needle) |
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ミニ八卦炉 |
Mini-Hakkero |
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ミニ八卦炉（ミサイル） |
Mini-Hakkero (Missile) |
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メイドナイフ |
Maid Knife |
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メイドナイフ（跳弾） |
Maid Knife (Ricochet) |
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無事かえるお守り |
Safe Return Amulet[538] |
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蛇の抜け殻入りお守り |
Shed Snakeskin Amulet |
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半霊の半分 |
Half-Half Ghost |
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半霊のスペア |
Spare Half-Ghost |
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上海人形 |
Shanghai Doll |
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アイスフェアリー |
Ice Fairy |
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静かなる輝き |
Quiet Twinkling |
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狂おしい静寂 |
Lunatic Silence |
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賑やかな無力 |
Exuberant Powerlessness |
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刺激的な鱗粉 |
Stimulating Scales |
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山姥の包丁 |
Yamanba's Kitchen Knife |
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舞い降りた兎 |
The Rabbit That Landed[545] |
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背中の扉 |
Back Door |
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鬱陶しいＵＦＯ |
Annoying UFO |
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太古の勾玉 |
Ancient Magatama |
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偶像防衛隊 |
Idol Defense Corps |
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攻撃的な宝塔 |
Offensive Jeweled Pagoda |
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自由気ままな生首 |
Freewheeling Severed Head |
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気ままな無脊椎動物 |
Laid-Back Invertebrate |
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ゆのみ霊夢 |
Teacup Reimu
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ゆのみ魔理沙 |
Teacup Marisa
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空白のカード |
Blank Card |
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資本主義のジレンマ |
Capitalist's Dilemma |
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鈴瑚印の団子 |
Ringo-Brand Dango |
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肉体強化地蔵 |
Physical Enhancement Jizo |
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魔法使いの基礎勉強 |
Magician's Basic Study |
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法力経典 |
Sutra of Dharmatic Power |
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破壊の美学 |
Beauty of Destruction |
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龍の通り道 |
Dragon's Passage |
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けしかける狛犬 |
Unleash the Guardian Hounds[556] |
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疾風の下駄 |
Gale Geta |
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生命爆発の薬 |
Life Explosion Elixir |
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生命の豊穣 |
Bumper Crop of Life |
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不屈の脳筋 |
Indominable Meathead |
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不死鳥の尾 |
Phoenix's Tail |
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地獄の沙汰も金次第 |
Money Is The Best Lawyer In Hell |
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濡れた大蛇 |
Drenched Giant Snake[560] |
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守銭奴の教訓 |
Miser's Advice |
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神山への供物 |
Offerings to a Sacred Mountain |
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鬼傑組長の脅嚇 |
Kiketsu Matriarch's Threat |
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かぐや姫の隠し箱 |
Princess Kaguya's Secret Stash |
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詐欺うさぎの足 |
Scam Rabbit's Foot |
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小石ころ帽子[563] |
Pebble Hat |
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弾幕の亡霊 |
Danmaku Ghost |
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弱肉強食の理 |
Law of the Survival of the Fittest |
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はじける赤蛙 |
Bursting Red Frog |
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頼りになる弟子狸 |
Reliable Tanuki Apprentice |
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ドラゴンキセル |
Dragon Pipe |
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暴食のムカデ |
Gluttonous Centipede |
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酔狂の伊吹瓢 |
Drunkenly Whimsical Ibuki Gourd |
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商売上手な招き猫 |
Maneki-neko with Good Business Skills |
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山童的買い物術 |
Yamawaro Shopping Technique |
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命を焚く松明 |
Life-Burning Torch |
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抗いがたきジュリ扇 |
Irresistible Julie Fan[569] |
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純粋な自己肯定感 |
Pristine Self-Confidence |
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百回目のブラックマーケット |
Hundredth Black Market |
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画面の境界 |
Screen Border |
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打ち出の小槌 |
Miracle Mallet |
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忍耐の要石 |
Keystone of Endurance |
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要石ミサイル |
Keystone Missile |
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狂気の月 |
Moon of Madness |
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やんごとなき威光 |
Esteemed Authority |
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ヴァンパイアファング |
Vampire Fang |
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地底の太陽 |
Underground Sun |
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アイテムの季節 |
Item Season |
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重低音バスドラム |
Heavy Bass Drum |
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サイコキネシス |
Psychokinesis |
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霊力の標本瓶 |
Spirit Power Sample Bottle |
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大天狗の麦飯 |
Great Tengu's Barley Rice |
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わかさぎの鱗 |
Smelt's Scales |
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正直すぎる道しるべ |
Too-Honest Signpost
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急がば三途の回り道 |
Hasty Detour of the Three Crossings
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ひらり布 |
Nimble Fabric[575] |
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肉体強化地蔵 |
Physical Enhancement Jizo |
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陰陽玉 |
Yin-Yang Orb |
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ありがたい御札 |
Appreciated Talisman |
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ミニ八卦炉 |
Mini-Hakkero |
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蒐集家の教訓 |
Hoarder's Advice |
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けしかける狛犬 |
Unleash the Guardian Hounds[576] |
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見守る狛犬 |
Guardian Komainu |
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ペンデュラム |
Pendulum |
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ナズーリンロッド |
Nazrin Rods |
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舞い降りた月の兎 |
The Moon Rabbit That Landed |
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舞い降りた都会の兎 |
The City Rabbit That Landed |
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八坂神奈子のお守り |
Kanako Yasaka's Amulet |
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洩矢諏訪子のお守り |
Suwako Moriya's Amulet |
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化猫の式紙（前向き） |
Bakeneko's Shiki Paper (Front-Facing) |
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化猫の式紙（横向き） |
Bakeneko's Shiki Paper (Side-Facing) |
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幽霊運搬車 |
Phantom Transport Cart |
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ネコと和解せよ |
Make Peace With Cats[577] |
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狐入りの管（縦） |
Fox-Filled Tube (Vertical) |
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狐入りの管（横） |
Fox-Filled Tube (Horizontal) |
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移動する葉っぱ |
Mobile Leaf |
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ちょっと一服 |
Smoke Break |
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カワウソ頑張る |
Otterly Excited |
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カワウソびびる |
Otterly Nervous |
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勁牙組の威圧 |
Keiga Family's Pressure |
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勁牙組の厳しい上下関係 |
Keiga Family's Harsh Hierarchy |
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満腹動物霊 |
Full-Bellied Beast Spirits |
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捕食者の恐怖 |
Prey Animal's Terror |
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付いてくる瓢箪 |
Accompanying Gourd |
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常時酔拳 |
24/7 Drunken Fist |
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棒は投げられるもの |
Poles Are For Throwing |
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鬼傑組の肩書き |
Kiketsu Family Title |
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便利で危険なトラバサミ |
Useful & Dangerous Bear Trap |
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勁牙の仲間 |
Keiga Family Member |
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呪い尽された血 |
Curse-Soaked Blood |
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チュパカブラの人気 |
Chupacabra Popularity |
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屈辱の山葡萄 |
Amur Grapes of Disgrace |
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忌々しい黄泉の道 |
Loathsome Road to Yomi |
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無情の地 |
Heartless Land |
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攻撃こそ地獄の華 |
Aggression Is the Spice of Hell |
Notable Techniques
Manipulation of Boundaries
Yukari's main ability is manipulating any kind of boundary. This ability has been described as logically being able to affect essentially anything. She explains that this power allows her to control or remove boundaries between any and all things—Gensokyo and the Outside World, the worlds of the living and the dead, humans and youkai, and even day and night.
Perfect Memento in Strict Sense describes manipulating boundaries as a terrifying god-like ability with no weak points, no defense or countermeasure, capable of fundamentally undermining reality itself, and one of the most dangerous abilities known among youkai. The Imperishable Night manual states that "the danger and potency of her ability is beyond imagination".
Everything is built upon the existence of boundaries. If there were no boundaries, everything would exist as a single enormous object. Thus, manipulating boundaries is an ability of both creation and destruction: making a new boundary creates a new existence, while destroying a boundary negates an existence. Physical boundaries, as well as the general idea of boundaries, can be manipulated. She can manipulate the boundary between dreams and reality, which may explain how she dragged the real Sumireko Usami out of the Dream World in Antinomy of Common Flowers.
Yukari can see and see through boundaries that are normally invisible. When the Human Village was displaced from history by Keine Kamishirasawa, Yukari was completely unfazed and still able to see it. She also tells Marisa that it would be easy for her to manipulate the boundary between winter and spring.
She can control boundaries and bend them to her will. In Immaterial and Missing Power, she adjusted the sky by manipulating the border between daylight and moonlight to unite day and night. According to Marisa, Yukari can even control the boundary between "a danmaku for play and a danmaku for battle".
Yukari can sense and repair damage to the Great Hakurei Barrier. Although Yuyuko doubts Yukari could make such a strong barrier, she has been referred to as its creator on various occasions.
Despite how limitless her ability sounds, there are limitations, usually in relation to other powerful entities.
Examples of boundary manipulation:
- Neutralized Suika Ibuki's ability by forcing the oni, spread as mist over all of Gensokyo, into her normal form
- Adjusted the sky by manipulating the border between daylight and moonlight, uniting day and night
- Manipulated the boundary between the true and illusionary moon to open a gap from Gensokyo to the Moon on the lake surface
- Created the Boundary of Fantasy and Reality, establishing the Outside World as real and Gensokyo as illusionary
- Widely acknowledged as the creator of the Great Hakurei Barrier isolating Gensokyo from the Outside World
- Weakened the Border of Life and Death between the world of the living and the Netherworld at Yuyuko's request
- Returned Rinnosuke Morichika to Gensokyo after he was ejected into the outside world
- Dragged the real Sumireko Usami out of the Dream World
- Manipulated the border of master and slave during the Perfect Possession incident, thwarting Joon and Shion Yorigami's scheme
Many of her spell cards allude to boundary manipulation, including Barrier "Balance of Motion and Stillness", Barrier "Mesh of Light and Darkness", "Boundary of Humans and Youkai", and Barrier "Charming Quadruple Barrier".
Gaps
Yukari's most prominent ability is the use of "gaps"—portals between two places. She can hold, sit on, or emerge from these gaps, allowing her to appear anywhere and freely travel to places like the Outside World. Within these gaps, numerous eyes can be seen, which according to the description of her spell card Magic Eye "Laplace's Demon", she can also use to see.
She can create gaps that only she can pass through, or gaps that anything can pass through. It is possible for someone to enter a gap and unknowingly end up in a completely different place—Flandre Scarlet once ended up in the Palace of Earth Spirits while merely intending to enter a room of the Scarlet Devil Mansion.
In battle, Yukari uses gaps to wield almost any object as a weapon, including tombstones, road signs, and running trains. She retreats inside them to avoid attacks or land unexpected strikes, sucks in attacks to throw them back, and merges different gaps to create harmful spatial distortions.
Though seemingly limitless, the range of her gaps is sometimes restricted. She can create a portal to the "fantastic" side of the Moon using the moon's reflection on a lake's surface, but only during the full moon—the only period when the passage is open. For unknown reasons, she cannot use her powers to bring a living being to the far side of the Moon, where the Lunar Capital is located.
Onmyoudou
Yukari is skilled in Onmyoudou, the Taoism-derived arts of traditional Japanese court wizards. She specializes in spells that create and manipulate barriers, presumably due to overlap with her innate abilities. She has taught some spells to Reimu Hakurei, whose own techniques have similar roots.
She displays great aptitude with shikigami, binding a powerful kitsune and numerous lesser servants. She is skilled at giving the correct orders to fully maximize her shikigami's potential. Ran Yakumo states that despite sleeping most of the time, Yukari is capable of giving orders no one else would think up the instant she opens her mouth. She uses complex equations to increase Ran's power indefinitely, likely one of the reasons she views computers and shikigami as one and the same.
Talking Without Sound
Yukari talked to Luna Child even after the fairy erased all sound around her. Luna described it as a voice she heard in her own heart. It is unknown if this ability is part of her main ability over boundaries.
| Name | Translated | Comments | Games | Usage |
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| 開けて悔しき玉手箱 | Tamatebako, Filled With Lament | IaMP SWR |
236A/B/C Default 236B/C | |
| 禅寺に潜む妖蝶 | Bewitching Butterfly Lurking in the Zen Temple | Related: Yukari's Evil Spirits "Bewitching Butterfly Living in the Zen Temple" (PCB) | IaMP SWR |
623A/B Default 623B/C |
| 枕石漱流 | Rest on Stone, Rinse in Rivers | This and the next specials are the same skill in SWR | IaMP SWR |
214A/B Default 214B/C |
| 漱石枕流 | Rinse with Stone, Rest in Rivers | IaMP SWR |
412A/B/C Default 214B/C | |
| 幻想狂想穴 | Fantasy Maniacal Rift | IaMP SWR AoCF |
421A/B/C Default 421B/C 6C | |
| 「妖回針」 | "Apparotation Needle" | IN | Familiar: 「召喚八雲式」 Yakumo Summoning Shiki | |
| 至る処に青山あり | Home is Where One Lays to Rest | SWR | Alternate 236B/C | |
| 幻想卍傘 | Fantasy Manji-Parasol | SWR AoCF |
Alternate 623B/C 4C | |
| 物質と反物質の宇宙 | Universe of Matter and Antimatter | SWR | Alternate 214B/C | |
| 肉体分解機 | Flesh Dismantler | SWR | Alternate 421B/C | |
| 魅惑のエサ | Bewitching Bait | SWR AoCF |
Alternate 236B/C 2C | |
| 「頂門紫針」 | "Purple Needles of Painful Reproach" | Used remotely by Reimu | SA | Shot |
| 「非常識の裏側」 | "The Underside of Uncommon Sense" | Used remotely by Reimu | SA | Bomb |
| 知能と脚の境界 | Boundary of Intellect and Feet | Soku | Alternate 623B/C | |
| 変容を見る眼 | Eyes that View Change | Soku | Alternate 214B/C | |
| キマイラの翼 | Chimera Wings | Soku | Alternate 421B/C | |
| 時空の綻び | Spacetime Seam | AoCF | 5C | |
| 円月傘 | Full Moon Umbrella | AoCF | 8C | |
| 世界一機敏な上半身 | World's Most Agile Torso | Aided by Occult effect | AoCF | A+B with Occult gauge |
Spell Card 131
Barrier "Curse of Dreams and Reality"
Owner
Yukari Yakumo
Phantasm — Phantasm
Phantasm — Phantasm
Spell Card Pattern Description
Yukari fires two bubble bullets that track the opponent's position. One of them bursts into a slower version of Ran's "Senko Thoughtful Meditation" pattern. The other transforms into a random spiral of cyan rice shaped bullets that stop briefly before homing in on the opponent. Yukari's movement speed gradually increases but never exceeds a moderate pace.
Spell Card 132
Barrier "Balance of Motion and Stillness"
Owner
Yukari Yakumo
Phantasm — Phantasm
Phantasm — Phantasm
Spell Card Pattern Description
Yukari fires a three way spread of bubble bullets aimed at the opponent while also shooting large blue bullets overhead that do little to affect the overall pattern. The middle bullet of the three way spread generates an invisible enemy that is only visible by a faint white aura. This enemy appears where the opponent was standing when the bullet was fired. The enemy then fires a dense spiral of medium speed bullets and disappears after completing one full rotation. After the first wave, Yukari fires two groups of bubbles per wave and then briefly pauses before continuing.
Spell Card 133
Barrier "Mesh of Light and Darkness"
Owner
Yukari Yakumo
Phantasm — Phantasm
Phantasm — Phantasm
Spell Card Pattern Description
This attack is similar to Ran's "Kitsune-Tanuki Youkai Laser." Yukari fires both colors of bullets in each wave, alternating which color comes out first. The bubble bullets are now aimed at angles around the opponent rather than directly at them.
Spell Card 134
Evil Spirits "Dreamland of Straight and Curve"
Owner
Yukari Yakumo
Phantasm — Phantasm
Phantasm — Phantasm
Spell Card Pattern Description
This attack is similar to Ran's "Charming Siege From All Sides." Yukari rarely moves downward. The bubbles she fires now leap upward significantly before beginning their spinning motion. She also occasionally fires thin, silent lasers that gradually close in on the opponent's position.
Spell Card 135
Evil Spirits "Yukari Yakumo's Spiriting Away"
Owner
Yukari Yakumo
Phantasm — Phantasm
Phantasm — Phantasm
Spell Card Pattern Description
This attack is similar to Ran's "Princess Tenko -Illusion-." Yukari fires a red bubble at the opponent in a triangular formation, each one leaving a purple trail. She also fires a thin purple laser from a six point pattern. The butterflies are now purple and move faster than before, and Yukari teleports at a noticeably slower rate than Ran.
Spell Card 136
Evil Spirits "Bewitching Butterfly Living in the Zen Temple"
Owner
Yukari Yakumo
Phantasm — Phantasm
Phantasm — Phantasm
Spell Card Pattern Description
This attack is very similar to Ran's "Ultimate Buddhist." The initial blue bullets are replaced by blue butterflies, which slowly drift back toward Yukari after coming to a stop. The red bullets are replaced by horizontal lines of red butterflies that spread outward as they travel further.
Spell Card 137
Sinister Spirits "Double Black Death Butterfly"
Owner
Yukari Yakumo
Phantasm — Phantasm
Phantasm — Phantasm
Spell Card Pattern Description
This attack is similar to Ran's "Unilateral Contact." The bullet shards are replaced by butterflies. Odd numbered waves consist of blue and red butterflies, while even numbered waves use cyan and magenta knife shaped butterflies. In each wave, the butterflies quickly fly in opposite directions, with blue going right and red going left, and magenta going right while cyan goes left.
Spell Card 138
Shikigami "Ran Yakumo"
Owner
Yukari Yakumo
Phantasm — Phantasm
Phantasm — Phantasm
Spell Card Pattern Description
This attack is similar to Ran's "Chen." Yukari summons Ran, who flies diagonally around the screen and touches all four walls. Ran fires circular bursts of butterflies, with blue bursts on odd waves and red bursts on even waves. Yukari's own bullets fire at a much slower rate compared to Ran's firing speed in the "Chen" attack.
Spell Card 139
"Boundary of Humans and Youkai"
Owner
Yukari Yakumo
Phantasm — Phantasm
Phantasm — Phantasm
Spell Card Pattern Description
This attack is similar to Ran's "Kokkuri-san's Contract." The circle follows more complex paths, and the final blue bullets are replaced by blue butterflies.
Spell Card 140
Barrier "Boundary of Life and Death"
Owner
Yukari Yakumo
Phantasm — Phantasm
Phantasm — Phantasm
Spell Card Pattern Description
This attack is very similar to Ran's "Descent of Iizuna-Gongen." Yukari adds a flurry of fast blue butterflies aimed around the opponent as a final phase. The attack still retains its property of having all phases pile up immediately when the timer drops below thirty seconds. Additionally, blue butterflies aimed at the opponent are now part of the pattern.
Spell Card 141
Yukari's Arcanum "Danmaku Barrier"
Owner
Yukari Yakumo
Phantasm — Phantasm
Phantasm — Phantasm
Spell Card Pattern Description
This is a timeout spell card. Yukari fades into the background while multiple invisible enemies circle around the screen. They place lines of blue and purple arrowhead bullets that remain stationary until the entire wave is fully placed. Once the placement is complete, the enemies vanish and the arrowheads converge toward the center of the screen before expanding outward. In the final wave, two dense spirals form on the outer edges of the screen. When they disappear, they unravel during the slowdown that accompanies the Extra boss defeat.
Spell Card Story Mode 1
First Card "Quadruple Barrier"
Owner
Yukari Yakumo
Reimu Stage 6, Marisa Stage 6, Sakuya Stage 6, Alice Stage 6, Patchouli Stage 6, Youmu Stage 6, Remilia Stage 6, Yuyuko Stage 6
Reimu Stage 6, Marisa Stage 6, Sakuya Stage 6, Alice Stage 6, Patchouli Stage 6, Youmu Stage 6, Remilia Stage 6, Yuyuko Stage 6
Spell Card Story Mode 2
Second Card "Manji-Parasol of Yakumo"
Owner
Yukari Yakumo
Reimu Stage 6, Marisa Stage 6, Sakuya Stage 6, Alice Stage 6, Patchouli Stage 6, Youmu Stage 6, Remilia Stage 6, Yuyuko Stage 6
Reimu Stage 6, Marisa Stage 6, Sakuya Stage 6, Alice Stage 6, Patchouli Stage 6, Youmu Stage 6, Remilia Stage 6, Yuyuko Stage 6
Spell Card Story Mode 3
Third Card "Ran Yakumo"
Owner
Yukari Yakumo
Reimu Stage 6, Marisa Stage 6, Sakuya Stage 6, Alice Stage 6, Patchouli Stage 6, Youmu Stage 6, Remilia Stage 6, Yuyuko Stage 6
Reimu Stage 6, Marisa Stage 6, Sakuya Stage 6, Alice Stage 6, Patchouli Stage 6, Youmu Stage 6, Remilia Stage 6, Yuyuko Stage 6
Spell Card Story Mode 4
Outer Force "Infinite Superspeed Flying Object"
Owner
Yukari Yakumo
Reimu Stage 6, Marisa Stage 6, Sakuya Stage 6, Alice Stage 6, Patchouli Stage 6, Youmu Stage 6, Remilia Stage 6, Yuyuko Stage 6
Reimu Stage 6, Marisa Stage 6, Sakuya Stage 6, Alice Stage 6, Patchouli Stage 6, Youmu Stage 6, Remilia Stage 6, Yuyuko Stage 6
Spell Card Story Mode 5
Fantasy "Perpetual Motion Machine of the First Kind"
Owner
Yukari Yakumo
Reimu Stage 6, Marisa Stage 6, Sakuya Stage 6, Alice Stage 6, Patchouli Stage 6, Youmu Stage 6, Remilia Stage 6, Yuyuko Stage 6
Reimu Stage 6, Marisa Stage 6, Sakuya Stage 6, Alice Stage 6, Patchouli Stage 6, Youmu Stage 6, Remilia Stage 6, Yuyuko Stage 6
Spell Card A-1
Border Sign "Quadruple Barrier"
Owner
Yukari Yakumo
Player - Initial
Player - Initial
Spell Card A-2
Barrier "Charming Quadruple Barrier"
Owner
Yukari Yakumo
Player - Final
Player - Final
Spell Card B-1
Shikigami "Ran Yakumo"
Owner
Yukari Yakumo
Player - Initial
Player - Initial
Spell Card B-2
Shikigami "Ran Yakumo +" (Forward)
Owner
Yukari Yakumo
Player - Final
Player - Final
Spell Card C-1
Border Sign "Boundary of 2D and 3D" (Forward)
Owner
Yukari Yakumo
Player - Initial
Player - Initial
Spell Card C-2
Barrier "Objective Barrier"
Owner
Yukari Yakumo
Player - Final
Player - Final
Spell Card Ex - 4
Owner
Yukari Yakumo
Level Ex — 4
Level Ex — 4
Comment
まるで催眠術でもかけられそうでした。
波が粒になり、そしてまた波に戻る。
写真で伝わるかしら？
波が粒になり、そしてまた波に戻る。
写真で伝わるかしら？
Translation
This feels somewhat hypnotic.
Waves become particles, and then back to waves.
Would a photo capture this?
Waves become particles, and then back to waves.
Would a photo capture this?
Spell Card Story Mode 1
Photon "Doppler Effect"
Owner
Yukari Yakumo
Youmu Stage 4, Remilia Stage 8, Reisen Stage 3, Iku Stage 5
Youmu Stage 4, Remilia Stage 8, Reisen Stage 3, Iku Stage 5
Spell Card Story Mode 2
Splitter "Thing That Splits All Into Two"
Owner
Yukari Yakumo
Youmu Stage 4, Remilia Stage 8, Reisen Stage 3, Iku Stage 5
Youmu Stage 4, Remilia Stage 8, Reisen Stage 3, Iku Stage 5
Spell Card Story Mode 3
Fantasy Nest "Flying Noctilucae's Nest"
Owner
Yukari Yakumo
Youmu Stage 4, Remilia Stage 8, Reisen Stage 3, Iku Stage 5
Youmu Stage 4, Remilia Stage 8, Reisen Stage 3, Iku Stage 5
Spell Card Story Mode 4
Aerial Bait "Hyperactive High Speed Flying Object"
Owner
Yukari Yakumo
Remilia Stage 8, Reisen Stage 3, Iku Stage 5
Remilia Stage 8, Reisen Stage 3, Iku Stage 5
Spell Card Story Mode 5
"Yakumo's Nest"
Owner
Yukari Yakumo
Remilia Stage 8
Remilia Stage 8
Skill Card 1
Cost
1 orb
Comment
上空に隙間を開き、漂流物を落下
相手に直撃させて攻撃する
相手に直撃させて攻撃する
Translation
Opens a gap in the sky and drops debris from it directly onto the opponent.
Move Command
Default 236B/C
Skill Card 2
Bewitching Butterfly Lurking in the Zen Temple
Cost
1 orb
Comment
傘を回して攻撃する打撃技
無敵時間は無いが判定は強力
無敵時間は無いが判定は強力
Translation
A melee move that attacks by whirling her umbrella. Has no invincibility period, but its hitbox is bulky.
Move Command
Default 623B/C
Skill Card 3
Cost
1 orb
Comment
弱で飛び道具を吸い込む穴を開く
吸い込んだ物はカウントされ
強で出す「漱石枕流」によって
放出することが出来る
吸い込んだ物はカウントされ
強で出す「漱石枕流」によって
放出することが出来る
Translation
'Rest on Stone' (B) opens up a hole that sucks in projectiles. The sucked-in objects are stored, and can be shot out using 'Rinse with Stone' (C).
Move Command
Default 214B/C
Skill Card 4
Fantasy Maniacal Rift
Cost
1 orb
Comment
隙間の中に退避して移動しつつ
出口から攻撃しつつ登場する
出すボタンとキー入力で攻撃内容
出現地点を制御できる
出口から攻撃しつつ登場する
出すボタンとキー入力で攻撃内容
出現地点を制御できる
Translation
Retreats into a gap while moving, then appears from the exit while attacking. The attack button used controls the form of the attack, and the arrow keys control where you emerge.
Move Command
Default 421B/C
Skill Card 5
Cost
1 orb
Comment
隙間から漂流物を突き出して攻撃
扇状に近い距離を広くカバーし
中距離の牽制技になる
扇状に近い距離を広くカバーし
中距離の牽制技になる
Translation
An attack that thrusts debris out from a gap, covering a wide, roughly fan-shaped area. Good as a mid-range deterrent.
Move Command
236B/C
Skill Card 6
Fantasy Manji-Parasol
Cost
1 orb
Comment
傘の上に妖力を卍状に収束し
それを回転させ飛ばす飛び道具
判定が大きく敵に食らい付き拘束
ホールドで射出を遅らせられるが
この状態では攻撃力が無い
それを回転させ飛ばす飛び道具
判定が大きく敵に食らい付き拘束
ホールドで射出を遅らせられるが
この状態では攻撃力が無い
Translation
Concentrates spirit aura into a manji shape on top of the umbrella, which is then launched as a spinning projectile. Its large hitbox will trap opponents that get caught in it. Holding the button down delays its release, but it's harmless before it's fired.
Move Command
623B/C
Skill Card 7
Universe of Matter and Antimatter
Cost
1 orb
Comment
単体では何の効果も無いスキマ
二つ目を配置することで引き合い
接触すると互いが反応して巨大な
歪みに変化し攻撃を行う
二つ目を配置することで引き合い
接触すると互いが反応して巨大な
歪みに変化し攻撃を行う
Translation
Places a gap that has no effect on its own. Upon placing a second, the two will be drawn together and react with each other on contact, creating a huge distortion attack.
Move Command
214B/C
Skill Card 8
Flesh Dismantler
Cost
1 orb
Comment
隙間を潜行し飛び出しつつ攻撃
ホールドで潜行状態をキープし
左右で移動が可能
ホールドで潜行状態をキープし
左右で移動が可能
Translation
Sinks into a gap, then attacks while lunging out. Holding the button allows you to stay in the gap and move left and right.
Move Command
421B/C
Skill Card 9
Bewitching Bait
Cost
1 orb
Comment
照準を出現させ、そこへ向け
高速で飛来する物体を発射する
照準地点は固定だが弾丸の角度は
毎回ランダムという特徴がある
高速で飛来する物体を発射する
照準地点は固定だが弾丸の角度は
毎回ランダムという特徴がある
Translation
Creates a crosshair through which high-speed flying objects are shot. The crosshair's position is fixed, but the projectiles' paths are random.
Move Command
236B/C
Spell Card 1
Border Sign "Quadruple Barrier"
Cost
3 cards
Comment
手元に複数の結界を重ねバリアを
形成し近くの敵を攻撃する
発生が早く無敵時間も有り
接近戦で切り替えしの要となる
形成し近くの敵を攻撃する
発生が早く無敵時間も有り
接近戦で切り替えしの要となる
Translation
Creates several overlapping boundaries, forming a barrier that can hit nearby opponents. It's quick and has invincibility frames, so it can turn the tables in close combat.
Spell Card 2
Shikigami "Ran Yakumo"
Cost
3 cards
Comment
藍を呼び出し攻撃指示を出す
藍は直進し、敵を捕捉すると回転
敵に攻撃を加える
藍は直進し、敵を捕捉すると回転
敵に攻撃を加える
Translation
Summons Ran and commands her to attack. Ran charges straight ahead, and adds damage with a spinning attack if she catches the enemy.
Spell Card 3
Border Sign "Boundary of 2D and 3D"
Cost
1 card
Comment
壁に沿って境界が走る特殊な技
境界は数回方向を変え画面に残り
攻撃を加えるトラップとなる
射出時キー入力で後ろにも撃てる
境界は数回方向を変え画面に残り
攻撃を加えるトラップとなる
射出時キー入力で後ろにも撃てる
Translation
A unique skill that sends a boundary running along the screen edge. It lingers on the screen as a damaging trap, changing directions several times. You can also use the arrow keys to fire it behind you.
Spell Card 4
Barrier "Charming Quadruple Barrier"
Cost
4 cards
Comment
四重結界を巨大化し、さらに
吸引効果も付与した上級スペル
判定の巨大化に加え引き寄せる為
有効射程は格段に広くなった
吸引効果も付与した上級スペル
判定の巨大化に加え引き寄せる為
有効射程は格段に広くなった
Translation
A higher-level version of Quadruple Barrier that's both much larger and sucks the opponent in, markedly improving its effective range.
Spell Card 5
Shikigami "Chen"
Cost
1 card
Comment
藍の式神である橙を間借りする
橙は画面内をバウンドし敵を攻撃
藍より間接的な挙動をする
式の格が低い分カード消費も低い
橙は画面内をバウンドし敵を攻撃
藍より間接的な挙動をする
式の格が低い分カード消費も低い
Translation
Borrows Ran's shikigami Chen for a while. Chen bounces across the screen, attacking the enemy with less direct motion than Ran. Being a low level shikigami, her cost is low too.
Spell Card 6
Barrier "Objective Barrier"
Cost
3 cards
Comment
画面端全面を走る四連結界を発射
画面上の全ての端から攻撃
相手の安全な領域を削り苦しめる
画面上の全ての端から攻撃
相手の安全な領域を削り苦しめる
Translation
Fires a set of four boundaries that traverse the edges of the screen. Since it attacks from every edge at once, it leaves little safe room for the enemy.
Spell Card 7
Fantasy Nest "Flying Noctilucae's Nest"
Cost
3 cards
Comment
紫の周囲に無数の隙間が開き
そこから前方へ弾幕を形成する
敵が背後を取ると射出方向も反転
前後に隙は無い
そこから前方へ弾幕を形成する
敵が背後を取ると射出方向も反転
前後に隙は無い
Translation
Opens numerous gaps around Yukari that fire danmaku forward. Even when the enemy gets behind Yukari, the firing direction will flip to follow them.
Spell Card 8
Aerial Bait "Addictive Bait"
Cost
2 cards
Comment
画面上に多数のサイトを展開
通過する高速飛行物体で攻撃する
影響の及ぶ範囲が広く、攻撃が
始まると敵は動き難い
通過する高速飛行物体で攻撃する
影響の及ぶ範囲が広く、攻撃が
始まると敵は動き難い
Translation
Opens up multiple sites on the screen through which high-speed flying objects pass and attack. Since its effect covers a wide range, it'll be hard for the opponent to move once it's started.
Spell Card 9
Abandoned Line "Aimless Journey to the Abandoned Station"
Cost
5 cards
Comment
隙間から廃電車を突撃させる大技
電車はグレイズもガードも不能で
威力も非常に高い
その代償に隙間の展開に長時間を
要する欠点がある
電車はグレイズもガードも不能で
威力も非常に高い
その代償に隙間の展開に長時間を
要する欠点がある
Translation
A dramatic move that sends an abandoned train charging forth from a gap. The train can't be grazed or guarded, and the damage is extremely high. The downside is that opening the gap takes a long time.
Skill Card 1
Boundary of Intellect and Feet
Cost
1 orb
Comment
置線状に境界を走らせ、そこに存在する物を分断する。威力重視技。全てに境界を引けると言う事は二つに分けられぬ物は無いと言う事である。
Translation
Runs a straight boundary, splitting anything in place. Power-oriented technique. Being able to draw a boundary on anything means that there is nothing that can't be cut into two.
Move Command
623B/C, The thickness of the border increases as the level increases.
Skill Card 2
Eyes that View Change
Cost
1 orb
Comment
隙間からく目が相手を狙う。目は敵を監視し追撃を自動で行う技。援固定砲台の役を担う。特定の行動を行う点から彼女の一種の左だと思われる。
Translation
An eye from the gap targets the enemy. It becomes a stationary platform that offers supporting fire. It follows a designated path, so it can be regarded as one of Yukari's familiars.
Move Command
214B/C, B spawns a purple gap while C spawns a red gap, higher levels lengthen the gap's life, useless unless Yukari successfully attacks the enemy with a bullet; once upon receiving a bullet attack from Yukari, the enemy gets attacked by all purple gaps. The red gaps attack, when the enemy is in blockstun. Since a red gap drains 0.5 spirit orbs on every Level, it serves well to crush the enemy's guard. On Level Max, you can easily combine purple and red gaps, so that the enemy is instantly attacked by the purple gap, once her guard is broken.
Skill Card 3
Chimera's Wings
Cost
1 orb
Comment
隙間の通用門を仕込んでおき、必要に応じてそこへ瞬間移動する。仕込が必要な分移動が素早く逃げから連携まで自由自在。
Translation
Places a gap door, instantly moving to it when needed. Very fast speed, usable freely for escape and easy to carry around.
Move Command
421B/C, higher levels enable Yukari to form more gaps to warp through
Spell Card 1
Cost
4 cards
Comment
辺り一面に相手を凝視する異形の目が大量に現れる。目は敵を監視隙を見せると攻撃を仕掛けてくる。紫はこの様な方法で幻想郷全体の動向を監視する事もあるらしい。
Translation
A large number of eyes appear staring at the enemy. Once the eyes see an exploitable weakness, they attack. It seems this is how Yukari knows what's going on in all of Gensokyo at all times.
Spell Card 10 - 5
Spell Card Name
"Impossible Danmaku Barrier"
Owner
Yukari Yakumo
Last Day — 5
Last Day — 5
Spell Card 10 - 10
まあ根気よく頑張るしかないよね
Welp, You Just Gotta Persevere
Welp, You Just Gotta Persevere
Spell Card Name
Owner
Yukari Yakumo
Last Day — 10
Last Day — 10
Spell Card Story Mode 1
"
Owner
Yukari Yakumo
Spell Card Story Mode 2
"Perfect Possession and Dream Seal"
Owner
Yukari Yakumo and Reimu Hakurei
Spell Card Story Mode 3
"Boundary of
Owner
Yukari Yakumo and Reimu Hakurei
Spell Card 2
Shikigami "Ran Yakumo & Chen"
Owner
Yukari Yakumo
Spell Card 3
Boundary "Overflowing Flotsam"
Owner
Yukari Yakumo
Spell Card Last Word
*Lend Me Those Beautiful Legs!*
Owner
Yukari Yakumo
Control Scheme
Immaterial and Missing Power can be played using either a keyboard or a gamepad.
For Player 1 using a keyboard, the default controls are:
- Arrow Keys — move the character
- Z — corresponds to A
- X — corresponds to B
- C — corresponds to C
- V — corresponds to D
Character movement is represented using a numpad layout:
7 8 9
4 5 6
1 2 3
- 6 — forward (toward the opponent)
- 4 — backward (away from the opponent)
- 2 — down/crouch
- 8 — up/jump
- 7, 9, 1, 3 — diagonals (can be simulated by pressing the two corresponding direction keys simultaneously)
Special inputs are performed by quickly pressing a sequence of directions followed by a button. For example:
- 66 — forward dash
- 236B — down, down-forward, forward, then B (default X key)
The number 5 indicates no directional input.
For keyboards without a numpad, diagonals are produced by pressing two directional keys simultaneously. For example, Down + Right = 3 on the numpad layout.
Button notation in most game documentation uses A/B/C/D, though older sources (like readme.txt) may use P/K/S instead:
- P = A
- K = B
- S = C or D (context-dependent)
Movement
Forward Movement
Input: 6 The character is able to advance across the battlefield, allowing them to apply pressure, close distance, or reposition during combat.
Backward Movement
Input: 4 The character can retreat to create space, disengage from pressure, or reposition defensively.
Crouching
Input: 2 The character can lower their stance, granting access to low-profile actions and certain techniques while reducing their hit area against high attacks.
Standard Jump
Input: 7, 8, & 9 The character can leap into the air in multiple trajectories, enabling aerial attacks, evasive movement, and vertical repositioning.
Forward Dash
Input: 6 6 The character performs a rapid burst of forward movement. During this action, they briefly enter a grazing state, allowing them to pass through certain threats while advancing. Some characters will dash farther if 6 is held.
Backward Dash
Input: 4 4 The character quickly retreats with a burst of movement while entering a grazing state, providing both evasive mobility and defensive repositioning. Some characters will dash farther if 4 is held.
Super Jump
Input: 2 7, 2 8, & 2 9 The character executes a powerful leap that carries them higher and farther than a standard jump. This movement also applies grazing, making it effective for evasion and aerial control.
Air Dash
Input: 6 6 or 4 4 while in the air While airborne, the character can rapidly change their position midair. The number of air dashes available is limited until landing, with most characters performing 2 and Remilia being able to perform 3.
Basic Moves
Close Normal Attacks
Input: A / B All characters possess close-range melee attacks that change based on proximity to the opponent.
- A: A fast, light melee strike used primarily for pressure and combo initiation.
- B: A heavier melee attack with greater power or reach, often slower than A and commonly kick-based.
Far Normal Attacks
Input: fA / fB When performed at greater distance, A and B become projectile-based attacks instead of melee strikes.
- fA: A standard projectile used for zoning and space control.
- fB: A secondary projectile with different speed, trajectory, or behavior than fA.
Forward Normal Attacks
Input: 6A / 6B Enhanced melee attacks with increased reach and power compared to their neutral counterparts.
- 6A: A stronger forward-reaching strike.
- 6B: A heavier forward-reaching attack, often slower but more impactful.
Crouching Normal Attacks
Input: 2A / 2B Low-profile melee attacks that hit crouching opponents or strike low.
- 2A: A quick, low-hitting light attack.
- 2B: A stronger low-hitting attack with increased damage or reach.
Aerial Normal Attacks
Input: 8A / 8B Mid-air melee attacks used for aerial combat and pressure.
- 8A: A light aerial strike.
- 8B: A stronger aerial attack, with some characters possessing multiple variations or charge properties.
Directional Aerial Attacks
Input: 86A / 82A / 82B Specialized aerial attacks with directional emphasis.
- 86A: An upward-angled aerial attack available to select characters.
- 82A: A downward-angled aerial attack available to select characters.
- 82B: A downward aerial variant unique to specific characters.
Guard Crush Attacks
Input: 22A / 22B Melee attacks designed to break an opponent’s guard and create openings.
Dash Attacks
Input: 66A / 66B / 6DA / 6DB Attacks performed during a forward dash that extend range and grant grazing properties.
- Dash A/B: Forward-moving melee strikes that pass through certain projectiles.
Some characters possess multiple variants of these attacks.
Low Dash Attacks
Input: 66 2A / 66 2B / 6D2A / 6D2B Dash attacks that strike low while maintaining grazing properties.
Directional Projectile Variants
Input: 6fA / 6fB / 2fA / 2fB Modified projectile attacks with altered angles, trajectories, or behaviors. Availability and functionality vary by character.
Aerial Projectile Attacks
Input: 8fA / 8fB Mid-air versions of standard projectiles.
Directional Aerial Projectiles
Input: 86fA / 82fA / 82fB Directional aerial projectile variants available only to select characters.
C-Type Projectile Attacks
Input: C A distinct projectile separate from fA and fB, often possessing unique properties.
Directional C-Type Variants
Input: 6C / 2C Modified versions of C with altered angles or effects.
Aerial C-Type Attacks
Input: 8C An aerial version of the C projectile.
Directional Aerial C-Type Variants
Input: 86C / 82C Specialized aerial C variants available to select characters.
Bomb
Input: 22C The character deploys a bomb that knocks back nearby opponents. Bombs have limited stock and are replenished through item collection.
Spell Card Declaration
Input: 236D The character declares a Spell Card, entering a powerful state. The declaration grants temporary invincibility, with a brief vulnerable window at the start.
Special Move System
In addition to standard attacks, each character possesses a unique set of Special Moves. These techniques are executed through specific directional input sequences combined with attack inputs. While the exact techniques differ by character, the underlying input structures are largely standardized across the roster.
The available Special Moves and their corresponding input sequences are documented within in-game character profiles and practice interfaces.
Standard Special Move Inputs
Most characters utilize the following core directional sequences for their Special Moves:
- '236A/B/C (🢃🢆🢂)
- 623A/B/C (🢂🢃🢆)
- 214A/B/C (🢃🢇🢀)
- 421A/B/C (🢀🢃🢇)
Each input may produce different results depending on whether A, B, or C is used.
Item Collection
When a character is struck, any active projectiles she has on the screen are converted into collectible items and are immediately claimed by the opposing fighter. These items fall into two categories:
Spirit Items — Small blue squares labeled with “霊” (Spirit). Collecting these increases the fighter’s spirit gauge and they are the most frequently obtained item.
Bomb Items — Large green squares marked with a “B”. Collecting one increases the fighter’s bomb stock, up to a maximum of two bombs at any time.
Additionally, whenever a character is knocked down, the opponent automatically receives multiple spirit items. Roughly every third knockdown also grants the opponent a bomb item.
Blocking
When an attack connects, a character can defend by holding a backward direction (1, 4, or 7). Successfully blocking greatly reduces incoming damage, often negating it entirely, though certain situations may apply penalties.
Melee attacks that are blocked under the correct conditions incur no penalty. However, some melee attacks require a specific blocking state—standing, crouching, or airborne—to be blocked properly. If such an attack is blocked in the wrong state, the block is considered incorrect. In these cases, the block effect appears red instead of blue, and the defending character suffers a loss to health and/or spirit.
Guard crush attacks (22A and 22B) follow special rules. If they are not blocked, they function as strong melee attacks. When blocking, 22A must be blocked while standing, and 22B must be blocked while crouching. Blocking either attack incorrectly results in the immediate loss of all spirit.
Projectiles that can be grazed cannot be blocked correctly. Blocking these projectiles causes minor health damage—sometimes limited to the red portion of the health bar—and also applies a spirit penalty.
In Story Mode, later bosses frequently use Spell Cards that feature unblockable projectiles. These attacks must be avoided through grazing or manual movement. Some Spell Cards include projectiles that cannot be blocked or grazed at all, requiring the character to fully move out of their path to avoid taking damage.
Spirit Power
Spirit Power (霊力) governs a character’s ability to fire projectiles, defend against attacks, execute special moves, and activate Spell Cards. The current amount is shown on the Spirit Gauge (霊力ゲージ) at the lower-left of the screen. Different actions consume different amounts of spirit. If no spirit is spent for a short period, the gauge will begin to recover automatically, with spirit items accelerating this regeneration.
When a character’s Spirit Power is fully depleted, the gauge turns red. While in this state, the character cannot use projectiles or special moves until the gauge has fully refilled. If spirit is exhausted as a result of an incorrect block, the character is also briefly stunned. During spirit depletion, sA and sB lose their enhanced properties and function the same as A and B. Spirit recovery continues normally, and spirit items still restore gauge value.
Blocking behavior also changes while spirit is drained. Melee attacks can only be blocked correctly; even when blocked properly, the character still takes health damage using a distinct block animation. If a melee attack is blocked incorrectly, it will connect as though no block was attempted. Projectiles may only be blocked while grounded; airborne blocking is ineffective, and the projectile will hit regardless.
Grazing
Grazing occurs when a character is dashing, super jumping, or performing specific actions that allow them to temporarily avoid damage. While grazing, projectiles pass through the character without dealing harm, and in some cases, the projectile is destroyed upon contact.
Certain high-level attacks, especially from endgame Story Mode bosses, feature Spell Cards with unblockable and ungrazeable projectiles. These attacks cannot be avoided by standard grazing, requiring the character to manually move out of the projectile’s path to prevent damage.
Spell Cards
Spell Cards are powerful, visually striking attacks that characters can use once they have accumulated enough Sign Power (符力), displayed near the Spirit Gauge. Each character can select two Spell Cards prior to a fight: one for the first (white) health bar, called the First Sign (壱符), and one for the second (red) health bar, called the Second Sign (弐符). Second Signs are typically enhanced versions of the First Sign, though some may be entirely unique.
Accumulating Sign Power is achieved by dealing or receiving damage, as well as collecting items. When a character declares a Spell Card (by pressing 22D), their background darkens, a seal appears beneath them, and a timer starts. If the timer reaches zero, the declaration ends, preventing further Sign Power accumulation for that round.
Activating a Spell Card is usually done with 236D, though some have an alternate 214D input. Certain Spell Cards may require an additional input to deal damage. There is a brief vulnerability window at the start of the animation; if the character is hit, the Spell Card is canceled, wasting one Sign Power. Once successfully activated, the character becomes briefly invincible. Using a Spell Card consumes both Sign Power and Spirit Power, though declarations may continue if Sign Power is depleted, except in specific cases like Marisa's Final Spark, which consumes all resources and ends the declaration after one use.
Spell Card images include corner symbols indicating their function: a circle for ranged, a sword for melee, and a crescent moon for special utility effects. The top right corner indicates whether the card is a First Sign or Second Sign.
Control Scheme
Scarlet Weather Rhapsody can be played using either a keyboard or a gamepad.
For Player 1 on keyboard, the default inputs are configured as follows:
- Arrow Keys — character movement
- Z — A button
- X — B button
- C — C button
- A — D button
- S — A+B input
- D — B+C input
- Q — Pause
Movement notation follows the standard numpad-style directional layout:
7 8 9 4 5 6 1 2 3
- 6 represents forward movement (toward the opponent)
- 4 represents backward movement (away from the opponent)
- 2 represents downward movement or crouching
- 8 represents upward movement or jumping
- 7, 9, 1, and 3 represent diagonal directions
Directional notation always assumes the character is positioned on the left side of the screen. As a result, “forward” and “backward” reverse depending on screen position, but the numerical notation remains consistent.
Diagonal directions can be produced on a keyboard by pressing two directional keys simultaneously. For example, pressing Up and Right at the same time corresponds to 9, while Down and Left corresponds to 1.
Special actions are executed by inputting rapid directional sequences followed by a button press. For example:
- 66 indicates a forward dash
- 236B indicates a down, down-forward, forward motion followed by the B button
The number 5 is occasionally used in notation to explicitly indicate a neutral state with no directional input.
For keyboards without a physical numpad, directional inputs are still represented using this system, with diagonals achieved through simultaneous key presses.
Most in-game documentation uses the A/B/C/D notation for button inputs. However, some older references may instead use P, K, and S:
- P corresponds to A
- K corresponds to B
- S may refer to either C or D, depending on context
Forward Movement
The character can move toward the opponent to close distance or apply pressure. Input: 6
Backward Movement
The character can move away from the opponent to create space or reposition defensively. Input: 4
Crouching
The character can lower their stance, enabling low-profile movement and access to crouching actions. Input: 2
Standard Jump
The character can jump backward, vertically, or forward, allowing aerial movement and attacks. Input: 7 (backward jump), 8 (neutral jump), 9 (forward jump)
Forward Dash
The character performs a rapid forward movement. During this action, the character enters a grazing state, allowing certain projectiles to pass through. Input: 66 Alternate Input: D + 6 Note: Holding the forward direction may cause some characters to dash farther.
Backward Dash
The character performs a rapid backward movement while entering a grazing state, providing evasive mobility. Input: 44 Alternate Input: D + 4 Note: Holding the backward direction may cause some characters to dash farther.
Super Jump
The character executes an enhanced jump that travels higher and farther than a standard jump while applying grazing. Input: 27, 28, or 29 Alternate Input: D + 7, D + 8, or D + 9
Air Dash
While airborne, the character can perform a rapid burst of movement forward or backward. The number of air dashes is limited before landing, with most characters able to perform two by default. Certain conditions, such as Wind weather, may increase this limit. Air dashes do not consume Spirit Power and cover a fixed distance. Air dashes and flight share the same usage limit. Using one reduces the remaining opportunities for the other before landing. For example, performing an air dash reduces the number of available flight actions, and vice versa. This shared limitation also applies under special conditions such as Wind weather. Input (airborne): 66 (forward), 44 (backward)
Flight
While airborne, the character can enter a sustained movement state that allows controlled flight. During flight, the character is considered to be grazing but consumes Spirit Power over time. Flight continues as long as the input is held or until Spirit Power is depleted. Input (airborne): D + direction
Common flight directions include:
- Forward Flight: 6 + D
- Backward Flight: 4 + D
- Upward Flight: 8 + D
- Downward Flight: 2 + D
- Diagonal Flight: 7/9/1/3 + D
While flying, the character can change direction mid-flight by switching directional inputs while continuing to hold D.
Basic Attacks
All characters possess a standard set of basic attacks. Certain attacks change properties depending on whether the input is tapped or held. A tapped A input is referred to as "A", while a held A input is referred to as "[A]".
Additionally, some attacks vary based on distance. Pressing A while very close to the opponent results in one version, while pressing A at a farther distance produces a different version (the exact distance varies by character). The close-range version is referred to as "A", while the farther version is referred to as "f.A".
Inputs
A
A fast melee attack.
f.A
A slightly slower melee attack with increased reach and power compared to A.
6A
A slower but significantly longer-reaching and more powerful melee attack.
2A
A fast, low-hitting melee attack that does not change based on distance.
3A
Functionally similar to 6A, but hits low instead of mid.
8A
An airborne-only melee attack that generally strikes upward.
6[A] / 3[A]
Guard Crush attacks. These are performed by holding the A button while using the respective directional input.
B
A light projectile attack.
6B
A variant of B that is aimed higher.
2B
A variant of B that is aimed lower.
C
A heavier projectile attack with different properties from B.
6C
A heavier projectile attack that is usually aimed straight forward.
2C
A heavier projectile attack that is usually aimed upward.
All of the above attacks also have aerial variants when performed while airborne.
Charged Projectiles
Most projectile attacks can be charged by holding the input button ([B] or [C]). Charged projectiles typically release additional bullets or enhanced effects. An audible sound cue plays when a charged projectile or a Guard Crush attack is successfully executed.
Dashing Attacks
These are attacks performed during a forward dash. They are generally dashing melee attacks that move the character forward farther than standard attacks. Depending on the character, these attacks may also apply grazing.
Attack properties, ranges, speeds, and behaviors can vary significantly between characters, and many general rules have character-specific exceptions.
Input: 66 + A / B / C
Special Moves
The character possesses a set of SpecialMoves distinct from standard attacks. These techniques are executed through specific directional input sequences combined with attack inputs. The exact effects and behavior of each technique depend on the character.
In some cases, the same technique may be executed through more than one input sequence. Likewise, input sequences that produce a technique for one character may not produce the same result for another character.
The following notation is used when listing Special Technique inputs: - “>” indicates sequential inputs. - “Hold” indicates the input is held rather than tapped. - “+” indicates inputs performed simultaneously.
The availability and behavior of these Special Techniques vary by character. This section reflects common input structures rather than guaranteed results.
Grounded Special Technique Inputs
Hold A Hold B Hold C
Front + A Front + B Front + C
Front + Hold A Front + Hold B Front + Hold C
Back + B
Front > Hold Front until condition is met + A Front > Hold Front until condition is met + B Front > Hold Front until condition is met + C
Front > Down > Front + A Front > Down > Front + B Front > Down > Front + C
Back > Down > Back + A Back > Down > Back + B Back > Down > Back + C
Down + A Down + B Down + C
Down + Front + A Down + Front + Hold A
Down > Front + A Down > Front + B Down > Front + C
Down > Back + B Down > Back + C
Down > Down + B Down > Down + C
Aerial Special Technique Inputs
Jump > A Jump + A
Jump > B Jump > C
Jump > Hold B Jump > Hold C
Jump > Down + A Jump > Down + B Jump > Down + C
Jump > Down + Hold A Jump > Down + Hold B Jump > Down + Hold C
Jump > Front + A Jump > Front + C Jump > Front + Hold C
Jump > Down > Front + A Jump > Down > Front + B Jump > Down > Front + C
Jump > Down > Back + B Jump > Down > Back + C
Jump > Back > Down > Back + B Jump > Back > Down > Back + C
Jump > Front > Down > Front + B Jump > Front > Down > Front + C
Blocking
Standard
The character is able to guard against incoming attacks by holding a backward direction. Successful blocking greatly reduces or negates damage, though certain conditions may result in penalties.
Melee attacks can be blocked correctly, preventing penalties entirely. However, some melee attacks require the character to be in a specific state—standing, crouching, or airborne—to be blocked correctly. Blocking such an attack in an incorrect state results in a spirit penalty. Incorrect blocks are visually indicated by a red block effect and accompanied by an audible cue.
Guard Crush
Certain attacks function as Guard Crush techniques. When unblocked, these attacks behave as powerful melee strikes. When blocked, each Guard Crush attack has a required blocking state. Blocking a Guard Crush attack incorrectly results in the temporary loss of a spirit orb and leaves the character briefly vulnerable.
Projectile and Special Attack Interaction
Standard grazable projectiles cannot be blocked correctly. Blocking these attacks results in a spirit penalty. Special attacks and Spell Card techniques additionally inflict chip damage to the character’s health alongside spirit damage when blocked.
Border Escape
The character can perform a Border Escape to disengage while trapped in a guarding state. This action allows the character to reposition by escaping in a chosen direction, creating space or avoiding continued pressure.
Executing a Border Escape consumes one spirit orb as a cost for its use.
Spirit
Spirit is a resource required to fire projectiles and activate certain special techniques. Rather than a single continuous gauge, spirit is represented by multiple individual orbs that are consumed when these actions are performed.
When spirit is not actively used, depleted orbs gradually regenerate over time. However, if the character suffers a guard crush or performs a Border Escape, one spirit orb becomes temporarily disabled and cannot be used until it naturally recovers.
While spirit orbs are disabled, the character retains access to projectiles, special techniques, and flight, but with reduced capacity. As more orbs are rendered unusable, available offensive and mobility options become increasingly limited. In this weakened state, the character is also more susceptible to further guard crushes, as spirit penalties apply regardless of how many active orbs remain.
Grazing
Grazing is a defensive state that occurs during certain movement actions, such as rapid movement or aerial maneuvers. While grazing, incoming projectiles pass through the character without dealing damage.
In some cases, successfully grazing a projectile will also cause the projectile to be neutralized. Grazing is primarily used to bypass projectile pressure while maintaining mobility.
Spell Cards
Spell Cards are powerful, one-time-use abilities that can be activated during combat. Characters assemble a "deck" of 20 Cards, which gradually become available as the character deals or takes damage. Deck composition is customizable in the Player Profile, but must always contain exactly 20 Cards.
Activation is performed by pressing B and C simultaneously. Characters can switch between available Cards by pressing A and B simultaneously.
Cards are divided into three types:
- System Cards: Include bombs, weather changes, and other utility effects that can influence the flow of battle.
- Skill Cards: Enhance or modify a character's special attacks, providing alternate attacks or increased damage output.
- Spell Cards: High-damage attacks that automatically execute once activated, such as Marisa's Master Spark or Reimu's Fantasy Seal.
Some Spell Cards require multiple Cards in hand to activate, while others can be used with fewer. Availability is indicated by a glowing border around the Card's image.
Controls
The default control configuration is as follows:
Gamepad
Other
Standard Tactics
- Overall: Yukari usually does not act on her own and instead prefers for her shikigami Ran to handle any of her work while she sleeps[6]. Her fighting style in Immaterial and Missing Power is described to diverge from human standards, being neither fast nor heavy-hitting, being impossible to tell whether she is strong or weak, and the way she acts makes it seems like she's playing with the opponent making it infuriating even if the opponent managaes to defeat her[7]. Yukari normally instead of fighting however uses deception and trickey to deal with opponents[602], especially if she's aware she doesn't stand a chance against the opponent[603].
- In Spell Card Rules: Yukari leaves all the work to her shikigami, having them pursue and attack enemies until Yukari stops shooting or the target falls[8].
- Out of Spell Card Rules: It's noted that Yukari's abilities if put to full use would make it where there's no game, so for the purposes of the narrative she fights within spellcard rules[22], this means in the context of out of spell card rules she would use her boundary abilities to full use.
Weaknesses
- Standard Youkai Weaknesses: Youkai's bodies being destroyed by spiritual attacks[604], have them take a while to recover[605]. Youkai are more easily affected by belief than humans, and as a result spiritual damage can cause fatal wounds[18]. Youkai are weak to spiritual attacks such as names or legends[44]. Youkai and Ghost are weak to sunlight[606]. Mental Attacks can be lethal to youkai, in some cases one can repel them with a single phrase[607]. The human village acts as a lifeline for the Gensokyo Youkai, if the humans were to perish or if they stopped fearing the youkai, then they would cease to exist[608]. Youkai are weak against psychological attacks[609].
- Magic Weaknesses: Magic users taking too much damage will cancel out their attacks[610]. If a magic users spirit is depleted they enter a state of "Guard Crush" where they can't use bullets, special moves, or spell cards at all[611]. Repeatedly attacking red glyphs will break one's defenses[612].
- Unique Weaknesses: Yukari is largely lazy and doesn't care much about events, such as when she heard that Ran had been defeated by someone she was only mildly surprised and then went back to sleep[6]. Yukari can easily forget things such as when she finally noticed that spring had graced her place of residence when in truth the spring had been around for the past 10 days but she forgot it whenever she went to bed and woke up just as surprised the next time[6]. She will not interact seriously with anyone on a lower level than Reimu[7]. Yukari does not take fights seriously, playing with the opponent to where the opponent is infuriated even if they won the fight[7]. Yukari's boundary abilities do not work against those who exist in a borderless state, requiring her to forcefully bind them to a physical state in order to affect them[613].
Note
- Any translations from en.tohouwiki.net are considered fine to use as they all fall under Project Translations, a fan translation team that have translation guuidelines and rulesets, along with moderators that directly overlook and proofread English translations to check for machine translations.
- Despite Gensou Narratograph being directly noted to be an "unofficial Touhou tabletop RPG", ZUN has directly participated in the RPG and noted the way Reimu acts during his session is how canon Reimu would act[614], thus character actions done by him and mechanics are fine to use.
- Even if characters have not showcased using a bomb, they should all be able to use bombs, as bombs are realistically just spiritual attacks[237] and to even be able to fight the non-human entities, requires a weapon with an unnatural amount of spiritual power such as the Yin-Yang Orb[615], meaning everyone that is non-human or is fighting non-humans is using spiritual energy.
Special Notes
- Many spell card images and descriptions along with translations are heavily helped by the Touhou Wiki.
Explanations
Canoncity of Touhou Project
The Touhou Project franchise canoncity mainly falls under any media worked on by ZUN are official and canon to the overall lineup.
There are various aspects constantly debated about within the canon:
PC-98
Media like PC-98, has been noted by ZUN to be ignored as one can ignore derivative works[616]. He has also said that anything prior to Embodiment of Scarlet Devil can for the most part be ignored and one can think of Embodiment of Scarlet Devil as the starting from a clean slate and starting a new series[617], he's also referred to Highly Responsive to Prayers as a study product[618]. With this in mind, one would assume that PC-98 is thus non-canon to the Windows continuity of games.
However, ZUN has also directly stated PC-98 games are the same world as the Windows Games, stating that any contradictions that exist from PC-98 can be ignored from the retcon in Windows Era[619]. While one argues ZUN noting the works are derivative works to be ignored and Embodiment of the Scarlet Devil should be seen as the starting point, these statements are moreso telling a fan to not worry about having to play PC-98 games or learn more about their stories.
It's also been noted in Embodiment of Scarlet Devil's おまけ.txt that the game chronologically is not too far from the previous title, which would be Mystic Square, the PC-98 title[620]. ZUN has also directly brought back characters from PC-98 games, noting he wanted to bring back characters from before Embodiment of Scarlet Devil and notes any of the other older characters that don't appear have probably retired by now and are warmly watching over things from various places nowadays[621]. When asked where Mima from PC-98 has gone, ZUN notes that he doesn't bring them back due to making things complicated and having potentially angry fans ask where she has been the entire time, he has also noted that there's not much use for characters like Genji as Reimu can fly now and also notes he is not dead[622]. ZUN has also made mention to Genji probably living in the lake in the back of the shrine[623]. In Touhou Sangetsusei ~ Strange and Bright Nature Deity, Reimu and Marisa were talking about glowing moss with Reimu saying it would be nice to transfer it to the pond in the back of the Hakurei Shrine and Marisa saying that she could make it grow there on the turtles' back, referencing Genji[624].
In Touhou 07 Perfect Cherry Blossom, when Alice meets Reimu, she tells her long time no see, noting that they've met before calling her "old friend"[625]. In Yuuka's mode in Touhou Project - Phantasmagoria of Flower View, Reimu directly references defeating Yuuka back in PC-98[626]. If Yuuka defeats Marisa in the same game, she will note that Marisa has grown up quite a bit, when the last time she's seen her has been in PC-98[627].
Seeing as ZUN himself has directly said both PC-98 and Windows are in the same world and that characters directly acknowledged PC-98 events and reference characters from it, PC-98 is completely canon and any contradictions PC-98 have can be ignored.
Side Games Time Placements
Touhou 7.5 - Immaterial and Missing Power takes place between Perfect Cherry Blossom and Imperishable Night[628].
Multiple Playable Routes
In the series, there are multiple playable character routes, including some where the characters fight Reimu herself and defeat her, calling question into what route is canon. ZUN has elaborated that canonically, anytime Reimu and the gang are defeated, they challenge again however many times they want, but on the youkai side, they do not challenge again after being defeated and are not attached to the results of winning or losing[629].
In terms of how playable routes have went, some examples of canonically noted routes:
- In Reimu's profile on Perfect Memento in Strict Sense, it's noted that Reimu resolved the Scarlet Devil Mansion Incident alone[630].
- Reimu is also acknowledged to have resolved the Spring Snow Incident in Perfect Cherry Blossom, though it is not noted if she did this alone[631].
- Reimu claims she solved the Eternal Night incident, however if one asks her about the cause or the perpetrator, she'll only respond with ambiguous answers, it is also not noted if she did this alone[632].
With some of these examples, it is normally assumed that in some way Reimu has some part in resolving every incident and other routes are dubiously canon depending on what transpired.
Spell Card Rules
There are many cases of weaker humans beating stronger Yokai or vice versa within the Touhou series, this has been elaborated on in Reimu's profile on Perfect Memento in Strict Sense. Reimu introduced the spell card rules as the youkai had no way to defeat the Hakurei shrine maiden, making many youkai feel that their meaning to exist have dissapeared[362]. The rules incoporate the following:
- Spell cards are techniques specially-named by the individual, and they must be declared upon use.
- The number of each party's spell cards must be determined in advance of a duel.
- The first party to have all of their spell cards beaten must admit defeat.
- The victor is entitled only to what was agreed upon before the duel. If they're not interested in what their opponent has to offer, they can refuse a duel.
- Winners should generally allow losers a rematch.
- Always prepare for the unexpected.
The original draft held these rules[633]:
- Combatants will give names and meanings to the duel for the benefit of beauty.
- Combatants will declare the number of named duels before beginning.
- Combatants may not repeat attacks by relying on stamina.
- Combatants may not deliver attacks that do not have meaning. The meaning itself becomes the attack's power.
- In the case that a combatant loses a named duel, that combatant will admit defeat, even if he or she has strength remaining. No combatant may kill a human, even upon victory.
- Combatants will write the duel's name on paper in the format of a contract. By doing so, the above-mentioned rules become absolute. These papers will be called spell cards.
These rules allows for duels that feel almost like sport rather then a match, and have allowed for weaker fighters to challenge stronger ones, due to this though, it also has become possible for youkai to freely defeat Reimu without worrying about the consequences.
Due to them being written into cards and essentially affecting the ability and power of an attack, the spell cards are likely the thing binding attacks to specific properties.
Parallel Worlds
Parallel Worlds is a topic brought up at some points in the Touhou Project franchise, they are worlds called "Probability Worlds" by Yumemi, stating that those and parallel worlds are one and the same[634]. This essentially means that parallel worlds in Touhou are based on the concept of probability. Yumemi and Chiyuri use a "Probability Space Hypervessel" in order to travel to alternate worlds and time periods[635], further showcasing that probabiliy serves an importance.
Magical vs. Physical Strength
There[636] are[637] multiple[638] occasions[639] of[640]characters[641] commenting[642] on[643] humans like[644] Reimu[645] being strong[646]. Despite this Reimu showcases physical strength that isn't superhuman, such as the fact that she cannot cut a bamboo stick while Fujiwara direclty does in front of her.
This is due to the difference between magical and physical strength.
In works like Symposium of Post-mysticism, Yuugi Hoshiguma's profile has Suika directly state that Yuugi is weaker then her in magical powers, but stronger than her physically[647], lining a clear difference between magical and physical strength.
While one can be physically stronger then another, such as how Onis are physically the strongest, magic users are still able to keep up with them due to using a different form of attack.
An example can be found with Yuugi herself, when Reimu fights against her in Subterranean Animism[648], with her acknolwedging her strength[649], something Yuugi only does to those who are truly strong[647]. This establishes even with spellcard rules, Yuugi considers Reimu a strong fighter. Reimu herself is very clearly not at an oni's physical strength, as she cannot do the things they can, however, her magical strength allows her to keep up with them.
To defend against magical based properties requires Non-Standard Defenses as it is acknowledged as not being something of standard physicality.
The Three Layers of Reality
In Chapter 27 of Curiosities of Lotus Asia, Reimu proceeds to explain how reality works to Rinnosuke and Marisa, where she explains in-depth the three layers of reality.
This conversation started from discussing the mechanism of fortune, where Rinnosuke attempted to posit that the future is predetermined and that Reimu's luck was her being able to calculate in an instant the predetermined future, however Reimu had a different explanation requiring her to lecture on the mechanisms of probability[650], in her explanation, the world is made up of three layers: the physical layer that moves in accuracy with the laws of physics, the second layer that moves with the spirit, and the third layer of memory which is the recollection of events that lies within all things[29]. The memory layer rejects the loop of the physical and mental layers, the two layers the youkai conceive of the world which is why they believe history repeats itself and the future is predetermined. Since it's only possible to add to the memory layer, it's possible to completely recreate the past.
While the physical layer follows the laws of physics, the mental layer interprets the outcomes and the memory layer alters the probability, essentially creating the future, since it's impossible for memories to raech the same state as a point in the past, the future is not predetermined, thus when Reimu is able to predict how the dice will fall, she's not predicting the fall of the dice, the dice members the fact that she predicted how the dice would fall, thus due to this, Reimu entering the memory of the die-face greatly skews the results in Reimu's favor, where the results side with Reimu[651].
Thus the memory layer is essentially the most important layer that rejects the notion of loops from the previous two layers.
Dream vs. Reality
In the Touhou Project series, it is made very apparent that dream and reality are in truth one and the same.
In Changeability of Strange Dream, Maribel Hearn has a conversation with Renko Usami about how she is bringing objects out of her dreams[652], which Maribel posits that truth exists within subjectivity, if one can see the same sights over and over again then that's the kind of place it is as such dreams are nothing like the antonym of reality[653], where much longer ago people did not draw a distinction between dreams and reality[654], with Maribel reiterating that dreams and reality are the same[655].
In Legacy of Lunatic Kingdom it is shown that the Dream World is a separate plane[656], that in games like Antinomy of Common Flower are shown to have influence[657] on reality[658].
In the Urban Legends in Limbo finale, Sumireko notes that she is able to travel between the human world and Gensokyo whenver she sleeps, where her dream self enters Gensokyo[659] making her innately unable to be interacted with[660].
Trivia
- Youmu's music theme is titled "Hiroari Shoots a Strange Bird ~ Till When?", named after a story in the Taiheiki in which a warrior named Hiroari slays a youkai known as Itsumade (以津真天). This serves as an homage to that storyline. Based on the story of Perfect Cherry Blossom, the heroine plays the role of Hiroari, Youmu is Itsumade, and the corpse is likely Yuyuko Saigyouji. (See also Flandre Scarlet and Yukari Yakumo.)
- In Touhou Hisoutensoku, Youmu's spell card "Reincarnation Sword 'Slash of Circular Vicissitude'" resembles one of Grant's moves from Garou: Mark of the Wolves. However, Youmu performs the move using her swords, whereas Grant performs it using his legs.
- Youmu and Sakuya Izayoi use the fewest total attack patterns during their respective Stage 5 boss fights, each with six patterns. Sakuya uses three nonspells and three spell cards, while Youmu uses two nonspells and four spell cards.
Trivia
- A silhouette of Yukari appears on the front of Perfect Cherry Blossom's jewel case. She also appears on the case for the Immaterial and Missing Power OST.
- For unknown reasons, Yukari's appearance in spell card 222 of Imperishable Night differs from other characters. Instead of using her portrait from Imperishable Night, a modified image from Perfect Cherry Blossom is used, featuring blue ribbons instead of red. Strangely, the background used in the spell card also originates from Perfect Cherry Blossom and retains Yukari's original cut-in image with red ribbons, even though the three scene-based games she appears in (Shoot the Bullet, Impossible Spell Card, and Violet Detector) also use the blue ribbon version. Additionally, Yukari's sprite in those three games also sports blue ribbons.
- It's noted by ZUN that the outfit Yukari wears in Imperishable Night is actually her formal combat attire[661].
- She is the only Phantasm boss in the entire Touhou Project series. However, her status as an "8th boss" is matched by Fujiwara no Mokou (as Stage 6B is considered Stage 7 and the Extra Stage is Stage 8 in Imperishable Night's game files), Komachi Onozuka, and exceeded by Eiki Shiki, Yamaxanadu (as Phantasmagoria of Flower View has nine stages). Reimu Hakurei can also become a Stage 8 or 9 boss in Phantasmagoria of Flower View depending on the character played, or a Stage 8 boss in Scarlet Weather Rhapsody if playing as Tenshi Hinanawi.
- In Scarlet Weather Rhapsody, one of Yukari's spell cards summons a train to run over her opponent. The train graphic is based on the Nagano Electric Railway Kijima Line 3500 series (長野電鉄木島線3500系), a train that used to operate in Nagano, ZUN's homeland. In Antinomy of Common Flowers, the train is based on the JR 103 series (国鉄103系).
- In Antinomy of Common Flowers, Yukari has alternate color palettes resembling Ran Yakumo, Patchouli Knowledge, Yuyuko Saigyouji (with Ran and Chen resembling Youmu Konpaku), and Lunasa Prismriver.
- Both Yukari and Ran's surname were originally "Suzukaze" in the trial version 0.09a of Perfect Cherry Blossom[662].
Profiles
Gallery
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Yukari's silhouette in the cover of Perfct Cherry Blossom
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Yukari in Cage of Lunatic Runagate
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Yukari in Cage of Lunatic Runagate
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Yukari appearing in Curiosities of Lotus Asia chapter 11 cover
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Yukari appearing in Curiosities of Lotus Asia chapter 26 cover
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Yukari on volume 3 Silent Sinner in Blue
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Yukari's fortune slip in Whispered Oracle of Hakurei Shrine
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Yukari's alternate color palletes in Touhou Hisoutensoku. The second alt costume is based off her second color palette from Scarlet Weather Rhapsody and the third alt costume is based off her third color palette from Immaterial and Missing Power.
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Yukari's altnerate color palettes in Antinomy of Common Flowers. The last two alternate costumes were added in v1.10.
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Yukari being one of the cameos in Whispered Oracle of Hakurei Shrine
Misconceptions
Characters Have Flown Through Outerspace
One example of this is believed to be in Touhou 02's Stage 3 Scarlet Dream ~ Scarlet Dream where it displays stars and a space-like effect in the background[664], however this is actually the World of Fantasies, the world that lies between Makai and the human world, with Genji confirming this is definetely not outerspace as Reimu can breathe just fine there[665].
All Characters are Children
This is an argument that spawns from how small the characters look in different works, though this is moreso due to the "moe" artstyle Touhou tries to capture, in many of the manga characters look far older.
Majority of characters in the series are outright shown to drink alcohol on a daily basis[666], where one needs to be at least 20 years old under Japanese law to drink, where Japanese law requires no underaged characters to be shown drinking. This is even acknowledged in the series itself with a note saying alcohol is only for those over 20 years old[667]. Thus if a character is ever seen drinking alcohol in the series, they are an adult.
The only direct non-adults in the series are Sumireko Usami, Chiyuri Kitashirakawa, and Hieda no Akyuu in her first appearance.
Youkai Control the world through both the mental and physical layer
This statement comes from a fan translation that says this in Curiosities of Lotus Asia[668].
While the statement seems clear cut, there is another translation used instead that makes more sense with the sentence.
It instead notes that most youkai concieve of the world through these two layers, which is why they believe the future is pre-determined and history repeats itself[669]. This falls in line with the earlier disucssion of Rinnosuke claiming that he believes the future to be predetermined and Reimu needing to explain to him why that's not the case[650].
Battle Records
26 - 20 - 0
- Remilia Scarlet - Fight[670]
- Conditions: None.
- Location: Stage 1 Blood-Coloured Liquor Good Morning 2nd Day 28:00 Scarlet Devil Mansion
- Alice Margatroid - Fight[671]
- Conditions: None.
- Location: Stage 2 Grape-Coloured Liquor Wine Biscuit Feast Day 13:00 Forest of Magic
- Youmu Konpaku - Fight[672]
- Conditions: None.
- Location: Stage 3 Translucent Liquor Milk Sugar Feast Day 14:00 Graveyard
- Marisa Kirisame - Fight[673]
- Conditions: None.
- Location: Stage 4 Kirisame's Liquor Rainy Woods Feast Day 15:00 Forest of Magic
- Reimu Hakurei - Fight[674]
- Conditions: None.
- Location: Stage 5 Liquor for the Gods Sea of Nector Feast Day 16:00 Hakurei Shrine
- Yuyuko Saigyouji - Fight[675]
- Conditions: None.
- Location: Border Line Finely Aged Liquor Elder Phantom Feast Day 17:00 Hakurei Shrine
- Suika Ibuki - Fight[676]
- Conditions: None.
- Location: Immaterial and Missing Power Liquor of Overflowing Fantasy Pandemoniac Land Feast Day 19:00 Gensokyo
- Wriggle Nightbug - Fight[677]
- Conditions: Reimu teamed up with Yukari Yakumo.
- Location: Stage 1 - Where the Fireflies Fly
- Mystia Lorelei - Fight[678]
- Conditions: Reimu teamed up with Yukari Yakumo.
- Location: Stage 2 - The Path Where Humans Vanish
- Keine Kamishirasawa - Fight[679]
- Conditions: Reimu teamed up with Yukari Yakumo.
- Location: Stage 3 - Memories of the, History Eaters Home
- Keine Kamishirasawa - Fight[680]
- Conditions: Match was a rematch. Reimu teamed up with Yukari Yakumo.
- Location: Stage 3 - Memories of the, History Eaters Home
- Marisa Kirisame - Fight[681]
- Conditions: Reimu teamed up with Yukari Yakumo.
- Location: Stage 4 - Beneath the Soul that Holds Magic Power
- Tewi Inaba - Fight[682]
- Conditions: Reimu teamed up with Yukari Yakumo.
- Location: Stage 5 - A Pure Cage in the Filthy World
- Reisen Udongein Inaba - Fight[683]
- Conditions: Reimu teamed up with Yukari Yakumo.
- Location: Stage 5 - A Pure Cage in the Filthy World
- Eirin Yagokoro - Fight[684]
- Conditions: Reimu teamed up with Yukari Yakumo. Eirin eventually received a help from Kaguya.
- Location: Final Stage - A The Orb in the Night Sky, Hiding the Princess
- Eirin Yagokoro - Fight[685]
- Conditions: Reimu teamed up with Yukari Yakumo.
- Location: Final Stage B - Five Impossible Request
- Kaguya Houraisan - Fight[686]
- Conditions: Reimu teamed up with Yukari Yakumo.
- Location: Final Stage B - Five Impossible Request
- Keine Kamishirasawa - Fight[687]
- Conditions: Reimu teamed up with Yukari Yakumo. Match was a rematch.
- Location: Extra Stage - Doll of Hourai
- Fujiwara no Mokou - Fight[688]
- Conditions: Reimu teamed up with Yukari Yakumo.
- Location: Extra Stage - Doll of Hourai
- Reimu Hakurei - Fight[689]
- Conditions: None.
- Location: Stage 1 - Like a Drifitng Cloud
- Komachi Onozuka - Fight[690]
- Conditions: None.
- Location: Stage 2 - The Slacker
- Marisa Kirisame - Fight[691]
- Conditions: None.
- Location: Stage 3 - An Idle Mind...
- Iku Nagae - Fight[692]
- Conditions: None.
- Location: Stage 4 - Whereabouts of the Heiress
- Suika Ibuki - Fight[693]
- Conditions: None.
- Location: Stage 5 - Capricious Society
- Tenshi Hinanawi - Fight[694]
- Conditions: None.
- Location: Stage Final - Is the Way of Heaven Just or Unjust?
- Joon Yorigami/Shion Yorigami - Fight[695]
- Conditions: Reimu teamed up with Yukari Yakumo.
- Location: Stage 1 "Yukari Takes the Last Move"
- Reimu Hakurei - Fight[696]
- Conditions: None.
- Location: Phantasm Stage Phantasmagoria. She was also living on the border of Gensokyo.
- Marisa Kirisame - Fight[697]
- Conditions: None.
- Location: Phantasm Stage Phantasmagoria. She was also living on the border of Gensokyo.
- Sakuya Izayoi - Fight[698]
- Conditions: None.
- Location: Phantasm Stage Phantasmagoria. She was also living on the border of Gensokyo.
- Reimu Hakurei - Fight[699]
- Conditions: None.
- Location: Border Line First Day Border Daylight and Moonlight Feast Day 17:00 Hakurei Shrine
- Marisa Kirisame - Fight[700]
- Conditions: None.
- Location: Border Line First Day Border Daylihgt and Mooonlight Feast Day 17:00 Hakurei Shrine
- Sakuya Izayoi - Fight[701]
- Conditions: None.
- Location: Border Line First Day Border Daylight and Moonlight Feast Day 17:00 Hakurei Shrine
- Youmu Konpaku - Fight[702]
- Conditions: None.
- Location: Border Line Cut Through the Surface Tension Surface Active Feast Day 17:00 Hakurei Shrine
- Patchouli Knowledge - Fight[703]
- Conditions: None.
- Location: Border Line Memory of the Moon History of Moon Feast Day 17:00 Hakurei Shrine
- Alice Margatroid - Fight[704]
- Conditions: None.
- Location: Border Line Alice's Youkai Hunt Invisible Magic Feast Day 17:00 Hakurei Shrine
- Remilia Scarlet - Fight[705]
- Conditions: None.
- Location: Border Line Ideal Look for a Shrine Border Land Feast Day 17:00 Hakurei Shrine
- Marisa Kirisame & Alice Margatroid - Fight[706]
- Conditions: Marisa teamed up with Alice Margatroid. Reimu teamed up witH Yukari Yakumo.
- Location: Stage 4 - Legend Dreamland
- Note: ZUN has elaborated that canonically, anytime Reimu and the gang are defeated, they challenge again however many times they want, but on the youkai side, they do not challenge again after being defeated and are not attached to the results of winning or losing[629].
- Sakuya Izayoi & Remilia Scarlet - Fight[707]
- Conditions: Sakuya teamed up with Remilia Scarlet. Reimu teamed up with Yukari Yakumo.
- Location: Stage 4 Uncanny - Legendary Paradise
- Note: ZUN has elaborated that canonically, anytime Reimu and the gang are defeated, they challenge again however many times they want, but on the youkai side, they do not challenge again after being defeated and are not attached to the results of winning or losing[629].
- Remilia Scarlet - Fight[708]
- Conditions: None.
- Location: Stage Final Sit and Forget
- Youmu Konpaku - Fight[709]
- Conditions: None.
- Location: Stage 4 Direction of Temperament
- Reimu Hakurei/Kasen Ibaraki - Fight[710]
- Conditions: Reimu teamed up with Kasen Ibaraki.
- Location: Stage 4 "Is the Lone Wolf, a Foe or Friend?"
- Note: Yukari was purposefully holding back during the fight.
- Marisa Kirisame/Koishi Komeiji - Fight[711]
- Conditions: Marisa teamed up with Koishi.
- Location: Stage 4 "Too Strong for an Opening Act"
- Note: Yukari was not taking the fight seriously.
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