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Oni
In General
"Once upon a time a group of oni settled down on the Ooeyama as great bandits."
From left to right: Kasen Ibaraki, Suika Ibuki, Yuugi Hoshiguma
Suika's group of oni bandits were feared among humans because they kidnapped people. After being weakened with poisoned sake by humans, they were defeated and forced to go into hiding.
- The Alcoholic: All three of them love sake and have magical items related to alcohol.
- Chained by Fashion: They all have chains on their limbs.
- Hard-Drinking Party Girl: Three women who drink a lot.
- Horned Humanoid: Suika has large brown horns, Yuugi has a signle red horn on her forehead, and Kasen has large red horns that she has to break off and cover the stumps for her human disguise (which is slightly different from how her horns work in canon, but the information hadn't been revealed yet at the time this series was made).
- Public Domain Character: The canon characters take inspiration from ones, which this series takes advantage of. The idea of Kasen becoming friends with Yoshika is based off of a legend involving her basis and Yoshika's own basis.
- Really 700 Years Old: They're at least 1,200 years old by the time of the final episode, but Suika looks like a child while Yuugi and Kasen look in their twenties.
- Offscreen Villainy: The oni bandits don't actually get shown doing any crimes with the ending narration for episode one saying that they were feared by the humans because they kidnapped people.
- Oni: Of course. After they went into hiding however, Kasen took on a disguise as a human.
- Super-Strength: All of them are very strong, but Yuugi especially.
Kasen Ibaraki
"I was a human who became an oni. I used to be an oni. Losing my arm meant I couldn't go back to being one. And right now... I don't even know what I am."
Vice leader of the great oni bandits
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The main protagonist of the series and its source manga Touhou Ibarakasen ~ Wild and Horned Hermit. Kasen Ibaraki (also known as Ibaraki Douji) is an Oni who served as the former vice leader of the oni bandits until she had to into hiding disguised as a human. Kasen has the power to guide animals. She was abandoned by her mother years ago and became an oni when Suika found her and offered her the Ibaraki Box of a Hundred Medicines to heal her wounds and grant immortality to get another chance to reunite with her parent. After that, she grew up alongside Suika's group of oni bandits until they lost a rough battle and had to go into hiding. Kasen had her arm cut off during the fight, and her search to find it again led her to meet Yoshika, whose interest in hermits gave Kasen an idea for how to get assistance. However, after this fateful meeting, Kasen's act about becoming a hermit wouldn't stay fake for long...
- Adaptational Angst Upgrade: The canon Kasen has a very ill-defined and vague backstory but this series expands greatly on her past and gives her more things to angst over like Parental Abandonment and Loss of Identity. It's saying something that she goes through enough emotional pain over the course of the story to cry onscreen when she has yet to cry in an official work.
- Ambiguously Absent Parent: Kasen's mother is mentioned, but not her father.
- An Arm and a Leg: Her right arm was cut off in the fight that made her and the other oni have to go into hiding, and the special properties of the blade that made the cut prevents her from growing it back. She has her other arm smashed off by rocks during the fight with Suika, but is able to grow it back with the Box of a Hundred Medicines.
- Artificial Limbs: Artificial arm made by wrapping bandages around blue smoke that remains where her right arm once was.
- Bad Liar: Just like her canon self, she can pull of certain tricks rather well, but is often found acting nervous or dodging questions when certain flaws in her tricks are pointed out (such as avoiding answering Yoshika's question of why she requested books about barriers along with the hermit-training documents).
- The Beastmaster: Her power is to guide animals, which she puts to use by calling a giant eagle during her failed attempt to escape Yoshika. Various animals join in during the Good-Times Montage because of her power. She also calls the pets she has in the present day during her fight with Suika.
- Becoming the Mask: She only pretended to want to train Yoshika to become a hermit so that she could gather the information needed to get past the gate Rajoumon where her arm might be, but she eventually makes a promise with Yoshika to become a hermit for real.
- Bishie Sparkle: She sparkles when she first pretends to want to help Yoshika, although she has more genuine sparkles during the Good-Times Montage where she is shown trying dango for what is presumably the first time.
- Broken Bird: Part of Kasen's Adaptational Angst Upgrade is that she tries to throw away all aspects of her life as a human and keep mostly to herself, to the point where her first scene with Yoshika has her trying to run away once the poet takes interest in her until she realizes that she won't be able to retrieve her arm without help. In fact, once Kasen realizes that she is opening up more while spending time with Yoshika, she doesn't take it too well.
- Clothing Damage: The rocks that temporarily smash off Kasen's left arm during her battle with Suika also tear up her clothes and give the viewer a healthy dose of Sideboob for the rest of the fight.
- Creepy Child: As a human, she had pale scarred skin and sharp teeth and nails. Used as a plot point, as everyone in her village hated her because she was an "eerie child", and blamed her for a terrible storm because they thought that her presence had upset the water god.
- Curtains Match the Window: Pink hair to go along with her pink eyes, although her hair was black when she was still a human.
- Cute Little Fangs: She lacked the "cute" part when she was a human, but as an oni she occasionally gains fangs during certain scenes.
- Defrosting Ice Queen: She was rather different from the kindhearted hermit who lends a hand when needed before she met Yoshika, instead a Broken Bird who tries to avoid other humans. Needless to say, Yoshika set her down the right path.
- Determinator: Sorry Suika, but Kasen's never going to break her promise with Yoshika.
- Establishing Character Moment: The series displays in the first episode that Kasen isn't quite the blue oni to Suika and Yuugi's red oni yet by having her break up the fight between the two of them, but once they tell her that it's just a friendly rock paper scissors match (yes, the fistfight in which they destroy the surrounding area is rock paper scissors), she happily approves and watches the fight. Her first scene after the Time Skip to her adulthood has a short period of her thinking back to past events with Dull Eyes of Unhappiness to display that she's grown out of her energetic Cheerful Child self and then indulge and join in on a poem Yoshika is making to show that her more peaceful side has taken over. Still, Kasen is shown to not yet be quite like her present-day self as she immediately tries to run away once Yoshika asks for assistance compared to how she usually is.
- Flower Motifs: Has an association with roses and all of her appearances except for the flashback of her as a human child have her wear a rose on her chest.
- Handicapped Badass: Has a replacement right arm, but it doesn't slow her down.
- Heel Realization: What makes Kasen drop her masquerade is Yoshika making it clear how much she fears her own death when she's alone and indirectly causing Kasen to realize that she toyed with her emotions.
- Idiot Hair: Has a single curly strand of hair sticking up during most of her scenes.
- I Hate Past Me: She really doesn't like to think about her old life as a human, and considers killing Yoshika once their time together begins to bring back uncomfortable memories. She gets over it post-Heel Realization, even reflecting on a happy memory of her mother comforting her while Yoshika was doing the same.
- Loss of Identity: Between the Box of a Hundred Medicines turning Kasen into an oni and her arm being cut off (an arm can be considered someone's power), she's unsure about if she's really an oni or a human. Yoshika points out that if she's unsure about who she is, she could just become a hermit together with her.
- Not So Above It All: Her Establishing Character Moment has her try to break up a fight between Suika and Yuugi and act quite stern before they tell her that it's just a game of rock paper scissors, after which she happily approves and watches.
- Parental Abandonment: The reason that Kasen got into such bad shape and needed the Box of a Hundred Medicines is because her mother never came to get her like promised. It turns out that angry villagers sacrificed her mother to the water god to stop a terrible storm because they couldn't sacrifice Kasen.
- Something about a Rose: Has a rose theme, complete with a rose on her chest.
- Wound That Will Not Heal: Kasen's right arm cannot be grown back with her Box of a Hundred Medicines because of the special properties of the blade that made the cut. By contrast, her left arm gets injured various times and can be healed without issue.
Suika Ibuki
"Listen. From now on, you shall live with a lot of joy. Laugh, drink, sleep and do mischief. That's how we oni of the great villainy and great bandits are!"
Leader of the great oni bandits
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The leader of the oni bandits, Suika (also known as Ibuki Douji) was raised as the goddess of the mountain and was feared by all before the downfall of the bandits. She has the power to manipulate density. Suika met Kasen years ago and gave her the Ibaraki Box of a Hundred Medicines so that she could continue living and serve as the vice leader of her bandits, and thus serves as Kasen's mother figure.
- Adaptational Abomination: Not her Cute Monster Girl self, but every time she uses her power to become larger she lacks the cuteness of her usual Cute Giant self and becomes quite frightening-looking.
- Break Them by Talking: She attempts this while fighting Kasen, but she picked the wrong opponent to try to break with words.
- Bystander Syndrome: She was apparently there when Seiga murdered Yoshika, but didn't do anything.
- Card-Carrying Villain: She calls the oni "of great villainy".
- Curtains Match the Window: Orange hair and eyes.
- Cute Giant: Very averted unlike in canon as she becomes quite scary-looking when she grows to larger sizes.
- Cute Little Fangs: A single fang on the right side of her mouth.
- Flower Motifs: Black leaves appear whenever she turns into mist which can be seen during numerous scenes from episodes 2 and 3 as she watches both Kasen and Yoshika.
- The Friend Nobody Likes: Despite being the leader of the oni bandits, she seems to be the unfavorite among its higher-ups. After the bandits are defeated, Yuugi gets fed up with Suika's brattiness and tells her to stop with her tantrum, and Kasen reacts with great disgust when she meets Suika again in present-day Gensokyo.
- Hidden Buxom: It's pretty much impossible to tell that she has any chest worth noting until she puts on a kimono with an Impossibly-Low Neckline.
- Immortal Immaturity: She's thousands of years old, but she sure doesn't act the part. After being defeated by the humans and despite being the leader of the bandits, it's Yuugi who has to tell her to stop with her tantrum.
- Incoming Ham: "Oh! You wanna try, YUUGI?!"
- Intangible Man: Can become mist at will, which she uses to spy on Kasen and Yoshika.
- Jerk with a Heart of Gold: Abrasive and bratty as Suika may be, she's not an asshole. When she first met Kasen, she spent the first few meetings mocking her before eventually deciding to help her, adding that Kasen's mother accepting the mud dumplings is a sign that she really did love her child.
- Know When to Fold 'Em: Suika stands in contrast from Kasen for being so willing to give up. She tries very hard to get Kasen to stop pursing her goals too, but eventually gives up on that too, commenting on how strong Kasen is to continue for so long.
- Mundane Made Awesome: Fistfight destroying mountains? Nope, that's rock paper scissors with Yuugi.
- Ocular Gushers: She cries in this manner at the start of episode 2 over losing to the humans.
- Parental Abandonment: Like Kasen, Suika was an abandoned child too and her original name was Sute Douji (Throw-away Kid). She doesn't seem to let it bother her as much though.
- Tough Love: Her fight with Kasen isn't just because she's pissed about her Forbidden Friendship with Yoshika, but also because she wants Kasen to give up and drop all of the pain her promise has brought with her. Except it's Kasen Suika is trying to get to give up.
- Vitriolic Best Buds: How her friendship with Kasen works once the latter grew up. The two of them may fight with each other, but they stop out of respect.
Yuugi Hoshiguma
"Yo! Wanna settle this today once and for all?!"
Big Sis of the strong arm oni
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Heavenly king of the oni bandits, Yuugi (also known as Hoshiguma Douji) is an alcohol-lover who went on rampages during her time as a bandit. She has the power of great strength.
- Boisterous Bruiser: A Large Ham with Super-Strength.
- Bystander Syndrome: Played for laughs in the final episode, where she stands by and watches Kasen and Suika fight, and the latter calls her out for it.
- Cool Big Sis: Her character title in this series is Big Sis of the strong arm oni and the nameless oni bandits call her "big sis" when she starts her fight with Suika.
- Fanservice Pack: Inverted. The first episode has her wear a low-hanging kimono that exposes her shoulders and cleavage that she swaps out for more modest clothing in her later appearances. This is actually the inverse of how her attire was in canon.
- Incoming Ham: "Yo! Wanna settle this today once and for all?!"
- Mundane Made Awesome: Apparently, the way to play rock paper scissors when Yuugi is involved is to get into a fistfight and slice mountains in half.
- Satellite Character: Unlike Kasen and Suika, she doesn't have a character arc of her own or any flashbacks for extra development and mostly serves as someone for Suika and Kasen to interact with besides each other (and Yoshika for the latter).
- World's Strongest Man: Is noted for having a power of strength even among a species of already-strong beings.
Humans
Yoshika Miyako
"Please Hermit-sama! Take me as your pupil! Make me immortal, please!"
Hermit-Envying Offical
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The Deuteragonist of the series, Yoshika is a poet who admires hermits and wants to become one herself, asking Kasen for help after mistaking the oni for a hermit. Yoshika's quest is not going to go well, as she's a jiang shi serving as a slave for Seiga in the present day.
- Adaptational Angst Upgrade: Yoshika in canon is a mindless slave, but since this series shows her from before she got to that point, she can express a fear of death and desperation to cure the sickness that is killing her.
- Adaptational Intelligence: Probably necessary to make the distinction between her as a human and as the Soulless Shell she is in all of her canon appearances, although her scenes as a jiang shi show the same (lack of) intelligence with it only being her human scenes where she is smarter than her canon self.
- Badass Normal: Despite being a regular human at the time, she was able to tackle Kasen's eagle out of the air and tie Kasen (who reminder has Super-Strength) to a tree just so that she could beg to have her make her a hermit.
- Be Careful What You Wish For: Yoshika gains immortality, just not the way she wanted.
- Because You Were Nice to Me: Yoshika's reasoning for not getting upset at Kasen for using her is that she enjoyed the time they spent together.
- Bishie Sparkle: Her eyes sparkle several times during her first meeting with Kasen.
- Blood from the Mouth: The only sign that she's dying of a disease is that she keeps coughing up blood. After Seiga poisons her, she coughs up so much blood that Seiga can craft an ofuda using the blood as ink.
- Break the Cutie: About the nicest character in the series, and is put through the most hell, culminating in her becoming a Soulless Shell.
- Comically Missing the Point: Yoshika apparently thought that Kasen's concern was about not being told her name rather than how she had tied her to a tree.
- Conditioned to Accept Horror: Not really sure where the "conditioning" comes from, but she's pretty unfazed by Seiga having reanimated corpses as servants and she gets over the initial shock of Seiga's food very quickly. Seiga even takes more interest in Yoshika after seeing how unfazed she is by the latter.
- Curtains Match the Window: Dark blue hair and eyes.
- Cute Ghost Girl: After her death, she became a ghost resembling herself from before she became a jiang shi.
- Cute Little Fangs: She gained fangs as a jiang shi.
- Death by Adaptation: While it's up for debate about if Yoshika would be able to stay alive (well, about as alive as a jiang shi can get anyway) without her ofuda at the end of the Immortal Philosophy PV, here her death is outright confirmed.
- Deuteragonist: The second most important character in the series.
- Determinator: Being rejected hermithood by the reikon and told by Seiga that she has no hope will not stop her from wanting to keep her promise with Kasen.
- Doomed by Canon: Yoshika's goal to become a hermit is not going to go well. Quite the opposite in fact.
- Dull Eyes of Unhappiness: While all of the characters gain these during certain periods of shock or sadness, Yoshika gains permanent ones as a jiang shi.
- Dying as Yourself: Yoshika has her memories and personality restored, but she doesn't have the energy to last for much longer. She spends her final moments together with Kasen.
- Establishing Character Moment: Yoshika is introduced creating a poem, and then witnesses Kasen. She mistakes the oni for a hermit and gets very excited. Once Kasen calls her pet giant eagle, she looks in admiration until she sees that she is trying to escape, upon which she tackles Kasen to knock her out of the air and then ties her to a tree to ensure that she can hear her pleas to want to become a hermit. Yoshika is friendly and admires the lifestyles of hermits, and will do anything to become one herself.
- Genki Girl: Acts very hyperactive and friendly whenever she isn't alone wallowing in despair over her fear of the end.
- Get A Hold Of Yourself Man: Before Yoshika tells Kasen that she holds no hard feelings about her using her, she shoves a bunch of peaches into her mouth.
- Go Out with a Smile: Yoshika dies peacefully singing her poem one last time with Kasen and realizing that friendship, not immortality, was what she was really searching for.
- Historical Domain Character: This series takes the implication that the canon Touhou character is based off of Miyako no Yoshika and runs with it.
- Horrible Judge of Character: Downplayed. Yoshika seems to realize that Seiga is evil, but she doesn't have many other options when it comes to people to trust to help her become a hermit.
- Kill the Cutie: And then resurrect her as a Soulless Shell, courtesy of Seiga. And then kill her again, though this time of more natural causes.
- Morality Pet: Kasen wasn't exactly evil, but meeting Yoshika is what makes her give up her ways as a bandit and become a hermit.
- Mortality Phobia: Her motivation to become a hermit and gain immortality revolves around her fear of death, which haunts her every time she is alone and just thinking about it can cause her to break down crying. Her admitting to her fear is what triggers Kasen's Heel Realization. Slowly dying of a terminal illness intensifies her fear, but she seems to have gotten over her fear by the end of the story because she dies smiling.
- Nice Girl: Probably the nicest character in the series with unconditional kindness and a general cheerful attitude (at least on the outside for the latter).
- Oblivious Guilt Slinging: Kasen attempts to kill Yoshika after gathering all of the information she needs to pass the Rajoumon barrier, but stops moments before dealing the killing blow because Yoshika tells her that meeting her was a wonderful experience and that she keeps thinking about and fearing the day of her death whenever they are apart. Kasen then has a Heel Realization and a change of plans.
- O.C. Stand-in: Yoshika more or less has an original personality in this series, as her time in canon is always spent as a mindless jiang shi while she is a human during most of her scenes here.
- Paper Talisman: She was revived as a jiang shi using one crafted by Seiga with her blood. After she has her personality and memories restored, the talisman falls off and takes her immortality with it.
- Peaceful in Death: When Yoshika dies the second time, her dead body is smiling. Ironic considering how much she feared death before.
- Pose of Supplication: Assumes one for when she begs Kasen to train her after tying her to a tree, and when she begs Seiga for help.
- Reforged into a Minion: As per canon, Yoshika will die and become Seiga's jiang shi. What canon doesn't say (at least not outright) is that Seiga kills Yoshika herself.
- Second Episode Introduction: She's the Deuteragonist and makes her debut in episode 2.
- Soap Opera Disease: Dying of an ill-defined sickness with the only sign being Blood from the Mouth and apparently being terminal really doesn't help with Yoshika's Mortality Phobia.
- Soulless Shell: Yoshika is reduced to one after becoming Seiga's jiang shi. She gets better, if only for a short time.
- Stepford Smiler: Underneath her cheerful attitude is a crippling fear of death that she can't stop thinking about whenever she's alone.
- Unwitting Muggle Friend: Until Kasen's Heel Realization, Yoshika was completely unaware that she had become friends with an oni. Even after Kasen's confession, she still didn't realize it, thinking that it was a joke (although she still sympathized with Kasen's angst).
- Unwitting Pawn: Kasen pretended to want to train Yoshika so that she could gather the materials needed to get past Rajoumon, at least until their friendship made her start actually listening to the hermit training documents. Once Kasen realizes that she toyed with Yoshika's emotions, she feels terrible, but Yoshika doesn't mind.
- Weirdness Censor: Played with. She lives in a world where mythical creatures are very much real and witnesses dragons and people who can create holes in walls by tapping them once with a chisel, but she only seems to believe supernatural elements that she thinks are related to hermits (and even then, she admits that she considers hermits to be "fairy-tales" and only is willing to believe in them because it's her only option to avoid death). Yoshika apparently thought that Kasen being an oni was a joke, but she still sympathized with her because she realized that she was in pain.
- Wistful Amnesia: She's able to remember learning about ascetic training, and then said training pieces the missing memories back together.
- Ye Olde Butcherede Englishe: The Youtube release's English translation interprets her dialogue this way.
- Your Days Are Numbered: Yoshika wants to become a hermit because her sickness will kill her soon.
Kan Kaku
"I LOVE YOUUU!"
Kan Kaku was a man who had fallen in love with Seiga at first sight. Although Seiga was reluctant at first, they eventually got married. Later on however, Seiga had to fake her own death in order to become a hermit, and was separated from Kan Kaku.
- Genius Ditz: He is described as "a genius... and yet a fool."
- Love at First Sight: When Kan Kaku first laid eyes upon Seiga, he instantly fell in love. Seiga was reluctant at first however.
- Original Character: Seiga's family is not shown in canon Touhou works, making him original in that context.
- Satellite Character: All of the information we learn about Kan Kaku revolves around his relationship with Seiga, serving as her humanization.
- What Happened to the Mouse?: Kan Kaku's current whereabouts are not stated, as him becoming a hermit makes it unlikely that he died of natural causes.
Kasen's Mother
"Be a good child and wait. I will pick you up for sure."
Kasen's unnamed mother asked Kasen to wait in the forest to be picked up later. She never returned, and Kasen waiting there in vain slowly dying is how she ended up meeiting Suika and needing the Ibaraki Box of a Hundred Medicines.
- Eat That: Suika tells Kasen that her mother really did love her because she was willing to eat her daughter's disgusting mud dumplings and call them tasty.
- Good Parents: Despite first impressions, flashbacks show that she was the only one in her village who treated Kasen well, and the only reason she didn't return is because the villagers killed her.
- Human Sacrifice: When the villagers couldn't find Kasen to sacrifice to the water god and stop a terrible storm, they decided to settle with the woman who gave birth to the child.
- No Name Given: We are never told her name.
- Original Character: While obviously someone had to have given birth to Kasen, she is never shown or mentioned in Touhou canon.
- Parental Abandonment: She said that she should return for Kasen, but she never did. It turns out that it wasn't intentional, as she was sacrificed by angry villagers to the water god to stop a terrible storm because they couldn't sacrifice Kasen.
- Small Role, Big Impact: She only appears in brief flashbacks, but her never returning for Kasen is the entire reason she became an oni to begin with.
Hermits and Spirits
Seiga Kaku
"Different from animals who simply kill and eat humans are so much more atrocious as they cut and cook. That is why we must not forget that no matter how neatly it may be patched up atop a plate it's still life that has been killed so we may live another day..."
The Taoist Master who passes through Walls
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Seiga Kaku is a Taoist hermit with a magic chisel that lets her create holes in walls. She is an acquaintance of the Great Hermit and controls a group of jiang shi servants. Friendly and affable on the outside, Seiga is very twisted and evil on the inside, as Yoshika is going to find out the hard way.
- Adaptational Villainy: Zigzagged. Seiga's friendliness is a lot less genuine than in canon and she is a lot more callous, shown best by how she takes advantage of not yet being under the Spell Card System to kill Yoshika herself. However, she is given some extra humanization by having her Faking the Dead be portrayed in more sympathetic light with her clearly not being happy with having to abandon Kan Kaku.
- Bad Samaritan: Seiga's help for Yoshika is... not.
- Bad Santa: References Symposium of Post-mysticism by having Seiga dress up as Santa in the final episode's Creative Closing Credits while telling several fairies about the events of the series. This page says numerous times that she's evil.
- Bitch in Sheep's Clothing: One of her character titles is Innocent Hermit when she's anything but.
- Card-Carrying Villain: The end of the third episode features a recreation of the scene from Wild and Horned Hermit where Seiga presents her card as a literal example of this trope.
- Curtains Match the Window: Dark blue hair and eyes.
- The Cynic: She believes that life is based around cruelty as everyone and everything must kill others to survive. She seems to take pleasure in this idea.
- Early-Bird Cameo: She's the hooded women who sold Yoshika the hermit training and barrier books, it's just impossible to recognize her until the end of the second episode when she takes off her hood and reveals her distinct hairstyle.
- Enlightened Antagonist: Is evil and amoral, but has achieved enlightenment as a hermit.
- Establishing Character Moment: Seiga starts off things by covering Yoshika's eyes from behind by creating a hole in the wall and asking her to guess who. She then presents Yoshika with a feast as a premature celebration for meeting the reikon that ends up containing human body parts, along with another version of herself arriving behind Yoshika to slice up bits of her arm into the food. One Humans Are Bastards speech later, Seiga reveals that all of this is another prank and the body parts and other Seiga are puppets. Seiga seems playful and approachable, but is very twisted deep down.
- Even Evil Has Loved Ones: Seiga's main humanization is her relationship with Kan Kaku, who she is clearly heartbroken to have to leave in order to become a hermit. He too became a hermit to continue living with her, but it is unclear about where he is now. She also shows genuine care for Yoshika after she becomes a jiang shi, hoping that she can stay the way she is and not be like the rest of humanity. After Yoshika has her personality and memories restored, Seiga comments that she would have liked to have been with her for a little longer, but happily lets her spend the rest of her time with Kasen. Suika admits that she didn't think Seiga was the kind of person who could be moved by emotion.
- Evil Has a Bad Sense of Humor: Apparently, food containing puppets of dead human body parts and a Humans Are Bastards speech qualifies as a prank. Also, she finds Yoshika dying of poison and wanting desperately to reunite with a friend to be funny and worth mocking.
- Evil Is Petty: Just in case you weren't convinced that Seiga's messed up, she laughs at and mocks the now-dead Yoshika.
- Evil Laugh: Seiga gets one after poisoning Yoshika with the only instance of voice acting in the comic to boot.
- Faking the Dead: She pretended to die so that she could become a hermit. Sadly for her, Kan Kaku found out that she was alive and they are both shown to be heartbroken when being separated again. Good thing for them that Kan Kaku became a hermit too.
- Faux Affably Evil: Acts playful and friendly, but is very twisted deep down with a hatred for humans and she is the only character to kill someone onscreen.
- Humans Are Bastards: Believes humans to be far worse than regular animals for cutting and cooking the bodies of the dead they eat, and likens them to pests after witnessing a war zone.
- Jerk with a Heart of Jerk: She offers Yoshika help in becoming a hermit. Her "help" is mercury sulfide poison. Things still don't look too bad yet, with Seiga beginning to cry to suggest regret... but then she laughs and mocks Yoshika for her goals before fulfilling Yoshika's Foregone Conclusion.
- Karma Houdini: While things worked out for the main cast in the end, no one punishes or calls out Seiga for poisoning Yoshika and enslaving her for 1,200 years.
- Necromancer : Has several jiang shi servants (which equates to zombies) even before she added Yoshika to her collection of slaves.
- Nightmare Fetishist: She seems to take pleasure in seeing people die if the warzone from episode three is any indication.
- Pet the Dog: She decided to let Yoshika spend her remaining time together with Kasen, and even cries Tears of Joy at the sight of their reunion. Suika is surprised considering how Seiga is the one who killed Yoshika to begin with.
- Public Domain Character: Based off of Wu Qing'e from Strange Stories from a Chinese Studio.
- Really 700 Years Old: Is at least 1,200 years old by the final episode but looks as young as when she first appears.
- Second Episode Introduction: First appears in the second episode as the closest thing the story has to a villain.
- Slasher Smile: Whenever she drops her friendly act, she has a pretty creepy grin on her face.
- Speak Ill of the Dead: Right after Yoshika dies, Seiga laughs and calls her an idiot.
- The Unfought: Despite being the closest thing the story has to a villain, no one ever fights her.
The Reikon
The reikon is a spirit of noble status, and is able to make humans into hermits.
- The Faceless: The reikon is only seen as a blue silhouette without any detail to make out.
- He Who Must Not Be Heard: He is clearly talking in his sole scene, but his speech bubbles just have squiggly lines with Yoshika and Seiga's reactions telling the viewer everything they need to know about the conversation.
- Only Known by Their Nickname: If the reikon has an actual name, we sure don't know it.
- Original Character: No equivalent of the reikon exists in canon Touhou works.
- Small Role, Big Impact: The reikon appears for less than a minute without any dialogue or so much as a glimpse of what he really looks like, but his one scene pretty much sets Yoshika's Foregone Conclusion in motion.
- Unwitting Instigator of Doom: While the reikon probably didn't have any ill intent, him not letting Yoshika become a hermit is what ultimately leads to her death and resurrection as a jiang shi.
