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This is the character page for The Legend of Dark Witch. As usual, beware of spoilers.


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    Zizou 

Zizou Olympia

Voiced by: Yuuki Tedokon

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Skills: Liner Shot, Comet

A goddess in charge of maintaining the balance of magic, Zizou attempts to retrieve the Syega crystals.


  • All Your Powers Combined: By the end of the game. Also pulls this in her boss fight.
  • Ambidextrous Sprite: The white half of her hair almost never faces the camera.
  • Blackmail: Once she's defeated by Riva, she blackmails her into keeping quiet or else she'll tell everyone that she's been stealing Syega.
  • Dark Is Not Evil: She is a dark witch, but she's out to save the world.
  • Deadpan Snarker: Definitely has her moments.
  • Final Boss: She is the final boss of Riva's story, with no weakness.
  • Final-Exam Boss: In her second phase, she stops holding back and uses the powers of the other bosses.
  • Good Is Not Nice: Zizou constantly talks down to the people that she comes across and is not reluctant to use force to coerce anyone who refuses to give in to her demands. However, she has a heroic heart nonetheless, stopping both the Syega crisis in the Old Islands and Germa's plans for war.
  • Hiding Behind Your Bangs: The left side of her hair covers her left eye and she has a bit of a sour, sarcastic personality.
  • In the Hood: Wears a hood in the opening.
  • One-Hit-Point Wonder: If the player has Dangerous Mode enabled when they start a New Game, Zizou will only be able get hit once before dying.
  • Physical God: She is stated to be a goddess in the game's intro. It's brought up again when Riva recognizes her name.
  • Red Eyes, Take Warning: Subverted; she the heroine of the story. Toyed with in Riva's story, especially when she looks like she's in the middle of an Evil Laugh in her boss portrait.
  • Spell My Name With An S: Is referred to as Zizoo a couple of times. It happens because that is how her name is pronounced.

Bosses

    Klinsy 

Klinsy

Voiced by: Yuuki Tedokon

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Skill: Dia Missile
Weakness: Divide Ice

The librarian of Heaven's Garden. She is regarded as a prodigy in Syega research.


  • Custom Uniform: According to her design page, her clothes are against school regulations.
  • Wake-Up Call Boss: When the player begins a new game, the cursor is initially placed on her. Player who assume that she's a Warmup Boss due to that fact are in for a rude awakening.

    Al 

Al

Voiced by: Junka Amaoto

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Skill: Divide Ice
Weakness: Upper Tornado

A seasoned treasure hunter. She is found at The Silent Ice Roads.


    Papelne 

Papelne

Voiced by: Suzuka Iwamoto

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Skill: Ground Impact
Weakness: Circlecron
Papelne is a Beast woman and the daughter of Ports-math City's mayor.
  • Cat Girl: She has cat ears and a tail.
  • Cute Little Fangs: Being a Cat Girl, she has a little fang stinking out of her mouth.
  • Dash Attack: Her preferred method of attack is to rush at the player and attempt to slice them into pieces.
  • Death from Above: One of her desperation attacks invoke this trope, though it's mostly used as a diversionary tactic.
  • Demoted to Extra: Shows up in the upgrade menu in Episodes 2 and 3.
  • Dishing Out Dirt: Her Ground Impact can be vaguely interpreted as this.
  • Fantastic Racism: Her comments to Riva imply that she and her people are on the receiving end of this.
  • Friend to All Children: According to her design page, she spends a lot of time playing with children.
  • Idiot Hair: She has a large ahoge standing atop her head.
  • Invisibility with Drawbacks: Starting at red health, Papelne will turn invisible, making it harder to anticipate her first two attacks. The invisibility lasts about 4 seconds, usually wearing off during her third attack.
  • Modesty Shorts: She wears shorts under her tiger-striped skirt.
  • Wolverine Claws: She wields a claw gauntlet that was given to her by her father.

    Blad 

Blad

Voiced by: Junka Amaoto

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Skill: Bound Ring
Weakness: Dia Missile

Blad is an information broker. The schoolgirl is found at the abandoned Twilight Prison.


  • Idiot Hair: She has a large ahoge standing atop her head.
  • The Klutz: She loses her balance in her intro animation and makes herself dizzy after performing her spin attack.
  • Recursive Ammo: Her primary attack sees her shooting a ring that travels straight forward, passes the player, and then splits into more rings that double back.
  • Rings of Death: Her weapon, the Bound Ring, is a set of three floating rings that she throws at her opponent.
  • School Uniforms are the New Black: She's always wearing her school uniform even though she's never seen going to school.
  • Skipping School: Blad is a magic student, but frequently skips class to dabble in underworld affairs.
  • Spin Attack: She spins around while firing several bound rings.

    Sola 

Sola

Voiced by: Sakurako Hazama

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Skill: Circlecron
Weakness: Bound Ring

Sola is the daughter of a foreign aristocrat. She is found at the Chelsea School of Magic's Dormitory.


  • Death from Above: Both of Sola's initial attacks. In the first, she tosses a bunch of tiny projectiles that turn into stars that fall to the ground; in the second, she flies into the air and rains down missiles.
  • Homing Projectile: In addition to the attack mentioned above, one of her desperation attacks generate small crystals that track the player for a split-second then disappear.
  • Idiot Hair: She has a large ahoge standing atop her head.
  • Logical Weakness: Insomuch as it's logical from the standpoint of countering Sola's primary means of dealing damage. All Sola does besides attacking is jump, and the bound ring is specifically made to be an anti-air weapon. Furthermore, it even breaks through the projectiles Sola sends out while airborne.
  • Reverse Shrapnel: At red health, Sola summons Circlecron, which creates several orbs that rotate around her. Evading this attack requires the player to position themselves between the the orbs. After spawning 7 layers of orbs, she releases them, going in random directions and bouncing off a surface once before disappearing when touching another or going off screen.
  • Spell My Name With An S: Is called both Sola and Sora in her Battle Intro. Interestingly, Sola is indeed the official romanization.

    Stoj 

Stoj

Voiced by: Meroko.

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Skill: Upper Tornado
Weakness: Ground Impact

A curious Fae from the Belfer Islands. She is said to be very talkative.


  • Blow You Away: She summons tiny tornadoes for her attacks.
  • Enemy Summoner: She summons small fairies to attack the player.
  • Expy: She bears a good resemblance to Daiyousei from Touhou Project. Inside System has developed Touhou Doujin Soft, so it is perhaps unsurprising that they manage to slip in an Expy.
  • Fantastic Racism: Fae and humans apparently don't get along. Stoj doesn't act aggressive towards Zizou at first, but when the later asks about the Syega crystals, Stoj immediately jumps to the conclusion that Zizou is blaming her people and they fight.
  • Idiot Hair: She has a large ahoge standing atop her head.
  • Our Fairies Are Different: Stoj is a small fairy that looks like a girl with long green hair and wings.
  • Vague Age: She has the appearance of a young girl, but is implied to be much older than she lets on due to being a fairy. Although, the game never clues us in on her actual age.
  • Winged Humanoid: She has fairy wings on her back.

    Verri 

Verri

Voiced by: Junka Amaoto

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Weakness: Dia Missile

Commander of Rasil's Royal Army. Verri is the boss of the Forest of Dreams, the game's seventh stage. She attempts to stop Zizou Olympia from entering the Deep Remains.


    Riva 

Riva

Voiced by: Hinata Haruki

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Skills: Cobalt Fire, Sword Rain
Weakness: None

Princess of Rasil. Riva steals all of the Syega in the Old Islands in hopes of weakening the nation.


  • Awesome, but Impractical: Everything about her as a playable character. Her Cobalt Fire starts off with about a character's length of range, her Sword Rain has very glaring gaps and tends to get caught on platforms above her head, her dash is very hard to control in most instances, and her last slot merely allows you to temporarily use her full power attacks without charging.
  • Big Bad: Riva is the main antagonist of Zizou's story. She's responsible for the missing Syega.
  • Charged Attack: Her weapons can be charged to increase their size.
  • Did You Just Punch Out Cthulhu?: Goes toe-to-toe with Zizou, a Physical God, in her story.
  • Energy Ball: A fully-charged Cobalt Fire tends to be this.
  • Final Boss: In Zizou's story, Riva is fought at the Deep Remains, after defeating copies of the first six bosses.
  • Flash Step: Her second slot is Dash, which allows her to very quickly cross the screen.
  • Idiot Hair: She has a large ahoge standing atop her head.
  • King Incognito: She's a princess, but disguises herself as a minstrel to travel around the Old Islands.
  • Magical Floating Shawl: Riva wears a hagoromo as part of her minstrel disguise, even though she isn't really a godly figure (unlike our protagonist Zizou, who is a god, but doesn't wear one). When she takes on her One-Winged Angel form at the end, she ends up losing her hagoromo in the process.
  • One-Winged Angel: One she's defeated, she absorbs all the Syega she found and becomes Unbound Riva.
  • Pyrrhic Victory: While she wins against Zizou, she winds up getting blackmailing into keeping quiet about her role in the story.
  • Red Eyes, Take Warning: She has red eyes and is the Big Bad of the game.
  • Royals Who Actually Do Something: She stole the Syega to help her father, the King of Rasil, win a war.
  • Throwing Your Sword Always Works: In a sense. Sword Rain summons blades that rain down on her enemies.
  • Villainous Princess: Riva is a selfish, ill-mannered princess. She wants to make her father's kingdom the strongest in the world, and attempts to do so by using the Syega taken from the Old Islands and eliminating anyone who stands in her way.
  • Villain Protagonist: Her story involves her beating up the other bosses and eventually Zizou as well.

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