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| “ | I'd start a love-stricken massacre! Or maybe pillage from a bunch of peaceful humans. | „ |
| ~ Koishi Komeiji |
| “ | We'll decorate the entrance of the Palace of the Earth Spirits with your corpse! | „ |
| ~ Koishi to Marisa Kirisame. |
Koishi Komeiji (古明地 こいし) is a supporting character from the Touhou Project franchise. She is Satori Komeiji's younger sister and a resident of the Palace of Earth Spirits.
Koishi is a Satori youkai who sealed her third eye due to people don't like having their minds read, causing her to lose her ability to read others' minds, but in return she gained the ability to take action unconsciously. She then became a childish youkai whose actions are controlled entirely by her unconscious, only wandering aimlessly.
Biography[]
Background[]
Koishi wanted to avoid the hate and dislike which Satori experienced due to her mind-reading abilities, so she sealed away her own Third Eye. This backfired, since she gained the ability to read and manipulate people's subconscious, an even greater ability. However, she also became much more carefree as a result, and didn't mind as much. She now spends much of her time wandering the world aimlessly.
Subterranean Animism[]
| “ | I don't have anything against you, but I hope you're ready to die a dog's death. Oh, don't worry, that cat will carry off your body, so you'll be able to live in our place! | „ |
| ~ Koishi to Marisa. |
After knowing Utsuho Reiuji is bestowed nuclear power from Kanako Yasaka, Koishi pays a visit to the Moriya Shrine to see the gods, where she encounters the heroine. Koishi challanges the heroine for a danmaku battle, in some of the routes she would give them a explicit death threat. After her encounter with the heroine in Subterranean Animism's Extra Stage, however, she became curious, and wanted to start actually meeting people.
Symposium of Post-mysticism[]
After the events of Symposium of Post-mysticism, Byakuren Hijiri solicited Koishi into her faction as a laywoman. She becomes a Buddhist.
Hopeless Masquerade[]
| “ | Kokoro: Why, you...! So you're saying you won't return the Mask of Hope? Koishi: Yep. I don't want to give it back. Kokoro: If you only have a one-sided mask, your emotions are going to break down, At this rate, even your emotions are going to go berserk! Koishi: No problem. I haven't got any emotions on me to begin with. |
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| ~ Koishi refuses to give back Hata no Kokoro's Mask of Hope. |
After Koishi finds Hata no Kokoro's Mask of Hope, she decided to keep it for herself, which causes Kokoro's emotions embodied in her remaining masks to go berserk, resulting the Human Village fall into a hopeless state. As the Gensokyo's most prominent adherents of Shinto, Buddhism, and Taoism, starts battle for popularity to restore hope to the Human Village, Koishi participates in the battle for fun, with the Mask of Hope that added to her emotionless state allows her to gather popularity when she would otherwise be invisible.
Urban Legend in Limbo[]
(TBA)
Antinomy of Common Flowers[]
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Foul Detective Satori[]
| “ | Umm, Okay... Big sis... I mean. Miss Satori isn't home at the moment, so... GAAAH PLEASE!! BE QUIET ALREADY!!! | „ |
| ~ Koishi attending the vengeful spirits who are wanting Satori. |
Koishi is attending the vengeful spirits but due to being several and insistent, she gets exasperated as they doesn't listen her. Suddenly, Utsuho Reiuji appears with a blast over the floor, coming to help her with the vengeful spirits. As Utsuho aids her, Koishi goes with her to entertain the vengeful spirits with a fight while Satori isn't present.
Personality[]
Koishi's presence cannot be "felt" by anyone unless she has entered their direct field of vision, and is forgotten as soon as she leaves it. In general, she doesn't have a personality. However, children enjoy her presence as one of an imaginary friend, whom they forget about once they grow up. However, as Satori's presence has been made known, even Koishi has begun to be recognized as of late.
Appearance[]
- (Touhou 11, 12.5) Has wavy, grey-greenish, short hair and dark green eyes, wears a black hat with a yellow ribbon around it. A closed, dark blue "third eye" is positioned over her heart, with cords wrapped around her torso and attached to each of her ankles. Wears a yellow shirt with diamond-like blue buttons and dark green collar. The skirt is also green with a faint flowery pattern, but a lot lighter. Her socks are black.
- (Touhou 13.5) Same as above, except her hair is bright green with yellow shine and it is slightly shorter. Her third eye and its cords are now dark purple and her socks are dark blue.
Relationships[]
- Satori Komeiji (Older Sister)
- Rin Kaenbyou (Sister's Pet)
- Utsuho Reiuji (Sister's Pet)
- Hata no Kokoro (Enemy)
Gallery[]
Trivia[]
- Due to Koishi's lack of emotions and some quotes in the game, some fanworks tend to depict her as full-blown psychopath, for instance in the Koishi Komeiji's Heart-Throbbing Adventure series. This isn't the case of canon Koishi however, despite playing villainous role in both Subterranean Animism and Hopeless Masquerade, her crime is bog-standard and is far less sinister than the fan works' portrayal.
- The characters for Komeiji literally mean "ancient and pure/bright earth". Koishi is not written in Kanji, but it's supposed to mean "love" or "beloved".
- Koishi's musical theme, Hartmann's Youkai Girl, may refer to Eduard von Hartmann (whose most famous work is entitled The Philosophy of the Unconscious) or Heinz Hartmann (as many of Koishi's spellcards seem to make references to ego psychology.) The track itself is also arranged so that it has symmetrical parts, making it sound remarkably similar to itself even when played reversed, possibly as a reference to the practice of backmasking.
- Satori and Koishi's design may have been inspired by the 1939 painting by Frida Kahlo titled "The Two Fridas". The subject is essentially two identical women (sisters/clones/twins...) with visible hearts and external arteries that seem to connect and wrap around their shoulders and arms, where one of them has a cut artery and a pair of scissors in hands (Resembling Koishi, who has closed her third eye).
- If her and Satori's color schemes are inverted, they will both somewhat resemble each other.
- Koishi shares certain similarities to Flandre Scarlet. Both are Extra stage bosses, younger sisters of a boss in the main game, more powerful than the older sister, and possibly mentally unbalanced. Due to this fanworks often associate Flandre and Koishi.
External Links[]
- Koishi Komeiji on the Touhou Wiki
- Koishi Komeiji on the Heroes Wiki
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