多々良 小傘
tataɽa koɡasa (♫) Kogasa Tatara |
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Karakasa obake
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Surprising humans, Blacksmithing
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Scaring Humans, Blacksmith
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Human Village[1], Myouren Temple[1] (Cemetery[1][2][3]), Hakurei Shrine[1], Moriya Shrine[1]
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- Oriental Sacred Place (Chapter 12 Cameo)
- Visionary Fairies in Shrine (Chapter 11.5 cameo)
- Wild and Horned Hermit (Chapter 9, Chapter 20 cameo, 23 cameo, 27)
- Symposium of Post-mysticism (Article and Part 3 cameo)
- Forbidden Scrollery (Volume 1 omake cameo)
- Alternative Facts in Eastern Utopia (Article)
- The Grimoire of Usami (Section 1-1)
- Foul Detective Satori (Chapter 23 cameo, chapter 24, 25, 26, 27, 29, 30 cameo, chapter 32, 45, 47 cameo, 48, 49)
- Whispered Oracle of Hakurei Shrine (Fortune Slip No. 55)
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"Booooo!
Did that surprise you?"
— Kogasa Tatara (Undefined Fantastic Object Stage 2)
Kogasa Tatara (多々良 小傘, Tatara Kogasa) is a karakasa obake who is always trying to surprise people but usually isn't very successful. She was once a normal umbrella in the outside world that was forgotten by her owner that no one claimed over time because the color of it was unpopular at the time. As time went on, the wind swept her away to Gensokyo and she became a youkai. Kogasa first appeared as the midboss and boss of Stage 2 in Undefined Fantastic Object. She later reappears as the Stage 3 midboss in Ten Desires and then as a possible opponent in Sunken Fossil World.
General Information
Personality
As stated in ZUN's Undefined Fantastic Object music comments, Kogasa is a cheery happy youkai, but gets easily depressed when things don't go her way (which is very often), typically when she fails to surprise someone despite her best efforts. She stated she wishes for vengeance on humans for being discarded in Undefined Fantastic Object. However, she's actually quite friendly to humans and her vengeance doesn't go beyond surprising and spooking humans. She gets genuinely pleased when she successfully surprises someone (or thinks she successfully surprised someone).
She despises not being taken seriously. She often attacks the protagonist in Undefined Fantastic Object in a fit of despair when she thinks they're making fun of her. She's displeased with children liking her eccentric design. According to her profile in Undefined Fantastic Object, she is currently reading up on classic ghost stories in order to improve her scaring technique.
Kogasa suffers from self-esteem problems, as she is easily pushed into lamenting about wondering what her purpose is, or that she might be better off if she just went back to being an umbrella. Perhaps due to this, Kogasa is seeking a true purpose of existence for youkai, tsukumogami, and herself. She attempted this by starting a career in babysitting[4] (which did not seem to go very well), surprising people (which also isn't going very well, though she's found some success in the Myouren Temple graveyard), and was even considering going back to being an umbrella just so she can be useful in that regard. She's stated that she's trying to imagine what humans want, and then plans on becoming that something they can use.[1] Deep down, it appears this pitiable illegally dumped object and troubled forgotten item just wants to be desired.
Her depression may also be another attempt at getting attention. She can get so depressed upon failing to surprise someone that it can become "a bother"[1].
Unlike other youkai, Kogasa doesn't eat humans. Instead, she eats their spirit. In her own words, if she doesn't surprise someone, she'll go hungry. In the past, humans apparently feared youkai enough that she'd get a huge portion of their spirit on a successful surprise, as according to Kogasa in Undefined Fantastic Object, even a slight surprise would make a human have difficulty walking straight. This is apparently no longer the case in the present day.
Abilities
- Surprising humans
This ability to surprise humans does not appear to be an actual ability beyond what anyone could do, but it's her prime occupation. Kogasa's observed attempts to surprise anyone hasn't really consisted of much more than her screaming "Boo!" or simply attacking someone if pressed. It is the same ability that Chen has without shikigami (ability to the extent of surprising people), so just like with Chen, it might not be an ability of any substance. Also, there doesn't seem to be any humans that have recently come to be surprised, and whatever she does, it is like it is still trial and error. So far, in the things she said in the game, it has come off as more cute than surprising.
Hatate Himekaidou notes that she hides in the darkness to attempt to surprise people, but her hiding places are obvious. Hieda no Akyuu describes her attempts as child's play, to the point where the greater "threat" from her is how bothersome it can be to deal with her after she gets depressed by her failure to surprise someone. It's sometimes better to just pretend to be surprised in order to please her. Considering this, maybe Kogasa is unable to discern between genuine and fake shock, despite how she feeds by surprising people. It is unknown if a person pretending to be surprised provides her with any sustenance, although it does make her happy.
However, Kogasa seems to have some interesting interactions with the fourth wall, such as: her stated failure to defeat Yoshika Miyako in Ten Desires due to a "time out"; her appearance on the Undefined Fantastic Object CD saying "Surprise~" (おどろけー, odoroke~) despite being stated by ZUN to not be involved with the story; her appearance as the Undefined Fantastic Object extra-stage mid-boss despite not having any relation to the story, which comes complete with a "Surprise!" sound effect to hammer the point home (the only extra-stage mid-boss in the series with no real involvement in the story); and dropping the first big power-up in Ten Desires upon her defeat. Similarly, she appears on Undefined Fantastic Object's Steam page as one of the preview images, presumably to surprise any would-be buyers of the game. It is unknown if this is an in-story canon ability or just an out-of-story running gag.
- Blacksmithing
Surprisingly, Kogasa has demonstrated a mastership for Blacksmithing. She proclaims that no human smith could measure up to her skills, a feat proved true when she perfectly recreated Reimu's throwing needles despite Reimu not remembering where they came from. Kogasa proudly claims that she could make all kinds of wares, from bells to mirrors and more. [5]
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○2面ボス 愉快な忘れ傘
多々良 小傘(たたら こがさ)
Tatara Kogasa
種族:からかさお化け
能力:人間を驚かす程度の能力
使われなくなった傘が化けた者。
彼女は元々は忘れ物の傘だったのだが、配色が不人気で誰も拾ってく
れる事もなく、雨風に飛ばされているうちに妖怪になった者である。
人間に実害を与えることは少なく、ただ驚く人間を見て気分がすっと
させるのである。
しかし最近は驚いてくれる人間が少なく、ただいま驚かし方を古典的
な怪談を見て勉強中。
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Stage 2 boss The Cheery Forgotten Umbrella
Kogasa Tatara
Race: karakasa obake
Ability: Surprising humans
An umbrella that was left unused and became a youkai. She was originally an umbrella someone forgot, but since the colour is unpopular, nobody ever picked her up, and she was carried off by the wind and became a youkai.
She rarely really hurts anyone, she just likes watching people be surprised. However, not many people have been surprised by her, so she's reading classic ghost stories to improve her technique.
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○エキストラ中ボス 愉快な忘れ傘
多々良 小傘(たたら こがさ)
Tatara Kogasa
人を脅かすなら夜じゃなきゃいけないんだ
と思ってやってきた。
人間が驚いてくれたかどうか、それは判らない。
今回唯一の通りすがりの妖怪。
新しく幻想郷に寺を造った白蓮でも驚かしに行くかと策略中。
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Extra stage midboss The Cheery, Forgotten Umbrella
Kogasa Tatara
She figured you'd be best off trying to surprise people at night, so that's why she showed up. She didn't know if anyone would really be surprised or not. She is the only passerby youkai in this game. She's currently thinking of plotting to go startle Byakuren, who just opened a temple in Gensokyo.
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○3面中ボス お困りの忘れ物
多々良 小傘(たたら こがさ)
Tatara Kogasa
種族:唐傘お化け
能力:人間を驚かす程度の能力
お寺の周りをフラフラしている妖怪傘。
唐傘お化けと墓地の相性は良く、殆どの時間墓地で暮している。
何故なら、街中では驚いてくれない人間でも、お墓参りに来ているときは簡単に驚いてくれるのだ。やったね。凄いね。
しかし、そんな幸せ絶頂の彼女にも事件が起きた。
墓地の奥で見た事もない妖怪が現れ、我が物顔で近寄らせないようにし始めたのだ。
その妖怪とコンタクトを取ろうとしたが、全く会話にならず、危険を感じた彼女は、その妖怪を強制的に追い出そうとした。
しかし暖簾に腕押し。糠に釘。
いくら攻撃しても手応えが感じられず、結局逃げ帰ってきてしまった。
お寺の連中に助けを求めようかとと逡巡していると、見た事のある人間がやってきたのだ。かつて何度か戦った事のある人間だった。
「きっとあの妖怪を倒しに来たんだわ」そう思った彼女は、思い切ってお願いする事にした。
それがこのざまである。
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Stage 3 midboss Greatly Troubled Lost Article
Kogasa Tatara
Race: karakasa obake
Ability: Surprising humans
A youkai umbrella that wanders around the sky above the temple. She found her place in the cemetery, and found herself living in the cemetery most of the time. This is because while humans that are rarely surprised in the middle of the road, they are easily scared when they are in the cemetery. And she finally did it. Amazing.
But an incident has crept up to disrupt her truly happy time.
A youkai who was never seen before has been appearing from the inside of the cemetery, and has been moving around like it was its home ever since.
She tried to get in contact with that youkai, but she couldn't communicate with the youkai at all. Feeling threatened, she wanted to shoo away the youkai forcefully.
But that ended up as futility. No matter how she attacked, she couldn't get a response out of it, so she escaped.
While she was considering whether she should ask for help of the members of the temple, she saw those humans that she saw before. They were those, whom she encountered and fought several times before.
And so she thought, "They must have come to defeat that youkai!" and decided to ask boldly.
And she ended up like this.
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Spell Cards
Judging by the names and graphics of her danmaku, Kogasa appears to use rain and light attacks in her spell cards (including a rainbow). From a statement by Hatate Himekaidou, the extremely large spinning danmaku orbs that Kogasa throws are actually umbrellas, which creates an awkward sight of an umbrella attacking by throwing other umbrellas. Her train spell cards are actually extremely dense umbrella barages thrown so fast and so close together that they appear to be a train. Her "Karakasa Surprising Flash" seems to be a blinding flash of light. Finally, her "Umbrella Cyclone" spell card and the fact that her rain attacks can be angled may indicate she may use stormy winds as well, but this is uncertain.
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| 大輪「からかさ後光」
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Large Ring "Umbrella Halo"
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UFO
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St. 2: E/N
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| 大輪「ハロウフォゴットンワールド」
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Large Ring "Hello Forgotten World"
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UFO GoU
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St. 2: H/L —
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| 傘符「パラソルスターシンフォニー」
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Umbrella Sign "Parasol Star Symphony"
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Reference to the game Parasol Stars
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UFO
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St. 2: E/N
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| 傘符「パラソルスターメモリーズ」
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Umbrella Sign "Parasol Star Memories"
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Reference to the game Parasol Stars
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UFO
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St. 2: H/L
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| 雨符「雨夜の怪談」
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Rain Sign "A Rainy Night's Ghost Story"
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UFO
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St. 2: E/N
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| 雨傘「超撥水かさかさお化け」
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Umbrella "Super Water-Repelling Bone-Dry Monster"
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UFO
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St. 2: H/L
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| 化符「忘れ傘の夜行列車」
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Monster Sign "A Forgotten Umbrella's Night Train"
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Based on people leaving their umbrellas behind on trains[6]
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UFO
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St. 2: E/N
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| 化鉄「置き傘特急ナイトカーニバル」
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Monster Train "Spare Umbrella Express Night Carnival"
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UFO
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St. 2: H/L
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| 傘符「大粒の涙雨」
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Umbrella Sign "Lightly Falling Large Raindrops"
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UFO
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| 驚雨「ゲリラ台風」
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Surprising Rain "Guerrilla Typhoon"
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UFO
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| 後光「からかさ驚きフラッシュ」
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Halo "Karakasa Surprising Flash"
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UFO
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St. Ex
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| 傘符「一本足ピッチャー返し」
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Umbrella Sign "One-Legged Return Hit"
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| 虹符「オーバー・ザ・レインボー」
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Rainbow Sign "Over The Rainbow"
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DS GoU
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Umbrella Sign "Flurry Travelers"
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Rainbow Sign "Umbrella Cyclone"
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Rain Cavern "Rainy Cave"
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Water Cannon "Ground Water Stream"
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Leaping Umbrella "Stormy Weather Surprise"
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Backstory
According to Kogasa's conversation with Sanae in Undefined Fantastic Object, as far as Kogasa could tell, she was an umbrella that was thrown out by her original owner because her design was a little off. Eventually, she was blown away with the wind. Unwanted and undesired, the divine spirit residing within the umbrella became angered after being abandoned. Hoping to get back at the human that threw her out, Kogasa became a youkai. She then (badly) modified her own appearance to look more ferocious and youkai-like, and her quest for revenge on humanity (by surprising them!) had begun.
It is unknown when Kogasa was first abandoned as an umbrella to become a tsukumogami. However, she's expressed to Reimu how she misses the old days when youkai ruled the night, and when even slightly surprising a person made them unable to walk straight. Reimu finds her "old-time" stories uninteresting, and Marisa Kirisame comments that Kogasa is "really behind the times." This would imply that Kogasa has been around for a long time.
Kogasa has been referred to as both an Umbrella, and a Ghost Umbrella. According to Akyuu, the umbrella and the girl are actually the same being and thus inseparable.[1].
Character Design
Name
Her full name is Kogasa Tatara (多々良 小傘). The characters for Kogasa (小傘) mean "little umbrella". Tatara (踏鞴) is the traditional Japanese method of smelting iron. Many workers lost an eye checking the colour of the fire to measure its temperature and/or a leg pushing the tatara furnaces. They wore geta to avoid the heat of floor which brought about the tale of the Ippon Datara, a one-eyed, one-legged youkai that somewhat resembles a karakasa obake. Hieda no Akyuu states that Kogasa modified the appearance of her umbrella to resemble this youkai, and believes she derives her name from it.[1]
Design
Kogasa has turquoise hair, one turquoise eye and one red eye. The design purpose of her eyes is likely to be retaining the appearance of Karakasa obake, which is an one-eyed youkai, by blending her right eye into her hair that has the same color, and to high-light the left-red eye as a one-eyed one. For the same reason, she is depicted as standing on one leg in her official art. She wears a blue-green vest with white sleeves and a light blue skirt. She holds a purple umbrella with an eye and a tongue protruding from it.
Appearances
- Undefined Fantastic Object
She appears twice in Stage 2 trying to surprise the heroine, who doesn't particularly want anything to do with her, as she is slowing her pursuit of the flying object. They engage in a high-speed aerial battle that inevitably ends with Kogasa's defeat and the heroine's arrival at the flying object. She returns in the extra stage under the assumption that it being night is enough to scare humans, and is defeated once again by the heroine. As such, her role is rather limited and she is the only character that is completely unrelated to the story in Undefined Fantastic Object.
- Ten Desires
After the events of Undefined Fantastic Object, she has been plotting to go scare Byakuren Hijiri at her newly-built temple. In Ten Desires, she takes to the cemetery adjacent to the Myouren Temple and the surrounding sky, but runs afoul of newcomer Yoshika Miyako. However, after asking the heroine to help her banish Yoshika, she also receives a beating.
- Double Spoiler
In Double Spoiler, Kogasa appeared as a stage 3 target, where she uses a few spell cards and had Aya Shameimaru and Hatate Himekaidou take photos of her and her danmaku.
- Hopeless Masquerade
Kogasa made a background cameo appearance in Hopeless Masquerade on the Myouren Temple and Youkai Tanuki Forest stage. She is seen hopping with her umbrella.
- Sunken Fossil World
Kogasa appears as an enemy in the Rainbow Cavern of Earth Spirits when the heroine is on her way to the underground.
If the player uses Reimu Hakurei, Kogasa will pop out of the ground, surprise the shrine maiden, and attacks her; but loses anyway.
If the player uses Minamitsu Murasa, the phantom will encounter Kogasa while she is going underground with the Palanquin Ship and, after Kogasa asks if she can go too, Minamistu attacks her. After losing, Minamitsu explains that she is going to stop the black water, which makes Kogasa lose interest.
If the player uses Flandre Scarlet, the vampire will suddenly attack her and after defeating the tsukumogami will leave using a backdoor, which made Kogasa confused and think that Flandre was one of Byakuren's assassins.
- Symposium of Post-mysticism
- Wild and Horned Hermit
Kogasa was one of the victims of a mysterious attack in chapter 9.
In chapter 27, she approaches Reimu during Kotoyouka with the implicit intent of terrorizing her due to the latter's weakened weapons. It is later revealed that her real reason for doing so is to offer to replace Reimu's needles with her excellent blacksmithing skills, which she eventually does. Reimu, unable to pay the bill, opts to use her new needles on Kogasa instead.
- The Grimoire of Usami
She was one of the contestants during the Hakurei Fireworks Festival and showcased some of her danmaku.
- Whispered Oracle of Hakurei Shrine
Reimu Hakurei writes a fortune slip about Kogasa as a way of cleaning up in the aftermath of an incident.
Relationships
Myouren Temple
Kogasa has a neutral relationship with Myouren Temple and is not registered as a member of this faction. Her purpose for staying there is to scare the humans that frequently visit its cemetery.[1]
Minor Relationships
- Yoshika Miyako
Yoshika Miyako's presence in the cemetery becomes an unknown threat for Kogasa.
- Hakurei Shrine & Moriya Shrine[1]
These locations are listed as places that Kogasa frequents in Symposium of Post-mysticism, but no reason is given. In Undefined Fantastic Object, Kogasa tells Sanae that she is considering going to Sanae's shrine to wreck the place as revenge for Sanae being mean to her, which may indicate a possible reason.
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Additional Information
- She is the only character in Undefined Fantastic Object that has no role in the story.
- She is the only Touhou character so far to have two different eye colours, known as heterochromia.
- In Undefined Fantastic Object, she says "Urameshiya", which means to be jealous or bitter, while "ya" is similar to saying desu or da. It's often translated as "I'm envious," or simply "Boo," which has become her catchphrase in fandom.
- Ghosts, youkai, and possessed objects (such as Karakasa obake) are said to belong to a lower realm in the Six Realms of Buddhist belief. "Urameshiya" is often said by such creatures to express envy towards humans, whose place in the Human Realm affords them less suffering. Thus, "I envy your life!" would be a more appropriate translation, although it tends to be used in the same context as "Boo!"
- In Symposium of Post-mysticism, she thinks babysitters fly through the sky with an umbrella, referencing Mary Poppins.
- In an interview where ZUN was asked about which Touhou character he would want to become. His answer was Kogasa, saying that "I don't want to overthink things; I just want to float through life and enjoy it without care, and scaring everyone a little - that's how I'll live."[7]
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