Minamitsu Murasa
The Ghost Left From the Shipwreck Accident
Minamitsu Murasa's usual outfit. It features a white sailor uniform with green lines.
All Aboard! Full Speed Ahead!
Minamitsu's specialized outfit for generating cheer. I'll change water hazards to happiness!
White Captain Sailing the Sea
Minamitsu's Fantasy Rebirth outfit. It was fashioned at Kourindou based on information in the journal.
The Ghost Left From the Shipwreck Accident
Minamitsu Murasa's usual outfit. It features a white sailor uniform with green lines.
Voice Lines
Voice Sets
Palanquin Ship Captain
VA: Kiyoto Arisa
Ghost of Shipwrecks
VA: Ozawa Ari
Murasa Ship Phantom
VA: Naganawa Maria
Character Information
Temperament: Byakuran
Byakuran (a Touhou LW original) refers to a white squall, a sudden and violent windstorm at sea that is not accompanied by any black clouds to indicate its presence. An apt temperant for a youkai who sinks ships. Minamitsu is endowed with Water Phase, as a ship phantom, and Sun Essence, with her admiration of Byakuren. The flexible and patient Water Phase resists Metal Phase, because metal collects water, but it is weak to Earth Phase, because earth directs water. The alluring and arrogant Sun Essence resists the diverse and uncooperative Star Essence, but it is weak to the cooperative and indecisive Moon Essence.
Ability/Backstory: Capable of causing shipwrecks
Minamitsu Murasa's ability as a youkai and ship phantom. As long as there is water nearby, she can drown someone even if they are not aboard a boat. She can even make people die at chozuya (pavilions at shrines with a water basin used by worshippers to purify themselves). Water is dangerous and frightening because most land animals, including humans, need water to live yet perish if they drown in it. Living and the risk of drowning are two sides of the same coin. This is why there are so many famous youkai and monsters connected to water throughout the world. Japan is an archipelago, so people used to live in constant fear of ship-sinking youkai. Minamitsu, however, has changed her ways thanks to Byakuren and now only makes her targets soaking wet instead of drowning them. It seems she gets away with doing this when the monks train under waterfalls. Maybe it will make a great gift for the fairies and children of the village in summer.
Attacks
Anchor Boomerang
Minamitsu Murasa's Spread Shot (a Touhou LW original). She throws her favorite anchor like a boomerang in this attack. Boomerangs aren't meant to return after hitting their target, but Minamitsu's anchor does because she's a ghost! (Which doesn't really explain anything...)
Bullets
- Martin's Anchor Throw
- Danforth Anchor Throw
- Herreshoff Anchor Throw
- Trotman's Anchor Throw
- Admiralty Anchor Throw
- JIS Stock Anchor Throw
Anchor Shot
Minamitsu Murasa's Focus Shot (a Touhou LW original.) She shoots a phantom of an anchor (Yes, anchors also have phantoms!) directly into her target. Minamitsu is a ghost and a ship phantom, making her unique as most youkai do not originate from phantoms. She differs from usual phantoms because she has a distinct and corporeal body. This anchor phantom may have gained a physical form in a similar manner to Minamitsu―through spite and the fear of others.
Bullets
- Delta Anchor Shot
- Pool Anchor Shot
- Spek Anchor Shot
- Baldt Anchor Shot
- Hall's Anchor Shot
- JIS Stockless Anchor Shot
Capsize: Foundering Anchor
Minamitsu Murasa's Spell Card. She swings her anchor with such strength that it would sink a ship. There are many different types of ship phantoms, and some are said to sink ships by using an anchor. Minamitsu may have inherited their legacy. Ship phantoms must be very skillful and knowledgeable if they can sink a whole ship with a single anchor.
Bullets
- Tomomori's Vengeful Anchor
- Blade of Water
- Ugume Anchor
- Sharp Blade of Water
- Cursed Anchor
- Cleaving Blade of Water
Drowning Sign: Sinkable Vortex
Minamitsu Murasa's Spell Card. She attacks her target with a violent swirling maelstrom of water. This Spell Card is more than capable of sinking a ship, but whirlpools that occur in nature can be just as dangerous. Particularly violent whirlpools contain many bubbles that make the ship less buoyant and a strong current that drags the ship down into the depths like a monstrous antlion larva of the sea.
Bullets
- Naruto Whirlpools
- Strait of Messina Whirlpool
- Charybdis
- Old Sow Whirlpool
- Moskstraumen Whirlpool
- Corryvreckan Whirlpool
Palanquin Fleet Bombardment
Minamitsu Murasa's Last Word (a Touhou LW original). The Palanquin Ship is usually in the form of Myouren Temple, so perhaps this ship is a replica, or maybe she uses the real one in secret... (Though it is possible that Byakuren gave her permission.) The way in which she creates a semblance of a fleet by making each ship really small is somewhat reminiscent of how a certain youkai used the Seeds of Unkown Form on the fragments of the Flying Storehouse. This Last Word lets Minamitsu act the part of an Admiral of a whole armada... for a little while, at least.
Bullets
- 176's Aerial Photon Torpedoes
- 107's Aerial Photon Torpedoes
- 149's Aerial Photon Torpedoes
- 134's Aerial Photon Torpedoes
- 159's Aerial Photon Torpedoes
- 201's Aerial Photon Torpedoes
Skills
Skill: Hard-A-Starboard!
Captain Murasa's tiller technique. She sets sail with all her friends aboard!
Skill: Hard-A-Port!
Captain Murasa's tiller technique. The fairway's clear―Raise anchor and set sail!
Skill: Bottomless Ladle
Ship phantoms cling to boats at sea and say, "give me a ladle." If they are given one, they will use it to pour water into the boat, so you must give them one with a hole in the bottom.
