Raiko Horikawa's usual outfit. It features a red-and-black plaid shirt and a white jacket.
Prism March Snare
Raiko's marching band costume. Everyone loves the snare's lifting rhythm!
White Hybrid Drums
Raiko's Fantasy Rebirth outfit. It was fashioned at Kourindou based on information in the journal.
Caring for Household Appliances
The outfit Raiko was given when she began working as a maid. The steady rhythm she works with is very soothing.
Phantasmal Percussionist
Voice Lines
Gacha Pickup
I'm Raiko Horikawa, a drum tsukumogami. I'm not just an ordinary drum. My thunder beats will capture your heart!
Introduction
I'm Raiko Horikawa, a tsukumogami. What kind of tsukumogami am I? I used to be a tsukumogami of a Japanese drum, but now I'm like this. All righty then, what song do you wanna hear today? I can call for the Prismrivers, the Tsukumo sisters, or Choujuu Gigaku if you want. You want to dance, right? I get you. There are times when you just want to lose yourself to the beat! I'll bring you to a whole new world. A free world filled with music!
Purple Heart
Hmm, I feel kinda restless. Let's put on a surprise concert!
Blue Heart
You have nice fingers. Would you like to try holding drumsticks?
Green Heart
Wow! You've improved so much already. You've got talent...Huh? It's because you like drums? Hehehe, you're making me blush!
Orange Heart
Yeah, just like that. Don't forget that feeling. You've got to keep a steady rhythm like your body has become a clock, and also let your excess emotions explode... Hehe, teaching you like this makes me think that tools and humans aren't so different after all.
Pink Heart
You're a human who takes good care of tools, so you're like family to me. Tools move thanks to the magic bestowed to them by their user. So if you plan to make some sort of tool... don't forget that, OK?
Summer
For summer, I recommend listening to Choujuu Gigaku's songs. You'll blow away all the heat if you shout with everything you've got!
Login
Hey, how are you going? I've got my hands full with preparing for a concert again today, but it's also lots of fun. Everyone else is really excited too. Hehehe!
Enhancement
Great! Now I can keep the beat up even better! I reckon I can keep playing till morning!
Return
We're back! I'm pretty sweaty after all that excitement. I've gotta go change!
Home 1
I may be a new tsukumogami, but I've been watching the world for a long time as a tool. I reckon I've got plenty of topics I can talk about. What I'm trying to say is―Let's chat!
Home 2
For more people to enjoy and take up music, instruments and audiovisual equipment need to become popular and accessible. That's a job for us tools because any tool can be used as an instrument!
Home 3
Most instruments evolved from household items. I believe you can find the magic of music by using tools in obscure ways!
Reaction 1
I've called Lunasa big sis before!
Reaction 2
Merlin is actually pretty reliable and hard-working.
Reaction 3
Lyrica is really smart and also kind of childish.
Task
Oh, you're doing a task? Then I'll also do the practice I was planning on doing!
Task Complete
You worked really hard on that task, didn't you?! I know because I also worked hard. Well done!
Mail
Some mail arrived. A few of the letters had your name on them.
Errand Finished
It seems someone's back from an errand. Welcome back!
Start of Battle
Let's go, Horism... Whoops, that was close.
Mid-Wave
Let's go, Prismriver With H!
Victory
The concert was a huge success! Now we're one step closer to a tool paradise!
Defeat
Don't stop our concert! This is the only place where we can play!
Spellcard 1 Chant 1
Come on, it's a festival!
Don't hold anything back!
Spellcard 1 Chant 2
Step to my beat and
dance the night away!
Spellcard 1 Casted
First Drum: Raging Temple Taiko
Spellcard 2 Chant 1
Earthquakes, lightning, and fires.
People fear natural disasters less than...
Spellcard 2 Chant 2
Jealousy, anger, and resentment.
At least, that's what I think.
Spellcard 2 Casted
Eighth Drum: Thunder God's Anger
Last Word Chant 1
Even in the depths of despair,
a light will always shine.
Last Word Chant 2
I promise to take you all with me
and leave no one behind!
Last Word Casted
Thunder and Lightning of Battle
Boost 1
One!
Boost 2
Two!
Boost 3
Three!
Graze 1
All right!
Graze 2
Here we go!
Graze 3
Let's enjoy it!
Command A
Let's go with that!
Command B
Wow!
Command C
Nice!
Command D
Echo! Primal beat!
Skill A
Listen to the beat!
Skill B
Shake your body!
Shot A
You'll remember this!
Shot B
Listen to this!
Damage
Yikes.
Heavy Damage
I messed up!
Guard
No problem!
Graze Activated
Is that it?!
Change to Rear
Withdrawing!
Change to Front
Time for an encore!
Buff/Heal
Thanks!
Knocked Out
Not yet... My beat will never stop!
Voice Sets
Drum Soul
VA: Sembongi Sayaka
Thunder God Beat
VA: Yamazaki Haruka
New Tsukumogami
VA: Nishida Nozomi
Character Information
Temperament: Rairan
Rairan (a Touhou LW original) refers to thunderstorms. This is an apt temperament for Raiko since she violently manipulates lighting with her drums. Raiko is endowed with Wood Phase, the element of lightning, and Sun Essence, as she is a ray of hope to the new tsukumogami.
The strong and kind Wood Phase resists Water Phase, because water nourishes wood, but it is weak to Metal Phase, because metal carves wood.
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 making anything follow a rhythm
Raiko Horikawa's ability as a drum tsukumogami. You could also say this is her ability as a drummer. She is a drum, a tsukumogami, and a drummer.
The drummer is an essential role for any band. They control the band's rhythm, and you could even say they are the heart that gives life to the whole concert's rhythm. The beat is the life of any performance―that is why it's called a beat.
It is said that animals can move because electrical stimulus causes their muscles to expand and contract. This means that electricity literally controls the physical motions of human bodies. There is even a method of resuscitation that makes use of this phenomenon that involves restarting a terminated signal with an electrical stimulus. Thus, Raijin, the god of thunder and lightning, has the power to make a heart follow a rhythm.
This must be how Raiko knew about the mysterious spell that lets tsukumogami transfer magic into themselves. Even if you can transfer a soul, the technique will fail if you cannot wake the soul up again. The rhythms Raiko plays may have been the key that gives new life to tsukumogami.
Attacks
Snare & Hi-Hat
Raiko Horikawa's Spread Shot (a Touhou LW original). She attacks with her snare and hi-hat beats. The snare drum is a small drum with snare wires attached to the bottom head. A hi-hat is a combination of two small cymbals mounted on a stand, so they face each other. Raiko uses her lively rhythms to lead the whole band.
Bullets
Snare Beat
Hi-Hat Beat
Closed
Strainer - On
Strainer - Off
Open
Tom-Tom & Bass
Raiko Horikawa's Focus Shot (a Touhou LW original). Tom-tom drums, or toms for short, are drums without snares. Raiko uses a high tom and a low tom. The bass drum is a large drum and is also known as a kick drum. Drum fills and grooves are really fun.
Bullets
High Tom
Low Tom
Kick
High Tom 2
Low Tom 2
Kick 2
First Drum: Raging Temple Taiko
Raiko Horikawa's Spell Card. She shoots out drums that explode when destroyed. This time, she goes all out and triggers the drums herself. The miya-daiko, or temple taiko, is a type of large Japanese drum. They are played during Bon festival dances. Nagadou-daiko (long-barreled drums) get smaller whenever maintenance is performed on them, and the smaller nagadou-daiko are called miya-daiko.
Bullets
Dual Drumming
Gallop Beat
Steady Beat
Natural Beat
Fast Beat
Varied Gallop Beat
Eighth Drum: Thunder God's Anger
Raiko Horikawa's Spell Card. She shoots out a vortex of thunder and lightning. Gods of thunder are worshipped all over the world as gods that deliver divine punishment. In Japan, there is a famous legend about how a vengeful spirit who sought revenge was placated by being worshiped as a god. This spirit became Tenjin, a god of sky and storms. Apparently, Raijin, the Shinto god of thunder, is depicted with drums because of the influence of China's Leigong.
Bullets
Leigong Lightning
Raijin Lighting
Angry Lightning Ball
Thunder God Lighting
Bitter Lightning Ball
Vengeful Lightning Ball
Thunder and Lightning of Battle
Raiko Horikawa's Last Word (a Touhou LW original). She shoots lightning lasers that writhe like serpents. Since antiquity, it has been thought that lightning is the incarnation of a god with a dragon-serpent body. Apparently, this was the same with the gods of thunder in China. This makes sense because when lightning instantaneously descends from the heavens, it looks like a snake lunging at its prey.
Bullets
Thunder & Lightning Laser
Plasma Laser
Lightning Laser
Proton Laser
Thunderbolt Laser
Super Proton Laser
Skills
Skill: Backbeat
A beat that makes you want to dance along. Sounds make people feel elated―Music even more so!
Skill: Downbeat
A punk and rock kind of beat. Drummers live to make the audience follow a rhythm!
Skill: Blast Beat
Metal! Metal! Metal! There is no other instrument who puts so much heart and soul into her music!
