Seija Kijin

鬼人 (きじん) 　正邪 (せいじゃ) Seija Kijin
Counterattacking Amanojaku Mehr Charaktertitel
Spezies	Amanojaku
Fähigkeiten	Dinge umkehren
Heimat	Shining Needle Castle
Beziehungen	Shinmyoumaru Sukuna (Verbündete)

Seija Kijin (鬼人 正邪, Kijin Seija) ist ein Amanojaku mit der Fähigkeit Dinge umzudrehen. Sie wohnt im Shining Needle Castle und ist die Protagonistin des Spin-off Spiels Impossible Spell Card und dem Mini-Spiel Gold Rush.

Allgemeines

Seija tauchte als fünfter Stageboss in Double Dealing Character auf und war im Hintergrund der Haupthandlung des Spiels. Ihr Hauptziel war es die Gesellschaft zu stürzen und die Schwachen über die Starken herrschen zu lassen. Danach erschien sie als die einzige Protagonistin und spielbarer Charakter in Impossible Spell Card.

Fähigkeiten & Persönlichkeit

Wie bereits gesagt, Seija ist es möglich alles umzudrehen in seinem gegenteiligen Vorkommen. Das würde erklären warum das Shining Needle Castle umgedreht wurde. Wie auch immer, die Beschreibung der Fähigkeit ist eigentlich ungenau, da ihre erste Spell Card den Bildschirm um die Z-Achse dreht und damit nicht umdreht. Sie denkt das gegenteil von dem was andere Leute denken, mag was andere hassen und hasst sich selbst wenn sie andere glücklich macht. Eigentlich mag sie keiner und sie mag das. Sie erscheint auch redefreudig.

Vergangenheit

Seija war die einzige die eigentlich das Miracle Mallet fand. Eins realisierte sie, dass es eine Kraft enthielt, welches ihr Ehrgeiz realisierte. Sie fand ein Inchling namens Shinmyoumaru Sukuna. Inschlings waren die einzigen, die in der Lage waren das Miracle Mallet zu benutzen. Um Sukuna auf ihre Seite zu ziehen, erzählte Seija ihr, dass die Yokai vor langer Zeit dafür verantwortlich waren, dass Inschlings ausstarben. So stimmte Sukuna ihrem Plan zu.

Konzept

Name

Ihr Name ist Seija Kijin (鬼人 正邪). Ihr Vorname Seija (正邪) kann frei übersetzt "gut und böse" oder "richtig und falsch" heißen. Ihr Nachname Kijin (鬼人) heißt in etwa "Oni" und "Mensch". "邪" und "鬼" sind beide Kanji, die auch in ihrer Art Amanojaku (天邪鬼) benutzt werden. Although her given name has the character for "oni," and her species is often depicted as a type of oni in Japanese folklore, amanojaku in the Touhou Project are a separate species. Both her first and last names reference her ability, as each is composed of two kanji with opposite meanings (human/oni and right/wrong).

Design

Seija has red eyes and black hair with white highlights in the back and a single red highlight on her front bangs, although in Impossible Spell Card she has a single white highlight, with multiple red highlights. Her hair reaches down to her shoulders. She has two small, light blue horns, and she wears a white dress that ends in a gray, red, and black spade patterns that may symbolize her ability, as they look like arrows pointing downward and upward depending on the perspective. The dress is wrapped at the waist with an upside-down blue bow. She wears traditional sandals with purple straps. She also wears a gold-colored bracelet on her right arm.

Story

Double Dealing Character

Seija is the stage 5 boss, residing in the Shining Needle Castle. At first, she thinks the heroine is there to ally with them, and explains her plan to overthrow society. However, she quickly gets irritated with the heroine's perceived lack of empathy for the "plight of the weak", and attacks. After she is defeated, she guides the heroine deeper into the castle, but is beaten again in order to get to Shinmyoumaru.

Impossible Spell Card

Hauptartikel: Impossible Spell Card: Story

Seija becomes the only playable character of the game. Following the events of Double Dealing Character, Seija has become a wanted amanojaku in Gensokyo. There has been signs saying that whoever captures her wins a reward, having characters like Kagerou Imaizumi and Raiko Horikawa trying to capture her. Since Seija has become a rebel, the youkai have decided to use spell cards that's considered impossible to dodge, but Seija is determined to not give up and decides to cheat using items.

Later on however, Mamizou Futatsuiwa confronts her and says that the tengu (presumably Aya Shameimaru and Hatate Himekaidou) have taken notice of her and have written up a newspaper about her mischief. This causes stronger youkai and humans such as Marisa Kirisame, Sakuya Izayoi, Sanae Kochiya and Youmu Kompaku to try and capture her. Also Shinmyoumaru Sukuna confronts her and declares that she should return the remainder of the Mallet's magic and that they've lost the war that occurred during Double Dealing Character. Seija believes that she can use her cheating magic to conquer Gensokyo. Shinmyoumaru states that they ought to surrender because she has had enough. Since Seija goes against her will, Shinmyoumaru goes against Seija and gets others to capture her, becoming one of the many to try and stop Seija.

In the end, it's revealed that Seija has lost all of her allies, but it's nothing to worry about because the amanojaku can never really make friends anyway.

Gold Rush

Seija again appeared as the only playable character in Gold Rush. Extending from Impossible Spell Card, somehow acquiring the ultimate rule-breaking item, Seija sets about robbing the Hakurei Shrine. She uses two "cheat" items; the Substitute Jizo from the previous game and the 10th "rule-breaking" item, the Miracle Mallet (Real), which is capable of destroying danmaku. She has to make use of it before its power runs out. This is somewhat similar to Cirno's "perfect freeze" in Fairy Wars. Unlike ISC however, Seija cannot shoot.

Relationships

Shinmyoumaru Sukuna

Seija initially approached Shinmyoumaru Sukuna to persuade her to use the Miracle Mallet for her own ends. In order to do so, she falsified a history of the Inchlings to turn the girl against society.

Minor Relationships

Benben Tsukumo and Yatsuhashi Tsukumo

Though no dialogue is exchanged between them, Seija appears to understand the heroine when they mention that a koto or biwa tsukumogami told them about her plan. As they all have the same objective, it is likely that they know each other. However, Seija's reaction implies that she didn't realize the extent of the "payment" of the Miracle Mallet's power - that is, changing many objects into tsukumogami without the user intending to do so.

Gallery

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  Seija in Double Dealing Character.
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  Cover of Impossible Spell Card, featuring Seija's silhouette

Additional Information

• The silhouette of Seija occupies on the front of Impossible Spell Card's jewel case.
• Some parts of Seija's theme are symmetrical making it sound similar to itself when played reversed (much like Koishi's theme); this is probably a reference to her ability to turn things over and to the theme name itself: Reverse Ideology.
• Apparently the relationship of the main villains of Double Dealing Character, Seija and Shinmyoumaru, is vague. But it might be a little wrong. it is said that amanojaku (or Ama-no-Jaku) is rooted from a female deity of Japanese mythology, Ame-no-Sagume. In the age Ama-tsu-kami (God Clan in Heaven) and Kuni-tsu-kami (God Clan on Ground) were in battles. then Ama-tsu-kami sent a god Ame-no-Wakahiko for "negotiation". But he neither came back nor took a message — he married there and had no will to be on the side of Ama-tsu-kami; he switched or reverted his side. And it was Ame-no-Sagume who later gave advice to him that he should shoot Ama-tsu-kami's spy. This shows some resemblances of Ame-no-Sagume and amanojaku (or Seija): they are a traitor's friend, and his/her seducer. Another point, remember that Shinmyoumaru's root from Japanese mythology is Sukunahiko, who created the kingdom of Kuni-tsu-kami with Ookuninushi, where Ame-no-sagume lived as above. This means we can see that Shinmyoumaru's rooted god (or Shinmyoumaru's first ancestor) had taken part in Kuni-tsu-kami's side by far before Seija's rooted god (Ame-no-Sagume) appeared.

Official Profiles

  Double Dealing Character - omake.txt

	○５面ボス　逆襲のあまのじゃく 　　鬼人 正邪（きじん せいじゃ） 　　Kijin Seija 　　種族：天邪鬼 　　能力：何でもひっくり返す程度の能力 　　下克上を企む天邪鬼。 　　天邪鬼は鬼ではなく、ただの捻くれた妖怪である。 　　彼女は常日頃から人とは逆の事を考えていた。 　　人が嫌がることを好み、人を喜ばせると自己嫌悪に陥る。 　　命令は絶対に聞かない。自分が得しても見返りは与えない。 　　人間、妖怪に嫌われるのは当たり前だったが、彼女は嫌われると喜ぶのだった。 　　そんな彼女の野望は、幻想郷をひっくり返すことだった。 　　今の強者が支配する安定した幻想郷をぶちこわし、弱者が物を言う世界に 　　変えたかったのだ。 　　しかし、彼女にはそれだけの力が無かった。 　　そこで目を付けたのが小人の秘宝『打ち出の小槌』だったのだ。	Stage 5 Boss - The Counterattacking Amanojaku Kijin Seija Species: Amanojaku Ability: Capable of turning anything upside-down An amanojaku who plots social upheaval. Amanojaku aren't oni, but just a particularly twisted type of youkai. She's always thinking the opposite of what other people think. She likes what people hate, and falls into self-loathing when she makes them happy. She never listens to orders. Even if she profits off something, she doesn't give anything in return. It was only natural that humans and youkai disliked her, but she was happy to be disliked. Her ambition was to turn Gensokyo upside-down. She wanted to smash the current, stable Gensokyo where the strong ruled the land, and change it into one where the weak had more value. However, she didn't have the power to do that. Then, she laid her eyes upon the treasure of the inchlings, the "Miracle Mallet".

Official Sources

  Official sources

• 2013/08/12 Double Dealing Character - omake.txt (official profile), Stage 5 dialogue