Renko Usami
Renko Usami (宇佐見 蓮子 Usami Renko) ist eine Studentinin der Außenwelt, vermutlich in einer Hochschule oder einer Universität. Ihren Schwerpunkt setzt sie sich in Physik und geht die Dinge immer sehr logisch und objektiv an. Zusammen mit ihrer Freundin, Maribel Hearn geht sie Interressen nach, die man als Paranormal bezeichnen würde. Ihr Club, der aus den beiden besteht (Sumireiko Usami's Zugehörigkeit ist noch nicht ganz klar), beschreibt sich selbst als ein Club für Nekromanten (Geisterbeschwörer). Obwohl sie nicht wirklich Dinge tun, die man von Nekromanten erwarten würde. Vielmehr untersuchen sie Geister und Ähnliches. Vor allem sind sie an Gensokyo interessiert und scheinen einige der wenigen oder sogar die einzigen Menschen in der Außenwelt zu sein, die überhaubt von dessen Existenz wissen.
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Renko Usami | |
| Spezies | Mensch (von der Außenwelt) |
| Fähigkeiten | Kann anhand der Sterne und dem Mond die Zeit und den Ort bestimmen (ein lebendieges GPS) |
| Tätigkeit | Uni-Schülerin (Super Unified Physics Major) |
| Heimat | Kyoto, Japan in der nahen Zukunft. |
| Beziehungen | Maribel Hearn (Freundin?) |
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Generelle Informationen
Tätigkeit/Wohnort
Gemäß Changeability of Strange Dream, sie studiert die große vereinheitlichte Physik, spezialisiert in der Stringtheorie. Gemäß Retrospective 53 minutes, lebt sie wie Maribel in Kyoto, allerdings scheint sie ursprünglich aus Tokyo zu kommen.
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Character Design
Name
The characters in "Renko" literally mean "lotus child."
Design
Renko usually wears a black hat with a bow, white suit, and a brown dress. In Magical Astronomy and Trojan Green Asteroid, she is also wearing a black shawl. She also has brown hair and often carries a book with her.
Story
- Ghostly Field Club
- Hauptartikel: Ghostly Field Club Story
Using a photograph of the Netherworld and Renko's ability to determine location from the Moon, Merry and Renko attempt to find the entrance to the Netherworld in a ghostly field.
- Changeability of Strange Dream
- Hauptartikel: Changeability of Strange Dream Story
Merry is talking with Renko about how she is visiting a strange world in her dreams. It starts out nicely but begins to become nightmarish as Merry is attacked by youkai. Merry has trouble figuring out what is reality and what is just a dream, and to further complicate the issue, she presents Renko with some of the items she had obtained in her dreams. Renko realizes the truth, and in the end must decide on which will be Merry's reality.
- Retrospective 53 Minutes
- Hauptartikel: Retrospective 53 Minutes Story
In Retrospective 53 minutes, Merry and Renko were on a train to Tokyo. They were looking at a simulated kaleido screen of the outside and discussing the trip, the view, and the nature of objectivity and subjectivity related to it. Renko commented on her, saying "You might be as carefree as the Tōhoku people though". The trip lasts 53 minutes.
- Magical Astronomy
- Hauptartikel: Magical Astronomy Story
The university campus is abuzz with news of public tours to the moon. Merry and Renko talk about the world on the moon hidden from humans and eagerly try to plan their own trip to there. Merry gets a special idea.
- Trojan Green Asteroid
- Hauptartikel: Trojan Green Asteroid Story
Maribel and Renko discuss the lost micro-habitat space station TORIFUNE, Merry claiming that she has seen inside it and everything is still alive. Since the station contains a shrine to Ame-no-Torifune, they travel to another such shrine and use Maribel's ability to transport themselves there through their dreams. They discover that the interior has become a dense jungle, and are attacked by a chimera. Maribel wakes up with a cut on her arm and is sent to hospital.
- Neo-traditionalism of Japan
- Hauptartikel: Neo-traditionalism of Japan Story
While in hospital, Maribel is diagnosed with sleepwalking and hallucinations; believing this to be a previously unknown virus, the doctors send her to the mountains for isolation treatment. By the time she's released her powers have grown stronger and she now sees visions while awake. Merry discusses Hell with Renko, but doesn't tell her that she physically travelled to Hell while in isolation. Renko tells Merry that while she was in isolation the news has been talking about discoveries of stone tools more than 25 million years old, though they were dismissed as a hoax. Merry believes otherwise, and presents one she found herself. Merry shows Renko a vision of the underground realm where she found it, and Renko recognises the Ame-no-Sakahoko as being there. Merry calms down, no longer believing the place she saw to be Hell but the world of the gods. The two decide to find more such "Izanagi Objects" that lie unrecognised across Japan.
Relationships
- Maribel Hearn (Friend)
Additional Information
- Regardless of the place she is at, with her ability to tell the time by looking only at the stars, she can only tell the current time in Japanese Standard Time (JST). If she wanted to know the Coordinated Universal Time (UTC), she would have to do the necessary calculation.
- Regardless of the presence of absence of scenery in a photograph, in Ghostly Field Club she was able to tell where a photograph was taken due to the projection of the moon in the photograph.
- In both Ghostly Field Club and Changeability of Strange Dream, she was the one who was late for the meeting with Merry.
- Renko is one of the only characters known to live outside of Gensokyo. As such, she has never actually met any of the other characters except Maribel Hearn, who also lives outside Gensokyo. Yuyuko Saigyouji has encountered the Sealing Club on a visit to the outside world, but Renko did not seem able to see her.
Fandom
Official Sources
- 2003/12/30 Ghostly Field Club
- 2004/12/30 Changeability of Strange Dream
- 2006/05/21 Retrospective 53 minutes
- 2006/08/13 Magical Astronomy
- 2011/05/08 Unknown Flower, Mesmerizing Journey
- 2012/04/27 Symposium of Post-mysticism - Part 2
- 2012/04/30 Trojan Green Asteroid
- 2012/08/11 Neo-traditionalism of Japan