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Rinnosuke Morichika

Имя:

森近 霖之助(もりちか りんのすけ)

Ринноске Моричика

Раса:

Человек /Ёкай полугибрид

Способности:

Able to recognize the name and purpose of an item at a glance

Возраст:

Неизвестен,по крайней мере несколько десятилетий.

Занятия:

Владелец Kourindou, антикварной лавки

Место жительства:

Kourindou

Внешность:

  • Золотые глаза,короткие серебряные волосы, носит очки.Одежда черного и синего цвета,часто носит небольшую сумку.

Взаимоотношения с иными персонажами:

Появления:

Rinnosuke работает Kourindou - антикварной лавкой около Леса магии.He chose this location in the hopes that both human and non-human potential customers would visit, but his plan failed miserably as his shop is always deserted, with the exception of a few daily "annoyances".

What Rinnosuke actually is remains unknown. His appearance is that of a human, but the official stories say that he has lived several times longer than Reimu. His appearance has not changed since Marisa was a small child, at the very least. It is also said that he knows about the previous Hakurei descendant, as well as the establishment of Hakurei Shrine and its purpose.

Rinnosuke is known for his great interest in the outside world, and uses a collection of items from the outside world (which have accidentally slipped past the boundary) as his shop lineup. With his recognition ability, he can determine the name and purpose of each foreign item, but he still can't tell how they are used. Due to his lack of knowledge about the outside world and modern science, he often ends up drawing strange conclusions about those items.

Fun Facts

  • His surname "Morichika" means "near the forest", which is the location of Kourindou.
  • Rinnosuke seems to be the only humanoid male that has been introduced in the Touhou series so far. (Close calls: Genjii is a male turtle, Youki Konpaku was only mentioned in profiles, and some nameless males were depicted in illustrations in Perfect Memento in Strict Sense.)
  • Rinnosuke apparently doesn't have any fighting ability like Reimu or Marisa do, which makes him an ideal character to describe typical daily life in Gensokyo.
  • Rinnosuke worked as a shop assistant in the Kirisame house some time ago, so he and Marisa Kirisame have known each other since then.
  • Rinnosuke was the one who gave Marisa the Mini-Hakkero. He stated that it is his own invention and that it merged the magic in Gensokyo and the technology from the outside world (to which he refers as an outside form of magic that needs no spiritual power). He has also repaired and upgraded Mini-Hakkero at least once.
  • Only Marisa is known to call him by his nickname, "Kourin". Whether it implies her fondness, or just that they've known each other for a long time, is unknown.
  • Rinnosuke possesses a kerosene fan heater, which is one of his items from the outer world. The heater's fuel is supplied by Yukari Yakumo.
  • Rinnosuke and Yukari Yakumo are often credited as the two people who have some idea regarding the outside world, with some basic understanding of technology. Other characters may also know about the outside world, but there is no direct description by ZUN so far.
  • As the only known man in a land surrounded by girls, fanworks usually depict Rinnosuke humorously as a lecher or pervert who runs around in a fundoshi (a rather immodest traditional Japanese loincloth) and harasses the girls, receiving painful retribution from them for his antics in the end.
  • Alternatively, he is just as often, if not more so seen in fan depictions as extraordinarily masculine and muscular, sometimes, though rarely, possessing power equal or greater to that of the rest of the cast. This form of his is known as MANnosuke in the western fanbase.

Book Synopsis

Bohemian Archive in Japanese Red

Main article: Article and Interview: Rinnosuke

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Perfect Memento in Strict Sense

Main article: Perfect Memento: Rinnosuke Morichika
  • Rinnosuke lives at Kourindou, his shop.
  • He is half-human, half-youkai.
  • He once worked for Marisa's father, but started his own shop to make the best use of his ability to know an item's nature.
  • His shop's trade is somewhat hindered by his complete lack of business sense.
  • Although his ability lets him know what an item is and what it does, he cannot tell how it is used.
  • Kourindou deals mostly in items from the outside world, although it is unorganized and Rinnosuke keeps the most interesting items for personal use.
  • He possesses a heater, which he refuses to sell, in addition to outer world goods such as computers, cell phones, digital cameras, TVs, water filters, and gaming devices.
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