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Aya Shameimaru

Name:

射命丸 文
Aya Shameimaru

Species:

Tengu (in Wikipedia)

Abilities:

Able to see/hear things from great distance, manipulation of wind

Age:

Over 1000 years

Occupation:

Newspaper writer

Location:

Youkai Mountain

Description:

  • (Touhou 9) Red eyes, semi-long black hair, with a crow perched on her shoulder. Wears a white blouse, a black short skirt, and a Yamabushi-like head accessory. Carries a journal of some sort.
  • (Bohemian Archive in Japanese Red) Red eyes, semi-long black hair, usually seen with a crow following her. Wears a white blouse, a black short skirt, and a Yamabushi-like head accessory.

Relationships:

Unknown, but has interviewed all the characters in the Windows games once or more.

Appearances:

Titles:

See Character Titles

Aya Shameimaru is Gensokyo's resident reporter, known for writing slightly exaggerated news articles about anything that happens in Gensokyo. She's very strong and is probably stronger than she shows since she sometimes "accidentally wins" battles while only meaning to cover a news story.

During the events of Phantasmagoria of Flower View she sets out to cover what promises to be an interesting news story, apparently having had completely forgotten that the exact same event had occurred 60 years ago. Even though she was alive and around during the previous flower incident, perhaps her memory is clouded by the thousands of facts and rumors she hears every day.

Fun Facts

  • A silhouette of Aya occupies the front of Shoot the Bullet's jewel case.
  • Aya runs the Bunbunmaru Newspaper.
  • Other than Reimu, she's the only character to ever have the lead role in an official Touhou game (Shoot the Bullet) so far.
  • Aya is on less than good terms with some of the other characters. This is not necessarily because of her personality, but rather because of the often shady news articles she writes about them, which are filled with as much of her own personal opinion as actual news. When she publishes things like "Reimu just seems to be a laid-back drunkard" in her newspaper, it's no wonder many other Gensokyo residents are less than thrilled to see themselves in the news.
  • Due to Aya including photos of various characters in her news articles, some fan comics portray her as having a habit of taking embarrassing or risque photos as well. Thus she is sometimes a joke character that's shown as a... pervert.

Official Profiles

Bohemian Archive in Japanese Red - 本書について

Aya Shameimaru

 ・本書オリジナル、幻想郷一の情報通・射命丸 文(しゃめいまる あや)が登場!!

  大人気キャラクター32人を、文の視点から徹底解剖!

  もちろん文章は原作者ZUN氏による書き下ろし!

Original to this book: The No.1 information specialist of the Gensokyo, Shameimaru Aya is here!

With Aya's original insight, the 32 hugely popular characters are taken apart and examined.

Of course, the text is written anew exclusively by the original creator, ZUN.


Phantasmagoria of Flower View - キャラ設定.txt

Aya Shameimaru

 ○伝統の幻想ブン屋

  射命丸 文(しゃめいまる あや)

  Syameimaru Aya

  種族:鴉天狗

  能力:風を操る程度の能力

   鬼が幻想郷にいた、千年ほど前から住み着く天狗。

   元は鴉。風を操る程度の能力を持つ。

   性格は真面目で融通が利かない。強い者には礼儀正しく、弱い者に

  は強気に出る。ただ、取材の相手となれば常に礼儀正しい。

   彼女の持つ力は、幻想郷の中でも最高クラスではあるが、決して力

  を見せびらかせようとはしない。これは、彼女に限らず天狗の特性で

  もある。


   普段は山に住み、風と同じ速度同じ向きに移動する。噂好きで、い

  つも情報を仕入れては、天狗仲間で情報交換する。交換するたびに情

  報は変化し、殆どの噂は大げさな物となっている。


   天狗の中でも彼女は幻想郷の女の子達の噂が好き。自分で観察した

  り、仲間から仕入れたりと新しい情報が入ってこない時などほとんど

  無い。ただ、どの情報も多分に嘘が混じっているものである。


   彼女は「文々。新聞」(ぶんぶんまるしんぶん)という不定期新聞

  を作り、天狗内で配っている。嘘だらけの新聞である。


   今回の様な異変が起きる事で、天狗達は大喜びである。こういう時

  は色んな新しい情報が入ってくるからであり、その情報を元に新聞が

  書けるからである。

Traditional Genso Reporter

Aya Shameimaru

Species: Crow Tengu

Ability: Manipulation of wind

A tengu who came to Gensokyo about 1000 years ago.

Her origin is a crow. She has the ability of manipulating wind.

Her character is honest but not rigid. She is polite to strong people, and deals more firmly with weak people. However, she is always polite when conducting an interview.

Although her powers are among the top class in Gensokyo, she never uses them just to show off. This isn't only a characteristic of hers, but of tengu in general.

She usually lives on a mountain where the wind always moves at the same speed and the same direction. She loves gossip and is always gathering information exchanged with her fellow tengu. During any exchange, information is warped, and almost all her stories end up exaggerated...

She also likes rumors about the girls of Gensokyo. Through observing for herself and collecting information from colleagues, barely a moment passes when she isn't obtaining material. However, much of her material is mingled with rumor.

She writes up her non-periodical newspaper, Bunbunmaru News, and distributes it among the tengu. It's a newspaper chock-full of rumors.

As the current disaster started up, the tengu were overjoyed. There was much new material to be obtained, based on which they can write up their newspapers.

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