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十六夜 咲夜 (いざよい さくや) (♫) | |
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Time manipulation (Stop, Slow down, Fast forward, possibly Reverse), knife proficiency | |
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Appears to be between 16 to 20 years old | |
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Maid, Manipulator of Time | |
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Easily one of the most enigmatic characters, despite appearing in so many games, Sakuya is the Chief Maid at the Scarlet Devil Mansion. She works for her mistress, Remilia Scarlet, and is apparently the only human working at or living within the mansion. She has the power to stop time. She is known to then place knives in midair and resume time to allow these knives to fly towards her targets. Stopping time is also a handy way of doing large amounts of maid work in a short time. Because nearly everyone living or working at the mansion are maids, being the chief of them all means there are few people there with more authority within the mansion than Sakuya.
During Embodiment of Scarlet Devil Sakuya attempts to prevent the heroine from reaching her mistress to whom she is very loyal, but fails. Later, during Perfect Cherry Blossom, Sakuya is able to show more of her true character, even if her main reason for trying to solve the problem is that the delayed Spring will affect her too. During the events of Scarlet Weather Rhapsody, she is initially commanded by Remilia to find possible suspects behind the strange weather. After Remilia grows tired of "questioning" suspects, she orders Sakuya to personally find and deal with the culprit. After doing so, Sakuya tells Reimu where to find the culprit, and later helps to rebuild the Hakurei Shrine after it is destroyed for the second time.
Fun Facts
- The characters for Izayoi literally mean "Sixteenth night" (the night just after that of the full moon), and Sakuya "Flowering night."
- Sakuya Izayoi is apparently not her real name, according to Perfect Memento, but is only a name given to her by Remilia. Her real name is unknown.
- As the head maid, 「メイド長」 or "maid-chou" or "maid-boss" is the common title used to address her among fans. Another common nickname is 「さっきゅん」 or "Sakkyun."
- According to Sakuya, if she happens to run out of knives, she can freeze time and pick up the ones she threw previously.
- According to ZUN, "Manipulation of Time" is synonymous to "Manipulation of Space." She takes advantage of this fact in several ways, from enlarging the space inside Scarlet Devil Mansion, to probably storing an immense amount of knives around. Maybe it's general relativity?
- Sakuya can also use her powers to accelerate time, such as making bamboo flowers bloom instantly, even though this would normally take sixty years.
- Sakuya may be a homage to Dio Brando, the main villain of the manga series JoJo's Bizarre Adventure, a vampire who is known for stopping time and being skilled at throwing knives. JoJo's Bizarre Adventure has been referenced several times in the official games.
- Despite helping rebuid the Hakurei Shrine later in SWR, Sakuya casually ignores Reimu's donation requests for shrine upkeep in Immaterial and Missing Power, saying she doesn't believe in gods anyway.
- Sakuya "prepares" food for Remilia and Flandre Scarlet. It's a mystery how this is done exactly, although she mentions in Phantasmagoria of Flower View that with so many flowers around, she can make as much tea and as many pastries as she wants. (Flowers have often been used to provide flavoring for tea, especially in the past, and are still the basis of jasmine tea.)
- In some fan-produced works, Sakuya is depicted with puppy ears and a tail (commonly called 「犬咲夜」 or 「いぬさくや」 or inu-Sakuya), which is probably a reflection of various characters referring to her as Remilia's dog.
- Another recurring joke with fans is the idea that Sakuya pads her chest to make it seem bigger than it is and goes to great lengths to hide this secret, even from Remilia herself. The origin of this joke was due Sakuya's portraits in Immaterial and Missing Power, which for some reason showed her with larger breasts than were seen in all of her other ZUN-made portraits (with the possible exception of Embodiment of Scarlet Devil). Thus, 「PAD長」 ("Pad-chou") has become a popular phrase that is frequently seen with 「メイド長」... but be careful when you try to use it. There are many people hating that nickname. Thus, another common joke is to depict Sakuya as knifing everybody who says that.
- There have been several clues spread across the Touhou series that suggest that Sakuya may not actually be human. Most of these occur in Imperishable Night, where Eirin Yagokoro is surprised to see her (according to Eirin's profile). Reimu also questions her humanity in Embodiment of Scarlet Devil.
- Her alternate outfit in Immaterial and Missing Power and Scarlet Weather Rhapsody is a homage to Ruukoto, the series' first maid. In Touhou Hisoutensoku more alternate outfits were added, including a Shinku palette and a Dio Brando palette.
- Since the announcement of Undefined Fantastic Object and of Sanae Kotiya as the only new playable character (along with Reimu and Marisa), jokes and fan art of Sakuya being venomously jealous of Sanae's newfound popularity and prominence commenced. After Ten Desires' announcement, Sakuya extends the jealousy to Youmu Konpaku, who is confirmed to return.
- Though before that, Sakuya, along with both Reisen Udongein Inaba and Youmu were all jealous of Sanae.
- In the games, it is shown Sakuya has the ability to make knives appear mysteriously when time is stopped, but in her Grimoire of Marisa artwork, she is shown placing the knives physically.
Official Profiles
Embodiment of Scarlet Devil - おまけ.txt
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○紅魔館のメイド | |
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Maid of the Scarlet Devil Mansion | |
Perfect Cherry Blossom - Manual
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○紅魔館のメイド 十六夜 咲夜(いざよいさくや) | |
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Maid of the Scarlet Devil Mansion | |
Perfect Cherry Blossom - キャラ設定.txt
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○紅魔館のメイド | |
Izayoi Sakuya Her main ability is manipulating time. She is a maid who works at the Scarlet Devil Mansion on the banks of a lake in Gensokyo for no salary. She's kept quite busy in this mansion cleaning, commanding the other maids, cooking, and taking care of her mistress. The mansion is unnecessarily large and has monotonous colors, so it's hard to tell things apart inside. Nobody would notice if an uninvited guest wandered inside and fell into a hole somewhere, undiscovered. Nobody would know if they were discovered and gotten rid of, either. Somehow, this scarlet building doesn't seem out of place surrounded by the green of Gensokyo. It simply stands there as if it were always meant to be there. Living here, even Sakuya feels as if time has stopped. Of course, that's not because Sakuya has stopped time. | |
Immaterial and Missing Power - 上海アリス通信.txt
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○完全で瀟洒な従者 | |
A maid who works and lives in the Scarlet Devil Mansion . She does a maid's duty perfectly: cooking, cleaning, washing, babysitting, knife throwing, etc. Her position is chief maid. Her personality seems perfect and elegant, but sometimes she shows a more spaced-out side. The reason she works so quickly is probably because she stops time to do it, though ... She also specializes in physical attacks. Probably even more so than at suspicious tricks like danmaku.
This is why she uses throwing knives in her danmaku. In addition, she likes magic that doesn't have tricks to it, so she proactively adopts it into battle. I can't help feeling this point is the odd acts. | |
Imperishable Night - Manual
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○紅魔館のメイド 十六夜 咲夜(いざよいさくや) | |
Izayoi Sakuya A maid who serves a devil. Her weapon is throwing knives. Since silver is hard to come by, she's looking for other materials to use, too. Notes: | |
Imperishable Night - キャラ設定.txt
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○紅魔館のメイド | |
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Maid of the Scarlet Devil Mansion Species: Human There's a scarlet mansion on the banks of a certain lake in Gensokyo. She works there as a maid. When you're a maid, you don't have to worry about clothing, food or housing, even when you live this deep in the mountains. She's human, but both humans and youkai don't look too well on her since she lives with devils. Still, some humans will overlook this, and she never has to worry about her living conditions. She can't imagine a life better than this. | |
Phantasmagoria of Flower View - Manual
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○完全で瀟洒なメイド 十六夜 咲夜(いざよいさくや) | |
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Phantasmagoria of Flower View - キャラ設定.txt
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○完全で瀟洒なメイド | |
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Scarlet Weather Rhapsody - chara.html
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○完全で瀟洒な従者 十六夜 咲夜(いざよい さくや)
職業:メイド 住家:紅魔館 能力:時を操る程度の能力 性格:瀟洒で知的、垢抜けている。 でも案外うっかりした行動をとる事もある。 | |
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The Perfect and Elegant Servant
Occupation: maid Place of residence: Scarlet Devil Manor Ability: the power to control time Personality: elegant, knowledgeable, and refined. However, can be surprisingly careless from time to time. | |
Book Synopsis
Bohemian Archive in Japanese Red
- Main article: Article and Interview: Sakuya
The article reports of Sakuya sneaking into Marisa's house and stealing various objects with the intent of building a rocketship to travel to the moon. Sakuya explains her odd behavior by claiming she is only carrying out Remilia's request.
In the interview, Aya asks to speak to Remilia to find out why she wanted those items, but in stalling Sakuya, she is late in delivering tea to Patchouli, who arrives to see what the hold-up is. Patchouli explains that they were going to use the items for a magic spell which would send them to the moon, but it ultimately proved useless in the end. The interview ends with Sakuya inviting Aya to join them for tea-time.
Perfect Memento in Strict Sense
- Main article: Perfect Memento: Sakuya Izayoi
- Sakuya both lives and works at the Scarlet Devil Mansion as a maid and she's the only human there.
- She's in charge of all the fairy maids there.
- The other maids have many perks to their jobs and rarely choose to leave, but are not paid or given vacations.
- The maids are nearly useless though and most of the work is done by Sakuya alone, which would be impossible if she didn't stop or slow time.
- Sakuya's power to manipulate time is not something that could normally be learned.
- Although she can speed or slow time it's difficult to change things that have already occurred, such as undoing damage.
- She can also manipulate space, conjure things, and is a skilled knife thrower.
- Sakuya joined the Scarlet Devil Mansion before it moved to Gensokyo, and since she had never been seen there before it's unlikely that she's from Gensokyo at all.
- Her origins are mysterious and she may be from the world outside Gensokyo, some other world, or even the Moon's capital.
- One theory is that she may have originally been a vampire hunter who tried to defeat Remilia Scarlet with her trademark silver knives and lost.
- She works for Remilia willingly and it is not known what her motivations are or why Remilia has chosen to trust her so much.
- Sakuya Izayoi is not her real name, and was supposedly the name Remilia gave to her after she lost to Remilia as way of controlling Sakuya's fate.
- She shops at the Human Village, but she is cold toward other humans and has no friends there.
- However, ever since Remilia was beaten by the heroine of Embodiment of Scarlet Devil, Sakuya has begun opening herself up more.
- Remilia may have fated this to happen.
- Although Sakuya claims to be in her late teens, many things about her suggest she may be much older and possibly even hundreds of years old.
The Grimoire of Marisa
- Main article: The Grimoire of Marisa: Sakuya Izayoi's Spell Cards
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