Yuugi Hoshiguma

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Main Profile

	Name:	星熊 勇儀（ほしぐま　ゆうぎ） Yuugi Hoshiguma
	Alternate spellings:	Yugi Hoshiguma
	Species:	Oni
	Abilities:	Power to control supernatural phenomena
	Age:	Unknown
	Occupation:	Drunkard
	Location:	Ancient City
	Description:	Long, straight blonde hair, red eyes, and a single red horn coming out of her forehead. Wears a white, short-sleeved shirt with red trim at the cuffs, neck, and bottom and a dark blue translucent skirt with red highlights and trim. Her wrists and ankles are manacled, with short, broken chains attached to the manacles.
	Relationships:	Suika Ibuki (Fellow "Deva of the Mountain")
	Appearances:	Subterranean Animism (Stage 3 Midboss, Stage 3 Boss) Double Spoiler (Scene 6-1, 6-3, 6-5, 6-7 Boss)
	Titles:	See Character Titles

Yuugi is an oni. Like other oni, she's ridiculously strong and likes strong people. Also like other oni, she drinks heavily and enjoys raising a ruckus. She, along with Suika, was one of four particularly feared oni long ago. She rushes off to meet an intruder in the underground Ancient City, once part of Hell, and, impressed by their strength, agrees to lead them to the Palace of the Earth Spirits if they'll fight her.

Fun Facts

• (insert Obligitory Yu-Gi-Oh! reference here)
• Yuugi Hoshiguma's name's characters mean Star (星) Bear (熊) Bravery (勇) Ritual (儀).
• For some reason, she is commonly called 「姐さん」 ("nee-san" or "ane-san") by fans.
• In the legend of Shuten Douji, a particularly vicious oni who lived atop Mt. Ooeyama, one of Shuten Douji's four strongman demons was named Hoshiguma Douji.
• According to an interview in Cara☆mel for CiLR7, the theme behind Yuugi was to make an energetic, oni-like oni, since there would be lots of oni in hell.

ZUN: And she's got sake, too.

Interviewer: Yes, and she tries to fight without spilling it.

ZUN: Yes, she fights without spilling it. Kind of like Jojo. *laughs*

Interviewer: I thought that looked familiar.

ZUN: Yeeeeees. Well, I meant well by it.

Interviewer: It really gives the impression she's got a lot of self control, doesn't it?

ZUN: I don't know if I'd put that much meaning behind it. It's mostly supposed to show, "Oh, wow, she's really strong!"

• The JoJo in question is Johnathan Joestar, whom at one point has to defeat an undead adversary while being tasked by his master William Antonio Zeppeli to do so while holding a glass of wine, and to not spill a single drop. Marking Yuugi as yet another with a JoJo counterpart in ZUN's mind.

• In the same interview, he mentions that her clothes look kind of like a gym uniform, and it'd be easy to do exercises in. (Fans often depict her in a gym outfit that swaps her skirt for school gym shorts.)

Interviewer: And her skirt kind of makes her look like an old-time gang leader.

ZUN: Actually, her skirt is semi-transparent.

Interviewer: ... ... ... interesting.

ZUN: It's kind of ... ... ... ... there's no real point to it, though. ... ... ... but, I wonder what kind of cloth it's made of *laughs* But, that being the case, she's probably wearing something under it.

• There was once a post on the Touhou Imageboard explaining why one can't judge characters' power levels from how powerful they are in game. The whole post was quite humorous because of its fairly bad grammar and typos, but the most amusing and memorable line was "SA : Yuugi only playing around woth[sic] you, her sake NOT EVEN DROP". This became a meme among Western fans.
• That said.. it is never expressly explained what her abilities truly are..
• Yuugi Hoshiguma is thus far the only boss who stays around after her mid-boss defeat, and remains in front of the player throughout the end of the stage, unless you count Mystia Lorelei, who begins the end-of-stage battle immediately after the "mid-boss" fight.
• Yuugi is frequently portrayed as having a large bust size, due to promotional art by alphes, of IaMP, SWR, and Hisoutensoku portrait fame, before the release of Subterranean Animism.

Official Profiles

Subterranean Animism - キャラ設定.txt

○３面ボス　語られる怪力乱神 　　星熊 勇儀（ほしぐま　ゆうぎ） 　　Hoshiguma Yugi 　　種族：鬼 　　能力：怪力乱神を持つ程度の能力 　　萃香と共に山の四天王と呼ばれた鬼の一人。今は旧都に住んでいる。 　　旧都は昔は地獄の一部であったのだが、地獄のスリム化と共に切り捨 　　てられた土地である。 　　ここには様々な妖怪が住んでいるのだが、その中でも代表的な妖怪が 　　鬼である。 　　鬼は地上の人間に嫌気が差して自ら去り、余った地獄の土地に新しい 　　社会を築いたのだ。 　　鬼達はこの他にも地上で嫌われた妖怪達を率先して受け入れた。 　　その事に危険を感じた地上の妖怪達は、新しい地下都市を認める代わ 　　りにある条件を出した。 　　それは地獄の怨霊の封じる事である。それをする代わりに如何なる妖 　　怪も地下都市には入らせないと約束をしたのだ。 　　鬼達は地上との交流を断ち、完全に新しい社会生活を人知れず営んで 　　いたのである。 　　勇儀は鬼らしく、毎日騒ぎながらお酒を呑み、生活を楽しんでいた。 　　強い人間が入ってきたと聞き、呑んでいる途中であったが慌てて駆け 　　付けてきたのだが……

Stage 3 boss The Rumored Unnatural Phenomenon Yuugi Hoshiguma Species: Oni Ability: power to control supernatural phenomena One of the oni who, together with Suika, was called the Four Devas of the Mountains. She now lives in the Ancient City. The Ancient City was once part of Hell, but it was cast aside during the downsizing of Hell. Various youkai live here, though the oni are the most representative group among them all. The oni left the overworld voluntarily when humans began to shun them, and built up a new society on Hell's excess plots of land. The oni were proactive in accepting even those youkai who have become hated in the overworld. The youkai from above, who felt out of place and in danger, accepted their control over the underground on one condition. That condition was to seal the evil spirits of hell. In return, the youkai from the overworld promised not to enter the underground city. The oni have now cut off all communication with the overworld, and have settled into a new society completely unknown to humans. As one would expect from an oni, Yuugi enjoys every day by drinking and raising a ruckus. When she heard some strong humans had appeared, she rushed out, drink in hand, to see what was going on, but ...

Book Synopsis

The Grimoire of Marisa

Main article: The Grimoire of Marisa: Yuugi Hoshiguma's Spell Cards

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