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| Fanart = [[Datei:De Yukari.png|Yukari Yakumo]]
| Name Kanji = {{ruby-ja|八雲|やくも}} {{ruby-ja|紫|ゆかり}}
| Portrait = [[File:Th105Yukari.png|Yukari Yakumo]]
| Name = Yukari Yakumo<br/>
| Name Kanji = 八雲 紫
<small>iakɯmo iɯkaɽʲi [[Media:Pronunciation_Yukari_Yakumo.ogg|(♫)]]</small>
| Name = Yukari Yakumo
| Portrait = [[File:Th105Yukari.png|275px|Yukari Yakumo]]
| Alternative Namen = Unbekannt
''Yukari Yakumo in [[Scarlet Weather Rhapsody]]''
| caption = {{H:title|Border of Phantasm|幻想の境界}}
| Spezies = [[Youkai]]
| Spezies = [[Youkai]]
| Fähigkeiten = Manipulation von Grenzen
| Fähigkeiten = Manipulation der Grenzen
| Alter = Mindestens 1200 Jahre alt, älter als die Geschichte [[Gensokyo]]s selbst
| Alter = mindestens 1 200 Jahre alt, älter als die Geschichte [[Gensokyo|Gensokyos]] selbst
| Tätigkeit = unbekannt; sie schläft die meiste Zeit
| Tätigkeit = Unbekannt; sie schläft die meiste Zeit
| Heimat = Irgendwo an der Grenze [[Gensokyo]]s
| Heimat = Irgendwo an den Grenzen von [[Gensokyo]]
| Beziehungen =
| Musik = *{{H:title|ネクロファンタジア}}<br/>{{H:title|Necrofantasia}} ([[Perfect Cherry Blossom]])
*[[Reimu Hakurei]] (Freundin)
*{{H:title|夜が降りてくる ~ Evening Star}}<br/>{{H:title|Night Falls ~ Evening Star}} ([[Immaterial and Missing Power]], [[Scarlet Weather Rhapsody]])
*[[Ran Yakumo]] (Shikigami)
| Spiele = *''[[Perfect Cherry Blossom]]'' (Phantasm Boss)  
*[[Chen]] (Ran's Shikigami)
*''[[Immaterial and Missing Power]]'' (Spielbarer Charakter, Möglicher Gegner, Stage 6 Boss)
*[[Yuyuko Saigyouji]] (Freundin)
*''[[Imperishable Night]]'' (Spielbarer Charakter, Last Word Boss)
*[[Suika Ibuki]] (Freundin)
*''[[Shoot the Bullet]]'' (Extra Stage 3 und 4 Boss)
*[[Rinnosuke Morichika]] (Freund)
*''[[Scarlet Weather Rhapsody]]'' (Spielbarer Charakter, Möglicher Gegner)
| Auftritte =
*''[[Subterranean Animism]]'' (Spielbarer Partner)
*[[Perfect Cherry Blossom]] (Phantasm Boss)  
*''[[Touhou Hisoutensoku]]'' (Spielbarer Charakter in Arcade Mode)
*[[Immaterial and Missing Power]] (Spielbarer Charakter, Möglicher Gegner, Stage 6 Boss)
*''[[Hopeless Masquerade]]'' (Hintergrundcharakter)
*[[Imperishable Night]] (Spielbarer Charakter, Last Word Boss)
*''[[Impossible Spell Card]]'' (10. Tag Boss)
*[[Shoot the Bullet]] (Extra Stage 3 und 4 Boss)
*''[[Legacy of Lunatic Kingdom]]'' (Ending No. 3)
*[[Scarlet Weather Rhapsody]] (Spielbarer Charakter, Möglicher Gegner)
| Literatur = *''[[Curiosities of Lotus Asia]]'' (Nebencharakter)
*[[Subterranean Animism]] (Spielbarer Partner)
*''[[Bohemian Archive in Japanese Red]]''
| Musik =
**''[[Extra of the Wind]]'' (Cameo)
* {{Theme+Release|th07|18}}
*''[[Seasonal Dream Vision/A Beautiful Flower Blooming Violet Every Sixty Years]]'' (Hauptcharakter)
** {{Theme+Release|mcd_05|09}}
*''[[Eastern and Little Nature Deity/Fairy of the Moon]]''
* {{Theme+Release|th075|17}}
*''[[Strange and Bright Nature Deity]]'' (Nebencharakter)
** {{Theme+Release|mcd_03|07}}
*''[[Memorizable Gensokyo]]'' (Nebencharakter)
** {{Theme+Release|th105|27}}
*''[[Perfect Memento in Strict Sense]]''
}}  
*''[[Silent Sinner in Blue]]'' (Nebencharakter)
'''Yukari Yakumo''' (八雲 紫) ist der [[Youkai]] der Grenzen, welcher oft gesehen und erwähnt wird. Sie wurde das erste mal in [[Perfect Cherry Blossom]] als die schläfrige Herrin von [[Ran Yakumo]] vorgestellt. Während [[Imperishable Night]] arbeitet Yukari mit [[Reimu Hakurei]] zusammen um den Verantwortlichen für den falschen Mond zu finden. In [[Immaterial and Missing Power]] arbeitet sie sich von Kampf zu Kampf um jedermanns Sake, Wein und Brandy zu stehlen. Selbst direkt vom Altar des [[Hakurei Schrein]]s. Dies ist jedoch ihre Strategie um an diejenige zu gelangen, die hinter den Ereignissen steckt.
*''[[The Grimoire of Marisa]]''
*''[[Cage in Lunatic Runagate]]'' (Nebencharakter)
*''[[Oriental Sacred Place]]'' (Kapitel 10, 12 cameo, 18 cameo)
*''[[Wild and Horned Hermit]]'' (Kapitel 9 cameo, 14, 15, 25 cameo)
*''[[Forbidden Scrollery]]'' (Kapitel 1 cameo, 4 cameo, 10 cameo)
*''[[Symposium of Post-mysticism]]''
| CDs = *''[[Immaterial and Missing Power OST]]'' (CD cover)
}}
{{nihongo|'''Yukari Yakumo'''|八雲 紫|Yakumo Yukari}} ist der [[Youkai]] der Grenzen, welcher oft gesehen und erwähnt wird. She's got [[Ran Yakumo]] serving her as [[shikigami]]. She is called the {{nihongo|"[[gap]] youkai"|すきま妖怪|sukima youkai}},<ref>As indicated by Ran and Chen's titles</ref> although "gap youkai" is not the name of a species, as she is more of a one-of-a-kind type of youkai.<ref>[[Bohemian Archive in Japanese Red]] - [[Bohemian Archive in Japanese Red/Yukari|Yukari]]</ref> Regardless of her power, Yukari appears to be the most ''well-informed'' being in Gensokyo of any kind, and usually achieves her goals through manipulating events rather than direct combat.
 
==Allgemeines==
Yukari wurde das erste mal in [[Perfect Cherry Blossom]] als die schläfrige Herrin von [[Ran Yakumo]] vorgestellt. Während [[Imperishable Night]] arbeitet Yukari mit [[Reimu Hakurei]] zusammen um den Verantwortlichen für den falschen Mond zu finden. In [[Immaterial and Missing Power]] arbeitet sie sich von Kampf zu Kampf um jedermanns Sake, Wein und Brandy zu stehlen. Selbst direkt vom Altar des [[Hakurei Schrein]]s. Dies ist jedoch ihre Strategie um an diejenige zu gelangen, die hinter den Ereignissen steckt.
 
She is one of the oldest [[youkai]] in [[Gensokyo]], one of the strongest of youkai, and is praised as one of the wisest of youkai.<ref name="PMiSSYukari">[[Perfect Memento in Strict Sense]]: [[Perfect_Memento_in_Strict_Sense/Yukari Yakumo|Yukari Yakumo]]</ref><ref name="BAiJRRan">[[Bohemian Archive in Japanese Red]]: [[Bohemian Archive in Japanese Red/Ran|Ran Yakumo]]</ref>. She was one who proposed the [[Great Hakurei Barrier]], which covers Gensokyo, and is therefore tied to Gensokyo's creation. She is the only known youkai who is able to pass this barrier in order to access the [[Outside World]], although there are a few instances like [[Mamizou Futatsuiwa]] who's passed it. She also performs surveillance and safety administration (mainly for [[Ran Yakumo]]). She is simply one of the most mysterious youkai living in Gensokyo.
 
===Persönlichkeit===
Yukari ist dafür bekannt, ein sehr Youkai-hafter Youkai zu sein, der den ganzen Tag schläft und nur zum Vergnügen lebt. Obwohl sie selten ihr Haus verlässt, hat sie viele Bekanntschaften, so kennt sie zum Beispiel viele der mächtigsten Youkai (zum Beispiel Suika oder Yuyuko) sowie alle, die etwas mit der Hakurei-Grenze oder der Außenwelt zu tun haben (zum Beispiel Reimu oder Rinnosuke). Sie ist möglicherweise der stärkste Youkai Gensokyos und hat die Tendenz, erst mit ihrem Gegner zu spielen, statt von Anfang an ernsthaft zu kämpfen. Wenn irgendjemand für die Rolle des Drahtziehers geschaffen ist, dann sie, weil sie viele Einblicke in Gensokyo hat und schnell alles einschätzen kann, außerdem besitzt sie relativ gute intellektuelle Fähigkeiten. Auch wenn sie meistens unverlässlich wirkt, würde sie nicht zögern, zu handeln, wenn Gensokyo in Gefahr ist. So behandelt sie zum Beispiel Tenshi mit sehr viel Feindseligkeit, nachdem sie ihren Plan herausgefunden hat. Sie könnte ohne Probleme ein Feind oder ein Freund sein, je nachdem wie ihr gerade ist.
 
Yukari deals with problems by manipulating others to act to resolve things for her. She seems to rarely act directly except in particularly egregious situations. In all cases, she rarely lets anyone know what her true aims or goals are, and sometimes these goals are extremely abstract. Yukari has a well-deserved reputation of being fickle, whimsical, and lying often, and thus many characters in [[Gensokyo]] dislike her. For whatever reason, Yukari takes it all in stride and does not seriously deny any of those comments. She seems to actively try to keep her more obviously-altruistic actions a secret, such as her donations to the [[Hakurei Shrine]] in ''[[Strange and Bright Nature Deity]]''. She possibly cultivates this image to ensure that people continue to fear her as a [[youkai]], as this is what her true goal for a particularly complex gambit is revealed to be at the end of ''[[Cage in Lunatic Runagate]]''.
 
===Fähigkeiten===
===Abilities and strength===
Yukari is with no doubt one of the most powerful [[youkai]] in [[Gensokyo]]. A few other youkai like [[Suika Ibuki]] and [[Yuugi Hoshiguma]] have been considered to be around her level. Yukari also refers to [[Watatsuki no Toyohime]] as being stronger than she is, and tries to avoid direct confrontations with her. Despite her power, she might still lose [[spell card]] battles to [[human]]s or youkai.
 
Her physical strength is what you'd expect from a youkai. While the extent of an average youkai's strength is never really specified, their bodily ability is typically very high, so her strength is still far from that of a [[human]].
There are some examples and statements which show Yukari's physical prowess:
*In [[Curiosities of Lotus Asia/Chapter 12|''Curiosities of Lotus Asia'' Chapter 12]], Yukari's hand is able to effortlessly block and brush aside a mallet swung by [[Rinnosuke Morichika]] with all his might, leaving him shocked that a small slender feminine hand was able to pull off such a feat. Rinnosuke said that it feels like he hit a pillow.
*[[Hong Meiling]], in one of her ''[[Touhou Hisoutensoku]]'' win quotes, notes that she felt a odd resistance from Yukari's body (presumably after punching and kicking her a lot), to the point where she wondered if Yukari was wearing something else under that presumably delicate dress of hers.
 
Yukari states in her own win quotes in ''[[Immaterial and Missing Power]]'' that she has no weaknesses, and even shooting, cutting, stabbing, hitting, or killing her is useless.<ref>[[Immaterial and Missing Power]] - Yukari's Script: <br />
'''Yukari''':Shooting, cutting, stabbing, hitting, killing... It's all useless against me.<br />
 
'''Yukari''': I'll tell you a secret. My weakness is... nothing. </ref> In ''[[Perfect Memento in Strict Sense]]'', her ability is yet again described as being "without weaknesses", and as one of the most dangerous that youkai are known to possess. Her ''[[Imperishable Night]]'' profile also states that ''"she easily has enough power to annihilate all of Gensokyo if she so desires"''<ref>[[Imperishable Night]] - Yukari's Profile</ref>, while the manual says that ''"the danger and power of her ability is beyond imagination"''.<ref>[[Imperishable Night]] - Manual: The danger and potency of the power to manipulate boundaries is beyond imagination. It's something that can only be controlled by those who are able to withstand its stress, or some weirdo youkai like Yukari.</ref>
 
By mostly moving around in [[gap]]s, one would usually not see her as doing much physical labour at all, and according to ''[[Scarlet Weather Rhapsody]]'', since she ends up in blurting out herself such sayings like "to do mountain climbing at such an age", there is the image that she is like an indoors-type [[youkai]], but in the end, she is still a youkai.
 
;Manipulation of boundaries
[[File:GoMIllus-Yukari.jpg|thumb|200px|Yukari's "Danmaku Barrier", as illustrated in ''[[The Grimoire of Marisa]]''.]]
With the word "[[boundary]]" in its name, Yukari is capable of pretty much anything put under the influence of this ability. In her monologue during [[A Beautiful Flower Blooming Violet Every Sixty Years]], she explains that this power allows her to control the boundaries "between any and all things", like Gensokyo and the outside world, the worlds of the living and the dead, humans and youkai, and even the day and the night. <ref>[[A Beautiful Flower_Blooming Violet Every Sixty Years]] - '''Yukari''': I'm a youkai with the ability to control the boundaries between any and all things. This power allows me to remove the boundary between anything: Gensokyo and the outside world, the worlds of the living and the dead, humans and youkai, even day and night.</ref> The most common application of Yukari's boundary manipulation abilities is opening {{nihongo|"[[gap]]s"|すきま|sukima}} which act as portals between two places, where she's able to hold, sit on or emerge from such gaps. By manipulating borders in space and creating a chasm, she is able to link together separate places. According to this, she's able to show up in unexpected places from time to time, but the aforementioned suspiciousness has been refined. Although this gap is a kind of sub-space, within Yukari's gap, one can see a lot of eyes. These eyes are a manifestation of what one can say is the image of "how desires are swirling around" that Yukari sees in the [[Outside World|outside world]]. The description of Yukari's Magic Eye "Laplace's Demon" [[spell card]] implies that Yukari can see using the eyes, as well. Also, although sign posts and other flotsam also drift about, these things also come from Yukari's image of "things that have come to be of no use in the outside world".
 
Other than that, since there is a boundary on the water surface so to speak, as there is definitely a distinction between water and atmosphere, and since there is the boundary called the horizon that separates the sky from the earth, as was said, she can freely manipulate the boundary of all existent things at will. According to ''[[Perfect Memento in Strict Sense]]'', it seems that not only are physical boundaries, but also the general idea of boundaries are also able to be manipulated, and it seems like she would be able to manipulate the boundary between dreams and reality and open up holes for people to enter into dreams. Yukari is also capable of seeing (and seeing through) boundaries that are normally invisible; when the [[Human Village]] was displaced from history by [[Keine Kamishirasawa]], Yukari was still able to see it.<ref>''[[Imperishable Night]]'' Stage 3 - "Hey hey. I do see the humans as usual though. A deception of this level isn't useful at all, is it?"</ref>.
 
It's shown that Yukari can also control the boundaries and bend them to her will as seen in ''[[Immaterial and Missing Power]]'' when she adjusted the sky by manipulating the border between the daylight and moonlight to unite the day and the night.<ref>''[[Immaterial and Missing Power]] Border Line - "While you were teasing me I adjusted the sky to enjoy both night and day. If the night falls now, the sky will be morning. The border of daylight and moonlight is mine"</ref> According to [[Marisa Kirisame]], Yukari can even control the boundary between "a [[danmaku]] for play and a danmaku for battle".<ref name="GoM">[[The Grimoire of Marisa]]: [[The Grimoire of Marisa/Yukari Yakumo's Spell Cards|Yukari Yakumo]]</ref>
 
There are limits to the kinds of places Yukari can connect with her gaps; she required multiple trips to reach [[Heaven]] in ''[[Scarlet Weather Rhapsody]]'', while in ''[[Silent Sinner in Blue]]'' she could only create a gap to the [[Moon]] under highly specific circumstances (and had to travel much of the distance to the Lunar Capital on foot). She is, however, capable of travelling between [[Gensokyo]] and the [[Outside World]]. Yukari can create gaps through which only she can pass, or through which anything can pass.<ref>[[Perfect Memento in Strict Sense/Yukari_Yakumo|Perfect Memento in Strict Sense: Yukari Yakumo]] - "No one can follow her through the gaps". Despite this statement, various canon works show her opening gaps for others to use.</ref>
 
Ultimately, since existence of anything consists of having a boundary, for anything to lose its boundary is a very big thing, as it would then not be able to have its own individual existence. As the rules that govern boundaries would govern this, it is said that to make a new boundary is to create a new existence, and to destroy a boundary is to negate an existence. [[Hieda no Akyuu]] evaluated this ability, saying "there is not any sort of defence method nor countermeasure, a power comparable to the power of gods". However, Yukari is capable of sensing and repairing damage to the [[Great Hakurei Barrier]], and is widely believed to have aided in its construction ([[Yuyuko Saigyouji]] states that Yukari could not have done so herself). To add to all this, [[Hieda no Akyuu]] writes that "manipulation of boundaries" is theoretically a godlike power which would allow Yukari to create or destroy anything, but that all the stories about it are impossible to confirm.<ref name="PMiSSYukari" />
 
Examples of the usage of this ability:
*Manipulation of the boundary between lies and truth of the [[moon]] reflected on the lake surface for an invasion of the surface of the moon from [[Gensokyo]] (Lunar War, ''[[Silent Sinner in Blue]]'')
*By the boundary between reality and fantasy, she isolated Gensokyo from the outside world, participating in the [[Great Hakurei Barrier]] Project (The Great Barrier Disturbance)
*Upon Yuyuko's request, repairing the border between the present world and the [[Netherworld]], i.e the boundary between life and death that has become thin (''[[Perfect Cherry Blossom]]'')
*Since the Great Hakurei Barrier has loosened, she returned [[Rinnosuke Morichika]] to Gensokyo who has been ejected into the outside world (''[[Curiosities of Lotus Asia]]'')
*Many of her [[Spell Card]]s allude to various circumstances involving boundary manipulation, such as: ''Barrier "Balance of Motion and Stillness"'', ''Barrier "Mesh of Light and Darkness"'', ''"Boundary of Humans and Youkai"'', between many others.
;Onmyoudou
Yukari is skilled in [[wikipedia:Onmyoudou|Onmyoudou]], the [[Taoism]]-derived arts of traditional Japanese court wizards, and specialises in spells which create and manipulate barriers (presumably due to overlap with her innate abilities). Yukari has been able to teach some of her spells to [[Reimu Hakurei]], whose own techniques have similar roots.
 
Yukari also displays great aptitude with [[shikigami]], binding [[Ran Yakumo|a powerful kitsune]] and [[Yukari's crows|numerous lesser servants]] at once. As Shikigami are strongest when following orders, Yukari must also be skilled at giving the correct orders to fully maximize her shikigamis' potential. In an [[Bohemian Archive in Japanese Red/Ran|interview]] with [[Aya Shameimaru]], [[Ran Yakumo]] states that despite sleeping most of the time, Yukari is capable of giving orders no one else would think up the instant she opens her mouth, and Yukari uses complex equations to increase Ran's power indefinitely (This manner of using shikigami is likely one of the reasons Yukari views computers and shikigami as one and the same).
 
==Vergangenheit==
Vor über eintausend Jahren organisierte Yukari eine Armee aus Youkai, die eine Invasion auf den Mond starten sollten. Die Youkai wurden auf der Stelle besiegt, da die Lunarier überlegene Technik und Magie hatten, und gezwungen, nach Hause zurückzukehren. Seitdem hat es kein Youkai mehr gewagt, sein Territorium außerhalb von Gensokyo zu vergrößern. Während manche glauben, dass Yukari das aus egoistischen Gründen getan hat, um an Macht zu gelangen, glauben andere, dass sie den Youkai etwas darüber beibringen wollte, Kriege anzufangen, nämlich, dass es eine schlechte Idee ist.
 
Vor ungefähr tausend Jahren traf Yukari ein Menschenmädchen namens Yuyuko, und freundete sich mit ihr an. Nach Yuyukos Tod war sie immer noch mit ihrem Geist befreundet, obwohl sie allmählich vergaß, wer sie war und warum sie gestorben war. Als Yuyuko sie darum bat, die Grenze zwischen Gensokyo und der Unterwelt zu schwächen, stimmte sie zu. Sie wusste, dass Yuyukos Plan, den Saigyou Ayakashi wieder aufblühen zu lassen, niemals funktionieren könnte, aber sie war zu sehr damit beschäftigt, zu schlafen, als dass sie irgendetwas dagegen sagte oder tat oder die Grenze einfach wieder normal machte, was sie auf Kollisionskurs mit den Protagonisten brachte.
 
It is not stated who sealed the Saigyou Ayakashi. It was someone who held Yuyuko very dear, judging by the record ("My wish... is that she will never again reincarnate, and never again suffer pain..."). Yuyuko's profile describes the hypothetical breaking of the seal as "breaching the boundary". The boundary sealing the Saigyou Ayakashi is apparently the boundary between life and death, as this is what [[Perfect Cherry Blossom/Afterword|the BGM that plays during the Saigyou Ayakashi's reflowering]] represents. [[Perfect Cherry Blossom/Spell Cards/Phantasm#Spell Card 140|Boundary of Life and Death]] is one of Yukari's spell cards. This possibly implies it was Yukari who sealed the Saigyou Ayakashi. Yukari's profile reveals she knew all along that Yuyuko's body was sealing it, and gives a clear motive, as the tree was killing too many humans. As another possible indication, ''[[The Grimoire of Marisa]]'' brings up [[wikipedia:Zhuangzi#The butterfly dream|the butterfly dream]] regarding Yuyuko's spell card during the Saigyou Ayakashi's reflowering, which is a theme associated with Yukari.
 
One day, Yuyuko requested that Yukari use her power to repair the border between the [[Netherworld]] and Gensokyo. Yukari sleepily set off to do so. She had known Yuyuko's plan to make the [[Saigyou Ayakashi]] bloom could never succeed, but was too busy sleeping to say or do anything about it, or to put the border back to normal after everything was finished, which put her on a collision course with the heroines of ''[[Perfect Cherry Blossom]]''.
 
===Border of Gensokyo===
Since then, Yukari has had numerous roles in managing Gensokyo and the youkai. She authored a system of constellations for the youkai<ref name="CoLACh22">[[Curiosities of Lotus Asia]]: [[Curiosities of Lotus Asia/Chapter 22|Chapter 22]]</ref>. She enacted the Youkai Expansion Project 500 years ago by creating a border between illusion and reality around Gensokyo. She was one of several youkai who suggested the creation of the [[Great Hakurei Barrier]] 120 years ago and presumably was one of several that contributed to its creation.<ref name="PMiSSYukari" /><ref>[[Perfect Cherry Blossom]] Reimu B Ending. Yuyuko comments that she doesn't think even Yukari could have made the Hakurei barrier by herself.</ref>
 
The Gensokyo Record in [[Perfect Cherry Blossom/Translation/Prologue|''Perfect Cherry Blossom''<nowiki>'</nowiki>s prologue]] says that the original Gensokyo boundary (presumably the first "boundary between inside and outside" mentioned in Yukari's ''[[Perfect Memento in Strict Sense]]'' article) was created by priests, but [[ZUN]] said in his [[ZUN's E-mails|e-mails]] that the Gensokyo Record is not reliable, and that only the long lived youkai knows the true history of Gensokyo. [[Hieda no Akyuu]] firmly believes Yukari was involved and [[Curiosities of Lotus Asia/Chapter 26|''Curiosities of Lotus Asia'' Chapter 26]]'s prologue states that Yukari being its actual creator is an ongoing rumor. According to Rinnosuke, Yukari's power is what separates Gensokyo from the outside world.
 
===Yukari and "The Vampire Incident"===
Regarding the vampire incident in ''[[Perfect Memento in Strict Sense]]'', it is not stated who were the powerful youkai that defeated the [[vampire]], who signed the contract with the vampire, or who was the one who wrote the original draft of the [[Spell Card]] rules that came afterwards (as it was also written on youkai contract paper, [[Hieda no Akyuu]] feels it wasn't the [[Shrine Maiden]]). However, the colophon at the end reveals that Yukari is the author of a work called "Vampire Pact". This possibly implies her involvement in at least one of these things (if not all three) in the fact that Yukari may've had been involved in the deal with the devil (presumably [[Remilia Scarlet]]).
 
On the related note to the contract, it's explicitly stated in her ''[[Perfect Cherry Blossom]]'' profile that she's the one responsible for [[outsider]]s ending up in Gensokyo, where most of them get devoured by youkai. Her involvement is made even more explicit in Chapter 14 of ''[[Wild and Horned Hermit]]'', where Yukari reveals to [[Kasen Ibaraki]] that having the [[zashiki-warashi]] sent to the [[outside world]] takes precedence above keeping them in Gensokyo, and then cryptically comments, "Gensokyo's getting the food to fill the stomachs of all of its youkai from somewhere." This could further extend to an article on [[Symposium of Post-mysticism/Bunbunmaru Newspaper 3|''Symposium of Post-mysticism'']], where there were human bones near a well, but no human of Gensokyo was missing and Yukari made no reference to the outside world humans, calling it a "misunderstanding"; the bones later on disappeared.
 
===Underground Agreement===
She made a deal with certain youkai to allow them to have their own realm underground in [[Former Hell]] if they pacified the evil spirits there<ref name="SA-R&Y">[[Subterranean Animism]]: [[Subterranean Animism/Story/Reimu and Yukari's Scenario|Reimu and Yukari's Scenario]]</ref>. For a while, Yukari took it upon herself to make regular check-ups on various aspects of Gensokyo such as the [[Human Village]] or the barrier, but eventually took on [[Ran Yakumo]] as a [[shikigami]] and left such tasks to her.<ref name="PMiSSRan">[[Perfect Memento in Strict Sense]]: [[Perfect Memento in Strict Sense/Ran_Yakumo|Ran Yakumo]]</ref>


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==Konzept==
==Konzept==
===Name===
[[File:PMiSS yukari.jpg|thumb|right|200px|Yukari, as illustrated in ''[[Perfect Memento in Strict Sense]]''.]]
===Name und Herkunft===
Ihr voller Name lautet "Yukari Yakumo" (八雲 紫) Die Schriftzeichen für "Yakumo" (八雲) bedeuten wörtlich "acht Wolken" (kann aber auch "unzählbar viele Wolken" bedeuten), und "Yukari" (紫) kann "Violett" bedeuten.
Ihr voller Name lautet "Yukari Yakumo" (八雲 紫) Die Schriftzeichen für "Yakumo" (八雲) bedeuten wörtlich "acht Wolken" (kann aber auch "unzählbar viele Wolken" bedeuten), und "Yukari" (紫) kann "Violett" bedeuten.


In Kapitel 26 von [[Curiosities of Lotus Asia]] wird gesagt, dass Yukari sich diesen Namen selbst gab und [[Perfect Memento in Strict Sense]] deutet an, dass Yukari diesen Namen vor 1200 Jahren noch nicht trug.
In Kapitel 26 von [[Curiosities of Lotus Asia]] wird gesagt, dass Yukari sich diesen Namen selbst gab und [[Perfect Memento in Strict Sense]] deutet an, dass Yukari diesen Namen vor 1200 Jahren noch nicht trug.


;Yukari's name related to Colors
Jeder der Yakumo-Familie wurde nach einer Farbe benannt. Die Lichtfrequenzen der Farben sind proportional zu ihrer Stärke: [[Chen]] (Orange) << [[Ran Yakumo]] (Indigo) << Yukari (Violett). Die Energie des violetten Lichts ist die höchste im sichtbaren Spektrum und violettes Licht ist die Grenze zwischen sichtbarem und unsichtbarem Licht. Rotes Licht (Die symbolische Farbe von [[Remilia Scarlet]] oder [[Reimu Hakurei]]) ist eine weitere Grenze, aber sie sind stärker als Chen. Passend dazu werden Reimu und Yukari während sie in ''[[Imperishable Night]]'' zusammenarbeiten als das "Boundary Team" bezeichnet. Sie sind für die Instadhaltung der [[Hakurei-Grenze]] zuständig und desweiteren formen ihre Farben die beiden Grenzen zwischen sichtbarem und unsichtbarem Licht. Zusätzlich kann das Wort "Yukari" mit einem anderen Schriftzeichen auch "Rand" oder "Grenze" bedeuten, auch wenn es in dieser Form selten benutzt wird.
Jeder der Yakumo-Familie wurde nach einer Farbe benannt. Die Lichtfrequenzen der Farben sind proportional zu ihrer Stärke: [[Chen]] (Orange) << [[Ran Yakumo]] (Indigo) << Yukari (Violett). Die Energie des violetten Lichts ist die höchste im sichtbaren Spektrum und violettes Licht ist die Grenze zwischen sichtbarem und unsichtbarem Licht. Rotes Licht (Die symbolische Farbe von [[Remilia Scarlet]] oder [[Reimu Hakurei]]) ist eine weitere Grenze, aber sie sind stärker als Chen. Passend dazu werden Reimu und Yukari während sie in ''[[Imperishable Night]]'' zusammenarbeiten als das "Boundary Team" bezeichnet. Sie sind für die Instadhaltung der [[Hakurei-Grenze]] zuständig und desweiteren formen ihre Farben die beiden Grenzen zwischen sichtbarem und unsichtbarem Licht. Zusätzlich kann das Wort "Yukari" mit einem anderen Schriftzeichen auch "Rand" oder "Grenze" bedeuten, auch wenn es in dieser Form selten benutzt wird.


Manchmal entstehen nach einen Regenschauer doppelte Regenbogen mit dem Regenbogen, welchen man normalerweise sieht (Rot am oberen Rand und Violett am Unteren) und ein weiterer größerer und blasserer Regenbogen darüber. Die Farben des zweiten Regenbogens sind umgekehrt, Rot am unteren Rand und Violett am Oberen. Anders ausgedrückt, Violett bildet die äußeren Ränder des Regenbogens oder in anderen Worten ''Violett ist die Grenze zwischen dem Himmel und dem Regenbogen''. Somit weist Yukaris Name stark auf Grenzen hin.
Manchmal entstehen nach einen Regenschauer doppelte Regenbogen mit dem Regenbogen, welchen man normalerweise sieht (Rot am oberen Rand und Violett am Unteren) und ein weiterer größerer und blasserer Regenbogen darüber. Die Farben des zweiten Regenbogens sind umgekehrt, Rot am unteren Rand und Violett am Oberen. Anders ausgedrückt, Violett bildet die äußeren Ränder des Regenbogens oder in anderen Worten ''Violett ist die Grenze zwischen dem Himmel und dem Regenbogen''. Somit weist Yukaris Name stark auf Grenzen hin.


===Auftreten===
In Japan (and many other countries) "purple" or "violet" had been thought as a noble color, and used occasionally as a color for ''high ranks''. In fact, [[ZUN]] mentioned in some of his interviews{{Citation needed}} that he was aware of this fact and uses the color on certain character designs to show levels of power and nobility, thus in this sense using both "violet" as her name and in dress shows that Yukari was ''designed'' to be powerful and high ranking.
Yukari hat dunkle, goldene Augen, langes blondes Haar welches unter ihrer weissen Haube hochgesteckt wurde. Sie trägt meistens einen pinken Sonnenschirm mit sich. Sie trägt ein pink und violettes Kleid mit mehreren Trigrammen. An ihrer Haube befindet sich eine dünne rote Schleife.
 
;Yukari's name related to Koizumi Yakumo (Lafcadio Hearn)
There is an assumption that her name ''Yakumo'' is taken from the writer [[wikipedia:Lafcadio Hearn|Lafcadio Hearn]], who naturalized as a Japanese citizen and renamed to "Koizumi Yakumo". When fans asked about the implied connection between Yukari and [[Maribel Hearn]] in a [[Doujin Barrier: The Work Called Touhou and the Fantasy of Game Creation|high school open lecture program]], ZUN brought up Lafcadio Hearn but did not elaborate. ''See [[Maribel Hearn]] article page for details.''


;Yukari's name related to an Ancient poem
''Yakumo'' also comes from the first ancient poem written in what would become the Japanese "Tanka" form:
:"Yakumo tatsu / Izumo yagegaki / Tsuma-gomini / Yaegaki tsukuro / Sono yaegaki wo"
:Definitely in keeping with the character's origin/age in the storyline. The translation into English is:
:"Eightfold rising clouds/ Build an eightfold fence / An eightfold Izumo fence / Wherein to keep my bride-- / Oh! splendid eightfold fence"
:This poem was attributed to the god Susanoo. Interpretations vary as to the meaning of the poem.


===Hintergrundgeschichte===
===Aussehen===
Vor über eintausend Jahren organisierte Yukari eine Armee aus Youkai, die eine Invasion auf den Mond starten sollten. Die Youkai wurden auf der Stelle besiegt, da die Lunarier überlegene Technik und Magie hatten, und gezwungen, nach Hause zurückzukehren. Seitdem hat es kein Youkai mehr gewagt, sein Territorium außerhalb von Gensokyo zu vergrößern. Während manche glauben, dass Yukari das aus egoistischen Gründen getan hat, um an Macht zu gelangen, glauben andere, dass sie den Youkai etwas darüber beibringen wollte, Kriege anzufangen, nämlich, dass es eine schlechte Idee ist.
Her first appearance was in ''[[Perfect Cherry Blossom]]'', where she is depicted with purple eyes and long blonde hair. She carries a pink lace parasol and a paper fan, and rides on a red [[gap]] that leads to an unknown destination. She wears a deep purple dress, a pale pink mob cap with a thin red ribbon, and smaller ribbons tied liberally on her accessories and the tips of her hair.
 
In her appearances in ''[[Immaterial and Missing Power]]'' and ''[[Scarlet Weather Rhapsody]]'', her eyes have become dark golden. She wears a purple Chinese-style tabard with various [[#Hexagram|Trigrams]] over a pale pink Western-style dress (similar to [[Ran Yakumo]]'s outfit), wears her hair coiled up into her mob cap, and usually carries a pink parasol. She wears the same outfit in ''[[Imperishable Night]]'', but her hair is left loose. In the Japanese community this outfit is known as the {{nihongo|"Taoist dress"|道士服}}.
 
According to ZUN, the purple dress in ''Perfect Cherry Blossom'' is her casual daywear, and the pink one with the Ba Gua symbol in ''Imperishable Night'' is the work attire she wears when she commands her Shikigami.{{citation needed}}
 
;Hexagram
The outfit Yukari wears in post-''Perfect Cherry Blossom'' games has two groups of solid/broken lines called [[wikipedia:I Ching|trigrams]] on the front. A solid line represents Yang and a broken line is Yin. The top trigram ({{lang|ja|☱}}) is "dui" or "tui" (open) and is associated with west and water. The bottom trigram ({{lang|ja|☷}}) is "kūn" (field) and is associated with southwest and earth, as well as [[wikipedia:Yoni|Yoni]] (divine passage). The two trigrams together in that order form the [[wikipedia:List of I Ching hexagrams 33-64#Hexagram 45|hexagram]] for "clustering," "gathering together," and "finished", which sounds more fitting for [[Suika Ibuki]].
 
The hexagram "Ts'ui" formed by the combination of "tui" and "kun" results in a meaning of gathering together to persevere towards a destination. This hexagram signifies also great wisdom which is necessary for leadership when directing an assembly together to create overall prosperity for everyone. Yukari herself can be seen as an overseer of [[Gensokyo]]. Her ability to create [[boundary|boundaries]] would definitely give her the ability to bring everyone together while maintaining the harmony of the "created" world. Maybe this design was a critique on her abilities?
 
 
==Auftritte==
===Spiele===
;''Perfect Cherry Blossom''
[[File:Th07YukariSprite.png|frame|Yukari's sprite in ''PCB'']]
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:{{Main|Perfect Cherry Blossom/Story/Reimu's Extra|l1=Reimu Arc}}
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:{{Main|Perfect Cherry Blossom/Story/Marisa's Extra|l1=Marisa Arc}}
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:{{Main|Perfect Cherry Blossom/Story/Sakuya's Extra|l1=Sakuya Arc}}
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;''Imperishable Night''
[[File:Th08YukariBackSprite.png|frame|Yukari's back sprite in ''IN'']]
[[File:Th08YukariSprite.png|frame|Yukari's sprite in ''IN'']]
:{{Main|Imperishable Night/Story/Boundary Team's Scenario 1|l1=Imperishable Night Boundary Team's Scenario}}
 
;''Subterranean Animism''
:{{Main|Subterranean Animism/Translation/Reimu and Yukari's Scenario|l1=Subterranean Animism Story}}
 
;''Legacy of Lunatic Kingdom''
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===Spin-Offs===
;''Immaterial and Missing Power''
:{{Main|Immaterial and Missing Power/Story#Yukari's Story|l1=Immaterial and Missing Power Story}}
 
;''Shoot the Bullet''
In ''[[Shoot the Bullet]]'', [[Aya Shameimaru]] encountered Yukari on the Extra [[stage]] and took photos of her [[danmaku]].
 
;''Scarlet Weather Rhapsody''
:{{Main|Scarlet Weather Rhapsody/Story#Yukari's Story|l1=Scarlet Weather Rhapsody Story}}
 
;''Touhou Hisoutensoku''
:{{Main|Touhou Hisoutensoku/Translation/Yuyuko's Script|l1=Touhou Hisoutensoku Story}}
If connecting ''SWR'' with ''[[Touhou Hisoutensoku]]'', then Yukari can become a selectable character to play with, although she appears in no scenarios.
 
;''Hopeless Masquerade''
[[File:Th135Yukari.png|frame|Yukari in ''HM'']]
Yukari made a background cameo appearance in ''[[Hopeless Masquerade]]'' on the [[Hakurei Shrine]] stage. She is seen sitting on top of the shrine, waving her fan.
 
;''Impossible Spell Card''
:{{Main|Impossible Spell Card#Story|l1=Impossible Spell Card: Story}}
After apparently reading the newspaper by the [[tengu]] about a mischief-making [[amanojaku]], she becomes one of the many strong [[youkai]] and [[human]]s to try and stop [[Seija Kijin]] in the final day. She uses [[spell card]]s that are considered impossible to dodge.
 
===Literatur===
[[File:041BAiJRYukari.jpg|thumb|left|Yukari with [[Aya Shameimaru]] in ''[[Bohemian Archive in Japanese Red]].'']]
;''Bohemian Archive in Japanese Red''
:''Main article: [[Bohemian Archive in Japanese Red/Yukari]]''
:{{Main|Bohemian Archive in Japanese Red/Yukari|l1=Youkai Practices Animal Abuse}}
After hearing a fox's cry, [[Aya Shameimaru]] went to investigate. She found Yukari beating [[Ran Yakumo]] over the head with an umbrella, which Yukari claimed was only for disciplining her. Because Aya is a ''[[crow]]'' [[tengu]], she feels animal rights are important and was upset by Yukari's "animal abuse".
 
During the interview Yukari insisted that it was not animal abuse because Ran is a [[shikigami]], which Yukari considered to make her no longer count as being an animal. Yukari explained that as long as a shikigami follows its master's will then it will be as strong as its master. Ran had apparently disobeyed Yukari by doing something she hadn't been ordered to do. Because of that Ran wasn't as strong as she could be and ended up putting herself in danger while relying only on her own strength. This discipline was meant to remind Ran just who her master is so that Ran won't needlessly be in danger by fighting at less than full strength. Aya didn't think that excused it at all.
 
Yukari also called the [[Bunbunmaru Newspaper]] a shoddy paper and offered to make Aya her shikigami too, which Aya refused.
 
;Perfect Memento in Strict Sense
Yukari edited ''[[Perfect Memento in Strict Sense]]'' and was one of its major sources, according to ''[[Perfect Memento in Strict Sense/Memorizable Gensokyo|Memorizable Gensokyo]]'', yet did not confirm her involvement in the above events. One common thread regarding them seems to be that they primarily benefited [[human]]s, not [[youkai]] (the vampire contract even went so overboard towards protecting humans that youkai complained to the shrine maiden). In addition to this, she has her own in-universe article that provides encyclopaedic information about her.
[[File:SaBNDYukari.png|thumb|200px|Yukari appearance in [[Strange and Bright Nature Deity]]]]
;Touhou Bougetsushou
[[Ran Yakumo]] tells [[Remilia Scarlet]] in ''[[Silent Sinner in Blue]]'' chapter 3 that Yukari invaded the [[moon]] to procure its secret of power to improve the youkai quality of life. This is probably the official reason Yukari gave all youkai for the war, as otherwise, Remilia could confirm Ran was lying just by asking around. However, privately, in [[Cage in Lunatic Runagate/Fifth_Chapter|''Cage in Lunatic Runagate'' Chapter 5]], Yukari reveals to Ran that she knew it was impossible for the beings of Earth to ever win a direct confrontation against the [[Lunarian]]s. It is never stated when Yukari made this realization, so it is possible she knew this even before the first Genso-Lunar War. In addition, [[Cage in Lunatic Runagate/Last_Chapter|The last chapter]] of ''[[Cage in Lunatic Runagate]]'' has the line, "While it was Yukari who led the invasion that had ''convincingly'' failed more than one thousand years ago,". The word "convincingly" could imply it was staged. If this was the case, then presumably the outcome where youkai decided to stop expanding beyond [[Gensokyo]] was Yukari's true intent.
 
;Wild and Horned Hermit
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;''Symposium of Post-mysticism''
[[File:ThGK Bunbunmaru3.jpg|thumb|200px|right|Yukari with [[Kisume]] in ''[[Symposium of Post-mysticism]].'']]
:{{Main|Symposium of Post-mysticism/Bunbunmaru Newspaper 3|l1=Symposium of Post-mysticism: Skeletal Remains Found from the Dry Well}}
Back in 1984, [[Aya Shameimaru]] reports that during Gensokyo's winter, children were finding skeletal remains of a [[human]] while playing around a dried-up well, to which it ended up that the well was declared to be off-limits. Apparently, a [[tsurube-otoshi]] [[youkai]] (presumably [[Kisume]]) came out of well saying "So is THIS the body you dropped down here?" and threw the bones at them. There were no-one missing, so for who the bones belong to is a mystery.
 
The bones disappeared while no-one was looking during preparations to bury it in [[Muenzuka]]. This rolled onto a case whether there was any sort of [[incident]] or not, along with the identity of the previous owner of the bones. Yukari  though it was by the youkai from the [[Underworld]] and that they wanted to scare the humans since their powers come from the negative energy of humans, but it may've been a simple misunderstanding. There was a non-intervention agreement pact made between the underworld youkai and the surface, so the situation could become complicated.
 
The incident was settled as silver birch branches have been mistaken for bones, to which no ominous occurrences had happened at the [[Human Village]]. At a later date, it was confirmed that the dried-up well was filled in with dirt; who did this is unknown.
 
==Verbindungen mit der Außenwelt==
In [[Curiosities of Lotus Asia/Chapter 11|Chapter 11]] and [[Curiosities of Lotus Asia/Chapter 12|Chapter 12]] of ''[[Curiosities of Lotus Asia]]'', when [[Rinnosuke Morichika]] had an [[wikipedia:iPod|iPod]] in [[Kourindou]], only Yukari knew how to actually use it, and further knew that it was considered a trendy item in the [[Outside World]]. She similarly knew about the [[wikipedia:Nintendo|Nintendo]] [[wikipedia:Game Boy|Game Boy]] and [[wikipedia:Nintendo DS|DS]]. She appears very knowledgeable about the outside world.
 
Because of her understanding of technology from the outside world, there are rumors that she lives in the outside world from time to time. It is confirmed that she at least visits there. Reimu mentions in [[Curiosities of Lotus Asia/Chapter 24|''Curiosities of Lotus Asia'' Chapter 24]] that Yukari told her that she gets to enjoy twice the amount of cherry blossom viewings a year because she also goes to watch the blossoms in the outside world, which occurs at a different time from Gensokyo's. In addition, Yukari at the end of Chapter 25 of ''[[Strange and Bright Nature Deity]]'' is shown viewing the [[Hakurei Shrine]] from the outside world (some panels focus specifically on pointing out there are cars driving by).
 
[[Marisa Kirisame]] once stated that Yukari uses a small box to talk to her [[shikigami]] when they are far away from her, which led Rinnosuke to believe that she owns a phone. She has given characters phone-like devices in ''[[Subterranean Animism]]''. Yukari mentions in ''[[Oriental Sacred Place]]'' chapter 10 that radio towers fall into Gensokyo every once in a while. Presumably her phones use those in order to work.
 
There is an theory for something like "isn't she outside of Gensokyo?", but since her home is a place that [[Ran Yakumo]] can enter and exit ordinarily, her home would definitely be at least somewhere within Gensokyo. It was said that she lived in an estate somewhere in [[Gensokyo]], but other than that, nothing is known. It is said that her residence is at the end of Gensokyo just like how the [[Hakurei Shrine]] is, but the true location is completely unclear. [[Mayohiga]] is not Yukari's residence; in ''[[Bohemian Archive in Japanese Red]]'', it was called the "village of cats", and it is only a deserted house where [[Chen]] gathers cats.
 
==Beziehungen==
Using her [[gap]] to travel accross [[Gensokyo]], despite sleeping a lot, Yukari has encountered many [[youkai]] and [[human]]s in the ''[[Touhou Project]]''. By many residents of Gensokyo, she is commonly referred to as the "Gap Youkai" when she's involved in a conversation.
 
===Reimu und Marisa===
Yukari has always had a close tie to the [[Hakurei Shrine]] maidens, as one meaning of her name is she controls the [[Shrine Maiden]]s of [[Gensokyo]]. [[Reimu Hakurei]], along with [[Marisa Kirisame]], first met Yukari when she asked her to repair the border between the [[Netherworld]] and [[Gensokyo]] in ''[[Perfect Cherry Blossom]]''. However, Yukari indicated she is already familiar with Reimu and Marisa to an unspecified extent. With Marisa, it resulted in Yukari playing a prank on her by keeping her up way past bedtime.
 
As a friend, she often visits Reimu at the Hakurei Shrine and often drops by Marisa's house randomly, to which in ''[[Perfect Memento in Strict Sense]]''Marisa complains that Yukari never uses the door. Yukari steals food from Reimu in ''[[Perfect Memento in Strict Sense]]'', stays at Reimu's shrine for at least a month into the winter in ''[[Curiosities of Lotus Asia]]'', and is among several characters when Reimu complains about youkai visitors to her shrine in ''[[Wild and Horned Hermit]]''. She sometimes visits to discuss philosophical matters like in ''[[Seasonal Dream Vision]]'', or ''[[Strange and Bright Nature Deity]]'' where she gave Reimu out-of-season taro roots from the [[Outside World|outside world]], asking her to think about their meaning.
 
As an employer, she's given Reimu several missions in ''[[Subterranean Animism]]'', ''[[Imperishable Night]]'' and ''[[Silent Sinner in Blue]]''. An offhand comment in the first stage of ''[[Imperishable Night]]'' shows she compensated Reimu for it.
 
As a mentor, she is often teaching Reimu not just about Gensokyo (she does that a lot, too, shown several times in ''[[Oriental Sacred Place]]'') but also how to do her job as [[Shrine Maiden]]. She shows up when Reimu purposefully damages the barrier in ''Curiosities of Lotus Asia'' to tell her not to do that, reminds Reimu of her youkai-crushing duties in ''Imperishable Night''<nowiki>'</nowiki>s extra, and makes Reimu train hard to prepare for ''[[Silent Sinner in Blue]]'' (''Curiosities of Lotus Asia'' states the latter is rare for her). The latter included Yukari attacking Reimu at unannounced times.
 
She seems to be secretly looking after Reimu in other ways, as she sneaks yen donations into the [[Hakurei Shrine]]'s donation offering box when Reimu isn't looking in chapter 23 of ''[[Strange and Bright Nature Deity]]''. Like most characters, Reimu finds Yukari extremely annoying. Yukari doesn't mind, clearly joking "How rude!" or "What a greeting!" to such things. In the case of ''Seasonal Dream Vision'' for Marisa, she got angry over Yukari's random visit, but it was because Yukari was curious as to Marisa's thoughts on the matter regarding the flower incident, so presumably many of Yukari's other visits to Marisa are for her own amusement, as well.
 
===Shikigami===
[[File:040BAiJRYukari.jpg|thumb|192px|Yukari smacking [[Ran Yakumo]], as illustrated in ''[[Bohemian Archive in Japanese Red]]''.]]
;Ran Yakumo
[[Ran Yakumo]] is Yukari's main [[shikigami]]. Yukari is the one who's given Ran her current name. An interview in ''[[Bohemian Archive in Japanese Red]]'' with [[Aya Shameimaru]] implies Ran came to be Yukari's shikigami because of all the power it promised, and is quite satisfied with the result despite losing her freedom. Ran was not born before the Genso-Lunar War, so she must have become Yukari's shikigami sometime after that.
 
Yukari keeps the relationship on a user-to-shikigami level. This relationship is analogous to a user and its computer in the [[Outside World|outside world]], and Yukari insists heavily that Ran is not a fox, but is a tool to be used. Yukari's own thoughts and perspective in [[Cage in Lunatic Runagate/Fifth Chapter|Chapter Five]] of ''[[Cage in Lunatic Runagate]]'' refers to Ran with computer terms, such as programming or debugging. Ran is still more advanced than a computer, so Yukari attempts philosophical discussion with Ran from time to time, but typically gets boring responses involving numbers and calculations. Yukari loves Ran very much, but in terms of how one would love a tool they own.
 
Ran often "forgets" she is a shikigami, taking matters into her own hands without Yukari's orders. This can't be helped because Yukari sleeps a lot. Yukari will physically discipline Ran when this happens (by whacking her with her umbrella). Using a tool and keeping it in good shape (via discipline) shows love for your shikigami (according to Yukari). Ran accepts and seems satisfied with this, and also seems to care for her master, attempting to encourage Yukari after [[Silent Sinner in Blue|the second Genso-Lunar War]] failed. But she won't disagree that her master is annoying and is often driven to much frustration by Yukari's double-speak and secrecy.
 
;Chen
Ran also has a [[shikigami]] named [[Chen]]. As Ran's shikigami, Chen follows the will of both [[Ran Yakumo]] and Yukari Yakumo. It's implied she's quite a handful, and unlike Ran, Yukari views Chen as both Ran's shikigami and their pet, saying in ''[[Subterranean Animism]]'', "I wonder where our cat went off to? It's such a pain when she just suddenly disappears like that. I wish you'd take care to program your own familiar properly. Without any bugs."
 
Unlike Ran Yakumo, Chen is never called "Chen Yakumo", even when "Chen" and "Ran Yakumo" show up in the same sentence in ''[[Perfect Memento in Strict Sense/Chen|Perfect Memento in Strict Sense]]''.
 
;Yukaris Krähen
[[Yukaris Krähen|Zenki and Goki]] are two [[crow]]s that Yukari and Ran use as [[shikigami]]. They might be temporary names for all shikigami crows, as one gets killed by [[Watatsuki no Toyohime]], yet three more spy for Yukari later in [[Silent Sinner in Blue|Chapter 20]] of ''[[Silent Sinner in Blue]]''.
 
===Unterwelt===
[[Datei:Ssib3 cover.jpg|150px|mini|rechts|Cover von ''[[Silent Sinner in Blue/Volume 3|Silent Sinner in Blue]]'' Vol. 3, mit Yukari und [[Yuyuko Saigyouji]].]][[Datei:幻想曲抜萃委.jpg|150px|mini|rechts|Cover von ''[[Immaterial and Missing Power OST]]'' mit Yukari und [[Suika Ibuki]].]]
 
;Yuyuko Saigyouji
Yukari and [[Yuyuko Saigyouji]] were friends even while Yuyuko was alive more than a thousand years ago, and continued to be Yuyuko's friend after she became a [[Ghost (Species)|ghost]]. Of note is that this friendship between Yuyuko and Yukari does not extend to Yukari's shikigami Ran, and Yuyuko does not mind others beating Ran up.
 
Yuyuko seems to be the only one who truly understands Yukari. Yukari knows this as well, often just assuming that Yuyuko knows what she's talking about or what's going on (this is clear whenever the two interact, including victory quotes). The two don't think exactly alike, however, which results in Yuyuko acting in ways that surprises Yukari. Yukari will do something just because Yuyuko asked and vice versa.
 
Yukari believed the [[Saigyou Ayakashi]] ate too many [[human]] lives. She was always aware that Yuyuko's body was sealing it. It's possible Yukari is the one who sealed it using Yuyuko's body, herself.
 
;Youmu Konpaku
Being Yuyuko's servant, Yukari helps [[Youmu Konpaku]] with lessons and advice every once in a while, like in ''[[Scarlet Weather Rhapsody/Story/Youmu's Scenario|Scarlet Weather Rhapsody]]''.
 
===Die Oni===
;Suika Ibuki
Yukari was [[Suika Ibuki]]'s friend before the [[oni]] went underground. It is unknown how or when they became friends. Yukari looks out for Suika in ''[[Immaterial and Missing Power/Story/Yukari's Scenario|Immaterial and Missing Power]]'' and Suika does favors for Yukari, such as rebuilding the [[Hakurei Shrine]] in ''[[Scarlet Weather Rhapsody]]'' or helping to investigate the underground. The two play [[danmaku]] battles with each other, though it's been a while since the last one before ''Scarlet Weather Rhapsody''. In ''[[Oriental Sacred Place]]'' Chapter 12, Yukari is with Suika at the Hakurei Shrine New Year's Festival.
 
Suika does get annoyed with Yukari's "dirty tricks", but doesn't go beyond snapping that they're dirty. Suika may know some of Yukari's secrets, as she's referred to Yukari's existence as fraudulent in ''[[Immaterial and Missing Power/Story/Suika's Scenario|Immaterial and Missing Power]]'', and stated to Yukari that it was rare to see her "on this side of the world" in broad daylight.
 
;Yuugi Hoshiguma
[[Yuugi Hoshiguma]] is one of the [[oni]] (presumably Suika is another) that Yukari made a deal with. In exchange for keeping the [[Evil spirit|evil spirit]]s of former [[hell]] in control, Yukari would give them their own place in the [[Underworld]] and keep the overworld [[youkai]] from intruding. Unlike Suika, Yukari does not seem to have any personal attachments to Yuugi. As an aside, from Yukari's ''[[Immaterial and Missing Power]]'' ending, Yukari believes that if the oni ever do come back to [[Gensokyo]], it must be gradual instead of all oni coming back at once.
 
===Einwohner der Scarlet Devil Mansion===
;Remilia Scarlet
Yukari uses [[Remilia Scarlet]] as part of her scheme to extract the residence tax and get revenge on the Lunarians in ''[[Silent Sinner in Blue]]''. Patchouli reveals Remilia knew she was manipulated but didn't care, because she was bored. Remilia herself has an unexplained rivalry of sorts with Yukari, wanting to get to the [[Moon]] in her own way before Yukari could to surprise her. This rivalry might be due to the power struggle mentioned in [[Perfect Memento in Strict Sense/Vampire|''Perfect Memento in Strict Sense''<nowiki>'</nowiki>s Vampire article]], possibly starting with the vampire incident. The rivalry is mostly friendly (and only Remilia seems to care), as Remilia has no objections to Yukari staying for the party at the end of ''Silent Sinner in Blue'' or assisting her with investigating in ''[[Scarlet Weather Rhapsody]]''.
 
Dialogues in ''[[Immaterial and Missing Power]]'' seems to imply they've already known each other before that game. It is possible they met at the [[vampire]] incident, and that Yukari was the one that signed "the contract" with Remilia.
 
;Patchouli Knowledge
[[Patchouli Knowledge]] first meets Yukari in her scenario in ''[[Immaterial and Missing Power]]''. In ''[[Scarlet Weather Rhapsody]]'', Yukari places her in charge of watching the [[underworld]] in her victory quote to her. Patchouli later informs and urges her to act about the [[Evil spirit|evil spirit]]s coming out of the underground in ''[[Subterranean Animism]]''<nowiki>'</nowiki>s prologue. Yukari finally agrees to act because she "can't let them all just do whatever they want again". It is unknown (even to Patchouli) which incident Yukari is referring to (there are many possible ones). Patchouli continues to collaborate with Yukari regarding the underground, as she informs Yukari of the [[Myouren Temple|Palanquin Ship]] in a ''[[Touhou Hisoutensoku]]'' victory quote.
 
===Eientei Einwohner===
Along with Reimu, Yukari confronted Eirin and [[Kaguya Houraisan]] to restore the full [[moon]] in ''[[Imperishable Night]]'', making Yukari one of the few characters who knows they're from the moon. After the incident was resolved and the moon restored, the girls all had a round of moon viewing sake with each other.
 
Unknown to each other, Eirin and Yukari's own history actually goes back further than that. As mentioned by [[Watatsuki no Toyohime]] at the end of chapter 17 of ''[[Silent Sinner in Blue]]'', one thousand years ago, Eirin set up a trap to catch someone who'd try to invade the moon. Yukari was well aware of the trap, apparently having already triggered it before (assuming her "make-believe" story in ''[[Cage in Lunatic Runagate]]'' actually happened). She seems to bear a grudge against the [[Lunarian]] sage (Eirin) that set it, referring to her as "the much-despised Lunarian sage".
 
However, Yukari hasn't realized who Eirin is. Neither of them make special note of each other in ''Imperishable Night'' and are amicable with each other in the ending. Near the end of ''Silent Sinner in Blue'', Yukari remarks to [[Ran Yakumo]] that she's unsure if "[[Eirin Yagokoro|the Brain of the Moon]]" had actually settled on Earth. Yukari suspects Eirin is a spy for the Moon.
 
The final chapter of ''Cage in Lunatic Runagate'' reveals that Yukari orchestrated the events primarily to teach Eirin to fear the unknown, likely because those who live as [[human]]s in [[Gensokyo]] are supposed to fear the [[youkai]] (as stated in Yukari's lecture to Ran earlier about the aliens).
 
===Kleine Beziehungen===
;Rinnosuke Morichika
Yukari and [[Rinnosuke Morichika]] mostly have business arrangements. In exchange for fuel for his kerosene fan heater, Yukari takes merchandise she likes and occasionally provides information on items. While he is grateful, Rinnosuke also doesn't like dealing with her all that much and makes note of how ominous she seems. Although he can't remember it, Yukari once prevented Rinnosuke from being spirited away to the [[Outside World|outside world]].
 
;Eiki Shiki, Yamaxanadu
When Yukari senses [[Eiki Shiki, Yamaxanadu|Eiki Shiki]] approaching in ''[[Seasonal Dream Vision]]''; she and Yuyuko leave immediately to avoid talking with her. ''[[Perfect Memento in Strict Sense/Eiki Shiki, Yamaxanadu|Perfect Memento in Strict Sense]]'' notes that most long-lived [[youkai]] were assisted by Eiki at least once and avoid her due to her lectures.
 
;Alice Margatroid
For whatever reason, [[Alice Margatroid]] is willing to confront Yukari in ''[[Immaterial and Missing Power]]'' despite otherwise avoiding strong youkai such as [[Remilia Scarlet]] and [[Yuyuko Saigyouji]]. Yukari's also set up Alice's [[doll]]s off-page to allow for long-range communications in ''[[Subterranean Animism]]''. Her dialogue towards Yukari in ''[[Immaterial and Missing Power]]'' shows that they knew each other before then. Like most characters, Alice is still suspicious of Yukari by default. Alice is aware of various youkai roles and agreements that Yukari is constantly preaching. Yukari also harshly scolds Alice in Alice's second bad ending in ''Immaterial and Missing Power'', much to everyone else's entertainment.
 
;Keine Kamishirasawa
Yukari and [[Keine Kamishirasawa]] met and fought at the [[Human Village]] in ''[[Imperishable Night]]''. Keine's ability to hide history has no effect on Yukari, who didn't even know she was using her ability in the first place. It is unexplained why, but history and reality are mentioned regarding Yukari so often that there are many possible reasons. Yukari also disliked Keine for being a human-faced beast.
 
;Fujiwara no Mokou
Yukari and Reimu fought [[Fujiwara no Mokou]] in ''[[Imperishable Night]]''<nowiki>'</nowiki>s Extra stage.
 
;Three Fairies of Light
Yukari met the [[Three Fairies of Light]] in a continuation of chapter 0 in ''[[Eastern and Little Nature Deity]]'' chapter 5, asking if she could join in on their pranks. They ran away from her. Later, in ''[[Strange and Bright Nature Deity]]'', Yukari needed to repair a tree that was part of the [[Great Hakurei Barrier]]. She did so by moving the three fairies into it, but only after testing that they were too weak to cause serious trouble. They failed the test with flying colors, so Yukari let them move in. Sunny's ability to reflect some of Yukari's [[danmaku]] did impress her a bit.
 
==Galerie==
<gallery>
File:Th07cover.jpg|Cover of ''[[Perfect Cherry Blossom]]'', featuring Yukari's silhouette
File:GoMSigil-Yukari.jpg|Yukari's Sigil in ''[[The Grimoire of Marisa]]''
File:Curiosities of lotus asia 11 01.jpg|Yukari on the chapter 21 cover of ''[[Curiosities of Lotus Asia]]''
File:MGYukari.jpg|Yukari in ''[[Memorizable Gensokyo]]''
File:SSiBArtChapter192.jpg|Yukari in ''[[Silent Sinner in Blue]]''
File:SSIBYukari.jpg|Yukari in ''[[Silent Sinner in Blue]]''
File:Cage in Lunatic Runagate CH5 001.jpg|Yukari on the chapter 5 cover of ''[[Cage in Lunatic Runagate]]''
File:Cage in Lunatic Runagate CH8 19.jpg|Yukari in ''[[Cage in Lunatic Runagate]]''
File:Th123YukariColors.png|Yukari's different color palettes from ''[[Touhou Hisoutensoku]]''. The 2nd one corresponds to her second color palette in ''[[Scarlet Weather Rhapsody]]'', while the 3rd one corresponds to her ''[[Immaterial and Missing Power]]'' palette
File:Th08YukariLastWord.png|Yukari artwork in her Last Word with blue ribbons from ''[[Imperishable Night]]''
File:Th123YukariSigil.png|Yukari's sigil from ''[[Touhou Hisoutensoku]]''
File:WaHHYukari.png|Yukari as seen in ''[[Wild and Horned Hermit]]'' chapter 14
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Vor ungefähr tausend Jahren traf Yukari ein Menschenmädchen namens Yuyuko, und freundete sich mit ihr an. Nach Yuyukos Tod war sie immernoch mit ihrem Geist befreundet, obwohl sie allmählig vergaß, wer sie war und warum sie gestorben war. Als Yuyuko sie darum bat, die Grenze zwischen Gensokyo und der Unterwelt zu schwächen, stimmte sie zu. Sie wusste, dass Yuyukos Plan, den Saigyou Ayakashi wieder aufblühen zu lassen, niemals funktionieren könnte, aber sie war zusehr damit beschäftigt, zu schlafen, als dass sie irgendetwas dagegen sagte oder tat oder die Grenze einfach wieder normal machte, was sie auf Kollisionskurs mit den Protagonisten brachte.
==Trivia==
*A silhouette of Yukari occupies the front of ''[[Perfect Cherry Blossom]]''<nowiki>'</nowiki>s jewel case. Yukari also appears on the case of ''[[Immaterial and Missing Power OST]]''.
*For some reason, Yukari's appearance in spell card 222 in ''[[Imperishable Night]]'' is different from other characters. Instead of using her protrait from ''Imperishable Night'', a modified image from ''Perfect Cherry Blossom'' was used (she has blue ribbons instead). What is more strange is that the background used in the [[spell card]], which is also from ''Perfect Cherry Blossom'', uses Yukari's original cut-in image with red ribbons, although ''[[Shoot the Bullet]]'' and ''[[Impossible Spell Card]]'' also uses this. Yukari's sprite in ''Shoot the Bullet'' and ''Impossible Spell Card'' also sports blue ribbons.
*She is the only Phantasm boss in the whole of the ''[[Touhou Project]]''. Her status as "8th boss", however, is matched by [[Komachi Onozuka]] and exceeded by [[Eiki Shiki, Yamaxanadu|Eiki Shiki]] (''[[Phantasmagoria of Flower View]]'' having 9 stages); [[Reimu Hakurei]] can also become a stage 8 or 9 boss in ''[[Phantasmagoria of Flower View]]'' (if playing as Komachi or Eiki respectively) or a stage 8 boss in ''[[Scarlet Weather Rhapsody]]'' (if playing as [[Tenshi Hinanawi]]).
*In ''[[Scarlet Weather Rhapsody]]'', one of Yukari's spell card spawns a train to mow her opponent down. The graphic of the train is based on an actual existing train {{lang|ja|[[wikipedia:ja:長野電鉄3500系・3600系電車|長野電鉄木島線3500系]]}} ([[wikipedia:Nagano Electric Railway|Nagano Electric Railway]] Kijima line 3500 series), a train used to run in Nagano: [[ZUN]]'s homeland.<ref>[http://dic.nicovideo.jp/a/ぶらり廃駅下車の旅 {{lang|ja|ぶらり廃駅下車の旅 - ニコニコ大百科}}] the Nicopedia page of her spell card "Abandoned Line 'Aimless Journey to the Abandoned Station'" (Japanese).</ref>


Yukari ist dafür bekannt, ein sehr Youkai-hafter Youkai zu sein, der den ganzen Tag schläft und nur zum Vergnügen lebt. Obwohl sie selten ihr Haus verlässt, hat sie viele Bekanntschaften, so kennt sie zum Beispiel viele der mächtigsten Youkai (zum Beispiel Suika oder Yuyuko) sowie alle, die etwas mit der Hakurei-Grenze oder der Außenwelt zu tun haben (zum Beispiel Reimu oder Rinnosuke). Sie ist möglicherweise der stärkste Youkai Gensokyos und hat die Tendenz, erst mit ihrem Gegner zu spielen, statt von Anfang an ernsthaft zu kämpfen. Wenn irgendjemand für die Rolle des Drahtziehers geschaffen ist, dann sie, weil sie viele Einblicke in Gensokyo hat und schnell alles einschätzen kann, außerdem besitzt sie relativ gute intellektuelle Fähigkeiten. Auch wenn sie meistens unverlässlich wirkt, würde sie nicht zögern, zu handeln, wenn Gensokyo in Gefahr ist. So behandelt sie zum Beispiel Tenshi mit sehr viel Feindseligkeit, nachdem sie ihren Plan herrausgefunden hat. Sie könnte ohne Probleme ein Feind oder ein Freund sein, jenachdem wie ihr gerade ist.
==Fandom==
{{main|Fandom/Perfect Cherry Blossom#Yukari Yakumo|l1=Fandom: Yukari Yakumo}}


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===[[Perfect Cherry Blossom]] - キャラ設定.txt===
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| image = [[File:YukariPCB.png|200px|Yukari Yakumo PCB]]
| titel = [[Perfect Cherry Blossom]] - キャラ設定.txt
| text = ○神隠しの主犯<br/>
| text = ○神隠しの主犯<br/>
  八雲 紫(やくも・ゆかり)
  八雲 紫(やくも・ゆかり)
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===[[Immaterial and Missing Power]] - 上海アリス通信.txt===
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| image = [[File:th075yukari01.png|200px|Yukari Yakumo IaMP]]
| titel = [[Immaterial and Missing Power]] - 上海アリス通信.txt
| text = ○幻想の境界<br/>
| text = ○幻想の境界<br/>
  八雲 紫(やくもゆかり)
  八雲 紫(やくもゆかり)
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===[[Imperishable Night]] - Manual===
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| image = [[File:Th08YukariYakumo.png|200px|Yukari Yakumo IN]]
| titel = [[Imperishable Night]] - Manual
| text =  ○境界の妖怪 八雲 紫(やくもゆかり) <br/>
| text =  ○境界の妖怪 八雲 紫(やくもゆかり) <br/>
  幻想郷の境に住む妖怪。<br/>
  幻想郷の境に住む妖怪。<br/>
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===[[Imperishable Night]] - キャラ設定.txt===
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| image = [[File:Th08YukariYakumo.png|200px|Yukari Yakumo IN]]
| titel = [[Imperishable Night]] - キャラ設定.txt
| text = ○境目に潜む妖怪<br/>
| text = ○境目に潜む妖怪<br/>
  八雲 紫(やくも ゆかり)<br/>
  八雲 紫(やくも ゆかり)<br/>
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===[[Scarlet Weather Rhapsody]] - chara.html===
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| image = [[File:Th105Yukari.png|200px|Yukari Yakumo SWR]]
| image = [[File:Th105Yukari.png|200px|Yukari Yakumo SWR]]
| titel = [[Scarlet Weather Rhapsody]] - chara.html
| text =  ○幻想の境界<br />
| text =  ○幻想の境界<br />
  八雲 紫(やくも ゆかり)
  八雲 紫(やくも ゆかり)
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===[[Subterranean Animism]] - キャラ設定.txt===
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| text = ○境界の妖怪<br/>
| text = ○境界の妖怪<br/>
  八雲 紫(やくも ゆかり)<br/>
  八雲 紫(やくも ゆかり)<br/>
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==Zusätzliche Informationen==
{{Profile Quote
| image = [[File:SSiBWebYukari.jpg|Yukari]]
| titel = ''[[Touhou Bougetsushou]]'' official website
| text = 八雲 紫 (やくも ゆかり)<br/>妖怪/境界を操る程度の能力
幻想郷の境の何処かに住む妖怪。非人間的で胡散臭い性<br/>格の持ち主。たまに人間が幻想郷に迷い込むときは、紫が<br/>結界に穴を開けることが原因だと思われる。<br/>妖怪の中でも強大な力を持ち、八雲藍などの式神を使役<br/>するが、むやみに人を襲うわけではない。面倒臭がりな一<br/>面もあり。
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{{Profile Quote
| image = [[File:MAGNet 20100502 1 Yukari.jpg|200px|Yukari Yakumo MAGNet interview]]
| titel = Rough<ref>Mag-Net! [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YhHfhZ-J3Cc Mag-Net! 第5回 東方Project] 11. September 2011</ref>
| text =
・ちょっとボスらしく戦闘<br />
 モードに。(式神使役モード)<br />
・藍が中華風なのは紫が<br />
 中華風だからです。<br />
・髪は長髪だが、戦闘モード<br />
 ではキャップの中に詰めてあります。<br />
・ちょっと複雑すぎるかもしれないですが<br />
・側面(うで無)<br />
・チャイナ部分<br />
・チャイナ取り除き<br />
・家の中では帽子はかけない
| translation = &middot; In battle mode, kind of like a boss. (Shikigami Deployment Mode)<br />
&middot; Ran is in Chinese style because Yukari is in Chinese style.<br />
&middot; Her hair is long, but in battle mode she has it tucked in her cap.<br />
&middot; Maybe this is a little too complex.<br/>
&middot; Side view (without her arms).<br/>
&middot; The Chinese part.<br/>
&middot; Without the Chinese part.<br/>
&middot; She doesn't wear the cap when inside houses.
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==Offizielle Ressourcen==
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*2003/08/17 '''[[Perfect Cherry Blossom]]''' - Phantasm Stage dialogue; キャラ設定.txt (official profile)
*2004/08/15 '''[[Imperishable Night]]''' - Border Team Scenario; Border Team Extra Stage; キャラ設定.txt (official profile)
*2004/12/11 '''[[Curiosities of Lotus Asia]]''' - Chapter 11
*2004/12/30 '''[[Immaterial and Missing Power]]''' - 上海アリス通信.txt (official profile)
*2005/08/11 '''[[Bohemian Archive in Japanese Red]]''' - [[Bohemian Archive in Japanese Red/Yukari|Article and Interview: Yukari]]
*2005/10/01 '''[[Seasonal Dream Vision/A Beautiful Flower Blooming Violet Every Sixty Years]]'''
*2005/12/30 '''[[Shoot the Bullet]]''' - [[Shoot the Bullet/Spell Cards/Level Ex|EX Stage Spell Card comments]]
*2006/12/27 '''[[Perfect Memento in Strict Sense]]''' - [[Perfect Memento in Strict Sense/Yukari Yakumo|Youkai of Boundaries: Yukari Yakumo]]
*2007/06/08 ~ 2009/04/09 '''[[Silent Sinner in Blue]]'''
*2008/05/25 '''[[Scarlet Weather Rhapsody]]''' - chara.html (official profile)
*2008/06/25 '''[[Cage in Lunatic Runagate]]''' - [[Cage in Lunatic Runagate/Fifth Chapter|Chapter 5]]
*2008/08/16 '''[[Subterranean Animism]]''' - [[Subterranean Animism/Translation/Reimu and Yukari's Scenario|Reimu/Yukari's Scenario]]; [[Subterranean Animism/Translation/Reimu and Yukari's Extra|Reimu/Yukari's Extra Stage]]; キャラ設定.txt
*2008/10/25 ~ 2009/01/26 '''[[Strange and Bright Nature Deity]]''' - Chapters 23-25
*2009/07/28 '''[[The Grimoire of Marisa]]''' - [[The Grimoire of Marisa/Yukari Yakumo's Spell Cards|Yukari Yakumo's Spell Cards]]
*2010/08/26 '''[[Oriental Sacred Place]]''' - Chapter 10
*2011/11/25 '''[[Wild and Horned Hermit]]''' - Chapter 9 (cameo)
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Yukari Yakumo
iakɯmo iɯkaɽʲi (♫)

Yukari Yakumo

Yukari Yakumo in Scarlet Weather Rhapsody
Border of Phantasm
Alter mindestens 1 200 Jahre alt, älter als die Geschichte Gensokyos selbst
Spezies Youkai
Fähigkeiten Manipulation der Grenzen
Tätigkeit Unbekannt; sie schläft die meiste Zeit
Heimat Irgendwo an den Grenzen von Gensokyo
Auftritte
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Yukari Yakumo (八雲 紫 Yakumo Yukari) ist der Youkai der Grenzen, welcher oft gesehen und erwähnt wird. She's got Ran Yakumo serving her as shikigami. She is called the "gap youkai" (すきま妖怪 sukima youkai),[1] although "gap youkai" is not the name of a species, as she is more of a one-of-a-kind type of youkai.[2] Regardless of her power, Yukari appears to be the most well-informed being in Gensokyo of any kind, and usually achieves her goals through manipulating events rather than direct combat.

Allgemeines

Yukari wurde das erste mal in Perfect Cherry Blossom als die schläfrige Herrin von Ran Yakumo vorgestellt. Während Imperishable Night arbeitet Yukari mit Reimu Hakurei zusammen um den Verantwortlichen für den falschen Mond zu finden. In Immaterial and Missing Power arbeitet sie sich von Kampf zu Kampf um jedermanns Sake, Wein und Brandy zu stehlen. Selbst direkt vom Altar des Hakurei Schreins. Dies ist jedoch ihre Strategie um an diejenige zu gelangen, die hinter den Ereignissen steckt.

She is one of the oldest youkai in Gensokyo, one of the strongest of youkai, and is praised as one of the wisest of youkai.[3][4]. She was one who proposed the Great Hakurei Barrier, which covers Gensokyo, and is therefore tied to Gensokyo's creation. She is the only known youkai who is able to pass this barrier in order to access the Outside World, although there are a few instances like Mamizou Futatsuiwa who's passed it. She also performs surveillance and safety administration (mainly for Ran Yakumo). She is simply one of the most mysterious youkai living in Gensokyo.

Persönlichkeit

Yukari ist dafür bekannt, ein sehr Youkai-hafter Youkai zu sein, der den ganzen Tag schläft und nur zum Vergnügen lebt. Obwohl sie selten ihr Haus verlässt, hat sie viele Bekanntschaften, so kennt sie zum Beispiel viele der mächtigsten Youkai (zum Beispiel Suika oder Yuyuko) sowie alle, die etwas mit der Hakurei-Grenze oder der Außenwelt zu tun haben (zum Beispiel Reimu oder Rinnosuke). Sie ist möglicherweise der stärkste Youkai Gensokyos und hat die Tendenz, erst mit ihrem Gegner zu spielen, statt von Anfang an ernsthaft zu kämpfen. Wenn irgendjemand für die Rolle des Drahtziehers geschaffen ist, dann sie, weil sie viele Einblicke in Gensokyo hat und schnell alles einschätzen kann, außerdem besitzt sie relativ gute intellektuelle Fähigkeiten. Auch wenn sie meistens unverlässlich wirkt, würde sie nicht zögern, zu handeln, wenn Gensokyo in Gefahr ist. So behandelt sie zum Beispiel Tenshi mit sehr viel Feindseligkeit, nachdem sie ihren Plan herausgefunden hat. Sie könnte ohne Probleme ein Feind oder ein Freund sein, je nachdem wie ihr gerade ist.

Yukari deals with problems by manipulating others to act to resolve things for her. She seems to rarely act directly except in particularly egregious situations. In all cases, she rarely lets anyone know what her true aims or goals are, and sometimes these goals are extremely abstract. Yukari has a well-deserved reputation of being fickle, whimsical, and lying often, and thus many characters in Gensokyo dislike her. For whatever reason, Yukari takes it all in stride and does not seriously deny any of those comments. She seems to actively try to keep her more obviously-altruistic actions a secret, such as her donations to the Hakurei Shrine in Strange and Bright Nature Deity. She possibly cultivates this image to ensure that people continue to fear her as a youkai, as this is what her true goal for a particularly complex gambit is revealed to be at the end of Cage in Lunatic Runagate.

Fähigkeiten

Abilities and strength

Yukari is with no doubt one of the most powerful youkai in Gensokyo. A few other youkai like Suika Ibuki and Yuugi Hoshiguma have been considered to be around her level. Yukari also refers to Watatsuki no Toyohime as being stronger than she is, and tries to avoid direct confrontations with her. Despite her power, she might still lose spell card battles to humans or youkai.

Her physical strength is what you'd expect from a youkai. While the extent of an average youkai's strength is never really specified, their bodily ability is typically very high, so her strength is still far from that of a human. There are some examples and statements which show Yukari's physical prowess:

  • In Curiosities of Lotus Asia Chapter 12, Yukari's hand is able to effortlessly block and brush aside a mallet swung by Rinnosuke Morichika with all his might, leaving him shocked that a small slender feminine hand was able to pull off such a feat. Rinnosuke said that it feels like he hit a pillow.
  • Hong Meiling, in one of her Touhou Hisoutensoku win quotes, notes that she felt a odd resistance from Yukari's body (presumably after punching and kicking her a lot), to the point where she wondered if Yukari was wearing something else under that presumably delicate dress of hers.

Yukari states in her own win quotes in Immaterial and Missing Power that she has no weaknesses, and even shooting, cutting, stabbing, hitting, or killing her is useless.[5] In Perfect Memento in Strict Sense, her ability is yet again described as being "without weaknesses", and as one of the most dangerous that youkai are known to possess. Her Imperishable Night profile also states that "she easily has enough power to annihilate all of Gensokyo if she so desires"[6], while the manual says that "the danger and power of her ability is beyond imagination".[7]

By mostly moving around in gaps, one would usually not see her as doing much physical labour at all, and according to Scarlet Weather Rhapsody, since she ends up in blurting out herself such sayings like "to do mountain climbing at such an age", there is the image that she is like an indoors-type youkai, but in the end, she is still a youkai.

Manipulation of boundaries
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Yukari's "Danmaku Barrier", as illustrated in The Grimoire of Marisa.

With the word "boundary" in its name, Yukari is capable of pretty much anything put under the influence of this ability. In her monologue during A Beautiful Flower Blooming Violet Every Sixty Years, she explains that this power allows her to control the boundaries "between any and all things", like Gensokyo and the outside world, the worlds of the living and the dead, humans and youkai, and even the day and the night. [8] The most common application of Yukari's boundary manipulation abilities is opening "gaps" (すきま sukima) which act as portals between two places, where she's able to hold, sit on or emerge from such gaps. By manipulating borders in space and creating a chasm, she is able to link together separate places. According to this, she's able to show up in unexpected places from time to time, but the aforementioned suspiciousness has been refined. Although this gap is a kind of sub-space, within Yukari's gap, one can see a lot of eyes. These eyes are a manifestation of what one can say is the image of "how desires are swirling around" that Yukari sees in the outside world. The description of Yukari's Magic Eye "Laplace's Demon" spell card implies that Yukari can see using the eyes, as well. Also, although sign posts and other flotsam also drift about, these things also come from Yukari's image of "things that have come to be of no use in the outside world".

Other than that, since there is a boundary on the water surface so to speak, as there is definitely a distinction between water and atmosphere, and since there is the boundary called the horizon that separates the sky from the earth, as was said, she can freely manipulate the boundary of all existent things at will. According to Perfect Memento in Strict Sense, it seems that not only are physical boundaries, but also the general idea of boundaries are also able to be manipulated, and it seems like she would be able to manipulate the boundary between dreams and reality and open up holes for people to enter into dreams. Yukari is also capable of seeing (and seeing through) boundaries that are normally invisible; when the Human Village was displaced from history by Keine Kamishirasawa, Yukari was still able to see it.[9].

It's shown that Yukari can also control the boundaries and bend them to her will as seen in Immaterial and Missing Power when she adjusted the sky by manipulating the border between the daylight and moonlight to unite the day and the night.[10] According to Marisa Kirisame, Yukari can even control the boundary between "a danmaku for play and a danmaku for battle".[11]

There are limits to the kinds of places Yukari can connect with her gaps; she required multiple trips to reach Heaven in Scarlet Weather Rhapsody, while in Silent Sinner in Blue she could only create a gap to the Moon under highly specific circumstances (and had to travel much of the distance to the Lunar Capital on foot). She is, however, capable of travelling between Gensokyo and the Outside World. Yukari can create gaps through which only she can pass, or through which anything can pass.[12]

Ultimately, since existence of anything consists of having a boundary, for anything to lose its boundary is a very big thing, as it would then not be able to have its own individual existence. As the rules that govern boundaries would govern this, it is said that to make a new boundary is to create a new existence, and to destroy a boundary is to negate an existence. Hieda no Akyuu evaluated this ability, saying "there is not any sort of defence method nor countermeasure, a power comparable to the power of gods". However, Yukari is capable of sensing and repairing damage to the Great Hakurei Barrier, and is widely believed to have aided in its construction (Yuyuko Saigyouji states that Yukari could not have done so herself). To add to all this, Hieda no Akyuu writes that "manipulation of boundaries" is theoretically a godlike power which would allow Yukari to create or destroy anything, but that all the stories about it are impossible to confirm.[3]

Examples of the usage of this ability:

  • Manipulation of the boundary between lies and truth of the moon reflected on the lake surface for an invasion of the surface of the moon from Gensokyo (Lunar War, Silent Sinner in Blue)
  • By the boundary between reality and fantasy, she isolated Gensokyo from the outside world, participating in the Great Hakurei Barrier Project (The Great Barrier Disturbance)
  • Upon Yuyuko's request, repairing the border between the present world and the Netherworld, i.e the boundary between life and death that has become thin (Perfect Cherry Blossom)
  • Since the Great Hakurei Barrier has loosened, she returned Rinnosuke Morichika to Gensokyo who has been ejected into the outside world (Curiosities of Lotus Asia)
  • Many of her Spell Cards allude to various circumstances involving boundary manipulation, such as: Barrier "Balance of Motion and Stillness", Barrier "Mesh of Light and Darkness", "Boundary of Humans and Youkai", between many others.
Onmyoudou

Yukari is skilled in Onmyoudou, the Taoism-derived arts of traditional Japanese court wizards, and specialises in spells which create and manipulate barriers (presumably due to overlap with her innate abilities). Yukari has been able to teach some of her spells to Reimu Hakurei, whose own techniques have similar roots.

Yukari also displays great aptitude with shikigami, binding a powerful kitsune and numerous lesser servants at once. As Shikigami are strongest when following orders, Yukari must also be skilled at giving the correct orders to fully maximize her shikigamis' potential. In an interview with Aya Shameimaru, Ran Yakumo states that despite sleeping most of the time, Yukari is capable of giving orders no one else would think up the instant she opens her mouth, and Yukari uses complex equations to increase Ran's power indefinitely (This manner of using shikigami is likely one of the reasons Yukari views computers and shikigami as one and the same).

Vergangenheit

Vor über eintausend Jahren organisierte Yukari eine Armee aus Youkai, die eine Invasion auf den Mond starten sollten. Die Youkai wurden auf der Stelle besiegt, da die Lunarier überlegene Technik und Magie hatten, und gezwungen, nach Hause zurückzukehren. Seitdem hat es kein Youkai mehr gewagt, sein Territorium außerhalb von Gensokyo zu vergrößern. Während manche glauben, dass Yukari das aus egoistischen Gründen getan hat, um an Macht zu gelangen, glauben andere, dass sie den Youkai etwas darüber beibringen wollte, Kriege anzufangen, nämlich, dass es eine schlechte Idee ist.

Vor ungefähr tausend Jahren traf Yukari ein Menschenmädchen namens Yuyuko, und freundete sich mit ihr an. Nach Yuyukos Tod war sie immer noch mit ihrem Geist befreundet, obwohl sie allmählich vergaß, wer sie war und warum sie gestorben war. Als Yuyuko sie darum bat, die Grenze zwischen Gensokyo und der Unterwelt zu schwächen, stimmte sie zu. Sie wusste, dass Yuyukos Plan, den Saigyou Ayakashi wieder aufblühen zu lassen, niemals funktionieren könnte, aber sie war zu sehr damit beschäftigt, zu schlafen, als dass sie irgendetwas dagegen sagte oder tat oder die Grenze einfach wieder normal machte, was sie auf Kollisionskurs mit den Protagonisten brachte.

It is not stated who sealed the Saigyou Ayakashi. It was someone who held Yuyuko very dear, judging by the record ("My wish... is that she will never again reincarnate, and never again suffer pain..."). Yuyuko's profile describes the hypothetical breaking of the seal as "breaching the boundary". The boundary sealing the Saigyou Ayakashi is apparently the boundary between life and death, as this is what the BGM that plays during the Saigyou Ayakashi's reflowering represents. Boundary of Life and Death is one of Yukari's spell cards. This possibly implies it was Yukari who sealed the Saigyou Ayakashi. Yukari's profile reveals she knew all along that Yuyuko's body was sealing it, and gives a clear motive, as the tree was killing too many humans. As another possible indication, The Grimoire of Marisa brings up the butterfly dream regarding Yuyuko's spell card during the Saigyou Ayakashi's reflowering, which is a theme associated with Yukari.

One day, Yuyuko requested that Yukari use her power to repair the border between the Netherworld and Gensokyo. Yukari sleepily set off to do so. She had known Yuyuko's plan to make the Saigyou Ayakashi bloom could never succeed, but was too busy sleeping to say or do anything about it, or to put the border back to normal after everything was finished, which put her on a collision course with the heroines of Perfect Cherry Blossom.

Border of Gensokyo

Since then, Yukari has had numerous roles in managing Gensokyo and the youkai. She authored a system of constellations for the youkai[13]. She enacted the Youkai Expansion Project 500 years ago by creating a border between illusion and reality around Gensokyo. She was one of several youkai who suggested the creation of the Great Hakurei Barrier 120 years ago and presumably was one of several that contributed to its creation.[3][14]

The Gensokyo Record in Perfect Cherry Blossom's prologue says that the original Gensokyo boundary (presumably the first "boundary between inside and outside" mentioned in Yukari's Perfect Memento in Strict Sense article) was created by priests, but ZUN said in his e-mails that the Gensokyo Record is not reliable, and that only the long lived youkai knows the true history of Gensokyo. Hieda no Akyuu firmly believes Yukari was involved and Curiosities of Lotus Asia Chapter 26's prologue states that Yukari being its actual creator is an ongoing rumor. According to Rinnosuke, Yukari's power is what separates Gensokyo from the outside world.

Yukari and "The Vampire Incident"

Regarding the vampire incident in Perfect Memento in Strict Sense, it is not stated who were the powerful youkai that defeated the vampire, who signed the contract with the vampire, or who was the one who wrote the original draft of the Spell Card rules that came afterwards (as it was also written on youkai contract paper, Hieda no Akyuu feels it wasn't the Shrine Maiden). However, the colophon at the end reveals that Yukari is the author of a work called "Vampire Pact". This possibly implies her involvement in at least one of these things (if not all three) in the fact that Yukari may've had been involved in the deal with the devil (presumably Remilia Scarlet).

On the related note to the contract, it's explicitly stated in her Perfect Cherry Blossom profile that she's the one responsible for outsiders ending up in Gensokyo, where most of them get devoured by youkai. Her involvement is made even more explicit in Chapter 14 of Wild and Horned Hermit, where Yukari reveals to Kasen Ibaraki that having the zashiki-warashi sent to the outside world takes precedence above keeping them in Gensokyo, and then cryptically comments, "Gensokyo's getting the food to fill the stomachs of all of its youkai from somewhere." This could further extend to an article on Symposium of Post-mysticism, where there were human bones near a well, but no human of Gensokyo was missing and Yukari made no reference to the outside world humans, calling it a "misunderstanding"; the bones later on disappeared.

Underground Agreement

She made a deal with certain youkai to allow them to have their own realm underground in Former Hell if they pacified the evil spirits there[15]. For a while, Yukari took it upon herself to make regular check-ups on various aspects of Gensokyo such as the Human Village or the barrier, but eventually took on Ran Yakumo as a shikigami and left such tasks to her.[16]

Konzept

Name und Herkunft

Ihr voller Name lautet "Yukari Yakumo" (八雲 紫) Die Schriftzeichen für "Yakumo" (八雲) bedeuten wörtlich "acht Wolken" (kann aber auch "unzählbar viele Wolken" bedeuten), und "Yukari" (紫) kann "Violett" bedeuten.

In Kapitel 26 von Curiosities of Lotus Asia wird gesagt, dass Yukari sich diesen Namen selbst gab und Perfect Memento in Strict Sense deutet an, dass Yukari diesen Namen vor 1200 Jahren noch nicht trug.

Yukari's name related to Colors

Jeder der Yakumo-Familie wurde nach einer Farbe benannt. Die Lichtfrequenzen der Farben sind proportional zu ihrer Stärke: Chen (Orange) << Ran Yakumo (Indigo) << Yukari (Violett). Die Energie des violetten Lichts ist die höchste im sichtbaren Spektrum und violettes Licht ist die Grenze zwischen sichtbarem und unsichtbarem Licht. Rotes Licht (Die symbolische Farbe von Remilia Scarlet oder Reimu Hakurei) ist eine weitere Grenze, aber sie sind stärker als Chen. Passend dazu werden Reimu und Yukari während sie in Imperishable Night zusammenarbeiten als das "Boundary Team" bezeichnet. Sie sind für die Instadhaltung der Hakurei-Grenze zuständig und desweiteren formen ihre Farben die beiden Grenzen zwischen sichtbarem und unsichtbarem Licht. Zusätzlich kann das Wort "Yukari" mit einem anderen Schriftzeichen auch "Rand" oder "Grenze" bedeuten, auch wenn es in dieser Form selten benutzt wird.

Manchmal entstehen nach einen Regenschauer doppelte Regenbogen mit dem Regenbogen, welchen man normalerweise sieht (Rot am oberen Rand und Violett am Unteren) und ein weiterer größerer und blasserer Regenbogen darüber. Die Farben des zweiten Regenbogens sind umgekehrt, Rot am unteren Rand und Violett am Oberen. Anders ausgedrückt, Violett bildet die äußeren Ränder des Regenbogens oder in anderen Worten Violett ist die Grenze zwischen dem Himmel und dem Regenbogen. Somit weist Yukaris Name stark auf Grenzen hin.

In Japan (and many other countries) "purple" or "violet" had been thought as a noble color, and used occasionally as a color for high ranks. In fact, ZUN mentioned in some of his interviewsVorlage:Citation needed that he was aware of this fact and uses the color on certain character designs to show levels of power and nobility, thus in this sense using both "violet" as her name and in dress shows that Yukari was designed to be powerful and high ranking.

Yukari's name related to Koizumi Yakumo (Lafcadio Hearn)

There is an assumption that her name Yakumo is taken from the writer Lafcadio Hearn, who naturalized as a Japanese citizen and renamed to "Koizumi Yakumo". When fans asked about the implied connection between Yukari and Maribel Hearn in a high school open lecture program, ZUN brought up Lafcadio Hearn but did not elaborate. See Maribel Hearn article page for details.

Yukari's name related to an Ancient poem

Yakumo also comes from the first ancient poem written in what would become the Japanese "Tanka" form:

"Yakumo tatsu / Izumo yagegaki / Tsuma-gomini / Yaegaki tsukuro / Sono yaegaki wo"
Definitely in keeping with the character's origin/age in the storyline. The translation into English is:
"Eightfold rising clouds/ Build an eightfold fence / An eightfold Izumo fence / Wherein to keep my bride-- / Oh! splendid eightfold fence"
This poem was attributed to the god Susanoo. Interpretations vary as to the meaning of the poem.

Aussehen

Her first appearance was in Perfect Cherry Blossom, where she is depicted with purple eyes and long blonde hair. She carries a pink lace parasol and a paper fan, and rides on a red gap that leads to an unknown destination. She wears a deep purple dress, a pale pink mob cap with a thin red ribbon, and smaller ribbons tied liberally on her accessories and the tips of her hair.

In her appearances in Immaterial and Missing Power and Scarlet Weather Rhapsody, her eyes have become dark golden. She wears a purple Chinese-style tabard with various Trigrams over a pale pink Western-style dress (similar to Ran Yakumo's outfit), wears her hair coiled up into her mob cap, and usually carries a pink parasol. She wears the same outfit in Imperishable Night, but her hair is left loose. In the Japanese community this outfit is known as the "Taoist dress" (道士服).

According to ZUN, the purple dress in Perfect Cherry Blossom is her casual daywear, and the pink one with the Ba Gua symbol in Imperishable Night is the work attire she wears when she commands her Shikigami.Vorlage:Citation needed

Hexagram

The outfit Yukari wears in post-Perfect Cherry Blossom games has two groups of solid/broken lines called trigrams on the front. A solid line represents Yang and a broken line is Yin. The top trigram (Vorlage:Lang) is "dui" or "tui" (open) and is associated with west and water. The bottom trigram (Vorlage:Lang) is "kūn" (field) and is associated with southwest and earth, as well as Yoni (divine passage). The two trigrams together in that order form the hexagram for "clustering," "gathering together," and "finished", which sounds more fitting for Suika Ibuki.

The hexagram "Ts'ui" formed by the combination of "tui" and "kun" results in a meaning of gathering together to persevere towards a destination. This hexagram signifies also great wisdom which is necessary for leadership when directing an assembly together to create overall prosperity for everyone. Yukari herself can be seen as an overseer of Gensokyo. Her ability to create boundaries would definitely give her the ability to bring everyone together while maintaining the harmony of the "created" world. Maybe this design was a critique on her abilities?


Auftritte

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Perfect Cherry Blossom
Yukari's sprite in PCB

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Imperishable Night
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Subterranean Animism
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Spin-Offs

Immaterial and Missing Power
Shoot the Bullet

In Shoot the Bullet, Aya Shameimaru encountered Yukari on the Extra stage and took photos of her danmaku.

Scarlet Weather Rhapsody
Touhou Hisoutensoku

If connecting SWR with Touhou Hisoutensoku, then Yukari can become a selectable character to play with, although she appears in no scenarios.

Hopeless Masquerade

Yukari made a background cameo appearance in Hopeless Masquerade on the Hakurei Shrine stage. She is seen sitting on top of the shrine, waving her fan.

Impossible Spell Card

After apparently reading the newspaper by the tengu about a mischief-making amanojaku, she becomes one of the many strong youkai and humans to try and stop Seija Kijin in the final day. She uses spell cards that are considered impossible to dodge.

Literatur

Bohemian Archive in Japanese Red
Main article: Bohemian Archive in Japanese Red/Yukari

After hearing a fox's cry, Aya Shameimaru went to investigate. She found Yukari beating Ran Yakumo over the head with an umbrella, which Yukari claimed was only for disciplining her. Because Aya is a crow tengu, she feels animal rights are important and was upset by Yukari's "animal abuse".

During the interview Yukari insisted that it was not animal abuse because Ran is a shikigami, which Yukari considered to make her no longer count as being an animal. Yukari explained that as long as a shikigami follows its master's will then it will be as strong as its master. Ran had apparently disobeyed Yukari by doing something she hadn't been ordered to do. Because of that Ran wasn't as strong as she could be and ended up putting herself in danger while relying only on her own strength. This discipline was meant to remind Ran just who her master is so that Ran won't needlessly be in danger by fighting at less than full strength. Aya didn't think that excused it at all.

Yukari also called the Bunbunmaru Newspaper a shoddy paper and offered to make Aya her shikigami too, which Aya refused.

Perfect Memento in Strict Sense

Yukari edited Perfect Memento in Strict Sense and was one of its major sources, according to Memorizable Gensokyo, yet did not confirm her involvement in the above events. One common thread regarding them seems to be that they primarily benefited humans, not youkai (the vampire contract even went so overboard towards protecting humans that youkai complained to the shrine maiden). In addition to this, she has her own in-universe article that provides encyclopaedic information about her.

Yukari appearance in Strange and Bright Nature Deity
Touhou Bougetsushou

Ran Yakumo tells Remilia Scarlet in Silent Sinner in Blue chapter 3 that Yukari invaded the moon to procure its secret of power to improve the youkai quality of life. This is probably the official reason Yukari gave all youkai for the war, as otherwise, Remilia could confirm Ran was lying just by asking around. However, privately, in Cage in Lunatic Runagate Chapter 5, Yukari reveals to Ran that she knew it was impossible for the beings of Earth to ever win a direct confrontation against the Lunarians. It is never stated when Yukari made this realization, so it is possible she knew this even before the first Genso-Lunar War. In addition, The last chapter of Cage in Lunatic Runagate has the line, "While it was Yukari who led the invasion that had convincingly failed more than one thousand years ago,". The word "convincingly" could imply it was staged. If this was the case, then presumably the outcome where youkai decided to stop expanding beyond Gensokyo was Yukari's true intent.

Wild and Horned Hermit

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Symposium of Post-mysticism

Back in 1984, Aya Shameimaru reports that during Gensokyo's winter, children were finding skeletal remains of a human while playing around a dried-up well, to which it ended up that the well was declared to be off-limits. Apparently, a tsurube-otoshi youkai (presumably Kisume) came out of well saying "So is THIS the body you dropped down here?" and threw the bones at them. There were no-one missing, so for who the bones belong to is a mystery.

The bones disappeared while no-one was looking during preparations to bury it in Muenzuka. This rolled onto a case whether there was any sort of incident or not, along with the identity of the previous owner of the bones. Yukari though it was by the youkai from the Underworld and that they wanted to scare the humans since their powers come from the negative energy of humans, but it may've been a simple misunderstanding. There was a non-intervention agreement pact made between the underworld youkai and the surface, so the situation could become complicated.

The incident was settled as silver birch branches have been mistaken for bones, to which no ominous occurrences had happened at the Human Village. At a later date, it was confirmed that the dried-up well was filled in with dirt; who did this is unknown.

Verbindungen mit der Außenwelt

In Chapter 11 and Chapter 12 of Curiosities of Lotus Asia, when Rinnosuke Morichika had an iPod in Kourindou, only Yukari knew how to actually use it, and further knew that it was considered a trendy item in the Outside World. She similarly knew about the Nintendo Game Boy and DS. She appears very knowledgeable about the outside world.

Because of her understanding of technology from the outside world, there are rumors that she lives in the outside world from time to time. It is confirmed that she at least visits there. Reimu mentions in Curiosities of Lotus Asia Chapter 24 that Yukari told her that she gets to enjoy twice the amount of cherry blossom viewings a year because she also goes to watch the blossoms in the outside world, which occurs at a different time from Gensokyo's. In addition, Yukari at the end of Chapter 25 of Strange and Bright Nature Deity is shown viewing the Hakurei Shrine from the outside world (some panels focus specifically on pointing out there are cars driving by).

Marisa Kirisame once stated that Yukari uses a small box to talk to her shikigami when they are far away from her, which led Rinnosuke to believe that she owns a phone. She has given characters phone-like devices in Subterranean Animism. Yukari mentions in Oriental Sacred Place chapter 10 that radio towers fall into Gensokyo every once in a while. Presumably her phones use those in order to work.

There is an theory for something like "isn't she outside of Gensokyo?", but since her home is a place that Ran Yakumo can enter and exit ordinarily, her home would definitely be at least somewhere within Gensokyo. It was said that she lived in an estate somewhere in Gensokyo, but other than that, nothing is known. It is said that her residence is at the end of Gensokyo just like how the Hakurei Shrine is, but the true location is completely unclear. Mayohiga is not Yukari's residence; in Bohemian Archive in Japanese Red, it was called the "village of cats", and it is only a deserted house where Chen gathers cats.

Beziehungen

Using her gap to travel accross Gensokyo, despite sleeping a lot, Yukari has encountered many youkai and humans in the Touhou Project. By many residents of Gensokyo, she is commonly referred to as the "Gap Youkai" when she's involved in a conversation.

Reimu und Marisa

Yukari has always had a close tie to the Hakurei Shrine maidens, as one meaning of her name is she controls the Shrine Maidens of Gensokyo. Reimu Hakurei, along with Marisa Kirisame, first met Yukari when she asked her to repair the border between the Netherworld and Gensokyo in Perfect Cherry Blossom. However, Yukari indicated she is already familiar with Reimu and Marisa to an unspecified extent. With Marisa, it resulted in Yukari playing a prank on her by keeping her up way past bedtime.

As a friend, she often visits Reimu at the Hakurei Shrine and often drops by Marisa's house randomly, to which in Perfect Memento in Strict SenseMarisa complains that Yukari never uses the door. Yukari steals food from Reimu in Perfect Memento in Strict Sense, stays at Reimu's shrine for at least a month into the winter in Curiosities of Lotus Asia, and is among several characters when Reimu complains about youkai visitors to her shrine in Wild and Horned Hermit. She sometimes visits to discuss philosophical matters like in Seasonal Dream Vision, or Strange and Bright Nature Deity where she gave Reimu out-of-season taro roots from the outside world, asking her to think about their meaning.

As an employer, she's given Reimu several missions in Subterranean Animism, Imperishable Night and Silent Sinner in Blue. An offhand comment in the first stage of Imperishable Night shows she compensated Reimu for it.

As a mentor, she is often teaching Reimu not just about Gensokyo (she does that a lot, too, shown several times in Oriental Sacred Place) but also how to do her job as Shrine Maiden. She shows up when Reimu purposefully damages the barrier in Curiosities of Lotus Asia to tell her not to do that, reminds Reimu of her youkai-crushing duties in Imperishable Night's extra, and makes Reimu train hard to prepare for Silent Sinner in Blue (Curiosities of Lotus Asia states the latter is rare for her). The latter included Yukari attacking Reimu at unannounced times.

She seems to be secretly looking after Reimu in other ways, as she sneaks yen donations into the Hakurei Shrine's donation offering box when Reimu isn't looking in chapter 23 of Strange and Bright Nature Deity. Like most characters, Reimu finds Yukari extremely annoying. Yukari doesn't mind, clearly joking "How rude!" or "What a greeting!" to such things. In the case of Seasonal Dream Vision for Marisa, she got angry over Yukari's random visit, but it was because Yukari was curious as to Marisa's thoughts on the matter regarding the flower incident, so presumably many of Yukari's other visits to Marisa are for her own amusement, as well.

Shikigami

Yukari smacking Ran Yakumo, as illustrated in Bohemian Archive in Japanese Red.
Ran Yakumo

Ran Yakumo is Yukari's main shikigami. Yukari is the one who's given Ran her current name. An interview in Bohemian Archive in Japanese Red with Aya Shameimaru implies Ran came to be Yukari's shikigami because of all the power it promised, and is quite satisfied with the result despite losing her freedom. Ran was not born before the Genso-Lunar War, so she must have become Yukari's shikigami sometime after that.

Yukari keeps the relationship on a user-to-shikigami level. This relationship is analogous to a user and its computer in the outside world, and Yukari insists heavily that Ran is not a fox, but is a tool to be used. Yukari's own thoughts and perspective in Chapter Five of Cage in Lunatic Runagate refers to Ran with computer terms, such as programming or debugging. Ran is still more advanced than a computer, so Yukari attempts philosophical discussion with Ran from time to time, but typically gets boring responses involving numbers and calculations. Yukari loves Ran very much, but in terms of how one would love a tool they own.

Ran often "forgets" she is a shikigami, taking matters into her own hands without Yukari's orders. This can't be helped because Yukari sleeps a lot. Yukari will physically discipline Ran when this happens (by whacking her with her umbrella). Using a tool and keeping it in good shape (via discipline) shows love for your shikigami (according to Yukari). Ran accepts and seems satisfied with this, and also seems to care for her master, attempting to encourage Yukari after the second Genso-Lunar War failed. But she won't disagree that her master is annoying and is often driven to much frustration by Yukari's double-speak and secrecy.

Chen

Ran also has a shikigami named Chen. As Ran's shikigami, Chen follows the will of both Ran Yakumo and Yukari Yakumo. It's implied she's quite a handful, and unlike Ran, Yukari views Chen as both Ran's shikigami and their pet, saying in Subterranean Animism, "I wonder where our cat went off to? It's such a pain when she just suddenly disappears like that. I wish you'd take care to program your own familiar properly. Without any bugs."

Unlike Ran Yakumo, Chen is never called "Chen Yakumo", even when "Chen" and "Ran Yakumo" show up in the same sentence in Perfect Memento in Strict Sense.

Yukaris Krähen

Zenki and Goki are two crows that Yukari and Ran use as shikigami. They might be temporary names for all shikigami crows, as one gets killed by Watatsuki no Toyohime, yet three more spy for Yukari later in Chapter 20 of Silent Sinner in Blue.

Unterwelt

Yuyuko Saigyouji

Yukari and Yuyuko Saigyouji were friends even while Yuyuko was alive more than a thousand years ago, and continued to be Yuyuko's friend after she became a ghost. Of note is that this friendship between Yuyuko and Yukari does not extend to Yukari's shikigami Ran, and Yuyuko does not mind others beating Ran up.

Yuyuko seems to be the only one who truly understands Yukari. Yukari knows this as well, often just assuming that Yuyuko knows what she's talking about or what's going on (this is clear whenever the two interact, including victory quotes). The two don't think exactly alike, however, which results in Yuyuko acting in ways that surprises Yukari. Yukari will do something just because Yuyuko asked and vice versa.

Yukari believed the Saigyou Ayakashi ate too many human lives. She was always aware that Yuyuko's body was sealing it. It's possible Yukari is the one who sealed it using Yuyuko's body, herself.

Youmu Konpaku

Being Yuyuko's servant, Yukari helps Youmu Konpaku with lessons and advice every once in a while, like in Scarlet Weather Rhapsody.

Die Oni

Suika Ibuki

Yukari was Suika Ibuki's friend before the oni went underground. It is unknown how or when they became friends. Yukari looks out for Suika in Immaterial and Missing Power and Suika does favors for Yukari, such as rebuilding the Hakurei Shrine in Scarlet Weather Rhapsody or helping to investigate the underground. The two play danmaku battles with each other, though it's been a while since the last one before Scarlet Weather Rhapsody. In Oriental Sacred Place Chapter 12, Yukari is with Suika at the Hakurei Shrine New Year's Festival.

Suika does get annoyed with Yukari's "dirty tricks", but doesn't go beyond snapping that they're dirty. Suika may know some of Yukari's secrets, as she's referred to Yukari's existence as fraudulent in Immaterial and Missing Power, and stated to Yukari that it was rare to see her "on this side of the world" in broad daylight.

Yuugi Hoshiguma

Yuugi Hoshiguma is one of the oni (presumably Suika is another) that Yukari made a deal with. In exchange for keeping the evil spirits of former hell in control, Yukari would give them their own place in the Underworld and keep the overworld youkai from intruding. Unlike Suika, Yukari does not seem to have any personal attachments to Yuugi. As an aside, from Yukari's Immaterial and Missing Power ending, Yukari believes that if the oni ever do come back to Gensokyo, it must be gradual instead of all oni coming back at once.

Einwohner der Scarlet Devil Mansion

Remilia Scarlet

Yukari uses Remilia Scarlet as part of her scheme to extract the residence tax and get revenge on the Lunarians in Silent Sinner in Blue. Patchouli reveals Remilia knew she was manipulated but didn't care, because she was bored. Remilia herself has an unexplained rivalry of sorts with Yukari, wanting to get to the Moon in her own way before Yukari could to surprise her. This rivalry might be due to the power struggle mentioned in Perfect Memento in Strict Sense's Vampire article, possibly starting with the vampire incident. The rivalry is mostly friendly (and only Remilia seems to care), as Remilia has no objections to Yukari staying for the party at the end of Silent Sinner in Blue or assisting her with investigating in Scarlet Weather Rhapsody.

Dialogues in Immaterial and Missing Power seems to imply they've already known each other before that game. It is possible they met at the vampire incident, and that Yukari was the one that signed "the contract" with Remilia.

Patchouli Knowledge

Patchouli Knowledge first meets Yukari in her scenario in Immaterial and Missing Power. In Scarlet Weather Rhapsody, Yukari places her in charge of watching the underworld in her victory quote to her. Patchouli later informs and urges her to act about the evil spirits coming out of the underground in Subterranean Animism's prologue. Yukari finally agrees to act because she "can't let them all just do whatever they want again". It is unknown (even to Patchouli) which incident Yukari is referring to (there are many possible ones). Patchouli continues to collaborate with Yukari regarding the underground, as she informs Yukari of the Palanquin Ship in a Touhou Hisoutensoku victory quote.

Eientei Einwohner

Along with Reimu, Yukari confronted Eirin and Kaguya Houraisan to restore the full moon in Imperishable Night, making Yukari one of the few characters who knows they're from the moon. After the incident was resolved and the moon restored, the girls all had a round of moon viewing sake with each other.

Unknown to each other, Eirin and Yukari's own history actually goes back further than that. As mentioned by Watatsuki no Toyohime at the end of chapter 17 of Silent Sinner in Blue, one thousand years ago, Eirin set up a trap to catch someone who'd try to invade the moon. Yukari was well aware of the trap, apparently having already triggered it before (assuming her "make-believe" story in Cage in Lunatic Runagate actually happened). She seems to bear a grudge against the Lunarian sage (Eirin) that set it, referring to her as "the much-despised Lunarian sage".

However, Yukari hasn't realized who Eirin is. Neither of them make special note of each other in Imperishable Night and are amicable with each other in the ending. Near the end of Silent Sinner in Blue, Yukari remarks to Ran Yakumo that she's unsure if "the Brain of the Moon" had actually settled on Earth. Yukari suspects Eirin is a spy for the Moon.

The final chapter of Cage in Lunatic Runagate reveals that Yukari orchestrated the events primarily to teach Eirin to fear the unknown, likely because those who live as humans in Gensokyo are supposed to fear the youkai (as stated in Yukari's lecture to Ran earlier about the aliens).

Kleine Beziehungen

Rinnosuke Morichika

Yukari and Rinnosuke Morichika mostly have business arrangements. In exchange for fuel for his kerosene fan heater, Yukari takes merchandise she likes and occasionally provides information on items. While he is grateful, Rinnosuke also doesn't like dealing with her all that much and makes note of how ominous she seems. Although he can't remember it, Yukari once prevented Rinnosuke from being spirited away to the outside world.

Eiki Shiki, Yamaxanadu

When Yukari senses Eiki Shiki approaching in Seasonal Dream Vision; she and Yuyuko leave immediately to avoid talking with her. Perfect Memento in Strict Sense notes that most long-lived youkai were assisted by Eiki at least once and avoid her due to her lectures.

Alice Margatroid

For whatever reason, Alice Margatroid is willing to confront Yukari in Immaterial and Missing Power despite otherwise avoiding strong youkai such as Remilia Scarlet and Yuyuko Saigyouji. Yukari's also set up Alice's dolls off-page to allow for long-range communications in Subterranean Animism. Her dialogue towards Yukari in Immaterial and Missing Power shows that they knew each other before then. Like most characters, Alice is still suspicious of Yukari by default. Alice is aware of various youkai roles and agreements that Yukari is constantly preaching. Yukari also harshly scolds Alice in Alice's second bad ending in Immaterial and Missing Power, much to everyone else's entertainment.

Keine Kamishirasawa

Yukari and Keine Kamishirasawa met and fought at the Human Village in Imperishable Night. Keine's ability to hide history has no effect on Yukari, who didn't even know she was using her ability in the first place. It is unexplained why, but history and reality are mentioned regarding Yukari so often that there are many possible reasons. Yukari also disliked Keine for being a human-faced beast.

Fujiwara no Mokou

Yukari and Reimu fought Fujiwara no Mokou in Imperishable Night's Extra stage.

Three Fairies of Light

Yukari met the Three Fairies of Light in a continuation of chapter 0 in Eastern and Little Nature Deity chapter 5, asking if she could join in on their pranks. They ran away from her. Later, in Strange and Bright Nature Deity, Yukari needed to repair a tree that was part of the Great Hakurei Barrier. She did so by moving the three fairies into it, but only after testing that they were too weak to cause serious trouble. They failed the test with flying colors, so Yukari let them move in. Sunny's ability to reflect some of Yukari's danmaku did impress her a bit.

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Perfect Cherry Blossom - キャラ設定.txt

Yukari Yakumo PCB  ○神隠しの主犯

  八雲 紫(やくも・ゆかり)

  春になると目が覚めるすきま妖怪。
  主に、あらゆる境界を操る程度の能力を持つ。

  幽々子とは旧知の仲であるが、別に幽霊ではない。幻想郷の中でも、もっとも辺境にひっそりと棲む妖怪である。ここから、博麗大結界を見つつ暮らしている。

  たまに幻想郷に人間が紛れ込むのも、紫が境界に揺らぎをつくったりするからである。人間は神隠しと呼ぶ現象も、結局神の仕業ではなく、この妖怪少女の仕業だと知ってしまったら、何の神秘性も失われる事だろう。

  紫は普段は余り動くことは無く、代わりに式神の藍を操り生活をしている。でも殆どが睡眠時間の為、寝ている間は藍はほったらかしで、何をしているか良く知らない。

  その式神の藍が何者かにやられた事を聞き、ちょっと驚いたが二度寝をした。

  ニ度寝から目を覚ましたとき、ようやく、あたり一面がすっかり春になっていたことに気が付いた。実は10日程も前から春になっていたのだが、そのことを寝る度に忘れ、起きるたびに驚いていたのだ。

  藍の修復が完了するまで、おちおち寝てもいられないなぁ、と思いつつ三度寝をする。

  そんなときに、今回の騒動で薄くなった幽明の境を修復して欲しいと幽々子から依頼を受ける。自分で弱くしておいて修復もへったくれも無いな、と思いつつ眠い目を擦り出発する。

  久しぶりに冥界に訪れた紫は、妙な賑わいぶりに不思議に思う。西行寺家はもっと静かじゃなかったか?と思ったが、幽々子の趣味が変ったんだろうと勝手に納得した。

  途中で庭師の妖夢に会い、詳しく事情を聞いた。妖夢の話し振りではどうやら酷い目に遭ったらしいが、紫にはどう聞いても自業自得にしか聴こえなかった。


  皆、あの妖怪桜に狂わされていただけの様に見える。あの桜は人の精気を吸いすぎている。常々危険だと思っていた。思ってはいたが、自分の力ではどうしようも無い事も分っていた。
  紫は幽々子が生きていた頃から知っている。実は、幽々子が妖怪桜に封印されているのではなく、幽々子の亡骸が妖怪桜を封印している、という事も。

Drahtzieherin hinter dem Hinwegzaubern

Yukari Yakumo

Der Youkai der Grenzen, der im Frühling erwacht.
Sie besitzt hauptsächlich die Fähigkeit, alle möglichen Grenzen zu beeinflussen.

Sie und Yuyuko kennen sich schon lange, aber Yukari ist kein Geist. Sie lebt im abgelegensten Ort Gensokyos.

Wenn Menschen von der Außenwelt nach Gensokyo gelangen, ist das wegen Schwankungen in der Hakurei-Grenze, die von Yukari verursacht wurden. Da ist eine bezaubernde Tatsache über ein Phänomen, das Menschen "Hinwegzaubern" nennen; falls jemals jemand herrausfinden sollte, dass es nicht durch Götter, sondern durch ein Youkai-Mädchen verursacht wird, würde es alles Mystische verlieren.

Normalerweise handelt Yukari nicht selbst, sondern lässt Ran die Tücken des Alltags beseitigen. Aber weil sie fast immer schläft, hat sie keine Idee, was Ran die ganze Zeit tut.

Als sie hörte, dass Ran von jemandem besiegt worden war, war sie mittelschwer überrascht, bevor sie sich wieder schlafen legte.

Nachdem sie aufwachte, war sie überrascht, dass der Frühling ihre Residenz erreicht hatte. Die Wahrheit ist, dass es bei ihr schon seit zehn Jahren Frühling ist, sie hat es nur jedesmal vergessen, als sie sich hinlegte, und war jedesmal aufs neue überrascht, wenn sie aufwachte.

Sie konnte nicht gut schlafen, bis Ran sich wieder erholt hatte, aber sie beschloss, einfach ein paar Tage darüber zu schlafen.

Als sie das nächste mal aufwachte, bat Yuyuko sie darum, die Grenze zwischen der Welt der Lebenden und der Welt der Toten wiederherzustellen. Das war eine lächerliche Bitte, weil Yuyuko selbst doch die Grenze geschwächt haben wollte. Sie rieb sich den Schlaf von den Augen und fing an, zu reparieren.

Es war schon länger her, seit Yukari das letzte mal hier war, und so war sie wegen der Belebtheit des Ortes verwundert. Sie hatte angenommen, dass der Saigyouji-Clan ruhiger war, aber vermutete, dass sich Yuyukos Geschmack einfach verändert hatte.

Sie traf die Gärtnerin, Youmu Konpaku, die ihr von dem Vorfall berichtete. Youmu stimmte zu, dass dort großes Durcheinander herrschte, aber es hörte sich nach einer gerechten Strafe an.


Es hatten sich immer nur alle für diesen Kirschbaum interessiert. Er hat die Seele von zu vielen lebenden Menschen absorbiert. Yukari wusste, wie gefährlich er war. Jedenfalls erkannte sie, dass sie nichts machen konnte.

Yukari kannte Yuyuko sogar noch vor ihrem Tod. Sie wusste auch, dass nicht Yuyuko versiegelt worden war...

... sondern das Siegel für den Saigyou Ayakashi war.


Immaterial and Missing Power - 上海アリス通信.txt

Yukari Yakumo IaMP  ○幻想の境界

  八雲 紫(やくもゆかり)

  種族:妖怪
  住処:不明
  能力:境界を操る程度の能力

   幻想郷の妖怪。文字通り妖しくて怪しい。幻想郷の境にある屋敷にすむと言うが、その場所は知られていない。何故か外の世界にも詳しい。
  非常に胡散臭い。

   性格は理解不能だが、決して良い物ではないという所はは誰もが認める所である。出来る限りなら会いたくないと思われている。普段は霊夢位しかまともに相手をしてくれない。

   体術も、人間の基準とは異なる動きをする。速くもなく重くもない。
  強いのか弱いのかすら計り知れない。遊ばれている様に見える紫の行動は、例え勝ったとしてもなんか腹立たしい。

   しかしながら、彼女ほど幻想郷と真摯に接し、幻想郷を愛している者もいない。

  • Grenze der Fantasie

Yukari Yakumo

Spezies: Youkai
Heimat: Unbekannt
Fähigkeit: Grenzen manipulieren

Ein Youkai, der in Gensokyo lebt. Wie man an diesen Buchstaben (妖怪) erkennt, ist sie fragwürdig und verdächtig. Man sagt, sie lebt in einer Villa an der Grenze von Gensokyo, aber niemand weiß genau, wo das ist. Aus irgendeinem Grund weiß sie viel über die Außenwelt.
Das macht sie äußerst verdächtig.

Ihre Persönlichkeit ist schwer zu verstehen, aber jeder würde zustimmen, dass sie nicht sehr angenehm ist. Die meisten Leute versuchen, ihr aus dem Weg zu gehen, nur Reimu trifft sich oft mit ihr.

Ihr Kampfstil entzieht sich jedem menschlichen Maßstab. Sie ist weder schnell, noch trifft sie hart. Es ist unwichtig, ob sie wirklich kräftig ist oder nicht. Es scheint so, als würde sie nur mit einem spielen, was sehr irritierend ist, wenn man sie besiegt.

Allerdings gibt es niemandem, der Gensokyo so aufrichtig und mit ganzem Herzen liebt, wie sie..


Imperishable Night - Manual

Yukari Yakumo IN  ○境界の妖怪 八雲 紫(やくもゆかり)

  幻想郷の境に住む妖怪。
  境界を操る程度の能力を持つ。どの位長く生きているのか不明だが幻想郷の歴史よりは長いはず。
  誰から見ても心が読めない性格は、長く生きる者特有の嫌味を感じない。
  割と近寄りがたいが、その理由は威圧感と言うより、胡散臭さにある。
  一人の式神を遣い、雑用を任せっきり。本人は気楽なものである。
  式神はある意味人質を取られてる様なもんだからたまんない。
  境界(結界)を操る事がどれだけ危険で強大な力なのかは計り知れない。
  紫の様なちょっと変わった妖怪か、力の重圧に耐えられる者で無いとその力は扱えないのだ。

  武器は式神。道具扱い。

    備考
    今回は霊夢と組む。
    高速移動は単独使用時のみの性能である。
    式神に任せっきりの人生。式神は一度ロックすれば、ショットを止めるか敵が死ぬまで
    ロックしっぱなしになる。ただし、最初のロックはある程度正面の敵しかロックしない。
    まったりこそ人生、という人向け。

Youkai der Grenzen, Yukari Yakumo

Ein Youkai, der am Rand von Gensokyo lebt.
Sie besitzt die Fähigkeit, Grenzen zu kontrollieren. Es ist unwichtig, wie lange sie schon lebt, aber sie existiert schon länger als Gensokyo selbst.
Ihre Persönlichkeit ist schwer zu verstehen; anders als andere langlebigen Wesen zeigt sie nicht die Verbitterung, die sonst mit alten Leuten assoziiert wird. Es ist sehr schwer, auf sie zuzugehen, aber das liegt eher an ihrer Verschlagenheit, als an den merkwürdigen Gefühlen, die Leute in ihrer Gegenwart spüren.
Sie besitzt einen Shikigami, den sie alle alltäglichen Aufgaben erledigen lässt. Yukari selbst hat ein einfaches und unbeschwertes leben. Aus Rans Blickwinkel ist es so, als würde ihre Meisterin sie als Geisel halten, was etwas verwirrend ist.
Die Gefahr, die von der Kontrolle der Grenzen ausgeht, liegt weit über unserer Vorstellungskraft. So etwas kann nur von Wesen kontrolliert werden, die der Belastung standhalten, oder eben solchen exzentrischen Persönlichkeiten wie Yukari.

Ein Shikigami ist eine wirksame Waffe. Yukari behandelt ihren wie einen Gegenstand.

Anmerkungen
Sie verbündet sich diesesmal mit Reimu.
Ihre normale Geschwindigkeit gilt nur, wenn sie Solo benutzt wird.
Genau wie im alltäglichen Leben überlässt sie Ran die Arbeit. Sobald Ran ihr Ziel gefunden hat, lässt sie nicht mehr los, bis Yukari aufhört zu schießen oder der Gegner besiegt wird.
Bedenke, dass du dich genau unter deinen Feind stellen musst, damit Ran ihr Ziel findet.
Empfohlen für spieler, die sich gerne zurücklehnen und die Dinge sich selbst überlassen.


Imperishable Night - キャラ設定.txt

Yukari Yakumo IN  ○境目に潜む妖怪

  八雲 紫(やくも ゆかり)
  Yukari Yakumo

  種族:妖怪
  能力:境界を操る程度の能力

  幻想郷の境の何処かにすむ妖怪。
  境自体は普通の人には見えない為、何処に住んでいるのか不明。
  最低でも同じ境上にある神社ではない。

  幻想郷に住む妖怪の中では、かなり昔から存在し力も強大である。今では幻想郷そのもののことを良く知っている者は、妖怪の中でも数少ない。彼女は胡散臭く見られるが、それは人間っぽさが少なく、行動が理解出来ない所為でもある。その能力は、困ったら簡単に幻想郷を潰す事もできる危険な妖怪でもある。

Der Youkai, der in den Grenzen lauert


Yukari Yakumo

Spezies: Youkai Fähigkeit: Manipulation von Grenzen

Sie lebt irgendwo auf der Grenze zwischen Gensokyo und der Außenwelt. Weil die meisten Leute keine Grenzen sehen können, weiß niemand so genau, wo sie wohnt. Sie wissen nur, das sie in der Nähe der Hakurei-Grenze lebt, die sich am äußersten Rand befindet.

Sie ist eines der ältesten Geschöpfe Gensokyos und besitzt die Kraft, das nachzuweisen. Gensokyos Ursprung ist schon längst in Vergessenheit geraten, aber sie scheint sich noch an Teile erinnern zu können. Sie wird oft als verschlagen beschrieben, was aber daran liegt, dass sie vollkommen anders denkt als Menschen. Das macht sie auch so schwer zu verstehen. Sie könnte mit ihrer Kraft ganz Gensokyo auslöschen, also ist es eigentlich ganz gut, dass sie so exzentrisch ist...


Scarlet Weather Rhapsody - chara.html

Yukari Yakumo SWR   ○幻想の境界

  八雲 紫(やくも ゆかり)

  種族 : 妖怪
  住家 : 幻想郷と外との境界にあるといわれる家
  能力 : 境界を操る程度の能力
  性格 : 冷静にして人に避けられやすい

Grenze der Fantasie

Yukari Yakumo

Rasse: Youkai
Heimat: Es wird gesagt, dass ihr Haus an der Grenze Gensokyos liegt
Fähigkeit: Die Kontrolle über Grenzen
Persönlichkeit: Merkwürdig, berechnend, abstoßend


Subterranean Animism - キャラ設定.txt

 ○境界の妖怪

  八雲 紫(やくも ゆかり)
  Yakumo Yukari

  種族:妖怪
  能力:境界を操る程度の能力

  普段は何処にいるのかよく判らない神出鬼没の妖怪。
  今回は会話できる陰陽玉を作った。

  地底は地上の妖怪達とは違う社会を築いているので、余り干渉したがらない。突然の怨霊の出現に戸惑う。
  何か大きな異変だったら嫌だなと、影響力の小さい霊夢に調査を依頼した。

Der Youkai der Grenzen

Yukari Yakumo

Spezies: Youkai
Fähigkeit: Das kontrollieren von Grenzen

Ein Youkai, der kommt und geht, wie es ihm passt; man weiß nie, wo sie sich gerade aufhält.
Dieses mal hat sie Yin-Yang-Orbs gemacht, über die man sich mit ihr unterhalten kann.

Weil die unterirdischen Youkai eine Zivilisation aufgebaut haben, die Unabhängig von der Oberfläche ist, möchte sie eigentlich nicht stören. Das plötzliche Auftauchen der bösen Geister hat sie verdutzt. Sie wollte in nichts großes hineingeraten, also hat sie Reimu, die kaum Einfluss hat, zu Erkunden geschickt.


Touhou Bougetsushou official website

Yukari 八雲 紫 (やくも ゆかり)
妖怪/境界を操る程度の能力

幻想郷の境の何処かに住む妖怪。非人間的で胡散臭い性
格の持ち主。たまに人間が幻想郷に迷い込むときは、紫が
結界に穴を開けることが原因だと思われる。
妖怪の中でも強大な力を持ち、八雲藍などの式神を使役
するが、むやみに人を襲うわけではない。面倒臭がりな一
面もあり。


Rough[18]

Yukari Yakumo MAGNet interview ・ちょっとボスらしく戦闘

 モードに。(式神使役モード)
・藍が中華風なのは紫が
 中華風だからです。
・髪は長髪だが、戦闘モード
 ではキャップの中に詰めてあります。
・ちょっと複雑すぎるかもしれないですが
・側面(うで無)
・チャイナ部分
・チャイナ取り除き
・家の中では帽子はかけない

· In battle mode, kind of like a boss. (Shikigami Deployment Mode)

· Ran is in Chinese style because Yukari is in Chinese style.
· Her hair is long, but in battle mode she has it tucked in her cap.
· Maybe this is a little too complex.
· Side view (without her arms).
· The Chinese part.
· Without the Chinese part.
· She doesn't wear the cap when inside houses.

Offizielle Ressourcen

Referenzen

  1. As indicated by Ran and Chen's titles
  2. Bohemian Archive in Japanese Red - Yukari
  3. 3,0 3,1 3,2 Perfect Memento in Strict Sense: Yukari Yakumo
  4. Bohemian Archive in Japanese Red: Ran Yakumo
  5. Immaterial and Missing Power - Yukari's Script:
    Yukari:Shooting, cutting, stabbing, hitting, killing... It's all useless against me.
    Yukari: I'll tell you a secret. My weakness is... nothing.
  6. Imperishable Night - Yukari's Profile
  7. Imperishable Night - Manual: The danger and potency of the power to manipulate boundaries is beyond imagination. It's something that can only be controlled by those who are able to withstand its stress, or some weirdo youkai like Yukari.
  8. A Beautiful Flower_Blooming Violet Every Sixty Years - Yukari: I'm a youkai with the ability to control the boundaries between any and all things. This power allows me to remove the boundary between anything: Gensokyo and the outside world, the worlds of the living and the dead, humans and youkai, even day and night.
  9. Imperishable Night Stage 3 - "Hey hey. I do see the humans as usual though. A deception of this level isn't useful at all, is it?"
  10. Immaterial and Missing Power Border Line - "While you were teasing me I adjusted the sky to enjoy both night and day. If the night falls now, the sky will be morning. The border of daylight and moonlight is mine"
  11. The Grimoire of Marisa: Yukari Yakumo
  12. Perfect Memento in Strict Sense: Yukari Yakumo - "No one can follow her through the gaps". Despite this statement, various canon works show her opening gaps for others to use.
  13. Curiosities of Lotus Asia: Chapter 22
  14. Perfect Cherry Blossom Reimu B Ending. Yuyuko comments that she doesn't think even Yukari could have made the Hakurei barrier by herself.
  15. Subterranean Animism: Reimu and Yukari's Scenario
  16. Perfect Memento in Strict Sense: Ran Yakumo
  17. Vorlage:Lang the Nicopedia page of her spell card "Abandoned Line 'Aimless Journey to the Abandoned Station'" (Japanese).
  18. Mag-Net! Mag-Net! 第5回 東方Project 11. September 2011