Marisa Kirisame (霧雨 魔理沙 Kirisame Marisa?)
Species: Human
Ability: High-powered magic
Residence: Forest of Magic
Theme Songs:
Love-colored Magic (SoEW, IaMP)
Dim. Dream (PoDD)
Vessel of Stars ~ Casket of Stars (LLS, SWR)
The Witches' Ball ~ Magus (Seihou: Shuushou Gyoku, IaMP)
Love-colored Master Spark (IN)
Oriental Dark Flight (PoFV)
Also known as: Ordinary Sorceress
Marisa is the secondary main character of Touhou games 3-12, although she makes her first appearance in the second game (Story of Eastern Wonderland) as an enemy. Marisa is a human magician who lives in a cluttered house in the Forest of Magic. She is friends with Reimu and visits her often, but otherwise is solitary and spends most of her time researching magic. She is also an avid collector stuffing her house with various items, and would go "borrowing" things from others without returning them. She is selfish, sometimes violent, and has a disagreeable manner. Underneath, though, she is honest and a hard worker. This makes it strange that she is friends with Reimu, whose powers are purely from talent while she had to work very hard to get her own to the same level. Her ability is high-level destructive magic. In the games, her attacks are characterized by stars and lasers. Consistent to her "borrowing", many of her spells are lifted from other characters, such as her signature "Master Spark" which was originally Yuka Kazami's, or her "Nondirectional Laser" attack, which was originally Patchouli's attack. She also appears in Seihou: Shuushou Gyoku as one of the Extra Bosses.
