Nitori Kawashiro (河城 にとり Kawashiro Nitori) is a somewhat shy Kappa who lives in Genbu Ravine on Youkai Mountain. She has the power to control water, and along with the other kappa she is very good with engineering and technology.

General Information [ edit ]

She first appeared as a stage 3 boss in Mountain of Faith and then became a playable partner with Marisa Kirisame in Subterranean Animism. She was later a Day 6 boss in Impossible Spell Card, and a playable character in Hopeless Masquerade and Urban Legend in Limbo. According to ZUN, there were also plans to make her a playable character in Touhou Hisoutensoku, but she was scrapped due to time constraints.

Personality [ edit ]

Nitori is a shy kappa by nature and if she is alone and sees a human, she'll run away, like in Mountain of Faith. She considers herself to be superior to humans and even other youkai and when she's by herself it's easy to see. However, when among her own circle of friends, she is quite cheerful. As a kappa, she is easily persuaded to leave you alone by a cucumber or two. However, she has a greedy side when it comes to running a stand and is quick to come up with plots to maximize profit.

Ability [ edit ]

Manipulation of water

Her ability to manipulate water is inherent in the fact that she is a kappa, and has nothing to do with the myriad tools she uses. No one knows the true extent of this power, but she has been seen to use it to shoot water, create fountains, perform theatrical tricks and even summoning colossal tidal waves.

Using tools

Akyuu makes a note that kappa, historically, have had an trait called tsuuhai (通背), which means their arms are connected inside their body and they can stretch one arm by retracting the other. However, it is said that they are actually just using tools to make it seem as though their arms stretch.[1] In Wild and Horned Hermit chapter one, Reimu receives a "kappa's arm" that ends up being a mechanical arm. In Hopeless Masquerade, Nitori is also seen using several arm-like machines to attack.

Occupation [ edit ]

As she is an engineer she is very interested in products made by the humans of the outside world. She takes such products apart and puts them back together in order to understand them. However, she has trouble creating magical tools of any sort. She is fond of selling her inventions and other things such as Fish as her story mode in Hopeless Masquerade details her attempts at running a stand before getting sucked into the battle.

Possessions [ edit ]

Nitori possesses many small devices and objects and carries them all in her backpack.

Design [ edit ]

Name [ edit ]

Her full name is Nitori Kawashiro (河城 にとり). Kawashiro (河城) means "river(河) castle(城)". Nitori is in hiragana.

Her name might have originated from Ryuunosuke Akutagawa's novel Kappa the second chapter of which begins with the sentence 「そのうちにやっと気がついてみると、僕は仰向けに倒れたまま、大勢の河童にとり囲まれていました。」(Sono uchi ni yatto kigatsuite miru to, boku wa aomuke ni taoreta mama, oozei no kappa ni tori kakomarete imashita., "When at last I came 'round, I found myself lying on my back surrounded by a large number of kappa.") — from the translation by Seiichi Shiojiri.

Appearance [ edit ]

Nitori has blue hair tied into twintails and blue eyes in Mountain of Faith. She wears a blue dress with lots of pockets around the hem of the skirt and her upper arm, and a dark aquamarine backpack with a golden key on the strap in front of her. She also wears a green hat with a white wispy symbol on it, blue wellington boots and carries a cattail. As an engineer she carries a lot of tools with her in the pockets.

Story [ edit ]

Games [ edit ]

Nitori's sprite in MoF

When she first sees the heroine, she immediately runs away, but comes back and ambushes her. After the midboss fight, she says her "optical camouflage suit" broke, which confuses the heroine. Nitori mentions that the heroine is pretty strong and beat her even with the camouflage, then warns them that the mountain is dangerous for humans.

When Reimu and Nitori meet again, Nitori immediately begins to warn Reimu about how dangerous the mountain is again, but Reimu ignores the warning, telling Nitori that she is in her way and she wants to talk to the gods there. Nitori again warns her but Reimu does not listen. Nitori attacks Reimu as a last-ditch attempt to get her to turn back and leave the mountain, but Reimu defeats her in a duel. Nitori is shocked, but says that kappa and humans are sworn friends, and so tells all of the other kappa to let Reimu go up the mountain.

Much like in Reimu's scenario, Nitori shows up trying to test her optical camouflage suit -- which doesn't work. She is insistent, like in Reimu's scenario, that Marisa turn around and leave the mountain. Marisa quips about how if somebody tells you not to do something, you'll just want to do it more, and the two get into a duel. Nitori loses and says that human and kappa are sworn friends, leaving to tell the other kappa to let her through.

In the end the kappa accepted the new gods of the mountain.

During the events of Subterranean Animism, she is one of the kappa who hears from the God of the sky, Kanako Yasaka about the new power of nuclear fusion in the Underworld. However, they are unwilling to go there due to the oni living underground. Learning that Reimu is going underground to investigate, she convinces Marisa to explore there as well, since she doesn't seem to have anything better to do.

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Presumably from hearing or seeing a wanted sign about the mischief-making amanojaku Seija Kijin, Nitori appears to be one of the many youkai that tries to capture her. She uses spell cards that are considered impossible to dodge.

Nitori, ever a prospective entrepreneur, uses the Urban Legend Incident for profit, and travels across Gensokyo attempting to sell and buy Occult Balls, using an artificial Urban Legend. Because they cannot be exchanged without a fight between two persons holding them, she mostly ends up taking other people's Occult Balls without paying for them.

In Antinomy of Common Flowers, Nitori again seeks to profit from the incident by artificially reproducing it. She teams up with Hata no Kokoro and uses her power over emotions to aid in research. Nitori ends up creating a mask that can simulate Perfect Posession.

Literature [ edit ]

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Wild and Horned Hermit

Nitori frequently appears in Wild and Horned Hermit, mostly with other kappas. She's commonly seen operating in business ventures to seek profit from current fads or events, running stalls selling goods or building structures with the other kappas. Her first appearance is as a cameo in the first chapter to illustrate a kappa losing its arm, but didn't get properly introduced until chapter 12.

In chapter 12, Nitori was amongst the kappa driven out of their hideout in Genbu Ravine due to the huge pillar of water created by kishin chief Suiki to attack Seiga Kaku. She expressed fears that the kappa may have angered Lord Suiryuu, but this fear was unfounded.

In chapter 22, Nitori was one of the kappas who searched for Manzairaku using sonar and searchlights. Perturbed by crowds gathering to watch the seal, she and the kappas moved it to the Abandon Pond and opens The Manzairaku Show there. simultaneously moving away the crowd and "making a killing" while at it. When Manzairaku becomes depressed, it was Nitori who asked Kasen for help. After being explained that the sea mammal requires saltwater and fish, Nitori and the kappas builds an artificial saltwater pool for it.

In chapter 25, seeing signs of an astronomy boom, Nitori builds a planetarium in the human village, she gave Reimu a VIP ticket to assuage the shrine maiden's fears of a youkai gathering.

In chapters 38 and 39, Nitori was one of the kappas who worked on the construction of the Moriya Shrine ropeway. She convinced Sanae to power the ropeway using geysers belonging to the shrine, exploiting that the geysers will quickly render the machines unusable, requiring monthly maintenance (and payments to the kappa). When the ropeway was delayed, she swears to Kasen that the kappa would never intentionally cause a breakdown on their creations to help their business.

Forbidden Scrollery

In chapters 14 and 15, Nitori along with the other kappas were using an old shack close to the Human Village as a warehouse to keep their items because the Abandon Pond, their original warehouse, was completely frozen. To keep off the humans from approaching they used the "Seven Wonders" to conceal their identities and to guard the shack. After Reimu told them the humans already noticed something strange was going on, Nitori couldn't help but to find another place to store their items, the Forest Ghost Mansion Warehouse.

In chapters 28 and 29, Nitori and the kappas ordered a printed book from Suzunaan and was detected by Mamizou Futatsuiwa. Suspicious of their activities, Mamizou infiltrates the kappa's secret cucumber garden where they were growing cucumbers. After detecting and confronting Mamizou and explaining that the kappa started growing cucumbers using a book on selective breeding of cucumbers from the outside world, Nitori reveals that the book she ordered printed from Suzunaan was a manual on cucumber recipes and preservation methods and that the book itself can allow the holder to use magic on a cucumber to make cucumber dishes.

Visionary Fairies in Shrine

In chapters 11 and 11.5 of Visionary Fairies in Shrine, Nitori and the kappas, due to their hideout being flooded, started a new business of "canyoning", where customers would be carried down the river currents, making use of the unusually strong river currents in the Genbu Ravine at the time along with the kappa's ability to manipulate water. After finding the three fairies, Nitori used them as guinea pigs to test the river courses. The canyoning business was a success and Nitori managed to convince Marisa Kirisame to try it out. However, after Clownpiece's torch caused a kappa's power to go out of control and throw an entire river into the sky in the shape of a dragon, the canyoning business was temporarily suspended due to safety concerns.

Relationships [ edit ]

Nitori knows Marisa Kirisame. In the story of Subterranean Animism the kappa heard news about nuclear power and Nitori asked Marisa to investigate underground.

Obviously she is in a friendly relationship with the other kappa. With the other kappa they experiment and invent with new items. She is seen with the other kappa in Wild and Horned Hermit and Forbidden Scrollery. It should be noted that Kappa are not that great at group projects so it's not likely that she'd work with them.

Humans aren't aware of it, but she states kappa are friends with humans. Nitori in particular is too shy to be with a human when by herself. Even so, Symposium of Post-mysticism states that as a kappa, if a human gets too close she'll remove their shirikodama, and the human will die. She can even use her extending arms (tsuuhai) to grab a person's legs from a distance and drag them in. Because of the conflicting information, it's not really known just how much of an "ally" the kappa are to humans.

During the events of Hopeless Masquerade, the Three Fairies of Light are shown working at Nitori's stall, near the Hakurei Shrine.

Gallery [ edit ]

Artworks [ edit ]

Sprites [ edit ]

Nitori's different color palettes from Antinomy of Common Flowers, Urban Legend in Limbo, and Hopeless Masquerade, the last two were added in Antinomy of Common Flowers v1.10 (No propeller)

Screenshots [ edit ]

Others [ edit ]

Skills [ edit ]

Skills Name Translated Comments Games Usage Total: 11 「空中魚雷」 "Aerial Torpedo" Used remotely by Marisa SA Shot 「オプティカルカモフラージュ」 "Optical Camouflage" Used remotely by Marisa. Related: Nitori's Spell Card Optics "Optical Camouflage" SA Bomb 空中ブラスター Aerial Blaster Shinto-aligned HM

ULiL

AoCF Equippable

8C

8C 光子トゥーピド Photon Torpedo Shinto-aligned HM

ULiL

AoCF Equippable

4C

4C さよならラバーリング Farewell Rubber Ring Buddhism-aligned HM

ULiL

AoCF Equippable

6C

6C at top or bottom of screen クリミナルギア Criminal Gear Taoism-aligned HM Equippable ミズバク大回転 Water Bomb Giant Swing Buddhism-aligned HM

ULiL

AoCF Equippable

5C

5C 菊一文字コンプレッサー Kiku-ichimonji Compressor Taoism-aligned HM

ULiL

AoCF Equippable

2C

2C キューリサウンドシステム Q-Cumber Sound System Taoism-aligned

Not named in ULiL or AoCF HM

ULiL

AoCF Equippable

Charged B attack

Charged B attack ネッシー号出陣 Nessie Sortie Aided by Occult Ball ULiL

AoCF A+B with Occult Ball

A+B with Occult gauge ミズドリラー Water Driller AoCF 6C at middle of screen

Spell Cards [ edit ]

Spellcards Name Translated Comments Games Stage Total: 26 光学「オプティカルカモフラージュ」 Optics "Optical Camouflage" Related: SA bomb "Optical Camouflage" MoF St. 3: E/N 光学「ハイドロカモフラージュ」 Optics "Hydro Camouflage" MoF St. 3: H/L 洪水「ウーズフラッディング」 Flood "Ooze Flooding" MoF St. 3: E/N 洪水「デリューヴィアルメア」 Flood "Diluvial Mere" MoF St. 3: H 漂溺「光り輝く水底のトラウマ」 Drown "Trauma in the Glimmering Depths" MoF

GoM St. 3: L

---- 水符「河童のポロロッカ」 Water Sign "Kappa's Pororoca" MoF

GoM St. 3: E/N

水符「河童のフラッシュフラッド」 Water Sign "Kappa's Flash Flood" MoF St. 3: H 水符「河童の幻想大瀑布」 Water Sign "Kappa's Great Illusionary Waterfall" MoF St. 3: L 河童「お化けキューカンバー」 Kappa "Monster Cucumber" MoF

GoM St. 3: E/N

---- 河童「のびーるアーム」 Kappa "Exteeeending Aaaaarm" MoF St. 3: H 河童「スピン・ザ・セファリックプレート」 Kappa "Spin the Cephalic Plate" MoF St. 3: L 水符「ウォーターカーペット」 Water Sign "Water Carpet" DS St. 4 河符「ディバイディングエッジ」 River Sign "Dividing Edge" DS St. 4 河童「乾燥尻子玉」 Kappa "Dried Shirikodama" DS St. 4 豪雨「河底大戦争」 Heavy Rain "Great War Beneath the River" HM

ULiL

AoCF Use

Use

Use 泡符「撃て！バブルドラゴン」 Bubble Sign "Fire! Bubble Dragon" HM

ULiL

AoCF Use

Use

Use 戦機「飛べ!三平ファイト」 Battle Machine "Fly! Sanpei Fight" HM

ULiL

AoCF Use

Use

Use 「スーパースコープ３Ｄ」 "Super Scope 3D" HM Use-LW 水符「夏のペットボトルロケット」 Water Sign "Summer Plastic Bottle Rocket" HM Story 妖怪戦艦「三平ファイター」 Youkai Battleship "Sanpei Fighter" HM Story 瀑符「シライトフォール」 Waterfall Sign "Shiraito Falls" ISC St. 6 瀑符「ケゴンガン」 Waterfall Sign "Kegon Gun" ISC St. 6 ＊ネス湖は今ここにある！＊ *Loch Ness is Here Right Now!* ULiL

AoCF Use-LW

Use-LW ＊ネッシーの完全養殖技術＊ *Perfect Nessie Cultivation Method* ULiL Story 水面符「ミズバクマスカレード」 Water Mask Sign "Water Bomb Masquerade" Co-owner with Kokoro AoCF Story 拳水符「入道叢雲ミズバク拳」 Fist Water Sign "Nyuudou Murakumo Water Bomb Fist" Co-owner with Ichirin AoCF Story

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Mountain of Faith - Demo - キャラ設定.txt ○３面ボス 超妖怪弾頭

河城 にとり（かわしろ にとり）

Kawashiro Nitori 種族：河童

能力：水を操る程度の能力 妖怪の山に住む河童である。ここ暫くの間、河童は滅多に人間の前に姿を現さなくなったが、河童は人間を隠れて観察していた為、人間とは仲が良いつもりでいる。 突然態度や口調を変えたり、ちょっと奇異な性格の持ち主だが、案外、人見知りする。人間をみるとすぐに逃げる。 コテコテのエンジニアで、人工物をみるとすぐにばらしては、元通りにする。その為の工具が、彼女の服にびっしり入っている。 今回は、山には入ろうとしていた霊夢達を追い返そうとしていたのだが、それだけ山が緊急事態だと判断したからである。 Stage 3 Boss Super Youkai Warhead



Nitori Kawashiro Species: Kappa

Ability: Manipulating water A kappa that lives on Youkai Mountain. For a long time, kappa haven't let themselves be seen by humans, but since they usually hide to watch humans, they like to think that they are on good terms with humans. She may suddenly change her attitude or speech, and she possesses a rather odd personality, but she's unexpectedly shy. She runs away the moment she sees a human. Since she's an engineering nut, whenever she sees something man-made, she takes it apart and puts it back together. Because of this, her clothes are stuffed with tools. She wanted to turn away Reimu and the others who had entered the mountain, but this is only because she believed that there was some sort of emergency occurring on the mountain.

Mountain of Faith - キャラ設定.txt ○３面ボス 超妖怪弾頭

河城 にとり（かわしろ にとり）

Kawasiro Nitori 種族：河童

能力：水を操る程度の能力 妖怪の山に住む河童である。ここ暫くの間、河童は滅多に人間の前に

姿を現さなくなったが、河童は人間を隠れて観察していた為、人間と

は仲が良いつもりでいる。 突然態度や口調を変えたり、ちょっと奇異な性格の持ち主だが、案外、

人見知りする。人間をみるとすぐに逃げる。 コテコテのエンジニアで、人工物をみるとすぐにばらしては、元通り

にする。その為の工具が、彼女の服にびっしり入っている。 今回は、山に入ろうとしていた霊夢達を追い返そうとしていたのだが、

それは山が緊急事態だった為、人間には危険だと判断した為である。 結局、霊夢達は警告を聞き入れようとしなかった為、にとりはこっそ

り山の奥へ入らせることにした。どうせなら謎の神様に会わせてみよ

うと思ったのだ。 すったもんだの騒動の結果、結局河童は新しく来た山の神を受け入れ

る事になった。 Stage 3 Boss Super Youkai Warhead



Nitori Kawashiro Species: Kappa

Ability: Manipulating water A kappa that lives on Youkai Mountain. For a long time, kappa haven't let themselves be seen by humans, but since they usually hide to watch humans, they like to think that they are on good terms with humans. She may suddenly change her attitude or speech, and she possesses a rather odd personality, but she's unexpectedly shy. She runs away the moment she sees a human. Since she's an engineering nut, whenever she sees something man-made, she takes it apart and puts it back together. Because of this, her clothes are stuffed with tools. She wanted to chase away Reimu and the others who had entered the mountain, but this is only because she believed that there was some sort of emergency occurring on the mountain, and she thought the humans would be in danger. In the end, since Reimu and company didn't take her advice, Nitori secretly decided to let them into the mountain. She thought it would be interesting to watch them interact with the mysterious new god. As a result of the ensuing battle, the kappa came to accept the new god of the mountain.

Subterranean Animism - キャラ設定.txt ○超妖怪弾頭

河城 にとり（かわしろ にとり）

Kawashiro Nitori 種族：河童

能力：水を操る程度の能力 山に住む河童。

河童達に驚きのニュースが入ってきた。山の神様曰く、地底に超高温の核融合炉が完成しつつあるという。

いち早くその究極のエネルギーを手に入れて、色々試してみたい。 そう考えたのだが、河童として鬼の住む地底には入りたくなかった。

どうにかして地底を調べたかったのだが、その時、霊夢が妖怪の要請で地底に潜るという噂を聞いた。 先を越されてなる物かと、にとりは暇そうにしていた魔理沙に話を持ちかけ、地底に潜らせる事にした。 Super Youkai Warhead



Nitori Kawashiro Species: Kappa

Ability: Manipulating water A kappa that lives on the mountain.

Recently, the kappa heard some news that greatly excited them. According to the gods of the mountain, a high-temperature nuclear furnace was being completed underground. They wanted to get their hands on it as soon as possible to perform various tests with it. However, the kappa didn't want to go underground where the oni lived. As they were wondering how they could investigate the underground, they heard a rumor that Reimu would be going there at the request of the other youkai. Ever taking the initiative, Nitori decided to go convince Marisa to explore underground, since Marisa didn't seem to have anything better to do.

Hopeless Masquerade official website 河の便利屋さん 河城にとり 里はお祭り騒ぎだ。

あちこちで実力者によるストリートファイトが 行われており、

人々が興奮しているようだ。

興奮と熱狂はそのまま信者を生む。

それでは、 宗教家に良いように利用されるだけだ。

一部の河童には宗教を嫌う文化を持っていた。 特技 水妖エネルギー 強力な兵器の数々で武装していますが、

兵器を使うにはエネルギーが必要です。

エネルギーが足りないと兵器の性能が低下したり、

使用不能になったりします。

エネルギーの残量はラウンドをまたぐまで回復しないので、

ペース配分を考えた運用が要求されます。 ラストワード スーパースコープ３Ｄ 光学迷彩マントで姿を消して退避し、

場外から一方的な空爆を見舞います。

移動キーで照準を動かし弱打撃キーで砲撃、

放たれた砲弾は照準地点で爆発します。

数発周期でダメージと爆発範囲が強化された砲弾を発射します。 Handyman of the River, Kawashiro Nitori The village is reverberating with sounds of the festival.

Many street fights are breaking out all over the place among the influential,

and the people appeared to be excited.

Excitement and zeal give birth to believers.

That is nothing more than being used in a good way by the religionists.

Some of the kappa had a culture of hating religion. Special skill: Water Sprite Energy Nitori is equipped with many weapons,

but using them requires energy.

Without enough energy, the weapons' efficiency decreases,

and could become unusable.

The energy does not get refilled until the round ends,

so it requires a carefully-executed pace. Last Word: Super Scope 3D Nitori cloaks herself with her Optical Camouflage and retreats,

then begins firing explosives through the air from outside the field.

The movement keys adjust the aim, and the weak melee attack key fires,

and the fired shells will explode when they reach where you were aiming.

Repeated shots will enhance her shells, causing the damage as well as the explosion range to be strengthened.

Urban Legend in Limbo official website 太古！三畳紀の河童 河城にとり オカルト名 「ネス湖の怪物ネッシー」 近作もボール騒動に乗じて商売に余念がないにとりだが

オカルトボールのパワーで動くネッシー号を引っさげて登場

ネッシー号は出撃させると独立して支援射撃をしてくれる

砲台だが エネルギー切れを起こすと

オカルトボールを失う諸刃の剣

活かすも殺すも采配次第だ。

Ancient! The Triassic Kappa Nitori Kawashiro Occult Name "Loch Ness Monster, Nessie" Again in this game, Nitori's focused on nothing but utilizing the strife over the balls for her business, and she comes bearing a Occult Ball-powered Nessie model!

The Nessie model has an artillery battery that can independently deploy back-up fire, but if you run out of power you will lose the Occult Ball so this double edged sword may make or break your advantage.

Antinomy of Common Flowers official website 商売上手で守銭奴の河童 河城にとり

「よーし

良いサンプルが手に入った」

技術と経済を信奉する河の住人

異変に商機を見出した河童は憑依バトルで完全憑依の謎を探る。

期せずしてそれは異変の核心に迫る事になる

様々な火器によるバリエーション豊かな射撃が売り

弾幕の薄さが気になる人は是非

Business-Minded and Miserly Kappa Nitori Kawashiro

"Alright!

I got my hands on a real good sample."

A river-dweller who's devoted to technology and finances.

Sensing a business opportunity in the incident, the kappa enters the possession battles to solve the mystery of Perfect Possession.

Soon, this unexpectedly leads her to the very heart of the incident.

Her biggest selling point is the wide variety of projectiles granted by her various weapons.

Perfect for those who are suffering from chronically sparse danmaku!



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