Sanae Kochiya

Sanae Kochiya, also known as Deified Human of the Wind, Newbie Goddess of the Mountain, Embodiment of the Divine Wind and Miraculous Living God, is a character from the Touhou Project series.
== Charactah Account ==
Sanae is a human, but is also a distant descendant of a god, Suwako Moriya. Her role at the Moriya Shrine is similar to a Shrine Maiden, but with her inherited power Sanae has become more like a deity herself. When humans on the outside world began losing their faith in her and Kanako, the shrine's actual deity, Kanako decided to move the shrine to Gensokyo where at least youkai might have faith in them.
During the events of Mountain of Faith Sanae tried threatening the Hakurei Shrine in order to establish the Moriya Shrine as the dominant one, not realizing how powerful humans like Reimu and Marisa were. In response to the threats Sanae was defeated by the heroine followed shortly after by Kanako and Suwako's defeat. However, the residents of the Moriya Shrine have since come to an understanding with their new neighbors and live in peace with the other residents of Youkai Mountain.
In Undefined Fantastic Object, depending on the scenario, she is ordered either by Kanako to train her own abilities by hunting Youkai or by Suwako to find the Treasure Ship, depending on this, her secondary bullet will become a snake or a frog.
== Appearance ==
=== Anime ===
* Hifuu Club Activity Record: The Sealed Esoteric History
=== Manga ===
* Sanae-san Is on the Run!
* Touhou Ibara Kasen: Wild and Horned Hermit
* Touhou Suichouka: The Lotus Eaters, Drunk and Sober
* Touhou Suzunaan: Forbidden Scrollery
=== Video Games ===
* Danmaku Amanojaku: Impossible Spell Card
* Touhou Bunkachou: Double Spoiler
* Touhou Chireiden: Subterranean Animism
* Touhou Fuujinroku: Mountain of Faith
* Touhou Hisoutensoku: Chase the Enigma of the Gargantuan Guignol
* Touhou Kanjuden: Legacy of Lunatic Kingdom
* Touhou Kouryuudou: Unconnected Marketeers
* Touhou Seirensen: Undefined Fantastic Object
* Touhou Shinkirou: Hopeless Masquerade
* Touhou Shinreibyou: Ten Desires
== Trivia ==
* Sanae seems to have a relatively low alcohol tolerance compared to other characters. In one of the endings of Mountain of Faith, she gets extremely nervous when informed of the constant drinking parties the tengu will hold, with the narrator commenting she'll just have to put up with it, and in Wild and Horned Hermit chapter 19, she's constantly distressed about being made to drink.
* In Mountain of Faith, her spell card Sea Opening "The Day the Sea Split" is extremely similar to Alice Margatroid's second attack in Mystic Square's Extra Stage.
* One of Sanae's Spell Cards in Touhou Hisoutensoku strongly resembles Shin Akuma's "Misogi" from Capcom vs. SNK.
* In her last stage of Touhou Hisoutensoku, despite the fact that Sanae is fighting against Suwako Moriya, Sanae can still use skills summoning Suwako to her aid (e.g. Using Summon Earth's God: Metal Ring), to attack Suwako.
* In Touhou Hisoutensoku Sanae's character portrait shows her having blue eyes, but her sprite has yellow eyes.
* Also in Touhou Hisoutensoku, Sanae has alternate colors that resemble Rumia's, Fujiwara no Mokou's and Mystia Lorelei's outfits. Conversely, one of Reimu's alternate colors resembles Sanae.
* Sanae appears in a promotional flyer wearing a school uniform.
* When in Wild and Horned Hermit a conversation occurred about a "electric rat", a thought bubble showed up with a censored Pikachu from Pokémon.
* Sanae's absences in Hopeless Masquerade and Double Dealing Character were not anticipated by fans, in spite of her many appearances in previous games and manga: Undefined Fantastic Object, Touhou Hisoutensoku, Ten Desires and Wild and Horned Hermit. ZUN directly stated that he hasn't include the Moriya Shrine cast in recent games without reason. However, there'd be explanatory descriptions about the absences through official works:
* Sanae complains that Kanako Yasaka (or possibly them) not taking action in those two incidents in Wild and Horned Hermit chapter 19. Kanako replies kindly that she must calm down, and in another scene, tells her the settlement of negotiation with the tengu about the installation of an aerial tramway; she remarks that she or they've been always busy for completing it. Along with Sanae also knowing the negotiation has been very long, it should be implied that Kanako stopped Sanae from taking action on the incidents for some reason: for example, because Kanako wanted to concentrate her mind on the negotiation, because Kanako couldn't find it worth doing to take action in the incidents, or something else.
** To add the reason of her absence of Double Dealing Character, Marisa points out to Sanae, in Wild and Horned Hermit chapter 19, that Sanae hasn't used her tool regularly; in other words, it isn't so well-used as to build its own ego and to get in rampage.
* Her sigil resembles the Star of David from Judaism.
* According to Kanako in Symposium of Post-Mysticism, Sanae hails from Lake Suwa of Shinano Province.
== Gallery ==
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== External Links ==
* Sanae Kochiya at Touhou Wiki
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