Aya Shameimaru

Aya Shameimaru, also known as Humble Tengu Reporter and Fabricating Newspaper Reporter, is a character from the Touhou Project series.
== Charactah Account ==
One of the crow tengu who live up on Youkai Mountain, Aya runs the newspaper known as the Bunbunmaru. Because she gets carried away and exaggerates things when writing articles, people don't really like to be featured in her paper. While she is strong, to the point that sometimes she accidentally wins fights when she was really just trying to take pictures for her newspaper, she prefers to work on her paper far more than fighting.
Aya is unrelenting when it comes to getting sensationalist news stories, and she frequently twists the truth in her writing to her own advantage. It is her policy as a reporter to only report the truth, but there have been many instances where she has written blatant lies. It is said that she will come politely asking interviews of humans and youkai alike if she sees them as worth writing an article about, but will forcefully drive away any who interfere.
However, Aya has shown a serious side as well. She can be thoughtful about the effect her stories will have on those who read them. She resents the rigid tengu caste system, as even though she works hard, she is unable to advance in rank due to being a crow tengu. Hieda no Akyuu writes that she is generally the sort of youkai one does not wish to oppose, but if one somehow manages to cross her, her strength is practically unrivaled.
== Appearance ==
=== Anime ===
* Touhou Unofficial Doujin Anime: A Summer Day's Dream
=== Manga ===
* Touhou Bougetsushou: Inaba of the Moon and Inaba of the Earth
* Touhou Bougetsushou: Silent Sinner in Blue
* Touhou Ibara Kasen: Wild and Horned Hermit
* Touhou Sangetsusei: Oriental Sacred Place
* Touhou Sangetsusei: Strange and Bright Nature Deity
* Touhou Sangetsusei: Visionary Fairies in Shrine
* Touhou Suichouka: The Lotus Eaters, Drunk and Sober
* Touhou Suzunaan: Forbidden Scrollery
=== Video Games ===
* Danmaku Amanojaku: Impossible Spell Card
* Hidden Star in Four Seasons
* Touhou Bunkachou: Bohemian Archive in Japanese Red
* Touhou Bunkachou: Double Spoiler
* Touhou Bunkachou: Shoot the Bullet
* Touhou Chireiden: Subterranean Animism
* Touhou Fuujinroku: Mountain of Faith
* Touhou Gumon Shiki: Perfect Memento in Strict Sense
* Touhou Hisouten: Scarlet Weather Rhapsody
* Touhou Hisoutensoku: Chase the Enigma of the Gargantuan Guignol
* Touhou Kaeitzuka: Phantasmagoria of Flower View
* Touhou Shinkirou: Hopeless Masquerade
* Yousei Daisensou ~ Touhou Sangetsuse: Fairy Wars
== Trivia ==
* Aya is the first character in the Touhou Project to originally appear in an artbook, then later in a game.
* A silhouette of Aya occupies the front of the jewel case for Shoot the Bullet.
* In Mountain of Faith, Aya is the first stage 4 boss in a Windows game not to have some sort of gimmick/variation based on the playable character (i.e. Patchouli Knowledge's different spell cards in Embodiment of Scarlet Devil, Reimu Hakurei or Marisa Kirisame in Imperishable Night, etc.).
* In Touhou Hisoutensoku, she has a palette that resembles Ranka Lee from Macross Frontier.
* She is the only character introduced in Phantasmagoria of Flower View to return in a later main game, which is Mountain of Faith.
* Aya has appeared, even as far as mention or reference, in every game in the second generation of the Windows era up until Ten Desires, from Mountain of Faith to Fairy Wars.
== Gallery ==
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File:Aya Shameimaru 01.png
File:Aya Shameimaru Fan Art 01.png
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== External Links ==
* Aya Shameimaru at Touhou Wiki
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