Marisa Kirisame

Marisa Kirisame, also known as Magician of Red Dreams, The Strange Magician and Magician of Misty Rain, is one of the main characters from the Touhou Project series.
== Charactah Account ==
Marisa is a human witch 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.
== Appearance ==
=== Anime ===
* Anime Tenchou x Touhou Project
* Hifuu Club Activity Record: The Sealed Esoteric History
* Touhou Unofficial Doujin Anime: A Summer Day's Dream
* Touhou Unofficial Doujin Anime: A Summer Day's Dream Episode 2.5
=== Light Novels ===
* Touhou Kourindou: Curiosities of Lotus Asia
=== Manga ===
* Perfect Memento in Strict Sense: Memorizable Gensokyo
* Touhou Bougetsushou: Silent Sinner in Blue
* Touhou Chireikiden: Cheating Detective Satori
* Touhou Ibara Kasen: Wild and Horned Hermit
* Touhou Sangetsusei: Eastern and Little Nature Deity
* 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
* Fairy Wars
* Magical Battle Arena NEXT
* Hidden Star in Four Seasons
* Shuusou Gyoku
* Touhou Bunkachou: Double Spoiler
* Touhou Chireiden: Subterranean Animism
* Touhou Eiyashou: Imperishable Night
* Touhou Gensoukyou: Lotus Land Story
* Touhou Gouyoku Ibun: Submerged Hell of Sunken Sorrow
* Touhou Fuujinroku: Mountain of Faith
* Touhou Fuumaroku: The Story of Eastern Wonderland
* Touhou Hisouten: Scarlet Weather Rhapsody
* Touhou Hisoutensoku: Chase the Enigma of the Gargantuan Guignol
* Touhou Hyouibana: Antinomy of Common Flowers
* Touhou Kaeitzuka: Phantasmagoria of Flower View
* Touhou Kaikidan: Mystic Square
* Touhou Kanjuden: Legacy of Lunatic Kingdom
* Touhou Kishinjou: Double Dealing Character
* Touhou Koumakyou: The Embodiment of Scarlet Devil
* Touhou Kouryuudou: Unconnected Marketeers
* Touhou Seirensen: Undefined Fantastic Object
* Touhou Shinkirou: Hopeless Masquerade
* Touhou Shinpiroku: Urban Legend in Limbo
* Touhou Shinreibyou: Ten Desires
* Touhou Suimusou: Immaterial and Missing Power
* Touhou Youyoumu: Perfect Cherry Blossom
* Touhou Yumejikuu: The Phantasmagoria of
* Violet Detector: Secret Sealing Nightmare Diary
* Wily Beast and Weakest Creature
== Trivia ==
* The characters for Kirisame literally mean "drizzle" or "misty rain". Marisa doesn't make much sense though... the first character means "magic", the second "logic" or "reason", and the third "sand". There is large amount of speculation on the extremely controversial theory that "Marisa" is, in fact a given name with possible origins in the romantic language family. However, the Western name theory does have a lot of logical backing, as Marisa is a mix of Eastern and Western culture, plus Western names aren't unheard of in Japan.
** Speaking of rain, "drizzle" is Marisa's associated weather in Scarlet Weather Rhapsody.
* Marisa has a large number of fan pairings, most commonly being with Alice Margatroid, Reimu Hakurei, and Patchouli Knowledge, though pairings with Sakuya Izayoi, Flandre Scarlet, Nitori Kawashiro, Youmu Konpaku and sometimes Rinnosuke Morichika are also popular. This has led to an image of Marisa being something of a player.
** Moreover, "Witch of Love Potion", originally the stage theme from the obscure game Torte le Magic of which ZUN composed the three-tracks-long soundtrack, but arranged in Dolls in Pseudo Paradise, albeit having no initial relation to Marisa at all, may go in the favor of that image ; not to mention the ambiguous backstory of this song talking about an unnamed person secretly buying a love potion.
* As Reimu is often referred to as red-white or "the red-white", fans frequently call Marisa black-white or white-black in parallel.
* Marisa is one of the most frequent characters to appear in the Touhou series, tied with Reimu after the release of Fairy Wars.
* Marisa has 6 theme songs (excluding remixes), more than any other character in the series.
* Despite her self-indulgent personality and lack of concern for others (or more likely because of these things), Marisa happens to be one of the most popular characters with fans, winning a 2005 Touhou popularity contest.
== Gallery ==
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== External Links ==
* Marisa Kirisame at Touhou Wiki
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