Kagami Ochiai

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**Kagami Ochiai** (落合(おちあい)　カガミ, **Ochiai Kagami**?), often going by her stage name **Princess Kagami** (カガミ姫(ひめ), **Kagami-hime**?), is a youkai-born Kozanese singer-songwriter who is a member of the Kozanese Royal Defense Force, having been recruited at the age of 14. Having descended from the daimyo, she is a member of the Ochiai Clan. On of her first tasks was to destroy a SPASDOT stronghold in Kozankyo.

## Name emythology

Kagami is a unisex given name and means "mirror" when translated from Japanese. Although the name consists of a single kanji, it is a more feminine name as it ends in *-mi*, which roughly translates to *beauty*. Her surname, Ochiai, means "falling synthesis" when translated literally.

## Life

### Early life

Kagami was born as the oldest of two daughters by Hideo Ochiai and Kisumi Torisawa on December 21, 1989. She has a younger sister named Yumi (born 1992).

### Drafting into the KRDF

Like her father, Ochiai was recruited by Susumu Takajima into the Kozanese Royal Defense Force at the age of 14 in the spring of 2004. One of her first major missions with her partner Susumu Takajima was destroying a stronghold by SPASDOT at the tip of Ahoge Peninsula in Kozankyo, which was a success. Her second major mission that summer involved searching Eastern Kozan to retrieve the Mini-Hakkero for Crown Princess Konata. She and her family traveled to Japan after that mission, where she received a maiko makeover, and also began training with her mother to become a geisha.

## Attacks

* **Cherry Bob-omb** (さくらんぼボム兵(へい), *Sakuranbo Bomu-hei*?): an exploding attack that fragments on impact. When using this attack, the Cherry Bob-omb extracts into shards to hit nearby enemies while firing.
* **Atmosphere Laser** (大気(たいき)レーザー, *Taiki Rēzā*?): a very powerful but slow attack, and deals the most damage.

## Profile

Kagami Ochiai is a pop-idol sensation rumored to be a princess despite a lack of royal blood, though she does descend from the daimyos (feudal lords of Japan), with her grandparents still heading a daimyo family in Kozan. Her interests include singing, meeting fans, cosplay, and dressing in kimono.

### Appearance

In the first two games, Kagami is depicted with green eyes and long multi-colored hair, with a variety of colors such as red, green, pink, and blue. In her regular appearance as an idol, she wears a red and orange dress, long wristwear, and red shoes. At her appearances at Japanese festivals, she wears an orange yukata with a red obi and sometimes wears a pink hakama for certain occasions, usually for New Year's celebrations, although it is rare for women to wear hakama for this event. In the third game and during autumn and winter, her normal outfit is replaced with an orange long-sleeved sweet lolita outfit, alongside white gloves and stockings, and wears orange heels.

Kagami's outfit for formal occasions is a variation of her idol outfit with it being a full, floor-length gown with short sleeves and her wristwear is replaced with white gloves and also wears orange heels. When she is cosplaying as a mermaid, she wears an orange tail in place of her legs alongside a low-cut bikini top that exposes part of her cleavage. This is an example of Drillimation's suggestive humor.

## Gallery

* Character card
* Countdown card
* Official artwork in *Chuhou Joutai: The Middle State of War*
* Official artwork in *Chuhou Joutai 2: Paraided!*

## Official appearances

* *Chuhou Joutai: The Middle State of War* (debut)
* *Touhou 2: The Story of Eastern Wonderland NES Demake*
* *Chuhou Joutai 2: Paraided!*
* *Touhou 3: The Phantasmagoria of Dimensional Dreams NES Demake*
* *Touhou 5: Mystic Square NES Demake* (cameo appearance only)
* *Chuhou Joutai 3: Three Nights of Scarlet Abscess*

## Behind the Scenes

* Kagami Ochiai was the first character created for the first *Chuhou Joutai* and was initially the protagonist before her male counterpart Susumu Takajima took that place.
* Cherry Bob-omb is an obvious reference to the eponymous enemy from Nintendo's *Mario* series.
* Kagami appears on the game icon for *Chuhou Joutai 2: Paraided!*.

## References

1. ↑ https://drillimation.com/2019/09/01/kagami-ochiai-a-girl-who-is-beautiful-and-she-loves-beauty/ Kagami Ochiai - A Girl Who is Beautiful and She Loves Beauty