Utsuho Reiuji

**Utsuho Reiuji** (霊烏路 空 *Reiuji Utsuho*) is the main antagonist of Subterranean Animism. She's one of Satori Komeiji's pets and a Hell raven who has lived in the underground world since before it was separated from Hell. Her job is to regulate the flames of the Hell of Blazing Fires.

## Appearance

Utsuho has long dark brown hair. Wears a white short-sleeved shirt with a red "eye" in the center, a short green skirt, and a green hair-ribbon. On her right arm, she wears a device reminiscent of a nuclear control rod. She also wears a cape that's white on the outside and a starry pattern on the inside; the cape is kept aloft by her black wings. Her right foot is encased in congealed matter, representing the "elephant's foot" of Chernobyl, a mass of cooled radioactive material and glass. Her left ankle is orbited by electrons.

On the Interview of Cara☆Mel‎ vol.8, ZUN mentioned that he tried to keep her from being indecent during the design process by adding a cannon on her arm instead of having an additional leg, thus solving the analogy of the third leg of the Yatagarasu.

## Personality

Utsuho has a simple and direct personality, it can even be said that she's airheaded.  In fact, she misunderstood what Kanako Yasaka told her ("We can use that to bring about the wishes of not just the underground, but the above ground as well.") and believed that she had to use her new power to take over Gensokyo. Furthermore, when Sanae Kochiya told her that she is the shrine maiden that serves Kanako, Utsuho said she doesn't know that it's her; and after fighting, Utsuho didn't even remember the purpose of the fight and believes Sanae when she said that Utsuho was following Sanae's orders

## Abilities

### Manipulation of Nuclear Fusion

Her abilities come from the god of nuclear fusion, Yatagarasu, and were granted to her by Kanako Yasaka in the god's attempt to turn the Hell of Blazing Fires into an energy source for Gensokyo. After absorbing the god, Utsuho obtained the *left leg "the leg of fission"* and the *right leg "the leg of fusion"*, along with the *third leg* (a nuclear control rod in her right hand). As a result, she is able to manipulate the ultimate energy, nuclear fusion. Essentially, this means that Utsuho's own body actually houses a divine spirit, technically making her into a branch shrine for Yatagarasu. Apparently, the duller the holder of the power, the better they can utilize it. The red eye on her chest is proof that Utsuho obtained the power of fusion by absorbing Yatagarasu because the god's eyes are red, according to Chapter Three of *Cage in Lunatic Runagate*.

In the outside world, the prospects of putting this to use have still not been reached, and thus can surely be said to be an illusionary power.

Yatagarasu is the Misaki God of the Nihon Shinwa. In Nihon Shoki, as the messenger and envoy of highest sun god of the Nihon Shinwa, Amaterasu Oomikami (天照大神), Yatagarasu is considered the incarnation of the sun. It has been said that Yatagarasu possibly lives in the sun.

That is, it means that she's able to manipulate the same temperature as the the highest heating power in the natural world, the sun (Furthermore, by the spells that she uses, she is also able to spring forth the same gravitational attraction). However, Utsuho can't keep creating energy forever on her own because she would run out of "fusion material" and as explained in one of the endings for *Subterranean Animism*, she needs to get the atoms used in the fusion process from someone else.

## Trivia

* Her "Third Leg" resembles an arm cannon. In *Touhou Hisoutensoku*, it is used as one.
* Utsuho appears to be the only final boss in a Windows game whose goal is explicitly conquering the world. A very common goal for villains in cartoons.
* Utsuho is also the one of the two only final bosses in a game who is a subordinate of an earlier boss (Satori). The other being Shinmyoumaru Sukuna (Seija Kijin)