Marisa Kirisame

Gender:Female Species:Human Abilities: Using Magic. (Light and heat Magic)

Design: In general, Marisa is depicted with blonde hair and yellow eyes. She wears clothes with a black and white color scheme, consisting of a black vest and skirt, white waist apron and undershirt, and a black witch hat with a white bow. Her hair is commonly braided on one side with a bow on the end. She sometimes wears dark blue clothes instead, such as in Legacy of Lunatic Kingdom, Subterranean Animism, or the fighting game spin offs from Hopeless Masquerade onwards.

Marisa's height is that of a girl in her early teens and is in the "fairly short" group.[1]. Unlike Patchouli Knowledge and Alice Margatroid, who are magicians by species, she's merely an ordinary human who uses magic. In the games themselves, she's a character who consistently stresses high power and quick speed. She exceeds in attack and penetration power, but her attack range is generally narrow. Her signature move is the tremendous laser spell card, Love Sign "Master Spark". She has good speed and power, but poor melee technique.

Personality: materials, be it mushrooms, parts of a dragon, [11] or just whatever she thinks looks interesting at the time. That said, her hoarding habit does result in her not knowing or forgetting what objects are in her house. Though she goes to great lengths to hide it,[12] Marisa is a hardworking individual who frequently seeks to better herself and seeks to be known as a great magician.[13] She takes pride in her magic and youkai extermination capabilities, claiming to be "the number two in Gensokyo".[14] In many cases, she is the one who would push Reimu to investigate potential incidents.

Abilities: Despite her small size, Marisa is stronger physically than she appears. In chapter 16 of Curiosities of Lotus Asia, she carried out a big computer out of Kourindou in her arms. In Forbidden Scrollery, she was shown jumping over the walls of the Hieda mansion[15] and was seen climbing youkai mountain manually (instead of just flying)[16]. In Marisa's otter route of Wily Beast and Weakest Creature, Urumi Ushizaki tried to drown Marisa using her stone baby but ends up failing and being amazed that Marisa is able to hold onto it despite its weight. She was also able to lift Sunny Milk and hold her up at waist height with only one hand, and without putting any apparent effort in doing so.[17] Although Marisa is a normal human with no innate abilities, her true strength is her high magic power, unnusual for humans and perhaps only possible because of the effects of the Forest of Magic.[12] She's also faced very powerful humans and youkai and was able to solve a number of incidents in various scenarios. However, her existence is closest to an ordinary person; she was compared to "humans of a level close to us" by ZUN. [18] and as a result, the interpretations of Marisa's power can go to extremes. She has an attachment to power and has self-belief in ostentatious display of power. She always finds opponents to fight and plays by finding faults. She's a hard worker, and her power is the result of her secret training.

Using Magic abilities: Marisa has trained herself in magic that specialises in light and heat. She's an Eastern magician who takes a Western approach to magic, the opposite of Patchouli Knowledge. [Ref. Needed] Her magic has tremendous power and few weaknesses, but it has few non-destructive uses, so she uses it for flashy youkai extermination more than anything. [12] Her magic makes for a good danmaku show, but this is made possible only through her strenuous honest effort in creating layered effects. The majority of her spells rely on power over finesse and are themed after stars and other astronomical phenomena. According to Perfect Memento in Strict Sense, it's strange for a human to have mastery of magic of this level. Marisa picks and collects various exotic mushrooms that live in the Forest of Magic. She boils them, crushes them, dries them, and furthermore mixes them, making strange chemicals or medicine. By heating them, submerging them into water, or by throwing things in directly, through trial and error, she finds a pattern from which magic-like materials come forth. Success or failure, she records the details of each experiment.[12] In her house, there are a ton of various handmade grimoires (notebooks). Prior to starting her research in The Grimoire of Marisa, Marisa did not use complex slave-type attacks, as she was only capable of using slaves that circle around her (her guest appearance in Shuusou Gyoku notwithstanding).

Flying: Marisa is almost always depicted as riding on her broom when she flies in the sky. In the fighting spinoffs prior to Hopeless Masquerade she rides a broom only during some of her assault skills, like Witch Leyline and Stardust Reverie. However, the more recent aerial fighters show Marisa making an extensive and continuous use of her broom, to the point that there isn't a single moment in which she isn't riding or holding it. In Great Fairy Wars, her broom is nowhere in sight. Perfect Memento in Strict Sense states she uses the magic broom to ride around on because she believes it's an essential tool for a magician. There were instances where Marisa got in trouble for not having her broom at hand. [24] In the PC-98 games, she's typically shown to use a vine in place of her broom in her boss appearances (with the notable exception of Phantasmagoria of Dim.Dream where she has illusionary wings instead), but her Lotus Land Story and Mystic Square endings show her using a broom. In Shuusou Gyoku, she's depicted with angel wings.

Speed: Marisa seems to take pride in her own speed,[25] which is potentially among the fastest for a human. When she used Double Spark against Watatsuki no Yorihime, she moved some meters away from the first laser fast enough that she was able to shoot a second one before the first reached the Moon princess.[26] However, Aya Shameimaru is considered the fastest in Gensokyo, even by ZUN [27] and Marisa appears to consider Aya extremely fast,[28] and a worthy challenger in terms of speed,[25] so while there is the idea that Marisa is really fast, there might be other characters that are faster than her. Marisa's high speed is echoed in the games, usually by giving her the fastest or one of the fastest movement speed.

Her broom: Marisa flies on a bamboo broom as part of her magician appearance. It's an ordinary broom, but constant exposure to magic has caused a curious growth to begin. Although the bamboo is dead, leaves appear to be sprouting from the handle, independently from Marisa's magic.[12] In the fighting games, it serves additional purposes - she uses it as a weapon for striking and shooting danmaku.