Uploaded October 2009 | Updated September 2026, 3 weeks ago
"Ayaya"
High Definition (For fast moving crows)
youtube.com/watch?v=fmfy9Yh7keI&fmt=22
High Quality (For slow moving wolves)
youtube.com/watch?v=fmfy9Yh7keI&fmt=18
A video of me getting massacred against the tengu(s) of the mountain, Aya Syameimaru (and Momizi)
Aya Syameimaru (also pronounced Shameimaru) (and Momizi) is (are) the stage 4 boss (and midboss) of the game Mountain of Faith, the 10th installment of the Touhou Project. The Touhou project is a series of danmaku shooter made by the male version of Aya, ZUN. THEY WEAR THE SAME CLOTHING FOR ZUN'S SAKE.
Everything in my Lunatic Faith run was going sunshine and lollipops and rainbows and everything that's wonderful until the infamous Aya made her sudden, albeit predictable appearance. Aya is a crow tengu that lives in the Youkai Mountain along with her tengu friends (if she has any) and whanot. She runs the yellow and sensationalist newspaper, Bunbunmaru.
Even if she's infuriating, both in personality and in game, Aya is one of my favorite characters. I guess that what I like about her is her arrogant and snobbish personality. She's extremely sure of herself and with a strong conviction does her duty. Also, I like something about Touhou characters with a relatively modern design, like Reisen and Aya (Aya wears what can be best described as a button shirt and a mini skirt)
Unfortunately, Aya is probably one of the loneliest, most disliked characters in Gensokyo. Nobody that does her job can have lots of friends, since she tends to stretch the truth in her newspaper. Also, she's a whore to ZUN. No, seriously, Aya has appeared in all the games after PoFV with the sole exception of UFO. THEY HAVE THE SAME WARDROBE FOR GOD (ZUN) SAKE!!!!
However, this led to the interesting idea that Aya is the Mary Sue of the Touhou series, being ZUN's avatar in Gensokyo. Aya is already established as a very strong character, since she tends to win danmaku fights accidentally; has appeared in over 4 games, even starring as the main character of her own game, and she's the main character in the canon "Bohemian Archive in Japanese Red", a compilations of articles about the girls of Gensokyo, written by ZUN from Aya's perspectives. Look at this explanation of said document:
-Bohemian means "of a person who lives in a very informal way without following accepted rules of behaviour" or "of Aya, living her easy life free from many obstacles and routines." Archive means "a collection of historical documents or records" or "the collection of Bunbunmaru Newspaper from the 113rd to 120th Season edition". And "Japanese Red" may mean "the color of red lacquer-ware" or "japanesque one", or "the color of a Tengu's face". So the title essentially means "a collection of newspaper articles written by a free-living Tengu."-
So yeah.... Well, as long as Aya has Momizi on her side, she will never be alone. By the way, Momizi is a white wolf tengu subordinate to Aya with the power to see great distance. She's also my favorite midboss character with no profile. I imagine Momizi as a fairly short in height and calm wolf girl that is rather serious in battle. She can also act mischievous and even Machiavellian (she had to learn something from Aya). Momizi doesn't have that many fanon appearances, so I guess Happy Flame Times "Cold Wind but Warm Winter" is my favorite, she's so cute there. However, the most interesting is a 4koma where Momizi was a boy to whom Aya had a crush. Is not that absurd when you think about it, since Momizi didn't have an official portrayal outside her sprite until a few months ago with the release of "Oriental Sacred Place," so yeah... I love you Momizi ;_;
P.S: She's also the unofficial Phantasm Boss of MoF... somewhere in nicovideos.
Music:
Title：フォールオブフォール
Circle: Dark PHOENiX
Album：Arrow Revolution
Original: Fall of Fall ~ Autumnal Waterfall
Title：妖怪の山
Circle: Dark PHOENiX
Album：Arrow Rain
Original: The Youkai Mountain ~ Mysterious Mountain
For more info, check the wiki:
touhou.wikia.com
"Ayaya"
High Definition (For fast moving crows)
youtube.com/watch?v=fmfy9Yh7keI&fmt=22
High Quality (For slow moving wolves)
youtube.com/watch?v=fmfy9Yh7keI&fmt=18
A video of me getting massacred against the tengu(s) of the mountain, Aya Syameimaru (and Momizi)
Aya Syameimaru (also pronounced Shameimaru) (and Momizi) is (are) the stage 4 boss (and midboss) of the game Mountain of Faith, the 10th installment of the Touhou Project. The Touhou project is a series of danmaku shooter made by the male version of Aya, ZUN. THEY WEAR THE SAME CLOTHING FOR ZUN'S SAKE.
Everything in my Lunatic Faith run was going sunshine and lollipops and rainbows and everything that's wonderful until the infamous Aya made her sudden, albeit predictable appearance. Aya is a crow tengu that lives in the Youkai Mountain along with her tengu friends (if she has any) and whanot. She runs the yellow and sensationalist newspaper, Bunbunmaru.
Even if she's infuriating, both in personality and in game, Aya is one of my favorite characters. I guess that what I like about her is her arrogant and snobbish personality. She's extremely sure of herself and with a strong conviction does her duty. Also, I like something about Touhou characters with a relatively modern design, like Reisen and Aya (Aya wears what can be best described as a button shirt and a mini skirt)
Unfortunately, Aya is probably one of the loneliest, most disliked characters in Gensokyo. Nobody that does her job can have lots of friends, since she tends to stretch the truth in her newspaper. Also, she's a whore to ZUN. No, seriously, Aya has appeared in all the games after PoFV with the sole exception of UFO. THEY HAVE THE SAME WARDROBE FOR GOD (ZUN) SAKE!!!!
However, this led to the interesting idea that Aya is the Mary Sue of the Touhou series, being ZUN's avatar in Gensokyo. Aya is already established as a very strong character, since she tends to win danmaku fights accidentally; has appeared in over 4 games, even starring as the main character of her own game, and she's the main character in the canon "Bohemian Archive in Japanese Red", a compilations of articles about the girls of Gensokyo, written by ZUN from Aya's perspectives. Look at this explanation of said document:
-Bohemian means "of a person who lives in a very informal way without following accepted rules of behaviour" or "of Aya, living her easy life free from many obstacles and routines." Archive means "a collection of historical documents or records" or "the collection of Bunbunmaru Newspaper from the 113rd to 120th Season edition". And "Japanese Red" may mean "the color of red lacquer-ware" or "japanesque one", or "the color of a Tengu's face". So the title essentially means "a collection of newspaper articles written by a free-living Tengu."-
So yeah.... Well, as long as Aya has Momizi on her side, she will never be alone. By the way, Momizi is a white wolf tengu subordinate to Aya with the power to see great distance. She's also my favorite midboss character with no profile. I imagine Momizi as a fairly short in height and calm wolf girl that is rather serious in battle. She can also act mischievous and even Machiavellian (she had to learn something from Aya). Momizi doesn't have that many fanon appearances, so I guess Happy Flame Times "Cold Wind but Warm Winter" is my favorite, she's so cute there. However, the most interesting is a 4koma where Momizi was a boy to whom Aya had a crush. Is not that absurd when you think about it, since Momizi didn't have an official portrayal outside her sprite until a few months ago with the release of "Oriental Sacred Place," so yeah... I love you Momizi ;_;
P.S: She's also the unofficial Phantasm Boss of MoF... somewhere in nicovideos.
Music:
Title：フォールオブフォール
Circle: Dark PHOENiX
Album：Arrow Revolution
Original: Fall of Fall ~ Autumnal Waterfall
Title：妖怪の山
Circle: Dark PHOENiX
Album：Arrow Rain
Original: The Youkai Mountain ~ Mysterious Mountain
For more info, check the wiki:
touhou.wikia.com
