Rika
Rika is a human tank engineer featured in Touhou Fuumaroku ~ the Story of Eastern Wonderland., the second installment of the Touhou Project series. Functioning as both the Stage 1 boss and the Extra Stage boss, she proclaims herself to be a genius girl and engages in battle by piloting powerful mechanical artillery of her own design.
Overview
Rika is a human tank engineer featured in Touhou Fuumaroku ~ the Story of Eastern Wonderland., the second installment of the Touhou Project series. Functioning as both the Stage 1 boss and the Extra Stage boss, she proclaims herself to be a genius girl and engages in battle by piloting powerful mechanical artillery of her own design.
Appearance
Rika possesses straight-cut bangs and brown hair styled into braids fastened with red bows, paired with relaxed brown eyes. In Stage 1, she wears a white shirt with a purple collar, portrayed with a red cape in her in-game sprite. During the Extra Stage, her outfit shifts to a combination of red, purple, and light blue, topped with a curiously shaped red hat.
Personality
Rika is proud and self-assured in her mechanical genius. Despite her high confidence, she has a clumsy side, occasionally slipping up and misspeaking key words during conversations. She refers to herself using pronouns like watashi or atai and has a habitual way of ending her statements with a distinct phraseology.
Abilities
As a skilled tank engineer, Rika creates and operates combat vehicles. In Stage 1, she battles aboard the Flower Tank, which is decorated with Yin-Yang Orbs and leaves. In the Extra Stage, she pilots Evil Eye Sigma, a flying tank shaped like a giant single-eyed bat. She also engineers stage obstacles and minions, including cannons, shrine tanks, and ghost-like creatures known as Bakebake.
Background
In Touhou Fuumaroku ~ the Story of Eastern Wonderland., Rika appears early on to block the protagonist's path using her custom battle tank. Following her initial defeat, she continues her inventions and reappears in the Extra Stage, taking to the air with her ultimate machine to initiate a rematch.
Relationships
Rika acts as an adversary to the protagonist, Hakurei Reimu. When they encounter each other again during the Extra Stage, Hakurei Reimu humorously dismisses her as a mere Stage 1 opponent, establishing a lighthearted rivalry between them.
Trivia
Fans celebrate September 15th as Rika Day because the date coincides with Tank Day in Japan. Fans also frequently speculate on potential ties between her distinctive speech patterns and characters appearing in subsequent mystery works.
